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...warm weather and proximity to Silicon Valley, has been Harvard's electronic bugbear, threatening to draw away students with promises of high technology and easy access to venture capital. Stanford has promoted technology (and especially the commercialization thereof) as its specific forte, and the recent appointment of computer scientist and provost John L. Hennessy as its next president was widely seen as an effort to capitalize on this reputation...
...Impressions like these can be lethal--especially for a white, male, middle-aged computer scientist trying to come across as sensitive to women's issues...
...then that her cousin developed juvenile-onset diabetes. And Manson's mother was a medical social worker and her father was a scientist, Medicine and science were frequent topics of discussion around the house...
...Kissinger wrote the thesis under the direction of eminent political scientist William Yandell Elliott...
...implications are so sweeping that they have smart people talking in ways that seem to be ripped from the pages of Isaac Asimov. Sun Microsystems' chief scientist, Bill Joy, recently said that in the future, virtually all inanimate objects--from front doors to light bulbs--will have a wireless Internet hookup. What does that mean for you? One day, when your dishwasher breaks down, the appliance will alert you via your cell phone or PDA. It may even call the repairman...