https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-14T22:05:10+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 2009-05-27T19:54:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/admin_tips/svn?rev=1243454048&do=diff Add new svn project SVN svn version.cs.vassar.edu access controle Issue the following commands to create a new project svnadmin create /svn/svn-repos/project_NAME chown -R www-data /svn/svn-repos/project_NAME chgrp -R subversion /svn/svn-repos/project_NAME chmod 770 /svn/svn-repos/project_NAME text/html 2008-05-07T14:50:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/style_test?rev=1210171851&do=diff Style Test Level 1 Headline Plain text Bold Text Italic Text Underlined Text Code Text Strike-through Text !!SmallCaps!! $$Sample$$ ??Variable?? ``Keyboard`` @@Definition@@ &&Citation&& ““Quote”” “”=|Quote w/Cite“” /!Inverse!/ Level 2 Headline $$Sample$$````$$Sample$$````$$Sample$$````$$Sample$$```` text/html 2008-02-21T21:07:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2008-02-20T19:02:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/z80asm_in_emacs?rev=1203534166&do=diff Using emacs with z80asm First off, I want to state I am not a lisp podgammer OK, now that that is out of the way, this is what I added to my .emacs when I started using z80asm to work with z80 assembly code.  It adds ASM to the list of extensions that will put you into asm-mode for editing assembly code and defines the compile command the way I wanted it.  If there is a better way to do these tasks please let me know. 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 2009-10-20T20:32:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/mlsmith-pubkey?rev=1256070766&do=diff PGP Information * Here is my key fingerprint: “F3BA F7FC 851E 0098 EA61 F980 D6A2 5D7C CE7C 218B” * and below is my PGP Key (in case anyone needs to send me something securely) ---------- -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) mQGiBES1B38RBADGsTDGumJCn+kjORlYYvyvJge3YvMtOft1JPCUU+Enh9NEXZQB JSG3ZCkAcqj5zxkHFNBHzvWGFsURpWgxuxnLiSjFtHtheMRdNljpd3FuKDbJ3xHm Pc7zzolrt2txAhObGpXZmdcNLyJfSKXRkLlqEcmEUTtyk2MXl9VovdkR8wCg9kfo DCGL4T2/HQNverTc6s9Zd0UEAIFxMWdSL… 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 2009-09-11T18:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/vnc_inetd_gdm?rev=1252693878&do=diff VNC over inetd with gdm - number of session limitation There are a lot of pages about setting up vnc over inetd.  I had been running such a setup for years with 10 - 20 simultaneous sessions being commonplace, but an upgrade of the server to ubuntu 9.4 broke my configuration.  Eventually all but one problem had been worked out by poking around the changelogs, reading a few man pages and using the standard net searches.  That problem was that only 2 simultaneous sessions were supported.  The fix… 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 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 2022-10-11T04:39:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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. Grace Hopper: I was interviewed for this second episode in the Honeypot Explains series on Tech Pioneers, April 8, 2021 * Vassar Reflects on Two Months of Distance Learning, Vassar Stories, Office of Communications, May 15, 2020 text/html 2011-07-02T14:55:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2008-05-11T23:29:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/hacks?rev=1210548591&do=diff Wear Hacks and Projects pages It became clear during the wiki transition that I had a number of “get 'em on the field” hacks in a variety of formats and locations as well as other wearable related pages and I needed to gather them up. As I clean up my site, this is where they will all be listed.  For now it is a growing list of links to where they currently reside.