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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 | 
  
-==== Fall 2019 ====+==== Fall 2020 ====
  
 +  * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming
 +    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12:00--1:15pm \\ \\ 
 +  * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL
 +    * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5:10pm \\ \\ 
 +  * Office hours: 
 +    * tbd //and by appointment//
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 +/****
   * CMPU-101: [[courses:cs101-201902:top|Problem-Solving and Abstraction]]   * CMPU-101: [[courses:cs101-201902:top|Problem-Solving and Abstraction]]
     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm     * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
     * Labs: Fri 1-3pm     * 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:  +
-    * Tue/Thu 1-3pm, //and by appointment//+
  
 ==== Research Interests ==== ==== Research Interests ====
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 //Computer Science is the art of turning constants into variables.// --Donald Knuth //Computer Science is the art of turning constants into variables.// --Donald Knuth
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 +//Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.// --Brian Kernighan
  
 //The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.//  --Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man Month)  //The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.//  --Fred Brooks (The Mythical Man Month) 
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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]] //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> \\