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===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ===== Marc L. Smith ===== | ||
- | **Associate | + | // |
+ | **Professor | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | /*** | ||
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+ | ***/ | ||
~~NOTOC~~ | ~~NOTOC~~ | ||
- | ==== 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 2019 ==== | + | ==== Fall 2024 ==== |
+ | /********** | ||
+ | * < | ||
+ | **********/ | ||
* CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction | ||
- | * Lectures: Mon/ | + | * Lectures: Mon/ |
- | * Labs: Fri 1-3pm | + | * Labs: Thu 9:00am--11:00am \\ \\ |
- | * SP 309 | + | * [[https:// |
- | * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL | + | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 3: |
- | * Lectures: Mon 3: | + | |
- | * SP 105 | + | * Office hours: |
+ | * In person in SP 104.5 (and [[https:// | ||
+ | * Wed 10: | ||
+ | * Thu 11: | ||
+ | * //and by appointment// | ||
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+ | /**** | ||
+ | * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming | ||
+ | * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12: | ||
+ | * CMPU-311: Database Systems | ||
+ | * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5: | ||
+ | * [[https:// | ||
+ | * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1: | ||
+ | ****/ | ||
- | * Office hours: | ||
- | * //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 | ||
+ | //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**.// | ||
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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.// | ||
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+ | // | ||
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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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+ | // | ||
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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 | ||
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+ | //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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+ | */ | ||
+ | $((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$ |