Word: burroughses
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WILLIAM BURROUGHS came to Harvard in 1931 accompanied by a host of ancestral ghosts that included the inventor of the adding machine and General Robert E. Lee. "I hated the University and I hated the town it was in," he would later write. "Everything about the place was dead. The...
Though none of the potential uses of this technology has yet been proved commercially, Ovshinsky has patented 102 possible applications. Several large companies have shown interest and have put up cash to spur development and to buy licensing rights to any end results. IBM and Burroughs bought into new ways...