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| x Cory Doctorow |
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USC Center on Public Diplomacy |
Cory Efram Doctorow (/ˈkɒri ˈdɒktəroʊ/; born July 17, 1971) is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who serves as co-editor of the weblog Boing Boing. He is an activist in favour of liberalising copyright laws and a...
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| x Harold Bloom |
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Yale University |
Harold Bloom (born July 11, 1930) is an American literary critic and is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. Since the publication of his first book in 1959, Bloom has written more than 20 books of literary criticism, several books...
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| x Frank Newby | Architectural Association School of Architecture |
Frank Newby (26 March 1926 – 10 May 2001) was one of the leading structural engineers of the 20th Century, working with such architects as Philip Powell and Hidalgo Moya, Eero Saarinen, Cedric Price, James Stirling, and the practice of Skidmore,...
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| x Karl Gustav Cassel |
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Gunnar Myrdal |
Karl Gustav Cassel (20 October 1866 – 14 January 1945) was a Swedish economist and professor of economics at Stockholm University.
Cassel's perspective on economic reality, and especially on the role of interest, was rooted in British neoclassicism...
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| Bertil Ohlin | |||||
| x Karen Ramey Burns |
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William R. Maples |
Karen Ramey Burns was an American forensic anthropologist known for work in international human rights. Her specialty was the recovery and identification of human remains in criminal, historical, archaeological, and disaster-related circumstances....
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| x Henning Nuissl | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | ||||
| x Dieter Rink | Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ | ||||
| x Chan Heng Chee |
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Professor Chan Heng Chee (traditional Chinese: 陳慶珠; simplified Chinese: 陈庆珠; pinyin: Chén Qìngzhū) is Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the United States. She received this appointment in July 1996.
During her tenure as ambassador to the U...
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| x Chee Soon Juan |
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Chee Soon Juan (simplified Chinese: 徐顺全; traditional Chinese: 徐順全; pinyin: Xú Shùnquán, born 1962) is a politician and political activist from Singapore. He is currently the leader of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party (SDP).
A controversial...
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| x Chua Beng Huat |
Chua Beng Huat (simplified Chinese: 蔡明发; traditional Chinese: 蔡明發; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tshuà Bîng-huat), a Singaporean, is a Provost Professor and the Head of the Department of Sociology at National University of Singapore (NUS). He is concurrently the...
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| x Naa Govindasamy |
Naa Govindasamy (18 April 1946 – 26 May 1999) was one of the pioneers of the Tamil on the Internet.
Naa Govindasamy, a lecturer at the National Institute of Education, worked to develop the Singapore 16 bit Unicode system which uses Tamilnet and...
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| x Yaacob Ibrahim |
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Yaacob bin Ibrahim (born 3 October 1955) is a politician from Singapore. A member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he is currently the country's Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, and Minister-in-charge of Muslim...
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| x Shanmugam Jayakumar |
Shunmugam Jayakumar (often known as "S. Jayakumar") (born 12 August 1939) is a Tamil Indian politician from Singapore. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he previously served as Singapore's Senior Minister in the Cabinet...
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| x Philip Jeyaretnam |
Philip Antony Jeyaretnam (born 1964) is a lawyer from Singapore. He is a Senior Counsel in Singapore, former President of the Law Society of Singapore, and a member of the Singapore Public Service Commission. He is also well known as a fiction...
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| x Koh Buck Song |
Koh, Buck Song is a writer, editor and consultant in branding, communications strategy and corporate social responsibility in Singapore.
Koh, Buck Song is the author and editor of 20 books. His non-fiction books include:
His four books of poetry are...
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| x Tommy Koh |
Tommy Koh (Tommy Thong-Bee Koh or Tommy Koh Thong Bee, simplified Chinese: 许通美; traditional Chinese: 許通美; pinyin: Xǔ Tōngměi; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Khó Thong-bí) was born in Singapore on 12 November 1937. He is an international lawyer, professor and...
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| x Lee Kok Cheong |
Associate Professor Lee Kok Cheong (1939 – December 14, 1993) was the Head of the English Proficiency Unit at the National University of Singapore. He was murdered on December 14, 1993; the identities of his killers remained unknown to Singapore...
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| x Liang Wern Fook |
Dr Liang Wern Fook (Chinese: 梁文福; pinyin: Liáng Wénfú; born 1964 in Singapore) is a Singaporean writer, musician, and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in the xinyao (Singaporean Chinese folk songs)...
