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VOLUME NUMBER 3 PASADENA, CALIFORNIA OCTOBER 2005 By ADAM CRAIG Nevada, October 8, to what Alice had erroneously By PERRY 2005, around 11 :30AM Alice, the computed to be the track sent her 2005 Sportsmobile 4WD succes crashing through the barricade, David Baltimore, the seventh this VISIon of excel sor to last year's Bob, had com crushing concrete blocks under president of the California In lence into the future," pleted 8.3 miles ofgrueling desert her robust Ford E350 frame and stitute ofTechnology, will retire said Kent Kresa, the driving, easily avoiding obstacles swiftly mounting the sand berm on June 30, 2006, after nearly chairman ofthe Caltech and handily navigating the tortu beyond them. For a few breath nine years in the post. He will Board ofTrustees. ous course. Team Caltech's dedi less moments, it looked as if the remain at the Institute, where he Baltimore, 67, as cated band ofscruffy-chinned CS, reporters gathered in the press intends to focus on his scientific sumed the presidency and CDS students had stands would be next to share work and teaching. on October 15, 1997. taken great to strengthen the concrete blocks' as the "This is not a decision that I His tenure saw many and refine path-following wayward robot truck barreled to have made easily," Baltimore ward the huddled media masses. significant events at module in order to avoid a repeat announced to the Caltech trust of last year's mishap, in which But the quick reflexes of the staff Caltech. Early on, he Bob strayed off course, plowed at the DARPA command center ees, faculty, staff, and students, oversawthecompletion through a barbed wire fence, then averted catastrophe by guiding "but I am convinced that the of a fund-raising initia entangled his rear axle in another their fingers to the emergency interests of the Institute will tive for the biological segment of the barbed wire fence remote disable switch, bringing be best served by a presiden sciences, marked by upon reentry.
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