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Tag: Computers
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Nation & World
Coding for a cause
Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.
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Adding security at Harvard
Harvard encourages computer users to watch out for and report phishing expeditions, which are increasing.
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Defending breakthrough research
Harvard initiates patent infringement suits to protect inventors’ rights in computer-chip technology.
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Keeping an eye on screen time
With parents and kids in back-to-school mode, refocusing on the daily demands of homework, sports, and activities, time spent staring at a screen comes at a premium. Steven Gortmaker, professor of the practice of health sociology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, has been studying how we have used and sometimes abused…
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On a date, with everyone
Artist creates wide-open Web programs to gain personal insights.
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Down to the details, a giant in computing history
University leaders gathered at the Science Center to celebrate an update of the Harvard Mark I exhibit.
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Lessig remembers Swartz
In remarks at Harvard Law School, Professor Lawrence Lessig eulogized Internet pioneer Aaron Swartz and proposed a closer examination of minor versus major cyberspace crimes and what he called “extremism in prosecuting computer laws.”
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Hack Week nurtures innovators
Seventeen teams of Harvard students toiled on campus during the last days of winter break, working to finish computer projects during the annual Hack Week sponsored by the Hack Harvard student group.
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Harvard carrying Dell on campus, online
At Harvard’s Technology Products and Services, personal purchasers can now buy a selection of Dell notebooks, desktops, and displays on campus.
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Elegant entanglement
Harvard scientists have taken a critical step toward building a quantum computer — a device that could someday harness subatomic particles such as electrons to perform calculations far faster than the most powerful supercomputers.
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A vision of computing’s future
In 1978, while a student at Harvard Business School, Dan Bricklin conceived of VisiCalc, the first electronic spreadsheet program for personal computers. The result helped to spark a digital revolution in business and made desktop computers a must-have item in many offices.
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A therapist at your fingertips
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at Harvard are exploring the use of gamelike programs on smartphones to treat anxiety disorders.
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Tracking your friends and idols
Two Harvard undergraduates have developed a website called Newsle that tracks news of Facebook and Linked In contacts.
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Partying like it’s 1985
Dozens of Harvard employees were honored at the 56th Annual 25-Year Recognition Ceremony at Sanders Theatre on Oct. 13.
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Turkle talks technology, intimacy
“Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,” explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience May 14 at the Harvard University Extension School.
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Leading the way
In a series of profiles, Gazette writers showcase some of these stellar graduates, including Lahiru Jayatilaka, who as a young computer whiz learned a lasting lesson about the importance of precision.
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Gates on giving, getting, sharing
In a visit to Harvard, Microsoft’s Gates says that top minds need to focus on critical social problems — to find solutions.
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Portals into Haiti, Chile
Harvard’s Center for Geographic Analysis created Web clearinghouses to aid information flow in response to Haiti’s and Chile’s earthquakes.
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Not afraid to switch focus
IT technician Jeff Mayes tries and masters new fields, from computers to photography.
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It does indeed compute
Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.
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Harnessing fun for serious science
Researchers from chemistry, computer science, and astronomy are learning a trick or two from video games and investigating a new kind of computing based on graphics processing units.
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Houghton adds 2,000th finding aid to OASIS Catalog
Houghton Library, Harvard’s main rare book and manuscript depository, has vast holdings collected over centuries. Yet until these available resources are cataloged, they are considered “hidden collections” — difficult to find.
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Radcliffe honors Kouskalis ’08 with Fay Prize for ‘compelling’ thesis
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study has named Harvard senior and sociology and economics joint-concentrator Eric Kouskalis winner of its 2008 Captain Jonathan Fay Prize. Kouskalis was chosen for the quality and impact of his senior thesis, which featured a compelling argument against the current methods for introducing and deploying computers into South African and…
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Harvard to collect, disseminate scholarly articles for faculty
In a move to disseminate faculty research and scholarship more broadly, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) voted Tuesday (Feb. 12) to give the University a worldwide license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles available and to exercise the copyright in the articles, provided that the articles are not sold for a profit.
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Computer use deleted as carpal tunnel syndrome cause
The popular belief that excessive computer use causes painful carpal tunnel syndrome has been contradicted by experts at Harvard Medical School. According to them, even as much as seven hours a day of tapping on a computer keyboard won’t increase your risk of this disabling disorder.