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  George Berkeley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Berkeley's objective in the New Theory of Vision was "to shew the manner wherein we perceive by sight the distance, magnitude, and situation of objects.
Berkeley explores the relationships between the objects of sight and touch by introducing the notions of minimum visibles and tangibles, the smallest points one actually can perceive by sight and touch, points which must be taken to be indivisible.
Berkeley concludes his discussion of abstraction by noting that not all general words are used to denote objects or kinds of objects.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/b/berkeley.htm   (7594 words)

  
 George Berkeley - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
George Berkeley (bark-lee) (March 12, 1685–January 14, 1753), also known as Bishop Berkeley, was an influential Irish philosopher whose primary philosophical achievement is the advancement of what has come to be called subjective idealism, summed up in his dictum, "Esse est percipi" ("To be is to be perceived").
Berkeley argues that since we experience other humans in the way they speak to us—something which is not originating from any activity of our own—and since we learn that their view of the world is consistent with ours, we can believe in their existence and in the world being identical (similar) for everyone.
Berkeley regarded his criticism of calculus as part of his broader campaign against the religious implications of Newtonian mechanics – as a defence of traditional Christianity against deism, which tends to distance God from His worshippers.
open-encyclopedia.com /George_Berkeley   (1085 words)

  
 James River Plantations: Berkeley - Between Richmond and Williamsburg
Berkeley, on the James River between Williamsburg and Richmond, is the birthplace of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and a U.S. President.
Benjamin Harrison, son of the builder of Berkeley and the plantation's second owner, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and three-time Governor of Virginia.
Berkeley's ten acres of formal terraced boxwood gardens and lawn extend a quarter-mile from the front door to the James River.
www.jamesriverplantations.org /Berkeley.html   (408 words)

  
 Learn more about University of California, Berkeley in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The University of California, Berkeley (also UCB, Cal, Berkeley, or UC Berkeley) is the flagship and original campus of the University of California, situated in Berkeley, California on the east side of the San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
According to the National Research Council, Berkeley ranks first nationally in the number of graduate programs in the top 10 in their fields and first nationally in the number of "distinguished" programs for the scholarship of the faculty.
The original Berkeley Software Distribution, commonly known as BSD Unix, was assembled in 1977 by Bill Joy as a graduate student in the computer science department.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/un/university_of_california__berkeley.html   (2848 words)

  
 Township of Berkeley Heights, NJ - Home Page
Berkeley Heights is a small community located in Union County, NJ with a population of 12,913.
Nestled in the Watchung Mountains, Berkeley Heights is a community of comfortable homes, quiet tree lined streets, which provides the ideal setting for raising a family and enjoying life.
Berkeley Heights is an easy commute by train to New York City for work or play and provides access to other locations by nearby major highways.
www.berkeleyheightstwp.com   (161 words)

  
 Berkeley
William Berkeley was a gentleman farmer whose family originally came from Staffordshire in England while Elisabeth Southerne was the daughter of a Dublin brewer.
Berkeley is best known in the world of mathematics for his attack on the logical foundation of the calculus as developed by Newton.
Berkeley's criticisms were well founded and important in that they focused the attention of mathematicians on a logical clarification of the calculus.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Berkeley.html   (1894 words)

  
 Berkeley
Berkeley spent most of his mature years in London, travelling briefly to Rhode Island in the vain hope of securing financial support for a college to be established in Bermuda.
In what he believed to be his most devastating point, Berkeley argued that it is literally inconceivable that anything like a material substance could exist independently of the spirits or active thinking substances that perceive it.
Here Berkeley spoke through Philonous ("Mind-lover"), who tries to convince his reluctant friend Hylas ("Woody") that it is only by rejecting the artificial philosophical concept of material substance that skepticism can be finally defeated and the truths of common-sense secured.
www.philosophypages.com /ph/berk.htm   (485 words)

  
 San Diego Maritime Museum : Historic Ships : Berkeley
The Berkeley is an 1898 steam ferryboat that operated for 60 years on San Francisco Bay.
Berkeley’s importance to the Maritime Museum cannot be overstated.
Berkeley has a unique historical and architectural significance that is reminiscent of the Victorian Age.
www.sdmaritime.org /contentpage.asp?ContentID=49   (313 words)

  
 Berkeley Studies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berkeley, in his penetrating insights, took empiricism to its logical conclusion, and reached am understanding of the world as observer-dependent -- a conclusion that modern physics is only beginning to understand fully.
Today, Berkeley is being rediscovered by a new generation of philosophers, keen to grapple with the problem of consciousness -- which physicalist science is incapable of giving an account of.
Berkeley's arguments are elusive because he accepts without qualms epistemological doctrines that would rate as a reductio ad absurdum of anybody else.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~ursa/philos/berkeley.htm   (5298 words)

  
 George Berkeley [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berkeley argues that the objects of sight and touch — indeed, the objects of each sensible modalities — are distinct and incommensurable.
Berkeley grants that he can abstract in the first sense — “I can consider the hand, the eye, the nose, each by it self abstracted or separated from the rest of the body” (Intro.
Berkeley seems to argue that in any case one might consider — books in the back of a closet, plants deep in a wood with no one about, footprints on the far side of the moon — the objects are related to the mind conceiving of them.
zyx.org /berkeley.htm   (7589 words)

