Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a few miles apart along the Charles River sit two heavyweights in computer science, campuses teeming with new facilities and field-expanding research.
Harvard seems to have succeeded in plumbing the depths of alumni bank accounts. But in computer science, like many other areas, the University lags behind MIT in donations from industry.
This kind of corporate partnership is not confined to MIT's computer science work. It's also in a $30 million, 10-year alliance with biotechnology giant Amgen and a $20 million, five-year alliance with Ford Motor Company.
Steve Jobs can. Though he has no more to do with the creation of Pixar movies than, say, Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin had to do with The Matrix, he is a whiz at cajoling, nudging and cheering on John Lasseter and the other gentle geniuses in the Pixar cave...
It's all enough to make you forget the sales pitch. And the characters are so alive that if someone asks you, "Isn't Toy Story 2 a computer-generated cartoon?" you may say, "You know, I never noticed. I was too busy having a great time."