The Economics Department operates and maintains a computer lab for the use of the graduate students in the department, as well as several servers for faculty and student use. The Economics Department’s IT resources are managed by Alan Fisher.

University-Wide Computing Resources

• Setting up your Johns Hopkins user and e-mail account
• Passwords
• Blackboard@JHU
• Using the Ref Works online citation manager
• Wireless @ JHU
• Security and Antivirus @ JHU
• Secure Connections – VPN (JHPulse) [ JHPulse with MyITcode]
• Hopkins Technology Store
• Homewood Student Virtual Desktop service – myJlab
• Software Distribution and Licensing Center @ JHU
  Additional info about MATLAB and Mathematica
• Discounted Academic Software for faculty, staff and students
• Adobe Connect – web-conferencing
• JHBox (for faculty and staff) and OneDrive (for faculty, staff and students)

Economics Department Computing Resources

• EconLab Policies – Acceptable Use
• EconLab Computing Procedures
• Servers and Server Access
• Accessing your department account from a remote location
• Printing and Scanning Using the Copy Machine
• Setting up webpages on the department server
• Freeware and Documentation
• Using Panopto in W-603
• Using Zoom in W-603 and W-604
• Using AirMedia to present wirelessly in W-604

Online Tutorials/Courses

• Mathematica
  • Link to all screencasts
  • Hands-on start to Mathematica
  • Mathematica Basics

GPU/CUDA

• NVIDIA CUDA Education
  • Parallel Programming Education Materials
• UDACITY
  • Introduction to Parallel Programming

MATLAB

• Link to all video tutorials
• Getting Started with MATLAB
• Writing a MATLAB Program
• Basic Matrix Operations

Gauss

• Tutorials
• Manuals (PDF format)

Free Online Course Sites

• MOOC – Massive Open Online Course, http://mooc.org/
• edX – https://www.edx.org/
• UDACITY – https://www.udacity.com/
• Coursera – https://www.coursera.org/