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1. Figure 1 In this example of KeyStroke s output the original LiveInput a QuickTime movie left is patched to a DSP Modifier Cropper The resulting effect or scaled up image is displayed on the right Connect Information Technology at NYU active performance technologies in both physical and virtual spaces According to Ms Doruff KeyStroke promises optimal real time synthesis of all digital media in a shared collabo rative environment WHAT Is KEYSTROKE In a nutshell KeyStroke is a media processing tool It is a tool designed for artists and media pro fessionals in disciplines ranging from music theatre dance and per formance art to video art graphic design and architecture who wish to work collaboratively and in real time over local and non local net works It s a powerful live and or per formance tool for interactive and interdisciplinary work which allows communities of players to dynamical ly control and modify all aspects of digitized media in a collaborative per formance KeyStroke allows multiple play ers or users to generate synthesize and process images sounds and text together in real time within a shared virtual multi user environment or shared virtual space The concept of a i i Menu bar 2 Live inputs 9 Editing Screen 3 Generator Inputs 8 into Field 4 Library File inputs 5 Modifiers virtual multi user environment a
2. The input options consist of live or recorded video or audio real time Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI keystrokes from a computer keyboard and mouse movement MIDI Movie Player 2 dancer movie visible Sposition play start play length loop enable volume pan video out vides trigger input for example can originate from traditional MIDI instruments or from wireless sensors attached to the dancers The program then represents the pieces of input on the screen as a set of building blocks that you drag onto the computer canvas and connect in the desired pattern Figure 1 shows a small network of three connected building blocks from the demo supplied with a program called Isadora from Troika Tronix The outputs from one unit are connected to the input of another The program allows you to use the mouse to control the location of the playhead forward or backward at whatever speed you like in a QuickTime movie It takes input from the mouse in the Mouse Watcher module and the QuickTime movie in the Movie Player module and sends it to be displayed by the Projector module CREATE CONTROL There are many types of technology that can be used to help create a dance performance or piece There are pack ages used for virtual lighting design cue storage lighting control and other production related tasks There are proposed extensions to MIDI for this need including MacLux Virtual Ligh
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4. onnect C Information Technology at NYU Volume 13 Number 1 Fall 2002 ER h on a a Be Sd ee ae a cP Recorded ee ee ITS Collaborates with the MTA KeyStroke Multimedia Software News from the ITS Computer Labs Also in this issue Guides to NYUHome Version 3 0 NYU DIAL and NYU Forums NYU Blackboard Survey Results e Creating User Friendly Online Tutorials Scientific Computing amp Visualization ITS Computer Support Services e And more onnect Information Technology at NYU Welcome to the Fall 2002 edition of Connect This issue of Connect addresses a rich diversity of top ics including recent developments in the use of technolo gy in the Arts and the Sciences at NYU explorations of several of the advanced services offered through the NYU Libraries guides to some of the most robust technological tools and services available to the NYU community perti nent news items announcements of expanded and enhanced service offerings and reports on ground break ing collaborative projects between NYU and other presti gious institutions I especially enjoyed working on an issue that encom passes such a wide range of the innovative uses of tech nology that take place at our University every day I hope that you will enjoy this issue of Connect as much as I have About Connect Connect Information Technology at NYU is edited and published by New York University s Information Technology Services ITS Its
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6. 200 four processor CPU dedicated to light weight computing e mail and web browsing This has been replaced by a more powerful two processor Origin200 which we ve dubbed feyn man The four processor Origin200 neumann has been upgraded and is a useful compute engine The SCIVIS Scientific Visualiza tion cluster which offers graphics and videographics resources high performance graphics workstations and visualization along with staff to assist in their use has been enlarged and upgraded The file server is the 360 MHz _four R12000 processor Origin200 riemann It has 1 5 GB of memory and 137 GB of disk space The speed of computation has been increased by a factor of 2 5 The laboratory housing the work stations associated with riemann is now located at 14 Washington Place The equipment in the lab consists of two 360 MHz two processor Octanes two 175 MHz two processor Octanes two 225 MHz one processor Octanes three SGI O2 s and one 180 MHz Indigo with Impact graphics SCIHPC Scientific High Perform ance Computing provides research and instruction in parallel computing environments along with shared memory high performance systems It includes the eight processor Origin 2000 friedman which has 5 6 GB of main memory Each processor comes with a 4 MB L2 cache Parallel computing is made available through the use of MPI and OpenMP A new 600 MHz Origingoo is being inst
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9. are recorded in a data file that is avail able to the researcher via the website Finally the professional subscription allows data to be downloaded into an Excel format which can be used with most statistical software packages When to Use SurveyMonkey or Other Web Based Survey Administration Sites Before researchers use Survey Monkey or other web based survey Connect Information Technology at NYU administration sites to collect their data a few issues deserve considera tion For example respondents must possess at least a basic understanding of computers and the Internet in order to complete the questionnaire Respondents must also have the ability to access the World Wide Web In addition they must be able to understand the questions on their own since they will presumably be completing the survey at a site differ ent from the researcher Because these requirements restrict the kinds of respondents available for the study researchers must be certain that the goals of their study can still be met without including respondents that do not have the ability to complete web based surveys for any reason Finally a word of caution to enthu siastic readers regarding Survey Monkey while it shows promise in offering a convenient and reliable method in collecting data via the Web the authors tested the site using only a 10 question survey and collecting only 10 responses While the site was flaw less in collecting
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15. Information Technology at NYU iied TOOT Leaping into Dance Technology Jeffrey Bary jeffrey bary nyu edu ance Technology extends the D vocabulary of dance creation and performance It allows a choreographer to create and see a dance without requiring real dancers to be present The lighting and set designer and the composer can use the actual movement of the dancers to create queue and compose the light ing and music for the piece or installa tion Musicians can control the light ing or artists in a distant location can use the Internet to interact with the dancers during the performance Performance tools are divided into two major groups those that are an explicit part of the performance and those that are used to help create design construct or control some aspect of the piece Mouse Watcher modifiers limit horz limit vert horz pos 74 vert pos 35 triqger VIDEO amp AUDIO MANIPULATION Many of these performance tools share a common style of interface Like Tinkertoys you use a set of basic functional units to make many differ ent constructions In the case of these computer based Tinkertoys these units have to do with input choices manipulation of the input stream and output of the final product Current options include programs like Isadora KeyStroke See KeyStroke Workshop at NYU on page 8 of this issue Max MSP Max Very Nervous System Image ine Jitter and EyesWeb
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18. an altitude of 8 650 feet in the Jemez Mountains near Los Alamos New Mexico and consists of a man made pond that is 25 feet deep and the size of a football field see Figure 1 The pond is filled with water and particle detectors see Figure 2 When a VHE gamma ray hits the top of the Earth s atmosphere it interacts with particles in the atmos phere and produces more particles These secondary particles in turn interact to produce more particles Figure 1 The MILAGRO detector is located high in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico Connect Information Technology at NYU Figure 2 Physicists at work in the MILAGRO detector pond shown partially full here generating a large cascade When these particles hit the pond detectors their number and arrival time allow the scientists to reconstruct the arrival direction and energy of the original VHE ray One of the most interesting aspects of the MILAGRO project is that it can be remotely controlled For example as Dr Mincer was contributing to this article from the Los Alamos National Laboratory he was paged by one of the experiment s computers and told that a high voltage channel had turned off He went to the website to find which channel had turned off then logged on to the control program and reset that channel This remote monitoring is much more efficient than having to take the 45 minute drive to the detector site to switch on the voltage and is certain
19. exemplary innovation using the Internet for community service The prize is named for Dr George Sadowsky a former Director in ITS who recently retired after devoting a decade of work to technology leadership at NYU Dr Sadowsky continues to be very active in bringing the Internet to places across the planet where it can aid in the development of people and countries The recipient of the 2002 George Sadowsky Prize is Catherine P Coleman an undergraduate student entering her soph omore year at NYU Catherine is a member of the University Scholars group and is pursuing a degree in Secondary Education with the goal of teaching Mathematics As a freshman Catherine showed incredible leadership in researching and organizing local involvement in a recurring national community service event called The 30 Hour Famine http www 3ohourfamine org Participants actively collect donations to help needy children and families in Africa Latin American Asia and the United States and then fast and take part in community service activities throughout the 30 hour period Catherine organized this event twice in 2002 each time gathering approximately 20 classmates to participate All of the planning recruiting and organizing for these events was implemented online through e mail and listservs ITS congratulates Catherine on her impressive work and for her use of technology to benefit our community and the world NYU faculty staff and administrators are e
20. has grown to handle iad Limdep Untitled Project many of the kinds of problems con fronting social science modelers INSTALLATION amp INVOCATION Installing and running LIMDEP is very easy Once the file is copied to a folder and the Windows Setup Wizard is activated installation takes place in the selected folder After the user dou ble clicks on the LIMDEP icon that appears the window shown in Figure 1 is displayed on the computer screen PROGRAM PREPARATION SUBMISSION amp INTERPRETATION When users click on File New a pop up window offers the option of a Text Command Document as shown in Figure 2 After selecting this option the navigation and command windows shown in Figure 3 appear and users can write their program there To submit the program for exe cution they can select all of it from the edit menu and then click on the green Go button After the program E G Matrices C Scalars Strings Figure 1 LIMDEP Windows Interface Connect Information Technology at NYU Figure 2 Pop up Text Command Window is processed users may print out its output and graphs The LIMDEP interface includes a trace window which tracks the com putations that the program has done and an output window that contains all results The trace window displays the log of the processing of the sub mitted program commands and pro vides warning and error diagnostics to assist programmers in debuggin
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24. libraries and educational institutions After several months of discussion with librarians and musicologists New World Records also realized that there was a great unmet demand for im proved integrated means of access to both high quality music and related materials New World Records thus embarked on developing the Database of Recorded American Music DRAM as an entirely new way to deliver its extensive collection of recordings They also decided that this venture into the use of new information technologies would be more successful if undertaken together with a university with experi ence in developing information systems And so it came to be in 2000 that New World Records began a partner ship with the New York University Libraries to develop DRAM with financial support from both the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation DRAM NAPSTER MEETS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY There have already been a variety of efforts both commercial and non com mercial to deliver music over the Internet including centralized systems such as Napster MusicNet and Press Connect Information Technology at NYU Play and P2P software such as KaZaA Morpheus and Gnutella While these systems have been successful in mak ing large amounts of music available to consumers they suffer from a variety of defects The quality of audio files can vary tremendously depending on their source All of the systems are inade q
25. not complete several classes of mod els have been omitted for lack of space here Nonetheless if the menu of preprogrammed estimators proves inadequate users may write their own estimation programs using LIMDEP s Maximize command to specify their own likelihood function or other estimation criterion User written programs may include sub routines with adjustable parameters lle manands are entered in this P TEE ee eee eee eee gt RESET gt RESET gt LOAD file D vork shaasie lpj Figure 5 Discrete Choice Library loops matrix and data manipulation commands and so on STATISTICAL ACCURACY Users of popular statistical pack ages must be concerned with accuracy LIMDEP performs well with data sets used by The National Institute of Standards and Technology These Reference Statistical Data Sets are used to evaluate computational accu racy in univariate procedures one way ANOVAs and linear and nonlinear regression models e to test univariate computation Michelson Morley data on the speed of light e to test ANOVA procedures the NIST data on the atomic weight of silver to compare the linear regression output Norris data on calibration of ozone monitors and e to compare nonlinear regression computation Dan Wood s data Comparisons of LIMDEP 8 0 with SAS 8 2 for Windows STATA Special Edition for Windows S PLUS 6 0 for Windows and SPSS 11 0 for Windows were perform
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28. these limited amounts of data we can offer no guar antee as to its effectiveness in collect ing larger amounts of data using longer surveys Interested researchers should take the time to explore the effectiveness of this site and deter mine for themselves whether or not it is capable of meeting the needs of their specific research projects For additional information on col lecting data over the Web see this author s previous article on the subject in the Fall 2000 Connect http www nyu edu its connect archives oofall loprestide html Frank LoPresti heads the Social Science Statisties amp Mapping Group of Academic Computing Services at ITS Sean Fischer is an NYU student working with the ITS Social Science Statistics amp Mapping Group Welcome to Your New Home Your Guide to NYUHome Version 3 0 Michael Puskar michael puskar nyu edu he recently released NYUHome version 3 0 includes a variety of innovations and improve ments An integral part of the new ver sion is an upgraded mail server In a lit tle more than three years e mail at NYU has been transformed from a ter minal based text only mail program NYUHome s predecessor to the new NYUHome a full featured university portal and web based mail server Select Folder Select t S 0S From Random E mailer A Random E mailer Random E mailer Random E maiier Random E mailer Random E mailer Random E mailer Random E mai
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30. Administrator may subscribe the appropriate individuals 3 Private The list has restrict ed membership but an individ ual may request permission to subscribe The List Administra tor reviews each subscription request Depending on the way the privacy restrictions are set up when you first subscribe to a forum you will receive an e mail that contains either 1 A welcame message if the list is open to anyone 2 A message saying that the forum is closed and only an Administrator can add mem bers if the list is closed 3 A message saying that your request must first be approved by the list administrator if the list is private If you know the name of a list you wish to join a quick way to subscribe is to send an e mail to join listmame forums nyu edu where listname is the name of the list For example say you wanted to join the jazztalk forum You would send an e mail to Join jazztalk forums nyu edu TROUBLESHOOTING Your NYU FORUMS SUBSCRIPTIONS Error Messages Lyris scans all incoming messages before it distributes them to a forum If the message cannot be delivered Lyris will send back an error message A common error message you may receive says that your message could not be delivered because you are not a member of the forum Certain forums are set up so that only subscribed members are able to post while others allow posting from members and non members If
