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Category: Academic Computing Services

Software Applications Available
at ITS and ITS-Affiliated Labs


The following table contains detailed information about the software applications available at the various ITS and ITS-affiliated computer labs. This table is a companion piece to the article by Robyn Berland which appeared in the Fall 2002 issue of Connect: "A Quick Reference Guide to Computer Facilities for NYU Faculty and Students". Click here to download a PDF version of the article (4.3MB PDF).

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Software

Description

Tips

Available Locations

Image Editing
Adobe Illustrator An advanced drawing application based on vector graphics. When using this sophisticated application, allow time to become familiar with the application's design environment and its rich suite of tools. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Adobe Photoshop A professional image editing application with a rich array of tools to create and manipulate images for print, the Web, and digital film. Beginner computer users can digitize photographs, drawings and other objects using flatbed scanners. Images can then be edited for print, animation, film and web publication. This software has great depth—allow ample time to acquire experience. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Macromedia Freehand A professional graphic design application with vector-based graphics. Provides the means to create artwork for web or print publications using sophisticated drawing tools. Allows image files to be exported across a wide array of file-types. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Video Editing & Post-Production
Apple iMovie A real-time video editing application that enables you to create QuickTime movies. This application is intended for the creation of small-scale (5-10 minutes) video projects. Its easy-to-use interface and excellent introductory tutorial make it perfect for newcomers to video editing. Video projects may be burned to CD-R or stored on a firewire drive if too large for a 100/250MB Zip disc. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Adobe Premiere A real-time video editing tool for creating video for DVD, videotape, the Web, and more. This application requires intermediate computer skills to create short, broadcast-quality video pieces (10-60 minutes). Its substantial learning curve makes this application difficult for the novice editor. Use mini-DV and firewire drives for this post-production work. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
Apple Final Cut Pro A professional real-time video editing application to produce video for videotape, the Web and more. Requires intermediate to advanced computer skills to create broadcast-quality video pieces up to 60 minutes in length. This program is relatively difficult to learn, so be sure to design your project based upon your skill level. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
Adobe After Effects Post-production tool to apply motion graphics and visual effects to film and/or video pieces. Use with an intermediate to advanced video editing program (Final Cut Pro, Premiere) to create of special effects and titles. Requires practice. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
EZ Cleaner 5 Compression program that prepares video and audio files for distinct delivery platforms. This is a relatively simple program to use for the compression of movies for output to the Web, CD, or DVD, or for presentations. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
iDVD A program that enables basic DVD authoring. A basic entry level program to create DVD-Rs with scene selection menus for playback on a computer or DVD player. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
Audio Editing
Macromedia
SoundEdit 16
Simple interface to create and edit audio for multimedia projects and the Web. This easy-to-use audio editing program can create and edit sound files for interactive presentations or multimedia websites and video pieces. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Peak Create and edit audio for multimedia projects and the Web. This is an audio editing program that offers more depth than Macromedia SoundEdit but is also relatively easy to use. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(On Video Editing Stations Only)
Music Composition
Finale Music-notation software. Create sheet music of original composition or transpose and edit existing compositions. ITS provides printing services for student's original compositions notated in Finale. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
(On Print Stations)
Sibelius Music-notation software. Create sheet music of original composition or transpose and edit existing compositions. ITS provides printing services for student's original compositions notated in Sibelius. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
(On Print Stations)
Desktop Publishing: Web & More...
Macromedia Dreamweaver Web-publishing software that can also create interactive environments. Creates web pages using a graphical interface. Compatible with Flash and Fireworks. Requires a basic understanding of web authoring concepts, i.e., HTML and directory structures. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Macromedia Authorware An authoring environment that provides tools to create computer-based multimedia learning and interactive environments. There's a relatively sharp learning curve, so allow ample time to become familiar with the authoring tools and additional time to create the multimedia content you will be using. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Adobe GoLive A web-publishing environment for the design and authoring of web pages and sites. This program is for non-programmers (HTML, Java) who would like to design and produce web pages. A robust tool kit helps novice web designers build interactive and multimedia-rich web pages. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Adobe ImageReady Prepare images for web publication. Novices can create simple web animations and JavaScript rollovers using images produced in Photoshop and other applications. