William Morton Kahan ( born June 5, 1933, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada ) is a mathematician and computer scientist who received the Turing Award in 1989 for " his fundamental contributions to numerical analysis ", and was named an ACM Fellow in 1994.

* A Conversation with William Kahan, Dr. Dobb's Journal November, 1997

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The algorithm is attributed to William Kahan.

However, this use of mantissa is discouraged by the IEEE floating-point standard committee and by some professionals such as William Kahan and Donald Knuth, because it conflicts with the pre-existing use of mantissa for the fractional part of a logarithm ( see also common logarithm ).

* Turing Award – William ( Velvel ) Kahan

The 1977 October edition of the HP Journal contains an article by Roy Martin, the inventor of the simple method of operation used in HP financial calculators, which describes, in detail, the mathematics and functionality built by Prof William Kahan ( from UC Berkeley ) and Roy Martin that is still in use today.

Kahan was the primary architect behind the IEEE 754-1985 standard for floating-point computation ( and its radix-independent follow-on, IEEE 854 ).

For their efforts in stopping the raid, Riggs and Murtaugh are reinstated as Detectives by their superior, Captain Murphy ( Kahan ).

Non-Biblical writings Include: Nagara Muse ( The Conversation of Moses ), Mota Aaron ( Death of Aharon ), Mota Muse ( Death of Moses ), Te ' ezaza Sanbat ( Precepts of Sabbath ), Arde ' et ( Students ), Gorgorios, Mäṣḥafä Sa ' atat ( Book of Hours ), Abba Elias ( Father Elija ), Mäṣḥafä Mäla ' əkt ( Book of Angels ), Mäṣḥafä Kahan ( Book of Priest ), Dərsanä Abrəham Wäsara Bägabs ( Homily on Abraham and Sarah in Egypt ), Gadla Sosna ( The Acts of Susanna ) and Baqadāmi Gabra Egzi ' abḥēr ( In the Beginning God Created ).

The Kahan Commission ( ועדת כהן ), formally known as the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut, was established by the Israeli government on 28 September 1982, to investigate the Sabra and Shatila Massacre ( 16 September-18 September, 1982 ).

* using hybrids with teratomas to explore determination and differentiation ( e. g. Finch and Ephrussi 1967 ; Kahan and Ephrussi 1970 ).

Barbara was no longer in evidence, as the role of close friend and cohort was now occupied by next-door neighbor Annie Steck ( Judith Kahan ), also a family woman raising teenage daughter Rebecca ( played in one episode by Paula Hoffman ).

Tyrrell was the eldest son of Sir William Tyrrell ( c. 1415 – 22 February 1461 ) and Margaret Darcy ( c. 1425 ), married in 1444.

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturer founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever ( 1851 – 1925 ) and his brother, James Darcy Lever ( 1854 – 1910 ).

* George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds, de jure 13th Baron Darcy de Knayth ( 1775 – 1838 )

* William Lincoln-saith that Mr Martin and Mr Darcy the lawyeres < A > & Sir Tho: Blake were the principall advisers abetters and actors < of > in the Rebellion & siege at Galway aforesaid.

Amidst this period of unprecedented growth, some would even go on to change the face of the modern world ; the likes of King O ' Malley, architect of the Commonwealth Bank and Reserve Bank, and William Knox Darcy, founder of British Petroleum.

William Darcy McKeough, ( known as Darcy McKeough ) ( born January 31, 1933 ) is a Canadian businessman and former politician.

* Martin Henderson as William " Will " Darcy ( Fitzwilliam Darcy )

* George William Frederick Osborne, 6th Duke of Leeds, 13th Baron Darcy de Knayth and 10th Baron Conyers ( 1775 – 1838 )

William Lever and his brother James Darcy Lever invested in Watson's soap invention and its initial success came from offering bars of cut, wrapped, and branded soap in his father's grocery shop.

Before the battle of Flodden, Sir Thomas Howard, Earl of Surrey, was at this village, on Monday, 5 September, 1513 ; where all the noblemen and gentlemen met him with their retinues, to the number of 26, 000 men, among whom were Lords Clifford, Coniers, Ogle, Scroope, and Lumley, Sir William Percy, Lionel Percy, Sir George Darcy, Sir William Bulmer, of Brancepeth Castle, in the county of Durham, and Richard Tempest.

Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

* Collins, William Joseph.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston surrenders his army to General William Tecumseh Sherman at the Bennett Place near Durham, North Carolina.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

Seven Republican senators – William Pitt Fessenden, Joseph S. Fowler, John B. Henderson, Lyman Trumbull, Peter G. Van Winkle and notably Senators Grimes and Ross played a decisive role ; purportedly disturbed by how the proceedings had been manipulated to give a one-sided presentation of the evidence, they voted against conviction, in defiance of their party and public opinion.

He was also partners with William Goddard and Joseph Galloway the three of whom published the Pennsylvania Chronicle, a newspaper that was known for its revolutionary sentiments and criticisms of the British monarchy in the American colonies.

Notable bishops in United Methodist history include Coke, Asbury, Richard Whatcoat, Philip William Otterbein, Martin Boehm, Jacob Albright, John Seybert, Matthew Simpson, John S. Stamm, William Ragsdale Cannon, Marjorie Matthews, Leontine T. Kelly, William B. Oden, Ntambo Nkulu Ntanda, Joseph Sprague, William Henry Willimon, and Thomas Bickerton.

When Dirks left William Randolph Hearst for the promise of a better salary under Joseph Pulitzer, it was an unusual move, since cartoonists regularly deserted Pulitzer for Hearst.

Its first Lieutenant-Governor was Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres ( 1784 – 1787 ) and his successor was William Macarmick ( 1787 ).

* Buckley, William Joseph.

They included Henry Wilcoxon, Julia Faye, Joseph Schildkraut, Ian Keith, Charles Bickford, Theodore Roberts, Akim Tamiroff and William Boyd.

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.

The first cement to consistently contain alite was made by Joseph Aspdin's son William in the early 1840s.

The cast also comprised Alan Reed, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Du Val, Gerald Mohr, Frank Lovejoy, Herb Vigran, Sheldon Leonard, William Conrad, Jeff Chandler, Lionel Stander, Sidney Miller, Olive Deering and Joe De Santis.

* 4 May: Joseph Plunkett, William Pearse, Edward Daly and Michael O ' Hanrahan

Moving images were produced on revolving drums and disks in the 1830s with independent invention by Simon von Stampfer ( Stroboscope ) in Austria, Joseph Plateau ( Phenakistoscope ) in Belgium and William Horner ( zoetrope ) in Britain.

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

She was daughter of Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and had been previously married to William I of Württemberg.

Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention in 1906 through the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles led by William Joseph Seymour.

Joseph Boussinesq ( a mathematician and physicist ) developed theories of stress distribution in elastic solids that proved useful for estimating stresses at depth in the ground ; William Rankine, an engineer and physicist, developed an alternative to Coulomb's earth pressure theory.