Word: ibm
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...maverick. In his seminal book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, he advocates a self-motivated approach to education that gives as much importance to the lessons learned in computer play as those drilled home in textbooks. He has received funding in the past from the National Science Foundation, IBM and Lego Systems...
They are among the most famous initials in the world, found almost anywhere computers are used. But last week the letters IBM appeared in the pages of the British science journal Nature in an unprecedented form. Two IBM researchers, in a scientific and marketing tour de force, had spelled out their corporate emblem by dragging atoms across a crystal of nickel one at a time. The result: the world's smallest corporate logo, measuring 660 billionths of an inch long...
...Design in Brooklyn in 1978, has traded in his old technical pens for the zip and click of an electronic mouse and a computer screen. To create or alter an illustration or to add color, he simply taps commands into the keyboards of his sophisticated Macintosh and IBM machines. Says Lertola, a science-fiction buff: "With so many computers, I sometimes feel as if I'm operating a spaceship...
...people get that once-in-a-lifetime chance to study the sex life of the Siberian dwarf hamster; fewer still would deem it a privilege to pay a bundle for the opportunity. Yet that was the choice of Laura Farnsworth, an IBM marketing representative from Dallas, who shelled out $2,400 plus air fare last summer to spend three weeks trudging from dusk till dawn in the harsh steppes of Soviet Asia. Supervised by biologist Katherine Wynne-Edwards, Farnsworth, along with other similarly hardy amateurs, not only saw a remote part of the Soviet Union but also had the satisfaction...
...nearly 100 that turned up in Tuscaloosa, Ala. They totaled in the tens of thousands of dollars, and all were tracked down to one place: a private home in Vicksburg, Miss. There, police discovered a trove of high-tech gear that included a document scanner, a laser printer, an IBM-compatible computer and a disk filled with digitized checks, drivers' licenses and department store IDs. "The guy could copy anything he wanted," says Detective Reggie McCann of the Jackson, Miss., police. "It blew our minds...