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Macromedia Fireworks Tools to create, optimize and export interactive graphics for site development applications such as Dreamweaver and Flash. A more sophisticated toolkit than ImageReady that can be used to create buttons, rollover effects, and drop-down menus. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Macromedia Flash Tools for creating interactive multimedia web content that includes animations, graphics, and video. Enables the creation of web delivery interfaces for both education and commercial content. Requires a basic understanding of interface design and programming concepts. Flash v. 5 and MX reside on the Windows and Macintosh platforms, respectively. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Macromedia Director Multimedia tools for creating interactive presentations with sound, graphics, and animation. On the surface, Director is an easy-to-learn application for developing simple software interfaces for the Web, CD, or DVD. The program has a steep learning curve, however, if you wish to use its programming language to create interactive graphical user interfaces. Director is a good prototyping tool for software developers. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Bare Bones BBEdit A well-developed HTML and text editor. Invaluable as an HTML editor, the program can also be used to recover text formatted files that have become unrecognizable. We have integrated BBEdit into Dreamweaver as its HTML editor. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Desktop Publishing: In Print
Adobe PageMaker Page-layout and design program for desktop publishing. Easy to learn toolset to create a wide variety of publications from simple one-page flyers to complex reports. Pre-designed templates are available. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Adobe InDesign Page-layout and design environment for print and web publications. Intermediate computer skills recommended. Familiarity with Adobe applications levels the learning curve. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Quark XPress Passport Professional page-layout and design program for publications. Intermediate to expert page layout design environment for the composition and production of newspaper, magazine, web page and leaflet presentations. There is a steep learning curve, so take this into account when planning your time. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
(Limited Copies)
Internet & the World Wide Web
Microsoft Internet Explorer This client application locates and displays web content in graphical form. Plugins (helper applications) extend the display capabilities of the browser to multimedia files such as Flash, QuickTime movies, 3D graphics and much more. Microsoft Internet Explorer provides access to web servers on NYU-NET and around the world. Use it to access the main NYU Website (http://www.nyu.edu/); NYUHome (http://home.nyu.edu/); the ITS Website (http://www.nyu.edu/its/); and more. When developing a web page, view the page with both IE and Netscape to test how the web page will be displayed. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Netscape This client application locates and displays web content in graphical form. Plugins (helper applications) extend the display capabilities of the browser to multimedia files such as Flash, QuickTime movies, 3D graphics and much more. Netscape provides access to web servers on NYU-NET and around the world. Use it to access the main NYU Website (http://www.nyu.edu/); NYUHome (http://home.nyu.edu/); the ITS Website (http://www.nyu.edu/its/); and more. When developing a web page, view the page with both IE and Netscape to test how the web page will be displayed. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Fetch FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used on the Internet for transferring files between networked computers. Fetch is an FTP client program that runs on the Macintosh platform. Use Fetch to transfer files between a Macintosh computer and NYU-NET servers such as i5.nyu.edu and home.nyu.edu. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
WSFTP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used on the Internet for transferring files between networked computers. WS_FTP is a FTP client program that runs on the Microsoft Windows platform. Use WS_FTP to transfer files between an MS Windows computer and NYU-NET servers such as i5.nyu.edu and home.nyu.edu. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
MacSSH Telnet A terminal emulation program for TCP/IP networks such as the Internet, MacSSH is a client application for Macintosh that securely connects the computer to a network server. MacSSH establishes a secure connection to the server, encrypting the entire session and protecting personal information from being hijacked. MacSSH provides the ability to log on to NYU network servers such as i5.nyu.edu from a remote Macintosh. You must have an account on the NYU-NET server to establish a telnet or FTP session. To establish a connection to a server outside the NYU network, you must first establish a telnet session to an NYU-NET server and then telnet out from the command line. Telnet can be used to surf the Internet using its text-only interface. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Putty Telnet A terminal emulation program for TCP/IP networks such as the Internet. Putty establishes a secure connection for a Windows machine to a server by encrypting the entire session, including your password. Putty provides the ability to log onto NYU network servers such as i5.nyu.edu from a remote PC. You must have an account on these servers to establish a telnet session. Telnet can be used to surf the Internet in a text-only interface. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Word Processing & Office Productivity Tools & More...
