Word: graphics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...technology is able to drastically boost performance primarily because MMX has 57 new instruction sets. (CS 50 flashbacks anyone?) This allows the processor to handle more graphic-intensive tasks simultaneaously. In addition, even newer chips have more cache than current Pentiums, enabling the computer to anticipate where programs should be loaded milliseconds in advance...
...effects will be noticed heavily in sound, graphics and video-intensive applications. Because of the chip's increased instruction-set capacity, video and 3D surround sound will be noticeably smoother. This is good news for all you Quake junkies and graphic artists...
...courtyard of the Fogg Museum on Thursday night was an unlikely star: the sickle and hammer of the demised Soviet state. More than three feet high, the ice sculpture heralded the opening of the Harvard Art Museums' newest exhibit, suitably titled in appreciative language, "Building the Collective: Soviet Graphic Design...
...thousand of the finalists receive $2000 scholarships from the National Merit Scholarship Corporation, and many more received money from the nearly 200 sponsoring colleges and universities and about 340 businesses and foundations. 1996 National Merit Scholars Harvard has 92 more Scholars than next best Graphic: Rebecca T. Brown University Number Scholars Number Sponsored 1. Harvard U. 391 0 2. U. Texas, Austin 299 233 3. Rice U. 204 138 4. Stanford U. 184 0 5. Texas A&M U. 183 141 6. U. Florida 177 162 7. Yale U. 165 0 8. lowa State U. 154 134 9. U. Oklahoma...
...point of view, took hold in a widening variety of activities and businesses. (The trend was initially detected by such different observers as Harvard professor Robert Putnam, who called it bowling alone, and Faith Popcorn, who called it cocooning.) Book publishing was done at home, as well as graphic design, data analysis, all forms of consulting and repair services. The necessity of intermediaries was further removed in such areas as shopping, banking and real estate. Independent rock-'n'-roll record producers competed from their home offices with big-label corporations. People were encouraged to distance themselves from other people...