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  James S. Robbins on John Walker & war on National Review Online
Walker was silent as Spann and another agent named Dave attempted a mild good cop/bad cop routine to convince him to cooperate.
Walker would be shorn of his "Charles bin Manson" look, put in a suit and coached to behave like the polite middle class American he used to be.
Walker should be placed in the hands of the interim Afghan government as one of the foreign mujahedeen who helped bring terror to Afghanistan.
www.nationalreview.com /contributors/robbins121201.shtml   (835 words)

  
 John Walker (programmer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Walker is a computer programmer and the founder of the CAD software company Autodesk, and co-author of AutoCAD.
John is also known for his efforts in the 196 Palindrome Quest, by taking it to 1,000,000 digits.
Besides programming, John Walker is a social advocate who has written many articles, including a well-known one about Internet censorship called The Digital Imprimatur.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Walker_(programmer)   (209 words)

  
 John Walker - Biography - Moviefone
Walker hit pay dirt for the latter, playing Mary Carr's reformed son in Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920), an incredibly popular version of the Will Carleton poem.
But although the epic was esteemed by big-city critics, the average ticket buyer stayed away and Walker's career remained in the doldrums.
Johnnie Walker can be seen starring in such minor efforts as Gotham's Bare Knees (1928), a delightful comedy with Virginia Lee Corbin, and The Matinee Idol (1928), the latter directed by Frank Capra but minor nonetheless.
movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-walker/74258/biography   (347 words)

  
 A 20-year plague | CNET News.com
John Walker, a UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Calculator) systems programmer for a large multinational firm, created his own version of the game in 1974, improving it so that erroneous information one player enters could eventually be corrected by another.
Walker recalls reflecting on the implications of the program for a couple of months to ensure that he hadn't made any damaging errors.
Walker went on to found Autodesk in the early 1980s, and he remains the largest individual stockholder in the company.
news.com.com /2009-7349_3-5111410.html   (2836 words)

  
 covaithe: Fumbling towards TDD, part 1
Many months ago I ran across a link to The Hacker's Diet, a free book on weight loss by John Walker, a programmer who was one of the founders of Autodesk.
Walker uses 10% as a default value, mostly I think to make pencil and paper calculations easier, but it seems to behave reasonably well, being responsive to sustained trends while smoothing random fluctuations.
This is the point where many programmers who are introduced to TDD for the first time throw up their hands in disgust and walk away.
covaithe.livejournal.com /15592.html   (1612 words)

  
 John Walker
Inventer of the friction match[?], in 1827, see John Walker (inventor)[?].
The name preferred by American John Phillip Walker Lindh, on trial for being a member of the Taliban.
An early American politician, John Walker (politician)[?], member of Continental Congress and US Senator.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Walker.html   (130 words)

  
 Data Description: Key People
John Capehart is a senior programmer and the lead developer of Data Desk.
John Walker, Ph.D., is assistant professor of statistics at the California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and a senior statistical consultant to the Company.
Walker’s expertise is in bioinformatics, data mining, statistical computing, and statistical graphics.
www.datadesk.com /company/people.shtml   (343 words)

  
 COMPUTER PEOPLE
John Vincent Atanasoff, developer, with Clifford Berry, of a late 1930's electronic computing device that has a claim to be the "first" computer and their ABC machine.
John McCarthy, developer of LISP, and one of the founders of AI, a photograph taken at the 1978 HOPL Conference, and a biography by Megan Faurot, Kalamazoo, MI.
John Napier, the eighth laird of Merchiston, the developer of logarithms, the "bones" which bear his name, a (binary) chessboard computer, and the promptuary.
ei.cs.vt.edu /~history/people.html   (2233 words)

  
 John Walker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Walker (painter) (born 1939), nominee for the Turner Prize in 1985
John Walker, one of the Birmingham Six accused of bombings in England in 1974
John Walker, alter ego of U.S. Agent, ultra-patriotic crime fighter, formerly Super-Patriot and Captain America VI Johnnie Walker (DJ) (born 1945), a British radio disc jockey
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Walker   (480 words)

  
 Babylon 5 Combat Simulator: Game Development
3Volker, Johnny Utah, Magnum AI) is the lead AI programmer on the B5 project, designing and implementing the strategies and behaviors of all the opponents and allies.
John is also a "first-one" having been a fan of the series since the first season where he would record the 1am broadcast (in Iowa) for his friends to see (and become addicted to).
Before Iowa, John's last life was as an aerospace engineer working on the NSTS (the Space Shuttle Program) in Utah after attending the University of Michigan.
www.firstones.com /b5games/sim/sim_development_crew_johnw.html   (153 words)

