Description
of Lab Resources
The Social Sciences Computing Lab is a
resource serving a variety of instructional and research needs of Hunter
faculty and students. The Lab offers the following facilities and services:
•) The 26-workstation
Main Lab (Room 606 West) is used primarily as a computer classroom for social
science classes and secondarily (at hours when the Lab is not reserved for
classes) as a walk-in lab available to all Hunter students, faculty and staff.
This facility is outfitted with the following equipment:
•) 26 Dell OptiPlex GX280,
Pentium 4, 3.20 GHz computers, each with 4GB memory, DVD/CD RW,
and headphones
•) A ceiling-mounted LCD projector (EIKI LC-XG110)
connected to the instructor's workstation
•) Software (Netop
Vision) that allows the instructor to broadcast to or control the students'
workstations
•) A high-speed laser printer (HP LaserJet
4250)
•) Two dot matrix printers for draft
output
•) Specialized software to meet the
needs of a variety of classes in social-science-related quantitative methods --
e.g. SAS, SPSS, Stata, ArcView,
for the complete list of software, please see:
http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/ssl/LabSoftwareSpring2011.html
The Lab's mandate is to serve the
instructional and research computing needs of the following social science
departments: Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology,
Sociology, and Urban Affairs & Planning. The Main Lab is currently used
primarily by classes of the latter three departments. Please contact the Lab
Director if you want to schedule a single session in the Lab. Reservations for
multiple sessions must usually be arranged with your department chair a full
semester ahead of time, and may require flexibility in scheduling the class
meeting time.
Further resources for social science
instructors and researchers are based in Room 607 West, which houses the Lab's
offices and network equipment and also serves as the entranceway into the Main
Lab during walk-in hours. The following additional resources are available by
arrangement with the Lab Director:
•) A powerful unix
workstation -- a SunFive V480 with 4 1.05GHz UltraSparc III Processors, 8GB of memory, and 150GB disk
space. This computer is accessed remotely by researchers who use it for running
statistical procedures on large datasets and for doing processor-intensive
mathematical modeling.
•) A PC workstation available for
faculty use.
The Lab Director serves as a source
for social-science-related data for the Hunter community, administering
Hunter's membership in the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social
Research (ICPSR), the world's largest repository of social data.