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Lawrence Bossidy
Lawrence A. Bossidy ('Larry') is a businessman and author. From 1991-1999 Bossidy served as Chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal Corporation. He became Chairman of Honeywell Corporation when AlliedSignal was acquired by Honeywell in 1999. In 2002, his book entitled ''Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done'' (ISBN 0609610570) was published.
http://www.honeywell.com/execution/bio_larry.html Honeywell Bio
Larry
''The following is a portion of Larry's Text, which consists of lectures given by Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger in courses that he taught at Ohio State University. Wikification and NPOVing are invited.''
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger, born Lawrence Mark Sanger on July 16, 1968 in Bellevue, Washington and raised in Anchorage, Alaska, was employed by Jimmy Wales with Bomis, founder of Nupedia and Wikipedia, as Editor-in-Chief of Nupedia. Sanger co-founded Wikipedia alongside Wales; however, Wales rejects this reality entirely and claims that he is the sole founder of Wikipedia on the sole basis that Sanger worked for him even though the concept of Wikipedia sprang from the mind of Sanger. He proposed it, and his proposition directly led to the creation of the website. Sanger was the only paid editor of Wikipedia, a status he held from January 15, 2001, until his resignation on March 1, 2002. Sanger received his B.A. in philosophy from Reed College in 1991 and Ph.D. in philosophy from Ohio State University in 2000. His doctoral thesis concerned ''Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification.''
Wikipedia
Sanger was hired as editor-in-chief of Nupedia by Wales' company, Bomis. Responding to frustrations with the slow progress of Nupedia, in January 2001 Sanger proposed the creation of a wiki to spur the development of articles, and the result of this proposal was Wikipedia. By virtue of his position with Nupedia, Sanger spearheaded and named the project, and formulated much of the original policy.
Departure
For the next year, Sanger continued to work on and promote both the Nupedia and Wikipedia projects until Bomis had to discontinue funding for his position in February 2002. Sanger resigned as editor-in-chief of Nupedia and as "chief organizer" of Wikipedia (he never claimed an official title) shortly thereafter. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/My_resignation--Larry_Sanger Sanger's stated reason for ending his participation in Wikipedia and Nupedia as a volunteer were that he could not do justice to the task as a part-time volunteer; later http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25 he admitted that there had existed "a
Larry Wall
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Larry Wall (b. September 27, 1954), programmer, linguist, author, is most widely known for his creation of the Perl computer language in 1987. Wall earned his bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific University in 1976.
Wall is the author of the rn Usenet software and the nearly universally used patch. He has won the IOCCC twice and was the recipient of the first Free Software Foundation's award for the Advancement of Free Software in 1998.
Beyond his technical skills, Wall is known for his wit and often ironic sense of humor, which he displays in the comments to his source code or on Usenet. For example: "We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise."
Larry Wall is a trained linguist, as well as with the design of Perl. He is the co-author of ''Programming Perl'' (often referred to as the ''Camel Book''), which is the definitive resource for Perl programmers. He has edited the ''Perl Cookbook''. His books were published by O'Reilly.
Wall's Christian faith has informed some of the terminology of Perl, such as the name itself, a biblical reference to the "Pearl of great price" (Matthew 13:46). Similar references are the function names ''bless'' and ''confess'' and the organization of his talks into categories such as ''apocalypse'' and ''exegesis''. Wall has also alluded to his faith when he has spoken at conferences, including a rather straightforward statement of his beliefs at the August, 1997 Perl Conference and a discussion of Pilgrim's Progress at the YAPC (Yet Another Perl Conference) in June, 2000.
Wall continues to oversee further development of Perl and serves as the Benevolent Dictator for Life of the Perl project. His role in Perl is best conveyed by the so-called ''2 Rules'', taken from the official Perl documentation:
:# ''Larry is always by definition right about how Perl should behave. This means he has final veto power on the core functionality.''
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So I went to Talk:Jimmy Wales, and I don't see anything about Larry Sanger there. Wasn't Sanger listed on VfD? anthony 警告
:Yeah, it's on VfD, so far with a consensus to keep. anthony 警告
I was applying the principle discussed on Talk:Jimmy Wales, which it appeared you were willing to agree to, for Larry Sanger as well. How am I supposed to know it's listed on VfD if nobody puts the notice up? If Larry warrants an encyclopedic article, then write one. Until then, it should redirect to his user page, because this "article" contains absolutely NO information that is not available there. --Michael Snow 17:09, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
:The principle on Jimmy Wales was that Jimbo asked not to be on Wikipedia. If Larry Sanger asks not to be on Wikipedia, then I'd agree not to include this page either. anthony 警告
Date of birth? - Woodrow 06:16, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
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Hello all,
This most recent edit by 63.230.158.214 is libellous. This is rather serious because I am going on the academic job market; the troll is trying to hit me where it hurts, namely my family's pocketbook.
I would rather not correct the allegations myself (that's a bit of a conflict of interest).
Best regards,
Larry Sanger
Larry, you only teach intro courses -- no libel there at all. 63.230.158.214
:The most libelous change was something other than that. --Michael Snow 18:41, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
:As long as you remain anonymous and Larry Sanger signs his name, if he tells me that your statements are false I will disregard what you say. Could you come out of the closet and state your case so that this can be discussed in a civilized way instead of being just an edit war? Michael Hardy 21:28, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Why don't you start being civilized? Attacking anonymous users is not going to help the site. 63.230.158.214
Agreed--···---··· 03:53, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I did not attack anyone. I welcome anonymous users as editors of
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is a US science fiction author. Perhaps his best-known work is ''Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards.