31. Check to make sure that the phone line is properly con nected to the modem and make sure the phone line has a dial tone plug a phone into that line and pick up the handset to listen for a dial tone 5 Connection established suc cessfully but cannot browse websites or check e mail This is usually due to errors in configu ration of the dial up connection Check the dial up settings to make sure they are correct then try dial ing again This could also be a sign that the PPP protocol on the local modem is not working properly try resetting the modem 6 Disconnects after Verifying username and password This is usually a sign that either the username or the password you entered does not match what we have on record check the user name and password You can also try changing your password and then dialing up again 7 In Windows using Novell to mount shared drives Some clients who report that they cannot establish a DIAL connection from their laptops to NYU NET also use Novell to mount shared drives In the Network control panel make sure you set TCP IP gt Dial up Adapter to be your default proto col and set the Primary Network Logon to Client for Microsoft Networks 8 There is no answer This error can be displayed for different rea sons The DIAL service may be at capacity and unable to accept more connections Or your com puter may not be dialing the cor rect area code check to make
32. ITS website com ing later this fall We encourage you to share your feedback on our current publications and your ideas for future offerings THE NYU NET CD Produced each year the free NYU NET CD provides NYU community members with licensed software and shareware to download and docu mentation to help connect to NYU NET The 2002 2003 NYU NET CD includes Norton AntiVirus Internet browsers RealPlayer Adobe Acrobat Reader Eudora SSH StuffIt Expan der WinZip WS_FTP Fetch and more Detailed instructions for con Connect Information Technology at NYU figuring your modem connection using Proxy and FAQs are also pro vided THE ITS WEBSITE amp NYUHoME Redesigned for late in the Fall 2002 semester the ITS website http www nyu edu its offers detailed information step by step instructions and online access to many ITS services as well as elec tronic versions of many of our publi cations A wide range of online help documentation has also been devel oped by ITS eServices at times with the assistance of the ITS Publications Group and is available through NYUHome at http home nyu edu help THE NYU DIRECTORY The NYU Directory is a collabora tive effort among ITS Client Services eServices and Telecommunications Services This telephone directory of NYU faculty staff and administra tors is distributed each academic year To request copies of the directo ry for new employees contact Cen
33. Ken Fauerbach Sean Fischer Jodi Goldberg Marc Grayson Candice Gruver William Greene Jill Hochberg Antonio Lopez Frank LoPresti Jerome McDonough Allen Mincer Joan Pirundini Michael Puskar Nadaleen Tempelman Kluit Alexandar Tzanov Jed Weaver Robert Yaffee and Matthew Zimmerman Thanks also to David Ackerman Will Arnold Doug Carlson Lucinda Covert Vail Jeffrey Lane Carol Mandel Marilyn McMillan Carole Rowe Laura Tretner and Kent Underwood http www nyu edu its connect Copyright 2002 New York University Computing in the Arts gt Leaping into Dance Technology BY Jeffrey Bay vec ithn bach tea piens ys 2 gt KeyStroke Workshop at NYU By JOd WEAVER ive nicue vee e seen eens 8 ITS Client Services gt ITS Computer Support Service At Y r DESK uct wes cuca eee ees 5 gt Improve Your Relationship with NYU DIAL Tips and Troubleshooting for All Users By Eduardo De Leon osassunannan 14 gt The ITS Client Services Center amp ITS Computer Labs Expanded Hours Expanded Service By Ken Fauerbach oi ioari traniem i eee 45 gt The ITS Publications Group By Candice Gruver with Jill Hochberg and Kate Monahan 0 0 0c cc eee 34 ITS Computer Labs gt A New Look for the ITS Tisch Hall Computer Lab BY JOA DIROT iiss wicca cnn abe wens 17 gt A Quick Reference Guide to Computer Facilities for NYU Faculty and Students By Robyn Berland era irera cece 32 ITS eService
34. Menu List Administrators will now see an empty text box at the top of the Members page that may be used to perform quick searches of the member list This feature is extremely useful for forums with many subscribers A List Admin istrator may edit a member s set tings or remove a member from the list Please note that this text box should not be used for adding members to a forum Click on the Create Member or Create Many Members button to add new members to the forum 2 New Mail Merge Tags Mail merge tags are used in Hello documents the welcome message a new subscriber receives and allow for the person alization of a message using a sub scriber s individual settings They can also be used in any message you send to your forum Many of the mail merge tags were updated during the software upgrade Information regarding the up dates is available at http forums nyu edu lyris help mailmergeshorttags html TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR NYU Forum Deleting Members Who Bounce Mail As you know Lyris sends an error message to you when mail sent to a member s address bounces The error message usually provides informa tion as to why the message has bounced In the notification you will be shown a two line command to delete the member s address from your list and instructed to send this command to lyris forums nyu edu Or you Connect Information Technology at NYU can log into the web interf
35. PY can act in the same way as the SAS Import Wizard but it permits file conversion between a greater variety of programs and large data sets In converting a file DBMS COPY creates a copy of the original and con verts the copy so that the original unconverted file remains saved DBMS COPY also provides greater editing capa bility and filtering and can also be useful when SAS Import Wizard fails to import text variables Excerpted and adapted from an article by Mare Grayson May 2002 A full copy of this article can be found on the ITS Social Science Statistics and Mapping Group s website http www nyu edu its socsci Docs Import2SAS pdf See also the two articles from ITS Social Science Statistics and Mapping Group members in this issue A Review of LIMDEP 8 0 by William Greene and Robert Yaffee on p 36 and Inputting Questionnaires into Data Sets by Frank LoPresti and Sean Fischer on p 40 n O Marc Grayson is currently an undergraduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences and is also an intern with the ITS Social ia Science Statistics and Mapping Group at NYU 5 P Connect Information Technology at NYU 3 5 36 A Review of LIMDEP 8 0 A Powerful and Versatile Package for Econometric Analysis William Greene and Robert Yaffee wgreene stern nyu edu robert yaffee nyu edu IMDEP 8 0 is a new version of a powerful statistical package used to analyze linear and nonlinear regression models for cross sectional p
36. Trend Micro Anti Virus software on Lyris mail server to track and clean infected mail messages before they are distributed to any forum Very minimal changes were made to the front end web interface However the upgrade added two notable features to the forum admin istration that benefit all List Administrators The first provides better control over the Members list and the second provides new mail merge tags for message customiza tion These features are covered in more detail in the second section of this article We hope that you find NYU Forums to be a convenient and effec tive tool for facilitating all of your communication needs here at the University If you are interested in creating a forum please visit http www nyu edu its lists If you have questions or com ments after reading this article or when using NYU Forums please write to admin forums nyu edu We welcome your feedback This article is divided into two main sections Information for NYU Forums Subscribers and Information for List Administrators SECTION ONE INFORMATION FOR NYU FORUMS SUBSCRIBERS NYUHOME AND NYU Forums Accessing the forums to which you belong is as easy as logging into your NYUHome account and visiting the Forums channel in the Home tab All of your forums should be listed there If you subscribe to a forum with your preferred e mail address the one used for official NYU e mail corre spondence and listed in the onli
37. YSTEMS The process of notating a dance piece and then transferring it to a 3D animation package has been partly automated in software packages for motion tracking and capture Some systems rely on multiple video cam eras to capture a movement sequence and then post process it Dancers wear special clothing or markers that are interpreted by the analysis soft ware This is the easier and more pop ular type of system Other packages require the dancers to be fitted with devices called goniometers to meas ure and report actual body position While these can be quite accurate they are difficult to fit and calibrate Even the most sophisticated motion capture systems require the choreographer to carefully correct the computed result This is because it is quite hard to compute 3D locations with certainty as the markers are typ ically no larger than a ping pong ball The corrected output can then be either used as is to record or teach a piece or it can be used as input to other programs There are two primary ways to use the live motion of the dancers to con trol some aspect of the piece The first is to use a package like KeyStroke or Isadora with live video input A net work would then process the video signal to decide the rough location of the dancer from which a useful value can be easily obtained Careful light ing rehearsal calibration and experi mentation can improve this to pro vide surprisingly accurate
38. ace for your list to remove the member 1 From the web interface of your list go to the List Admin menu 2 Select the Members button 3 On the Members page type the member s address into the Member Search Box window at the top of the page 4 Puta check mark in the box next to Are you sure 5 Click on the button to Delete member You can choose to remove the member s address immediately or wait a day or so to see if the address continues to bounce mail Some bounces are caused by temporary server problems on the recipient s end However if the bounce was caused by an exceeded mailbox quota the recipient must clean up the mailbox If the e mail address is an NYUHome account NetID nyu edu you can send the NYU List Team the NetID and we can check the member s account status Send the NetID to admin forums nyu edu If the e mail address is a non NYU account you may wish to simply remove the member s address from your list If the error message does not include extra information about why a message has bounced it is possible that the recipient had either a vaca tion message or a return receipt set ting activated in their mail account If you have questions as to why a mes sage has bounced feel free to contact the NYU List Team at admin forums nyu edu Protecting Your Forum from Spam and Viruses Receiving spam on an NYU Forum is a given especially if your forum
39. ake their sites accessible to those with disabilities There are many sites that give guidelines on how to do this such as the W3C http www ws org Designing an accessible site is important since we need to serve all our patrons equally These are a few of the issues we have explored in designing imple menting and creating online tutorials at NYU s Bobst Library Using the guidelines listed above to create tuto rials helps remind us that we need to continue to strive to create tutorials which students will find helpful and informative While incorporating information literacy into the tutorials is important it is also important to focus on making the tutorials goal based so that users will get tangible results from the process BIBLIOGRAPHY Nancy Dewald Web Based Library Instruction What is Good Peda gogy Information Technology and Libraries 18 no 1 Mar 1999 26 31 Brandon Hall Web Based Training Cookbook New York John Wiley amp Sons 1997 Laura Hudson A New Age of Accessibility Library Journal Net Connect Winter 2002 19 21 McGreggor Joy H Information Seeking and Use Students Thinking and Their Mental Models Journal of Youth Services in Libraries 8 1994 69 76 Susan Sharpless Smith Web Based Instruction A Guide for Libraries Chicago American Library Associa tion 2001 Tricarico Mary Ann Interactive Online Instruction for Library Research
40. all satisfaction with the reception and breaks aa a gt 4 a 5 Please rate your overall satisfaction with the facilities e a gt 4 g QO 8 Please rate your overall satisfaction with the location of the conference Philadelphia PA 4 a gt 4 fd oO 7 Qverall based on your total experience at the conference wil you attend or recommend someone dse attend next year s conference o Yes o No amp Please provide any comments you have on future conference locations topics speakers or general suggestions regarding the conference Figure 1 An example of a bubble questionnaire that are available for use by qualified NYU community members Contact Frank LoPresti at frank lopresti nyu edu for more information II WEB PAGES USING A WEB SERVER TO ADMINISTER YOUR QUESTIONNAIRE The Internet is becoming an increasingly useful medium for col lecting data Perhaps its most attrac tive feature is its ability to reach an incredibly large number of people without having to actually be in prox imity to them Another important feature of collecting data using a web server is its ability to cut costs by eliminating copy fees and interviewer personnel Researchers interested in collect ing data via the Web have a couple of software options The first is to create a web page on your own web server and use a software package to assist in the collection One such product that attempts to accomplish this goal i
41. alled Release Days change the drop down menu from The same day to Approval is always required 7 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save Mailing List button to save your changes When this setting is put into effect you will receive an e mail whenever your list receives a message for posting You may approve the new message by sending a command back to Lyris provided in the e mail you receive or you may moderate your messages from the web interface for your forum To do this 1 From the web interface of your list go to the List Admin menu 2 Click on the Moderate button You will see a list of messages waiting to be approved 3 To view the message click on it to select it and click the View Message button 4 Review the message and either click on the Approve button to send the message to your list or Reject to remove the message from the delivery queue Note that if your list receives a large volume of messages it will be easier to approve messages in bulk from the web interface You can do this once or twice a day and release them to the list all at the same time We recommend only releasing 30 40 messages at a time especially if your list has over 200 members Jodi Goldberg is an Information Tech nology Specialist in ITS eServices And the Winner Is Each year ITS bestows the George Sadowsky Prize on an NYU student who exhibits
42. alled which is configured as a single 16 CPU computer with NumaLink The machine has 8 GB of memory and 350 GB of disk space Connect Information Technology at NYU The construction is modular so that it can be extended to 32 processors just by adding main blocks with cluster ing it can be extended to 128 proces sors The operating system is latest generation IRIX with a full 64 bit UNIX implementation This operat ing system has the following features that are useful for large research jobs binary compatibility with Origin 2000 3000 weightless process and threads and checkpoint and restart capabilities With this new computing power and storage capability we can now extend the fields of usage for example to bioinformatics and medical infor matics research The Origingoo can utilize the HTC high throughput com puting environments offered by SGI The HTC environments are specially designed and developed wrappers that permit the running of standard bioin formatics applications benefiting from the NumaFlex server architecture such as BLAST Clustal W FASTA and HMMER According to some analyses the use of HTC with the Origin300 con tributes to much higher overall system usage and efficiencies than can be achieved with Linux cluster solutions Mathematical and Chemical packages are available including Matlab Mathematica insightII and Gaussian All the Biology and Chemistry packages used by the bioinformatic
43. and Mapping Group Connect Information Technology at NYU TOOT J e4 20 Your Guide to NYU Forums Jodi Goldberg jodi goldberg nyu edu mail is a powerful tool for E communicating with people and e mail lists extend this power to whole groups of people NYU Forums is the mailing list serv ice used by NYU faculty staff administrators students and alumni to enhance their academic collabora tion departmental communication and discussion of special interest topics This service allows discussion not only via e mail but also through a web interface or a news reader For this reason we also refer to discus sion lists as forums NYU Forums currently hosts more than 1 300 dis cussion and announcement lists with over 183 000 subscriptions and over 2 million messages delivered every month In 1999 ITS successfully trans itioned the hosting of the NYU Forums service from Listproc an e mail command based list server over to the web based Lyris List Manager In spring 2002 Lyris was upgraded to version 5 0 It is now running on its own dedicated server using an Oracle database to store its information Our previous version of Lyris used a FoxPro database on a shared machine that required frequent database com pacting resulting in monthly system interruptions Now with Oracle we have a manageable database with con tinuous up time and regular mainte nance We have also implemented
