Gordon Bell - is a leading computer engineer and manager, an early employeed of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) who designed several of their PDP machines and later oversaw the development of the VAX. Born in Kirksville, Missouri, he received a B.S (1956) and M.S (1957) in electrical engineering from MIT, then worked in the Tech's Speech Computation Laboratory. An acquaintance of DEC founders Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, they recruited him for their new company in 1960, where he designed the I/O subsystem of the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-5, and PDP-6. After making a name for himself at DEC, Bell went to Carnegie-Mellon University in 1966 to teach computer science, but returned to DEC in 1972 as vice-president of engineering, where he was in charge of the VAX, DEC's most successful computer. Bell retired from.
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Digital Equipment Corporation - Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. They are generally referred to within the computing industry as DEC. (This initialism was once officially used by DEC itself, but discarded in favor of "Digital" in order to avoid a trademark dispute with the Dairy Equipment Company of Madison, Wisconsin). They were later acquired by Compaq, who subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard. As of 2003 their product lines are still produced under the HP name. Though DEC does not exist anymore, its logo is very much alive. It is now the logo of Digital GlobalSoft, a well-respected IT services company in India. Earlier this company was a 51 % subsidiary of DEC. Now it is a part of HP. In 1990,.
Digital object identifier - Digital object identifier A digital object identifier (or DOI) is a permanent identifier given to a World Wide Web file or other Internet document so that if its Internet address changes, users will be redirected to its new address. You submit a DOI to a centrally-managed directory and then use the address of that directory plus the DOI instead of a regular Internet address. The DOI system was conceived by the Association of American Publishers in partnership with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives and is now administered by the International DOI Foundation. Essentially, the DOI system is a scheme for Web page redirection by a central manager. Initially, the only central directory is the one maintained by the DOI Foundation. It's envisioned, however, that other.
British Broadcasting Corporation - British Broadcasting Corporation The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom. It is frequently heralded as the most widely respected broadcaster in the world. Affectionately known to local consumers as the "Beeb" or "Auntie", it was for many years the only television and radio provider in the United Kingdom. Before the introduction of Independent Television in 1955 and subsequently Independent Radio in 1973, it held a monopoly on broadcasting. More recent de-regulation of the British television broadcasting market produced analogue cable television and satellite broadcasting and later digital satellite, digital cable and digital terrestrial television (DTT) . Today the BBC broadcasts in almost every medium including these and the Internet. The BBC's technical lead is assisted by its Research & Development.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation - Sirius Cybernetics Corporation The Sirius Cybernetics Corporation is a fictional company from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. In the series, the SCC is responsible for the design and creation of a wide range of robots and labour-saving devices, such as liftss, automatic doors, ventilation systems, the infamous Nutrimatic Drink Dispenser, digital watches, and perhaps most famously of all, Marvin the Paranoid Android. The SCC invented a concept called Genuine People Personalities ("GPP") which imbue their products with intelligence and emotion. Thus not only do doors open and close, but they thank their users for using them, or sigh with the satisfaction of a job well done. Marvin is a prototype for the GPP feature, and his depression and "terrible pain in all the diodes down his.
Sperry Corporation - Sperry Corporation Sperry Corporation began in 1910 as the Sperry Gyroscope Company, founded by Elmer Ambrose Sperry to manufacture navigation equipment, chiefly his own inventions - the marine gyrostabilizer and the gyrocompass. During WW I the company diversified into aircraft components including bomb sights and fire control systems. In 1918 Lawrence Sperry split from his father to compete over aero-instruments with the Lawrence Sperry Aircraft Company, including the new automatic pilot. In 1924 following the death of Lawrence (December 13, 1923) the two firms were brought together. The company became Sperry Corporation in 1933. The new corporation was a holding company for a number of smaller entities such as the original Sperry Gyroscope, but also Ford Instrument Company, Intercontinental Aviation, Inc. and others. The company did very.
Radio programming - music. In western Europe offshore radio, such as Radio Caroline broadcast from ships at anchor or abandoned forts, helped to stimulate a demand for the latter type of station during the post 1964 period. Internet radio, which keeps the form of audio-only broadcasting, although the signals are transmitted using the Internet rather than by radio broadcast - a sort of "radio-less radio". Digital audio broadcasting, which is a way of broadcasting radio digitally, which gives less noise in the transmission. Notable old-time radio programs include: Amos 'n Andy The Jack Benny Program (see Jack Benny) Burns and Allen Suspense Nightbeat The Lone Ranger The Shadow Ma Perkins Fibber McGee and Molly Lux Radio Theater Escape(radio) Inner Sanctum CBS Radio Mystery Theater The Great Gildersleeve The Bob Hope Show (see Bob Hope).
