From ziggy@martigny.ai.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 19:20:18 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23953; Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:21:08 EDT Received: from PLEX.AI.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29756; Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:21:07 EDT Message-Id: <9209042321.AA29756@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: by martigny.ai.mit.edu (16.6/15.6) id AA28920; Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:20:19 -0400 From: "Michael R. Blair" Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:20:18 EDT Cc: hal@ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <9209041917.AA24132@podge>; from "Stan Zanarotti" at Sep 4, 92 3:17 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25] Status: RO > > > Hi... I'm helping to organize this year's SIPB computer tour. This > is a computer tour aimed at freshmen and incoming graduate students > to show them interesting computer resources and labs around campus. > We've done this for many years, and the freshmen seem to enjoy seeing > the neat hardware around campus. The different research groups get an > opportunity to show off their stuff to potential UROPs. > > This year's tour will be on Thursday, September 10th, from 7pm to 10pm. > We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. > > Would you be interested in demoing the new Scheme lab in Building 34? > Or know somebody who would? This would involve staying around > Thursday night, giving a demo to the groups, and answering questions. > > If so, what's an ideal group size for your area? How long is the > ideal demo? The final arrangements will depend on how many stops we > have on the tour, and how many people show up for the tour. Thursday > is after Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshman. > > Thanks, > > -stan > I will forward this to hal@ai.mit.edu since it is ultimately his decision. I dont think he will be interested, though, since he is going to be protective about non-6001 students using these machines. They are very powerful so they will be in high demand, but they our for our course and nobody else... Hal and Gerry personally negotiated the gift from HP so they are very territorial about it. -ziggy From cga@ai.mit.edu Sat Sep 5 13:06:44 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03665; Sat, 5 Sep 92 12:55:15 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18999; Sat, 5 Sep 92 12:55:12 EDT Received: from fresh-and-fruity (fresh-and-fruity.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA13376; Sat, 5 Sep 92 12:55:09 EDT From: cga@ai.mit.edu (Christopher G. Atkeson) Received: by fresh-and-fruity (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA07211; Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:06:44 EDT Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 13:06:44 EDT Message-Id: <9209051706.AA07211@fresh-and-fruity> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Unfortunately, I am out of town. You could contact Ben Weintraub, banzai@ai.mit.edu CHris From hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu Sat Sep 5 01:31:40 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29645; Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:32:29 EDT Received: from MURREN.AI.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10212; Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:32:28 EDT Message-Id: <9209050532.AA10212@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: by martigny.ai.mit.edu (16.7/15.6) id AA13701; Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:31:40 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 01:31:40 -0400 From: "Hal Abelson" To: ziggy@martigny.ai.mit.edu Cc: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Msg of Fri, 4 Sep 92 19:20:18 EDT from "Michael R. Blair" Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Reply-To: hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu Address: MIT AI Lab, NE43-409, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-5856 Fax: (617) 258-8682 Status: RO 7-10 Thursday is partly when our seminar meets. It's fine for people t come through thr lab and look. From lacsap@plethora.media.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 12:45:34 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08465; Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:52:04 EDT Received: from plethora.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05390; Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:52:03 EDT Received: by plethora.media.mit.edu (NX5.67c/NX3.0M) id AA18809; Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:45:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 12:45:34 -0400 From: Pascal Chesnais Message-Id: <9209041645.AA18809@plethora.media.mit.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.87.1) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.87.1) To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: demo demo demo Status: RO for the garden you should contact: Jon Orwant (orwant@media.mit.edu) for the visible language workshop: David Small (dsmall@media.mit.edu) for the computer graphics and animation group: Tinsley Galyean (tag@media.mit.edu) for the spatial imaging group (holography): Mike Halle (halazar@media.mit.edu) for the music and cognition group: joe chung (joe@media.mit.edu) I think that is a pretty big list of possibile places. Tell them it is for the frosh, I expect those who are not overloaded will be able to do something let me know if you need more info... pasc From orwant@media-lab.media.