44. and the Han and Hausman ordered logit model Parametric tech niques include log linear models Weibull lognormal log logistic inverse Gaussian Gompertz and Generalized F models These models can handle truncation time varying covariates and heterogeneity ROBUST TECHNIQUES LIMDEP has a variety of robust procedures When heterogeneity or outliers plague a problem users may deal with these by using some form of weighted least squares generalized least squares feasible generalized least squares or generalized methods of moments Analysts may use White or Newey West sandwich estimators to generate robust standard errors or they may use one of the various non parametric techniques provided by LIMDEP They can construct their weights so as to downweight outliers If they knows the distribution users may bootstrap to obtain empirical standard errors The algorithms used are efficient and if they fail others are automatically invoked to complete the iteration to a solution LARGE Data SETS The data set size is limited by the available memory and disk space The default setting is 200 000 cells the number of variables multiplied by the number of cases but this may be reset to several million if necessary The internal limit is 3 million observa tions Overall processing time rather than storage space is likely to be the limiting constraint on data set size PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE The preceding lists of models are
45. anel data analysis Used widely in academia industry and government research LIMDEP distinguishes itself among other packages by pro viding a wide variety of procedures for limited and qualitative dependent variable analysis and longitudinal The graphical user interface facili tates a variety of applications that include summary statistical descrip tion exploratory data analysis and a plethora of linear and nonlinear regression options These include a wide variety of models for count data binary choice discrete choice limited dependent variables sample selection stochastic frontier models and sur vival models based on cross section panel and time series data In addi tion tbere are semi parametric and nonparametric algorithms and sam pling and bootstrapping capabilities The program can also sample parts of data sets and can read ASCH text files or LIMDEP scripts It can import and or export several different file formats including ASCII binary DIF Excel and Lotus Worksheets If an analyst employs DBMS COPY or STAT TRANSFER he or she can con vert almost any other statistical pro gram to a LIMDEP data set or vice versa LIMDEP also includes a scalar cal culator a matrix language and a pro gramming language that integrates the matrix and scalar calculators with the estimation routines These gener al features make this program widely used around the world today Over the past 20 years it
46. ation and testing all prove time consuming When a tutorial has final ly been completed the next and often overlooked step is advertising the product On many library websites tutorials tend not to be placed in a context sensitive way but are located under the instruction umbrella This can be a hindrance in promoting the tutorials because it indicates that the tutorials are not imperative As we redesign the entire Bobst Library website this year we are focusing on placing the tutorials where they will be needed For exam ple if a user is on the catalog page they can click directly to the How to Find a Book Tutorial page rather than having to go back to the library home page to get to the instructional section of the site Aside from placing these tutorials in a more context sensitive framework other ways of advertising these tutori als include submitting the URLs to peer reviewed sites for ratings adding metadata so search engines will index them advertising them in traditional library instructional classes as follow up instruction and placing them in the research section of Blackboard This brings us to another often overlooked step that of making sure that the coding of the site is user friendly for the disabled Often sites are coded simply to look good with out concern about the backend Section 508 guidelines are a set of federal standards that make it imper ative for federal agencies to m
47. ation Technology at NYU Would like a public and private area of Blackboard More NYU workshops at varying times Option to use letter grades and get them translated by the program Have control over the order of announcements rather than have them appear as submitted Better drop box management including a report for how many new submissions there are virus scanning Multilingual support Better to have non NYU e mail addresses T would like very much to have an easy way to give other people access to the course Blackboard should allow you to have a listing for a grade that has no weight Would like an archive of e mail messages sent through Blackboard Directions should be clearer Interested in having an online tutorial Creating groups is laborious and inefficient can this be made easi er or faster Clunky layout of discussion board in that a person can only move through threads and not the whole list of messages About Usefulness What I found most useful was being able to update the course syl labus as I went along so we could view the syllabus as a work in progress and make adjustments as necessary Already formatted group e mail list made communicating with the class a snap My graduate students most of whom are fully employed outside of NYU were very enthusiastic about being able to remain in co
48. bottom and click the Save Mailing List button Creating an Action Phrase If you set up an action phrase you can catch specific spam before it reaches your list and filter the mail An action phrase may be a word or phrase that appears in an incoming e mail s subject line or in the actual body of the message To do this 1 From the web interface of your list go to the List Admin menu 2 Select the button for Action Phrases 3 Click on the Create Phrase button 4 In the Phrase box type in the words or phrases from the mail you wish to reject Some examples are subject lines such as Free Printer Cartridges Lose Weight in 10 Days A funny website or single words such as Jimmy or Klez 5 In the Response section change the drop down menu to the noth ing option Choosing this option will cause the mail message that _ generated the action phrase hit to be discarded 6 In the Rule section choose the option that suits your needs For example if you want Lyris to look for the phrase Free Printer Cartridges anywhere in the mes sage then select the option phrase appears anywhere in the message A safe option is to pick phrase appears in the message body unless you re specifically looking for a subject line and then you would pick phrase appears in the subject line and so on 7 The Context
49. ctions last an average of about 39 minutes Usage varies depending on the day of the week and the time of day it is usually at its lowest in the mornings and on Sunday afternoons Sunday nights and Mondays Tuesdays and Wednesdays by contrast are some of the busiest call times COMMON CONNECTIVITY PROBLEMS amp How TO Fix THEM When connecting to NYU NET through DIAL your computer may encounter obstacles to establishing a successful connection The following are some of the problems most commonly reported to the Client Services Center 1 Invalid username and or pass word The proper username for DIAL service is your NetID The NetID is a network identification token that allows you to use a number of ITS services It is usual ly printed on your NYU Card on the bottom left corner If you do not know your NetID and it is not printed on your NYU Card please visit http start nyu edu to find out what it is Both the NetID and the password are case sensi tive so make sure that you enter them correctly using the appropri ate upper or lower case 2 Remote server is not respond ing This error can be due to high usage Just try again in a few min utes You might also check to make sure that the dial up phone number is correctly entered 1 212 253 4698 3 The line is busy This can be due to high usage Try again in a few minutes 4 There is no dial tone Your computer s modem is not detect ing a dial tone
50. d students with varied academic and professional back grounds The relationship with NYU is important to MCO Strategic Planning because it taps into the University s diverse resource pool The research team of social scien tists in the ITS Social Science Statistics and Mapping Group at NYU is extremely valuable in helping to ensure that the MCO Strategic Planning group implements sound methodology in the analysis The experts in this group are Frank LoPresti the group s director and a Master of Arts in Mathematics Robert Yaffee a Ph D in political sci ence and a well known statistician and Yakov Smotritsky a Ph D in Mathematics and a life long GIS researcher This group and the pool of students available at NYU allow our strategic planners to draw from the skill sets and expertise of various aca demic disciplines which are necessary for effective strategic data analysis MTA New York City MetroCard Sales Network Manhattan Density Map Mid and Lower Manhattan Jaler Color Process 250 Hudson Times Sq 42nd St es e 1 le HORS WRT ce A j Bern a ae Am ex aaen a i k 5 eem tin Sg Soe i i 4 ges S ae oy eBoy genes a eye eee man eBRY Bank Cae ka 48 3rd Ave 4th St Unien Sq 6 6 N R Q L Seett s Hailmark 142740 Breadway Fine Fare 545 Grand St t Mites Data Seurees MTA Hew York City Transit Bity of ew York NYCMAP Map Byt Strategie Panning on the map
51. d their reliance on technology required L late spring early summer ever growing more Analyses of data traffic on ResNet and the NYU incoming modem pool for example as well as telephone traffic from the residence halls clearly indicated the need to extend CSC hours We had heard that by and large we provided good service at 998 3333 but that it was hard to reach us After some consideration it was decided that staying open from 8 00 am to midnight on weekdays and from noon to midnight on weekends would provide a significant expansion of our hours one that would make our serv ices available to the broadest range of NYU community members In addi tion it would provide us with an opportunity to examine the resultant _ call patterns and service levels and to determine the effectiveness of our service expansion Based on what we ve seen this past year at the CSC our extended hours have effected real improve ments For example one commonly used benchmark of helpdesk per formance is the percent of calls that are answered directly by helpdesk staff Over the past several years the CSC has consistently received some 70 000 calls annually This past year our average for directly answered calls was well over 85 and ranged above 92 during a large portion of the year as compared with prior years when we averaged about 60 Another commonly used indicator is the length of time a caller needs to wait befo
52. d under the New York City NYCMap project The foundation of the map con sists of a mosaic of highly detailed aer ial photographs that were commis sioned by the City of New York in the fall of 1996 These aerial photographs were then geo rectified to correct for geometric errors that are introduced when modeling a three dimensional surface on a two dimensional plain The result was a highly accurate ortho map which was then used to build multiple layers of geographic features throughout the city These features consist of transportation Connect Information Technology at NYU infrastructure such as streets expressways bridges subway lines subway stations etc Themes of other layers include tax lots city blocks land use zones and census tracts Because the NYCMap project is not complete several other sources of geographic information were com bined to overlay the NYCMap The second task faced by the group was to collect a wealth of demographic information and relate it to geographic features on the NYCMap such as cen sus tracts and subway stations see Figure 1 The geographic distribution of demographic attributes of the popu lation is critical to strategic planners when modeling various aspects of the real world It is also critical for mak ing informed decisions In light of the multi disciplinary requirements of strategic planning the team was assembled to include experts professionals an
53. dependently on a drop in basis broad range of software and equipment is available in this networked environment Staff assistance is available uses for in Scanners CD ROM and DVO recordersfplayers black and color tools digital audia iprinters and video new interactive learning technologies using Internet2 Floppy Zip CD ROM D Zip and Floppy disk vD DVD CD ROM 998 3044 The Studio will advise upon and assist with the creation use and analysis of primary tents reference works finding aids analytical tools images video audio ete as wall as state of the art hardware and software Digital scholarly content development projects media intensive Internat experimentation and collaboration with NYU s Digital Library Zip and Floppy disk DYD CD ROM digital studio nyuedu Instructor s station with projection an interactive Whiteboard is available at some locations Classroom size varies by location Internet Access Web Browsing MS Office Suite and Printing The software suite and peripheral devices vary by location As a rule of thumb video and image and audio editing software is running in a Mac OS environment while programming statistics and multi lingual applications are running in a Windows environment alk Zip amp CD ROM Media vary by location 998 3396 Availability based on schedule of classes Faculty
54. e problem Write down these error codes and messages so that if you need to call the ITS Client Services Center we can help you more quickly UsinG THE ITS CLIENT SERVICES CENTER The ITS Client Services Center has a help line that is open to all NYU faculty staff administrators and students for help with connecting to NYU NET Our team of professionals will help you troubleshoot and fix your dial up or other connections so that you can continue with your academic work Our phone and e mail hours are Monday Friday 8 00 am to midnight and Saturday Sunday noon te midnight At other times you may leave a message and expect a call within 24 hours Call us at 1 212 998 3333 or send e mail to its clientservices nyu edu For in person help you can visit the ITS Client Services Center at 10 Astor Place 4th Floor Monday Friday 9 00 am to 6 00 pm Appointments are recommended for those having trouble connecting with a laptop computer Call 1 212 998 3333 to make an appointment GETTING MORE HELP Ifyou are about to use NYU s DIAL service for the first time visit the ITS Start website at http start nyu edu to set your pas word and determine your NetID if you don t know it already For detailed instructions on using DIAL on a variety of computer platforms and operating systems visit the NYUHome help pages at http home nyu edu help connecting dial or read the DIAL instructions on the NYU
55. e 34 of this issue Robyn Berland is the Computer Lab Manager of the ITS Multimedia Lab at 35 West 4th Street 2nd Floor ITS Affiliated Student Labs ITS Campus side Kiosks ITS Third Avenue Student aeenteg ITS Tisch H The Bronfman Center ITS Washington Place College of Computing Lab Student Computing Lab Arts and Se Sciences for Jewish Studies teaming Center 35 West 4th St 75 wat ae 40 West 4th St 14 Washington Place S 11 University Place East 10th Street Located throughout the Second Floor Level CS Room LCS Downstairs Weinstein Hall campus The web page ist floor contains a list of locations M T 8 30 am 1 30 am M F 8 30 am 11 30 pm JIM Th 10 am 10 pm M F 8 am midnight hes on each location s Twenty four hours a W F 8 30 am 11 30 pm S 8 30 am 5 30 pm S 8 30 am midnight hours of operation day seven days a S 8 30 am 5 30 pm Su 16 am 10 pm week Su noon i 30 am NYUHome Stations s 3 30 am 5 30 pm Su noon 11 30 pm All individuals with a current NYU NetID AI NYU Students in degree and diploma programs AlI NYU Students in degres and diploma programs and individual holders of Course or Individual Lab Access Accounts For information about obtaining a Lab Access Account go to wwwnyuedusitsfaccounts Mac OS and Windows internet Access Web browser MS Office Suite Laser Printing Lab Staff assist students in the Internet Access MS Office Suite Printing NYU Portal to NYLUZITS web basics of using an
56. e Files WebCam KeyStroke is a networked applica tion that allows up to five players or users per session These players bring their own local input output devices into the performance Player 1 may have a full MIDI rig while Player 2 has a digital video camera and microphone All the participants can bring their keyboard and mouse into play as controllers These devices once established in the Patcher Screen can control and be controlled by any other device as well as the Figure 6 An example of a KeyStroke patch media itself In KeyStroke parlance these are called Live Input Modules and include Mouse Keyboard Video Sound In Joystick and MIDI In In addition to Live Input media players share the resources of File Libraries that may include text movie audio image and MIDI files Each player can upload their files to the session and download the files of the other players at login Files can also be up downloaded at any time during the session File formats cur rently supported include JPEG and PICT images QuickTime Movies text files and audio files AIFF Basic KEYSTROKE FEATURES A simple user interface cross media synthesis live video pro cessing real time interaction within a shared virtual workspace support for image sources includ ing QuickTime movies live and prerecorded video QuickTime streams scanned images PICT or JPEG generated audio wave forms webcam URLs t
