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Morgan was surprised, then agitated, to discover that many of Atari's senior executives who were working to develop and sell personal computers had no use for them in their own homes. Admits Marcian E. Hoff Jr., Atari's executive vice president for product development: "I don't use a computer for home finances, and I don't know anyone who does...
Besides Stewart, who is a professor at the Law School, the two other new faculty members are Kate Rooney, associate dean for administration at the Graduate School of Design, and Milton C. Weinstein, professor of Policy and Decision at the School of Public Health. proved as well: Edward Hoff, a first-year Business School student, and Claude Convisser...
Kennedy's team of White House men, according to Historian Joan Hoff-Wilson, began the pattern in which Congress and the federal bureaucracies became adversaries of the White House rather than partners. "That kind of privatization and centralization of power in and around the White House clearly begins with Kennedy," says Hoff-Wilson. For men who put such a premium on brains and information, the elite around Kennedy sometimes seemed either exceptionally naive (about the Bay of Pigs, for example) or ignorant (about Vietnamese history and culture). Some of the same men stayed on with Johnson, and presided over...
...silicon, the chips performed only the duties for which they were designed. They were "hardwired," as engineers say. That changed dramatically in 1971, when Intel Corp., a Silicon Valley company founded by Noyce after yet another "defection," unveiled the microprocessor. Designed by a young Intel engineer named Ted Hoff, it contained the entire central processing unit (CPU) of a simple computer on one chip. It was Babbage's mighty mill in microcosm...
...residents fled San Jacinto when the flood-swollen river that runs through town burst its levees. Said Jane Hoff of the town officials' warning to leave: "They came through with a fire truck and a loudspeaker. I was scared to death." In Palm Springs, levees burst along the Palm Canyon Wash and 1,000 people were sent to evacuation centers. Governor Jerry Brown sent 100 National Guardsmen to prevent looting...