The system supported the Waterloo WATFIV and WATBOL compilers and also provided compilers for Pascal, C, PL / I, BASIC, APL, ALGOL, RPG, and GPSS.

During 1978 to 1979 Waterloo BASIC was developed targeting the IBM Series / 1.

In addition to Waterloo BASIC some of the other early products included WATCOM APL, WATCOM GKS, WATCOM COBOL, WATCOM FORTRAN ( WATFIV and WATFOR-77 ), WATCOM Pascal and the Waterloo 6809 Assembler.

Waterloo BASIC Primer and Reference Manual.

As part of this agreement, the University of Waterloo was to receive $ 2. 3 million in funding from the Microsoft Canada Academic Innovation Alliance and would introduce Microsoft's C # programming language in its Electrical and Computer Engineering programs ( also known as ECE.

With the November 29, 1953 launch of NBC outlet KWWL-TV in Waterloo, the two stations began sharing DuMont programming.

He was a young lecturer in computer science at the University of Waterloo ( Waterloo, Ontario, Canada ) when, starting in 1966, he and his colleague Paul Dirksen led a team of programmers developing a fast Fortran programming language compiler called WATFOR ( WATerloo FORtran ), for the IBM System / 360 family of computers.

WATFIV, or WATerloo FORTRAN IV, developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada is an implementation of the Fortran computer programming language.

In 2000 Equitrac acquired Software Metrics Inc. based in Waterloo, Ontario, near several universities with strong software programming curricula, who had been working with Equitrac since 1998 under a technology licensing agreement.

Today, the language is mostly spoken in Waterloo Region.

His first English language film was 1970's Waterloo, produced by Dino De Laurentiis.

The Woodlands takes part in competitions such as DECA, CNML, University of Waterloo math ( Hypatia, Euclid ), chemistry ( Avogadro Exam, Chem 13 News Exam ), University Science and Engineering Olympics ( McMaster, Guelph, York, UWO ) and engineering ( WindENG ) contests, and various international language competitions.

Wellington is better-known to posterity, because he led one of the two Allied armies at the final decisive victory of the Napoleonic Wars ( the battle of Waterloo in 1815 ), although Wellington's superior reputation is perhaps also because he only once faced Napoleon, whereas Charles was confronted by Napoleon in battle more times than any other commander.

Alexander Gordon ( 1786 – 1815 ), younger brother of the fourth Earl, was a soldier and was killed at the Battle of Waterloo.

The casualty rate suffered by Italian forces at the Battle of Adowa was greater than any other major European battle of the 19th century, beyond even the Napoleonic Era's infamous Waterloo and Eylau.

The Battle of Waterloo, where Napoleon was defeated by the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Duke of Wellington in 1815

He returned to France on 1 March 1815 ( see Hundred Days ), raised an army, but was comprehensively defeated by a British and Prussian force at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

He returned for 100 days in 1815, but was finally defeated by the British and German armies at Waterloo.

* IOI 2010 was held in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 14 – 21, 2010 ( results )

Universal Studios signed Whale to a five-year contract in 1931 and his first project was Waterloo Bridge.

In 2004, the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering ( CNSE ) was established on the campus of the University at Albany. In 2005, the University of Waterloo established a unique program which offers a full degree in Nanotechnology Engineering.

New Malden was established entirely as a result of the arrival of the railway when what is now called New Malden railway station was opened on 1 December 1846 on the main line from Waterloo.

This was a prototype for a proposed Waterloo and Whitehall Railway that would have run under the River Thames linking Waterloo and Charing Cross.

Incorporated under the name Waterloo, the town was renamed Austin shortly thereafter in honor of Stephen F. Austin.

Ronald William " Josh " Kirby ( 27 November 1928 – 23 October 2001 ) was an English commercial artist born in Waterloo, on the outskirts of Liverpool, Merseyside.

Although on the surface an entertaining escapist romance, alert contemporary readers would have quickly recognized the political subtext of Ivanhoe, which appeared immediately after the English Parliament, fearful of French-style revolution in the aftermath of Waterloo, had passed the Habeas Corpus Suspension acts of 1817 and 1818 and other extremely repressive measures and when traditional English Charter rights versus revolutionary human rights was a topic of discussion.