57. e software functionality for supporting after class online discussion groups and e mail lists is likely to be best served by NYU Forums see Your Guide to NYU Forums on page 20 of this issue Another faculty member s needs might be met by a simply constructed website I n the spring of 2000 NYU s for posting office hours a class reading list and a syllabus With the addition of Blackboard to the software menu it has been con tinually important for the FTC staff to understand what features of the soft ware have been most useful to faculty members who have already imple mented Blackboard websites thus enabling the FTC staff to better help other faculty members decide whether Blackboard is the best tool for their needs To gather this information ITS Academic Computing Services con ducted a survey at the conclusion of the spring 2002 semester of the facul ty members who had just completed their use of Blackboard 140 faculty members responded This survey was similar to a survey of NYU faculty usage of Blackboard conducted in fall 2000 see an article on this topic in the spring 2001 issue of Connect SuRVEY RESULTS Overall 95 of faculty respon dents reported that their satisfac tion with NYU Blackboard ranged from very good to satisfactory in contrast to only 70 of the faculty surveyed in 2000 98 rated the system reliability and performance of NYU Black board as very rel
58. e support services to NYU departments Faculty and staff from departments that subscribe to this service can contact ITS Computer Support Services staff through both a dedicated phone number and a dedicated e mail address and receive timely personal and diligent responses to their computer needs Our staff is on call to help you so that you can devote more time to your work An annual fee per computer provides each subscriber with the priority services outlined here A range of resources and services is available through our desktop support solutions including knowledgeable staff to assist you by phone and at your office a dedicated phone number to call and an e mail address for submitting questions fast and effective troubleshooting of computer problems new computer set up and configuration service on site software installs upgrades and hardware service assistance ITS provides quick and reliable support to NYU faculty and staff Our goal is to give you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that if you have a problem we will be there to find the solution On site support is available by appointment Monday Friday from 9 30 am 4 30 pm Telephone support is provid ed by our Computer Support Services staff Monday Friday 9 00 am 5 00 pm and by our Client Services Center staff during all hours of operation Monday Friday 8 00 am midnight Saturday Sunday noon midnight If you have questions or are interested in this service plea
59. ed on Dell Precision 530 workstations with 1 7 gigahertz Pen tium 4 central processors In these tests LIMDEP 8 0 compared with the other packages obtained a large number of accurate digits in its parameter estimates On the basis of these tests we find that LIMDEP is as accurate as or more accurate than the other pack ages tested In 1999 Bruce McCulloch using NIST benchmarks evaluated popular econometric soft ware in the Journal of Applied Econometrics vol 14 pp 191 202 and discovered that LIMDEP and TSP outperformed SHAZAM and EVIEWS on nonlinear estimation LIMDEP is a product of Econo metric Software Inc 15 Gloria Place Plainview NY 11803 NYU s ITS Aca demic Computing Services is in the process of acquiring Version 8 0 of LIMDEP for use at the ITS Social Science Lab NYU faculty or students interested in using it should contact Robert Yaffee at 1 212 998 3402 Interested persons may learn more about LIMDEP at http www limdep com O William Greene Ph D is a professor of Economics at the NYU Stern School of Business and author of LIMDEP Robert Yaffee Ph D is a statistician at ITS Academic Computing Services Connect Information Technology at NYU Inputting Questionnaires into Data Sets Frank LoPresti and Sean Fischer frank lopresti nyu edu snf2io nyu edu ntering questionnaire data E accurately for later analysis can be accomplished using several diverse software ap
60. eir function These include Live Library and Generator Input Mod ules Logic Mathematical Analysis and DSP Modifier Modules and Image and Audio Renderers The three module categories are 1 Inputs Media input sources that serve as controllers and content such as video QuickTime movies text files audio files AIFF oscillators mouse or Musical Instrument Digital Interface MIDI See Figure 3 2 Modifiers These function as filters or modu lators of data streams from Input or other Modifier Modules 3 Renderers Renderer Modules render the signal provided by the Input or Modifier Module See Figure 4 Within each module is a selection of inputs and outputs that send or receive data Inputs are visually repre sented as empty holes outputs are solid colored balls as seen in Figure 2 Modules are connected or patched together by dragging the data ball from the output of one module and using it to fill the input of another Conversely the connection can be broken by dragging or emptying the data ball from the input Modules are SO aquat moy 17 Q en patched together from the left to right of the Patcher Screen The order of patching is then Input to Modifier to Renderer Inputs and Modifiers can also be chained together LIVE INPUT MODULES Mouse Keyboard Video Sound In MIDI In Joystick MEDIA FILE MODULES Text Files Audio Files QuickTime Movies Imag
61. epts not merely mechanics We wanted to make sure to incor porate good library instruction but were aware that our users were more interested in the mechanics of finding information Jerilyn Veldof and Karen Beavers in Going Mental Tackling Mental Models for the Online Library Tutorial say that the racing model is a sufficient mental model to get what they want done two or three articles a book a website for a short paper or speech Combining the information litera cy concepts we wanted to impart to our users with the minimal approach students wanted in tutorials was a dif ficult task We compromised by keep ing text and instructions to a mini mum and adding glossary pop up boxes as well as boxes that users could click on should they want extra information see Figure 2 The goals of the tutorials listed on the How to Use Bobst web page http www nyu edu library bobst howto htm are not concept oriented but are goal focused For example in the How to Find An Article tutorial we introduce the tutorial by saying Need to find articles published in newspapers magazines and journals Follow these steps Another way to ensure that the tutorial content was not too lengthy was to employ writing for the Web concepts These concepts are substan tially different than their print coun terparts They promote short one con cept paragraphs bulleted points no unnecessar
62. ext files and live keyboard input e A wide selection of graphical objects that allow you to import modify and display live and pre pared media flexible plug in architecture allowing for third party development e Support for numerous third party cards both audio and video sup port for external MIDI control devices flexibility for use either as a multi user or single user tool e A network infrastructure and interface support for up to five players within one KeyStroke ses sion support for up to eight layers of rendered media within a KeyStroke session Mac based software OS 9 available OS X version in development As you can see KeyStroke is a very intricate program It has a great deal of potential and is constantly evolv ing and changing as its users offer continual feedback to the develop ment team in Amsterdam If you re interested in learning more about KeyStroke and its con cepts in greater detail explore the web links below for additional infor mation http www keyworx org http www waag org Jed Weaver a senior staff member of the Arts Technology Group in ITS Academic Computing Services specializes in digital video and audio applications Connect Information Technology at NYU Ied TOOT gt 12 ACS Facilitates Los Alamos MILAGRO Meeting Allen Mincer and Matthew Zimmerman allen mincer nyu edu matthew zimmerman nyu edu n June 27th and 28th of O thi
63. fice OMR Optical Mark Recognition available from Principia Products http www principia products com works extremely well and is a fairly economical option The software has been used at NYU for almost a decade It has always proved to be robust and accurate Remark provides an accurate description of the software on their web page The Remark Office OMR software works with an image scan ner to scan and process your survey or test forms Remark Office OMR can read OMR areas as well as bar code information from your forms Handwritten and typewritten areas cannot be read by the software but 40 Connect Information Technology at NYU can be captured as image fields for later key entry by an operator Built in exception handling easily locates and allows you to correct or verify any erroneously marked forms i e a per son fills in two marks for a question or fails to answer a question A detailed discussion of their product and of the advantages of using bubble answered question naires over by hand data entry may be found in this author s review of the Remark software in the Fall 1996 edi tion of Connect http www nyu edu its connect archives 96fall loprestistats html When to Use Bubble Answers on Scannable Forms Almost any paper questionnaire can be formatted as a bubble field form see Figure 1 You can hand them out and collect them or mail them to a list with return addressed envelopes Howeve
64. g their programs When the program executes successfully the output win dow displays the processed output While users are preparing their programs they may resort to the ample LIMDEP documentation The program contains help files organized according to contents commands and keyword searches Most of the theory can be found in the current and forthcoming edition of Econo metric Analysis Both documentation and Help files are available in the pro gram s help files in a user s manual and on the Web Sample data sets are contained in the Help file and are also available on the LIMDEP website at http www limdep com EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS The program provides drop down and sidebar menus to give users a clear idea of their options After sub mitting a program that reads the data analysts can explore their data By clicking on the Model option in the header bar a drop down menu will appear Here users can select Data Description to explore the variables in the data set and a side bar menu appears see Figure 4 From these analysts may select sum mary statistics histograms crosstab ulations autocorrelation and partial autocorrelation functions scatter plots a matrix of scatterplots among different variables or a kernel density estimator to describe the distribution of the values in the sample SINGLE amp MULTIPLE EQUATION REGRESSION MODELS LIMDEP contains numerous pro cedures for the
65. he same as that of all disciplines using computers faster better cheaper and more integrated Increasingly faster computers mean that hardware compression decom pression software codecs used for transmitting video and audio over a network will be able to further com press the input to better utilize the available bandwidth Motion tracking systems will be able to use more sophisticated algorithms to determine the dancers locations More afford able prices will allow performing arts groups to purchase this type of hard ware and software for use in perform ing spaces outside of large colleges and universities Anyone who has used a motion capture system or attended a network performance has probably seen the mass of wires technicians and soft ware needed for the final product Better integration in the future will reduce the confusion the number of people involved and the problems associated with moving data from one program to another Advancements such as these will undoubtedly con tinue to expand the use of dance and other performance technologies as valuable tools of artistic expression For more information about using the performance technologies dis cussed in this article here at New York University contact the Arts Technol ogy Group within ITS Academic Computing Services at its atg nyu edu or visit their website at http www nyu edu its atg See the next section of this article for resources
66. hen speeds up the rate at which the color change occurs using a joystick so that it now pulsates More POSSIBLE KEYSTROKE SCENARIOS Artists in various locations create and control a performance pro jected in a theatrical venue VJ s DJ s control image and sound via a local network in a club Dynamic online workshops e Non linear online storytelling Dynamic development of con cepts by architecture or graphic design firms e Multi user gaming Dynamic video conferencing Figure 2 LEFT Patcher Screen user interface with areas defined RIGHT Example of several inputs and outputs as they are viewed in the Patcher Screen Within each module is a selection of inputs and outputs that send or receive data Inputs are represented visually as empty holes outputs as solid colored balls Connect Information Technology at NYU Ihe TOOT 10 How KEYSTROKE WORKS We take it almost for granted that these types of artistic tools come to us now in the form of software applica tions that can be run even on a laptop computer This was not always the case Once upon a time say only about ten years ago if for example a video artist wished to generate or mix effects live as I used to they might have used a rather large expensive electronic device such as a Fairlight VMI an early video synthesizer and effects generator Advance a few years and perhaps they might have used the aptly named and
67. iable to reli able By contrast in our previous survey one faculty member com plained that Blackboard was extremely unreliable Connect Spring 2001 This improvement is a result of several upgrades in sys tem hardware and software under taken by ITS in January 2002 see Connect Spring 2002 e 86 estimated students overall satisfaction with Blackboard as satisfactory to very good up from 64 in 2000 94 responded that they plan to use Blackboard again 29 had gone to the FTC for help and 46 had sent e mail to blackboard problems nyu edu Inputs amp OUTCOMES On the question of student partici pation 58 of faculty said it met their expectations 9 said student participation was higher than their original expectations and 26 said student participation was lower than anticipated this last result was down from 47 in 2000 e 42 of faculty reported that their students were better prepared for class and 31 thought that stu dents were more engaged in class 69 of faculty needed 1 to 2 hours per week to maintain the site 18 needed 3 to 4 hours 3 needed 5 or more hours and 9 made no changes to their site e 36 needed 1 to 2 hours to initially set up the site 31 needed 3 to 4 hours and 24 needed 5 or more hours These results were not a sig nificant change from 2000 USE OF CONTENT 63 of faculty posted 5 or more announcements 90 of faculty p
68. ibrary of Congress Classification C Dewey Decimal Systern O Both C Neither Reset Right Many academic libraries use the Library of Congress Classification system Naval Sciense Bibliography Library Solenca Next Step Get the book off the sholf ee Library hemel Library Cataloal Feedback jAsk A Librarian NYU Libraries Last Update 0602 Figure 1 An example of an interactive quiz from the How to Find a Book Tutorial Connect Information Technology at NYU TOOT JIe4 N Ul 26 that students see research as a task or product oriented activity rather than an opportunity for learning Our solution was presenting interactivity as an option but not as a requirement We created interactive quiz questions for example which users can choose to click on if they wish see Figure 1 Incorporating information literacy in the tutorials was another challenge Our tendency was to conceptualize and create library tutorials from an infor mation literacy standpoint As Susan Sharpless Smith says in Web Based Instruction a Guide for Libraries Increasingly library instruction goals are expanding to encompass a more comprehensive concept information literacy in which library users gain the ability to locate evaluate and use information to become independent life long learners Good library instruction we are taught teaches conc
69. ionery advertising as well as your personal phone book to include area codes Source Verizon Connect Information Technology at NYU Iled TOO 31 A Quick Reference Guide to Computer Facilities for NYU Faculty and Students Robyn Berland robyn berland nyu edu Facilities for Faculty ITS Faculty Technology ITS FIC Drop in Area Center FTC Fall and Spring f Coll for an appointrnent Studio for Digital Projects amp Research East Wing 2nd Floor Bobst Library ITS lab based classrooms 40 W 4th St 35 W 4th St 29 Third Ava ITS Specialized Computer Facilities Digital ideo Studio amp Science amp isualization Advanced Imaging Studio Digital Video Editing Lab 75 Third Avenue Level C3 Open Every Day M E 8 30 am 11 30 pm 8 30 am 5 30 pm Su noan 41236 pr NYU Faculty M F Ipm 5 pm NYU Faculty and Scholars Availability is based on schedule of classes and hours of oparation of each location Faculty and Administrators may reserve classroom time for NYU courses 32 Instructional Technologists will advise in the of Digital Multimedia Telecommun ications and Information Technologies instruction research and the production of educational and scholarly materials Leading edge equipment and software is available Staff guidance in web suthoring and learning management Mac OS and Windows Facuity may work in
