In preparation for the new start of the 2012-13 academic year, a number of equipment upgrade and maintenance works were carried out over the summer in the Computer Barns. The following highlight the happenings in the Computer Barns over the summer:

78 units of the computers in Barn A (General Area) have been replaced with a more powerful model ASUS PC with processor i3-2120 (3.3Ghz), 4GB of memory and 22" Philips wide-screen LCDs for a higher resolution display.

A number of software in the Computer Barns was upgraded to the latest versions and obsolete ones were removed. Please click here to see the latest list of software available at the Barns.

21 new students were recruited this summer to join our team of 34 Computer Barn Student Consultants this year, joining hands to provide assistance to students in the Computer Barns. We would like to thank those graduating ex-Student Consultants who had contributed great effort in operating the computer barns and providing support to barn users in the past year. Please click here to meet our team of Student Consultants.

In support to protecting the environment, half of the printers in the three Computer Barns will use recycle paper starting from this new academic year. Users are encouraged to make use of duplex printing and recycled paper whenever possible to save the trees. By duplex printing, you will save ten cents to every duplex page printed instead of two simplex pages.

A new Computer Barn is currently under construction at the Lee Shau Kee campus. This barn will house around 40 computers for students’ use. Please watch out for the opening announcement.

ITSC strives to provide a quality working environment in the computer barns to cater for the computing needs of students. Please do provide your comments and suggestions to cclisten@ust.hk.