Word: siliconing
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Harvard may pioneer a new Silicon-Valley in Boston one day, but until then, I’ll settle for an online study card filing system here in Cambridge. As much fun as it is to bubble in the numbers, I can live without the perennial rush for signatures. E-mail tag and sprints to emergency office hours were not the kinds of student-faculty interaction I had in mind when I chose starred seminars from the Courses of Instruction...
...switched off and back on. The tubes remain linked until separated by a countercurrent, so their memory is retained. And these chips have other advantages. Schmergel says that within three years, Nantero can bring to market chips with NRAM that can store 10 times as much data as a silicon chip the same size while operating faster and with less heat. "They're not saying much publicly about their approach," says Steven Glapa, president of the nano-consulting firm In Realis, "but what they're promising sounds pretty breathtaking...
...turning a profit. It sold $200,000 worth of made-to-order nanotubes in 2001 and is on track to more than double that amount this year. Last week HP researchers unveiled a way of manufacturing molecular-scale circuitry that will be cheaper and use less power than current silicon chips and have the potential to store entire libraries of information...
Luba loved her job. as a systems analyst for a large software company in Silicon Valley, she was part of a team of men and women who developed computer programs. The pressure was intense: Luba worked 12-hour days, plus weekends on her laptop. But the middle-aged wife and mother found the work fascinating. She liked her colleagues and became deeply involved in their lives. After three years, however, Luba was suddenly reassigned to another group. Although the transfer involved more pay and responsibility, she felt she had been ripped away from a life she cherished. She suffered shortness...
...Chambers. But Nuti, 38, recently left the networking giant to become president of Symbol Technologies, the world's largest maker of bar-code scanners, based on Long Island, New York. Nuti likes Symbol's growth potential and will no longer have to commute from his Long Island home to Silicon Valley...