UIUC Unveils the Worlds Most Advanced Building

Eagle5596 writes "The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, one of the top Computer Science programs in the world has just officially opened their new $80 million Siebel Center. The department head describes the building as a single computing entity, meant to be programmed and to interact with those in the building via RFID tags in their ID cards. This is probably one of the biggest and most expensive projects in ubiquitous computing ever launched, touching on all the important issues in this field, from privacy to the ultimate question about the usefulness of such a system. Several papers are covering this including the Chicago Sun Times, and the Chicago Business"

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go see salaryman!!

[mattrowe]

geek rock Friday, April 30th, Siebel Center Open House, University of Illinois, Urbana IL. Salaryman, PosterChildren's electronic alter-ego will be playing at the grand opening of the new Computer Science Center at the U of I. It will be a lunchtime performance, 11:30am - 1:30pm.

Tom Siebel is Evil

[linzeal]

but the real question is will I be able to leap over it in a single bound?

As an aside I heard that Tom Siebel drives a bullet proof custom mercedes of some sort, anyone know what kind?

Mods, try "Funny"

[shigelojoe]

I bet you were aching to use that picture for *something*. : )

I know that people usually don't RTFA, but if you are modding comments, please at least CTFL (Click The Fscking Link).

we call it Meta Moderation

[Derf the]

But how often do *you* actually do your bit!