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A number of other philosophers, including David Miller and Donald A. Gillies, have proposed propensity theories somewhat similar to Popper's.
* Donald A. Gillies ( 2000 ) Philosophical Theories of Probability.
The first Pascal compiler written in North America was constructed at the University of Illinois under Donald B. Gillies for the PDP-11 and generated native machine code.
* Donald B. Gillies – one of the first to calculate the Sputnik 1 orbit
* Donald Gillies, Philosophical Theories of Probability, London: Routledge, 2000.
J. P. Nash of the University of Illinois was a developer of both the ORDVAC and of the university's own identical copy, the ILLIAC, which was later renamed the ILLIAC I. Donald B. Gillies assisted in the checkout of ORDVAC at Aberdeen Proving Ground.
* 1957, Mathematician Donald B. Gillies, Physicist, James E. Snyder and Astronomers George C. McVittie, S. P. Wyatt, Ivan R. King and George W. Swenson of the University of Illinois used the ILLIAC I computer to calculate the orbit of the Sputnik I satellite within 2 days of its launch.
ILLIAC II Modules in 2006 ( Courtesy Donald B. Gillies Family )
ILLIAC II Control Panel in 2006 ( Courtesy Donald B. Gillies Family )
The pipelined control was designed by faculty member Donald B. Gillies.
During check-out of the ILLIAC II, before it became fully operational, faculty member Donald B. Gillies programmed ILLIAC II to search for mersenne prime numbers.
Donald B. Gillies kept 12 ( mostly control ) modules.
Donald W. Gillies, the son of Donald B. Gillies, has a complete set of documentation ( instruction set, design reports, research reports, and grant progress reports, roughly 2000 pages ) from the ILLIAC II project.
* Gillies, Donald B.
* Confirmation theory, in the philosophy of science, an extension by Donald A. Gillies of Karl Popper's theory of corroboration
* Donald B. Gillies, computer scientist
* Donald A. Gillies
* Donald B. Gillies ( early adopter at University of Illinois )
In 1963 Donald B. Gillies ( who designed the control ) used the ILLIAC II to find three Mersenne primes, with 2917, 2993, and 3376 digits-the largest primes known at the time.
Donald Bruce Gillies ( October 15, 1928 – July 17, 1975 ) was a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments.
Donald B. Gillies was born in Toronto, Canada and attended the University of Toronto Schools, a laboratory school originally affiliated with the University.

