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McNealy Plugs Sun's Programming Language, Java
Scott G. McNealy '76, the 40-year-old CEO, president and chair of Sun Microsystems, Inc., on Tuesday enthusiastically introduced Java, a universal programming language that will created enhanced access to the Internet...
...Sun CEO presented a number of projects which could help make future societies more computer and Internet literate. One of McNealy's proposals involved putting as many primary and secondary schools as possible on-line...
...Sun will launch a state-wide effort in Massachusetts in October, similar to projects in California which have connected many schools to the Internet...
...also worth pointing out that 1996JA1 is hardly unique. Neighboring space teems with many more so-called Near Earth Objects, asteroids and comets with orbits that pass close to Earth's path around the sun. More than 100 NEOS big enough to cause the kind of worldwide disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs (six-tenths of a mile across or larger) have already been identified and charted. But Eleanor Helin, an astronomer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, notes that an estimated 2,000 more of these mountain-size hulks may be lurking undetected out there...