Wilkinson Lab

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Wilkinson Lab

Part of Speech

Noun

Pronunciation

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

Usage

This term is mostly used by the computer science and electrical engineering community at Northwestern. When looking for meeting places to do computer projects, oftentimes it will be used colloquially as "Wilks."

Description

The Wilkinson Lab, known colloquially as "Wilks," is the computer lab on the third floor of the Technological Institute (Tech). 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.

Example Sentences

"Let's meet up in Wilks to talk about the project"

“Wilks is the best place to test our project, it has a controlled environment of Red Hat computers and powerful CPU processors.”