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Florida Tech Computer Science Graduate Students Orientation

Contents

The Computer Science Faculty

NameDegree, SchoolE-mail Address 
Shirley BeckerPh.D., University of MarylandInformation Systemsabecker@cs.fit.edu
Phil BernhardPh.D., SUNY at AlbanyDatabase Systemspbernhar@cs.fit.edu
Philip K. ChanPh.D., Columbia UniversityMachine Learningpkc@cs.fit.edu
Lina KhatibPh.D., Florida TechConstraint Reasoninglina@cs.fit.edu
Robert A. MorrisPh.D., Indiana UniversityArtificial Intelligencemorris@cs.fit.edu
J. Richard NewmanPh.D., Southwest Louisiana StateInformation Managementnewman@cs.fit.edu
William D. ShoaffPh.D., Southern Illinois UniversityComputer Applicationswds@cs.fit.edu
Ryan StansiferPh.D., CornellProgramming Languagesryan@cs.fit.edu
James WhittakerPh.D., University of TennesseeSoftware Engineeringjw@cs.fit.edu

Faculty with Appointments in Computer Science

NameDegree, SchoolE-mail Address 
Celine AlveyD.P.A., University of Southern CaliforniaInformation Systemscalvey@fit.edu
Frederick B. BuoniPh.D., Ohio State UniversityDecision Analysisfbb@cs.fit.edu
R. H. Cofer, Jr.Ph.D., University of FloridaImage Processingrhcofer@ee.fit.edu
Frederick HamPh.D., Iowa State UniversityNeural Networksfmh@ee.fit.edu

Faculty Advisors

New graduate students are assigned faculty advisors by the first few letters of their surnames. The mapping of students to faculty advisors of 1998 is provided below. This list is also posted on the second floor of the Crawford Science Building and is available in the Student Office. Students may request an advisor other than the one assigned.

1998 New Graduate Faculty Advisor Assignments

</B> Advisor Office Phone Email Surname
Dr. Becker S-235 8149 abecker A -- Alh
Dr. Bernhard S-230 7294 pbernhar Alk -- Aln
Dr. Chan S-237 7280 pkc Alm -- Az
Dr. Khatib S-236 7563 lina B -- C
Dr. Morris S-600 7290 morris D -- F
Dr. Shoaff S-601 8066 wds G -- L
Dr. Stansifer S-234 7156 ryan M -- S
Dr. Whittaker 2-236 7638 jw T -- Z


What Your Advisor Will Do For You

You will need to see your faculty advisor for a number of reasons.

Projected Course Schedule

Courses that will be offered in future terms can be found at URL:

http://www.cs.fit.edu/schedules
We make every effort to offer required courses in a timely manner without scheduling conflicts and to provide interesting electives for our students. However, scheduling is a very difficult problem and it is impossible to satisfy every demand. Please offer your suggestions on course offerings and schedules.

The Comprehensive Examination

Students in the Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems are required to pass a comprehensive examination in the last term they are registered as a full-time student. Students in the Master's of Science in Computer Science may elect to take a comprehensive examination in the last term they are registered as a full-time student, but they are encouraged to write a thesis under the direction of a member of the computer science faculty.

Information on comprehensive examination is available at the URL:

http://www.cs.fit.edu/academic/grad-policy.html

In a nutshell, the Master's of Science in Computer Information Systems examination consists of three sub-exams:

1.
Data Structures and Algorithms
2.
One subject selected from software:
3.
And, one subject selected from systems:

The Master's of Science in Computer Science examination consists of four sub-exams:

1.
One subject selected from applied software:
2.
One subject selected from software:
3.
And, one subject selected from systems:
4.
One subject selected from theory:

Computing Facilities

Accounts

The Computer Science server is cs.fit.edu and accounts for this machine can be obtained in the Harris Lab. You are strongly encouraged to have start an account on this machine -- it may be required for some courses. If you use another mail server, place a .forward file in your home directory.

Program Web Pages

Computer Science maintains WWW pages at http://www.cs.fit.edu. These pages contain information that should be of interest to you. You may post your own Web pages on our server and add your name to our list of students with a presence on the WWW.

Informational Mail List Server

Computer Science has a mailing list server You are encouraged to subscribe via e-mail or web server. To join the list via e-mail, send mail to

subscribe-cs@zach-lyris.fit.edu.
In the body of the message say:
subscribe Firstname Lastname
To join via the web, point your browser to
http://www.fit.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl

Lab Access

You may lease an access key for $25.00 from Margie Beckett, the Computer Science Program secretary on the sixth floor. When you return the key your deposit will be refunded. You may also wish to ask for a ``swipe card'' as a back-up to enter Crawford Science building.

Systems Administrators

The following people can assist you with your computer account.

Name Responsibility Contact
Salim Alaoui SGI and Beowulf Administrator salaoui@cs.fit.edu
Henry Bragg Sun Systems Administrator hbragg@cs.fit.edu
Scott Chase PC Lab Administrator schase@cs.fit.edu
Judy Liposky Harris Lab Manager liposky@fit.edu
Shawn Stewart Sun Systems Administrator sstewart@cs.fit.edu


The email address sysadmin@cs.fit.edu can also be used to report problems.

Community Development

You are encouraged to become a member of the computer science community at Florida Tech, and the national and international computer science community.


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1998-08-21