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1. Library Acquires Alan Lomax Collection
- www.loc.gov
- Alan Lomax Collections Brought Together at the Library of Congress.
- The American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress has acquired the Alan Lomax Collection, which comprises the unparalleled ethnographic documentation collected by the legendary folklorist over a period of 70 years. ...
- With this acquisition, the Alan Lomax Collection joins the material Lomax and his father John collected during the 1930s and early 1940s for the Library's Archive of American Folk Song, thus bringing his entire collection together for the first time, under one roof at the Library of Congress.
- "The Alan Lomax Collection contains pioneering documentation of traditional music, dance, tales and other forms of grassroots creativity in the United States and abroad," said James H. ...
- From the time he left his position as head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1942 through the end of his long and productive career as an internationally known folklorist, author, radio broadcaster, filmmaker, concert and record producer and television host, Alan Lomax amassed one of the most important collections of ethnographic material in the world.
- Regarding the Library's acquisition, Anna Lomax Wood, Alan Lomax's daughter, said, "In bringing my father's work back home to the place that it began, the Library of Congress and the American Folklife Center have embraced my father's collection in the grandest of ways, and have recognized his vision of preserving, understanding and honoring the soul and spirit of the world's cultures. With its world-wide recognition as a cultural institution, the Library will serve as a marvelous platform for Alan's intellectual legacy and legendary collection. ...
- ACE will continue to produce the Alan Lomax Collection compact disc series on Rounder Records and to administer rights to repertoire contained in the collection, working from digital copies made of original materials that will be housed at the Library of Congress. ...
- Alan's father, John Avery Lomax, began a 10-year relationship with the Library in June 1933, when he set out with Alan, then 18, on their first folksong gathering expedition under the Library's auspices. ...
- Alan Lomax became the archive's "assistant in charge" in 1937, and he continued to make field trips and supply recordings to the Archive of American Folk Song until 1942. ...
- After he left the Library of Congress in 1942, Alan Lomax continued his work to document, analyze and present traditional music, dance and narrative through projects of various kinds throughout the world.
- "We are delighted that our agreement with ACE makes it possible to combine Alan Lomax's earliest documentary material, which he collected during his time at the Library of Congress, with the material he collected during the rest of his life," said American Folklife Center Director Peggy Bulger. ...
- Mickey Hart, member of the board of the American Folklife Center and longtime drummer with The Grateful Dead, said of the acquisition: "The Alan Lomax Collection has finally come home to the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. ...
- The Association for Cultural Equity, chartered in 1985 and located at New York City's Hunter College, was founded by Alan Lomax to research, preserve and disseminate world folk performance traditions. ACE administers the rights to the use of materials in the Alan Lomax Collection and carries on Lomax's mission through the cataloging and dissemination of materials. ...
2. Alan Turing
- www.math.sfu.ca
- Alan Turing .
- The account below relies on the book "Alan Turing: the Enigma" (1983) by Andrew Hodges who maintains the Alan Turing home page.
- Alan Mathison Turing was born June 23, 1912 in a nursing home in Paddington, London to Julius Mathison and Ethel Sara Turing. ...
- Alan Turing and his older brother John had a childhood ridigly determined by the demands of the class and the exile in India of his parents. Alan and his brother were shuffled amongst various English foster homes as children until their father retired from India in 1926. Alan was niether encouraged nor supported in the foster homes and through his own pursuits found a deep underlying passion for science, first in chemistry experiments.
- As Alan became more enticed with science his mother worried that he would not be accepted into Sherbourne,the English Public School. However, in 1926 Alan was granted admission into Sherbourne and his mother's fears were dissolved for a short while. ...
- It was at this time, on the sixth form that Alan met Christopher Morcom; and everything changed. ...
- For a couple of years following the death Alan wrote letters to Morcom's mother questioning how the human mind , and Christopher's mind in particular, was embodied in matter; and whether this matter was released after death. ...
- For relaxation, Alan enjoyed rowing, running and later sailing.
- If you are interested in Theatre there is a play on Alan Turing called "Breaking the Code" by Hugh Whitemore.
3. Alan Kay - Fall '96
- msp.sfsu.edu
- Up until the time Alan Kay began working on the SmallTalk programming language at Xerox Park in the early 1970s, computing had belonged exclusively to the world of engineers. ... But just at the time when personal computing was beginning to dawn on the horizon in the 1970s, - in fact one of the first, the Alto, was built at Xerox Park - Alan Kay had a vision that would ultimately lay the foundation for the development of desktop multimedia, the Graphical User Interface. ...
- Maybe it was because of Alan Kay's musical background and most certainly as a result of his work with children, the graphical interface with its pull-down menus, clickable buttons, and formatted on-screen text opened the door for the computer to become a creative instrument that would unlock intuitive faculties and artistic dreams for many years throughout the 70s. ...
4. Alan Turing Page
- www.lambda.net
- 3821 Normal …Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954).
- Alan Mathison Turing was by all accounts a genius. ...
- Alan Turing the Mathematician.
- Alan Turing the Intelligence Officer.
- Alan Turing the Computer Pioneer.
- Alan Turing is regarded as the master mind behind the project.
- Alan Turing the Security Risk.
- The Persecution of Alan Turing .
- Alan Mathison Turing committed suicide by eating an apple laced with cyanide in 1954. ...
- In 1994 a section of road in Manchester was renamed in his memory as "Alan Turing Way".
- Learn More About Alan Turing.
- Read the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges, 1987. ...
- Visit the Alan Turing Home Page. ...
5. APP WebRing Sites
- www.roadkill.com
- Hello, and welcome to the Alan Parsons Pipeline. ... To join the pipeline, your site MUST contain Alan Parsons, or Alan Parsons related content. ...
