Word: siliconing
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Bronson, 38, is a successful journalist and novelist best known for writing about Silicon Valley, but when he started What Should I Do with My Life?, he was asking himself that same question. The dotcom boom was over, he had a child on the way, and the TV show he was writing for had just been canceled to make way for Temptation Island. He was at a crossroads. So he began telling everybody he met that he was looking for tales about how people found their purpose in life. Relying entirely on a grass-roots, and-they-told-two-friends...
...from dino to nano: the baddie comes from the currently hot field of nanotechnology, the science of building microscopic machines. The hero is an unemployed computer whiz named Jack Forman, a likable blank who has the misfortune to be married to Julia, a workaholic exec at Xymos, a shady Silicon Valley start-up. Xymos builds tiny nanorobots that possess no intelligence of their own but can assemble themselves, insect-like, into swarms capable of solving complex problems, reproducing and even evolving. Since the thoughtless hubris of scientists is Crichton's Big Theme, all this must go terribly wrong. A nanoswarm...
...provost is stressing the good to society that could come from developing and marketing Harvard technologies. The question is, what has changed? Well, Larry has. Summers has made it clear that he foresees Boston as part of a “Silicon Valley” for biotechnology. Harvard has a critical role to play in fostering this regional renaissance. In his first year in office, Summers has stumped tirelessly for increased attention to research in the biological sciences. He has promised that he would announce a substantial initiative in this area in a “year...
Debate on the question has long raged in the city. A year ago this month, Harvard hosted a debate between a Graduate School of Education professor and Silicon Valley millionaire Ron Unz, who proposed Question...
...Woodpushers around the world who were watching Game 8 on the Web were disappointed that Kramnik, the pre-match favorite, did not crush the silicon beast. Chess players were angry at the Russian grand master for calling a truce without a fight. "There should be a new rule," said Tony Rook, host of the Web site http://chess.fm. "If you draw before move 30, you're barred from chess for life...