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 15:23:36 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15861; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:23:42 EDT Received: from media-lab.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16670; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:23:39 EDT Received: by media-lab.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA29243; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:23:36 -0400 Message-Id: <9209041923.AA29243@media-lab.mit.edu> From: orwant@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Jon Orwant) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 15:23:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) "SIPB computer tour (stops needed)" (Sep 4, 3:11pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.3 5/22/91) To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Sure, I'll be glad to show the little critters the Garden. A half hour is a good time slot, given that tours inevitably run behind schedule. Fifteen minutes is a good minimum. I can talk for a long time. Ideal group size? One. I'd be pleasantly surprised if the groups were less than a dozen. -Jon From ringrose@ai.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 15:31:14 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15957; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:25:48 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA16798; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:25:45 EDT Received: from fibula (fibula.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA25132; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:25:41 EDT From: ringrose@ai.mit.edu (Robert Ringrose) Received: by fibula (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA03622; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:31:14 EDT Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:31:14 EDT Message-Id: <9209041931.AA03622@fibula> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: [srz@athena.mit.edu: SIPB computer tour (stops needed)] Status: RO Actually, you should be talking to Marc Raibert about this (if you haven't already, he might have told you to talk to me). He runs the Leg Lab. (Note also that it isn't the One-legged robot lab, it is the Leg Lab - most of our robots have multiple legs). - Robert Return-Path: From: srz@athena.mit.edu (Stan Zanarotti) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:07:55 -0400 To: ringrose@ai.mit.edu Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Hi... I'm helping to organize this year's SIPB computer tour. This is a computer tour aimed at freshmen and incoming graduate students to show them interesting computer resources and labs around campus. We've done this for many years, and the freshmen seem to enjoy seeing the neat hardware around campus. The different research groups get an opportunity to show off their stuff to potential UROPs. This year's tour will be on Thursday, September 10th, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in demoing the One-legged robot lab? Or know somebody who would? This would involve staying around Thursday night, giving a demo to the groups, and answering questions. If so, what's an ideal group size for your area? How long is the ideal demo? The final arrangements will depend on how many stops we have on the tour, and how many people show up for the tour. Thursday is after Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshman. Thanks, -stan From anita@ai.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 15:23:39 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16264; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:33:43 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17405; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:33:40 EDT Received: from gnat (gnat.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA25546; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:33:03 EDT From: anita@ai.mit.edu (Anita Flynn) Received: by gnat (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA03873; Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:23:39 EDT Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:23:39 EDT Message-Id: <9209041923.AA03873@gnat> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: ferrell@ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:07:10 -0400 <9209041907.AA24100@podge> Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Mark Torrance does the Mobot Lab SIPB tours for us usually (sorry, I'm madly hacking thesis and already did one grad student orientation tour this week), but I'm sure he'll be glad to help. His login is torrance@ai.mit.edu. -Anita From rsargent@kame.media.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 16:46:28 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19455; Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:46:35 EDT Received: from kame.