News Corporation - News Corporation The News Corporation Ltd. is an Australian media conglomerate that operates world-wide. Its major shareholder and managing director is Rupert Murdoch. It is a public company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. The holdings of News Corp include: Books HarperCollins book publishing company ReganBooks Zondervan Newspapers Australian newspapers the Herald-Sun The Daily Telegraph The Australian UK newspapers the tabloid The Sun the broadsheet The Times US newspapers and magazines the New York Post Magazines InsideOut SmartSource TV Guide, via partial ownership of Gemstar-TV Guide Weekly Standard Music Mushroom Records Festival Records Satellite BSkyB, United Kingdom Foxtel, Australia Hughes Electronics, North and South America DirecTV, the primary U.S. satellite TV provider DirectTV Latin America DirecWay, Satellite Internet service provider PanAmSat Hughes Network Systems, satellite Internet Sky.
List of Canadians - (born 1920), popularizer of Canadian history, TV personality, columnist Earle Birney, (1904-1995), anti-conventional poet, also wrote novels, short stories, drama Bill Bissett, (born 1939), poet, famous for incorporating sound and the visual into poetry Di Brandt, (born 1952), Manitoba poet and literary critic Morley Callaghan, (1903-1990), novelist, short story writer Barry Callaghan, (born 1937), author/poet Bliss Carman, (1861-1929), poet, wrote Low Tide on Grand Pre Roch Carrier, (born 1937), author Anne Carson, (born 1950), writer Wayson Choy, (born 1939), writer, novelist Leonard Cohen, (born 1934), poet/singer Douglas Coupland, (born 1961), author Robertson Davies, (1913-1995), author William Henry Drummond, (1854-1907), poet, The habitant Timothy Findley, (1930-2002), author Louis Fréchette, (1839-1908), poet, essayist, journalist, dramatist Mavis Gallant, (born 1922), author William Gibson, (born 1948), author, The Neuromancer Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic; The White.
Dassault Mirage III - refueling probe, a longer nose, new avionics, and other refinements. Mirage IIIB & IIID trainers While Dassault kept their sales department busy taking orders for the ever more refined Mirage fighters, the company did not ignore the need to provide trainers to help pilots learn how to handle the fast aircraft. The Mirage IIIB trainer, mentioned earlier, had tandem seating, with a fuselage stretch of over a meter relative to the Mirage IIIA and the cannon deleted to accommodate the second seat. The IIIB also did not have radar nor provision for the SEPR rocket, but it could carry external stores. The AdA ordered a total of 63 Mirage IIIBs, including: The prototype and 27 similar production aircraft. 5 "Mirage IIIB-1s" as dedicated trials aircraft. 10 "Mirage IIIB-2(RV)s", with a dummy.
Yazhou Zhoukan - In addition, an official homepage was established in 1998. Highly Educated Asian Readers Yazhou Zhoukan reports news happened in the political, economic and cultural fields around the world. The readers of Yazhou Zhoukan are mainly Asians in Hong Kong, Singapore, Mainland China, Malaysia, and Taiwan. According to its research, most of its readers come from the middle class who are highly-educated and receive relatively high incomes. More than 75% are working in the managerial and financial areas. Famous and Prestigious In 2002, Yazhou Zhoukan was elected the most popular Chinese magazine among Asian financers and executives. Yazhou Zhoukan also holds the "Young Chinese Entrepreneur Award" (華人青年企業家大獎) annually. Its aim is to encourage young entrepreneurs to excel in their fields in order to create a good prospect for the Asian economic climate..
Jumpstart 3rd-6th Grade - limited amount of "power" in the game. Using the odd inventions in the Mountain wasts electrical power. When the power is low, the user must go to the Jumbo Electro Generator to juice up. The lower the power less activities are available, when there is no power, no activities are acessable, and Botley tells the user to go to the Generator. Basement Jumbo Electro Generator Room When the electrical power is low in the Mountain, the user must go to the Jumbo Electro Generator to increase the power. In this game, television monitors rise out of a tube with a numbler on it, and mathematical sign(+,-,x or /). The user is presented with group of batteries. The user must place the batteries on the monitors, so that when magnified together they.
