MITnet (MIT's Network)
MITnet is the short name for MIT's campus-wide computer network.
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Autodesk Suite
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Autodesk is 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software used for manufacturing, building and construction, and media/entertainment.
Design and fabricate in a single cloud-based tool, connect with your team with easy, built-in collaboration, and work online or offline.
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Autodesk has made this software available for free to MIT faculty, staff, and students to use in class instruction or for academic research.
Kerberos Extras for Mac
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MIT Kerberos Extras for Mac is an application that installs tickets on a computer in order to grant access to essential MIT services. The application provides customizations for some MIT applications requiring Kerberos authentication, enabling you to gain secure access to SAPgui and connect to Athena via SSH. Learn more.
Windows Server Software
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Windows Server is a group of operating systems designed by Microsoft that supports enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.
SharePoint Server is provided to organizations that seek greater control over SharePoint's behavior or design.
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Windows Server is available free of charge to current MIT faculty and staff through MIT's Microsoft Campus Agreement (MSCA).
MATLAB
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MATLAB (MATrix LABoratory) is a programming and numeric computing platform used to analyze data, develop algorithms, and create models. MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other languages. MIT's license covers the majority of the available MATLAB toolboxes.
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SPSS
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IBM SPSS Statistics is an integrated family of products that addresses the entire analytical process, from planning to data collection to analysis, reporting, and deployment. It has more than a dozen fully-integrated modules to choose from.
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SPSS is licensed for educational use on MIT-owned machines only.
Tecplot 360
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Tecplot 360 is numerical simulation and CFD visualization software that combines vital engineering plotting with advanced data visualization.
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Maple for All Platforms
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Maple combines a powerful math engine with an interface that makes it easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve mathematical problems. Learn more.
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Maple is licensed for use by current MIT faculty, staff, and students only for educational and academic research on either MIT-owned or on personally-owned computers.
Note: Licenses are not available to Lincoln Lab under MIT's contract with Maplesoft.
Fetch
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Fetch is a Mac application used to transfer files across a network using FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and/or SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol). Fetch allows you to drag-and-drop files and folders between two servers or a server and your Mac and ensures that edits of any kind of file are automatically saved back to the server. Learn more.
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Fetch 5.8 is available for use on Macs by MIT faculty, staff, and students.
BrioQuery 6.6 for Windows
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BrioQuery is the query tool most often used at MIT to retrieve data from the Data Warehouse. It lets you store and run multiple queries in one file, access queries from different databases, create reports, and display and print data in tables.
Note: If you are not currently using BrioQuery, IS&T recommends that you instead use Cognos. If you are currently using BrioQuery, you may keep using it. However, be aware that Oracle no longer supports this technology.
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