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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Jolly is a board game inventor whose games include Wiz-War, Gootmu, and Knots, and Disk Wars. Of these Wiz-War is among the best known. The publisher of Wiz-War, Chessex, has been promising a new edition "within a few months" since 2001, but as of January 2009 has yet to publish a new edition. The seventh, and last printed edition, came out in 1997.Disk Wars is a collectible fantasy tabletop miniature wargame designed primarily by Tom Jolly and Christian T. Petersen and first published in 1999 by Fantasy Flight Games.The game takes its name from its atypical use of cardboard disks to represent military units, commanders, monsters, and battlefield terrain features. Tabletop wargames more...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Jobim Station (formerly named General Osorio Station) is a station on Line 1 of the Rio de Janeiro Metro located in the Ipanema borough of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The station opened on December 2009.The Rio de Janeiro Metro (Metro Rio) is a mass-transit underground railway network that serves the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Founded in 1979 with five stations operating on one line, it now covers 47 km divided into two lines and 40 stations. It is the second largest metro system in Brazil only behind the Sao Paulo Metro.The Government of the State of Rio de Janeiro remains responsible for the expansion of subway network, through Rio Trillhos. In late December 2007, the lease was renewed...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Jennings (born 1955 as Thomas Daniel Jennings in Boston, Massachusetts) is the creator of FidoNet, the first message and file networking system for BBSes. Originally, the FidoNet protocols were implemented in a program named Fido, authored by Jennings, but they were ultimately implemented by other authors in other software to create a network using a multiplicity of platforms.Aside from creating the most influential protocol for networking computer bulletin boards, Jennings built Wired magazine's first internet presence, wrote the portable BIOS that led to Phoenix Technologies BIOS, and maintains an authoritative history on character codes and encoding methods. Данное издание...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Kilburn CBE, FRS (11 August 1921 – 17 January 2001) was an English engineer. With Freddie Williams he worked on the Williams Tube and the first stored-program computer in the world, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), while working at the University of Manchester.Kilburn was born in Dewsbury, Yorkshire and graduated in mathematics from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, pursuing a course compressed to two years following the outbreak of World War II. On graduation, he was recruited by C.P. Snow for unspecified secret work and found himself on a crash course in electronics before being posted to the Telecommunications Research Establishment in Malvern to work on radar under F.C....
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Kerrigan's Simple Chess Program (TSCP) is a chess program by Tom Kerrigan. Its main goal is to demonstrate how a chess program works. The source code is available and heavily commented to make learning simple. TSCP was originally released to the Internet in 1997.TSCP source code availability has made it one of the most cloned chess programs, typically by novice programmers, but the clones are easily detected as is very improbable that a chess engine could play the same game as other. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Thomas E. Kelly (March 5, 1924 – March 20, 2008) was an American engineer and professional basketball player.Kelly was born Thomas Edward Kelly at The Flower Hospital, at Fifth and 106th street, New York City, on March 5, 1924 to Edward Thomas Kelly, an Alderman for the City of New York, and Anastasia Ceciiia Kane. In 1929, his family moved to St. Francis Xavier Parish in the Bronx.His natural academic abilities earned him a scholarship to the private, Jesuit school, Regis High School (New York City). He was a 1941 graduate of Regis where he first trod the hardwoods under the tutelage of the legendary Regis coach, Don Kennedy. He is the only Regis graduate to have played professional...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Liston is a senior analyst for the Washington, D.C.