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Nine Harvard students and recent graduates were among the 97 winners of the 1995 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies. The winners were named last week by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation...
...Usenet groups also store free, X-rated images that users can download and view on their computers. On the multimedia portion of the Internet known as the Web, Penthouse and others serve up free, frontally nude cyber-pinups. Those sites are frequently jammed beyond capacity. (Last year a Carnegie Mellon graduate student surveying sex on the Internet determined that 450,620 pornographic images and text files had been downloaded 6,432,297 times in six months. And that's just in America...
Acting director of the CMES Edward L. Keenan, who is also Mellon Professor of History, said "this grant gives us the opportunity to make Harvard a real center for Turkish studies on a permanent basis...
PASSWORD SNIFFERS: These tiny programs are hidden on a network and instructed to record logons and passwords, which are then stored in a secret file. By the end of a week, this file can contain hundreds of user names and their associated passwords. Last year an advisory from Carnegie Mellon University's Computer Emergency Response Team warned that, as a result of a rash of sniffing attacks, tens of thousands of passwords had been stolen and were presumed to be compromised...
...fast lane. First he lurches right, crossing both lanes of the blacktop and alarming bleary-eyed commuters trying to share the road. Then he careens to the left, skidding onto the gravel shoulder and nearly into a ditch. Finally Todd Jochem, 27, a graduate student at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University, wrests the wheel of the four-wheel-drive Humvee from ALVINN while Dean Pomerleau, a C.M.U. robotics research scientist, makes excuses for their friend's driving. ``I guess he's a little confused,'' says Pomerleau. ``We'll let him try again in a minute.'' Still, ALVINN is a marvel...