  
 Sleepycat Software: Products: Berkeley DB XML   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berkeley DB XML is not a client/server database management system; it is a C++ library linked into your application.
Berkeley DB XML is closely tracking this standard as it emerges from the standards process.
Berkeley DB XML is a layer on top of the highly successful, mature and robust Berkeley DB database.
www.sleepycat.com /products/xml.shtml   (884 words)

  
 Welcome to Berkeley Linguistics
After that time most linguistic work at U.C. Berkeley was done through the Anthropology Department where, under the direction of the noted anthropological linguist Alfred Kroeber, extensive efforts were devoted to the recording and describing of unwritten languages, especially American Indian languages spoken in California and elsewhere in the United States.
Constituted in 1953 by the distinguished Sanskrit and Dravidian scholar Murray Emeneau, and subsequently chaired by Mary Haas, a leading scholar of both American Indian and Asian languages, there are at present 15 faculty and 6 retired professors associated with the department.
With the approximately 50 graduate students in progress toward the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees, Berkeley linguists remain committed to the empirical, historical, and theoretical study of linguistic structure within a broad linguistic, cultural, and cognitive context.
linguistics.berkeley.edu   (402 words)

  
 Berkeley County School District
Berkeley County students have one of the state's best access rates to current technology with over 12,000 internet capable classroom computers.
Last year 18 graduate level courses were offered to Berkeley County teachers.
Of the six traditional TriCounty high schools that broke 1,000 on the composite, Berkeley claimed three: Goose Creek, Stratford and Hanahan.
www.berkeley.k12.sc.us   (113 words)

  
 Berkeley Varitronics Systems 802.11 Wi-Fi, CDMA, CW Wireless Test Equipment
Berkeley offers a wide range of transmitters, receivers, channel sounders, frequency sources and PN scanners for engineers and field technicians.
Update is available FREE to all users still under Berkeley’s one year software warranty and $500 for an upgrade.
Berkeley’s 802.11 Wi-Fi Workshop DVD and tutorial is the next best thing if you cannot attend.
www.bvsystems.com   (700 words)

  
 How Berkeley Can You Be? Parade, September 19, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Berkeley's homegrown parade is a celebration of everything that makes Berkeley so proud of itself.
Berkeley's mayor, Tom Bates, strolled along and shook hands with his constituents.
Much more famous than the mayor is Berkeley's own Pink Man, who rides around the city daily on his unicycle, wearing nothing but a pink unitard.
www.zombietime.com /how_berkeley_can_you_be   (953 words)

  
 UC Berkeley NewsCenter
Later this month the Berkeley division of the Librarians Association of the University of California will honor two of its own, the recipients of the 2005 Distinguished Librarian Award: John Roberts of the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library and Daniel Krummes of the Harmer E. Davis Transportation Library.
Paul R. Gray, UC Berkeley executive vice chancellor and provost, has decided to step down from his position on July 1, 2006, to return to teaching and research in the College of Engineering.
UC Berkeley's new online tour combines memorable photos and web features to offer a fresh look at the people, places and traditions that make the university a singular experience.
newscenter.berkeley.edu   (752 words)

  
 Berkeley College of Engineering
Paul R. Gray, UC Berkeley's executive vice chancellor and provost, has decided to step down from his position to return to teaching and research in the College of Engineering.
Civil engineers from the UC, Berkeley, have arrived in New Orleans as part of an independent team of researchers investigating levee failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
This fall, 14 undergraduates from one of Taiwan’s top science and technology universities are spending the semester soaking up Berkeley’s special ambience and some of its EECS course offerings through a fledgling program intended to boost education through global cooperation.
www.coe.berkeley.edu   (214 words)

  
 Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
George Leitmann, Professor in the Graduate School and Associate Dean for International Relations in the College of Engineering, UC Berkeley, celebrated his 80th birthday in a variety of ways during a two week trip to Europe in May/June 2005.
University of California, Berkeley, researchers have invented a variation on the standard electronic transistor, creating the first "nanofluidic" transistor that allows them to control the movement of ions through sub-microscopic, water-filled channels.
The U.S. News rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students.
www.me.berkeley.edu   (448 words)

  
 Downtown Berkeley Association - Home
Located only 12 miles from San Francisco and next to the UC Berkeley campus, the downtown attracts residents, students, and visitors to its international dining, unique shops, rich cultural activities, and wide variety of professional and public services.
The new Downtown Berkeley Arts District located on Addison Street includes the Berkeley Repertory Theatre and School of Theatre, the Aurora Theatre, the Capoeira Arts Cafe, and the East Bay Media Center.
The Downtown Berkeley Association's mission is to improve Downtown Berkeley as a beautiful and historic public space that offers unique experiences through arts and commerce to its many local and international visitors.
www.downtownberkeley.org   (365 words)

