Word: directoral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thomas Weber, director for advanced scientific computing at the National Science Foundation in Washington, said yesterday that lab support was cut because the supercomputers' manufacturer had gone out of business...
...With the company out of business, there will be no one to fix it," Weber said. The director added that the von Neumann computers had also experienced considerable installation, hardware and software problems...
Weber said the NSF withdrew its support, about $10 million annually, when the parent company of the von Neumann computer manufacturer disbanded the subsidiary. Control Data Corporation decided to "pull the plug" on ETA System, maker of the supercomputer, the NSF director said. He did not elaborate...
...coincidentally, by the late 1920s German publications were leaders in that pursuit. The Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung, or BIZ, boosted circulation to 2 million with a new journalistic form, the photo story. Under editor Kurt Korff and publishing director Kurt Safranski, anywhere from two to five pages of BIZ, heavily dappled with photos, were devoted to a single topic: the daily routine at a Trappist monastery, the drama of a parachute jump. BIZ, London's Picture Post (edited by Stefan Lorant) and the elegant French magazine Vu drew upon a breed of independent artist-photographer, often with one foot in Bohemia...
Editorial Director: Richard B. Stolley...