Technology Lab
Welcome to the Cornerstone Technology Laboratory! The Tech Lab, located on the ground floor of Gregg Hall, offers free access to PCs and Macs at convenient hours in a comfortable study setting. Students may study alone or in groups, taking advantage of a reading room, classrooms and a seminar room, the computer area, or the pillow area. Students who would like to use their own laptops can use them in this fully wireless facility.
All Tech Lab computers are equipped with a wide range of academically-oriented programs designed to help students succeed at Washington University, some of which are found nowhere else on campus:
- Test preparation materials for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT and GMAT.
- Kurzweil 3000, a high-quality text-to-speech tool to support academic reading and writing
- Inspiration, a mind-mapping program to support brainstorming and organization in academic research and writing
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking for hands-free writing -- the best speech-to-text transcription tool on the market
All Software Titles
Product |
Description |
Graduate Admissions Practice Exams |
New! 2008 GMAT, GRE, MCAT, and LSAT |
Inspiration |
Brainstorming program designed to help students draft outlines for papers and assignments » Learn More |
JAWS 8.0 |
A screen reader that provides speech technology that works with the PC to access popular software applications and the Internet |
Kurzweil 3000 |
The premier reading, writing and learning software for struggling students uses a multi-sensory approach - presenting printed or electronic text on the computer screen with added visual and audible accessibility » Learn More |
MATLAB 7.4 (r2007a) |
Used in calculus courses –A high-level technical computing language and interactive environment for algorithm development, data visualization, data analysis & numeric computation |
Microsoft Office Suite |
2003 and 2007 versions of Access, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Publisher, Word |
OpenOffice |
An open-source freeware alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite » Learn More |
SAS 9.1.3 |
Data management and analysis program |
SPSS 15.0.1 |
Used for conducting statistical analyses, manipulating data, and generating tables and graphs that summarize data |
Dragon NaturallySpeaking version 10 |
Cutting-edge speech-to-text dictation for hands-free writing. Requires no training before first use! » Learn More |
MacSpeech |
Cutting-edge speech-to-text dictation for the Mac |
Audacity |
Powerful, easy-to-use software for editing sound files |
Mac SnapzProX |
Easy-to-use software for capturing full-motion screencasts on the Macintosh » Learn More |
Adobe Web Creative Suite for Macintosh |
Premiere software for multimedia and web page creation and editing » Learn More |
Mac iLife |
Powerful, easy-to-use software package for creating and editing video, sound, and images » Learn More |
For questions or information call Dr. Michael Getty, Technology Services Specialist, at 935-5914.
Click here to go to Dr. Getty's weblog on technology at Cornerstone.