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| x Ong Soh Khim |
Associate Professor Ong Soh Khim (Chinese: 王素琴; pinyin: Wáng Sùqín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ông Sòo-khîm) was a Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) in Singapore from January 2005 to April 2006. She was appointed by Singapore’s President S R Nathan in December...
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| x Andrew Phang |
Judge of Appeal Andrew Phang Boon Leong is a Judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore.
Born in Singapore in 1957, Phang received his LL.B. (First Class Honours) from the University of Singapore in 1982, before earning his LL.M. and S.J.D. from...
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| x K.K. Seet |
Dr Seet Khiam Keong, better known as "K.K. Seet", is an academic, writer and theatre director from Singapore. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language and Literature at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He...
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| x Benjamin Henry Sheares |
Benjamin Henry Sheares, GCB (12 August 1907 – 12 May 1981), was the second President of Singapore.
Sheares was born the second of six children in Singapore to a Eurasian family with an English lineage. His father Edwin H. Sheares, a technical...
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| x Shih Choon Fong |
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John W. Hutchinson |
Professor Shih Choon Fong (施春风; born 1945) is President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and a renowned fracture mechanics expert. Before joining KAUST as Founding President in December 2008, he was president of the...
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| x Su Guaning |
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Su Guaning (Chinese: 徐冠林) is President Emeritus of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, one of the fastest-growing research-intensive universities in the world.
A President's Scholar and Colombo Plan Scholar, Su graduated with BSc,...
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| x Tan Cheng Han |
Professor Tan Cheng Han, Senior Counsel, is the current dean of the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS) where he teaches Contract law and Corporations law. Professor Tan is also a consultant at TSMP Law Corporation.
Tan...
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| x Tan Teck Meng |
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Tan Teck Meng was a Professor of Accounting from Singapore Management University (SMU), member of the Board of Directors of four public companies in Singapore, serving as chairman of the audit committees of two of the companies, and honorary...
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| x Wang Gungwu |
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Denis C. Twitchett |
Wang Gungwu, CBE (Chinese: 王赓武; pinyin: Wáng Gēngwǔ) (born 9 October 1930) is an academic who has studied and written about the Chinese diaspora, although he has objected to the use of the word diaspora to describe the migration of Chinese from...
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| x Woon Cheong Ming Walter |
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Walter Woon Cheong Ming (Chinese: 温长明; pinyin: Wēn Chángmíng; born 12 September 1956) is a Singaporean lawyer, academic, diplomat and politician. He is currently professor of law at the National University of Singapore Faculty of Law and the Dean of...
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| x Miranda Yap |
Miranda Yap is a professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department of the National University of Singapore, and the Executive Director of the Bioprocessing Technology Institute at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research of...
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| x David François Huynh |
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David Karger | |||
| x Rajeev Motwani |
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Richard Karp | Piotr Indyk |
Rajeev Motwani (Hindi: राजीव मोटवानी; March 24, 1962 – June 5, 2009) was a professor of Computer Science at Stanford University whose research focused on theoretical computer science. He was an early advisor and supporter of companies including...
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| Gagan Aggarwal | |||||
| x Nigel Shadbolt |
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University of Southampton |
Nigel Richard Shadbolt FREng CEng CITP FBCS is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom.
Nigel Shadbolt was born in London. He studied for an undergraduate degree in philosophy and psychology at...
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| x Nick Jennings |
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University of Southampton | |||
| x Jerry Welkenhuysen-Gybels | Jaak Billiet | ||||
| x Jaak Billiet | Jerry Welkenhuysen-Gybels | ||||
| Marc Swyngedouw | |||||
| Geert Loosveldt | |||||
| x Geert Van Hootegem | Jan Bundervoet | ||||
| x Jan Bundervoet | Geert Van Hootegem | ||||
| x Marc Swyngedouw | Jaak Billiet | ||||
| x Geert Loosveldt | Jaak Billiet | ||||
| x J. Roger Hindley | |||||
| x Bjorn Poonen | Kenneth Alan Ribet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Bjorn Mikhail Poonen is a mathematician, four-time Putnam Competition winner and currently the Claude Shannon Professor of Mathematics at MIT. His research is primarily in number theory and algebraic geometry, but he has occasionally published in...
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| x Francisco J. Ayala | Theodosius Dobzhansky | John Avise |
Francisco José Ayala Pereda (born March 12, 1934) is a Spanish-American biologist and philosopher at the University of California, Irvine. He is a former Dominican priest, ordained in 1960, but left the priesthood that same year. After graduating...
