Word: silicon
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...recent years, much of higher education's focus has turned to technology, as emphasized by the recent selection of Silicon Valley entrepreneur John L. Hennessy as Stanford's next president. Rudenstine's successor may well lean towards fields of science and technology...
...Silicon-chip warfare takes smarter, smaller weapons--the type that debuted in the Gulf War--and weaves them into an unprecedented net of knowledge about the enemy's whereabouts. These data may do more to change the face of war than any new weapons--so long as G.I.s don't drown in them. Gleaning information on the enemy's whereabouts remains challenging, which is why the Army is striving instead to track, on computers, the location of the good guys. If a unit in the valley below doesn't show up on your screen as a "friendly," you're free...
...heading into the second, or growth, quarter, when hot new industries appear, much as semiconductors and software did in the second quarter of the info economy. Thus biotech will pave the way for the bioec era. During the next two decades, organic biotech will overlap with inorganic silicon infotech and inorganic composite materials and nanotechnologies...
...Paris cosmetics maker L'Oreal shut down its e-mail servers, as did businesses throughout the Continent. As much as 70% of the computers in Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden were laid low. The companies affected made up a Who's Who of industry and finance, including Ford, Siemens, Silicon Graphics and Fidelity Investments. Even Microsoft, whose software was the Love Bug's special target, got so badly battered that it finally severed outside e-mail links at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters...
UCITA covers contracts for "computer information," a neologism that masks conceptual chaos, including software, on-line access services and content, books and databases on CD-ROM, and even the digital information on silicon chips in your car or oven...