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...attacks on computers from hackers and viruses--Xie noticed that those programs slow down networks. So, like a true Silicon Valley entrepreneur, he retreated to his garage in his spare time and started working on a new approach. He envisioned a remote piece of hardware that screened Internet content and didn't interfere with application software. In 1997 Xie, an engineering graduate from Tsinghua University in Beijing, launched the network-security company NetScreen, which was eventually acquired by Jupiter Networks. That success allowed him to raise venture capital in 2000 to found Fortinet Inc., of which...
Electronics retailers have a dirty�little secret about those pricey HDTVs: the pristine pictures on showroom models that wow consumers aren't what they will be watching at home. That's because most TV content is still delivered in standard-definition format. Result: Seinfeld reruns will look worse on a new $2,500 HDTV...
...hometown of Athens, Ohio, consists of a set of computer punch-card style rectangles arranged within a 3.5-acre park. Words and phrases are engraved on each rectangle, a multidirectional poem of sorts composed by Lin and her brother, Tan.The piece’s unconventional form fits its content. “Memory is non-narrative and non-linear,” Lin said of the work, which partially involves her own nostalgia for the campus. “People say, ‘How do you read this?’ Any way you want.”Another...
...condemned today; they did not even have plumbing. Many students commuted from Boston. The social discrepancy was so bad that a New York Daily Post writer labeled Harvard a “social orphan asylum.” While University President Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, had been content to let private business solve the housing problem, Lowell felt that something had to be done, and so he set about planning the House system...
Still, “general interest” inevitably means a lack of focus. Short stories, poems, paintings, articles, photos, even mathematical proofs—Tuesday keeps them all under its jurisdiction, proudly claiming a “wide-range” of content, a “mixture of stuff.” This issue contains: a scholarly article about the nature of modern art, a sociological look at the gay rights movement; also some short stories and poems with adverbs and adjectives...