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Computing Facilities

The Computer and Information Science Department

Facilities

Deschutes Hall, home of The Department of Computer and Information Science opened in 1989. The 27,000 square foot science facility holds faculty and graduate student offices as well as extensive laboratory space for research and instruction.

The department's computing environment is a mix of Unix and Macintosh. The main department servers are Suns, providing file service, web, FTP, mail, news and other network services. First year undergraduates use Information Services' Macintosh and Windows labs, while upper division undergraduates and graduate students use a Department run Macintosh lab, or Sun servers.

Research labs operate a variety of UNIX workstations (Sun, Silicon Graphics, and Pentium based). Individual labs maintain specialized equipment for the work done in that lab: video cameras, recorders, and editors, Linux labs.

Our local area network is primarily switched 100Mb Ethernet and 11Mb 802.11b wireless Ethernet. The departmental networks are connected by Gigabit Ethernet to the campus backbone. The University is connected to a number of wide area networks including a 45 Mb connection to the Internet and 155mb connection to Internet2.

CS account

Once you have your student ID you may obtain your departmental email account by going online to http://newuser.cs.uoregon.edu and supplying in the required data. Then print out what we call "the green sheet." Once signed and submitted to our office manager, your account will be authorized. You may initiate this account setup using the iMac located at the front counter of the CIS office.

It is recommended that all students in the department become familiar with the use of UNIX, Emacs, the electronic mail and news programs. Electronic mail and news are used extensively by the department to disseminate information. Current information relevant to graduate students is posted in the electronic newsgroup uo.cs.grads. Checking your electronic mail and news regularly is very important. Sometimes you will find crucial information there that you might not get anywhere else.

Printers

"Fair Use" policy statement on usage -- CIS graduate students are allowed to print 100 pages per term free of charge on the laser printer. Exceptions to this policy should be referred to the head of the Computing Resources Committee. No more than two copies of any one item should be printed on the department's printers. If you need more than two copies of your printout, you should photocopy the material. If you need multiple copies for distribution in a CIS class you are teaching or as part of your GTF-related duties, you may use the department photocopier. However, if a copying job is 50 copies or more, you should have someone in the office help you with a copy order from Campus Copy. If you need additional copies NOT for departmental use, please patronize other photocopying services located in the EMU and all university libraries.

Source Code

It is illegal to print out copyrighted source code from any machine. Doing so violates the department's licensing agreements. Copyrighted source code is available for use only at this site.

Information Services

Information Services supports the information technology needs of the university through the creation and maintenance of state-of-the-art computing and networking environments. Staff members administer hardware and software, provide a variety of services for faculty, students, and staff, and conduct research in advanced technologies all in support of instruction, research and administration.

Information Services' Academic Services staff provides a variety of services to the university community, including a helpdesk function, hardware repair, and support to several computing labs on campus. The group also supports a wide selection of systems and software, including:

  • Email (web e-mail, Thunderbird) and other network software, (SSH, SFTP).
  • Web browsers (such as Firefox) for all computing platforms.
  • User guides, handouts, reference cards, and other documentation.
  • A quarterly news journal that highlights use of IT resources by faculty and students.
  • Consulting on standard software in use at the university.
  • Disk and file recovery.
  • File transfers.
  • Network access.
  • Maintenance of software libraries.
  • Site licensing and distribution of software (including a site license for antivirus software, Mathematica, SAS, and GIS).
  • Microcomputer and electronics maintenance, repair, and upgrade services.
  • A Collaboration Center in 175 McKenzie that is equipped with SMART and other interactive technologies for group projects and presentations, as well as computing-related books, CDs, and training videos.

Detailed information for Information Services can be found at http://it.uoregon.edu, and their FAQ is at http://it.uoregon.edu/help/.

Campus Computing Labs -- Public, Instructional & Departmental

For particulars on all computing labs on campus, go to http://it.uoregon.edu/labs_list.shtml