Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T20:18:59+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2013-05-23T14:24:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 text/html 2026-02-09T22:53:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2011-06-20T03:03:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) vss 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 2009-12-07T17:24:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) context_awarness_project 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 2009-04-06T14:00:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text 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 2024-07-27T01:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) sidebar https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/sidebar?rev=1722043052&do=diff Marc L. Smith * Home * Publications * Grants * Past courses * Concurrency * Teaching * Publicity * My Erdös Number * Academic Genealogy * PGP Information * Bio Vassar Content AskBanner OneLogin Reference EoS Time text/html 2008-04-10T20:54:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) three-d https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/3d/three-d?rev=1207860847&do=diff <html><pre> X X : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : Welcome to my Welcome to my Welcome to my Welcome to my Welcome to my 3d web page. 3d web page. 3d web page. 3d web page. 3d web page. : : : : : This This This … text/html 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) herbeee https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/herbeee?rev=1261592581&do=diff herbeee aka "Herbert Lite" Herbert is a wonderful thing, but let's face it, it is not inexpensive.  I needed to send it in to Sony for a minor repair So, I built “herbeee” to tide me over... In April of 2008 I got an Asus eeepc with 4gig of flash and 512meg of ram.  In short order I installed text/html 2013-05-23T14:31:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) timeline_of_rigs https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/timeline_of_rigs?rev=1369319494&do=diff Timeline of Herbert [herb one in 1997] [herb three in 1999] [charmerino in 2000] [herb seven in 2008] [gerbert in 2013] Most of my wearables pages are about the changes and modifications I have made over the years.  I noticed that it gives the impression I am constantly changing things. On this page you can see just how long particular rigs were or have been in use. text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) multihome_dokuwiki_hacks https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/multihome_dokuwiki_hacks?rev=1203628033&do=diff Multihome Dokuwiki Hacks I use the article by Lukas Ruf on setting up dokuwiki on a mutihomed web server to allow multiple separate wikis to run on one machine. The article is available at <http://wiki.lpr.ch/doku.php/multihomed>. These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. text/html 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) blackbox https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/blackbox?rev=1229445404&do=diff Using a ServeSwitch Ultra with a 1U server I have been using a Black Box ServeSwitch Ultra for well over 10 years.  At the time it was the perfect choice for our needs as it worked well with the 4 kinds of machines we were connecting to it.  It has never given me a moment of trouble in all this time, so when I needed to attach some new servers to it, I called Black Box and ordered the cables.  However, when they arrived, the hood on the vga connector end of the cable was too large to fit into t… text/html 2011-02-11T11:41:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) software 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 2008-04-28T02:09:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) sidebar https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/sidebar?rev=1209348584&do=diff Greg Priest-Dorman top * home * contact * tips * Wearables * top * hacks * timeline * ISWC 2007 * spiffchorder * context_awarness_project * herbeee text/html 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) usb760 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/usb760?rev=1245616171&do=diff Well, I got my Novatel Wireless usb760 and my Verizonwireless broadband plan. I can report that the device works well but can't be set up entirely under linux. I can also report that VerizonWireless tech folks have much less than no clue about linux. text/html 2011-02-25T04:13:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) er https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/er?rev=1298607189&do=diff Running Notes And Human Evolution * Dennis M. Bramble1 & Daniel E. Lieberman 2004 article in Nature * Travis Rayne Pickeringa and Henry T. Bunna responce to above * The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) barefoot running Nature 463, 531-535(28 January 2010) Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners abstract/htmlpdf I'll try to take some pictures of the setup soon. Shoe Attempts text/html 2023-04-12T02:55:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) teaching 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 2018-08-19T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) bio 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 2010-04-08T10:58:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) bibtex 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 2008-04-10T01:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) publications https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ide/publications?rev=1207790892&do=diff Selected Publications (1990-onwards) * Ide, N. and Suderman, K. (2007). GrAF: A Graph-based Format for Linguistic Annotations. Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop,held in conjunction with ACL 2007, Prague, June 28-29, 1-8. * Ide, N. and Woolner, D. (2007). Historical Ontologies. In Ahmad, K, Brewster, C., and Stevenson, M. (eds.), text/html 2021-01-21T18:51:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2011-07-02T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/top?rev=1309618521&do=diff These are my personal pages, if you are looking for system information, please head over to top. -Greg ---------- <http://www.eff.org/blueribbon.html> Campaign for Online Freedom of Speech, Press and Association ---------- A point in every direction is the same as no point at all These pages are XHTML compliant: use any browser you choose! Where Am I in the world? text/html 2026-01-21T06:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2013-03-17T20:31:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) iswc_2007 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/iswc_2007?rev=1363552281&do=diff Herbert and me at ISWC 2007 In both videos you can see the dual holster. I am also using the ntsc version of the M1. New Scientist Perhaps it should be called “Old Scientist without enough sleep”. When I was at ISWC 2007 in Boston I had a chat with Phil McKenna of New Scientist Magazine. I am the third person interviewed in the video and at the end of the written article archived at text/html 2020-05-01T18:13:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) infinite-trees 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 2008-04-14T16:14:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2011-02-25T04:28:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/instruments/top?rev=1298608085&do=diff What am I playing? Probably, the dobro slide lyre. It is the last thing I made and been eating most of my music time. I will put up some pics and sound clips soon. Some earlier instrument projects: * The Flat backed oud project (a 6 hour marine ply, maple and ebony project)