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Marc L. Smith
Associate Professor
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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 |
Fall 2019
- CMPU-101: Problem-Solving and Abstraction
- Lectures: Mon/Wed 1:30-2:45pm
- Labs: Fri 1-3pm
- SP 309
- CMPU-381: Relational Databases and SQL
- Lectures: Mon 3:10-5:10pm
- SP 105
- Office hours:
- tbd, and by appointment
Research Interests
- Bioinformatics (phylogenetic analysis, evolutionary robotics)
- Models of Parallel and Distributed Computation
- Unifying Theories of Programming
Quotes
Computer Science is the art of turning constants into variables. –Donald Knuth
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)
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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