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Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace, was one of the most picturesque characters in computer history. August Ada Byron was born December 10, 1815 the daughter of the illustrious poet, Lord Byron. Five weeks after Ada was born Lady Byron asked for a separation from Lord Byron, and was awarded sole custody of Ada who she brought up to be a mathematician and scientist. Lady Byron was terrified that Ada might end up being a poet like her father. Despite Lady Byron's programming Ada did not sublimate her poetical inclinations. She hoped to be "an analyst and a metaphysician". In her 30's she wrote her mother, if you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science?" Her understanding of mathematics was laced with imagination, and described in metaphors.
Edith Clarke, born in a small farming community in Maryland, went to Vassar College at age eighteen to study mathematics and astronomy and graduated in 1908 with honors and as a Phi Beta Kappa. Subsequently, she taught mathematics at a private girls' school in San Francisco, and then at Marshall College in Huntington, W. Va. In the fall of 1911, Edith enrolled as a civil engineering student at the University of Wisconsin. At the end of her first year, she took a summer job as a "Computor Assistant" (skilled mathematician) to AT&T research engineer Dr. George Campbell and was so interested in the computing work that she did not return to her studies, but instead stayed on at AT&T to train and direct a group of computors.
In 1918, Edith left to enroll in the EE program at MIT, earning her MSc. degree (the first degree ever awarded by that department to a woman) in June 1919. In 1919, she took a job as a computor for GE in Schenectady, NY, and in 1921 filed a patent for a "graphical calculator" to be employed in solving electric power transmission line problems. Also in 1921, she took a leave from GE to take a position as a professor of physics at the U.S.-founded Constantinople Women's College in Turkey. Returning to GE in 1922 as a salaried electrical engineer, Edith continued there till her first retirement in 1945. In 1947, after a brief first retirement on a farm in Maryland, she accepted an EE professorship at the University of Texas, Austin, and became the first woman to teach engineering there. She worked there as a full professor until her second retirement in 1956.
In a March 14, 1948 interview by the Daily Texan, she commented on the future prospects for women in engineering: "There is no demand for women engineers, as such, as there are for women doctors; but there's always a demand for anyone who can do a good piece of work." A New York Times article of Feb. 19, 1956, said, "She believes that women may help solve today's critical need for technical manpower."
Dr. James E. Brittain's paper, "From Computor to Electrical Engineer--the Remarkable Career of Edith Clarke," sheds light on how she was a pioneer for women in both engineering and computing:
"Edith Clarke's engineering career had as its central theme the development and dissemination of mathematical methods that tended to simplify and reduce the time spent in laborious calculations in solving problems in the design and operation of electrical power systems. She translated what many engineers found to be esoteric mathematical methods into graphs or simpler forms during a time when power systems were becoming more complex and when the initial efforts were being made to develop electromechanical aids to problem solving. As a woman who worked in an environment traditionally dominated by men, she demonstrated effectively that women could perform at least as well as men if given the opportunity. Her outstanding achievements provided an inspiring example for the next generation of women with aspirations to become career engineers."
"Fox graduated from Wisconsin State College in 1940. She joined the U.S. Naval Reserve in 1943 and was stationed at the Naval Research Station in Washington. She continued to work there as an electronics engineer in radar after her discharge in 1946. In 1951 she joined the National Bureau of Standards as a member of the technical staff of the Electronic Computer Laboratory. Later, she joined the Research Information Center and Advisory Service on Information Processing (RICASIP) where she was involved in producing reviews and bibliographies. From 1966 to 1975 Fox was chief of the Office of Computer Information in the NBS Institute for Computer Science and Technology.
Fox was involved in several professional groups, especially the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the American Federation for Information Processing Societies (AFIPS). She was the first secretary of AFIPS."
Quoted from: Margaret Fox Papers (CBI 45), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
"co-invention of spread-spectrum broadcast communications technologies 1940, EFF Special Pioneer Award 1997."
During the early 1940's, Kay McNulty, a recent math graduate from Chestnut Hill College, was employed along with about 75 other young female mathematicians as a "computer" by the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering. These "computers" were responsible for making calculations for tables of firing and bombing trajectories, as part of the war effort. The need to perform the calculations more quickly prompted the development of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic digital computer, in 1946.
Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli recalls computing in 1946:
"We did have desk calculators at that time, mechanical and driven with electric motors, that could do simple arithmetic. You'd do a multiplication and when the answer appeared, you had to write it down to reenter it into the machine to do the next calculation. We were preparing a firing table for each gun, with maybe 1,800 simple trajectories. To hand-compute just one of these trajectories took 30 or 40 hours of sitting at a desk with paper and a calculator. As you can imagine, they were soon running out of young women to do the calculations. Actually, my title working for the ballistics project was `computer.' The idea was that I not only did arithmetic but also made the decision on what to do next. ENIAC made me, one of the first `computers,' obsolete.
On computing in 1996, Kay says:
I love that it's a perfectly normal thing for kids. My 5-year-old granddaughter is not amazed by computers at all. I guess the amazement will come when she realizes it won't do everything in the world.
Born Frances Bilas in Philadelphia of 1922, Frances Spence attended Temple University, then transferred to Chestnut Hill College after receiving a scholarship there. She majored in mathematics with a minor in physics, graduated in 1942, and also met Kay McNulty there. The two were selected by the Moore School of Engineering to compute ballistic trajectories. They were then selected to be in the first group of programmers for the ENIAC, the world's first electronic digital computer, which was used to perform the same ballistic trajectory calculations.
In 1947, Spence married Homer Spence, who was at one point the head of the Computer Research Branch for the ENIAC.
The Women in Technology International (WITI) inducted her into the WITI Hall of Fame in 1997.
Born as Betty Jean Jennings in Gentry County, Mississippi on December 27th, 1924, Jean Bartik attended Northwest Missouri State Teachers College where she majored in mathematics. The University of Pennsylvania hired her to work for the Army Ordnance at Aberdeen Proving Ground, a United States Army facility. There, she was selected to be part of the first group of programmers for the ENIAC, world's first electronic computer. She later went on to work on the BINAC and UNIVAC I.
Bartik also worked as a editor for Auerbach Publishers, publishing content on information technology. In 1981, she left Auerbach to join Data Decisions, a competitor to Auerbach, where she was the Senior Editor for the Communications Services Research Publications.
In 1997, Bartik was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame. In 2008, she was a Fellow Award honoree of the Computer History Museum.
"Frances Elizabeth 'Betty' Holberton was born Frances Elizabeth Snyder in Philadelphia in 1917. On her first day of classes at the University of Pennsylvania, Betty's math professor told her that she should stay home raising children instead of wasting her time attempting to achieve a degree in mathematics, and was thus discouraged from pursuing it. Instead, Betty decided to study journalism, because its curriculum let her travel far a-field. Journalism was also one of the few programs of study open to women during that time."
Betty was hired by the Moore School of Engineering to be part of the first group of programmers for the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, to compute ballistic trajectories.
"After World War II, Betty worked at Remington Rand and the National Bureau of Standards. She was the Chief of the Programming Research Branch, Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the David Taylor Model Basin in 1959. She helped to develop the UNIVAC, wrote the first generative programming system (SORT/MERGE), and also the first statistical analysis package which was used for the 1950 US Census. Betty worked with John Mauchly to develop the C-10 instruction for BINAC which is considered to be the prototype of all modern programming languages. She also participated in the development of early standards for the COBOL and Fortran programming languages with Grace Hopper."
In 1997, Betty was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame for her work on the ENIAC.
Ruth Teitelbaum (née Lichterman) graduated from Hunter College with a Bachelor's of Science in mathematics. She was hired by the Moore School of Engineering to to be among the first group of programmers for the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer, to compute ballistic trajectories. After the ENIAC was completed and was transferred to the Ballistics Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, a United States Army facility, Teitelbaum stayed to train the next group of programmers for the ENIAC for two years.
