1. Introduction to Computer Labs Guili Liu M.Sc. Lab Inst. Dept of Computer Science University of Regina Regina, SK S4S 0A2 Canada Telephone: (306)585-4821 Email: guili@cs.uregina.caguili@cs.uregina.ca http://www.cs.uregina.ca/~guili/

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3. University of Regina 9 faculties 23 departments Services include Computing Service, Physical Plant, Residence Management, Campus Clinic 12,167 full time and part time students (2007-2008) 1400 (almost) faculty and staff

4. Computing Service Provide general service to the university community User accounts, email, WWW home Smart labs (Multimedia) Public labs (Replaced in 4 years) Smart Classroom Wireless Service & networked printers Evergreen Program (Replaced in 4 years)

5. University of Regina Scenery Library Adhum Building Language Institute (ESL) Wascana Lake

6. William Riddell Centre University Theatre Student Union Public Computer Labs Coop Office Faculty of Fine Arts Multipurpose Room Food court

7. University of Regina Old Campus Conservatory of Performing Arts Continuing Education Seniors Centre

8. Department of Computer Science

9. CS Dept Meeting

10. CS BBQ 2007

11. CS Labs

12. Faculty and Staff 18 Faculties (professors, 3 from Xi’an Jiaotong) 4 – 6 Sessional Lecturers 4 Full Time Lab Instructors (1 from Xi’an Jiaotong) 5 Technical Support Staff 2 Secretaries 1 Program Coordinator

13. CS Student Enrollment/Statistics Undergraduate Students 321 in 2003 (Fall), 278 in 2004 (Winter) 57 Graduated from June Convocation in 04 106 in 2007 (Fall) 36 graduated in 2007 Graduate Students 85 students in 2004, Graduate 11+3 in June 88 (73+15) in 2007, degree conferred to 19 (13+6)

14. Undergraduate Program Options BSc in Computer Science BSc in CS with Business Concentration BSc Honours in Computer Science BSc Combined Major in Computer Science & Mathematics BSc in Software Systems Development Minor in Computer Science BSc Honours Combined Major in Computer Science & Mathematics Certificate in Computer Science

15. Joint International Programs The cooperative agreement on academic exchange between universities are established at the university level. Undergraduate program 2+2 program in Engineering and CS Graduate program Welcome international students Considering 1+3 program in CS

16. Expense and Benefit Tuition fee is the double amount of Canadian students’ e.g. 2007/2008 --- $9,227 Covered by Saskatchewan Health Care Living options --- university residence, rental, or home stay ($500-$700 per month)

17. Microsoft Academic Alliance The Department pays about $800US/year All the CS students and CS personnel become member Receive selected Microsoft products for home use These products may be used in computer labs and classrooms

18. Computer Science Contact Information Department of Computer Science College West 308 University of Regina 3737 Wascana Parkway Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2 Office Phone: 1-306-585-4632 Fax: 1-306-585-4745 E-Mail:depthead@cs.uregina.ca or deptsec@cs.uregina.ca

20. Most of the lower level CS classes have labs Lab teaching is complementary to the classroom teaching Lab focuses on the practical hands on Lab material is online Lab has pre-lab conference period In-lab exercises and lab test

21. CS110 Lab Outline Introduction to Lab Environment Solaris in CL136 Unix, C++ and Windows C++ Basic I/O and Data Types C++ Basic I/O and Data Types Arithmetic Expressions, More on C++ I/O String Operations and C++ File I/O Selection Control Structures Looping Control Structure Additional Control Structures Arrays Functions with Value Parameters Functions with Reference Parameters Lab Test

22. Undergraduate Labs CL105 – CS425 CL115 – CS100 CL122 – CS115, CS330 CL135 – CS305, 325, 405 CS135.4 – CS201, 210, 250, 301 CL136 – CS110

23. Graduate Labs Graduate labs are research labs Funded by the research project or research funding Usually, under the supervision of faculty members

24. Classroom Building 105(CL105) 13 Dell Dimension XPSGen4 Novell account environment Pentium 4 Processor 550 (3.4GHz,800FSB). 2GB DDR2 SDRAM, 256MB ATI Radeon X850 XT 160GB NCQ Serial ATA Hard Drive Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS THX 20" 2001FP Digital Flat Panel Display Windows XP Software: Office 2000, MS Visio, MS Project, SPIM, LogicWorks Visual Studio 2008, Maya 8.5, Virtools 3, Renderware, Java SDK, DirectX 9 SDK, MatLab with Image Processing toolbox, LifeForms 4.0

