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Instead, Montgomery has been busy answering questions from frantic computer users about the Michelangelo virus, a destructive computer program designed to attack IBM personal computers on the anniversary of the artist's birthday today...
...become the fourth most respected brand name in the U.S., according to a recent poll of 2,000 people, ranked just behind the Disney parks, Kodak and Mercedes-Benz and ahead of Rolex, Levi's, IBM and AT&T. (ABC, NBC and CBS were not offered by the opinion seekers.) As a source of knowledge in turbulent times, CNN may be without peer. "Ted Turner is probably the pre- eminent publisher in America today, maybe in the world," says Don Hewitt, founding producer of 60 Minutes on CBS. "When there was a disaster, it used to be that people went...
...only a few atoms wide. At very short distances, electrons can traverse the gap between the tip and the surface, a phenomenon known as tunneling. This generates a tiny current that can be used to move atoms and molecules around with pinpoint precision. Thus last year physicists from IBM's Almaden Research Center manipulated 35 xenon atoms on a nickel surface to spell out their company's logo. They have also fashioned seven atoms into a minuscule beaker in which they can observe chemical reactions at an atomic level, and they devised a working version of a single-atom electronic...
Such marvels, of course, will not materialize overnight. Cautions IBM physicist Donald Eigler: "The single-atom switch looks small until you realize it took a whole roomful of equipment to make it work." Still, computer chips the size of bacteria and motors as small as molecules of myosin are rapidly moving out of the world of fantasy and into the realm of possibility. "For years, scientists have been taking atoms and molecules apart in order to understand them," says futurist K. Eric Drexler, president of the Foresight Institute in Palo Alto, Calif. "Now it's time to start figuring...
...latest wave of cutbacks follows similar steps by IBM, Citicorp and Kodak. Wall Street usually hails such moves, since they help shore up corporate profits. But economists worry that the deterioration in the job market will compound the recession by making consumers too nervous to shop...