Silicon built an industry and named a valley. But like athletes who have reached their performance thresholds, silicon and other semiconductors are nearing their limits. Enter "insulators," a different class of materials like diamonds that, with the addition of the right mineral impurities or "defects," will be far more adept at handling the data- and image-processing demands of the Information Age. How to better harness the power of insulators for tomorrow's technology is the focus of the 13th International Conference on Defects in Insulating Materials (ICDIM96) July 15- 19 at Wake Forest University.
Wake Forest University's composer-in-residence Dan Locklair has created the first musical composition based on the poem Maya Angelou wrote for Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential inauguration. "Since Dawn (A Tone Poem for Narrator, Chorus and Orchestra based on Maya Angelou's `On the Pulse of Morning')" will be premiered by the Winston-Salem Piedmont Triad Symphony Sept. 28 at Wake Forest University.