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Most computers built in the past 40 years were designed to do one thing at a time. Following the basic concept conceived by John von Neumann and his colleagues in 1945, they consist of a single, high-speed central processing unit connected to an array of memory cells. "The two-part architecture keeps the silicon devoted to processing wonderfully busy," says Hillis. "But this is only 2% or 3% of the silicon area. The other 97% (the memory bank) sits idle...
...honorary members included Dyson, university chaplain Larry M. Hill, University Health Services physician Loring Conant, renowned-architect Gordan Gund, William D. Von Edges John J. Slocum, Professor of English and Folklore Joseph C. Harris, Master of Cabot House Myra Mayman, Frances Fergusson, Jeanne Leonard Wasserman '36, Judith Wilson Rogers '61, and Beverly Helbling Wood...
...Von Bulow was convicted of trying to kill his wife two times. Then he called in Dershowitz to appeal the verdict to the Rhode Island Supreme Court. With his hot shot team of lawyers and law students, Dershowitz argued that von Bulow's initial trial had been unfair because defense attorneys had not been given access to certain evidence. Dershowitz also argued that the use of a private investigator to uncover evidence for prosecution could imperil people's liberty from unwarranted searches of their private property. He won on the first argument but not on the second...
...von Bulow case went to trial for a second time, and Von Bulow was acquitted. The medical experts said that the insulin reading on the syringe could very likely be false, that insulin would not have accumulated on a needle injected into someone, and that the coma could have been naturally induced. And then more evidence vindicating von Bulow--the prescription bottle with his name on it was not necessarily found in his black bag. The insulin theory began to look cooked...
...these stories lack the bite and the spirit that one might expect from such a dramatic situation. We never really get a feel for Sunny or von Bulow or any of the other people who lived out this sad tale. And when we get to the legal arguments, we don't get much of a scholarly analysis of either the appeals process or the real issues. Dershowitz does a fine job telling two stories. But the problem is that we would much rather read a totally trashy novel or a good sociological study or a good legal analysis...