Across

5. INTRANET—A private network for sharing and storing information.

6. TEMPCO—Temperature coefficient.

8. AAA—Batteries, Minor League baseball, and car insurance.

10. GERMANIUM—Ge

12. BUSHNELL—American engineer and entrepreneur (1943–) who founded Atari in 1972.

13. CASSINI—Italian-born astronomer (1625–1712) who discovered four of Saturn's moons.

15. MICROPHONE—Mick Jagger's transducer.

Down

1. FISCHER—American chess champion who defeated Boris Spassky in the "Match of the Century" (1972).

2. CROP—To cut out superfluous pieces of an image.

3. PEER—The "P" in P2P.

4. PERMAFROST—Permanently frozen layer of soil.

6. TRANSDUCER—An electrical device that converts one form of energy into another.

7. SNIFFER—Software that can monitor traffic in a network.

9. SIRIUS—"The Dog Star"

10. GATES—The billionaire who in June 2006 announced that he would turn his daily focus from software to philanthropy in 2008.

11. MIT—Research university founded in 1861 by William Barton Rogers.

14. SUMP—A hole or a low area into which liquids drain.

16. CURIE—Scientist (1867–1934) who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics