Engineering and technology

Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel)

Jovan Stosic January 6, 2018

“Nightfall” is a 1941 science fiction novelette by American writer Isaac Asimov about the coming of darkness to the people of a planet ordinarily illuminated by sunlight at all times. It was adapted into a novel with Robert Silverberg in 1990. The short story has been included in 48 anthologies, and has appeared in six collections of Asimov’s stories. In 1968, the Science Fiction Writers of America voted “Nightfall” the best science fiction short story written prior to the 1965 establishment of the Nebula Awards, and included it in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One, 1929-1964.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_and_novel)

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

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

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

espouse

Jovan Stosic January 4, 2018

ɪ’spaʊz, ɛ-
■ verb
adopt or support (a cause, belief, or way of life).
archaic marry. ▶(be espoused to) be engaged to.

espouser noun

ME: from OFr. espouser, from L. sponsare, from sponsus ‘betrothed’, past participle of spondere.
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Concise Oxford Thesaurus
espouse
▶ verb ADOPT, embrace, take up, accept, welcome; support, back, champion, favour, prefer, encourage; promote, endorse, advocate.

reject.
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espoused
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Merriam-Webster Collegiate® Dictionary
es·pouse
Pronunciation: is-‘pau̇z also -‘pau̇s
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form: es·poused ; es·pous·ing
Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French espuser, from Late Latin sponsare to betroth, from Latin sponsus betrothed ― more at SPOUSE
Date: 15th century

1 : MARRY
2 : to take up and support as a cause : become attached to
synonyms see ADOPT
–es·pous·er noun