What software is in the Information Commons Computer Lab?
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7Zip
7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio.
Adobe Creative Cloud
Platform: Mac & Windows Desktop Computers
Adobe Creative Cloud is a package of several programs for editing print and online documents and graphics. It includes:
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Acrobat Professional: Used to read and create PDF files. When creating PDF files,
it is used like a printer -- for example, you can "print" an MS Word file to a PDF file that can then be emailed or placed on websites. You can also use it to combine multiple PDF files into a single PDF.
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Animate: Software for creating complex animation and sound effects for web pages.
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Bridge: Bridge aids in organizing files created in the other Creative Suite programs listed below. Separate files can be organized into a "project" and moved from one program to another for editing.
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Dreamweaver: Web page editing software
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GoLive: Prebuilt CSS (cascading style sheet) objects that can be used with Dreamweaver in creating web pages.
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Lightroom: Import, organize, manage, and non-destructive editing of photos.
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Illustrator: Software for drawing line art and creating sophisticated text effects and page layout, either for printed documents or web graphics. Illustrator uses vector graphics. Content created in Illustrator can be printed, or imported into Adobe Photoshop or InDesign.
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InDesign: InDesign is a desktop publishing program oriented towards multi-page print documents. It can pull in graphics content created with Illustrator and Photoshop.
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Photoshop: Software for editing bitmapped image files, such as scanned photographs. Files can be saved in formats used for printed documents or for web graphics.
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Premiere Pro: Premiere Pro is the leading editing software for creating incredible videos fast.
Anaconda 3 w/ Phython
Anaconda is a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. The distribution includes data-science packages suitable for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
ArcGIS Pro
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
ArcGIS Desktop is a suite of geographical information system mapping programs including:
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ArcReader for viewing maps
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ArcMap for creating and editing maps
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ArcCatalog for managing data associated with maps
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ArcScene for extending maps to three dimensions
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ArcGlobe for placing maps on a three dimensional globe, based on coordinates
Numerous extensions and built in templates are available with this software.
Audacity
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Audacity is an open source, cross-platform audio editor and recorder. Audacity can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files.
Auralia Cloud
Auralia Cloud allows students learn music.
Autocad 2022
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
AutoCad is used to created and edit engineering and architectural drawings and other applications that require 3D vector graphics.
Autodesk
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
3-D modeling, animation, and rendering software for architects, designers, engineers, and visualization specialists.
ChemDraw
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
ChemDraw is a molecular editing program that features stereochemistry, atom numbering, structure & style templates, a large choice of bonds & arrows, full color drawing, and more.
Chrome
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Web browser.
Eclipse IDE (Java) & Wascana Eclipse C++
Platform: Windows and Mac Desktop Computers (Wascana on Windows computers only)
Eclipse is a Java software development environment, Wascana Eclipse is a C++ development environment.
EViews
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
EViews is a statistical analysis program that includes regression and forecasting tools. Its uses include: scientific data analysis and evaluation, financial analysis, macroeconomic forecasting, simulation, sales forecasting, and cost analysis. It includes a command language for batch processing.
Firefox
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Web browser.
Gaussian 16
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Gaussian, allows users to import or build molecular structures, and set up, launch, monitor and control Gaussian calculations.
Geometer's Sketchpad
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
The Geometer's Sketchpad is an interactive geometry software program for exploring geometry, algebra, calculus, and other areas of mathematics.
GIMP (Gnu Image Manipulation Program)
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
GNU Image Manipulation Program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
Google Chrome
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Google Chrome is Google's web browser.
Google SketchUp
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Google SketchUp is software for creating, editing, and sharing 3-D models.
Google Earth
Platform: Windows & Mac desktop & Laptop Computers
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean.
GraphCalc
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
GraphCalc is a Graphing Calculator program with 2D/3D wire-frame rendering capabilities. GraphCalc has a number of built in functions for algebraic equation solving and scripts for finding the area of two dimensional shapes, as well as the surface area and volume for three dimensional geometric shapes.
iLife
Platform: Mac Desktop Computers
iLife is a software suite consisting of the following programs:
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GarageBand: Music editing and creation program. Includes instrument synthesizers for creating tracks, and can also be used to edit tracks transfered from real instruments. Can also save files that can be used as podcasts.
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iDVD: Used to transfer content to DVDs, including movies created/edited with iMovie.
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iMovie: Video editing software that can handle files produced by a variety of different video cameras, and combine them with audio compatible with iTunes.
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iPhoto: Bitmap image editing software like Adobe Photoshop, but without as many features.
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iWeb: Simple web editing software that can be used to add files created with other iLife applications to web pages.
