Word: altos
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...formed from the mind of Jobs. Any good Mac historian will trace the machine's ancestry to Vannevar Bush (a White House science adviser who was dreaming about electronic desktops in 1945), Douglas Engelbart (who invented windows and the mouse) and Alan Kay's team at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in California (which put the ideas to work in a language called Smalltalk and a machine called the Alto). Levy re-creates in vivid detail the December 1979 "daylight raid," when the scrappy engineers from Apple, invited to see the Alto, walked into a Xerox demo room...
This is Coleman--perhaps the greatest plastic alto saxophonist of all times--at his anguished, melodic best. Most of the tracks on this set feature Don Cherry on pocket-trumpet, Charlie Haden on bass and Billy Higgins on drums--musicians who all were serious innovators in their own rights. It was this quartet that established what came to be known as free jazz, and it was these recordings that did the establishing...
...Harvard honorees are Ritu Sonia Batra '93 of Los Angeles; Matthew B. Boyle '93 of Shaker Heights, Ohio; Alexander M. Johnston '93 of Amherst, Mass.; Sarah L. Levine '93 of Brookline, Mass.; Ayelet K. Margalioth '93 of Montreal, Canada; and Andre C. Namphy '93 of Palo Alto, Calif...
Somehow Ms. Adams manages to court pop sound and still keep her songs full of the unexpected and original. Strong elements of jazz and rhythm & blues underlay her instrumentals. For instance, David Sanborn solos on alto saxophone for Adams' smoldering version of James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight." Adams' voice brings far more desperation and emotion to the lyrics than Taylor's version. Plus, the low-pitched crooning here will intensify your appreciation of her range in later cuts like Billy Joel's "New York State of Mind." The fact that these two songs...
Another important technology employed isEthernet, a networking standard originallydeveloped at the famed Xerox Palo Alto ResearchCenter, where the graphical user interface wasalso first conceived...