Word: tech
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...February, Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences Venkatesh "Venky" Narayanamurti announced a program to teach undergraduates about high-tech businesses--and how to start them...
...will fall under a new institute tentatively named the Technology and Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard (TECH). Starting the institute signals a major shift in College policy, which currently prohibits students from running businesses in dorm rooms...
GEEK GRUB Already a cult figure among geeks for his Dilbert comic strip about office life in a high-tech world, cartoonist Scott Adams has decided to capitalize on his fame by creating the Dilberito. It's an all-in-one microwaveable meal-in-a-pocket aimed at the laptop-and-modem crowd. Bland but basically edible, the Dilberito comes in four flavors, all vegetarian and all stuffed with vitamins and protein. Is the Dilberito for everyone? "Some people care about efficiency," Adams says. "Some people don't. We'll get them last...
...investments against NASDAQ buys came unstuck Friday when they dived in concert. Still, it's a safe bet that somethinghas to go up, since Friday's sell-off has sent hundreds of billions of dollars roaming in search of new homes. Whether it be bonds or utilities or safer tech stocks or safer blue chips, the operative word in the coming weeks will be selectivityas analysts look for equities with stamina. And that may turn out to be just the Darwinian shakeout a bubble market needed...
...military survice. To figure out what's happened to this once-proud tradition, Army chief of staff Gen. Eric Shineski commissioned a survey of soldiers at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan. Judging from the initial results it looks as if the problem runs deeper than the lure of the booming tech sector. The Washington Post reported Monday that in the first set of surveys tallied, soldiers blame the Army's leadership for the exodus. The surveys found that low-ranking personnel don't feel a sense of loyalty flowing downward from their commanding officers, while most soldiers feel that the Joint Chiefs...