Then, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

Carnegie Mellon University started experimentation along these lines under the Accent kernel project, using an IPC system based on shared memory.

It is most probably based upon Andrew Carnegie's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose caricature of Carnegie.

The figure of total estimated 1, 100, 000 military dead is from a study published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1940, based on analysis of Austro-Hungarian War Dept.

Northwood is home to Northwood Headquarters, based in the grounds of Eastbury Park, the estate purchased by David Carnegie in 1857.

The Harris School of Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago has a more quantitative and economics approach to policy, the Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon uses computational and empirical methods, while the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University has a more political science and leadership based approach.

He started with ChipTest, a simple chess-playing chip, based on a design from Unix-inventor's Ken Thompson's Belle, and very different from the other chess-playing computer being developed at Carnegie Mellon, HiTech, which was developed by Hans Berliner and included 64 different chess chips for the move generator instead of the one in Hsu's series.

Following this, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Vera Rubin, a young astronomer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington presented findings based on a new sensitive spectrograph that could measure the velocity curve of edge-on spiral galaxies to a greater degree of accuracy than had ever before been achieved.

Williams sang the lead in 1975 in Cannonball Adderley's musical play Big Man ( based on the John Henry legend ) in Carnegie Hall.

The school initially drew much of its faculty from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration and was based in the Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall.

The Carnegie Foundation reclassified the college to university status based on its graduate programs.

Other champions of Wuorinen ’ s music include Peter Serkin, for whom Wuorinen composed three concerti including Time Regained ( based on music of Machaut, Matteo da Perugia, Guillaume Dufay, and Orlando Gibbons ) and Flying to Kahani, commissioned by Carnegie Hall ; the solo Scherzo and Adagio ; and the Second Piano Quintet with the Brentano Quartet, another ensemble with which Wuorinen has had a very fruitful relationship and for which he wrote his Fourth String Quartet.

Melton Carnegie Museum is based in Melton Mowbray.

A new genus of beaver ( Rodentia, Castoridae ) from the Miocene ( Clarendonian ) of North America and systematics of the Castoroidinae based on comparative cranial anatomy Annals of Carnegie Museum 76 ( 2 ): 117-134.

This new thriller based on the Acid Bath Murderer is a co-production of The Human Race Theatre Company and the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center.

The High Point Park Investigation is based at Carnegie Mellon University's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and has received the endorsement of regional organizations including the Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy and VisitPittsburgh. com.

The Centennial Challenges are based on a long history of technology prize contests, including the Longitude prize ( won by John Harrison ), the Orteig Prize ( won by Charles Lindbergh ), the Ansari X PRIZE ( won by Scaled Composites ), and the DARPA Grand Challenge ( won by Stanford University in 2005 and Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 ).

In 1978, there were half a dozen different operating systems for the PDP-10: ITS ( MIT ), WAITS ( Stanford ), TOPS-10 ( DEC ), CMU TOPS-10 ( Carnegie Mellon ), TENEX ( BBN ), and TOPS-20 ( DEC, based on TENEX ).

The Carnegie Foundation () is an organization based in The Hague, Netherlands.

Leeds Carnegie ( formerly Leeds Tykes ) are an English rugby union club, based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, currently playing in the RFU Championship.

** The Carnegie collection, a series of educational figures based on the exhibits in Dinosaur Hall

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching recognizes Northern Illinois University as high-level research institution of higher education, based on breadth of research and academic programs.

The work was originally commissioned at the request of Andrew Carnegie at the conclusion of a multi-day interview with Hill, and was based upon interviews of over 100 American millionaires across nearly 20 years, including such self-made industrial giants as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell, and Thomas Edison.

Steven Bochco, a series writer for the show, attended college at the nearby Carnegie Institute of Technology ( now Carnegie Mellon University ) and based the show on the neighborhood.

Witnessing sectarianism and strife in 19th century Scotland regarding religion and philosophy, Carnegie kept his distance from organized religion and theism.

Herbert Alexander Simon ( June 15, 1916 – February 9, 2001 ) was an American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist, and professor — most notably at Carnegie Mellon University — whose research ranged across the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive science, computer science, public administration, economics, management, philosophy of science, sociology, and political science.

Carnegie put his philosophy into practice through a program of gifts to endow public libraries, known as ' Carnegie libraries ' in cities and towns throughout the United States and the English-speaking world, with the idea that he was thus providing people with the tools to better themselves.

His personal characteristics, industry, vision, practical ability, persistence, and intelligence are the hallmarks of a people who were pioneers in exploration ( Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and David Livingstone ), industry ( Andrew Carnegie ), science ( Kelvin ), philosophy ( David Hume ) and politics ( Sir John A. Macdonald ).

An example of a more definite class bias is noted in proceedings of the Commission on the Financing of Higher Education sponsored by the Association of American Universities and supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Gershwin brought back some Parisian taxi horns for the New York premiere of the composition, which took place on December 13, 1928 in Carnegie Hall, with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony.

Carnegie once gave $ 25, 000 to Speaker of the House David B. Henderson to erect a library on the campus of Upper Iowa University in his name.

Carnegie devoted the remainder of his life to large-scale philanthropy, with special emphasis on local libraries, world peace, education and scientific research.

Falling on very hard times as a handloom weaver and with the country in starvation, William Carnegie decided to move with his family to Allegheny, Pennsylvania in the United States in 1848 for the prospect of a better life.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

In 1864, Carnegie invested $ 40, 000 in Story Farm on Oil Creek in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

In 1881, Carnegie took his family, including his 70 year-old mother, on a trip to the United Kingdom.

To counter what he perceived as imperialism on the part of the United States, Carnegie personally offered $ 20 million to the Philippines so that the Filipino people could buy their independence from the United States.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

Carnegie served on the Board of Cornell University.

" The telescope saw first light on November 2, 1917, with Carnegie still alive.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

The conflict was centered on Carnegie Steel's main plant in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and grew out of a dispute between the National Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers of the United States and the Carnegie Steel Company.

Carnegie left on a trip to Scotland before the unrest peaked.

Before his death on August 11, 1919, Carnegie had donated $ 350, 695, 654 for various causes.

Furthermore, Carnegie ’ s success was due to his convenient relationship with the railroad industries, which not only relied on steel for track, but were also making money from steel transport.

Carnegie held that societal progress relied on individuals meeting their moral obligations to themselves and to society.

Despite his love and efforts towards international peace, Carnegie faced many dilemmas on his quest for world peace.

He did not oppose the annexation of the Hawaiian islands, Cuba and Puerto Rico, but Carnegie stood still on his opposition towards the annexation of the Philippines.

The creation of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in 1910 was regarded as a milestone on the road to the ultimate goal of abolition of war.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.