Word: performance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Newall said that the many tasks which humans can perform but computers cannot are problematical to attempts to find a direct correlation between human and computerized thought...
...three main engines. Rogers Commission Member Eugene Covert, a professor of aeronautics at M.I.T., headed a joint government-industry team in the late 1970s that solved the problem of these engines' repeatedly blowing up in ground tests. But he still worries about how long they can continue to perform under the stress of repeated launches. So does J.R. Thompson, the senior expert on these engines at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. The engines "have been working," says Thompson, "but they always can come back and bite you." In the view of NASA Chief Engineer Milton Silveira, the various shuttle...
...does the Connection Machine achieve its remarkable speed? The secret is in its extraordinary number of processors and a radical new architecture that gives it the flexibility to perform large numbers of calculations simultaneously...
Unfortunately, programming such a machine calls for some conceptual gymnastics that even computer scientists find difficult to perform. According + to a DARPA report, only one in three De fense Department programmers can make the leap. Says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputer Applications at the University of Illinois: "We have 40 years' experience designing software for single-processor machines. But the software for these new machines is complicated and excruciatingly hard to write...
...accomplishments in four years at the Undergraduate Council, he may forever be identified with the 90 pages of by-laws he unloaded on a shocked council at the end of his freshman year. (One provision stated, "The term 'shall,' with respect to persons shall entail a duty to perform...