The Harvard Computer Society is a student group dedicated to promoting interest in computing and information technologies among members of the Harvard community, with great wit and panache.

News

Sep 29  Facebook Tech Talk! - At Facebook, engineers develop products that millions of people use around the world, work in a fast-paced high-energy environment, solve tough technological challenges, and interact with equally talented people.
Sep 22  A visit from the USPTO! - Wikipedia tells us that "The United States Patent and Trademark Office is an agency in the United States Department of Commerce that issues patents to inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for product and intellectual property identification." But what do they really do?
Sep 21  Giant Robots, Circumvention, and the DMCA - HCS is proud to be hosting, with the Journal of Law and Technology and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a technical talk about a legal matter: StorageTek v. CHE, a case with important implications for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Whether you're interested in law or just in how to repair giant robots, this one's for you!
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Services

  1. Request an account for your student organization (provides webspace and an email address).
  2. Create a mailing-list for any group of 2+ people you want.

Projects

Ongoing systems work [more info]

  • System maintenance
  • Account services/RT

Emerging projects [more info]

  • hcs-pkg
  • Calendaring
  • Houses@HCS
  • Large scale virtualization
  • Single sign-on, PIN/Kerberos integration

Resources

  1. Tutorials - Follow our tutorials on various HCS account related tasks.
  2. FAQs - Find solutions to the most frequently asked acctserv questions.
  3. Mailman Administration - How to administer a Mailman mailing-list.

Subscribe to Our Mailing Lists

  1. hcs-discuss - A discussion list where we debate everything from politics to programming languages.
  2. hcs-announce - Our announcement list, for hearing about our events.
  3. hcs-jobs - Where we advertise job postings people send us.
  4. hcs-systems - We discuss various internal systems issues.

About HCS

Office Hours

We hold "office hours" every Tuesday from 8-10pm at our office in Hilles 307, where we work on our projects, eat pizza, talk about technology, and help users with questions.

Contact Us

Contact with any account related questions, or with other questions. Visit our contact page for more information.