https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T13:08:02+00:00 https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico text/html 2008-05-06T18:34:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/ssh/in_the_department?rev=1210098899&do=diff Page in progress This page is not yet compleate. When it is, this will be removed Ssh between machines a CS It is quite simple to get to a machine in the department remotely from another machine in the department. All machines in the labs, classroom and faculty offices should already have an ssh client installed on them and those machines which allow remote access are running an ssh daemon to accept incoming connections.```````````````````` text/html 2008-04-10T01:28:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2011-05-10T16:58:56+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/ewc?rev=1305046736&do=diff Export a window to the Projector Please note, the instructor's workstation in room 105 has a resolution of 1280×1024, the student workstations have screen resolutions of 14450×900. Please resize any window you want to export to fit on the display where you are exporting it. ```````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2025-06-27T18:46:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/frozen?rev=1751049974&do=diff Frozen Machine! If you have a process, a window, or a machine that seems to have “frozen” while you were working on it, became “stuck,” is not responding to the keyboard or mouse, or is spewing out garbage into a window here is what you can try. If the steps below don't work, please get more help! Either ask a coach, an instructor or find or write me. text/html 2010-12-06T15:30:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/kill_a_process?rev=1291649428&do=diff Monitoring and Killing Processes Any process you own you can kill (this is not a moral judgment, just a fact of life in Unix and Linux). Killing an offending process graphically If the machine itself is still responsive (but one or more windows perhaps aren't) you can try one of the Graphical Process Managers on our system.$$xfce4-taskmanager$$````````$$gnome-system-monitor$$```````` text/html 2009-10-14T17:24:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2026-04-21T22:57:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/top?rev=1776812227&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 2015-08-26T20:52:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/backups?rev=1440622373&do=diff FIXME update, convert to wiki, add link to isohome Backup With Tar ---------- * Overview * Creating a tar file of your entire directory * Copying the file to another location * Tar Documentation ---------- Overview While I make regular backups of the home directories on the Computer Science Unix machines, there are times when you want to have your own copy of your account. There are several relatively painless ways to accomplish this task. I will describe one of them here. If you n… text/html 2022-10-27T19:58:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2022b/assignments/06?rev=1666900684&do=diff <html> <style type=“text/css”> .comment { font-style: italic; color: #c0342d; } .name, .variable, code var, pre var { color: #9e5cb1; } .name { font-weight: bold; } .variable, pre var, code var { font-style: italic; } .keyword { color: #abafb3; } .builtin, .string { color: #417fb8; } .constant { color: #e89f27; } code, code.pyret { color: black; } table { margin: 1em auto; } table th, table td { padding: 1pt 4pt; font-size: 13pt; } div.dw-content a { text-decoration: underline; } div.dw-content … text/html 2010-01-25T18:18:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325-201001/run_zasm_under_dosemu?rev=1264443521&do=diff Well, since I took away your windows lab machines, here is an alternative. Doing these steps will let you run the assembler from Prof. Voerman on our linux machines under DOS emulation. - Greg Running Z80 Assembler under DosEmu The Short version Log in on any lab linux box and put the floppy in the drive```````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2008-10-24T17:22:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/wacom_tablet_tips?rev=1224868951&do=diff Using the Wacom Pen Tablet on our Linux Desktops NOTE: Currently the 5 buttons on the tablet itself are not detected by the windowing system. I am working on fixing that. -Greg Making the machine aware of the tablet Because we do not leave the tablets connected to particular machines, the Xserver needs to be restarted to properly recognize the device. ```````````````````````` text/html 2008-05-07T02:42:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/isohome.script?rev=1210128164&do=diff isohome Isohome is a simple script that tries to make an image of your CS home directory that is suitable for burning onto a CD or DVD. It will confirm that you are running it from the machine where your home directory is actually a local disk. If not it will tell you which machine you need to run the script from. text/html 2015-08-26T21:09:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/logs?rev=1440623371&do=diff System Status Workstations Problem, Tues 12/17 System CS129 in OLB104 had a power supply issue. A ticket has been opened with user services. --- Rob Casinghino 2013/12/17 15:59 Workstations Update, Tues 9/17 I have done a non-critical update to our automated filesystem mounting for home directories. These will time-out after 90 minutes (beyond the typical class/lab sessions) to clear up resources on systems. While the connections are still active and in use, there will be no issues. If… text/html 