开始过健康的生活

毕业设计做完了，套用涛哥原来的口头禅：“从明天开始，我要重新做人了。”决定减少在网上像无头苍蝇一样乱撞的时间。回到大二认真学习的状态。
7点半起来，上午弄英语；下午弄专业知识；晚上跑步减肥。
学校游泳池开放的时候，每天下午再去看看泳装妹妹。
总之一句话，把状态调整好，不能再继续颓废了。
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他终于栽了

其实业内人士早在两三年前就知道这个事情了，在整个事情曝光以前，我也曾经听说过。这个事情不但是交大的耻辱，更是直接对着各位参加陈进鉴定会、推介会的各位院士、各位领导删了一耳光。曾几何时，几位国内在微电子方面德高望重的院士都曾竖起大拇指称赞“汉芯”……不知道中国还有多少汉芯公司存在……
 
新华网上海5月12日电 上海交通大学12日向新华社记者通报了“汉芯”系列芯片涉嫌造假的调查结论与处理意见。调查显示，陈进在负责研制“汉芯”系列芯片过程中存在严重的造假和欺骗行为，以虚假科研成果欺骗了鉴定专家、上海交大、研究团队、地方政府和中央有关部委，欺骗了媒体和公众。上海交大决定，撤销陈进上海交大微电子学院院长职务；撤销陈进的教授职务任职资格，解除其教授聘用合同。科技部根据专家调查组的调查结论和国家科技计划管理有关规定，已决定终止陈进负责的科研项目的执行，追缴相关经费，取消陈进以后承担国家科技计划课题的资格；教育部决定撤销陈进“长江学者”称号，取消其享受政府特殊津贴的资格，追缴相应拨款；国家发展改革委决定终止陈进负责的高技术产业化项目的执行，追缴相关经费。
　　2005年12月，上海交大接到对微电子学院院长、汉芯科技有限公司总经理陈进等人涉嫌造假的举报后十分重视，立即对有关情况进行了初步调查。考虑到问题的严肃性和复杂性，上海交大随即请求国家权威部门对事件进行深入全面调查。
　　2006年1月28日，科技部、教育部和上海市政府成立专家调查组并开始工作。在其后两个多月的时间里，专家调查组本着客观公正、尊重科学、实事求是的精神，针对举报人对“汉芯”事件的举报内容，采取与举报人、当事人和相关人员面谈、现场查验技术文档、分析对比有关技术资料、查验芯片演示系统和调阅相关音像资料等方式方法，对“汉芯”系列一至四号芯片的设计过程和性能指标等进行了全面调查与核实。日前，科技部和教育部向上海交大转交了专家调查组的调查结论。
　　据调查，陈进负责的汉芯团队所研制的“汉芯一号”，是一款208只管脚封装的数字信号处理器(DSP)芯片，由于其结构简单，不能单独实现指纹识别和MP3播放等复杂演示功能。为了在上海市举办的新闻发布会上能够达到所需的宣传效果，陈进等预先安排在“汉芯一号”演示系统中使用了印有“汉芯”标识、具有144只管脚的芯片，而不是提供鉴定的208只管脚的“汉芯一号”芯片，调查表明，当时汉芯公司并没有研制出任何144只管脚的芯片，存在造假欺骗行为。
　　“汉芯二号”是受某公司委托定制的DSP软核，汉芯公司完成了设计实现，但核心技术不为其所有。“汉芯三号”是对“汉芯二号”的简单扩充，技术上与“汉芯二号”来源相同，由于缺乏必要的外围接口，不能独立实现复杂的应用，芯片实际情况与汉芯公司宣称的“已经达到国际高端的DSP设计水平”的说法不符，夸大了事实。“汉芯四号”是一款使用了其他公司中央处理器的单核系统芯片(SoC)，不包含汉芯DSP核，与汉芯公司向有关部委提交的项目文件中关于“汉芯四号”是双核芯片的陈述不符，存在夸大欺骗行为。
　　根据上述调查结论，上海交大认为，陈进等人的行为完全背离了科技工作者、教育工作者基本的诚信操守和行为准则，严重违反了上海交大的校纪校规，违反了国家的有关规章制度，造成了极其恶劣的影响。为严肃学术规范、维护学术声誉，上海交大按照学校有关规定和程序，经研究决定：撤销陈进上海交大微电子学院院长职务；撤销陈进的教授职务任职资格，解除其教授聘用合同。
　　接有关部门通知，科技部根据专家调查组的调查结论和国家科技计划管理有关规定，已决定终止陈进负责的科研项目的执行，追缴相关经费，取消陈进以后承担国家科技计划课题的资格；教育部决定撤销陈进“长江学者”称号，取消其享受政府特殊津贴的资格，追缴相应拨款；国家发展改革委决定终止陈进负责的高技术产业化项目的执行，追缴相关经费。上海交大表示将坚决支持并将严格执行国家有关部委的决定。
　　上海交大表示，学校历来倡导求真务实的科学精神，反对任何形式的学术造假行为。今后，将进一步加强科研管理和对科技经费使用的监管，组织全体教职员工、科研人员深入学习“八荣八耻”社会主义荣辱观，树立诚信意识，加强学风和道德建设，大力弘扬创新进取、淡泊名利、脚踏实地、潜心科研的良好风尚，努力为国家的科技事业发展做出更大的贡献。
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又老了一岁了

