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They argued that existing neural models had failed to produce intelligent behaviour because they were too small, and that in order to create " artificial brains " it was necessary to manually assemble tens of thousands of evolved neural modules together, with the billion neuron " CAM-Brain " requiring around 10 million modules ; this idea was rejected by Igor Aleksander, who said " The point is that these puzzles are not puzzles because our neural models are not large enough.
In Eastern Europe, a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is played and has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltán Kodály, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, and more recently, in a different musical context, by Blue Man Group.
* 1910 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Firebird is premiered in Paris, bringing him to prominence as a composer.
Krantz argues, on the basis of an analysis by Igor Bourtsev, that since Patterson's height is known, a reasonable calculation can be made of his pace.
Philosopher Igor Primoratz provides four reasons why he believes that state terrorism is typically morally worse than non-state terrorism.
* May 29 – The ballet The Rite of Spring, with music by Igor Stravinsky conducted by Pierre Monteux, choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky and design by Nicholas Roerich, is premièred by Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris ; its modernism provokes one of the most famous classical music riots in history.
* June 25 – The ballet The Firebird ( L ' Oiseau de feu ), the first major work by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, commissioned by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, is premièred in Paris, bringing the composer international fame.
The Novikov self-consistency principle, also known as the Novikov self-consistency conjecture, is a principle developed by Russian physicist Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov in the mid-1980s to solve the problem of paradoxes in time travel, which is theoretically permitted in certain solutions of general relativity ( solutions containing what are known as closed timelike curves ).
Much of Igor Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella, which ostensibly reworks pieces by Pergolesi, is actually based on spurious works.
Prince Igor (, Knyaz ' Igor ' ) is an opera in four acts with a prologue.
The idea of a choral epilogue in the original scenario was no doubt inspired by the example of A Life for the Tsar by Glinka, to whose memory Prince Igor is dedicated.
While some aspects of the production may have been unusual, one critic noted that " placing the ( Polovtsian ) Dances as a Finale is an elegant idea, [...] the director Andrejs Zagars and the conductor Noam Zur have thus presented a musically and dramaturgically coherent Prince Igor.
The son of Igor of Kiev and Olga, Sviatoslav is famous for his incessant campaigns in the east and south, which precipitated the collapse of two great powers of Eastern Europe — Khazaria and the First Bulgarian Empire ; he also conquered numerous East Slavic tribes, defeated the Alans and the Volga Bulgars, and at times was allied with the Pechenegs and Magyars.
The early part is rich in anecdotal stories, among which are the arrival of the three Varangian brothers, the founding of Kiev, the murder of Askold and Dir, the death of Oleg, who was killed by a serpent concealed in the skeleton of his horse, and the vengeance taken by Olga, the wife of Igor, on the Drevlians, who had murdered her husband.
Igor Stravinsky called Daphnis et Chloé " one of the most beautiful products of all French music " and author Burnett James claims that it is " Ravel's most impressive single achievement, as it is his most opulent and confident orchestral score ".
The influence of the late Russian romantics such as Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov is also notable, as it is in Igor Stravinsky's great early ballets.
Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov () ( born November 10, 1935 in Moscow ) is a Russian ( and former Soviet ) theoretical astrophysicist and cosmologist.
Before the credits roll, it is revealed that all 16 geese, including Igor, returned to the Alden's farm the next spring safely and all on their own.
Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional ( if highly abstracted ) tonal bebop harmony and melodic lines that suggest the influences of modern classical composers Béla Bartók and Igor Stravinsky.
The group was considering to use The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky, but Taylor noted that his " Le Sacre du printemps would be something on that order ", to which Disney replied upon hearing a recording, " This is marvelous!
* 7-Zip / AdvanceCOMP: written by Igor Pavlov in C ++, this version is freely licensed and tends to achieve higher compression than zlib at the expense of CPU usage.

