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ping – a computer network tool used to detect hosts. The author of ping, Mike Muuss, named it after the pulses of sound made by a sonar called a "ping". Later Dave Mills provided the backronym "Packet Internet Groper". Python – an interpreted scripting programming language. Named after the television series Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The authors had been working with Gérard Le Lann to incorporate concepts from the French CYCLADES project into the new network. [3] The specification of the resulting protocol, RFC 675 ( Specification of Internet Transmission Control Program ), was written by Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal , and Carl Sunshine, and published in December 1974. [ 4 ]
Breakmaster Cylinder grew up playing piano, learning to perform classical compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and others. [3] [4] They first began working with music sampling using ping-pong recording techniques between two cassette tape decks, and then later acquired a keyboard with loop-recording capabilities.
Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are approved and published in a bulletin by IAU's Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN). [1] Before May 2021, citations were published in MPC's Minor Planet Circulars for many decades. [2] Recent citations can also be found on the JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB). [3]
SS Stevens (lower left) docked on the Hudson River, across from New York City, being passed by RMS Queen Elizabeth in 1968. See Gallery for more photos.. From the west bank of the Hudson River, opposite mid-town Manhattan, Stevens offered her residents a panoramic view of the New York skyline extending from the George Washington Bridge in the north, to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the south.
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Hwa Chong Institution (HCI) is an independent secondary educational institution in Bukit Timah, Central Region, Singapore.It was established in 2005 by the merger of The Chinese High School (1919–2004) and Hwa Chong Junior College (1974–2005).