Word: siliconized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dyed an orange shade of red five years ago to update his haggard look for a brief run for the presidency. For a while it looked as if Cranston might lose his seat in 1986, but that will take someone a lot duller than challenger Ed Zschau, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who believes in memory chips and the Pacific...
Such cooperative efforts tend to go against the grain in the U.S., where entrepreneurs often view their colleagues as blood rivals. "America has been wickedly competitive within itself," observes Robert Noyce, a co-inventor of the integrated circuit and near legendary figure from Silicon Valley who now heads Sematech. The danger is that by focusing too much on short-term competitive standings, U.S. industry will spend too little time preparing for the future. The most complex technologies require long-term planning and investments, and the payoffs, while potentially enormous, may be long delayed. But U.S. business leaders are showing signs...
...Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer and the man who made the personal computer a household term. In the three years since he was forced out of Apple, the dreamer behind the Apple II and the Macintosh has been trying to do it again -- to create out of silicon his vision of what it is that makes people feel a bond with their machines...
...seem an odd and varied lot. The Pakistani brothers are self-taught programmers isolated from the rest of the computer community. Two viruses exported to the U.S. from West Germany, by contrast, were bred in academia and spread by students. Other outbreaks seem to have come directly out of Silicon Valley. Rumor has it that the SCORES virus was written by a disgruntled Apple employee...
...become more nimble. One way is to stimulate employee innovation by providing entrepreneurial incentives. Under the IDEA program at Texas Instruments, workers who propose promising ideas are given the time and resources to test them. One result: the development of gallium arsenide, a material with the properties of silicon but able to withstand higher temperatures. Big companies just might find that the more opportunities they offer for employees to live out their entrepreneurial dreams while still on the payroll, the more rewards both will share...