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22789; Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:46:32 EDT Received: by kame.media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA22887; Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:46:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 16:46:28 -0400 From: Randy Sargent Message-Id: <9209042046.AA22887@kame.media.mit.edu> To: mres@media.mit.edu, fredm@media.mit.edu Cc: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: [srz@Athena.MIT.EDU: SIPB computer tour (stops needed)] Status: RO Mitch and Fred, I unfortunately won't be around to host the SIPB tour. I did host it last year and it was a lot of fun. Are either of you interested? Here's the message I got: ----------------------------------------------------- From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:16:00 -0400 To: rsargent@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Hi... I'm helping to organize this year's SIPB computer tour. This is a computer tour aimed at freshmen and incoming graduate students to show them interesting computer resources and labs around campus. We've done this for many years, and the freshmen seem to enjoy seeing the neat hardware around campus. The different research groups get an opportunity to show off their stuff to potential UROPs. This year's tour will be on Thursday, September 10th, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in demoing the Lego lab? Or know somebody who would? This would involve staying around Thursday night, giving a demo to the groups, and answering questions. If so, what's an ideal group size for your area? How long is the ideal demo? The final arrangements will depend on how many stops we have on the tour, and how many people show up for the tour. Thursday is after Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshman. Thanks, -stan From ferrell@ai.mit.edu Fri Sep 4 18:56:32 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23555; Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:57:52 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28997; Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:57:50 EDT Received: from mobot (mobot.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA03622; Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:57:46 EDT From: ferrell@ai.mit.edu (Cynthia Ferrell) Received: by mobot (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA01068; Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:56:32 EDT Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 18:56:32 EDT Message-Id: <9209042256.AA01068@mobot> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:07:10 -0400 <9209041907.AA24100@podge> Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Sorry, I don't think I'll be able to do the tour. -Cynthia From srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Sat Sep 5 15:54:32 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06039; Sat, 5 Sep 92 15:54:35 EDT Received: from E40-008-8.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23801; Sat, 5 Sep 92 15:54:34 EDT From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Received: by e40-008-8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11003; Sat, 5 Sep 92 15:54:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 15:54:32 -0400 Message-Id: <9209051954.AA11003@e40-008-8.MIT.EDU> To: hal@martigny.ai.mit.edu Cc: ziggy@martigny.ai.mit.edu Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Could you tell me a little more about the seminar, so that I understand how it affects the tour? Will it be held in the lab itself, so that the tours will have to be quiet in there? Are some times in the 7-10 range more convenient than others? I was envisioning a situation where a tour would be given a quick explanation of what 6.001 is, why it's a good class to take, what Scheme is, how HP donated the equipment, what the policy is for using the room, the advantages of doing the problem sets there, etc, and show them some fractals from the fractal problem set. If a member of the Scheme Team or 6.001 staff wants to do this, that would be great, otherwise I can probably get a SIPB member to do this (once they've gotten the relevant info from Ziggy). If the seminar is in the room, this will have to be explained outside. We'll need to work out details for getting access to the room. Thanks for letting us come by. I think it'll make a good tour stop. -stan From ziggy@martigny.ai.mit.edu Sun Sep 6 13:55:27 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16576; Sun, 6 Sep 92 13:56:11 EDT Received: from PLEX.AI.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15671; Sun, 6 Sep 92 13:56:09 EDT Message-Id: <9209061756.AA15671@Athena.MIT.EDU> Received: by martigny.ai.mit.edu (16.6/15.6) id AA26133; Sun, 6 Sep 92 13:55:28 -0400 From: "Michael R. Blair" Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Date: Sun, 6 Sep 92 13:55:27 EDT Cc: hal@ai.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <9209051954.AA11003@e40-008-8.MIT.EDU>; from "Stan Zanarotti" at Sep 5, 92 3:54 pm Mailer: Elm [revision: 66.25] Status: RO The ``seminar'' will work mostly as an informal workshop. Probably the first 15 or so minutes will be a quick overview of the new machines and their software setup and the rest of the time will be folks getting climatized on the new machines by doing problem set 1. It would probably be best, therefore, if the tour drops in between 8 and 9 since by then we should have a room full of fairly knowledgable people with screens full of nifty graphics. There is no longer a fractal problem set. In its place there is a problem set that deals with scanned GIF pictures and manipulates them with the Escher picture language. The codes on the lab doors will change around the 8th or 9th but until then, they are not really necessary since we will be in the lab when the tour drops by. for your personal reference anyway, the codes are: outside-26484 and inside-84681. Needless to say, please dont randomly give these codes out... we are very busy getting