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	Will Dyson
		Dyson felt very strongly about this issue and produced a series of cartoons attacking the way the government was treating the suffragettes.
		Dyson had some of his cartoons published in other newspapers but he was seen by most editors as far too radical.
		Dyson was a brilliant biting Australian cartoonist, whose sharp pencil attacked alike financiers, profiteering employers, "safe" Labour and Trade Union leaders, and German military men, with a bitterness unknown in British caricature since Gillray.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jdyson.htm (954 words)

	George Dyson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Dyson is the name of several people, including:
		George Dyson (science historian) (born 1953), writer on science.
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Dyson (100 words)

	Learn more about Freeman Dyson in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born American physicist and mathematician.
		Dyson actually conceived of such a structure as being a cloud of asteroid-sized habitats, though science fiction writers have preferred a solid structure: either way, such an artifact is often referred to as a Dyson sphere.
		As of 2003, Dyson is the president of the Space Studies Institute, the space research organization founded by Gerard K. O'Neill.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /f/fr/freeman_dyson.html (390 words)

	IT Conversations: George Dyson
		In this presentation from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology 2005, George Dyson, technology historian, presents a talk on Von Neumann's life as he was developing the foundations of computing at Princeton University during the 1930's, 40's and 50's.
		George Dyson, Historian of Technology, is a boat designer, writer, and historian of technology whose interests have ranged from the development and redevelopment of the Aleut kayak (Baidarka, 1986) to the evolution of digital computing and telecommunications (Darwin Among the Machines, 1997) and, most recently, nuclear bomb-propelled space exploration (Project Orion, 2002).
		This presentation is one of a series from the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference held in San Diego, California, March 14-17, 2005.
	www.itconversations.com /shows/detail454.html (223 words)

	Phil Windley's Technometria \| George Dyson on Turing's Cathederal (ETech 2005)
		George shows some of the original papers that start to develop the language of computing.
		George makes an interesting comment relative to some early comments by Barracelli that the numbers were just numbers.
		George says that the numbers were a genotype looking for a phenotype.
	www.windley.com /archives/2006/03/george_dyson_on.shtml (567 words)

	Sir George Dyson Trust - Impulse
		The Sir George Dyson Trust was established in 1998, with the composer's daughter, Alice Dyson, as chairman.
		The Trust's declared purpose is to advance the education of the public in the understanding and appreciation of music of the late Sir George Dyson and by making available his manuscripts, writings, scores, drafts and memoranda for the encouragement of the study of his work.
		Sir George Dyson, composer, teacher, organist and administrator was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, England in 1883.
	www.impulse-music.co.uk /georgedysontrust.htm (762 words)

	PROJECT ORION - The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship
		On his way to school one day, George Dyson learned of a truly fantastical idea: massive space vehicles that would be powered by explosions of multiple hydrogen bombs.
		Among the brilliant minds behind this project was George's father, the eminent physicist Freeman Dyson.
		George Dyson: Very difficult--everyone who worked on the project had Q-clearance and still has to be very careful in talking about it.
	www.space.com /spacelibrary/books/library_projectorion_020709.html (1203 words)

	dyson and dyson resources, jules dyson, dyson dc06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Willard Dyson, an active and extremely talented drummer on the New York and international music scenes, came to New York City in 1986 from the San Francisco.
		Freeman Dyson is betting that alien life doesn't live on a world like yours.
		Dyson was one of the ancient natural philosophers, pre-Belt, almost pre-atomic dyson..
	www.artcrimes.info /dyson.html (313 words)

	ONLamp.com -- Eight Questions for George Dyson
		Editor' note: George Dyson is Director's Visitor of the Institute for Advanced Study and a historian.
		We were fortunate enough to engage George in a brief conversation about his upcoming OSCON 2003 presentation.
		George Dyson: OSCON (as I understand it) consists of people who are working in the digital universe (including its open and less-open subsystems) of today.
	www.onlamp.com /pub/a/onlamp/2003/06/17/dyson.html (1050 words)

	☞ reference - Dyson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A quote due to Dyson which simultaneously captures the excitement and drudgery of scientific research is "Anger is creative; depression is useless" (Dyson 1979,...
		James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone vacuum cleaner, or the...
		Freeman John Dyson (born December 15, 1923) is an English-born physicist and...
	www.a2z-reference.info /dyson (425 words)

	Project Orion - The Atomic Spaceship 1957 - 1965 by George Dyson
		It may even be the case that George Dyson was on board.
		George Dyson was a boy at this time but his father, Freeman, eventually worked on the project organised with US Government funds through General Atomic.
		The project lasted until 1965 when it was shelved because of impracticalities in the design, not the least being the problem of nuclear fallout but it was a serious attempt and one which may have worked.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/03_nov/review1103_12.shtml (911 words)