-based network security consulting firm, InGuardians, Inc.He is the author of the first network tarpit, the open source LaBrea. He was a finalist for eWeek and PC Magazine's "Innovations In Infrastructure" (i3) award in 2002 for LaBrea. He is one of the handlers at the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Center, where he deals with developing security issues and authors a series of articles under the title “Follow the Bouncing Malware.”Liston is also, with Ed Skoudis, co-author of the second edition of the network security book Counter Hack Reloaded: A Step-by-Step Guide to Computer Attacks and Effective Defenses. Данное...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Lane is a computer scientist dedicated to Open source software. In a 2000 study, he was cited as one of the leading contributors to Open Source software.Tom holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, 1978 and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, 1990.Tom occasionally lectures at Carnegie Mellon University and other places.Tom Lane is a member of the core PostgreSQL development team. He is involved in all aspects of PostgreSQL, including new features, performance improvements, and bug evaluation and fixes. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Limoncelli (born December 2, 1968) is a noted system administrator, author, speaker and bisexual activist.A system administrator and network engineer since 1987, he speaks at conferences around the world on topics ranging from firewall security to time management. He is the author of Time Management for System Administrators from O'Reilly; along with Christine Hogan, co-author of the book The Practice of System and Network Administration from Addison-Wesley and most recently with Peter H. Salus he has published a compilation of the best April Fools jokes created by the IETF entitled The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1325-0100-4
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Miller (born in 1950) is a software developer who is employed by Microsoft.Miller worked as a member of the original team of developers who followed Dave Cutler from DEC to Microsoft, where he initially started working in the networking group.After less than two years, Miller moved to the Windows NT team, where he worked with Gary Kimura on file systems. In particular, he wrote the original 50 page specification document for the NT File System.Microsoft Corporation is a public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Prof. Tom Maibaum (born 18 August 1947 in Hungary) is a British-Canadian computer scientist.Maibaum has an undergraduate degree in Pure Mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of London, England (1974).Professor Maibaum has held academic posts at Imperial College, London, King's College London (UK) and McMaster University (Canada). His research interests have concentrated on the theory of specification, together with and its application in different contexts, in the general area of software engineering. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
ISBN: 978-6-1324-8056-9
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Nevers Naval Facility was a U.S. Navy submarine listening post active from 1955-1976. It later became home to the Nantucket Hunting Association.Tom Nevers Naval Facility was founded in 1955 as a submarine listening base. It was built on land that the Navy had used as a bombing range during World War II. The facility also held a bomb shelter for President John F. Kennedy,[2] to be used in the event of a nuclear attack, if President Kennedy was in Hyannisport. The facility was abandoned in 1976 and later became home to the Nantucket Hunting Association. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...
ISBN: 978-6-1329-7814-1
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Pudding was the name given to the tub boats on the Aire and Calder Navigation, introduced in 1863 and used until 1985, which were a very efficient means of transferring and transporting coal from the open cast collieries of the South Yorkshire Coalfield near Stanley Ferry to the port of Goole, competing with rail. The name derives from their resemblance to a string of black puddings or perhaps Yorkshire puddings and the first name of original constructor. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.
ISBN: 978-6-1330-2726-8
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Price Airport (IATA: TPR, ICAO: YTMP) is an airport near Tom Price, Western Australia. It is small dirt strip capable of handing small GA aircraft and light turboprops.In December 2008, Rio Tinto lodged an application with the local Shire to upgrade the runway and facilities to handle A320 and B737 size aircraft. This was planned to ease traffic at Paraburdoo Airport and allow tourist to access the nearby Karijini National Park.However, on 16 January 2009, suffering the effects of lower demand and ore prices as a result of Global Financial Crisis, these plans were scrapped as Rio's capital expenditure program was cut. Данное издание не является...
