From his coup in getting Bill Gates to commit to supporting the Mac and investing $150m, to cutting many of the highest profile and most beloved products in the Apple development lab because they just weren't consistent with his vision for the company, all of these are crap-your-pants risk level moves, any one of which could have killed the turnaround before it started if they had gone south.
The innovative business model being hammered out by the legal and sales teams will be at least as important as the leaps made in the research and development lab over the past ten years.
Droplet microfluidics is likely to play a central role in the development of lab-on-a-chip technologies and as a result, significant research is directed toward this field.
As Baptiste Barbot, the director of the Individual Differences in Development Lab at Pace University and a researcher at Yale's Child Study Center, points out, Galton's view held sway well into the twentieth century.
We have some very exciting functionality in our development lab right now.
Working with prominent Linux developers and promoters, the companies said, they plan to open the Open Source Development Lab in Portland, Ore., by the end of the year, then create several satellite offices around the country to support it.
In 2005, Lee joined Google from Microsoft and was charged with launching the company's presence in China, including the launch of Google.cn and the establishment of a research and development lab in the country.
"As a result we now have a large operation in the U.S., including development labs at our Enovia subsidiary in North Carolina, a software lab in Los Angeles and, through Deneb, a software lab in India.
He added, "They need someone like us to say, 'No, the best idea is to go here.' " In the 20,000-square-foot Mattson development lab, harmony reigns partly because of the corporate structure.
