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...commercialization of research, in other words, is far more about prospecting than alchemy. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences last year published a report prepared by the National Research Council's Computer Science and Telecommunications Board. It tracked the evolution of computer and telecommunications technologies from conception in the lab to the point where they had become $1 billion industries. In almost every case, the development took about 20 years. And that trend does not apply only to computers. Disk brakes, which we take for granted, were introduced by British inventor Frederick William Lanchester in 1901. They didn't appear...
APPLICATIONS: Retailers could lure shoppers with interactive window displays. Airports might offer visually aided instructions and directions throughout terminals. In a lab or office, collaborators might use it like a high-tech dry-erase board that displays Excel spreadsheets and other interactive material...
...Economics concentrator declares. “For finance jobs, all OCS does is e-mail contacts to a bunch of major banks, so you are lumped in with every other Harvard student.” Phil Santiago ’04, an alum now working as a lab technician at MIT, discussed his perceptions of OCS. “I don’t even think I went to Career Week. It was too one track—mostly for people interested in finance and economics. In fields like science, you have to do it yourself...
...soon became a full-time employee at the lab, allowing her to pursue work on her own personal project...
...Heymach] was at the lab a lot, so I suppose I could have just missed him,” Robbins says...