everything together for the course so we dont like random folks popping in unexpectedly expecting us to show them how to hack on the new machines. -ziggy From nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu Tue Sep 8 07:02:47 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18572; Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:02:51 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18023; Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:02:50 EDT Received: by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA11876; Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:02:47 EDT Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 07:02:47 EDT From: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu (Norm Margolus) Message-Id: <9209081102.AA11876@im.lcs.mit.edu> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:10:27 -0400 <9209041910.AA24109@podge> Subject: SIPB computer tours (stops needed) Status: RO I'm going to be out of town on Thursday, but I'll try to arrange something. Contact me later today if I don't get back to you, to remind me to do something about this. Norm From fredm@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Tue Sep 8 12:36:37 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29074; Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:36:48 EDT Received: from media-lab.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05420; Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:36:42 EDT Received: by media-lab.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA04003; Tue, 8 Sep 92 12:36:37 -0400 Message-Id: <9209081636.AA04003@media-lab.mit.edu> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: rsargent@Athena.MIT.EDU, mres@media.mit.edu Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Date: Tue, 08 Sep 92 12:36:37 -0400 From: fredm@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU X-Mts: smtp Status: RO Hello Stan, Randy Sargent forwarded your earlier message to me. If it's not too late, I'd like to make available to the tour group(s) the LEGO/Logo Lab at the Media Laboratory. Details: an ideal group for our lab would be 10 to 12 persons with a duration of 20 to 30 minutes. Location: We're room 301 on the third floor of the Media Lab. Please get in touch with me and let me know how the schedule is going to look (e.g., number of group over the Thursday eve I should expect). Thanks. - Fred Martin fredm@media.mit.edu From srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Tue Sep 8 20:27:55 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20075; Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:28:02 EDT Received: from BILL-THE-CAT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11128; Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:27:59 EDT From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Received: by bill-the-cat.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12780; Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:27:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 20:27:55 -0400 Message-Id: <9209090027.AA12780@bill-the-cat.MIT.EDU> To: fredm@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Cc: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Status: RO No, it's not too late; response hasn't been overwhelming, particularly from the AI lab... The number of groups/sizes will depend on how many people show up for the tour on Thursday. It's hard to gauge this in advance. We typically get around 50 people, which we split up into 3 major groups, which will then get split up into smaller groups when we hit the Media-Lab. So my guess is that you'll get 6 groups of 10 people each, over the period of 7:10 to 10:00pm on Thursday. If AI doesn't come through, the tours will probably not go as late, and we'll have a little more time at each stop. The first group that comes by will have more information. Thanks for doing this! -stan From nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu Wed Sep 9 13:04:43 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12257; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:04:50 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18784; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:04:47 EDT Received: by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA12801; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:04:43 EDT Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:04:43 EDT From: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu (Norm Margolus) Message-Id: <9209091704.AA12801@im.lcs.mit.edu> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:10:27 -0400 <9209041910.AA24109@podge> Subject: SIPB computer tours (stops needed) Status: RO Stan, If you're still interested, Mark Smith in our group (smith@im.lcs.mit.edu) is willing to give some demos Thursday night (as I mentioned, I'll be out of town). Let me know as soon as possible if you'd still like us to do this. Norm PS: we'd use the basement conference room we've used before, so the sizes of groups you've run through before would be fine. From ringrose@ai.mit.edu Wed Sep 9 13:21:38 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12908; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:16:26 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19860; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:16:16 EDT Received: from fibula (fibula.