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
