Word: microchip
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...measures being developed by computer companies. Callback is a recently-devised procedure where the user telephones the computer, the computer compares their number with a list of approved user numbers and calls the user back if the numbers match. User Verification/Encryption is a system still under development where a microchip in the user's terminal identifies them as authorized and translator encoded data coming from the main computer...
...antiterrorist branch, called "significant items." Police theorize that the bomb, possibly wrapped in plastic to hide its odor from police dogs, was planted behind a panel in a bathroom of the hotel by I.R.A. "sleeper agents" long resident in England. The device was apparently detonated by a sophisticated microchip timer that could have been preset weeks earlier...
When electrical problems delayed the launching of the space shuttle Discovery last June, NASA blamed a faulty microchip supplied by Texas Instruments. Now the Pentagon is trying to determine whether defective microcircuits from T.I. are also embedded in the computer systems of many of its high-tech weapons. Defense officials last week embargoed deliveries of military equipment containing the suspect chips and disclosed the "possibility of a criminal investigation" into how T.I.'s chips were tested...
...Francisco is beautiful, vivacious. San Francisco is physically dramatic. San Francisco is funky but clean, elegant but spunky. San Francisco is tolerant of crazes (beatniks, hippies, microchip venture capitalists), yet preserves the old (cable cars, Victorian follies). If an out-of-town churl dares suggest that the city may be too cute for its own good, he is politely ignored. But disparagement by outsiders is uncommon: ever since the Democrats announced last year that they would hold their convention in San Francisco, politicians and journalists have savored the prospect. The city's high spirits are contagious and self-justifying...
...Crosby left his $200,000-a-year job at ITT to start his own firm, which now has more than 100 employees and projected revenues of $22 million for 1984. One of his early clients was Mostek, a Texas-based microchip maker. The firm came to Crosby after it started losing its market to Japanese electronics firms because they were turning out superior chips. Mostek sent 115 of its managers to Crosby seminars and launched a campaign exhorting workers to "Do It Right the First Time." Result: Mostek cut costs by some $40 million annually. Says Quality Director Robert Donnelly...