Technology

Look at Me, I’m on the World Wide Web

Two new Webcams—one focused on the Eastman Quadrangle and one in Wilson Commons—are giving friends and families a new, “you-are-there” view of the University. Installed last spring in time for Commencement, the cameras allow Internet viewers to pan, zoom, and snap photos of campus scenes. Each camera also can focus on preset locations so that relatives around the world can arrange with their favorite Rochester student to stand in a particular spot in the camera’s view and wave hello to the folks at home.