70. king Td respond to a thread and could short cut prob lems I will also use the lab to grade the students analyzing who participated and in what way Most of the students found it helped them communicate with other lab members Discussion feature is excellent Students are required to host a discussion weekly and are graded in it Discussion is structured and relates to course content e The digital drop box has almost eliminated paper use in my course Because I am only on cam pus one day per week Blackboard lets me maintain contact with my students and keep them involved at a level that was impossible before If I forget to tell them something or decide to change an assignment after class I can let them know with a group e mail and or the announcements page I should be getting paid by Blackboard because I am a walk ing talking relentless promoter of their product Overall the past 18 months have provided us with many important lessons and experiences in the use of web based learning for classroom based courses It is clear that both faculty and students find value and promise in their experiences with learning management systems such as NYU Blackboard Most people involved appear to be optimistic about these early trials with tech nologies that are rapidly evolving to meet the expanding needs and expectations of the higher education community The initial group of 30 NYU facul ty members who we
71. ler Select Ally Deselect All Coilect Extemai Mail gt OOUOOoOoOou BS Get Mail Compose Search Delete Over the years the transition from the old fashioned terminal based application pine for those oldsters among you to the more user accessi ble web based NYUHome has brought many new features as well as a signifi cant paradigm shift Previously clients accessed mail limited to text only through a terminal emulator E mail users required special programs and instruction Common procedures such amp a Move messages to folder Subject The New NYUHome 3 0 Mail Window as printing and saving were extremely difficult and prone to error All of this changed with the incep tion of NYUHome in 2000 which moved mail and many other useful features into a web browser ensur ing simplicity and ease of use for all users Gone were the complicated maneuvers after all almost every one is familiar with a browser And most important of all NYUHome delivered information to its users rather than forcing them all as with earlier systems to retrieve it from the same remote mail server Now the NYUHome 3 0 upgrade has brought further improvements addressing many of its users requests and introducing several key new fea tures to the mail program The response has been overwhelming see some of the comments we ve received included at the bottom of the next page Received Size 318
72. linear regression model These procedures include a variety of residual diagnostics hypothesis tests with linear and nonlinear restric tions tests for linearity specification structural change stability het eroskedasticity and autocorrelation When the models contain het eroskedasticity there are a wide vari ety of options for accommodating it weighted least squares models with multiplicative heteroskedasticity or invocation of the White and Newey West estimators The models can include group wise heteroskedastici ty stratification and panel data with both fixed and random effects or ran dom parameters Multiple equation systems may include linear or nonlinear specifica tions The estimation algorithms include nonlinear least squares two stage least squares instrumental variables generalized methods of moments three stage least squares and full information maximum likeli hood Count DATA MODELS LIMDEP 8 0 contains a variety of statistical procedures for count data Researchers can select Poisson zero inflated Poisson or negative binomial or discrete gamma regression These procedures can be modeled with excess zeros hurdle effects correc tions for heterogeneity truncation censoring underdispersion and panel data specifications with fixed or random effects random parame ters or latent classes Analysts have their choice of different estimation algorithms and parameter starting values These
73. logist However I am leaning more and more toward Agree Page lof Exit this survey gt gt 5 In two or three sentences describe your career plans over the next several 6 Answer the next five questions according to the following scale 5 Neither Agree Nor Disagree Soay Disagree g g aj vd a wa a a a 3 a J 3 P a Figure 2 A sample SurveyMonkey questionnaire creates a survey that is not only easy to use but also has a very profession al look to it Researchers have the option of registering for the basic subscription which is free or for the professional subscription which costs 19 95 per month The basic subscription allows the user to create up to 10 questions per survey and gather 100 responses per survey which makes it ideal for researchers and students who need to obtain only a minimal amount of data For those researchers who wish to conduct studies on a larger scale a professional subscrip tion allows the user to create an unlimited number of surveys and an unlimited number of questions per survey In addition users can collect up to 1 000 responses per month In addition SurveyMonkey allows the researcher more flexibility over the survey than traditional paper and pencil questionnaires For example the user can eliminate order bias inherent in multiple choice questions by choosing to randomize the answer choices with each new participant In addition each respondent s answers
74. ly better than having to watch the volt age supply around the clock in case of a problem Of course Dr Mincer could only do this because he knew that occasional current fluctuations cause the channel to trip If it had shut off again he would have had to take the drive and find the cause of the problem Although he reset the channel from Los Alamos in principle Dr Mincer could also have done this in the exact same way from NYU Via the Web the experiment s collabora tors can monitor all phases of opera tion and essentially never have to leave home Physicists at each of the institu tions collaborating on this project work on different components of the detector hardware software and analysis Although researchers are in touch by phone and e mail and meet at the detector site they also have off site meetings a few times a year to exchange information and discuss the work they have been doing The recent NYU meeting was a particular ly interesting one because the project is beginning to obtain some exciting measurements that need to be pre pared for publication As a result of discussions at these meetings researchers frequently needed to check data or run simula tions often producing graphical out put The 35 participating physicists at the NYU meeting also needed to check e mail while they were away from their home institutions In addi tion to having beautiful meeting facil ities NYU s Bronfma
75. models can be weighted to robustify the variance covariance matrix estimation to downweight outliers to estimate population totals or to maintain post stratifica tion proportions j iad Limdepi Untitled 1E Bate 39 Variables f 2g Namelists CQ Matrices 5 E Scalars 2 Ca Strings 4 Procedures fo GQ Output sG Tables E Output Window Figure 3 LIMDEP Navigation and Command Windows Connect Information Technology at NYU Iled iSAOKORG 37 iad Limdep Output RESET gt RESET gt LOAD file D work shaasie lpj LPJ save file contained 1110 observe Figure 4 Exploratory Data Options BINARY CHOICE MODELS The binary choice library includes binary probit logit kernel density models with a selection of any of eight kernal smoothing functions multi variate probit latent class as well as bootstrapped maximum score estima tors models Moreover binary or bivariate probit models can be fitted by exteme value complimentary log log or Gompertz distributions These mod els can accommodate fixed or random effects panel data and heterogeneity DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS The discrete choice library also provides a rich variety of procedures from which to choose as can be seen in Figure 5 including nested and multinomial logit A superset of LIMDEP NLOGIT is provided sepa rately NLOGIT contains estimators for a wide variety of nested l
76. ms begin and remains open from noon on Sunday until 5 30 pm on the follow ing Saturday Even though our look may have changed the ITS Tisch Hall lab will continue to provide the same appli cations support in computer pro gramming web design statistical analysis and mapping and multilin gual word processing along with course specific applications As with all ITS labs access is available to all current faculty staff and adminis trators and to students in degree or diploma programs Please be sure to bring your NYU ID Card when you visit the lab Please check the ITS labs web page at http www nyu edu its labs for more details If you re an NYU faculty member interested in reserving the ITS Tisch Hall LC7 classroom please send your request to john bako nyu edu John Bako is the Manager of the Tisch Hall computer lab for ITS Academic Computing Services IIe 4 TOOT 17 18 Collaborating for the Better Good ITS Teams Up with New York City Transit Antonio Lopez AnLopez3 NYCT com he Strategic Planning Unit of the Metropolitan Transit Auth ority s New York City Transit MetroCard Operations MTA NYCT MCO has entered into a collaborative relationship with NYU Information Tech nology Service s Social Science Statis tics and Mapping Group The project has formed a working group that com bines statistical and geographic infor mation systems GIS technologies into a tool that suppor
77. n tact between weekly class meet ings and all participated in the discussion groups and resulting threads It is helpful to students who miss class allows for interaction with all students between classes per mits a speedy response to ques tions and problems and facilitates individual participation and prep aration I mostly used the site this semes ter to give students access to scanned materials I wanted them to read sort of like an electronic reserve desk We used the discussion board as a forum for students to post ques tions they d like to discuss in recitation the following day this was helpful both in encouraging participation and in developing lesson plans It helped me a lot especially in posting the solutions to the HW s quizzes and exams in the Blackboard site so that I didn t have to copy them for everyone and the students could access the solutions whenever they wanted The discussion board feature is particularly good because it allows me to lead students in structured discussions of texts that we might not get to in class It also levels the playing field students too shy to talk in class get the opportunity to contribute to discussions too The class that used Blackboard had students working in lab groups This was a huge help to see who was participating in develop ing story ideas and research It also allowed me to help them and direct their thin
78. n models require adjustment of the parametric estimation for these con straints on their distributions They may be run with censoring or sample selection options They may be bivari ate or sequential They may be nest ed They may be run with panel data and heteroskedasticity corrections when they are variable dependent They may be run with panel data including fixed or random effects or random parameters They may be run with the usual assortment of con straints or hypothesis tests When the data are completely censored a grouped data regression may be run TIME SERIES LIMDEP also performs basic Box Jenkins ARIMA analysis It can han dle ARMAX distributed lag and GARCH models as well The distrib uted lag family of models can either be of geometric or polynomial struc ture The roots of the dynamic equa tions can easily be tested for stability Descriptive statistics such as ACF PACF and variance spectral density estimators are provided LIMDEP can also handle time series cross section al regression models with group wise heteroskedasticity along with fixed and random effects SURVIVAL MODELS This package also contains para metric semi parametric and non parametric event history models for analyzing duration data The non parametric techniques include the Life Tables with the log rank and gen eralized Wilcoxon tests for homo geneity The semi parametric models include the Cox proportional hazards models
79. n Center has a computer room with a dozen stations maintained by ITS Academic Com puting Services making it an ideal place for the researchers to meet However the computers were only useful because participants could securely log on to remote sites and examine graphical output Through the combined efforts of ITS Academic Computing Services and the ITS Network Operations Center the meeting attendees were able to complete all of their necessary tasks and keep in contact with their home institutions all while maintain ing the necessary security level for the NYU and Los Alamos networks The MILAGRO experiment col laborators are from George Mason University e Los Alamos National Laboratory e New York University e University of California Irvine University of California Riverside e University of California Santa Cruz e University of Maryland College Park e University of New Hampshire Durham The University of Wisconsin The experiment is funded by the U S Department of Energy DOE the National Science Foundation NSF and the University of California For further information about the MILAGRO experiment visit http www physics nyu edu am3 milagro html Professor Allen Mincer is an Experi mental Physicist working on particle physics and particle astrophysics and is Chair of NYU s Physics Department Matthew Zimmerman is a Humanities Computing Specialist in ITS Academic Computi
80. ncouraged to nominate any NYU student s for the 2003 George Sadowsky Prize Please send a short description of the student s achievements to Vincent Doogan Director of ITS Academic Computing Services doogan nyu edu The deadline for nominations is April 15th 2003 Connect Information Technology at NYU ry Creating User Friendly Online Tutorials Nadaleen Tempelman Kluit ntkz nyu edu ncreasingly academic libraries have begun using methods other than in person teaching to deliv er instruction to users Among these methods are librarian developed research guides and subject pages web based general guides and tutori als By providing these alternate methods of education as well as the traditional in person instruction libraries are hoping to reach many more users In our effort to reach more users at Bobst Library we have recently created several library tutorials During this process we also estab lished a set of guidelines for their cre ation As a result the tutorials have become progressively less time consuming to produce and we have been able to spend time exploring other methods of online delivery such as streaming media and Flash The first step in creating library tutorials is to determine what users want To answer this question we performed usability testing on the first significant tutorial we complet ed The results proved the usefulness of usability testing since they dis pelled some
81. nd real time interaction between users is something you may have experienced already even if without realizing it If you ve ever used any program like Instant Messenger or any type of chat program or any online or net worked game such as Doom IRC ICQ etc you ve been in a networked multi user environment This is where a user in one location interacts with another user elsewhere This shared virtual space is where a KeyStroke session takes place However KeyStroke takes the concept further allowing each user not simply to interact but also to actually modify or change what the other is doing and this is where the Art comes in VIRTUAL MULTI USER ENVIRONMENTS An important and evolving con cept in the art world due to the sim ple fact of the Internet and computer networks is that artists or users do not have to be in the same physical space to interact or collaborate with each other It s quite possible for them to interact with each other in a 6 image Renderers T Audio Renderers shared virtual space even if they are a hundred miles apart or on different continents For example imagine a hypothet ical scenario in which User 1 is in a club in Manhattan and types a poem into a computer using Key Stroke and puts it up in red text that appears on a TV screen User 2 in another club in Williamsburg then modulates the color of this text slow ly changing it to blue User 1 t
82. ne directory then you will see all your forums listed in the Forums channel If you do not see one of your sub scribed forums listed you may have subscribed with a different e mail ad dress If you have questions about Connect Information Technology at NYU this please write to the NYU List Team at admin forums nyu edu and we can check your subscription addresses Click on the link to the forum you wish to visit and you will be brought to the forum s web interface where you can read and send messages You may also receive and send mes sages in your e mail account but if you have missed any of the discus sion the web interface for the forum will have the archived messages threaded by topic To view a list of forums available to the general NYU community click on the Subscribe to an NYU Forum link within the Forums channel on the main NYUHome screen To sub scribe to one of the forums put a check mark in the box next to the forum name and click the Subscribe button Keep in mind that forums may be set up with different privacy restric tions to control subscriber requests For example a list may be 1 Open The list is available for membership subscription by the general NYU community An open list may also be open for membership subscription by non NYU affiliates 2 Closed The list is not avail able for membership subscrip tion by the general public NYU and non NYUV Only the List
