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...Jonathan Neumann was still new on the job as a court reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer in 1976 when he noticed that, although murder suspects routinely testified that they had been beaten by police, officials never investigated. When Neumann, a former New Yorker, asked an editor what was going on, he was told: "Welcome to Philadelphia...
William Marimow knew better. A native Philadelphian, he had been an Inquirer reporter since 1972 and had seen the city's police grow increasingly intransigent under Mayor Frank Rizzo, the city's former top cop. The situation galled Marimow as much as it did Neumann. Joining forces, the two produced a well-documented series of articles that exposed local police brutality and that have to date led to the indictment of 15 policemen. So far nine have been convicted and three acquitted, and three are awaiting trial. Seven more cops have been arrested, and two others have pleaded...
...Philadelphia story was one of the most elaborate Pulitzer-winning investigations since the Watergate days of Woodward and Bernstein-a pair that Neumann, 28, and Marimow, 30, evoke in their youth, dedication and hand-in-glove collaborative ease. They even had a "Deep Nightstick," a source with close ties to the police department who nudged their investigations in the right direction. Neumann and Marimow's first major step was obtaining from court administrators a rundown of pretrial hearings in 433 Philadelphia homicide cases between 1974 and 1977. To their surprise, statements or confessions had been thrown out because...
While Babbage's engine also included the concept of programmed instructions, today's machines are significantly different as a result of a refinement proposed in the 1940s by the Hungarian-born mathematical genius John von Neumann. After seeing ENIAC, he suggested "writing" both the data to be handled by the computer and the instructions for doing the job in the same memory and using the same code. It was a key innovation in computer theory, for it meant that the machine could cope with instructions just as if they were data. As Texas Instruments' William C. Holton...
Died. Oskar Morgenstern, 75, a brilliant Princeton University economist who shook the foundations of classical economic theory with his work in the fields of econometrics and the theory of games (Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, co-authored with John von Neumann; The Limits of Economics); of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. Morgenstern noted that classical economics -and many of its "neoclassical" adherents-has exhibited a dismal track record in predicting and interpreting phenomena. After viewing numerous examples of multivariable decision making in game situations (poker was a Morgenstern favorite), he used mathematics, logic and the relatively simple economic-behavioral concept...