Let's face it: Jell-O is already gross enough. The boiled bones, sugar, and coloring concoction is a "food" best left to children and drunken college freshmen. And now, apparently, neural nets.

Thank you for printing the lively article “A Storied Approach to Operations Research” (Notes from Academe, June 14), about Gene Woolsey of the Colorado School of Mines. ... I was especially struck by ...