https://www.cs.vassar.edu/ 2026-06-13T23:52:22+00:00 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) 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 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 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 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. 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 2011-02-25T04:13:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/er?rev=1298607189&do=diff Running Notes And Human Evolution * Dennis M. Bramble1 & Daniel E. Lieberman 2004 article in Nature * Travis Rayne Pickeringa and Henry T. Bunna responce to above * The evolution of endurance running and the tyranny of ethnography: A reply to Pickering and Bunn (2007) barefoot running Nature 463, 531-535(28 January 2010) Foot strike patterns and collision forces in habitually barefoot versus shod runners abstract/htmlpdf I'll try to take some pictures of the setup soon. Shoe Attempts text/html 2011-02-11T11:41:52+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/wearables/software?rev=1297424512&do=diff Essential Software Looking for a little more info? The following is a list of some of what I consider to be essential software I run in Xubuntu on my wearable. Each of these contribute an key part of the experience: ? //software Dectalk// from fonix :: http://www.fonixspeech.com/dectalk_legacy.php .. Yep, this is one of two pieces of commercial software I run. For years I ran a hardware dectalk, then for a while I used pc104 based doubletalk units, as the rigs became more powerful and software… 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 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 2008-04-10T20:51:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) 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 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 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 2011-02-25T04:28:05+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/instruments/top?rev=1298608085&do=diff What am I playing? Probably, the dobro slide lyre. It is the last thing I made and been eating most of my music time. I will put up some pics and sound clips soon. Some earlier instrument projects: * The Flat backed oud project (a 6 hour marine ply, maple and ebony project) 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 2010-07-09T05:32:09+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/inhouse_links?rev=1278653529&do=diff A helping hand Since moving to the wiki, some pages are not linked in and so, they get missed by the search engine. This page attempts to correct that over site. prewiki-index.html text/html 2007-12-28T18:56:00+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/qemu_ubuntu_7.10?rev=1198868160&do=diff I recently wanted to try a windows only usb device. I deceided to bring up a qemu image and found a few things out that I wonted to put in one place: for win2k make sure to use -win2k-hack when building the system as indicated in the qemu man page text/html 2010-07-09T05:25:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/priestdo/tips/top?rev=1278653149&do=diff Odds and Ends * a few tips on installing qemu in ubuntu 7.10 (well xubuntu in my case) * multihome dokuwiki hacks * an intermediate fix for nasm 0.99 * blackbox * Dokuwiki local Style Test * Using emacs with z80asm * tikkun_passover_2009_supplement_in_plain_text * Some links to help the indexing text/html 2012-06-13T22:04:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.cs.vassar.edu/people/voerman/top?rev=1339625071&do=diff Louis Voerman Visiting Associate Professor (Retired) Department of Computer Science Vassar College Poughkeepsie, New York 12604 Email: <voerman@cs.vassar.edu> LOUIS VOERMAN, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science, retired after 26 years of service, in Spring 2009. He taught courses in operating systems, microprocessor design, computer organization and advanced computer architecture at Vassar since 1983. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and an M.S. in Computer Scienc… 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