Word: menlo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Navigator, introduced last year by Etak, a Menlo Park, Calif., company, is an electronic road map that calculates position by means of dead reckoning. Data from a solid-state compass installed in the vehicle's roof and from sensors mounted on its wheels are processed by a computer in the trunk and displayed on a dashboard screen. The car's position is represented as a fixed triangle; the map, showing a web of streets and avenues, scrolls down as the car moves forward and rotates sideways when it turns...
Vanderbilt's Alternative Spring Break is simply one rustling of a new spirit of volunteerism blowing across campuses. In California, 40 Stanford volunteers took time out two weekends ago to paint an elementary school gym in East Menlo Park. In Boston, Wellesley undergrads tend to homeless women every night at Rosie's Place, a local shelter. At Northwestern in Evanston, Ill., volunteers have started an "adopt a grandparent" program to aid the elderly. Students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor help low-income people with tax returns...
Much smaller U.S. operators are also reaching for the skies. Robert Truax, a former Navy engineer, built a rocket in his Saratoga, Calif., backyard four years ago, and hopes to be the first private businessman to launch commercial cargo into space, possibly from Cape Canaveral. Entrepreneur George Koopman's Menlo Park, Calif., firm, American Rocket, is conducting flight tests at Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California. Like Truax, Koopman says the hardest part about starting a space-transport firm is raising enough money. Says he: "I'm still out there beating the bushes for funds...
...unique eyeglasses were unveiled this month by Beta Phase, a Menlo Park, Calif., producer of the metal, and Universal Optical, the frame's distributor. The frames, which revert to their original shape at about 130 degreesF, will be available early next year in the same $80-to-$130 price range as conventional high-quality eyewear...
...straightforward as "Give me the top five salesmen in Pennsylvania." Two innovative firms, Microrim, from Bellevue, Wash., and Artificial Intelligence, from Waltham, Mass., demonstrated programs that allow people to search for information in large mainframe computer data banks by posing questions in ordinary English. A new firm called Menlo, based in the Silicon Valley, unveiled In-Search, which allows callers to tap into Lockheed's huge Dialog bibliographic data base without the usual two-day training seminar...