Computer science faculty and students are still buzzing with excitement over their one-year-old home: the Sudikoff Computer Laboratory, on Maynard Street across from the old Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital.
The building is home to classrooms and offices for professors, along with computer labs that have some of the most advanced technology on campus.
Chair of the Computer Science Department Robert Drysdale said he believes Sudikoff's construction "has increased the availability of much better machines."
Sudikoff "is a huge step for both faculty and students," Drysdale said.
The building's first floor consists of classrooms and computer labs with dozens of state-of-the-art workstations, like 20 Sun workstations and 15 Digital Alpha workstations.
One of the highlights of the building is the Dartmouth Experimental Visualization Laboratory, where research and development of multimedia technology is conducted.
The second and third floors are divided into faculty and graduate student offices.
"It is great to have the offices mixed. We were pretty much segregated over at Bradley," said Perry Fizzano, a computer science graduate student.
The main projects currently in progress revolve around multimedia and the theory of algorithms, said Bill Stubblefield, a visiting computer science professor.
One software program developed at the College is the Multimedia Kiosk, a program using graphics, sound, and video to inform users on a variety of topics from class offerings to lists of graduate students.
With the housing of all this expensive and advanced technology come several issues of security, and Sudikoff has a state-of-the-art security system to protect its state-of-the-art computers.
Card scans in every lab ensure limited access to Sudikoff that restrict entrance to computer science faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students taking classes in the building.
The Sudikoff Laboratory was built in 1993 using a $3.5 million donation by Jeffrey Sudikoff '77 and a $2 million donation from the Kiewit Foundation.