83. ng Services Connect Information Technology at NYU ea COE Ww 14 Improve Your Relationship with NYU DIAL Tips and Troubleshooting for All Users Eduardo De Leon eduardo deleon nyu edu War Is NYU DIAL Direct Internet Access Link DIAL service comes with your NYUHome service and allows you to link by tele phone and modem to NYU NET from your home or while traveling With this link established you can use desk top Internet tools such as Internet Explorer Netscape Eudora or Mozilla Dial up users can however en counter a number of problems before establishing a successful network con nection to an Internet Service Provider The purpose of this article is to provide some explanations of com mon problems and offer suggestions for their solution ABOUT MODEM CONNECTIVITY While broadband connections are increasingly popular nowadays e g cable modems DSL wireless most people still use a dial up modem and a phone line as their primary means of connecting to the Internet Dial up connectivity has the advantage of being a reliable way of connecting when other methods are not available Dial up connectivity works by coordinating the exchange of data between two computers At NYU this coordination occurs between the modem on your computer the local modem and a modem on NYU NET the remote modem Once the two modems can establish a stable con nection at a reliable speed a proces
84. nline access to an archive sof important American music Browse Titles Browse Artists Search Database View History quired to listen to mp3 and rm files Browse Composers Modify Prefs Browse Subjects Log out Fig 1 The main page of the DRAM website http dlib nyu edu dram Initial development of a prototype for DRAM is now complete and is available for use by NYU community members The main web page of the DRAM system is shown in Figure 1 Members of the NYU community can access the system at http dlib nyu edu dram and login using their NYUHome NetID and pass word At the moment DRAM provides access to approximately 300 hours worth of music from New World Records catalog in streaming format as well as the full text of New World Record s extensive liner notes for their recordings After listening tests with a variety of audio formats DRAM s develop ment team chose to use RealAudio format for low bit rate streaming 32 kbps and MP3 for higher bit rate files 192 kbps to achieve the best sound quality for the differing stream rates Full text searching of album liner notes is already available as is search ing for artists simply by name or in conjunction with the role they played on a particular piece Users can browse through lists of the items available in the system arranged by author title or subject or they can directly search for a particular piece of music DRAM s FUTURE A
85. of our preconceived notions such as our belief that users want heavily interactive tutorials The literature on online learning widely touts interactivity as impera tive in web based learning of any sort Training Cookbook says all Web based training should be interactive since interactivity makes the differ ence between a program that simply presents information and one that actually trains the user While this is good practice our usability results indicated that our students did not want linear interac tive tutorials They were much more interested in finding the information they needed without taking more time than was necessary Students wanted the information in the tutori als to be delivered more as FAQ s than as in depth instruction In a review of studies done on the information gathering research pro cess Joy H McGreggor concluded that students are focused on a final product rather than a process and because it answers the needs of active learners by engaging them Brandon Hall author of the Web Based How To Find a Book Step Three yth ee hire Below are the broad subject categories and their corresponding cali numbers based on the Library of Congress Classification system used at Bobst Library and many other academic institutions Call Number Subject trea i Multiple Choice Question Which classification system does Bobst Library use to catalog hooks ow L
86. ogit multinomial probit latent class and random parameters mixed logit mod els for discrete choice analysis ORDERED DEPENDENT VARIABLES Within the discrete choice library there are ordered dependent variable procedures The ordered options per mit ordered probit logit extreme value or Gompertz models These models can be run with panel data stratification variable dependent het eroskedasticity and random effects as sample selection or hazard models Users have the choice of five different algorithms parameter starting val ues and other technical settings such as the number of hermite quadrature points used for the random effects model LIMDEP also allows the usual parameter constraints and hypothesis tests It permits the use of clustering for robust covariance estimation Like most LIMDEP procedures this one allows the saving of predicted and residual values for diagnostic analy sis Multinomial probit multivariate logit nested logit and discrete choice models are also new additions to this LIMDEP library making it a very ver satile and powerful program CENSORING amp TRUNCATION LIMDEP also allows for regres sion models with censoring and trun cation Whether univariate or simul taneous models these dependent variable models have floors ceilings or both lower and upper limits Connect Information Technology at NYU restricting the range of the dependent variable These tobit or truncatio
87. onsistent graphical interface color scheme and naviga tion that is different from the design of the rest of the Bobst Library web site This helps indicate to students that they are in research rather than search mode email the citations Tutoria Horne Step Two Print your results FAQ i gt i citations to articles or the full text of the anticie Step Owe H Look up your topie in a printing at Sons Library databace savna search results W step Fue i emailing search results a ins marking citations Prirg your remis i gt i ifthe full text ofthe article is not avaitabie the database provides cit ations Step Three i You will need to write i ad or Chuck NYU catalog have the informatio Gloss for the journal Ta find the article o D seep Four title ofjoun GLOSAR Oetjoumeloftthe shet dateor seul mu page numb Citation gt Step Five j Evoluate tiw ticies i A chetion contains essential Information about an article H inciudnig o aithor of artic a titie of article tite of s page numbers Sometimes t atso inckxles subject headings descriting the content of the article anstract briet summary of article Glossaryierm Citatio i volume and dete of issue Figure 2 The How to Find an Article tutorial offers additional information in pop up boxes for users who wish to see it Connect
88. osted a syllabus Connect Information Technology at NYU Toot Ey N 30 87 created and posted course documents Of the faculty who posted content 71 posted materials in word pro cessing format 61 typed content into Blackboard 59 linked to other websites 28 posted mate rials in PDF format 26 used HTML for some materials and 22 posted images JPEG or GIF Only 2 posted animation video or audio materials USE OF CLASSROOM TOOLS 66 rated both the announce ment editor and e mail as among the most useful features followed by 54 for content uploading 44 for discussion group 36 for content editor 30 for external link editor and 25 for grade book The virtual classroom 49 tracking 49 and grade book 45 were ranked as the among least useful features 53 used the discussion group fea ture 22 of these faculty acted as moderator INDIVIDUAL COMMENTS Need for Guidelines NYU could offer venues for dis cussion about the pedagogy of online learning Tt would be helpful to be able to access some guidelines for syn chronous discussion There are rules that enable the discussion and behaviors that derail it Ultimately you can discover them but we could save time and effort with some guidelines I think it is a great tool but I would like more strategies for get ting my students to utilize all of its capabilities Desired Improvements Connect Inform
89. outside of NYU Connect Information Technology at NYU INTERNET RESOURCES These URLs are for software and systems mentioned in this article This list is not meant to be complete and does not recommend one over anoth er Many of these items can be down loaded for free or at a small charge and as with other free software the burden of support is on the user That being said I have found that many of these are quite usable and do not require a lot of effort to be successful Dance Notation Dance Notation Bureau Labanotation http www dancenotation org LabanWriter LabanReader http www dance ohio state edu labanwriter LabanLab http www dance ohio state edu dnbext labanlab LED and LINTER http staff it uts edu au don pubs led html Calaban http www bham ac uk calaban contents htm NotationMan SpacePlaceGuide hittp www mindspring com note8r labanotation himl Video Audio MIDI Manipulation Isadora http www twoikatronix com isadora html KeyStroke http www keyworx org Very Nervous System softVNS htip www interlog com drokeby softVNS html EyesWeb http www eyesweb org Max http www opcode com Max MSP http www cycling74 com products maxmsp html Image ine http www image ine org Jitter Dance amp Technology Zone In et P rmance http www cycling74 com http www art net 7Edtz Songs of Sorrow Songs of Hope products jitter html Studio for Electro Instrumental
90. plications Which method to use is best deter mined by the environment in which your testing is conducted and by your time and money constraints Two very useful techniques dis cussed in this article offer an automat ed approach to compiling survey data The first one involves traditional scannable bubble forms while the second technique involves using web based survey forms to administer your questionnaire Both of these tech niques can be successfully employed using the appropriate software Of course you can always enter your data by hand If you only have a few questionnaires and are careful using this simple method is a no brainer SPSS and other statistical packages have spreadsheets into which you can type the data Most statistical packages also accept data from Excel However if you have a fifty item questionnaire and you enter the data twice to verify it you will spend per haps five minutes on each question naire which comes to 10 hours for 120 questionnaires The first auto mated method mentioned above using scannable bubble forms would take less than two hours including questionnaire formatting and would have far fewer errors I BUBBLE ANSWER FIELDS ON SCANNABLE FORMS Using paper questionnaires with bubble fields for answers is an old technology You could use a commer cial data input service but it would be expensive especially if you only have 150 questionnaires However Remark Of
91. pm 3K 2 44 pm 56K 242 pm 3K 2 16 pm 1K 2 00 pm 1 24 pm 12 44 pm 11 06 am 172 Messages 54 unread 40MB OMB limit 561 total messages no limit Connect Information Technology at NYU Ied TOOT 43 44 And why not We ve added a spell checker which can be used on demand or set to run automatically Another big addition is the enhanced address book functionality You are now able to take addresses from e mail that you have received and add them to your address book with just a couple of clicks And perhaps best of all folders can now be shared among users Just designate a folder shared and other NYUHome users will have the ability to read write or manage that folder This ought to be especially useful to departments that receive mail intended for a group In addition to these major features there have been numerous bug fixes which now allow NYUHome to be used on as wide a range of browsers as possible One of the longstanding bugs was the sort order of messages which has now been fixed When you set the mailer to put the oldest mes sage last it will sort the messages as you would expect the newest mes sage first on the first page and the oldest message last on the last page Also once you set it it will stay set But we re by no means finished Next on NYUHome s order of busi ness is a mail filter possibly the biggest most requested feature to date We ve built the mail p
92. pplied by Internete we would be unable to make a consis tent and reliable network connection between geographically distant sites for these types of projects A typical multiple location setup consists of Internet2 connected per forming spaces in each of the loca tions Usually performers musi cians video artists and many techni cians are located at each venue At each site the various streams of video audio and MIDI are digitized and sent over Internet2 to all the other participating locations Then by previous arrangement the signals can be either played local ly or modified and re transmitted back to the originating location to be Connect Information Technology at NYU Heg TOOT Ww Figure 3 A scene from the Internet2 performance The Technophobe amp the Madman used there Each location will see a different but combined piece They will see both the local performance and the one supplied over Internet2 See Figure 3 for an example from an Internet2 performance piece en titled The Technophobe amp the Madman featured in an article by Philip Galanter in the Fall 2001 issue of Connect available online at http www nyu edu its connect archives o1fall galanter1 html In this multiple location musical the local performers on the stage interact ed with the remote performers shown on the video projection screens THE FUTURE OF DANCE TECHNOLOGY The future of Dance Technology is t
93. r respondents must be mature enough and sober enough to fill in the bubbles In addition respondents must be motivated enough to be care ful neat and responsible in getting the questionnaires back to you They must also be able to understand the ques tions without your help The cost for the Remark software is 700 The scanner must have an automatic feeder which costs per haps 1000 This may seem expensive but if you look into the cost of com mercial services or of paying someone to do the data entry it will seem more reasonable by comparison Plus you will own the scanner and software for future use Alternately the ITS Social Science Statistics and Mapping Group has scanners and a license for Remark Conference Evaluation Form Please help us make this conference better ned year by filling out this short questionnaire You may turn in your questionnaire at the registration desk when you leave of mai it to 1234 Main Steat Anytown Anystate 17345 USA Use the following scale to establish your ratings a 4 Ed o Sgng sat bites CR 1 Please rate your overall satisfaction with the corterence egy dlssat fed lt a 4 8 o 2 Please rate your overall satisfaction withthe exhibits area v 4 f o 3 Please rate your overall saisfadion with the format of the conference fie morning sessions breaks lunch atternoon sessionsfbreakouts a gt lt g a 4 Please rate your over
94. r example when trying to prohibit commercial organizations from sending promotional messages to your forum Connect Information Technology at NYU TOOT JI e4 N Ww 24 To do this 1 From the web interface of your list go to the List Admin menu 2 Select the List Info button 3 Scroll down the page to the section called Security for Subscribers 4 In the option called Banned Mem bers type in the e mail address you wish to ban from your list 5 Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Save Mailing List button to save your changes List Moderation Moderating messages gives you more control over your forum as it allows you to approve or reject all messages sent before they are distrib uted to your list If your list is not an announcement list where only the List Administrator is allowed to post you can change your list to a Moderated list To do this 1 From the web interface of your list go to the List Admin menu 2 Select the List Info button 3 Scroll down the page to the section called Posting Privileges and Moderation 4 In the option called Moderated change the drop down menu from not moderated messages never need approval to moderated all messages must be approved 5 In the option called Approve change the drop down menu from O no approvals needed to always needs approval 6 In the option c
95. re being answered We are now answering calls in less than 45 seconds averaged over the whole year and in less than 20 seconds dur ing non peak months Additionally we answered more calls in August 2002 6 688 than any other month with over 3 000 of them answered in the last week of August alone SO DID EXPANDING OUR HOURS HELP YOU Well the data indicate that it did The CSC is now open 104 hours a week out of 168 and over 20 of our calls this past year were answered during the service hours that we added a year ago 13 on weekends and approximately 8 10 between 8 00 pm and midnight Other hallmarks of ITS overall program of expanded coverage include improvements both in our systems robustness and when prob lems do occur in our response whether day or night All of us at ITS are proud of our accomplishments this past year and we look forward to serving you even more effectively in the future Have a productive year and if we can be of help feel welcome to call us We re here for you at 1 212 998 3333 Ken Fauerbach is the Director of ITS Client Services Connect Information Technology at NYU ITS HAS RELEASED THE NE NYU NET CLC CONTENT N Y U th ba T C D Norton AntiVirus Software Academic Year 2002 2003 Adobe Acrobat Reader Internet Explorer Netscape Eudora RealOne Player RealPlayer for Macintosh StuffIt Expander WinZip Fetch 4 0 2 WS FTP Putty SSH MacSSH DIAL
96. re the early adopters of NYU Blackboard in spring 2000 grew to nearly 400 fac ulty members by spring 2002 As we begin the fall 2002 semester approx imately 900 class sections with over 15 000 enrolled students from nearly all 14 schools and colleges of NYU are using NYU Blackboard During the next twelve months we plan to leverage our collaborations and partnerships with eLearning software vendors the NYU Libraries and the NYU Center for Teaching Excellence to expand the available resources for supporting Internet based technologies for teaching and learning at New York University To learn more about Blackboard please visit http www nyu edu its ftc or contact the Faculty Tech nology Center at 1 212 998 3044 Vincent Doogan is the Director of ITS Academic Computing Services Joan Pirundini is an intern at the ITS Faculty Technology Center and a graduate student at The Steinhardt School of Education GET READY NYU PHONE CHANGES YOU NEED TO KNOW You should now start dialing 9 1 area code 7 digits for all local calls even within the same area code Now is the time to get into the habit of dialing 9 1 plus the three digit area code and the seven digit number to make all local calls within 212 718 917 646 and 347 even if you re dialing to another number in the same area code For example if you re calling from an NYU extension to another number in the 212 area code dial 9 1 plus the