2016-01-24T19:43:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/schedule?rev=1453664605&do=diff CS 240 Schedule Slides for each week's lectures are available by clicking on the topic for that week. The following schedule roughly estimates the day we will cover given material and is subject to change. You are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the possible evolution in content and schedule. The assigned readings should be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class (some of which may not be in the… text/html 2010-05-26T14:32:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/todo?rev=1274884335&do=diff On The Table Upgrade the wiki - Greg Once done, I can put in the “task” plugin which will do this correctly... but for now if done, tag with <del> </del> (or highlight and use the Strikethrough icon (5th from the left) and add signature (the icon with the pencil on it 4th from the end) for date stamp. text/html 2026-01-21T06:35:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/top?rev=1768977351&do=diff Spring 2026 Courses Course Title / Link to Course Page Faculty CMPU-100-51 Programming with Data text/html 2011-09-22T17:43:12+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2020-01-23T02:33:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/week1?rev=1579746820&do=diff Week 1 Wednesday * Introductions * Students wanting to add... Are there seats available? * If there are more students wanting to add than seats available, I will defer * Syllabus * Coaches ? * We will go over some lecture material and run a simple program in an IDE today. 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 2022-01-17T21:13:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/operating_systems/top?rev=1642454012&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. 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Course Galleries Semester Course Faculty Class Gallery Spring 2020 CMPU-195-51 Reiser Introduction to Digital Design text/html 2009-05-21T22:04:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/bot-alternative/cmu-cam?rev=1242943463&do=diff Running a CMUCam through a Lisp Program May 2009 State of the project: I have successfully used the foreign-function method in lisp to call a method from another programming language. In my example I used a c file, but under the method it should be able to call something from Java or anything else. Instructing on performing this adaptation are as follows: 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 2010-05-04T13:36:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/speed_tips?rev=1272980194&do=diff Improving VNC Performance This page is a work in progress, use the information here if it helps, but do not consider it in any way authoritative. * -- Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/05/04 09:36 Why is my session so slow? VNC is sending the image of your screen over the network between the server (here at CS) and your client (the machine where you are working). Depending on the network speed, the load on the server, the speed of your machine and the protocols vnc is trying to follow, the speed of … text/html 2015-09-02T19:10:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs240/top?rev=1441221059&do=diff CMPU 240: Language Theory and Automata Lectures: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:15pm, Room 105 Sanders Physics Instructor: Professor Nancy Ide Office: 104.6 Sanders Physics Phone: (845) 437-5988 Email: ide [at] cs.vassar.edu Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11am - 12pm and by appointment text/html 2010-05-18T15:40:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/anc-admin/top?rev=1274197235&do=diff ANC admin log Space for Keith & Greg to keep and share info about the anc server. Currently only accessible by Keith or Greg. --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2008/06/16 19:17 bandwith_tests Keith's notes hardware 2010.03.12 Bonded eth0 and eth1. --- Greg Priest-Dorman 2010/05/18 11:13 2010.05.18 * Replaced x335 single processor machine with x335 dual processor machine. Added more memory as well. text/html 2022-01-17T21:07:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/operating_systems?rev=1642453646&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. 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On this page you can see just how long particular rigs were or have been in use. text/html 2009-06-24T20:39:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/ursicia/machine_mods?rev=1245875959&do=diff Machine Modifications for URSI CIA project For etch boxes - follow <http://demudi.agnula.info/wiki/Low-latencyKernelBuildingHowto> * get kernel source * modify accordingly * build package, install * check grub * reboot then get,build and install realtime-lsm-source NOTE: /!ubuntu studio move to rlimits!