Word: siliconing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...youth, perhaps, and the aura of invincibility, keep doing things their way. So the white coats go on when it's time to approve new products. For a few hours, teams of engineers will come forward with their best ideas, hoping to dazzle the most powerful men in Silicon Valley. Google paid crazy money to attract top talent--supercharging the nerd market in the process--and this is the recruits' chance to show the investments were worth...
...defense, it was the Harvard Business School alum’s first attempt at writing a novel, after having spent the past few decades building the famous Silicon Valley venture capital firm, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, & Byers. According to Perkins, all profits will be donated...
Hollywood and Silicon Valley have never mixed well. You've got cinéastes vs. nerds, celluloid vs. digital, silicone vs. silicon. Then there is Pixar, the delightfully confounding combination of the two: part high-tech shop, part movie studio. Headed by Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and run by John Lasseter, an animator hailed as the next Walt Disney, Pixar has made exactly six computer-animated features in its 20-year history, from Toy Story to The Incredibles. Every one was a smash. Every one was distributed by Disney, which also shared costs and profits...
...Davos Diary: Day Two," by Red Herring "Welcome to Silicon Valley-Meets-Davos, the annual Friday night party hosted by Accel Partners during the World Economic Forum. This year’s bash, co-hosted by Google at the Kirchner Museum, featured champagne, oysters, and a star-studded roster of guests. Partygoers included [...] Harvard University President Larry Summers...
InnovaLight is exploiting the work of Brian Korgel at the University of Texas in Austin, a board member, to create nanoparticles of uniform size. The firm already tunes its fluid-stored silicon nanoparticle mix to capture everything from infrared to ultraviolet and the visible spectrum in between. Conversely, it can infuse the fluid into thin, flexible panels that emit a controlled range of light--2-nanometer particles for blue, 10 nanometers for orange. Blending particle sizes produces white light...