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Please make sure to review the classroom policy carefully. Stay tuned for the Classroom Reservation Forms which will be available soon.

Multimedia Seminar Room
232 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
Set up for 126 seats, Wheelchair access available

PGH232 has a power outlet for each seat, as well as network ports available. The room also is equipped with two-way video for distributed teaching. In addition, the visualization cluster can drive projectors for passive stereo.

Audio Visual Equipment
  • 48 Boundary Microphones for Audio Visual Conferencing.
  • 1 fixed, 1 wireless Microphone.
  • 2 Proxima ProAV 9410 SXVGA LCD video projectors.
  • 1 Mirage 3-D 5000 Video Projectors.
  • 1 DLP Projection Screen for 3D.
  • 150 Polarized glasses for 3D.
  • 1 Elmo Document Camera.
  • 4 Sony DXC-390 IT Camera, 14:1 Fujinon zoom lenses.
  • 2 NEC PlasmaSync 50PD1 42" Plasma Monitors.
  • 1 15” SMART Sympodium Monitor.
  • 1 JVC SR-TS1U VHS video cassette recorders.
  • 1 Polycom ViewStation 4000 H, 323 Codecs.
  • 1 Polycom BRI interface for video conferencing.
  • 1 Extron Video Matrix switch (Covid).
  • 1 Crestron remote touch screen to drive projectors, audio/video conferencing, VCR, and lectern computer, screens, lights, mics and Elmo.
  • 10 Wireless hearing enhancement headsets.
  • Projectable, magnetic and writeable wall surface.
  • Active Fast Ethernet Ports throughout the classroom.
  • Custom lectern operating system: Windows XP.

Windows XP software: Microsoft Office 2003, Ghostscript, Ghostview, Firefox, SSH Secure Shell Client/File Transfer Client, Adobe Acrobat Reader, WinZip 8, Synchron Eyes, McAfee Virus Scan, Mozilla Firefox, Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2005



Multimedia Interactive Classroom
200 Philip G. Hoffman Hall
Set up for 46 fixed seats and 2 wheelchair access seats.

PGH200 has a computer for each of the room’s 48 seats, two-way audio and video facilities for video conferencing and for distributed teaching. Each of the two projectors in the room can be driven by any one of the 48 desk computers, or the visualization cluster, or remote video streams. The instructor can view, control and choose to project any one of the video signals from the desk computers, the visualization cluster or video received in videoconferencing. The computers are connected to the TLC2 network.

Computer Systems
  • 48 Rackmount Computers.
  • Processor: AMD Athlon64 Dual Core
  • Hard Drive: Two 80GB SATA II with 8m cache
  • 2U Chassis, 2 Hot Swap Drive Bays
  • AMD Cool ‘n’ Technology
  • BIOS with ability to boot from USB
  • Two onboard 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports
  • 1GB Memory
  • Graphics Card: GeFroce 7600S PCI-E, 256M with dual DVI ports
  • Display; KDS Rad 5 15” flat panek
  • Display, keyboard and mouse at each desktop
  • 48 KVM extenders for keyboard, video and mouse
  • Rackmount OS: Dual boot CentOS 5.1/Windows XP
  • Lecturn: Windows XP
Windows XP: Microsoft Office 2003, Ghostscript, Ghostview, Firefox, SSH Secure Shell Client/File Transfer Client, Adobe Acrobat Reader, WinZip 8, Synchron Eyes, McAfee Virus Scan, Mozilla Firefox, Visual C++ and Visual Studio 2005

Linux software: KDe Desktop Manager, Mozilla Firefox and Open Office

Audio Visual Equipment
  • 18 Boundary Microphones for Audio Visual Conferencing.
  • 1 fixed, 1 wireless Microphone.
  • 2 Proxima ProAV 9410 SXVGA LCD video projectors.
  • 1 Elmo Document Camera.
  • 3 Sony DXC-390 IT Camera, 14:1 Fujinon zoom lenses.
  • 1 15” SMART Sympodium monitor for lecturn PC.
  • 1 Polycom ViewStation 4000 H, 323 Codecs.
  • 1 Polycom BRI interface for video conferencing.
  • 1 Extron Video Matrix switch (Covid).
  • 1 Crestron remote touch screen to drive projectors, audio/video conferencing, VCR, and lectern computer, screens, lights, mics and Elmo.
  • Projectable, magnetic and writeable wall surface.