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The products produced by SGI, as well as the strategies and market positions pursued by the company, have varied since SGI was founded. However, the graphical computing workstation industry has remained a focus and core business of SGI throughout its history. Silicon Graphics - Founding. Jim Clark left his position as a computer science professor at Stanford University to found SGI with a cadre of Stanford graduate students including Kurt Akeley, Tom Davis, Rocky Rhodes, Marc Hannah, Herb Kuta, and Mark Grossman. The Mayfield Group supplied the initial venture funding. Silicon Gra ...

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Conventional wisdom holds that SGI's core market has traditionally been Hollywood special effects studios. In fact, SGI's largest markets in terms of dollars of revenue generated have always been government and defense applications, energy, and scientific and technical computing. SGI created the proprietary 3D graphics API Iris GL, from which the cross-platform OpenGL was developed by a consortium of companies. ...

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In recent years, SGI has continued to enhance its line of servers (of which the higher-end models are actually supercomputers) based around the SN architecture. SN, for Scalable Node, is a technology developed by SGI in the mid-1990s. SN is an example of CC-NUMA: Cache-coherent Non-uniform memory access. In an SN system, processors, memory, and a bus- and memory-controller are coupled together into an entity known as a node. A node is usually a single circuit board. Nodes are connected via a high-speed interconnect originally called CrayLink ...

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Silicon Graphics - Current SGI products. Prism Itanium-based high-end workstation Fuel MIPS-based entry-level workstation Tezro MIPS-based high-end workstation Origin 350 mid-range server Origin 3000 MIPS-based high-end server Altix 350 Itanium-based mid-range server Altix 3000 Itanium-based high-end server Onyx4 visualization system < ...

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Albany County was one of the original twelve counties created by the Province of New York in 1683. At that time it included all of the present State of Vermont, all of New York State north of the counties of Dutchess and Ulster, and theoretically stretched west to the Pacific Ocean. On July 3, 1766, Cumberland County was created from a part of Albany County now in Vermont, followed on March 1 ...

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George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore applied to Charles I for a new royal charter for what was to become the Province of Maryland which was at the time the northern part of Virginia. George Calvert died in April 1632, but a charter for "Maryland Colony" (in Latin, "Terra Maria") was granted to his son, Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, on June 20, 1632. The new colony was named in honor of Henrietta Maria, Queen Consort of Charles I. The English colony of Maryland was founded by Lord Baltimore who on March 25, 1634 sent the first ...

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Maryland - Historical facilities. Fort McHenry Bainbridge Naval Training Center ...

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Maryland - Geography. Maryland is bounded on the north by Pennsylvania, on the west by West Virginia, on the north and east by Delaware and the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south, across the Potomac River, by Virginia. It shares a border near the center of the state along the Potomac with Washington, DC. The Chesapeake Bay nearly bisects the state, and the counties east of the Bay are known collectively as the Eastern Shore. A portion of extreme western Maryland in Garrett County is drained by the Youghiogheny Rive ...

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The Government of Maryland is conducted according to the state constitution. The United States is a federation; consequently, the Government of Maryland, like the other 49 state governments, has exclusive authority over matters that lie entirely within the state's borders, except as limited by the Constitution of the United States. Maryland is a republic; the United States guarantees her "republican form of government" [1] although there is considerable disagreement about the meaning of that phrase. Power i ...

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The Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that Maryland's total state product in 2003 was $212 billion. Per capita personal income in 2003 was $37,446, 5th in the nation. Maryland's economic activity is strongly concentrated in the tertiary service sector, and this sector, in turn, is strongly influenced by location. One major service activity is transportation, centered around the Port of Baltimore and its related rail and trucking access. The port ranked 10th in the USA by tonnage in 2002 (Source: U.S. Corps of Engineers, ...

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As early as 1853 the Englishman Sir Charles Wheatstone experimented with a modified stereoscope to show 3-D paper strips (the perforated film had not yet been invented) with scenes filmed in Hyde Park, London. The very first publicly shown short 3-D movie (lasting only about a minute) was made by the Brothers Lumiére in 1903 (L'Arrivée du Train), showing the arrival of a train in a railway station. It was presented at the World's Fair of 1903 in Paris. It could only be viewed by one person at a time on a modified stereoscope, as a proper screening-process to divide the left and right picture ...

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Dershowitz was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979, and was in 1983 a recipient of the William O. Douglas First Amendment Award from the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai Brith for his work in civil rights. [7] He has been awarded honorary doctorates in law from Yeshiva University, the Hebrew Union College, Monmouth College, and Haifa University.

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Dr. Greenspan was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1926. He studied at Juilliard from 1943 to 1944 and is known as an accomplished saxophone player. He then attended New York University, and received a B.S in Economics (summa cum laude) in 1948, and an M.A in Economics in 1950. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Economics in 1977, although he did not complete a dissertation. On December 14, 2005 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Commercial Science from NYU, his fourth degree from that institution. He also attended Col ...

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After being admitted to the bar, Dershowitz served as a law clerk for David L. Bazelon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, and Arthur Goldberg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. [7] He joined the faculty of Harvard Law School as an assistant professor of law in 1964. He was made a full professor of law in 1967 at the age of 28, becoming Harvard's youngest full law professor in the law school's history. He was appoin ...

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Senate minority leader Harry Reid turned heads on March 3, 2005 when he attacked Mr. Greenspan as "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington," [3] and called attention to, among other things, the massive deficits contributed to by the 2001 Bush tax cuts Greenspan is widely seen as having supported. Greenspan also appeared in sync with President Bush's statements of urgency in his early 2005 drive to phase out Social Security in favor of private accounts. "If we do not act now, government will eventually be left with two c ...

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