Updated: Thursday, March 18, 2010 1:40 p.m.
Except this time, it is Yale's fault and not Hotmail's. Many Elis woke up this morning surprised to find their inboxes completely devoid of new mail, the result not of summer doldrums but rather a faulty Yale e-mail server. Early Monday, one of the servers that handle's Yale e-mail failed, according to Information Technology Services officials, and as a result no...
Don't try to send an e-mail to an msn.com, hotmail.com, or live.com address from your Yale e-mail account; Microsoft is currently blocking all e-mails sent from mail.yale.edu to those domains. According to a
As violent video games continue to become ever more popular and accessible, Tamar Gendler, chair of the cognitive science program and professor of philosophy, and other experts in the fields of philosophy, psychology, and cognitive science, as well as gamers themselves, are debating whether pulling the trigger on your game console constitutes an immoral act.
The city is closing half of its senior centers due to budget cuts, but it will add at least five new laptops at those that remain.
The aim of a liberal arts education is to equip students with transposable skills useful in any career. The skills a liberal arts education emphasizes change based on the current state of society.
This past fall, Lisa Miller, a senior administrative assistant in the Yale College Dean’s Office, received an unexpected e-mail in her inbox. With a subject line reading “SEXUAL ERUPTION,” the e-mail announced a surprise get-together for the Yale women’s rugby team that night.
Wedged in the corner of the Tower One Retirement Community’s first floor, room 100 is living up to its name: the “Activities Room.” Complete with a kitchen, multipurpose table and 14 computers, the room has taken on an additional role: technology center.
As Ira Glass ascended to the stage before a packed Law School auditorium, the audience erupted in enthusiastic applause.
After six weeks of construction in Yale’s machine shop and practice in a high school gym, the Great Glass Elevator — a robot constructed from $8,000 worth of starter kit materials, plastic, metal bars and wheels — has finally come to life. It whizzes, turns, and even collects and dumps balls.
As part of a senior project supervised by electrical engineering professor Hür Köser, electrical engineering major Henrique Rocha ’09 has devised a mechanism that harnesses the energy generated by a stationary exercise bike at Payne Whitney to charge small electronic devices like iPods and cell phones.
Step aside, bloggers: Your days as the go-to reporters of the Internet are numbered. Twitter has shown itself to be a worthy, albeit unlikely, competitor to more traditional blog style news reporting.
A gramophone sits on a laboratory table. It spins, becoming a turntable, boom box, cassette player. It’s smashed with a hammer, wielded by a disembodied hand. It is a CD player, hatching a first generation iPod, which slenderizes into a cellphone, blasting techno beats.
