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Software Interest Group
The UA Math Department Software Interest Group (SWIG)
is a self-organized informal group, consisting of faculty members,
visitors, staff, and graduate students, whose goal is to promote and
advance computer and software literacy among the members of the department
through meetings, talks, and discussions.
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For more details, and talks in past semesters, consult the full schedule of talks.
Past topics can (and should) be repeated occasionally. In addition, here are some topics people might like to hear about:
To give a talk, please contact swig@math.arizona.edu.
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A Palm PDA (or just Palm) is a Personal Digital Assistant (a small hand-held computer) that runs the Palm(TM) operating system. In general there are many operating systems for PDAs but Palm was specifically designed to run on these small electronic devices.
Back in prehistoric and savage days (3 to 4 years ago), Palms were merely great organizational devices. This is no longer an accurate description; they can do so much more, assuming you care to load them with some of the 26,000+ available applications.
The new Palms come integrated with a cell phone, a camera, an organizer, an e-mail and web browser client, and they include a bunch of other software packages ranging from document viewers, text editors, math applications, games, data analysis and visualization software, MP3 and video players, etc.
Nowadays Palms became so popular that one can find palm user groups (PUGs) in every corner of the world. The Tucson PUG is the local Arizona chapter.
To see the latest Palm PDA capabilities and prices click here. Visit the Palm company's main page (which is really now divided into two companies - one for hardware and one for software) for more information and links.
The Tucson PUG pages contain a wealth of information regarding Palm resources, applications (math, education), and performance test results.
If you are an expert Palm user or you are about to become a Palm newbie consider becoming a member of the Tucson PUG. Please join us at our next meeting.
