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The Application Express tool is has been gaining popularity for its easier to use “low-code” application development.
What is Oracle’s APEX?
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Application_Express
This phrase has roots as far as 1940s and 50s much to the ire of locals of Boston and Harvard alike.
What is the phrase “Pahk the cah on Hahvahd Yahd”?
On December 8th 2023, The Harvard Gazette reported that researchers created this processor for the first time successfully.
What is the first programmable, logical quantum processor?
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Some of us like to go places and do stuff. Share here.
What is #travel?
A leading force in the American theater, faculty and staff can save $5 on tickets by presenting a Harvard ID at this theater’s box office.
What is American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.)?
This Google Workspace tool is often used by business analysts to create workflows to eventually be used to design web applications.
What is diagrams.net or previously known as draw.io
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagrams.net#:~:text=diagrams.net%20
Five Harvard affiliated members worked together as part of Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging (OEDIB) to create this interactive web application that visualizes spaces around campus.
What is the Map of Inclusive Spaces and Symbols or MISS?
Citation: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/2aae08d2f3054a4e9cc56a6ea41264f0
https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/miss
https://edib.harvard.edu/map-inclusive-symbols-and-spaces-miss
By Ask a Librarian’s website for Harvard, staff and students alike can have special digital access to these four popular newspapers by using their Harvard email.
Washington Post
Wall Street Journal
Financial Times
New York Times
There have been a lot of bread-related jokes these past months. It all started with a gingerbread man.
What is #huit-humor?
From now to December 20th, this Harvard Library is hosting an exhibit of the evolution of video games.
What is the Harvard-Yenching Library?
Citation: https://library.harvard.edu/exhibits/video-games-harvard-yenching-library
This tool provides a “walled-off,” secure environment in which to experiment with generative AI, mitigating many security and privacy risks and ensuring the data entered will not be used to train any public AI tools.
What is the AI Sandbox?
Citation: https://huit.harvard.edu/ai-sandbox
Back in December of 1643 a group of people known as “The Board of Overseers” devised this iconic piece at a meeting, ordering “there shall be a Colledge seale in forme following.” Since then it had many iterations before it became what it is today.
What is the Harvard Veritas Shield? What is the “heraldic shield”?
Citation: https://summer.harvard.edu/blog/a-history-of-harvard-in-symbols/
Aho Grandson-Nephew! The Harvard Gazette wrote an article on the Repair & Responsibility conference last November and quoted this famous Native organizer, writer, actor and comedy group: “Accountability is not an individual task, necessarily when we’re talking about social injustice and the harm perpetuated by institutions. It is a collective past that we as individuals take responsibility for. Institutions like Harvard cannot undo the harm of the past until it stops the harm that it is doing today.”
Who is Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota and Dińe)?
Formerly #general, all are welcome to post in this channel.
What is #huit-news?
Everyone is a descendant of someone, but you can learn more about your history through HOLLIS with this edition of service.
What is the Library edition of Ancestry.com?
What is AncestryLibrary?
Citation: https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990106870490203941/catalog
Being a Mac user, it almost feels like being in another digital dimension when using this software, but it is still your computer. You are just able to run Windows OS on your Apple made device with this application.
What is Parallels?
Citation: https://www.parallels.com/
In the 1800s a Boston clockmaker was designated as Harvard’s first “Astronomical Observer” which essentially established the Harvard College Observatory and a 15-inch Great Refractor telescope was purchased. The telescope remains and is on display with occasional use in the care of this center as a collaboration between Harvard and Smithsonian.
What is the The Center for Astrophysics?
Citation: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/about/about-harvard-college-observatory
This magazine released an article called “AI in the Academy” in which it quoted the Harvard Professor Jeffrey Schnapp with the following: “The role of oral, live, public speaking assignments is going to increase,” he predicted. “I don’t see that as a crisis. It is only a crisis with respect to the model that we inherited from the last half century of academic practice.”
What is the Harvard Magazine?
Citation: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/11/jhj-portrait-ai-teaching-learning
If you are looking for a new song, this may be the place for you.
What is #music?
Japan, China, India, Turkiye, Greece, Hong Kong, Tunisia, France, Mexico, Tanzania, South Africa, Brazil, Botswana, Argentina, Chile, Italy are all included as hosts and can be seen as an interactive map on the website.
Where are Harvard’s abroad locations?
Citation: https://worldwide.harvard.edu/harvard-world#locations-abroad
This number of collaboration tools (with multiple levels of security) is held as a list by Harvard Information Security and Data Privacy.
What is/are the 18 collaboration tools?
Citation: https://security.harvard.edu/collaboration-tools-matrix
This person, who often likened American football to war, held the longest presidency in Harvard’s history. His dislike of American football ran so deeply that he attempted to ban it at Harvard–which was unsuccessful on his part.
Who is Charles William Eliot?
Citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_William_Eliot
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/02/highlights-from-367-years-of-harvard-presidents
This rivalry that has existed since 1875 is simply referred to as “The Game” in College Football and will be competing again this November 2023.
Don’t put words in my mouth! But you can place your humblebrag here.
What is #wordle?
On International Women’s Day, in March of 1971, a large group of women dramatized the need for dedicated women’s spaces, by occupying an under-utilized, Harvard-owned building on 888 Memorial Drive. After marching from Boston Common to Central Square, they forced the male professor out of the building upon arrival and laid out their demands. The movement called for affordable housing, child care, and education. These women staged a 10-day building takeover that inspired other feminist movements across the country. This led to the creation of this organization which still creates innovative programs and services for women of all backgrounds for 51 years. They offer all of their programs and services completely free of charge! They are the oldest continuously operating community center for women in the United States.
What is the Cambridge Women’s Center?