Word: esotericism
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Computer crimes are hardly new. In California prosecutors have been pursuing high-tech crime in Silicon Valley for a couple of decades. But the focus and nature of the crimes have changed dramatically. When the Department of Justice set up a computer-crimes unit in September 1991, it was intended...
But others felt the contents of the magazine were too esoteric for the general reader.
A native New Yorker, Gewanter studied writing and literature at Madison and Berkeley. His own college projects tended towards the esoteric, including a one-act drama starring a deconstructionist who is charged with writing a bomb threat. (The gist of the excessively postmodern plot is derived from Foucault's "What...
The controversy over a defect in Intel Corp.'s popular Pentium microchip heated up as scientists and engineers accused the company of being too casual in its response to the problem. According to a Nov. 7 article in the Electrical Engineering Times, the flaw in the chip can cause computers...
Star Trek has always had its literary pretensions; allusions to Shakespeare abound, and it has often been compared to The Odyssey. "There was something heroic and epic to the underlying themes," says Patrick Stewart, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. "In terms of its ambition, the stage on which...