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While Franklin M. Steen, FAS director of computer services, wrote in an e-mail message that all services had been restored by 5:05 p.m., some services, such as the UNIX "ph" command--which provides users with phonebook information--were still unavailable late last night.
Steen said all systems should be repaired by the morning. Harvard University FAS Computer Services (HASCS) staff members are discussing the problems with software vendors.
Call it the Big Brother of introductory computer science courses--always watching, anticipating students' every move, a little mysterious.
Every year, students in Computer Science 50: "Introduction to Computer Science" (CS50) debate whether the course's instructors really use a special program to weed out cheaters and plagiarists.
"I always have students who say to me, 'Do you really have a software that checks for cheating?'" says Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science Stuart M. Sheiber, who teaches CS50. "They think we're making this up to put the fear of God in them."