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...Building 41 erupted in jubilation around us. The force of labor that had been writing computer code and selling advertising round the clock let out a collective hooray (they would have yahooed, if it wasn't trademarked). "This is 1999 all over again," said one beaming worker. Some were weary and overcome with joy: "I've never worked so hard in my life," said one older, more seasoned veteran. "I've been here for one year, but I wish it had been two." Engineers were sporting wide grins as they bounced off the walls and funneled into...
...cards, he and IBM engineer Franco Motika set about developing a new generation of smart cards. The recently patented, theftproof card contains a computer chip and features a tiny numerical keypad right on its face. The cardholder inputs a PIN, stored directly in the card's circuitry; the same code must be entered before each use. The PIN turns the card on and generates a unique one-time-only transaction code. For approval, that code has to synch with an algorithm run by the credit-card company's computer. The smart card isn't on the market...
Although students praised this year’s Springfest, they bemoaned the lack of delicious snacks or “perishable food” forbidden by the city’s health code...
...kind of thing mathematicians love." Today Lander is leading the effort to use the new genetic tools to find treatments for ancient human diseases. At the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., which he founded and directs, he is bringing together M.I.T. engineers who can navigate the genetic code and Harvard doctors who understand cancer, infectious diseases and psychiatric illness. It's an enormous challenge--just Lander's size. --By Philip Elmer-DeWitt
...movement" in a project to build a free operating system that he called GNU. It provided the scaffolding within which Torvalds' kernel ("Linux") could hang. In the dozen years since Torvalds' post, literally thousands of programmers from around the world have authored and tinkered with the GNU and Linux code to produce Microsoft's most dreaded competition. Microsoft's fear is not that this GNU/Linux OS is better. It might well be, but that's a problem Microsoft could fix. Yet what Microsoft sells no one else can, because the company controls the source code that makes its programs...