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ANNOUNCED In an incursion into Microsoft's territory, Google revealed plans to release an operating system designed for PCs in 2010. The news came the same day the company removed the "beta" label from its Gmail application, which debuted...
During the past few months, hundreds of thousands of software developers and other digerati have been beta-testing the upgrade and broadcasting its assorted charms. As the iPhone has evolved into a full-fledged pocket computer, with more than 50,000 applications, it has become a bit more cumbersome to use. I've got more than 120 apps, for instance, stacked 20 to a screen, that I have to arrange or alphabetize by hand. The upgrade addresses that problem by creating a universal search function that can scour all applications; many users are making this their home screen so they...
Updike, who was producing much of The Lampoon’s content while maintaining an exemplary academic record—he was one of only eight in his class to be inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior—had little free time to devote to politics or parties, according to former Lampoon writer Eric B. Wentworth ’54, who lived in Lowell House with Updike...
...After arriving at Harvard, she threw herself into her studies and finished her undergraduate career in three years, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. From there, she began working on her physics Ph.D., under the guidance of Harvard physics professor Howard M. Georgi ’68, who had previously instructed Randall in Physics...
...place that accepted the “established order” and was unwilling to contemplate its de facto all-white, gender segregated character—a place dominated by the children of elite prep schools and suffused with Cold War politics.At a dinner for national honors society Phi Beta Kappa graduates at the Signet Society, an official from the Eisenhower administration had been recruited to give the after-dinner speech. He addressed the importance of the National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as a crucial component of national defense.Marglin said he stood up to ask a question...