In 1997, Betty was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame for her work on the ENIAC.
Born as Marlyn Wescoff, Meltzer graduated from Temple University in 1942. She was hired by the Moore School of Engineering to perform weather calculations because she knew how to operate an adding machine. In 1943, she was hired to calculate ballistic trajectories. Then in 1945, she was selected to be one of the first programmers for the ENIAC, the world's first electronic computer.
In 1997, Betty was inducted into the Women in Technology International's Hall of Fame for her work on the ENIAC.
Adele Goldstine was the wife of Dr. Herman Goldstine, who assisted in the creation of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic digital computer, at UPenn in the 1940's. Adele Goldstine made an indelible contribution to the ENIAC project herself by authoring the Manual for the ENIAC in 1946. This original technical description of the ENIAC detailed the machine right down to its resistors.
Rósa Péter studied mathematics at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest, graduating in 1927 and beginning her career as a tutor. From 1945 until her retirement in 1975, she was a professor of mathematics, for 10 years at Budapest Teachers Training College and subsequently at Loránd Eötvös University.
From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive:
Her first research topic was number theory, but she became discouraged on finding that her results had already been proved by Dickson. For a while Rósa wrote poetry, but around 1930 she was encouraged to return to mathematics by Kalmár. He suggested Rósa examine Gödel's work, and in a series of papers she became a founder of recursive function theory. Rósa wrote Recursive Functions in 1951, which was the first book on the topic and became a standard reference. In 1952 Kleene described Rósa Péter in a paper in Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. as ``the leading contributor to the special theory of recursive functions." From the mid 1950's she applied recursive function theory to computers. In 1976 her last book was on this topic: Recursive Functions in Computer Theory.
"Canada's Female Computer Pioneer, a witness to several great moments in computing history, one of the first women to earn a doctorate in Computer Science in 1951."
"Thelma Estrin, a 1977 IEEE Life Fellow 'for contributions to the design and application of computer systems for neurophysiological and brain research,' is a pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering and as the IEEE's first female vice president.
"Thelma was born in New York City, an only child who was destined to attend college and attain greater achievements. While other girls in school took commercial courses, she pursued academic courses and prepared to go to college. She attended City College of New York (CCNY) in 1941 where she met her husband Jerry. A year later, in 1942, she took a three month course at Stevens Institute of Technology for engineering assistants. She worked for two years at the Radio Receptor Company. In 1946 she and Jerry moved to Madison, Wisconsin, to pursue undergraduate electrical engineering degrees at the University of Wisconsin. Through a great deal of hard work and long days, Thelma Estrin received her B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in 1948, 1949 and 1951, respectively. Jerry received an offer to join John von Neumann's computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study and they moved to Princeton, NJ. Thelma was determined to maintain her own career and was hired at the Electroencephalography Department of the Neurological Institute of Columbia Presbyterian Hospital (New York) in November 1951.
"Thelma and Jerry spent fifteen months in Israel working on the WEIZAC (WEIZmann Automatic Computer). This became the first electronic computer in the Near East. In 1956, Jerry accepted an offer by UCLA as an associate professor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. During this time Thelma taught at Valley College, a junior college in Los Angeles, and did some consulting work. In 1960, Thelma joined the Brain Research Institute (BRI) and in 1970 became the Director of its Data Processing Laboratory. As Director she provided computer support for a variety of research projects and helped dozens of researchers make use of computers. Thelma was an early champion of medical informatics, the application of computers to medical research and treatment, in all its branches. In 1980 Thelma became a professor in residence in the Computer Science Department of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. She retired in July 1991 at the age of sixty-seven.
"Thelma has been an active IEEE volunteer, serving as an officer of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society and on the Technical Activities Board, and she was the first woman to be elected to the IEEE Board of Directors. In 1982 she served as executive vice president of IEEE. She has received many honors from the Institute, including the Haradan Pratt Award in 1991."
"research mathematician and scientist who worked at NASA's Langley Research Center 1953 to 1986, calculated the trajectory of the early space launches."
Evelyn Boyd Granville, who earned her doctorate in Mathematics in 1949 from Yale University, was one of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D. in Mathematics. During her career, she developed computer programs that were used for trajectory analysis in the Mercury Project (the first U.S. manned mission in space) and in the Apollo Project (which sent U.S. astronauts to the moon).
"Joyce Currie Little was one of the original programmers at Convair Aircraft Corporation in the Wind Tunnel Division in the late 1950s. She wrote programs to analyze data taken from models (e.g., airplanes, automobiles, radio towers) that were tested in an 8-foot by 12-foot wind tunnel. She wrote her programs in an assembly language, SOAP, which was run on an IBM 650 with punched cards. To ensure accurate and reliable results, a room full of 37 women using Frieden calculators calculated all the check-points to confirm the computer output.
"For analysis, the data had to be physically carried to the computer, which was in another building. At one point, Convair had a major project with American Airlines to prove that an airplane could take offf in less than one mile. Due to the expense of keeping the wind tunnel going, they needed the analysis in avery short time frame. To get the results in real time, Little and a colleague of hers, Maggie DeCaro put on roller skates and, data in hand, furiously skated from the wind tunnel to the computer building—taking a shortcut through the huge model design shop—bumped whoever was on the computer, loaded the current data, ran the data analysis program, and then furiously skated back to the wind tunnel with the results. The raised some eyebrows, but successfully completed the project on time!
"Ever since she was a child, Little wanted to attend college. Through the encouragement of three people—her father, her high school mathematics teacher, and her high school basketball coach—Little went to college and majored in mathematics, with a minor in physical education. She received a B.S. degree in mathematics in 1957 from NE Louisiana State University, where a math teacher encouraged her to major in math and participate in independent study. Little received an M.S. degree in applied mathematics from San Diego State University in 1963. While she was in graduate school at San Diego, he physics professor, being interviewed on campus by Central Dynamics – Convair Aircraft Corporation, insisted she be interviewed, resulting in the offer to work in their Wind Tunnel Division, in San Diego, Calif.
"After graduating, Little left Convair and moved to Maryland. In order to care for her stepson, she turned down a good job offer from Westinghouse on the Solomon project (a predecessor of the ILIAC IV computer) and took a position at Goucher College, where she managed a computer center and taught statistics. Continuing her education. Little enrolled, mostly part-time, in the Ph.D. program at the University of Maryland, College Park, and in 1984 received interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree combining computer science, applied mathematics, management science, and educational administration.
"While pursuing her Ph.D., Little later moved on to Baltimore Junior College, where she developed their first computer curriculum and became the head of the Computer and Information Systems Department. In 1981, Little left Baltimore for a position as a computer science professor at Towson State University, where she is currently the chair of the Computer Science Department. Little has been active in the ACM: she received the Distinguished Service Award in 1992 and was inducted in the first group of ACM Fellows in 1994."
In the 1950s, a need for a common business language was on the rise. There was a lack of compatibility across the business machines, and programming was expensive in time and cost in general. Thus in 1959, Mary K. Hawes from Burroughs Corporation initiated a meeting between users and manufacturers to develop specifications for a common business language, which evolved into what is known today as COBOL (COmmon Business Oriented Language).
Alexandra Illmer Forsythe studied mathematics in college and graduate school, and then became interested in computing. During the 1960's and 1970's, she co-authored a series of textbooks on computer science, published by Wiley & Sons and Academic Press. Her first was the first textbook written in CS. Among her books were:
Jean E. Sammet received her B.A. and M.A. in Math from Mount Holyoke College in 1948 and University of Illinoise at Urbana-Champaign in 1949, respectively.
Sammet managed the first scientific programming group for Sperry Gyroscope Co. from 1955-1958. From 1958-1961, she worked for Sylvania Electric Products, where she served as a key member of the committee that created COBOL.
In 1961, Sammet joined IBM to manage the Boston Programming center. There, she developed FORMAC, the first popular language to be used for working with nonnumeric algebraic expressions. In the '70s, she switched to IBM's Federal Systems Division, where she eventually became the Software Technology Manager for the division (in 1979). She handled IBM's Ada-related activities.
Sammet has a slew of other achievements. Her book, "PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES: History and Fundamentals" became a classic after being published in 1969. She also received an honorary D.Sc. from Mount Holyoke in 1978. Very actively involved in ACM, Sammet held positions of President, Vice-President, Chair of SIGPLAN (Special Interest Group on Programming Languages), Editor-in-Chief for two ACM publications, and was an organizer for conferences and other programs.
Sammet also taught one of the first graduate programming courses in the United States at Adelphi College at the time of 1956-1958.
"1st observation of microwave emission without the presence of an external field (1967), Fellow American Physical Society, Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow Society of Automotive Engineers, IEEE Fellow 1975, Member National Academy of Engineering."
"Sister Mary Kenneth Keller, from Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the first women, and very likely the first woman, to receive a Ph.D. degree in computer science in the United States. Keller entered the Sisters of Charity, a Catholic religious order, in 1932 and professed her vows in 1940. Later, she studied at DePaul University, where she received a B.S. degree in mathematics and an M.S. degree in mathematics and physics. In 1965, she received a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin. Her dissertation work involved constructing algorithms that performed analytic differentiation on algebraic expression, written in CDC FORTRAN 63.
"As a graduate student, Keller also studied at Dartmouth, Purdue, and the University of Michigan. At Dartmouth, the university broke the "men only" rule and allowed her to work in the computer center, where she participated in the development of BASIC.
"After receiving her Ph.D. degree, Keller accepted an offer of a faculty position at Clarke College in Dubuque, Iowa. Keller founded the Computer Science Department there and chaired it for 20 years. She also established a master's degree program for computer applications in education.
"Keller felt that women should be involved in computer science and especially in the field of information specialist. In her words, 'We're having an information explosion, among others, and it's certainly obvious that information is of no use unless it's available.' Keller's vision extended eyond education and reached toward artificial intelligence. 'For the first time, we can now mechanically simulate the cognitive process. We can make studies in artificial intelligence. Beyond that, this mechanism [the computer] can be used to assist humans in learning. As we are going to have more mature students in greater numbers as time goes on, this type of teaching will probably be increasingly important.' Sister Mary Keller died at the age of 71 but has left a legacy of computers and education at Clarke College."
"Ford Professor of Engineering in the MIT School of Engineering's Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award 1996, IEEE John von Neumann Medal 2004, 2nd woman to win ACM's A. M. Turing Award 2008, 1st US woman to be awarded a PhD from a computer science department in 1968, ACM Fellow 1996, SWE Achievement Award 1996."
"Joan Margaret Winters began working in Computer Services at Cornell University in 1970. She later became Coordinator for User Support, a position that included managing the office's consulting and educational functions. While at Cornell Winters also designed and implemented SPINDEX II applications for the Department of Manuscripts and University Archives. In 1980 Winters took a position as a scientific programmer in SLAC Computing Services at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
In the mid-1970s Winters became active in SHARE, an International Business Machines (IBM) computer user group. In 1976 she joined SHARE's Human Factors Project, a group dedicated to educating members of SHARE and employees of IBM about the importance of human factors in the design of hardware and, especially, software and conducting research into human factors and software appraisal tools. Winters became deputy manager of the project in 1978 and served as project manager from 1983 to 1987. She also served on the Interactive Systems (INTERSYS) Task Force from 1979-1982 and was a primary author of the task force's report. She became vice chair of the ASCII/EPCDIC Committee (later, a task force) in 1987 and manager of the Integrated Technology Group in 1988. Winters also belonged to the Human Factors Society and the Association for Computing Machinery."
Quoted from: Joan M. Winters Papers (CBI 22), Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Erna Schneider earned a B.A. with honors in medieval history from Wellesley College, and later a Ph.D. in the philosophy and foundations of mathematics from Yale University. In 1954, after teaching for a number of years at Swarthmore College, she began a research career at Bell Laboratories. While there, she invented a computerized switching system for telephone traffic, to replace existing hard-wired, mechanical switching equipment. For this ground-breaking achievement -- the principles of which are still used today -- she was awarded one of the first software patents ever issued (Patent #3,623,007, Nov. 23, 1971) . At Bell Labs, she became the first female supervisor of a technical department.
"Karen Spärck Jones was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire, England. Her father was Owen Jones, a lecturer in chemistry, and her mother was Ida Spärck, a Norwegian who moved to Britain during World War II. Spärck Jones was educated at a grammar school and then Girton College, Cambridge from 1953 to 1956, reading History. Initially she became a school teacher.
"She worked at Cambridge's Computer Laboratory from 1974, and retired in 2002, holding the post of Professor of Computers and Information. She continued to work in the Computer Laboratory until shortly before her death. Her main research interests, since the late 1950s, were natural language processing and information retrieval. One of her most important contributions was the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF) weighting in information retrieval, which she introduced in a 1972 paper. IDF is used in most search engines today, usually as part of the tf-idf weighting scheme.
"Prof. Spärck Jones was a Fellow of the British Academy, of which she was Vice-President in 2000-02. She was also a Fellow of both the AAAI and the ECCAI and was President of the Association for Computational Linguistics in 1994. She received several awards for her research including the Gerard Salton Award (1988), the ASIS&T Award of Merit (2002), the ACL Lifetime Achievement Award (2004), the BCS Lovelace Medal (2007) and the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (2007)."
"founder and CEO of ASK computers (1972-1991)."
"Distinguished Career Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University."
"IBM computer languages FORMAC and COBOL, 1st woman ACM President 1974, ACM Fellow 1994."
"Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, invention of generalized dynamic instruction handling, IEEE Fellow 1985, Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award 1990."
"co-developer of Smalltalk at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, ACM President 1984, ACM Fellow 1994, WITI Hall of Fame 2010."
During World War II, a large number of female mathematicians were employed as "computers" to perform calculations necessary to create firing and bombing tables. Alice Burks was one of 75 female "computers" working at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering. Eventually, the need to perform the calculations more rapidly led to the development of the ENIAC, the world's first electronic digital computer.
Alice Burks has coauthored numerous articles on ENIAC and the history of computers with her husband, Arthur Burks, a computer scientist who was part of the ENIAC team.
"Radia Joy Perlman is a software designer and network engineer sometimes referred to as the "Mother of the Internet". She is most famous for her invention of the spanning-tree protocol, while working for Digital Equipment Corporation, which is fundamental to the operation of network bridges. She also made large contributions to many other areas of network design and standardization such as link-state protocols, including TRILL, which she invented to correct some of the short-comings of spanning-trees. She obtained a Bachelor's, Master's in Mathematics, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from MIT. Her doctoral thesis at MIT addressed the issue of routing in the presence of malicious network failures.
"Perlman is the author of one textbook on networking and coauthor of one textbook on network security. She is currently employed by Intel. She holds more than fifty patents from Sun alone."Perlman received many awards.
"Born in New York City, Goldwasser obtained her B.S. (1979) in mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.S. (1981) and PhD (1983) in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. She joined MIT in 1983, and in 1997 became the first holder of the RSA Professorship. She is a member of the Theory of Computation group at MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
"Goldwasser's research areas include computational complexity theory, cryptography and computational number theory. She is the co-inventor of zero-knowledge proofs, which probabilistically and interactively demonstrate the validity of an assertion without conveying any additional knowledge, and are a key tool in the design of cryptographic protocols. Her work in complexity theory includes the classification of approximation problems, showing that some problems in NP remain hard even when only an approximate solution is needed."
