Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard used the 1992 grant to fund sophomores working in labs over the summer, establish the new neuroscience classes NCB117 and NCB116 and purchase silicon-graphic machines for Chem...
...underneath the silicon respectability resides a seedy underworld. And prim and proper Harvard has given all of us a free ride...
Suddenly everybody's looking for a way to cash in on Mosaic's popularity, including Andreessen. In April he teamed up with Jim Clark, former chairman of Silicon Graphics, and started a new company called Mosaic Communications. Clark and Andreessen lured all but one of the original Mosaic team to Silicon Valley for some intense programming sessions. Last week they unveiled the first result: called Mosaic NetScape, it is faster and slicker, and it allows users to pass sensitive information such as credit-card numbers safely over the network...
Researchers in France have developed an electronic transistor that contains no metallic parts. Instead they used paper-printing technology to assemble very thin layers of plastic that mimic the properties of silicon chips. Because plastic is so much more flexible than metal, the devices could theoretically be used to create such futuristic items as video screens that roll up like window shades or bendable computers the size of credit cards...
...transformed from bank-clerk dweeb to zoot-suited superdude, genially terrorizing Edge City and winning the plushly encased heart of a gun moll (Cameron Diaz). The computer wizards at Industrial Light & Magic help alchemize this ragged film into a megamorphic extravaganza. But Carrey doesn't need any cybernetics or silicon to rubberize his limbs. He is his own best special effect, the first star who is a live-action toon...