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How Chip Designers Leave Their Mark

What happens to art majors once they graduate? Designing computer chips seems to be an option. Microscope buff Michael Davidson stumbled onto the practice of etching images on chip surfaces four years ago, when he found hide-and-seek champ Waldo staring back at him from a microprocessor. The arty signatures are too small to be seen with the naked eye, but examples of the hidden graffiti can be viewed at Davidson's Silicon Zoo Web site: micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/.

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