The set is an office, complete with computer terminals, desks and swivel chairs, printer, water-cooler and those low screens designed to give the barest modicum of privacy to the modern open plan office.
As he walked through the halls, past the art exhibits, sculptures, supercomputers and computer archives, the hundreds of computer terminals at desks, one visitor asked, "Is this all your doing?" To which he replied, with a nod, "Yes".
Dumb terminals on desks would connect to servers in the back room where all the actual computing would occur.
Half an hour after the lecture is supposed to have started, a solitary teacher is hunched over the terminal at his desk.
Mr. Trichet is known to keep a data terminal on his desk and speak frequently with the bank's 20 in-house bond traders.
He personally recruited a spokeswoman for the company, and keeps a Bloomberg computer terminal on his desk at City Hall, from which he has access to the company's e-mail network.
We sat at a coffee table from which I could make out a Bloomberg terminal at his desk, some framed bills from the first series of Federal Reserve notes, his certificate of nomination by President Bush and shelves of economics books.
Mr de Santibañes, whose agency has been switched to economic tasks rather than political ones, is the very image of a modern minister, with a Bloomberg terminal behind his desk, an Economist screen-saver on his laptop and, the unions might add, a touch of the spin-doctor in his make-up.
"Your mailbox is the terminal on your desk.
The performance of an individually controlled system comprising a convection-heated chair, an under-desk radiant heating panel, a floor radiant heating panel, an under-desk air terminal device supplying cool air, and a desk-mounted personalized ventilation as used and identified by 48 human subjects was studied using a thermal manikin at room temperatures of 20 °C, 22 °C and 26 °C.
