The DCRT computer training program celebrates its 30th anniversary by offering courses on more than 100 subjects in this spring term.

The spring 1998 brochure has a cover photograph of the robotic tape picker used to implement the NIH Backup and Recovery System (NBARS). Copies of the catalog should have been received by everyone on the mailing list. If you want a copy, call 301-594-3278 or, to place your order online, select "Publications" on the webpage http://livewire.nih.gov.

New Web classes being given this term supplement the extensive offerings being continued from last year. Eight new classes:

• HTML Tips
• HTML Editors
• Advanced HTML Tips and Tricks
• Seeking Information on the Web
• Netscape Communicator 4.0
• New Features of Internet Explorer 4.0
• VBScript for Interactive Web Design
• Using FileMaker Pro 4.0 on the Web

Last term’s expanded Windows curriculum was so popular that additional courses have been added for PC users:

• Windows 95 Registry
• Eudora Pro for the PC at NIH
• Learning Programming with QBasic

Presentations for scientists offer guidance in:

• Creating Composite Images with Photoshop
• Designing Effective Scientific Slides
• Introduction to Multimedia in Scientific Presentation
• Creating Animated Web Presentations with PowerPoint—Advanced
• Drawing Three-Dimensional Objects with Mathematica 20-35

A new course, "Numerical Optimization," emphasizes nonlinear programming and covers the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker optimality conditions for constrained problems.

For UNIX users, the program continues to offer ALW (Advanced Laboratory Work-station) classes on several different levels including molecular modeling, DNA sequencing, statistical analysis, and desktop publishing, as well as basic C language and UNIX courses. The NIH Data Warehouse has added new classes introducing recent software cover-ing travel workshop, and personnel costs (Human Resources). In addition, watch for new training sessions in travel and personnel.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation to all the volunteer teachers over the years who have taken the time to develop and teach courses in their areas of expertise. They keep the NIH computer training program at the forefront of new technologies and make it possible to give the classes without charge to students or their organizations.