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...really who in Bronson's book? At the heart of the new machine is a revolutionary computer language called the "hypnotizer," the brainchild of an archetypal "pear-shaped" geek named Tiny Curtis Reese. He bears an uncanny resemblance to James Gosling, the pear-shaped Sun Microsystems programmer who created Java, the computer lingua franca of the Internet...
...Like Java, which knocked around Sun for years before it emerged to transform the computer industry, the hypnotizer and VWPC have their share of detractors. One of them is Hank Menzinger, the hapless president of La Honda, who dismisses the VWPC as unworthy until the concept catches on, and then steps forward to claim credit. He sounds a lot like Eric Schmidt, Sun's chief technology officer, who thought the Web was such a waste of time he once threatened to charge employees $50 apiece for their Web browsers, but in the end took credit for Java...
...nation-high average of about $70,000. A torrid area: computer artists and animators for Hollywood films along the lines of Twister and Toy Story; they can easily earn $80,000 or more a year. Also topping the most-wanted lists are programmers skilled in cutting-edge languages like Java, who can command $70,000 a year to start...
...seemed. According to research published last week in the journal Science, Homo erectus may not have gone so quietly into that good night. On the Indonesian island of Java, it now appears, a small group of hangers-on may have lived as recently as 27,000 years ago, thriving in a world that Homo sapiens had long before claimed...
...fossil hunters studying evolution, Java has always been a good place to dig. Its equatorial climate makes it home to countless species, and periodic land bridges placed it in the middle of the migratory autobahn between Asia and Australia, making it the perfect spot to study how animals spread. Since the 1890s, numerous fossils of Homo erectus have been found on the island, but scientists were particularly intrigued by more than a dozen partial skulls found near the villages of Ngandong and Sambungmacan in the 1930s and 1970s. The skulls had unusually large braincases, and so were estimated...