Henry Kucera - his interest in linguistics (he remained there for the rest of his career). At Brown, he became interested in the computational analysis of human language, though at the time there were scarcely any tools for this type of research. In 1967, Kucera and Nelson Francis published their classic work Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English (1967), known today simply as the Brown Corpus. The Brown Corpus was a carefully compiled selection of current American English, totalling about a million words drawn from a wide variety of sources. Kucera and Francis subjected it to a variety of computational analyses, from which they compiled a rich and variegated opus, combining elements of linguistics, psychology, statistics, and sociology. Shortly thereafter, Boston publisher Houghton-Mifflin approached Kucera to supply a million word, three-line citation base for.
History of the Internet - the Internet, but was also initially the core network in the collection of networks in the Internet, as well as a important tool in developing the Internet (being used for communication between the groups working on internetworking research). Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Motivation for the Internet 2 Early Internet Work 3 Growth 4 Commercialization and Privatization 5 Early applications 6 Standards and Control 7 World Wide Web 8 External Link Motivation for the Internet The need for an internetwork appeared with ARPA's sponsorship, by Robert Kahn, of the development of a number of innovative networking technologies; in particular, the first packet radio networks (inspired by the ALOHA network), and a satellite packet communication program. Later, local area networks (LAN's) would also join the mix. Connecting these disparate networking technologies was.
Easy Finder - (青雲路) and a section of classified ads. The name of the magazine gives hints that it is originally more an information guide than a normal magazine. It became a seperate magazine in 1992. The target readership of Easy Finder is the youth and students. The current price of Easy Finder is HK$12. New issue is out every Wednesday. There are now twelve sections in Easy Finder: Ji Zone (激 Zone) (hot gossips) Easy Girl (pin-up girls, Models) Manhuazuo (漫動作) (comics news) Qingyunlu (青雲路) (careers, success stories) Touwenzi Evolution (頭文字Evolution) (cars, motors) Yuletian (娛樂天) (showbiz) Chaoliu Wucun (潮流屋村) (fashion, trends) Digi Finder (Digital products) Xinli Ceyan (心理測驗) (personality test) Zhan Me Life (占 Me Life) (horoscope) Bianli Bojing (便利波經) (soccer betting) Bianli Zhuweng Guangchang (便利諸嗡廣場) (reader's forum) Apart from Easy Finder, two.
DVD-Forum - News 6 External Link Mission The DVD Forum is an international association of hardware manufacturers, software firms and other users of Digital Versatile Discs. The Forum was created for the purpose of exchanging and disseminating ideas and information about the DVD Format and its technical capabilities, improvements and innovations. The Forum works to promote broad acceptance of DVD products on a worldwide basis, across entertainment, consumer electronics and IT industries. Membership is open to any corporation or organization which is engaged in activities related to DVD research, development and/or manufacturing, or any software firm or other users of DVD products that are interested in developing and improving the DVD Format. Forum Members are not required to support the DVD Format to the exclusion of other formats. The DVD Forum was founded.
Democracy - reforms to allow multiple candidates, all from the local Communist Party, to run aganst each other. Such methods are not generally considered to provide equivalent political expression to a right to replace the entire top level of governments at once, as occurs in a multi-party system. Another means of limited democracy is that practiced in the Islamic Republic of Iran, where the right to run as a candidate is controlled by the religious authorities, who exclude among others the Communist Party and the Green Party of Iran. Recent elections in Iran have suffered from very low turnout. In the United States of America, restrictions on right to vote due to property ownership or lack thereof and literacy were common until the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Today all but a few.
USS America (CV-66) - the tempo of shipboard routine. At night, Robert Goralski of NBC News and Bill Gill of ABC News teamed up to present the WAMR "Gill-Goralski Report," a half-hour on the latest developments in the Mideast and around the world. America's presence was soon noted, and the carrier soon attracted other, less welcome, visitors. A Soviet destroyer had joined up on the morning of 2 June; armed with surface-to-air missiles, the Russian ship constantly cut in and out of the carrier's formation. Shortly afternoon on 7 June, Vice Admiral William I. Martin, Commander 6th Fleet, sent the Soviet ship a message, in Russian and English: "Your actions for the past five days have interfered with our operations. By positioning your ship in the midst of our formation and shadowing our every move.
Danny Hillis - very, very quickly. So a computer can give the illusion of doing many things at once – say, running a game while downloading e-mail while showing an animation – when in fact its processor’s time is swapping back and forth from one task to another rapid-fire. The brain, on the other hand, has around a hundred billion neurons, and in principle they’re all working in parallel, simultaneously. Each one of them acts much more slowly than a computer processor, but what they lack in speed they make up for in bulk and in parallelism. Hillis’s Connection Machine was an elegant compromise, the nature of which changed over time as computer hardware technology evolved. The idea was to make a computer whose processors were fast like those of ordinary computers, but also.