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| x Raymond Yee |
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Raymond Yee is a data architect, consultant, trainer, and author of Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). He is currently a lecturer at the School of Information, UC Berkeley, where he teaches the course "Mixing and...
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| x Marco Casagrande |
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Taipei Organic Acupuncture | Tamkang University |
Marco Casagrande, (born May 7, 1971), is a Finnish architect, environmental artist, architectural theorist, writer and professor of architecture. He graduated from Helsinki University of Technology department of architecture (2001).
Casagrande was...
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| x Donald Knuth |
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Marshall Hall | Vaughan Ronald Pratt |
Donald Ervin Knuth ( /kəˈnuːθ/ kə-NOOTH; born January 10, 1938) is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.
He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the ...
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| Robert Sedgewick | |||||
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| x Marshall Hall | Øystein Ore | Donald Knuth | Emory University |
Marshall Hall, Jr. (17 September 1910, St Louis, Missouri – 4 July 1990, London) was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics.
He studied mathematics at Yale, graduating in 1932. He studied for a...
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| E. T. Parker | Ohio State University | ||||
| Robert Calderbank | California Institute of Technology | ||||
| x Øystein Ore | Thoralf Skolem | Marshall Hall |
Øystein Ore (7 October 1899 in Oslo, Norway – 13 August 1968 in Oslo) was a Norwegian mathematician.
Ore was graduated from the University of Oslo in 1922, with a Cand.Scient. degree in mathematics. In 1924, the University of Oslo awarded him the Ph...
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| x Thoralf Skolem | Axel Thue | Øystein Ore |
Thoralf Albert Skolem (23 May 1887 – 23 March 1963) (Norwegian pronunciation: [ˈtuːɾɑlf ˈskuːləm]) was a Norwegian mathematician known mainly for his work on mathematical logic and set theory.
Although Skolem's father was a primary school teacher,...
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| x Axel Thue |
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Elling Bolt Holst | Thoralf Skolem |
Axel Thue (19 February 1863 – 7 March 1922) was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics.
He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related...
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| x Elling Bolt Holst | Sophus Lie | Axel Thue | |||
| x Sophus Lie |
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Carl Anton Bjerknes | Elling Bolt Holst |
Marius Sophus Lie (Norwegian pronunciation: [liː] "Lee") (17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry, and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations....
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| Élie Cartan | |||||
| x Carl Anton Bjerknes |
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Bernt Michael Holmboe | Sophus Lie |
Carl Anton Bjerknes (October 24, 1825 – March 20, 1903) was a Norwegian mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics.
Carl Anton Bjerknes was born in Oslo,...
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| x Bernt Michael Holmboe |
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Søren Rasmussen | Carl Anton Bjerknes |
Bernt Michael Holmboe (23 March 1795 – 28 March 1850) was a Norwegian mathematician. He was home-tutored from an early age, and was not enrolled in school until 1810. Following a short period at the Royal Frederick University, which included a stint...
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| x Søren Rasmussen | Søren Rasmussen | Bernt Michael Holmboe | |||
| Søren Rasmussen | |||||
| x Vaughan Ronald Pratt |
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Donald Knuth |
Vaughan Ronald Pratt (born 1944), a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, was one of the earliest pioneers in the field of computer science. Publishing since 1969, Pratt has made several contributions to foundational areas such as search...
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| x Robert Sedgewick | Donald Knuth |
Robert Sedgewick (born 1946) is a computer science professor at Princeton University and a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems.
Sedgewick completed his Ph.D. in 1975 under the supervision of Donald Knuth at Stanford. His thesis was...
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| x Scott Kim | Donald Knuth |
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for...
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| x Leonidas J. Guibas |
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Donald Knuth | Danny Bon-Ray Yang | Stanford University School of Engineering |
Leonidas John Guibas (Greek: Λεωνίδας Γκίμπας) is a professor of computer science at Stanford University, where he heads the geometric computation group and is a member of the computer graphics and artificial intelligence laboratories. Guibas was a...
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| x Jeffrey Vitter | Donald Knuth |
Jeffrey Scott Vitter (born 1955 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is provost and executive vice chancellor and Roy A. Roberts Distinguished Professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas. KU comprises roughly 2,450 faculty members, 5,500 staff,...
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| x Pat Hanrahan |
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Anthony Stretton | Tamara Munzner | Stanford University School of Engineering |
Pat Hanrahan is a computer graphics researcher, the Canon USA Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University. His research focuses on rendering algorithms, graphics processing...
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