97. results The second method involves fit ting the dancers with wireless elastic cuffs on their major joints usually the knees and elbows These cuffs trans mit MIDI data based on the degree of flexion of the joint which can then be locally processed or sent via the Internet to another location for use processing or modification COLLABORATIVE NETWORK PERFORMANCES There is affordable technology that makes it possible to use the Internet to share multiple streams or channels of high quality video and audio These types of applications require a large bandwidth that would be difficult to obtain on the regular Internet NYU is a member of Internet2 an initiative involving over 180 universi ties and many technical partners all working to address these bandwidth concerns through the implementation of a next generation Internet Inter net2 is a separate network similar in technology to the Internet but with far fewer users and no commercial traffic This allows members to use a large amount of bandwidth to exchange data between themselves without having to compete with the day to day business of the regular Internet Currently membership is primari ly limited to universities using Inter net2 for research purposes Although it is largely used for scientific and engineering applications there are a few universities including NYU that are using Internet2 for performance and instructional purposes Without the bandwidth su
98. rials ICPSR National Dats Archive N CE Map Archive High end computational computing Floppy 100 250 Zip disk 998 3398 wer nya edy its socsci his Quick Reference Guide is intended to serve as a visual display of the various ITS and ITS affiliated academic technology based facilities and to give an overview of the resources that each location makes available to the NYU community For further details about these facili ties please use the contact information listed in the guide below or get in touch with the ITS Client Services Center by phone at 1 212 998 3333 or by e mail at its clientservices nyu edu It is hoped that this guide will be used as a topographical map and not ITS Student Coaputer Labs as a replacement for the many inform ative and regularly updated ITS pub lications available on the web and in print In addition to the web pages listed in the guide below further information about ITS resources is available at http www nyu edu its The main ITS website which is being redesigned for late fall 2002 e http www nyu edu its faculty guide The web version of the NYU Libraries amp ITS Faculty Infor mation Guide http www nyu edu its students guide The web version of the NYU Libraries amp ITS Student Infor mation Guide For more information about these and other ITS publications including how to obtain print copies please see the article on pag
99. rmation Technology at NYU Six 6 video editing systems for short quality video pieces using the mini DV standard and Apple s FinaiCutPra or Adobe Premier editing software Three 3 ProTools audio systems with Roland MIDI keyboards High Quality scanning of positive and negative film and reflective media film recording in 35 mm 120 and 4x5 color formats printing on medium format archival amp non archival printers diting booths for advanced students and faculty working on larger video post production projects primarily used to edit analog Betacam SP source materials in addition to mini DY DVCAM and DVC Pro digital formats Large format printing archival and non archival output miniDV DVCAM DYD CD DAT Video dubbing rack formats DVCAM Betacam SP Hi 8 S VHS VHS min OY 998 3421 woe nyuedu its aty Graphics and videographics resources high performance 3 D workstations and visualization along with expert advice and consultation in the use of these resources NSF supercomputers access to supercomputing systems atthe National Science Foundation centers Research and instruction in parallel computing environments along with shared memery high performance systems Floppy 100 250 Zip disk 998 3508 wwenye edu its faculty speciaities scinyu Statistics software for Advanced Data Analysis Mapping and Large format Printing Statistical Consultation and Tuto
100. rogram to support the addition of filters which can automatically sort messages into folders as they are received based on user specified criteria and we aim to have them in place by the end of the Fall 2002 semester Farther out on our crowded hori zon is spam filtering a much pricklier subject Legitimate and important messages can sometimes be incor rectly designated as spam by these fil ters For obvious reasons we are loath to actually delete any mail so we re considering solutions that add headers to identify what we believe to be spam it would then be up to each user to employ a filter to sift delete or simply divert files to another fold er for later perusal Other enhancements included in the current 3 0 upgrade are increased mail and file quotas each raised from 30 MB to 50 MB streamlined Blackboard course creation and new channels including a new Google search engine an administrative computing channel and a Medical School channel We hope that you enjoy the new features of NYUHome 3 0 As you explore your new Home please con tact us with any questions or com ments you may have You can reach the NYUHome Team through the Contact Home channel in NYU Home or by sending e mail to home nyu edu Michael Puskar is an Information Tech nology Specialist in ITS eServices version 3 0 a IAE As a new NYU student I find this NYUHome portal great Thanks great work on the
101. s gt Your Guide to NYU Forums By Jodi Goldberg 0 0 cece een eeaee 20 gt Welcome to Your New Home Your Guide to NYUHome Version 3 0 By Michael Puskar 000000000e 43 Humanities Computing gt ACS Facilitates Los Alamos MILAGRO Meeting By Allen Mincer and Matthew Zimmerman 0 0220200 12 Miscellaneous gt And the Winner Is George Sadowsky Prize Awarded to Catherine P Coleman 000eeuee 24 gt Get Ready NYU Phone Changes You Need to Know 31 NYU Libraries gt The Database of Recorded American Music By Jerome McDonough 0004 6 gt Creating User Friendly Online Tutorials By Nadaleen Tempelman Kluit 25 Online Learning gt NYU Blackboard Survey Results By Vincent Doogan with J an Pirundihi si BRA Ee we Ae eh A 29 Science amp Visualization gt Scientific Computing amp Visualization at NYU By Frances Bauer and Alexandar Tzanov Sled ri peii 28 Social Science Statistics amp Mapping gt Collaborating for the Better Good ITS Teams Up with New York City Transit _ By Antonio Lopez Ba bad Seal Matar EET 18 gt How to Import Data Files into SAS By Mare GlaySOM esse eee ati ee te 35 gt A Review of LIMDEP 8 0 A Powerful and Versatile Package for Econometric Analysis By William Greene and Robert Yaffe orervce torria ee 36 gt inputting Questionnaires into Data Sets By Frank LoPresti and Sean Fischer 40 Connect
102. s which is often called handshake the remote modem asks for authenti cation username and password If the user logs in with the correct infor mation and the authentication suc ceeds the two modems will agree on the language they will use to commu nicate back and forth configuring the Point to Point Protocol PPP and your computer will be successfully connected to NYU NET NYU DIAL STATISTICS The dial up link to NYU NET is handled by several hundred modems which typically accommodate between 10 and 20 thousand successful connec tions per day These modems support connections speeds of up to 56 kilo bits per second kbps commonly known as 56K and a variety of pro tocols to manage connection requests from our clients A term like 56K is used to indicate a theoretical maximum speed of con nection not necessarily the actual Connect Information Technology at NYU cs speed at which a connection is occur ring The speed of the established connection is usually somewhat lower and depends on the stability of the connection clarity and strength of signal noise on the line error cor rection protocols etc At any given moment NYU NET modems may be handling over a thou sand simultaneous connections on an average day 16 000 connections will be made 96 5 of which will be suc cessful The speed of most connec tions to NYU NET through DIAL serv ice falls in the range of 44K to 53K and conne
103. s SPSS Data Entry SPSS Data Entry and Data Entry Builder software make your computer into a server You can use the Builder to create a web survey then publish it using the Data Eniry software which supplies the Perl and Java you need to gather the respondents answers The results look great The software also helps you to create a web page that sits on your newly created server with a link to your survey Once you click on the URL your survey is up and running on other computers So what s not to like Unfor tunately plenty When this product first came out a couple of years ago its success seemed guaranteed Nonetheless Application Service Providers ASPs turned out to be the way to go ASPs provide and maintain the servers for applications and they charge you for using their software Experience some of it hard earned showed that most researchers and small groups are ill equipped to pro vide and maintain a stable server and at the same time manage the soft ware Security alone is a monumental investment Despite the problems associated with the SPSS Data Entry product researchers still have options available to them that will allow data collection via the Web One website that shows great promise in assisting researchers in this endeavor is SurveyMonkey http www surveymonkey com This website is geared toward researchers who would like to use the Internet to collect survey data but who do not know how
104. s community such as BLAST HMMER SYBYL etc can be installed upon request For more information call the Science and Visualization Group at 1 212 998 3058 or 1 212 998 3159 or send e mail to comment scires nyu edu Frances Bauer and Alexandar Tzanov are Scientific Visualization Specialists in the Science and Visualization Group of ITS Academic Computing Services NYU Blackboard Survey Results Vincent Doogan with Joan Pirundini doogan nyu edu jpirundini hotmail com Information Technology Services introduced Blackboard a com mercially available course develop ment system currently in use at many American colleges and universities The principal features of this versa tile course delivery system include web browser compatibility a course tem plate use of text and multimedia con tent search tools student home pages threaded discussions chat rooms e mail file sharing whiteboards stu dent grading test authoring assess ment tools access control a class ros ter and a built in help manual Blackboard is a hybrid product It contains a score of features that are also found in the software market as independent robust and fully devel oped products Helping faculty mem bers determine which software prod uct best fits their needs is one of the roles of the Instructional Technolo gists at the ITS Faculty Technology Center FTC For example a faculty member who is only seeking a discret
105. s year Professors Allen Mincer and Peter Nemethy of NYU s Physics Department hosted a meeting of the Multi Institution Los Alamos Gamma Ray Observatory MILAGRO project researchers at NYU s Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life 7 East ioth Street Through the cooperation of ITS Academic Computing Services and the ITS Network Operations Center NYU was able to provide these researchers with secure and reliable access to the technological resources they required during their stay Nine institutions across the U S are participating in the MILAGRO project see the end of this article for details The experiment is designed to study very high energy VHE gamma rays produced in astrophysi cal sources Since the human eye is only sensi tive to a narrow range of the electro magnetic spectrum when we look up at the night sky we see only the objects such as some stars which emit light at these wavelengths By looking at the sky at different wave lengths however the MILAGRO researchers can see objects that would not otherwise be visible and can learn about the physical process es responsible for their emissions The experiment uses a detector that measures very high frequency light consisting of particles called VHE gamma rays Some of these par ticles are produced by the most ener getic processes we know of such as the explosion of stars which can cre ate black holes The MILAGRO detector is located at
106. se contact Jeff Lane at 1 212 992 9297 or Ken Fauerbach at 1 212 992 9299 or write to its desktop nyu edu Connect Information Technology at NYU zoot Jed VI The Database of Recorded American Music Jerome McDonough jerome mcdonough nyu edu he last ten years have seen dra matic changes in the retail market for music These changes are more extensive than sim ply the rise of file sharing services such as Napster and peer to peer P2P net works that have been the subject of media attention Sales of audio CDs have dropped dramatically since 1995 and in response record stores and their suppliers have increasingly moved towards emphasizing new releases and dropping slower moving titles from their catalogs The commercial availability of niche music has become increasingly restricted and smaller music labels that record artists who are not cov ered by mainstream labels have found it increasingly difficult to obtain rack space in stores This has severely com promised the economic position of the smaller labels with the result that many have closed in recent years or are struggling to survive New World Records http www newworldrecords org a non profit music company founded in 1976 and committed to recording American music neglected by the larg er labels recognized these developing trends and decided to try to address them by refocusing its efforts on deliv ering music to its core constituency
107. site Version 3 0 has a lot more improvements easier navi gation and use Thanks pls keep up the good work Hey the new messenger express really blows me away Great job Tm LOVIN these new mail features But I realize that s only the icing on a very complicated upgrade and release process CONGRATS to the entire team on a release WELL DONE amp WELL COMMUNICATED I think the upgrade is a terrific improvement Thanks Just want to thank you for the new interface and the better functionality finally an easy way to add recipi ents and a speller Great job Logged into NYUHome and was surprised by all the changes I usually hate changes like this and having to learn how to use an upgraded system i e the latest ver sion of AOL but this I didn t mind so much The new features especially the address book are great Thanks for the upgrade Connect Information Technology at NYU Thanks I got to work all weekend THANK YOU for fixing the glitches that NYUHome 3 0 had with either Netscape or Macs You guys could solve a rainy day Thanks That did the trick Your response was quick and effective don t you guys ever sleep Marking messages to which replies have been sent is an improvement Mail Iooks much cooler now Nice Peace This spell check on the e mail is great I really like the new and flexible features of NYUHome It was a surprise to see the color and added features for e mail Version 3 0
108. so that you receive no mail from the forum To do this 1 Log into the web interface for your forum You can access your forum through your NYUHome account s Forums channel or by going to http forums nyu edu and typing in the name of your forum 2 From the main menu select the Your Settings button 3 Find the section called Status From the drop down menu select the option for nomail receive no mail from this mailing list 4 Click the Save button to save your changes 5 To resume the delivery of mail from the forum repeat steps 1 3 above but change the Status set tings from nomail back to what you had previously The most common setting is mail receive messages as they are contributed Then click the Save button to save your changes Also if you re sending mail from your NYUHome account it s best to disable the return receipt setting before sending mail to an NYU Forum SECTION TWO INFORMATION FOR LIST ADMINISTRATORS All List Administrators should have a copy of the List Administrator Guide The Guide provides basic information about list owners responsibilities To request a copy send an e mail to admin guide forums nyu edu As mentioned earlier the Lyris software upgrade added two features to the front end forum administration 1 Member Search Box This is a new feature in the Members page accessed from the List Administrator
109. t Lab and Lan Box Projector video in left top width height zoom active stage SL E e e A gmdirid une eh nas Cente eed ECEE E BERN Figure 1 An Isadora Scratch demo Connect Information Technology at NYU ncn Ec tt lll Es SSS acl a E a eras RAAT ee SS pe re eS a Figure 2 A Labanotation Score from LabanWriter As mentioned earlier choreo graphic and notational tools enable the artist to compose or record a dance without the need for human dancers One of the first such tools is called Life Forms Dance It allows the choreogra pher to compose and view a dance with multiple dancers on a computer screen Along with basic body and movement modeling it has modules that allow you to generate more com plex movements such as walking It can export the movement sequences to 3D modeling and animation packages to produce a finished movie The Labanotation symbol system http www dancenotation org can be used to record dances in the same way a musical score records a musical piece Each horizontal line represents a different body part with more details added as needed to cre ate a more complex or specific move ment The image from LabanWriter in Figure 2 illustrates one of these scores Doing this by hand is tedious and error prone and Labanotation tools minimize these problems A good score is invaluable for recreating or teaching a new dance 3D MOTION TRACKING CAPTURE S
