Word: upon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard education, in addition to its other well-known advantages, affords students the opportunity to meet another 1,599 of the most interesting people their age. Upon graduation, they join a network of hundreds of thousands of alumni, also among the most interesting people in the world. Viewed solely in terms of potential friendships, then, Harvard has to be one of the most valuable experiences in a person's life...
...writing in regard to two pieces that appeared recently in The Crimson. As a student hoping to pursue a career in journalism and as a human being who has long followed the situation in the Balkans, I feel it is necessary to comment upon the manner in which this issue has been treated by The Crimson...
...scroll down the list far enough, hundreds of entries deep, and you'll find this hidden Rosebud of cyberspace: "Enquire Within Upon Everything"--a nifty little computer program written nearly 20 years ago by a lowly software consultant named Tim Berners-Lee. Who knew then that from this modest hack would flow the civilization-altering, millionaire-spawning, information suckhole known as the World Wide...
...month stint as a software engineer at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in Geneva, was noodling around with a way to organize his far-flung notes. He had always been interested in programs that dealt with information in a "brain-like way" but that could improve upon that occasionally memory-constrained organ. So he devised a piece of software that could, as he put it, keep "track of all the random associations one comes across in real life and brains are supposed to be so good at remembering but sometimes mine wouldn't." He called it Enquire, short...
...another back with proprietary technology. The rest of the world may be trying to cash in on the Web's phenomenal growth, but Berners-Lee is content to labor quietly in the background, ensuring that all of us can continue, well into the next century, to Enquire Within Upon Anything...