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 will crowther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Both Crowther and his wife Patty are dedicated spelunkers—she is noted as the discoverer of the subterranean connection between the Mammoth Cave and Flint Ridge cave systems.
In 1975 Crowther released the game on the early ARPANET system, of which BBN was a prime contractor.
Crowther agreed, and Woods produced several enhanced versions and ported it to the PDP-10 minicomputer.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Will_Crowther.html   (283 words)

  
 Colossal Cave Adventure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was originally designed by Will Crowther, a programmer and keen caver, and is based on the layout of parts of the Mammoth Cave system in Kentucky.
Will Crowther was a programmer at the legendary Bolt, Beranek and Newman, who developed the ARPANET (the forerunner of the Internet).
Crowther was a caver, who applied his experience in Mammoth Cave (in Kentucky) to create a game that he could enjoy with his young daughters.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure   (1728 words)

  
 Will Crowther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Will and his first wife Pat Crowther were active and dedicatedcavers in the 1960s and early 1970s —bothwere part of many expeditions to connect the Mammoth and Flint Ridge cave systems.
Crowther used his extensive knowledge of cave exploration as a basis for this, and there are manysimilarities between the locations in the game and those in Mammoth Cave, particularly its Bedquilt section.
A number of the basic features invented by Will Crowther were carried forward by the designers of later adventuregames—in particular the Zork adventures show this ancestry particularly clearly.
www.therfcc.org /will-crowther-135432.html   (322 words)

  
 Crowther, Samuel Ajayi, Nigeria, Anglican   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crowther twice recorded his memories of the event, vividly recalling the desolation of burning houses, the horror of capture and roping by the neck, the slaughter of those unfit to travel, the distress of being torn from relatives.
Crowther was the outstanding representative of a whole body of West African church leaders who came to the fore in the pre-Imperial age and were superseded in the Imperial.
The legacy of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the humble, devout exponent of a Christian faith that was essentially African and essentially missionary, has passed to the whole vast church of Africa and thus to the whole vast church of Christ.
www.gospelcom.net /dacb/stories/nigeria/legacy_crowther.html   (4143 words)

  
 The Borough of Swarthmore
Crowther will meet with Chris Hansen, Chair of the EAC, and Jeff Jabco, of Swarthmore College, to review the present brush on the property to obtain advice on which areas of brush are undesirable invasives, better removed, and which areas/trees should be preserved.
Crowther noted that the proposed new driveway will be substantially the same as the existing driveway to his existing house.
Crowther will require a second waiver from the requirements of § 1288.04 (g) (2) of the Ordinance that the access strip of an interior lot be a minimum width of 25 feet for the entire depth of such access.
www.swarthmorepa.org /government/minutes_win.asp?MinutesID=88   (3441 words)

  
 Pahrump Valley Times - Nye County's Largest Newspaper Circulation
Crowther used to have a saying on the wall that read, "Not all those who wander are lost." Crowther found those words to be good advice throughout the years.
Crowther had thought about leaving in May and even talked to the company about it, but former General Manager Lou Holveck retired in June and Crowther thought he should stick around for a while.
Crowther told someone the other day he wasn't looking forward to the first day of retirement, but he was looking forward to the second day and all the days after that.
www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com /2005/01/28/news/crowther.html   (895 words)

  
 The Borough of Swarthmore
Crowther acknowledged the lower 8 to 10 feet of the property is classified as wetlands and will be indicated in the revised plans.
Crowther will require a waiver from the requirements of § 1288.04 (g) (2) of the Ordinance that the access strip of an interior lot be a minimum width of 25 feet for the entire depth of such access.
Crowther, the outstanding items identified in the Delaware County Conservation District letter dated, April 21, 2004, discussion during the meeting, it was the general consensus of the PC members that revised plans are required for review.
www.swarthmorepa.org /government/minutes_win.asp?MinutesID=104   (1604 words)

  
 East Bay Newspapers •   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Its owner George Crowther, who for 38 years cooked up jonnycakes and clams and other on and off menu basics, promises the new structure will be similar to the old, and "will blend in" with shingles on the outside.
Crowther, will have the "same combination of booths and tables as before, but with a larger counter" and will still have the booths in the space in back on the left and right side.
Crowther then described his secret for cooking the perfect jonnycake — a hot griddle and thin batter — reassurance enough that things are on track for a spring re-opening.
www.eastbayri.com /print/302961623177323.php   (554 words)

  
 Samuel Adjai Crowther slave and bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crowther twice recorded his memories of the event, vividly recalling the desolation of booming houses, the horror of capture and roping by the neck, the slaughter of those unfit to travel, the distress of being torn from relatives.
It was headed by Townsend, Crowther, and a German missionary, C.A. Gollmer, with a large group of Sierra Leoneans from the liberated Yomba community.
Crowther, though no great scholar or Arahist, developed an approach to Islam in its African setting that reflected the patience and the readiness to listen that marked his entire missionary method.
www.gospelcom.net /chi/morestories/crowther.shtml   (4097 words)

