• October 23: Database Driven Web Pages at 3:00 PM
  Do you ever wish survey respondents could enter information themselves, or wish you could enter or access data remotely? With the explosion of information comes the difficulty of entering, accessing, and managing the data. Databases are one of the best tools for doing this job. The Web, in turn, has become a pre-eminent utility for information dissemination and ubiquitous access. This talk will provide an introduction and overview of two database programs (Microsoft Access and MySQL) and how to use the Web to interface with them. Topics will include SQL, HTML, ASP, CGI, scripting languages and environments (Perl, PHP, JavaScript, Basic), and Security, and resources for all of these topics.

• November 20: Introduction to Maple 8 at 3:00 PM
  This talk will provide an introduction and overview of Maple 8. Maple is technical software system for doing symbolic and numeric computation. It has both a text-based and graphical user interface, an extensible programming language, and sophisticated 2-D and 3-D plotting utilities. It also has word processing capabilities, export to HTML and Latex, and connectivity to Excel, Matlab, and external C-callable libraries.

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Reminder: SAS for the PC & Mac Licenses Expire October 15

If you are running SAS on your PC or Mac, please be advised that it will expire on Tuesday, October 15, if you have not updated your license file with help from the Research Computing Support Center. The U.Va. site license for SAS for many platforms has been renewed, tested and updated.

Email reminders have been sent out to all currently registered SAS for Windows, Macintosh, or Linux users at the University notifying them of the availability of the new 2002-2003 SETINIT license codes for their SAS software. Current SAS users who did not receive this notice or have misplaced it should contact the Research Computing Support Group either by visiting Wilson Hall, Room 244 between 9am and 5pm, Monday through Friday, by phoning 243-8800 or by sending email to res-consult@Virginia.EDU.

If you are interested in SAS or other Research Computing software, visit the Web page at
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/researchers/services.html

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BusinessMAP 3.0 Available

BusinessMAP 3.0 is a new mapping application from ESRI that transforms information from databases, contact managers, spreadsheets, and electronic phone books to pushpin and color-filled maps.

It will turn static data into meaningful images to help understand your business better and help with sales automation and mission-critical decision making processes.

Unlike street mapping programs, BusinessMAP 3.0 is designed for those who want to visualize unique business information by converting records from spreadsheets, contact managers, databases, and phone directories to symbols on a map. BusinessMAP 3.0 not only plots points on maps but also allows you to perform color-code analysis, geographic searches, territory design, and much more.

BusinessMAP 3.0 not only reads data from a number of programs but also integrates with popular contact managers such as ACT!, GoldMine, Outlook, Excel, and Maximizer. This integration capability enables you to launch BusinessMAP 3.0 from within your application.

For more information on BusinessMAP 3.0 at U.Va., visit http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/esri/bmap.html.

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LabView 6.1 Available

ITC is now distributing LabView version 6.1, the data acquisition/analysis and control software system, for all computer platforms. New features in the latest version of LabView include Web-based control, integrated networking, enhanced measurement analysis, event driven programming, and source code control integration. A detailed description of this upgrade can be found at the URL

http://amp.ni.com/niwc/labview/lv.jsp

Further information on how to obtain LabView at U.Va. can be found on the Research Computing Services Web page at

http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/labview

Specific questions about the upgrade as well general questions concerning the use of LabView should be directed to res-consult@virginia.edu.

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CS Department's "Top Gun" Distinguished Lecture Series

The U.Va. Computer Science Department continues their Top Gun Distinguished Lecture Series at 1 p.m. on Monday, October 14, with Malathi Veeraraghavan, Associate Professor, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY. Mr. Veeraraghavan will speak on "Enabling high-bandwidth applications using optical networks."

For more information on talks in this series and other colloquia, visit http://www.cs.virginia.edu/colloquia/

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National Instruments Brings ELVIS to Charlottesville

Representatives from National Instruments, the maker of LabView, will give a demonstration of their new product ELVIS (Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentaion Suite) on November 6, from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in the Research Computing Support Center (Wilson Hall, room 244).

ELVIS combines LabView data acquisition with laboratory instrumentation and this talk should be of particular interest to those who use LabView in teaching labs. This will also be an opportunity to discuss new features of our LabView campus-wide site license, details available at:

http://www.itc.Virginia.EDU/research/labview/

as well as a chance to meet our new National Instrument sales representative, Andy Watchorn.

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Call for Papers for the Maple Summer Workshop 2003

July 13-15, 2003
Wilfred Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Waterloo Maple announces a call for papers for the Maple Summer Workshop 2003. Deadline for submissions is February 7, 2003.

The Maple Summer Workshop is an annual international meeting that brings together members of the Maple community to share techniques and innovative uses of Maple in education, research, and industry.

The program committee welcomes papers on:

• Maple in education (all levels and disciplines)
• Maple and MapleNet in distance education and e-learning
• Applications of MapleNet
• Maple in mathematics research
• Applications of Maple in engineering and science

For more information on submission procedures and the Workshop, please visit http://www.maplesoft.com/msw

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Springer Verlag Mathematics Yellow Sale through 12/31/02

The University Bookstore is conducting its annual Springer Verlag MATHEMATICS Yellow Sale for Fall 2002. The sale will run through December 31, 2002.

Over 200 selected titles in mathematics and related areas of interest are available at substantial discounts off of the list prices.

Faculty, Staff, TA, and Departmental discounts apply in addition to Springer's discounts.

Keep an eye on their Web site (http://www.bookstore.virginia.edu) where they will soon have links to Springer's COMPUTERS, PHYSICS AND STATISTICS SALE Catalogs.

Questions: Contact the U.Va. Bookstore at 924-1073 or e-mail bookshop@virginia.edu.

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