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Summers imagines a Silicon Valley East—for biomedical research—rising on both sides of the Charles. Just as Stanford provided the minds, the labs and even the land to spur on the development of computer technology in Silicon Valley, Summers wants Harvard to play the central role in the coming revolution...
...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...
...onto - and under - our skin. Researchers in Europe, America and Japan are implanting electrodes into the bodies of patients to restore vision, treat brain disorders and help victims of paralysis regain motor function, while engineers are creating hybrid prosthetic body parts such as ankles, legs and knees in which silicon chips are melded with living tissue. Computers are moving off the desktop - and making our bodies bionic...
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...