Number 23, Spring 1999

A publication providing information of interest from University of Washington Computing & Communications

• Catalyst: A New Strategy to Support Faculty in Teaching With Technology

  "We want Catalyst to be a place that educators will think of as having the latest information, where faculty can find out what their peers are doing, and where information gets exchanged."

  --Mark Donovan Acting Director, UWired

• Connecting, Including, and Preparing: The SRS Approach

  "The students were inspired. Many of them didn't know that [bioremediation] projects like ours were being done."

  --Charles "Chuck" Henry Research Associate Professor, College of Forest Resources

  • College of Forest Resources Prepares for the Future

• Neurosurgery Grand Rounds Goes Public

  "We've had an excellent response--from physicians and, to some degree, from patients."

  --H. Richard Winn, M.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Neurological Surgery

• Cutting-Edge Research and Education to Benefit From Gigapop

  "Much of our work involves high data rate astronomy, and it is important that we be able to transfer data quickly and reliably."

  --Christopher Stubbs Professor, Astronomy and Physics

• Are You Ready for the Year 2000?

  New grants and grant renewals now contain Year 2000 language.

• UW Web Servers Tailored for Specific Purposes

  Because a server name becomes part of a site's URL address, visitors will generally know who maintains a site or what kind of information they can expect to find there.

  • The Weber Workhorse Is Retiring: Make Your Move Now

• Web Wise Ways
  • Let Style Sheets Unify the Look of Your Web Pages

    Style sheets allow you to separate appearance--including font styles, sizes, and colors--from content, which is formatted by HTML.

• So Hard to Say Good-bye: UWIN Retires

  All the information resources that appeared in UWIN are now available through the UW home page.

• Switch From Willow to a Web Browser by June

• Campus Computing and Networking: Focus on Software Guide

• Pine Tips & Tricks
  • Something for Everyone in Pine 4.10

  • Q&A: Addressing Email Messages in Pine

• Telephone Tips & Tricks
  • What To Do When You Get a Fax Tone on Your Phone
  • Two More Toll-Free Prefixes: 888 and 877

• Security Alert: Happy99.exe Virus Is Here

• World Wide Web Addresses in This Issue

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