/ text/html 2024-03-27T13:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/ssh?rev=1711544886&do=diff Accessing CS Systems The easiest way to gain access the Computer Science Dept. Linux machines outside of the Asprey computer lab. This gives you terminal access to the command line inside the department, and it allows you to send files back and forth to your home directory. Since it has no remote text/html 2016-05-20T15:49:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_seven?rev=1463759351&do=diff Linux Tutorial Seven 7.1 Compiling Linux software packages We have many public domain and commercial software packages installed on our systems, which are available to all users. However, students are allowed to download and install small software packages in their own home directory, software usually only useful to them personally. text/html 2022-01-17T23:04:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs334-202251/top?rev=1642460653&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Operating Systems </h1> <h2>CMPU-334 Section 51</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring, 2022</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. Use this as a starting point to access the weekly course schedule, lectures, labs, resources, etc. etc. etc. </p> text/html 2012-07-16T16:05:46+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2016-05-18T15:53:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/info?rev=1463586832&do=diff Bash Shell Resources a few articles and tutorials on the web for learning the bash shell * <http://www.arachnoid.com/linux/shell_programming.html> * <http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO.html> * <http://www.panix.com/~elflord/unix/bash-tute.html> * <http://www.codecoffee.com/tipsforlinux/articles2/043.html> * <http://www.cyberciti.biz/nixcraft/linux/docs/uniqlinuxfeatures/lsst/> System Info - User Help ---------- Help for New Users Unix information and help Examples for … text/html 2010-03-16T15:53:34+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/poughkeepsie_acm_speaker_jon_bentley?rev=1268754814&do=diff 2010-03-15 Poughkeepsie ACM Speaker Jon Bentley Reposted here from Poughkeepsie Chapter of the ACM web site. Poughkeepsie Chapter of the Association For Computing Machinery aaa ccccccc mmmmm mmmmm a a cc cc mm mm mm mm aa aa cc c mm mm mm mm aaaaaaaaa cc mm mmm mm aa aa cc c mm m mm MEETING NOTICE aa aa cc cc mm mm aa aa … text/html 2023-01-19T02:50:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/sshkeys?rev=1674096627&do=diff Setting up SSH Keys Note : This tutorial assumes that you are running a linux-based operating system. The procedure for setting up keys on an Apple Mac OS X machine is similar to this procedure, but you may need to make some minor adjustments. There is a separate text/html 2020-01-22T22:12:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu383-202051/syllabus?rev=1579731151&do=diff <html> <h1>CMPU-383-51 Applied Research in Computer Networks - Spring 2020 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p> Computer networks are a key driver behind the ever increasing role computers have on society, and a very active research area. This intensive course focuses particularly on wireless networking, which has already revolutionized where and how computing is done, and is at the root of the future Internet of Things (IoT). </p> text/html 2010-03-17T21:42:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/mpi?rev=1268862159&do=diff MPI: Compiling and Running in the Asprey Lab Under Construction This page will be updated with information about how to compile and run MPI programs on the machines in the Asprey Lab. text/html 2022-08-31T12:49:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/sshkeysmswindows?rev=1661950198&do=diff SSH Keys on Microsoft Windows using the PuTTY Utility SSH keys are what you will use to establish an encrypted connection over the network, e.g. the internet, between your system and a remote machine. The default type of key to generate is RSA which is good for most purposes. RSA is universally supported among SSH clients. Note that EdDSA performs much faster and provides the same level of security with significantly smaller keys. In general, though, for what you need to do, RSA encryption is … text/html 2025-06-19T16:26:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/start?rev=1750350362&do=diff Computer Science Department Wiki This site is for internal use by current students, faculty and administrators in the Computer Science department at Vassar College. It provides access to active course websites and up-to-date computer systems information. text/html 2012-07-30T18:55:47+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/status/2012-08-04_shutdown?rev=1343674547&do=diff Summer 2012 Power Shutdown On Saturday, August 4th Buildings & Grounds will be performing maintenance and a safety review of electrical equipment on campus. This outage will affect power to Old Laundry Building as well as disable our network access and air conditioning. Because of this all services will be shutdown Friday night at 8:00 pm. Services are expected to be turned on again around 8:00 pm Saturday night, assuming that electricity, network connections and air conditioning are all availa… text/html 2015-08-26T21:04:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/vnc/windows?rev=1440623049&do=diff Using VNC on Windows Setup Setting up the programs to connect to a VNC server is not too difficult. You will, however, need to download two programs: a SSH client and a VNC client. The SSH client will make a secure connection between your computer and the VNC server and the VNC client will use this connection to draw a display on your screen. text/html 2023-03-14T21:54:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/genealogy?rev=1678830869&do=diff Academic Genealogy * My Ph.D. advisors were Rebecca J. Parsons and Charles E. Hughes * Rebecca's advisor was * Matthias Felleisen, whose advisor was * Daniel P. Friedman, whose advisor was * Terrence W. Pratt, whose advisor was * Robert K. Lindsey, whose advisor was * Herbert A. Simon, the father of Artificial Intelligence text/html 2009-06-16T12:22:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/ursicia/top?rev=1245154946&do=diff URSI-CIA Wiki space for the ursicia project. text/html 2017-04-26T03:29:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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). Assignment 2: Chapter 3, #26 and 27 - Due