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...doctoral students. They began with a concordance to the scrolls -- an index that lists each word -- prepared under the auspices of the official team in the 1950s but not made available until 1988. As with a Bible concordance, each word was annotated according to its context and location. A desktop computer was used to piece together the phrases and sentences...
...hackers, and they are quickly becoming as expert in the arcana of videotape as computer hackers are in the world of bits and bytes. In fact, many video hackers have mastered both worlds, plugging their camcorders into computers to explore a burgeoning new field known variously as computer video, desktop video or multimedia...
...cost less. Customers have become more concerned about price than brand names or even high performance. That has turned things upside down for IBM and Apple, which find themselves struggling to make their products less distinctive and more compatible with their other rivals. Apple has developed desktop computers that not only run its Macintosh software system but also use the same disk operating system -- or DOS -- used by IBM models. And Big Blue has countered with desktop computers that are more user friendly, in the spirit of Macintosh...
...Weather Service is in drastic need of renovation. The 100-year-old agency has become a technology museum. Its forecasters still launch old- fashioned balloons -- 70 of them twice a day -- to take readings in the atmosphere. They use refrigerator-size computers that have less power than the average desktop machine. And they depend on radar equipment that runs on World War II-type vacuum tubes. This creaking system is dangerously prone to breakdowns. In one notorious instance in the winter of 1988, the radar sentinel in North Carolina was out of service for 10 days, during which a batch...
...from adjustments to the tax base of imaginary cities to complex astronomical equations, at a depth they could not have reached in a traditional classroom. "Your role shifts drastically," says Michael Hopkins, lead teacher at the experimental Saturn School in St. Paul, where students track their own progress on desktop computers and fashion programmable robots out of specially designed Lego blocks. "You go from being the presenter, the disseminator of learning, to being a facilitator and a coach...