Igor and member
As a member of the Moscow-based club, Bure joined a lineup that featured several future NHL players, including linemates Sergei Fedorov and Alexander Mogilny, as well as Igor Larionov, Slava Fetisov, Sergei Makarov, and Vladimir Konstantinov.
During the mission, crew member Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to ever perform a spacewalk, and the potential Buran Space shuttle pilot, Igor Volk, was given spaceflight experience.
The Red Elvises ( also known as " Igor and Red Elvises ", after founding member and bandleader Igor Yuzov ) are a Russian-American band that performs rock & roll, surf, rockabilly, reggae, lounge and traditional Russian styles of music.
A Duma member ( Rodina faction ) since 1999, Igor Rodionov is now a member of the Committee on National Security and Chairman of the Professional Union of Military Personnel.
There he met Igor Rodriguez ( future member of Aparato Raro ), Robert Rodriguez ( future member of Banda 69 ), and Carlos Fonseca.
In December 2001 the Party of the Regions member Igor Yushchko was appointed Minister of Finance of Ukraine.
When Sepultura was formed, Igor was the youngest member at the age of 13, his brother Max was 14 at the time.
The party had one member of the Slovenian National Assembly on the founding of the party, Igor Štemberger, but lost this seat in the 2004 Slovenian parliamentary elections.
Kisser and drummer Igor Cavalera became the major creative forces in Sepultura after Max Cavalera's 1996 departure, although Igor is no longer a member of the band having left in 2006.
• 2000 Sydney Olympics: Igor Francetic ( Zagreb, Croatia ) was a member of the bronze medal winning Croatian Eight rowing team ; Long time Temple men's rowing coach, Dr. Gavin White ( Elkins Park, Pa .), named U. S. Olympic Assistant Coach.
At 18, right out of high school, he became a staff photographer for the Oregon Journal, and later, after returning from basic and advanced training as a member of the Oregon National Guard, Oregonian, During his early career in Portland he photographed some major personalities, including Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, The Rolling Stones, and The Supremes.
Igor Svyatoslavich the Brave (, ) ( Novhorod-Siverskyi, April 3 / 10, 1151 – the spring of 1201 / December 29, 1202 ) was a Rus ’ prince ( a member of the Rurik dynasty ).
His niece Topazia ( 1921 — 90 ) married the composer Igor Markevitch and was the mother of the conductor Oleg Caetani, who uses his mother's surname without, however, being a member of the Italian noble family.
It is the only Yes album to feature Igor Khoroshev as an official member.

Igor and called
On May 5, Abashidze was forced to flee Georgia as mass demonstrations in Batumi called for his resignation and Russia increased their pressure by deploying Security Council secretary Igor Ivanov.
Game 3 in Raleigh featured a triple-overtime thriller ( won by Detroit's Igor Larionov, the oldest player to score a last-round goal ), which sportscasters called one of the best finals games in history.
In 2000, Anderson and then-Yes keyboardist Igor Khoroshev worked on an album called True You, True Me.
In the 1950s he was featured in a radio show called Horizons West, a 13-part radio drama which followed the story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, and was the voice of Noah in the first recording of Igor Stravinsky's biblical ' musical play ' The Flood ( 1962 ).
Igor Stravinsky used what he called creative limitation with time signatures, by restricting himself from using any, in his composition ' The Rite of Spring ' as well as in alternate aspects of his other musical works.
Later scholars believe that Sakharov misunderstood the word bylina in the opening of Igor ’ Tale as “ an ancient poem .” The folk singers of byliny called these songs stariny ( Russian: старины ) or starinki ( Russian: старинки ) meaning stories of old.
Igor Stravinsky also arranged a divertimento from his ballet to music of Tchaikovsky, Le baiser de la fée, while Joaquín Rodrigo called his 1982 cello concerto a " Concierto como un divertimento " (" Concerto like a divertimento ").
In 1991, the Slovenian Democratic Union suffered an internal split: Rupel led its left-wing fraction, formed among others by Jelko Kacin, Igor Bavčar, and France Bučar, into the formation of a new party, called the Democratic Party.
In Eastern Europe, a larger descendant of the hammered dulcimer called the cimbalom is played and has been used by a number of classical composers, including Zoltán Kodály, Igor Stravinsky and Pierre Boulez, and more recently, in a different musical context, by Blue Man Group.
Igor and Oleg met during a Russian-American peace walk and subsequently played together in a Russian folk-rock band called Limpopo.
Later that month, Yuzov rolled out a new line-up called, " Igor and Red Elvises ".
Composer Igor Stravinsky achieved early success with a large-scale ballet score called The Firebird.
After the protest was over, Jovanović and several fellow university students ( Čedomir Antić, Igor Žeželj, Vladimir Dobrosavljević, and Aleksandar Ćirić ) formed an organization called Student Political Club ( Studentski politički klub, SPK ).
In The Nightmare Before Christmas ( 1993 ), the town's resident mad scientist, Dr. Finkelstein, has a hunchbacked assistant called Igor who acts rather canine, working for " Bone Biscuits ".

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