To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

In 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in the case of Dirks v. SEC that tippees ( receivers of second-hand information ) are liable if they had reason to believe that the tipper had breached a fiduciary duty in disclosing confidential information and the tipper received any personal benefit from the disclosure.

* 1984 – Roland Juno-106: Very popular programmable ( 128 patch memory locations ), digitally controlled 6-voice analog synthesizer, with MIDI and the ability to transmit button and slider information through SysEx.

#: Around 1983 – 1984 a new color identification standard (" Line SECAM or SECAM-H ") has been introduced in order to make more space available inside the signal for adding teletext information ( originally according to the Antiope standard ).

Mbeki was appointed head of the ANC's information department in 1984 and then became head of the international department in 1989, reporting directly to Oliver Tambo, then President of the ANC.

Holland also co-founded the CCC's hacker magazine Datenschleuder in 1984, which praised the possibilities of global information networks and powerful computers, and included detailed wiring diagrams for building your own modems cheaply.

In the followup 1982 novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, and the accompanying 1984 film, 2010, it is revealed that this action was caused by the computer having been programmed with two conflicting objectives: to fully disclose all its information, and to keep the true purpose of the flight secret from the crew ; this conflict caused HAL to become paranoid and eventually homicidal.

According to one study by Steinbach ( 1984 ), a classic interaction in NLP can be understood in terms of several major stages including establishing rapport, gathering information about a problem state and desired goals, using specific tools and techniques to make interventions, and integrating proposed changes into the client's life.

* Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, a 1984 book by Steven Levy has more information about the Homebrew Computer Club and the companies that sprang from it.

In 1984, remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle was awarded a legion of merit for determining " 150 essential elements of information ... producing crucial and vital intelligence unavailable from any other source ".

* K. Varzos, Ē genealogia tōn Komnēnōn ( Thessalonikē, 1984 ) ( information about Comneni family relations )

In 1984 electronic terminals will be used in selected stores to gather sales information, and the old " sales diary " method will be gradually phased out over the next few years.

In December 1984 Newsweek magazine reported that the Aryan Nations had set up a Bulletin Board System called " Aryan Nation Liberty Net " to offer information such as, for instance, the locations of Communist Party offices and " ZOG informers ".

He was arrested on October 1, 1984, though investigators never demonstrated any intent to provide information to a hostile intelligence service.

A March 1984 government report had noted that " the unauthorized publication of classified information is a routine daily occurrence in the U. S ." but that the applicability of the Espionage Act to such disclosures " is not entirely clear ".

The FBI had lost the file on Lee from the 1983 and 1984 meetings with him, and had to reconstruct the information.

Emigre, also known as Emigre Graphics, is a digital type foundry, publisher and distributor of graphic design centered information based in Berkeley, California, that was founded in 1984 by husband-and-wife team Rudy VanderLans and Zuzana Licko.

Accordingly, he was sworn in to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada on November 30, 1984 to enable him access to information restricted under the Official Secrets Act.

In 1984, Rice defined new media as communication technologies that enable or facilitate user-to-user interactivity and interactivity between user and information.

The August 1984 announcement by President Reagan of what has become known as the " Mexico City Policy " directed the United States Agency for International Development ( USAID ) to expand this limitation and withhold USAID funds from NGOs that use non-USAID funds to engage in a wide range of activities, including providing advice, counseling, or information regarding abortion, or lobbying a foreign government to legalize or make abortion available.

A lengthy article appeared in Doctor Who Monthly in 1984, with production information, photographs and interviews, making this almost the only substantial source of material on the two films until the documentary Dalekmania in 1995 and the Doctor Who Magazine Summer Special-The Sixties Dalek Movies, also from 1995, articles credited to Marcus Hearn.

After India received information that Parmar had made assassination threats against Indira Gandhi, they found that Germany had decided that the evidence was weak, and he had been expelled and released to Canada on June 1984 after nearly a year in jail.

The first implementation of an email-address based PKI was developed by Adi Shamir in 1984, which allowed users to verify digital signatures using only public information such as the user's identifier.

Dying Earth is a fantasy series by the American author Jack Vance, comprising four books originally published 1950 to 1984.

