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 =====  Marc L. Smith ===== =====  Marc L. Smith =====
-**Associate Professor and Chair**\\ +**Associate Professor**\\ 
 <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://computerscience.vassar.edu/"> Computer Science Department</a></html>\\ <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://computerscience.vassar.edu/"> Computer Science Department</a></html>\\
 <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vassar.edu">Vassar College</a></html> <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vassar.edu">Vassar College</a></html>
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 | **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu | | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 |  | **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu | | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399 | 
  
-==== Spring 2019 ====+==== Spring 2020 ====
  
-  * [[courses:cs101-201952:top|CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction]] +  * CMPU-353: Bioinformatics 
-    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 10:30-11:45am +    * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1-3pm 
-    * Labs: Tue 3:10-5:10pm +/**** 
-    * SP 309 +  * CMPU-101: [[courses:cs101-201902:top|Problem-Solving and Abstraction]]
-  * [[courses:cs377-201951:top|CMPU-377: Parallel Programming]]+
     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
 +    * Labs: Fri 1-3pm
     * SP 309     * SP 309
 +  * CMPU-381: [[courses:cs381-2019/top|Relational Databases and SQL]] 
 +    * Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm 
 +    * SP 105 
 +****/
   * Office hours:    * Office hours: 
-    * //tbd//+    * For Bioinformatics students: 
 +      * Tue 11am-12pm, and  
 +      * open lunch at Bridge Cafe 12-12:45pm 
 +    * For advising: //tbd//
     * //and by appointment//     * //and by appointment//
  
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 //Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.// --Alan Kay //Computer science inverts the normal. In normal science, you're given a world, and your job is to find out the rules. In computer science, you give the computer the rules, and it creates the world.// --Alan Kay
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 +//Though OOP came from many motivations...the small scale [motivation] was to find a more flexible version of assignment, and then to try to eliminate it altogether.// --Alan Kay, [[http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/|The Early History of SmallTalk]]
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 +//SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.// --Philip Greenspun
  
 <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\ <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\