Pinball Classifieds: Pinball Machines For Sale: All Entries All entries are sorted in alphabetical order by machine name. New Wolfson WM8742 DAC Enhanced Output amplifier circuit. Enhanced Digital power supplies. Improved User interface. Redeveloped Analogue & Digital outputs. In Andy Weir’s novel-turned-Matt-Damon-movie The Martian, the protagonist endures the harsh terrain of Mars by using his own shit to grow potatoes. The idea isn’t. ![]() The Republican in Charge of the House Science Committee Is Now Arguing Global Warming Has 'Benefits'Texas Rep. Lamar Smith, the Republican official in charge of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has now penned an editorial urging the public not to buy into “hysteria over carbon dioxide,” which he believes could actually be good for us. The post, which can be viewed over at the fossil fuel- industry backed Heritage Foundation’s Daily Signal blog, is full of highly misleading or downright nonsensical arguments about how mankind’s decision to burn as much of the fossil fuel the Earth has accumulated in the past billion years as fast as possible could have benefits that are “often ignored and under- researched.”Smith, it seems, has clued in to the fact that one of the things plants require to create energy is carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas most responsible for humanity’s impact on the climate to date. Because plants love CO2 so much, Smith argued, pumping lots of it into the atmosphere could result in “greater volume of food production and better quality food,” as well as “lush vegetation” in formerly desolate areas of the globe. Smith has literally entered Natural News territory. These claims are just bunk, scientifically, seeing as peer- reviewed studies suggest any increase in agricultural production from more CO2 in the atmosphere will likely be more than offset by losses from more extreme temperatures and droughts. Any benefits that could be derived would similarly be inconsistent and probably canceled out as the globe continued to warm. More plants is not necessarily a good thing, because some of them are crop- destroying weeds, and others could disrupt existing ecosystems. Bonus points: Smith, who again is the House’s top science legislator, has no idea what the difference between a controlled environment and everywhere else is.“In fact, atmospheric carbon dioxide is so important for plant health that greenhouses often use a carbon dioxide generator to increase production,” Smith wrote. This is a little like saying fires keep people warm, so you should set your house on fire.“Also, as the Earth warms, we are seeing beneficial changes to the earth’s geography,” Smith added, noting “Arctic sea ice is decreasing.” While scientists would have you believe disappearing ice in the northern hemisphere could contribute to devastating sea level rise that would flood coastal cities, Smith is just pleased as punch it could result in “commercial shipping lanes that provide faster, more convenient, and less costly routes between ports in Asia, Europe, and eastern North America.”Look, new sea lanes are good and all, but a pretty small consolation prize given that rising sea levels are already screwing up existing ones with icebergs and canal disruptions (and, if humans burn all the fossil fuels on the planet, may potentially cause an apocalyptic event). The rest of Smith’s post has nothing to do with the benefits of a warming climate per se, but touting how the “use of fossil fuels and the byproducts of carbon enrichment” has improved everyone’s lives. While that’s perhaps true, the long- term consequences of continuing to do so are a completely different issue. Arguments such as these have long been de rigueur within the small community of industry- friendly climate scientists and the energy industry’s much larger army of lobbyists, but they are little more than speculative “what ifs.” They’re not backed by the science—but because it has become completely untenable to deny climate change is happening at all while the Earth is roasting, Republicans opposed to doing anything about it have to come up with something. Also, it might help one of Smith’s biggest campaign contributors is the oil and gas sector, which has given him $7. Open. Secrets.