Computer Science House
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Computer Science House (CSH) is a special interest house at the Rochester Institute of Technology made up of a group of students who share an interest in computers, community and having fun. Despite its name, students from all majors are allowed to join. CSH offers many physical and virtual resources to its members and features a collection of many projects such as Drink, "SOAP", and "DAMMIT".
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[edit] Trivia
- CSH was Yahoo! Internet Life's most wired dorm of 1999
- CSH participated in RIT ROCS 2005
- CSH has two networked vending machines (See Drink)
- CSH was founded in 1975
[edit] Projects
Everyone in CSH completes projects. These projects help members to learn more about something, technical or non-technical, and help out CSH or the community at the same time. In addition to some of the notable projects listed here, CSH members have been a major factor in the evolution of the campus network and information services.
[edit] Seminar Series
Over the years CSH has run seminars on various computing technologies to educate other members and, when possible, other students at RIT.
[edit] The Clipper Project
In 1985, several ambitious and talented ARG (Advanced Research Group) members set out to design a 32-bit workstation for use by CSH and the RIT community. This would create one of the most powerful computer systems for that time. They chose the state-of-the-art Clipper Module from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation (now Integraph Corporation) as a base for their computer system.
[edit] SIGGRAPH 1995
Back in 1995, CSH had a table at SIGGRAPH. To check out the web content CSH setup for the event refer to the external links.
[edit] The Okee Project
Porting of NetBSD to a home-grown single CPU board. The Okee CPU board was designed by an alumnus of CSH, Frank Giuffrida, to replace the CCI Tahoe 6/32 6 board CPU boardset with a single CPU board. The CPU is based around the Motorola 68040 processor.
[edit] Porting NetBSD
The project of porting NetBSD to the DECStation 5000 series workstations took some time, and energy, but CSH can now state that its server Jake was officially running NetBSD.
[edit] Resources
CSH offers many resources including, but not limited to the following.
[edit] Network Services
CSH runs its own servers. Due to its small budget most of the servers are provided by donations. Currently there are over 20 different servers running in the CSH server room. These servers provide services such as web, mail, news, and SSH.
In addition to self run servers CSH maintains its own wired and wireless networks. The wireless network is setup using enterprise WPA with a RADIUS server as the backend. The RADIUS server authenticates users against the CSH kerberos server. See the external links for more information about the wireless security setup CSH uses.
[edit] Special Purpose Rooms
CSH has project and research rooms stocked with tools and supplies. The Project Room contains tools for constructing objects made of wood, metal, and plastic. The larger tools in the Project Room include a table saw, circular saw, jigsaw, drill press, and cordless drill.
The Research Room is used for electronics work. It is stocked with resistors, capacitors, wire, and an a mess of integrated circuits. In addition to supplies some of the larger tools include oscilliscopes, logic analyzers, power supplies, multimeters, and soldering irons.
[edit] Community
In addition to all of the technical work that CSH does, they also have a strong social atmosphere. Movie nights are held often, and annual events such as Welcome Back and Holiday Dinner help to spice things up.
[edit] References
- Naik, Gautam, "In Digital Dorm, Click on Return for Soda", The Wall Street Journal, Jan. 23, 1997, Section: Online, pg. B1.
- Freidson, Michael, "Geek House", Yahoo! Internet Life, May 1999
