Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA26430; Sat, 10 Jul 93 03:29:29 EDT Received: from HODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06916; Sat, 10 Jul 93 03:29:25 EDT Received: by hodge (5.57/4.7) id AA25451; Sat, 10 Jul 93 03:29:22 -0400 Message-Id: <9307100729.AA25451@hodge> To: Richard J. Barbalace Cc: aragorn@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU, sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU, abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: R/O tours and posters In-Reply-To: Your message of Sat, 10 Jul 93 03:25:11 -0400. <9307100725.AA25405@hodge> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 93 03:29:19 EDT From: Richard J. Barbalace Ooops, sorry, Jessie. I meant to send this to abbe, not you. Braino. > Hi. You three are doing R/O tours, right? > In case you didn't know, some stuff Stan put together about last year's > tours is in /afs/sipb/admin/text/tours/1992. The posters advertizing > the tours are in /afs/sipb/user/rjbarbal/PostScript/ComputerTours*.ps. > Feel free to modify ComputerTours3.ps for this year, or hack something > new. If you'd like, I would be willing to code a new poster if you > suggest a design. > - Richard Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08507; Fri, 23 Jul 93 10:39:18 EDT Received: from kame.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10176; Fri, 23 Jul 93 10:39:14 EDT Received: by kame.media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA17827; Fri, 23 Jul 93 10:39:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 10:39:12 -0400 From: Randy Sargent Message-Id: <9307231439.AA17827@kame.media.mit.edu> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb computer tours Cc: rsargemt@kame.media.mit.edu hi, i'm out of town until monday, but i'm 99% sure i'll be able to give a tour that night. it's ok to fit 20 people in the lego lab. more than that is difficult but may be possible. i can probably talk for 15 mins and can adjust this up or down to suit your schedule. i'll let you know for sure when i get back on monday if i can do this. -randy Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19416; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:47:06 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02880; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:47:00 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25729; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:57 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05415; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:56 EDT Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:56 EDT Message-Id: <9307231746.AA05415@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi, Yonald! I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in doing a demo at your lab and showing off the CM-5 (if you have access to it)? Or do you know somebody who would, who could talk about the CM-5 and the other interesting hardware over there? This would involve staying around Wednesday 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshmen. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19819; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:54:28 EDT Received: from WHOPPER.LCS.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25920; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:54:22 EDT Received: from [127.0.0.1] by whopper.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:31:35 EDT Message-Id: <9307231731.AA09197@whopper.lcs.mit.edu> To: abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:56 -0400. <9307231746.AA05415@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:31:34 -0400 From: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu Hi Abbe, Hmm. Great idea ! Well, since I don't have an account on the CM-5 yet, that would complicate my demoing it --- aside from standing beside it and saying "OOOh, look at all the pretty red lights!". I'll forward your mail to the local guru on such matters who'll let me know who is the best person to give the tour. No problem, Yonald P.S. I haven't had an opportunity to catch JP about the fall room situation. I think I'll just carry on an email conversation listing options and concerns and get back to you. Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23757; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:59:05 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA08727; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:59:04 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA28309; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:59:02 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05862; Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:59:01 EDT Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 14:59:01 EDT Message-Id: <9307231859.AA05862@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: lacsap@media.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB tour stuff hmm. mail on trane seems unhappy - that shouldn't have been a blank msg. what it said was: hi pascal, (insert standard introduction here -- I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations.) could you suggest a list of people in different areas around the media lab who might be interested in doing demos? I need to start bugging people now, so that they can do things like forget to get back to me for 3 weeks, and i can still know there are going to be people doing demos. I'll try to find someone who's willing to do a demo here in the garden, too, so don't worry about giving me names for the garden. thanx, abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07847; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:59 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07655; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:57 EDT Received: from im4 (IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU) by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA17983; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:36:04 EDT Received: from IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU by im4 (4.1/TOC-1.1C) id AA15710; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:54 EDT Message-Id: <9307240035.AA15710@im4> To: abbe@mit.edu Cc: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu, biafore@im.lcs.mit.edu, abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:03 -0400. <9307221836.AA02218@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:53 -0400 From: Mark A. Smith Hi Abbe, On behalf of the Information Mechanics Group, I can say that we would be interested in giving a CAM demo for the SIPB tour on Wednesday, September 1 from 7pm to 10pm. The demo will probably be a bit different than in the past because the new generation CA Machine has since been completed. In addition, Norman Margolus or Michael Biafore will probably give the presentation instead of me, but in any event, I can help with the coordination on this end. As before, I assume it will consist of a series of groups of a few dozen people each. I have reserved the seminar room 518 in LCS for that evening so I think we can accommodate any size group (up to about 100). Anything up to about a half hour would be a reasonable length, but that too is adjustable since CAM sessions can be as short or long as the participants desire. Please keep us informed of the arrangements, and be sure to send a reminder when the time approaches. Sincerely, Mark A. Smith Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07853; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:36:01 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06632; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:59 EDT Received: from im4 (IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU) by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA17983; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:36:04 EDT Received: from IM4.LCS.MIT.EDU by im4 (4.1/TOC-1.1C) id AA15710; Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:54 EDT Message-Id: <9307240035.AA15710@im4> To: abbe@MIT.EDU Cc: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu, biafore@im.lcs.mit.edu, abbe@athena.mit.edu, marthag@athena.mit.edu Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:03 -0400. <9307221836.AA02218@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 20:35:53 -0400 From: Mark A. Smith Hi Abbe, On behalf of the Information Mechanics Group, I can say that we would be interested in giving a CAM demo for the SIPB tour on Wednesday, September 1 from 7pm to 10pm. The demo will probably be a bit different than in the past because the new generation CA Machine has since been completed. In addition, Norman Margolus or Michael Biafore will probably give the presentation instead of me, but in any event, I can help with the coordination on this end. As before, I assume it will consist of a series of groups of a few dozen people each. I have reserved the seminar room 518 in LCS for that evening so I think we can accommodate any size group (up to about 100). Anything up to about a half hour would be a reasonable length, but that too is adjustable since CAM sessions can be as short or long as the participants desire. Please keep us informed of the arrangements, and be sure to send a reminder when the time approaches. Sincerely, Mark A. Smith Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09086; Fri, 23 Jul 93 21:52:39 EDT Received: from MURREN.AI.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07217; Fri, 23 Jul 93 21:52:38 EDT Message-Id: <9307240152.AA07217@MIT.EDU> Received: by martigny.ai.mit.edu (1.37.109.4/16.2) id AA08929; Fri, 23 Jul 93 21:52:37 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 21:52:37 -0400 From: Hal Abelson To: abbe@MIT.EDU Cc: marthag@athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Msg of Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:07:33 EDT from abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB computer tours Reply-To: hal@MIT.EDU Address: MIT AI Lab, NE43-409, 545 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139 Phone: (617) 253-5856 Fax: (617) 258-8682 Hi Abbe: I don't have time to arrange 6.001 lab tours myself, but here are people you can contact: Natalya Cohen -- nat@martigny.ai.mit.edu Joseph Boerjes -- aragorn@martigny.ai.mit.edu David LaMacchia -- dml@martigny.ai.mit.edu Brian Zuzga -- boogles@martigny.ai.mit.edu Nick Papadakis -- nick@martigny.ai.mit.edu -- Hal Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04921; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:05:09 EDT Received: from NINJA.