Stop: W91 Name: Happy fun server room Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: DOST Location: W91 Length: ~30 minutes, not including any of the walking Size: 30 is probably ideal. It gets hard to hear what's going on when you get much above that number. (I wouldn't actually recommend splitting a group and having half go to a different stop unless it was significantly more than 50 or so, but you should be aware that it does get hard to hear). If both of the people who have done it in the past are available next year, having two groups going through in different directions might help. We did W91 and W92 in parallel, and then switched locations. Contact-name: Karen Fortoul Contact-email: fortoul@mit.edu (dost@mit.edu) Contact-notes: Karen Fortoul is the Team Leader for the Data Center Operations Team; she gave our query to the evening shift leader, Renea Walton (renea@mit.edu) Stop: W92 Name: Happy fun server room Status: Confirmed; jis to give tour Org/Dept/Grp: Ops Location: W92 Length: ~30 minutes, not including any of the walking Size: 30 is probably ideal. It gets hard to hear what's going on when you get much above that number. (I wouldn't actually recommend splitting a group and having half go to a different stop unless it was significantly more than 50 or so, but you should be aware that it does get hard to hear). This year we did W91 and W92 in parallel with two groups, and then swapped. Contact-name: Jeffrey Schiller Contact-email: jis@mit.edu Contact-notes: Garry was busy, and Jonathan was uncontactable (he left town before replying to our emails). Camilla was helpful, but didn't want to host the stop herself since she had a hard time talking over the machines. After some sadness, jis volunteered to do it. Stop: N42 Name: Accounts & Helpdesk Status: NOT Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: Accounts/Helpdesk Location: N42 Length: ~20 minutes Size: pretty much indefinite Contact-name: Jacob Morzinski Contact-email: jmorzins@mit.edu Contact-notes: This stop is convenient because it's more or less between W91 and 32/media lab. It's not as interesting, though, since as one of the frosh mentioned, it's "more cubicles." It should probably get less time than the other stops. Stop: Wearables Group Name: Wearables Group Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: Media Lab Location: Media Lab Length: ~20 minutes Size: probably 20 max Contact-name: Jon Gips Contact-email: jgips@media.mit.edu, wearop@media.mit.edu Contact-notes: They seemed to want to spend longer than we allotted them, and we ended up hurrying them, with one of the people in the group not getting to talk much. It might be better to lie about how long we want. Stop: CSAIL Name: CSAIL Status: CONFIRMED details unknown Org/Dept/Grp: CSAIL Location: 32 Length: There's currently no actual intelligent room because of the move from NE43, but they're working on getting that set up. We watched videos this year, learned about sketching, and also looked at some robots from a different CSAIL group. Size: 20 is possible but a touch crowded Contact-name: Tom Greene Contact-email: tjg@csail.mit.edu Contact-notes: I had trouble reaching Max (helped last year with CSAIL portion of tour. I contacted tig, which directed me to the Outreach Coordinator for CSAIL, who is handling the details for that part of the tour. Stop: Stories and Food Name: Stories and Food Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: Location: Whatever room you reserve (4-231 hopefully) Length: Indefinite Size: depends on the room you reserve Contact-name: Jeff Schiller (guest speaker) Contact-email: jis Contact-notes: