online medical dictionary | definition of Richard

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Preferred term: Abegg, Richard

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Preferred term: Cleemann, Richard Alsop

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Preferred term: Altmann, Richard

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Preferred term: Bing, Richard

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Preferred term: Bright, Richard

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Preferred term: Cabot, Richard

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Preferred term: Day, Richard

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Preferred term: Ellis, Richard

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A Paris surgeon, 1822-1872.

See: Richard's fringes.

(05 Mar 2000)

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Preferred term: Forster, Richard

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Preferred term: Frommel, Richard

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(Dick, RPG) Dr. Richard P. Gabriel. A noted SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic.

Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. Richard Gabriel is a leader in the Lisp and OOP community, with years of contributions to standardisation. He founded the successful company, Lucid Technologies, Inc..

In 1996 he was Distinguished Computer Scientist at ParcPlace-Digitalk, Inc. (later renamed ObjectShare, Inc.).

See also: gabriel, Qlambda, QLISP, saga.

(01 Apr 1999)

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Preferred term: Geigel, Richard

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Preferred term: Gorlin, Richard

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Professor Richard Wesley Hamming (1915-02-11 - 01 Apr 1998). An American mathematician known for his work in information theory (notably error detection and correction), having invented the concepts of Hamming code, Hamming distance, and Hamming window.

Richard Hamming received his B.S. from the University of Chicago in 1937, his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1939, and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1942. In 1945 Hamming joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

In 1946, after World War II, Hamming joined the Bell Telephone Laboratories where he worked with both Shannon and John Tukey. He worked there until 1976 when he accepted a chair of computer science at the Naval Postgraduate School at Monterey, California.

Hamming's fundamental paper on error-detecting and error-correcting codes ("Hamming codes") appeared in 1950.

His work on the IBM 650 leading to the development in 1956 of the L2 programming language. This never displaced the workhorse language L1 devised by Michael V Wolontis. By 1958 the 650 had been elbowed aside by the 704.

Although best known for error-correcting codes, Hamming was primarily a numerical analyst, working on integrating differential equations and the Hamming spectral window used for smoothing data before Fourier analysis. He wrote textbooks, propounded aphorisms ("the purpose of computing is insight, not numbers"), and was a founder of the ACM and a proponent of open-shop computing ("better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way.").

In 1968 he was made a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and awarded the Turing Prize from the Association for Computing Machinery. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded Hamming the Emanuel R Piore Award in 1979 and a medal in 1988.

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[Richard Hamming. Coding and Information Theory. Prentice-Hall, 1980. ISBN 0-13-139139-9].

(01 Aug 2003)

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Preferred term: Hertwig, Richard

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Preferred term: Heschl, Richard

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A Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Richard Korf received his B.S. from MIT in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983. From 1983 to 1985 he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University.

Dr. Korf studies problem-solving, heuristic search and planning in artificial intelligence. He wrote "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of several awards and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.

Richard Korf home page.

(01 Jan 2007)

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Preferred term: Day, Richard L

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Preferred term: Sutton, Richard L Jr

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Preferred term: Lower, Richard

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Preferred term: Sutton, Richard L

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Preferred term: Lucas, Richard

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Preferred term: Mackenzie, Richard

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Preferred term: Pfeiffer, Richard

Preferred term: Richard Gabriel

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Preferred term: Rahe, Richard

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A 20th century English physician.

(05 Mar 2000)

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Preferred term: Semon, Richard

Preferred term: fimbriae of uterine tube

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Preferred term: Shope, Richard

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A Canadian neurologist, *1909.

See: Steele-Richardson-Olszewski disease, Steele-Richardson-Olszewski syndrome.

(05 Mar 2000)

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A disorder that is associated with nerve cell destruction and progressive lack of coordination, neck stiffness, trunk stiffness, problems with eye movement and mild dementia. Disorders that are similar include Alzheimer's disease, cerebellar dysfunction, Jakob-Creutzfeldt disease and Parkinson's disease. The cause for progressive supranuclear palsy is unknown, but is likely a degenerative nerve disorder that is somehow triggered by a viral infection. Pathologic changes include nerve cell damage and destruction of myelin sheath. There is no known cure.

(27 Sep 1997)

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A nervous system disorder beginning in early childhood with congenital severe, progressive sensorineural hearing loss, ataxia, muscle wasting nystagmus, absent deep tendon reflexes, mental retardation, and failure to develop secondary sexual characteristics; autosomal recessive inheritance.

(05 Mar 2000)

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Richard M. Stallman. Founder of the GNU project. He resigned from the AI lab at MIT so he would be free to produce free software which he could then distribute on his own terms. He went on to establish the Free Software Foundation to support the production of free software and ensure its free distribution.

E-mail: <rms@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

(01 Mar 1994)

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Preferred term: TeLinde, Richard

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Preferred term: Volkmann, Richard

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Preferred term: Zsigmondy, Richard