Volume 3. No 3 Information Technology News of the University of California, Davis Spring 1995

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I.T. and SD&PS Launch Brown Bag Series

To keep the campus abreast of trends in information technology, the Division of Information Technology and Staff Development & Professional Services are cosponsoring a series of brown bag presentations this month. The brown bag presentations are part of the Information Technology Outreach Program and will continue in the 1995-96 academic year. All members of the campus community are welcome to attend the presentations, which are scheduled from noon to 1 p.m. Dates, topics, and locations are as follows:

• Wednesday, May 17: Network 21 Status Update, Silo Cabernet Room. Carole Barone, Associate Vice Chancellor for Information Technology, will provide a project status report and answer your questions.

• Wednesday, May 24: Computing Support: Where Is It When You Need It? MU East Conference Room. Information Technology's Joan Gargano, Zack O'Donnell, and Tim Leehane will describe distributed computing on campus, tell how it applies to your work at the university, and how computing support is accomplished in a distributed environment.

• Wednesday, May 31: Hardware/Software Recommendations, Silo Cabernet Room. Joan Gargano, director of I.T.'s Distributed Computing Analysis and Support (DCAS) will provide tips that will help you plan your computing purchases.

The Brown Bag series is just one of many forums Information Technology and Staff Development are using to keep the campus up to date on new developments in information technologies. To suggest topics, send e-mail to neharrington@ucdavis.edu or call 752-5964. For further information on events sponsored by Informatin Technology and other groups interested in promoting the use of information technology, please see the I.T. Calendar.