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...Then there's games. Many will see the iPad chiefly as a gaming platform. Michel Guillemot - founder of Gameloft, one of the most successful developers for the iPhone - is even more passionate about the iPad than Makinson and Futhey are. "I see this as the fourth step of the games evolution," he told me. "First the microcomputer, then the dedicated console, next the smart phone and now the iPad. What do you think?" "I'll let you know," I say, "when I've actually played with...
...fast; hold your horses: one of the most extraordinary pages in America's corporate history was about to be written. Apple's "mercurial" co-founder Steve Jobs (people like Jobs always find themselves tagged with words like that) was fired from his own company just a year after the Mac's release. In exile he created Pixar Animation Studios and the NeXT computer. His return to Apple in 1997, after it purchased NeXT, is now the stuff of legend. In the design department, Jobs saw the work of a young Briton called Jonathan Ive and asked for a meeting...
Schoolwork didn’t seem to be in anyone’s mind last Saturday. Kimble M. McCraw, a second year student at Harvard Business School and a member of the committee that brought FIRST to Boston five years ago, said, “Dean Kamen [founder and inventor of the Segway] always calls it the ‘Superbowl of Smarts.’ This is kind of like high school football for the math and science people of the world.” As pop music blasted and giant screens glowed, the crowd chanted and practiced...
Launched in February, the Web site provides real-time updates on eight Boston-area clubs. Kayvan Zainabadi, the founder of InstantNightlife who received his Ph.D. in biology from MIT in 2009, said he’s been frequenting clubs in L.A. and Boston since...
...author of three books and an organizational sociologist by training, Khurana conducts research on corporate leadership and teaches a doctoral seminar on management and corporate governance. Along with his wife Stephanie, a former co-founder and CEO of technology company Surebridge, Khurana will bring his three children—Sonia, Nalini, and Jai, who are 13, 11, and 7 years old, respectively—to Cabot House...