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The Government Machine from Miles J. Breuer 's short story "Mechanocracy" (1932). The Brain from Laurence Manning 's novel The Man Who Awoke (1933). The Machine City from John W. Campbell 's short story "Twilight" (1934). The Mechanical Brain from Edgar Rice Burroughs 's Swords of Mars (1934).
&name; where name is the case-sensitive name of the entity. The semicolon is required. Because numbers are harder for humans to remember than names, character entity references are most often written by humans, while numeric character references are most often produced by computer programs. [1]
Alice and Bob. Alice and Bob are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [ 1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Alice and Bob characters were invented by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman ...
1974. Catmull, Edwin. Computer generated imagery (CGI) and 3D graphics pioneer who developed texture mapping, the Catmull-Clark subdivision surface algorithm (with Jim Clark ), and the Catmull-Rom spline (with Raphael Rom. Former vice president of Industrial Light & Magic and co-founder of and former president of Pixar.
Leonard of Quirm ( Discworld) – super-intelligent clockpunk engineer. Col John "Renny" Renwick ( Doc Savage) – civil engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Maj Thomas J. "Long Tom" Roberts ( Doc Savage) – electrical engineer, associate of Doc Savage. Dr. Clark Savage, Jr., a.k.a. Doc Savage ( Doc Savage) – surgeon, scientist, adventurer ...
Ron Rivest, encryption ( RSA) Guido van Rossum, Python (programming language) Benevolent Dictator For Life. S. Adi Shamir, encryption ( RSA) Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical. Richard Stallman, founder of GNU. Olaf Storaasli, NASA Finite element machine. Bjarne Stroustrup, founder of C++.
The Unicode Consortium and the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 2/WG 2 jointly collaborate on the list of the characters in the Universal Coded Character Set.The Universal Coded Character Set, most commonly called the Universal Character Set (abbr. UCS, official designation: ISO/IEC 10646), is an international standard to map characters, discrete symbols used in natural language, mathematics, music, and other ...
In computer and machine-based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme-like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural language. [1] Examples of characters include letters, numerical digits, common punctuation marks (such