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  David Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bradley did not intend Control-Alt-Delete to be used by end users — it was meant to be used by people writing programs or documentation, so that they could reboot their computers without powering them down.
David Bradley was born in Groton, New York on November 8th, 1811.
From the late 1830's until the 1850's David Bradley farmed in Lake County, Il., made bricks, and later farm machinery, in Racine WI., and was a lumberman in Michigan.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_Bradley   (856 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
That's the same David Bradley who was the "answer" to Final Jeopardy on an episode of that show's special college edition last fall.
Bradley chose the control and alt keys because he needed two shift keys to make the operation work, and he chose the delete key because it was on the opposite side of the keyboard.
Bradley says the "strength of the country" is at stake because relatively few students go into science or technology.
www.gannettonline.com /e/trends/18001162.html   (390 words)

  
 David Bradley -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bradley did not intend (Click link for more info and facts about Control-Alt-Delete) Control-Alt-Delete to be used by end users — it was meant to be used by people writing programs or documentation, so that they could reboot their computers without powering them down.
Bradley is the author of Assembly Language Programming for the IBM Personal Computer (Simon & Schuster, ISBN 0130491713, January 1984), also released in (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French as Assembleur sur IBM PC (Dunod, ISBN 2225806950) and Russian ("Radio" Publishing House, Moscow).
Bradley developed the ((computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed) ROM (Click link for more info and facts about BIOS) BIOS.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/da/david_bradley.htm   (628 words)

  
 GORR Deputy Director David S. Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bradley was a key player in the consulting firm of ERM Northeast.
Bradley was instrumental in a joint effort with the New York State Senate Legislative Commission on Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes, holding a seminar that presented innovative remedial technologies.
Bradley is married to the former Karen Golden and is the father of three daughters.
www.gorr.state.ny.us /GORR/bradleybio.html   (400 words)

  
 David G. Bradley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David G. Bradley has chaired, edited, and owned several publishing and news firms.
He is presently the chairman of The Atlantic Monthly and chair of National Journal Group, Inc. [1].
David G. Bradley graduated with honors from Swarthmore College.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_G._Bradley   (137 words)

  
 David Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Married to wife, Karin, since 1988, David is the proud father of a daughter, Trevan and a son, T.J., which were both born in Lawton.
David is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma and a solid community member.
David is also a Sunday school teacher at the First Baptist Church, where he is a member.
www.kswo.com /david_b.htm   (131 words)

  
 David Bradley Film Collection   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Shedd Bradley, who died of complications of diabetes, was the son of a wealthy Chicago family that gave the city its Shedd Aquarium and was a major supporter of the Chicago Symphony.
Bradley made a few other films but fought with the studio over the re-edit of “12 to the Moon” and moved on to his real vocation, which was to hold strong opinions and express them at every opportunity.
Bradley filmed everyone of his New Year’s Day parties, including one at which Mary Philbin, star of 1925 “Phantom of the Opera,” re-enacted the unmasking of the phantom (played by Lon Chaney in the original and Bradley, of course, in the re-enactment).
www.indiana.edu /~bradfilm/bradley.html   (891 words)

  
 David Bradley, Beaumont, District 7   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Bradley was first elected to the State Board of Education in 1996.
Bradley, a Republican who represents Southeast Texas, was reelected to the board in 2000, 2002 and 2004.
Bradley received his Eagle Scout award in 1972 and served on the executive board of the Three Rivers Council of the Boy Scouts of America.
www.tea.state.tx.us /sboe/board/bradley.html   (225 words)

  
 New Bones: Contemporary Black Writers in America Chapter 7 -- David Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Bradley was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, and graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972.
Bradley's youth was spent in a predominately white town in rural Pennsylvania, which had an effect on his attitude toward the power of African Americans in the United States.
Bradley is interviewed in 1996 for the newspaper at Temple University, where he was an English professor.
cwx.prenhall.com /bookbind/pubbooks/quashie/chapter7/custom1/deluxe-content.html   (219 words)

  
 How the PC Really Got Started
Bradley carries himself like a career IBM man, complete with white shirt, red tie, and navy-blue suit.
Bradley got the biggest laughs when he owned up to being the engineer who developed a hasty way to power down your computer if the screen freezes.
Bradley also recalled sending testers into swampland with radiation detectors to see if early PCs were in compliance with federal rules.
www.fastcompany.com /articles/archive/pc_bday.html   (833 words)

