Word: chen
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...already dominate women's diving. At a mere 5 ft. 3 in., 1986 World Champion Gao Min, 17, seems certain to take the gold medal on the springboard with her clockwork precision. Teammate Li Qing, 16, will vie for the silver with American Kelly McCormick. Meanwhile, Xu Yanmei and Chen Xiaodan could finish first and second in the platform contest. In the men's events, '84 Silver Medalist Tan Liangde will test Louganis' nerve and verve on the springboard, while Li Kongzheng will chase Louganis on the platform...
Anna V.E. Forrester '88-'89 was one of the delegates. The other undergraduates on the trip were Nicholas B. Basden '89, Priya Bhatia '90, Saria Brachman '88-'89, Anjen Chen '90, Jennifer M. Choo '89, Jeffrey Clarke '89, Vanessa D. Lann '90, Joannie M. Schrof '88, Nina R. Schwalbe '88-'89 and Benjamin Waldman '89. The graduate students were Allison Stranger and Steve Solnick, and Assistant Professor of History Mark D. Steinberg...
...soon be upset by the surprise entry of a new player that for the past two decades has been most conspicuous by its absence from the supercomputer market: IBM. In December the largest computer manufacturer (1987 sales: $54.2 billion) announced that it had struck a deal with Steve Chen, one of the foremost supercomputer designers, who jolted the computer world last September by suddenly leaving his post as a vice president at Cray. With financial aid from IBM, Chen has set up his own company to develop a machine 100 times as fast as any currently on the market. "People...
...prestige and enormous resources behind a radical kind of supercomputer that represents a dramatic break from the past. Since World War II, most computers have been designed to do things one step at a time, moving data in and out of a single high-speed processor. The computer Chen is building with IBM's backing will contain not one but 64 processors, all operating at the same time, in parallel, and thus significantly cutting down computing time. IBM's decision to support a major parallel-processing supercomputer project is a sign that technology is headed in that direction. Says...
Students found the Quincy location convenient. "It's excellent," Constance M. Chen '90 said. "Last year I didn't vote because you had to go to a fire station somewhere...