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Walter B. Hewlett '66, the son of the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company and a former Dunster House resident, donated a computer system and a fax machine to the house for its new computer facility, said Barbara Williams, Hewlett Packard's Equipment Gift Coordinator...
...markers will be situated on Harvard buildings, the officials said. One will mark the home of former Harvard rowing coach Aaron M. Hewlett...
...Random House; 312 pages; $18.95), instill a sense of trust that encourages everyone to pull together. Bad companies, which Levering says are far more common, undermine trust by manipulating workers and treating them as interchangeable parts. Based largely on interviews with executives of 20 widely admired companies such as Hewlett-Packard and Delta Air Lines, this feisty book includes a potshot-filled critique of leading U.S. management gurus...
...professional timekeepers of the world determine, to the precise nanosecond, when a new year begins? They simply consult an atomic clock. And last week, just in time to ring in the new, the Hewlett-Packard Co., of Palo Alto, Calif., unveiled the latest in these meticulous timepieces. Twice as accurate as earlier models, the $54,000 device -- the size of a desktop computer -- will remain reliable to the second for the next 1.6 million years, a period far longer than modern humans have existed...
Theoretically, an atomic clock could keep perfect time; the actual performance, though, depends on the electronics and such engineering details as how the microwaves hit the cesium atoms. Hewlett-Packard will doubtless come up with other refinements, but for now losing a second every 1 1/2 million years will have...