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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Chiaroscuro: What Is Heroism?
Edward Dolan
Fri Jan 9, 01:30-02:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Edward Dolan, an adult storyteller, will present a program of stories that probe the question, "How do we recognize heroes?" Each story will explore a dimension of human light and darkness, of choice and decision. When is it right to act? How do we know what is courage and what is self-serving arrogance? Is there a difference? Spend an hour listening and thinking, reflecting on your life as the stories carry you along.
Contact: Edward Dolan, edolan@mit.edu
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Creating Accessible PDFs
Stephani Roberts Lincoln
Thu Jan 22, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn about tips for authoring PDFs that are accessible to people with disabilities, including those using screen readers or magnification software. We will cover how to create accessible source documents in other formats (such as HTML and MS Word) as well as ways to take your existing PDFs and use tools available in Acrobat 6.0 to make them more accessible. This is a very useful class for academic departments posting course related PDF materials in Stellar.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/atic/www
Contact: Stephani Roberts Lincoln, N42-040LR, (617) 253-0866, stephani@MIT.EDU
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Dreamweaver MX 2004 New Features
Jeff Pankin
Fri Jan 23, 10-11:00am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Macromedia Dreamweaver is an easy, powerful, and open authoring tool a web development team can use to quickly build robust websites and Internet applications. It provides rich, powerful CSS support and lets you work within one environment to easily create and manage any professional website. Come see the new features of the latest version - Dreamweaver MX 2004.
Contact: Jeff Pankin, N42-240H, (617) 253-4135, pankin@mit.edu
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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
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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
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GIS: Introduction to ArcGIS
Daniel Sheehan
Fri Jan 23, Mon Jan 26, 02-05:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 19-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
Prereq: An Athena account
Learn the basics of ArcGIS, a powerful desktop Geographic Information System (GIS) available at MIT. We will look at raster and vector data and will learn to edit data. Co-sponsored by MIT Libraries. Register at the URL below, or with Sarah Hickok at the address below. Sessions are the same. Sign up for only one.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=11811
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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GIS: Programming in ArcGIS
Daniel Sheehan
Fri Jan 30, 02-04:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Athena account & experience with Arcview, ArcGIS or equiv
If you ever find yourself doing the same sequence of commands in ArcGIS, you probably should think of automating the process. Learn to use VBA to control ArcGIS. Co-sponsored by MIT Libraries. Register at the URL below, or with Sarah Hickok (hickok@mit.edu). Don't email instructor between 1/2/04 and 1/15/04.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=12290
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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GIS: Site Selection - Making Spatial Decisions Using a GIS
Daniel Sheehan
Thu Jan 29, 02-03:30pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 27-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Athena account & experience w. Arcview, ArcGIS, or equivalen
Learn the basics of vector processing in a GIS. Co-sponsored by MIT Libraries. Register at the URL below, or with Sarah Hickok (hickok@mit.edu). Don't email instructor between 1/2/04 and 1/15/04.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=12263
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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GIS: Working with Digital Elevation Models
Daniel Sheehan
Wed Jan 28, 02-04:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 25-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Athena acct & experience with Arcview, ArcGIS, or equivalent
Digital Elevation Models are widely available elevation data for the United States and, soon, for the world through the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. Learn to use this data source in a GIS. Co-sponsored by MIT Libraries. Register at the URL below, or with Sarah Hickok (hickok@mit.edu). Don't email instructor between 1/2/04 and 1/15/04.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=12286
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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GIS: Working with Map Projections in ArcGIS
Daniel Sheehan
Tue Jan 27, 02-05:00pm, 37-312
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 25-Jan-2004
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Prereq: Athena account & experience with Arcview, ArcGIS, or equiv
Learn to work with map projections in ArcGIS. While ArcGIS has made managing projections easy, you need to know what you are working with before ArcGIS can make sense of it. Co-sponsored by MIT Libraries. Register at the URL below, or with Sarah Hickok (hickok@mit.edu). Don't email instructor between 1/2/04 and 1/15/04.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=12287
Contact: Sarah Hickok, N42-240a, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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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
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Information Security: Mastering the Ten Domains
Andy Ellis Akamai Technologies, Inc.