25. Classroom Building 115 (CL115) Novell account environment Windows XP Professional 17" Wide screen LCD monitor 2.4GHz Pentium 4 768 MB DDR PC2100 RAM 40GB Hard Drive DVD-ROM, 3.5"; floppy drive; accessible USB 2.0 jacks Office: Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Works 7 Web: Fast Menu, Firefox 2, Mozilla 7, UnFreez, URCOMM suite, Giffy, Internet Explorer 7, MapEdit

26. Classroom Building 122 (CL122) 15 IBM Intellistation M Pro workstations CS account environment Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS ThinkVision L170 17" LCD Analog Flat Panel. P4 Xeon 3.4GHz/800Mhz 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive NVIDIA Quadro FX1100 video card Gnu C++ tools, Emacs 21, Gnome 2 Desktop, broad selection of open source software Primarily used for CS 115 and CS 330. Access restricted to specific classes. Combination required.

27. CL135 Undergraduate Digital Multimedia Lab 8 Dell Precision 530, Novell account environment Dual Intel Xeon 1.7GHz, 20 & 40 GB hard drives 1GB RAM, 17" LCD Flat panel NVIDIA Quadro 2 professional graphics card Audio: PureData, Steinberg Cubase VST Graphics and Animation: Maya 8.5, Illustrator 10, After Effects 5.5, Photoshop 6.0, Free Hand 10, Poser 5 Multimedia: Premier 6.0, Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio, Flash MX 2004, The VR Worx Publishing: Acrobat 5.0, LyX, Microsoft Office XP Professional Software Development: Alice, Java Netbeans IDE, Java 3D1.3(OpenGL) SDK, Java Media Framework 2.1.1e, Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Web: Firefox 2, Internet Explorer 7, Dreamweaver 4, Fireworks 4, Generator 2, Home Site 5

28. CL135 continued 9 PowerMac G4 CS login environment Dual 1 Ghz IBM P4 CPUs 1 GB RAM, 80 GB hard drive 17" Flat Panel Monitors, OSX 10.4 Tiger Audio:PureData Graphics and Animation: After Effects, Illustrator 10, Photoshop CS2, Freehand 10, Maya 8.5 Multimedia:Final Cut Pro 5, iDVD, iLife 05, Flash MX 2004, Roxio Toast 6, Studio Pro 3, VR Works 2.53 Publishing:Acrobat 5.0, Office X Software Development:XCode

29. CL135 continued 2 PowerMac G5 CS login environment Dual 2.3 Ghz IBM P5 CPUs 2 GB RAM, 230 GB hard drive 23" LCD Cinema Display. Audio: Pure Data, SoundTrack Pro Graphics and Animation: Maya 8.5, Motion, Shake Multimedia: DVD Studio Pro 4, Director MX 2004, Final Cut Pro HD, Flash MX 2004, iDVD 5, iMovie HD 2 Epson Expression 1640XL Color Image Scanners Used for interdisciplinary courses (FILM 486AH, FILM 208), multimedia (CS 325), user interfaces (CS 305) and computer graphics (CS 405). Lab access restricted. Access card and CS account required.

30. Classroom Building 135.4 (CL35.4) 23 PCs, Novell account environment Windows XP Professional SP2 19" Dell 1901FP LCD Monitors 3.0 GHz Pentium 4, 1GB RAM 80GB Seagate SATA hard drive LG DVD/CD R/W multi recorder, 3.5" Floppy drive, Accessible USB 2.0 jacks Radeon X300 series 128MB PCI express Integrated Realtek high definition audio with front speaker and mic jacks Visual Studio 2008, PCSpim, LogicWorks Primarily used for 200 level CS classes: CS 201, CS 210, CS 215, CS 250, and CS301

31. CL136 Solaris Lab 20 Sun Ray virtual display clients CS account environment Two servers, ssd1 and ssd2, provide graphical access to a Solaris desktop SunOS 5.9, Solaris 9 Dual Sparc v9 1GHz, 8 GB RAM Sun and Gnu C++ tools Rational Rose CASE tools Primarily used for 1st year CS classes (CS 110, CS 115) and software engineering class (CS 372) Access restricted to specific classes. Combination required.

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