Word: civic
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...security of the company’s e-voting processes—were copied and posted on the Internet in a public space. Other users then linked to these documents from their web sites. Most people involved said they were doing so to foster debate about a pressing civic issue. One of the people who posted the Diebold documents was Derek A. Slater ’05, a student at Harvard College...
...broadcaster, NHK. In postwar Japan, "classical music was still very foreign," says Nagata, now 78 and semi-retired, though still an adviser to the company. So was acoustic science. "We had only Western texts and trial and error to go by." But as the nation began furiously building new civic spaces, Japanese acousticians developed into some of the world's best...
...specific geographic areas; if you're not there, you're probably safe. But if you have computers or are affected by them--and that's everybody--you're at risk of inconvenience, intrusion or, technologists fear, much worse. Building better defenses to protect home computers, business networks and civic infrastructure must therefore be--however cliched it is to say--the Next Big Thing. In 1999 security incidents reported to the CERT Command Center, a federally funded research group, totaled 9,859; from January to September of this year, there were 114,855. Security spending has grown 28% a year since...
Robert Winters, a longtime Cambridge political observer and editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal, agrees that the student population’s future as a political force is still...
...club then sold the Mt. Auburn St. property to the Foundation for Civic Leadership, a non-profit organization, for a reported $2.75 million...