Computing and Technology Resources

Computing

The Technology Support Center will provide support for you on your journey to getting your doctorate degree.

Software Support

As a student you have access to lower priced software from the DoIT techstore located in the Computer Science Building. Microsoft Office 2003, Adobe Acrobat, SAS, Minitab, S-Plus, SAS and SPSS are all available for a low price. Go to DoIT techstore for more information on current pricing. In the labs, we have all the courseware software plus the standard Microsoft and Adobe software.

Anti-virus protection software is available from DoIT at no cost. More software can be found at http://shelf.doit.wisc.edu.

Computer Lab Rules, Regulations, and Appropriate Use Policy Agreement

Read the Grainger Computer Lab Usage Agreement. You will not be able to log in to any Grainger Lab Computers until the last page of this agreement has been signed and returned to the Lab Administrator.

Technology Resources

Computer Resources

As PhD students, you have access to the following labs:

PhD Computer Lab - (Need key from Cheryl Schroud - Building Manager Room 1250b, phone: 262-6006)
Room 1251 - Open 24 hours /day
PhD/TA Computer Lab - Building Access code required
Room 1223 - Open 24 hours /day

You may also bring in your own computer and we will connect it to the School of Business network but it will have to comply with security standards. We will also connect your computer to the printers in the PhD computer Lab or TA/PhD Computer lab.

Research Resources

SAS is the statistical program of choice. SAS is available in the labs.

Also available in the labs: SPSS, Matlab, Lisrel There is a research computer running Windows 2003 that faculty and PhD students can use for research. SAS and Matlab are installed on this computer. You can access this server by using "Remote Desktop Connection". The name of the machine is research2.bus.wisc.edu.

Each PhD student is allocation 5 gigabytes of space on the research server. In addition, you will have access to 1 gigabyte of space on our web file server. Remember if your files are important, please backup them up in three different places.

The research server running web services acts as a base for your current research papers, vita and other data pertaining to your research.

We have survey software to use if you need to do surveys. Please contact the TSC for an account when you need to do surveys. We contract with Wharton School of Business to get easy access to most of these databases. Wharton Research Data Services or WRDS is a revolutionary Internet-based business data service from the Wharton School. It has become the standard in academic research at the nation's leading business schools.

How to Obtain a WRDS Account:

• Go to http://wrds.wharton.upenn.edu
• Along the left hand side you will notice a link entitled "Account Request." Double-click on that link.
• Fill out the Account Request form. Be sure to choose University of Wisconsin, Madison from the list of schools. When you are finished click on "Submit." This will send your request to WRDS helpdesk where your account will be generated.
• After your account has been created WRDS will send an e-mail with your Log-in and Password information after your WRDS Representative, Beth Wiebusch at bwiebusch@bus.wisc.edu has verified the user.

This is part of their Authentication Process to ensure that no one outside of University of Wisconsin, Madison attempts to receive an account.