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13611; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:05:08 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by ninja.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16707; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:05:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:05:07 -0400 Message-Id: <9307252005.AA16707@ninja.MIT.EDU> To: rsargent@media.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb computer tours Hi Randy, Thanks for letting me know about the tours. We'll keep the space limitations of the lego lab in mind when planning the details of tours. I'll wait for your reply on Monday before counting it as a certainty that you'll be doing it. It will probably take a while before I really have any more specifics, but I will keep you updated on what's being planned, how many people to expect, etc. Fifteen minutes sounds fine as a time estimate. thanks, abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05336; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:20:44 EDT Received: from NINJA.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14066; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:20:43 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by ninja.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA16730; Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:20:41 -0400 Date: Sun, 25 Jul 93 16:20:41 -0400 Message-Id: <9307252020.AA16730@ninja.MIT.EDU> To: torrance@ai.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb computer tours Hi Mark, Thanks for getting back to me and offering to do a tour of the Mobot Lab for SIPB. I don't have a very good estimate yet of the number of students or how they will be grouped this year, but I will definitely plan our stops around having no more than 20 students visit the Mobot lab at once. So far I have contacted people about possibly having demos from the following other areas of the AI lab or LCS: the leg lab, the Information Mechanics Group, and the people involved with the CM-5. I haven't spoken to Richard Stallman -- actually, I'm basically working from information about where last year's tours went, and since he didn't speak then, and I wasn't around two years ago, I didn't know he had ever done anything for SIPB tours. I will probably get in touch with him about it, though -- thanks for the idea. If you have any other suggestions for people I should contact in LCS/AI, and what sort of things they are working on, I would appreciate your giving me their names. I don't know what group Lukas Reuker is working with, but if you could let me know about that, too, I will talk to him about helping us out as well. Thanks again! -abbe Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06610; Tue, 3 Aug 93 08:31:47 EDT Received: from HQ.LCS.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13727; Tue, 3 Aug 93 08:30:57 EDT Received: from [127.0.0.1] by hq.lcs.mit.edu (4.1/NSCS-1.0S) id AA08193; Tue, 3 Aug 93 08:28:58 EDT Message-Id: <9308031228.AA08193@hq.lcs.mit.edu> To: abbe@MIT.EDU Cc: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu, tjg@hq.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Date: Tue, 03 Aug 93 08:28:48 -0400 From: ""Tom J. Greene"" Hello Abbe Cohen, I will be happy to work with you arranging a tour of the CM5, and other interesting hardware at LCS. --Tom Greene, tjg@mit.edu (617)253-5 ------- Forwarded Message To: tjg@mit.edu Cc: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu Subject: CM-5 Tours Date: Mon, 02 Aug 93 00:55:26 -0400 From: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu Hello Tom, This email was sent to me by and I thought perhaps you would know best about the CM-5: - ------- Forwarded Message Return-Path: abbe@mit.edu Received: from MIT.EDU (MIT.MIT.EDU) by whopper.lcs.mit.edu; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:24:28 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25729; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:57 EDT From: abbe@mit.edu Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05415; Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:56 EDT Date: Fri, 23 Jul 93 13:46:56 EDT Message-Id: <9307231746.AA05415@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: yonald@whopper.lcs.mit.edu Cc: abbe@athena.mit.edu, marthag@athena.mit.edu Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi, Yonald! I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in doing a demo at your lab and showing off the CM-5 (if you have access to it)? Or do you know somebody who would, who could talk about the CM-5 and the other interesting hardware over there? This would involve staying around Wednesday 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshmen. Thanks, Abbe Cohen - ------- End of Forwarded Message ------- End of Forwarded Message Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA29948; Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:28 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25868; Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:26 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA01398; Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:24 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:24 EDT Message-Id: <9307221649.AA01398@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: jis@MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@MIT.EDU, marthag@MIT.EDU Subject: Invitation to SIPB Tours Hi Jeff, I'm co-coordinating this year's SIPB computer tours for freshmen. We'll be taking freshmen and incoming graduate students to see interesting computer labs and resources on campus. As seems to be the tradition, we'd like to invite you to tell neat computer stories after the tours. We're planning on holding the tours on the evening of Wednesday, Sept. 1. Last year the tours of the labs went from 7 to 10 pm, with refreshments and stories afterwards, so I imagine the time frame would be something similar this year. Could you get back to me and let me know if you're interested in speaking after the tours? Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18393; Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:59:51 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14001; Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:59:47 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25850; Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:59:45 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08720; Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:59:37 EDT Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 16:59:37 EDT Message-Id: <9308042059.AA08720@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: tjg@MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi, Tom, Thanks for offering to help out and give a tour of the CM-5. As a reminder, the tours will be happening on Wednesday, Sept 1, from 7 to 10 pm. In order to help with the planning of the tours, could you give me some information about how a tour of the CM-5 would work? Basically, what i need to know is what size group you can accommodate, and how long you need to talk for, or are willing to talk for. If you could get back to me with that information, i will be more able to work out the final details of the schedules with you. Thanks again, Abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA19050; Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:08:47 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14828; Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:08:39 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA26218; Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:08:36 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA08792; Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:08:34 EDT Date: Wed, 4 Aug 93 17:08:34 EDT Message-Id: <9308042108.AA08792@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: jdaly@MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Janet, I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. We will divide into small groups, and visit various locations. Would you be interested in showing off various Athena things around e40? Derek Atkins had mentioned you might be interested in doing this. It would involve staying around Wednesday night, giving a demo to the groups, and answering questions. If so, what's an ideal group size for you? 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping to get a lot of freshmen. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23591; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:43:43 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA03008; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:43:41 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14380; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:43:39 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10671; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:43:34 EDT Date: Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:43:34 EDT Message-Id: <9308051743.AA10671@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: jdaly@MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer tours Thanks for offering to help out with the SIPB Computer Tours! I had in mind having the tour stop at e40 for a talk at the visitor's center (i'm sure we'll have at least *one* watchmaker on each tour, so getting in the building should not be a problem!), so that would be three talks between 7-10. Jeff Schiller will be giving the talk after the tours. If you could give me an estimate on how long you'd like to talk, I would appreciate it. I think we will stick to the visitors' center, as some of the other tour stops require smaller groups that 30-35 people anyway. Thanks for getting back to me! -abbe Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23089; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:33:56 EDT Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14161; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:33:53 EDT Received: from ELYSIANFIELDS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02220; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:33:50 EDT From: jdaly@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by elysianfields.