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Politicians regularly employ sports metaphors to get their points across, to ensure the voters that they are just "regular" guys. Even George Bush, vice president and candidate with the wimp factor, was captain of Yale's baseball team. And after his 1984 debate with Geraldine Ferraro, he indulged in some spontaneous male bonding with a group of dockworkers. "We kicked some ass," he said. The sports allusion, as well as the sexist content, of his remark is clear...
...some not much bigger than a California hot tub. But looks can be deceiving. Supercomputers often squeeze out the last bit of processing speed by shrinking the distances electrons have to travel within their wiring. They are tightly packed workhorses that require a whole array of supporting equipment. Some employ full-size mainframe computers just to shuttle programs in and out of their processing units. The machines may be connected, by cable or satellite, to hundreds of remote terminals that can transform raw numerical output into stunning 3-D graphics. They often need industrial-size refrigeration units to keep...
...they have coaxed a 1,024-processor computer into solving several problems more than 1,000 times as fast as a single-processor machine acting alone, an unprecedented speedup that suggests the performance of supercomputers may in the future be related almost directly to the number of processors they employ...
...Mellon University to develop XCon (for Expert Configurator), a system to assist salesmen in choosing parts for DEC computer systems from among tens of thousands of alternatives. XCon went on line in 1981, and for several years it was the only expert system in commercial use that companies could employ to gauge the worth of their technology. Today XCon configures almost every Digital computer system and saves the company $25 million annually...
...policy questions as: Should ideology matter in tenure decisions? Could the Law School have enough scholars in CLS--the radical field of legal thought that has divided the faculty into fueding factions--or should each scholar be evaluated independently? What does it mean that many young scholars choose to employ the analytical tools of CLS in their research, and will the Law School be trapped in the past if it turns its back on CLS? Should tenure-tracked candidates--who until two years ago had been routinely promoted to permanent posts for 17 straight years--be scrutinized more closely...