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...This past April, the College announced plans for the largest renovation of upperclass Houses in the history of the House system. The 15-year project is estimated to cost over $1 billion, and would completely restructure the internal architecture of the Houses while maintaining the historic exteriors...
...Bossert said that he is “very apprehensive” about the planned project. The College, he said, must carefully consider the balance involved in renovating a House created in the early 20th century for a student body living in the present...
Horowitz’s research began in the late 70s, when Frank Drake, the founder of modern SETI, helped Horowitz obtain funding to do SETI research in Puerto Rico. Not long after, Horowitz went to the West Coast, partially at the behest of NASA, and developed his own project: Suitcase SETI...
After a test run of 250 stars at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico that turned up nothing, Horowitz brought Suitcase SETI back to Harvard, and in 1983, Project Sentinel was launched. Project Sentinel utilized an 84-foot steerable radio telescope equipped with a renovated Suitcase SETI, located at the Oak Ridge Observatory in Harvard, Mass...
...speech before the NASA Sunnyvale Symposium, Horowitz noted that Project Sentinal had its drawbacks: it required the use of “a directed and precompensated beacon” and operated based on what have been termed “magic frequencies”—frequencies that humans calculate would likely be used by aliens trying to contact us. Such narrow search mechanisms limit the ability to search the sky, forcing Horowitz to ask: “How hard are these guys up there really going to work...