OCTOBER 2000
IBM - RS / 6000 SP
FSU'S NEW COMPUTER IS MOST POWERFUL ON ANY CAMPUS
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One immortal person with a calculator would need 2 million years to do 2.5 trillion calculations. FSU's new computer can do that many in one second.
The new computer, an $8 million IBM system, is the most powerful supercomputer owned by any single university.
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CENTER TO FOCUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS
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A bomb in Sierra Leone blows the arms off a child.
Soldiers in Kosovo take turns raping a woman.
Hooded intruders in La Paz abduct a newspaper publisher.
Meanwhile, a student at Florida State University sees the
pain and decides to fight for human rights.
But what is the first step?
This fall, the answer to that question at FSU is in the making.
Students at San Venanzo
NEW SITE FOR FSU ARCHAEOLOGISTS
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In the summer of 2000, Florida State's department of classics launched a new archaeological excavation in Italy, with a field school at the site of San Venanzo, located between the ancient Etruscan/Roman cities of Orvieto and Perugia.
The site had never before been excavated. The highly successful pilot season of four weeks there has indicated that San Venanzo was inhabited by both the Etruscans and Romans and that there are extensive remains to be explored.
Robert Fichter, Hand of Man, (detail), 1984
FLORIDA PHOTOGENESIS: THE WORK OF CREATIVE / EXPERIMENTAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN FLORIDA
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It seems so natural to think of photography as a fine art form today that we forget how recently it was regarded as an upstart medium, a stepchild of other two-dimensional arts like painting or printmaking.
For a very long time, we treated the camera exclusively as a tool for documentation or as a friendly way of making a keepsake: tourists at the turn of the 20th century brought home "Kodaks" of the picturesque scenery they encountered, or of interesting events they witnessed.
NEW SCULPTURE ADORNS CAMPUS
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An anonymous art collector is lending Florida State University six pieces of outdoor sculpture by internationally famous artists.
The collection will remain on the FSU campus for at least 18 months.
Called "the Sesquicentennial Sculpture Exhibition," the six pieces will mark the university's founding in 1851.
FSU STUDENTS TURN OUT TO HELP TALLAHASSEE STUDENTS
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For years, FSU students studying education have enthusiastically tutored children in public schools.
This year, however, FSU is planning to do more. Under the K-12 Initiative, students will attempt to bridge a gap between the haves and have nots in Leon County.
NEW EPPES PROFESSORS ARE AT THE TOP OF THEIR FIELDS
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Francis Eppes VII, who chipped his name into immortality about 150 years ago by crusading for higher education in Tallahassee, would be impressed in 2000 at his accomplishments.
Five more renowned Eppes scholars - a computer scientist, a business psychologist, an expert on speech disorders, a legendary ballerina and a Pulitzer Prize- winning writer - have joined the faculty this fall at FSU.