  
 Hal Crowther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A resident of North Carolina, Crowther was awarded the H. Mencken Award in 1993.
Crowther was also a columnist on film and media for The Humanist and Free Inquiry magazines.
Crowther is also a columnist for The Oxford-American and The Progressive Populist.
www.hoover.lib.al.us /adult/sv/sv1999/HalCrowther.htm   (310 words)

  
 Colossal Cave Adventure (c. 1975)
Willie Crowther was the original author, but Don Woods greatly expanded the game and unleashed it on an unsuspecting network.
In an e-mail to me, Crowther noted that he originally intended for the magical elements to be buried deep within the cave, but that Woods introduced the magic much earlier.
Crowther and Woods played this version and agreed that it kept the flavor they had in mind.
jerz.setonhill.edu /if/canon/Adventure.htm   (1156 words)

  
 Crowther/With Trembling Fingers
In Washington, chicken hawks will still be squawking about "digging in" and winning, but Vietnam proved conclusively that no modern war of occupation will ever be won.
What this election will test is the power of money and media to fool us, to obscure the truth and alter the obvious, to hide a great crime against the public trust under a blood-soaked flag.
Hal Crowther is a former writer for Time and Newsweek, the Buffalo News and the North Carolina Spectator before parking his column at the weekly Independent in Durham, N.C., and The Progressive Populist, among others.
www.populist.com /04.10.crowther.html   (3166 words)

  
 A history of 'Adventure'
Crowther was known as a meticulous cave surveyor.
Crowther's name and writing appears often in RFC documents produced during the earliest days of the Internet, along with many other contributors from BBN.
Crowther's daughters enjoyed the game, and it was passed from friend to friend during the early days of the Internet, appearing on countless computers on and off the fledgling network.
www.rickadams.org /adventure/a_history.html   (1185 words)

  
 Patricia Crowther -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Patricia ("Pat") Crowther was an active and dedicated (Click link for more info and facts about caver) caver and cave- (An engineer who determines the boundaries and elevations of land or structures) surveyor in the (The decade from 1960 to 1969) 1960s and early (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s.
Patricia was well known in the (A state in east central United States; a border state during the American Civil War; famous for breeding race horses) Kentucky caving community for her slight frame (she weighed 115 pounds) and her incredible dedication.
191–192, 230–248) Both Patricia Crowther and her then-husband (Click link for more info and facts about Will Crowther) Will Crowther were part of many expeditions that attempted to connect the caves.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pa/patricia_crowther.htm   (420 words)

  
 City of Austin - Austin Mayor's Committee for People with Disabilities
Crowther also reported that the Austin City Council voted to raise the fine for parking illegally in disabled parking spaces.
AMCPD Commissions will be involved in presentation of the awards to the winners.
In the settlement the Austin Police Department will increase its training in the area of working with citizens who are deaf and/ or blind.
www.ci.austin.tx.us /ada/mn101402.htm   (826 words)

  
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Apparently Will reported to Frank that I was fitting in and doing well, because when a two person office became available, Frank rearranged things so that Will and I moved from the different offices we had been in to share a two-person office.
Since Will was responsible for LET system integration in addition to developing some of the system modules and since I was doing everything he was, in time I became quite knowledgeable about the overall software system.
After the LET system was working, Will began working on speech signal processing (which Ben Gold, Charlie Radar and their colleagues were deeply into) using the 1219 we had in the lab for software development for the LET system, and I tagged along.
www.walden-family.com /dave/archive/net-history/ll-will-frank.htm   (2007 words)

  
 Zvon - RFC 164 [MINUTES OF NETWORK WORKING GROUP MEETING 5/16 through 5/19/71] - I. SUNDAY EVENING SESSION (5/10/71)
BBN is still shaking down the kinds of terminals that will be compatible (will be bit serial at least).
Will have PDP-11s by the end of the summer that are capable of transmission from one to another.
NCP Protocols A new official document will replace document 1 and RFC #107; implementation should not be held up because of the absence of this new document.
www.zvon.org /tmRFC/RFC164/Output/chapter1.html   (2400 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Space junk traffic jams could clog Earth's paths   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Satellites that download television signals to dishes on the ground are stationed at about 22,300 miles above the equator, an orbit that allows a satellite to remain in the same place in the sky relative to a fixed point on the ground.
Crowther, in a study appearing Friday in Science, said that relative orbital speeds can be so high that collisions in space with even small objects can be catastrophic.
"In the short term it will be left to the conscience of the individual operator," said Crowther, but eventually the United Nations or other international bodies could pressure governments to force compliance.
www.usatoday.com /news/science/astro/2002-05-17-space-junk.htm   (659 words)

