Word: cellularized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While they ponder New Year’s resolutions about eating right, partying more or picking less dorky friends, we are too preoccupied for such sweeping visions. We might pledge not to forget all the testable material from our classes—no matter how irrelevant cellular automata begin to seem with every hour outside of Cambridge—and we might theorize about how not to waste another reading period without either productivity or pleasure. But we must stay focused, lest we return dangerously distracted...
...past life, Matthew Spotnitz was a Quantum Cellular Automata Architect—for six months at NASA during the year after his high school graduation. (In response to an FM request to clarify what exactly a Quantum Cellular Automata Architect does, Spotnitz answered, “A Quantum Cellular Automata Architect designs circuit patterns with Quantum Cellular Automata.”) “I was surrounded by PhDs at NASA’s JPL [the Jet Propulsion Laboratory] in Pasadena,” the chemistry concentrator explains. “And I had only taken AP physics...
...only way tower builders are moving into cell-phone-rich, aesthetically guarded communities is through camouflage. Sprint PCS recently agreed to pay an estimated $150,000 to fix up--and wire up--a century-old windmill in a ritzy section of Fairfield, Conn. The mansions there have lousy cellular reception because well-heeled neighbors don't want a tower in their backyard. "We've got millionaires sitting in their driveways just so they can use their cell phones," says an exasperated resident...
...number of so-called stealth towers, which have been around for a decade, has doubled since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 first prevented local jurisdictions from shutting out wireless carriers altogether. Of the roughly 128,000 cellular-antenna sites in the U.S., about 75% are mounted on towers in the traditional (read: ugly, obtrusive) sense. The rest have been tucked inside steeples and flagpoles, on rooftops and water towers and in giant fake trees adorning rarefied real estate from Virginia's Mount Vernon to California's Hearst Castle. Even Pebble Beach's hallowed golf course is reportedly considering installing high...
...biggest money-maker for cities could come with a system upgrade to third-generation (3G) wireless technology (if and when that happens). To fill in cellular-service gaps and accommodate massive data transmissions, antennas will need to be closer to the ground and to one another. Utility poles are already home to thousands of bread-box-size microcells in California. And as every streetlight becomes a possible antenna site, Kreines wants wireless providers to pay local jurisdictions for using the right...