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Csite News

Hi! I am proud to say that the Csite UNIX lectures have been very well attended. These sessions occur every Tuesday, with a different topic each week. The sessions started with "beginner" type material, and have progressed to topics such as using "S" interactively by Milt Harr. Professor Harr gave step-by-step examples of using "S" to do data analysis, graphics, and matrix algebra/manipulations. If you are interested in attending the rest of these lectures, a schedule can be seen by typing: "ns ee help schedule". As well as finding out nifty information about how to use the system, by attending these lectures you also get to meet some interesting personalities!

For example, Professor Harr has been at Purdue University for 31 years. He has written four books and been an author or co-author on over 90 publications. He was married in May of 1945, left the service in August, and started college in December of the same year. Since he is a world traveler, he has many interesting stories to tell; yet, when the phone rings with a former student on the line, his transition into technical jargon is immediate. Civil Engineering is lucky indeed that he chose engineering over oil painting and farming!

As far as new additions go, there are several IBM-XT Personal Computers in the Civil Engineering building. Five of the PCs have been moved to the CE terminal room, where students will have free access to them, except during the time they are reserved for Prof. Bob Lee's sophomore class. The PC's are able to talk to ECN via KERMIT, which was obtained (free) in the PC Learning Resource Center, Math B-4. With the new annex software, there did not seem to be much of a problem connecting the PC through the Annex Box to ECN.

Future new hardware additions include 6 SunS to CHE, 10 SunS to CE, and 2 SunS to MSE. Most of the Sun workstations will be put in PUBLIC areas, where many people will be able to access them, and try them out. Some of the "public" Sun locations will be CMET 117a (3), CMET 001 (2), CE 305 (7), CE 430 (1), and CMET 110 (2). Even though the Sun is a powerful machine, what I am looking forward to most is having a TROFF previewing device with the Sun's arrival. (Although when it gets sunny, I don't think I will dread the walk to the laser as much!)

Stacey

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