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Another way of looking at B players is that they're people who have a life outside the office. Some Silicon Valley companies are latching onto the idea that B players are valuable. Guerrino De Luca, CEO of Logitech, says, "We have a lot of B's," whom he describes as employees who "don't emphasize self-promotion and don't want to be heroes and work 18 hours a day." Logitech is best known for producing stylish computer mice and an array of other computer products and tech services. De Luca, a native of Rome, tries to convey...
Along with MIT President Charles M. Vest, Summers discussed how to stimulate the state’s biotech industry and to foster a bustling university-industry collaboration along the lines of Northern California’s Silicon Valley to an audience at the Business School’s Hawes Hall...
Integrated Circuits In 1958 Jack Kilby fashioned the first microchip out of a single slice of silicon (it had one transistor); in 1959 Robert Noyce figured out how to get all the electronics on a chip talking. The invention spawned Intel, along with a thriving computer industry...
...company puts out every month. Windows XP made its debut in 2001 with some 45 million lines of code and a lot of mistakes, many of which have yet to be uncovered. Because of its complexity, "no other product could potentially be so flawed," says Jerry Ungerman, president of Silicon Valley's Check Point Software. No consumer movement has sprung up demanding a Windows recall just yet, but a car with this many problems would be a tort lawyer's joyride...
...church service, with an opening hymn, a blessing over the bread and wine and readings about Magdalene from the four Gospels. There was no priest, but Turner herself read what, if this were a Mass, might be a homily. "From the beginning," she intoned as the sun sank over Silicon Valley, "her view has been ignored, unappreciated. The first to see the risen Lord--those with more power have sought to marginalize her. Yet she is faithful. She remains. She cannot be silenced." --Reported by Lisa McLaughlin