Word: users
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finally, I resolved to contact my house User Assistant. She was upbeat for awhile, but it soon became clear that the soul of my precious hard drive seemed to be gone. I took a deep breath and re-installed the system disks, effectively creating a blank slate. The next day, a friend was able to retrieve a few of the important files using "Disk Doctor" and a little magic. That took an hour, and sapped my will to keep trying...
According to the Administrative Board's User's Guide for Students, students are not usually allowed to graduate if legal action is pending against them...
Kevin S. Davis '97 is the Currier House User Assistant and HASCS's Networking Advanced Support technician. His e-mail address is ksdavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...least students who visit the site appear to keep it to themselves. Cynthia L. Alvarez '97, a user assistant for HASCS, said she has never seen anyone visiting the Penthouse site in the basement of the Science Center...
More intriguing, though, in the long run, are Maes' experiments with genetic programming--a software version of survival of the fittest. In one program designed to help users sort their E-mail, Maes let slightly different agents compete for the user's approval; the most favored were allowed to "mate" and pass their "genetic code" on to the next generation. More than just a whimsical mimicry of living processes, the tactic may actually be, in Maes' view, the only way for agents to keep pace with people's rapidly changing tastes in a network like the Internet. "In my vision...