Connect: Information Technology at NYU

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		Rapid Prototyping: Additive Technologies That Will Reshape Design & Manufacturing By Philip Galanter Whether invoked in the creation of works of fine art or products for mass consumption, the process of design is a cycle of activity that remains the same—even as new technologies and tools continue to emerge... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Inspiration, Innovation & Interactivity: The ITP Winter Show 2003 By Kate Monahan Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2004, NYU Tisch School of the Arts' Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) is dedicated to "the study and design of new media, computational media, and embedded computing under the umbrella of interactivity"... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		The Clerk's Tale: Digitizing Chaucer's Canterbury Tales By Matthew Zimmerman, with Martha Rust, David Hoover, and Carlos Garcia For the past four months, the Humanities Computing Group within ITS' Academic Computing Services has been providing technical support...in the development of an electronic edition of Chaucer's "The Clerk's Tale." ... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		ITS Supports NYU Global Affairs By John Bako and Ben Maddox In 1958, New York University created its first "Study Abroad" program in Madrid, Spain... Since then, NYU has opened centers in Florence, London, Paris, Prague, and Buenos Aires... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		The Wireless Arch: Handheld Devices & New Usability Heuristics By Joanna DiPasquale Do you have a hand-held wireless device, such as a Pocket PC or Palm organizer, that has a web browser? Are you glad to have web access, but frustrated that some sites don't seem to display properly or work well on your device? ... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		When Computer Viruses Strike: Based on a True Story–Don't Let this Happen to You! By Tracey Losco Nora-yin Ulysses is a typical student at NYU...One day, Nora came home from her job, turned on her computer and started a search on Google, when suddenly, to her surprise, her computer automatically rebooted... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Protect Your Privacy When Browsing the Web By Eduardo DeLeón When you use an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape to explore the Web, there is the potential risk that your private information could be captured... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		NYU-NET3: Our Third-Generation Campus Network By Jimmy Kyriannis NYU-NET, the campus-wide data communications network of New York University, was created in the early 1970s to support the computing and networking needs of the entire University... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		What's New in the ITS Student Computer Labs By Robyn Berland The all-digital Video Editing Lab at the ITS Third Avenue North Computer Lab, 75 Third Avenue, doubles as a teaching lab... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		High Performance Computing Rocks at NYU: A Look at Rocks Cluster Distribution for HPC Researchers By Will Wilson, Yingkai Zhang, and David Ackerman A Linux cluster is composed of two or more computers, each running the Linux open source operating system and connected in such a way that they collectively perform like a more powerful computer... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Federal Census Files By Frank LoPresti The first Federal Census was taken in 1790 under the auspices of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson... Read Article Online \| Download PDF Econometric Data Mining with PcGets By Robert Yaffee PcGets (PC General To Specific modeling)...is an econometric software modeling package that combines ease of data importation, user- friendliness, and powerful graphical capability with automated econometric modeling... Read Article Online \| Download PDF SAS Analyst: Simplifying Statistical Analyses By Frank LoPresti SAS Analyst, included in SAS Version 8 and 9 and available as an add-on to Release 6.12, is an application that provides easy access to basic statistical analyses, and has an SPSS feel... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Calabash: Preserving & Presenting an Online Journal By Joanna DiPasquale and Jennifer Vinopal In the spring of 2003, Bobst Library received a request to help a popular NYU print journal, Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters, "go digital." ... Read Article Online \| Download PDF ARTstor: A Digital Archive of Art Images for Study & Research By James Viskochil Anyone who has studied art history, even in recent years, probably recalls spending a lot of time searching for images of artwork in books, in journals, or in an art department's slide library... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		The 2003 ITS Client Satisfaction Survey By Jill Hochberg, with Ken Fauerbach and Jeffrey Lane In ITS, we have a tradition of paying close attention to client feedback and taking it seriously. There are many ways in which we've sought feedback in the past... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

		Did You Know...? The NYUHome spam filter; How to Download Symantec AntiVirus; The Connect-Direct electronic newsletter; NYU Voicemail; the ITS Staff Art Show and more... Read Article Online \| Download PDF

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