Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When the computer screen of Andrew G. Eil '02 froze late last Sunday night, he figured the troublesome PC was just acting up the way it always does.
The next day, Eil Visited the computer help desk in the Science Center basement and learned that his hard drive had been irreparably damaged.
"Grad students do not explore the other schools as much, because of their course load," he says." [The league] forces them out of the library and out of the computer lab, and they get to meet other people."
The high-tech world braced for a computer virus attack today. The so-called CIH 1.2 virus has been popping up on PCs for some time, and it's set to go into action on April 26, the anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
Several groups that monitor computer viruses have issued warnings about CIH 1.2, which is known as a "space filler" virus because it works by filling up space on its host computer's hard drive, hiding from anti-virus software by tucking itself into memory reserved for various utility applications. When...