庆祝生日，喝了点小酒，吃了点小烧烤，滋润。
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五一海皮

      昨天晚上，和光头他们一起，在一家名叫什么“重庆胖妈烂火锅”的吃饭。听家里人说，此地价格公道，八个人才吃了130多。光头说，涛哥也曾经强烈推荐此店。遂与毛大，野人，龟，光头一起前去探路。
      8皮抢食能力果然不同一般，特别是光头，号称中午没吃饭，已经饿了好久。一盘肥牛，野人一块也没吃到。鸭肠也是3皮全部搞定的。龟是耐力性选手，当大家都已经不行的时候，他还傻吃憨涨把两付脑花全部搞定，感觉都已经堆到喉咙关了。
      最后结账，145。一个人还吃了29，汗一个。不愧是我们。
 
 
希望已经参加工作的兄弟姐妹们，在51期间好好休息，以后挣大钱。
希望还为参加工作的珍惜学生时代最后的假期，耍巴士。
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吓飞

难逢难的我的QQ终于又有新的好友加入了，是一个相当崇拜我的学妹，顿觉相当舒畅。这个妹妹，先是对我的敬仰之情有如滔滔江水一番。
突然，话锋一转，说道：“我又想起第一次看到你的样子了 ……”
 
我紧张了，毛子噢，不会是向我表白吧，我一大把年纪了，想吃点了嫩草，嫩草还不让呢。今天踩到哪砣屎了。真是想说点什么又不敢，不说点什么好像又有点对不起观众。
 
就在面红耳赤尴尬之际，这个妹妹，又来消息了：“你象街头艺术家。”
 
“……。”说我长得丑就行了嘛，还要拐弯抹角的说我长得非常科幻。哎~~看来要打肿脸冲胖子（已经有点胖了）。号称3年帅过锚泊，8年赶上涛哥也不是件容易的事。
 
我将晚会拍的照片传给那个小妹妹之后，她就再也没和我说过话……
 
 
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Ajax简介

奉献给毛勃同志，希望有用。顺便自己也学习一下……
AJAX全称为“Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”（异步JavaScript和XML），是一种创建交互式网页应用的网页开发技术。它使用：
使用XHTML+CSS来表示信息；
使用JavaScript操作DOM（Document Object Model）进行动态显示及交互；
使用 XML 和 XSLT 进行数据交换及相关操作；
使用 XMLHttpRequest对象与Web服务器进行异步数据交换；
使用 JavaScript 将所有的东西绑定在一起。
参见Ajax的提出者Jesse James Garrett的英文原文中文译文
类似于DHTML或LAMP，AJAX不是指一种单一的技术，而是有机地利用了一系列相关的技术。事实上，一些基于AJAX的“派生/合成”式（derivative/composite）的技术正在出现，如“AFLAX”。
AJAX的应用使用支持以上技术的Web浏览器作为运行平台。这些浏览器目前包括：Mozilla、Firefox、Internet Explorer、Opera、Konqueror及Mac OS的Safari。但是Opera不支持XSL格式对象，也不支持XSLT。
 
