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...small hole in the patient's skull and insert a piston so that its base rests on the brain's outer casing. Built into the piston is a miniature induction tuner. If pressure inside the cranium increases, it pushes the piston up a fraction of an inch, thus transmitting a signal to the telemetry receiver at the patient's bedside...
...which has five major centers of video activity: the film section of the humanities department, the political sciences department, the Center for Advanced Video, the libraries, and the Center for Advanced Engineering Studies (CAES). CAES has taken the lead in encouraging M I T video: it's two-inch broadcast equipment, used for the continuing education of engineers, attracted two major video grants. Following the grants, a good deal of student interest developed, and CAES developed procedures for students and faculty to submit video project proposals for approval and funding...
...CAES has two-inch, 3/4 inch, and half-inch production equipment, studio, and cable systems available free to M I T individual producers, student production groups (such as Basement Video, and the Video Club), students in classes, and cross-registrants from other schools. A group of student producers broadcasts seven hours of cable programming a day, consisting of student and faculty projects, as well as lectures and programs picked up from other cable stations such as Harvard and Tufts. M I T theses can now be done in video, and three have thus far been completed...
...industry calls home. Packed into a 10-mile by 25-mile wedge along the southwestern shore of San Francisco Bay are hundreds of the nation's high-technology firms, many of them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with names like Siliconix Inc., Synertek, Advanced Micro Devices, Signetica, and Intel Corp. Enveloped in their mystifying jargon of RAMS and ROMS and bits and bytes...
Unveiled in 1971, the one-chip CPU - or microprocessor - contained 2,250 transistors in an area barely a sixth of an inch long and an eighth of an inch wide. In computational power, the micro processor almost matched the monstrous ENIAC - the first fully electronic computer, completed in 1946 - and performed as well as an early 1960s IBM machine that cost $30,000 and required a CPU that alone was the size of a large desk. On his office wall, Hoff still displays Intel's original advertisement: "Announcing a new era of integrated electronics ... a microprogrammable computer...