Edmund Phelps, the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Economics, is Director of the Center on Capitalism and Society at Columbia University. Born in 1933, he spent his childhood in Chicago and, from ...

The factor 0.104 was determined to match the standard deviations for the global and Nino3.4 temperatures for 1970-2010. PDF Data through November 2024 used. last ...

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Edward Lear, best known as a writer of limericks and nonsense verse, was by profession a landscape draughtsman and painter. Traveling through exotic regions such as Calabria, Corsica, Egypt and India, ...

The story of Columbia University is one of tradition, innovation, and impact. For more than 270 years, Columbia alumni, ...

Herman Hollerith's Type 001 Mechanical Card Punch, patented in 1901, was the first key punch; that is, the first card punch operated from a keyboard, so that the operator could punch digits 0-9, ...

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What we in the United States know as the Gay Movement is not as visible in Spain or Latin America. Hispanics are much more reluctant to self-identify as gay or lesbian. Gay liberation movements in the ...

The IBM Type 602-A Calculating Punch (1948); photo from the IBM 602-A Principles of Operation. In the first half of the 20th Century, IBM's flagship product was the Tabulator, which is pretty much ...

The North Bank Division, occupies the western third of the north bank of the Gambia from Barra to the border with Lower Saloum in Central River with Senegal's Kaolack and Fatick regions to the north.

The IBM 2260 Display Station, 1964; Photo: IBM 1964. This is one of the very first video display terminals. 2260s were installed at Columbia in the 2nd-floor Computer Center public-access terminal ...

The IBM 285 Tabulator Click each image to enlarge. IBM 285 with operator The IBM Type 285 Tabulator Photo: [4]. IBM 285 plugboard The IBM Type 285 Numeric Printing Tabulator, 1933, used in the Thomas ...