Word: jaron
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...Jaron M. Abbott '02, who is currently in theclass, says he read a lot of mathematics books inthe high school and came to Harvard withessentially the equivalent of an undergraduatemath education at a typical college...
Columbia (2-2, 1-0 Ivy): Columbia narrowly lost to Lehigh Saturday 20-19 on a Jaron Taafe 47-yard goal that barely flew over the crossbar. Columbia had been ahead 19-17 since the end of the third quarter on Kirby Mack's one-yard touchdown run, but junior placekicker Kirby Mack hit the right post on the point-after. The Lions set a team defensive record holding the Engineers to 30 rushing yards on 19 carries. Captain free safety Chris Tillotson led the Lion defenders with nine tackles and two fumble recoveries...
...with the countercultural roots of the '60s. One would hardly call Nicholas Negroponte, the patrician head of M.I.T.'s Media Lab, or Microsoft magnate Bill Gates ``hippies.'' Yet creative forces continue to emanate from that period. Virtual reality -- computerized sensory immersion -- was named, largely inspired and partly equipped by Jaron Lanier, who grew up under a geodesic dome in New Mexico, once played clarinet in the New York City subway and still sports dreadlocks halfway down his back. The latest generation of supercomputers, utilizing massive parallel processing, was invented, developed and manufactured by Danny Hillis, a genial longhair...
With shoulder-length red dreadlocks and an intense gaze, Jaron Lanier is a striking presence, even in the strange universe of performance art. But then he does nothing so routine as, say, recite sonnets while cartwheeling nude across a stage. Lanier is a virtual-reality performance artist. In his piece, The Sound of One Hand, which has played to packed theaters in Chicago, Toronto and Linz, Austria, he appears onstage framed by the image of a virtual world he enters when he dons special goggles and a DataGlove. His audience sees what he sees -- and what he does, which...
Contrary to Jaron Bourke's assertions ("Search Needs Student Input," October 24, 1990), Harvard does not have to measure up to the standards of any other school in selecting its president. It has a long tradition of distinguished presidents who have guided it to its current position as a world leader in higher education. The search committee has the same stake as every other group in the University in choosing an imaginative, dedicated and competent president to prepare Harvard for the new millenium...