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...Hockey Center and was won by Sasner's team, 6-4...Harvard and Olympic hockey player Lane MacDonald recorded a 30-second spot for the NCAA recently. The message warned against drugs and alcohol...Philadelphia Flyer goalie Ron Hextall's goal last December against the Boston Bruins had a parallel in the college hockey ranks--but better. Jim Tortorella, who played goal for Maine in the late 1970s, scored (get this) a shorthanded goal for the Black Bears while the opposing goalie was still in the net...Thanks to *** Morris at Alaska-Fairbanks for her input this year...
...wind tunnels capable of simulating such blistering airspeeds, the hypersonic plane will have to be tested on supercomputers, ideally on machines many times as powerful as existing models. Presidential Science Adviser William Graham has recommended that Congress appropriate an additional $1.7 billion to support the development of parallel-processing supercomputers that by the mid- 1990s could crunch data at teraFLOPS speed...
...Making parallelism work will benefit not just supercomputer users but also those researchers in computer science's other grand project, artificial intelligence. In fact, one of the most advanced parallel machines, a 65,536- processor computer called the Connection Machine, was built by researchers trained at M.I.T.'s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. W. Daniel Hillis, the 31-year-old engineer who designed the computer, sees in it the first concrete evidence of what he views as an inevitable convergence of the two fields. "Supercomputing is an enabling technology for artificial intelligence," says Hillis. "Just as you couldn't build an airplane...
...source of data rapidly but, rather, simultaneously processing data about air threats, supply lines, weather and the positioning of hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Whether ALBM will be a device for war games or a battlefield tool depends on the military's ability to harness the power of massive parallel processors -- computers with thousands of processors that can work simultaneously on a problem...
...computer to skip nimbly among many different perspectives in order to find the approach that best fits a problem. The computer must be able to simultaneously maintain the assumptions underlying these different perspectives, and de Kleer says that this, again, will require massive processing power. He looks to parallel processing for the power to run his systems. "Running my applications on a serial supercomputer would require all the computer time in history," he says...