According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to Steven J. Brams and Peter C. Fishburn, the IEEE board in 2002 rescinded its decision to use approval voting.

According to author Steven Levy, IBM had discovered differential cryptanalysis on its own, and the NSA was apparently well aware of the technique.

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

According to Steven Zivanic, senior director and corporate communications of HDS, " this campaign has not only helped the firm in its own area, but it has given the data storage firm a broader audience.

According to Spitzer, “ He ( Abu Daoud ) didn't pay the price for what he did .” In 2006 during the release of Steven Spielberg's film, Munich, Der Spiegel interviewed Abu Daoud regarding the Munich massacre.

According to Steven Pinker, the Kivunjo language has 16 noun classes including classes for precise locations and for general locales, classes for clusters or pairs of objects and classes for the objects that come in pairs or clusters, and classes for abstract qualities.

According to author Steven Blush, " Hardcore comes from the bleak suburbs of America.

According to Steven McGeady, Cunningham advised him in the early 1980s, " The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it ’ s to post the wrong answer.

According to John Leguizamo, who played Master Sergeant Carlos " Rat " Lopez in the movie, Steven Seagal had punched the air out of him during film rehearsals.

According to Dōgen scholar Steven Heine: " Dogen's poetic and philosophical works are characterized by a continual effort to express the inexpressible by perfecting imperfectable speech through the creative use of wordplay, neologism, and lyricism, as well as the recasting of traditional expressions ".

According to Steven I. Weiss, Chabad's ideology has dramatically influenced non-Hasidic Jews ' practice with regard to Jewish outreach issues.

According to Vertue, Steven Moffat wrote at the top of their house.

According to movie historian Steven Cohan, " most of all ... in taking home on the road, it equated the nation with showbiz.

According to Steven R. Weisman, however, in a report published in The New York Times, the then-current chair of the committee emphasized that he was not informed at the time of the details or extent of the present and future raises built into the agreement with Riza.

According to Steven Carl Tracy, Bradford's works were influential in broadly popularizing the John Henry legend beyond railroad and mining communities and outside of African American oral histories.

According to Annette Pankratz, in her 2005 Modern Drama review of Steven Berkoff and the Theatre of Self-Performance, by Robert Cross, " Steven Berkoff is one of the major minor contemporary dramatists in Britain and – due to his self-fashioning as a bad boy of British theatre and the ensuing attention of the media – a phenomenon in his own right.

According to Steven Runciman, the Sicilians at the church were engaged in holiday festivities and a group of French officials came by to join in and began to drink.

According to the 2000 Becky Celebrity 100 List, Siegfried & Roy were then the 9th-highest-paid celebrities in the U. S., coming in just behind motion picture producer and director Steven Spielberg.

According to the article, a wealthy couple Steven B. Klinsky and Maureen Sherry purchased the apartment in 2003 and live there with their four children.

According to Steven Citron ( p. 181 ), " Ann Howes and the majority of critics now believe that with a rewritten libretto it could be turned into a successful musical.

According to the book Secret Warriors, by terrorism expert Steven Emerson, the Italian government did not want to mount the rescue operation initially and would not allow the US to rescue Gen. Dozier either.

According to Steven Adler's autobiography, My Appetite For Destruction: Sex & Drugs & Guns N ' Roses, the entire EP was recorded at Pasha Studios in Hollywood with pre-recorded audience applause and cheering in the background, as Geffen's engineers told him " it would cost too much to actually record a live record ".

According to research, these findings imply that psychological and cultural mechanism regarding sex differences may play a larger role than expected ( Levy, Blatt, Schachner.

According to AutoWeek's G. D. Levy, the 510 has often been called the " poor man's BMW.

According to Levy: " He was openly gay in New York -- we were able to document names of companions and stories from Dorothy Parker.

According to a presentation by Jean-Jacques Levy ( who was part of the team who searched for the source of the problem ), the source code in Ada that caused the problem was as follows.

According to International Human Rights Lawyer Jonathan Levy, " The Akha are identified with the opium growers who until recently dominated that portion of the " Golden Triangle " in Thailand.

" According to Levy, " Isis " began life as a " slow dirge ", unlike anything he had ever heard before, which he felt gave the appearance of setting the listener up " for a long story ".

According to Levy, it was an enjoyable song-writing partnership, with Levy writing words and Dylan contributing ideas.

According to Levy, they finished off a total of fourteen songs over a three week period, but in reality, they finished roughly half that number in less than two weeks.

According to series creator Aaron Sorkin, Schiff was cast in the role of Toby Ziegler over many other actors auditioning, including Eugene Levy.

According to biographer Robert Levy, Pauker was purged at Stalin's urging for being too soft.

According to the historian Stephen Turnbull and non-fiction writer Joel Levy, there is a historical record of a failed assassination attempt by a ninja called Kirigakure Saizō, sent by the warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu to kill his rival Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( Tokichiro Kinoshita ).

According to IBM, the new SKA telescope initiative will generate over an exabyte of data every day.

According to Kildall, the IBM representatives took the same flight to Florida that night that he and Dorothy took for their vacation, and they negotiated further on the flight, reaching a handshake agreement.

According to Tom Jr .: This anecdote never made it into IBM lore, which is too bad, because it would have helped explain Father to the tens of thousands of people who had to follow his rules.

According to IBM salesman Cuthbert Hurd, such a system would cost roughly $ 2. 5 million and would run at one to two MIPS.

) According to Charles C. Kenney, " Jack Connors remembers being in Wang's office one day when the Doctor pulled out a chart on which he had plotted Wang's growth and projected that Wang Laboratories would overtake IBM sometime in the middle of the 1990s.

According to a May 30, 2002 article in the Wall Street Journal ( WSJ ) entitled " Sequent Deal Serves Hard Lesson for IBM ":

According to IBM's Dr. John E. Kelly, " The goal of this partnership is for Apple and IBM to come together so that Apple customers get the best of both worlds, the tremendous creativity from Apple Computers and the tremendous technology from the IBM corporation.

According to producer Joe Cates in a PBS documentary on the scandals, he used an IBM sorting machine to give the illusion that the questions were randomly selected – in fact, all of the cards were identical.

According to IBM engineer Bob Dubke, Titor's statements regarding the IBM 5100's little-known ability to emulate and debug mainframe systems were correct.

According to Kenny Zadeck Φ functions were originally known as phoney functions while SSA was being developed at IBM Research in the 1980s.

According to IBM, hundreds or even thousands of these control loops are expected to work in a large-scale self-managing computer system.

According to a recent ( 06. 2010 ) IDC report, NetApp is a third company in network storage industry " Big 5's list ", behind EMC and IBM, and ahead of HP and Dell, with largest annual revenue growth ( 47. 4 %).

According to a 2011 IBM global study of CMOs around the world, CMOs see customer loyalty as their top priority in the digital area ; their second priority is to design experiences for tablets and mobile apps.

According to an IBM survey, while most people try to wipe their hard drives clean before disposing of their old computers, only 5 % rely on an industry specialist or a third party to completely clean the system before it's disposed off.

According to an IBM history, he had been previously employed as an optical engineer in defense industry and was eager to return to research.