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...Heat was turned on in all first-year dorms at 12 a.m. on Jan. 2, according to Tom F. MacCurtain, a University Operations Services (UOS) supervisor...
...heat was barely on the morning of January 2, then it was suddenly turned off, and it didn't come back on for awhile," said David J. Kim '01, a resident of Wigglesworth Hall. Kim said he has been wearing his winter jacket indoors to keep warm...
...midst of a benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got hotter, like a grad student sweating his orals. The heat came from vacuum tubes, which acted as giant on-off switches, holding and releasing electrical charges. (A central "computer" tallied up all the on-off signals as ones and zeroes, and translated the results into real mathematics.) But the tubes, which sucked up huge amounts of energy, represented a limit...
...mentor as CEO of Intel) believed you could store those charges with an integrated circuit made by sandwiching metal oxide and silicon into an electrical circuit called an MOS transistor. Unlike trickier semiconductors, silicon is both a wonderful conductor of electrical charges and a nearly bottomless sink for heat, meaning it doesn't melt down as you push electrons under its surface at nearly light speed. Because it is made from refined sand, silicon is abundant as the earth...
...sought out Michael Dell, the 32-year-old founder of Dell Computers, to find out if there was any hope for us content folks. Surely he would know: his company sells an astonishing $3 million worth of PCs over the Web every day. "We've had days in the heat of Christmas rush that hit $6 million," he says, without a hint of shame. He estimates his $12 billion company will sell $1 billion worth of machines over the Net by year's end, half of them to home users...