https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-09T12:20:01+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 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 2026-06-04T02:45:25+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 2018-08-19T00:21:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/bio?rev=1534638095&do=diff Bio * Before joining Vassar in Fall 2006, I was an assistant professor at Colby College for five (5) years, beginning Fall 2001. Prior to my transition to academia, I worked for AT&T for fifteen (15) years, in several different internal IT capacities, including applications and systems development and support, and IT infrastructure systems engineering. One of the very special opportunities I had while working for AT&T was to be sponsored in its Doctoral Support Program, which enabled me to go… text/html 2019-08-08T02:27:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/mlsmith/erdos?rev=1565231275&do=diff My Erdös Number My Erdös number is at most 3. Here's how: me --> Charles E. Hughes --> Stanley M. Selkow --> Paul Erdös In other words, * I published with someone * who published with someone * who published a paper with Paul Erdös. Yes, many people have their own Erdös number, but it was still fun finding mine! 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