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...founders conceived the start-up's objective seven years ago--to solve the problem of large-scale, global data transmission on mobile devices--a eucalyptus branch fell outside Phillip Alvelda's Oakland Hills home, where the three sat brainstorming. The tree smashed his hot tub. Alvelda, a physicist, can probably explain the energy wave given off. But he could not necessarily say what triggered him and Paul Scanlan and Jeff Annison to agree that day to combine their expertise in technology, marketing and project management for a start-up, launched in 2003, that now rivals any other outfit in mobile...
...Antras, and Aleh Tsyvinski—were awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship for young scholars. Economics, which could only nominate three faculty members for the two-year, $45,000 award, is home to half of Harvard’s Sloan fellows this year. Two neuroscientists and a physicist round out the Harvard portion of the 116 names on the 2007 Sloan fellow roster. Fryer, an associate professor, couldn’t contain his excitement when asked about the $45,000 sum. “Is that how much it is? Wow. Cool. I still have not gotten over...
...just a way for artisans to construct their art more easily.” British scholar Roger Penrose was the first person to mathematically describe this concept in the Western world in the 1970s. Since then, the mathematical theory has been further refined by Steinhardt and Dov Levine, a physicist at the University of Pennsylvania. The new study—to be published in the upcoming issue of Science—links geometric concepts to Islamic art. The “girih tiles,” Lu and Steinhardt write, describe the Islamic patterns that may have served as models...
...first-time astronaut--like how to puke in space. They debated who would be the first paying customers. The hedge-fund honcho from California? The Internet couple from England? The hot German babe in the bikini? Or the guy from New Zealand who changed his family name to Rocket? Physicist Stephen Hawking, who believes that mankind must colonize space, sent word that he wants in--which would allow him to slip the earthly confines of his wheelchair. One of the royals (Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice?) is a possible passenger, not to mention publicity bonanza. Pilot Alex Tai, Galactic's chief...
DIED. Robert Adler, 93, physicist for Zenith who, with colleague Eugene Polley, invented the first commercially successful wireless TV remote control, sparking the couch-potato revolution; in Boise, Idaho. The tiny, elegant Zenith Space Command, which raised the price of TVs soon after it hit the market in 1956, was a vast improvement on its predecessors--one of which involved a long cord. In 1997 the gadget whose marketers once boasted, "Nothing between you and the TV but space!" won Adler and Polley an Emmy...