Origin of the term "wixel"

[Gfactor]

I’m looking for the book and/or author in which the term wixel was coined. I know what it means, here it is in context:

Despite the starvation of teaching, universities are receiving and spending money as never before. Where is it going? The answer varies from school to school–at one it will be computer science, at a second genetic engineering, at a third high-energy physics–but in all cases the money is going to hire “world class scholars” at world class salaries, and to set them up in business. At my university, world class scholars have become a kind of consumer item, like fancy computer systems, and are known, collectively, as WCSl’s or wixels. They are purchased on the open market. One wixel can cost tens of millions of dollars by the time the university is finished providing the building, space-age equipment, and numerous support personnel that the wixel has been promised. Wixels don’t have time to teach, not even graduate students.

http://web.nmsu.edu/~kallred/herbweb/newpage19.htm
I used to know the book that first used the term, but have since forgotten what it was. Help?

[Reeder]

Wixel is just the pronunciation of WCSL. It’s not a real word.

[Gfactor]

@Reeder

Wixel is just the pronunciation of WCSL. It’s not a real word.

As I said before, someone used the term wixel in a book. I read it. I understand the derivation. I’m trying to find the book.

[Lambo]

Well, a quick amazon search on ‘wixel’ came up with a mention of the word, in a quote that said “…Wixels (David Ehrenfeld’s nickname for World Class Scholars)…”

Another amazon.com search of David Ehrenfeld came up with these books:
The Arrogance of Humanism
Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium
Swimming Lessons: Keeping Afloat in the Age of Technology

And I think there were a few others. Any help?

[Gfactor]

Ehrenfeld wrote the article that I quoted in the OP. IIRC somebody else wrote about wixels first, but I’m not even certain of that. I think that I will check out some of Ehrenfeld’s books first and see if I can find the reference that I’m looking for, or maybe a citation. Thanks.