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people:mlsmith:top [2019/10/27 00:22]
mlsmith [Quotes]
people:mlsmith:top [2020/07/29 22:11]
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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 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**.// -- Alan Kay (A to Z of programming languages: Smalltalk-80 - 2010)
  
 //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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 +//Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.// --Brian Kernighan
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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.// --C.A.R. Hoare (The emperor's old clothes - 1981)
  
 //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