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This list of engineering awards is an index to articles about notable awards for achievements in engineering. It includes aerospace engineering , chemical engineering , civil engineering , electrical engineering , electronic engineering , structural engineering and systems science awards.
We said: The electronic machine is great, but first the components have to be developed." [ 10 ] : 102 In 1940, Zuse and Schreyer managed to arrange a meeting at the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) to discuss a potential project for developing an electronic computer, but when they estimated a duration of two or three years, the proposal was ...
This list of computer science awards is an index to articles on notable awards related to computer science. It includes lists of awards by the Association for Computing Machinery , the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , other computer science and information science awards, and a list of computer science competitions.
1) LCF, the mechanization of Scott's Logic of Computable Functions, probably the first theoretically based yet practical tool for machine assisted proof construction; 2) ML, the first language to include polymorphic type inference together with a type-safe exception-handling mechanism; 3) CCS, a general theory of concurrency.
Henry Maudslay (1771–1831) – considered a founding father of machine tool technology, helped perfect the hydraulic press; Elijah McCoy (1843–1929) – African Canadian inventor, contributions include automatic lubricator for steam engines; Eckart Meiburg (born 1959) – German/American researcher, notable contributions to Computational ...
Now that the cat is out of the bag on World of Warcraft's achievement system, our friends at WoW Insider have put together a gallery that shows off the Achievements UI (courtesy of screenshots ...
c. 1850: A bowling machine for cricket named the Catapulta (a predecessor of the pitching machine) invented by Nicholas "Felix" Wanostrocht (1804–1876). [192] 1857: Sheffield F.C. formed by former public school pupils, making it the world's first and oldest Association football club, as acknowledged by The Football Association and FIFA. [193]
The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...