Tag: iPhone

  • Nation & World

    What a freshman sees

    For College student Jasper Johnston ’20, discovering Harvard is a shared experience through Instagram.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Apple bites back

    With a showdown over privacy and national security issues underway between Apple and the FBI, the Gazette spoke with cyber security expert Michael Sulmeyer and Jonathan Zittrain, co-founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, about the pivotal yet competing issues raised by the case.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Now available on the Web? Smells

    Harvard Professor David Edwards and a former engineering student, Rachel Field, added another sense to digital communications, sending a smell across the Atlantic, where a scent generator called an oPhone reproduced it.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    New app connects alums

    Harvard and Radcliffe College alumni/ae returning to campus for this spring’s reunions will be able to connect in more ways than ever, thanks to the new Harvard/Radcliffe Reunion app for smartphones.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Library access from afar

    Harvard launched the library module of its mobile app, offering access to the world’s largest university research library from virtually anywhere.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    By the numbers

    Thanks to the digital revolution, Harvard is developing a legion of cyberspace fans in the world of social media.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Wandering mind not a happy mind

    People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Access Harvard on mobile device

    As of Sept. 1, members of the Harvard community will have everything they need to know about the University in the palms of their hands. Harvard has launched a strategic mobile initiative to package content from across the University for display on handheld devices.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Web wizardry

    Harvard lecturer David Malan’s introductory computer-programming class spawns an array of imaginative new applications, reflected in the annual CS 50 Fair.

    10 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    2 minutes