Deaths elsewhere

Updated: September 7, 2009 - 11:02 PM

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Elliot Berlin, 55, a producer, writer and director of documentaries including "Paper Clips," which explored how a Tennessee town learned tolerance for others when its children studied the Holocaust, died Aug. 31 of colon cancer at Capital Hospice in Arlington County, Va. For 20 years, Berlin was associated with the Johnson Group, a documentary production company based in McLean, Va. A senior producer, he was known as the company's resident expert in the varied processes of filmmaking and directed documentary productions in the United States, Latin America, Europe, Africa and Japan.

Robert Spinrad, 77, a computer designer who carried out pioneering work in scientific automation at Brookhaven National Laboratory and who later was director of Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center, died of Lou Gehrig's disease on Wednesday in Palo Alto, Calif. Trained in electrical engineering before computer science was a widely taught discipline, Spinrad built his own computer from discarded telephone switching equipment while he was a student at Columbia.

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