Athena Minicourse Series
Gary Dryfoos
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Minicourses are free, do not require pre-registration, and are designed to show you how to get the most value out of Athena and MITnet services and facilities. At the minicourses you will receive free handouts that give more information about Athena and MITnet, especially how to get help with using them. One-hour courses start at noon, 7 & 8PM, Mon-Thurs during IAP.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, training@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Advanced Word Processing: LaTeX
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 9, Thu Jan 10, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 29, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course, Working.
An introduction to LaTeX, a widely-used text formatter, used for converting a text file into an attractive professional-looking document. It is a powerful and flexible program, with the capability to typeset many foreign characters and very complex mathematical text. See the URL for a complete list of all IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Customization on Athena (Dotfiles)
Gary Dryfoos
Thu Jan 24, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 24, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course, Athena/X-Win experience.
Intended for the intermediate-level Athena user, this course will discuss the Athena login sequence and the user-configuration files (dotfiles) that affect it, as well as changes the user can make to those and other files to customize their working environment. See URL for complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: First Course
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 7, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 7, Tue Jan 8, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 9, Wed Jan 30, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed-Thu, Jan 30-31, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: none
Our new introduction to the Athena academic environment: what you can do on Athena, your account, finding help, and other basics. Also includes E-mail, Zephyr, WebSIS, and Residential Computing.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: FrameMaker for Your Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 28, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: Frame and some Frame experience.
FrameMaker, with a special template, can be used to produce an MIT Thesis that meets all Institute formatting requirements. See URL for a complete list of all IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: HTML - Making a WWW Home Page
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 22, Wed Jan 23, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses- First Course, Working on Athena.
Covers the basic features of HTML ("Hyper-Text Mark-up Language"), the language of the World Wide Web, as well as the steps needed to post your own Web page on Athena. See URL for the complete schedule of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Information Resources on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 22, Wed Jan 23, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
A survey of the communications, help, and other resources available on Athena. See URL for complete IAP Athena minicourse schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Introduction to FrameMaker
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 9, Thu Jan 17, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 28, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
FrameMaker is a powerful word-processing and document preparation package available on Athena.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: LaTeX Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 29, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: LaTeX and some LaTeX experience.
Using the LaTeX text formatter to produce a fully-featured thesis that meets all MIT formal requirements. See the URL for the complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Maple
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 14, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 15, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 16, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
A mathematics program that can perform numerical and symbolic calculations, including formal and numerical integration, solving algebraic or transcendental systems and differential equations, and series expansion and matrix manipulation. It also has extensive graphics capabilities.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Matlab
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 14, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 14, Tue Jan 15, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena.
An interactive program for scientific and engineering calculation. Applications include: matrix manipulation, digital signal processing, and 3-dimensional graphics. See the URL for the complete list of IAP Athena minicourses.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Serious Emacs
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 24, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: First, Working, Emacs tutorial (on-line), some Emacs exper.
The text editor introduced in Word Processing Options (WPO) has many useful features not covered in that course. This class is a must for anyone who uses Emacs more than an hour or two each week. See URL for more details about schedule.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Working on Athena
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 7, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 8, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 8, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 10, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 30, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 31, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 31, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourse: First Course
Files, directories, setting permissions, job control, and more. What every new user should know about Unix, Athena's operating system.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: XESS
Gary Dryfoos
Tue Jan 15, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 16, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 16, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena minicourses: First Course; Working on Athena
A powerful and easy-to-use spreadsheet, with a full range of mathematical, statistical, matrix, and string functions. It will be useful for scientific and engineering computations, as well as to general and financial users.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev/
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Cool Athena Software: How to Find and Run It
Alex Prengel
Thu Jan 17, 01:30-03:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
During this presentation, we will demonstrate some interesting Athena software (in the presenter's opinion, of course) that may be unfamiliar to you. We will also introduce you to the primary resource for finding it, and for getting useful information about it (how to run it, common pitfalls, finding documentation).
Web: http://web.mit.edu/acs/www/whereruns.html
Contact: Alex Prengel, alexp@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Hands-On EMACS Mini-Course
Amy Mueller
Mon Jan 21, 07-08:30pm, 14-0637
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Have you ever deleted a six-page email to a friend from home and didn't know how to retrieve it? Want to know how to format all that code during the coming semester? Get all of your emacs questions answered here in person and SEE what emacs can do for you!
Web: http://hkn.mit.edu
Contact: Amy Mueller, amym@mit.edu
Sponsor: Eta Kappa Nu
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Hands-on Arcview GIS Workshop
Daniel Sheehan, Spatial Data Specialist
Mon Jan 28, Tue Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 23 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: familiarity with the Athena environment
Learn the basics of Arcview, a desktop geographic information system (GIS) that is available on Athena and on Windows. This is a two day (2 hours each day) workshop.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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SGI Phaseout -- Where We Are and Where We're Going
Phil Long
Mon Jan 14, 02-03:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Silicon Graphics (SGI), formerly a major graphic workstation provider to the MIT community, has chosen in recent years to focus future development around the Microsoft OS. This choice has led to the decision to phase out support for IRIX-based applications. What alternatives are there for SGI specific software applications? How do we go about selecting supportable alternatives? How big a problem is this? Faculty who use or depend upon SGI are encouraged to come and participate in finding alternatives.
Contact: Rich Garcia, rlgarcia@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Sawfish, Athena's New Turing-Complete Window Manager: Configuration, Customization, and Coding
Isaac Feitler
Thu Jan 17, 05-07:00pm, 1-150
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Prereq: Topic 1: None/Using other GUIs. Topics2/3: Lisp/Scheme/6.001
Sawfish is the new default window manager on all Athena 9.0 workstations. This class will address the Sawfish window manager in general, and then will discuss how to configure, customize, and write code for Sawfish.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/sawfish
Contact: Isaac Feitler, 3 Ames Street Box #74, x5-6471, sipb-iap-sawfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Using DEMs in ESRI GIS products
Daniel Sheehan
Wed Jan 30, Thu Jan 31, 02-04:00pm, 1-115
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Limited to 22 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: familiarity with the Athena environment, knowledge of Arcvie
This is a hands-on workshop (2 sessions of 2 hours each) that will help new Arcinfo and Arcview GIS users import and work with Digital Elevation Models. We will be downloading Digital Elevation Models in SDTS format and importing them into Arc/Info. We will look at basic GRID and Arcview Spatial Analyst hydrologic functions.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/gis/www/
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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