Tag: Software

  • Nation & World

    Tech solutions for Tanzanian health care

    A group of Harvard computer science students traveled to Tanzania in January to lend their programming skills to the mission of improving health care there. The trip included founders and the first cohort of fellows for a new program begun by the student group Tech in the World.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Action figures come to life

    A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters — or any other three-dimensional animations — into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3-D printer.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    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.

    6 minutes