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TECH is the brainchild of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences (DEAS) and its dean, Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti and has been about ten months in the making...
Just down the autobahn in Wolfsburg, however, Volkswagen has built a theme park that is drawing twice as many visitors as expected, along with rave reviews. Autostadt, or Auto City, is the brainchild of VW chairman Ferdinand Piech. Conceived as a place for VW customers to pick up their new cars, the center quickly grew into the EuroDisney of the automobile. Unlike other theme-park planners, Piech never intended Autostadt to become profitable. The $400 million cost was written off as a marketing expense. Piech hopes Autostadt's revenues will cover its operating expenses next year...
...there's one thing in the Googleplex that's cooler and more popular than free ice cream, it's the company's product (found, of course, at google.com) The brainchild of Stanford University pals Larry Page, 27, and Sergey Brin, 26, Google is the Web's largest and hippest search engine. In just two years it has gained a reputation for uncanny speed and accuracy, delivering exactly what you're looking for in a fraction of a second. The site now does this 40 million times a day--not quite a googol (10100, which is 1 followed by 100 zeroes...
Investigator is the brainchild of WinWhatWhere Corp. in Kennewick, Wash. It monitors all PC activity, including programs running, and traces any files that are being copied and moved, deleted or renamed. Says creator Richard Eaton: "We're monitoring your off-line Solitaire game, things you've written in a chat room, documents you print on the company letterhead that you don't even save." Investigator retails for as little as $99 a copy and comes with an optional banner to notify anyone under surveillance of its presence. But the program will also do bizarre things to stay concealed, such...
These newcomers hope to survive the old-fashioned way--by selling ads or peddling a product. For $200 a month, Voter.com will link a congressional hopeful's campaign page to the Voter.com site, which connects to such portals as msn, Juno and Excite. At rival Vote.com brainchild of former Clinton adviser Dick Morris, politicos can purchase e-mail lists or polling data collected from users of the site...