In the episode Datalore, Lieutenant Natasha Yar refers to the positronic brain as Asimov's dream ( although in reality, Asimov admitted that he was only looking for a " scientific " sounding word when choosing the term " positronic ").

* Datalore reviewed by Wil Wheaton ( Wesley Crusher )

* Datalore rewatch by Keith R. A. DeCandido

Dialog in " Datalore " establishes some of Data's backstory.

" Datalore " is the 13th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

* Seibel, " Data Entry Devices and Procedures ", in Human Engineering Guide to Equipment Design, Van Cott and Kinkade ( Eds ), 1963

In keeping with Doriot's instructions, the name was an initialism for " Programmable Data Processor ", leaving off the term " computer ".

" Female Genital Mutilation / Cutting: Data and Trends ", 2008.

In 1975 he wrote the book " Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs ", which gained wide recognition and is still useful today.

Although not called " neutronium ", the National Nuclear Data Center's Nuclear Wallet Cards lists as its first " isotope " an " element " with the symbol n and atomic number Z = 0 and mass number A = 1.

Xyzzy has actually been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several operating systems ; in Data General's AOS, for example, it would typically respond " Nothing happens ", just as the game did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word.

" Optimal Frame Synchronization for Continuous and Packet Data Transmission ", PhD Dissertation,

Even the popular book " Data mining: Practical machine learning tools and techniques with Java " ( which covers mostly machine learning material ) was originally to be named just " Practical machine learning ", and the term " data mining " was only added for marketing reasons.

During this time, it may display a message (" Data Save ", on at least some models ) and the case will not open.

Spiner said his favorite Data scene takes place in " Descent ", when Data plays poker on the holodeck with a re-creation of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, played by Hawking himself.

Data went to Starfleet Academy from 2341 – 45 ( he describes himself as " Class of ' 78 " to Riker in " Encounter at Farpoint ", but that may refer to the stardate and not the year that he graduated ) and then served in Starfleet aboard the USS Trieste.

In " Brothers ", Data reunites with Dr. Soong ( also portrayed by Spiner ).

Lore returns in the two-part episode " Descent ", using the emotion chip to control Data and make him help with Lore's attempt to make the Borg entirely artificial life forms.

In " The Measure of a Man ", a Starfleet judge rules that Data is not Starfleet property.

* Star Trek: The Next Generation (" The High Ground ", 1990 ): According to Data, the reunification of Ireland in 2024 is achieved through British reconquest.

Data is distributed across the drives in one of several ways called " RAID levels ", depending on what level of redundancy and performance ( via parallel communication ) is required.

* A holodeck simulation of Professor Moriarty, played by actor Daniel Davis, appeared in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes " Elementary, Dear Data " and " Ship in a Bottle ", accidentally achieving sentience when Geordi LaForge asks the holodeck to create an opponent able to defeat Data ( rather than Sherlock Holmes ).

In " Ship in a Bottle ", Barclay unwittingly revives a sentient holo-simulation of Sherlock Holmes ' arch-foe, Professor James Moriarty ( previously seen in " Elementary, Dear Data ") while performing holodeck maintenance.

* " Project Astoria ", nickname for ADO. NET Data Services

#* A scene where Data tried out his gadgets, including the " Pinchers of Peril " and " Spy Eyes ", outside of the Fratelli hideout.

* Jens Ludwig, Georgetown University, " Concealed-Gun-Carrying Laws and Violent Crime: Evidence from State Panel Data ", published in International Review of Law and Economics, 1998.

* Terry Winograd, " Procedures as a Representation for Data in a Computer Program for Understanding Natural Language ", MIT AI Technical Report 235, February 1971

Corum discovers one of the " Lost Gods ", the being Kwll, who is imprisoned and cannot be freed until whole.

* 1895 Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovers X-rays (" bremsstrahlung ", from German for radiation produced by deceleration )

There is some reconciliation between them when Luthor discovers he was an unwitting party to a conspiracy against Lena, which was masterminded by his cellmate " Sam ", who wanted revenge against Colby.

** In the Star Trek: Voyager episode " One Small Step ", USS Voyager discovers the fate of Ares IV, one of the first manned expeditions to Mars in 2032.

* In Tales to Astonish # 2 ( 1959 ) " My Job: To Catch a Martian ", a professor, who discovers an empty alien spacecraft, hires a private investigator to find the occupant when no one else will listen to him.

* In Tales to Astonish # 3 ( 1959 ) " I Discovered the Men From Mars ", a man from the year 1990 discovers a Martian space-craft while patrolling the coast on the lookout for communist spies.

His dog, " Chippy ", discovers a chest in the loft of his house containing a spellbook titled " Ye Olde Spellbooke " ( which Simon derisively reads as " Ye old-ee spellbook-ee ").

* January – In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula of Wales, William Buckland discovers the " Red Lady of Paviland ", the first identification of a prehistoric ( male ) human burial.

* January 28 – Ross discovers the " Victoria Barrier ", later known as the Ross Ice Shelf.

* You're Another, a 1955 short story by Damon Knight, is about a man who discovers that he is an actor in a " livie ", a live-action show that is viewed by billions of people in the future.

In " Twilight ", Buffy mysteriously obtains super powers and discovers that Twilight is in fact Angel.

Mathilda quickly discovers that Léon is a " cleaner ", or hit man.

In another 1001 Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land, in that the underwater society follows a form of primitive communism where concepts like money and clothing do not exist.

The concept was mentioned in a science fiction story by Julian Huxley, " The Tissue-Culture King ", first published in 1927, in which the protagonist discovers that " caps of metal foil " can be used to block the effects of telepathy.

When he returns in the Paris of the Bourbon Restoration, he discovers that his " widow ", a former prostitute that Chabert made rich and honourable, has married the wealthy Count Ferraud.

He also discovers that much of the efficacy of the garlic, mirrors, and crosses were actually " hysterical blindess ", the result of previous psychological conditioning of the infected ( particularly the religious ) who believed that they were effective against vampires.

* In the FlashForward episode, " The Garden of Forking Paths ", Mark Benford discovers on Dyson Frost's chalkboard that December 12, 2016 was ambiguously labeled, " The Start "".

* 1783 – Antoine Lavoisier discovers oxygen and develops an explanation for combustion ; in his paper " Réflexions sur le phlogistique ", he deprecates the phlogiston theory and proposes a caloric theory

In " The Real Housewives of Fat Tony ", he marries Selma, but the marriage falls apart when Selma discovers Tony only married her to be his goomar and is already married to another woman.

In the sixth episode of the fifth revived series of Doctor Who, " Vampires in Venice ", Rory discovers he is Amy's eunuch, according to the Doctor's psychic paper.

Concurrent to these events, Ford Prefect discovers that during an update of the " Hitchhiker's Guide ", his previous entry for Earth, " Mostly harmless ", has been replaced with the volumes of text he wrote during his research.

In another Nights tale, " Abdullah the Fisherman and Abdullah the Merman ", the protagonist Abdullah the Fisherman gains the ability to breathe underwater and discovers an underwater society that is portrayed as an inverted reflection of society on land.

" Smithy ", as Paula calls him, discovers a literary talent and tries writing to earn a living.