GIS Day at UIC
 
November 18, 2009
10:00 AM - 3:00 PM  
 
If you are interested in geographic information science and technology, or have been meaning to get around to using GIS software in your work or research, then GIS day at UIC, Wednesday, 11/18/09, may have something useful for you.
 
Please note that there will be events both at the UIC Daley Library, 801 S. Morgan, and at IHRP, 1747 W. Roosevelt.  Please check the web link below for times and details.
 
At Noon in Rm. 1-210, Daley Library, there will be refreshments and GIS professionals available to answer your questions.
 
With the more widespread availability of ESRI software at UIC, a special opportunity to advance our work and research now stands before us. Please come and find out more at GIS day on 11/8/09.
 
New GIS users, or about-to-be-new GIS users, are especially welcome to attend!

Location: 1-210 LIB Library, Richard J. Daley  
Fee: Free
Audience: General public/Campus community/Faculty/Staff/Students/Alumni
Web site: www.uic.edu/cuppa/udv/GISDay2009.htm
Contact: schorsch@uic.edu / 312-413-8088  
Department: CUPPA, UIC Library, IHRP, ACCC, U of I WebStore

Active Eraser, a tool that allows Windows users to securely delete files on their computer, is now available to all U of I staff and faculty at no cost through the University of Illinois WebStore. Anyone with digital copies of sensitive data on their computer should use a secure erasing tool, like Active Eraser to securely delete sensitive data.

Log in to WebStore to download a copy of Active Eraser.

Please email questions to WebStore.

University of Illinois WebStore is pleased to announce that NVivo is now available for purchase and download. Offers include a six-month subscription ($120) and a 12-month subscription ($225). Please email questions about these offers to webstore@illinois.edu.

All Adobe maintenance subscription offers have been updated to the new expiration date of November 30, 2011. All current Adobe maintenance subscribers should go to the WebStore "UPDATES" tab to renew your license maintenance to the new subscription period. Any new Adobe departmental license purchases now have the option of including maintenance, entitling you to all new version releases for your licensed Adobe product until November 30, 2011.

Join Adobe in this three-part seminar series to learn how you can create and stream engaging video on the web.

Register now at: http://www.eventsadobe.com/educ/user_info.php

Session 1: Video Use Cases in Higher Education: Expand your audience through video

Discover new and exciting ways to increase the exposure, enrollment, and fundraising potential of your university through the use of video on your university’s website. From distance learning, to the broadcast of live athletic events and artistic performances, to campus tours and new student orientation, all of this and more can be brought to life on your website, increasing the interest of potential students, keeping alumni engaged in their alma mater, and thereby bringing more revenue to your institution.

Hear from representatives from the University of Denver about their successes with Flash video on their campus!

September 9, 2009
11:00 a.m. PST

Presenters:
 
Joseph Labrecque
Senior Multimedia Application Developer and Adobe Higher Education Leader
University of Denver
 
Leslie Trumble
Director
Visual Media Center University of Denver
 

Audience: Administrators, journalism and broadcast media professors, university marketing/PR, alumni relations, athletic department marketing/PR, distance learning professionals

Register now at: http://www.eventsadobe.com/educ/user_info.php


Session 2: From Concept to Distribution: Products that will help you capture, edit, and distribute your video online

Learn about the Adobe video workflow from end-to-end. We will start with authoring content in Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Production Premium and follow the process to Adobe Flash® Media Server for secure streaming of video content to your website. John will talk about some of the workflow options that are particularly relevant to educational usage of streaming video including the robust options that are available for Digital Rights Management of Adobe Flash Video.

September 16, 2009
11:00 a.m. PST

Presenter:
 
John Schuman
Solution Architect
Digital Video Solutions
Adobe

Audience: Video producers, web producers, IT

Register now at: http://www.eventsadobe.com/educ/user_info.php


Session 3: Making it all happen: A discussion of how to implement a video solution at your institution

In this final session, you will learn how to implement a video solution on your campus, using the tools and technologies previously presented in this series. Nick and John will go deeper into the technology behind a complete video solution, steps for implementation and decisions to be made in your implementation, all the way through getting video live on your website.

September 23, 2009
11:00 a.m. PST

Presenters:

John Schuman
Solution Architect
Digital Video Solutions
Adobe
 
Joseph Labrecque
Senior Multimedia Application Developer and Adobe Higher Education Leader
University of Denver
 
Nick Hippe
Sales Engineer
Digital Media
Adobe
 
Audience: IT
 
Register now at: http://www.eventsadobe.com/educ/user_info.php

An incredible deal just got better!

For a limited-time, get Microsoft Office Enterprise from University of Illinois WebStore at the promotional price of $45!

Buy now and receive the most feature rich Microsoft Office version available for the Standard version price.

Supplies won't last long, so purchase Office Enterprise now before the offer reverts back to the regular price of $65.

Compare Microsoft Office Suites at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/products/FX102464411033.aspx. 

University of Illinois WebStore and The MathWorks present complimentary MATLAB and Simulink seminars at the University of Illinois Urbana and Chicago campuses in September

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Technical Computing with MATLAB and Simulink at the University of Illinois at Chicago

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--Register Now--

Register for the UIUC seminar on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 12-4pm at the Digital Computer Lab, Room 1320 on the Urbana campus http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/ui0915.

Register for the UIC seminar on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 9am-1pm at the Student Center East, Room 302 on the UIC campus http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/uic0909.

 --Agenda--

Presenter: Tom Egel, Application Engineer

Technical Computing with MATLAB and Simulink

Case Study: Complete Robot Arm Position Control System

Using a real-world case study that involves the development of a system to control a robot arm position, this seminar will discuss how to develop algorithms, generate reports, and create GUIs in MATLAB; model dynamic systems in Simulink; design feedback controllers to optimize system performance; and generate C code from the Simulink design to run on a microprocessor.  For those users with exclusive interests in MATLAB or Simulink, these sessions are designed to function independently.   

Introduction to MATLAB

·         Data acquisition and analysis
·         Algorithm development and deployment
·         GUI development

Modeling and Simulation with Simulink

·         Introduction to Simulink
·         Modeling dynamic systems
·         Feedback control design
·         Implementing a controller using a microprocessor
·         Rapid prototyping using xPC Target
·         Verification and validation techniques

--Register Now--

Register for the UIUC seminar on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, 12-4pm at the Digital Computer Lab, Room 1320 on the Urbana campus http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/ui0915.

Register for the UIC seminar on Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 9am-1pm at the Student Center East, Room 302 on the UIC campus http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/uic0909.

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Please forward this invitation to any colleagues who may be interested in this event.

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If you have any questions, please call Tim Mathieu, Senior Account Manager, Education Department The MathWorks, at 508-647-7016 or email tim.mathieu@mathworks.com.

July 2009 turned out to be an all-time record month for University of Illinois WebStore.

Overall sales for the month totaled $287,665, a 14 percent increase over the prior all-time record sales month in August 2008.

The increase can be attributed to the recent addition of Apple, Dell, and HP hardware and to the growing list of products offered on the WebStore.