“It is clear that Lamar Smith has progressed” and “is slowly advancing through the stages of denial,” prolific Penn State climatologist Michael E. Mann, author of climate change denial guidebook The Madhouse Effect, told Gizmodo via email. Mann added Smith has “apparently now moved from. Synthesis Roma review. Right time, right place. This is what happened a Friday afternoon in July, when I visited my favorite Hi-Fi shop. Lamar Smith, the Republican official in charge of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, has now penned an editorial urging the public not to. Find a Needle, Audio Technica, Grado, Clearaudio, Dynavector, Shure, Ortofon, Stanton, Denon, Technics, Audioquest, Kimber, Belts, Record Player, Turntable. This document gives a chronology of computing at Columbia University, as best I can piece it together, written mainly in Jan-Feb 2001, updated periodically since then. Computing at Columbia Timeline. A Chronology of Computing at Columbia University*. Effective 2 Aug 2. Columbia University. Information Technology (CUIT) but I don't have a pun to go with that one. Columbia University. Herb Grosch. (2. 00. IBM's Watson Scientific. Computing Laboratory at Columbia University in the 1. People popped into my office all. Smith (1. 95. 6- 1. Watson Fellow 1. 95. Watson Fellow 1. 95. Jessica (Hellwig) Gordon (1. Mike Radow (High School Science Honors Program, late 1. Peter Capek (High School Science Honors Program, early 1. Steve Bellovin (Columbia student. Watson Lab employee, 1. Lidofsky (Applied Physics and Nuclear Engineering) for getting me. I'd probably still be an overeducated taxi driver! Corbin (Librarian). Bryan and Rosalinde. Weiman, plus several others who wish to remain anonymous. Trowbridge, who later went on to what was to. US Census Bureau and took Hollerith with him. Harold Jacoby, Chair of the Astronomy Department, in a memo dated. December 1. 90. 9, refers to . Chaddock (Statistics Dept) was in charge. Jacoby) still has the . Watson Sr., president of IBM. Comrie (1. 89. 3- 1. Superintendant of H. M. Nautical Almanac Office, begins a project to calculate. Wood's operation became the Columbia University Statistical. Bureau (PHOTOS). Lemmon, a Columbia University Electrical Engineering graduate. Radio Industries Corporation, demonstrated the first. Radiotype machine, an electric. Watson's contacts at Columbia put him in touch with Lemmon and IBM hired. Columbia Trustee. Eckert (PHOTOS AND. BIOGRAPHY) of the Astronomy Department, a user of the Statistical. Bureau, proposed modifications to IBM machines for advanced astronomical. IBM 6. 01 Multiplying Punch (modified to Eckert's. IBM's G. W. We were. To hand- compute just one of these trajectories took 3. Wood is remembered at Columbia through the Ben D. Wood Graduate. Fellowships in Learning Technologies, and at the Educational Testing Service, which dedicated. Baehne of IBM, published by Columbia. University Press; hardbound, 4. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (PHOTO), jointly sponsored by IBM, the American. Astronomical Society, and the Columbia Department of Astronomy . In 1. 95. 7 he was. Riazankin on behalf of. Astronomical Institute of the USSR Academy of the Sciences, asking to. Eckert's Lab. Stepanov. Amtorg Trading Company writes to Eckert asking why he didn't answer. Riazinkin's letter. Numerov, corresponded with me several years ago concerning this very. Riazankin will not meet. Dr. Stepanov I am shivering a little bit. Lake (who built Eckert's. Robert. Oppenheimer had recruited from Columbia University to oversee procurement for. Los Alamos, recognized that the calculators were not adequate for the heavy. IBM punched- card machines. He. had seen them used successfully by Wallace Eckert at Columbia to calculate the. Each one had a. one was the multiplier, and another was the adder, and this one cubed, and all. Feynmann. For. one day, the hand computers kept up: 'The only difference was that the IBM. But the girls got tired. Eckert publishes Punched Card Methods in. Scientific Calculation . Eckert. on astronomical calculations by machine processes. The process of carrying out the integration of. Presper Eckert of the ENIAC, and Howard Aiken at Harvard, got their first introduction. Watson Scientific Computing. Laboratory at Columbia University, will serve as a world center for the. Eckert, now head of. IBM's new Pure Research Department, is appointed to head the laboratory. Watson. (Senior), a Columbia Trustee (it is said that Watson is the one who nominated. Eisenhower as Columbia President in 1. Milton! Eckert (who. Watson Lab) explained, . Watson and John