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Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Jean Dupuy, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Gordon, Adrian Belew, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed.
He later collaborated with Burroughs on the theatrical work The Black Rider.
and author William S. Burroughs collaborated on a new version of " Star Me Kitten ", a song that had originally appeared on the band's 1992 album Automatic for the People.
Some of the poets and artists who recorded or collaborated with Giorno Poetry Systems were Burroughs, John Ashbery, Ted Berrigan, Patti Smith, Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, Robert Rauschenberg and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Grove would also publish the final collection of the author's writings, the posthumously published Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs, and in 2008 published the American first edition of And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, the first release of a novel that Burroughs and Jack Kerouac had collaborated on in the mid-1940s.

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Burroughs developed a range of adding machines with different capabilities, gradually increasing in their capabilities.
In conjunction with these products, Burroughs also manufactured an extensive range of cheque processing equipment, normally attached as terminals to a larger system such as a B2700 or B1700.
Burroughs was one of the eight major United States computer companies ( with IBM, the largest, Honeywell, NCR Corporation, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC ) through most of the 1960s.
In the 1950s, Burroughs had worked with the Federal Reserve Bank on the development and computer processing of magnetic ink character recognition ( MICR ) especially for the processing of bank cheques.
* The Burroughs large systems machines started with the B5000 in 1961.
* Burroughs produced the B1700 or " small systems " computers that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the program being run.
* In 1982, Burroughs began producing personal computers, the B20 and B25 lines with the Intel 8086 / 8088 family of 8-bit chips as the processor.
These microcomputers were later manufactured in Kunming, China for use in China under agreement with Burroughs.
In September 1986, Burroughs Corporation merged with Sperry Corporation to form Unisys.
CBI's Burroughs Corporation Records includes over 100, 000 photographs depicting the entire visual history of Burroughs from its origin as the American Arithmometer Corporation in 1886 to its merger with the Sperry Corporation to form the Unisys Corporation in 1986.
* Oral history interview with Alfred Doughty Cavanaugh Cavanaugh discusses the work of his grandfather, A. J. Doughty, with William Seward Burroughs and the Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
Sellenraad describes his long association with Burroughs Adding Machine Company, and the impact of World Wars I & II on the sales and service of calculators, and adding and bookkeeping machines in Europe.
* UbuWeb: William S. Burroughs featuring a cut-up, K-9 Was in Combat with the Alien Mind-Screens ( 1965 ), made with Ian Sommerville
Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.
The idea was used by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the creator of Tarzan, in the seven-novel " Pellucidar " series, beginning with At the Earth's Core ( 1914 ).
Tarzan author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, was pleased with Weissmuller, although he so hated the studio's depiction of a Tarzan who barely spoke English that he created his own concurrent Tarzan series filmed on location in Central American jungles and starring Herman Brix as a suitably articulate version of the character.
Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.
* In one of Robert A. Heinlein's last novels, The Number of the Beast ( 1980 ), the heroes flee Earth in a car capable of flight in six dimensions and find several alternate versions of Mars, one which had been colonised by the British and another which is an improbable combination of Burroughs ' fabulous Barsoom with the home planet of the vicious Martians whose invasion of Earth was described by Wells.
The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.

Burroughs and University
* Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
* Burroughs Corporation Photo Database at the Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota.
* " Early Burroughs Machines ", University of Virginia's Computer Museum.
Originally employed by the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam, he held a professorship at the Eindhoven University of Technology, worked as a research fellow for Burroughs Corporation in the early 1980s, and later held the Schlumberger Centennial Chair in Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, in the United States.
* Burroughs Corporation Records Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Her archive of historical, literary, art, tape, and extensive correspondence materials ( including many prominent literary correspondents, such as: William S. Burroughs, Robert Creeley, Diane Di Prima, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Allen Ginsberg, and Ken Kesey ) resides at the University of Michigan's Special Collections Library in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
In 1967, he briefly took a position at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada before moving on to working for Burroughs in Los Angeles as a Systems Analyst.
These included: William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Herbert Huncke, Vickie Russell ( a prostitute and addict who appears as " Mary " in Burroughs ' novel Junkie ), and Hal Chase, a Columbia University graduate student from Denver.
For two decades a map of the planet, as imagined by Burroughs, hung in the hallway outside of Sagan's office in Cornell University.
* John Burroughs and The Place of Nature by James Perrin Warren ( Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006 )
In it, he is stated as being a faculty member of Miskatonic University as well as a relative of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' John Carter.
He first joined the San Diego Padres major league team in 2002, after being drafted out of high school ; Burroughs declined a scholarship offer to the University of Southern California to accept the Padres ' contract offer.
This was the main weakness of Pascal as defined in its standard, but which was removed in many commercial implementations of Pascal, notably the Burroughs implementations ( both the University of Tasmania version by Arthur Sale and Roy Freak, and the Burroughs Slice implementation by Matt Miller et al.
He later designed the Government Service Center in Boston, First Church in Boston, the main campus of University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ( originally known as Southeastern Massachusetts Technological Institute, and later as the Southeastern Massachusetts University ), the Jewett Arts Center at Wellesley College, the Endo Pharmaceuticals Building, the Dana Arts Center at Colgate University, and the Burroughs Wellcome headquarters in North Carolina.
In 1881 he returned to New York and speedily achieved great success in portraiture, numbering among his sitters Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Burroughs, Henry G. Marquand, R. A. L. Stevenson, and president McCosh of Princeton University.
In a memoir for Omni On-Line, he recalled the chain of events that led him to write his 1965 biography of Burroughs ( reprinted in 2005 by the University of Nebraska Press ' Bison Books ):

Burroughs and Illinois
In 1857 Burroughs left a teaching position in the small village of Buffalo Grove in Illinois to seek employment closer to home, drawn back by " the girl I left behind me.

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