与传统的Web应用比较
传统的Web应用允许用户端填写表单(form)，当提交表单时就向Web服务器发送一个请求。服务器接收并处理传来的表单，然后送回一个新的网页。这个做法浪费了许多带宽，因为在前后两个页面中的大部分HTML代码往往是相同的。由于每次应用的交互都需要向服务器发送请求，应用的响应时间就依赖于服务器的响应时间。这导致了用户界面的响应比本地应用慢得多。
与此不同，AJAX应用可以仅向服务器发送并取回必需的数据，它使用SOAP或其它一些基于XML的页面服务接口，并在客户端采用JavaScript处理来自服务器的响应。因为在服务器和浏览器之间交换的数据大量减少（大约只有原来的5%），结果我们就能看到响应更快的应用。同时很多的处理工作可以在发出请求的客户端机器上完成，所以Web服务器的处理时间也减少了。
 
发展史
该技术在1998年前后得到了应用。允许客户端脚本发送HTTP请求(XMLHTTP)的第一个组件由Outlook Web Access小组写成。该组件原属于微软Exchange Server，并且迅速地成为了Internet Explorer 4.0[2]的一部分。部分观察家认为，Outlook Web Access是第一个应用了Ajax技术的成功的商业应用程序，并成为包括Oddpost的网络邮件产品在内的许多产品的领头羊。但是，2005年初，许多事件使得Ajax被大众所接受。Google在它著名的交互应用程序中使用了异步通讯，如Google讨论组、Google地图、Google搜索建议、Gmail等。Ajax这个词由《Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications》一文所创，该文的迅速流传提高了人们使用该项技术的意识。另外，对Mozilla/Gecko的支持使得该技术走向成熟，变得更为易用。
 

优点、前提和批评

使用Ajax的最大优点就是能在不更新整个页面的前提下维护数据。这使得Web应用程序更为迅捷地响应用户交互，并避免了在网络上发送那些没有改变的信息。

Ajax不需要任何浏览器插件，但需要用户允许JavaScript在浏览器上执行。就像DHTML应用程序那样，Ajax应用程序必须在众多不同的浏览器和平台上经过严格的测试。随着Ajax的成熟，一些简化Ajax使用方法的程序库也相继问世。同样，也出现了另一种辅助程序设计的技术，为那些不支持JavaScript的用户提供替代功能。

对应用Ajax最主要的批评就是，它可能破坏浏览器后退按钮的正常行为（参见Jakob Nielsen’s的《Web设计10大错误（1999年）》）。在动态更新页面的情况下，用户无法回到前一个页面状态，因为浏览器仅能记忆历史记录中的静态页面。一个被完整读入的页面与一个已经被动态修改过的页面之间的差别非常微妙；用户通常会希望单击后退按钮能够取消他们的前一次操作，但是在Ajax应用程序中，这将无法实现。开发者们想出了种种办法来解决这个问题，大多数都是在用户单击后退按钮访问历史记录时，通过创建或使用一个隐藏的IFRAME来重现页面上的变更。（例如，当用户在Google Maps中单击后退时，它在一个隐藏的IFRAME中进行搜索，然后将搜索结果反映到Ajax元素上，以便将应用程序状态恢复到当时的状态。）

一个相关的观点认为，使用动态页面更新使得用户难于将某个特定的状态保存到收藏夹中。该问题的解决方案也已出现，大部分都使用URL片断标识符（通常被称为锚点，即URL中#后面的部分）来保持跟踪，允许用户回到指定的某个应用程序状态。（许多浏览器允许JavaScript动态更新锚点，这使得Ajax应用程序能够在更新显示内容的同时更新锚点。）这些解决方案也同时解决了许多关于不支持后退按钮的争论。

