Dallas / Northfield / New York / Norfolk / San Jose / /
Company
Thinking Machines Inc. / General Mills / Counterpane Internet Security Inc. / Quaker Oats / Secure Digital Music / /
Country
United States / China / Philippines / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Bankruptcy / /
Facility
Fort Meade / Okaley College / HarperPerennial Library / University of Minnesota / /
IndustryTerm
Internet venture / word processor / high-tech solution / imaginative solutions / weapons systems / online novel / Internet entertainment platform / authorized software / Internet Security Expert Would / e - business / oil / high-tech hype / Internet startup / chief device / cryptographic systems / financial advice / bank vault stop professional thieves / e - commerce / high-tech fixes / Internet story / high-tech corporate intrigue / Internet novel / digital watermarking systems / quantum computing / /
Organization
National Security Agency / Institute for Mathematics / United States Navy / Okaley College / University of Minnesota / /
Person
Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse / Tom Clancy / Stephen King / Lawrence Waterhouse / Thomas Pynchon / Rebecca Goldstein / Randy Waterhouse / Neal Stephenson / Alan Turing / Jack Ryan / Bobby Shaftoe / Charles Baxter / David Foster Wallace / Barry A. Cipra / Bruce Schneier / Norman Mailer / /
Position
national security adviser / editor / businessman / President / politician / mathematical consultant / secretary / public lecturer / chief / mathematician / author / word processor for technical detail / spy / King / artist / word processor / writer / dedicated DVD player / mathematician and writer / future president / Clancy’s future president / /
from SIAM News, Volume 34, Number 4 A Tale of Two Technothrillers[removed]Cryptonomicon. By Neal Stephenson, HarperPerennial Library, New York, 2000, 918 pages, $[removed]paper). The Bear and the Dragon. By Tom Clancy, Putn