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DURING THE past month the Harvard-Radcliffe community has been saddened--even desolated--by two suicides. On March 24 an Adams House sophomore, John Neumann, jumped to his death from the Criminal Courts building in Manhattan. According to The Harvard Crimson, friends described Neumann as "cheerful, outgoing and laid back," although he had been depressed for a few days before leaving for New York. He often traveled to New York to engage in meditation sessions with Sri Chinmoy, of whom Leonard Bernstein had written: "What power is in this man's music. My spirit is very, very deeply impressed...
...service of thanksgiving for Ru Selle's life was held on April 26th in Memorial Church Professor Patricia Herlihy, co-master of Mather House, was, like most everyone, almost at a loss for words. "What can be said about a 21-year-old who died?" Like John Neumann, Ru Selle was an idealist of powerful commitments who found it difficult to reconcile her enthusiasms with the world she saw around her. In high school, she was devoted to her church and in college most generous to her friends. The quotation from Ru Selle which was chosen to appear...
...future of computers will be determined by the degree of success scientists enjoy with the concept of "parallel processing." Instead of directing all the computer's labor through a central unit, the work will be divided among many data processing units. The departure from the "von Neumann architecture," named for its founder, will enable programmers to avoid a "bottleneck." The rewards could be substantial since the "von Neumann bottleneck" has served as a traffic jam which severely restricts the flow of information through the one processor...
...however, is not without drawbacks. Without proper programming, the separate units could slow to a "deadly embrace" if they must await information still passing through another unit. Experts in parallelism have nevertheless claimed to be approaching a processing speed that exceeds the fastest theoretical rate possible with a "von Neumann" processor by a factor...
Friends of Neumann's said he recently suffered a personal crisis, and was somewhat depressed before leaving for New York for the weekend...