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
This 5-evening seminar will cover the domains of Information Security as laid out in the CISSP Common Body of Knowledge. This course is designed as a high-level introduction to the many facets of information security, and should be appealing to both beginners and multi-year practitioners.
There will be NO session on Thursday, but the material to be used for that session will instead be spread out over the other sessions.
Contact: Andy Ellis, cordelia@mit.edu
Introduction, Telecommunications and Networking
Andy Ellis Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Tue Jan 20, 07-10:00pm, 34-101
Architecture and Models, Application and Systems Development
Andy Ellis Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Wed Jan 21, 07-10:00pm, 34-101
Physical Security, Operations Security, Security Management, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Cancelled
Andy Ellis Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Thu Jan 22, 07-10:00pm, 34-101
Cryptography, Access Control Systems, Law, Investigation, and Ethics
Andy Ellis Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Fri Jan 23, 07-10:00pm, 34-101
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Is Your Web Site Easy to Use?
MIT Usability Team
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Participants welcome at individual sessions (series)
Can your users do what they want on your site or do they struggle? Four sessions show how usability testing can help you create better web sites. Find out how to set up your own tests to observe your users and gather inspiration for improvements.
Web: http://web.mit.edu/is/usability
Contact: Susan B. Jones, sbjones@mit.edu
Introduction to Web Usability
MIT Usability Team
Usability testing is an effective way to evaluate web and application interfaces. This session presents usability concepts, guidelines, and testing techniques using practical exercises. You'll also learn to write user scenarios and test tasks, and facilitate actual tests.
Tue Jan 6, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
Is the Content on Your Web Site Accessible by People with Disabilities?
Stephani Roberts Lincoln, ATIC Lab
Can a blind user navigate your web site? What about keyboard only users? See a demonstration of JAWS screen reading software for the blind, learn techniques to make your web site more accessible to all audiences, and get an overview of federal web accessibility laws and how they pertain to your web site.
Tue Jan 13, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
Usability Methods and Tools Workshop
MIT Usability Team
Discussion of methods and tools available. Learn when each is appropriate and practice using them. Note: Room is different from other sessions in series.
Tue Jan 20, 01-03:00pm, 2-131
User-Centered Design Methods and Tools Workshop
MIT Usability Team
Overview of user-centered design practices, including planning, using focus groups to discover user needs, and creating an information architecture. Interactive exercise will begin to explore usability design and test methods.
Tue Jan 27, 01-03:00pm, 3-133
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LabVIEW: An Introduction
Helen Healy
Mon Jan 12, 10am-12:00pm, 56-154
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Representatives from National Instruments will present LabVIEW (hardware and software that provides virtual instrumentation) and answer any questions that you may have.
Contact: Helen Healy, N42-040h, (617) 253-0659, hhealy@MIT.EDU
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LabVIEW: Hands On Class
Helen Healy
Tue Jan 13 thru Fri Jan 16, 10am-04:00pm, 56-154
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Dec-2003
Limited to 12 participants.
Participants requested to attend all sessions (non-series)
SESSION IS FULL - ACCEPTING NAMES FOR WAIT LIST
Learn how to work with LabVIEW's development environment specifically the simulation functionality.
Note: the dates posted in the paper bulletin were incorrect but the dates listed on the website are correct. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Contact: Helen Healy, N42-040h, (617) 253-0659, hhealy@mit.edu
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LabVIEW: Uses at MIT
Helen Healy
Mon Jan 12, 01:30-04:00pm, 56-154
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 10-Dec-2003
Limited to 20 participants.
Single session event
Various departments will demonstrate their uses of LabVIEW.