进行Ajax开发时，网络延迟——即用户发出请求到服务器发出响应之间的间隔——需要慎重考虑。不给予用户明确的回应，没有恰当的预读数据，或者对XMLHttpRequest的不恰当处理，都会使用户感到延迟，这是用户不希望看到的，也是他们无法理解的。通常的解决方案是，使用一个可视化的组件来告诉用户系统正在进行后台操作并且正在读取数据和内容。

开发Ajax应用面临的挑战及解决方案

对程序员而言，开发Ajax应用最头痛的问题莫过于以下几点：

  1. Ajax在本质上是一个浏览器端的技术，首先面临无可避免的第一个问题即是浏览器的兼容性问题。各家浏览器对于JavaScript/DOM/CSS的支援总有部分不太相同或是有Bug，甚至同一浏览器的各个版本间对于JavaScript/DOM/CSS的支援也有可能部分不一样。这导致程序员在写Ajax应用时花大部分的时间在调试浏览器的兼容性而非在应用程序本身。因此，目前大部分的Ajax程序库或开发框架大多以js程序库的形式存在，以定义更高阶的JavaScript API 、JavaScript对象（模板）、或者JavaScript Widgets来解决此问题。如prototype.js。
  2. Ajax技术之主要目的在于局部交换客户端及服务器间之数据。如同传统之主从架构，无可避免的会有部分的业务逻辑会实现在客户端，或部分在客户端部分在服务器。由于业务逻辑可能分散在客户端及服务器，且以不同之程序语言实现，这导致Ajax应用程序极难维护。如有使用者接口或业务逻辑之更动需求，再加上前一个JavaScript/DOM/CSS之兼容性问题，Ajax应用往往变成程序员的梦靥。针对业务逻辑分散的问题，Ajax开发框架大致可分为两类：
    • 将业务逻辑及表现层放在浏览器，数据层放在服务器：因为所有的程序以JavaScript执行在客户端，只有需要数据时才向服务器要求服务，此法又称为胖客户端（fat client）架构。服务器在此架构下通常仅用于提供及储存数据。此法的好处在于程序员可以充分利用JavaScript搭配业务逻辑来做出特殊的使用者接口，以符合终端使用者的要求。但是问题也不少，主因在第一，JavaScript语言本身之能力可能不足以处理复杂的业务逻辑。第二，JavaScript的执行效能一向不好。第三，JavaScript存取服务器数据，仍需适当的服务器端程序之配合。第四，浏览器兼容性的问题又出现。有些Ajax开发框架如DWR企图以自动生成JavaScript之方式来避免兼容的问题，并开立通道使得JavaScript可以直接叫用服务器端的Java程序来简化数据的存取。但是前述第一及第二两个问题仍然存在，程序员必须费相当的力气才能达到应用程序之规格要求，或可能根本无法达到要求。
    • 将表现层、业务逻辑、及数据层放在服务器，浏览器仅有使用者接口引擎（User Interface engine）；此法又称为瘦客户端（thin client）架构，或中心服务器（server-centric）架构。浏览器的使用者接口引擎仅用于反映服务器的表现层以及传达使用者的输入回到服务器的表现层。由浏览器所触发之事件亦送回服务器处理，根据业务逻辑来更新表现层，然后反映回浏览器。因为所有应用程序完全在服务器执行，数据及表现层皆可直接存取，程序员只需使用服务器端相对较成熟之程序语言（如Java语言）即可，不需再学习JavaScript/DOM/CSS，在开发应用程序时相对容易。缺点在于使用者接口引擎以及表现层通常以标准组件的形式存在，如需要特殊组件（使用者接口）时，往往须待原框架之开发者提供，缓不济急。如开源码Ajax开发框架ZK目前支援XUL及XHTML组件，尚无XAML之支援。
  3. Ajax是以异步的方式向服务器提交需求。对服务器而言，其与传统的提交表单需求并无不同，而且由于是以异步之方式提交，如果同时有多个Ajax需求及表单提交需求，将无法保证哪一个需求先获得服务器的回应。这会造成应用程序典型的多程序（process）或多线程（thread）的竞争（racing）问题。程序员因此必须自行处理或在JavaScript里面动手脚以避免这类竞争问题的发生（如Ajax需求未回应之前，先disable提交按钮），这又不必要的增加了程序员的负担。目前已知有自动处理此问题之开发框架似乎只有ZK。

