Computing Tutorials Agenda

Day One: Aug 19th

8:30 - 9:00AM, Social time with breakfast

9:00 - 12:00AM, DH1049, demonstrations

1. Meet with our IT friends.
2. 10:00-10:30AM Library presentation by Debra Bailey
3. Overview of Rice and stat department computing facilities, computing accounts etc. (Blair)
4. Windows tools for statistics (Slava)
5. Unix for bioinformaticists: Unix tools, Emacs and Perl (Bo)

12:00 - 1:30PM Lunch break

1:30PM - 5:00PM, Symonds Lab II, hand-on tutorials

1. 1:30-2:30PM Greetings from Department Chair Dr. Kathy Ensor
2. Get access to the machines (ssh/xwin, stat, ruf network, samba, working at home etc) (Slava)
3. Basic unix commands. C-shell, introduction to Perl (Bo)
4. Introduction to S-Plus ( Blair)

Day two: Aug 20th

8:30AM - 9:00AM, breakfast

9:00 - 12:00AM DH1049, demonstrations

1. Scientific writing using Latex (Bo)
2. Emacs and other goodies under Unix. (Blair)
3. Doing Statistics with S-Plus (Slava)

12:00 - 1:30PM Lunch break

1:30PM - 5:00PM, Symonds Lab II, hand-on tutorials

1. Latex and lyx (Bo)
2. Emacs, ESS and more (Blair)
3. More S-Plus. (Slava)
4. Many other stuff if time allows. (all)

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