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...certainly wasn't alone in this. Many of my contemporaries at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and M.I.T.'s Lincoln Laboratory in the '70s and '80s can tell similar stories. My point is not to boast about our exploits but to point out that most of what passes for new at any given time has in fact been around for quite a while. Or, to steal a line from the science-fiction writer William Gibson, "The future is already here. It is just not uniformly distributed...
Mark E. Zuckerberg ’06-’07 said he has spent the summer in Palo Alto, Calif., with collaborators working on a new website called Wirehog, a file-sharing site that will be integrated with thefacebook.com. He said he hopes to launch the new site on Aug. 25, although it may be delayed until the first week of September...
...nation's biomedical research capacity and one-third of its biotech companies. The bond initiative, if it passes, would pay to build 12 to 15 new stem-cell research centers, a massive magnet for scientific talent. "California will be the center of stem-cell research for the world," predicts Palo Alto real estate developer Robert Klein, co-chairman of the initiative campaign. Klein, who has contributed $1.4 million of his money toward the effort, touts the economic benefits, forecasting $70 million in tax revenues from new jobs even before any cures are discovered. And if cures are found, the profits...
...unlike the heckling which was to come at Stanford, the Crimson enjoyed a relatively mellow time at Berkeley. The matches were played on six courts which lay next to each other, unlike the next day at Palo Alto, where the matches were split into groups of three...
...Norma, 77, says of their experience. "We brought one suitcase and stayed in a horse stable, where we used hay as our mattress," she says. After their release, Setsuo went on to study at Harvard and had a long career as an electrical engineer. To move to the new Palo Alto residence, the Dairikis are giving up a nearby 6,000-sq.-ft. home with an indoor swimming pool. "All these years later, we're happy to be back at Stanford to retire comfortably here...