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...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...
...Parallel processing, 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...
Jackson fell asleep during two recent interviews. When he is groggy he tends to mix up his trademark parallel constructions. "Jails at their worst," he proclaimed in Ference, Ala., "are better than schools at their best." Hart last week mistakenly referred to his "19-year-old son"; John Hart is 18. The Senator (who seems to have a knack for muffing ages) made an odd joke last week about how old he feels. "When we started, I was 20," he told a little girl who asked if it was difficult running for President. "Now I feel like...
...letter by Christine Hayes, entitled "Rape Mentality" which appeared in the April 6 issued of the Crimson is even more off-base Drawing a parallel between the men of the Pi Eta and the beasts that cheered on the rapists at Big Dan's is incredibly absurd. If Ms. Hayes, or any of the other protesters who have so vehemently attacked the Pi Eta had even set foot in 45 Mount Auburn Street, they would realize how misguided they are. They would meet some of the most courteous and considerate men at Harvard Just as the stereotype of the protesters...
...written in an open letter to the Harvard faculty concerning the controversy over an appointment to Professor Arnold Harberger, [to the Harvard Institute for International Development] that "allowing political judgements to influence faculty appointments is a threat to the fundamental principles of academic freedom," and had drawn "a parallel between the protests lodged against Harberger and the climate created in the early 1950s by Joseph McCarthy...