From: david@convex.csd.uwm.edu (David Stack)
Subject: Monthly Computing TV Show
Originator: david@convex.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: Computing Services Division, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Distribution: milw
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:27:27 GMT

Computing videos on Milwaukee cable



Let's face it, you've seen those same M*A*S*H reruns so often you can repeat
the dialogue in your sleep.  How would you like something exciting to watch
after the evening news?  In September UWM's Computing Services Division begins
monthly broadcasts of computing videos on the HECC channel, which is carried
on several Milwaukee metro cable systems. These videos premiere at 10:30 pm on
Monday nights, immediately following the Higher Education Journal  news
magazine, that's produced by UWM's Educational Communications Division. 



September's video will take you on a tour of four university research
laboratories.  On this tour you will:

-- look at the lives of people who lived during the Civil War by combing
through old census records on computer

-- replicate on a computer the turbulent explosions that occur in the pistons
of an automobile engine

-- poke and prod at the atoms of a surface by using a scanning-tunneling
microscope (STM) connected to a powerful computer, and

-- join high school chemistry students as they create computer movies that
illustrate the atomic bonding of atoms


This video is number 4 in the NCSA RealTime series, which is produced by the
National Center for Supercomputing Applications in Urbana-Champaign.  A number
of UWM faculty and graduate students use NCSA's powerful computers in their
research. 


October's computing video will feature a discussion with Dr. John Kemeny, a
pioneer in academic computing.  Dr. Kemeny will address the financial and
pedagogical challenges that faculty encounter when trying to integrate
technology into the curriculum.  He will speak from his experiences as both a
faculty member and president at Dartmouth College.

November's video will look at pilot projects that introduce computing,
networking and electronic information systems into the K-12 curriculum.

UWM is the home of the Higher Education Cable Consortium channel, which is
broadcast to some 250,000 homes through 8 local cable affiliates.
In addition, each month UWM's Christine Marshall hosts a half-
hour news magazine, the Higher Education Journal, that features contributions
from the 10 colleges and universities in the greater Milwaukee area that share
the HECC channel.

The Journal is broacast many
times each month, but if you catch it on a Monday night at 10:00 pm you can
stay tuned for the computing video!


                Higher Education Journal Broadcast Schedule
                ===========================================
             MON.        WED.        FRI.        SUN.

5:00pm.........................................Higher Ed
                                                Journal

8:00pm.............................Higher Ed............
                                    Journal

10:00pm...Higher Ed.....................................
           Journal
10:30pm...Computing.....................................
          Videos

11:30pm...............Higher Ed.........................
                       Journal


   HECC Channel Guide      
   ==================
Century (1:00am - 7:00pm)    11  
Crown Cable                  20
Jones InterCable Cedarburg   43
Jones Intercable West Allis  22A
UWM campus                    2
UWM Sandburg Dorms           30
Viacom                       26B
Warner                       46
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