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Based on the concept of a Mongolian barbecue, Fire and Ice-the brainchild of co-owners John Schall and James Miller-incorporates the idea of "market stations" into its dining environment...
Dysson, it turns out, is the brainchild of LaFong, the Bay Area team of writer Michael Kaplan and director John Sanborn, who had already created one CD-ROM (Psychic Detective) and two Web-based fictions and were seeking new ways to push the envelope of the Internet. Their vision for Dysson was to turn a simple E-mail exchange into an "immersive" experience in which the audience helps create the story by becoming characters in an ongoing drama. "My desire is for the Internet and television to merge," says Sanborn. "What could be better than a TV show where...
...still has a chance, thanks to an unlikely coalition of conservative ranchers and left-leaning environmentalists who have put aside their cultural differences and teamed up to launch a grass-roots campaign to save ranches from the bulldozers. The Gunnison Legacy Project, as the effort is known, is the brainchild of Susan Lohr, a soft-spoken ornithologist from California, and Bill Trampe, a lean, crusty rancher whose family has been in the valley for three generations. The bird watcher and the cowboy, as Lohr and Trampe are sometimes called, hope to save 3,000 acres of ranchland in the next...
...late promise, the firm was born into rather humble circumstances, the brainchild of husband and wife Stanford academics Leonard Bosack and Sandy Lerner, who were merely trying to exchange notes across the university's computer network. While Stanford's mainframes could crush even the most recalcitrant differential equations, they couldn't pass messages. The mainframes spoke a different language from the desktops at the library, and so on. The solution: a wire-stuffed box that performed a kind of simultaneous translation, enabling IBM machines to talk to Digital machines, wife to send grocery list to husband...
...Institute, which hosts about 40 female fellows each year for advanced multidisciplinary study, was the brainchild of former Radcliffe president Mary I. Burnting-Smith, who will speak at the reunion's opening event...