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According to Becella, the error was made when Harvard Printing and Publications Services, which produces diplomas for all Harvard graduates, changed to a new production process. Diploma data was shifted to a spreadsheet, where Naddaff and Hafrey's names got shuffled...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Error Causes Recall Of Mather Diplomas | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...could perhaps be explained in terms of this sudden explosion in time spent at the computer. Today there seems to be an almost inverse relationship between age and computer literacy. My father takes about an hour to type out a paragraph-long email, I can with difficulty design a spreadsheet, my twelve-year-old cousin has his own website. In fact, recent articles in technology journals like Wired and PCWeek worry that "Nintendo thumb" in children might prove an early harbinger of future RSI troubles. Podolsky sees this exponential growth in computer time behind what has been perceived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editor's Note: Nick of Time | 5/6/1999 | See Source »

...many ideas and technological advances converged to create the modern computer that it is foolhardy to give one person the credit for inventing it. But the fact remains that everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a word-processing program, is working on an incarnation of a Turing machine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computer Scientist: ALAN TURING | 3/29/1999 | See Source »

...alternative to buying Microsoft Office is to use alternate word processing and spreadsheet programs...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Microsoft Restricts Use of Network Software | 3/25/1999 | See Source »

Each of the Sharp machines comes with a built-in 33.6K data-fax modem and a serial-port cable so you can attach the kneetop to your PC and swap files; or synchronize your kneetop to your desktop's calendar, spreadsheet and e-mail; or copy files to a floppy disc. Because there are no moving parts like a hard drive (everything is stored in RAM and ROM chips), the batteries seem to stay charged forever; the Pro goes for eight hours straight, and the Tripad for 12. Best of all, there's no boot-up: push a button...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Kneetop PCs | 3/1/1999 | See Source »

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