The latest news from the Office of Information Technology
NACS is pleased to announce that a site license for ArcView GIS has been acquired and that the software is now available for distribution on campus. GIS, or Geographic Information Systems, is software that combines geographic information with data about that area, making the data more approachable and useful. See http://www.gis.com/whatisgis/index.html for more information on GIS.
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NACS is also pleased to announce that, through June 2002, SAS is available on the UCI campus at no cost to users. Also, a new version of SAS, Version 8.2, is available for you to install. You can check out the SAS 8.2 installation CDs (there are 5 CDs for the normal installation) at the [...]
Academic Senior Managers, School Computing Coordinators, and other interested parties on campus are invited to a presentation on the major changes and new programs Microsoft has introduced in its software purchase and licensing offerings. The presentation will be made on Wednesday, August 29, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the McDonnell-Douglas Engineering Auditorium.
Microsoft has made [...]
Many software applications are of sufficient popularity that the University can benefit from economies of scale. NACS for many years has negotiated and managed such bulk and site licenses on behalf of UCI, and as a participant in a UC-wide licensing effort.
Recently, NACS has improved the Web site devoted to communicating to faculty and staff [...]
During Spring quarter, faculty, research staff, and graduate students from a number of schools and departments attended a training workshop on the use of Mathematica, a comprehensive symbolic and numerical mathematics software package. The workshop was hosted by NACS and presented by Dr. Hooshang Tahsiri of California State University, Long Beach. With Mathematica, users can [...]