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We had a similar policy going on. We were all free to bring in our personal laptops. There were quite a few ethernet drops in the room, so I always got there early on test days and gobbled up a e-net port. Only about 15% of the students actually had a laptop, and most didn't have ethernet. Most brought there laptops loaded with their summaries that we had to type on Telecomm Acts and pdf's downloaded from the Library of Congress with the actual laws themselves. Very helpful to have 500 pages of law and executive orders and do a search on them via Acrobat instead of leafing through 500 printed pages of material. Pretty neat. Truth is - I am looked at like I am a freak when I use my laptop in pretty much every other class I've ever had. Large, public university, and most of the non-CSE people are quite computer-phobic. I should know, I am not a CSE major and deal with em.

Since photosynthesis removes CO2 from the atmosphere, The Iron Solution to the global warming problem proposes to radically expand photosynthesis on the planet by fertilizing high nitrogen, low phytoplankton regions of the ocean with the element that limits phytoplankton growth in those regions: iron.

A side benefit of this sort of agriculture is that it would tend to lessen agricultural demand for land-based ecosystems that are currently being slashed and burned for agricultural production, such as rain-forests. Phytoplankton is at the base of the food chain for high protein organisms like fish. People would have to get used to eating less pasta and more halibut -- a small price to pay for the salvation of millions of species, except maybe for Italians.

The first thought that comes to mind is the National Cartoonists' Society's Reuben awards, although those are more geared toward newspaper comic strips than to comic books and magazines. More general in scope is the Michigan State University comic art collection, which is about as definitive a collection as one point on the globe can be.

Check out: http://www.msu.edu/user/loossean/ erin/sanity.html for the test.

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For my network, I use the planets. Kinda lame and already done, but it makes sense. The firewall/computer seen by the world is sun since everything inside my network must revolve around it. My personal computer is mercury just 'cause. Wife's computer is Venus. Our NeXT is Saturn. Earth is a Macintosh not hooked up currently, and my laptop is Luna - Spanish for moon, since the laptop can be a satellite. I was going to go a little more in depth and make the laptop a name of a Saturn moon or some such thing, but I didn't want to get too obscure.

Just for the real curious, here is my schools (Mich. State. U.) Computer Science Department's workstation/server Name List

no doubt! I try so hard to make all of my pages "acceptable" to any browser... but IE makes all of my +1 and H2 text look like ass... making me look like an ass. I do so wish they'd quit doing that; does anyone know why IE blows up font sizes beyond all recognition? (for an example, go to my old homepage in Netscape, then in IE if you've got it. why, God, why?

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

is here. Interestingly, he's a Microbiology, Zoology, and Crop & Soil Sciences professor, and not in the EE or Computer Science departments.

Apparantly, Michigan State has formed a Computational Biology Group since I was a student there. The group looks heavily weighted towards natural science types, with only two computer professors, Dr. Pramanik and Dr. Punch on board. I learned both classical AI and GAs at MSU from one of Dr. Punch's classes -- he's a very good professor, intelligent, a good teacher, and an all-around nice guy.

I submitted this a few days ago, with a couple interesting links:

Here is the researchers web site.

and Here is a page related to the Nature article which includes source code for the experiments. They ran this on a Linux Beowolf cluster.

I did something similar with my guinea pig cam page, only I have it set up to control the brightness of the lamp by his cage from the web page.
I'd rig up something to let people give him treats via the web, but he'd probably explode.
This X10 stuff is addictive - soon I'll probably have the whole house wired!

Let's see what they have in the Rest of the engineering department at Michigan State University.

They say 70+ UNIX systems, and 110+ PCs. NT is a little ahead.

Let's see what they have in the computer science department at Michigan State University.

Lots of suns, and a lab of SGIs. There are a few NT machines, but they tend to be down a lot, and are mostly used for word processing by the students who can't figure out Framemaker on the suns.