Number 14, March 1994
How to provide computing support is a complex and important topic. The following articles demonstrate the many computing support activities taking place within Arts and Sciences departments on campus. We hope to highlight other campus computing support structures in the future.Computer support articles by Kathryn Sharpe, Windows on Computing editor, with assistance from Rosanne Newland. Photos by Mary Levin.
I don`t think I have ever heard a stupid computer question in a department. Most often, a person`s focus is not the computer, it is the task they want to get done.
--Rob Weller
We have found that the closer you get the computing and the support to the end user, the better off they are.
--Harry Edmon
Many people have told me that they came here because of me, because I treated them like a person. I couldn't have done that without a computer.
--Pat Dinning
The reason we should require students to learn about physics is not because it matters that F=ma. What matters is learning to ask questions from all sides. It`s an approach to solving problems that will stand these students in good stead.
--Mark Baratta
Some people question why a humanities person would have to have a 486 machine in their office. Well, I know that once you get a good machine, your skills immediately increase and you want to learn more.
--Cecile Kummerer
History is probably one of the last subject areas that you would expect to be technologically sophisticated, and yet we have come a long way in a relatively short time.
--Ed Kamai
Computer support is complicated--the available solutions might work in some locations only, and perhaps from only one perspective in those locations.
The CRC was created to accommodate increasing demand by the campus community for drop-in computing.
Whether you need to produce a television documentary or record experimental results for later presentation, UW Video Production can provide you with everything you need from consulting and budgeting to shooting, editing, audio-mixing, and titling.
UW/Cablearn, UW's educational access cable channel, provides many programs that focus on computing for users of all levels as they explore the choices surrounding our personal, professional, and worldwide computing environments.
If you need to arrange an off-campus meeting, consider using video conferencing to meet your colleagues `face-to-face' instead of traveling.
Once again...
If you were to visit the Visualization Lab you might see a physicist graphically displaying numerical data, or a forest ecologist showing "aging" of plants, or a drama student testing the visibility of parts of a stage with scenery in place, or a medical researcher viewing a three-dimensional (3D) display of the position of a tumor, or...
DO-IT seeks to recruit and retrain disabled students in math, science, and engineering and to encourage them to pursue careers in those fields. The students receive DO-IT computer equipment designed to compensate for their disabilities and then are trained to use the system.
The following commands provide efficient ways to save and delete messages...
UWIN--the University of Washington Information Navigator--is your connection to a rich world of networked information resources.
...whereby subsidies of up to $3,000 are given to selected teaching faculty to help them acquire preferred workstations.
I just received an unsolicited email `chain letter'...
Do any software vendors offer educational discounts to the UW community, and where do I find out about them?
Computing & Communications will remove the aging IBM 3090 (UWAVM) computer on June 30, 1994. Mead, a fully functional, stable system, replaces it and offers many tangible hardware and software advantages...
If you are a 3090 user, consider the following before the 3090 is removed...
After UWAVM is shut down, access to Bitnet services will remain available through Internet/Bitnet gateways maintained by the Bitnet Network Information Center.
Spectacular changes are taking place in computing technology.
A new look is coming to Uniform Access Unix computing. You will see more resources, simpler accounting, easy archiving, and combined home directories.
Is it O.K. to share accounts?
Where can I learn about FTP?
