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Some Useful Information for Newcomers

Bin Guo

Department of Electrical and Computer EngineeringUniversity of FloridaGainesville, FL 32611

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Search Papers

Databases

IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.orgSCI UFLIB -> Databases -> Database LocatorEI UFLIB -> Databases -> Database LocatorJStor http://www.jstor.org/google

Full Papers

IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.orgUFLIB -> Journals -> Electronic JournalsGoogle

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Latex Software

Ctex: WinEdt, GSview, …

BibMacros: Manage your .bib files

Templates: IEEE, color

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Using Latex Equations in .ppt

Texpoint: Convert Latex equations to .ppt equations

Using “color” template to change the color of the equationsFollowing is a sample (double click the equation to seethe source codes):

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Convert Tex to Word

Tex2Word: Convert Latex files to Word .doc files

This software need MathType to convert the latex equations to word equations.

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.eps Figures

Matlab figures can be saved as .eps directly

Visio is a good software to draw figures.(see next page for how to get visio free)

OLETex is a good software to convert the visio figures to .eps figures.(please read the help carefully to install the .eps printer)

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Software

http://www.software.ufl.edu

College of Engineering students and faculty canuse many Microsoft softwares for FREEhttp://msdnaa.eng.ufl.edu/

UF faculty and staff (including TA/RA) can buy MS Office Professional with only $7 in Bookstore.http://www.software.ufl.edu/ms/

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VPN

http://net-services.ufl.edu/provided_services/vpn/

Use this software to securely "tunnel" into campus over commodity networks, such as the Internet, and access services as if they were on campus.

For example: access IEEE website in home.

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There are some materials about ResearchResearch and PlagiarismPlagiarism

Research and Writing Papers

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Personal FTP

ftp://www.sal.ufl.edu/yourusername

Please use SSH to upload files to this following workstations (use your @dsp.ufl.edu email username and password):mercury.dsp.ufl.edumars.dsp.ufl.eduvenus.dsp.ufl.eduatlas.dsp.ufl.edupluto.dsp.ufl.eduPost the files at:/home/sal/yourusername/public_ftp

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Personal Homepage

http://plaza.ufl.edu/yourusername

Use any FTP software to upload your files to this server,Use your Gatorlink username and password.

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Thanks !