Jason Soberaij
Digital Media Group
The Digital Media Group (DMG), in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, strives to remain competitive in the rapidly changing digital world of architecture and urban planning. Our staff, consisting of five professional staff members and ten media services staff, endeavors to make the computing environment productive and trouble free.
The DMG is composed of two instructional labs (239 Hayes with thirty-six workstations and 201A Hayes with twenty-four workstations), a general access work lab with twelve workstations (55 Crosby), two media support facilities with flatbed and slide scanners, three technology-equipped classrooms, two media services facilities providing access to six large-format plotters, two large-format color laser printers, two large-format scanners, and more than twenty-eight computer-equipped studios distributed in Crosby and Hayes halls. Hayes and Crosby have full high-speed, wireless coverage and wired connections in all studios. All computing facilities are accessible 24x7 (except for six hours on Sunday mornings) and media services are available more than ninety hours per week in both our Hayes and Crosby facilities.
More than 180 academic and 110 faculty, staff, and research workstations provide connectivity to ten school servers with over six terabytes of collective disk space, the university's computing and information technology systems, and the World Wide Web. Each student is allotted between 500 MB and 1500 MB—depending on program level—of backed up, virus protected storage.