  
 Thoughts on John Walker's Papers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
John Walker is the technological force behind the success of Autodesk.
Most interesting of all are Walker's concerns about the future of Autodesk.
His "nightmare scenario" is that Bill Gates will wake up one day and realize that the entire CAD market is a plum waiting to be plucked from Autodesk's fingers.
stevecolwell.com /walker.html   (203 words)

  
 We'll Return, After This Message by John Walker December 1st, 1989 When the foundations of
The audacity of two programmers employed by a medium-sized software company searching three decades' accumulated scientific knowledge for interstellar messages didn't occur to me. I doubt Crane was capable of entertaining such a thought.
He thought we might be able to persuade the investigators on the various radiotelescope projects to routinely run our filter over their data, forwarding all the images it found to us for examination.
We talked about how we should phrase such a paper and what journal might publish it, and so on, in the kind of lazy-days bull session exhausted programmers are prone to as they sit on a virtual veranda on the banks of the Mighty Megaflop and watch time and data flow by.
www.skepticfiles.org /en002/gpic.htm   (4306 words)

  
 Professor Muro's Prescription for Weight Loss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
Multi-millionaire John Walker, founder of Autodesk inc. and the major programmer of the computer aided design application Autocad has taken the scientific approach to weight loss and shared his experience with the world.
Walker also has Excel spreadsheets designed for tracking/charting many aspects of weight loss for free download in the
John Hussman shows the direct correlation between calorie deficits and fat loss.
lennon.csufresno.edu /~klm80/weightloss.htm   (1270 words)

  
 Freedom of Speech in Software
Although software is often a less direct method of communication than prose, in that there may be many intermediaries between a particular programmer and the end-user of an application which uses a piece of his or her code, the same is true for other forms of expression.
We are now entering the era when programs can write and edit other programs, and where it will simply not be possible for anyone to know which programs have evolved or been automatically revised to the point of similarity with other programs, innovative or not.
Allowing patents in software is tantamount to asking each individual programmer to know what all the other millions of programmers on Earth are currently doing or have already done.
www.philsalin.com /patents.html   (2769 words)

  
 Hacker's Wisdom
The comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor; the appendix includes a profile of a typical hacker.
The 10 Commandments for C Programmers, Henry Spencer.
Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better programmer.
www.ee.ryerson.ca:8080 /~elf/hack   (662 words)

  
 Walker at AllExperts
The name comes from the medieval profession of a ‘walker', a person who trod on woollen clothes in a bath of urine in order to wash them.
** John Walker (painter), (born 1939), English painter
*Walker (machine), a vehicle that moves on legs rather than wheels or tracks
en.allexperts.com /e/w/wa/walker.htm   (517 words)

  
 CNN - Cold War Experience: Espionage
A clever computer programmer in the immediate future will unleash electron based "cyber-agents" to recover more vital information in a day than a thousand fictional James Bonds could recover in a lifetime.
Convicted KGB spy John Walker noted after his arrest that the defenses of the United States were constructed to protect against enemies from outside, not from the treachery of loyal Americans within.
In the United States, the arrests of naval spy John Walker in 1985 and Aldrich "Rick" Ames, a KGB "mole" inside the CIA, in 1994 were precipitated by their actions to communicate with their Soviet or Russian handlers.
edition.cnn.com /SPECIALS/cold.war/experience/spies/melton.essay   (2314 words)

  
 LinuxDevCenter.com -- The Bacula Philosophy
This seems totally obvious to John and me, because Univac programs still run 30 years after they were last compiled, but it may be a revelation to younger programmers.
John Walker contributed a lot to the early design process as well.
In the early stages in 2000, John Walker contributed to the design and the code.
www.linuxdevcenter.com /pub/a/linux/2005/04/07/bacula.html   (2303 words)

  
 Absolute Elsewhere
John Walker: Imagine the founder of Autodesk hanging out somewhere in the Alps.
John Labovitz: Collector of e-zines, traveler of spheres, programmer of perl, poker of holes.
John was one of the true pioneers of web publishing (GNN webmaster, 1993-95).
www.sonic.net /~mk/web/index.html   (716 words)

  
 ACM News Service
Jan Walker of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency reports that this strategy relieves researchers of the need to develop a mode of transportation so they can focus on the design of Mobile Autonomous Robot Software, and share open-source programs on a common platform.
Four-wheeled robot vehicles currently employed by the military cannot make turns as tight as those performed by the Segway, while the scooter's high center of gravity allows for the placement of sensors and cameras at a height more suitable for human interaction.
Viruses can trace their origins back to computer science pioneer John von Neumann's work with self-reproducing automatons, which became the basis for cellular automata theory.
technews.acm.org /articles/2003-5/1201m.html   (3771 words)

