Month: January 2018

Ginni Rometty

Jovan Stosic January 5, 2018

Virginia Marie “Ginni” Rometty (born July 29, 1957) is an American business executive. She is the current chairman, president, and CEOof IBM, and the first woman to head the company.  Prior to becoming president and CEO in January 2012, she held the positions of senior vice president and group executive for sales, marketing, and strategy at IBM. She joined IBM as a systems engineer in 1981.

Ginni Rometty
Ginni Rometty at the Fortune MPW Summit in 2011

Rometty at the 2011 Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit
Born Virginia Marie Nicosia[1][2]
July 29, 1957 (age 60)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Education Northwestern University (B.S.)
Occupation Chairman, president, and CEOof IBM
Salary US$32.7m of total compensation including US$24.9m of stock awards (2016)
Predecessor Samuel J. Palmisano

Rometty’s tenure as CEO has been marked by prestigious awards including by Bloomberg who named her among the 50 Most Influential People in the World, and Fortunenaming her among the “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” for ten consecutive years. Her tenure as CEO has been met by criticism related to executive compensation, outsourcing, and IBM’s 22 consecutive quarters of revenue decline

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginni_Rometty

Ginni Rometty was last modified: January 5th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

Vernor Vinge – Wikipedia

Jovan Stosic January 5, 2018

Vernor Steffen Vinge (/ˈvɜːrnər ˈvɪndʒiː); born October 2, 1944) is an American science fiction author and retired professor. He taught mathematics and computer science at San Diego State University. He is the originator of the technological singularity concept as the phrase is now used and perhaps the first to present a fictional “cyberspace“. He is best known for his Hugo Award-winning novels and novellas A Fire Upon the Deep (1992), A Deepness in the Sky (1999), Rainbows End (2006), Fast Times at Fairmont High (2002), and The Cookie Monster (2004), as well as for his 1984 novel The Peace War and his 1993 essay “The Coming Technological Singularity“.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge

Vernor Vinge – Wikipedia was last modified: January 5th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

Hans Moravec

Jovan Stosic January 5, 2018

Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futuristwith many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in computer vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Moravec

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Ayn Rand 

Jovan Stosic January 4, 2018

Ayn Rand (/aɪn rænd/;  born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum /ˈroʊzənbaʊm/, Russian: Али́са Зино́вьевна Розенба́ум; February 2 [O.S.January 20] 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism. Educated in Russia, she moved to the United States in 1926. She had a play produced on Broadway in 1935 and 1936. After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel, The Fountainhead. In 1957, Rand published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward, she turned to non-fiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own periodicals and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayn_Rand

Ayn Rand  was last modified: January 4th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic

Battle of Trafalgar

Jovan Stosic January 4, 2018

The Battle of Trafalgar (21 October 1805) was a naval engagement fought by the British Royal Navy against the combined fleets of theFrench and Spanish Navies, during the War of the Third Coalition (August–December 1805) of the Napoleonic Wars (1796–1815).

Battle of Trafalgar
Part of the Trafalgar Campaign
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The Battle of Trafalgar, as seen from the starboard mizzen shrouds of the Victory. J. M. W. Turner (oil on canvas, 1806–1808)
Date 21 October 1805
Location Cape Trafalgar, Spain
36.29°N 6.26°W
Result Decisive British victory
Belligerents
 United Kingdom France French Empire
Spain Kingdom of Spain
Commanders and leaders
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Horatio Nelson †
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Cuthbert Collingwood		 France Pierre-Charles Villeneuve (POW)
Spain Federico Gravina (DOW)
Strength

33 ships

(27 ships of the line and six others)

41 ships

(France: 18 ships of the line and eight others

Spain: 15 ships of the line)
Casualties and losses

458 dead
1,208 wounded

Total: 1,666[1]

France:
10 ships captured,
one ship destroyed,
2,218 dead,
1,155 wounded,
4,000 captured[2]

Spain:
11 ships captured,
1,025 dead,
1,383 wounded,
4,000 captured[2]

Aftermath:
Apx. 3,000 prisoners drowned in a storm after the battle

Total: 13,781

Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, byLemuel Francis Abbott

Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood

Pierre-Charles Villeneuve, the French Admiral

Federico Gravina, the Spanish Admiral

Twenty-seven British ships of the line led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victorydefeated thirty-three French and Spanish ships of the line under the French Admiral Villeneuve in the Atlantic Ocean off the southwest coast of Spain, just west of Cape Trafalgar, near the town of Los Caños de Meca. The Franco-Spanish fleet lost twenty-two ships, without a single British vessel being lost. It was the most decisive naval battle of the war.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trafalgar

Battle of Trafalgar was last modified: January 4th, 2018 by Jovan Stosic