"[Among her numerous awards,] Goldwasser has twice won the Gödel Prize in theoretical computer science. Other awards include the ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award (1996) for outstanding young computer professional of the year and the RSA Award in Mathematics (1998) for outstanding mathematical contributions to cryptography."
"IBM Fellow, 1st woman to earn a PhD in computer science at MIT, MIT Professor of electrical engineering and computer science, ACM Fellow, Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, WITI Hall of Fame 2000."
"Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award – Social Impact 2007, IEEE Fellow 1993, Purdue University Dean of Engineering, IEEE President 2007."
Anita Borg was born on January 17, 1949 and was one of the few female computer scientists with a PH.D in 1981 when she received her graduate degree from New York University. After attending an industry conference in 1987 she realized how few women attended conferences so she began Systers, an email list community of mentors providing information and support for women in computing. She also was the founding director of the Institute of Women and Technology later renamed in her honor to the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. The Anita Borg Institue aims to (from their site) "Increase the impact of women on all aspects of technology, to increase the positive impact of technology on the lives of the world's women, and to help communities, industry, education and government benefit from these increases." In addition, she also started a women's technical conference with Dr. Telle Whitney called the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Anita also received various awards including the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award for her work with women in computing by the Association for Women in Computing, one of being named as one of the Top 100 Women in Computing by Open Computing Magazine and was appointed by President Bill Clinton on the Presidential Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering, and Technology.
Information from Wikipedia and the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
"5th president of Harvey Mudd College (1st woman in that role) since 2006, previously Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University, 2002 ACM President, ACM Fellow 1996, Canadian Information Processing Society founding Fellow 2006."
"President and CEO of Yahoo! (2009-2011), previously Chairman, President, and CEO at Autodesk (1992-2009), WITI Hall of Fame 1997."
"Dr. Ochoa has logged over 978 hours in space, earning the US Distinguished Service Medal, Exceptional Service Medal, Outstanding Leadership Medal, and four NASA Space Flight Medals. 1st Hispanic woman in space. She designed optical systems for Sandia National Laboratory and at NASA's Ames Research Center developed computer systems designed for aeronautical expeditions. Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center (Houston, TX)."
"Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK, 2008 ACM President, 2009 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), 2009 elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), ACM Fellow 2010."
"Founding Chief Technology Officer of One Laptop per Child (OLPC) 2005-2008, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Pixel Qi 2008-present, WITI Hall of Fame 2008, ABI Women of Vision award for Innovation, 2011."
"Associate Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of Colorado, Co-author of the best-selling UNIX System Administration Handbook (Prentice Hall, 1995)."
"Portuguese Computer Scientist and Roboticist, Herbert A. Simon Professor, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, President of the International RoboCup Federation. Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, National Science Foundation CAREER award (1995), CMU Allen Newell Medal for Excellence in Research (1997), IEEE Fellow 2011, AAAS Fellow 2011."
"University of California at Santa Cruz Chancellor 2005-2006, AAAS Fellow, IEEE Fellow 2004, honored in the naming of the ABI "Denice Dentor Emerging Leader Award"."
"CEO Hewlett-Packard 1999-2005."
"CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, Bell Labs Fellow Award (1996), WITI Hall of Fame (2007)."
"RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and of computer science and applied mathematics at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award 1996."
"leadership in bridging the fields of information retrieval and human computer interaction, ACM Fellow 2006, ACM SIGIR Salton Award 2009-lifetime achievement in IR."
"VMWare co-founder and CEO (1998-2008)."
"Professor and Chair of Computer Science at Cornell University, ACM Fellow 1998."
"Chairwoman of Huawei Technologies Board since 1999."
"pioneer of social robotics at MIT Media Lab, US Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigators Award."
"Evan Pugh Professorship Pennsylvania State University, ACM Distinguished Service Award, IEEE Fellow 1994, ACM Fellow 1996, National Academy of Engineering member 2003, 2005 ACM Distinguished Service Award, 2006 Computing Research Association Distinguished Service Award, 2007 Anita Borg Technical Leadership Award, American Academy of Arts and Sciences member 2009."
"President's Professor of Computer Science (former CS Department Head), Carnegie Mellon University, Assistant Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation, IEEE Fellow 2003, ACM Fellow 1998."
"President Oracle Corporation since 2004, CFO Oracle (2005-2008, again since 2011), Member Oracle Board since 2001."
"Cisco Chief Technology Officer, former Motorola Chief Technology Officer (Semiconductor Products), Motorola's 1st female executive, Distinguished Alumni Award from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi 2004, WITI Hall of Fame 2007."
"the 'Mother of the Internet', 1st Sun Microsystems female Fellow, 1st Anita Borg Institute Woman of Vision – Innovation award winner 2005, IEEE Fellow 2008."
"credited with starting the entire field of Affective Computing, MIT Director of Affective Computing Research, IEEE Fellow 2005."
"1st woman to receive the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award from the College of Engineering of U.C. Berkeley 2005, ACM Fellow 1993, EFF Pioneer Award 1998, ACM President 1998."
"Co-Founder of Linksys (1988-2003), 1st Anita Borg Institute Woman of Vision – Leadership award winner 2005."
"Frances Elizabeth 'Fran' Allen (born 1932) is an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, code optimization, and parallelization. She also had a role in intelligence work on programming languages and security codes for the National Security Agency.
Allen grew up on a farm in upstate New York and graduated from The New York State College for Teachers (now State University of New York at Albany) with a B.Sc. degree in mathematics in 1954. She earned an M.Sc. degree in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1957 and began teaching school in Peru, New York. Deeply in debt, she joined IBM on July 15, 1957 and planned to stay only until her school loans were paid, but ended up staying for her entire 45-year career.
Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. In 2007 the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award was created in her honor. In 2006 she became the first woman to win the Turing Award."
Quoted from: Wikipedia
"Xerox Chief Technology Officer since 2006, IEEE Fellow 2005, WITI Hall of Fame 2011, Royal Flemish Academy for Ats & Sciences Member, WITI Hall of Fame 2011."
"Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology: NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering in the EECS department and heads the Theory of Distributed Systems research group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, ACM Fellow 1997, Dijkstra Prize 2007, Member National Academy of Engineering."
"Barbara Liskov (born November 7, 1939) is a prominent computer scientist. She is currently the Ford Professor of Engineering in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her bachelor's degree in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1961, and became the first woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in Computer Science, in 1968 from Stanford University.
Barbara Liskov has led many significant projects, including the design and implementation of CLU, the first programming language to support data abstraction, Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs, and Thor, an object-oriented database system.
Liskov received the 2008 Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for her work in the design of programming languages and software methodology that led to the development of object-oriented programming. The ACM cited her contributions to the practical and theoretical foundations of 'programming language and system design, especially related to data abstraction, fault tolerance, and distributed computing.'"
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"Sun Microsystems Distinguished Engineer, Anita Borg Institute Woman of Vision – Social Impact award winner 2008, American Association for the Advancement of Science Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery Fellow 2011."
"Hewlett-Packard CEO 2011-present, CEO eBay 1998-2008, candidate for Governor of California 2009."
"1st woman President and CEO of IBM (2012-present)."


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British scientists have learned some interesting things about the way animals respond to traumatic experiences and how trauma affects their daily lives. What was the key to their groundbreaking research? Robot spiders that hug bumble bees. Seriously.In the wild, bumble bees can fall prey to crab spiders, which are able to camouflage themselves to match the color of the flowers bees frequent. Researchers at Queen Mary, University of London made mock flowers with sugar water along with fake crab spiders that either matched the flower's color or contrasted it. Two pinching arms padded by sponges grabbed the bees, giving them a good scare before they flew off in a panic. The bees quickly learned to avoid the hugging spiders whether they were camouflaged or not. Things got interesting when the after-effects were studied. The bees were allowed to visit flowers with no spiders at all. Bees who had been attacked by camouflaged robot spiders were slower in their pollen collecting duties, acting nervous and distracted. They had apparently learned that a nearly invisible robot spider could be lurking anywhere, which would likely impact anyone's performance. Further research could provide insight into the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder. Of course, there is one practical thing we can learn from this study right now, with no further research. And that is that NEARLY INVISIBLE ROBOT SPIDERS COULD BE LURKING ANYWHERE! Image by: Science News. Robot Spider vs. Bee. [Science News]
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Global health R&D must include poor countries
The World Health Organization (WHO) can help developing countries create and enforce policies to protect and promote public health while fostering innovation. But it must do so with their full participation, says this editorial in The Lancet.
This week (4-8 December) an intergovernmental group convened by the WHO gathered to start designing a global strategy to boost research and development focusing on treatments for leading diseases in poor countries.
But more than half of the WHO's member states were absent from the meeting — and of those missing, a third are among the least developed countries, as identified by the UN.
The group aimed to take forward proposals on patenting and licensing policies so that developing countries can ensure products are relevant to their own settings, follow regulatory frameworks and are available at affordable prices.
Many of its recommendations, however, depend on developing country governments taking the lead, and they cannot be expected to do so if they are not included in the discussion.Link to full article/paper in The Lancet*
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Reference: The Lancet 368:2034 (2006)


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"Rockin' At The Hop" is the musical show that the sixth grade presents for the parents each year. Charlotte was SO very excited to participate. She had been singing the songs all around the house for weeks. The kids have a blast dressing up 50's style. They all sang Rockin' Robin, Great Balls of Fire, and a few selections from "Grease". They served the parents cold cokes in glass bottles and ice cream sundaes. They did the hand motions to Rama Lama Ding Dong. One of the boys crooned Houndog and Elvis would have been proud. What a fun and upbeat evening. Charlotte loved her poodle skirt, and had a great time with her friends - this one is Kamden Kuydendall, and the girls in the car with Charlotte - flying off like Sandy and Danny did in Grease - are her friends Abi and Anna.
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How should a missionary counsel a polygamist about his wives? Should they divorce because of adultery or stay together?
This is, indeed, a difficult issue that missionaries face. A very respected missionary friend in the same country where I've served for the past seven years teaches that the Christian man should divorce all but one wife, maintain financial support to all the wives and the children, but recognize that God only sees marriage as "one man/one woman" and anything else is adultery. It seems to me that there is one fundamental flaw with this "black and white" solution: Jacob's twelve sons, by four different women, are all treated as equally legitimate heirs. Does this mean that the pendulum swings back the other way and we say "it's entirely cultural; have as many wives as you want"? I think that God's Word gives us three guiding principles which form the basis for my own counsel.
First, marriage is intended to be between one man and one woman. It is a picture of Jesus Christ's relationship to the church (Ephesians 5), and thankfully Jesus is not a polygamist!
Second, regeneration is not the "undo button" for the consequences of a life in sin. If a person is born again while in jail on a murder charge, he still has to deal with the consequences of his sin. A person will often carry "baggage" into his new life in Christ that must be dealt with through Biblical wisdom. In 1 Corinthians 7, Paul gives some very personal advice in marriage relationships and in the middle of his counsel (verses 17-24) he puts forward the principle "as the Lord has called everyone, so let him walk." Since this advice is given right in the middle of Paul's counsel regarding marriage, I think it's appropriate to apply it to polygamists: as you come to the Lord in our marriage, remain. Don't deepen the effects of sin by adding more wives, but don't try to press an "undo button" which destroys the lives of your other wives and children.
Third, Paul is very clear that office in the church is limited to those who are not polygamists (Titus 1:5-6 and 1 Tim. 3:2).
Therefore, my counsel to polygamist converts has been: maintain your faithful marriage relationships to all your wives, but don't add any more. Be faithful as a member of the church and recognize that your particular sin permanently disqualifies you from office in the church. Since a polygamist is typically going to have a very large number of children, this is a wonderful opportunity to reach a large number of people for Christ, particularly bringing to bear the sinfulness of polygamy and the glorious power of God's redeeming grace!
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Poland seeks probe of Warsaw stock exchange chief
Poland's treasury minister has asked state officials to investigate the suspended head of Warsaw's Stock Exchange for allegedly abusing his position by trying to secure funds for a movie featuring his girlfriend.
Ludwik Sobolewski was suspended as head of the Warsaw bourse on Dec. 21 following reports that he and a subordinate were involved in soliciting funds for a commercial movie from companies listed on the stock exchange. An extraordinary general assembly of those who have shares in the exchange is to decide Sobolewski's future on Jan. 17.
Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski said Wednesday the investigation will look at whether Sobolewski used his position to solicit money for purposes unrelated to the stock exchange. The ministry asked the country's main Anti-Corruption Office to investigate.


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Study Investigating the Ability of Plant Exosomes to Deliver Curcumin to Normal and Colon Cancer Tissue
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01294072
Recruitment Status : Active, not recruiting
First Posted : February 11, 2011
Last Update Posted : April 18, 2019
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|Condition or disease
|Colon Cancer
|Dietary Supplement: curcumin Dietary Supplement: Curcumin conjugated with plant exosomes Other: No intervention
|Phase 1
Curcumin is a constituent of the spice turmeric, which is one of the primary ingredients of curry powder. Curcumin has been shown to interfere with colon carcinogenesis in a variety of chemical and genetic rodent models. It has also been shown to have a strong inhibitory effect on the growth of colon cancer cell lines. There is considerable evidence that the effects of curcumin are mediated by changes in signal transduction. There is an extensive body of work showing effects on several signaling pathways, including the beta-catenin and NF-κB pathways. Although curcumin has been viewed as an ideal chemopreventative agent in colon cancer for many years, its application has been impeded by important issues with drug delivery and bioavailability in the reported clinical trials of this compound.
Work from the James Graham Brown Cancer Center published recently suggests that using exosomes as a delivery vehicle leads to overcoming all the major obstacles of using curcumin as an anti-inflammatory agent, including increased stability, solubility, and bioavailability of curcumin. The work was further extended to define the resource that can supply a large quantity of exosomes with a maximum binding capacity of curcumin. Emerging data indicate that exosomes derived from many fruits release exosome-like particles, strongly bind to many hydrophobic drugs including curcumin, and are taken up by the intestine cells as well as the immune cells in the intestine. These results suggest that these fruit-derived exosomes are potentially used as a delivery vehicle to treatment of intestinal diseases. Moreover, both fruit exosomes and curcumin should not generate any side-effects since they are consumed by humans daily.
In this clinical trial, the effect of exosomally delivered curcumin on the immune modulation, cellular metabolism, and phospholipid profile of normal and malignant colon cells in subjects who are undergoing surgery for newly diagnosed colon cancer will be characterized. In selected subjects, the effect of exosomally delivered curcumin on the production of cytokines, the changes of immune cells, and glucose metabolism by administration of 13C-glucose prior to surgical resection will also be characterized.
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|7 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Factorial Assignment
|None (Open Label)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|Phase I Clinical Trial Investigating the Ability of Plant Exosomes to Deliver Curcumin to Normal and Malignant Colon Tissue
|Study Start Date :
|January 2011
|Estimated Primary Completion Date :
|January 2022
|Estimated Study Completion Date :
|December 2022
Experimental: Arm 1: Curcumin alone
Subjects take curcumin orally.
