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If you get them going, the University of Maryland academics who are devoting their days to nanotechnology research will spout off dozens of ways their chosen field could someday change the world. |
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It is Saturday afternoon in Rockville, and the boys are furiously fighting terrorists. |
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For the past 20 years, Andrew Sherman has been helping Washington area technology companies grow as a regular on the workshop circuit and as a teacher in university MBA programs. |
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This is the kind of advantage Washington technology companies long for as their geographic right:
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More than 10 years ago, two professors and a graduate student at Virginia Tech began tinkering with Global Positioning System technology, trying to find out if the navigation tool could guide a drill inside a factory as well as it guides a submarine under the sea. |
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Ask folks along the Interstate 270 corridor if there's enough venture capital around to sustain a thriving biotechnology industry in the region, and you'll hear widely divergent responses. |
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The 500 technologists hunkered down in the Reston Hyatt this week are plotting the best way to push us onto the new Internet. |
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Last month, the techies at Georgetown University embarked on a rather ambitious mission: curing cancer.
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Local executive Neville Street has a firm rule against bringing cell phones to company meetings. He knows how tempting it is to quietly pull out one of the devices and fire off a few friendly text messages while the bosses discuss the business at hand. |
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Each of the 300 technology professionals who attended the annual gala for George Mason University's School of Information Technology and Engineering Friday evening walked away with a compact disc of classical music containing a thinly veiled message from Lloyd Griffiths , dean of the department. |
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Francis S. Collins arrived a bit late to the theater, so he had to take a seat in the front row -- about two feet from the actor playing Francis S. Collins. |
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In December, Xybernaut Corp . issued 12 glowing press releases, each one trumpeting its grand successes in "mobile computing" -- the phrase it uses to describe its line of gadgets built into work clothes for soldiers, stock clerks and others.
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Rob McGovern , founder of the online job site CareerBuilder.com , is an entrepreneur at his core. But last June, his job title became "venture partner." For months, McGovern holed up in the Reston office of New Enterprise Associates , looking at business plans, meeting with start-up executives and deliberating the merits of seemingly far-fetched technology schemes. |
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By 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, when the crowd at the FOSE trade show was just beginning to swell, Marie L. Hartis had already been visited by a contracting matchmaker, asking if her company, Itronix Corp. , needed help selling to the government. |
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In the early afternoon in Severna Park, Ira Winkler sits on his couch, casually moving one hand across the mouse pad of his laptop computer. His three boys come and go, and his puppy, Bandit, plays underfoot. Within 30 minutes, Winkler has gathered identities and home addresses of employees at the company he is attacking. He knows the names of the servers holding the corporation's precious data and he knows which systems are vulnerable. |
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The future of technology in Washington may well be within the digital operations of some big, old players in our back yard: Discovery , National Geographic , The Washington Post , AOL and Gannett.
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Lobbying against the regional Bells is about to become a lonely cause for XO Communications Inc . of Reston. |
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