A Silicon Valley laboratory shuts down; research effort tried to shape technology still years away

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Co-founder Paul G. Allen has shut down advanced computer lab Interval Research Corp. after eight years. The research group had sought to develop technologies related to high-bandwidth data communications. Many employees will be offered positions at a for-profit group that will work on advanced broadband technology, to be set up by Vulcan Ventures, Mr. Allen's investment group. Analysts said that the group's insistence on secrecy, as well as the attempt to do long-term research in the high-pressure Internet commerce environment, led to the firm's demise. The firm plans to spin off at least three high-tech start-ups, including Fantasma, which will work on unproven communications technology for ultra-wide-band radio.

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I.B.M. computer researchers push tiny to a new extreme

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Scientists at I.B.M. have created transistors using a new material that is only as large as a few molecules pushing towards computers that can be far samller and more powerful than today's systems. The researchers' new technology is based on a material called carbon nanotubes.

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I.B.M. to announce expansion of data-density storage limit

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I.B.M. researchers have managed to expand data-density limits in computer storage technology which will enable the concern to use the new technology in the manufacture of some of its most recent disk drives.

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