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--- people:mlsmith:top [2019/06/02 16:09]
mlsmith [Spring 2019]
+++ people:mlsmith:top [2020/01/23 01:49]
mlsmith [Spring 2020]
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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 |
-==== Fall 2019 ====
+==== Spring 2020 ====
-  * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction
+  * CMPU-353: Bioinformatics
+    * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1-3pm
+/****
+  * CMPU-101: [[courses:cs101-201902:top|Problem-Solving and Abstraction]]
     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
     * Labs: Fri 1-3pm
     * SP 309
-  * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL
+  * CMPU-381: [[courses:cs381-2019/top|Relational Databases and SQL]]
     * Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm
     * SP 105
+****/
   * Office hours:
-    * //tbd, and by appointment//
+    * For Bioinformatics students:
+      * Tue 11am-12pm (OH 263), and
+      * Tue 12-12:45pm (open lunch at Bridge Cafe)
+    * For advising: //tbd//
+    * //and by appointment//
 ==== 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
+//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]]
+//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> \\