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13600; Thu, 5 Aug 93 13:33:48 -0400 Message-Id: <9308051733.AA13600@elysianfields.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 04 Aug 93 17:08:34 -0400. <9308042108.AA08792@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> Date: Thu, 05 Aug 93 13:33:46 EDT Hi, Abbe! I'd be pleased to host a sipb tour (this will be my 3rd one since 1990, as I missed out on last year). Here's the deal- I'm moving on the 1st, but will be available in the evening. The room I manage, the Academic Computing Services Visitors Center, seats a crowded 35. I can try to reserve another room if you think the turnout will be bigger for each of the groups. What I need is a facility with a workstation and projector. In fact, if you want to be on the safe side, we can try to get room 1-390 for my three demos. Otherwise, we can take smaller groups here in E40-302. I have everything I need right here, save a valet ;) Did you want me to give three talks from 7-10 or give a talk afterward? Please let me know which is your preference. I look forward to hearing from you. Janet ------------------------------------------------ Janet Daly Information Officer, Academic Computing Services MIT Information Systems E40-358f 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 voice: 1 617 253 0194 fax: 1 617 258 8736 email: jdaly@mit.edu Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13436; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:49:05 EDT Received: from media-lab.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11642; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:48:59 EDT Received: by media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.4.amt) id AA26758; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:48:58 -0400 Received: by work.media.mit.edu (NX5.67d/NX3.0S) id AA23504; Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:44:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:44:43 -0500 From: Jon Orwant Message-Id: <9308111344.AA23504@work.media.mit.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.95) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.95) To: abbec@miles.media.mit.edu (Abbe J Cohen) Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours Cc: abbec@media-lab.media.mit.edu Reply-To: orwant@media.mit.edu I'm assuming three groups, one per hour, as in the past. Jon Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13427; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:49:00 EDT Received: from miles.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25844; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:48:58 EDT Received: from work.media.mit.edu by miles.media.mit.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA22070; Wed, 11 Aug 1993 08:48:07 -0500 Received: by work.media.mit.edu (NX5.67d/NX3.0S) id AA23504; Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:44:43 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:44:43 -0500 From: Jon Orwant Message-Id: <9308111344.AA23504@work.media.mit.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.95) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.95) To: abbec@miles.media.mit.edu (Abbe J Cohen) Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours Cc: abbec@media-lab.media.mit.edu Reply-To: orwant@media.mit.edu I'm assuming three groups, one per hour, as in the past. Jon Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13350; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:47:50 EDT Received: from miles.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25838; Wed, 11 Aug 93 09:47:44 EDT Received: from work.media.mit.edu by miles.media.mit.edu (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA15153; Wed, 11 Aug 1993 08:46:52 -0500 Received: by work.media.mit.edu (NX5.67d/NX3.0S) id AA23495; Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:43:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 93 08:43:28 -0500 From: Jon Orwant Message-Id: <9308111343.AA23495@work.media.mit.edu> Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.95) Received: by NeXT Mailer (1.95) To: abbec@miles.media.mit.edu (Abbe J Cohen) Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours Cc: abbec@media-lab.media.mit.edu Reply-To: orwant@media.mit.edu I'll be happy to give the demos. Let's say 20 minutes, which really means a 15 minute demo and 5 minutes of slack for herding. Jon Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05886; Mon, 26 Jul 93 13:41:10 EDT Received: from kame.media.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13212; Mon, 26 Jul 93 13:41:04 EDT Received: by kame.media.mit.edu (5.57/DA1.0.3) id AA21615; Mon, 26 Jul 93 13:41:03 -0400 Date: Mon, 26 Jul 93 13:41:03 -0400 From: Randy Sargent Message-Id: <9307261741.AA21615@kame.media.mit.edu> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb tours Turns out I'll be able to do it for sure. Looking forward to it. -randy Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20606; Mon, 16 Aug 93 23:50:36 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25525; Mon, 16 Aug 93 23:50:34 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27748; Mon, 16 Aug 93 23:50:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 23:50:33 -0400 Message-Id: <9308170350.AA27748@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Tour information Here are the stops: Who What Where #People Length Mark Torrance mobot lab LCS 15-20 ??? Randy Sargent lego lab medialab 20 15 min Joe Boerges 6.001 lab 34-501 20? 15 min?? Tom Greene CM5 LCS ??? ??? Jon Orwant Garden medialab 12ish 15-20min Janet Daly ACSinfo e40-302 up to 35 ??? Mark Smith CAM LCSrm518 any size up to 1/2 hr Jeff Schiller storyhour 6-120 whole group after tours I am contacting anyone who has ??'s in their information and hopefully they will answer me promptly so we can try to schedule all this. Does this seem like something you could feasibly draw up a schedule for? thanks, abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20810; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:01:54 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25783; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:01:49 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27762; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:01:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:01:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9308170401.AA27762@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: torrance@ai.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Mark, The summer seems to have gone by pretty quickly, and SIPB computer tours are coming up fairly soon - Wednesday, Sept 1, to remind you. We are currently arranging the order of the tours for each of the groups, and planning what would be most efficient to make all of our stops. We're making our plans based on there being 3 groups of up to 20 people each, but if we have a bigger turnout than that, we might do 4 groups so that everyone can see all the stops. The other stops at LCS this year will be a demo of CAM by Norm Margolus or Michael Biafore, and a tour of the CM-5 and other hardware by Tom Greene, but these will be separate from your demo. In order to help us distribute the times for the stops evenly, could you give me some idea of the ideal length of your demo? How long would you like to talk, and what is the minimum time the demo would last? Thanks again for helping us out with this. I'll be in touch with you about further details of when to expect the groups, and where to meet for the demo, etc. However, we can't be sure how many groups we will have until the tour actually gets started. thanx, abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06336; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:11 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23366; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:08 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00669; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:05 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02218; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:03 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:36:03 EDT Message-Id: <9307221836.AA02218@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: smith@im.lcs.mit.edu Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Mark, I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday evening, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. The tour will be divided into small groups that will visit various locations. During last year's tours, you helped us out by giving a demo of the CAM group. Would you be interested in giving a demo again this year? If not, is there someone else in your group who might want to help, or someone else I should talk to? It would involve being available to stay around Wednesday night, give a demo to the tour groups, and answer 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping lots of freshmen will show up. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA20879; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:05:47 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25936; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:05:42 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27765; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:05:40 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:05:40 -0400 Message-Id: <9308170405.AA27765@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: aragorn@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Tours Yes, the term is getting really close to starting. Yes, we have stops for the tours. Yes, you are supposedly doing one of the stops for the tours. Hal Abelson said to talk to you about doing a demo of the .001 lab...if you're still willing to do that, i need an estimate of how many people you can talk to (so they can all see, etc.) and how long you want to talk for. If you want to have a few people at a few machines doing the same demo or something, that would be cool, too - i'm sure most of the tour guides have enough of a clue to do a demo. (me and jessie are probably the only ones who haven't taken .001 yet...) So, let me know as soon as possible what you would be able to do, so we can schedule things accordingly. It will probably be a demo repeated 3 times, one for each group that goes through. thanx, abbe ps - i never see you anymore - where've you been? how was canoeing? Received: from ATHENA.