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Recent Articles by Katie Hafner

A Paternity Dispute Divides Net Pioneers
November 8, 2001

A dispute is churning around credit for a modern scientific breakthrough: packet switching. Few people have heard of packet switching, much less its origins, but the Internet wouldn't work without it.

Privacy's Guarded Prognosis
March 1, 2001

With more medical records stored on computer networks, whose eyes will see them?
Sidebar: Protecting Privacy: Think Twice, Then Ask Questions

Internet Age Becomes the Dark Age
February 8, 2001

In an increasingly wired world, blackouts can mean the destruction of computer data, the cutting off of any kind of Internet connection, even physical damage to computers.

A New Way of Verifying Old and Familiar Sayings
February 1, 2001

Relying on electronic databases and online resources, Fred Shapiro is creating his own compendium of notable sayings and phrases that he hopes will compete with Bartlett's Quotations.

Web Sites Begin to Self Organize
January 18, 2001

An emerging class of self-organizing Web sites are demonstrating that with a dab or two of well-written code and a bit of careful planning, a site can take a random collection of links or posts and turn them into a sophisticated, adaptive system.

Digital Photos: Easy to Take, Tough to Take Care Of
January 4, 2001

The popularity of digital cameras has created a new problem: how to store all those pictures.

Earlier Articles by Katie Hafner

Technology Boom Too Tempting for Many Government Scientists
September 19, 2000

The technology boom has made the lure of the private sector so strong that national research laboratories are losing their best and brightest in growing numbers.