Java bytecode is indicated as the current instruction set by a combination of two bits in the ARM CPSR ( Current Program Status Register ).

In the English-speaking world, the term has a particular currency in the world of software development, especially in circles connected to Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility ( CPSR ), who have put on a series of Participatory Design Conferences.

* Web Page on Participatory Design on the site of CPSR.

Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility ( CPSR ) is a global organization promoting the responsible use of computer technology.

CPSR is a non-profit 501. c. 3 organization registered in California.

It is awarded annually by CPSR, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.

* CPSR Norbert Wiener Award for Professional and Social Responsibility in Computing ( 1992 )

* The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility awarded annually by CPSR, was established in 1987 in honor of Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers.

CPSR was incorporated in 1983 ( following discussions and organizing that began in 1981 ).

When CPSR was first established it was concerned solely about the use of computers in warfare.

CPSR was originally a chapter-based organization and had chapters in Palo Alto, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Washington, DC, Portland ( Oregon ) and other US locations as well as a variety of international chapters including Peru and Spain.

In 1980 he was instrumental in starting Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility ( CPSR ).

CPSR has incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, EPIC ( the Electronic Privacy Information Center ), the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the CFP ( Computers, Freedom and Privacy ) Conference.

Originally founded by U. S. computer scientists at Stanford University and Xerox PARC, CPSR now has members in over 30 countries on six continents.

CPSR awards the Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility.

Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.

Compaq sponsored Queens Park Rangers Football Club from 1994 to 1996, during their previous two seasons as a Premier League club.

As the island of Cyprus was heading towards independence from the United Kingdom the Greek ( 82 %) and Turkish ( 18 %) communities began embroiled to a bitter inter-communal fighting, partly sponsored by the two " motherlands ".

The most notable human rights abuses of this period were the brutal slaying of Bishop Juan José Gerardi two days after he had publicly presented a major Catholic Church sponsored human rights report known as REMHI, and the disappearance of Efraín Bámaca Velásquez, also known as Comandante Everardo, who, it was later revealed, was tortured and assassinated in 1993 without trial by Guatemalan Army officers on the payroll of the CIA.

He pushed the political status dilemma in Washington, D. C. and sponsored two local non-binding referendums, one in 1993 and another in 1998.

Nevertheless, Henry sponsored the publication of Edmund's early poetry, which gave the younger man entrée to new friends of literary importance, and the two men " came out of the years of conflict with their relationship wary but intact.

President Grant sponsored two federally funded scientific discovery projects ; the Polaris Expedition, America's first large scale attempt to reach the North Pole, and the Hayden Geological Survey into the Yellowstone, that led to the establishment of Yellowstone National Park.

The advisory opinion was issued in response to a formal request made by the International Seabed Authority following two prior applications the Authority's Legal and Technical Commission had received from the Republics of Nauru and Tonga regarding proposed activities ( a plan of work to explore for polymetallic nodules ) to be undertaken in the Area by two State-sponsored contractors ( Nauru Ocean Resources Inc. ( sponsored by the Republic of Nauru ) and Tonga Offshore Mining Ltd. ( sponsored by the Kingdom of Tonga ).

There were two types of program at the time: sponsored and sustaining, i. e., unsponsored.

In 1940, only one-third of radio programs were sponsored, while two-thirds were sustaining ; by mid-decade, the statistics had swapped — now two out of three shows had cash-paying sponsors and only one-third were sustaining.

Berkeley's two coffee houses, the Cabale Creamery and the Jabberwock, sponsored performances by folk music artists in a beat setting.

He was originally sponsored to come to Canada as a farm worker, but later, as a husband and a father of two sons, he supported the family by running a small grocery store in Montreal.

Not to be outdone, the rival Daily Mirror sponsored in 1970 the London-Mexico World Cup Rally, linking the stadia of two successive football World Cups, on a route that crossed Europe to Bulgaria and back before shipping out from Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, after looping around South America, and a run through some of the most frightening sections of Peru's road race, the Camino de los Incas, they wrap it up being shipped to Panama and a final run up Central America.

* Book Review The Great Depression ; Blame game ; Was legislation sponsored by two Republicans to blame?

Referred to as the second of the two " Reagan tax cuts " ( the Kemp-Roth Tax Cut of 1981 being the first ), the bill was also officially sponsored by Democrats, Richard Gephardt of Missouri in the House of Representatives and Bill Bradley of New Jersey in the Senate.

In 1923 the Daily Mail and the Duke of Sutherland sponsored competitions designed to stimulate light aircraft development ; Parnall entered a single-seat low-wing monoplane, the Pixie, built in two forms with 13 hp and 26 hp Douglas engines.

