In 1986, American statesman Averell Harriman died in Yorktown Heights, New York, at age 94.

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At IBM's research lab in Yorktown Heights, New York, computer scientist Baruch Schieber is using linear programming to help an IBM client schedule hours for 250 workers at a call center.

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Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.

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Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.

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If the light were not infrared but were instead in the visible spectrum, there was enough of it that the naked eye could have seen a glow, according to Phaedon Avouris , manager of nanometer scale science and technology at IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) Research Laboratories in Yorktown Heights, N.

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