Previous Caltech faculty members include 33 Nobel laureates and visiting professors Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
For every interesting gadget or prototype, there were dozens of small booths hawking digital detritus.
Organizers said an email from Hawking cited the boycott as a reason not to attend.
In Israel, however, Hawking's decision was viewed as an indication of support for a boycott.
That's a startling number for a social network, more akin to the relentlessly hawking enterprise-software crowd.
Here Isaac Newton theorised, Darwin pondered, Crick and Watson discovered DNA and Stephen Hawking hypothesised.
The spectacular opening ceremony with Professor Stephen Hawking attracted a peak TV audience of 11m.
The concept: Prehistoric pitchmen ditch their gig hawking auto insurance for a shot at prime time.
MarkMonitor's study analyzed 2, 986 sites hawking major pharmaceutical brands pulled from its pool of spam e-mails.
There were always children hawking ID holders, cellular air time cards, and other trinkets.
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In 1998 an Australian crime ring was caught hawking knockoffs of the famed 1990 Penfolds Grange.
Its members have included Robert Hooke, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, and Steven Hawking.
He started hawking them as a college sophomore, a means to earn pizza money.
Squatting vendors of tea and kebab jostle soapbox ranters hawking high ideals and dirty calumny.
Krebs goatee--he would stand by his car and explain its virtues while hawking Rat Fink wares.
As Stephen Hawking has demonstrated, black holes eventually evaporate in a burst of radiation.
Of course, brokers hawking investments will continue to look for new places of opportunity.
Investment bankers will no doubt be hawking similar schemes to any rich country with budget problems.
He also commanded his sales force to start hawking Clariion just as hard as Symmetrix.
Nawal eventually bought gas from a person who was hawking it for triple the price.
Today, its streets are still lined with multi-ethnic vendors hawking fresh produce beside Italian cheesemongers and butchers.
Stephen Hawking is an internationally-recognized theoretical physicist, and is the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
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The trail is lined with honour-system huts hawking locally quarried quartz and crystals with prices as low as five francs.
Israel Maimon, chairman of the Presidential Conference, said Hawking's decision to pull out of the event was wrong.
Tim Holt, media director at the University of Cambridge, said Hawking's decision was based strictly on health concerns.
During the warmer months, you will also find street vendors hawking jewellery, art, T-shirts, hats and other crafts.
Turn on the TV in a Laughlin hotel room, and there he is every half-hour hawking his wares.
In 1998, Hawking published "A Brief History of Time, " a layman's guide to the origins of the universe.
"Hotze, " said Golz grinning, making the sound deep in his throat as though hawking with a bad cold.
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