Selected articles

Technology

• Silicon Valley’s radio roots make region 100 years old
• Businesslike foundation pushes novel approach to multiple sclerosis research
• Fabless/foundry semiconductor firms
• Ultra short pulse lasers
• Video surveillance software at SFO
• Silicon Valley holds its own
• Tech transfer tribe comes to SF
• Microsoft’s robotics software
• Network Neutrality: Speed bumps on the information highway
• Code Warrior
• Robot cars aim to kick up dust
• Stanford team apparent winners in robot car race

Biotechnology

• Genome Race ends in a tie with simultaneous publication of DNA maps by private, public teams
• Column warns of biotech stock bubble
• Scoop! Celera milestone in Genome Race
• Early article on using transgenic animals to produce therapeutic proteins
• Ethical conflicts in academia from Bayh-Dole patent-and-profit model of discovery
• Studying the development of Zebrafish with transparent eggs
• Behind the Race to Decipher DNA Code
• Sangstat generic drug investigation
• South San Francisco, The Biotech Capitol
• First whiff of unraveling of Stanford-UCSF Merger
• Biotech stocks get hot but Bioscope column warns investors not to get burned
• Jellyfish Genes Create Glow-in-the-Dark Dogs? Stanford scientists have done it in rats
• Early, possibly first popular press story on proteomics

 

General interest

• Copper: the scrap that roared
• College or H-1B visas? Educate tomorrow’s workers or import them, report says
• Pacific Lumber files for bankruptcy
• 200 renegades go on anti-war rampage in San Francisco
• 1999, Chronicle to put itself up for sale
• 2000 Just for fun, a computer program that plays poker!

Workers’ Compensation

• System seen as ripe for overhaul
• New pinch on workers’ comp
• Legislature expected to pass compromise package on workers’ comp

Economics

• Decades don’t douse Milton Friedman’s fire
• Tougher bankruptcy rules await debt-ridden consumers
• Greenspan legacy: long expansions, short recessions

Pre-bubble technology

• Cyberscape tech column debut
• 1996 Comdex // ode to the shrinking transistor
• 1996 Flawed Intel Pentium Pro
• 1996 IETF Meeting in San Jose
• 1997 Digital Bay Column on Jobs & Ellison prank
• 1997 How Steve Jobs killed the clones
• 1998 Linus Torvalds
• 1998 Tech Execs get shield
• 1998 Wake up and smell the merger