Note: the dates posted in the paper bulletin were incorrect but the dates listed on the website are correct. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Contact: Helen Healy, N42-040h, (617) 253-0659, hhealy@mit.edu
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MIT Cable Television Facilities Open House
Randy Winchester
Wed Jan 7, 02-03:00pm, 9-058
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 05-Jan-2004
Limited to 8 participants.
Single session event
The staff at MIT Cable Television is offering an inside look at the Technical Operations Center (TOC) of the campus television system. Register at the website listed. (We will add additional Wednesday dates as needed.)
Web: http://web.mit.edu/mitcable
Contact: Randy Winchester, randy@mit.edu
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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
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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
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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
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O.K.I. Overview
Scott Thorne, Jeff Merriman
Tue Jan 6, 10-11:30am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Learn more about the O.K.I. project. The O.K.I. Project has produced specifications from developing educational software. Learn how these specifications are being used at MIT and elsewhere, and how they relate to other specifications activity.
Contact: Scott Thorne, thorne@mit.edu
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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SuperWorms
Roger Dingledine The Free Haven Project
Thu Jan 15, 07-10:00pm, 54-100
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Modelled on Brandon Wiley's Black Hat talk. See the url below for more information.
Web: http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-03/bh-usa-03-speakers.html#Wiley
Contact: Roger Dingledine, arma@mit.edu
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Tablet PCs in the Classroom
Carter Snowden, Jean Foster
Wed Jan 14, 01-03:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Participants in Academic Computing's Tablet PC pilot project will report on their experiences using tablet PCs during the fall semester.
Contact: Carter Snowden, csnowden@MIT.EDU
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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
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The Nuts and Bolts of StarOffice
Helen Healy, Rich Garcia
Wed Jan 14, 10-11:00am, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
StarOffice Office Suite is the world's leading office productivity suite on Linux and the Solaris OS. This session will take you through the various components of the StarOffice suite of applications. Learn to use StarOffice for your everyday work.
Contact: Helen Healy, hhealy@mit.edu
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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
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Tour of MIT's Data Center - W91
Dave Lambert
Thu Jan 8, 12-01:00pm, W91 Lobby
Enrollment limited: advance sign up required (see contact below)
Signup by: 02-Jan-2004
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
MIT's Data Center houses the Institute's enterprise-wide administrative servers and selected departmental servers. Currently 250 servers, 25 terabytes of disk storage and a petabyte of automated tape storage are managed in the W91 data center. Hardware ranges from high speed Storage Area Networks (SANs) to large unix servers and robotic tape libraries. Come see it all. Register at URL below.
Web: http://training.mit.edu/tr?courseid=11460
Contact: Sarah Hickok, x3-7685, hickok@mit.edu
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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
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Using MathML to Represent Mathematical Equations on the Web
Daniel Jamous ACST
Wed Jan 21, Thu Jan 29, 10-11:00am, 3-133
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Repeating event. Participants welcome at any session
This quick-start presentation will show examples and review the basic facts you need to know in order to get started with using MathML (Mathematical Markup Language), the XML-based standard for describing mathematical notation on the web and capturing both its structure and content.
Contact: Daniel Jamous ACST, jamous@mit.edu
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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
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Web Publishers User Group
Suzana Lisanti
Thu Jan 22, 12-01:00pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
Join other web publishers on campus for a bi-monthly meeting to learn new tips and tricks related to web publishing at MIT, as well as participate in Q&A sessions.
Web: http://mit.edu/mugs/index-count.html
Contact: Suzana Lisanti, lisanti@MIT.EDU
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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
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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
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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
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Your Favorite UNIX Apps on Mac OS X
Al Willis
Wed Jan 21, 02-03:30pm, N42 Demo Center
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Single session event
See how your favorite Unix applications run on Mac OS X.
Contact: Al Willis, awillis@mit.edu
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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
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