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6. Frank's Alan Parsons Project page
- www.stwing.upenn.edu
- A much-needed update and general building-out of this site will take place in the coming days and weeks ahead! Seeing Alan live for the first time this past Saturday Night in Atlantic City on the Walk Down Abbey Road Tour, plus a chance meeting with the man himself afterwards (!!!!) has prompted this long-overdue initiative. ...
- Eric Woolfson, and the name of the band behind the great music was The Alan Parsons Project.
- I went back to that same store and discovered that the Alan Parsons Project was definitely not just a two-hit wonder band. ... It was also that year (well, my Freshman year, Spring of 1994) when I discovered that Alan Parsons had become a three-decade band, having recently come out with Try Anything Once. ...
- This site will continue to be developed in the coming weeks whenever I can grab a spare moment or two, and lets hope that Alan Parsons himself will continue to produce more as well! .
7. Alan Watts : Alan Watts Real Audio
- www.alanwatts.com
- Alan Watts: Real Audio Below is a liting of available MP3s and animations. Please sign in to be informed of new Alan Watts audio postings on this site and gain access to more audio files and animations. ...
- Yes! I would like to recieve updates of the Alan Watts site, including new audio streams when they become available.
8. Sports Hollywood - Ten Questions with David Alan Grier
- www.sportshollywood.com
- 10 Questions with David Alan Grier.
- David Alan Grier (Photo courtesy of Toyota Motorsports).
- Tony Award nominee and graduate of Yale School of Drama, actor/comedian David Alan Grier is one of those unique actors who has yet to be typecast in one dramatic realm. ...
- Perhaps best known for his work on the acclaimed Fox TV series In Living Color, David Alan Grier has helped create some of their most memorable characters; including Antoine Merriwether of "Men On. ...
- A native of Detroit, David Alan Grier attended the University of Michigan and received his Bachelor of Arts in Radio, Television and Film. ...
- David Alan Grier: Actor.
9. Alan Watts' audio at Mastering Enlightenments Arts
- www.wattstapes.com
- Alan Watts (1915-1973).
- The late Alan Watts, who is known as a master of communication, wrote over twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion, on Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism and Zen. ...
- Alan Watts Seminar Sets Index 1-800-75 WATTS - Order Info. ...
- The following sets were assembled after an extensive review of all the Alan Watts spoken word material. ...
- More About Alan Watts .
- For an excellent sampling of an incredible range of Alan Watts interests, these classic radio talks showcase Watts' brilliant intellectual, and spiritual panorama.
- In the light of this, Alan Watts explores the use of arts, athletics and other secular activities as actually forms of Yoga - that is, as ways of realizing one's identity with the Ground of Being.
- Alan Watts had particular respect for the Japanese arts in general, and especially Japanese Martial Arts and the Aikido Master, Morihei Ueshiba. ... Alan Watts' amazing Seminar, "A Philosophy of war" (4 cassettes), beautifully balances Terry Dobson's lessons on conflict resolution (4 cassettes).
- Only) featuring friends of Alan Watts, including : .
- "Where Are We At" A historic meeting of Alan Watts, Gary Snyder, Alan Ginsberg and Timothy Leary discussing the birth of the New Consciousness plus Alan Watts' seminar on "The Psychedelic Explosion. ...
10. ARTHUR, Chester Alan - Biographical Information
- bioguide.congress.gov
- CONTAINS TABLE ii --> ARTHUR, Chester Alan, (1829 - 1886).
- ARTHUR, Chester Alan, a Vice President and 21st President of the United States; born in Fairfield, Franklin County, Vt. ...
- Gentleman Boss: The Life of Chester Alan Arthur. ...
11. Alan Turing
- plato.stanford.edu
- Alan Turing.
- Alan Turing (1912-1954) never described himself as a philosopher, but his 1950 paper "Computing Machinery and Intelligence" is one of the most frequently cited in modern philosophical literature. ...
- Alan Turing: the Unknown Mind .
- Alan Turing's short and extraordinary life has attracted wide interest. ...
- Unwilling or unable to remain within any standard role or department of thought, Alan Turing continued a life full of incongruity. ...
- Alan Mathison Turing was born in London, 23 June 1912, to upper-middle-class British parents. ...
- This work was interrupted by Alan Turing's arrest in February 1952 for his sexual affair with a young Manchester man, and he was obliged, to escape imprisonment, to undergo the injection of oestrogen intended to negate his sexual drive. ...
- The symbolism of its dramatic element — a partly eaten apple — has continued to haunt the intellectual Eden from which Alan Turing was expelled.
- Alan Turing drew much between 1928 and 1933 from the work of the mathematical physicist and populariser A. ...
- His friends knew an Alan Turing in whom intelligence, humour and sex were often intermingled.
- Donald Michie, the British AI research pioneer profoundly influenced by early discussions with Turing, has called this suggestion ‘Alan Turing's Buried Treasure’, in an allusion to a bizarre wartime episode in which Michie was himself involved (Hodges 1983, p. ...
- Alan and I tackled one or two theoretical physicists with this, and they rather pooh-poohed it by saying that continual observation is not possible. ...
- Alan Turing's last postcards to Robin Gandy, in March 1954, headed ‘Messages from the Unseen World’ in allusion to Eddington, hinted at new ideas in the fundamental physics of relativity and particle physics (Hodges 1983, p. ...
- Alan Turing: the Unknown Mind.
- Alan Turing was even more directly on the receiving end of science, when his sexual mind was treated as a machine, against his protesting consciousness and will. ...
- Alan Turing did not fit easily with any of the intellectual movements of his time, aesthetic, technocratic or marxist. ... The mind of Alan Turing remains an enigma.
12. Wild Life Graphics
- www.wildlifegraphics.com
- The Art of Alan James Robinson.
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