ATIC Lab Open House
Kathy Cahill
Thu Jan 8, 11am-02:00pm, 7-143
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Our annual open house focuses on the latest technologies for persons with disabilities. Are you aware of alternative ways to take notes in class or read written material? Can you navigate around a computer without using a mouse, a keyboard, or the monitor? We can show you how! Come to the lab and see Braille translation, screen reading, magnification, scanning and reading, voice recognition software, and more. Try out our TTY telephone, a note taking device, or a language assistance tool. Ask us questions about accommodations or accessibility. Note: If you are solely interested in keyboards and pointing devices for repetitive strain injuries, please attend our separate event on January 14, 12-2 pm.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/atic/www
Contact: Kathy Cahill, 7-143, (617) 253-5111, kcahill@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Acrobat 6.0 Demo
Tim Plumer
Wed Jan 7, 01-02:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe PDF are tools that can improve any document workflow. Whether it's a business document, a research piece, or academic content, using Acrobat will help you do your work faster and more efficiently. This demonstration will show the new features of Acrobat 6.0 along with some things that you might not have known about, so you can discover new ways to work. Those features include: review and commenting, linking and multimedia, forms creation, security, and more.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Back Up with TSM
Janet Littell, Mary Ziegler
Fri Jan 16, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn how to download, install, and configure TSM, an application for backing up your files over the network to a secure server. (The backup service itself has a small monthly fee; the TSM software is free to MIT users.) Discuss your TSM questions with technical staff.
Contact: Janet Littell, N42-290G, (617) 253-3166, jlittell@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Controlling Your IT Environment
John E. Dvorak, CCNA
Tue Jan 13, Tue Jan 27, 12-01:30pm, 2-131
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
The MIT Audit Division will present their understanding of Information Technology (IT) controls from an audit perspective. Maintaining adequate control over IT resources is becoming more complicated as well as essential. The Audit Division works in a consultative manner to help identify control concerns and provide solutions. Topics covered will include password controls, virus protection, network security, user ID administration, software licensing, change control, physical security, environmental controls, vulnerability assessments, backup and recovery and system development life cycle reviews. This session is for system administrators, programmers and anyone else with an interest in IT controls.
Web: http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/a/audiv/www/index.html
Contact: John E. Dvorak, CCNA, E19-655, x2-3577, dvorak@mit.edu
Sponsor: Audit Division
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Endnote: Getting Started
Howard Silver
Thu Jan 15, 03-04:30pm, 14N-132
Tue Jan 20, 02-03:30pm, 14N-132
Wed Jan 21, 05-06:30pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 21-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Reduce the time you spend generating manuscripts, and increase the accuracy and quality of your citations and bibliographies. Improve you productivity by becoming better at gathering and managing your research literature. Endnote is software that helps you to create and manage databases of bibliographic references. You can use these databases to cite references and generate bibliographies in your manuscripts. This session will be a hands-on practicum in which participants will create their own database, import references, and generate a manuscript.
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, x3-9319, hsilver@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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Excel Quick Start
John Fothergill
Fri Jan 9, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This course presents an overview of Excel’s basic functions, as well as some of its more powerful features and capabilities.
Contact: John Fothergill, jjfothjr@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Excel User Group
John Fothergill
Tue Jan 6, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
Come meet with fellow Excel users. Bring questions and hear what others are doing with Excel. This user group meets monthly on the first Tuesday of the month.
Contact: John Fothergill, jjfothjr@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Give Good Presentations -- With or Without PowerPoint!
Lee Ridgway, Janet Wasserstein
Thu Jan 15, 12-01:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Presentations! Most of us have sat through them - often wishing we were somewhere else. Many of us must do them - often wishing we were doing something else. This session presents pointers for improving your public speaking and presentations - with or without slides. Janet Wasserstein (Foundation Relations & Academic Development) will talk about do's and don'ts when speaking; how to overcome nerves; what has worked for her and what hasn't; how to learn to like, if not love, speaking to an audience. Lee Ridgway (Information Systems) will discuss PowerPoint - it's good and bad points; how to use it effectively; how to avoid having it detract from your presentation; how to convey meaningful information; when it should not be used.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, (617) 253-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Introduction to Effective C++ Programming - Basic Dos and Don'ts in C++ Programming
Kwanghee Ko
Mon Jan 26 thru Fri Jan 30, 02-03:00pm, 1-371
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 23-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
Prereq: Knowledge of C and C++, some programming experience
C++ is an increasingly popular and widely-used computer language, particularly in engineering. More and more emphasis is being placed on the ability to write ``good'' code for these applications. In this course, the basics of writing an effective program using C++ will be reviewed, with discussion of the important points, and some useful tips.
