The Archive Team
Who We are
Alumni
How to Reach Us
You can send email to the Archive Team at
archive@the-tech.mit.edu. Although email is the best way
to reach us, you can also phone us at +1 617 253 1541 or
send us a fax at +1 617 258 8226.
About the Archive Team
The Tech archive project was founded in 1992 to build a
library of stories from The Tech, primarily for use by reporters at
The Tech. Our initial work, sponsored by Apple
Computer, was focused on building a WAIS index of current stories.
We got excited about the World-Wide Web in early 1993 and began
building the service that exists today. The Tech's Web server debuted
in May, 1993.
The members of the Archive Team produce and maintain The Tech's Web
presence. Members of the team prepare individual issues for the Web,
convert the issues from QuarkXPress to HTML, scan photos, write
the programs that the keep the Web server running, and drink a variety
of inexpensive sodas purchased at The Tech.
We are always looking for new people to help with the archive
project. If you're a member of the MIT community, drop us a line and we'll
tell you more about what we are doing and how you can help.
About the People
Dan is Chairman at The
Tech and a senior majoring in physics. Dan works as a Web
consultant for the MIT Press, Context Media (formerly The Agency), and
several other companies. He created the site for the first full-text
interactive book on the Web, City of
Bits
Dan also works as a Residential Computing Consultant for MIT
Information Systems. Dan loves programming in Perl, especially
WWW-to-Perl interfaces such as the classics
archive and the MIT Course Evaluation
Guide. He rewrote the archive
search scripts so they use glimpse, which he likes better than
WAIS.
You can reach Dan most often at The Tech office, (617)
253-1541. An answering machine lives in his dormitory room, at (617)
225-9243. This summer, he can be reached at work at (617) 367-0675, or
via pager at (800) 225-0256, id# 59356. The best way to contact him is
via electronic mail.
Jimmy is a former Managing Editor at The Tech and a senior
majoring in Biology. If he is not at The Tech, he is probably
in lab.
You can reach Jimmy at The Tech office, (617) 253-1541 or in
his room, at (617) 225-8726. The best way to contact him is via electronic mail to
jimmyw@the-tech.mit.edu
Kathleen, a Lowell Institute student, is a neo-phyte in the
programming world. She finds the Archive Team fun which indicates she
is probably ready for the looney bin, if she could get out of the
cgi-bin. She may be reached at 617 577-7929, but the best way to
contact her is via electronic mail to linchpin@mit.edu or Linchpin@world.std.com.
Fovnder. Jeremy Hylton is a member of the
technical staff of the Corporation for National Research
Initiatives. His research interests mobile programs (agents) and
information retrieval techniques for widely distributed systems.
Jeremy has served in numerous positions on The Tech managing board,
including chairman, editor in chief, and managing editor. He currently
serves as a member of the Advisory Board. He created The Tech's Web
presence in May 1993 using 20 lines of Perl code borrowed from
Mitchell Charity.
He received the S.B. in computer science and engingeering and the
M.Eng. in electrical engineering and computer science in 1996. (He
remains, however, a member of the Class of 1994.) He also minored in
literature and maintains a server for the complete works of William Shakespeare in his spare
time.
Reuven is a former editor
in chief of The Tech, and currently serves on the newspaper's
advisory board. In real life, he works for Time Inc.'s Pathfinder project, writing CGI
scripts to put Time-Warner on the Web. His main WWW projects involve
writing Perl scripts to search through our archives, as well as some
system administration. You can reach him by e-mail at
reuven@the-tech.mit.edu or
reuven@pathfinder.com.