Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-11T09:43:54+00:00 Computer Science | Vassar College https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ https://www.cs.vassar.edu/_media/favicon.ico 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 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 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 2007-12-28T00:19:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) books 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 2008-04-10T20:51:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/3d/top?rev=1207860669&do=diff Plain text 3d? Yep. Here are some simple examples to warm you up for the more complex pages to come. Look at the screen (or page if this has been printed out) and see if you can get the 2 X's below to look like like 3 X's. This is the basic skill needed for viewing the images. 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 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. 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 2026-06-04T02:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) top https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/top?rev=1780541125&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 2026 -- 2027 * On Sabbatical$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ 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 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 2008-12-16T16:36:44+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 2008-11-14T15:30:30+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) nasm_and_gdb https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/nasm_and_gdb?rev=1226676630&do=diff nasm and gdb problem with nasm version 0.99 It looks like this was fixed in nasm version 2.01, but if you are running version 0.99 you may find that you no longer have debugging information for gdb. The fix is easy, replace ``-f elf`` with ``-f elf32`` or ```` text/html 2009-09-11T18:31:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) vnc_inetd_gdm 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…