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If e-mail is more important than ever to the way students imagine their community of peers, it has also raised the rate of computer use generally--with students increasingly channeling their lives through the ultra-fast campus ethernet network.
According to an FAS Computer Services annual computer use survey, in 1997 only 74 percent of seniors had computers that were connected through their dorm room into the network. This year's survey didn't even bother to ask the question. The assumption was that nearly all of the 98...
FAS Computer Services Director Franklin M. Steen and his staff have been instrumental in making this happen.
He started by building from the basics. When he arrived at Harvard from Yale in 1994, Steen quickly implemented a residential computing support system, House computer labs and general e-mail kiosks. "Unlike Yale's College system, Harvard equalizes things among Houses," Steen says. "Every House has a 10-base...
This coming fall, Steen is introducing roaming ethernet, switch technology and other network upgrades--all of which promise to make computing faster and more readily available across campus. And changes won't stop there. "It's entirely possible that the incoming class of 2004 will experience a campus that has...