Word: silicon
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...that a company in a growth crisis can be as fascinating as one that's just plain in crisis. But Hewlett-Packard is doing its best to remind us. The personalities driving HP's long-running and very public merger debate are larger than life, and the whole of Silicon Valley is riveted by the story. Which, if you haven't been paying attention, goes like this: CEO Carly Fiorina wants a $25 billion marriage with Compaq--the largest tech merger ever--to avoid being squeezed between Dell (the personal-computer giant) and IBM (a leader in tech services...
Summers also mentioned what is becoming an increasingly prevalent theme in his speeches—his vision for Boston as a new Silicon Valley for biomedical research. Summers said he sees Harvard as the driving force behind this development, mirroring the role Stanford played in the California boom...
...addition to his expertise in political science, Dawson worked as an engineer and programmer for nine years in Silicon Valley...
Remember when computers used to be cool? Deep inside One Infinite Loop, the Silicon Valley address of Apple Computer's Industrial Design Lab, they still are. Never mind that the Valley is a grim place these days and that the gold rush has given way to the deep funk. Forget that the Internet bubble has burst, and that Ma and Pa investors across America are wearing a what-were-we-thinking? grimace of fiscal remorse. Right here, right now, sitting on a butcher-block table, bathed in the sunlight that pours in through spyproof frosted-glass windows, is--repeat after...
...Harvard is increasingly recognizing its obligation to the broader community,” Summers said then. “I am convinced that the next Silicon Valley, with all that it means and all that it brings, will happen in the biomedical area. . . . I believe that can be, should be, and will be here in the Boston area...