The instructor has included a lot of different types of information, including pictures of all of the class staff and students, a nice touch which can make a large class seem smaller. Computational Modeling of Human Cognitive Processes -A nice, simple design for organizing the class web pages. Using Acrobat files does require that the Adobe Acrobat reader be downloaded to your computer, but the program is already loaded on the public computers at Rice. If you have to install it on your own computer, it only has to be done once. Acrobat files are great if you are very particular about the way your information is organized and displayed.
Postscript files are a very commonly used file format, particularly among the sciences.
While the use of Acrobat PDF files have replaced the need for postscript files for many people, postscript files are still an easy way to display complex characters or equations and precisely-formatted information. Viewing postscript files also requires an additional piece of software, which will differ depending on the computer type you use. The Rice public computers all have software for viewing postscript files. A wide variety of other file types can be viewed on the web. Contact CTS if you have a particular idea in mind and would like to know if it is possible.