Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This is a low-tech, instantaneous system, that allows me to give feed-back to the students during lectures," Mazur said. "They log in. I ask them a question, and then I can determine, from the percentage of students who answer correctly, how well I am teaching the subject matter...
Unknown as it is to the rest of the world, Virginia Tech will always hold a special place in my heart. I grew up nestled among the towering limestone buildings of the university. The nurturing placidity of the small college town around Tech Kindled in me many of the qualities and traits I have brought with me to Harvard: my ethical sense, my determination...
...computer hackers at Virginia Tech enjoy a relatively well-developed computer network. There are at least 25 super computers run by the school's Computer Center. In addition, various departments have their own machines connected to the international network known as the Internet. Every on-campus dorm room is connected to the data network on 9600 baud lines, which are independent of the telephone lines. That means, of course, that you'll have no problems with call waiting interrupting your modern or with roommates who seem to have phone receivers grafted to their face...
...last Wednesday, a blast shook the center of Calcutta. Two 100- year-old tenement buildings collapsed into rubble. This time 86 people died. And again, on Friday, an explosion at a Calcutta train station killed four. Police, however, discounted a link with Bombay's synchronized explosions of 13 high-tech bombs, saying the first Calcutta tragedy was caused by the accidental detonation of a stockpile of explosives being hoarded for some future attack by a local gang running the city's "Satta" betting rackets...
Kantor says he would prefer to reduce such foreign subsidies through negotiations. But that desire is being backed up by a threat: the Administration is willing to match any foreign subsidies that undermine American high-tech industries by funding expensive research and development for companies like McDonnell Douglas and Boeing...