Word: adaptions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executive director of Project ADAPT, a multimillion-dollar initiative which will overhaul the University's accounting systems, left last month to work at an Internet-based educational company--just as ADAPT's core systems whirred into place with few hitches...
Peter J. Segall has been at the helm of ADAPT since 1997, when he inherited a project already experiencing difficulties that put it behind schedule...
...technology shows no signs of slowing down, which means that even dramatic changes in the natural world won't necessarily have evolutionary consequences. Argues Wolpoff: "We're not going to [adapt to] the next ice age by changing our physical form. We'll set off an atom bomb or set up a space mirror or whatever [to control climate]." Manipulation of the human genome, meanwhile, will eventually let us change the basic characteristics of our species to order. Evolution by natural selection could be replaced, perhaps chillingly, with evolution by human intervention...
...University-wide role will cover much of the same material along with overseeing Project ADAPT, a plan to integrate new technology into Harvard's business and administrative functions...
...Moriarty handled a wide range of technology issues, including Y2K compliance for HMS systems. His new University-wide role will cover much of the same material along with overseeing Project ADAPT, a plan to integrate new technology into Harvard's business and administrative functions...