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...patrician head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab, or Microsoft magnate Bill Gates ``hippies.'' Yet creative forces continue to emanate from that period. Virtual reality -- computerized sensory immersion -- was named, largely inspired and partly equipped by Jaron Lanier, who grew up under a geodesic dome in New Mexico, once played clarinet in the New York City subway and still sports dreadlocks halfway down his back. The latest generation of supercomputers, utilizing massive parallel processing, was invented, developed and manufactured by Danny Hillis, a genial longhair who set out to build ``a machine that could be proud of us.'' Public-key encryption...
...Germany, the very heart of the Holocaust, so-called philo-Semitism is widespread. Berlin ranks just after New York City and Los Angeles as a center for klezmer music, the clarinet-based tunes traditionally played at Jewish weddings and gatherings. The Institute for Judaism, part of the Free University of Berlin, has 122 students, none of them Jews, enrolled in its classes on religion, history and Israeli politics. Some young Germans with no Jewish background are even choosing to convert...
...Gates really control the Internet? For a variety of reasons-some structural, some cultural-that may not be as easy as it seems. "Microsoft would have a better chance at controlling the weather," says Brad Templeton, president of ClariNet, which makes a nice profit selling news wire services to Internet users. The Internet, he explains, has no central network operating system that Microsoft can patent and control. Moreover, the Internet is devoted to open-that is to say, nonproprietary-software systems. A week after the Internet community discovered that the gif (Graphics Interchange Format) system used to exchange pictures over...
...many of our parents made us take music lessons? Many of us endured piano lessons and some were even forced to take tuba or clarinet lessons. (Now that's something most of us should be thankful for avoiding...
...particular the Clarinet news groups, a commercial service, has not yet been transferred," he added...