Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.

Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.

Conversely, I came to realize that being good at something is hardly a reason to avoid doing it.

The 1970s, the decade of my teenage years, was a transitional period in American youth culture.

There are relatively few experiments in atomic physics these days that don't involve the use of a laser.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Just before my final year of high school, my brother, sister and I moved with my mother to San Francisco.