Microsoft Office 2001 Microsoft Word (word processing), Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet and database), and Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation) software. The most important aspect of using Microsoft Office applications is that PowerPoint, Excel and Word documents can travel between Macintosh and Windows computers quite easily. To maximize interoperability, use a PC-formatted disk (Zip or floppy). Macintosh computers can read PC-formatted disks but not the reverse. When using a non-Microsoft word processor, such as WordPerfect or AppleWorks, save the file as an RTF (Rich Text Format). RTF will preserve the structure of the document, including formatting and fonts. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Microsoft Office XP Microsoft Word (word processing), Microsoft Excel (spreadsheet and database), Microsoft Access (database management), and Microsoft PowerPoint (presentation) software. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
NJStar Word-processor for the Japanese and Chinese languages. Write Chinese and Japanese letters using your everyday Windows word processor, add Chinese and Japanese columns to your spreadsheet, prepare flyers for your upcoming events using MS Word. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
TextBridge Professional Optical Character Reader Use in conjunction with a flatbed scanner to convert hard copy text to a digitally editable document. Text scanned in with TextBridge can be modified in a text editing program such as Microsoft Word. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
FinalDraft A screenwriting software package. Provides a standard template for scriptwriting. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
(Limited Copies)
Microsoft Visio A visualization toolkit for the planning, understanding, and communication of processes, systems, organizations, and concepts. Used as a visualization tool to: understand complex social, economic, organizational and other structures and processes; plan solutions; and present concepts to others. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Programming
Borland C++ Computer programming in C++ language. Create programs using the development language C++ in a user-friendly environment. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Microsoft Visual Studio A comprehensive toolkit for rapidly building and integrating XML web services, Microsoft Windows-based applications, and web-based delivery. Use Visual Studio to develop applications and interfaces for the Web and Microsoft Windows. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place (Win)
Third Avenue North (Win)
Jcreator Software development environment using Java programming language. Use this tool to edit and create Java scripts. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
Ubasic BASIC programming-like environment that is suitable for number theoretic investigations. Supports bignums, fractions, complex numbers, polynomials, and integer factorization. It runs under MS-DOS and is written in assembly language. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Mathematics & Engineering
Mathworks MATLAB Integrates mathematical computing, visualization, and a powerful language to provide a flexible environment for technical computing. MATLAB is used in a variety of application areas, including signal and image processing, control system design, earth and life sciences, finance and economics, and instrumentation. It is used to model systems and visualize data that identifies subtle phenomena. MATLAB v 5 and v 6.5 reside on the Macintosh and Windows platforms, respectively. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Key Curriculum Press Geometer Sketchpad Creates a dynamic visualization environment for the study of mathematical concepts. A dynamic visual environment designed to allow students to construct and explore Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometry, algebra, trigonometry, precalculus, and calculus. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
MacKichan
Scientific WorkPlace
Word processing and publishing software for mathematical and scientific text. Authors of scientific and mathematical texts use this specialized word processor for its built-in computer algebra system. 14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
SolidWorks Three dimensional CAD (computer-aided design) presentation application. A suite of tools used by engineering students to design, analyze and present original product designs from cars to kinetic sculptures. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Cadence PCB
PSpice
Simulator for analog designers. Simulation of high-frequency systems to low-power IC designs, with the ability to run "what if" scenarios. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Statistics & Mapping
SAS A powerful, comprehensive statistics package for analysis and data manipulation. Provides tools essential for mastering the four data-driven tasks common to virtually any statistical study: data access, management, analysis, and presentation. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
SPSS A powerful, comprehensive statistics package for analysis and data manipulation. Easiest of the stats packages to learn. Used for statistical analysis of a wide range of commercial and public sector organizations. Excellent for organizing, analyzing and presenting statistical data for Customer analytics, higher education applications, scientific research and web analysis. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Stata A powerful, comprehensive statistics package for analysis and data manipulation. Used by medical researchers, biostatisticians, epidemiologists, economists, sociologists, political scientists, geographers, psychologists, social scientists, and other research professionals needing to analyze data. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
LISREL Used for formulating, fitting, and testing structural equation models. A program for estimating the coefficients in a set of structural equations. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
HLM For statistical analysis of Hierarchical Data Structures. HLM allows for the statistical modeling of two- and three-level data structures. Used for estimating multivariate linear models from incomplete data. This includes unrestricted models, random-effects models, auto-correlated within-subject errors, heterogeneous within-subject variances; multivariate and multilevel models. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