In the campaign of 1813 Allied forces in the German theater alone amounted to nearly one million whilst two years later in the Hundred Days a French decree called for the total mobilization of some 2. 5 million men ( though at most a fifth of this was managed by the time of the French defeat at Waterloo ).

Waterloo Bridge ( 1940 ) was to have starred Olivier and Leigh ; however, Selznick replaced Olivier with Robert Taylor, then at the peak of his success as one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's most popular male stars.

The Napoleonic epic Waterloo was shot in Ukraine ( then part of the Soviet Union ), using Soviet soldiers.

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

The Heroes of Waterloo was so named because, on its opening day, in 1815, soldiers who had just disembarked at Portsmouth, returning from the Battle of Waterloo, decided to stop there and celebrate their victory.

Some other popular sights are the Waterloo Column, the Laves House, the Wangenheim Palace, the Lower Saxony State Archives, the Hanover Playhouse, the Kröpcke Clock, the Anzeiger Tower Block, the Administration Building of the NORD / LB, the Cupola Hall of the Congress Centre, the Lower Saxony Stock, the Ministry of Finance, the Garten Church, the Luther Church, the Gehry Tower ( designed by the American architect Frank O. Gehry ), the specially designed Bus Stops, the Opera House, the Central Station, the Maschsee lake and the city forest Eilenriede, which is one of the largest of its kind in Europe.

* HMS Waterloo, the name of two ships of the Royal Navy, and one planned one

Final costs were over £ 12 million ( UK ) ( equivalent to about US $ 38. 3 million in 1970 ), making Waterloo, for its time, one of the most expensive movies ever made.

: Some researchers such as Anjan Chatterjee at the University of Pennsylvania and Jonathan Fugelsang at the University of Waterloo are using neuroscience techniques to investigate the neural and psychological underpinnings of causal launching events in which one object causes another object to move.

* William Makepeace Thackeray's novel Vanity Fair takes place during the Napoleonic Wars — one of its protagonists dies at the Battle of Waterloo.

In 1889, Sir William Fraser conflated this uncorroborated remark with the one attributed to him by Count Charles de Montalembert's “ C ' est ici qu ' a été gagné la bataille de Waterloo ” (“ It is here that the Battle of Waterloo was won.

The remnants of one of the Greathead tunnelling shields used in the construction of the line can be seen in the interchange tunnel at Bank linking the Waterloo and City with the Northern Line and the Docklands Light Railway.

Lower Lane, which runs under Waterloo Bridge along the bottom of the river valley to the north of the town centre, is one of the few parts of the town where the River Sheppey runs above ground.

Fraser uses them to make an ironic allusion to Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, and one of the heroes of Waterloo, who cuckolded the Duke of Wellington's brother Henry Wellesley and later-in one of the period's more celebrated scandals-married Wellesley's ex-wife.

The royal commissions continued during the 1820s, including one for a portrait of the king's sister Sophia, and one of Sir Walter Scott ( along with Jane Austen, one of Lawrence's favourite authors ), as well as one to paint King Charles X of France for the Waterloo series, for which Lawrence made a trip to Paris, taking Herman Wolff with him.

The Waterloo complex is one of the busiest passenger terminals in Europe.

A past curiosity of Waterloo was that a spur led to the adjoining dedicated London Necropolis railway station of the London Necropolis Company, from which funeral trains, at one time daily, ran to Brookwood Cemetery bearing coffins at 2 / 6 each.

Approximately three-quarters of a mile in length, it spans between Bute Street in the north and one block past Waterloo Road in the south.

The Jubilee platforms are at the opposite end of the site from those of the Bakerloo and Northern lines, but the two ends are connected by a moving walkway link ( one of only two on the Underground-the other gives access to the Waterloo & City line platform at Bank station ).

Nearest railway stations are Wandsworth Town railway station ; Wandsworth Common railway station, ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes train ride from Victoria ); and Earlsfield railway station, ( one stop from Clapham Junction, and 12 minutes train ride from Waterloo Station ).