  
 Crowther at Anthemion Architectural & Ornamental Antiques
The team of people associated with Anthemion has over the past 40 years, all had involvement with Crowther and were in an unequalled position to create a facility that would continue servicing the needs of Crowther's clients and anyone with an interest in the specialist market of architectural antiques.
The team is headed up by Sharon Powell, whom old Crowther clients will remember as their primary contact during the last 15 years of the company's trading.
In addition to architectural ornament, Anthemion is also able to help with the need for salvage items such as bricks, flagstones, cobbles, ceramic and marble flooring, and from their network of sources, can, where required, find reclaimed materials to match something that may be existing on site.
www.crowthersyonlodge.com   (289 words)

  
 rfc357
For a terminal separated from its server by a single satellite link, the delay will be such that even if echoing at the server were instantaneous, the latency between keying and printing of an input character will be nearly half a second.
A character received from a full-duplex terminal will be converted to its NVT equivalent and placed in both the transmission AND the input buffers.
The TIP's transmission strategy determines when it will be removed from the transmission buffer; the server's RCE control commands dictate Davidson [Page 5] RFC 357 An Echoing Strategy For Satellite Links June 1972 when it will be removed from the input buffer.
ietfreport.isoc.org /idref/rfc357   (3837 words)

  
 Interactive Fiction Bibliography -- General (Non-academic) Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"Perhaps it will take someone who is both a programmer and an author to explore the artistic promise of IF and create works of literature that rank with the classics of traditional literature." [Note: §1.1: Murray's Hamlet on the Holodeck will later echo this sentiment, announcing a vigil for the "cyberbard."] Costikyan, Greg.
Will Crowther's "Adventure" is "[o]ne of the most stunning examples" of how the early Internet "was opening wider to new uses [besides the sharing of scientific data] and creating new connections among people" (205).
Crowther's hobbies included cave exploring (he was cartographer for the Cave Research Foundation; see The Longest Cave, by Richard Brucker and Richard A. Watson) and the role-playing board game "Dungeons and Dragons" (206).
jerz.setonhill.edu /if/bibliography/jour-lit.htm   (5539 words)

  
 opphysci   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Scholarships will be available to most applicants for ½ their tuition on individual needs basis.
John Cannon and Dr. Dave Crowther will be the primary instructors for the labs.
Applications will be accepted on a first come - first serve basis with special emphasis given to special needs, teams from the same school (2-4 people) and to geographical region.
unr.edu /homepage/crowther/opphysci.html   (683 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: Books: Book Reviews: Signature Events
Hal Crowther -- former staff writer for Time, former media critic for Newsweek, current contributor to the Oxford American, and a North Carolinian along with his writer wife, Lee Smith -- is an essayist who doesn't suffer fools lightly and especially when the fools are outsiders who think they've got the South figured out.
To quote Crowther quoting Parker: "'From the top of the state near the Virginia border to the most Southern part that edges South Carolina,' Parker writes (most infelicitously), 'North Carolina is a hideaway for switching partners.' Surely," Crowther writes, "she means contra dancing."
Hal Crowther will be signing Gather at the River at Burke's Book Store on Wednesday, September 28th, 5-6:30 p.m., and at Square Books in Oxford on Thursday, September 29th, 5:30-6:30 p.m.
www.memphisflyer.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:10181   (917 words)

  
 Will Crowther - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Will Crowther   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Will Crowther Definitionen, Erklärungen sowie Bedeutungen zu Will Crowther
Will Crowther ist ein Informatiker, Freizeit-Höhlenforscher und Spieleentwickler.
In den 1970ern war Will Crowther außerdem an der Entwicklung des ersten Multi User Dungeon-Spiels beteiligt.
www.adlexikon.de /Will_Crowther.shtml   (137 words)

  
 State Library of Tasmania - WL Crowther Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The W.L. Crowther Library is a rich collection of books, pamphlets, maps, manuscripts, photographs, works of art and museum objects, largely relating to Tasmania but encompassing many other subjects - whaling, the history of medicine, Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, book-collecting, and works printed in Pacific Island languages.
It was formed during the lifetime of Sir William Crowther, and presented by him to the State Library of Tasmania over a period from 1964 until his death in 1981.
William Edward Lodewyk Hamilton Crowther (1887-1981) was knighted in 1964 for his services to the community, in particular the presentation of his collection to the State Library.
www.statelibrary.tas.gov.au /heritage/crowther.htm   (837 words)

  
 Shelby Star Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Smith is a novelist and Crowther is a journalist and essayist.
According to Crowther’s biography, he grew up on naval bases, mostly in the South, and he came back here to live when he was in his 30s.
Crowther says he is “very opinionated” and “might have been a preacher” if he had not become a journalist.
www.shelbystar.com /Portal/ASP/article.asp?ID=3793   (483 words)

  
 East Bay Newspapers •   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Crowther the use of his restaurant during early morning hours.
Crowther said will be similar to the old place — with counters, booths and tables.
The new restaurant will be "a lot more efficient because we'll be able to put equipment where we want to put it.
www.eastbayri.com /print/319449934954403.php   (297 words)

  
 Two named to key positions in Academic Affairs
Crowther is associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences and oversees the largest student advisement program at the university.
Crowther joined the arts and sciences college in 1980 as an academic adviser, and was assistant dean before assuming her current post in 1993.
Crowther is co-chair of the arts and sciences Student Advisory Board, chair of the committee on allocation of student activity fees, and is on the university’s Service Learning Committee.
www.uga.edu /columns/990830/campnews7.html   (510 words)

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