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ECC OFFERS COURSE ON MAC DESIGN UB PROFESSOR EXPLORING PARALLEL SUPERCOMPUTERS
Published on January 31, 1993
Author: Lonnie Hudkins
© The Buffalo News Inc.
A course that provides an introduction to illustration and design on the Macintosh computer will be offered from 6 to 9 p.m. the next two Wednesdays at Erie Community College South Campus, 4041 Southwestern Blvd., Orchard Park.
The course, called "Freehand on the Mac," will cost $102. It provides an introduction on how to create with type, color and graphics. The course covers the tools, techniques and concepts needed to produce professional designs. Scanning procedures and various elements of page composition also will be discussed. Participants will be free to create their own work upon discussion with the instructor. Macintosh experience is helpful. For additional information, call 851-1801. Participants will learn how to improve daily operations by learning to create, edit and print a worksheet as well as learning how to use a spread sheet to perform forecasting procedures and what-if analysis. Named to committee Russ Miller, Ph.D., of East Amherst, an associate professor of computer science at the University at Buffalo, has been appointed to the executive committee of the newly formed Technical Committee on Parallel Processing of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, according to Ellen Goldbaum of UB's News Bureau. His primary responsibility will be in the area of parallel processing education. Parallel computers consist of anywhere from several to tens of thousands of processors, each of which may be equivalent in power to a typical first-generation super computer, according to the UB announcement. A million times more powerful than a typical personal computer, such parallel supercomputers are expected to become a "technology of choice" during this decade. Miller has been a member of the UB computer science department since 1985 and is a visiting senior research scientist at the Medical Foundation of Buffalo research institute. He has performed research in parallel algorithms and architectures and has applied the technology to solving problems in image processing,computational geometry, graph theory, combinational optimization and computational crystallography. He is collaborating with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman and other researchers at the Medical Foundation of Buffalo on an automated method of molecular structure determination, according to the school's news bureau. He is adapting and applying a new formulation of the problem by Hauptman to run on a parallel supercomputer. The research, which is expected to enhance rational drug design, has resulted in the determination of two previously unknown molecular structures. It took about 90 minutes of work time. Crystallographers previously had been unable to solve the problem after more than 10 years of effort. Miller received his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Personal Computers welcomes your questions and programs as well as advance notification of computer group meetings. Mail your correspondence to Lonnie Hudkins, The Buffalo News, P.O. Box 100, Buffalo, N.Y. 14240.<
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