Glossary - H

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• HAL — Humans and Automation Lab
• HALP — Housing Assistance Loan Program (for MIT faculty)
• HapMap — A comprehensive genomic catalog (from "haplotypes")
• HASS — Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (requirement)
• HASS-D — Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Distribution (requirement)
• HASTS — History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society
• HCED — Housing, Community and Economic Development
• HCF — Hispanic College Fund
• HCHP — Harvard Community Health Plan
• HERC — (New England) Higher Education Recruitment Consortium
• Hermes — Hermes was the project name of The Knowledge Base (this site).
• Hesiod — A name service that keeps track of information (e.g., post office servers, printers, and machines) in a distributed network environment such as MITnet. Hesiod keeps track of each registered MIT email user's post office server where his/her email account resides.
• HETE — High-Energy Transient Explorer (satellite)
• HHMI — Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• HHS — (Federal Department of) Health and Human Services
• HIE — Highlands and Islands Enterprise network
• HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
• HISP — Hosts-To-International-Students Program
• HKU — Hong Kong University
• HMS — Harvard Medical School
• HMTL — (Warren M. Rohsenow) Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory
• HOC — Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) Overview Committee
• Home address — usually refers to localhost or 127.0.0.1, which are special addresses that always refer to the computer they are being referenced on.
• Home page — can have several different meanings depending on context. It most commonly refers to the top-most page of a web site for a person or organization.
• Host Operating System — A term often used in relation to virtualization. It refers to the operating system run on the physical machine.
• HR — Human Resources
• HRO — Human Resource Officer
• HRPD — Human Resource Practices Development team
• HSN — Human Services Network
• HST — (Harvard-MIT Division of) Health Sciences and Technology
• HTC — History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture, Art and Urban Form
• HTF — Hypermedia Teaching Facility
• HUGE Fund — Helping Undergraduates Gain Excellence Fund
• Hum-D — Humanities Distribution (subject)
• HVRL — High Voltage Research Laboratory