Stanley Bowman, a professor in the art department who is leading the discussion on the development of a digital arts program, says he is eager to hear what the industry experts have to say. The technological breakthrough that IBM says it has made concerns the metal that is combined with silicon to produce semiconductors. For the last 30 years, chip makers etched aluminum circuits on silicon wafers. Most chips sold today contain transistors that are 0.35 micron wide. The most advanced have circuits with a width of 0.25 micron.
Copper is a much better conductor.
CS Alums in today's NYTimes. In case you didn't see it, alums Stephan Paternot and Todd Krizelman made page 1 of the NYT Metro section. Analysts speculate that this is the largest-ever investment made by an individual in an Internet business. Egan, Haperin and Duffield are all Cornell alums. But before these heavy-weight investors started to chase after them, Stephan and Todd were Upson Hall regulars who just wanted to take work they had done on a CS 490 project and turn it into a viable business.