Contact: Kwanghee Ko, 5-424, x3-7950, khko@mit.edu
Sponsor: Ocean Engineering
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Mac Tech Partners
Al Willis
Tue Jan 20, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join with Macintosh users who, officially or otherwise, help others within their departments make more productive use of computers. NOTE: This group meets monthly, normally on the 3rd Monday of the month.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mugs
Contact: Al Willis, N42-140I, x3-0196, awillis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Migration from BrioQuery version 5 to BrioQuery version 6
Mary Weisse, Maija Ahlquist
Mon Jan 26, 10-11:30am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
BrioQuery version 6 has new functionality and a different look and feel from BrioQuery version 5. This presentation will introduce you to the major differences you will see in the new version and will provide tips for updating your Brio 5 queries to Brio 6. A handout will be available for later reference.
Contact: Mary Weisse, mca@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Moving to Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther" from another UNIX OS
Brian Jepson
Mon Jan 26, 02-05:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
You're considering moving to Mac OS X from another UNIX platform, but you're concerned that this will involve arcane Mac OS X knowledge to migrate applications like MySQL, Perl scripts and user directories. Join O'Reilly editor Brian Jepson (author of "Mac OS X for UNIX Geeks") as he reviews critical components of OS X that differ from Linux, BSD and Solaris and demystifies migration to Mac OS X.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Patch Management Solutions for the Microsoft Platform
Jonna Peat Microsoft Corp.
Thu Jan 15, 02-03:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This session on patch management will cover some best practices for securing your Windows environment. It will also explain the free tools available from Microsoft to help with scanning for unpatched Windows systems and deploying patches. The target audience would be IT professionals or anyone who is in charge of managing multiple Windows systems.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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PowerPoint Finishing School
Craig Thomas
Wed Jan 28, 02-03:30pm, 14N-132
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2004
Limited to 15 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Experience building presentations in PowerPoint 2000.
Sure, most of us can hammer out a few slides in PowerPoint. But some presentations look crisp and professional, while others look like amateur hour. What makes some look -- and work -- better than others? This session offers simple tips and guidelines for adding professional polish to your presentations. The first half will consist of demos in the areas of text management, slide layout, motion, and consistent design criteria. In the second half, we'll workshop participants' presentations. So bring along a short presentation of your own that needs fine-tuning, and we'll polish it up. We'll be working in PowerPoint 2000. (Note: This session is not for PowerPoint beginners.)
Contact: Craig Thomas, clthomas@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
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QuickTime 2004
Eric Zelman , Apple Computer
Fri Jan 9, 09-11:00am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
QuickTime and OS X offers tremendous advantages for streaming media in Mac OS X 10.3 Server with QuickTime Streaming Server 5 and with QuickTime clients using new codecs like Pixlet for outstanding compression of on-demand media. We'll explore what's new in the QuickTime world, both from Apple and 3rd parties (including video conferencing solutions, turn-key compression clusters and remote broadcasting).
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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SAPweb: Approve Requisitions
Lisa Lucenti
Thu Jan 29, 12-01:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This course teaches the basics of approving requisitions in SAPweb.
Topics include:
- Business rules related to SAPweb requisitioning and approving
- Approving requisitions
- Editing and deleting requisitions
- Viewing requisition reports
Contact: Lisa Lucenti, W92-210, (617) 452-5057, llucenti@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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SAPweb: Journal Vouchers
Lisa Lucenti
Tue Jan 13, 12-01:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Journal vouchers are used to bill interdepartmental costs, adjust billing errors, or for other reasons associated with the department's regular financial operations. This course reviews the terminology and business rules associated with journal vouchers and provides a demonstration of the journal voucher functionality on SAPweb.
