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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

--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.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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.

On Thursday, June 11, 2009, the fourth Adobe CS4 eSeminar on Adobe Flash Professional will take place from 10-11am. To register, visit http://www.adobe-registration-edu.com/Illinois/.
 
As we start to plan the next four sessions in the series of 12, we would appreciate hearing what other Adobe topics you would like to see presented or demonstrated.

Whether or not you’ve had a chance to attend an Adobe eSeminar, please email adobe-questions@adobe-edu.com  with suggestions for future session topics. Your input will help us develop a schedule of sessions that successfully meet your needs.
 
If you would like to provide more feedback, please consider filling out this survey: http://www.adobe-registration-edu.com/Illinois/survey/index.php
               
Thank you.

Join Adobe Senior Solutions Engineer, Tim Plumer, on March 12, 2009, for the first in a series of eSeminars – specifically for University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, Springfield) students,
faculty, and staff – to be held the second Thursday of each month from 10-11am:

Session 1
March 12, 2009 - 10-11am
Adobe InDesign CS4
Register

Print publishing is undergoing a revolution, and that means you need flexibility to author not just for ink on paper but for anything. Adobe InDesign CS4 is more a platform for
authoring content than just a simple page-layout tool.

During this hour-long session, you will see how to:
•    Leverage your assets to better control the many parts of an InDesign project
•    Work with other Adobe and non-Adobe file types in your project
•    Automate many layout tasks to get your work done more efficiently
•    Spot and correct many problems that slows down the production of the work you are doing—especially when it comes to getting that work to output
•    Create different kinds of output—from print to web to just about anything

Get you on your way to a true multi-channel publishing workflow.

Register today at http://www.adobe-registration-edu.com/Illinois/.   

If you can’t attend live sessions, links to recorded sessions will be made available at http://webstore.illinois.edu/training.

Software WebStore, SAS, and State Farm present free sessions, exploring SAS technologies and real-world application.

SAS Enterprise Guide
Supporting Teaching and Learning with a User-Friendly Interface

Register today >> http://webstore.illinois.edu/sasday
 
Schedule of Events
…………………………………………………………
Day 1 - March 17, 2009
Illini Union, Ballroom A

10:00 - 11:30am – Session 1
SAS Technology Overview: Marilou Chanrasmi, presenter

Are you utilizing Excel for analysis and reporting? Would you like to learn more about how SAS can easily communicate with Excel files and be leveraged for more rigorous statistical analyses? Whether you are a programmer or a non-programmer join us for this session as we explore ways to work with Microsoft Excel using SAS in a programmatic way, and get a tour of point and click SAS tools for analysis and reporting.
 
1:00 - 2:00pm – Session 2
State Farm: SAS In Action: Bob Trefzger, Scott Farris, and Bethany Dohleman, presenters

This presentation will focus on two main topics: the use of SAS within the State Farm organization, and opportunities available at State Farm. Representatives from different areas of State Farm will discuss how SAS is used across the organization to support the company’s analytic needs.

With locations in close proximity, State Farm and the University of Illinois have partnered to create an educational experience for students that better prepares them for future employment. State Farm’s presence at UI Research Park supports both undergraduate and graduate students with internship opportunities, providing students with real world experience while attending school.
 
2:30 - 4:00pm – Session 3 (repeat of Session 1)
SAS Technology Overview: Marilou Chanrasmi, presenter
 
**Representatives from SAS and State Farm will also be available, from 10am - 4pm on March 17, at booths located just outside Ballroom A in the Illini Union. No registration to visit the booths is necessary.

…………………………………………………………
Day 2 - March 18, 2009
Lincoln Hall, Room 202
 
9:30 - 11:30am – Session 4
SAS Technology Training: Mike James, instructor

SAS Enterprise Guide provides a SAS graphical interface that helps you exploit the power of SAS and publish dynamic results in a Microsoft Windows client application. The solution is the preferred SAS interface for business analysts, programmers, and statisticians and a key application in SAS Business Intelligence offerings. This 2 hour workshop will be a jump start on using the SAS Enterprise Guide (EG) interface.

