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...back bench Members of Parliament who receive but meager salaries on which they usually manage to mantain one devoted and underpaid secretary. To such MPs crowds of keen and reasonably intelligent free research assistants are manna from heaven. With the aid of one to three such assistants the beleagured MP may now indulge in as much work as he feels suitable or necessary...
...market for supercomputers, those $15 million, lightning number crunchers used for everything from the search for oil deposits to the design of nuclear weapons. The company has boasted two star computer engineers: Founder Seymour Cray, 62, and Steve Chen, 43, the Chinese-born immigrant who designed the Cray X-MP, the company's best-selling machine. Last weeksupercomputerdom's best and brightest duo decided to split up. In a move that shocked the investment community -- and sent Cray's stock tumbling 8 1/2 points in a single day -- the company announced the cancellation of its most advanced supercomputer project...
...climaxes decades of brilliant ideas, technological innovations and the contributions of incandescent personalities. "Had astronomers been watching," he writes, "they could have seen ((the explosion)) reflected from the moon, literal moonshine." But moments after the artificial sunburst, witnesses became awed captives of their immediate surroundings: "The horses in the MP stable still whinnied in fright; the paddles of the dusty Aermotor windmill at Base Camp still spun away the energy of the blast; the frogs had ceased to make love in the puddles...
...When a reporter calls with a question that he cannot immediately answer, Daly plugs into a network that reaches from the company's Pittsburgh headquarters to its El Segundo, Calif., aerospace facility, linking 10,000 terminals, 7,000 personal computers, 60 high-performance minicomputers and one Cray X-MP supercomputer. Tapping that electronic brain trust, he can quickly get answers on anything from the status of Rockwell's satellites to the prospects for more B-1 bombers. "The value of networking is that you can share data and information," says James Sutter, Rockwell's general manager of information systems...
Hillis may be using hyperbole. But if the initial kinks can be worked out, his strange new machine will be capable of operating at speeds in excess of 1 billion instructions a second--roughly the power of a Cray X-MP supercomputer but at a quarter the cost. Moreover, the Connection Machine offers the hope of solving problems in machine vision and artificial intelligence for which today's supercomputers are woefully ill equipped. Says Stephen Squires, a spokesman for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Defense Department bureau that put up $4.7 million for the computer's development...