His first atlas, More Details on Pelviscopy and Hysteroscopy was published in 1976, a slide atlas on pelviscopy, hysteroscopy, and fetoscopy in 1979, and his books on gynecological endoscopic surgery in German, English, and many other languages in 1984, 1987, and 2002.

* Diane Duane's mini-series Rihannsu, consisting to-date of five books written between 1984 and 2006, is regarded as one of deepest works focusing on the Romulans.

The State of the World is a series of books published annually since 1984 by the Worldwatch Institute.

Niki Lauda has written five books: The Art and Science of Grand Prix Driving ( titled Formula 1: The Art and Technicalities of Grand Prix Driving in some markets ) ( 1975 ); My Years With Ferrari ( 1978 ); The New Formula One: A Turbo Age ( 1984 ); Meine Story ( titled To Hell and Back in some markets ) ( 1986 ); Das dritte Leben ( 1996 ).

Varying from arcane to combative to humorous, and ranging from midshipmen to very senior naval aviators who sought command of aircraft carriers ( which sometimes lapsed into ego battles ), the content of most of these interviews has been lost to history, though some were later chronicled in the several books on Rickover's career, as well as in a rare personal interview with Diane Sawyer in 1984.

He has written books on subsequent Prime Ministers, Bob Hawke ( The Hawke Ascendency, 1984 ), Paul Keating ( The End of Certainty, 1992 ) and John Howard ( Howard's Decade, 2006 ).

In a 1984 interview for Polyhedron Newszine, Gary Gygax revealed several " alternate Oerths " while explaining the setting for his HEROES CHALLENGE game books, co-written with author Flint Dille and published under the aegis of the Dungeons & Dragons Entertainment Corporation by the Wanderer Book division of Simon & Schuster.

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* 《 茅盾書簡 》 Mao Dun Shujian to the books of Mao Dun ( 1st edition, collection of letters, 1984 ) later changed the name into 《 茅盾書信集 》 Mao Dun Shuxinji ( 1988 )

Two books focusing on the final flight, Flight 777 ( Ian Colvin, 1957 ), and In Search of My Father: A Portrait of Leslie Howard ( Ronald Howard, 1984 ), concluded that the Germans shot down Howard's DC-3 for the specific purpose of killing him.

In late December 1984, the 1985 edition reached first place in the category of paperback Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous books, on the New York Times best-seller list, with more than 1, 760, 000 copies sold at the time.

The books were adapted by the BBC into a 13-episode television series, which began airing in January 1984.

Hart-Davis wrote no more books until after his retirement from publishing, but between 1955 and 1962, he wrote about a quarter of a million words to his old schoolmaster George Lyttelton, which, together with Lyttelton's similar contribution, made up the six volumes of the Lyttelton / Hart-Davis Letters, published between 1978 and 1984 after Lyttelton's death.

Almost all of his books published after 1984 have been either part of a series and / or tie-in novels and novelizations.

Australian author Margaret Wild has written more than 40 books since 1984 and won several awards.

They have been heavily involved in mountain biking in New Zealand since 1984, and in publishing books about cycling and cyclists.

Category: 1984 books

The year 1984 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Following Entertainings success, Stewart released many more books under the Clarkson Potter publishing imprint, including Martha Stewart's Quick Cook ( 1983 ), Martha Stewart's Hors D ' oeuvres ( 1984 ), Martha Stewart's Pies & Tarts ( 1985 ), Weddings ( 1987 ), The Wedding Planner ( 1988 ), Martha Stewart's Quick Cook Menus ( 1988 ), and Martha Stewart's Christmas ( 1989 ), among others.

Founded and edited by writer Barry Gifford, Black Lizard released over ninety books between 1984 and 1990, including reprints of classic novels by Charles Willeford, David Goodis, Peter Rabe, Harry Whittington, Dan J. Marlowe, Charles Williams, and Lionel White, as well as original novels by Barry Gifford and Jim Nisbet.

" Hazlitt also published three books on the subject of inflation, including From Bretton Woods to World Inflation ( 1984 ), and two influential works on poverty, Man vs.