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===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ||
- | **Associate Professor**\\ | + | // |
+ | **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:// |
- | ==== Spring | + | ==== Spring |
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+ | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 9: | ||
+ | * Labs: Fri 9: | ||
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+ | * Office hours: | ||
+ | * In person (and [[https:// | ||
+ | * Mon/Wed 10: | ||
+ | * //and by appointment// | ||
- | * CMPU-353: Bioinformatics | ||
- | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1-3pm | ||
/**** | /**** | ||
- | * CMPU-101: [[courses: | + | * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming |
- | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm | + | * Lectures: Mon/ |
- | * Labs: Fri 1-3pm | + | * CMPU-311: Database Systems |
- | * SP 309 | + | * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5:10pm \\ \\ |
- | * CMPU-381: | + | * [[https:// |
- | * Lectures: | + | * Lectures: |
- | * SP 105 | + | |
****/ | ****/ | ||
- | * Office hours: | + | |
- | * For Bioinformatics students: | + | |
- | * Tue 11am-12pm, and | + | |
- | * open lunch at Bridge Cafe 12-12: | + | |
- | * For advising: //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 | ||
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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**.// | ||
//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.// | //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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//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 | ||
+ | //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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+ | /* | ||
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+ | */ | ||
+ | $((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ |