Institutional facilities Central UNIX facilities operated by the Computing and Communications Center (CCC) have a common list of accounts (about 5,000) with kerberos and LDAP authentication. CS can use these facilities, as can other departments. Six are Compaq Alpha UNIX systems running Tru64 UNIX. There are 6 HP dual CPU PA-RISC systems available as a long-term computational resource, either system by system, or as a 12-cpu group for parallel processing. These systems offer computer languages for program development, oracle, maple, matlab, and other software packages. There is a 32 CPU IBM SP supercomputer, which has a separate login list, available as a research resource. Several server systems are operated by CCC, providing campus name service, DHCP, mail, news, time synchronization, LDAP, campus web, web proxy, VPN, and many other services. Central services supports academic labs in each of the academic building with a total seating capacity of approximately 75 X-terminals and 300 PC's. All of the PCs offer a common interface and software profile with over 100 PC applications served from a Windows 2000 domain. (Available at www.wpi.edu/+CCC/Labs/labs.html or see attached web page of hardware list). Where licensing is possible the same software is available from the residence network for student use on their personal PCs. (Available at http://www.wpi.edu/+CCC/Software/network.html or see attached web page of network software) Student access The CCC computer labs in the Fuller labs building are open from 11am Sunday until 10pm Friday, and from 11am to 7pm on Saturday. Labs in Kaven Hall are accessible to Computer Science students with their student ID and electronic card swipe locks 24/7. Labs in other academic buildings hours are set by the departments in those buildings, generally morning into evening hours. There is per-pillow Ethernet access in the residence halls, and optional per-pillow access in Fraternities and Sororities. The CCC maintains the network for CS and all other departments. The CCC operates the Helpdesk, which is available 24 hrs a day Monday through Thursday, until 7pm on Friday and from 11am until 7pm Saturday and Sunday when classes are in session and is available to all at WPI via phone, email or in-person. The CCC maintains desktop PCs and has a replacement schedule. V. Labs & Computing Facilities A. Facilities: 1. Other Facilities: The Multimedia Resources Lab (Movie Lab) The IMC maintains the Multimedia Resource Lab (Movie Lab) located in Gordon Library, Room 208. All computers have the latest versions of the following software: 3D Studio MAX, CoolEdit 2000, Adobe PageMaker, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Acrobat Full-version, Microsoft Office Suite, and all currently advertised CCC applications. All machines are installed with the following hardware: Dual 800 Mhz Processors, 256 MB Ram, 30 GB IDE Hard Drive, CDRW drive, sound card, T100 Network card, video card, zip drive, and Web cameras. 2. There are 15 workstations and 30 chairs located in the Movie Lab. If a professor has a course with more than 15 students than they have the option to divide the class into smaller sections (the usually selected option) or have students double up on machines. There is sufficient workspace for 2 students to share a computer comfortably. 3. The IMC maintains and supports several university-wide facilities: * 75% of all classrooms on campus are designated as electronic classrooms (networked pc, vcr, input for laptop video all connected to classroom projection system) and are upgraded every 4 years on a predefined rotating schedule * TV Studio and Classroom with seating for 48 * Videoconferencing/Satellite broadcast equipment * Inventory of Laptop Computers – approximately 130 laptops are available to students and are on a one and half-year replacement cycle * Equipment Loan – the IMC's extensive inventory of equipment for loan to the WPI community is on a rotating upgrade schedule. The inventory includes but, is not limited to the following: 10 video/data projectors, 6 digital cameras, 4 VHS video cameras, 4 digital video cameras, 2 vcr players, 1 DVD player, 5 portable 80GB firewire hard drives, 5 portable zip drives, 5 tv/vcr combination units, 5 portable overhead projectors, 2 slide projectors, 100 ethernet cards (50 wireless), and 7 audio cassette recorders (5 portable, 2 professional). B. Student Access: The Movie Lab is available during the same hours that the Gordon Library is open. The Lab is divided between defined classroom periods and open lab time. The IMC is open from 8:00 – 5:00 each day during the week and also Monday through Thursday evenings usually until 9:00 to support campus events. All properly registered and identified students have access to the IMC's inventory of loan out equipment. F. Instructional Support: Students and faculty who need help with the Movie Lab for a course or project are able to reserve time with one of the IMC's Educational Technology Services Staff for training and assistance. Student Projects also may receive assistance with video & audio digitizing and editing. All enrolled students have access to myWPI, WPI's course management information system. The myWPI and streaming media servers are maintained by the IMC's systems administration staff. Standard VII. Institutional Facilities A. Library Standard VII-I. The library that serves the computer science program must be adequately staffed with professional librarians and support personnel. 