  
 CNN.com - Meet the inventor of 'CtrlAltDelete' - Jan. 29, 2004
David Bradley wrote the code for one of the most well-known key combinations around: Ctrl+Alt+Delete.
David Bradley spent five minutes writing the computer code that has bailed out the world's PC users for decades.
Bradley, whose name was once mentioned as a clue in the final round of the TV game show "Jeopardy," will continue teaching at North Carolina State University after retirement.
www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/ptech/01/29/ctrlaltdelete.man.ap   (415 words)

  
 Spotlight: Science News Column
David Bradley is a chemist by training but sidestepped the laboratory in favour of science writing and editorial work in 1989.
David co-authored John Gribbin's A Brief History of Science, is a member of the Association of British Science Writers and the US National Association of Science Writers and a chartered member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
All material in Spotlight is © David Bradley Science Writer and PSIgate and may not be reproduced without express permission.
www.psigate.ac.uk /spotlight/bradley_profile.html   (192 words)

  
 Book review: 'Chaneysville' is a life-changing look at another world (Duluth, Minnesota) 02-21-1999
David Bradley is an extraordinarily skilled writer, and his novel "The Chaneysville Incident" is not merely art, it is a masterwork.
Bradley's prose, coming out of Washington's voice, is rich, crisp and sensory, flowing seamlessly through flashbacks, historical narratives, introspection and action.
That Bradley, with them, is able to put readers in John Washington's world so profoundly — physically, intellectually and emotionally — is the real story.
www.duluth.com /placed/story/02-21-1999bradbook.html   (618 words)

  
 TheStreet.com: Report Card: David Bradley
Bradley has been an auto and auto-parts analyst for 15 years.
Bradley turned bearish on the group in May of 2000.
Bradley also likes TRW (TRW:NYSE - news) long term, praising its development of high-power chips that will have broad applications in the telecom arena.
www.thestreet.com /markets/analystrankings/1323415.html   (646 words)

  
 Computer Games Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Bradley - The main design decision was to concentrate on a single player character and make them the hero of a deep, engrossing story.
David Bradley - We?re working hard to try and finish the game up properly and it?s going fairly well; the game is on schedule to be released in April.
David Bradley - We?d like to thank all the people who?ve been patiently waiting for the game and demonstrating their continued interest and support in various forums.
www.cgonline.com /content/view/598/2   (1475 words)

  
 Variety.com - David Bradley
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
In 1946, Bradley shot a film of "Macbeth," and his amateur efforts caused him to be dubbed "The 16mm Orson Welles" and to be embraced by the Young Turk British critics of the time, including Lindsay Anderson and Tony Richardson.
Bradley was known to have one of the largest private film collections in the United States, and was celebrated in Hollywood for his annual New Year's Day parties, at which many of the surviving greats of the silent and golden studio eras were regular guests.
www.variety.com /vstory/VR1117342955?categoryid=38&cs=1   (333 words)

  
 David Bradley: 1910-1966   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In 1832, David Bradley, a young pioneer mechanic and foundryman in Chicago, designed and built a plow that turned its own furrow.
Bradley designed this plow specifically with the boggy, heavy, virgin prairie of the Midwest in mind.
In 1962, Sears transferred ownership of the David Bradley Manufacturing Works to the Newark Ohio Company, which was also owned by Sears.
www.searsarchives.com /brands/davidbradley.htm   (193 words)

  
 Ctrl-Alt-Del inventor makes final reboot | The Register
David Bradley, one of the 'dirty dozen' engineers who created the original IBM PC at Boca Raton, Florida, is to retire this week after 29 years with the company.
Bradley's accomplishments are numerous - he wrote the BIOS code for the original PC and rose to become architecture manager at the PC group.
Bradley chose the Delete key because it was far away from the two modifiers that were necessary to create the deadly interrupt, he explained last year.
www.theregister.com /2004/01/29/ctrlaltdel_inventor_makes_final_reboot   (275 words)

  
 New Mexico Business Journal: From the ground up: David Bradley
Bradley, who incidentally was regional Small Businessman of the Year in '85 for New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, speaks his mind openly and without frills.
Bradley contends even the new measure approved by the legislature will place some heavy burdens on some specialized industries.
Bradley has been keeping a close eye, too, on what is happening in the Albuquerque construction industry, considered a bell-wether of what will likely happen throughout the state.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m5092/is_n11_v14/ai_9225474   (1025 words)

  
 David Bradley Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David’s most recent activities have been to meet with members of Congress and representatives of other countries who are interested in establishing a community action program in their countries.
As a partner in the government relations firm of Moss McGee Bradley and Colbert, David is intimately involved with the legislative affairs of federal programs totaling almost thirteen billion dollars and he is a frequent witness before the Congress.
David Bradley continues to demonstrate an unusual ability to make issues affecting the poor of interest to both political parties.
www.ncaf.org /dbbio.html   (596 words)