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA16678; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:16:03 EDT From: ringrose@ai.mit.edu (Robert Ringrose) Received: by fibula (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA01341; Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:21:38 EDT Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 13:21:38 EDT Message-Id: <9209091721.AA01341@fibula> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: [mxr@ai.mit.edu: [srz@athena.mit.edu: SIPB computer tour (stops needed)]] Status: RO Stan - OK, I'll do it. I can't guarantee a live robot demo (who knows, it might happen anyway) but we have videotape. We have a fairly large area, group size isn't really a problem. 15 or 20 minutes is a decent amount of time. What time(s) will people arrive? - Robert Return-Path: From: mxr@ai.mit.edu (Marc H. Raibert) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 17:04:35 EDT To: ringrose Subject: [srz@athena.mit.edu: SIPB computer tour (stops needed)] Return-Path: From: srz@athena.mit.edu (Stan Zanarotti) Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 15:52:43 -0400 To: mxr@ai.mit.edu Subject: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Robert Ringrose referred me to you about this... Hi... I'm helping to organize this year's SIPB computer tour. This is a computer tour aimed at freshmen and incoming graduate students to show them interesting computer resources and labs around campus. We've done this for many years, and the freshmen seem to enjoy seeing the neat hardware around campus. The different research groups get an opportunity to show off their stuff to potential UROPs. This year's tour will be on Thursday, September 10th, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in demoing the Leg Lab? Or know somebody who would? This would involve staying around Thursday night, giving a demo to the groups, and answering questions. If so, what's an ideal group size for your area? How long is the ideal demo? The final arrangements will depend on how many stops we have on the tour, and how many people show up for the tour. Thursday is after Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshman. Thanks, -stan From banzai@ai.mit.edu Wed Sep 9 16:48:02 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23856; Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:36:29 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08338; Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:36:26 EDT Received: from fresh-and-fruity (fresh-and-fruity.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA25241; Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:36:23 EDT From: banzai@ai.mit.edu (Ben J Weintraub) Received: by fresh-and-fruity (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA08373; Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:48:02 EDT Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:48:02 EDT Message-Id: <9209092048.AA08373@fresh-and-fruity> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Tour Status: RO Hi, Sorry for the late reply...... I hope, by now that you have skipped over my lab. Thursday is not a good time for me, and no one else has really been in the lab, making it difficult to find a substitute. Also, just for reference, we don't do demo's - safety, complexity, etc. Ben From nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu Wed Sep 9 18:04:32 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27987; Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:04:39 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14972; Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:04:37 EDT Received: by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA13071; Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:04:32 EDT Date: Wed, 9 Sep 92 18:04:32 EDT From: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu (Norm Margolus) Message-Id: <9209092204.AA13071@im.lcs.mit.edu> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Wed, 9 Sep 92 16:13:46 -0400 <9209092013.AA29394@e40-008-8.MIT.EDU> Subject: SIPB computer tours (stops needed) Status: RO I assume you should bring them down to the basement, but why don't you contact Mark, who'll be giving the demo. He's "smith@im.lcs.mit.edu". Have fun, Norm From srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Thu Sep 10 00:20:02 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07961; Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:22:13 EDT Received: from W20-575-40.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03003; Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:20:04 EDT From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Received: by w20-575-40 (5.57/4.7) id AA20912; Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:20:02 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:20:02 -0400 Message-Id: <9209100420.AA20912@w20-575-40> To: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Calling all shepherds and sheepdogs! Cc: lacsap@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Status: RO SIPB tours are tomorrow, Thursday at 6:45pm, starting from Lobby 10. Bring your friends! Wow the freshmen! We'll need shepherds and sheepdogs to show up a couple minutes before (6:40pm). Depending on the number of freshmen, we'll probably split up into 3 main groups that will visit the stops in turn (Media-lab, AI/LCS, other). These groups may split into smaller groups when they hit a building. Here are the tour stops: Media-lab: Garden Jon Orwant LEGO/Logo Fred Martin VLW Klee AI/LCS: Leg Lab Robert Ringrose CAM group Mark Smith Other: Fishbowl Chad Brown SIPB Derek Atkins (Chair...) ECF Kevin Iga Scheme Lab David LaMacchia Food and drink and talk by Jeff Schiller when the tour is over, ~10:00pm. We may get done with early, depending on long the Media-Lab stops are. I'll have some sheets to give out to the tour guides tomorrow (listing stops and room numbers). -stan From dml@Athena.MIT.EDU Thu Sep 10 01:19:23 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08879; Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:19:27 EDT Received: from E40-008-4.