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Barker, Katie

BARKER, KATIE. Interactions between actin and proteins involved in translation. (advisor Kim Kandl). Many studies have implicated a role for actin in translation, and actin and actin binding proteins are known to interact with proteins involved in translation. For example, eukaryotic elongation factor 1A (eEF1A) has been found to bundle actin in vitro (Yang et al., 1990). Furthermore, Sla1p, an...

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Katie Hafner: The Origins of the Internet

T he Arpanet was quietly decommissioned on 28 February 1990. The modern Internet, with its speed, graphics, and video, might make its precursor seem like a dusty antique from a much earlier age, but today’s Internet owes a tremendous amount of its success to research done while building the Arpanet. Back in 1993, Katie Hafner, then a Newsweek reporter and co-author (with John Markoff) of Cyberp...

VarèSE's POème éLectronique Regained: Evidence from the VEP Project

The Poème Électronique in the Philips Pavilion at the World Fair of Brussels 1958 was a unique experience, the very first multimedia project to involve a sense of the total experience of vision and sound. Realized by three relevant personalities of contemporary culture, Le Corbusier (conception after Kalff, coordination and visual show), Varèse (organized spatial sound delivered over 350 loudsp...

Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman ( 2003 ) Rules of Play : Game

“Unlike other design fields like architecture and graphic design, game design lacks a critical discourse that bridges theory and practice to help designers better understand games as cultural objects and to help critics and scholars better understand how developers conceptualise the creation of their games. On the academic side, too much writing about games takes place ‘over the shoulder’ of ga...