110. t the moment DRAM is operat ing as a research project supported by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and as this is a research effort we will continue to explore new ways in which DRAM might be developed We are currently seeking new part ners within both the music industry and the higher education community to expand the amount and type of music available in DRAM and to solicit feedback from a wider audi ence within the higher education community as to how DRAM might be improved We will also be experimenting with new models for optimizing delivery of high quality audio files over the Internet as well as with delivery of extremely high quality 24 bit 96 KHz sampling files over Internet2 Even tually New World Records hopes to make DRAM available as a subscrip tion service to libraries and education al institutions throughout the country New World Records and NYU staff would like NYU community members to test DRAM enjoy the music avail able through the database and let us know how you think DRAM could be made better whether it s for your use as a tool in teaching or learning about music or just for your listening enjoyment While we already have some ideas for ways to improve the system such as allowing users to create play lists of recordings to be played back in sequence the people best positioned to judge a system are its users Please send your comments and suggestions to Rick Ochoa at rick ochoa ny
111. the Small Academic Library Experience The Journal of Academic Librarian ship 27 no 3 May 2001 220 223 Jerilyn Verdif and Karen Beavers Going Mental Tackling Mental Models for the Online Library Tutorial Research Strategies 18 no 1 2001 3 20 Nadaleen Tempelman Kluit is an Instructional Design Librarian at New York University s Libraries Connect Information Technology at NYU TOOT JI e4 N N 28 Scientific Computing amp Visualization at NYU Frances Bauer and Alexandar Tzanov frances bauer nyu edu alex tzanov nyu edu he Science and Visualization To within ITS Academic Computing Services offers a number of special resources to faculty and students in the sciences includ ing hardware and software resources staff who provide expert advice and consultation in their use and access to supercomputing systems at the National Science Foundation centers The goal of the Group is to provide the NYU computing community with the most technologically advanced com puter platforms with respect to architec ture speed memory and storage The Group s three principal resour ces SCIRES SCIVIS and SCIHPC are currently composed of Silicon Graphics SGI computers all of which share a 68 GB scratch disk mounted on a separate server These facilities have recently undergone considerable modification and improvement The SCIRES Scientific Research system was originally an SGI Origin
112. the summer of 2002 the LC8 portion of the lab underwent a major renovation The furniture and wall coverings which had seen some 15 years of service were all replaced and carpeting was added to reduce the noise generated by foot traffic on the raised floor Two new walls which will further reduce ambient noise were constructed to hide unsightly HVAC units at each end of the lab This summer s work was the last phase of a long term renovation proj ect In the summer of 2001 ITS offices in LC7 were demolished so that a new thirty seat Windows based classroom could be built This classroom is avail able for reservation by NYU faculty to supplement the courses they teach Along with the new construction and furnishings the sixty four Windows computers in the lab have been replaced They now have 2 GHz Pentium 4 processors with 512 MB of memory and a 250 MB Zip drive As part of our ongoing efforts to provide improved computing facilities these systems were also fitted with 17 inch flat panel displays and CD RW drives The new larger displays allow for higher screen resolutions The new CD RW drives also allow clients to save projects of up to 700 MB easily and lower their media costs by re using CD RW discs Connect Information Technology at NYU The Tisch Hall Lab offers extend ed overnight hours for midterms starting the sixth week of the semes ter The lab extends its hours again four weeks before final exa
113. ting Services does is invest igate and explore emergent and evolving technologies with a focus on digital tools used by artists As part of this research I recently had the opportunity to attend a work shop held at NYU on a rather inter esting multimedia and multi user application from Holland called KeyStroke This workshop was spon sored through the auspices of the ATG s Associate Director Philip Galanter who invited Ms Sher Doruff of KeyStroke to come over from Amsterdam to demonstrate this software Ms Doruff led a full day workshop on the software with the help of her colleague Eric Redlinger and the support of the entire ATG This workshop was attended by about a dozen members of the NYU aca demic community KeyStroke is an ever evolving project of the Waag Labs of the Society for Old and New Media The Society is an Amsterdam based government supported research and development endeavor that carries out research develops new concepts and software applications and initi ates debate in the form of public events on the cutting edge of both old and new media Fittingly it is head quartered in a fantastic antique building in the heart of Amsterdam which was once a weigh station or Waag in Dutch Sher Doruff is currently the project director of KeyStroke and is also a media artist who has collaborated with many dance theater and music com panies working with real time inter
114. to or do not care to collect the data using their own web server After registering with the website researchers can create any number of web based question naires and each one is assigned its own individual web address Creating survey forms using SurveyMonkey is surprisingly easy One does not need to be incredibly computer savvy or proficient in web page design SurveyMonkey guides the researcher through a step by step process that offers several options for each question For example researchers can easily create survey forms that allow for multiple choice questions one line open ended questions or questions that require respondents to input their responses in an essay format see Figure 2 When the researcher is done SurveyMonkey Connect Information Technology at NYU Ied TOQ C rN gt 42 SurveyMonkey com The easiest way to create online surveys Sean s Survey 1 Name Jon Doe 2 Age eo 3 Date of Birth MM DD YYYY fosi2er1976 4 Address Address 1 6 Washington Piacoa Address 2 NYU Psychology Dept SS City New York Cilia State NY eo Zip Code 10003 years pursuing a career in psychology Strongly Agree Tama good a P student Thave a lot of friends Tam happy I enjoy playing sports I like watching television UW t ee 8 Done gt gt At this point in college I am deciding between becoming a medical doctor or a psycho
115. tral Supply 29 Washington Place Lower Level CONNECT AND CONNECT DIRECT Published biannually Connect Information Technology at NYU showcases the many uses of informa tion technology at NYU An online version of this magazine and an archive of past issues are available at http www nyu edu its connect Ideas and contributions for future issues are invited for consideration by the editor send e mail to its connect nyu edu NYU community members are also encouraged to subscribe to Connect Direct an e mail listserv that provides IT related news announcements and alerts Visit http www nyu edu its connect connectinfo html for more infor mation FLYERS Our convenient flyers provide a quick overview of important informa tion including descriptions of services and location and contact information Our current titles are e Computer Services amp Internet Resources for NYU Students E mail amp Internet with Your NYUHome Service e ITS Computer Support Services an Offering of ITS Client Services NYUHome Welcome Home e Using Your Laptop with Data Projectors at NYU BROCHURES More in depth than our flyers these brochures provide detailed infor mation and or instructions about the topics they address Our current titles are Computer Services and Internet Resources for NYU Faculty and Students e A Quick Start Guide to NYU ResNet e Securing Desktop Machines in Your Office and at Home e Securit
116. ts strategic planning for MetroCard sales operations The project started at the begin ning of the spring 2002 semester Under this collaborative effort stu dents are given the opportunity to work at the MTA NYCT through the agency s internship program These students work closely with the Stra tegic Planning Unit s Senior Planner GIS Analyst on database statistics and GIS strat gic planning applica tions The goal is to combine a wealth of resources from various public pri vate and academic sources under one project led by MCO Strategic Planning As a result MTA NYCT strategic planners NYU researchers and under graduate and graduate students from NYU Hunter College s Geography Department and the CUNY Graduate Center combine their varied expertise and skill sets while working on a real world application which in return provides students with a conduit for employment The first task that the group of social scientists planners and interns faced was to set up computer hardware soft ware and databases at NYU s ITS Aca demic Computing Services ACS facili ties that adhered to the needs of the project Because of the importance of geographic information to the project an accurate basemap of New York City known as the NYCMap was installed on one of the ITS Social Science Statistics and Mapping Group s servers This data base consists of a wealth of geographic information that was collecte
117. u edu Members of the Internet commu nity deserve better access to quality music and those of us working on DRAM hope it will be a large step towards providing it Enjoy DRAM END NOTES 1 At the same time new small labels are being born in greater numbers than ever before so the picture is more com plicated than some industry statements and media reports would suggest 2 We realize that one of the most desir able features for users would be the ability to download MP3 files for stor age on home and office PCs MP3 play ers etc Most of the music industry has resisted making unrestricted MP3 files available for download out of fear for the potential negative impact it might have on sales of CDs New World Records however believes that this has not been proven and will be experimenting in the com ing months with providing unresirict ed MP3s for download at their compa ny website and seeing what impact this appears to have on their sales of CDs for these recordings If there is no neg ative impact DRAM will probably be enhanced to allow users to download MP3 recordings of material available in the database Jerome McDonough is Team Leader for the Digital Library Development Group at NYU Libraries Connect Information Technology at NYU TOOT ied N KeyStroke Workshop at NYU Jed Weaver jed weaver nyu edu ne of the many types of work O the Arts Technology Group ATG of NYU s Academie Compu
118. uate for serious musicologists as they lack detailed search facilities and access to non audio materials related to the music Intellectual property concerns have also resulted in most of the commercial online music ventures placing restrictions on the use of materials a condition that consumers have generally found onerous In developing DRAM New World Records and the NYU Digital Library Development Team have kept a vari ety of goals in mind To provide access to high quality full length versions of all of the music in New World Records cat alog for which digital distribution rights have been secured from the copyright holders e To provide search facilities that go beyond artist title searching to enable finer grained searching for example the ability to distinguish between a particular artist as a com poser and the same artist as a per former in searching for works and which leverage the extensive infor mation that New World Records already possesses about music in its collection to enable broader topical access to musical recordings e To support users connecting to DRAM at a variety of bandwidths To create a system that will eventu ally support user customization for such features as search history cre ating play lists etc HOME elcome 16 The Datdbdsaof Recorded American Music The Database of f RecOtded Amencan Music is a subscription based service _ scholars tind academic unsttutions O
119. well known Video Toaster which had quite an impact in the video world Remember Mike Myers doing Wayne s World It was the Video Toaster that generated all those wonderfully cheesy effects and is even still used in cable shows and in many late night TV ads you might see in the wee hours of the morning Advance a few more years and we encounter KeyStroke Perhaps a sim ple analogy to describe how one might use KeyStroke would be to Figure 4 Renderer Modules imagine it as a software based Erector Set for processing video audio and images The analogy is a fairly apt one as KeyStroke has a bit of the same concept and feel as an Erector Set In the case of KeyStroke the build ing blocks are called modules see the icons above Similar to the Erector Set paradigm the modules available in KeyStroke can be con nected together in an almost infinite number of combinations to accom plish different types of media process ing The modules are represented onscreen in KeyStroke s Patcher its user interface as little boxes or icons along with spirals and what one must do is connect various modules togeth er into a patch session Figure 5 An example of a video image manipulated by KeyStroke Connect Information Technology at NYU KEYSTROKE CONCEPTS Modules are the building blocks of a KeyStroke patch and are divid ed into three main categories and ten subcategories according to th
120. ws all participants to benefit from the relation ships established by the working group MTA NYCT MCO COLLABORATIVE WORKING EFFORT CONTRIBUTORS Jenna Way MTA NYCT MCO Strategic Planning Chief Officer Antonio Lopez MTA NYCT MCO Strategic Planning Senior Plan ner GIS Analyst Frank Maffei MTA NYCT MCO Extended Sales GIS Analyst Frank LoPresti NYU ITS ACS Social Science Statistics amp Mapping Group Director Yakov Smotritsky NYU ITS ACS Social Science Statistics amp Mapping Group Researcher Robert Yaffee NYU ITS ACS Social Science Statistics amp Mapping Group Researcher Cornelius Armentrout Hunter College Geography Department Master s Program MTA NYCT Aide Edwina Branch NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service MPA Program MTA NYCT Aide Yili Kellici CUNY Graduate Center Earth amp Environmental Studies Ph D Program MTA NYCT Aide Trancy Chan Hunter College Geography Department Master s Program MTA NYCT Intern Ioanis Potouridis Hunter College Geography Department Master s Program MTA NYCT Intern Mare Grayson NYU Metropolitan Studies Bachelor s Program MTA NYCT Intern Antonio Lopez is a Senior Planner and GIS Analyst for the MTA NYCT MetroCard Operations While earning a Master s in Urban Planning at NYU Lopez was grad uate assistant to the MUP Program Director in the Urban Planning Program and GIS student assistant for the ITS Social Science Statistics
121. y NYU What Can We Do For You Protecting Your Computer System from Viruses Worms and Trojan Horses pcAnywhere Setting it up for Secure Connections Personal Firewalls Guidelines for Operating Multi User Systems on NYU NET GUIDES Produced in collaboration with the NYU Libraries these comprehen sive guides one for students one for faculty staff and administrators contain the essential information you need in order to make the most of the NYU Libraries and ITS e NYU Libraries amp ITS Student Guide NYU Libraries amp ITS Faculty Information Guide Candice Gruver Jill Hochberg and Kate Monahan are members of the Publica tions Group in ITS Client Services How to Import Data Files into SAS There are a few ways to import data into a SAS data set Imported data files can include Database Management Systems DBMS tables PC files spreadsheets and delimited external files The two basic ways to import into a SAS data set are explained in the steps below The first way is through the SAS Import Wizard and the other is by con verting your document in DBMS COPY for Windows v 7 0 1 SAS IMPORT WIZARD The SAS Import Wizard can be accessed from the File tab of a running session of SAS When importing data the Import Wizard only supports certain types of data For example it can convert most Excel xls files However the SAS Import Wizard can not convert SPSS sav files DBMS COPY DBMS CO
122. y language and content chunking When we have non imper ative information to communicate in our tutorials we tend to use pop up boxes that users can click on if they want further explanation but can eas ily bypass if they don t We also made the tutorials modu lar Not only is this a good writing for the Web concept but it is also good pedagogy according to Nancy Dewald who says in Web Based Library Instruction What is Good Pedagogy that modules that provide informa tion in small blocks breaking it up into parts and subparts with sum HOW You can print save or email your database search results whether they are maries and reviews help learners absorb material gradually and organ ize the material in their own mind There is an overall linear approach to our tutorials but users are in no way locked in Left side navigation within each module and its sub pages is always visible to the user should they want to move to another section of the tutorial see Figure 3 When implementing online tutori als it is important to create a distinc tive design that differentiates the tuto rials from an online search As Veldof and Beavers say If for example stu dents do not understand that they are in a tutorial and not a portal to library resources their confusion and frustra tion will prevent them from meeting the instructional objectives The tutorials created at Bobst Library employ a c

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