外部连接

工具

  • Atlas, 微软AJAX工具箱。
  • Dojo工具箱, AJAX/DHTML工具箱。
  • Prototype, 开放源代码框架。
  • Sajax, 简单AJAX工具箱
  • Rialto, Rich Internet AppLication TOolkit.
  • ZK, 开放源代码AJAX/XUL框架。
  • MochiKit 一个不自称AJAX的轻量级js库，支持Json。

门户

图书

其他资源

 
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    -PCI-Express:下一代串行I/O和显卡总线
    -高速FSB(前端总线):667MHz
  • 正版Windows®  XP专业版
    正版Windows®  XP家用版
  • 可选最快的英特尔®  CoreTM  Duo处理器
  • 超强的领先显卡选项: 256MB NVIDIA®  Quadro NVS 110M, 或512 MB NVIDIA®  Quadro NVS 120M – 最大化PCI Express的技术性能TM 
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  • Dell的UltraSharp LCD技术实现理想的视效清晰度和更高的亮度。
  • 高性能、高容量硬盘选项。
  • 标配的所有通讯技术包括56Kbps V.92调制解调器1和10/100/1000 以太网2LAN卡和可选英特尔® PRO Wireless LAN (标配)或DellTM  Wireless LAN (可选)
  • 集成智能卡读卡器和可选指纹识别器
  • Dell Tri-MetalTM 机箱
  • D系列兼容性。D820可共享相同的D/Dock、D/Port、D系列模块和A/C适配器。
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NETGEAR Skype WiFi Phone

感谢黄世仁同志给我发来的链接。NETGEAR（网件）终于决定于今年6月30日推出世界首款Skype wifi Phone。Amazon已经开始接受预订了，价格249.99USD。如果待机时间和通话时间与目前手机差不多，就可以考虑购买了。
 

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UCL和IIT

都是相当强悍的学校，从著名校友看。
曾在UCL学习的有：
明治维新主力 伊藤博文
圣雄甘地
发明电话的 亚历山大 贝尔
小泉纯一郎
……
曾在IIT学习的有：
立陶宛前总统 Valdas Adamkus
发明磁带的 Marvin Camras
发明手机的 Martin Cooper
发明射电天文望远镜的 Grote Reber
……
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University College London

University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. There are 21,800 staff and students at UCL, making the college larger than most universities in the United Kingdom. It is a member of the Russell Group of Universities, and a part of the ‘G5’ super-elite sub-group along with Oxford, Cambridge, LSE and Imperial. UCL consistently ranks among the top five universities in the UK league tables and in the top thirty global universities. It has an annual turnover of over £550m, and accounts for more than 40% of the Russell Group’s research funding. On September 27, 2005 UCL was granted the power to award its own degrees, although it continues to award degrees of the University of London.
 
The main part of the college is located in Bloomsbury, central London, on Gower Street. The nearest stations on the London Underground are Euston, Euston Square, and Warren Street.
 
