Word: putnams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creators are focusing on fresher paranoias: Gibson's new novel, Idoru (Putnam), due in September, is a ghost story of sorts. And a second September book, Holy Fire (Bantam), by Bruce Sterling, another godfather of cyberpunk, is about intergenerational war. It's set 100 years in the future, in an age ruled by a wealthy centenarian gerontocracy whose disenfranchised children are readying a revolution based on the terrifying new cognitive landscapes offered by man-computer interfaces...
Kedlaya, a math and physics concentrator, already has three journal publications to his credit, in subjects ranging from number theory to combinatorics, and another publication is pending. For the past three years, he has placed among the top five in the William Lowell Putnam competition--a grueling day-long national exam in which contestants must answer twelve questions in six hours. Out of a maximum score of 120, the mode score for the exam is 0, the median...
...call interrupts the interview. It's someone from the Math department telling Kedlaya that a $1,500 prize check is waiting for him at the math office from the Putnam competition. Apparently, being good at math can be profitable as well...
Please advise Justin C. Danilewitz '99 that Professor Robert D. Putnam has not published "the influential book, Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital" as was printed in his front page article (April...
Professor Putnam's article "Bowling Alone" has been published once in the Journal of Democracy, and a second time in The Responsive Community. Professor Putnam is currently engaged in a research project on social capital, and expects the book version of "Bowling Alone" to be published in 1997. --Louise Kennedy Administrative Assistant for Robert D. Putnam...