Word: videos
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There have been more elegant descriptions of the gaudy, gawky new flying machines called ultralight aircraft, but none more accurate than this waggish observation. The plane that sounds like a low-calorie beer does resemble a plastic -and video-age version of the Kitty Hawk. Or, as a Tolkienian might put it, a petroleum-feeding pterodactyl. In any case, the planes are designed not to lodge beauty in the eye of the earth-bound beholder but, rather, to warm the soul of the seat-of-the-pants pilot. Put-putting along a few hundred feet up at 40 m.p.h...
...plan to provide House masters and senior tutors with immediate access to undergraduate academic records through a series of House-based video terminals has sparked concern among administrators that students' privacy could be violated...
WHILE THE LINES for high-tech video adventures at Elsie's and Tommy's Lunch continued to grow with startling speed this semester, a sizeable portion of the Class of '85 busied itself by devising excuses for not playing the other computer game in town--the College's new quantitative reasoning requirement...
...only a short hop from skillful operation of a video game to learning fundamentals of programming. Says M.I.T. Sociologist Sherry Turkic, 33, who has been studying the youthful computer culture for five years: "The line between game playing and programming is very thin. Programming takes what is powerful about games-this articulation of knowledge, this learning about strategy-and carries it to a higher level of power...
...Angeles. A Russian emigre, he earns $480 each week by doing 24 hours of programming for 20th Century-Fox, while carrying a full load of courses as a junior at UCLA. This year Greg Christensen, 18, of Anaheim, Calif., could make $100,000 in royalties from a video game he developed that was bought by Atari. Other youngsters are waiting at the sidelines in hopes of catching up with these young entrepreneurs. Every Tuesday night, Scott Whitfield, 13, and his brother Shawn, 11, appear at the Menlo Park, Calif., public library to get computer instruction. Says Scott...