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| author | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2015-11-18 10:09:12 -0700 |
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| committer | Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> | 2015-11-18 10:09:12 -0700 |
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diff --git a/blog/entry/comlabcs.mdwn b/blog/entry/comlabcs.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9f5a684 --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/entry/comlabcs.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +[[!meta date="2011-05-31 13:40:00"]] +[[!meta title="Bye bye comlab"]] +[[!tag imported_PyBlosxom politics oxford]] + +> Computing Laboratory becomes Department of Computer Science +> +> From the 1 June 2011, the Oxford University Computing Laboratory will +> be changing its name to the Department of Computer Science, University +> of Oxford. +> +> Bill Roscoe, Head of the Department explained "This name change is +> simply to help the world at large understand our role as the +> University's department of computer science. I am excited that it +> gives us the opportunity to reach out more easily and tell everyone +> what we are doing in both teaching and research. When the Computing +> Laboratory was founded in 1957 it literally was somewhere where the +> University's scientists came to try things out on this new sort of +> machine. However we have long since become a large academic department +> doing world-leading research in many areas related to computing." +> +> Please note the departmental website will change to www.cs.ox.ac.uk, +> and email addresses will take the format joe.bloggs@cs.ox.ac.uk rather +> than joe.bloggs@comlab.ox.ac.uk as currently. + +This is really sad :( The ComLab is the coolest place ever, and it will +be far less cool when its name changes. You go inside and there are +levels of security (as a petty philosophy student I don't have much +access), and it's all hidden behind a facade of buildings: one minute +you are standing in a large atrium with glass walkways, and then you go +through a door and you're standing next to an old terraced house in a +street; it's really cool how they've connected all these old buildings +together into a warren. Also there are 0.00001% girls. + +[source](http://www.ox.ac.uk/students/latestnews/#d.en.48846) |