Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-09T19:41:57+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2010-01-20T16:38:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) old_course_pages https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/old_course_pages?rev=1264005480&do=diff Old Course Pages This page is not readable by the world. It contains links to past course pages on the wiki * cs101-200901 - readable by faculty only * CMPU-102: * cs102-51-200901 - readable by faculty only * cs102-200803 - readable by faculty only * cs102-200901 - readable by faculty only 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 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 2021-01-23T19:39:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) pubs 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 2012-07-16T16:05:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) visiting https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/visiting?rev=1342454746&do=diff Visiting Professor Courses Here are some of the courses previously taught by visiting professors. CMPU 203 - Computer Science III: Software Design and Implementation Develops techniques for design and implementation of complex software systems. Topics include object-oriented modeling, design patterns, component libraries, inheritance, parametric polymorphism, generic algorithms, containers, iterators, function objects and storage management. Development of a software system of significant com… 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 2009-02-27T15:11:54+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-02-19_margaret_wright_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-19_margaret_wright_lecture?rev=1235747514&do=diff 2009-02-19 Margaret Wright Lecture <html><center></html>Asprey Lecture in Computer Science and Mathematics The Remarkable Saga of Linear Programming: the Problem, the Methods, the Continuing Mysteries Margaret Wright Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences 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 2009-02-27T15:12:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-02-20_margaret_wright_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-20_margaret_wright_lecture?rev=1235747531&do=diff 2009-02-20 Margaret Wright Lecture <html><center></html>Asprey Lecture in Computer Science and Mathematics Non-Derivative Optimization: Mathematics, Heuristics, or Hack Margaret Wright Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences New York University text/html 2012-12-05T17:11:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) adjuncts https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/adjuncts?rev=1354727518&do=diff 2013 Adjunct Professor Courses CMPU 145 - Foundations of Computer Science Introduces the theoretical, structural and algorithmic foundations of computer science. 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TO OUR RECENT GRADUATES: Cordelia McGee-Tubb'11 who is now a software development engineer in San Francisco, CA for Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company that distributes business software. TO OUR CURRENT STUDENTS: stay tuned; we hope to hear summer plans from the CS students soon! text/html 2009-02-19T15:22:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-02-18_barry_jones_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-02-18_barry_jones_lecture?rev=1235056956&do=diff 2009-02-18 Barry Jones Lecture <html><center></html> Barry Jones Department of Computer Science Vassar College Wednesday, February 18, 2009 OLB Classroom 105, 5pm The Composer's Intelligent Assistant <html></center></html> Composers throughout the ages have used various algorithms or methodologies to help them in the process of creating music. 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Course Galleries Semester Course Faculty Class Gallery Spring 2020 CMPU-195-51 Reiser Introduction to Digital Design text/html 2022-10-11T04:39:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) publicity https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/publicity?rev=1665463164&do=diff Publicity * Vassar, the Alumnae/i Quarterly, Spring 2021: Special issue on Vassar's Vanguard of Technology. (I was part of the article/discussion on Cloud Computing.) * The Queen of Code feat. 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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 2011-02-09T16:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) printing_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/printing_tips?rev=1297270048&do=diff Printing Tips Printer Name Changes and your .bashrc If you are having problems with command line printing it may be because your .bashrc is not using the correct printer name. Have a look at your .bashrc file. Near the top there are some lines that set your default printer. 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If not zero, go into an infinite loop. Second Program: Write AAh to every memory byte in RAM, check every byte in RAM for AAh. If not, go into an infinite loop. Write 55h to every memory byte in RAM, check every byte in RAM for 55h. If not, go into an infinite loop. text/html 2017-04-26T03:29:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/assignments/top?rev=1493177344&do=diff <html> <h2>Assignments: </h2> </html> Assignment 1: Chapter 2, #6, 8, and 12 - Due Wednesday, 2/15/2017 - Please hand in your work on hardcopy (paper). 