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Three more useful, and cheaper, shuttle-related services have already been developed outside of the Dean’s Office: ShuttleBoy, the Cabot Dining Hall LED screen, and business card-sized shuttle schedules, the last of which I first printed with my house administrator three years ago. Last spring, administrators from Shuttle Services and University Hall, including Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II, assured me that they would begin to print the schedules themselves, which cost the Quad houses a mere $100 each year to print. Five weeks into the school year, they have failed to print...
...Quad resident looking to get to Mather House would message “sboy qua mat” to find out the time of the next shuttle’s arrival. David J. Malan ’99, the lecturer who currently leads Computer Science 50, originally developed Shuttleboy while an undergraduate at Harvard, decided to expand the service to text messaging. “As times and technology have changed over the years, it’s simply been fun to breathe new life into him,” Malan wrote in an e-mailed statement, referring...
...always on AIM, it is easy for him to check shuttle times. “You don’t have to go to the website,” Quinn said. “This saves me valuable seconds.” Malan also developed the original Shuttleboy, a Unix program on fas.harvard.edu, in 1998. This program allows users to access full route information. Malan wrote in an e-mail that he conceived of the idea after taking Computer Science 50: “Introduction to Computer Science” and Computer Science 51: “Introduction to Computer...
...twist on Shuttleboy, a UNIX-based program set up by David Malan ’99 to help students navigate the notoriously confusing Harvard shuttle schedule, ShuttleGirl offers similar assistance...
...Shuttleboy still lives on (at ~mbehar/pub/bin/shuttleboy and ~malan/pub/bin/shuttleboy) but ShuttleGirl has stolen the hearts of most quadlings—and maybe even seven North American cities...