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Nick and computer
In the 1976 article " Computer Power and Human Reason ," an excerpt of which is included in The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Weizenbaum notes how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with the DOCTOR script.
Freeman, a tall gaunt African-American, gradually comes to realize that he has more sympathy with Nick's views than his employer's, and eventually absconds himself, giving Nick computer access so that Nick can make his own escape.
* Orlando M. Pilchard, nom de plume of Nick Pelling ( born 1964 ), British computer programmer
Charles " Nick " Corfield is a mathematician, computer programmer, and founder of several startup companies in Silicon Valley, most notably Frame Technology Corp. in 1986, which was acquired by Adobe Systems in 1995.
The complexity class, Nick's Class ( NC ), of problems quickly solvable on a parallel computer, was named by Stephen Cook after Nick Pippenger for his research on circuits with polylogarithmic depth and polynomial size.
The Simulation hypothesis promoted by Nick Bostrom and others suggests that our Universe may be a computer simulation by aliens.
The main characters were Dave Hollins ( voiced by Nick Wilton ) and the computer Hab ( voiced by Chris Barrie ).
Nick, however, continues to rebuff her advances, and Adrian's actions become destructive — she defaces a car he's restored and erases his computer discs — yet he's unable to convince Cliff and Liv of what's going on.
Other contestants were Aaron Levine, 21, a senior at Stanford University ; Mike Hall, 22, a senior at the University of Missouri ; Casey Stern, 25, an executive recruiter from Bellmore, New York ; Zachariah Selwyn, 28, an actor and a musician from Los Angeles ; Nick Stevens, 29, a Brooklyn-based comedian ; Chris Williams, 31, an attorney from Boston ; Chet Anekwe, 38, a Nigerian-born computer programmer who has taken up residence in Jersey City ; Alvin Williams, 38, a retail manager from Montgomery, Alabama ( Williams won the contest sponsored by Wendy's to become a contestant on the show ); Kelly Milligan, 38, a Dallas attorney ; and Lori Rubinson, 39, from New York City, now a host at WFAN.
The characters in Warheads were first visualised by artist Gary Erskine with the first scripts for the strips provided by Nick Vince, followed by John Freeman and Craig Houston, who is now a computer games script writer whose credits include Call of Duty 3.
* Nick of Time, a computer game by The Dreamers Guild that was to be released in 1996, but never came out
* In Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show, Nick takes on a computer virus called Legion.
* In Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, the Helicarrier's computer tells Spider-Man during the Cairo, Egypt, briefing that she had lied by stating that the real Nick Fury was a Life Model Decoy.
A caffeine addict, he spends his days at his computer, occasionally slacking or using his baby son Nick as an office assistant.
is a 1980s computer game originally programmed by Orlando ( aka Nick Pelling ) for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron and published by his own ' Aardvark ' software label in 1984.
He begins to shoot at Nick and Samantha, then they begin a chase through the crowd because Ned shoots Teal and takes the key card needed to shut down the computer and quarantine the virus.
* Captain Nick " Havoc " Parker, a fictional character in the computer game, Command & Conquer: Renegade
Marley ( Robert Forster ), co-pilot Nick Vanzant ( James Spader ), medical officer Kaela Evers ( Angela Bassett ), medical technician Yerzy Penalosa ( Lou Diamond Phillips ), search and rescue paramedic Danika Lund ( Robin Tunney ), and computer technician Benjamin Sotomejor ( Wilson Cruz ).
Before Nick and Kaela enter the only remaining pod, the computer warns them that the 9th dimensional matter is reacting with the gravity of the blue giant sun and will cause a 9th dimensional reaction that will spread in all directions, such that the reaction's resulting supernova will reach Earth within 51 years.

Nick and tapeworm
Besides the two Hearing Aid tapeworms, and Nick's ultimate tapeworm, there is a " denunciation tapeworm " created as revenge by a representative of " Anti-Trauma Inc ." whom Nick insults and curses.

Nick and calls
In an episode of Gilmore Girls, " Nick & Nora, Sid & Nancy ", Rory calls Jess Dodger after he steals her book.
Nick Abbot took calls straight to air in a segment calls the " Lightning Round ".
The commentator Nick Cohen has also criticised the relationship of the StWC with organisations he calls reactionary such as the Muslim Association of Britain ( MAB ).
After making it to a bus station to flee the city, Jack calls Nick to gloat but is shocked to discover that Nick has in fact double crossed him by giving him a carrying case containing a fake scepter.
During the opening cutscene of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, Nick Fury calls upon all ' Metahumans ' to help protect the S. H. I. E. L. D.
Doyle concludes that Nick and Marlee's intent is a set-up, and he frantically calls Fitch, but it is too late.
Deciding to spend some time with Nick, Wayne calls in Mandy to babysit Adam.
Nick calls Casey from a pay phone, apologizes for everything and admits he had stolen the heroin and money from the police.
The audio for the disturbing phone calls was performed by actor Nick Mancuso, director Bob Clark and an unknown actress.
A dispirited Nick calls for a rehearsal without camera to refresh the actors.
Nick ruefully calls for another take.
Relieved that he will no longer have to please Chad, Nick calls him a " Hostess Twinkie motherfucker " and a fight breaks out.
She calls the police anonymously with information that leads to the discovery of the murder weapon implicating Nick.
* Xander calls Riley and Sam " Nick and Nora Fury ", a double reference to both Marvel Comics character Nick Fury ( whom Xander references himself in Season Eight ) and husband-and-wife detectives Nick and Nora Charles from the 1930s / 40s film series The Thin Man.
Nick calls his wife and discovers that she was not, in fact, having an affair — the cuff links he thought were his boss's were left by his boss at the Christmas party, and it was her sister and her sister's fiancee in the bed.
The two girls fly to Thailand and while there, meet a captivating Australian man, who calls himself Nick Parks ( Daniel Lapaine ).

