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...Mahowald, puzzle creation begins with a theme. This can be as simple as a famous quote that is revealed on the board through solutions to many clues, or as complicated as replacing letter combinations in common idioms, as in his first Sunday crossword entitled “I.E., not I.” When the puzzle called for a “DNA sample for lab analysis” the answer was “GENE IN A BOTTLE...
...Kyle A. Mahowald ’09 is a cruciverbalist who publishes his crosswords in the Times as well as other publications, including the Wall Street Journal. Mahowald’s first Sunday puzzle was published in September 2004; 17 years old at the time, he became the youngest constructor to publish a Sunday Times crossword puzzle. Mahowald remains modest about his achievement. “It was pretty cool. I didn’t know it when I sent it in that I would be the youngest...
After picking a theme and setting the grid, “you start filling the grid with words,” Mahowald says. Even though there are now computer programs that have extensive stores of words and tell the constructor which words can possibly fit, it is still the human touch that separates the ordinary puzzles from the extraordinary ones that are seen in the Times and other respected publications...
...want to make the words as fun and lively as possible,” says Mahowald. While computer programs can generate entire puzzles, they are just not the same. “Puzzles made entirely by computer are boring and come out badly,” he says, adding that “The Crimson crosswords are made by computer.” Zing...
...calendar sharing, is $2.6 billion a year, according to research firm the Radicati Group, based in Palo Alto, Calif. That market is expected to grow to $4.4 billion by 2005. Software vendors are also selling pieces of these collaboration packages as stand-alone products, which IDC's Robert Mahowald says will further expand the market for corporate IM and related applications. "If I am a small company," Mahowald explains, "I can buy only the tools I need instead of the whole...