What facilities and equipment can I use? I'm a new student.

Workstations and printers are available to students taking CS courses in several places.

The CS instructional general computing labs are located in the Gould-Simpson building (GS-228 and GS-930). The Gould-Simpson lab in 228 has 48 Intel Pentium 4 PC's running Windows XP and 8 Intel Pentium 4 PC's running Fedora Linux. The Gould-Simpson lab in 930 has 31 P4 PC's running Windows XP and 11 P4 PC's for use in graphics courses.

All students have access to both labs 24 hours per day, seven days per week--except when reserved for demonstrations and specialized lab instruction.

There are also a number of specialized workstations in the CS Research Labs (GS-756 & GS-732) in Gould. Although most systems in the Reslabs belong to specific projects, they are available to CS TA's, RA's and staff whenever it does not interfere with project work. In a rare instance, students in certain CS courses may be permitted to use Reslab equipment. Accounts on project related systems must be approved by the project manager for those systems.

All lab areas have printers available to CS account holders.

The department's general use instructional compute server is Lectura (aka lec).

Students normally connect to lec using SSH from another machine on the network or from their PC at home.

All CS majors receive accounts on Lectura and in the Windows domain for the duration of their studies within the department.*

CS graduates (aka alumni) may retain an e-mail account and web page within the department indefinitely.*

*Note that these extended accounts may require periodic renewal.  Typically an email notice requesting renewal is sent at end of semester or academic year.  Make sure you read all email sent to your account by CS support staff or your account will be considered abandoned and closed.