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Rover emerged from the combined CS 50 projects of Alexander G. Bick ’10 and Winston X. Yan ’10. For his final project sophomore year, Bick made the Unofficial Guide to Harvard accessible by Smartphone. The following year, Yan expanded the application by incorporating the real-time “deals” feature. The application was later translated for the iPhone’s platform and became Rover...
...process of assembling all of that data gave a different kind of nuance to the whole way that period of time was chronicled,” he says of the project...
...enough when I use online resources. I end up searching a bunch of places, but not using any one resource to its fullest capacity,” Lin says. “It’s hard to tell which ones are best suited for my particular need, particular project. I think we will always need the intermediate help of librarians, another eye to help navigate all the materials...
...that's not why the Corps lost this case. The plaintiffs could not sue the Corps for botching flood protection, because Congress gave it "sovereign immunity" to protect its flood-protection projects from that sort of lawsuit. So the suit focused on a canal called the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a classic Army Corps navigation boondoggle that was designed as a shortcut for ships to the Port of New Orleans - although ships rarely use it - and ended up instead as a shortcut for hurricanes. The plaintiffs argued that the so-called Mr. Go - which wasn't a flood-protection project...
...slice of the land-loss crisis. The Corps can still make the case that adequate flood walls would have withstood the extra surge created by Mr. Go - and that the inadequacy of the flood walls is covered by sovereign immunity. In other words: Don't blame our lousy navigation project; blame our lousy flood-protection project! (See video of New Orleans's Ninth Ward...