{"id":765,"date":"2008-12-31T10:11:15","date_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/31\/bears-make-year-end-lists-for-achievements-in-science-and-technology\/"},"modified":"2008-12-31T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:11:15","slug":"bears-make-year-end-lists-for-achievements-in-science-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/12\/bears-make-year-end-lists-for-achievements-in-science-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears make year-end lists for achievements in science and technology"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a couple of Baylor-related items in science and technology year-end wrap-ups that seemed worth sharing.<\/p>\n

TechRepublic.com, a news site by and for IT professionals, named Baylor alumnus Mark Hurd it’s No. 1 most influential leader in business technology for 2008<\/a>, topping a list that included more well-known names such as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. It specifically notes Hurd’s leadership in taking Hewlett-Packard back to the top of the PC market (even overtaking Dell) while also moving into a tie for the lead in servers with IBM.<\/p>\n

London’s Daily Telegraph<\/em>, meanwhile, included a paper by two Baylor physicists on how “warp drive<\/a>” could be achieved in a list of “the greatest scientific achievements, discoveries and breakthroughs of 2008<\/a>.” The research by Baylor professor Dr. Gerald Cleaver and doctoral student Richard Obousy was covered earlier this year by such outlets as the Discovery Channel<\/a> and MSNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sic \u2019em, Bears in the news!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I came across a couple of Baylor-related items in science and technology year-end wrap-ups that seemed worth sharing. TechRepublic.com, a news site by and for IT professionals, named Baylor alumnus Mark Hurd it’s No. 1 most influential leader in business technology for 2008, topping a list that included more well-known names such as Bill Gates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-honors","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}