eprintid: 570 rev_number: 13 eprint_status: archive userid: 141 dir: disk0/00/00/05/70 datestamp: 2009-09-21 19:50:08 lastmod: 2019-10-03 22:52:20 status_changed: 2009-09-21 19:50:08 type: journal_issue metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 title: Engineering and Science, Volume 57:4, Summer 1994 ispublished: pub subjects: journal_issue full_text_status: public date: 1994-06 date_type: published publication: Engineering and Science volume: 57 number: 4 publisher: California Institute of Technology place_of_pub: Pasadena, CA id_number: CaltechES:57.4.0 refereed: FALSE issn: 0013-7812 editors_name: Dietrich, Jane official_url: https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:57.4.0 rights: You are granted permission for individual, educational, research and non-commercial reproduction, distribution, display and performance of this work in any format. collection: CaltechES toc:
Building an Insect Brain
by Kai Zinn
Human and insect brains have more in common than you might think. Studying how the
insect central nervous system is put together may teach us how our own brains get wired up.
The Northridge Earthquake and the "Earthquake Deficit"
by Egill Hauksson
A geophysical look at the Northridge earthquake, and why seismologists are warning Los Angeles
that there are probably more earthquakes in store over the next few years.
The Accidental Entrepreneur
by Gordon E. Moore
One of Silicon Valley's pioneers (and chair of Caltech's board of trustees) describes how he fell
into starting companies and how he learned on the job how to run them.
Roger W. Sperry, 1904-1994
Friends and colleagues eulogize the Nobel laureate, known for his work on the functional
specialization of the two hemispheres of the brain—among other things.
Departments
Books: Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy by Kip Thorne; No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman by Christopher Sykes
citation: Engineering and Science, Volume 57:4, Summer 1994. [Journal Issue] https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechES:57.4.0