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During the past several weeks Harvard, once an institution of higher learning, has taken significant steps towards becoming a start-up incubator. First, the college proposed relaxed restrictions on the operation of businesses from dorm rooms. Now comes the announcement of the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). Modeled after the Institute of Politics (IOP), TECH is being touted as a resource center to teach students about entrepreneurship and help them launch their own businesses while still at school...
Just imagine: students could brainstorm ideas in first-year proctor meetings, and they could brush up their business plans in Expository Writing class. Sophomore year, in between tutorial meetings, they could stop by the TECH to pour over venture capital directories, looking for the perfect strategic investor. Junior year would be the time for product development. At Commencement, every successful senior would be handed an honorary stock certificate in recognition of his or her achievements, along with the more traditional scholastic diploma. Oh, what a wonderful world it would...
According to Alexander S. Aiken, associate professor of computer science at the University of California at Berkeley, high-tech cheating in computer science departments was a precursor to the ways the Internet is now being used to cheat in the humanities...
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PSSSST!!! Kids love to share secrets, and now they can do it in high-tech style with a new line of personal communicators. Hasbro's Talkin'acha ($30 in August) is a handheld-size mini-recorder that lets kids create voice messages as long as 8 sec. and pass them to similarly equipped friends three ways: through removable "buzz cards," by holding up two communicators together or simply by touching each other on the arm. Shown here is Girl Tech's Laser Chat ($15 this spring), which can record a message and send it wirelessly as far away...