Wednesday, March 8, 2017. ---------- <html> <h2>Labs: </h2> </html> text/html 2016-08-29T18:48:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs203-201602/othermaterials/top?rev=1472496503&do=diff Other Materials * Design Patterns Explained, Shalloway and Trott * Horstmann Code * Horstmann Chapter 1 Full Text * Horstmann Chapter 2 Full Text text/html 2011-04-28T19:51:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201101/assignments/top?rev=1304020318&do=diff <html> <h2>Assignments: </h2> </html> Assignment 1: Chapter 2: #4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 18 - Due Thursday, 2/3/2011 Assignment 2: Chapter 2: #34, 42, 44 due Thursday, 2/10/2011 Assignment 3: Chapter 3: #2, 4, 6, 8, 10 - Due Thursday, 2/24/2011 Assignment 4: Chapter 3: #13 (parts b & c, solve with algebra, then Karnaugh Map), 14, 19, 22 (for part c use k-map) - Due Thursday, 3/3/2011 text/html 2010-02-01T03:07:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs325-201001/lectures/dosemu?rev=1264993644&do=diff <html> <h2>Cross Platform Assembling: </h2> </html> We will need to create Z80 programs for our computer. To do this we will use xdosemu in Linux to open a DOS session. You will be given a floppy disk with the zasm z80 assembler and some sample programs. We will need to keep our programs on a floppy so that we can burn it to the ROM, or upload it to the RAM. text/html 2010-09-06T14:21:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/languages_on_martha?rev=1283782880&do=diff Languages on Martha Well, perhaps this page should now be called Languages installed for Marc as we are moving to having each language installed globally - Greg key installed not installed name url notes tested 64bit install tested jspin got from spin, treated like mariedp1 script, files in /usr/local/share/jspin text/html 2010-12-08T19:20:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/sysnews/inhouse/server_list?rev=1291836036&do=diff CS Servers Physical CS Department Servers Date Number installed Disks Space NAME type In Srv CPU & speed memory #xSize,type tot/used Function Pacific x3650 2007.1 Xeon 4x3gig 12gig 6x73g,sas text/html 2008-12-16T16:36:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 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. 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These are a few things I have done in addition to the suggestions in the article. 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 2009-12-23T18:23:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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... 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One advantage here is that you don't have to copy files that you create, that is, they will be in your $HOME directory the next time you log into one of the linux machines in SP309 or the Asprey lab in SP. text/html 2009-01-28T20:51:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2009_01_23_your_account_and_you?rev=1233175910&do=diff 2009-01-23 New CS Account - Required Lecture & Lab  If you do not already have an account on the Computer Science Department lab machines and you will need one for your course work this semester then you must attend one of the New Account Lecture and Lab text/html 2022-09-02T18:02:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux/account.size?rev=1662141739&do=diff Account Size Here are a few tips for managing the size of your Computer Science Unix account. How Much Space does My Account Use? du -s -h /home/YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME This command will give you your total account size. The “-h” stands for “human readable text/html 2010-02-17T18:32:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/software_for_your_machine?rev=1266431539&do=diff Software Version and Download Information Links to the same version of the software we are using in various courses. In most cases, once at the site, you will need to select your operating system and architecture, this is sometimes called your platform text/html 2019-09-20T23:21:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu102-201901/syllabus?rev=1569021715&do=diff <html> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. A data structure is a specific way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently by an algorithm. This course approaches data structures and algorithms from a practical perspective, text/html 2017-08-25T13:11:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu-334_f17/top?rev=1503666690&do=diff CMPU-334 Operating Systems Fall 2017 This class deals with the theory and implementation of modern operating systems. Topics that are covered are processes and threads, context switching, synchronization, scheduling, deadlock, linking, dynamic memory allocation, dynamic address translation, virtual memory, demand paging, storage devices, disk management and virtual machines. text/html 2017-08-25T12:40:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu-224_f17/top?rev=1503664816&do=diff CMPU-224 Computer Organization Fall 2017 This course examines the hierarchical structure of computing systems, from digital logic and microprogramming through machine and assembly languages. Topics include the structure and workings of the central processor, instruction execution, memory and register organization, addressing schemes and caching. Our aim is to help you become a better programmer by teaching you the basic concepts underlying all computer systems. We want you to learn what reall… text/html 2020-01-21T20:16:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/3662020b/top?rev=1579637791&do=diff CMPU-366: Computational Linguistics Spring 2020 ---------- Contact Information Professor: Nancy Ide Office: SP 104.6 Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00 and by appointment text/html 2016-05-20T15:48:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/tutorial/linux_tutorial_five?rev=1463759337&do=diff Linux Tutorial Five 5.1 File system security (access rights) In your testdir directory, type compsci-user@tim:~$ ls -l (l for long listing!) You will see that you now get lots of details about the contents of your directory, similar to the example below. text/html 2009-06-05T03:13:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/research/top?rev=1244171582&do=diff Research Projects Faculty Nancy Ide ? [[http://americannationalcorpus.org | The American National Corpus Project]] : The American National Corpus (ANC) project is a major activity funded by the National Science Foundation that is building a massive corpus of texts and spoken transcriptions of contemporary American English. All of the data are annotated with linguistic analyses of various kinds so that computational linguists can build language models to assist in machine understanding of huma… text/html 2009-08-27T16:30:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/screen_saver?rev=1251390623&do=diff To change the screen saver mode Our lab linux machines use an inhouse setup to do screen locking and auto-logout. If you want a screen saver mode other than ??random?? here is what you do: * Look at the manual page for xlock and pick a mode you like.```` text/html 2021-02-22T21:15:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs101-2021-5657/top?rev=1614028549&do=diff CS1: Problem-Solving and Abstraction CMPU-101 Sections 56-57 Vassar College, Spring 2021 Syllabus / Course Wiki Welcome to our course wiki. It will be updated throughout the semester with important course information, so check here regularly. text/html 2016-01-24T19:47:41+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/old_pages/schedule?rev=1453664861&do=diff cmpu 240 Schedule Approximate schedule, subject to change. You are responsible for keeping yourself informed of the schedule and any changes that may occur over time. The assigned readings should, ideally, be read before the corresponding class. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading and for all material covered in class. I text/html 2011-02-09T16:47:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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. If they don't look like the lines below, then cut out everything in your .bashrc from &&```````````` text/html 2023-01-02T19:31:21+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/general_linux?rev=1672687881&do=diff More Help * Dr Scheme on OsX * JetBrains Software, IntelliJ (idea / pycharm), License * System Priorities * Frozen machine * Github or Any App Gives Issues with Keyring text/html 2025-09-30T20:21:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/access?rev=1759263688&do=diff Remote Access If you want to connect to CS machines from your dorm room or home, use a web browser or an SSH client. SSH encrypts all communications, so connections are secure. CS systems are normally accessible only from campus networks; for off‑campus access the supported method is Citrix. Citrix works best via the `ssh acl215` text/html 2022-12-13T17:36:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/top?rev=1670952996&do=diff Events The Nancy Ide Annual Lecture in Computer Science presents Daniela Rus One Robot for Every Task Monday, November 21, 2022, 3:00pm-4:00pm in Rockefeller 300 Reception to follow 4:00-5PM in the Aula Daniela Rus is the Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT, and Deputy Dean of Research in the Schwarzman College of Computing at MIT. Rus’ research interes… text/html 2010-01-20T16:38:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2012-12-05T17:11:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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. Topics include: sets, relations, functions, recursive data structures, recursive functions, induction, structural induction, probability, logic, Boolean algebra, proving program correctness, and the lambda calculus. Concepts are reinforced in programming exercises in the laboratory. text/html 2019-04-29T18:38:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cmpu102-201952/syllabus?rev=1556563083&do=diff <HTML> <h1>CMPU-102-52 Computer Science II: Data Structures and Algorithms - Spring 2019 syllabus</h1> <h2>Course description</h2> <p>An algorithm is the specification of a method to solve a given problem. A data structure is a specific way of organizing data so that it can be used efficiently by an algorithm. This course approaches data structures and algorithms from a practical perspective, text/html 2021-12-19T20:08:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-2021-01/top?rev=1639944481&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Data Structures Using Java </h1> <h2>CMPU-102 Section 01</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Fall 2021</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. Use this as a starting point to access the weekly course schedule, lectures, labs, resources, etc. etc. etc. </p> text/html 2015-08-26T21:24:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/apps/svn_use?rev=1440624278&do=diff SVN quick reference The following is modified from an email sent by Prof. Smith on the use of the command line svn program under linux here at CS To checkout (co) repository for first time * cd on your local machine to where you want your project working directory to be created```````````````````````````````` text/html 2008-10-08T01:17:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-10-07_evening_server_maintenance?rev=1223428672&do=diff 2008-10-07 Evening - Web Server Unavailable for an Hour This web server and several others running here at Computer Science will be down tonight, Oct. 7!!th!! They all live on the same xen server and that is the machine I need to work.  