Then one of the entrepreneurs who had worked in a quite high-tech garage remembered a technology for measuring exactly how much fluid got dispensed, and where, in car maintenance.
Lee went on to graduate, work for a consulting firm and start a high-tech company that licensed technology from MIT to help create special effects for film and video production houses.
Some, like Austin, are high-tech centers that offer abundant technology jobs.
Today, two trends -- dramatic, sculptural forms and a Super High Tech that exploits unprecedented advances in technology, both made possible by the computer -- vie for drop-dead honors.
The finding by Gartner, the market research firm that serves as the high-technology industry's closest counsel, signals that high-tech's green hype machine is about to find another gear.
Pittsburgh "has transformed itself from the city of steel to a center for high-tech innovation -- including green technology, education and training, and research and development, " the president said.
The greatest strength, but also the greatest weakness of high tech is that whenever a cool new technology comes along we all race to implement it into whatever we are doing.
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Throughout this period, while we received warnings from commission after commission and expert after expert that the threat was growing and that the United States was not prepared, the United States sent its new friends, China and Russia, high-tech dual-use equipment and technology, while they in turn supplied North Korea and Iran.
The Information Technology Industry Council, a high-tech lobbying group, recently passed over its top in-house Republican in naming its new president.
Italy's second largest airport has adopted a high-tech passenger tracking system developed by a Scottish business technology solutions company.
This helps to explain why Europe lags America in both the development of high-tech industries and the pace of investment in information technology.
When he is not busy with his academic pursuits, Sina enjoys staying on the bleeding edge of technology and working with small, high-tech startup companies.
The opportunity to make a quicker, bigger buck in high-tech has traditionally skewed the Midas List toward information technology investors and away from the life sciences.
And of course, we shouldn't forget Vladikavkaz Technology Center's Baspik , which makes high-tech night-vision equipment--just what every sapper team needs anywhere in the world.
Mr Baldwin is one of five investors who have built a high-tech research park on Maui in hopes of luring information-technology firms to the state.
There were 880 new lows on the high-tech Nasdaq index, while some of the biggest names in technology are now worth less than half their market value just a few months - or even days - ago.
Moroney suggests mixing the virtues of dividend stocks and the relative strength this year of the technology sector by tapping into a high dividend-payer in tech.
The picture of an increasingly high-tech education was revealed in the 1999 Survey of Information and Communications Technology, which was published by the Government Statistical Service.
The Soviet defense establishment is signalling an interest in developing more formidable, high-tech weaponry -- for which infusions of Western dual-use technology would be especially valuable.
The personal computer is one of the great inventions of the 20th century, and though we like to think of it as a new technology, it is, in fact, ancient by high tech measures.
Other areas of high-tech are premised less on breakthrough innovations and more on the application of technology to massive new markets in retailing, advertising, media, financial services, education, publishing, communications, fashion and music.
That is especially true of those engaged in developing and producing military technology, since U.S. combat systems are high-tech products that contribute positively to the balance of trade (America is the largest exporter of weapons in the world).
In such cases, stringent regulation might hinder the adoption of technology by existing firms, or restrict the entry of new high-tech firms.
Jeff Landy of the Information Technology Association thinks there's simply wider acceptance now that the high-tech industry needs these workers.
Mr Gore wants to stand out as the man who can sustain the high-tech boom, and at the same time devise measures that protect the weak from technology's more alarming consequences.
"Our take is that the marketplace ought to be setting the standard, " says Bob Cohen, a spokesman for the Information Technology Association of America, a trade group for computer, telecommunications and high-tech companies.
Stanley Ng, an accountant at Marvell Technology, had access to financial (earnings) information while he worked for the high tech company.
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The core of the government's plan is to shift the burden for faster, high tech airport security onto the profit seeking private sector, rather than use taxpayer money to fund fast track technology for all.
Today's students depend on technology to live, work and play, and today's colleges have to provide high-tech tools in order to attract the best applicants.
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