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4115.0. "More Amiga market share!" by WJG::GUINEAU () Thu Sep 13 1990 13:34

Article 65081 of comp.sys.amiga:
From: [email protected] (Herb Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,sci.math
Subject: Two announcements

The Amiga is now a fully supported platform on the campus of The Univ
at Albany and has become quite prominent in the capital district area
of New York. I would like to tell you about two future Amiga-related
events that may be of interest to you.
The University's Mathematics Department will have a classroom equipped
with Amiga computers for instructional purposes in the upcoming fall
semester. Other institutions have experimented with computer labs as
an aid to mathematics instruction, but this may very well be the first
university to attempt to teach mathematics using computers in the
classroom. The department plans to offer three sections of calculus,
one section of Basic Analysis, one in Classical Algebra, one in Linear
Programming & Game Theory, one in Numerical Analysis, and one is Stats.
It is anticipated that students will learn to use computer technology
as a tool to help them understand the fundamental concepts of the
discipline and to explore as many applications of those fundamental
concepts as possible. The computer will allow them access to both
numerical computations and graphical representations that has been
unattainable until now.
The second upcoming Amiga-related event has been designated as Amiga
Day. This is a joint venture sponsored by CBM and the area's two Amiga
user groups: The Capital District AMIGA User Group (cdAug) and The Latham
Amiga User Group (LAUG). The event is scheduled for Saturday, Oct 20, from
10:00 am to 4:00 pm at a centrally located site, The Town of Colonie 
Public Library. Admission is free and information regarding the exhibits
is being sent to the area's primary and secondary schools, colleges, and
universities. The theme is the Amiga's role in multimedia and its impact
in education.
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Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany NY 12222  (518) 442-4640
[email protected]

As a side note, my sister is an Art major at SUNY-Albany and apparently 
they have several well equipped (Amiga) labs used for computer art and
graphic design type work.

I believe that some of this equipment was a grant from Commodore.  Not a
bad idea, to "sneak" into the Art departments and then slowly take over
the other disciplines.

Hopefully the rest of the SUNY system will follow.  It's a LARGE group
of schools.

Steve

    And yet another side note;
    
    	A good friend of mine moved to Albany last year and is a teacher in
    a private boys high school. I forget the name, ? Academy. Anyway they
    have serveral Amigas in there school. Not sure what they are using them
    for, but they're there.
    
    -Paul