Doc::Faculty Resources

Faculty Computing Resources

This is a generalized list of unique computing resources provided to Computer Science faculty by the department.

General

• @cs.vt.edu email address
  • To get started using your @cs.vt.edu email address. Make sure you have a CS account (https://admin.cs.vt.edu). You can either read your email directly using IMAP or https://webmail.cs.vt.edu You can also forward to another email address if wanted. Read Doc::Email to find out more.

• Printing
  • There are two shared printers in the Knowledgeworks building. One is a color laser printer and the other is a high volume copier/printer. To get started with printing see Printing There is also a poster printer that is run and maintained by the technical staff, to find out more about printing a poster contact techstaff@cs.vt.edu

• Computer Science Intranet
  • https://admin.cs.vt.edu Allows you to create CS account and change your CS account settings, access forms, change course/research website settings, and more.

• Personal website
  • http://people.cs.vt.edu/username Your personal website space hosted on apache 2 with php, mysql, perl and python support. To get started SSH to ap1.cs.vt.edu and access the space at /web/people/username

• Wiki
  • A mediawiki instance is available for faculty use. Also has How-To and documentation for Computer Science resources.