Fisher Hall
Built between 1962 and 1964, Fisher Hall was originally the Mathematics/Physics Building. In December of 1962, it was named after James Fisher, former head of the Department of Physics. Fisher passed away only months before the offical ground breaking of the building. An article from the Lode said, "Quite a man, was this James Fisher . . . and quite a building. He would be pleased with its clean, honest lines and its highly functional, no-nonsense design. It comes pretty close to being the brick and mortar perpetuation of the man himself." Professor Emeritus Fisher passed away during the construction of the new building, and it was decided to name it in his honor.
Currently, computer science students, faculty, and staff are scattered among three buildings: Fisher Hall , the Chemical Sciences and Engineering Building, and the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building. In addition to inefficiency and extreme communication difficulties, graduate and undergraduate students suffer from a lack of laboratories and common work areas
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Kanwal and Ann Rekhi Computer Science Hall
The 51,000-square-foot addition to Fisher Hall will house the new computer science facilities as well as four classrooms, two equipped for "high-tech" instruction and two equipped to support distance education.
Rekhi Computer Science Hall will provide the Department of Computer Science with its first space specifically designed for computer science education and research. Labs and research spaces are designed to be maximally flexible to allow for future changes in computing equipment and computing paradigms.
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