Technology
Copyright Laws Slow DPLA
As the Digital Public Library of America approaches its April 2013 launch, copyright laws still hinder the library’s ability to make a wide array of written materials accessible to the public.
On Our Location
A connection like this is rarely a part of the traditional literary experience; the world about which you are reading is before your eyes
edX to Partner with Local Community Colleges
Harvard and MIT’s joint online learning venture edX announced Tuesday morning that it would combine virtual and in-person learning as it expands to two local community colleges.
Library Lab Puts on Show
The Library Lab showcased 28 library projects created by Harvard students, faculty, and staff Wednesday night.
A Close Reading For the Social Media Age
FM is here to find (or construct) meaning for the conventions of these destabilizing times.
The Square According to Your Best Friend YELP
With the questionable wisdom of strangers in mind, FM would like to take a moment to highlight a few of Yelp’s rising star(rer)s.
Obama: Can You Make a Donation?
Every four years, America gets to witness the simple pleasures of election season: Saturday Night Live’s post-debate coverage; election-themed treats at the local bakery; Wolf Blitzer doing something ridiculous on CNN.
Free, Live Streaming TV!
Each Harvard undergraduate now has a personal cable box. Well, sort of. Tivli, a startup founded in 2009 by Harvard graduates Nicholas B. Krasney '09 and Ho A. Tuan '09, earlier this month launched Tivli Beta, a real time television service that streams 36 channels over the Harvard network through its website, Harvard.Tivli.com. Tivli's lineup includes all the major networks and many popular cable channels, such as CNN, Fox News, History, and NFL Network.
Harvard Law School To Conduct Interviews Over Skype
The Law School will interview J.D. applicants via the free videoconferencing software Skype rather than by phone next year and will expand the number of applicants who are invited to interviews from about 1,000 to 1,200.
Sonal R. Shah
In this mini-series, Flyby profiles one of the seven fall 2012 IOP Fellows each week. This week: Sonal R. Shah. You may have seen IOP fellow Sonal R. Shah around campus at Harvard sporting events as she indulges her passion for all things athletic. But you can also join Shah in another setting this semester; every Thursday from 4 to 5:30 p.m. her study group meets in room L166 at the IOP.
Google Submits to Publishers’ Wishes In Settlement
A settlement between Google and the Association of American Publishers reached Thursday will allow U.S. publishers to decide whether or not their books or journals are digitized by the Google Books Library Project.
EdX: Harvard's New Domain
“This is not to be construed as MIT Lite or Harvard Lite,” Reif says; whether or not these edX programs will live up to the hype, however, has yet to be seen.
10 Questions with Rauan Kenzhekhanuly
Rauan Kenzhekhanuly, a former fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, has transformed the Kazakh language version of Wikipedia from a site with just four active editors and 7,000 articles to a thriving community of 250 editors monitoring 170,000 entries. Next up for Kenzhekhanuly’s Kazakhstan-based WikiBilim Foundation: Kazakh Google Translate. FM rung up Kazakhstan on Skype to talk about post-Soviet pride, Internet trolls, and whether Harvard profs ought to consider Wikipedia a credible source already.
Hebrew Class Uses iPads For Teaching, Learning
In this fall’s Modern Hebrew 120a: “Intermediate Modern Hebrew” course, digital apps and iPads have replaced paper flash cards and textbooks. In collaboration with Harvard’s Academic Technology Group, Irit Aharony, the head of Harvard’s Modern Hebrew Studies Program, has created a digital textbook on iBooks for use in her second-year language class.
Drinky Drink: Your iPhone, Your Vodka, and You
In honor of the iPhone 5, enjoy these drinks inspired by the company that monopolizes your technological needs.
Bad Trend Alert: Email Signatures
The inspirational quote? Yes, Gandhi is amazing. Yes, there is some providence in the fall of a sparrow. And yes, it is, in fact, tomorrow in Australia.
'Cheap' Computers of 1984: About $2,000
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
EdX To Offer Proctored Final Exam For One Course
EdX, Harvard and MIT’s joint non-profit virtual learning initiative, will offer a proctored final exam for one of its courses this fall, President of edX and MIT Professor Anant Agarwal announced Thursday morning.
RIP Anonymous-Harvard, B. Monday, D. Monday
The life of an email list which, at the beginning of the week, stood poised to pester the vast majority of Harvard's student body seems to have been brief.
Early Computers at Harvard—and 40 Years Later, at The Crimson
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
"Queer Exodus" from Harvard Subject of Facebook Discussion
As Harvard’s first-ever permanent director of bisexual, gay, lesbian, transgender, and queer student life starts work this week, all is not well according to gay and lesbian employees at Harvard.
Long Before EdX, Televised Harvard Classes Were Cutting-Edge
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
The Sun Sets on the Traditional Library
It’s been a tough year for the Harvard University Library. But library administrators are trying to generate excitement for change with talk of sweeping reforms to centralize and digitize the library.