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Eckert and other " post-Farmerian " writers ( denoting authors working with or in a similar vein as Eckert, who are admirers of Farmer's Wold Newton biographies and fiction ) have – through crossovers documented in Eckert's massive online Crossover Chronology ( published in book form by Black Coat Press in two volumes in 2010 as Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World ), and through parascholarly articles such as those appearing on the various WNU-themed websites online ; Myths for the Modern Age: Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe ( edited by Win Scott Eckert, MonkeyBrain Books, 2005, a 2007 Locus Award finalist ) and in various issues of the pro-zine dedicated to and authorized by Farmer, Farmerphile: The Magazine of Philip José Farmer ( published by Michael Croteau, webmaster of the Official Philip José Farmer Home Page ) – brought numerous further fictional characters into the WNU.

Eckert's and was
Eckert's contention that von Neumann improperly took credit for devising the stored program computer architecture was supported by Jean Bartik, one of the original ENIAC programmers.
Mauchly and Eckert's patent on the ENIAC was invalidated by U. S. Federal Court decision in October, 1973 for several reasons.
IBM would instead focus their funding on Columbia, and Eckert's laboratory was named Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory.
A massive machine built to Eckert's specifications was built and installed behind glass at IBM's headquarters on Madison Avenue in January 1948.
Schwarzschild was Eckert's immediate successor as director of the Watson Scientific Computation Laboratory at Columbia University.
Dora then escapes from the room she was locked up in, and steals Eckert's gun.
However, only a few years later, in 1910, Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan, and the anthem was banned in favor of Eckert's earlier creation, the Kimigayo.
Eckert's primary interest was in finding an approach to sociolinguistic variation that didn't presuppose any social variable as a given ( e. g. class, gender, locality ).

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Eckert's publication of Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation in 1940, described punch card techniques sufficiently advanced to solve some differential equations or perform multiplication and division using floating point representations, all on punched cards and unit record machines.
Academic historians often regard Eckert's books, which are written in the style of novels, to be unreliable, as they contain things like dialogue that is clearly fictional.
With John Mauchly he invented the first general-purpose electronic digital computer ( ENIAC ), presented the first course in computing topics ( the Moore School Lectures ), founded the first commercial computer company ( the Eckert – Mauchly Computer Corporation ), and designed the first commercial computer in the U. S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay line memory.
Includes Eckert's reflections on the creation of ENIAC.
Kathryn Bishop Eckert's Buildings of Michigan lists St. Augustine Church as an architecturally important building due to its twin steeples, Italian gothic elements, and fieldstone facade.
Eckert's perspective on the community of practice privileges the study of how social identity is produced, and as such it studies language primarily as it relates to questions of identity.

Pulitzer and Prize-nominated
In her Pulitzer Prize-nominated book The Nurture Assumption, author Judith Harris argues that " nurture ," as traditionally defined in terms of family upbringing does not effectively explain the variance for most traits ( such as adult IQ and the Big Five personality traits ) in the general population of the United States.
* Betty Mahmoody, lecturer, advocate for the rights of women and children, and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-nominated, best-selling book, Not Without My Daughter: Escape from Iran.
Papp went on to produce four more of Hwang's plays, including the Pulitzer Prize-nominated drama The Dance and the Railroad, which tells the story of a former Chinese opera star working as a coolie laborer in the nineteenth century, and Family Devotions, a darkly comic take on the effects of Western religion on a Chinese family.
Chris Hondros ( March 14, 1970 – April 20, 2011 ) was an American Pulitzer Prize-nominated war photographer.
* James Roark ( 1946 ?- 1995 ), pseudonym of James Barnas, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer

Pulitzer and book
Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936, is a romance novel written by Margaret Mitchell, who received the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the book in 1937.
The final chapter of the book is devoted to sociobiological explanations of human behavior, and Wilson later wrote a Pulitzer Prize winning book, On Human Nature, that addressed human behavior specifically.
Edward J. Larson, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion, notes: " Like so many archetypal American events, the trial itself began as a publicity stunt.
In 1925, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book So Big, which was made into a silent film starring Colleen Moore that same year.
Teresa Carpenter's " Death of a Playmate " article about Dorothy Stratten's murder was published in The Village Voice and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize, and while Bogdanovich did not criticize Carpenter's article in his book, she had lambasted both Bogdanovich and Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, claiming that Stratten was a victim of them as much as of her husband, Paul Snider, who killed her and himself.
One of the more high profile donations made was by former U. S. President John F. Kennedy who donated the money from the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles in Courage to the Fund.
An exception to this was the first Pulitzer ever awarded to a musical: when Of Thee I Sing won in 1932, book authors George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind, as well as lyricist Ira Gershwin, were cited as the winners, while composer George Gershwin's contribution was overlooked by the committee.
The Pulitzer Prize for History has been awarded since 1917 for a distinguished book upon the history of the United States.
The Stone Diaries ( 1993 ) won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the 1993 Governor General's Award, the only book to have ever received both awards.
There is also a companion book, The River The text was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in that year.
The song explores the mystical musings of Annie Dillard found in her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.
The Ants is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, written in 1990, by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler.
* Michael Dirda ( book critic, Pulitzer Prize )
* Jonathan Yardley ( book critic, Pulitzer Prize )
* Jay Dusard, contemporary photographer, 1981 Guggenheim award winner, recipient of two book awards and a Pulitzer nomination.
The name and the place have inspired mention in literature such as in The Lorax by Dr. Seuss, and in Carl Sandburg's Pulitzer Prize – winning book of poetry, Cornhuskers.
He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1954 for his book, The Waking, and he won the annual National Book Award for Poetry twice, in 1959 for Words for the Wind and posthumously in 1965 for The Far Field.
* Middlesex ( 2002 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Jeffrey Eugenides
The book was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by Congressman John Conyers, and garnered Johnson more recognition.
In 1942, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his book of autobiographical verse, The Dust Which Is God ( 1941 ).
He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction and the 1994 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science for his book The Beak of the Finch.
It received the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and is the third book in Kennedy's Albany Cycle.

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