Word: scientists
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...depressed. For the latter, officials are trying to speed up a successful shift from heavy industry to a finance and service economy. "Chicago has known for 25 years that its future was not going to be based on steel mills or stockyards," says Louis Masotti, a Northwestern University political scientist. "What is happening is a realignment of priorities and of purpose...
Lisa, of course, did not spring full blown from the mind of Jobs. Primitive hand controllers have been used with computers for nearly two decades, ever since Stanford Research Institute Scientist Douglas Engelbart built a scurrying table-top gadget in the mid-'60s nicknamed "the mouse." In the early 1970s, researchers at Xerox began improving on Engelbart's design, and soon after, computer experts at the company's Palo Alto research center began using a mouse in a computer language they called Smalltalk. By pointing and pressing buttons, they could send messages to and from objects...
KONNER'S lucid style is easy to understand even when he ranges into a discussion of nerve cell structure or hormone levels in the blood. It is refreshing to hear from a scientist who can convey so many wide-ranging concepts, and many of them are not that simple so clearly and, at times humorously. In his discussion of the roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line...
Legions of scholars yesterday paid tribute to the late George B. Kistinkowsky, the renowned Harvard scientist who helped design the first atomic bomb and then spent much of his career opposing nuclear proliferation...
...brief emotional tributes and at a such sequent 17 Quincy St gathering colleagues and friends remembered Kistiakowsky as a brilliant scientist with deep concern over the dangers of nuclear weapons...