Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...company was "a minefield of personal intrigue and corporate politics," according to newly named Atari President John Farrand. Concurs Atari's top scientist, Alan Kay: "For a while, the company was playing 'Ha, ha, your end of the boat is sinking.' " But when the bad news became clear last fall, it turned out that everyone was in the same boat...
Kleckner has worked in genetic research since the early 1970s, and members of the department praise her groundbreaking contributions--especially in the field of bacterial transposons, where she is considered a leading scientist...
...people around his house. Bonassoli, who left Villegas's employ in 1979 after a falling-out over money, reported that he is still perfecting the oil-detection device. But, says he, "I won't work with the French again. They mix science and politics. I am a scientist; politics does not interest...
Harvard is not the only school to suffer from such constraints. Brown University boasts 60 to 70 graduating computer scientist per year and Katrina H. Avery '61 manager of the school's computer science department, says the 13 professors (five tenured) and 35 course in not enough. With the growing interest in specializing just learning a little bit about computers. "It's a zoo around here ," she says. "We have 800 students pre-registered for a course that will admit 150. Every undergraduate wants in take Computer Science...
...Faculty's concern for overemphasizing "state-of-the-art education." To combat the tendency to teach students only current and soon-to-become obsolete computer technique, the Faculty designed a less specific curriculum using broader theoretical categories of approach, and added the so-called breatdth requirement, forcing budding computer scientist to take courses that are not computer-oriented...