{"id":292,"date":"2006-11-11T14:40:26","date_gmt":"2006-11-11T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/11\/11\/science-saturday-at-harvard\/"},"modified":"2006-11-18T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2006-11-18T20:18:20","slug":"science-saturday-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2006\/11\/11\/science-saturday-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Saturday at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/hurs\/\">Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium<\/a> had a &#8220;poster session&#8221; in the Science Center. I blurred through on my break. I apologize to the folks. I was the drive-by interrogator. Perhaps, I will blog lights. I don&#8217;t want to call them highlights. I will call them &#8220;posters I had a clue about&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t know cell biologists could spell <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Isotropy\">isotropy<\/a> let alone use it. Perhaps I was a bit too flippant. My remark is not about the young folks. It&#8217;s &#8217;bout me &#8211; being so old; having accomplished so little. I don&#8217;t envy them. Well not much. I celebrate them. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sci.ccny.cuny.edu\/~vpn\/sakita.dir\/sakita.html\">Bunji Sakita<\/a> was a rather modest man. When he said, &#8220;You did rather well,&#8221; it meant something. Folks, you did rather well.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, I couldn&#8217;t stay and talk to more of the folks. There may be other people who couldn&#8217;t make it or didn&#8217;t know about it. Can we scan the posters and put them online? As long as you have an e-mail account with the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hcs.harvard.edu\/\">Harvard Computer Society<\/a>, why not talk to them about blogs\/wikis?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overview of the Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2006\/11\/overview.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Havard undergraduates presenting their research in the Science Center. In the lower left is<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hno.harvard.edu\/gazette\/1998\/04.09\/HowardAikenMaki.html\"> one of the early almost electronic* computers built by Havard&#8217;s Howard Aiken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">*It was electromechanical rather than electronic, but it was a &#8216;stored program&#8217; machine unlike previous calculating machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Harvard Undergraduate Research Symposium had a &#8220;poster session&#8221; in the Science Center. I blurred through on my break. I apologize to the folks. I was the drive-by interrogator. Perhaps, I will blog lights. I don&#8217;t want to call them highlights. I will call them &#8220;posters I had a clue about&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}