Word: computerized
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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House websites--online today for all 12 Houses--sit on some half-dozen computer servers across campus and vary wildly in their content, vision and importance to the House community.
But without leadership from the Houses to apply the technology, Steen's work can only go so far. He has helped provide Harvard students with access to a "bleeding edge" computer infrastructure that is increasingly out of sync with the not-so-digital management of the Houses.
And the technological capabilities for Net-connected student life have grown faster than the central College administration and Houses have been able--or willing--to deal with.For example, Steen says, upcoming network improvements will largely serve to increase the entertainment potential of each student's desktop computer--thereby circumventing a...
"For us, it has been a very organic process. Nobody has given us direction from the top-down," Wong says, adding that he hosted the first House website on his personal computer.
30 - William H. Gates III, Class of 1977, and Steven A. Ballmer '77, who is a Crimson editor, announce that they will give $25 million to Harvard's computer science and electrical engineering programs. The Maxwell Dworkin building funded by this donation opens two years later.