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04841; Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:19:26 EDT From: dml@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by e40-008-4 (5.57/4.7) id AA13257; Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:19:24 -0400 Message-Id: <9209100519.AA13257@e40-008-4> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Subject: Re: SIPB computer tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:21:08 -0400. <9209100421.AA20915@w20-575-40> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 01:19:23 EDT Status: RO Stan, Well, I talked to Hal (did you talk to Hal directly because Ziggy didn't) and he seemed to think the tour idea was ok. Remember, of course, the only way people will use these machines is if they're taking 6.001. Yeah, if you want to knock on the door tomorrow night that's fine. I'll have some stuff brought up that either I'll show them the kinds of things going on in 6.001 fall term or let them play around.... --dave P.S. How much time to you expect to want to spend in the lab? From halazar@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU Thu Sep 10 09:35:47 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14070; Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:35:53 EDT Received: from media-lab.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14908; Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:35:50 EDT Received: by media-lab.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA05253; Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:35:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9209101335.AA05253@media-lab.mit.edu> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:35:47 -0400 From: halazar@MEDIA-LAB.MEDIA.MIT.EDU X-Mts: smtp Status: RO Hey, I overlooked your message in the rush of last week. If you still want to, tell me when you want people to come through and I'll help. It will just be walking down the corridor and talking about the holograms, so it probably won't screw up your schedule too much. I can probably talk to about 20-30 at once. Sorry about the delay, let me know.... --Mike From smith@im.lcs.mit.edu Thu Sep 10 06:39:29 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20089; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:39:40 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24833; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:39:36 EDT Received: from im4 (IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU) by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA13540; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:39:30 EDT Received: from IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU by im4 (4.1/TOC-1.1C) id AA09815; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:39:29 EDT Message-Id: <9209101539.AA09815@im4> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Subject: Re: SIPB computer tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:08:09 -0400. <9209100408.AA20901@w20-575-40> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:39:29 +0100 From: Mark A. Smith Status: RO Stan, Let me see if I have everything right. SIPB tour: Today, Thursday, Sept. 10, from 7 to 10PM. There will be three groups of people, each split in half giving a total of six groups. On my end: The room number is 018, and I think it will hold about 25 people, more if standing (I will have a better count later this afternoon). I will plan on being there starting at 7 and running until whenever. I expect to give an approximately 20 minute demo to each of the six groups. Does this sound like a good plan? Also, what is the composition of the audience and what would they like to see? Mark Smith From ringrose@ai.mit.edu Thu Sep 10 12:05:27 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21265; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:59:58 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26658; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:59:55 EDT Received: from fibula (fibula.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA28773; Thu, 10 Sep 92 11:59:49 EDT From: ringrose@ai.mit.edu (Robert Ringrose) Received: by fibula (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA02680; Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:05:27 EDT Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:05:27 EDT Message-Id: <9209101605.AA02680@fibula> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Stan Zanarotti's message of Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:13:05 -0400 <9209100413.AA20906@w20-575-40> Subject: SIPB computer tour (final details) Status: RO The leg lab is NE43-006. - Robert From torrance@ai.mit.edu Thu Sep 10 14:46:24 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00847; Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:46:48 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA12424; Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:46:44 EDT Received: from oreo (oreo.