Inform 7
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF.
Internet Explorer
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Web browser.
Inventor 2022
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
Autodesk Inventor 3D CAD software is used for product design, rendering and simulation.
Kaledo Suite
Platform: Windows Desktop
Kaledo is a design solution that enables fashion companies to create innovative designs and styles for different textiles in record time.
Kinovea
Platform: Windows Desktop
Video player with functionality to slow down, study, comment on technique of subject being filmed.
Komodo Edit 7
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Komodo Edit is a free source code and HTML editor which supports all of the most common programming languages of the web including PHP, Perl, Ruby, JavaScript along with markup languages like HTML and CSS.
MATLAB
Platform: Windows Desktops
MATLAB is a multi-paradigm numerical computing environment. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages.
MicroCase
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
MicroCase is statistical analysis software developed specifically for use in the social sciences.
Microsoft Office
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Microsoft Office includes:
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Access - a relational database program
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Excel - a spreadsheet program
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OneNote - software focused on organizing text, graphics and other data for group collaboration on a project
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PowerPoint - software for creating online presentations and handouts
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Publisher - desktop publishing/layout software for printed documents
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Word - word processing software
MiniTab
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Minitab is statistics and data analysis program that includes many pre-configured charts and built in analysis functions. It has the ability to run customized macros built by an end user or downloaded from other sources. Minitab is not quite as powerful as SAS and PASW, but has the advantage of being able to easily integrate charts, graphs and data sets into applications like Microsoft Office Suite for presentation purposes.
NetBeans
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Net Beans is an IDE (integrated development environment) that supports the following programming languages: Java, JavaFX, PHP, JavaScript and Ajax, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Groovy and Grails, and C/C++.
QuickTime
Platform: Mac & Windows Desktop Computers
Multimeadia player capable of handling various formats of digital video, picture, and sound.
Photo Story 3
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
Microsoft's Photo Story lets you create audiovisual presentations out of your photos and images. You can quickly crop, rotate, and edit your pictures; personalize them with captions and titles; and add sound effects, narration, and background music.
RefWorks / Write-N-Cite
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
RefWorks is an online site for maintaining lists of bibliographic citations for research papers. Write-N-Cite is a utility that allows users to run an abbreviated version of the RefWorks bibliographic citation manager software in their word processor.
Resopndus LockDown Browser
Platform: Windows and Mac / Desktop and Laptop Computers
LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within a learning management system.
Revit Architecture
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
Revit is Autodesk's Building Information Modeling software for Windows. It enables the user to design with both parametric 3D modeling and 2D drafting elements. "Building Information Modeling" is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) paradigm that employs intelligent 3D objects to represent real physical building components such as walls and doors. Revit's database for a project can contain information about a project at various stages in the building's lifecycle, from concept to construction to decommissioning. This is sometimes called 4D CAD where time is the fourth dimension.
Power BI
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
Create rich, interactive data visualizations from multiple data sources and share important business insights that drive success.
Safari
Platform: Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Mac web browser.
SAS
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
SAS is a powerful, highly customizable and programmable statistical analysis platform. It requires some understanding of programming conventions, and knowledge of the fundamentals of statistics to use. SAS has the most complete set of regression methods available compared to SPSS and Minitab.
SPSS (IBM SPSS Statistics)
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
IBM SPSS Statistics (formerly called "PASW" and before that just "SPSS") is a data and statistics analysis program that is particularly well suited for the Social Sciences and other academic disciplines. PASW has most of the regression methods included in SAS, as well as the ability to generate charts and graphs from data sets (similar to Minitab's graphing features).
Stata
Platform: Windows Desktop
Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package developed by StataCorp for data manipulation, visualization, statistics, and automated reporting.
StuffIt Expander
Platform: Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
Stuffit Expander is used to open compressed files in a variety of formats. It will normally run automatically when you click on a compressed file.
Tableau Desktop
Platform: Windows Desktop & Laptop Computers
Data visualization software.
VLC Media Player
Platform: Windows & Mac Desktop & Laptop Computers
VLC Media Player can playback a variety of audio and video files and streams.
WinSCP
Platform: Windows Desktop Computers
WinSCP is a popular SFTP client and FTP client for Microsoft Windows.
Zoom
Platform: Windows Desktops, Laptops, and Macs
Zoom provides videotelephony and online chat services through a cloud-based peer-to-peer software platform used for video communications (Meetings), messaging (Chat), voice calls (Phone), conference rooms for video meetings (Rooms), virtual events (Events) and contact centers (Contact Center), and offers an open platform allowing third-party developers to build custom applications on its unified communications platform (Developer Platform).