Word: computerized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
As unlikely as de Guzman may seem as a mastermind of the most virulent computer virus in history, it's no great surprise to law-enforcement officials that it appears to have been hatched on a campus in the developing world. They say small cells of hackers--some at colleges...
AMA Computer College is a pioneer in Philippine computer education. It's an up-by-the-bootstraps kind of place, where young people in a poor country can strive for the middle class. But AMA is also home to GRAMMERSoft, an underground computer group that provides programming to small businesses...
The fact is that Third World hacking has political frisson. There's a satisfaction in outsmarting the developed world's best computer minds--a high-tech, Jesse Jackson-style cry of "I am somebody!" That certainly seems to be a widespread response in the Philippines. De Guzman's fellow students...
Perhaps sensing that, the studio seems to be stressing the cutting-edge technology that made Dinosaur possible--1,300 effects shots, 3.2 million processing hours, 70,000 lines of computer code, blah-blah-blah. But this admirable effort doesn't quite make it to fully persuasive naturalism--something dead in...
That concluding question typifies the sort of humor that Saunders consistently wrings out of his characters' constrained existences. These losers are too self-aware to pity, and the world they perceive is unsettlingly familiar. Think TV can't get any more moronic? Check out what Saunders' people watch: How My...