Word: rubins
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...conference, the company showed off, for the first time, a generic cell phone running the operating system. Touch sensitive, with an onboard, motion-sensing accelerometer that can also place a user precisely on a Google satellite map, the device resembles nothing so much as an iPhone. Android, explains Andy Rubin, Google's director of mobile platforms, is an open platform for developers à la Facebook; the code is theirs to modify. He says developers have so far written more than 1,800 applications, which could be distributed on a Google site arranged according to popularity, as YouTube is. "There...
...Rubin did not fail—he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the College...
...Robert E. Rubin ’60, who had just arrived at Harvard from a Florida public school, said this week that he worried that he would be among that three percent...
...Rubin, who serves as chairman of Citigroup’s executive committee, said in an interview that his undergraduate experience engrained him with a sense of “restless intellectual inquiry” and trained him to handle the stressful situations he would face later in life—both this year and during his time at Goldman Sachs, which he led in the early 1990s...
...least, Harvard was a stressful time and I think I did develop some internal devices, if you will, for dealing with that stress,” Rubin said by telephone. “I developed an existential view of life...