Nick and Hearing
The Hearing Aid worm is designed to scramble network traffic if attacked, but Nick realizes that it could be destroyed if the authorities were prepared for the effects and ready to recover from them.
Nick, suffering another overload, blames Kate for the incident, since she, following Hearing Aid policy, cut off a call from someone attempting to warn Precipice.
Warned by Hearing Aid, Nick is able to penetrate the military computers and manufacture a counter-order to stop the plane just before it reaches the town.
Hearing the floor creak, Nick grabs Gus ' gun and turns to find Beth standing in the hallway, explaining she received a message to meet Gus there.

Nick and being
* 1972 – Vietnam War: Associated Press photographer Nick Ut takes his Pulitzer Prize-winning photo of a naked 9-year-old Phan Thị Kim Phúc running down a road after being burned by napalm.
One notable spy series is The Baroness, featuring a sexy female superspy, with the novels being more action-oriented, in the mold of Nick Carter-Killmaster.
In 1964, after a long search of the Mississippi Delta region by Nick Perls, Dick Waterman and Phil Spiro, he ended up being " rediscovered " in Rochester, NY.
However, Reed lost the ball while being tackled by linebacker Nick Buoniconti, and Scott recovered the fumble.
Nick Xenophon was elected on an independent No Pokies ticket in the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1997 South Australian state election on 2. 9 percent, and re-elected at the 2006 election on 20. 5 percent, before being elected to the Australian Senate at the 2007 federal election on 14. 8 percent.
Although he initially felt at home at Tarnover, Nick eventually becomes aware of experiments in genetic engineering being performed there.
Possibly encouraged by the government, local gangs and tribes raid Precipice, burning down Nick and Kate's house before being overwhelmed by the dogs.
In place of the old system, Nick has designed the worm to enforce a kind of utilitarian socialism, with people's worth being defined by their roles in society, not their connections in high places.
While not overtly setting the series in any particular town, Nick Park had previously hinted that its milieu was inspired by thoughts of 1950s Wigan, reinforced by an A-Z Wigan being displayed on Wallace's Anti-Pesto van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.
He made his final appearances on stage as Nick Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as King Lear at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in 1959, although failing health resulted in both performances being disappointing, according to some British critics.
Due to the dominance in the northeast, the CWC was referred to by AWA legend Nick Bockwinkel as the " Northeast Triangle ", with its territory being defined by Pittsburgh, Washington, D. C., and Maine as points of the triangle.
The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.
After eight months of recovery following his brief bout of being clinically dead from the shooting, Sascha is incarcerated along with Nick in the newly reopened Alcatraz prison.
: Defendant Nick du Toit said he was introduced to Thatcher in South Africa last year by Simon Mann, the leader of 70 men arrested in Zimbabwe in March suspected of being a group of mercenaries heading to Equatorial Guinea.
Nick angrily retreats back to the hotel followed by Sylvia who feels embarrassed over being fooled by yet another man.
Skull explains to Nick Fury that all he wanted to do with the Cosmic Cube was to turn back time and prevent Steve Rogers ( his father ) from being lost during the war so that he could grow up with him and lead a normal life, rather than the one he was given.
Finn formed a new band called The Mullanes ( Mullane being both his middle name and his mother's maiden name ) with Split Enz drummer Paul Hester, guitarist Craig Hooper of The Reels and bassist Nick Seymour ( younger brother of Hunters & Collectors leader Mark Seymour ), whom Neil had met on the final Split Enz tour.
Alex is embarrassed by Nick, and resents his being protective when he meets her boyfriend.
In Stephen King's Danse Macabre, King ( who admits to being more of a fan of The Outer Limits and Thriller ) wrongly says the episode stars William Shatner instead of Everett Sloane ( although Shatner does play a character battling a fortune telling machine in " Nick of Time ").
* Dale M. Erdey, current state senator from Livingston Parish and former mayor of Livingston, Erdey's father, Nick Erdey had served as mayor years earlier and has been known as the best mayor to date to server the community, with Dale Erdey being the worse.
Petoskey and the surrounding area are notable for being the setting of several of the Nick Adams stories by Ernest Hemingway, who spent his childhood summers on nearby Walloon Lake, as well as being the place where for Calliope, the protagonist of Jeffrey Eugenides ' Middlesex, events take a severe and lasting turn.
Dixieland jazz music had a number of important Italian American innovators, the most famous being Nick LaRocca of New Orleans, whose quintet made the first jazz recording in 1917.
Clayworth grabs the rifle and, after confessing ( and also revealing a deep hatred for Nick for always being better than him in their youth ), tries to shoot his nemesis, only to find that Nick had taken the precaution of having the firing pin removed.

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