Who said supercomputers were only good for powering governmental facilities and handling the dirty work for NASA? At the University of Reading in the UK, scientists have been able to utilize an immensely powerful IBM ThamesBlue supercomputer in order to find the oldest words in the English language. According to a release pushed out by IBM on the subject, it took “an average of six weeks to perform a computational task such as comparing two sets of words in different languages,” and once its brawny machine stepped