>> Seating is limited (Day 1 up to 100; Day 2 up to 20), so secure a seat for one or all of the sessions today. Register now: http://webstore.illinois.edu/sasday.

Software WebStore and Adobe present free workshops, exploring CS4 new features and functionality.

When:
February 3, 2009

Where:
University of Illinois at Chicago, Student Center East room 302

Schedule of Events:
9:30-11:30 a.m. - Creative Suite 4: How Creative Suite Design Premium enables a cross-media workflow
Adobe Creative Suite CS4 Extended allows you to do much more than build a brochure, a Web site, or a video file. During this session you will see how the various Creative Suite applications, such as Adobe Photoshop CS4, Adobe Illustrator CS4, Adobe InDesign CS4, Adobe Flash CS4, and Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 combine to allow you to tell your story to a variety of people in a variety of ways.

12:00–1:00 Lunch and Learn: Adobe’s eLearning tools—a platform to build on (free lunch provided)
Adobe Systems, Inc. is best known for Acrobat and our creative tools. However, we offer tools dedicated to the task of creating excellent eLearning and distance-learning projects. Whether you are responsible for campus-wide eLearning strategies or simply interested in creating simple, on-demand lessons, this session will give you some food for thought about how to quickly and effectively move your projects into the digital age.
 
1:30–3:30 Empowering Learning with PDF and Adobe Acrobat 9
Adobe Acrobat 9 allows you to rethink the term “document.” With PDF—the Portable Document Format—you have been able to collect a variety of document types together and deliver a complete, in-context package of information to tell your story. Whether it’s a class assignment package, an electronic dissertation, or a grant proposal, PDF is a great way to hand your content to others.

Seating is limited to 100, so secure a seat for one or all of the sessions today. http://webstore.illinois.edu/adobedayuic

Software WebStore is pleased to announce that Mathematica 7 is now available to download. As a current subscriber, you can download this new version by logging into WebStore at http://webstore.illinois.edu/, clicking on "My Software,” and selecting the invoice number of your existing order. If you have any questions, please email WebStore@illinois.edu.

Welcome to the WebStore Chicago users!

We have completed the consolidation project and the Chicago, Springfield and Urbana/Champaign campuses are now running off one WebStore storefront.

You will now notice all WebStore offers are displayed when you access the system. Please be aware that you may not be eligible for some of these offers and we have put UIC ONLY, UIS ONLY or UIUC ONLY to identify campus specific offers. If you login to the system you will only see offers you are eligible to purchase or download.

Please email any questions to webstore@illinois.edu

The WebStore will be offline on Monday, October 20, 2008 from 7:00am - 11:00am for a scheduled system upgrade.

After this upgrade is complete all University of Illinois - Chicago campus users will have access to the WebStore and be able to purchase/download products from this site.

Please email any questions or problems to webstore@illinois.edu

On September 23, 2008, Adobe announced the release of Creative Suite 4 (CS4). Products that will be updated are:

• After Effects
• Contribute
• Design Premium
• Design Standard
• Dreamweaver
• Fireworks
• Flash Professional
• Illustrator
• InDesign
• Master Collection
• Photoshop Extended
• Premiere Pro
• Production Premium
• SoundBooth
• Web Premium
• Web Standard

Release of the academic version of this software to the Software WebStore is not expected until November 1, 2008.

Customers who purchased maintenance on departmental licensed software will be contacted via email when updates are available.

Customers who purchased personal use licenses after the announcement are eligible for upgrades and will be contacted via email with instructions when they become available.

If you have any questions, please contact us at webstore@illinois.edu.

The Apple Maintenance Program (AMP) is no longer available from the Software WebStore. If you want to renew your AMP subscription please contact Central Stores at 244-0139 and please be aware that Apple has modified their requirements for this program going forward.

• The AMP is no longer available for personal machines and is only allowed for University owned machines. Any AMP purchase made from the WebStore using a personal credit card is not eligible for renewal and no student, staff or faculty personal machines can be covered under the AMP agreement going forward.

• You will no longer be allowed to download the program files to install the OSX, iLife or iWork and media purchase ($15 per application from Central Stores) will be required for all new version releases.

• Please review the Apple Education Volume License Price List for AMP program pricing.