Word: shum
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Students in the all-popular all-important AM 110 are undergoing an inestimably traumatic experience of computer incapacity this term. Associate Professor Philip Bernstein has been denied tenure, with the result that Bernstein and his workmates. Assistant Professors Nathan Goodman and Annie Shum, are diverting both their own minds and the large amount of computer resources dedicated to their research from Harvard to private industry. Use of the timeshared computer system has become an ordeal for students in smaller computer courses as well--the overloaded machines spend minutes generating the simplest processes, thereby negating the utility of the computer...
Bernstein's departure--coupled with the departure of his research partner. Assistant Professor of Computer Science Nathan Goodman, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Annie W. Shum--will leave Harvard with only one junior faculty member in the experimental side of the field...
...crisis also produced a breakthrough in Ray's torturous translation struggle. An Indian woman, marveling at Helen's treatment of the boys, used a word they had never heard: shum, which means giving without receiving anything in return. This was the word Ray needed to translate "love" into Ixil...