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Search-based software engineering (SBSE) applies metaheuristic search techniques such as genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and tabu search to software engineering problems. Many activities in software engineering can be stated as optimization problems. Optimization techniques of operations research such as linear programming or dynamic ...
Flora A. Brewster (1852–1919), Baltimore's first women surgeon; Margaret Sutton Briscoe (1864–1941), American short story writer; Conrad Brooks (1931–2017), B movie actor; Buster Brown (tap dancer) (1913-2002) George William Brown, Mayor of Baltimore during Pratt Street Riot
In her 2019 memoir, she recalled stating her appearance for the People of the State of California before the Alameda County Superior Court at her first trial as a prosecutor: "Kamala Harris, for the people". [53] [54] "For the people" became the title of the first chapter of her 2019 memoir [51] and the slogan of her 2020 presidential campaign ...
Jhumpa Lahiri. Nilanjana Sudeshna " Jhumpa " Lahiri[1] (born July 11, 1967) is a British-American author known for her short stories, novels, and essays in English and, more recently, in Italian. Her debut collection of short-stories, Interpreter of Maladies (1999), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, and her first ...
Susan B. Anthony, 1860 Anthony embarked on her career of social reform with energy and determination. Schooling herself in reform issues, she found herself drawn to the more radical ideas of people like William Lloyd Garrison, George Thompson and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Soon she was wearing the controversial Bloomer dress, consisting of pantaloons worn under a knee-length dress. Although she ...
Ada Lovelace. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (née Byron; 10 December 1815 – 27 November 1852), also known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage 's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She was the first to recognise that the machine had ...
The Grimké sisters, Sarah Moore Grimké (1792–1873) and Angelina Emily Grimké [1] (1805–1879), were the first nationally-known white American female advocates of the abolition of slavery and women's rights. [2] [page needed] Both sisters were speakers, writers, and educators. The Grimké sisters remained the only well-known Southern white ...