Word: computerizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter the excimer laser. Originally developed in the 1970s for the precise etching of computer chips, it is a so-called cool laser, meaning that it can cut through almost any material without generating a lot of heat damage. That's just the kind of exacting low-impact tool surgeons...
Another big advance in the works could provide nearly all patients with better than 20/20 vision. Today's lasers, and the computer programs that run them, assume all corneas are more or less spherical. Scientists are developing instruments that will map the entire surface of the cornea and make point...
But over the next year, FAS computer services plans to change to a "switch network", which gives each user a personal bandwidth.
For almost a year, FAS computer services has been developing software for roaming ethernet. When it is installed, every ethernet connection at Harvard will use the roaming software.
Plans are in the works to bring roaming ethernet to Harvard, says Franklin M. Steen, director of FAS computer services. But first, Harvard's whole network will be changed.