ArcView Geographic Information System that maps statistical data across geographic terrains. More respected than MapInfo. Access records from existing databases and display the data geographically on maps. Create interactive displays by linking charts, tables, drawings, photographs, and other files. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
MapInfo Geographic Information System that maps statistical data across geographic terrains. Create highly detailed maps to enhance presentations and aid in decision making; perform sophisticated and extensive data analysis; understand customer and marketplace demographics; and manage geographically-based assets, such as stores, people and property. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Minitab A powerful, comprehensive statistics package for analysis and data manipulation that has a larger user base than SPSS. Used to analyze data from a wide range of parameters from basic analysis of statistics and analysis of variance to reliability and survival analysis. The software package assists greatly with the design of the experiment using an intuitive graphic interface. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
S-PLUS A powerful, comprehensive statistics package for analysis and data manipulation. More respected than SPSS. Advanced customizable data graphing program with unique Trellis graphics that allow you to present large, multi-dimensional data sets in enlightening ways. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Latent Gold Latent Class modeling software. Focuses on the three most important kinds of statistical models used in practice: cluster, factor, and regression. Best program for Latent class (LC) modeling, also known as Finite Mixture Modeling. Provides a powerful way of identifying latent groups (types) for which parameters in a specified model differ. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
ATLAS.ti Toolkit for the Qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio, and video data. Analytical tools that can be used on data collections (audio, video, graphics, text, etc.) that cannot be analyzed using formal statistical approaches. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Nutrition
Food Processor Nutrition analysis software that gives you access to the most often used nutrient databases in the world. Valuable in analyzing diet variables for individuals and across population groups. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Business Management
Quickbooks 99 Pro Business accounting software. Business accounting and management tools that help maintain financial control and improve productivity. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
HOM
Educational Software
Used to facilitate the analysis and solutions of operating problems encountered by managers in service and manufacturing organizations. Stern School of Business students use this software in their Competitive Advantage from Operations program. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Utilities
Adobe Acrobat Reader A document reader for the secure and uneditable viewing of PDF (Portable Document Format) files. This software is freeware and can be downloaded from the Web. Viewing PDF files such as manuals and articles available on the Web. Excerpts may be copied and referenced as well as full documents downloaded for future reference. These reference materials can remain in digital form for future reference in scholarly works, reducing paper use and contributing to our Save a Tree campaign. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Acrobat Distiller Converts postscript (PS) files to PDF (Portable Document Format) file format. Useful for publishing documents on the Web. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
StuffIt Expander File decompression utility for the Macintosh platform. Decompresses .hex, .bin, .sit, and .zip files that may be downloaded from the Internet or another source. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
WinZip File compression/decompression utility Data compression allows data to be stored in a smaller space while retaining all information. Use when transferring files over the Internet and to other media when space is limited. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Win)
Windows
Media Player
Plays audio/video content from the Web and other sources. Windows-centric audio/video media player. Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Third Avenue North Lab (Win)
Apple QuickTime Player Plays audio/video content from the Web and other sources. Plays QuickTime-authored media content. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
RealMedia
RealPlayer
Plays audio/video content from the Web and other sources. Plays RealMedia audio and video files. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
Apple iTunes An easy-to-use application environment to import music CDs as MP3 files, create playlists, listen to music, and create customized audio CDs for personal use. This is a great application to use for practicing a second language. Record your own practice playlists in MP3 format. Don't forget to request permission to use copyrighted materials. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)
Norton AntiVirus Computer anti-virus software that helps prevent files and computers from being infected detecting and removing the virus or deleting the infected file if it cannot be safely removed. Excellent virus scanning utility. When a virus is detected, Norton removes the virus or deletes the file if it cannot be safely removed. This software is available on the NYU-NET CD. Install it and protect your work. Viruses can be transmitted from sources such as the Internet, e-mail attachments, and infected computers. It is also available at: http://www.nyu.edu/its/software/. Multimedia Lab (Mac)
Third Avenue North Lab (Mac/Win)
Tisch Hall LC8 Lab (Win)
14 Washington Place Lab (Win)
CAS Learning Center Lab (Mac)
80 Lafayette Lab (Mac)

Author Biography

Robyn Berland is the Computer Lab Manager of the ITS Multimedia Lab at 35 West 4th Street, 2nd Floor. She can be reached at robyn.berland@nyu.edu.


 
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