INTEL GIVES STUDENTS AN IT BOOST.
Intel Microelectronics Philippines today announced a new PC purchasing program that makes owning one of today's hottest desktop and notebook PCs more affordable for students. From June 1 to 15, students from the Ateneo de Manila University can purchase either a desktop PC powered by the Intel...

SINGAPORE'S GROWTH COMES IN SPURTS.
During the second quarter of 2002, it appeared that strong industrial growth would drive up demand for inputs through this year and next, but the momentum of expansion had slowed considerably by midyear. Sales were up 7.5 percent during the second quarter and it looks as though the industrial...

Genetics based machine learning approach to lot release scheduling in a semiconductor manufacturing system.
Abstract: This paper presents a new approach to lot release scheduling using genetics based machine learning (GBML). A scheduling agent with a classifier system (CS), which is one GBML method, is employed to generate product-dispatching rules that release materials onto the production floor according to the state of the...

Intel backs PC platform change.
Byline: edison d. ong Intel has produced new chipsets and microprocessors to make personal computer experience more entertaining and productive. The foundation for the PC platform change is a trio of new Intel chipsets - the "glue" between the microprocessor and the rest of the...

Continual Learning in the New Marketplace.
In the 1960s and '70s I remember hearing warnings that half the jobs that would exist in the year 2000 didn't yet exist. Pretty hard to believe, wasn't it? We couldn't imagine that such widescale change really would take place. Well, the year 2000 has come and...

Cyber-Trespassing: Actionable e-mail. (Citings).
SENDING UNWELCOME e-mail can now be considered trespassing, according to a December ruling by a California court. The case grew out of a squabble between Kourosh Kenneth Hamidi and Intel Corp., which fired him after a workman's compensation dispute. Hamidi decided to air his grievances with fellow...

Shades of green: stock tips for environmentally motivated investors. .
If you have some money to invest, you may want to put it to work doing double duty, both promoting a healthier environment and incubating your nest egg. Some carefully selected stocks will yield immediate results for the environment; others require more patience. Just as smart investors...

State-technologist Nexus in Taiwan's high-tech policymaking: semiconductor and wireless communications industries.
The literature on East Asia's political economies identifies cohesive state bureaucracy and its effective intervention in the market as the key factors that have enabled the East Asian economic miracle and that differentiate the success of East Asian newly industrializing countries (NICs) from the failure of other developing countries....

Enterprise users up smarten: the wireless revolution hits the road as mobile workers begin to exploit high functioning devices.
Secret agent Maxwell Smart thought he was, well, "pretty smart" whenever he took off his shoe and turned it into a mobile phone to call his boss back at Control headquarters, but little did he realize the implication of the "smart" phone. The evolution of the mobile...

LUDL DEBUTS BIOPOINT 2 MOTORIZED MICROSCOPE STAGE.
The BioPoint 2, a new XY motorized microscope stage incorporating the best ergonomic design available on the market, is the latest product innovation from Ludl Electronic Products, Hawthorne, N.Y. The BioPoint 2 is the result of the company's 25 years of extensive customer research in providing the best in...