Topics include: 1) Business rules governing journal vouchers; 2) Creating, changing, and completing journal vouchers; and 3) Reporting on posted and parked journal vouchers.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/training/
Contact: Lisa Lucenti, (617) 452-5057, llucenti@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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SAPweb: Purchasing on the Web
Lisa Lucenti
Thu Jan 8, Wed Jan 21, 12-01:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: Familiarity with either the Macintosh or Windows platform
This course covers all aspects of using SAPweb for purchasing, including requisitioning from external vendors and internal providers, as well as ordering from vendor partners' online catalogs. Topics include:business rules governing requisitions; creating and displaying requisitions in SAPweb; accessing vendor partners' online catalogs.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/topics/training/
Contact: Lisa Lucenti, (617) 452-5057, llucenti@MIT.EDU
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Secure File Transfer
Stephen B. Goldman
Fri Jan 23, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
This informal session will provide a brief overview of MIT's recommended options for secure file transfer, which include FileZilla, SecureFX, and Secure CRT as a SSH Tunnel within Dreamweaver MX. These popular clients provide ease and encrypted file transfer sessions.
Contact: Stephen B. Goldman, sgoldman@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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TechTime: MIT Personal Calendar Quick Start
Lee Ridgway
Wed Jan 28, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
MIT TechTime is an integrated, campus-wide calendaring system based on Oracle Calendar. This quick start introduces how you can manage your own calendar and also coordinate with the calendars of other TechTime users. It covers:
- Activating your TechTime account
- Creating entries
- Creating groups
- Setting preferences
- Setting viewing and access rights
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Tools for a Less Stressful Computing Experience -- Keyboards, Mice, and Other Alternatives to the Standard Computer Setup
Mary Ziegler
Wed Jan 14, 12-02:00pm, 7-143
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
At this event, the ATIC Lab and Environmental Health and Safety will show case alternative keyboards, pointing devices, break software, mouse-clicking software, and ergonomic training tools. We will show you how to set up your workstation to minimize stress and how an alternative device may help in alleviating and/ or preventing a repetitive strain injury at the computer. Before and after IAP, the ATIC Lab's inventory of 100 keyboards and mice are available for a 3-day loan period to anyone with a valid MIT ID.
Contact: Mary Ziegler, maryz@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Upgrading from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X
Al Willis
Mon Jan 12, Fri Jan 30, 12-01:30pm, N42 Demo Center
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Come learn about the process of transitioning from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, Apple's latest operating system.
Contact: Al Willis, awillis@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Virus Protection Quick Start
Gerry Issacson, Janet Littell
Mon Jan 5, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn how to download, install, and configure virus protection for your computer, and how to keep the software up to date. Discuss your questions with Gerry Isaacson, MIT Information Security Officer.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/help/virus/
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, (617) 253-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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What's new in Mac OS X 10.3 "Panther"?
Eric Zelman , Apple Computer
Fri Jan 16, 09-11:00am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join Apple Systems Engineer Eric Zelman for a review of some of Mac OS X 10.3's eye-catching new features- Finder, Exposé, iChat AV, Fast User Switching, enhanced Windows support, enhanced X11 support, PostScript and PDF printing improvements, Kerberos support in Mail, AFP, SMB and SSH, support for single sign-on and more.
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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WinPartners User Group
Bryant Vernon
Mon Jan 26, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
The WinPartners is a group of Windows workstation users and administrators who have banded together to support each other in the use of Windows. WinPartners share their experiences, ask and answer questions, solve problems, discuss hot topics, and warn each other of pitfalls. Any Windows user at any level of expertise and experience is welcome to join the group and attend meetings.
Contact: Bryant Vernon, bcvernon@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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Word User Group
Ruth Levitsky
Tue Jan 27, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
The MIT Microsoft User Group (WUG) was formed for people at MIT, from beginners to experts, who are using or interested in learning to use Microsoft Word word processing software. Open to Windows and Macintosh users. This session will demonstrate tips and tricks for Word users.
Contact: Ruth Levitsky, levitsky@mit.edu
Sponsor: Information Systems
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