Word: network
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...days ago there was one Internet. Now there are two. Yesterday morning a consortium of more than a hundred corporations and research universities threw the switch on the Abilene Project, a network of 10,000 miles of fiber optic cable that will serve as the prototype for the high-performance, no-waiting Internet of the future...
...part of the bigger, better-known Internet2 initiative -- is named after a major railhead built in Abilene, Kansas, in the 1860s. You can see the point of the analogy: The same way railroads opened up the western United States, superseding those low-tech cattle trails, this new high-tech network will supersede the laggy and unstable Internet that exists today. The present Internet was built on a network of wires that were designed only to carry voice communications -- telephones. Full-motion video takes a lot more bandwidth. The Abilene Project runs at 2.4 gigabits per second -- about 90,000 times...
...group of undergraduates "that gets together to do anything related to technology," Beauregard said. Relying on its members to come up with projects, HCS then provides a support network for these projects to be realized...
...past, according to Beauregard, a publication called Computers@Harvard was published by HCS to help students pick computers and set them up on the Harvard network. Incoming students are now "more computer-savvy" than before, however, making the guide unnecessary. Linux@Harvard, she said, will fill the hole left by the discontinuation of Computers@Harvard...
Host more guests and professors for dinners and discussions in the Houses. The Senior Common Rooms (SCR), the loose network of professors and visiting scholars affiliated with each House, are grossly underutilized. Students never meet most of these luminaries; the few accessible ones pop in for an occasional Sunday brunch. Why not have SCR members lead discussion panels on interesting issues of the day or give general talks about their fields of research? Also, when SCR members host prominent visitors to their departments, perhaps they could invite those guests to the House for dinner or discussion...