Some of the descriptions and instructions below may be specific to the computers we will be using in Lecture Room 'C' at OUCS - they will not necessarily apply to the computers at ISCA or elsewhere. A duplicate copy of the printed course handout is also available online at this site - click on the link. Computing resources in Oxford ISCA - ISCA's facilities for student use are described in the printed course handbook , together with the rules for using the ISCA computing room. If you have not already registered for OUCS services, including email, you are strongly advised to do so. You can register over the Web, provided you have your Oxford University card handy, by clicking here .
Colleges provide some kind of computing resources for their members.
Investigate what is available at your own college - you may need to attend a short induction or 'use of the computer room' session before you can use the facilities. Some Colleges allow students to create and maintain their own personal World Wide Web pages on the College site. If you want to try your hand at this, the IT staff at the Inorganic Chemistry lab in Oxford have put together some very helpful Web pages which explain how to go about this - click here to see them. Some more specialist use of computers has been made, especially in the mathematical modeling of kinship systems and non-western economic and exchange systems. For a good overview, see Michael Fischer's book Applications in computing for social anthropologists .