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Microsoft is an afterthought in supercomputing. Changing that will take overcoming Linux--and recruiting a new breed of employee.
The most powerful lessons in life sometimes draw from long-ago experiences. So it may have been when Bill Gates reminisced last week about bypassing Harvard's computer-science classes 30 years ago. 'I was taking physiological psychology and economics,' the school's most famous nongraduate recalled. 'If you look at my course sign-up, you wouldn't think I was a software person at all.'
Microsoft is an afterthought in supercomputing. Changing that will take overcoming Linux--and recruiting a new breed of employee.
The most powerful lessons in life sometimes draw from long-ago experiences. So it may have been when Bill Gates reminisced last week about bypassing Harvard's computer-science classes 30 years ago. 'I was taking physiological psychology and economics,' the school's most famous nongraduate recalled. 'If you look at my course sign-up, you wouldn't think I was a software person at all.'
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