Word: malan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Shuttleboy's creator, David J. Malan '99, wrote the program for his friends last fall, but the service soon gained campus-wide popularity. Available by typing "shuttleboy" or "sb" at the fas prompt in telnet, it lists the next three times different shuttle routes will pick up at points around campus...
...program was used 20,387 times last year by Harvard students, according to Malan...
...program is currently off-line so that the shuttle schedule can be updated for the new school year, but there is a serious risk that it may go off-line again--for good this time, according to Malan...
Though the Shuttleboy program was accessible across campus, it resides only in Malan's personal account on the college's FAS servers. So, under the current arrangement, when Malan's affiliation with Harvard ends, shuttleboy will disappear...
...Malan graduated last year, but has retained his FAS affiliation by taking a position teaching computer science at the Harvard Extension School...