Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Two weeks ago, a hard drive used by the Harvard Computer Society (HCS) failed, forcing its members to spend $4,000 in club funds to retrieve lost data.
The computer sciences concentrator spent 100 hours between last summer and last Sunday night developing a computer program that provides customized shuttle schedules for Harvard students.
"There are computer terminals everywhere, and people tend to lose their shuttle schedules," he says. "It literally takes seconds to set up, and voila, there you are."
After they set it up, students can access shuttleboy in a matter of seconds at any computer terminal from which they can access their FAS account.
Malan, who has been Harvard Computer Society's (HCS) director of seminars and who led the Freshman Week Computer Seminar Series this year, says he initially spoke to Faculty of Arts and Sciences Computer Services Director Franklin M. Steen this summer about publicly installing Shuttleboy on FAS so students wouldn...