The Colgate Series, renamed the Toyota Series in 1981, included tournaments from the across the world, whereas the Avon sponsored events took place solely in the U. S. The two circuits merged beginning with the 1983 season, when Virginia Slims returned to take full sponsorship rights of the WTA Tour.

The development work was sponsored over nearly two decades by Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart, Germany, and by Volkswagen AG within the framework of Deutsche Automobilgesellschaft, now a subsidiary of Daimler AG.

The Otago Settlement, sponsored by the Free Church of Scotland, took concrete form in Otago in March 1848 with the arrival of the first two immigrant ships from Greenock ( on the Firth of Clyde ) — the John Wickliffe and the Philip Laing.

The two films were sponsored by the U. S. government and specifically the Resettlement Administration ( RA ) to raise awareness about the New Deal.

After the two are freed by " Lord Wilmore ", Benedetto is sponsored by the Count to take the identity of " Viscount Andrea Cavalcanti " and is introduced by him into Parisian society at the same dinner party, with neither Villefort nor Madame Danglars suspecting that Andrea is their presumed dead son.

Despite claiming he thought the concert was sponsored by UNICEF, he faced criticism in the press for receiving a payment of between one and two million pounds from Uzbek president, Islam Karimov, for the performance.

Concerning the debate over how freedom of speech applies to the Internet, conferences concerning such sites have been sponsored by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

He has sponsored a number of conferences and collaborative projects that drew different religions into conversation on common themes and problems.

Through these series, through reference works that he conceived and edited, and through the conferences he has sponsored, Neusner has advanced the careers of dozens of younger scholars from across the globe.

The March of Dimes sponsored five international conferences in June 1974, November 1977, May 1981, June 1984, and June 1989 and published articles from the conferences in book form in 1979, 1982, 1986, and 1991 from seven longitudinal prospective cohort studies on the development of over 300 children and young adults with sex chromosome abnormalities identified in the screening of almost 200, 000 consecutive births in hospitals in Denver, Edinburgh, New Haven, Toronto, Aarhus, Winnipeg, and Boston from 1964 to 1975.

The published content in these journals as well as the content from several hundred annual conferences sponsored by the IEEE are available in the IEEE online digital library for subscription-based access and individual publication purchases.

Over the next ten years, the biological safety conferences grew to include representatives from all federal agencies that sponsored or conducted research with pathogenic microorganisms.

Data is regularly shared in international conferences sponsored by RINA, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers ( SNAME ) and others.

" Though Irving refused at this time to appear at conferences sponsored by the Holocaust-denying Institute for Historical Review ( IHR ), he did grant the institute the right to distribute his books in the United States.

" They have since sponsored national conferences on both the East and West Coast.

He also sponsored a series of conferences between the Lutheran and Reformed clergy in the hopes of having them arrive at some consensus, but the result was the opposite: the more the two sides argued the further apart they found themselves.

Model United Nations conferences sponsored by UNA-USA, the National Collegiate Conference Association ( NCCA / NMUN ), and the International Model UN Association ( IMUNA / NHSMUN ) hold part of their sessions in the General Assembly chamber.

This fervent disagreement with notable white feminists furthered her persona as an " outsider ": " in the institutional milieu of black feminist and black lesbian feminist scholars [...] and within the context of conferences sponsored by white feminist academics, Lorde stood out as an angry, accusatory, isolated black feminist lesbian voice ".

With 250 academic faculty members and thousands of donors ( throughout all 50 States in the United States of America and in more than 60 countries ), the Institute has sponsored hundreds of teaching and scholars ' conferences and seminars treating subjects ranging from monetary policy to the history of war.

It also sponsored conferences designed to bring venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and technologists together.

Critical exchanges of views may be found in periodicals like the Evangelical Missions Quarterly ( such as in volume 31, number 2 published in 1995 ), and in conferences sponsored by the Evangelical Missions Society.

Esalen Institute has sponsored many research initiatives, educational projects, and invitational conferences.

Lindenwood also sponsors a wide variety of sports not sponsored by the NCAA that compete in various other sport governing bodies and conferences.

The Foundation has also sponsored conferences on Eastern ethics and funded academic research into traditional Korean culture.

In recent years, the university has sponsored or undertaken more than a dozen large international academic conferences, which create more channels for the university to promote international exchanges and cooperation.

The American psychological Association has sponsored two major conferences on community research methods and has recently published an edited book on this topic.

Scholars associated with the Museum such as curator Jeffrey Forgeng, William Short, and Ken Mondschein have produced monographs and translations, given papers and sponsored sessions at scholarly conferences, and lectured and demonstrated all over the world.

Participants in the conferences and meetings sponsored by TACF have reported healings, incidents of personal transformation and a greater awareness of God's love.

They immediately saw in the lightly occupied hotel a place where summer conferences could be held, to be sponsored by the Unitarian Church, of which he was a member.