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	Warren Weaver - Freepedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weaver's chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability and statistics.
		At the end of the memorandum, Weaver asserted his belief in the fourth proposal with what is one of the best-known metaphors in the literature of machine translation: “Think, by analogy, of individuals living in a series of tall closed towers, all erected over a common foundation.
		Weaver early understood how greatly the tools and techniques of physics and chemistry could advance knowledge of biological processes, and used his position in the Rockefeller Foundation to identify, support, and encourage the young scientists who years later earned Nobel Prizes and other honours for their contributions to genetics or molecular biology.
	en.freepedia.org /Warren_Weaver.html (788 words)

	UCLA Library Department of Special Collections: Exhibits
		John D. Weaver, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, has worked for the federal government, written for the Kansas City Star, contributed articles, short stories and book reviews to magazines, authored novels and non-fiction books, and been a long-time benefactor of the UCLA Library.
		Weaver was born and raised in Washington D.C. and attended Georgetown University, College of William and Mary, and George Washington University.
		Weaver here completes the task he began with The Brownsville raid in 1970, which two years after its publication had led to the soldiers’ exoneration.
	www.library.ucla.edu /libraries/special/scweb/weaver.htm (1308 words)

	Warren Weaver memorandum, July 1949 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In his position at the Rockefeller Foundation, Warren Weaver was responsible for instigating and approving grants for major projects in molecular engineering and genetics, in agriculture (particularly for developing new strains of wheat and rice in Central and South America and Southeast Asia), and in medical research.
		Weaver had been impressed at the success of cryptography based on, as he put it, "frequencies of letters, letter combinations, intervals between letters and letter combinations, letter patterns, etc.
		In the long term, however, perhaps the most significant outcome of the Weaver memorandum was the decision in 1951 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to appoint the logician Yehoshua Bar-Hillel to a research position.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/WJHutchins/Weaver49.htm (1524 words)

	Translation Map \| Warren Sack + Sawad Brooks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The title of Weaver's report was "Translation." Its purpose was to explore the idea that one might design a computer program to translate texts from one language to another.
		Weaver wrote this shortly after the World War II when the computer was first applied -- with great success -- to the problem of breaking Germany's military communication codes.
		In short, for Weaver, it was clear that computers were good for the tasks of decryption and so if a problem could be reconceptualized to look like a decryption problem, then it was probably something a computer could do.
	www.cs.unm.edu /~sawad/walker/proposal/test4.html (841 words)

	Tall Tail
		Her brother, Warren Weaver Jr., was a political reporter for The New York Times from the 1960s to the 1980s, earning a front page obituary in the paper at his death in 1997.
		Weaver was faced with the sad reality of Daisy’s suffering in old age and ultimately her death.
		Weaver finally looked him right in the eye and told him in no uncertain terms it was her cabin and her territory.
	www.daisysutra.com /Tall_Tail/tall_tail.html (1843 words)

	Theory and its Dis-contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weaver sees correct performance as one of the three main aspects of information theory (i.e., the "effectiveness problem," Weaver, 4) and for Wiener, there is no difference between machine and human transmission if the performance of the original message's intentions are identical in both cases.
		Weaver writes that, "Language must be designed (or developed) with a view to the totality of things that man may wish to say; but not being able to accomplish everything, it too should do as well as possible as often as possible.
		Needless to say, Weaver's prescriptions have dire consequences for any statistically marginal dialects, forms, genres or identities that are not socially dominant, as well as for activities of language (such as poetry (7), art, and even, sometimes, critical theory) in which language's formal, critical, and generative functions precede and ground their more, so-called, "communicational" functions.
	www.lisp.wayne.edu /~ai2398/wiener.htm (4638 words)

	Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.57 (1987)
		Weaver was assigned to participate in one of the technical efforts, carried on chiefly at the National Bureau of Stan- clarcis, to clevelop effective equipment to assist U.S. aviators in the air battles of World War I. He was dischargect as a second lieutenant in about a year.
		WARREN WEAVER 499 time and, on the other hanct, the ideas about the state of science that had been brewing on many of the country's cam- puses in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
		Weaver was con- vincec] that there was a permanent core of truth in religion as there is in science anct that religious ideas, like scientific ones, evolve with the acquisition of new knowleclge.
	www.nap.edu /books/0309037298/html/492.html (4951 words)

	Active Skim View of: Warren Weaver
		Warren Weaver's programme in the natural sciences division of the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1930s is an exemplary case of this new relationship between a promoter of science and academic scientists.
		Weaver played an active role in selecting areas of research to be developed, yet he did not intrude on the actual process of research.
		Warren Weaver's skill in the administration of research and his effectiveness in dealing with military officers and with the Washington bureaucracy greatly facilitatecl the work of the Applied Mathematics Panel.
	www.nap.edu /nap-cgi/skimit.cgi?isbn=0309037298&chap=492-530 (1603 words)

	EARLY CATHOLIC FAMILIES IN PATERSON
		He was a weaver and built a house and weaveshop on Cross Street where he had twelve looms.
		He was a weaver by occupation and for some time kept books for his son-in-law.
		Warren was one of the trustees of the Oliver Street church when it was building.
	www.rootsweb.com /%7Enjpchsgc/chu/early_pat_catholics.htm (8446 words)

	Transmission Model of Communication
		Shannon and Weaver's model is one which is, in John Fiske's words, 'widely accepted as one of the main seeds out of which Communication Studies has grown' (Fiske 1982: 6).
		Although in Shannon and Weaver's model a speaker and a listener would strictly be the source and the destination rather than the transmitter and the receiver, in discussions of the model the participants are commonly humanised as the sender and the receiver.
		In Shannon and Weaver's model the source is seen as the active decision-maker who determines the meaning of the message; the destination is the passive target.
	www.aber.ac.uk /media/Documents/short/trans.html (3212 words)

	Weaver, Warren on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He taught mathematics at Wisconsin (1920-32), was director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Institute (1932-55), and was science consultant (1947-51), trustee (1954), and vice president (from 1958) at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
		Weaver's chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability.
		Governor McGreevey Nominates Weaver for Sussex County Prosecutor
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/W/Weaver-W1.asp (297 words)

	TV cowboy Weaver set to introduce Westerns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weaver had trekked from his home near Ridgway to be the host for a Western-themed channel by Encore Media.
		Weaver, who for seven years had played the sly title character on the '70s TV drama ''McCloud,'' tilted his head and fixed me with those steely blue eyes.
		In fact, it was during a hiatus from ''McCloud'' in 1971 that he was signed for a TV movie called ''Duel'' about a traveling salesman stalked by a truck.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/040297/tvcowboy.htm (346 words)

	Wired 8.05: Talking to Strangers
		The foundation, launched in 1913, was one of the major sources of funding for innovative science in the last century, bankrolling a wide range of projects, from the construction of Mount Palomar's Hale Telescope to the search for new contraceptives to the mapping of genes of blight-resistant strains of rice.
		On July 15, 1949, Weaver typed up a 12-page memo and sent it to 200 of the brightest minds of his generation, prefacing it with a note that is still charming in its earnestness and modesty.
		Weaver suggested that the language of scientific documents, with their strictly defined terms, might be well suited for translation by machines.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/8.05/translation_pr.html (9667 words)

	Amazon.com: Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability (Science Study Series.): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Warren Weaver, a good friend, by the way, of Claude Shannon, the great information theory pioneer, has a wonderful gift for expression and an equally wonderful gift for explaining things clearly and making his subject matter exciting.
		Weaver is very careful about presenting his arguments so that they may have maximum intuitive appeal, while at the same time refusing to compromise the mathematical rigor that is necessary to construct any serious theory of rudimentary probability.
		Weaver's work, far from being in any sense "slow," deals with how we are to take into account this very basic ideas that form the starting point to this particular area of the mathematical sciences.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0486243427?v=glance (1686 words)

