Edmund Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Born in 1933, he spent his childhood in Chicago and, from ...

The factor 0.104 was determined to match the standard deviations for the global and Nino3.4 temperatures for 1970-2010. PDF Data through November 2024 used. last ...

Herman Hollerith's Type 001 Mechanical Card Punch, patented in 1901, was the first key punch; that is, the first card punch operated from a keyboard, so that the operator could punch digits 0-9, ...

Central River Division (formally MacCarthy Island Division) with an area of 3038 sq. km is the largest Local Government Area in the Gambia. The division consists of 10 districts including MacCarthy ...

What we in the United States know as the Gay Movement is not as visible in Spain or Latin America. Hispanics are much more reluctant to self-identify as gay or lesbian. Gay liberation movements in the ...

1978. The Digital Equipment Corporation VT100 was the first ANSI X3.64 compliant terminal and featured lots of innovations including control by an Intel 8085 microprocessor (rather than custom ...

Page last updated July 23 2020 (added Fermín Travi's adaptation of Alan Lee's Python scripts for response-specific meta-d' analysis) The original version of this webpage is archived here. MATLAB files ...

Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor (Economics, Law, and International Affairs) at Columbia University and Director of the Raj Center on Indian Economic Policies. He was Senior Fellow for ...

Columbia's Herman Hollerith pioneered punch card computation beginning in the late 1880s, when he chose punched cards as the medium for encoding and storing demographic data for the 1890 US Census, ...

I haven't made any kind of systematic search or survey, but happened to see the following films that contain sequences of authentic 1940s, 50s, or 60s (or earlier) punched-card or other computing ...

Developed in the mid-1950s as part of IBM's Modular Accounting Calculator (MAC) program, the IBM 608 is a transistorized version of the 604 that "combines the newest advances in electronics to perform ...

The IBM Type 012 tabletop key punch (1925) was the first model capable of duplication; that is, automatically copying columns from one card to another. Left: What appears to be a Type 012 Electric ...