Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pseudonym Mathias Speer. In a press conference last week, his pursuer, Stoll, described how the young hacker used the Lawrence Lab computer as a gateway to Internet, a U.S. Government-owned network that connects some 20,000 computers handling scientific research and unclassified military work. While Speer used fairly standard techniques for cracking passwords, he showed uncommon persistence. He attacked some 450 different computers and gained access to more than 30. Victims ranged from the Navy Coastal Systems Command in Panama City, Fla., to the Buckner Army Base in Okinawa...
...says. "Movies have a different audience, and I don't have much to say to that audience." Trying to justify people's increasingly high expectations of him is challenge enough. "I never imagined the tyranny of success -- the way you have to deal with a new standard of excellence," he says. "Do you play the game not to lose? Or do you keep going for a win -- pushing it a bit and doing it better or different?" If you don't know Bochco's answer to that question, you haven't been watching...
...pedals to drive its propellers. The craft was designed and constructed specifically to challenge Albatross's records for both duration (2 hr. 40 min.) and straight- line distance (22.3 miles). To achieve this, the M.I.T. team built a gearbox with a 2-to-3 ratio instead of using a standard bicycle chain to transmit pedal power to the 11-ft. propeller. In addition, Aeronautical Engineer Mark Drela designed an extra-thin wing that provides 30% more aerodynamic lift than stumpier conventional wings. The team chose a strong, lightweight graphite compound to mold the plane's hollow, dime-thick spine...
According to Bok' report, every action universities take bears on the moral development of their students: discipline, counseling procedures, even "the standard they achieve in dealing with ethical issues confronting the institution...
...announcements, none has generated as much anticipation as the one to be made this week by Motorola, the largest U.S. supplier of semiconductors (1987 sales: $6.7 billion). The electronics giant has etched 1.7 million transistors into a three-chip microprocessor called the 88000 that it hopes will become a standard component of the next generation of high-performance computers. Motorola may be right. Even before the new product was formally unveiled, more than 30 prospective customers, including Data General, | Convergent and Tektronix, had formed a users group to set guidelines for designing hardware and software to take advantage...