	Information Theory Research Report
		Warren Weaver helps us understand Shannon's complex theory by explaining it in layman's terms.
		Weaver uses the word "communication" in a broad sense to incorporate all the different ways one person's mind could affect another.
		Weaver simplistically describes the three levels of communication problems.
	oak.cats.ohiou.edu /~lc560098/info.htm (569 words)

	Warren Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Writing in 2003, I noted that the character Dr. Kerry Weaver on the television drama, "ER," had gone from straight to gay in about...
		The Seahawks' current backup fullback is Leonard Weaver, a 6-foot, 251-pound...
		Our middle linebacker [Brandon Weaver] said he was already thinking it.
	www.wikiverse.org /warren-weaver (211 words)

	Communication Theory: A First Look
		But his hesitation was not shared by Warren Weaver, an executive with the Rockefeller Foundation and the Sloan-Kettering Institute on Cancer Research, and a consultant to a number of private scientific foundations.
		Shannon’s published theory was paired with an interpretive essay by Weaver that presented information theory as ‘‘exceedingly general in its scope, fundamental in the problems it treats, and of classic simplicity and power in the results it reaches."1 The essay suggested that whatever the communication problem, reducing information loss was the solution.
		Social science literature on romantic jealousy also suggests the marginal usefulness of Shannon and Weaver’s concept of information.12 When a couple manages to repair a damaged relationship, the result is usually due to third-party counseling, building self-esteem or encouraging assertiveness in the jealous partner, or a joint celebration and reconstruction of past times together.
	www.afirstlook.com /archive/information.cfm?source=archther (3037 words)

	Additional Reading (from Earl Warren) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		As chief justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided during a period of sweeping changes in United States constitutional law, especially in the areas of race relations, criminal procedure, and legislative apportionment.
		Warren is also remembered for heading a committee that investigated the 1963 assassination of...
		Considered a conservative, Warren Burger served as chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-7781?tocId=7781 (757 words)

	Ann and Warren Wedding WebSite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Warren introduced me to the sport of hunting and we enjoy it very much.
		Thanks to the wedding of my cousin Dave to Carla on July 5, 2002, who is also Warren's friend, Warren was able to catch a look at me. This in turn caused him to pose the question to my cousin Dave, who is that girl and what is her story?
		Long story short, Warren and I went on our first date the next day (July 7, 2002). We were engaged April 11, 2003 and married February 21, 2004.
	annandwarren.com (186 words)

	Penn State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Warren Weaver, PENNTAP senior technical specialist, led the project.
		Weaver was called in when Hanover Lantern was uncertain what their options were under Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection regulations and how to proceed.
		EDITORS: Warren Weaver, PENNTAP Senior Technical Specialist, is at wjw5@psu.edu or by phone at 717-848-6669.
	www.psu.edu /ur/2001/namtacaward.html (336 words)

	Lewis Carroll: Harry Ransom Center
		Weaver’s collection includes a copy of the suppressed first edition (1865) of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which is one of twenty-three surviving copies.
		First editions of all of Carroll’s fiction and poetry are part of Weaver’s collection, as well as most of his mathematical and scientific works and foreign translations in scores of languages.
		In addition, researchers may consult the Ransom Center’s extensive holdings of Carroll’s photographs and a large group of his manuscripts.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /collections/books/holdings/carroll (142 words)

	weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weaver worked at: Assistant professor, Throop College, Pasadena, CA 1917-18; Assistant professor of mathematics, California Institute of Technology 1919-20; University of Wisconsin (Madison): Assistant professor 1920-25; Associate professor 1925-28; Professor of mathematics and chairman of department 1928-32; Rockefeller Foundation: director of natural sciences 1932-55; Vice-pres.
		Weaver is mentioned in Leonard Jimmie Savage's Papers; The collection includes correspondence between Weaver and Savage, a mathematican, statistician, and professor at Yale; Information on literary rights is also available at the repository.
		This collection contains correspondence between Weaver and Louis Nicot Ridenour, a professor of physics at University of Illinois, who was involved in a lot of scientific research including nuclear energy, atomic and hydrogen bombs, international understanding, consulting work, and various government and private organizations involved in scientific research.
	www.asis.org /Features/Pioneers/weaver.htm (341 words)

	Weaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Few people will succeed at high level gambling without the aid of a solid grip on the basics of probability and statistics.
		Weaver explains in clear and basic language such things as permutations, independent events, mathematical expectation, the law of averages, Chebychev's theorem, the law of large numbers, and probability distributions.
		The writing sheds light on the nature of rare events and coincidences, the relations of probability and statistics, gambling, and modern scientific research.
	www.statafactor.com /weaver.htm (84 words)

	Agrarian Valhalla (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Weaver’s greatest work was The Southern Tradition at Bay, a spirited, moving work on how defeated Southerners confronted the new world they were now thrust into.
		Weaver’s 1948 classic, Ideas Have Consequences was a founding text for the post-World War II conservative movement.
		By the mid-1980s, the conservative movement that Richard Weaver had helped to found was dead, ruined by East Coast urbanites who had thrown in the towel and accepted the liberalism of the 1950s and ‘60s as a "good" thing.
	www.southernevents.org /southernevents/agrarian_valhalla.htm (2078 words)

	INFOAMÉRICA - Warren Weaver
		El papel de Weaver es muy relevante en la definición de la teoría matemática de la información, como hoy se conoce la que en origen se definió como 'The Mathematical Theory of Communication'.
		Weaver no hablaba ya de mensajes independientes de su contenido, cuantificables en términos matemáticos y observados en el decurso de su flujo, sino un marco de análisis aplicable, por ejemplo, al mundo de los medios escritos, sonoros, visuales...
		Weaver define tres planos o niveles en los que se superpone el hecho comunicativo: técnico, semántico y pragmático.
	www.infoamerica.org /teoria/weaver2.htm (311 words)

	Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver / The Mathematical Theory of Communication
		Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver / The Mathematical Theory of Communication
		CLAUDE E., retired from his position as research mathematician at the Bell Telephone Laboratories, was Donner Professor of Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1958 to 1978.
		WARREN WEAVER, now deceased, had a distinguished career in academic, government, and foundation work.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /s99/shannon.html (213 words)

	Shannon-Weaver model
		When, for instance, the telephone is used, you speak, the phone turns the sound waves into electrical impulses and those electrical impulses are turned back into sound waves by the phone at the other end of the line.
		Shannon and Weaver were primarily involved with the investigation of technological communication.
		Although physical noise and how to avoid it is certainly a major concern of scholars of communication, the Shannon and Weaver model turns out to be particularly suggestive in the study of human communication because of its introduction of a decoding device and an encoding device.
	www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk /MUHome/cshtml/introductory/sw.html (3866 words)

	Oregon Firepage - BREAKING NEWS: FBI to search Weaver home in Oregon City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Oregon City (OFP) - The FBI announced late Friday night during a news conference in front of the former home of Warren Weaver, the self proclaimed suspect in the case of two missing Oregon City teens, that they will serve a search warrant on the residence early Saturday this morning.
		Warren Weaver now in custody for rape, has been the focas of an ongoing investigation of Oregon City teens, Miranda Gaddis, 13 and Ashley Pond, 13, who disappeared from their Oregon City apartment complex earlier this year.
		Shortly after the news conference, vehicles approached the Weaver home to put up security barrier fences around the property, as investigators prepare to search the residence and so called concrete slab that later appreared at the residence, shortly after the two girls disappeared.
	www.oregonfirepage.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=30 (162 words)

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