Dietary Supplement: curcumin
tablets-3.6 gram (gm) taken daily for 7 days - 15 subjects
Experimental: Arm 2: Curcumin with plant exosomes
Subjects take curcumin conjugated with plant exosomes.
Dietary Supplement: Curcumin conjugated with plant exosomes
tablets-taken daily for 7 days - 15 subjects
|Experimental: Arm 3: no treatment
Other: No intervention
no treatment
- Concentration of curcumin in normal and cancerous tissue [ Time Frame: 7 days after start of curcumin ingestion ]Concentration of curcumin delivered with curcumin alone or curcumin conjugated with plant exosomes to normal and cancerous colon cells will be compared. This exploratory trial is designed to estimate the effect of a fixed concentration of curcumin when delivered by plant exosomes compared to oral tablets of curcumin alone.
- safety and tolerability of curcumin alone as determined by adverse events [ Time Frame: 7 days after study enrollment ]Curcumin will be taken orally.
- effects of curcumin on normal and cancerous colon cells by measuring the biomarkers using histochemical staining [ Time Frame: 7 days after patient enrollment ]
- the immune system response to curcumin, measured by serum cytokine levels [ Time Frame: 7 days after patient enrollment in study ]
- immune response in ex vivo cell cultures of colon cancer cells treated with curcumin and Exo-cur, to be evaluated by using histochemical staining [ Time Frame: 7 days after patient enrollment in study ]
- measurement of curcumin alone on metabolic characteristics of normal colon mucosa and colon tumors [ Time Frame: 7 days after patient enrollment ]
- safety and tolerability of curcumin with plant exosomes as determined by adverse events [ Time Frame: 7 days after study enrollment ]Curcumin and plant exosomes will be taken orally.
- measurement of curcumin mixed with plant exosomes on metabolic characteristics of normal colon mucosa and colon tumors [ Time Frame: 7 days after patient enrollment on study ]
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contacts provided below. For general information, Learn About Clinical Studies.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Subjects must have definitive diagnosis of colon cancer.
- Surgical resection of the primary tumor must be an option for the newly diagnosed cancer.
- No history of diabetes
- Subjects must be informed of the investigational nature of this study and sign and give written informed consent in accordance with institutional and federal guidelines.
- Absence of life-limiting medical conditions
- Ability to understand and willingness to sign a written informed consent document.
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0, 1, or 2 (Karnofsky > 60%; see Appendix A).
- Subjects must have adequate bone marrow function. ANC > 1000/microliters (microL) and Platelet count >100,000/microL
- Age >20 years
Exclusion Criteria:
- Known familial colon cancer syndrome
- Pregnancy
- Known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
- Patients receiving immunosuppressive drugs
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Active second malignancy in the last 5 years
- Patients receiving any other investigational agent(s)
- Patients who have received any prior chemotherapy or radiation therapy to the primary colon cancer
- Intolerance to grapes, grapefruit, or curcumin
- History of diabetes mellitus
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01294072
|United States, Kentucky
|James Graham Brown Cancer Center
|Louisville, Kentucky, United States, 40202
|Principal Investigator:
|Donald M Miller, MD, Ph.D
|James Graham Brown Cancer Center
|Principal Investigator:
|Kelli B Dunn, MD
|James Graham Brown Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Donald Miller, Director of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
BCC-GI-10 Curcumin
|First Posted:
|February 11, 2011 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|April 18, 2019
|Last Verified:
|April 2019
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malignant colon tissue
Colonic Neoplasms
Colorectal Neoplasms
Intestinal Neoplasms
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
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Digestive System Diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Colonic Diseases
Intestinal Diseases
Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal
Analgesics, Non-Narcotic
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Peripheral Nervous System Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Anti-Inflammatory Agents
Antirheumatic Agents
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Enzyme Inhibitors
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Robert Downey Jr. did it, Christopher Walken did it, and now it's Jaleel White's turn to star in music video for a song he didn't sing or write. "Cry Baby," the latest single from Cee-Lo, features Family Matters lovable Steve Urkel sans glasses and dressed in a preppy 50s cardigan — and, to be honest, looking more like "Stefan" than his dorky alter ego. Um, who knew Urkel could dance? And why am I starting to have funny feelings inside?
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Virtual Tour of Belhaven University
We realize that you might be unable to stop in for a tour today, so we would like to take you on a virtual tour of our Belhaven University Jackson, Mississippi campus until we can give you a personal one.
You can tour the whole campus in this 15 minute video, or click on the pages below to look at each building individually. Or you can get the view of campus from a drone in this Campus Overview Video. You can also take a 360° tour of some of our campus buildings.
Need information on how to schedule a visit to Belhaven? Connect with our admission office.
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) -- Cars and trucks are flying out of dealer lots like jackrabbits, but once they're parked in consumers' driveways, their
are getting paid off at a turtle's pace.
, U.S. auto sales rose to 15.2 million in May, the sixth time in seven months vehicle sales have crested the 15 million mark -- something that hasn't happened since February 2008, just as the economy was slipping into disaster mode.
But thanks to slower repayment activity from subprime borrowers, the U.S. auto loan delinquency rate is down on a year-to-year basis, according to
The rise isn't exactly monumental -- to 0.88% in auto loan accounts past due from 0.82% from the first quarter of 2012 to the first quarter of 2013.
But it signals a trend reversal in which U.S. auto consumers are reverting to their pre-recession ways of racking up big debt and taking longer to pay it off.
The trouble centers mostly on
, and the damage isn't so great that they can't turn things around quickly by resuming their prudent, on-time car payment ways, Transunion reports.
Altogether, subprime borrowers make up 15% of total U.S. auto loan accounts -- about the same percentage as last year, but lower than the rate of loans seen during the past several years (which reached its high-water mark at 20.9% in the first quarter of 2009.)
Yet while the number of subprime auto loan borrowers have declined, the amount of money borrowed from that demographic has risen. That's fueling the rise in delinquent auto loan payments.
"We've been monitoring the auto loan landscape closely for some time to see if increased subprime lending would start pushing delinquency rates up," says Peter Turek, vice president of automotive for TransUnion. "We found that while subprime borrowers are receiving more auto loans, the percentage of these loans to all auto loans made remains the same as last year, so there has not been a dramatic effect to the overall delinquency rate."
The overall auto loan market has strengthened in recent years, he says, but the subprime portion of that market is cause for concern.
"On one hand, subprime borrowers make up a smaller percentage of the overall market and their delinquency rates are actually the same as they were two years ago," Turek says. "However, their account balances have risen more than $1,200 in that same period, placing more of an economic burden on lenders if they were to go delinquent."
Banks and auto finance companies won't stand for that.
If auto loan payment delinquency rates continue to rise, especially in that subprime borrower demographic, expect lenders to tighten the spigots and make it harder for many Americans to get a car loan.


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Rumor: First-look at Sony's super-slim PS3
Here's the first photo of what's likely the new CECH-4000 series of the PlayStation 3. Sony recently filed an updated model of the PS3 with the FCC, and many had postulated that the company was making an even smaller version of its home console.
Photos of a new PS3 model were discovered on the Brazilian Agency of Telecommunications. Technoblog discovered evidence that Sony is planning three different SKUs for the revised system: 250GB, 500GB, and 16GB. The last option is especially curious. That model would offer the smallest hard drive in PS3's production history, and if it comes to the US, will likely be a "budget" model. (Could we see a $149 PS3?)
Joystiq points out that the revised system appears to have a sliding panel on top, "perhaps indicating a cheaper top-loading disc drive." While that would be extremely un-sexy, it would harken back to the PSone days.


