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people:mlsmith:top [2019/01/11 22:51]
mlsmith [Spring 2019]
people:mlsmith:top [2019/09/08 18:00]
mlsmith [Fall 2019]
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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 ====+==== Fall 2019 ====
  
-  * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction +  * CMPU-101: [[courses:cs101-201902:top|Problem-Solving and Abstraction]]
-    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 10:30-11:45am +
-    * Labs: Tue 3:10-5:10pm +
-    * SP 309 +
-  * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming+
     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
 +    * Labs: Fri 1-3pm
 +    * SP 309
 +  * CMPU-381: [[courses:cs381-2019/top|Relational Databases and SQL]]
 +    * Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm
     * SP 105     * SP 105
  
   * Office hours:    * Office hours: 
-    * //tbd// +    * //tbdand by appointment//
-    * //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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 +//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]]
  
 <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\ <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\