Founding and Development
UCL was founded in 1826 under the name "University of London" as a secular alternative to the strictly religious universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was founded from the beginning as a University, not a College or Institute. However its founders encountered strong opposition from the Church of England which prevented them from securing the Royal Charter that was necessary for the award of degrees, and it was not until 1836, when the University of London was established, that the college was legally recognised and granted the power to award degrees of the University of London[1].
The College was the first UK higher education institution to accept students of any race or religious or political belief. It was possibly the first to accept women on equal terms with men (the University of Bristol also makes this claim – as both were admitting students to University of London degrees at the time, it is quite possible that this was a simultaneous action), the first in England to establish a students’ union (although men and women had separate unions until 1945), and the first to have professorships in chemical engineering, chemistry, Egyptology, electrical engineering, English, French, geography, German, Italian, papyrology, phonetics, psychology, and zoology.
In 1907 the University of London was reconstituted and many of the colleges, including UCL, lost their separate legal existence. This continued until 1977 when a new charter restored UCL’s independence. In 1985 the main Gower Street building was finally finished – 158 years after the foundations were laid.
In 1973, UCL became the first international link to the ARPANET, the precursor of today’s internet.
In August 1998 the medical school at UCL merged with The Royal Free Hospital Medical School to create the new Royal Free and University College Medical School. This, together with the incorporation of several major postgraduate medical institutes (Institute of Child Health, Institute of Neurology, Eastman Dental Institute and the Institute of Ophthalmology) make UCL one of the leading centres for biomedical research in the world. Indeed, 65% of UCL’s turnover resides within biomedicine. 10 Nobel Laureates in Physiology and Medicine either studied at or carried out their research at UCL. UCL is particularly strong in cell biology, neuroscience, physiology, pediatrics, neurology and ophthalmology. UCL’s strengths in biomedicine will be significantly augmented with the move of the National Institute for Medical Research (NIMR) from Mill Hill to UCL. Founded in 1913 and the Medical Research Council’s first and largest laboratory, its scientists have garnered five Nobel prizes. NIMR today employs over 700 scientists and has an annual budget of £27 million.
Even today UCL retains its strict secular position, and unlike most other UK universities has no designated Muslim prayer rooms, although it has recently (2005) gained a Christian chaplaincy. Due to this, in general, secularistic attitude, UCL has also been known as "the godless institution of Gower Street". However, there is no restriction on religious groups among students, and a quiet room allows prayer for staff and students of all faiths. The very reason for secularity was that students of different denominations (specifically Catholics and Protestants) could study alongside each other without conflict. The tradition is continued today, where many of the students who attend UCL come from London, and reflect both its ethnic and religious diversity.
UCL Union repeats this policy, and is also constitutionally forbidden from being tied to a political party. Candidates for positions cannot campaign on party tickets, to which many might attribute the repeated descriptions of UCL as relatively ‘apolitical’, especially in contrast to nearby institutions like LSE. But we might equally pin this on social/cultural tendencies within the student body and university administration.
The UCL Library is famous in its own right, its collection including a first edition of Newton’s Principia.
In October 2002, a plan to merge UCL with Imperial College London was announced by the universities. The merger was widely seen as a de facto takeover of UCL by Imperial College and was opposed by both staff and UCL Union, the students’ union; but what particularly angered many staff and students was the perceived lack of consultation before the proposal was made. At an Emergency meeting organised by University College London Union to discuss the merger and the union´s stance on it, the then provost Sir Derek Roberts stormed out of the Bloomsbury theatre, refusing to listen to a speaker who opposed the merger. He himself had just finished delivering a speech in favour. One month later after a vigorous campaign the merger was called off.
On 1 August 2003, Professor Malcolm Grant took the role of President and Provost (the principal of UCL), taking over from Sir Derek Roberts, who had been called out of retirement as a caretaker provost for the college.
Shortly after his inauguration, UCL began the ‘Campaign for UCL’ initiative, in 2004. It aimed to raise £300m from alumni and friends. This kind of explicit campaigning is traditionally unusual for UK universities, and is similar to US university funding. UCL had a financial endowment in the top ten among UK universities at £81m, according to the Sutton Trust (2002). Professor Malcolm Grant has also aimed to enhance UCL’s global links, declaring UCL London’s Global University. Significant interactions with France’s Ecole Normale, Columbia University, NYU, University of Texas and universities in Osaka, Japan have developed during the first few years of his tenure as provost.
UCL was named Sunday Times University of the Year in 2004. The Sunday Times 2005 University Guide describes UCL as "physically and academically at the centre of the University of London. Mergers with a number of medical and other academic schools have created a multidisciplinary college that rivals Oxford and Cambridge for breadth, exclusivity and cutting-edge teaching and research."
Following a similar move by Imperial College, UCL applied to the Privy Council for the power to award degrees in its own right. This was granted in September 2005 although the powers are being held in reserve and will only be used should the college find it necessary to change its status within the federation of the University of London.
In January 2006, UCL decided to become a member of the League of European Research Universities (LERU), a network of research-intensive universities with common viewpoints on higher education and research policy. Membership of LERU, which is by invitation, is periodically evaluated against a broad set of quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as research volume, impact and funding, strengths in PhD training, size and disciplinary breadth, and peer-recognised academic excellence. Professor Malcolm Grant, President and Provost of UCL, said: “European research universities have common values and common cause, and we welcome this opportunity to become part of so outstanding a network of research institutions. I think that groupings such as this are particularly important at a time when the EU is thinking seriously about the function of research-intensive universities, about the European Research Commission and a possible European Institute of Technology. It also reflects UCL’s global vision and our extensive collaborative engagement with continental universities through research and student exchanges, including the recently announced programme in neurosciences with three Parisian institutions.”
 