  
 Bytemarks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-07-19)
The site is Walker's personal web contribution to the Internet and is where the genius of the man is unleashed.
With the aid of the Internet and animation, Walker demonstrates this fairly abstract concept of space-time distortion with a model space ship flying through space at nearly the speed of light.
To say Walker is a prolific writer and programmer is an understatement.
www.brouhaha.net /bytemarks/byte116.html   (315 words)

  
 Welcome
She spoke on panels with GLSEN and PFLAG to help educate people about the lies and inequality that face the gay community, and she was a political activist for liberal causes.
Aleta worked as a computer programmer with First Data Corp where she enjoyed many good friendships and had a profound love for her work.
She leaves behind her unrecognized spouse of 15 years, Jean Mayberry; a daughter, Michelle Walker, R.N.; a son-in-law, John Walker; granddaughters, Chloe, Ella and Teaghan of Higley, Ariz.; a son, Major Jeremy Fenceroy USAF, currently stationed in Accra, Ghana; a brother, Michael Ballard of Des Moines, Iowa; and friends too numerous to mention.
siouxlandpride.net   (475 words)

  
 JAVA IN THE ENTERPRISE - Random Thoughts
A fellow named John Walker, at the Fourmilab physics laboratory in Switzerland, has hooked up a computer to a Geiger-Müller tube.
He uses the (absolutely unpredictable) process of radioactive decay, which the tube detects, to generate truly random numbers.
Alternately, you can import Walker's RandomX package, which enables your software to get random values from random-number generators on the Internet.
www.itworld.com /nl/java_entrp/05282002/pf_index.html   (506 words)

  
 Report
During this period, CAD operators not only had to be good drafters, but they also had to be good programmers.
John Walker, genius programmer and visionary founded Autodesk in 1982.
After six banner years as Autodesk's CEO, John Walker decided to step down and pass the day to day management onto Alvar Green.
www.edeinc.com /Cadence/98Mar/Article98Mar.html   (3056 words)

  
 » 2005 » September | John Carroll | ZDNet.com
Ambition and prescience conspired to keep Xanadu strictly in the "labor of love" department until Roger Gregory, the true believer who kept the Xanadu flame alive over decades, managed in 1988 to convince John Walker, founder of Autodesk, to fund its development.
Walker dreamed of rapid productization, and Gregory was of the opinion that the code he had nursed over the years was 6 months from completion.
I recently discovered that searching for ‘ "John Carroll" ZDNet ‘ (the only way to wade through all the other John Carroll’s who had the cheek to steal my name) results in 444,000 matched documents, but only two pages of results.
blogs.zdnet.com /carroll/?m=200509   (3502 words)

  
 Jack Chambers
His most decisive contribution to the development of a sustained, alternative Canadian cinema, however, was in the films he made, expanding on his own artistic strategies and concerns.
In a 1967 interview, Chambers revealed his initial impetus to leave London, stating "The part of Canada I knew was utilitarian, puritanical, indifferent to anything that was not a 'safe job' and a 'proper living.'" Quoted in Ross Woodman, Chambers: John Chambers Interviewed by Ross G. Woodman (Toronto: Coach House Press, 1967), p.
Spirit in the Landscape, a survey exhibition of Canadian avant-garde cinema conceived and curated by filmmaker Richard Kerr, was held from March 28 to April 24, 1989 at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto).
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/chambers.html   (3598 words)

  
 STARS
Your Sky - One of many educational pages devised by entrepreneur and programmer John Walker, Your Sky is a virtual planetarium.
In terms of the speed of light, the common standard used by astronomers for expressing distance, this triple-star system is about 4.29 light-years distant; light travelling at about 300,000 km/s (186,000 mi/s) takes more than four years and three months to travel from this star to the earth.
Site created and copyrighted ©2001-2004 by: Claudette's Web Design - for personal use and for use of Science teachers of Shalfleet School, St. John School, and St. Thomas of Canterbury school as a reference page.
www.claudette.shalfleet.net /astrophysics/stars.htm   (1265 words)

  
 Obtaining multilpe values from dynamically generate textboxes
We have the senereo where we are dynamically generating a number of textfields.
How does struts handle this case where you basically want all the values of the textFields concatenated and passed into one Action Form method as an Array.
Obtaining multilpe values from dynamically generate textboxes Walker, John H. Re: Obtaining multilpe values from dynamically generate textboxes Web Programmer
www.mail-archive.com /struts-user@jakarta.apache.org/msg06989.html   (115 words)

  
 Ada Foundation Classes
My preferred approach is to start with a working application, such as the Scribble sample, and proceed by stepwise refinement.
Most of the structure, and much of the code, will be common to many applications.
The Ada Foundation Classes (AFC) enable the Ada programmer to code a Windows application in Ada by interfacing to the framework provided by MFC.
www.jswalker.demon.co.uk /afcfaq.htm   (920 words)

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