Department Office
The Department is situated in the Thorvaldson Building with the main office located in Thorvaldson 176. The department office provides limited photocopying, fax, and document scanning resources to graduate students for purposes related to their research (students or their supervisors are responsible for copying/faxing costs). Requisitions for keys are handled by the Graduate Correspondent. Incoming and outgoing mail services are available. Incoming mail is placed in individual mailboxes for graduate student pickup. Outgoing mail must bear sufficient postage (students or their supervisors are responsible for costs of postage).
Notice boards are located in strategic places around the office areas and are used to inform students about social and professional opportunities and events, both inside and outside the university as well as providing information on job opportunities, upcoming seminars, and other graduate programs.
Graduate Student Offices
The Department provides research space for every full-time graduate student in various office locations which are close to the Department. Computer workstations for the use of graduate students are located in individual labs. A telephone is located in each of the main graduate labs.
Computing Facilities
The department offers each student fully backed up storage space on a central file server for which can be accessed by a variety of network protocols.
The undergraduate computing facilities [LINK TO LABS PAGE] located on the third floor of the Spinks Addition are also at the grad student's disposal. The undergraduate labs offer dual-boot Windows/Linux PC's and iMac workstations. There are also two teaching labs, one equipped with PC's, the other equipped with iMacs.
On either end of the open lab are breakout rooms which may be booked online for group project meetings or study groups.
The mobile laboratory consists of 20 Macbooks dual-booting Windows and OSX.
Both Linux and Windows remote terminal services (discworld.usask.ca and tuxworld.usask.ca) are available for access to computing resources [LINK TO INSTRUCTIONS PAGE] anytime from anywhere, including off-campus.
Library Facilities
The Computer Science library collection is located primarily in the Natural Sciences Library (Room 180, Geology Building, off the atrium). Individual articles and electronically submitted theses can be obtained through the inter-library loan facilities of the university as well. Past theses of M.Sc. and Ph.D. graduates in Computer Science can be accessed through the Graduate Correspondent. Additionally, professors have a wealth of material in their personal collections, so do not hesitate to approach them. The university library system subscribes to a large collection of online journals a digital libraries which can be accessed for free from any on-campus computer. It is also possible to access these collections from home library's
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Lounge
The
Graduate Course Council maintains and operates the Department's lounge, where facilities such as a refrigerator, microwave oven, and radio are available. Come here to eat your lunch and meet your fellow students. The lounge is located in Thorvaldson, room 374.
Research Laboratories
At present there are nine research laboratories in the department.
