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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 …</description>
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Systems Administrator

OLB 123

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Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) Links

	*  WoTUG - The place for Communicating Processes
	*  The classic text: Communicating Sequential Processes (Hoare)
	*  The modern text: Theory and Practice of Concurrency (Roscoe)
	*  Unifying Theories of Programming text, by Hoare and He: UTP
	*  JCSP - CSP for Java
	*  C++CSP2 – CSP for C++</description>
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Courses taught at Vassar College: (2006 - present)

	*  CMPU-101 - Problem-Solving and Abstraction 
		*  Fall '06, '07, '10, '14, '15, '16, '17, '18, '19, '21, '22, '23, '24, '25
		*  Spring '07, '09, '14, '16, '19, '21, '23, '24, '25</description>
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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</description>
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        <description>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$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$</description>
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Saturday, March 26, 2011 

9:30am--12pm 

Sci Vis Lab, 3rd Floor Mudd Chemistry

WeScheme: from Algebra to Animation

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