  
 In Memory of our Convenor / Tobacconist: DAVID BRADLEY (1949-2002)
The upshot is that David probably died in the middle of the night.
David was on my way there --and on my way home -- so it was my last chance to be his John Clay hansom driver from/to his house.
David was David, not your Mayberry or Beaver type.
www.nashvillescholars.net /meetings/mnews_dbradley.htm   (1061 words)

  
 Current Science Articles and News from David Bradley Science Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
David Bradley is a freelance science journalist and writer with a background in chemistry and more than fifteen years experience of writing about science for almost every market from educational materials to specialist publications by way of popular science magazines and papers.
David is a member of the ABSW, NASW, and the RSC and has received several awards for his work.
David also runs a Science Blog and recently enabled visitor comments, so anyone can join in the fun.
www.sciencebase.com   (483 words)

  
 David Bradley Dating
The David Bradley 6 was basically the same as the 5 hp specials, but with an aluminum engine and recoil.
It was the last model built by David Bradley, and was offered until production ended.
It was the last model built by David Bradley, and 1967 is the last year these machines were offered in the catalogs.
members.lsol.net /gop4evr/years.htm   (1249 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Inventor of Ctrl-Alt-Delete combo retiring   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bradley, 55, is retiring from IBM Corp. on Friday after 28 1/2 years.
By 1980, Bradley was one of 12 people working to create the IBM PC.
Bradley, who will continue teaching at North Carolina State University after retirement, was once mentioned as a clue in the TV game show Jeopardy.
www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2004-01-29-famous-programmer_x.htm   (260 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: The Chaneysville Incident   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
When David Bradley's novel was first published, much of the reaction from his fellow Bedford Countians revolved around questions about the historical accuracy of his setting, coupled with the statements of "other-ness" made on behalf of the novel's main characters.
Little attention was given to its overall truth as a novel, the artful way that Bradley lets the reader into the mind and perceptions of his protaganist, as he embarks on a journey of self-awareness and discovery.
Bradley blends rich emotion with detached history to give a riveting portrait of fl America, all through the eyes of a narrator who may or may not be fully rational.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060916818?v=glance   (1589 words)

  
 Acoustics Faculty: David Bradley
Bradley, "Coherence of High Frequency Signals with Emphasis on Environmental Effects (A)," 141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 109(5): Pt.
Bradley, "Sound Propagation Through a Complex Bubble-Filled Medium Using a Parabolic Equation Method (A)," 139th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 107(5), Pt.
D.L. Bradley, "Assessing the Global Distribution and Abundance of Marine Life: Summary of a Workshop by the Sloan Foundation and the Office of Naval Research," Oceanography, 12(3) (January 1998).
www.acs.psu.edu /Faculty/BradleyD.html   (155 words)

  
 David Bradley @ Filmbug
In 1990 Bradley won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance as the Fool in King Lear at the National Theatre.
In 1993 he won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actor for the roles of Polonius in Hamlet and Shallow in Henry IV PT II at the RSC (a role for which he was also nominated for a further Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role).
Bradley's most recent theatre role was as God in The Mysteries at the Royal National Theatre.
www.filmbug.com /db/247639   (306 words)

  
 ICT [2004/06/03]  'Restless Native ... Coming Home:" Inside the world of David Bradley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Widely known for his oil and acrylic narrative folk art, Bradley often uses cultural icons in a style simultaneously vibrant and whimsical, playful and wry.
At age 5, Bradley and his brothers and sisters were taken from their parents by a private welfare agency.
Bradley also served in the Dominican Republic on the Haitian border.
www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1086287152   (700 words)

  
 David Bradley
Bradley credits a workshop with Peter Voulkos for teaching him that ceramics is an act and a process, as well as a product.
Bradley says that Reitz pointed him to a style that meshed with his own personality and interests.
For the most part, Bradley teaches his college students the methods learned at Marshall Pottery, because he feels they are logical and efficient.
www.lagunaclay.com /feature/bradley/bradley.htm   (1196 words)

  
 Harry Potter | Daily Prophet | Bradley
David Bradley plays Hogwart's ill-natured caretaker Mr Filch who prowls the corridors of the school with his mangy cat Mrs Norris.
David Bradley is an actor of unparalled standing.
He is one of the UK's most distinguished and respected actors and a long standing member of both the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre.
harrypotter.warnerbros.com /bios/bradley_full.html   (356 words)

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