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W.G. Davis Computer Research Centre

W.G.Davis Computer Research Building
Davis Centre

The laborator is located in the north-east segment of the University campus, on the third floor of the W.G.Davis Computer Research Building. The Davis building houses research laboratories, faculty members, graduate students, and support staff of the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and System Design Engineering.  The Institute for Computer Research, and the Engineering, Mathematics and Science parts of the UofW library are also located in this building.
Click here for some photos of the building.

The Davis building was built during 1986-88. Its floor area is close to 300,000 ft2. It has a striking external and internal architecture. A discussion of the principles underlying its design can be found in the October 1988 issue of The Canadian Architect. (V.Rynnimeri: William G. Davis Computer Research Centre, The Canadian Architect, Vol 33, No 10, pp. 42-44.)

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Rooms

Main laboratory room: DC 3552
This room contains nine workstation sites.The sites were ergonomically designed.
For illustrations of the lab, view a photo collection.

Shared lab: DC 2546 [Software Engineering Laboratory I]
This room is shared with other faculty members doing research in software engineering.

Support staff room: DC 2548
This room is used by the support staff of the laboratory.

Graduate student rooms: DC 2550-3, DC 3590
Graduate students doing research in the laboratory are housed in several graduate student rooms, located on the 2nd and 3rd floor of the central unit of the Davis building.

Click here to see photos of the Software Engineering Laboratory I, Support staff room and Graduate students rooms.


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Equipment and Tools

Computational infrastructure (hardware and software):

    over a dozen of Sun workstations (UltraSPARC 10s, UltraSPARC 1s, SPARCStation 10s)

    a number high-end PC s

    miscellaneous peripherial units (printers, backup devices, UPSs)

    a collection of software development and analysis tools, including

    • SDT,ORCA and ITEX
    • StP (StP/UML, StP/OMT, StP/Booch, StP/IM, StP/SE, StP/T)
    • Rational Rose
    • Center Line (Object Center, Code Center, Test Center)
    • Object Partner
    • Reasoning SDK (Refined C, Refined Ada, Refined Cobol, Refined Fortran)
    • Sun Workshop
    • Software Reliability Estimation Tool
    • Datrix
    • CASRE tool suite

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