Word: crunchers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Software in this category often appeals to both kids and adults. The Oregon Trail, from MECC, sends users on a simulated journey along the famous trail. Along the way, they grapple with many of the same problems that the pioneers faced, such as how much food to carry. The Cruncher, from Davidson, has a practical aim: it introduces kids to spreadsheets and accounting principles by asking them to figure out the full cost of activities such as planning a vacation or owning a pet. Microsoft's Dinosaurs brings the beasts back to life in gripping detail that includes the tyrannosaur...
...wanted to get back to writing and journalism," says Collins, 35, who as an undergraduate at Harvard had been a member of the Lampoon, the university's satirical periodical. And so he abandoned the frenetic life of a number cruncher for the frenetic life of a magazine editor, spending three years at Spy, the Lampoon's de facto postgraduate outpost, before joining us last year to put his sharp, imaginative wit to work as the founding editor of this publication's Chronicles section...
Even as Defense Secretary Dick Cheney moved last week to put the Tailhook scandal behind him by naming a squeaky-clean number cruncher as Acting Navy Secretary, the Pentagon found itself embarrassed by new reports of sexual harassment and misconduct in the Navy...
Greg's first love was journalism, which he practiced as a writer for the Voice of America and a reporter for the Yale Daily News. But early on, he says, "I decided that I was much better with numbers than with words." A lightning number cruncher with a stern eye for fat in a budget, he honed his concentration and competitive skills as a 145-lb. wrestler at Phillips Academy. "It sure taught me to be tenacious," he says. Greg also discovered a passion for politics, working after college as a legislative assistant for Jonathan Bingham, a Democratic Congressman from...
This was the year it became clear that supercomputers of the future will have not one or two or even dozens but thousands of processors working in concert. One company, Thinking Machines of Cambridge, Mass., introduced a gymnasium- size number cruncher that can perform up to 2 trillion operations a second. Now the firm just needs to find customers willing to fork over $200 million...