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Gordon L. Kane
Gordon Leon Kane (born January 19, 1937) is Victor Weisskopf Distinguished University Professor at the University of Michigan and Director Emeritus at the Leinweber Center for Theoretical Physics (LCTP), a leading center for the advancement of theoretical physics. He was director of the LCTP from 2005 to 2011 and Victor Weisskopf Collegiate Professor of Physics from 2002 - 2011. He received the
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Grigore Rosu
Grigore Roșu is a computer science professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a researcher in the Information Trust Institute.[1] He is known for his contributions in runtime verification, K framework,[2] matching logic,[3] and automated coinduction.[4] Rosu received a B.A. in Mathematics in 1995 and an M.S. in Fundamentals of Computing in 1996, both from the University
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Hamed Taherdoost
Hamed Taherdoost is an award-winning leader and research and development professional. He is the Founder of Hamta Group | Hamta Business Solution and Associate Professor at University Canada West. He has over 20 years of experience in both industry and academic sectors. He has worked at international companies from Cyprus, the UK, Malta, Iran, Malaysia, and Canada and has been highly involved in
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I. J. Good
Irving John ("I. J."; "Jack") Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009)[1][2] was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was professor at Virginia Tech. He was b
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James Harris Simons
James Harris "Jim" Simons (/ˈsaɪmənz/; born April 25, 1938) is an American mathematician, billionaire hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is known as a quantitative investor and in 1982 founded Renaissance Technologies, a private hedge fund based in New York City . Although Simons retired from the fund in 2009, he remains its non-executive chairman and adviser.[1] He is also known for
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Jeff Gill
Jefferson Morris Gill (born December 22, 1960) is Distinguished Professor of Government, and of Mathematics & Statistics, the Director of the Center for Data Science, the Editor of Political Analysis, and a member of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience at American University as of the Fall of 2017. He was a Professor of Political Science at Washington University in St. Louis and the Director
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John Howard Redfield
John Howard Redfield (June 8, 1879 – April 17, 1944) was an United States mathematician, best known for discovery of what is now called Pólya enumeration theorem (PET) in 1927,[1] ten years ahead of similar but independent discovery made by George Pólya. Redfield was a great-grandson of William Charles Redfield, one of the founders and the first president of AAAS. Redfield's ability is ev
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John Pell
John Pell (1 March 1611 – 12 December 1685) was an English mathematician and political agent abroad. He was born at Southwick in Sussex. His father, also named John Pell, was from Southwick, and his mother was Mary Holland, from Halden in Kent. The second of two sons, Pell's older brother was Thomas Pell. By the time he was six, they were orphans, their father dying in 1616 and their mother
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Kate Claghorn
Kate Holladay Claghorn (1864–1938) was an American sociologist, economist, statistician, legal scholar, and Progressive Era activist, who became one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Claghorn was born on February 12, 1864 in Aurora, Illinois, but grew up in New York City . She earned a bachelor's degree in 1892 from Bryn Mawr College, and com
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Lilach Soreq
Lilach was a 3 years Alzheimer’s Society Research Fellow at UCL ION London UK (then 3 years RoseTrees fellow) studying human brain aging. She obtained her B.Sc. in computer science, M.Sc in developmental biology, and her Ph.D. in neurobiology studying RNA regulation in Parkinson’s disease resulting in more than ten first-author papers. Her post-doctoral training was funded by the competitive
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