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The project is overseen by three Universityoffices: the Standing Committee on InformationTechnology, a body of eight faculty members andone undergraduate that advises on and coordinatesthe project; the OIT, which is responsible forlaying down the cables and selling Ethernet cards;and the Harvard Arts and Sciences ComputerServices (HASCS), whose staff develops...
First-years living at 29 Garden St. will gettheir share of the network by winter, as fiberoptic cables are still being laid down in thebuilding, says Steen.
Forming the backbone of the HSDN are tens ofthousands of feet of fiber optic cables,ultra-thin glass wires which transmit digital datain the form of laser-generated light. "Fiber isthe only vehicle that will support us for the longhaul," says Holmes.
Unlike conventional metal wires, according toHolmes, fiber optic cables are cost-effectivesince they will not rust or break.
Typesetters, oh ye privileged generation of desktop publishers, are what people used to produce books and newspapers before the invention of the Laserwriter. At Garfield, we would send our files through a large series of cables and buffers to a machine about the size of a refrigerator turned over on...