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SSC News, March, 1995
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This is the SSC News. This monthly electronic newsletter will keep you
informed about recent changes on the SSC computer networks. We hope
this information will help improve communication between the SSC
computing staff and all of you computer users out there.
Inside this issue...
SSC Spring Training Schedule
New CDE Working Papers That May Be of Interest
Welcome Our New Network Manager
Computer Room Remodeling
Computer Print Out Wastage
SSC Exchange
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SSC Spring Training Schedule
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Note: All SSC training sessions now require preregistration. If no one has
preregistered for a course one week prior to its start date, the class may
be cancelled. To preregister for a class, send mail to SSCCLASS indicating
which class(es) you plan to attend. You will be reminded about your pre-
registration through e-mail a day or two before the class begins.
Date Time Topic Room Instructor
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3/8 W 3:30-4:30 WWW and its browsers (Mosaic,Lynx,etc..) 4452 Brand
3/9 R 3:30-4:30 Working with the NSFH Data 3432 Sweet
3/20-29 MW 12:00-1:30 Intro to SAS 3432 McDermott
3/22 W 3:30-4:30 Internet Tools including FTP and TELNET 4452 Sandor
4/6 R 3:00-4:30 Intro to SPSS 4452 Brandreth
4/11,18 T 2:30-4:00 Intro to SAS/GRAPH 3432 Brown
4/12 W 12:00-1:00 Working with the PSID Data 3432 Dechter
4/19 W 12:00-1:00 Moving ASCII Data Hither and Yonder 4452 Cooper/McD
4/21 F 12:00-1:00 Moving Binary Data Hither and Yonder 4452 Cooper/McD
4/26 W 12:00-1:30 Categorical Analyses in SAS 4452 McDermott
TBA Intro to NCD X Terminals on VMS 2470 Flory
TBA Intro to NCD X Terminals on UNIX 2470 McDermott
TBA Extracting Data Interactively w/ BADGER 2470 Fassnacht
Descriptions for each of the above training sessions is posted in SSCGOPHER.
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New CDE Working Papers That May Be of Interest
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SSC staff member, Nancy McDermott, and former SSC p.a. consultant, Cynthia
White, have contributed three papers to the CDE Working Papers Series that
may be of interest to SSC members:
"A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Statistical Software for Computing a
Logistic Regression" (#94-27)
"A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Statistical Software for Computing
Loglinear Models" (#94-28)
"A Comparative Evaluation of Selected Statistical Software for Computing
Multinomial Models" (#95-01)
These papers are available from the CDE office or from Nancy McDermott in
Social Science 4406.
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Welcome Our New Network Manager
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Patricia Kovatch joined the SSC staff last month as our new Network Manager.
Patricia was previously the Network Administrator for the University of
Wisconsin - Eau Claire. Patricia will play an integral part in the
planning and implementation of improvements to our network which have been
made possible through the NFS Instrumentation Grant that was recently awarded
the SSC Co-op. Patricia's office is Soc. Sci. 2416. Please drop by and
welcome her.
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Computer Room Remodeling
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You may have noticed that the Computer Room (4411 Soc Sci) is under
construction. The project was made possible by a university grant for
remodeling projects under $30,000.
The project includes:
* Re-surfacing the computer room floor.
* Installing an ID-card reader system to allow 24-hour access to
the I/O room (4411A) and User Room (2470) for SSC users.
* Carpeting the I/O room.
We expect the remodeling projects to be completed by Physical Plant in the next
few weeks. The ID-card system needs to be configured after it is installed; we
expect this will take at least a month.
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Computer Print Out Wastage
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We are wasting soooo much paper, guys! Every week (and, yes, it's getting
worse) the operator throws out tons of computer output that users are not
picking up from the I/O room. Last fiscal year (July 1-June 30) we spent
around $7,000 for paper! And, this year we've already spent $5,000! Please
think twice before you print.
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SSC Exchange
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