	Boing Boing: Boing Boing Boing podcast 5: George Dyson and space nukes
		Our guest this week is George Dyson, tech historian and author of books including "Project Orion," which chronicles America's now-aborted plans to send nuclear-powered spaceships to Mars and other planets.
		[George Dyson]: "In a world where now you can't fly with a bottle of water, we were going to let these physicists fly with 3,000 nuclear bombs.
		George's father, physicist Freeman Dyson, was among the project scientists; more on that in this essay George wrote for the current issue of Make.
	www.boingboing.net /2006/10/17/boing_boing_boing_po.html (724 words)

	Edge: TURING'S CATHEDRAL by George Dyson
		GEORGE DYSON, a historian among futurists, is the author of Darwin Among the Machines; and Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship.
		GEORGE DYSON, a historian among futurists, is the author of Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the Machines.
		In the digital universe, there are two kinds of bits: bits that represent structure (differences in space) and bits that represent sequence (differences in time).
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/dyson05/dyson05_index.html (3361 words)

	Walter E. Edge
		As a historian among futurists, has been excavating the history and prehistory of the digital revolution going back 300 years.
		Lecturers have included George F. Kennan on "The United States and the Communist Giants" (1964-1965); John Kenneth Galbraith on "Labor, Capital and Intelligence: Comparative Power in Perspective" (1965-1966); Edward Heath on "When the World Becomes 21" (1976-1977); Isaac Asimov on "The Future of Man" (1976-1977); and Christopher Hill on "Milton and the English Revolution" (1981-1982).
		Edge, a self-made man who began his career as a "printer's devil" in Atlantic City, was lauded as "Princeton's most distinguished citizen and one of New Jersey's greatest sons" at the time of his death in 1956.
	www.princeton.edu /~publect/edge/edge.dyson.html (558 words)

	Edge: GEORGE DYSON
		GEORGE DYSON, a historian among futurists, is the author
		Baidarka; Project Orion; and Darwin Among the Machines.
		"CODE - George Dyson & John Brockman: A Dialogue"
	www.edge.org /3rd_culture/bios/dysong.html (36 words)

	Boing Boing: George Dyson's Google visit -- "Turing's Cathedral"
		"Historian among futurists" George Dyson recently visited the headquarters of Google, and wrote:
		Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I felt I was entering a 14th-century cathedral — not in the 14th century but in the 12th century, while it was being built.
		Here's a snip from a magnificent essay George wrote on that visit.
	www.boingboing.net /2005/10/28/george_dysons_google.html (656 words)

	The Very Best Science Books [encyclopedia] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Darwin Among the Machines is not so much about how today's intelligence came to be, but about how it may further develop as humanity and computer grow closer together.
		George Dyson tells the story largely through stories--both historical and legendary--from the lives of scientists and philosophers who paved the way for today's cybernetics revolution, starting with the 17th-century insights of Thomas Hobbes.
		This book challenges the assumption that nature and machine are opposing forces.
	www.kosmoi.com /Science/Books (1256 words)

	Unwired Adventures: Project Orion: George Dyson and space nukes
		Unwired Adventures: Project Orion: George Dyson and space nukes
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	www.unwiredadventures.com /unwire/2006/10/project_orion_g.html (180 words)

	MAKE: Blog: Strange Love - George Dyson on nuclear weapon scientists
		We owe our nuclear predicament to a quirk of human nature: designing, making, and testing nuclear explosives can be fun.
		"The sin of the physicists at Los Alamos did not lie in their having built a lethal weapon," physicist Freeman Dyson (my father) has explained.
		From the column George Dyson - [via] - Link.
	www.makezine.com /blog/archive/2006/10/strange_love_ge.html (716 words)

	George Dyson on nuclear weapon scientists » Netscape.com
		George Dyson on nuclear weapon scientists » Netscape.com
		Science – How they learned to start worrying and love to hate the bomb.
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	science.netscape.com /story/2006/10/11/george-dyson-on-nuclear-weapon-scientists (48 words)

	George Dyson \| DLD Conference
		February 2007 at 11:38 AM by Nora Abousteit
		Born in Ithaca, New York in 1953 George Dyson is a scientific historian and lives in Bellingham, WA.
		He left home at age 16, moving to British Columbia to build canoes, explore the Northwest Coast, and make his home in a treehouse at a height of 95 feet.
	www.dld-conference.com /2005/11/george_dyson_1.html (98 words)

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