Word: stanford
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...Huge numbers of microscopic sensors are already employed to measure the temperature, air pressure and acceleration of airplanes and automobiles. Delco Electronics alone sells 7 million silicon pressure sensors a year to its parent company, General Motors, for use in power-train controls and diagnostics. But scientists at Berkeley, Stanford, M.I.T., AT&T, IBM and a handful of other research centers around the world see much broader possibilities for minuscule machines. They envision armies of gnat-size robots exploring space, performing surgery inside the human body or possibly building skyscrapers one atom at a time. "Microelectronics is on the verge...
Californians are starting to calculate their risks a bit differently. Rene and Tony Donaldson live near Stanford University. Their $425,000 home escaped major damage in the Pretty Big One, though the tremors did smash their collection of American Indian pottery. "Now I know why California Indians didn't have a pottery tradition," Rene says with the deadpan cool of a real Californian. "In the future we'll collect baskets instead." But the Donaldsons are also looking into quake insurance, which they turned down when they bought their house four years ago. And while they are still determined to stand...
...Stanford or the [California] schools might have better water polo teams," the Leverett House junior explains, "but I wanted to get the 'Eastern Experience.' On the West coast, Eastern water polo is considered a joke. Well, I thought it is more important to establish a tradition than to be a part of a tradition...
Cold fusion experiments are now in progress atthe National Cold Fusion Institute, a nonprofitcorporation founded recently by the University ofUtah, Texas A&M University. Brigham YoungUniversity, Stanford University, the University ofMinnesota and the Los Alamos National Laboratoryin New Mexico
...University of Pennsylvania recentlyannounced plans to launch its firstuniversity-wide effort, with a target of more than$1 billion. And Stanford University is finishingup $1.1 billion campaign that is the nation'slargest ever...