https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-04-16T13:59:29+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2023-09-11T05:03:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2024-07-27T01:17:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/books?rev=1198801150&do=diff My Favorite Books and Stories Limbo by Bernard Wolfe This book may be hard to find, but is worth the hunt. Originally published in 1952. Set in 1990. I am not sure what to say about this one - it had and continues to have quite an effect on me. (Of course that may just be because I had been told I 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 2008-02-21T21:07:13+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 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 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 2009-06-21T20:29:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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.