| Regular hours: |
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| Monday - Thursday | 8:00 am to 10:45 pm |
| Friday | 8:00 am to 3:45 pm |
| Sunday | 12:00 noon to 10:45 pm |
| Extended hours before finals (April 29 - May 4): |
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| Sunday, April 27 | 12:00 noon to 11:45 pm |
| April 28 - May 1 | 8:00 am to 11:45 pm |
| Friday, May 2 | 8:00 am to 3:45 pm |
| Finals Week (May 4 - 11): |
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| Sunday, May 4 | 12:00 noon to 10:45 pm |
| May 5 - 6 | 8:00 am to 10:45 pm |
| May 7 - 9 | 8:00 am to 3:45 pm |
Labs Closed May 10 - 11 |
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Summer Hours (May 12 - June 27): |
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| Monday - Thursday | 10:00 am to 9:45 pm |
| Friday | 10:am to 3:45 pm |
| Closed Saturday and Sunday | |
The School of Information Technology computing infrastructure includes:
The ITK LANs are connected through a fiber optic ATM backbone to the University's information technology resources, the IBM Z-Series mainframe, the library, and external research networks. ITK students have exclusive use of nine state-of-the-art microcomputer laboratories equipped with smart classroom technology. The ISU mainframe runs Z-OS, MVS XA, with TSO/ISPF and DB2. Students and faculty are able to interoperate between the various workstation and mainframe environments in a configuration similar to large, diverse IS shops.
Since the University is a recipient of a grant to join the Internet 2 consortium, the School of Information Technology is currently developing a lab environment to accommodate connectivity to the high-speed backbone of Internet 2 and to provide a platform for subsequent Internet 2 research.
The School of Information Technology is also home to the Caterpillar Laboratory for Advanced Computing. This laboratory was made possible by a generous gift from the Caterpillar Corporation and includes: a large teaching lab, a classroom, and five smaller labs which are used for faculty and student research projects. The Internet 2 research mentioned above is located within the Caterpillar Laboratory complex.
There are two Horizons labs which were acquired through a grant from the State Farm Insurance Companies Foundation.
The Horizons I Lab is used for special presentations and for individually scheduled class meetings. When the room is not being used for a scheduled event, it is open for use by students in ITK courses. The room contains 25 multimedia capable 933 MHz Pentium III computers arranged in three rows. The computers are connected to a teacher's console via a LINK system that allows the teacher to control the screens on each monitor. The teacher can broadcast their own screen or access the screen of any student. Screen images can also be projected via an XGA projector.
The Horizons II Lab is not scheduled for classes or other events. It is available for student use whenever the lab facilities are open.
A third lab, Teaching Lab I, contains student computers connected to a teacher's computer with a LINK system like the one in the Horizons I Lab described above. Screen images can be projected via an XGA projector. This lab is used for regularly scheduled labs associcated with ITK courses. When the room is not scheduled it is available for use by students enrolled in ITK courses. The equipment in this lab was purchased with support from the National Science Foundation.
A fourth lab, Teaching Lab II, is also used for regularly scheduled labs associcated with ITK courses. As with Teaching Lab I, when Teaching Lab II is not scheduled it is available for use by students enrolled in ITK courses. This lab contains 24 student computers (Intel Pentium) plus a teacher's station. The lab also has a ceiling mounted projector.
The Open Lab is available for student use whenever the lab facilities are open. This room, like the Horizons II Lab, is not scheduled for any events or classes. The lab contains 28 Intel Pentium based computers.
The Telecommunications Lab contains 20 Pentium based computers. The lab also contains a 10Mbs switched Ethernet Lan with a 24 port FORE Systems switch, a fiber optics ATM network using a FORE Systems switch, CISCO routers, and a 12 port 3COM 100Mbs Ethernet switch, as well as 3 Novell and 3 Windows servers. Other equipment includes systems used by students in configuring one of our three test LAN's, an Ericsson digital switch and a Lucent Technologies digital switch (IP) and 20 networked Dialogic Voice processing stations. Faculty may schedule this lab for individual class meetings. When not scheduled, the lab is open for student use.
A seventh lab, containing equipment for video/audio capture, editing, and display, and an XGA LCD projector is scheduled for individual class meetings on an "as needed" basis. ITK has a lab dedicated to student projects. These projects include: experimenting in firewall technologies, parallel computing (Beowulf project), wireless networking as well as several other networking projects.
