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COMTECH is Santa Monica College's Student Chapter of the ACM, the largest computing organization in the world. Comtech provides an open forum for those interested in all fields of computer related technology. All students are welcome regardless of experience with, or knowledge of computers. Throughout the semester we intend to sponsor various extracurricular activities including social gatherings, site tours of computing facilities, and lectures by industry members.

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| € |  NANO-SIZED MICROCHIPS? HP SAYS SO A C|Net News story is reporting that HP has announced they have made breakthroughs that 'help turn out powerful computers that fit on the head of a pin with room to spare.' Also in the article, that the patent announced Wednesday, will produce no two chips that are the same. 'Each one will be customized for a particular function,' says Stanley Williams, the chemist on the team. The work was done by himself, Phil Kuekes, a computer architect, and James Heath, a UCLA professor. The chips use nanowires and the chips are said to be even less than the size of bacterium. Sounds cool enough. The biggest part of the breakthrough isn't the chips themselves, but that HP plans to be able to 'fix' chips which come out with imperfections, thus saving money on an already cheap process.
Thursday, January 24, 2002

| ¥ |  COMTECH'S WEB SITE HAS A NEW LOOK Comtech's site has been rebuilt. It will be updated on a regular basis from now on.
Wednesday, January 23, 2002

| ¥ |  COMTECH STAFF MEETING Meeting to plan our activities for the Spring 2002 semester. All suggestions are welcome.
Friday, January 18, 2002

| £ |  ACM HAS A NEW PORTAL Don't miss to take a look at ACM's new portal system. Search and browse a substantive bibliographic database from the key publishers in computing including books, journals, proceedings and theses.
Thursday, January 17, 2002


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