[Csped] Living proof that memory increases with a long night

[John Howland]

On Sat, 10 Feb 2007, Phillip Coleman wrote:

> I agree with Joey, I definitely think an educational setting would

What kind of educational setting?  CS education, Art, ?.  What level
(elementary, secondary, college)?  There are likely big differences
between Art and CS education in the applications needed.

> really help us refine our goals, and make the project seem closer to
> home.  As far as having a terminal setup, we will have to examine the
> difficulty in setting up a system like that, and then further how many
> terminals will be connected to the main computer.
>
> Some ideas for groups would be software, hardware, networking,
> distribution, and management.
>
> I don't have much of a preference but I feel I could do the most work on
> the software team.
>
> See you all on Monday,
>
> Phil
>
> Joey wrote:
> > Its an interesting time to remember an assignment, but we were going
> > to do something by Friday I believe.... Oops, lets make that Saturday
> > at midnight. You will all lose some percentage of your grade unless
> > the teacher takes so long to grade it that they don't remember that
> > you turned it in late XD.
> >
> > Educational use sounds good to me.  It gives us a very definite set of
> > applications for our pc which will be great for defining our goals.
> > We do need to decide on if we will be making computers for
> > individuals, a few computers to be located in a classroom, or a
> > computer lab of sorts.  After some thought, the computer lab might be
> > the most useful, as it would allow for the greatest use by the most
> > students, with the minimum distraction in class. This setup might lend
> > itself to more of a terminal setup... I don't know exactly what to
> > call it.  It would probably be pretty cost effective to build one
> > nicer computer and run the rest from that.  I don't have a clue how
> > that would work, but I am sure there are many options. If nothing else
> > a computer lab setting would make setting up a lan pretty darn easy.
> >
> > Splitting up by software and hardware should be sufficient, groups
> > could be further split up from there, depending on how effectively we
> > think we can get the work done.  Perhaps with some sort of a manager
> > type bridge between them... not sure if that is actually needed.  Dr
> > Howland: For now would it be possible to get a computer to work on? We
> > don't want our software team to have to wait for the hardware team to
> > come up with a system to start their work.  We can make a pretty good
> > estimate of our system requirements at the start and work from there.
> > I really don't  mind which team Im on, but here is who has specified a
> > preference so far, and unless there are any disagreements they should
> > probably end up where they asked to be.
> >
> > Software
> > ________
> > Tim
> > Glenn
> > Zain
> > Joel
> >
> > Annnd, it doesn't look like anyone else has specified a preference by
> > email, although some of you did in class. Please respond to this with
> > a clearer idea of what we are actually doing, and your preference for
> > teams.
> >
> > Joey
> >
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