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...beginning of the semester, the folks in the admissions office caught their high-tech computer system playing tricks with them by scrambling the names of alumni in the database with the names of applicants. And that was not the first problem they have had. "We have a computer that has confused twins, but to my knowledge we have never done the wrong decision. But if we have some terrible mistake, it will come from the computer," Lewis warns. The office takes a variety of precautions against computer errors. Each applicant has a personal folder with interview reports and other more...
Then there's the Avid Room, where producers use high-tech digitized footage...
...another expert from using apocalyptic terms, predicting a continued rash of crime from an "electronic bestiary" of "locusts" (what the rest of us call criminals). So we're looking at a future of electronic fire and brimstone? Not likely, says TIME technology writer Joshua Quittner. "Whenever there's a high-tech law-enforcement convention somewhere, we hear cybercops sounding the alarm: Cybercrime is reaching a critical state and doomsday is upon us." It's tough to get worked into a frenzy, adds Quittner, when there's no evidence that any of these claims is true. "I haven't heard...
...college came almost by chance: one summer he found a job at an Israeli Internet start-up, as a secretary, but the strapped company promoted him on the second day. Shemmer's job at Broadview was equally unplanned. Unlike better-known investment banks, Broadview limits its business to the high-tech sector--Internet start-ups, Web-based companies, computer firms. Broadview's partners and analysts advise those tech companies on mergers and acquisitions, from finding potential targets for mergers to negotiations to finessing the final deals. It's definitely a niche market, where experience in the computer world is more...
...analyst's job is all about research, and we quickly settle into the morning routine. The high-tech world at the end of the millennium is a vast free-for-all, with companies scrambling to acquire one another and grow exponentially. Shemmer's job is to sift through thousands of unknown firms and select likely acquisitions for his client, a software company. The client is looking to expand its operations in the Northeast and Shemmer wants to present them with as broad a menu as possible...