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21005; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:14:58 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22578; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:14:55 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27785; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:13:34 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:13:34 -0400 Message-Id: <9308170413.AA27785@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: tjg@mit.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi, Tom, Thanks for offering to help us out with the SIPB Computer Tours on Wednesday, September 1st. The end of August is coming fast, and we are currently working on scheduling all the stops around our time constraints. The tours will probably work by having 3 groups of students rotating between the various tour stops. This would mean that we would need you to be able to do 3 demos as the groups arrive. It's possible if we have a larger number of students than expected, we might have 4 groups, since some of the people giving demos have fairly small limits on the group size, but we can't know that until the night of the tours. In order to get our scheduling straight, there are a few things that we'd like to know from you. What is the ideal group size for a tour of the CM-5, and how long are you willing to talk for? Also, where should we bring the tour groups when they arrive, and are there any locked doors etc that we'd need to call to be let in? I would appreciate hearing from you soon about this, so we can get things worked out on our end. Thanks for your help! thanx, abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21123; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:21:14 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00440; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:21:13 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27802; Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:21:03 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:21:03 -0400 Message-Id: <9308170421.AA27802@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: jdaly@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Janet, We're currently working out the scheduling for the SIPB tours so that all of the different tour stops constraints on size and timing are met, to make the tours as efficent as possible. In order to get this done, I need to know one thing you didn't mention in your last mail - how long would you like to/be willing to talk for? As I said before, we'll probably be having 3 groups, each coming to the Visitors Center at some point for your talk, and going to 6-120 afterwards to hear Jeff Schiller tell stories. So, whatever length of time is best for you, I hope you won't mind giving that length talk 3 times. Thanks for helping out with the tours! -abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27694; Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:11:49 EDT Received: from ELYSIANFIELDS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10424; Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:11:47 EDT From: jdaly@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by elysianfields.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA11374; Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:11:44 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171311.AA11374@elysianfields.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:21:03 -0400. <9308170421.AA27802@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 09:11:41 EDT Hi, Abbe. No problem with the repetition...let's say my talk will last 45 minutes (allowing for time to move between sites). I look forward to seeing you on the 1st at some point. ------------------------------------------------- Janet Daly Information Officer, Academic Computing Services MIT Information Systems E40-358f 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 voice: 1 617 253 0194 fax: 1 617 258 8736 email: jdaly@mit.edu Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA00284; Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:44 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13589; Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:42 EDT Received: from cookie-monster (cookie-monster.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for abbe@athena.mit.edu id AA28462; Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:39 EDT From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance) Received: by cookie-monster (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA22717; Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:34 EDT Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 10:08:34 EDT Message-Id: <9308171408.AA22717@cookie-monster> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours References: <9308170401.AA27762@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> I would be happy to give a talk and demo as short as 10 minutes or as long as 20 minutes. I believe I will be able to demonstrate a working mobile robot for each group, as well as showing other robots and explaining the design philosophy of the lab. If there is more time, I'm happy to talk some about other parts of the AI lab, to put the mobot lab into context, before I go into detail about the mobots. I can borrow some of Lukas Reucker's transparencies for that part of the presentation, which we could hold in the 8th floor playroom. That would be appropriate if there was as much as half an hour for each group to see the AI Lab/Mobot lab. I'm equally happy not to try to cover that ground if time is shorter. My best guess is that you should plan on 15 minute demos+questions with 5 minutes between to move within the building, and that should leave 15 minutes at the end of the hour to get to the next campus site. It's also my guess that, like previous years, the tour will get behind schedule. If you have already coordinated times with the CAM and CM-5 people, that's fine, but if not I would be happy to make up a schedule (a "program") for the times of the parts of the tour that are in our building. I'm also happy to chaparone a group around to the different stops within our building, if there isn't another person to do that. It would be helpful if you could tell me soon whether each of the three big groups will be split for the AI/LCS part of the tour, or if they will remain whole. That is, will I be giving the Mobot Lab talk 3 times, 6 times or 9 times? --Mark Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07265; Tue, 17 Aug 93 12:25:17 EDT Received: from BINKLEY.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02661; Tue, 17 Aug 93 12:25:15 EDT From: aragorn@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by binkley.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17274; Tue, 17 Aug 93 12:25:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 12:25:13 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171625.AA17274@binkley.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, aragorn@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: .001 tour Hello, Yes, I voluteered to do a tour. I will do it. Info follows... 1) I need to talk to hal one more time so there aren't any other groups in there on that day (which is????) 2) I wouldn't talk for more than a few minutes (3 tops) and demos would be cool...if the other guides can handle it I will set up some of the stuff I did last summer and maybe pset examples...???? suggestions....? 3) I can take a group of about 15 reasonably easily, 25 with some trepidation (but since there are technically 46 terminals I could take 46 people with real crowding... (I really don't like that large a group so.....:( ) 4) is this soon enough notice for you? Let me know what day this is supposedly happening.... Joe ps - I am sorry I am never around, babe, but I have been busy. I have to finish my project before the summer and I just became desk captain at EC, and I went canoeing (which was really cool...) and ... and ... :) Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13185; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:14:55 EDT Received: from MILQUETOAST.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10920; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:14:49 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by milquetoast.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14754; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:14:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:14:47 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171814.AA14754@milquetoast.MIT.EDU> To: aragorn@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: .001 tour 1) The date is Wednesday, Sept 1, 7-10 pm. 2) A demo of the graphics stuff on the machines would probably be cool to take up a little bit more time. 3) We'll aim for 15 people at a time visiting the lab, and i don't know yet how many times you'll get to repeat this. probably 3 groups of 15 people should cover our turnout. -abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13841; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:24:30 EDT Received: from MILQUETOAST.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11781; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:24:26 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by milquetoast.