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...undergraduate email addresses. Alberto Mena, President and co-Rush Chair of the MIT TDC chapter, refused to comment on their questionable advertising tactics. “With a simple command on fas.harvard.edu you can list the username of everyone with an account on fas.harvard.edu,” David J. Malan ’99, a computer science lecturer, writes in an email. “In theory, someone at MIT could simply ask someone at Harvard to execute that sort of command, [but] truth be told, it’s not that hard.” Pierre S. Sowemimo-Coker...
...minds in Computer Science 50, “Introduction to Computer Science I.” CS 50 student Or Gadish ’10 created a program for his first problem set that enables students to put earrings, masks, and gaudy makeup on the course instructor, David J. Malan ’99. Friends want Gadish to expand the program to other professors, like Economics guru Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw. “I’m definitely considering it,” Gadish says. His program was made using Scratch, a computer programming language designed...
...receive a text detailing the next few shuttles they can catch. For example, a Quad resident looking to get to Mather House would message “sboy qua mat” to find out the time of the next shuttle’s arrival. David J. Malan ’99, the lecturer who currently leads Computer Science 50, originally developed Shuttleboy while an undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging. “As times and technology have changed over the years, it’s simply been fun to breathe new life into...
...Science I,” plans to offer office hours online this semester. It is the first such program in Harvard’s history. “We’re introducing virtual office hours to address two needs: efficiency and convenience,” said David J. Malan ’99, who teaches the course. “As such, I think ours might be one of those situations in which the introduction of technology is a good thing. Time will tell.” The office hours are facilitated by software that lets the course?...
...Editorials and letters in the middle-class press paint Zuma as a potential African strongman in the mold of so much of postcolonial Africa to the north, with some white commentators advising selling up and leaving should he take power. In a widely distributed column, white South African Rian Malan detailed the reasons why he thought Zuma would be President one day, then asked if anyone wanted to buy his house in Cape Town. When Zuma was sacked, the left-leaning weekly Mail & Guardian hailed his dismissal and described the battle between Zuma and his opponents as one "between yesterday...