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Saying goodbye to Andrew Pedersen-Keel, remembered as friend to all
GUILFORD -- A line of more than 30 American flags stood outside St. George Church on Whitfield Street Monday morning to honor Army Capt. Andrew Pedersen-Keel, who had lived in Madison.
Pedersen-Keel, 28, was killed March 11 while serving in Afghanistan. He died due to injuries sustained when attacked by small-arms fire.
Soldiers in uniform carried their fallen colleague, whose coffin was tightly wrapped in the country's flag.
About 200 of Pedersen-Keel's family, friends and classmates from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point filled the church. The service began with the singing of "Amazing Grace."
Pedersen-Keel was born in South Miami, Fla. He grew up in Madison.
Pedersen-Keel graduated from Avon Old Farms School in 2002. He entered the Army in May 2006 after earning a Bachelor of Science degree in American Legal Studies from West Point and commissioned as an Infantry Officer.
U.S. Rep. Joe Courtney, D-2, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., state Rep. Noreen Kokoruda, R-Madison, and Madison First Selectman Fillmore McPherson attended.
Close friend and fellow West Point graduate Chris Day shared fond memories of Pedersen-Keel.
Day said those who knew Pedersen-Keel best referred to him as "PK."
The two became friends their freshman year at West Point.
"If I could describe PK in one word it would be passionate," Day said.
He described PK as a loving, charming individual that had a natural ability to bring people together.
"Whether it was an elderly woman, a waitress at a restaurant or a Pakistani cab driver, PK always made someone feel like they had made a new best friend," Day said.
Day said Pedersen-Keel took his job as captain of the 3rd Special Forces Group seriously.
"That job was something he's always wanted to do," Day said.
While Day shared his memories, some cried, while others turned to each other and laughed.
Some of Pedersen-Keel's awards include: Combat Infantryman badge, two Bronze stars, the Army Commendation Medal and the Afghanistan Medal.
Pedersen-Keel was building a new house in North Carolina, Day said.
"There were a lot of things PK wanted to do. He wanted to marry Celeste. He wanted to be the best man in Dave's wedding in the fall," Day said.
Pedersen-Keel's sister, Mary Elizabeth Keel, read a scripture from Corinthians.
He leaves behind his sister, his mother, Helen Pedersen Keiser, and stepfather, Robert Keiser, his father, Henry Keel, and his fiancee, Celeste Pizza.
His mother and stepfather live in Madison.
Day said while Pedersen-Keel's life was tragically cut short he would have no regrets.
"I know that if PK were here today, he would have no regrets about his life, even knowing how it's going to end," Day said.
Pedersen-Keel will be buried with full military honors Wednesday in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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San Jose's match against Toronto FC at BMO Field has been moved to Comcast SportsNet Plus due to complications with Hurricane Irene. The coverage will kickoff at 4 p.m. PT as the Earthquakes look for a crucial win in the push to qualify for the MLS Cup Playoffs.
Be sure to check out SJEarthquakes.com for in-game coverage as well as highlights. For more information about the game, keep an eye out for a full match preview and game guide on our homepage.


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A Ravenshadow - Sunday 06/08/2006, 03:56
Veteran - The Gathering
Any chance someone could implement a %u2018tag%u2019 system so you could add and remove tags in front of behind of your name. For instance:
Clan/Gang/Guild Tag %u2013 A tag would be added before your name (with a space between it and your name) if you are in a group. These tags would be set by the group leader. Suggested length would be a maximum of five letters/symbols/numbers.
EVO Tag %u2013 Each player would have an option to turn on/off their EVO tag for when they want to play EVO matches with other people. This would go after the name (separated by a space between the name and the tag) and simply read EVO.
A Ravenshadow - Sunday 06/08/2006, 14:18
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I had looked for any other topics on the same idea, but I could not see any at the time. I thought it must have been mentioned before, but thought I would also throw in my tuppance worth too
crowley098 - Monday 07/08/2006, 11:19
Kinda off topic, but maybe they can also add the status(smiley and level) of a player challenging you, so we won't have to search it for ourselves.
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I would also like to see things such as the player's flag, level and status-smiley showing up when people challange me. Nothing worse than random people with red status challanging you during tornie time and taking ages to play a single card.


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Students, adults investigated aspart of West Allis burglary ring
Investigators looking at a dozen suspects in string of robberies
West Allis Police tell WISN 12 News they are closing in on a ring of brazen thieves working in daylight.
Police tell WISN 12 News' Colleen Henry that more than a dozen suspects have been identified in the crime ring, and several of them may attend West Allis high schools.
The thieves have struck at least 35 times in the last five months, typically stealing electronics.
John and Suzanne Gieschen came home to find their back windows and side door open and an iPod and necklace missing.
"We went to church," John Geischen said. "I got here and saw that the glass was broken and they had reached in and unlocked the door."
He said one of the burglars left behind a drop of blood, and court records show that police have collected DNA samples from three people hoping to link them to some of the burglaries.
Police said some of their suspects are students attending West Allis' Central, Nathan Hale and Dotke high schools. They said they are also looking at several adults in connection with the burglary ring.
Officials said the burglaries began in October, but stopped at the end of February -- around the time police said their investigation began closing in.
Capt. Chris Botsch of the West Allis Police Department said the burglaries are about more than stolen property.
"It's not only that they lost their TV or their laptop, they've lost the feeling of safety in their home," he said.
Investigators said they continue to put pieces together to present to the District Attorney's Office for charges.


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My girlfriend and I have been vegan since June this year. All is well. Recently I started also counting calories here: http://caloriecount.about.com
This was more curious as I have never done this before and I had no idea how much I was consuming. As a by-product I checked out the analysis it does for nutrient intake. I have noticed that I consistently come in under supplied of Calcium and more so Potassium. Some days I meet the calcium intake requirement but I don't think I ever have with potassium.
A chart with my averages since Oct 13th til Nov 9th is below:
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The Cholesterol is from the odd occasion when I have had a "one-off"/rarely eaten food and just select a food that is already in the list rather than adding in the vegan version I had.
These RDI's I assume are US FDA quantities, so I am not sure how accurate that are for true health.
Any thoughts on this? Where do you source your potassium from?
Thanks all.
PS I am not training at the moment so I am trying to keep my calorie count down.


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Also...in case you were wondering where we are in comparison to the beach? See the below picture. I KNOW, RIGHT?! Amazing.
|For all the pregnant mommies...this dress was on clearance at Target...GO NOW!
Weight Gain: No idea. Vacations are notorious for weight gain, so we will see the damage at the my next appointment mid-July.
Movement: Luke is much more relaxed in there than Jack was I guess, or maybe it is because I just don't have as much time on my hands, but I have to really be laying down to feel him move very much.
Cravings: Nothing new. Cold drinks, fresh fruit, tortilla chips and salsa.
Gender: Boy! Little brother is on his way!
Milestones: Being on vacation with Luke in my belly! He enjoyed the ocean yesterday, and was kicking around while I was floating around! Apparently we both enjoy the sensation of weightlessness!
I just can't believe how quickly this pregnancy is going, and while it got off to such a rough start, I feel very blessed to have a healthy little guy in there, and overall, I really do feel great! My back and legs get sore and my feet are inevitably swollen at the end of the day, but for the gift of a sweet child in utero, those things are nothing!


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Video helps D-backs increase camp efficiency
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- On Wednesday and Thursday, the D-backs had their pitchers throwing simulated games on four different fields at the same time.
So which ones did pitching coach Mike Harkey and bullpen coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. watch?
All of them.
The fields are each equipped with three fixed cameras. One from behind home plate, the other from center field and the third in one of the dugouts to give a side view of the pitcher.
After practice, the D-backs coaches are able to cue up any pitcher and watch those they may have missed live or want to look at further. The video is also available for pitchers if they want to review their performance.
