February 26, 1999

Stanford Computer-Science Professor Creates a Pocket-Sized Web Server

By KELLY McCOLLUM

Watch where you step in the computer-science department at Stanford University. There may be a Web server hiding under that scrap of paper.

Vaughan Pratt, a professor of computer science at Stanford, has created what he says is the world's smallest World-Wide Web server, a computer that is capable of sending images, sounds, or text to Web surfers around the world. But unlike most such computers, Mr. Pratt's

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