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Stepping across the threshold of the Leverett room belonging to Baruch Shemtov ’09 is a different experience entirely. The soft brown leather chair, wooden screens, and warm lighting give the room, in Shemtov’s words, a feeling of “exotic zen...
...graphic novels, not video games, that have proved the more reliable source for good movies. Maybe it's that the adult comix provide stories, and storyboards, while the video games supply only a premise; or that reading an illustrated novel is closer to the movie-watching experience than the Zen numbness that overcomes gamesmen in their 27th hour at the console. That kind of sensory exhaustion is what the viewer feels before Max Payne has lumbered to its conclusion...
Where PC makers wallow in confusion - some laptops include multiple types of mouse (touch pads and pointers), for instance - Apple has found a moment of Zen. The new MacBook has eliminated its single-button mouse altogether; every interaction now occurs via a glass touch pad. To select something, you simply push down on the glass pad. Or as Jobs said, "The whole trackpad is the button." This generation of touch pads, by the way, lets users do a lot more with one hand. One finger directs the mouse, two fingers enlarge and reduce images, three fingers allow you to rapidly...
Jhaveri graduated cum laude from the University of Maryland at College Park in 2007 after completing a double B.S. program in computer science and finance. His past work experience includes a position as senior software engineer at Corporate Zen. Currently, Jhaveri is working to develop an information technology system to help doctors and patients manage chronic illnesses, a reflection of his interest in healthcare technology...
...entries were from local artists, including Kristina R. Yee ’10, whose piece, “No Water, No Moon,” won the award for best local entry. Originally created as a four-and-a-half minute animation, Yee’s adaptation of a Zen short story lent itself to the short form. “The thing about Zen short stories is that they are so concise in and of themselves that they demand the filmmaker to be concise,” Yee says. With a total audience of about 500, the attendance...