Mc. Pherson. . Grosch's book). Now that Germany's defeat was imminent, Leo Szilard — who, with. Enrico Fermi, had initiated the Manhattan Project at Columbia in. A- bomb should be used on. Japan. Once they were introduced as an instrument of war it. At present our Air Forces, striking at the Japanese cities, are. American public. opinion only a few years ago when applied by the Germans to the cities of. England. Our use of atomic bombs in this war would carry the world a long way. Stimson's diaries*) are that the US deliberately prolonged the war. Potsdam Conference and then by striking the . Eisenhower wrote in his memoir. Change, (Doubleday 1. The incident took place in 1. Secretary of War Stimson visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed. Japan. Leahy wrote in his. There (Whittlesey House, 1. It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima. Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. The. Japanese were already defeated and ready to surrender because of the. The control is very. A deck of. control cards (along with the specifications for the corresponding. Thomas. added Numerical Solution of Differential Equations (Physics 2. Walker). and Physics 2. Separation of Variables in Mathematical Physics. L. H. 1. 94. 8, the founder of computational biochemistry). Columbia B. Sc 1. M. A. 1. 94. 8), and. Ewing (Oceanography), the founder of. Lamont- Doherty Earth. Observatory, whose students included. Frank Press (Columbia. M. A. 1. 94. 9), who went on to become President of. US National Academy of Sciences and Chairman of the National Research. Council. Lee, Dept of Computer. Science, Virginia Polytechnical Institute.). Another SSEC programmer was. F. Codd, originator of the relational database model. June 1. 97. 0, pp. Watson Lab from 1. Grosch leaves Watson in 1. IBM bureau in Washington DC. Most of our offerings were unusual. So. it was my side of the house that carried the teaching. Neville & Bagge. Bellemore, built in 1. Moses Crystal. . Eckert to J. C. Mc. Pherson. states that the 6. August 3. 0 and . Garwin of Watson Lab conducted. Leon Lederman of the CU Physics Department confirming the. Princeton and T. D. Lee of. Columbia regarding muon decay; this, plus the additional confirmation of C. S. Wu in the. CU Physics Department, resulted in the 1. Nobel Prize in Physics for Lee and. Yang.) Also in this period, Seymour Koenig's research on low- temperature. Triebwasser's. research on microscopic and thermodynamic properties of ferroelectric crystals. Tucker's research on semiconductors at liquid helium temperatures with. NYU, where. punch- card registration had been in use since at least 1. Please don't bend, fold, spindle or mutilate me.'. Eckert, Director of the Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at. Columbia University, initiated the writing of the book and suggested the scope. Halford, a Chemistry. Dean of Graduate Faculties, and (perhaps most to the point) Vice. Provost for Projects and Grants is in charge. King, who received his Columbia Ph. D. Krout, VP of the University, 4 Oct 1. Ac. IS archives). Smith (who was also on the Watson Lab. Street. building, helping students (often of Eric. Hankam) debug their IBM 6. Eckert in 1. 94. 8- 5. SSEC . When he returned from Korea in 1. Koenig (PHOTO), who received his. Ph. D. Lehmann), Math G4. Numerical Analysis. Digital Computers (Prof. Sterbenz; I took this one several years. Math G4. 41. 3x The Use of High- Speed Digital Computers for Scientific. Computation (Dr. Kotchoubey), Math G4. Introduction to Automata Theory. Formal Languages (Prof. Rickman), and Math G6. Numerical Solutions. Differential Equations (Prof. One. day I was standing on College Walk. Watson Research Center. Wylbur. may be used with an IBM 2. Teletype device. Goodell, VP for Administration, Ken's boss, assumes Acting Director. V6#6), but since he was not on site, Jessica Hellwig (Gordon). IBM Watson Lab computing staff. May 2. 00. 3: . Naiden - - now in his late eighties - -. Latin at The Lakeside School. Bruce. Gilchrist is appointed the new Director of the Columbia. University Computer Center (he would assume full- time duties in July). Howard Eskin was manager of Systems. EE/CS faculty, where he taught the. Data Structures and Compiler courses. Rifkin at the Medical Center. He was sent with the first 1. Also video editing (EMACS, etc), text. Pub, Scribe, later TEX).
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