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Though the Bush Administration has not fully embraced the the link between carbon emissions and global warming, nature is sending signals that the earth is warming at an alarming rate. Plants are flowering earlier, glaciers are falling into the sea, and birds and plankton are extending their ranges northward into warmer waters. U.S. environmental groups want to curb carbon emissions have abandoned the Kyoto plan, opting for a plan with smaller steps.

Reports that nonlinear formulas running on ultrafast computers help redesign products. Industries benefiting from software based on nonlinear math; Nonlinear tools for design; Importance to Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).

EUROPE'S SECRET WEAPON WANTED: CREATIVE CEO for a large and rapidly expanding European industrial group. The right candidate has experience at all levels of the corporate structure and the 'humanistic' [...]

TUBE WARS When Rupert Murdoch launched Sky Channel in 1982 and started beaming, via satellite, Three's Company, The Beverly Hillbillies and other American television shows to northern Europe, an economic, [...]

BITTER LESSONS FOR FAIRCHILD'S DONALD BROOKS CEO Donald W. Brooks of Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. sits in a Pentagon conference room waiting to answer questions about the proposed sale of the [...]

THREE TO GET READY BRISTOL-MYERS, IN PURSUIT OF MERCK Nestled in the rolling hills of Wallingford, Connecticut, Bristol-Myers Company's sleek, spacious, stone-and-glass research center is a $160 million testament to [...]

The Education of BBN Freshmen from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology were making the rounds of local corporate research laboratories. Tired of uninspiring lectures, they trudged dutifully into the offices [...]

Computers Think For Business Towards dusk in downtown Tampa, Florida, a GTE Corp. telephone maintenance man punches his time clock, changes into his coveralls and logs onto a computer terminal [...]

Hot Tickets Of High Tech Picking next year's Kentucky Derby winner is a cinch compared to identifying the high-technology leaders of the 1990s. In this crowded field, scores of promising [...]

GOODBYE, OLD MATRIX AS AMERICAN AND FOREIGN corporations scramble for position in the global marketplace, they are discovering that the organizational structures and management techniques they have lived by for [...]

IBM'S VERY TOUGH GUY Sifting through his mail, Sydney R. 'Bud' McMorran of the Toronto Dominion Bank picked up a letter from John F. Akers, chairman and president of International [...]

What Venture Capitalists Are Betting On Like wildcatters on a tear through the oil patch, venture capitalists spent most of the late 1970s drilling for gushers in new technology. But [...]

Dr. Hans-Dieter Wiedig, president and chief executive of SNI, discusses why he believes the Siemens-Nixdorf merger, despite its current problems, is working. Siemens Nixdorf Informations-systeme AG's first full year as […]

It's been in the works since 1977. A first draft was produced the following year. But not until 1984 did it attain the status of an international standard, and not […]

An answer is presented to the question concerning Covid-19 vaccines as the people with weakened immune systems should be more cautious than those with robust immune systems.

In just a few years, a major new chip-manufacturing technology called X-ray lithography could well become the key to survival in the semiconductor industry. The question is, who will be [...]

Ever since personal computers hit the market, the bulk of software for them has been provided by a handful of entrepreneurial firms, such as Lotus Development Corp. and Ashton-Tate. But [...]

By now, it is generally recognized in the music business that laser-based compact disks, which reproduce beautifully clear sound and are invulnerable to wear, vibration and dust, will eventually obsolete [...]

Artificial intelligence--or fifth-generation computing--is now being hailed as a technology whose time has come. U.S. government policymakers count on it to maintain the country's technological leadership. The Department of Defense [...]

Star Wars Is Bad For Business Star Wars: Tens of thousands of nuclear warheads climb on plumes of brightly glowing gas, arcing over the northern wastelands of the Soviet Union, [...]

The Transformation Of NCR Corp. Like a prehistoric animal stuck in a tar pit, National Cash Register Co. in 1972 was sinking fast. William S. Anderson stepped in as president [...]

Patents: Potent Weapon For High-Tech Companies When Polaroid Corp. sued Eastman Kodak Co. a decade ago for infringing on its patent for instant photography, Kodak had good reason to let [...]

TI Bets On Chips Again When severe price cutting by the Japanese was driving other U.S. producers of high-volume memory chips out of the market in 1985, Texas Instruments Inc. [...]

Semiconductors: Comeback For the U.S. The alarms have sounded. With all but a handful of U.S. semiconductor companies ceding the market for high-volume computer memory chips to Japanese competitors, both [...]

Optics: Breaking The Light Barrier In a basement workshop beneath the University of Arizona football stadium, Roger Angel explains to a visitor to technique he is developing for making the [...]

Attack of The Electronic Gremlins A passenger jet mysteriously crashes into Jamaica Bay on its descent to the runway at Kennedy Airport in New York; a bus screeches to a [...]

Bill Poduska's On the More Again Want to make a venture capitalist laugh? Suggest starting up a new company in the overloaded computer workstation market. Nevertheless, that is exactly what [...]

Erich Bloch Tackles The U.S. Research Lag When Ronald Reagan named Erich Bloch, a former International Business Machines Corp. vice president, to head the National Science Foundation in mid-1984, the [...]

An interview is provided with the physicist and former director of the U.S. Office of Science and Technology John Holdren. When asked on U.S. investment in energy technology, he suggests that the U.S. should spend more money on energy research and development (R&D). He discusses using nuclear fusion as a renewable energy source in the future. When asked about fusion energy's performance, he comments on the ITER fusion project's burning of plasma in France.

An introduction is presented to the issue's "State of the World's Science" report that focuses on the theme of collaboration in science from the perspective of the individual researcher and the role of diversity in science.

During the mid-1980s, Europe's share of its own semiconductor market slipped from roughly half to one-third. What did the companies do about it? Not enough, says Heinz W. Hagmeister. 'European […]