Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Computer Science Building

Dedicated in 2008 and named for the Department’s founding chairman, the Frederick P. Brooks Jr. Computer Science Building opened up 32,000 square feet of new research space, offices and classrooms. These include a 50-seat classroom, the Stephen F. Weiss Seminar Room, with seating for 20 around a table, the Registrar’s classroom, with theater seating for 80, and the Faculty Conference Room, which seats 50 at tiers of curved desktops. All these rooms have power and data outlets at the desks and are covered by wireless networking. Meetings or discussion groups take place in the Chairman’s conference room and in five smaller meeting areas, each with projectors.

Designed for flexibility, the new noise-controlled graphics lab is divided into three areas by floor-to-ceiling blackout curtains for light and sound suppression. It has 11-foot ceilings and a unistrut mounting grid to mount hardware as needed. The computer security group has another flexible space that can be used for student cubicles or new lab space. The entire building has a brand-new wiring infrastructure and switches supporting gigabit speed to the desktop.

J. Carlyle Sitterson Hall

Sitterson Hall, which opened in 1987, is the home of the Department of Computer Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. The building, named for former University Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson, provides 74,000 square feet of sophisticated, state-of-the-art research facilities and office space for all members of the department. It is organized in "clusters" to create research communities featuring shared laboratories and open conference areas to facilitate interaction among students and faculty. Included are the 60-seat C. Hugh Holman video teleclassroom, named for the former provost and dean of the Graduate School who was instrumental in establishing this department; a 125-seat auditorium; the Lib Moore Jones Classroom, named for the department's first secretary; a reading room; and various research laboratories, conference areas, and study areas.

Graduate students have access to all of the department's research and teaching facilities, including specialized research laboratories for graphics and image processing; computer building and design; and collaborative, distributed, and parallel systems. The laboratories, offices, conference areas, and classrooms are bound together by the department's fully integrated, distributed computing environment.

Floor plans for Sitterson Hall & Brooks Computer Science Building