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...Larry Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle Corp., lost $2 billion in two days earlier this week when his company's stock plummeted, but the down-turn did not stop him from keeping his speaking engagement yesterday with the Harvard Computer Society...
Before a standing-room-only crowd of about 500 undergraduates and graduate students in Science Center C, Ellison briefly presented his vision of the Network Computer (NC) before engaging in an interactive dialogue with the audience...
...After the last few days, low-cost computers are more important to me than ever before," Ellison joked as he began his presentation...
...history as they do African-American studies, for example, because "white" in this context has become "the." This is a particular kind of privilege that whites and only whites in this country enjoy. Understanding the racial and historical location of canonical authors, however, is important as long as Ralph Ellison, for example, is primarily studied as "a black author." Similar logic applies to race: racial constructs--such as whiteness and blackness--only exist in contrast to one another, so to study black disadvantage in America, for example, is also to study white privilege in this country--and vice versa...
...Ellison uses a voice-activated computer for assignments...