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Lila FontesAssociate ProfessorComputer Science Department Swarthmore College 500 College Ave Swarthmore, PA 19081 |
email: fontes at cs.swarthmore.edu office: Martin 210 phone: 610-690-5313 office hours: Th 12:30-2:30 and by appointment |
Useful resources for computer scientists, mathematicians, and students
- NSE Student Success Toolkit
- Looking for a LaTeX symbol? Try Detexify or The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbols List.
- Bibtex help
- MathWorld + Wikipedia = Planet Math
- Complexity Zoo provides definitions of complexity classes.
- Mendeley is useful software for organizing a collection of research papers.
- Grace Hopper is the Anita Borg Institute's annual celebration of women in computing.
- My favorite F.A.Q. for your thesis defense.
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If you're looking to waste time on a Flash game, try:
- Manufactoria if you like Turing machines, or
- Factory Idle if you like calculus, or
- Cookie Clicker if you like cookies and don't like games.
- Paperclips if you prefer paperclips to cookies.
- Check whether you are a robot
Useful non-CS reference material
- doNOTlink.it provides a way to linkto a website without improving its search engine rank or passing along referer information.
- Almost-live visualization of wind in the US.
- Neighborhood markets in Paris
- Help the British Library accurately place
historical maps.
My dog
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Ika (EE-kuh) is a
Miniature
Schnauzer and was born in May 2021. He comes
with me to the office. He is friendly and likes meeting people.
My activities
- Service: I am currently on the Global Engagement
Committee and the Committee on Fellowships and Prizes. I was the
treasurer of Swarthmore College's
Sigma Xi chapter, 2017-19. I served on the Search Committee
for Associate Dean of the Faculty (2021). I was on the College
Judiciary Committee (2019-20, 21-23, 25-26). I was on the
Fellowships and Prizes Committee (2018-19, 23-24, 25-27). I was on
the Global Engagement Committee (2025-27). I have been on many
faculty hiring committees (multiple searches every year since
2016). Many other committees probably lurk in my future.
I was on the University of Toronto's Department of Computer Science Chair Search Committee (spring 2010). I served as treasurer for the Computer Science Graduate Student Benevolent Society (CSGSBS) from '09-'11. I was a CS representative to the Graduate Student Union '08-'09. - Sports: Ika and I compete in dog agility. I climb things (a short person's aspirational hobby). I have in the past enjoyed gymnastics, crew, skiing, and rugby, and synchronized swimming (link purged by embarrassment). This has resulted in some cool images of my knee (see my MRI and X-ray), and some knee surgeries. I do not recommend knee surgery as an enjoyable pastime.
- Communication: I have an online presence. You're experiencing it now. It should be clearly understood that everything I post outside this professional webpage represents my own opinion, and not that of my employer, collaborators, or funding agencies. It is mostly boring anyway, don't waste your time. Nevertheless, I have a personal blog. (Deprecated: silly blog, twitter, and all previous CS46 twitter accounts.)
