Wilkinson Lab

Wilkinson Lab

Part of Speech

Proper Noun

Alternate Forms and Pronunciation

1. Wilkinson Lab ['wihl kin suhn / lab]
2. Wilks ['wihlks]

Description

The Wilkinson Lab, known colloquially as "Wilks," is the computer lab on the third floor of the Technological Institute (Tech) room M338. This particular lab includes several powerful Sun and Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers and 28 high-performance Sun Solaris workstations and 16 Windows XP PCs. A wide variety of graphics, CAD, circuit design/simulation, database, and other software packages are available on these machines. With the technology available, it is clearly a great place to do the actual projects required by various classes, but it also provides excellent meeting tables and lounge corners for relaxing.

Usage

This term is mostly used by the computer science and electrical engineering community at Northwestern as a location for meeting places to do computer projects. It is used colloquially and more often as "Wilks."

Example Sentences

1. Let's meet up in Wilks to talk about the project.
2. Wilks is the best place to test our project, it has a controlled environment of Red Hat computers and powerful CPU processors.

Usage Poll

Do you use "Wilkinson Lab"?

I use it very often.

3

I use it sometimes.

3

I've heard it but I never use it.

0

I've never heard of this word.

1

I want to revoke my vote

There were 7 votes since the poll was created on 22:29, 27 May 2015.

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