https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-14T21:43:34+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2011-06-20T03:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/vss?rev=1308538985&do=diff Vassar Science Scholars Lecture/Lab Saturday, March 26, 2011 9:30am--12pm Sci Vis Lab, 3rd Floor Mudd Chemistry WeScheme: from Algebra to Animation We will explore selected parts of the Scheme programming language using WeScheme, a browser-- text/html 2026-02-09T22:53:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/top?rev=1770677604&do=diff People Faculty Jacob Erickson Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jacob Erickson's research explores how digital platforms shape sociopolitical discourse, focusing on platform governance, online safety, and the downstream impacts of design and moderation decisions. Drawing from human-computer interaction, data science, and computational social science, his work examines how platform affordances influence online communication, community behavior, and user trust. His research … text/html 2023-04-12T02:55:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/teaching?rev=1681268159&do=diff Teaching General * Computer Science Educator's Hub First-year computer science * Program by Design - The computer science core of a liberal arts education * How to Design Programs - An Introduction to Programming and Computing * Racket - Includes the DrRacket programming environment * WeScheme - Web-based programming environment text/html 2026-01-21T06:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1768977290&do=diff Marc L. Smith (he/him) Professor of Computer Science Computer Science Department Vassar College Coordinates Office: SP 104.5 Voice: 845 437 7497 Zoom E-mail: mlsmith@vassar.edu Vassar College, Box 399 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 Spring 2026 * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ text/html 2010-04-08T10:58:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/bibtex?rev=1270724318&do=diff Bibtex Templates Here are a few bibtex templates that I use with the dokuwiki bibtex plugin. In time I should have all the entry types done. Entry Types * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Article Entry An article from a journal or magazine. text/html 2020-07-30T04:47:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/concurrency?rev=1596084460&do=diff Concurrency Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Links * WoTUG - The place for Communicating Processes * The classic text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare) * The modern text: Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe) * Unifying Theories of Programming text, by Hoare and He: UTP * JCSP - CSP for Java * C++CSP2 – CSP for C++ text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/walter/top?rev=1611255073&do=diff Jennifer E. Walter Professor Emerita Department of Computer Science Vassar College Email: <jewalter@vassar.edu> “When you are the only woman in a group, you are no longer a woman; you are THE woman, as if your actions stand for that of your entire gender.” text/html 2020-05-01T18:13:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/infinite-trees?rev=1588356833&do=diff Infinite Trees 1 Motivation Up until now, we’ve mostly looked at trees as a data structure, but we haven’t looked at them in the context of any particular problems. Trees are used in many applications in computer science, robotics, and game design. One common application is for representing the possible moves in a game or search problem. Imagine that you were exploring the space that a player (character or robot) could move through. On each move, the player would change position (and possibl… text/html 2025-12-20T05:25:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/past-courses?rev=1766208338&do=diff Past Courses Courses taught at Vassar College: (2006 - present) * CMPU-101 - Problem-Solving and Abstraction * Fall '06, '07, '10, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25 * Spring '07, '09, '14, '16, '19, '21, '23, '24, '25 text/html 2008-04-14T16:14:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ide/top?rev=1208189691&do=diff Nancy Ide Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Vassar College 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie, New York 12604-0520 USA tel : (+1) 845 437 5988 fax : (+1) 845 437 7498 e-mail : <ide@cs.vassar.edu> <html><font color=red></html> Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education. text/html 2015-01-28T03:31:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/lemie/top?rev=1422415888&do=diff I am a software engineer for IBM and I've been working for more than 30 years with the Transaction Processing Facility (TPF) family of products: IBM's TPF page When I first started, the product was called the Airline Control Program and was given away to mainframe computer customers! text/html 2008-04-10T17:39:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/hunsberg/foo?rev=1207849194&do=diff Luke Hunsberger Assistant Professor in Computer Science Vassar College Contact Info Mailing Address 124 Raymond Ave. Box 444, Vassar College Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0444 Email hunsberg@cs.vassar.edu Office OLB 121 Office Hours (Spring 2008) Mondays text/html 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text?rev=1239026436&do=diff Tikkun Passover 2009 Supplement in Plain Text Some folks have had problems with the font size on the 2009 Passover Supplement.  The original is from <http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/seder_2009>.  Below is a version converted to plain text with acroread and then reformatted in emacs.  Use it if you find it useful. text/html 2018-08-19T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/bio?rev=1534638095&do=diff Bio * Before joining Vassar in Fall 2006, I was an assistant professor at Colby College for five (5) years, beginning Fall 2001. Prior to my transition to academia, I worked for AT&T for fifteen (15) years, in several different internal IT capacities, including applications and systems development and support, and IT infrastructure systems engineering. One of the very special opportunities I had while working for AT&T was to be sponsored in its Doctoral Support Program, which enabled me to go… text/html 2021-01-23T19:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/pubs?rev=1611430740&do=diff Publications * Dissertation: * Marc L. Smith. View-Centric Reasoning about Parallel and Distributed Computation. PhD thesis, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816-2362, December 2000. [PDF] Postscript and in the UCF institutional repository, STARS. * text/html 2012-06-13T22:04:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/voerman/top?rev=1339625071&do=diff Louis Voerman Visiting Associate Professor (Retired) Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604 Email: <voerman@cs.vassar.edu> LOUIS VOERMAN, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science, retired after 26 years of service, in Spring 2009. He taught courses in operating systems, microprocessor design, computer organization and advanced computer architecture at Vassar since 1983. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Scienc… text/html 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/context_awarness_project?rev=1260206695&do=diff the next big thing... Endurance Running Harness for Herbert October 2009 I have been a walker ever since I got my legs back as a teenager.  Before that biking is how I covered distance.  For a time I did not have use of my legs (the result of a biking accident) and was told I would not walk again.  Thankfully that was not the case, but after that the idea of running always seemed foolhardy.  All that impact, thud thud thud, not for me and my spine.  However, of late I am trying running text/html 2011-02-11T11:41:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/software?rev=1297424512&do=diff Essential Software Looking for a little more info? The following is a list of some of what I consider to be essential software I run in Xubuntu on my wearable. Each of these contribute an key part of the experience: ? //software Dectalk// from fonix :: http://www.fonixspeech.com/dectalk_legacy.php .. Yep, this is one of two pieces of commercial software I run. For years I ran a hardware dectalk, then for a while I used pc104 based doubletalk units, as the rigs became more powerful and software… text/html 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/top?rev=1369319086&do=diff What am I wearing? New Scientist A few details from decades of daily wear [gerbert in 2013]Please note, this page documents what I was wearing during the last four of the nineteen wonderful years I spent working for the CS Department at Vassar. For the last year and a half I have been wearing modified versions of Google Glass running Glass and Ubuntu. Along with that I am using a Bluetooth version of the Spiffchorder for input. Please see the