Famous alumni
UCL alumni include legions of the "Great and Good", ranging from Mahatma Gandhi to the members of Coldplay. A historical bent towards the arts has tended to mean a higher output of authors, including Robert Browning and Raymond Briggs, than scientists and engineers, although it still has its fair share, such as Francis Crick, John Ambrose Fleming, Colin Chapman, and perhaps most notably Alexander Graham Bell. Politicians figure highly in the lists, notably both the first prime minister of Japan, Hirobumi Ito and the current prime minister Junichiro Koizumi.
 
Campus networking
UCL provides students and staff with wired and wireless internet access at a number of locations on campus, through a service called RoamNet. However, access to this service requires the use of a proprietary Cisco VPN client, which is not supported on handhelds, non-Intel Linux systems, or other alternative platforms.
UCL user names are seemingly random: e.g. "ucxxxxx". According to the UCL Education and Information Support Division, network users in student halls are not allowed to participate in IRC, network game playing, or chain mail; or host services such as HTTP, mail, FTP, NNTP, or telnet; or run software that uses RPC-based services (such as NFS) or IP multicast services; connect more than one machine at a time to a single network jack, or attach any device other than their personal workstation to the jack. Plugging a machine into another active port without authorization will cause a security violation, and the port will be disabled. As of September 2005, the fee for activating a port in a room is 70 GBP per year, and cannot be refunded or issued at a discount for intervals of less than one year.
 
Students’ accommodation
Many UCL students are accommodated in the college’s own halls of residence or other accommodation; UCL students are also eligible to apply for places in the University of London intercollegiate halls of residence, such as Connaught Hall.
Most students in college or university accommodation are first-year undergraduates. The majority of second and third-year students and postgraduates find their own accommodation in the private sector.
There is also limited UCL accommodation available for married students and those with children at Bernard Johnson House, Hawkridge, Neil Sharp House and the University of London’s Lilian Penson Hall.
 
Filming at UCL
Due to its position within London and the attractiveness of the front quad, UCL has been frequently used as a location for film and television recording.
Spooks (Series III, episode II) features the front quad and the Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre
The Mummy Returns uses bits of UCL (mainly the Main Quad) to masquerade as the British Museum
Agatha Christie’s Poirot, 9th series, 5 Little Pigs episode, filmed in old main library entrance and in main quad. Also used British Museum Reading Room, and Room 34 whilst in the area.
Batman Begins features the DMS Watson library as "Gotham Print Room".
Thunderbirds used the main Quad and Building as the "Bank of London".
Doctor in the House used the Portico as the entrance to "St Swithin’s Hospital"
Gladiator used the main Quad as a model for ancient Rome.
Silent Witness uses the main Quad (carefully avoiding the Observatories), the main door, and the South and North Cloisters as well as the Octagon. And, while they were in the area, they used the ULU and Senate House (University of London) buildings/ surrounding areas for good measure!
Derren Brown: The Heist, shown at 9.00p.m. on Channel 4 on Wednesday 4th January 2006, featured brief exterior shots of the main Quad and University Street. It was implied one experiment conducted was filmed inside one UCL building, although which one was not established, it was most likely to be the Cruciform Building which is located opposite the Front Quad.
Eyes Wide Shut uses the UCL GP practice as the clinic for Tom Cruise’s character.
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