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Luncheon given for Admiral Richard E. Byrd, May 29, 1935
No full textThe media can be accessed here: http://streaming.osu.edu/knowledgebank/byrd/8891-8895.mp3Thomas J. Watson of IBM discusses the importance of pioneer work and the personality traits required to follow through ideas. Watson thanks Byrd and speaks of the thrill when hearing Byrd broadcast over radio from Little America. Watson assures Byrd of future cooperation of IBM, the importance of Little America, and invites Byrd to speak. Byrd contrasts North and South Poles, discussing animal life and temperature, as well as living under the ice and snow, testing thickness of ice, and concludes speech with comments on how he has enjoyed the luncheon. The recording ends with Watson’s praise of Byrd.Digital preservation funded by the Kane Lodge Foundation, Inc., New York, New York
A building-block Royal Road where crossover is provably essential
No full textOne of the most controversial yet enduring hypotheses about what genetic algorithms (GAs) are good for concerns the idea that GAs process building-blocks. More specifically, it has been suggested that crossover in GAs can assemble short low-order schemata of above average fitness (building blocks) to create higher-order higher-fitness schemata. However, there has been considerable difficulty in demonstrating this rigorously and intuitively. Here we provide a simple building-block function that a GA with two-point crossover can solve on average in polynomial time, whereas an asexual population or mutation hill-climber cannot
Transforming evolutionary search into higher-level evolutionary search by capturing problem structure
No full textThe intuitive idea that good solutions to small problems can be reassembled into good solutions to larger problems is widely familiar in many fields including evolutionary computation. This idea has motivated the building-block hypothesis and model-building optimization methods that aim to identify and exploit problem structure automatically. Recently, a small number of works make use of such ideas by learning problem structure and using this information in a particular manner: these works use the results of a simple search process in primitive units to identify structural correlations (such as modularity) in the problem that are then used to redefine the variational operators of the search process. This process is applied recursively such that search operates at successively higher scales of organization, hence multi-scale search. Here, we show for the first time that there is a simple class of (modular) problems that a multi-scale search algorithm can solve in polynomial time that requires super-polynomial time for other methods. We discuss strengths and limitations of the multi-scale search approach and note how it can be developed further
Jeff Thomas: Working Histories
No full textEssay in a catalogue of an exhibition held at Gallery 44, Toronto, May 6-June 5, 2004. Exhibition description: Frustrated in his search for archival testimonies of aboriginal experience, Thomas turned to historic studies produced by white photographer Curtis and ethnographer Knowles as sources for discoursing with history. A Study of Indian-ness is based upon fictive conversations between the artist and these historic persons.reviewessayfinal article publishe
Rev. Richard Watson 1781-1833: his work and religious thought
No full textFame is a fickle mistress who soon forgets the vast
majority of those who for a few brief moments share her smile.
This present study concerns one whose name was a household word
among the Methodists of his own day, and for two generations
following, but is now, with the passing of a century and a half,
almost completely forgotten even among his own folk. It is an
attempt to examine, understand, and state the salient factors
in the life, work, and religious thought of Richard Watson.
Watson was both an interpreter of the Christian message and a
leader in applying that message to religious and social problems.
Since the gospel of Christ is timeless as well as timely, Watson
might have something to say to a later genreration.This study is not a biography of Watson, although it
attempts to highlight those facts of his life which enable one
to trace his mental and spiritual development and in a measure
to recapture his personality. There have been three compilations
of the simple facts of his life. The first, Memoirs of the Life
and Writing of the Rev. Richard Watson, was written the year
following his death by his friend and colleague in the ministry,
Thomas Jackson. The value of this volume to any study of Watson
is Inestimable notwithstanding the fact that the narrative is
sometimes coloured by the close personal relationship which existed
between the subject and the author. The remaining two volumes
depend for the most part on Jackson's work but are significant
for the judgements they contain, in anonymously compiled Life
of Rev. Richard Watson was published in Sow York in 1341; it
reveals the estimate cf Watson in American Methodism. 3, J.
Drailsford' s Richard Watson, Theologian and missionary Advocate
is a brief study made more than fifty years after Watson's
deathThe part of this paper dealing with the work of Watson
is an effort to state and evaluate the contributions he made in
the five major areas of activity in which he participated. The
five areas are not given in the order of the significance of his
contributions but are presented in the natural manner in which
they evolved throughout his life. His writings are given
comparatively few pages in the second part of the study since
they form the basis of the third part.To present even an outline of all of Watson's religious thought would have been far beyond the scope of this
study, and, indeed, it would have served little purpose. In
order to limit the field, those subjects have been chosen upon
which Watson entered into controversy at one time or another,
thereby defining more exactly his own views. The one exception
to this is chanter two which is included by virtue cf its position as the first Methodist systematic statement of the doctrines of the existence and attributes of God,To the archivist of the Methodist Book Room, Rev. J.
H, Martin, is due a word of thanks for his kind assistance in
making available the books and manuscripts in his care. Ho less
helpful was Miss Irene Longstaff, archivist cf the Methodist
Missionary Society, who graciously'allowed the use of old records
and manuscripts pertaining to the Missionary Society. The study
is also indebted to the facilities of the British Museum for
the examination, of back issues of magazines, newspapers, and
otherwise unavailable books
Special Issue Editorial: Alea Iacta Est: Now is the Time to Extract Value from Digital Data Streams
No full textMemoirs of the life and writings of the Rev. Richard Watson, late secretary to the Wesleyan missionary society.
No full textPublished also as vol. 1 of the works of Richard Watson, 1834-37, edited by T. Jackson.Mode of access: Internet
Considerations upon the state of public affairs, [electronic resource] : at the beginning of the year MDCCXCVIII. Part the first. France. By the author of "considerations, &c. at the Beginning of the Year 1796.".
No full textThe author of "Considerations, &c. at the beginning of the year 1796." = Thomas Richard Bentley.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
Thomas Rotch accounts payable, Kendal 1811-1818
No full textThe author of this document is not known; on page one is a list of men to took brick from the Kendal brick kiln including Clark Harrington, Joseph Blackledge, Thomas Rotch "for his house", Richard Imlay, Charles Skinner, probably for house construction. Side 2 lists rails made by "sundry persons and brought out the North woods." Dollar amounts are unnamed. 15.5" x 10
Considerations upon the state of public affairs, [electronic resource] : at the beginning of the year MDCCXCVIII. Part the second. Upon the instructions of His Majesty's plenipotentiary at Lille, and the indemnity of Great Britain at the peace. By the author of "considerations, &c. at the Beginning of the Year 1796.".
No full textThe author of "Considerations, &c. at the beginning of the year 1796." = Thomas Richard Bentley.Electronic reproduction.English Short Title Catalog,Reproduction of original from British Library
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