Alumni Magazine


Vol. 74, No. 2, Fall 1997
Alumni Magazine Cover, Fall 1997

Features:

Growing Pains

Heavy traffic is threatening global gridlock on the Internet as scientists seek new ways to free the Information Highway.

Equal Access

Hot Commodity

Funding R&D

Professor A.D. VanNostrand's new book explores the concept of marketing technical knowledge as an economic commodity.

The Greatest Mountain

Two Tech graduates join the "mere 3,000" who have hiked the entire Appalachian trail. It is a magical journey, but not one for the timid, the tepid, or the unlucky.

Bucket Brigade

Nature's busy bees teach industrial engineers a lesson; there are a lot of benefits in bees' self-organization.

Scientific Olympiad

The Olympic motto "swifter, higher, stronger" takes on new meaning for budding scientists in a test of brain power.

Departments:

Technotes

Research

Pacesetters

Profile: Professor Thomas D. Boston