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The Section: Knights of Soft Rock

Danny Kortchmar Michael Putland/Getty Images By 1979, guitarist Waddy Wacht
PUBLISHED: April 11, 2013
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1279 words)

Get Rich U.

Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it’s as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever. Students ride their bikes through manicured quads, past…
PUBLISHED: April 30, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7600 words)

What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared.

In March 2009, Golan Levin, the director of Carnegie Mellon University’s interdisciplinary STUDIO for Creative Inquiry, invited an enigmatic and famed computer programmer known to the virtual…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2012
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7725 words)
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