Word: ulric
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that will give users of IBM's desktop equipment access to the company's large mainframe computers. Since an estimated two-thirds of the 1,000 largest U.S. industrial firms use IBM mainframes, the new machines will make the company even tougher to beat. Says Ulric Weil, a computer-industry analyst for Morgan Stanley: "The 3270 could lock Apple, Tandy and other major personal-computer makers right out of the top corporate markets...
...Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create the so-called electronic office. Says Ulric Weil, a top computer analyst for Morgan Stanley & Co.: "We're watching a total transformation of the corporation...
...researchers also cite as a crucial influence the work of Cornell's Ulric Neisser, whom White describes as "a cognitive psychologist who denounced his own movement." He explains "Neisser argued that you're never going to understand the way people think just by sitting around in laboratories doing hothouse little experiments. People are not computers--what you've got to do is go out and watch people behaving in everyday settings. I suppose we're working in that spirit...
Last week Apple Computer Inc., the company that made itself a household word by making computing power affordable to individuals, unveiled a mouse-controlled computer named Lisa that may change forever the way people communicate with their machines. Says Wall Street Analyst Ulric Weil, author of Information Systems in the Eighties: "Simply put, Lisa ushers in the second generation of personal computers...
...Caribbean democracies would be better equipped to face their woes if they could learn to pull in tandem. But unique forces seem to work against that possibility. After three centuries of slavery and colonialism, independence has inspired a heady and often heedless individualism. Says Journalist Ulric Mentus: "People cherish their freedom. They think of dancing in the streets, throwing out their leaders and not going to work if they don't feel like it as all part of the same democracy. They will not vote for any government they cannot tell to go to hell...