It owes a conceptual debt to the GNU project, the Free Software Foundation's vision of intellectual property which can be both freely shared and owned by its creators. As Eric S. Raymond observed in his paper The Cathedral and the Bazaar , the shareware world's great babbling bazaar of differing agendas and approaches can produce coherent and stable designs. This version is also based on the designs of M. C. Escher, whose realistic images of impossible typologies suggest interesting relationships between real and virtual objects. The Computers and Society Home Page has links to course syllabi, readings, assignments and projects for students taking soc1485. InfoCity , the College of Computer Science's Virtual Community, is available to members of the CCS community and students taking computer science courses.
Students can come for virtual office hours there.
The computers and society student projects machine provides secure shell and web accounts for projects and group cmc experiments. It is managed by students. The desk is an experiment in linking classrooms to virtual distributed workspaces for faculty. The cabinet is a container for class materials and student projects. Following Escher's architectural guidelines, most of the gNUclassroom is in its cabinet.