Austin sees Crimson
AUSTIN, Texas — Harvard’s spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship was on full display under the bright late-winter sun of Texas as members of the University’s digital community came together Sunday at the 2013 South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSW) in Austin. Stamping Harvard’s digital presence on the country’s pre-eminent interactive conference, more than 250 alumni, students, faculty, and guests — representing eight of Harvard’s 12 Schools — convened at Icenhauer’s, a 118-year-old house reinvented as a gathering space, for the second annual Digital Harvard in Austin at SXSW, hosted by the Harvard Alumni Association. As attendees mingled and conversed outdoors, sampling Tex-Mex fare and enjoying the extra hours of daylight, Chief Digital Officer Perry Hewitt remarked that she was “lucky enough to be at Harvard at a time when digital innovation is absolutely everywhere.” “Harvard today has a significant digital footprint,” she said. “Not only for the 375,000 alumni we have worldwide, but...