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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, | | **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu | | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, | ||
- | ==== Spring | + | ==== Spring |
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+ | * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | ||
+ | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12: | ||
+ | * Labs: | ||
+ | * Section 56: Fri 1: | ||
+ | * Section 57: Fri 3: | ||
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+ | * Office hours: (Virtual) | ||
+ | * Tue/Thu/Fri 4-5pm; //and by appointment// | ||
- | * CMPU-353: Bioinformatics | ||
- | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1-3pm | ||
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- | * CMPU-101: [[courses: | + | * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming |
- | * Lectures: Mon/ | + | * Lectures: Mon/ |
- | * Labs: Fri 1-3pm | + | * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL |
- | * SP 309 | + | * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5: |
- | * CMPU-381: | + | |
- | * Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm | + | |
- | * SP 105 | + | |
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- | * Office hours: | + | |
- | * tbd, //and by appointment// | + | |
==== Research Interests ==== | ==== Research Interests ==== | ||
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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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+ | //I did make up this term [object oriented] and it was a bad choice because it **under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending**.// | ||
//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.// | //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.// | ||
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+ | //There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are __obviously__ no deficiences and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no __obvious__ deficiencies.// | ||
//SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.// --Philip Greenspun | //SQL, Lisp, and Haskell are the only programming languages that I've seen where one spends more time thinking than typing.// --Philip Greenspun |