When the bag is checked in, the tag is applied, and the airline's computer systems associate the tag's code with the passenger's electronic ticket.
He got his first job writing software at the age of 12, and by 1993, at the age of 24, he formed the Internet security company Check Point with two business partners and a borrowed computer in his associate's grandmother's apartment in Tel Aviv.
Though an academic himself -- associate professor of computer science at Yale -- Gelernter has no truck with prevailing intellectual attitudes.
"This is an imperfect science, " said Yoshi Kohno, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington.
The name may be a familiar one to you, especially if it pulled your address from a computer of a friend or business associate.
"I have all kinds of credits all over God's green earth, but I'm using this to finish it all off, " said the 41-year-old computer consultant, who has an associate degree in information technology but never finished his bachelor's in psychology.
Additional results from the Georgia Tech computer model, including in-depth associate product savings, will be revealed at Ford's display during the 2013 International CES in Las Vegas, Jan. 8-12.
Yet the idea is largely based on anecdotes, and researchers such as Karl MacDorman, associate professor of human-computer interaction at Indiana University, are working on experiments to hone in on possible explanations.
After sitting in on the Introduction to Computer Science class taught by Evan Korth, an associate NYU professor, Mr. Patel saw his peers building products and was motivated to study the topic.
Other students are turning toward computer science because of a change in social mores: A backlash against Wall Street bailouts means careers in the financial sector may now carry a negative stigma, said Adam Cannon, associate chair for undergraduate education in Columbia's department of computer science.
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