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 =====  Marc L. Smith ===== =====  Marc L. Smith =====
-**Associate Professor**\\ +//(he/him)// \\ 
 +**Associate Professor and Chair**\\ 
 <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://computerscience.vassar.edu/"> Computer Science Department</a></html>\\ <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://computerscience.vassar.edu/"> Computer Science Department</a></html>\\
 <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vassar.edu">Vassar College</a></html> <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.vassar.edu">Vassar College</a></html>
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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, NY 12604-0399 | +| **Office:** SP 104.5 \\ **Voice:** 845 437 7497   [[https://vassar.zoom.us/j/8904060254?pwd=ZGN2OEdPNEpvMUVFTlphT0xSRk5jQT09|Zoom]]\\ **E-mail:** mlsmith@vassar.edu  |   | Vassar College, Box 399\\ 124 Raymond Avenue\\ Poughkeepsie, NY 12604-0399  |
  
-==== Fall 2019 ====+==== Spring 2024 ====
  
-  * CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction +  * <html><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="https://www.cs.vassar.edu/~mlsmith/cs101/52"> CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction</a></html>\\ 
-    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm +    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 9:00am--10:15am  
-    * Labs: Fri 1-3pm +    * Labs: Fri 9:00am--11:00am \\ \\  
-    * SP 309 + 
-  * CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL +  * Office hours:   
-    * Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm +    * In person (and [[https://vassar.zoom.us/j/8904060254?pwd=ZGN2OEdPNEpvMUVFTlphT0xSRk5jQT09|Zoom]] by appointment) 
-    * SP 105+    * Mon/Wed 10:30am--12:00pm in SP 104.5  
 +    * //and by appointment//  
 + 
 +/**** 
 +  * CMPU-377: Parallel Programming 
 +    * Lectures: Mon/Wed 12:00--1:15pm (remote) \\ \\  
 +  * CMPU-311: Database Systems 
 +    * Lectures: Mon 3:10--5:10pm \\ \\  
 +  * [[https://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=25594|BIOL/CMPU-353: Bioinformatics]] 
 +    * Lectures: Tue/Thu 1:00--3:00pm \\ \\  
 +****/
  
-  * 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**.// -- 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]]
 +
 +//Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.// --Brian Kernighan
 +
 +//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.// --C.A.R. Hoare (The emperor's old clothes - 1981)
 +
 +//Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.// --Edsger Dijkstra
 +
 +//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.
 +
 +//Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.//
 +--Maya Angelou
 +
 +/*
 <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\ <code>(( λ (x) (x x)) ( λ (x) (x x)))</code> \\
 +*/
  
 +$((\lambda(x)\ (x\ x))\ (\lambda(x)\ (x\ x)))$