Biography
Larry Niven was born in Los Angeles, California. He graduated with a B.A. in mathematics (with a minor in psychology) from Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1962. He has since lived in Los Angeles suburbs, including Chatsworth and Tarzana as a full-time writer. He is independently wealthy, having inherited a substantial amount from his grandfather, Edward Doheny (otherwise known as a player in the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s).
Career
Niven is the author of numerous science fiction short stories and novels, beginning with his 1964 story "The Coldest Place" (which in the story was said to be the dark side of Mercury, which was thought to be tidally locked with the Sun at the time it was written but which ironically enough was found to rotate in a 2:3 resonance just months before the story was published). He won the Hugo Award for Best Short Story in 1967 for ''Neutron Star'', in 1972 for ''Inconstant Moon'', and in 1975 for ''The Hole Man''. He won the Hugo Award for Best Novelette in 1976 for ''The Borderland of Sol''.
Niven has also written scripts for various science fiction television shows, including the original ''Land of the Lost'' series and ''Star Trek: The Animated Series'' ("The Slaver Weapon" with the Kzinti species). One of his short stories, "Inconstant Moon", was adapted for an episode of the television series ''The Outer Limits''.
Many of Niven's stories take place in his Known Space universe, in which humanity shares the several solar systems nearest to Sol with over a dozen alien species, including species known as the Kzinti, and Pierson's Puppeteers, which are frequently central characters. The Ringworld series is set in the Known Space universe.
Niven has also written a logical fantasy series set in The Warlock's
Larry Sanger
Dear Wikipedians,
I'm no longer associated with Wikipedia, which I co-founded. You can read my own account of my involvement with Wikipedia and Nupedia, "The Early History of Nupedia and Wikipedia: A Memoir," here:
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/18/164213&from=rss Part I
http://features.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/19/1746205&from=rss Part II
Links to some of my other writings about the project can be found at Larry Sanger.
I can be reached at blarneypilgrim (a t) yahoo (d o t) com.
--Larry Sanger, April 21, 2005
P.S. Here's what I posted when I left in 2002. Still good advice:
All the best to Wikipedia and Wikipedians. May you ''continue''
to be open and warmly welcoming, not insular,
to be focused singlemindedly on writing an ''encyclopedia,'' not on Usenet-style debate,
to recognize and praise the best work, work that is detailed, factual, well-informed, and well-referenced,
to work to understand what neutrality requires and why it is so essential to and good for this project,
to treat your fellow productive, well-meaning members of Wikipedia with respect and good will,
to attract and honor good people who know a lot and can write about it well, and
to show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists, who if permitted would waste your time and create a poisonous atmosphere here.
Archive
Larry Gelbart
Larry Gelbart (b. February 25 1928 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is a prolific comedy writer with over 50 years of credits.
He began as a writer for Danny Thomas radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Martin and Lewis and Bob Hope. On 1950s television he worked for Sid Caesar, along with other gifted comedy writers Woody Allen, Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner.
He wrote the long-running Broadway farce ''A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'' with Burt Shevelove and Stephen Sondheim in 1962, and collaborated with Shevelove on a series of UK movie comedies during the rest of 1960s.
In 1972 he returned to the United States to produce and write many episodes of the TV version of the novel/movie ''M*A*S*H''.
He also wrote the screenplays to ''Oh, God!'' and ''Movie Movie'', and in 1982 co-wrote the Oscar-nominated screenplay for ''Tootsie''.
Gelbart's other Broadway credits include ''City of Angels'' and the Iran-contra satire ''Mastergate''; in the early 1960s, he uttered the now-classic line, "If Hitler is alive, I hope he's out of town with a musical." TV credits include cable TV-movie ''Barbarians at the Gate''. Wrote memoirs, ''Laughing Matters'', in 1997.
Gelbart is sometimes known as Francis Burns in the credits. In the original German, his last name means "yellow beard."
Since May 2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The Huffington Post.
Contact
Larry Gelbart frequently posts on M*A*S*H newsgroups, and is contactable at "elsig at aol dot com".
External link
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312205/ Internet Movie Database entry
Gelbart, Larry
Larry Sanger
''Contents of old User page:''
My name is Larry Sanger and I was (with Jimbo Wales) instigator of Wikipedia, and the first (and so far only) editor-in-chief of Nupedia. I'm responsible for the original concept and the name "Wikipedia" and a lot of the original formulations of Wikipedia's most basic policy. Since funding for my salary ran out, leading to my departure in March 2002, I can take no credit and no blame for changes that have occurred since then. Ph.D. 2000, M.A. 1995, Philosophy, Ohio State University. B.A. 1991 Philosophy, Reed College. Home town is Anchorage, Alaska.
Please have a look at (and spread around links to) this http://people.cohums.ohio-state.edu/sanger3/wikipedia_statement.htm Personal Statement about Wikipedia's Reliability.
I can be reached at blarneypilgrim (a t) yahoo (d o t) com.
All the best to Wikipedia and Wikipedians. May you ''continue''
to be open and warmly welcoming, not insular,
to be focused singlemindedly on writing an ''encyclopedia,'' not on Usenet-style debate,
to recognize and praise the best work, work that is detailed, factual, well-informed, and well-referenced,
to work to understand what neutrality requires and why it is so essential to and good for this project,
to treat your fellow productive, well-meaning members of Wikipedia with respect and good will,
to attract and honor good people who know a lot and can write about it well, and
to show the door to trolls, vandals, and wiki-anarchists, who if permitted would waste your time and create a poisonous atmosphere here.
I set up an http://www.seeatown.com/search/ encyclopedia meta-search engine (dead link ?). I hope you'll find it useful when researching Wikipedia articles.
If you are spending too much time on Wikipedia, you could always use my http://www.seeatown.com/halog/ Human Activity Logger (dead link ?)to help you toward more self-discipline! ;-)
Historical note:
:Until December 2001, I was a full-time paid
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