Employee receives achievement award

Anita Schwartz, Information Technologies/User Services, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award at a conference of the TeX Users Group (TUG), held at UD in August.

"This is the first time this award has been given, and I was very pleased to be selected," Schwartz said. She has been an active member of TUG since 1986, when she came to UD with responsibilities for supporting TeX use by faculty, staff and graduate students. She has made presentations, helped arrange conferences, especially the UD conference, has served as program chairperson and worked on the TUG board.

According to the organization's web page, TeX is a "computer language designed for use in typesetting, in particular, for typesetting math and other technical...material."

TeX can handle different languages and is used in Europe and elsewhere, and TUG is an international organization of users with an upcoming conference in the Netherlands this year and conferences in India and Hawaii next year.

Who uses TeX at UD?

Just about everyone in the various sciences, Schwartz said. "Faculty and graduate students in mathematics, physics and astronomy, computer science, psychology, chemistry, engineering, geology and other fields use TeX to produce professional documents. It is an excellent tool for dissertations and for camera-ready copy that is acceptable by many professional journals."