  
 The Berkeley Group plc - Home
The creation of new communities through the development of land is the core of Berkeleys’ business.
Since the 27th of October 2004 the holding company of The Berkeley Group plc is The Berkeley Group Holdings plc.
Following the announcement on the 23rd of June 2005, Berkeley completed the disposal of the Crosby Group to Lend Lease Corporation Limited on the 8th of July 2005.
www.berkeleygroup.com   (149 words)

  
 Official Website of Berkeley Springs, West Virginia - The Country's First Spa
Berkeley Springs is an historic spa and art-filled town nestled in the West Virginia mountains only 90 minutes from the Washington/Baltimore metro area.
Friendly people, welcoming mountains and a sense of place mark Berkeley Springs, West Virginia as a vacation getaway for all seasons and tastes.
If you are planning a visit to Berkeley Springs and cannot find the information you need, please call us at 1-800-447-8797 or use our guestbook.
www.berkeleysprings.com   (191 words)

  
 Breathed, Berkeley - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist and children's picture book author Berkeley Breathed crafts a remarkable, hilarious, and yes, even poignant celebration of "flawed dogs": "The bent and plain,/ The unbalanced bod,/ The imperfect people/ And differently pawed." At the core of this "2004...
Berkeley Breathed ("Bloom County") continues his successful second life as a first-rate children's storyteller.
In the spirit of A Wish for Wings That Work and Red Ranger Came Calling, Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big celebrates Breathed's ample cartooning skill while...
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /breathed,_berkeley.htm   (194 words)

  
 Berkeley Castle
Completed in 1153 by Lord Maurice de Berkeley at the command of King Henry II, view our timeline and the history surrounding twenty-five generations of Berkeleys.
Berkeley Castle is the ideal venue for your special event.
Accommodation, Catering for your function at Berkeley Castle and Local Attractions of interest.
www.berkeley-castle.com   (98 words)

  
 Directions to Berkeley Lab
The Laboratory is in Berkeley on the hillside directly above the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.
Purchase a ticket for $6.10 (the cost of a round-trip between downtown SF and Berkeley as of March, 2005).
A useful stop for many people is the one in front of the Berkeley BART station, which is located on Center Street at the northwest corner of Shattuck Avenue and Center Street.
www.lbl.gov /Workplace/Transportation.html   (1775 words)

  
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The Berkeley County government is in the midst of a building campaign that will provide sufficient facilities space for a twenty year period.
The Berkeley County Commission purchased the former Blue Ridge Outlet Center in 2002 for $3.8 million dollars.
The Commission is in the midst of a planning project that will relocate county government from its traditional location at the corner of King and Queen Street to the new Berkeley County Judicial Center and County Government Complex housed in the former Blue Ridge Outlet Center.
www.berkeleycountycomm.org   (182 words)

  
 Berkeley MPEG Tools
The Berkeley Plateau Multimedia Research Group (now subsumed by the Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC)) developed the first widely-distributed software decoder for MPEG-1 video in November 1992.
The Berkeley decoder has been ported to seemingly every computer system, and it has been distributed to millions of users on the Internet.
Our original goal in developing this code was to determine how close the current generation of RISC processors and systems was to being able to decode video in real-time (see paper presented at ACM Multimedia '93).
bmrc.berkeley.edu /projects/mpeg   (1252 words)

  
 home - physics @ berkeley
In 1931, Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron at Berkeley, ushering in the era of high-energy physics and a tradition of achievement that continued today.
Seven of Berkeley's nineteen Nobel Prizes were awarded to Berkeley physicists.
What path to explore is important, as well as what we notice along the path.
www.physics.berkeley.edu   (120 words)

  
 CNMAT Computer Music
CNMAT Founder Richard Felciano's An American Decameron (2001) will be performed by the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players on Monday, November 7, 8pm, Hertz Hall in honor of his 75th birthday.
CNMAT is a music research, composition, teaching, recording and performance facility located in the hills just north of the UC Berkeley campus.
A satellite of the UC Berkeley Department of Music, CNMAT is an interdisciplinary research center, drawing participants from many university departments including physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, psychology, computer science, cognitive science and music.
www.cnmat.berkeley.edu   (233 words)

  
 Digital Collections (DL SunSITE)
Biographical and bibliographical selections featuring UC Berkeley Anthropology Faculty who have been chosen for the Annual Emeritus Lecture Award.
This collection is cooperatively produced by the UC Berkeley Library and Sonoma State University.
Jointly organized by the Anthropology Department at the University of California at Berkeley and the Institute of Anthropology at the University of Iceland.
sunsite3.berkeley.edu /Collections   (499 words)

  
 The International Computer Science Institute: Where is ICSI?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
ICSI occupies a 28,000 square foot research facility located at 1947 Center Street, Suite 600, Berkeley CA, 94704-1198.
As can be seen from the following map, ICSI is just two blocks from the central U.C. Campus in downtown Berkeley.
1947 Center Street, a six story office building in the Art Deco style, was designed in 1947 by Berkeley architect, James W. Placheck, for the State Farm Insurance Company.
www.icsi.berkeley.edu /where.html   (297 words)

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