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA05234; Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:46:38 EDT From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance) Received: by oreo (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA03812; Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:46:24 EDT Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 14:46:24 EDT Message-Id: <9209101846.AA03812@oreo> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) References: <9209041949.AA24194@podge> Status: RO Stan, Hi. I have been swamped with orientation activities for our new AI Lab grad students. I would be happy to do a SIPB tour of the mobot lab tonight (probably 3 times, if you're doing it the way it's been done before). I can meet students on the ninth floor of NE43 in the elevator lobby, and show them around as much or as little as you like. I'll need a bit of warning if you want me to do it, so please return this email before 5pm or call me at 253-8829 to set up the details. Let me know what times groups will be arriving, about how many to expect, and about how long I should talk to them. If you give me the go-ahead, I'll ready demos of some robots and videotapes of other robots. Again, I'm sorry to get back to you so late. --Mark Torrance torrance@ai.mit.edu From torrance@ai.mit.edu Thu Sep 10 18:22:24 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12263; Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:25:59 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01300; Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:25:57 EDT Received: from cookie-monster (cookie-monster.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA12428; Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:25:53 EDT From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance) Received: by cookie-monster (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA06069; Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:22:24 EDT Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 18:22:24 EDT Message-Id: <9209102222.AA06069@cookie-monster> To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB computer tour (stops needed) Status: RO Stan, I'm sorry, but I am on my way out right now. I promised my wife I'd come home for dinner. I guess we'll have to miss the tour tonight, but I'll try to remember about it if I'm asked next year. Thanks for your mail. --Mark From cent@mc.lcs.mit.edu Fri Sep 11 19:01:55 1992 Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po6.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03795; Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:40:08 EDT Received: from MC.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29921; Sat, 12 Sep 92 01:40:06 EDT To: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: food Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 19:01:55 EDT From: cent@mc.lcs.mit.edu Sender: cent@mc.lcs.mit.edu Message-Id: <9209111901.aa25268@mc.lcs.mit.edu> Status: RO here's the food report. there appeared to be about 3 dozen tourers plus half a dozen sipb types when the tour started. assuming that other sipb types would attend just jis's talk, that pushed the prospective audience to maybe 50. 40-50 people showed up at 6-120 -- i didn't count them, sorry. as expected, there was some attrition of tourers. 3 boxes entenmanns choc. chip -- all gone 3 pkgs. sandwich cookies -- 2 pkgs. eaten 2 boxes other cookies -- only nibbled at 2 bags m&ms (plain) -- approx. 1 bag eaten 3 bags cheese popcorn -- 1 bag eaten 2 bags pretzels -- 1/2 bag eaten 8 6-oz. bags potato chips -- approx. 3 bags eaten 3 cans dip -- 2 cans each half eaten 4 bags tortilla chips -- 2 bags eaten 2 jars salsa -- 1 jar half eaten 3 jars juice -- all drunk 3 bottles coke -- 2 1/2 bottles drunk 5 bottles other soda (1 diet) -- all partially drunk not everything noted as eaten was -fully- consumed; some bags were partially eaten. cost $72 at laverde's. shopped at laverde's because bill didn't arrive in time to go elsewhere. elsewhere it would probably have cost somewhat less. for the future, for same attendance, i would recommend: 3 bottles coke 3 bottles other soda -- including 1 diet 3 bottles juice 1 bag popcorn 1 bag pretzels 18-20 oz. potato chips 1-2 cans of dip -- if 2, get different kinds 1-2 bags tortilla chips 1 jar salsa 3 boxes entenmanns choc. chip 3 pkgs other cookies -- probably some sandwich, some not ---------- save this somewhere useful. in fact, it would be damn helpful for next year's turkey if you would write a brief report on how this year went and how to do it right, and put said report somewhere that next year's turkey would be likely to find it. you might want to talk to alan bawden -- alan@ascent.com -- about tour scheduling and such; he probably remembers how it used to work better than i do. [1055] daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Athena_MSGS 09/10/92 00:28 (14 lines) Subject: SIPB Computer Tours From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti) Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 00:28:01 -0400 To: *bboard@ai.mit.edu, usermsgs@Athena.MIT.EDU The SIPB will be holding its annual computer tours tomorrow, September 10th, starting in Lobby 10 at 6:45pm. These tours will visit interesting computer facilities around the MIT campus, such as the Media Lab, LCS and AI, ECF, Scheme Lab, and Athena. There will be a talk and refreshments afterwards in 6-120 around 10pm by Jeff Schiller, Manager of the Campus Network. Although targetted for freshmen, these tours give you an opportunity to see what's going on at the other labs on campus. --[1055]--