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14778; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:24:23 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:24:23 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171824.AA14778@milquetoast.MIT.EDU> To: jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb tour scheduling I'll be updating the scheduling info as these people get back to me... the current updates are: scheduling info: Who What Where #People Length Mark Torrance mobot lab LCS 15-20 10-20 min Randy Sargent lego lab medialab 20 15 min Joe Boerges 6.001 lab 34-501 15-20 10ish Tom Greene CM5 LCS ??? ??? Jon Orwant Garden medialab 12ish 15-20min Janet Daly ACSinfo e40-302 up to 35 45 min Mark Smith CAM LCSrm518 any size up to 1/2 hr Jeff Schiller storyhour 6-120 whole group after tours Also, Mark Torrance sent me this mail, which i thought you might be better able to answer... My best guess is that you should plan on 15 minute demos+questions with 5 minutes between to move within the building, and that should leave 15 minutes at the end of the hour to get to the next campus site. It's also my guess that, like previous years, the tour will get behind schedule. If you have already coordinated times with the CAM and CM-5 people, that's fine, but if not I would be happy to make up a schedule (a "program") for the times of the parts of the tour that are in our building. I'm also happy to chaparone a group around to the different stops within our building, if there isn't another person to do that. It would be helpful if you could tell me soon whether each of the three big groups will be split for the AI/LCS part of the tour, or if they will remain whole. That is, will I be giving the Mobot Lab talk 3 times, 6 times or 9 times? --Mark I'm telling him that my estimate is probably 3 times, maybe 6 if we get really really big groups... but i don't know how you want to arrange the lcs part and if you want him to talk to people there. and also that we do already have chaperones. should i tell him to expect mail from you as well, or do you want me to find anything else out from him? -abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14847; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:39:15 EDT Received: from MILQUETOAST.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13265; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:39:13 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by milquetoast.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA14791; Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:39:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:39:08 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171839.AA14791@milquetoast.MIT.EDU> To: smith@im.lcs Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi, Mark, Wednesday, September 1st is coming up, and we are working on scheduling the various stops for the SIPB Computer tours. After you told me that you would be able to arrange the demo, you said that either Norm Margolus or Michael Biafore would actually be doing the talk. Neither of them have gotten in touch with me, and I wasn't sure whether you wanted us to send final arrangements to all of you, or just to whoever will be talking. It will probably be 3 talks to each of the 3 main tour groups, sometime between 7 and 10 pm. We'll be working out a basic schedule in the next week or so, but things tend to change on the actual night of the tour depending on the actual turnout. I will, of course, keep you updated. I'd appreciate it if you could let me know who i should be sending future correspondence to, and who will actually be doing the presentation, as soon as possible. Thanks a lot for you help! -abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA16036; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:01:28 EDT Received: from PODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA15096; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:01:27 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by podge.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA09745; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:01:25 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:01:25 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171901.AA09745@podge.MIT.EDU> To: marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: tour braindump All the information is pretty much in /afs/sipb/user/abbe/tours/tour.grp -who is talking, how long, who i've contacted etc. All the correspondence is in /mit/abbe/Mail/tours. A quick summary: Who What Where #People Length Mark Torrance mobot lab LCS 15-20 10-20 min Randy Sargent lego lab medialab 20 15 min Joe Boerges 6.001 lab 34-501 15-20 10 max Tom Greene CM5 LCS ??? ??? Jon Orwant Garden medialab 12ish 15-20min Janet Daly ACSinfo e40-302 up to 35 45 min Mark Smith CAM LCSrm518 any size up to 1/2 hr Jeff Schiller storyhour 6-120 whole group after tours jtidwell offered to work with this info to figure out a schedule that will work for 3 groups and meet all the number/time requirements. I sent it to her today...hopefully she will be able to get it all worked out. After that, what is left from stan's howto list is: 7. Have somebody make up a poster for the tours. Steal last year's and modify it if necessary. Make ~100 copies of the poster, and poster the clusters a week before the tour. Poster other places (Infinite Corridor, etc) 4 days before. *richard is modifying last years poster, this should work. 8. Send mail to *bboard@ai.mit.edu and usermsgs@athena.mit.edu announcing the tour. *probably should wait a bit longer to do this 9. Send out a message to SIPB asking for shepherds and sheep dogs for the tour. Get at least six people to commit. Talk to people personally if necessary. Threaten bodily harm. *should go in next weeks minutes, can you send out this mail or should I? 10. Schedule stops. Alan Bawden supposedly has a scheduling program for this (see Penny's message in tour.mail file). Generally, three groups rotating through AI/LCS, Media-lab, and other seems to work. If you feel up to it, walk the tour to get an idea of times between stops. *jtidwell is working on. 11. Come up with a flyer for the tour guides. This is a listing of the stops, schedule, etc, and some subtle reminders for them to thank the demoers, etc. It should describe what you expect them to do once they get to a site (knock on the door, phone, etc). You may have to give the tour guides a combination or two. [tour.guide] *can you do this close to the date of the tour? 12. Arrange for food. At the meeting before the tour, ask for funding of up to $75 for food. If approved, check with Kathy Allen. Con a couple SIPB members with a car to shop for food and bring it over. If necessary, this can be done at Laverde's. Check SIPB supplies for cups and plates. A listing of food is in tour.mail (in terms of what gets eaten). Get at least 3 litres of Classic Coke. The SIPB members should save the receipt so that they can be reimbursed. *I'll ask for funding. Can you deal with the rest? 13. Show up at the arranged time at the arranged place (usually Lobby 7, 6:45-7:00pm). Introduce yourself, and explain how the tour is going to be organized (# of tours, stops, every tour goes to the same stop). Some people may want to go to the media-lab first (so they can punt the other stops). If you feel generous, tell them. *We should both be there... 14. Let the tours go. Lead a tour. Have fun. Eat afterwards, and listen to the speaker. *Gosh, this is difficult.... 15. Send mail to the demo'ers, thanking them for showing their stuff off. *If you could do that, it would be cool - i'll be hosed from then until reg day with olc bootcamp and then going to florida for my aunt's wedding. How does this sound? -abbe Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06575; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:40:24 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA23661; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:40:16 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA00818; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:40:12 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02231; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:40:11 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:40:11 EDT Message-Id: <9307221840.AA02231@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: rsargent@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer tours Hi Randy, I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday evening, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. The tour will be divided into small groups that will visit various locations. For last year's tours, you helped us by getting Fred Martin to do a demo of the Lego lab for us. Would you be interested in giving a demo for us this year? If not, should we talk to Fred again, or is there anyone else who might be interested in doing a demo? It would involve being available to stay around Wednesday night, give a demo to the tour groups, and answer 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping lots of freshmen will show up. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03522; Tue, 17 Aug 93 23:47:46 EDT Received: from IM.