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The group is led by Professor Sophia Ananiadou and includes academic members Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii, John McNaught (retired) and Goran Nenadic. |
The Advanced Interfaces Group (AIG) researches virtual environments, collaborative visualization systems, and computer vision. |
The group is led by Steve Pettifer and includes academic staff Professor Terri Attwood, jointly with the Faculty of Life Sciences, Aphrodite Galata, Toby Howard, Tim Morris, and Emeritus Professor Roger Hubbold. |
Current projects include UTOPIA software. |
The Imaging sciences is part of the Centre for Imaging Sciences, a world-class research department focusing on imaging physics, image processing, computer vision, and the development and application of imaging biomarkers in healthcare. |
The group is run by Professor jointly with the School of Medicine. |
The group includes Dr Carole Twining and Professor Tim Cootes. |
The school (and department) has been led by ten different Heads of School since its inception in 1964. |
The School has been run by |
Prior to merger with UMIST the School of Computer Science was the Department of Computer Science. |
The school has its roots in the Computer Group of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Victoria University of Manchester. |
The Computer Group was established following Freddie Williams's move to the Electrical Engineering Department in 1946. |
At its formation in 1964, the Department of Computer Science was the first such department in the United Kingdom, with Professor Tom Kilburn serving as Head of Department until 1980. |
On 1 May 2001, following the death of Kilburn the same year, the Computer Building was renamed Kilburn Building in his honour. |
The School of Computer Science was formed from the Department when the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST merged to form the University of Manchester in 2004. |
It changed back from a school to a department in 2019. |
The Group/School/Department is notable for the following achievements: |
See also the History of the school. |
The following alumni have been staff in the School |
The school and department has several notable alumni and Emeritus staff including: |
Sascha Konietzko |
Sascha Konietzko (born 21 June 1961), better known by his stage name Sascha K and Käpt'n K, is a German musician and record producer. |
He is the founder, frontman and "anchor" of the industrial band KMFDM. |
Konietzko jokingly purports himself to be the father of industrial rock. |
"Keyboard Magazine" wrote of him, "You won't find a more imaginative or effective keyboardist on the hard-core scene." |
Konietzko is best known for his role as frontman of KMFDM. |
Having founded the group as a performance art project in 1984, he is the only member of KMFDM to appear on every release, and the only founding member still in the band. |
His main instruments are keyboards and drums, although he is also proficient at playing guitar and bass guitar. |
Konietzko has formed a number of side-projects: |
He has re-mixed acts including: Metallica, Megadeth, White Zombie, Rammstein, Love & Rockets, Kittie, Die Krupps, Flotsam & Jetsam, Living Colour, Mindless Self Indulgence, Combichrist, Young Gods, and Pig. |
Sascha Konietzko lived in the United States from 1991 to 2007, dividing his time among Chicago, New York City, and Seattle before moving back to his hometown of Hamburg, Germany. |
Konietzko and Lucia Cifarelli married in 2005. |
Shelah cardinal |
In axiomatic set theory, Shelah cardinals are a kind of large cardinals. |
A cardinal formula_1 is called Shelah iff for every formula_2, there exists a transitive class formula_3 and an elementary embedding formula_4 with critical point formula_1; and formula_6. |
A Shelah cardinal has a normal ultrafilter containing the set of weakly hyper-Woodin cardinals below it. |
Jack London Square |
Jack London Square is an entertainment and business destination on the waterfront of Oakland, California, United States. |
Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, an Amtrak station, a San Francisco Bay Ferry ferry dock, the historic Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon, the (re-located) cabin where Jack London lived in the Klondike, and a movie theater. |
A farmer's market is hosted among the retail shops on Sunday mornings. |
The former presidential yacht USS "Potomac" is moored at an adjacent slip. |
Jack London Square is located at the south end of Broadway, across the Oakland Estuary from Alameda. |
The name has also come to refer to the formerly industrial neighborhood surrounding Jack London Square now known as the Jack London District, which has undergone significant rehabilitation in the last decade, including loft conversions and new construction. |
Former California Governor (and former Oakland mayor) Jerry Brown made his home here before moving north to the Uptown neighborhood. |
KTVU (Channel 2), the Bay Area's Fox affiliate, has had studios at the Square since it began broadcasting on March 3, 1958, and the offices of the Port of Oakland are located there as well. |
The Square was also the temporary home of the "Oakland Tribune" from 1989 to 1996 after the newspaper was forced to abandon the landmark downtown Tribune Tower due to damage it sustained in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. |
Other businesses at Jack London Square range from the Oakland Athletics team headquarters and software firm Navis LLC, to restaurants such as Kincaid's Bay House and Yoshi's restaurant and jazz club. |
California Canoe & Kayak retail and kayak rental shop has been located in Jack London Square since 1993. |
A mainline railroad runs through the middle of Embarcadero West, with the train speed limit set at 15 mph (25 km/h). |
The tracks running through Jack London Square are used by BNSF Railway, Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight, San Joaquin, and Union Pacific Railroad. |
The trains share the road with automobiles, AC Transit buses, and pedestrians. |
A second Transbay Tube may include a BART station at the square. |
Another possibility is an aerial tramway to BART stations in downtown Oakland. |
Jack London Square's most recent changes are adding more businesses, restaurants, and entertainment. |
