Recycling Spent Ultrapure Rinse Water--A Case Study in the Use of a Financial Analysis Tool.
Abstract This paper profiles the cost and the profitability potential associated with recycling and reuse of ultrapure rinse waters left over from semiconductor wafer-rinsing processes. An environmental health and safety financial software tool was used to a) account for costs, b) estimate their financial impact, and c)...

THEY INVENTED IT WHEN?
THE FLUSH TOILET The world's first flushing toilet was built for a queen--Queen Elizabeth I, whose godson, Sir John Harington, installed one of his newfangled devices for her in 1596. The technology became more accessible in 1775, when Alexander Cumming made a sliding-valve flush toilet with a...

Silicon Valleys.
Cheap, abundant silicon, the stuff computer chips are made of, is also the material of choice for solar cells, devices that transform sunlight into electricity. Silicon, however converts at most only about 25 percent of the sunlight that hits it; increasing that percentage would go a long way toward...

Intel rewards America's most promising young scientists.
While many of his peers were practicing three-point turns and studying for their driver's tests, Logan Kleinwaks spent his time researching a theoretical physics project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Logan's research recently won the 17 year-old high school senior a trip to attend the Nobel...

Three laboratories.
1. Hierarchy and Homogeneity In all too many realms of the history of technology and science, historians have reenacted the social relations of the disciplines about which they write. For many years, scientists looked down on engineers as "merely applying" their more fundamental, basic, central, high-level, and abstract...

The Directors Roster.
3COM CORP. 5400 Bayfront Plaza Santa Clara, CA 95052 has added to its board: Gary T. DiCamillo Chairman and CEO POLAROID CORP. 784 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 Bio Notes: In present position since joining...

Serving as an 'on-call' consultant.
What the boards of several high-tech leaders tell us about the factors that will define the next generation of directors. AS AMERICAN COMPANIES regear themselves to meet the challenges of the 21st ,Century, the boards of today's hot technology companies can serve as a model for the next...

Integrated Device Technology Q2 Easily Beats the Street.
Integrated Device Technology Inc, the Santa Clara, California maker of microprocessors and memory products, has reported second-quarter net income of $40.5m on revenue up 18.3% at $173.5m, compared to a net loss of $239.4m in the year-ago quarter. Earnings per share came in at $0.41 but, excluding one- time...

UNIROYAL TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION.
Manufacturing a tiny but revolutionary light source. Lighting technology as we know it is ready to take a giant leap into the next millennium. Enter Sarasota-based industrial giant, Uniroyal Technology Corporation. Uniroyal has embarked on a venture that will change the lighting industry, producing a...

Complementary wastes.
COMPUTER-CHIP FACTORIES AND breweries both produce a lot of waste. Chip manufacturers generate wastewater contaminated with toxic metals, primarily mercury and lead; brewers generate "spent" yeast (which is not used-up yeast but excess yeast resulting from the organism's habit of multiplying furiously as it converts carbohydrates into alcohol). To...