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10131; Tue, 17 Aug 93 23:47:28 EDT Received: by im (4.1/TOC-1.1S) id AA03758; Tue, 17 Aug 93 23:47:24 EDT Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 23:47:24 EDT From: nhm@im.lcs.mit.edu (Norm Margolus) Message-Id: <9308180347.AA03758@im.lcs.mit.edu> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: biafore@im.lcs.mit.edu, smith@im.lcs.mit.edu Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Abbe. Why don't you make arrangements with me, and CC "biafore" and "smith" in your messages. I'll plan to give the demo, but if at the last moment I'm unable to, Mike Biafore will substitute for me. I appreciate your interest in our stuff, and your work in organizing the tour. Norm Margolus Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA21400; Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:25:31 EDT Received: from HQ.LCS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA19457; Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:25:09 EDT Received: from localhost.mit.edu by hq.lcs.mit.edu.lcs.mit.edu (4.1/NSCS-1.0S) id AA21515; Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:24:46 EDT Message-Id: <9308201824.AA21515@hq.lcs.mit.edu.lcs.mit.edu> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: tjg@mit.edu, kjones@think.com Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Aug 93 00:13:34 -0400. <9308170413.AA27785@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> Date: Fri, 20 Aug 93 14:24:45 -0400 From: ""Tom J. Greene"" Abbe, Let's say 3 (or 4) groups of 20. Your event time is 7-10PM? If so, 20 @ 7PM, 20 @ 8 PM, 20 @ 9PM. Draft AGENDA: In- 5 min, out 5 min meeting 50 min Machine room for CM5---15 min CM5--the movie HPC-why,what Programming in Parallel Send me a sample of what your other announcements look like and we will try to set firm plans with you.... tom > >Hi, Tom, > >Thanks for offering to help us out with the SIPB Computer Tours on Wednesday, >September 1st. The end of August is coming fast, and we are currently working >on scheduling all the stops around our time constraints. > >The tours will probably work by having 3 groups of students rotating >between the various tour stops. This would mean that we would need you to >be able to do 3 demos as the groups arrive. It's possible if we have a larger >number of students than expected, we might have 4 groups, since some of >the people giving demos have fairly small limits on the group size, but we >can't know that until the night of the tours. > >In order to get our scheduling straight, there are a few things that >we'd like to know from you. What is the ideal group size for a tour >of the CM-5, and how long are you willing to talk for? Also, where should >we bring the tour groups when they arrive, and are there any locked doors >etc that we'd need to call to be let in? > >I would appreciate hearing from you soon about this, so we can get things >worked out on our end. Thanks for your help! > >thanx, >abbe > Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23354; Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:59:49 EDT Received: from PRIMAVERA.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA09933; Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:59:33 EDT From: jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by primavera (5.57/4.7) id AA00872; Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:59:29 -0400 Message-Id: <9308242059.AA00872@primavera> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU, jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: sipb tour scheduling In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:24:23 -0400. <9308171824.AA14778@milquetoast.MIT.EDU> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 93 16:59:28 EDT Sorry it took me so long to get to this, but I've been on vacation for about ten days... Having taken a look at the scheduling info, I can see a few potential problems. (Nothing that can't be worked around, though, hopefully.) First, there will be a *lot* of walking -- the tours go to four buildings, two of which (LCS and E40) are rather far apart. So a lot of time will be spend between buildings. We might need to punt one of the stops. What exactly is Janet Daly doing in E40? Is she giving an intro-to-Athena type demo? If so, it won't go over well, since you will most likely have far more upperclassmen than frosh. (This happened a couple of years ago.) Can she demo stuff that would interest upperclassmen? By the same reasoning, the 6.001 lab tour may not be what upperclassmen want to see. :-) Will anything be shown that would also interest people who have already taken 6.001? And is it worth 10-15 minutes of walking time (there and back) for a 10-minute demo? (That's not such a big deal, since 34-501 is on the way from E15 to LCS anyway...) 50 minutes for the CM5 stuff is clearly too long. 15-20 minutes or so would be OK, esp. since they can only fit 20 at a time.... we'd have to rotate groups *within* LCS, as well as between buildings! Could be interesting. Maybe we want group leaders to carry ham radios. :-) (Come to think of it, we may want to rotate groups within the Media Lab as well; smaller groups have always worked better than large ones.) OK, here's a rough breakdown of one way we've done it in the past: 100-150 people total ----> 3 groups of 30-40 3 major stops (E40, E15, LCS) ----> approx. 1 hr per stop (incl. walking time!) Everyone regroups at the room with Schiller Story Hour Each tour group has a leader, with schedule; plus at least two "shepherds" to talk and keep group together Within LCS and E15, it is good to have people who stay there and can chaperone the tour groups between demos; they should have keys and combos so no one gets stuck anywhere! It looks like we may be able to sort of keep this three-group, three-hour, three-stop schedule, with modifications; the 6.001 lab is short enough to be included in whichever "major stop" is shorter (prob E15, given your scheduling info). Also, as I mentioned before, it may be a good idea to split into two or three smaller groups within E15 and LCS, since the demos want smaller groups. One thing you want to avoid: splitting the crowd into more tour groups than was planned. The timing gets really unmanageable, and you may end up with a tour group reaching, say, the Media Lab at the right time, and no one with an elevator combo (or a clue) is there to meet them. In past tours, we've had groups stranded for 10 to 15 minutes like this! It's better to have too-big tour groups than too many. (whew) More on request. I could go on for hours. :-) Hope this helps, anyway. - Jenifer Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12349; Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:59:44 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA18642; Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:59:39 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA18992; Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:59:33 EDT Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:59:33 EDT Message-Id: <9307161459.AA18992@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: mhg@crasun.cra.com Cc: abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: tour stuff I read through all the stuff from last years tours -- it's all in /afs/sipb/admin/text/tours/1992/tour.* basically, we need to start getting in touch with people at the media lab, AI lab, LCS, etc to find people willing to do demos. There's a nice form letter (tour.ask) that we probably don't have to change too much, that we can send out to individual people, once we get names. I was thinking also of sending it to the people who actually did demos last year, altering the wording to say something more like, "hi, you helped us out with tours last year. would you be willing to do it again, or who else can you suggest to us." We also have to pick a speaker (jis seems popular) and write up a letter inviting him to speak. before we can invite people, though, we need to get a date settled. I was thinking possibly the Wednesday night of R/0 -- we have to check on the R/0 Schedule. (This would be 6 days after the frosh get here, i think...) Basically, sorority rush for me take up from friday till tuesday afternoon. ie the freshmen get there on thursday, rush runs friday to tuesday. So i'm going to be pretty hosed then, and the week before that. So maybe i should deal with initially sending out letters, and you can deal with peoples' last-minute responses and planning and stuff? let me know how that sounds. -abbe Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA15682; Fri, 16 Jul 93 12:00:03 EDT Received: from uu.psi.com by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20887; Fri, 16 Jul 93 12:00:00 EDT Received: from crasun.cra.com by uu.psi.com (5.65b/4.1.031792-PSI/PSINet) via UUCP; id AA16732 for ; Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:52:20 -0400 Received: from [192.9.200.47] by cra.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA00471; Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:38:10 EDT Date: Fri, 16 Jul 93 11:40:16 -0500 From: Martha H. Greenberg To: abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: tour stuff Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Your message <9307161459.AA18992@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> of Fri, 16 Jul 93 10:59:33 EDT Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=US-ASCII All of that sounds fine, except I would like to check the date. I'm fairly hosed right now but shouldn't be doing much over Rush, so it should work out for me. Martha Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17527; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:27:50 EDT Received: from STEVE-DALLAS.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA17016; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:27:49 EDT Received: by steve-dallas.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03300; Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:27:46 -0400 Message-Id: <9308171927.AA03300@steve-dallas.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: R/O '93 Tour Posters Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 15:27:42 EDT From: Richard J. Barbalace I just made modifications to the '92 posters for abbe. The new posters are world-readable and in: ~rjbarbal/PostScript/ComputerTours93fancy.ps ~rjbarbal/PostScript/ComputerTours93plain.ps Fancy is very nice looking, but does not photocopy well. I recommend printing out 15-30 of these, and placing one in each cluster window and along the Infinite Corridor. I learned last year that freshman are unlikely to see posters placed inside clusters, so make sure posters are visible to passers-by. Plain is just a plainer version of the fancy one, but photocopies better. Make lots of copies and poster everywhere. I'd recommend having someone hand them out to freshman as they come in W20-575 to register for an account. Or instead of having a person do this, just set up a small table (or something) with a sign saying "Take one!" and a pile of posters on it. Feel free to copy them somewhere more appropriate, and to make modifications as you see fit. I won't be around to help, but anyone with a small knowledge of PS should be able to make any changes easily. Don't feel you have to use these if you don't like them. - Richard Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07275; Wed, 18 Aug 93 17:48:02 EDT Received: from M37-318-3.