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Year 2000 Project Coordinators Liz Eagan and Scott Bradner oversee the efforts across the University, and they pass along the Y2K plans and reports to Harvard's administrative deans and vice presidents--the "project sponsors"--for review...
Eagan and Bradner are expecting to meet with the project sponsors again in September to find out if the plans are "appropriately detailed, complete and have addressed the areas most important to their environment...
...core financial systems will take a few months, but even there, we don't see a problem. At this point, we don't see a point for people at the University to worry all that much, except to look at their computers," Bradner said...
...recommended that anyone worried about the status of his or her computer visit the Web site www.uis.harvard.edu/year2000 to determine whether the computer is year 2000-compiant. All Macintoshes are compliant, Bradner said, but PCs more than five years old may not be. Faculty and staff are encouraged to address question to the Year 2000 project coordinator in charge of their school, department or central administration unit, Bradner said. He added that employees at the Science Center's computer help desk are being trained to "understand the problems and resources" available to undergraduates and will be sending an e-mail...
...Bradner said the bug could plague anything from spreadsheets to "something some graduate student did 10 years ago" but predicted it to be a minor problem for computers throughout the University...