AFNI runs under Unix-based computer systems: Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, et cetera. For those of you who do not have any experience using Unix from the command line, we are offering a 90 minute (or so) overview of how to get things done by typing on the computer.

This class will be held in the Southeast Patio Room of the NIH Clinical Center, Building 10 -- it will not be at the Lister Hill center where the weekday classes will be held! For those of you at the NIH, this room is near the Lipsett ampitheater. This map of the Clinical Center may help you find the room, which is marked on the middle-right. To help victims students get to this venue, someone from the AFNI group will be in the north lobby of the Clinical Center until about 1:55 pm to gather up people and shepherd them to the class.

For those of you without NIH badges, the directions to get to this site are a little involved, and are outlined below.

You should bring your laptop, fully charged up with electric energy, AFNI, and the AFNI course materials (presentations and data), to this class, so you can follow along with the instructions and see how things work for yourself. (There are few electric outlets in the room, so charge up your battery before arrival.) We will not be able to provide laptops for this class, or for the bootcamp in general.

Directions to Clinical Center North Lobby
Please also refer to this Google map which shows the path from the Medical Center Metro to the CVIF (in red) and thence to the Clinical Center north entrance (in purple). You should allow 30+ minutes for this walk plus the badge-issuing process, so try to arrive at the Metro stop by 1:15 pm at the latest, so that the class can start with some semblance of promptitude.

• Starting point: Medical Center Metro station at the NIH.
• Due to budget cuts, the Gateway Center at the Metro stop, which lets visitors into the NIH campus, is no longer open on weekends.
• Instead, people without NIH badges must make their way north about 1/3 mile to the CVIF (Commercial Vehicle Inspection Facility).
• To get there, after exiting the Metro station escalators at the Earth's surface, immediately turn right, then turn right again (once you have cleared the escalators), and walk out to the sidewalk running along the north-south street -- this street is called Rockville Pike (and is also called Wisconsin Ave when it is south of the NIH, in order to confuse SPM spies).
• Turn left (northwards) and walk up Rockville Pike about 1/4 mile to Wilson Lane. Instead of a trail of breadcrumbs, the NIH has provided the following signs to help you get there:
  

• At the CVIF, you have to show your photo ID (driver's license, passport, ...) to get a visitor's badge and pass through the sacred fence that surrounds the NIH campus. If asked who you are visiting, say "Dr Robert Cox in the Clinical Center" (but I don't think they ask this question any more).
• Once inside the fence, follow the sidewalks to the Clinical Center. Almost immediately, you come a fork, as pictured below; take the right branch, up the hill:
  

• At the top of the hill, you enter a small parking lot. Walk through that and continue generally westwards along the sidewalk. The picture below shows the view from where you enter this parking lot. There is a pedestrian near a STOP sign near the middle of the photo; walk to that STOP sign and continue along the sidewalk:
  

• At one of the crosswalks, cross the street along which you are strolling to the south side, since the Clinical Center is on that side of the street.
• The photo below shows the Clinical Center north lobby entrance, to the left of the US flag. Enter there, and with a little luck, one of us will collect you for the maze-like final walk to the classroom.
  

• Unfortunately, there won't be any glowing purple lines on the sidewalks -- or giant red arrows from the sky -- to help maneuver you along this path, so print out these directions (and maybe the map linked to above) and bring them with you!