This maintenance is to clean up the quick fix that was put in place last Saturday Night in the aftermath of the network problems.  I hope to keep the downtime to under an hour.  -Greg text/html 2015-08-27T14:13:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/apps/mono?rev=1440684806&do=diff Mono <quote Wikipedia>Mono is a free and open source project led by Xamarin (formerly by Novell and originally by Ximian) to create an Ecma standard compliant .NET Framework-compatible set of tools including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime.</quote> text/html 2015-08-26T21:23:27+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/help/apps/jedit?rev=1440624207&do=diff Jedit tip -. End of line codes When using jedit to edit files that will be saved on a remote linux or unix system, you may run into problems if you don't change the code jedit puts at the end of the line to indicate a return. Jedit calles this the ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` text/html 2013-09-16T18:08:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2013-09-17_latex_lecture?rev=1379354886&do=diff An introduction to LATEX Vassar College Department of Mathematics Announces a lecture/demonstration John McCleary Vassar College Tuesday, September 17, 2013 Rockefeller Hall 300 7-8:30pm One of the most useful programming languages is TEX, constructed by Donald Knuth, and developed by Leslie Lamport into LATEX, the standard for mathematical typesetting over the last 25 years. If you want to be able to typeset your mathematical work, or even to typeset any of your assignments, LATE… text/html 2011-04-10T01:12:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2011-03-23_inside_the_mind_of_watson?rev=1302397975&do=diff 2011-03-23 Inside the Mind of Watson WINIFRED ASPREY COMPUTER SCIENCE LECTURE SERIES Inside the mind of Watson Chris Welty IBM Thomas J. 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It provides access to active course websites and up-to-date computer systems information. text/html 2008-09-15T19:37:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-09-05_cs_account_required_lab?rev=1221507469&do=diff 2008-09-10 New CS Account - Required Lecture & Lab If you do not already have an account on the Computer Science Department lab machines and you will need one for your class this semester then you must attend one of the New Account Lecture and Lab sessions. text/html 2016-01-21T17:20:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-201651/top?rev=1453396855&do=diff Computer Science II: <html> <h3>CMPU102: Data Structures and algorithms.</h3> <br> <h4>Spring 2016 Syllabus</h4> </html> This syllabus is subject to update throughout the semester. Professor: Jenny Walter (link to my web page) Office: SP 306 text/html 2008-05-06T22:53:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/events/individual_past_events/2008-05-06_asprey_lecture_wordnet?rev=1210114403&do=diff 2008-05-06 Asprey Lecture : WordNet WordNet: An Electronic Dictionary for Humans and Computers Christiane Fellbaum, Cognitive Science Laboratory, Princeton University May 6, 5:00PM, Rockefeller 300 This talk provides an overview of the contents, structure and uses of WordNet, a large lexical database developed and maintained at Princeton. Conceived originally as a model of human semantic memory, WordNet contains information about tens of thousands of concepts that are lexicalized in English. text/html 2020-01-26T17:48:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs366/top?rev=1580060904&do=diff CMPU-366: Computational Linguistics Spring 2020 ---------- Contact Information Professor: Nancy Ide Office: SP 104.6 Office Hours: MW 11:00-12:00 and by appointment text/html 2020-01-21T22:28:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs366/syllabus?rev=1579645693&do=diff CS 366 Spring 2020 Syllabus Text * Dan Jurafsky and James Martin, Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Speech Recognition , Second Edition, and selected chapters online from the upcoming 3rd edition. * We will also use the online book associated with the Natural Language ToolKit (NLTK). Other useful books and materials * Dickinson, Brew, and Meuers. Language and Computers. Wiley Press. * Manning, C. and Sc… text/html 2011-01-11T06:09:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201101/top?rev=1294726179&do=diff CMPU-224: Computer Organization <html> <h1>Vassar College, Spring 2011</h1> <h1>Syllabus</h1> </html> Course Wiki: <http://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201101/top> Professor: Barry Jones Office: OLB 118 text/html 2010-02-21T16:49:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201001/top?rev=1266770984&do=diff CMPU-224: Computer Organization <html> <h1>Vassar College, Spring 2010</h1> <h1>Syllabus</h1> </html> Course Wiki: <http://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs224-201001/top> Professor: Barry Jones Office: OLB 118 text/html 2020-01-22T03:55:06+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/courses/cs102-202051/top?rev=1579665306&do=diff <HTML> <h1> Data Structures Using Java </h1> <h2>CMPU-102 Section 51</h2> <h2>Vassar College, Spring 2020</h2> <h2>Syllabus & Course Wiki</h2> <p> Welcome to the main section of our course wiki. 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