Athena Minicourse Series
Gary Dryfoos
Schedule: TBD
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
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 getting help on how to use them. One-hour courses start at noon, 7 & 8 PM, 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: First Course
Gary Dryfoos
Mon Jan 5, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 5, Tue Jan 6, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed-Thu, Jan 28-29, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Our introduction to the Athena academic computing 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 (Frame)
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 7, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 8, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 8, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 26, 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
FrameMaker is a powerful word-processing and document preparation package now available on Athena.
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
Wed Jan 14, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 15, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 15, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 27, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena Minicourse Frame or some FrameMaker experience
FrameMaker, with a special template, can be used to produce an MIT thesis that meets all Institute formatting requirements.
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 20, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 20, Wed Jan 21, 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
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.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Latex
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 7, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 7, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 8, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 26, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 26, 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.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/minidev
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Athena Minicourse: Latex for your Thesis
Gary Dryfoos
Wed Jan 14, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 14, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 15, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 27, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Athena Minicourse Latex or some Latex experience
Using the Latex text formatter to produce a fully- featured thesis that meets all MIT format requirements.
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 12, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 13, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 13, Thu Jan 22, 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
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 12, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Mon Jan 12, Tue Jan 13, 07-08:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 22, 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 interactive program for scientific and engineering numeric calculation. Applications include: matrix manipulation, digital signal processing, and 3-dimensional graphics.
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
Tue Jan 20, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 21, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Wed Jan 21, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: First course, Working, Emacs tutorial (on-lin), and some Ema
The text editor introduced in First Course has many useful features not covered in that course. This course is a must for anyone who uses Emacs more than an hour or two each week.
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 5, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 6, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Tue Jan 6, Wed Jan 28, 08-09:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 29, 12-01:00pm, 3-343
Thu Jan 29, 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.
Contact: Gary Dryfoos, dryfoo@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Mozilla Tips and Tricks
Ken Takusagawa
Wed Jan 14, 02-04:00pm, 14-0637
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This class will cover Mozilla, Athena's default web browser. This one-session class will discuss and demonstrate some very simple tips and tricks you can use to enhance your experience using Mozilla.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/mozilla/
Contact: Ken Takusagawa, W20-557, 253-7788, sipb-iap-mozilla@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Sawfish: Configuration, Customization, and Control
Isaac "Ike" Feitler
Wed Jan 21, 05-06:00pm, 1-115
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This lecture will focus on the Sawfish window manager program for the X window system, the default window manager on Athena. After an introduction to and overview of the program, topics covered will include how to change the look and feel of sawfish, how to add in additional customizations (a.k.a hacks) that other people have written, and how to write such customizations.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/sawfish
Contact: Isaac "Ike" Feitler, 3 Ames Street Box #74, 225-6354, sipb-iap-sawfish@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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Zephyr: Introduction, Customization, and More
Sanghamitra ("Sasen") Sen, Natan Cliffer
Tue Jan 27, Thu Jan 29, 02-04:00pm, 4-231
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Come learn how to maximize both your punting and tooling with the help of Zephyr! The first hour will be a general introduction to this messaging system, where we'll cover some basics and hint at all the fun customizations you can do with this program. We'll take a break, and then launch into the second hour with more tricks, hacks, and glimpses of alternative Zephyr clients.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/iap/zephyr
Contact: Sanghamitra ("Sasen") Sen, W20-557, x3-7788, sipb-iap-zephyr@mit.edu
Sponsor: Student Information Processing Board
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win.mit.edu Introduction
Tom Thornton
Mon Jan 12, 01-05:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 07-Jan-2004
Limited to 30 participants.
Single session event
This course overviews the MIT Windows Domain for end users, covering installation, configuration, file systems, services and software, from the user's perspective. Interested attendees might be users of machines in current WIN containers, prospective container administrators and students. This hands-on class uses high-speed machines in the latest IS cluster. Topics covered: installing and configuring a WIN machine (RIS vs. joining); choosing a container (push vs. pull configuration management); using AFS on Windows; using Moira on Windows;
setting group memberships; using shortcuts; optimizing login time and managing your desktop; software and services a WIN machine offers; installing personally owned software.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=12289
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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