OnTechNews, published monthly, seeks to inform UW faculty, staff, and students about new and interesting technology to use in teaching, learning, work, and life.
If you missed Bill Gates April 25 at the UW, the final stop on his university tour, you can watch the archived video. Gates shares his thoughts on software, innovation, entrepreneurship, and giving back. UWTV
also provides archived Webcasts on the Dalai Lama's recent visit, the personal genome, and more.
The three-minute screencast "Timmy's Excellent Adventure" was the winning
entry in UW's My Team Is Great contest. It's a clever story about helping
a student, whose skills are stuck in 1984, learn to use the "magic box" on
his desk, live chat, and podcasts to deal with his student finances. See
all the entries online.
Access over 1000 recent undergraduate/graduate-level mathematics and
statistics books 24/7. Springer Ebooks include full text search, allow
multiple users at the same time, have no time limits, and let users print
or download. Look in the UW Libraries online catalog or for titles marked
with green squares on the Springer site.
Learn how to use Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign at Catalyst's
comprehensive all-day walk-in workshop on Saturday, May 3. Other walk-in
workshops in May cover Office 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access),
Dreamweaver, and Flash. Details and workshop schedules are online.
UW Medicine will present information about its specialized equipment and
processes such as bio-molecular imaging and genome sequencing to faculty,
staff, and students this month. It's part of a shared researcher equipment
expansion into South Lake Union this summer. See presentations and posters
and enjoy refreshments from 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. in the UW Seattle Health
Sciences Lobby and Hogness Auditorium on Monday, May 12.
The Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE) has presented biological
research in a video format since October 2006. This peer-reviewed,
open-access, online journal covers basic protocols, neuroscience, biology
(developmental, cellular, and plant), microbiology, and immunology.
