Word: vanderbilt
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Four supercomputers remain in service in the United States, spread around the Midwest and on the West Coast, said Professor of Physics David Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt, who is one of Harvard's two board members at the von Neumann site, called the NSF decision "not crippling but somewhat inconvenient...
Between 20 and 25 of Harvard's supercomputer users worked with the Princeton facilities because of its proximity, Vanderbilt said. But Weber said that while scientists have "an insatiable appetite for supercomputer time," the four remaining supercomputers nationwide will be upgraded to capacities more than double the current level...
...support does not necessarily mean that the von Neumann center will close, Vanderbilt said, although that is likely. Previously, a Minnesota facility cut off by the NSF secured funding from other sources, he said...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...
Williams, now enrolled at Vanderbilt Law School, said he would not appeal the decision...