10-28-1969 Correspondence from Black to Burger

I regret that I again find myself unable to agree with the opinion and order circulated yesterday afternoon in the above case

10-26-1969 Memorandum to the Conference

The letter from the Chief Justice circulated in connection with the proposed order and judgment in this case suggests that the proposal now has the approval of three members of the Court. It is possible that this proposal will obtain a majority and that the Court may want to issue the order on Monday. Should that be the case, I would not want to delay such action, but will dissent as I have in the opinion circulated herewith

09-05-1969 Justice Black, Application to Vacate Suspension of Order Denied

For a great many years Mississippi has had in effect what is called a dual system of public schools, one system for white students only and one system for Negro studetns only. On July 3, 1969, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals entered an order requiring the submission of new plans to be put, into effect this fall to accellerate desegregation in 33 Mississippi school districts. On August 28, upon the motion of the Department or Justice and the recommendation of the Secretary of Health. Education & Welfare, the Court of Appeals suspended the July 3 order and postponed the date for submission of the new plans until December 1, 1969. I have been asked by Negro plaintiffs in 14 of these school districts to vacate the suspension of the July order. Largely for the reasons set forth below, I feel constrained to deny that relief

01-18-1971 Correspondence from Black to Burger

Dear Chief, I like most of your proposed per curiam in the above case and would be delighted to join it if you would take out the clause on page 3 saying: Although beliefs are by no means irrelevant to action or prediction of the future acts. With this deletion I shall join the opinion enthusiastically. Otherwise I regret I shall have to concur in the judgement, noting my disagreement as above

11-05-1969 Justice Black, Dissenting

In February 1968 appellant, who was then 17 years old, was charged under the laws of Nebraska with being a delinquent child because he had forged bank check which he intended to use for his own purposes. At the hearing on this charge he asked for a jury trial, arguing this was a right guaranteed him by the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution and that a statute prohibiting juries in delinquency proceedings was therefore unconstitutional

02-03-1971 Correspondence from Black to Blackmun

Dear Harry, I have your memorandum suggesting we certify a question to the Supreme Court of Florida as the the interpretation of one part of the Florida Loyalty Oath. I have carefully considered your suggestion but regret to tell you that I am opposed to it

TaskInsight: Understanding Task Schedules Effects on Memory and Performance

Recent scheduling heuristics for task-based applications have managed to improve their by taking into account memory-related properties such as data locality and cache sharing. However, there is still a general lack of tools that can provide insights into why, and where, different schedulers improve memory behavior, and how this is related to the applications' performance. To address this, we present TaskInsight, a technique to characterize the memory behavior of different task schedulers through the analysis of data reuse between tasks. TaskInsight provides high-level, quantitative information that can be correlated with tasks' performance variation over time to understand data reuse through the caches due to scheduling choices. TaskInsight is useful to diagnose and identify which scheduling decisions affected performance, when were they taken, and why the performance changed, both in single and multi-threaded executions. We demonstrate how TaskInsight can diagnose examples where poor scheduling caused over 10% difference in performance for tasks of the same type, due to changes in the tasks' data reuse through the private and shared caches, in single and multi-threaded executions of the same application. This flexible insight is key for optimization in many contexts, including data locality, throughput, memory footprint or even energy efficiency.We thank the reviewers for their feedback. This work was supported by the Swedish Research Council, the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research project FFL12-0051 and carried out within the Linnaeus Centre of Excellence UPMARC, Uppsala Programming for Multicore Architectures Research Center. This paper was also published with the support of the HiPEAC network that received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 687698.Peer ReviewedPostprint (published version

MR. JUSTICE MURPHY

Frank Murphy\u27s extensive public service is discussed by others in this issue. I write of him as an associate, and as a friend. Our friendship began when we first met in 1936, and grew stronger with the years. No one associated with him could fail to be attracted by his human warmth and his passion for justice