According to Intel's "Most Unwired College Campuses" survey, Earlham College makes the grade - in a listing of the 100 most wired college campuses in the US, EC comes in at number 57. Most of the original design and engineering for Earlham's WiFi infrastructure was done by CS students and faculty in the HIP group.
The Cluster Computation Group is travelling to Florida to give a poster presentation in the SIAM conference of their work in molecular dynamics.
If you'd like to see what Jim does when he misses class, there are some pictures from the FestColloquium he spoke at in the Fall at http://tcl.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/festcol/pictures.html.
We will be hosting two candidates for our open visiting position
tomorrow and Wednesday.
The person who fills this position will be teaching five or six
courses next year. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask Jim or Charlie.
Tuesday, 8 Feb.:
Ebru Celikel, Ege University, Turkey.
Meeting with students: 1:00--2:00, Dennis 209.
Talk: 4:00, Dennis 220. (Refreshments)
Title: Automated Author Recognition Using the Prediction by Partial
Matching (PPM) Model.
Abstract: Automated author recognition is the problem of
determining the correct author of a disputed text using
texts whose authors are already known. We will discuss
an approach to solving this problem using the Prediction
by Partial Matching (PPM) Model, which gauges the
likelihood of authorship of a text on the basis of how
effective statistics gathered from the known text are as
a data compression model for the text in question.
Wednesday, 9 Feb.:
Farouk Musa, Arab American University, West Bank
Meeting with students: 1:00--2:00, Dennis 209
Talk: 4:00, Dennis 220.
Title: Distributing Distance Learning Contents over the Web
Abstract: The Internet with its world wide web (WEB) of computers
has drastically changed how learners receive the course
material and communicate with their professors and
colleagues. The Web has become an important tool in
both distance education and traditional classroom
teaching. Putting all distance learning materials on
the WEB using one server is not without problems. The
size of the database for such a distance learning
system would be enormous. In this lecture we describe
a distance learning system with the database distributed
over remotely connected servers.
At 4AM on Friday morning, the CS and cluster sysadmins worked to relocate the CS servers into the cluster machine room.
The new location has many advantages over the previous location in a 4th-floor closet, including easy access to the loading dock, increased working space, and dedicated HVAC and power. In addition to installing the servers, an Extreme Networks Summit 24 switch was installed in the rack to provide network connectivity, and a dedicated fiber optic cable was installed to uplink it to the Extreme Networks Summit 48 switch in the D224 wiring closet.
The CS sysadmins will be moving all of the departments servers from the 4th floor of Dennis to the cluster machine room in the basement of Noyes. This room has much more space than our current closet, and also has dedicated HVAC service. CS services will become unavailable beginning at 4AM on Friday morning, and will be backup by 7:30AM.