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Thefacebook.com, the social networking website which has spread across campuses from Harvard to CalTech, eclipsed half a million users yesterday as the site’s creator prepared to unveil his latest project—a file-sharing program integrated with its predecessor...
...thefacebook did,” Zuckerberg said in a telephone interview from Palo Alto, Calif., where he is spending the semester with the program’s co-creators, Andrew K. McCollum ’06-’07 and Adam D’Angelo, a junior at CalTech...
...time and technology are not on the studios' side. Just as the Napster phenomenon appeared to come out of nowhere, the next generation of file-sharing software is already in utero. Last month computer scientists at Caltech set a new data-transmission record: they achieved the equivalent of downloading a full-length feature film in 4 sec. It's a bumpy road to acceptance for any disruptive entertainment technology, from piano rolls to the VCR. "One thing you can count on in Hollywood is fear of change," says Warren Lieberfarb, the man who launched the DVD. But as Lieberfarb...
APRIL. "I don't mind," Alex Trebek tells E! "Ken and I are good friends." Ken's margins of victory narrow. Barely holds his own against two Caltech mathematicians, but his elegant proof of Von Stumpfnagel's theorem gives him a thrilling come-from-behind victory when both profs neglect to carry the 2. Page Six reports that Nicole Richie agreed to a quickie marriage with Charlie Rose in an effort to get Paris to come back to the show. Ratings...
DIED. EDWARD B. LEWIS, 81, Nobel-prizewinning geneticist; of cancer; in Pasadena, Calif. Using the lowly fruit fly, the Caltech professor was the first to explain how genes control the growth of a fertilized egg into a fully developed embryo. Further research has shown that the same mechanisms are at work in almost all animals, including humans...