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Since we were the first HTTP server in BC, you may have come here expecting to find the University of British Columbia or the province of British Columbia. Fortunately, you can get there from here.
Paths to all the nooks and crannies of this web can be found here. They're broken down into major categories and presented in a narrative style. If that doesn't appeal to you, there's a menu-style list of everything here.
Check out our list of seminars and speaker series featuring people from the department and around the world. a list of upcoming department events. Or you can create your own customized list. Our 1995 Annual Report and Technical reports on the research done in the department are available on-line. Here are representatives on various department committees.
Several of our research groups maintain their own webs. There's LCI (Computational Intelligence), Imager/GraFiC (Computer Graphics), E-GEMS (Electronic Games for Education), SCV (Scientific Computation and Visualization), DSG (Distributed Systems Group), MAGIC (Media And Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre), and DBSL (Database Systems Laboratory). The department is involved in CICSR, the Centre for Integrated Computer Systems Research.
There are many different ways, electronic and otherwise, to contact the department. If you'd like to apply for graduate school here, we have some application forms available. There are other forms for internal use.
There are web browsers for the Macintosh and the PC. Contact phillips@cs.ubc.ca if you'd like a copy. They should really be on-line somewhere. You can even read about setting up your own HTTP server, but CS people probably don't need to go to the trouble.
The UBC library has its own telnet-based card catalog to which we've hacked up a reasonably spiffy way of finding what books you have due.
The open government mirror is a copy of the web created by Industry Canada to explain some of the whos and hows of Canadian government.
And then there's Mr. Spock quotes.
Looking for something but don't know where to start? Two suggestions come to mind. First is the Internet Resources Meta-Index which has a bunch of possible starting points mostly consisting of searchs and some subject indicies. Second is the collection of USENET FAQs. It's essentially the collected wisdom of many USENET groups whose topics are quite diverse. It's much more useful than it sounds.