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New Internet Toolkit Released: Bovine Online Version 6.0
Bessie is older, wiser, and more inexpensive than ever. The UC Davis Bookstore Computer Shop is now selling the newest version of Bovine Online at an all-time low price of $4.99 for the 2001-2002 academic year to UC Davis students, faculty and staff. Now in its sixth annual release, the award-winning Bovine Online is packed with Internet tools that enable you to connect to the UC Davis campus, surf the Internet, check your email, and upload and decompress files.Bovine Online version 6.0 includes the following software:
Computers purchased through the campus Dell purchase program come with all of the tools installed. UC Davis Quarterly Technology Reports Online
Three times a year, UC Davis, along with all of the other UCs, releases two reports on technology and communications initiatives. These reports keep the UC Joint Operations Group (JOG) and the Communications Planning Group (CPG) apprised of technology issues across the campuses. See the UC Davis' September JOG and CPG reports online:
These reports were prepared for the quarterly JOG/CPG meeting held at the Lawrence Livermore Labs on September 25 and 26. For a copy of the agenda and links to other campus reports, see http://www.ucop.edu/irc/jog/. The University of California Computing Services Conference Packs a Full House at UCLA
There is no doubt that the University of California Computing Services Conference (UCCSC) is gaining momentum every year. Nearly 20 years ago, less than 100 people attended the first conference of this kind, bringing technology professionals from every university together to discuss current issues and events in computing. Every year, the conference is held at a different university, and this year UCLA marked the event with more than 300 attendees—the most ever. Last year, the conference was held here at UC Davis.The conference this year, "Universal Access: Anytime, Anywhere," included more than 50 presentations on e-commerce, videostreaming, virtual reality, Windows 2000, and wireless access. UC Davis provided 10 of the presentations. Attendees were also invited to a Sunday Night Barbecue and evening at the Hammer Museum and were able to mingle and share stories with those from other universities. For more information about this year's conference, including attendees, presentations, and how to find out about next year's conference at UC Berkeley, go to http://uccsc.ats.ucla.edu/. Incoming Students Flock to Summer Advising 2001
It's not easy to get more than 6,000 new UC Davis students and anxious parents to sit still and pay attention, but Information and Educational Technology managed just that with style and finesse. Between June 26 and August 18, transfer students, freshmen, and their families attended Summer Advising 2001. The first item on their agenda: Set up a student computing account. When students and their families arrived at the Segundo Learning Resource Center to set up their computing accounts, IET welcomed them to Aggie-hood with smiling congratulations, then treated them to a brief presentation about campus computing. Highlights included the campus computer ownership expectation, MyUCDavis, and an overview of student computing information resources such as the online Student Computing Guide. |
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