Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...century had its share of great thinkers. Einstein, most notably, was the greatest theorist since Newton, whose universe he overthrew. Einstein's ideas led to making the 20th a century of physics, one marked by manipulations of subatomic particles in ways that produced everything from atom bombs to silicon chips...
...fibers in an Oriental rug. To everyone's astonishment, the gifted young man from Grinnell, Iowa--a minister's son--achieved that goal in a decade. His integrated circuit, or microchip, not only helped rename an orchard-filled California valley but also led to a seemingly endless harvest of silicon devices, from PCs to coffeemakers...
...Economic Espionage Act, only 13 criminal cases have gone to indictment. In December two men were sentenced for scheming to sell Intel prototype microchips to rival Cyrix, and most recently a California man, David Kern, was charged with stealing engineering secrets from his former employer, Varian Associates, a leading Silicon Valley maker of radiotherapy systems used to treat cancer. For more than a year, a federal grand jury has reportedly been looking into whether a subsidiary of financial-information giant Reuters was involved in an attempt to steal data from rival Bloomberg (Reuters says it is cooperating and denies...
...barriers to Internet access are geographic. The online population is still largely well educated, pale skinned and upper-middle income--a point the Rev. Jesse Jackson reinforced in recent speeches to Silicon Valley leaders. Whites are twice as likely as blacks to own a computer and three times as likely to be plugged into the Internet...
...obtain software and computer services. TIME magazine Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says that this is believed to be "the largest charitable donation by any individual. The donations are a testament not only to Microsoft's huge success, but also to the incredible wealth that is being made across Silicon Valley." Of course, notes Kadlec, "the man is worth over $70 billion. He can afford...