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...TECHNOLOGY THAT'S overloading our circuits help address the problems it has created? Czerwinski and her bosses at Microsoft think so. She's helping design an intelligent office-communication system that calculates whether an interrupting e-mail or IM should be transmitted immediately or delayed on the basis of, among other factors, the worker's appointments and projects that day, his past preferences and habits and the organizational-chart relationship between sender and receiver. "Something like this has got to happen sooner or later," says Czerwinski, though she acknowledges that it raises privacy issues. The alternative is to turn...
...describe our day-to-day lives in terms that would have been rather foreign to our forebears of 10 or 20 years ago. We google potential employers, and facebook potential dates. Some people eBay old textbooks, and we all spend an inordinate amount of time e-mailing and IM-ing friends, professors, and parents. The rate at which technologically-charged action verbs enter our vocabulary these days is staggering.What’s perhaps most peculiar about these verbs, however, is that the majority of them seem to come from nouns. Sometimes it’s the name...
...competitive too; places where you’re actually proud to be a Winthroper, or an Eliotite, or a Pfo-ho, and entering a dining hall means enjoying the majority of people present, and not just tolerating them. Where common rooms are actually used to unwind and being an IM rep isn’t the Harvard equivalent of leprosy. You know, the kind of community that could last even beyond college...
...conversation—whether it be a break-up, break-down, or invite to breakfast—is strictly prohibited on AIM as well. You’re often speaking to the roommate instead of the Romeo and always confess feelings you never would have over coffee. (Side note: IM-ing after 1 a.m. is official relationship suicide). Away messages should neither be flirtatious nor personal, and sexual innuendos accompanied by a winking Pac-man face just aren’t sexual at all. In summary, leave instant messaging where it started—the sixth grade...
...Rathgeber said. “Then, as the second half started, we got a few key wins and the momentum shifted our way, and from then on we did much better.” To finish off the meet, senior Danil Rybalko (three-meter diving), Rathgeber (200 IM), and the Harvard 200 relay free team also scored victories. The wins by several freshmen and sophomore underscored the Crimson’s depth this year, and the importance of the underclassmen to the team. “The freshmen and sophomores are so important to this team,” Cocks...