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...officer was dispatched to Gund Hall to take a report of a stolen unattended and unsecured black and gray Swiss Army backpack valued at $75 that contained an IBM laptop computer valued at $1,800, a personal response device valued at $40, and a pair of Oakley sunglasses valued...
...hardly surprising that commencement has long served as a soapbox for statesmen, academics and the occasional man (or woman) of letters; corporate titans have been consciously excluded—including from the list of honorary degree recipients. Since 1950, the only corporate leader to address departing graduates has been IBM president Thomas Watson Jr. in 1981. In light of this, Gates’ selection is somewhat of an anomaly...
...taken advantage of the offer. (At Shiseido's Tokyo head office 1,780 of the 3,300 employees are men, but the firm doesn't keep a tally of how many are fathers). Other companies are offering similarly progressive programs that would once have been unthinkable in Asia. At IBM in Singapore, 70% of the 3,000 mostly male employees regularly participate in the firm's "mobility program," which lets them work from home as long as they can be contacted via e-mail or phone. In addition, fathers are allowed to work 22 half-days in every six months...
...officer was dispatched to the Baker Library to take a report of a stolen unattended and unsecured black IBM Thinkpad laptop computer valued...
Before computing pioneer John Backus and his team at IBM developed Fortran, the first widely used programming language, in the 1950s, computers had to be "hand coded" in wonky strings of digits in order to perform basic functions. Backus' invention allowed programmers to enter human-friendly instructions that computers would then translate on their own. The unprecedented "high level" system, which Backus said was inspired by "being lazy," paved the way for modern software...