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...sold his e-mail company, Hot Mail, to Microsoft for $400 million. Since then the Indian-born bachelor has had trouble keeping up his sizzling reputation. Last year his technology consulting site, Arzoo.com closed just 18 months after its launch. Undaunted, he has unveiled TeliVoice, a service that allows cellular subscribers in India to send cheap voice messages to the U.S. and Canada. If even a fraction of India's 6 million cell-phone users sign on, he will have success. Not bad for a man who once planned to sell sandwiches on the streets of Bangalore...
...don’t care very much for [private sector] biotech; intellectually interesting research occurs at the University,” said Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology Markus Meister in March. “I personally wouldn’t be sad if [the next boom] happened on the West Coast...
...heard of [grade inflation] of course, but I’ll be damned if I know what to do about it,” said Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology William M. Gelbart in February...
...alone a living cell), the success of his simple programs made Wolfram suspect that science has been heading in the wrong direction for the past 300 years or so. Instead of trying to write complicated equations for everything, he says, scientists should have been searching instead for the cellular automata that correspond to what they are observing...
...final verdict on whether Wolfram's New Kind of Science is truly revolutionary--or whether cellular automata merely resemble rather than describe the world--will have to wait until scientists can digest it fully. And that could take a while. "Each idea in the book," says Sejnowski, "will take at least 10 years to explore and test." Provocative as Wolfram's theories are, he says, it's whether they agree with nature that will be the ultimate test...