Computing Facilities
Computer Services provides academic
computing facilities for all students and college personnel.
The Millsaps multimedia laboratory
is available to students and faculty in all of the natural sciences.
Departmental labs are used exclusively
for computer science majors, in research and upper-level courses.
Academic Computing
Millsaps has five general-use computer
labs available to all students. The various labs are available
for use throughout the school day and offer extended evening and
weekend hours. These labs contain the latest personal computer
technology and software. All machines are connected to a central
network and have T1 connections to the Internet. In addition to
standard software packages and operating systems software, different
machines are loaded with various software packages, depending
on the needs of the students and the requirement of the various
courses.
Millsaps Multimedia Laboratory
The Millsaps Multimedia laboratory,
directed by Dr. Jimmie Purser, contains 21 networked PC systems
with audio and video capabilities and a variety of hardware and
software tools for image, audio and video capture, editing and
software development.
It is used by students and faculty
in the natural sciences, including several computer science courses.
The laboratory is in the process of acquiring a powerful 3D graphics
workstation for scientific visualization and multimedia and virtual
reality experiments.
Computer
Science Advanced Lab
The advanced
lab features 64-bit AMD Opteron workstations configured to dual
boot MS Windows and Linux. These workstations support upper-level
courses and advanced student projects.
The laboratory
contains networking equipment used to construct and experiment
with standalone computer networks. Isolation from the campus network
provides a safe field for experimentation.
The latest
addition to the departmental facilities are high-speed Windows
NT servers, equipped with over $1 million of client-server database
development software and donated by Oracle Corporation.
Please follow
this link for
the latest news about this lab.