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA29691; Wed, 18 Aug 93 17:47:56 EDT From: lanaimal@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by m37-318-3 (5.57/4.7) id AA03614; Wed, 18 Aug 93 17:47:48 -0400 Message-Id: <9308182147.AA03614@m37-318-3> To: vholmes@Athena.MIT.EDU, stigmata@Athena.MIT.EDU, pejuvkam@Athena.MIT.EDU, beethovn@Athena.MIT.EDU, sdcfred@Athena.MIT.EDU, ryanb@Athena.MIT.EDU, abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, amykoo@Athena.MIT.EDU, lorianne@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: DC Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 17:47:46 EDT Welcome the the DAily Confusion!! You guys are all new so i have tried to give you the "names" that would be most appropriate...however you may feel that they need to be changed. This can be done very easily---if the changes are made before you make any submissions. Please Contact me if there is anything that must be changed. lana. ------- Forwarded Message To:regis, doug_s, bsman, apchilds, tequesta, davknav, pern, yeahbouy, swong94, queef, medstrom, bjduda, trujillo, stork, hlludtke, jsw, geilfuss, johnrich, sanj, elsiedee, grisha, lanaimal, jhodor, hanser, arabbit, mdhansen, cmbrooks, ranjs, vonneidt, lmtancre, jcchen, jcchen, efong, jpr, marofim, jderksen, jdhinter cc:lanaimal@athena.mit.edu, crystal@athena.mit.edu Subject:Daily Confusion - -------- Hi! Finally, the Daily Confusion software and documentation are mostly up. If you are receiving this, you have been given access to enter activities for some organization. You should already know about this from your rush chair or whomever. (If not, send us mail) Deadlines are three days in advance of the issue. We'll try to pick stuff up as late as we can on that day, but the copiers have deadlines that must be met. Anyway -in keeping it simple- since the directions are written elsewhere. To view the documentation (which describes how to run the software), do: attach ro-committee xdvi /mit/ro-committee/confused/doc/confused.dvi To print it: dvi2ps /mit/ro-committee/confused/doc/confused.dvi | lpr -Pprintername To view it from dialup (LaTeX source): more /mit/ro-committee/confused/doc/confused.tex If you have any questions, problems, comments, bugs, requests, or anything else, please send us mail. If you know of someone who wants to add stuff to the DC, but didn't get this message, have them send mail as soon as possible. ***Please try to enter as many of your activities as soon as you can. This will make our job a lot easier - Thanks. Lana Luoma lanaimal@athena R/O Committee Daily Confusion Co-Chair @athena.mit.edu P.S. If you dont know who you are the command that you need is... more /mit/ro-committee/confused/1993_DC_Inputters ------- End of Forwarded Message Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA23908; Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:14:47 EDT Received: from HODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04162; Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:14:45 EDT From: sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by hodge.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14532; Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:14:39 -0400 Message-Id: <9308260414.AA14532@hodge.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: tours Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 00:14:38 EDT urphle. well, i'll do what i can, and chad will deal some too as R/O sucker. there are a couple things i'm not clear on. is the order of the tours set? should tour guides walk through before they actually guide? who is going to be a tour guide? what other scheduling do i need to do? jessie Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA25008; Thu, 26 Aug 93 01:23:48 EDT Received: from HODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01191; Thu, 26 Aug 93 01:23:47 EDT From: sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by hodge.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA14570; Thu, 26 Aug 93 01:23:42 -0400 Message-Id: <9308260523.AA14570@hodge.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: tours Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 01:23:40 EDT read some more stuff about tours. i'll try to do some stuff, but looking at it i'm not going to be able to do all of it. :-/ sorry. i'll try to see what i can do, see if martha's doing anything -- i asked her twice via zephyr but she never responded -- and see if chad's going to do anything, but i don't know that it'll all get together. if you want tours to happen, you will need to get martha to get her act in gear. i don't know whether this is possible. *shrug* i'll do what i can, and let you know what's going on. jessie btw -- if you can just tell me who i need to tell what, i should be able to do that part. Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA06896; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:46:00 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA24119; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:45:54 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01064; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:45:51 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02352; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:45:50 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:45:50 EDT Message-Id: <9307221845.AA02352@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: torrance@ai.mit.edu Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Mark, I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday evening, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. The tour will be divided into small groups that will visit various locations. During last year's tours, you were interested in helping us out, although you wound up being unable to. Would you be interested in giving a demo of the Mobot lab this year? If not, is there someone else in your group who might want to help? It would involve being available to stay around Wednesday night, give a demo to the tour groups, and answer 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping lots of freshmen will show up. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07580; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:06:56 EDT Received: from BINKLEY.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07656; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:06:51 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by binkley.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10300; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:06:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:06:48 -0400 Message-Id: <9308270306.AA10300@binkley.MIT.EDU> To: tjg@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hello again, Tom, I'm just setting up final arrangements for the SIPB computer tours. As a reminder, the tours are going to be this Wednesday, September 1, from 7 to 10 pm. You had volunteered to help us out by doing a demo about the CM-5. The way our scheduling is working out, we have room for a twenty minute demo from you, as there are two other demos at LCS that will be about twenty minutes each. So if you could plan things around that, we'd appreciate it very much. The tours are going to be guided by SIPB members, and they will be rotating each tour group through LCS, the Media Lab, and e40. There should be three tour groups total. However, if we get more freshmen than expected, we may split into groups within groups, and then you might need to do a total of 6 demos instead. Hopefully this will not be necessary. Final details we need to know are how we should get access to LCS with the tour groups, and where we should bring them for your demo. The rest of the arrangements will be mostly coordinated by Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, so please cc your responses to her as well. Thanks for your help! Abbe Cohen SIPB Tour Co-Coordinator Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09355; Fri, 27 Aug 93 00:58:37 EDT Received: from HODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA10784; Fri, 27 Aug 93 00:54:51 EDT From: sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by hodge.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA02524; Fri, 27 Aug 93 00:54:45 -0400 Message-Id: <9308270454.AA02524@hodge.MIT.EDU> To: sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Tours Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 00:54:43 EDT Yes, it's that time again. The title of Designated Sucker for SIPB Tours has passed, despite my protests that I wasn't touching it, from abbe (y'all tell her what a good job she did, folks, cuz she did everything besides the actually very small amount that I'm doing) to me. This means that I have the honor of telling you all that YOU -- yes, YOU -- are invited in the strongest possible terms to be a glamourous and world-famous tour guide for the SIPB R/O TOURS!!! People who can get into E40 and/or the Media Lab without setting off alarms will get special, valuable cash prizes! Well, maybe not, but they *are* on Wednesday, September 1st, leaving at 6:45 PM (I think from Lobby Seven? Ten? abbe?). Shepherds should show up around 6:35 or so. Let me know if you can make it; send mail to *me*, remember, the DS, and not abbe and not martha. I will also nag you about this at the meeting. If you told anyone else you were going to be a tour guide, it doesn't count; PLEEEEEEEEZE tell me. Thanks! Remember, this will gain you the gratitude of the SIPB and the adulation and slavish respect of many freshman. Just Do It. jessie Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA17578; Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:42:13 EDT Received: from W20-575-21.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA14992; Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:41:45 EDT From: mkgray@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by w20-575-21.MIT.EDU (5.0/4.7) id AA02422; Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:41:43 EDT Message-Id: <9308301841.AA02422@w20-575-21.