1. 1 Some Useful Information for Newcomers Bin Guo Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Florida Gainesville, FL 32611

2. 2 Search Papers Databases IEEEhttp://ieeexplore.ieee.org SCIUFLIB -> Databases -> Database Locator EIUFLIB -> Databases -> Database Locator JStorhttp://www.jstor.org/ google Full Papers IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.org UFLIB -> Journals -> Electronic Journals Google

3. 3 Latex Software Ctex: WinEdt, GSview, … BibMacros: Manage your.bib files Templates: IEEE, color

4. 4 Using Latex Equations in.ppt Texpoint: Convert Latex equations to.ppt equations Using “color” template to change the color of the equations Following is a sample (double click the equation to see the source codes):

5. 5 Convert Tex to Word Tex2Word: Convert Latex files to Word.doc files This software need MathType to convert the latex equations to word equations.

6. 6.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)

7. 7 Software http://www.software.ufl.edu College of Engineering students and faculty can use many Microsoft softwares for FREE http://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/

8. 8 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.

9. 9 ResearchPlagiarism There are some materials about Research and Plagiarism Research and Writing Papers

10. 10 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.edu mars.dsp.ufl.edu venus.dsp.ufl.edu atlas.dsp.ufl.edu pluto.dsp.ufl.edu Post the files at: /home/sal/yourusername/public_ftp

11. 11 Personal Homepage http://plaza.ufl.edu/yourusername Use any FTP software to upload your files to this server, Use your Gatorlink username and password.

12. 12 Thanks !