Gillies and John
* Gillies, John, Ryuta Minami, Ruru Li, and Poonam Trivedi.
* Gillies, John & Ryuta Minami, Ruri Li and Poonam Trivedi Shakespeare on the Stages of Asia in Wells and Stanton pp. 259 – 283.
As John Gillies has argued “ the ‘ orientalism ’ of Cleopatra ’ s court — with its luxury, decadence, splendour, sensuality, appetite, effeminacy and eunuchs — seems a systematic inversion of the legendary Roman values of temperance, manliness, courage ”.
* Koch, John, " The Place of ' Y Gododdin ' in the History of Scotland " in Ronald Black, William Gillies and Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh ( eds ) Celtic Connections.
; David Sillar, Bailie ; William Gillies, Grain Dealer ; John Peebles, Convener of Trades ; James Johnston, Town Clerk ; Robert Wyllie, Harbour Master ; John Orr, Merchant ; James Allan, Merchant ( grocer ); Maxwell Dick, Bookseller ; William Shields, Senior, Merchant ; John Fletcher, Surgeon ; and Patrick Blair, Writer.
Craner approached the then owner of the Donington Hall estate, Alderman John Gillies Shields JP, to use the extensive roads on his land for racing.
John Gillies Mark Grahame ( born August 31, 1975 in Denver, Colorado ) is a goaltender in the New York Islanders organization.
Tory won the support of former provincial cabinet ministers Elizabeth Witmer, David Tsubouchi, Jim Wilson, Janet Ecker, Chris Hodgson, Cam Jackson, Phil Gillies and Bob Runciman as well as backbench Members of Provincial Parliament ( MPPs ) Norm Miller, Laurie Scott, Ted Arnott and John O ' Toole.
Recorded wrecks on the 5 km stretch of coastline between Trwyn y Witch and Nash Point include: the Royal Hunter ( 1747 ), the Indian Prince ( 1752 ), the Elizabeth ( 1753 ), the Prince ( 1764 ), the George ( 1770 ), the Industry ( 1786 ), the Thomas ( 1806 ), the Bee ( 1820 ), the Harriet ( 1827 ), the Jessie Orasie ( 1831 ), the Frolic ( 1831 ), the Providence ( 1832 ), the Mayflower ( 1841 ), the New Felicity ( 1841 ), the Vigo ( 1842 ), the Betsey ( 1849 ), the Lucie ( 1854 ), the Williams ( 1854 ), the Mary & Deffus ( 1861 ), the Gillies ( 1862 ), the Elphis ( 1865 ), the Amelie ( 1870 ), the New Dominian ( 1872 ), the Bessie ( 1872 ), the John & Eliza ( 1876 ), the Jane & Susan ( 1882 ), the Ben-y-gloe ( 1886 ), the Malleny ( 1886 ), the Caterina Camogle ( 1887 ), the Denbigh ( 1888 ), the Tilburnia ( 1888 ), the Claymore ( 1892 ), the Lizzie ( 1892 ), the Elizabeth Couch ( 1913 ), the Narcissus ( 1916 ), the Pollensa ( 1919 ) and the Cato ( 1951 ).
* John Gillies Rennie ( 1904 – 1952 ), Quebec politician and educator
*: John Rennie High School, Quebec, Canada, named for John Gillies Rennie
In Señor Alcalde (" Mr. Mayor "), John Gillies wrote: " He tried to avoid a political label, such as Democrat or Republican, because he wanted to consider the needs of all of San Antonio's groupings ....
* Gillies, John.
John Gillies FRSE FRS FSA ( 1747-1836 ) was a Scottish tutor, historian and man of letters.
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The membership was: New South Wales, Sir Henry Parkes ( Premier ) and William McMillan ( Colonial Treasurer ); Victoria, Duncan Gillies ( Premier ) and Alfred Deakin ( Chief Secretary ); Queensland, Sir Samuel Griffith ( Leader of the Opposition ) and John Murtagh Macrossan ( Colonial Secretary ); South Australia, Dr. John Cockburn ( Premier ) and Thomas Playford ( Leader of the Opposition ); Tasmania, Andrew Inglis Clark ( Attorney-General ) and Stafford Bird ( Treasurer ); Western Australia, Sir James George Lee Steere ( Speaker ); New Zealand, Captain William Russell ( Colonial Secretary ) and Sir John Hall.
* In Spider-Man 2 John Jameson is played by Daniel Gillies.

Gillies and about
The Scottish folk music singer / song-writer Brian McNeill wrote about one of St. Kilda's prodigal sons, a restless fellow named Ewan Gillies, who left St. Kilda to seek his fortune by prospecting for gold first in Australia and later California.
At the turn of the year Rob Gillies left and Phil Judd returned, briefly, in early 1978 after Tim and Eddie heard some of his new material, but he apparently found himself out of step with their changing direction, and left the band for good after about a month.
Gillies became enthusiastic about the work and on his return to England persuaded the army's chief surgeon, Arbuthnot-Lane, that a facial injury ward should be established at the Cambridge Military Hospital, Aldershot.
Small Faces ( 1996 ) is a Scottish film directed by Gillies MacKinnon about gangs, specifically the Tongs, in 1960s Glasgow.
In an interview for Official London Theatre, Robertson talked about meeting Gillies MacKinnon by accident on the directors first day of casting for Small Faces and the subsequent burden he might have been on the directors shoulders.
" I think Gillies feels funny about it because he cast a 13 year old boy in a film who is now hitting 30 and still plugging away at it.

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