"We always try to tape as much as we can," D-backs manager Kirk Gibson said. "We store and put it in our system so you can go back and watch the whole session if you want to. We'll watch the tape more and see where they were trying to locate and how much they located."


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Change Corporations
Corporations -- mining and energy companies -- drill the wells and dig the mines.
Earthworks' No Dirty Gold campaign is pressuring Macy's, one of America's 10
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They determine how communities are impacted, or not. Their practices determine if:
- water and air are polluted,
- fish and wildlife habitat are destroyed, and/or
- public health is threatened.
That's why we use consumer pressure to complement the work that Earthworks does to reform government policies and service communities.
More than 100 major jewelry retailers and over 100,000 individual consumers have joined our No Dirty Gold campaign demanding that mining companies provide alternatives to "dirty" or irresponsibly mined gold.
Sometimes, the most effective way to improve corporate conduct is to engage with companies directly.
That's why we are talking to the mining industry directly through the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance, a multi-sector effort which includes civil society and industry members, and to oil and natural gas companies through the STRONGER process.
Ultimately, all the work that Earthworks does to engage corporations and consumers is aimed at improving the way that extraction happens on the ground.
Earthworks participates in these and other initiatives to change corporations
Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance
We are talking with the mining industry (and communities, jewelers, and labor) to establish a voluntary, independently-verified set of environmental, human rights and social standards for mining.
Our Bristol Bay
Anglo American promised not to mine in the headwaters of Alaska's Bristol Bay over community opposition. We're helping convince Anglo to honor its promise.
No Dirty Gold
The No Dirty Gold campaign aims to change the way gold is mined, bought and sold by targeting the jewelry industry -- consumer of more than 80% of mined gold.


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2 tbsp of olive oil
1 1/2 lb of lean hamburger meat
1 yellow onion (chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (minced)
2 peppers (jalapeno or your favorite) (chopped)
1 1/2 tsp of cumin
1 tsp of cilantro
8 to 10 corn tortillas (sliced in strips and then in halves)
1 pkg of taco seasoning mix
1 10 oz. can of Red Sauce (Salsa Roja)
1 10 oz. can of Rotel (diced tomatoes and green chilies)
1 15 oz. can of whole kernel corn (drained and rinsed)
1 15 oz. can of black beans (drained and rinsed)
1 1/2 cup of cheddar cheese (shredded)
vegetable oil spray
In a large skillet, brown the hamburger meat in the olive oil. Once the meat has browned, add in the onion, garlic, pepper, cumin and cilantro. Once the onion has become tender, add in the can of Rotel, the can of Red Sauce and the taco seasonings. Now bring the mixture to a simmer and add in the corn and black beans. Now allow that to simmer for a few minutes. Next spray the bottom and sides of a 9 X 13 X 2 glass pan with the vegetable oil. Then spread the corn tortillas pieces over the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle about 1/2 cup of the cheese over the tortilla pieces. Then spoon the meat mixture over the top. Then sprinkle the remainder of the cheese on top. Cover with foil and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Enjoy!
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anybody but me have trouble opening files?
A sneak peek at a couple of Scott's preliminary breach designs. I think they're all nice, but I'm kinda partial to #1. What do you guys think ?
anybody but me have trouble opening files?
It's a pdf file so you need adobe. Anybody else having trouble?
had to download it and open in adobe
Consider this, Amateurs built the Ark, Professionals built the Titanic
Ocala and Marion County Car Audio
I think if you combined #2 and #3 you would have a neat looking one.
have adobe but says files corrupted. didnt try saving first then opening, maybe ill try that
ok that didnt work either it says the file is damaged either way
They opened up fine with Adobe Reader 8.
I'm with moleman on this one
Did I do that?
Adobe 6 opened them fine for me. Nice!
I have a daughter. I tell her, "911 is what you dial after you're raped. 1911 is what you should have before they try."
Well, after about an hour of screwing around, I finally figured out how to convert them to a jpeg so that I could post them.


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Opinion: A Supreme Triumph for Voting Rights
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on the Supreme Court's narrow ruling in Shelby County v. Holder, a case regarding the constitutionality of the Voting Rights Act.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
... I ... Supreme Court this morning he fired four decision ... essentially argued that civil rights era legislation ... has worked in the overturned a key section of the nineteen sixty five voting rights Act ... a great triumph a great victory today for the country ... in yet here's how the present reacted and I quote ... I'm deeply disappointed with the Supreme Court's decision today ... for nearly fifty years the voting rights taxes help secure the right to vote for millions of Americans ... this decision invalidating one of its core provisions upsets decades of well established practices that help make sure voting is fair ... especially in places for voting discrimination has been historically probably end quote ... political diary editor and Fox News contributor Jason Riley joins me now ... I Jason ... I'm very confused here ... I thought this decision was something to celebrate wideout reaction from the present it is something to celebrate and that's quite a spectacle first black president ... of the United States reelected last year appointed the first black ... attorney general wants us to believe that nothing has changed America since nineteen sixty five ... and that we should continue to use the forty year-old data to determine which takes new federal oversight when it comes to voting and that's essentially what the Supreme Court that they said to Congress ... this is twenty thirteen it's not nineteen ... sixty five in you are using very all data to determine who deserve federal oversight ... you need to update this day that you didn't do it ... and some are going to find one million using ... unconstitutional the one thing that should be pointed out here I'm Mary is that ... I'll what is what this does not do and ... what ... we have to keep in mind is that there are permanent parts of the voting rights Act in this decision does nothing ... for those of you feel you've been discriminated against or for a group of people feel they been discriminated against because ... of voting laws they have legal recourse ... under the voting rights Act ... to appeal and sanded to send decision to run the break this down because you hear ... phrases like section for in section five bandied around I wanna put this in the fall and interest ... so the Court today struck down what's called section four hundred voting rights Act what specifically does that mean it's ok for states that were under Mr. State under section five which is intended to the temperance passed in nineteen sixty five it said that states with a history of discrimination ... if they wanted to make any changes to the voting was they had to go to a federal court for the Justice Department also is the sun stays out nine states mostly in the South ... now the decision as to how they determine which states needed this what was called Prix clearance under section five ... is infection for they put together a formula ... and they said if the state ... in the new and can't meet this formula may deserve this federal oversight ... on what the Supreme Court says that the formula that they're using infection for ... in order to carry out section five ... is on consultation so does that mean in effect what the court said today it was to strike down all of its ... organic and Congress come in and say no more to come up with a different form ... theoretically Congress could we do the formula it's using in section four in order to continue using section five ... no one thinks Congress will be able to do this they think will be politically impossible essentially ... to come up with another formula that covers the same states that are currently covers so effectively ... the state of the of Supreme Court ... struck down section ok but judging the time unless judging from the president's remarks and I just just in these last hours ... I can it will do you believe it's from the Justice could they continue to see states for doing things like putting voter ID laws in place in this kind of think this is decision today in fact that I think ah well that it would be very tough they have to meet the standard they have to go up and leave under section two that would have to meet the standard that says ... you know the Skippy discriminatory laws put in place ... but this is a success story is you mention the outset this isn't good news I mean sometimes federal legislation works as intended and will we have today Mary is in the states that were covered under section five that are covered under section five ... you have not only who Boehner reddish black motor registration exceeding white voter registration ... than the last election you have black voter turnout ... exceeding white voter turnout yet bold below of Olsen the left and the president of the United States wants to pretend like ... nothing has changed on the voting rights from ... and fifty eight dollars and would stay keyless from Elliott's twenty thirteen here in the real world in the White House still nineteen sixty five and a great victory today for the entire inner Fox News contributor Jason Riley so much for being on mission


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