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Fifty years ago this week--shortly after lunch on Dec. 23, 1947--the Digital Revolution was born. It happened on a drizzly Tuesday in New Jersey, when two Bell Labs scientists demonstrated a tiny contraption they had concocted from some strips of gold foil, a chip of semiconducting material and a bent paper clip. As their colleagues watched with a mix of wonder and envy, they showed how their gizmo, which was dubbed a transistor, could take an electric current, amplify it and switch...
Upstairs, the digital aristocracy was on parade. IBM, Compaq, the company formerly known as Bell Labs. There was Microsoft in a sprawling "pavilion," surrounded by legions of loyal affiliates. Next door, Sun Microsystems occupied a comparable fortress, flanked by scores of its own Java-fueled, death-to-Microsoft freedom fighters...
...LAWRENCE LESSIG completes a study of the company's business practices as they relate to federal antitrust law. A Lessig conclusion that Microsoft's plan to knit Explorer into the upcoming Windows 98 system violates antitrust statutes could mean the biggest antitrust battle since the Feds broke up Ma Bell in the 1980s. The stakes? Just the future of Windows; which is to say the PC; which is to say the Net; which is to say human civilization as we know it. Both Lessig's report and Win 98 are due next spring. But for now, lawyers and lobbyists, start...
...more decorative, vibrato-filled voice. Certain fast high notes, especially quick jumps up the range in the first few tenor solos sounded a touch over-breathy. However, as the piece progressed, Rickards' slow high sections became a real asset, showing off his incredibly pure, sweet timbre and bell-like resonance. Rickards' runs were exquisite and flawless, his style characterized by very creative use of flourishes, including several impressive octave-wide jumps from ending note to grace-note. A high moment in his performance came in the "He was despised" aria. Startlingly unadorned, this aria provided a striking contrast...
Among the names of potential candidates who were mentioned by students were Patricia Williams, bell hooks, Judith Butler and Kelly Brown...