Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The Privacy of Computing Act requested that the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services stop making "publicly available" user-locating functions such as finger, last and who.
But Rick Osterberg '96, coordinator of residential computing support for FAS Computer Services, said features such as finger and who are popular among students.
Virginia J. Beauregard '01, president of the Harvard Computer Society, said it would be virtually impossible to remove the user-locating functions from the system anyway.
The process then becomes similar to tuning in to a radio station. Each computer picks up a copy of that same original that is broadcast--thus minimizing server space needed.
"We definitely want to move back to an e-mail system. Now we need decide whether to get a new computer or get this one repaired," Gusmorino said.