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...engineer to try to solve "the chip problem" out of a makeshift laboratory in the living room of his three- bedroom house in Reseda, Calif. He used all his $10,000 savings before he finally figured out a method to mount a series of tiny computer components on a silicon chip. "I had setbacks, but I never had any doubts," he recalls. "When the inventive drive comes, you have to follow it." Despite his continuing research and perseverance, Hyatt earned less than $40,000 last year as an aerospace consultant. "I'm struggling to make my next mortgage payment...
...stereo sound, and a pair of liquid-crystal-display screens creates stereoscopic images that give the illusion of three dimensions. Both glove and headset are equipped with electromagnetic sensors that track changes in position and orientation. For computer power, the equipment is linked by cable to a pair of Silicon Graphics IRIS workstations -- one for each eye -- capable of creating up to 30 color images a second...
...system has been on the market for little more than a year, and its cost (about $225,000) puts it beyond the reach of nearly all consumers. But virtual reality has already attracted a cult following in and around California's Silicon Valley. Enthusiasts are convinced that today's EyePhones are the forerunners of systems that will transform the way Americans work and play. They have visions of workers stepping into electronic suits to "commute" to virtual offices, surgeons honing their technique on virtual patients, honeymooners frolicking on virtual Caribbean vacations, astronauts exploring virtual planets by remote control...
Asians fill the professions and the universities. Already Asia has replaced Europe as the leading foreign source of U.S. engineers, doctors and technical workers. The 400 Silicon Valley electronics firms owned by Asian Americans last year earned revenues of $2.5 billion. From 1975 to 1985, the number of full-time Asian faculty members in colleges throughout the U.S. nearly doubled, to 19,000. Asians make up 10% of California's population but 12.2% of the state's university enrollment. At the University of California's Berkeley campus, the proportion is 20.8%. In February the University of California named Chang...
...vulnerability of all computer systems was underscored last week by separate court proceedings in California and New York. In San Jose three Silicon Valley workers were indicted for a range of computer crimes, including, for perhaps the first time, taking classified military information from Government computers. The next day a Cornell University graduate student made the first public explanation of how the rogue program he released into a research network in November 1988 managed to cripple some 6,000 university and military computers. "It was a mistake," Robert Morris said at his federal trial in Syracuse. "I'm sorry...