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| ===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ||
| - | **Associate | + | // |
| + | **Professor | ||
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| - | ==== Coordinates ==== | + | ==== Coordinates ==== |
| - | | **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 [[https:// |
| - | ==== Fall 2019 ==== | + | ==== Fall 2025 ==== |
| * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | ||
| - | * Lectures: Mon/ | + | * Lectures: Mon/ |
| - | * Labs: Fri 1-3pm | + | * Labs: Fri 9--11am, SC 006 \\ \\ |
| - | * SP 309 | + | |
| - | * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL | + | * BIOL/ |
| - | * Lectures: Mon 3: | + | * Lectures: Tue/ |
| - | * SP 105 | + | |
| + | * Office hours: | ||
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| + | * Mon/Wed 10: | ||
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| + | * Bioinformatics students: | ||
| + | * Tue/Thu 12: | ||
| + | * OH 263 (Prof. Jodi Schwarz' | ||
| + | * //and by appointment// | ||
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| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 3: | ||
| + | * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming | ||
| + | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12: | ||
| + | * CMPU-311: Database Systems | ||
| + | * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5: | ||
| + | * [[https:// | ||
| + | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1: | ||
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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 | ||
| + | //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**.// | ||
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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.// | ||
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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. The first method is far more difficult.// | ||
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| + | // Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious."// | ||
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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 | ||
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| + | //If you give someone Fortran, he has Fortran. If you give someone Lisp, he has any language he pleases.// --Guy L. Steele, Jr. | ||
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| + | //Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.// | ||
| + | --Maya Angelou | ||
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