Design Science News

Creating and Using Accessible Mathematical Content: AHEAD conference, July 20-25, 2009

The Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) hosts an annual conference for professionals in the fields of higher education and disability. This year's conference will be in Louisville KY, where Steve Noble from The University of Louisville will present a session titled Creating and Using Accessible Mathematical Content. Many educators are now required to produce accessible materials for their own students. One of the products Steve will demonstrate is our newest product, MathDaisy. He will show how easy it is to use MathDaisy with Microsoft's "Save As DAISY" Word add-in to create accessible math materials from Microsoft Word.

To see other conferences where Design Science products and technology will be demonstrated, refer to the Events page on our website.

EPUB Math: Best Practices for Mathematics in Ebooks

The ebook market is currently exploding. STEM Education (Science, Technical, Engineering, and Medical) publishers are interested in providing textbooks in ebook format. While there are proprietary ebook formats around, the IDPF's EPUB format is rapidly gaining ground as the universal ebook format of choice. STEM publishers have recently been asking us for our recommendations on how math should be handled in their ebooks. In order to answer their questions, we have put together a Math in Ebooks section on our website, which also includes a specification we call EPUB Math: Best Practices for Mathematics in Ebooks. We have also started an Ebooks for Math and Science group on LinkedIn to serve as a forum for discussing this specification and other topics of interest. We invite anyone with an interest in this subject to comment on our spec and to join the LinkedIn group.

The Path to Accessible Math at U Guelph conference

The University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada is hosting Aiming for Accessibility: Creating Barrier-Free Information and Communication, a conference aimed at raising awareness of IT-related accessibility issues and providing techniques for addressing them. Part of the motivation for having the conference is the pending requirements of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which may have important impacts on Universities in Ontario. The conference is in Rozanski Hall, University of Guelph on May 27.

I'll be presenting a session in the Accessible Web Programming, Document and Multimedia Design "stream" titled The Path to Accessible Math.  My talk starts at 1pm and will cover how to create and deliver documents that contain accessible math.  I'll give some background on the topic first, and then get into the creation and delivery aspects.  Even though I'm giving the talk remotely, I'm going to be leaving lots of time for Q&A.

To see other conferences where we'll be exhibiting and speaking, refer to the Events page on our website.

Equation Editor and MathType—Top Tips from an Expert at CAMT

At the annual Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), teachers of math and science from grades Kindergarten through University level are able to see, learn, and share techniques to enhance their instruction, and to become more effective communicators. This year's conference is at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, July 15-17.

To help you communicate math more effectively, I'll be presenting a session titled Equation Editor and MathType—Top Tips from an Expert on Wednesday July 15, from 1:00-2:00 PM, in Convention Center room 382C, and repeated Friday July 17 from 8:00-9:00 AM in the same room. Some of the tips I'll be demonstrating are in the MathType Tips & Tricks section of our website, but there will be quite a few new ones as well. If you can't attend the session, please look for me in the exhibit hall. The MathType by Design Science booth is just inside the main entrance—booth 610. To see other conferences where we'll be exhibiting and speaking, refer to the Events page on our website.

At the annual Conference for the Advancement of Mathematics Teaching (CAMT), teachers of math and science from grades Kindergarten through University level are able to see, learn, and share techniques to enhance their instruction, and to become more effective communicators. This year's conference is at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, July 15-17.

To help you communicate math more effectively, I'll be presenting a session titled Equation Editor and MathType—Top Tips from an Expert on Wednesday July 15, from 1:00-2:00 PM, in Convention Center room 382C, and repeated Friday July 17 from 8:00-9:00 AM in the same room. Some of the tips I'll be demonstrating are in the MathType Tips & Tricks section of our website, but there will be quite a few new ones as well. If you can't attend the session, please look for me in the exhibit hall. The MathType by Design Science booth is just inside the main entrance—booth 610. To see other conferences where we'll be exhibiting and speaking, refer to the Events page on our website.

Positions available: Senior Software Engineers

Design Science is growing!

We're looking for several Senior Software Engineers with 5+ years of development experience to join our MathType product development team. This position entails working on cross-platform, retail, technical publishing software that interoperates with other applications (such as Microsoft Office) and many websites. Candidates for this position will be expected to have expert level knowledge of C++ and object oriented design and development experience. Any of the following would also be a plus: COM, extensive Windows development experience, Apple Macintosh development experience, previous work on retail software. If you are interested in learning more about these positions visit the Careers page of our website , or send your resume to jobs@dessci.com.

Design Science (DSI) was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Long Beach, California, with an engineering team in St. Paul, Minnesota. We are the worldwide leader in developing software for scientific and technical communication. Our MathType, MathFlow, MathPlayer, MathDaisy and WebEQ software products are used by scientists, engineers, educators and publishing professionals, for authoring and publishing mathematical notation in print and online documents, and for building web pages with interactive math content.