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# Information Servers around MIT

MIT has several World Wide Web servers up and running. Various labs, student groups, and even students at home have set up machines for you to browse through. Below are a few.

## The Official MIT Web Server

- Web.mit.edu is a server run by MIT's Information Systems. It provides documents about MIT offices, departments, admissions, administration, and so on.

## MIT Services

- The CSS Athena Consultants are there to answer basically any question related to Athena and applications available on Athena.
- The MIT EECS Educational Computer Facility is a private Athena cluster on the third floor of building 38, available to all EECS students.

## MIT Departments

- The Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Course 3).

## MIT Laboratories

- The MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (Under Construction)
- The MIT Microwave Subnode of NASA's Planetary Data System, at the Center of Space Research, is a subsidiary of the Geosciences Node of NASA's Planetary Data System.
- The MIT Earth Resources Laboratory is part of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences at MIT.
- The MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics
- The MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- The MIT Laboratory for Computer Science (LCS) is an interdepartmental laboratory whose principal goal is research in computer science and engineering.
  There are several other servers at LCS:
  - The National Consortium for High Performance Computing server has information such as meetings, conferences, workshops, and a list of relevant High Performance Computing courses offered by member institutions.
  - The Telemedia, Networks, and Systems Group researches topics in distributed multimedia systems.
  - The Clinical Decision-Making Group is an LCS research group that works on medical applications of computer science and AI.
  - Switzerland (Project MAC), associated with both the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, builds a wide spectrum of intelligent computational tools to help scientists and engineers understand mathematical models of physical processes.
  - The LCS News Index Gateway
  - The LCS/AI Reading Room
  - The Programming Methodology Group
- The MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
- The MIT Weather Radar Laboratory

## Student Groups

- The MIT Student Information Processing Board maintains the primary student-run WWW server, which includes MIT user home pages, an extensive list of WWW servers at MIT (this document), MIT Activities, some useful gateways, and more.
- The Tech is MIT's oldest and largest newspaper. Their server contains past issues of The Tech, including comics, and general information.

## Miscellaneous Servers

- The Globewide Network Academy is a non-profit corporation affiliated with the Usenet University project.
- The main MIT Gopher server
- The Earth Resources Lab's Gopher server
- MIT Techinfo, via the PennInfo gateway
- The Digital Information Infrastructure Guide (DIIG) is a collection of projects and other information related to the development of the national information infrastructure (NII).

## Web Servers run by MIT students

MIT has just completed networking its dorms and independent living groups. Here is a list of Web servers maintained by MIT students, at home.

- foundation.mit.edu, nygren@MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
- breslin.mit.edu, ernsts@MIT.EDU (Ernst Smith)
- synergy.mit.edu, arifh@MIT.EDU (A. Arif Husain)
- joliet.mit.edu, tritan@MIT.EDU (Wilfredo Sánchez)
- alecto.mit.edu, daniels@the-tech.MIT.EDU (Daniel C. Stevenson)
- meat-locker.mit.edu, chbarry@MIT.EDU (Charles Barry)
- alor-setar.mit.edu, kian@MIT.EDU (Chee Kian Ooi)
- serangoon.mit.edu, cheeky@MIT.EDU (Chee-Kiang Lim)
- ultra-violence.mit.edu, sleepy@MIT.EDU (Stephen Hau)