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...surprisingly, rich private schools such as Dalton in New York City, Lamplighter in Dallas and the Harvard School near Beverly Hills have enough machines to give every student access. And in areas where parents know and care about computers, like California's Silicon Valley or Boston's ring of electronics-oriented suburbs, public schools are using computers in most of the regular curriculum. Ann Arbor, Mich., which has been wired up for more than a decade, has 200 micros in its 26 elementary schools, 50 in its five intermediate schools, and 52 in the three senior high schools...
More than a billion miles away, just beyond Saturn's orbit, the lump of icy debris is only dimly lighted by the sun and distant stars. Even the big Palomar mirror could not have found it without a highly sensitive silicon-chip light detector called a charge-coupled device (CCD), used in place of a photographic plate. When the comet approaches for its hairpin swing around the sun in 1986, solar radiation will boil off volatile material, creating a glowing head and characteristic tail and perhaps another heavenly spectacle...
...idea of giving every Frenchman who wants one his own terminal is part of the Paris government's aggressive push into computers. Convinced that the technology is a key to industrial development in the 1980s and 1990s, the French are investing heavily in the field, building their own Silicon Valleys in Brittany and Lorraine. The Ministry of Industry even had the Académie Française, which is the mighty guardian of the French language, approve a shiny new word to go along with the new hardware: informatique. Some French officials are already worried about new examples...
...even bothering to hire away another company's employees. They simply use the prospect of a job to pump information from eager applicants during interviews. That technique has long been in wide use among the 1,300 or so high-tech firms packed together in 250-sq.-mi. Silicon Valley. William H. Bell, a convicted spy who sold military secrets to a Polish agent, described the approach to a congressional committee in May. Said he: "Within the avionics industry, it is a common practice for all companies to obtain secrets of their competitors by the same techniques that...
...their own panoply of defensive measures. Many high-technology firms have installed electronic gear that rivals their own products in sophistication. Ultrasonic motion detectors emit high-frequency sound waves that can instantly sense intruders. Invisible infrared beams of light set off alarms as they are broken. Rolm Corp., a Silicon Valley computer manufacturer, uses an electronic control room to monitor its extensive protection system...