The shop's owner, Mike Maad, who has lived in Anchorage for 20 years and is of Syrian descent, found computer equipment and printers smashed when he came to his shop on Saturday.
Recently, St. John, who was born in San Francisco and is of Mexican descent, provided computers, electricity and Internet access to La Cantera, a barrio in Zacatecas, Mexico, through her foundation, El Saber Es Poder/Knowledge Is Power (miastjohnfoundation.org).org
His "World of Wires," seen this month at the Kitchen in New York, follows the descent of one brave computer techie into an alternative, digitally simulated universe.
The Mars Polar Lander, for example, disappeared without a trace last Dec. 3 as it was beginning its computer-controlled descent, and engineers still have no clue as to what went wrong.
It's a long time before Mr. Williams's Genie makes his arrival, and some of the film's early moments -- notably Aladdin's descent into a daunting, computer-animated cave -- are on the scary side.
But they were stone-faced about the still-unidentified glitch that caused their Russian capsule to break off a computer-guided descent for a far sharper drop to Earth, subjecting them to crushing gravity forces and leaving them 300 miles short of their landing target.
With the shuttle approaching from the south after a computer-orchestrated descent, the mission commander, Mark L. Polansky, took over manual control 50,000 feet above the Florida spaceport, banked to line up on Runway 15 and guided the 110-ton craft to a picture-perfect touchdown at 10 48 a.m., Eastern time.
His parents want the Paris Kanellakis Fellowship Fund to be used to support the studies of a Greek graduate student or an American student of Greek descent in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS).
With the computer controlling the descent by changing the attitude of the spacecraft, Apollo 8 rose briefly like a skipping stone before descending to the ocean.
The lunar module, or LM (pronounced lem), was dubbed "Eagle". Its 1969 computer, overtaxed during the descent and flashing alarm lights as it fell behind on its work, guided the spiderlike craft most of the way to the surface.