ISBN: 978-6-1330-1423-7
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Poleman is the operations manager and program director for WHTZ (Z100) New York City. He is also senior VP of programming for Clear Channel Radio's New York cluster, which includes Z100, WLTW, WKTU, Q104.3, Power 105.1, and WALK-FM. Tom joined Z100 in 1996 from KRBE Houston. Before that, he was employed at WKCI-FM and WAVZ New Haven and WALK Long Island. Poleman started as a DJ at Cornell University's student radio station WVBR-FM in Ithaca.In 2003, Crain's New York Business selected Poleman as one of their "Forty under 40" rising stars in business, and in 2005, Billboard Radio Monitor featured him as #1 in "Top 40's Top 40".Tom Poleman is credited with bringing Z100 from #18 in the market...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Poberezny (b. October 3, 1946) is currently President and Chairman of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and former World Champion aerobatic pilot. He is married to Sharon Poberezny and has one daughter. His father is Paul Poberezny, founder of EAA.Tom Poberezny graduated from Northwestern University and became interested in aviation soon after. He joined the US National Unlimited Aerobatic Team and was part of the team that won the World Championship in 1972 at Salon, France. In 1973, Tom won the individual US National Unlimited Aerobatic Championship. In 1971, Tom Poberezny, Charlie Hillard, and Gene Soucy formed the aerobatic team of The Red Devils (soon renamed The Eagles) and...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Proulx is an American computer programmer and company founder. He was a co-founder of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s. He lives in Atherton, California, one of the wealthiest cities in the United States, on an 11-acre estate that includes a private 3-hole golf course, the largest property in Atherton.In 1983 Scott Cook went to Stanford University in California, USA. He wanted a programmer for a planned home bill payment and bank reconciliation program. Proulx, who studied Electrical Engineering/Computer Science at Stanford, was the first person Cook met and they soon co-founded Intuit. Proulx was the first and main programmer of the first version of Quicken and the...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Pepper (born August 24, 1975 in Des Moines, Iowa) is a computer programmer best known for his collaboration with Justin Frankel on the invention of the Gnutella peer-to-peer system. He and Frankel co-founded Nullsoft, whose most popular program is Winamp, which was sold to AOL in May 1999. Afterwards, Tom worked inside of AOL as the manager of SHOUTcast, a leading internet streaming audio service, and wrote the software along with Stephen 'Tag Loomis and Justin Frankel, before leaving in October, 2004. Tom then worked on development at RAZZ, Inc.. He continues to collaborate with Frankel on independent projects like Ninjam.Pepper is currently the Chief Technology Officer of local food...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Riall is a divisional chief executive of Serco, a UK company that provides a variety of services and products relating to defence, detention, aviation, and transport. Riall is responsible for the company's Home Affairs division, which provides Gatso speed cameras to UK local authorities. He lives in Ufton Nervet, near Reading in Berkshire.Prior to joining Serco in 2004, he was managing director of Reliance Secure Trust Management. Riall oversaw Reliance's successful tender in 2003 for the use of private contractors to transport prisoners in Scotland. When the firm mistakenly released a number of prisoners including a convicted murderer in 2004, Riall offered an apology while defending his...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Ritchey (born 1956) is a bicycle frame builder, designer, welder and founder of Ritchey Design. He is an accomplished road and mountain bicycle racer.Ritchey began building mountain bike frames as a partner with Gary Fisher and Charlie Kelly in MountainBikes. In 1983, the partnership dissolved and MountainBikes was sold to Fisher, who renamed the company Fisher Mountain Bikes. Ritchey began building mountain bikes and other frames for his own company, Ritchey Design, expanding into bicycle accessories. Ritchey was as an innovator of parts designed or optimized for mountain bikes, including clipless pedals and threadless headsets. Ritchey mostly built mountain bikes but he has also produced...
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Tom Thumb was the first American-built steam locomotive used on a common-carrier railroad. Designed and built by Peter Cooper in 1830, it was designed to convince owners of the newly formed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to use steam engines. It is especially remembered as a participant in an impromptu race with a horse-drawn car; the "Tom Thumb" led the race until a belt slipped off a pulley and the engine lost power. The demonstration was successful, however, and in the next year the railroad, committed to the use of steam locomotion, held trials for a working engine. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Thomas M. (Tom) Whitney is best known as an inventor of the pocket calculator and an early employee of Apple Computer.Tom joined Hewlett-Packard in 1967, where he helped develop the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electonic calculator. During the HP years, he was also served as a lecturer at Santa Clara University.He later joined Apple as employee 15 and in 1978 became executive vice president of engineering, working directly with Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin on the Macintosh project.Tom completed BS (1961), MS (1962), and PhD (1964) degrees in electrical engineering at Iowa State University, where he...
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