User information for MScAC students

Computer Resource

• We recommend that you bring a laptop. Please keep it up to date on security patches so as to avoid security incidents. Please ask if you'd like any assistance with or advice about this, or anything else about the configuration of your computer.
• There are two shared computers available in the printer area

Accesories

Accounts and Emais

Please read your CSLab e-mail, either at CSLab or by forwarding it to somewhere you do read.
You have several different computer accounts at the University, but your CSLab account is the most important.

Network connections

• Department's wireless:

  Page below will guide you on how to setup connection to the department's wireless network.

  Connecting to Department's wireless network

• University's wireless:

  Page below will guide you on how to setup connection to the University's wireless network.

  Connecting to University's wireless network

Printing

• How to set up your laptop to print on the departmental printers
• You can also login to the two public computers at the Hydro printer area

Network Storage

Network storage available to you for backups (doing backups is important!)

Software

Available and recommended software.

Web Space

You can publish web pages from your CSLab account.

Further questions:

• If you have questions related to use of research computing resources in the department, please feel free to reach out to your Point of Contact sysadmin for the MScAC program at pocpm@cs.toronto.edu
• For further support question, please visit CSLab support web pages

Last updated: June 17, 2026