Under lead developer Ellis Partners, Jack London Square's new architecture and public spaces are adding to the daytime and nighttime population and use. |
Recent new components include the 55 Harrison building, a mid-rise by RMW Architects in association with Steve Worthington. |
The public spaces by SWA Group extended the city to the waterfront by adding accessible waterfront spaces supporting a variety of programs and events from farmers markets to the popular Eat Real local, organic food fest. |
The Athletics plan on building the new Oakland Ballpark nearby at Howard Terminal. |
Peripatetic school |
The Peripatetic school was a school of philosophy in Ancient Greece. |
Its teachings derived from its founder, Aristotle (384–322 BC), and "peripatetic" is an adjective ascribed to his followers. |
The school dates from around 335 BC when Aristotle began teaching in the Lyceum. |
It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries. |
After the middle of the 3rd century BC, the school fell into a decline, and it was not until the Roman era that there was a revival. |
Later members of the school concentrated on preserving and commenting on Aristotle's works rather than extending them; it died out in the 3rd century. |
The study of Aristotle's works continued by scholars who were called Peripatetics through Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance. |
After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, the works of the Peripatetic school were lost to the Latin West, but they were preserved in Byzantium and also incorporated into early Islamic philosophy. |
Western Europe recovered Aristotelianism from Byzantium and from Islamic sources in the Middle Ages. |
The term "Peripatetic" is a transliteration of the ancient Greek word "περιπατητικός" ("peripatētikós"), which means "of walking" or "given to walking about". |
The Peripatetic school, founded by Aristotle, was actually known simply as the "Peripatos". |
Aristotle's school came to be so named because of the "peripatoi" ("walkways", some covered or with colonnades) of the Lyceum where the members met. |
The legend that the name came from Aristotle's alleged habit of walking while lecturing may have started with Hermippus of Smyrna. |
Unlike Plato (428/7–348/7 BC), Aristotle (384–322 BC) was not a citizen of Athens and so could not own property; he and his colleagues therefore used the grounds of the Lyceum as a gathering place, just as it had been used by earlier philosophers such as Socrates. |
Aristotle and his colleagues first began to use the Lyceum in this way about 335 BC, after which Aristotle left Plato's Academy and Athens, and then returned to Athens from his travels about a dozen years later. |
Because of the school's association with the gymnasium, the school also came to be referred to simply as the Lyceum. |
Some modern scholars argue that the school did not become formally institutionalized until Theophrastus took it over, at which time there was private property associated with the school. |
Originally at least, the Peripatetic gatherings were probably conducted less formally than the term "school" suggests: there was likely no set curriculum or requirements for students, or even fees for membership. |
Aristotle did teach and lecture there, but there was also philosophical and scientific research done in partnership with other members of the school. |
It seems likely that many of the writings that have come down to us in Aristotle's name were based on lectures he gave at the school. |
Among the members of the school in Aristotle's time were Theophrastus, Phanias of Eresus, Eudemus of Rhodes, Clytus of Miletus, Aristoxenus, and Dicaearchus. |
Much like Plato's Academy, there were in Aristotle's school junior and senior members, the junior members generally serving as pupils or assistants to the senior members who directed research and lectured. |
The aim of the school, at least in Aristotle's time, was not to further a specific doctrine, but rather to explore philosophical and scientific theories; those who ran the school worked as equal partners. |
The doctrines of the Peripatetic school were those laid down by Aristotle, and henceforth maintained by his followers. |
Whereas Plato had sought to explain things with his theory of forms, Aristotle preferred to start from the facts given by experience. |
Philosophy to him meant science, and its aim was the recognition of the "why" in all things. |
Hence he endeavoured to attain to the ultimate grounds of things by induction; that is to say, by "a posteriori" conclusions from a number of facts toward a universal. |
Logic either deals with appearances, and is then called "dialectics"; or of truth, and is then called "analytics". |
All change or motion takes place in regard to substance, quantity, quality, and place. |
There are three kinds of substances – those alternately in motion and at rest, as the animals; those perpetually in motion, as the sky; and those eternally stationary. |
The last, in themselves immovable and imperishable, are the source and origin of all motion. |
Among them there must be one first being, unchangeable, which acts without the intervention of any other being. |
All that is proceeds from it; it is the most perfect intelligence – God. |
The immediate action of this "prime mover" – happy in the contemplation of itself – extends only to the heavens; the other inferior spheres are moved by other incorporeal and eternal substances, which the popular belief adores as gods. |
The heavens are of a more perfect and divine nature than other bodies. |
In the centre of the universe is the Earth, round and stationary. |
The stars, like the sky, beings of a higher nature, but of grosser matter, move by the impulse of the "prime mover". |
For Aristotle, "matter" is the basis of all that exists; it comprises the "potentiality" of everything, but of itself is not actually anything. |
A determinate thing only comes into being when the "potentiality" in matter is converted into "actuality". |
This is achieved by "form", the idea existent not as one outside the many, but as one in the many, the completion of the potentiality latent in the matter. |
The soul is the principle of life in the organic body, and is inseparable from the body. |
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