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: dcctdw@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: [dcctdw@Athena.MIT.EDU: sipb tours] Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:41:43 EDT Content-Length: 427 Since you are dealing with this, I guess you should know ------- Forwarded Message From: dcctdw@Athena.MIT.EDU To: mkgray@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: sipb tours Date: Mon, 30 Aug 93 14:39:10 EDT Re: Ken (Kim?) Jones at TMC re CM-V for SIPB tours 3 tours coming by between 7 and 10 with a 30 minute spiel about the CM-V. They think that's what they asked for; if so, that's perfectly ok. dave ------- End of Forwarded Message Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07500; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:03:23 EDT Received: from BINKLEY.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA07532; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:03:20 EDT From: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by binkley.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10290; Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:03:09 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Aug 93 23:03:09 -0400 Message-Id: <9308270303.AA10290@binkley.MIT.EDU> To: tjg@@Athena.MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB computer tours Hello again, Tom, I'm just setting up final arrangements for the SIPB computer tours. As a reminder, the tours are going to be this Wednesday, September 1, from 7 to 10 pm. You had volunteered to help us out by doing a demo about the CM-5. The way our scheduling is working out, we have room for a twenty minute demo from you, as there are two other demos at LCS that will be about twenty minutes each. So if you could plan things around that, we'd appreciate it very much. The tours are going to be guided by SIPB members, and they will be rotating each tour group through LCS, the Media Lab, and e40. There should be three tour groups total. However, if we get more freshmen than expected, we may split into groups within groups, and then you might need to do a total of 6 demos instead. Hopefully this will not be necessary. Final details we need to know are how we should get access to LCS with the tour groups, and where we should bring them for your demo. The rest of the arrangements will be mostly coordinated by Jessie Stickgold-Sarah, so please cc your responses to her as well. Thanks for your help! Abbe Cohen SIPB Tour Co-Coordinator Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA10850; Fri, 27 Aug 93 02:50:19 EDT Received: from PODGE.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA13626; Fri, 27 Aug 93 02:50:18 EDT From: sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU Received: by podge.MIT.EDU (5.57/4.7) id AA11094; Fri, 27 Aug 93 02:50:17 -0400 Message-Id: <9308270650.AA11094@podge.MIT.EDU> To: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: tours are well in hand... Date: Fri, 27 Aug 93 02:50:17 EDT but there's one question: Tom Greene CM5 LCS 20 50 fifty minutes? really? um, should we ask him to cut it down? that's a little long...i *think* you said something, but i forget what. if i should just leave it like that, ok. sorry to have to keep bugging you about things... jessie Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA04254; Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:29:18 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA06575; Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:28:55 EDT Received: from cookie-monster (cookie-monster.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for abbe@athena.mit.edu id AA23694; Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:28:50 EDT From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance) Received: by cookie-monster (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA04650; Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:28:44 EDT Date: Wed, 1 Sep 93 17:28:44 EDT Message-Id: <9309012128.AA04650@cookie-monster> To: jtidwell@Athena.MIT.EDU, sorokin@Athena.MIT.EDU, abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours tonight References: <9309012012.AA23724@milanese> I'm happy to help. I'm expecting the tour groups at the lab between 7-8, 8-9, and 9-10. They will be met in the lobby near the guard's desk by a representative from the CM-5 group, who will take them to the 2nd floor for the first demo. After that, I will meet them on the 9th floor for a tour of the Mobot lab, and then take them to the 5th floor where they'll get a demo of the Cellular Automata Machine from Norm Margoulis. I have contacted the other demoers in my building, and we are all clear on this procedure. If students arrive at our site n minutes late, they will be n minutes late leaving our site. Our whole tour should take 50 minutes so they have time to get to the next site. See you tonight! --Mark Torrance Received: from ATHENA-AS-WELL.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA07593; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:57:20 EDT Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by Athena.MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA25072; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:57:17 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA01595; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:57:16 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA02439; Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:57:13 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 14:57:13 EDT Message-Id: <9307221857.AA02439@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: hal@ai.mit.edu Cc: abbe@Athena.MIT.EDU, marthag@Athena.MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB Computer Tours Hi Hal, I'm co-coordinating 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 Wednesday evening, September 1st, from 7pm to 10pm. The tour will be divided into small groups that will visit various locations. During last year's tours, you helped us out by arranging for the tour to stop at the 6.001 lab to see some demos and admire the hardware. Would you be interested in helping us again this year by giving a demo, or by reccomending someone else who could? It would involve being available to stay around Wednesday night, give a demo to the tour groups, and answer questions. A lot of the freshmen on the tours will probably be planning on taking 6.001 at some point, so i think a tour stop in the Scheme Lab would be interesting for them. If you'll be helping us out, 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. Wednesday is after most of Rush is over, so we're hoping lots of freshmen will show up. Thanks, Abbe Cohen Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA09152; Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:27:34 EDT Received: from BIG-SCREW.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA02678; Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:27:29 EDT Received: by big-screw id AA02559; Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:27:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 15:27:26 -0400 Message-Id: <9307221927.AA02559@big-screw> From: Jeffrey I. Schiller Sender: jis@MIT.EDU To: abbe@MIT.EDU Cc: abbe@MIT.EDU, marthag@MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: abbe@MIT.EDU's message of Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:24 EDT <9307221649.AA01398@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> Subject: Invitation to SIPB Tours From: abbe@MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 12:49:24 EDT ... Could you get back to me and let me know if you're interested in speaking after the tours? Sure... -Jeff Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA12232; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:19:58 EDT Received: from DRAGONS-LAIR.MIT.EDU by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA04665; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:19:57 EDT From: abbe@MIT.EDU Received: by dragons-lair.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA03316; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:19:55 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:19:55 EDT Message-Id: <9307222019.AA03316@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU> To: jis@MIT.EDU Subject: SIPB tour & talk Thanks a lot! Either Martha (who's co-coordinating the tours with me) or I will get back to you closer to September 1st with any other details. Let me know if there's anything else you need to know. -abbe Received: from MIT.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13061; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:34:49 EDT Received: from life.ai.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA05258; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:34:29 EDT Received: from cookie-monster (cookie-monster.ai.mit.edu) by life.ai.mit.edu (4.1/AI-4.10) for abbe@mit.edu id AA29665; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:34:23 EDT From: torrance@ai.mit.edu (Mark Torrance) Received: by cookie-monster (4.1/AI-4.10) id AA01064; Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:33:28 EDT Date: Thu, 22 Jul 93 16:33:28 EDT Message-Id: <9307222033.AA01064@cookie-monster> To: abbe@MIT.EDU Subject: Re: SIPB Computer Tours Abbe, Thank you very much for inviting me to help with this year's tour. I would be happy to give a tour of the mobot lab on Wednesday night September 1. Two years ago, I believe the groups that came to the computer science lab first went to the 8ai conference room for a brief overview, then were split into two smaller groups. One went to the mobot lab, and the other went to talk with Richard Stallman. Each of these groups could be comfortable at 15 students, and could accomodate up to 20. If you expect more than 20 students in each of the three *main* groups this year, perhaps we should split the AI Lab/Stallman tour up in this way again. Have you recruited anyone else from the AI Lab or LCS to help this year, such as Lukas Reucker (sp?) ? I will check my email through Sunday night, and then I'll be gone for a week, so please don't think I'm ignoring you if I don't contact you during next week. --Mark