We heard from SMU president Dr. Gerald Turner tonight at the United Central Bank Excellence in Education banquet hosted by the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce. The United Central Bank is the signature sponsor for the 20 scholarships along with many other sponsors such as Darden Restaurants of Florida, DART, Texas Instruments, .... Had a chance to chat very briefly with Dr. Turner and Mrs. Gail Turner, both are native Texans. I have never heard a university president did a better job encouraging people to attend the university. Dr. Turner made very successful bids for the university in so many different way in a short but most enjoyable speech.

The recipients: Zachary Brown, Andy Chang, Kevin Chen, Saunak Desai, Dianne Doan, Afrin Fatema, Michael Ho, Emily Hsu, Mariam Karamali, Sodanet Khem, Stephanie Lee, Angela Lee, Michael Lee, Colin Nelson, Gloriane Nguyen, Saher Notta, Vijita Patel, Neha Thankore, Astrud Villareal, and Christine Vuong, were of the most impressive caliber. Out of twenty, two will attend SMU, two will attend Harvard, one will go to Georgetown, one off to Rice, one will be at John Hopkins, one will go to Emory, a couple will go to UT, one to A&M, another will attend the University of Dallas, one to UT Arlington, .... Additionally, Michael Lee was also the recipient of the Jerry Junkins' scholarship award and one of the girls, I can't remember who, was the recipient of the James Yoo's scholarship award.

Also got to meet and chat with Juanita Duenez-Lazo, who kindly gave me a Texas Women University thermal mug.

Seagate has started shipping its 750Gb 3.5 inch drive. We have seen storage in the terabyte range by putting together an array of the gigabyte drives. Now I guess we can look forward to single terabyte drive next year and storage in the range of petabyte by putting together an array of terabyte drives. The march will continue on with exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte, and then what? Maybe xenta or xona but we will have to wait and see, 18 * 3 = 54 months, or rougth four and a half years from now.