Computing centre [n] In a University, that organisation whose functions are 1) to impede whenever possible the development and usefulness of computing on the campus, 2) to gain the lion's share of funding, spend it largely on obsolete and otherwise inappropriate solutions, and convince the other departments to expend their meagre funds on the same, and 3) to oppose vigorously any new, useful and popular technology for ten years or more until nearly everyone on the campus(es) and elsewhere in the world is using it, then to adopt that technology and immediately attempt to gain complete and sole control of it [see MS-DOS, ETHERNET, INTERNET].