Intelligence Service was in fact " Pandora " ( 1985 ), a software developed for their thesis by two academic students of Jean-Louis Laurière, one of the most famous and prolific French AI researcher.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

In Hesiod, the story of Prometheus ( and, by extension, of Pandora ) serves to reinforce the theodicy of Zeus: he is a wise and just ruler of the universe, while Prometheus is to blame for humanity's unenviable existence.

Historic interpretations of the Pandora figure are rich enough to have offered Erwin Panofsky scope for monographic treatment.

He writes that in earlier myths, Pandora was married to Prometheus, and cites the ancient Hesiodic Catalogue of Women as preserving this older tradition, and that the jar may have at one point contained only good things for mankind.

The jar certainly serves as a prison for the evils that Pandora released – they only affect mankind once outside the jar.

Certain vase paintings dated to the 5th century BC likewise indicate that the pre-Hesiodic myth of the goddess Pandora endured for centuries after the time of Hesiod.

An alternate name for Pandora attested on a white-ground kylix ( ca.

A scholium to line 971 of Aristophanes ' The Birds mentions a cult " to Pandora, the earth, because she bestows all things necessary for life ".

" Both were motherless, and reinforced via opposite means the civic ideologies of patriarchy and the " highly gendered social and political realities of fifth-century Athens "-Athena by rising above her sex to defend it, and Pandora by embodying the need for it.

Chapter II, " The Theogony ", and Chapter III, " The Works and Days ", especially pp. 96 – 103 for a side-by-side comparison and analysis of the Pandora story.

Pandora and Santino rescue Marius, having answered his telepathic call for help.

As the final ore carts were rolling out of the Pandora mine, tourists began to seriously discover Telluride for its magnificent views, expert skiing, and famous autumn color changes.

* The Abyss, a prison for monsters in the Japanese anime / manga Pandora Hearts

She reunited with Aliens director James Cameron for his 2009 film Avatar, with Weaver playing a major part as Dr. Grace Augustine, leader of the AVTR ( avatar ) program on the film's fictional moon Pandora.

The mutineers first returned to Tahiti, where most of the survivors were later captured by the Pandora and taken to England for trial.

Pandora prospered because it was the main stop for travelers, mostly rich travelers such as doctors and lawyers, between Findlay and Kalida.

* Adrian Mole, a fictional diarist created by Sue Townsend, from her novels including The growing pains of Adrian Mole and The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged 13¾ ( Adrian moves from Leicester to Ashby-de-la-Zouch during his lifetime: his girlfriend Pandora Braithwaite later becomes MP for the town ) Sue Townsend also opened the Ashby School new English block in 2008

Hephaestus created automata for his workshop: Talos, an artificial man of bronze, and, according to Hesiod, the woman Pandora.

A fully playable port has been produced for the Wii, GP2X portable game system, the Pandora handheld, and the Maemo 5-based N900 smart phone.

For James Cameron's " Avatar ", Weta modified MASSIVE to give life to the flora and fauna on Pandora, for which the company did most of the visual effects with the 4 time Academy Award winner visual effects guru, Joe Letteri.

Two sculptures of Epimetheus and Pandora by El Greco are also recent acquisitions for the collection.

The work was done in Los Angeles by Cinesite utilizing a Spirit DataCine for scanning at 2K resolution, a Pandora MegaDef to adjust the color and a Kodak Lightning II recorder to output to film.

* Anthony Cordesman, " Pandora ’ s Box: Iraqi Federalism, Separatism, " Hard " Partitioning, and US Policy ", Working Draft, Center for Strategic and International Studies, October 9, 2007 ( PDF ).

For example, the Bibliotheca and Hyginus each make explicit what might be latent in the Hesiodic text: Epimetheus married Pandora.

For example, in Hesiod's Works and Days, the fair-haired Horai, together with the Charites and Peitho crown Pandora — she of " all gifts "— with garlands of flowers.

For example, all copies of Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow originally shipped to Australia without CD keys.

In Hesiod's Theogony, Phaëton becomes an incorporeal daimon, but, for example, the ills released by Pandora are deadly gods, keres, not daimones.

While Pandora needs very little information to get started, it is far more limited in scope ( for example, it can only make recommendations that are similar to the original seed ).

As previously detailed, Pandora Radio is a popular example of a content-based recommender system that plays music with similar characteristics to that of a song provided by the user as an initial seed.

Bates's statue of Pandora, owned by Tate Britain but seldom displayed publicly His next major statue, the 1890 Pandora, is more truly a figure in the round, and in this work Bates experimented with polychromy and mixed materials, making it self-consciously into a paradigmatic example of his artistic priorities.

The only example of this type, which became known as Pandora, was co-located with the UDC in Baynard House, London.

The earliest extant example of a mechanical pencil, was found aboard the wreckage of HMS Pandora, which sank in 1791.

For example, the English translations of the graphic novels by Papercutz continue to use the names " Patty Spring " and " Pandora ", while the storybooks by Scholastic changed these names to Petunia Pretty Paws and Bugsy Wugsy, respectively.

* Pandora uses the properties of a song or artist ( a subset of the 400 attributes provided by the Music Genome Project ) in order to seed a " station " that plays music with similar properties.

A number of Internet radio stations feature fusion music, including dedicated channels on services such as AOL Radio, Pandora and Yahoo!

She has provided the music for several popular anime series, such as the final Kimagure Orange Road movie, Noir,. hack // Sign, Aquarian Age, Madlax, My-HiME, My-Otome,. hack // Roots, Pandora Hearts, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Tsubasa Chronicle and the Kara no Kyoukai movies ( amongst others ).

In 2009, Fiction Junction returned to perform the opening theme song to Pandora Hearts, Parallel Hearts, with the majority of the show's music composed by Yuki Kajiura.

* Pandora Radio takes an initial input of a song or musician and plays music with similar characteristics ( based on a series of keywords attributed to the inputted artist or piece of music ).

The differences between collaborative and content-based filtering can be demonstrated by comparing two popular music recommender systems-Last. fm and Pandora Radio.

* Pandora ( musical group ), a Mexican music group

* Pandora, the name of a comic strip and its lead character in the UK music magazine Kerrang!

* Pandora Radio is an automated music recommendation service and custodian of the Music Genome Project

Pandora changed their music player to one that has a separate frame at the top of the screen showing the basic player buttons and information about the song.

Pandora music can now be streamed wirelessly throughout the sound system.

* Pandora. com-http :// www. pandora. com / music / artist / pena + suazo

Examples of online music services: Napster, Rhapsody, Last. fm, Pandora, Live365, Slacker, Sirius Satellite Radio, Radio IO, SomaFM, MP3tunes, Deezer ...