1. Assess the staffing of the library (or libraries) that serve the computer science program. Are there adequate professional librarians and support personnel? Supply documentation if possible. There is a single library, the George C. Gordon Library, that serves the entire campus. For the most part the staffing is adequate although with the growth of the instruction program another professional librarian will be required in another year. There are 10 full time professional librarians including the Library Director, 2 part time professional weekend supervisors, and 10 support staff. Standard VII-2. The library's technical collection must include up-to-date textbooks, reference works, and publications of professional and research organizations such as ACM and the IEEE Computer Society. 2. Assess the adequacy of the library's technical collection and of the budget for subscriptions as well as new acquisitions. The library must contain up-to-date textbooks, reference works, and publications of professional and research organizations such as the ACM and IEEE Computer Society. It should also contain representative trade journals. Supply documentation, if possible. Assess the process by which faculty may request the library to order books or subscriptions. Attached is a list of books purchased at the request of the Computer Science Department faculty in the past two years. In addition to the print collection, the library purchased access to NetLibrary, a web based collection of approximately 9,000 titles. Computer Science e-books are the most heavily used group in this collection – see attached list. A trial of Safari is currently being run by the library. Safari contains hundreds of electronic IT books by well know publishers such as O'Reilly. The library plans to pick up a site license for Safari at no charge to the Computer Science Department. The library has a new subscription to the Knovel collection of online full text science and engineering reference books. Reference works such as INSPEC are accessible online and the library provides a site license to Web of Science back to 1990. Web of Science includes Science Citation Index. See http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Library/Databases/Subject/comp.html for a list of specifically Computer Science related online databases. The library purchases the IEEE XPLORE as a site license. This includes all IEEE journals, proceedings, and standards from 1988 to the latest publications as well as IEE journals. The library also purchases a site license to all ACM journals in electronic format as well as all the SIAM journals online. Additionally, the library purchases ScienceDirect, a complete set of online journals published by Elsevier and provides access through a New England consortial agreement to titles that are not active consortium subscriptions. Other groups of entire publisher online journals include all Wiley, Academic Press, Oxford University Press, and Springer Verlag. For other electronic Computer Science related journals see http://www.wpi.edu/Academics/Library/Ejournals/TitleLists/CS.html. The library cuttently subscribes to 70 print journals, some of which are also in electronic format, for the Computer Science department. See attached list. The budget for Computer Science book acquisitions this academic year is $7,500. The budget for Computer Science journals is, for the most part, impossible to break out as more than one academic department uses online collections and the library purchases groups of titles that often include titles of interest to the Computer Science department. In academic year 2001 $23,675 was spent on Computer Science periodicals but this did not include IEEE XPLORE which alone cost over $80,000. The budget for journals and databases has been increasing each year for the past three years and enabled the library to provide access to over 7,000 electronic full text titles and 150 electronic databases. Computer Science faculty may request individual books through a Computer Science faculty member who is the official liaison with the Collections Management librarian. The Collections Management Librarian orders all items requested unless they exceed the amount allocated to the Computer Science Department. At the point where requests exceed the allocation, the order are placed on hold until April when the library may be able to purchase them through another account. Otherwise they will be held for purchase until the next fiscal year. Orders may be placed online or in print. Standard VII-3. Systems for locating and obtaining electronic information must be available. 3. The WPI library has a web-based public access catalog that runs under the Voyager integrated library system software from Endeavor Information Systems, Inc. In addition to information on books, journals, and other printed materials in the library collection, the catalog provides links to over 7,000 full text journals from a number of publishers and over 3,000 electronic books. Students and faculty can access full text resources and databases from any computer in the WPI IP domain. Access from outside the domain is available to students and faculty via a proxy server operated by the WPI Computing and Communications Center