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Their names shall be announced at the Vassar Annual Prize Ceremony 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 2012-06-13T22:04:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top 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 2010-02-09T15:43:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) graphs https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/graphs?rev=1265730194&do=diff System Monitoring The following locations are only accessible from an address in the CS department. If you need or want remote access to them, come talk to me about tunneling. MuninOverview Summaries Firewall Connectionscs bandwidth Mail amavis-stats mailgraph --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2009/02/18 11:32 text/html 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) grants https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/grants?rev=1694408609&do=diff Grants * NSF INSPIRE Grant. Award Date: Sep. 18, 2013. Award No: DEB-1344227. Award Amount: $999,314. Effective Jan. 1, 2014. Expires Dec. 31, 2017. INSPIRE Track 1: Is Evolvability Driven By Emergent Modularity? Biomimetic robots, gene inspired information structures, and the evolvability of intelligent agents. PI Kenneth R. Livingston, Co-PI Jodi Schwarz, Co-PI John H. Long, Co-PI text/html 2015-08-28T19:38:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/jones/top?rev=1440790698&do=diff Barry Jones Visiting Assistant Professor Computer Science Department Vassar College Office: OLB 118 Voice: 845 437 7293 E-mail: <jones@cs.vassar.edu> ---------- Teaching <https://edit.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs334-200903/top> * Fall 2015: * CMPU-203 - Computer Science III: Software Design and Implementation ---------- Background Professor Jones earned his BS in Electrical Engineering at Cooper Union, MS in Computer Science at Marist College, and is currently completin… text/html 2009-08-23T23:27:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/ekeberg/top?rev=1251070078&do=diff Örjan Ekeberg [Örjan Ekeberg] Örjan Ekeberg, STINT Fellow, visiting Vassar College during the fall 2009. He is an associate professor in Computer Science at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. text/html 2011-09-22T17:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) java_system_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/java_system_tips?rev=1316713392&do=diff Java issues and tips Java remote method invocation problem Problem: When running a demo of Java's remote method invocation on our Ubuntu 9.04 based linux machines running java-6-openjdk the client could only attach to a server running on the same host.```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2009-10-14T17:24:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) isohome https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome?rev=1255541099&do=diff Backup to CD/DVD ---------- * * * * * * ---------- <BOOKMARK:quick> The really short version of the instructions If you just want to do this without delay and can get to the CS lab... * Bring a blank CD or DVD to the lab * text/html 2009-08-13T17:38:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) gate_tips https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/gate_tips?rev=1250185129&do=diff Gate tips Help! I still get GATE 5.0 Beta, not GATE 5.0 When you run gate you should see that you are running GATE Developer 5.0 build 3244. If you are not, then to use the new version you need to do the following 2 steps: * Delete your existing user configuration file, do that with the command: ```````````````````` text/html 2009-04-07T10:27:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) video_games_and_21st_century_learning https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/video_games_and_21st_century_learning?rev=1239100025&do=diff 2009-04-02 Video Games and 21st Century Learning Video Games and 21st Century Learning A lecture by James Paul Gee Thursday, April 2nd, 5:30pm Sanders Auditorium James Paul Gee is the Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies at Arizona State University and is a member of the National Academy of Education. His books include: Sociolinguistics and Literacies, An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, What Video Games Have to Teach Us About Learning and Literacy and Good Video Ga… text/html 2012-10-04T04:30:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2012-10-03_carlo_combi_lecture https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2012-10-03_carlo_combi_lecture?rev=1349325000&do=diff 2012-10-03 Carlo Combi Lecture <html><style type=“text/css”>div.profile { float: left; padding-right: 0.5em;}</style></html> <html><div class=“profile”></html>[Carlo Combi]<html></div></html> Carlo Combi Professor Department of Computer Science University of Verona text/html 2010-01-27T13:48:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-12-09_hopper_holiday https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-12-09_hopper_holiday?rev=1264600105&do=diff 2009-12-09 Hopper Holiday <html><center></html> Wednesday, December 9th, Hopper Holiday! Come and celebrate one of the first women in computing, Grace Murray Hopper '28, in the Computer Science Department Student Lounge. Refreshments - cider, cookies, cupcakes, etc will be available from noon until 4pm. text/html 2009-11-20T16:50:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 2009-11-19_cs_alumni_panel https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009-11-19_cs_alumni_panel?rev=1258735808&do=diff 2009-11-19 CS Alumni Panel When: 5:00pm - 6:00pm Thursday, November 19th Where: Multipurpose Room, 2nd floor of Main Building. 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