Major computing labs are staffed by trained student personnel. They are located in Stipes Hall, Horrabin Hall, and Morgan Hall, while residence hall students may use labs in Wetzel Hall, Higgins Hall, Thompson Hall, Corbin Hal l, and the South Quad dining area. The WIU Regional Center also houses a full-service computing la b. All WIU Computing Labs and CRCs contain networked IBM PC-compatible and Macintosh computers. Major labs and the Information Center also contain specialized peripheral devices such as scanners.
Laser printing is standard in all labs.
Students have access to a variety of discipline-specific microcomputer software in versions for Macintosh, DOS, and Windows. These include popular programming languages, word processors, spreadsheets, databases, graphics applicatio ns, desktop publishing programs, and statistical packages. Academic Computing also provides access to UNIX systems. Students have direct or remote access to these systems, where they can communicate electronically over the Internet world-wide network, or publish their own Web pages. They can also use a host of programming languages and several statistics and symbolic math applications.