Stop: ATIC Name: Adaptive Technology for Information and Computing Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: ATIC Location: 7-143 Length: ~10 minutes Size: More than 20 would probably be crowded. Notes: 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 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: Camilla Fox, Garry Zacheiss, Jonathan Weiss, Jeffrey Schiller Contact-email: cfox@mit.edu, zacheiss@mit.edu, jweiss@mit.edu, 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: 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: Michael Sung Contact-email: msung@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: Intelligent Room Name: Intelligent Room Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: CSAIL Location: 32, 8th floor 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: Max Van Kleek Contact-email: max@mit.edum, aire-contact@csail.mit.edu, kbarr@mit.edu Contact-notes: [from 2004] This group was really hard to get in touch with. After sending several messages to hes@csail.mit.edu, and aire-contact@csail.mit.edu, I finally got a response from max. He was on vacation, so it's not surprising he didn't respond immediately, but nobody else did either. Howard Shrobe is the head of the project. Max was out of the country in 2005 as well, but got back to us and was excited about doing a tour. I think the right thing to do is to email him EARLY, before he leaves for the summer and stops checking email, since he does give a good energetic tour. He also will run longer than you tell him he can, so either be prepared to run over, or tell him he has less time than he actually has. Max sent email to csail-related to find stops for the CSAIL tour, and on of the stops, hosted by Ken Barr (kbarr), was useful in getting in touch with Max just before we arrived. Stop: Stories and Food Name: Stories and Food Status: Confirmed Org/Dept/Grp: Location: Whatever room you reserve (4-231 in this case) Length: Indefinite Size: depends on the room you reserve Contact-name: Jeff Schiller (guest speaker) Contact-email: jis Contact-notes: