Regarding story of Gene Amdahl

Gene Amdahl played a major role in deceitful and mounting the mainframe laptop with the purpose of dominated data doling out through the 1970s (see mainframe). Amdahl was born on November 16, 1922, in Flandreau, South Dakota. After having his education interrupted by World War II, Amdahl normal a B.S. From South Dakota State University in 1948 and a Ph.D. In physics next to the University of Wisconsin in 1952.

When a graduate scholar Amdahl had realized with the purpose of foster progress in physics and other sciences necessary better, sooner tools in favor of computing. At the phase in attendance were barely a only some computers, and the paramount come near to to getting access to major computing power seemed to be to design one’s own automaton. Amdahl designed a laptop called the WISC (Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer). This laptop used a sophisticated procedure to break calculations into parts with the purpose of might be agreed on sale on separate processors, making it solitary of the most primitive examples of the corresponding computing techniques found in today’s laptop architectures. Dressed in 1952 Amdahl went to handiwork in favor of IBM, which had committed itself to dominating the latest data doling out industry.

Amdahl worked with the team with the purpose of eventually designed the IBM 704. The 704 improved ahead the 701, the company’s primary victorious mainframe, by adding up many latest inner encoding orders, together with the knack to operate on the brink meaning calculations (involving statistics with the purpose of include decimal points). The automaton too incorporated a fast, high-capacity magnetic crux recall with the purpose of allow the automaton retrieve data more quickly in calculations. Dressed in November 1953 Amdahl became the chief project engineer in favor of the 704 and therefore helped design the IBM 709, which was Designed especially in favor of technical applications.

When IBM planned extending the tools by building a powerful latest technical laptop called STRETCH, Amdahl eagerly functional to head the latest project. However, he ended up on the trailing flank of a corporate power struggle, And did not receive the column. He not here IBM next to the finish of 1955.

Dressed in 1960 Amdahl rejoined IBM, somewhere he was soon involved in several design projects. The solitary with the the majority lasting worth was the IBM System/360, which would turn out to be the the majority everywhere and victorious mainframe laptop Of all phase. Dressed in this project Amdahl foster refined his ideas around making a computer’s central doling out section more efficient. He designed logic circuits with the purpose of enabled the notebook to scrutinize the orders waiting to be executed (the “pipeline”) and determine which orders might be executed straight away and which would include to hang around in favor of the results of other orders. He too used a collection, or special recall area, in which the orders with the purpose of would be wanted After that might be stored in advance of phase so they might be retrieved straight away while wanted. Today’s desktop PCs practice these same ideas to obtain the the majority on sale of their chips’ capabilities.

Amdahl too made foremost hand-outs to the foster development of corresponding doling out. Amdahl bent a formula called Amdahl’s law with the purpose of basically says with the purpose of The help gained from using more processors little by little declines as more notebook are added.

The amount of convalescence is too proportional to how much of the calculation Can be broken down down into parts with the purpose of can be run in corresponding. When a outcome, certain kinds of programs can run much sooner with several processors being used concurrently, While other programs might radio show little convalescence. Dressed in the mid-1960s Amdahl helped confirm IBM’s Advanced Computing Systems Laboratory in Menlo Park, California, which he directed. However, he became increasingly frustrated with pardon? He contemplation was IBM’s too rigid come near to to deceitful and marketing computers. He certain to leave IBM again and, this phase, challenge it in the marketplace.

A little story about Buzz Aldrin, a man who set foot in the moon

Remembering when I was watching an Indian film titled 3 idiots, rector of the university or their chief director of "Imperial College of Engineering" Dr. Viru Shastrabuddhi (correct me if I wrong) asked all the students in a public meeting. The president asked all students and said, "Who is the first to set foot on the lunar surface?", All answered with spirit (unless there is a person who does not care), "Neil Armstrong". Then the president said, and asked again, "it is true, Neil Armstrong. And everyone will remember because he was the first, what about the second person?". All the students just stunned and silent for not being able to answer who the second person to set foot on the lunar surface.

 

Full name of Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr.. which is a man of military educational background and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). An engineer in the field of mechanical engineering and is a pilot, is the second person who landed and set foot on the lunar surface after Neil Armstrong. History records that Edwin Aldrin or commonly known as Buzz Aldrin is one of three astronauts who first set foot on the moon. In addition to work as an astronaut, Buzz Aldrin also became a fighter pilot. This was after he got military education with the United States Air Force (USAF).

'We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way' - Buzz Aldrin

 

According to Wikipedia, Buzz Aldrin (born Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr..; Born in the United States, January 20, 1930, age 82 years) is a mechanical engineer, retired air force pilot and astronaut United States. Aldrin was the second person to set foot on the moon after Neil Armstrong. On July 20, 1969 (July 21 GMT time), he and Neil Armstrong landed on the Moon with a small aerial vehicle, which had been sent to the Saturn V moon rocket for the Apollo 11 mission. 

 

After graduating from the United States Military Academy, he entered the United States Air Force. He, too, and the Korean War combat duty by 66 times, then he moved to western Germany. In 1963, he received a doctorate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. in the same year he was selected as an astronaut third group by the U.S. space agency (NASA). The first flight took place in 1966dengan spacecraft Gemini 12, with James A. Lovell. On this first flight, he was in space for 5 1/2 hours. Subsequently he followed the Apollo 11 mission, along with Neil Armstrong and Michael Collins, on July 16, 1969, and four days later, he landed on the moon. after two hours of being on the lunar surface, to collect rocks, making pictures and doing some scientific experiments, they were lifted up again by the Lunar module. Apollo 11 mission ended, after they landed in the Pacific Ocean on July 24, 1969. 

 

Buzz Aldrin retired with the rank of colonel in the military, especially in the American air force. Buzz Aldrin's name is quite well known to the world at the moment, and even because we are not so familiar with a Buzz, his nickname in the role in the animated film made ​​toys story of "Buzz". Indeed, added to the Lightyear at the end of the name, but I think the film may be indicated in the figure of a Buzz Aldrin and everyday tasks in the role of Buzz Lightyear. 

 

I think humans will reach Mars, and I would like to see it happen in my lifetime.

 

Mars is there, waiting to be reached.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

 

After retiring from the military and NASA, Buzz gained the trust to lead the Air Force pilot school based in the United States Air Field Edward Air Force Base. Buzz was in space for 12 days 1 hours 52 minutes as a whole by conducting two missions of Apollo missions 11 and Gemini 12. By the age of Buzz is now much more activity in the field of education, especially in the fields of Astronomy, Astrophysics and astronauts. It is evident from the activities done in some communities and one of them you can see on his personal website that is buzzladrin.com. (Images form buzzaldrin.com)

The Man

 

Regarding story about the architect Alvar Aalto

At this present age, cell phones now infiltrating in people's lives. Call it like products made ​​by Nokia. Mobile phone manufacturers which coming from country of Finland has profit of hundreds of millions of dollars or even billions of dollars from their sales. But, you know, if Finland was not only known for a cell phone product? The subject of this time leading us to a man which came from that country, which has been contributing to the worldwide work in the field of science that is in the architectural field.

Born on February 3, 1898 in a town called Kuortane. His father was Johan Henrik Aalto who was an inspector (as sheriff) in a region in Finland, while his mother was Selly (read-Selma) Matilda which was the postmistress. He was given the name of Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (often known as Alvar Aalto).

Young Aalto was study and finish elementary school, middle school, high school at a school called the Jyväskylä Lyceum school in 1916. Then in 1921, he was a graduation in architecture with the alma mater of Helsinki University of Technology.

Alvar Aalto's love to the world of architecture to make it known by many people. His works are known by many people because it uses the architectural model building that has a style unique functionalist / expressionist and humane style. Though his early work is more directed to the neo-classical-style building. And indeed he eventually adapt and functionalism symbol that can be interpreted in a modern building.

Most of the works of Alvar Aalto architecture can be seen on buildings spread across Europe and America. These buildings were the work of Aalto inspired by rational thoughts and intuition. It incorporates both the mind and make it a single line pattern which drawn into the image of a building. The results of his thinking now is the inspiration for architects which want to design buildings with style modern-functionalist/expressionist and humane style. Here a few work of Alvar Aalto:

Academic Bookshop at Helsinki, Finlandia

Baker Dormitory at Cambridge, Massachusets Institute of Technology

Mount Angel Library at Mount Angel, Oregon

Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki-Finlandia

Aalto in 1976, precisely on May 11 died. He left so much of his work which very impressive. If we see that, beginning with the architectural design things that are patterned Classicism, then move on to functionalism and ends with style monumentalism. There is some Aalto`s quotes that I choose from brainyquote.com and wikipedia.org

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

We should work for simple, good, undecorated things" and he continues, "but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.

According from Wikipedia.org Aalto's awards included the Royal Gold Medal for Architecture from the Royal Institute of British Architects (1957) and the Gold Medal from the American Institute of Architects (1963). He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1957. And Aalto has been commemorated in a number of ways:

• Alvar Aalto is the eponym of the Alvar Aalto Medal, now considered one of world architecture’s most prestigious awards.
• Aalto was featured in the 50 mk note in the last series of the Finnish markka(before its replacement by the Euro in 2002).
• 1998 marked the centenary anniversary of Aalto's birth. The occasion was marked in Finland not only by several books and exhibitions but also by the promotion of specially-bottled red and white Aalto Wine, and a specially-designed cup-cake.
• In the year of his death, 1976, Aalto was commomorated on a Finnish postage stamp.
• Aalto University, a new Finnish university (an amalgamation of Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki School of Economics and TaiK) established in 2010, is named after Alvar Aalto.
• An Alvar Aallon katu (Alvar Aalto Street) can be found in three different Finnish cities: Jyväskylä, Oulu and Seinäjoki.

For further information about Alvar Aalto only visit at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvar_Aalto (images from www.google.com/images)

The people who contributed to the development of mathematics

Math actually show up when someone finds a problems that exist around us that involve quantity, structure, space, or change, just look at like how to make a house, do the calculations of how much the number of cattle, of exchange of goods with goods that require a science that is able to explain and resolve all these issues. In its website, Wikipedia writes in the beginning the problems were encountered in the trade, land measurement and later astronomy; now, all science suggests the problems studied by mathematicians, and many of the problems that arise in mathematics itself. For example, the physicist Richard Feynman path integral formula discovered quantum mechanics using a combination of mathematical reasoning and physical insight, and today's string theory, which is still evolving scientific theory that attempts to uniting four fundamental forces of nature, continues to inspire new mathematics.
 
Some mathematics is only consistent in the area inspired him, and applied to solve advanced problems in the region. However, sometimes even developed mathematical developments are not based on the discipline of mathematics itself. John Nash, found after the development of mathematics from the question of the dynamics of government in the economic field, and incorporates the general stock of mathematical concepts. Amazing fact that the mathematical "most pure" are turning to have practical applications is what Eugene Wigner called him as "Ineffective no logic Mathematics in the Natural Sciences".

As in most areas of mathematics assessment, a variety of disciplines such as engineering, physics, chemistry, economics requires a completion method in solving the problems that exist. One major difference between pure mathematics and applied mathematics is too focused in every issue that is too much scope to create a picture that includes the one area, it is too pure in learning mathematics, though it may be pure. Some coverage of applied mathematics have merged with their corresponding traditions outside of mathematics and a discipline that has its own right, including statistics, operations research and computer science.
 
Those who are interested in the mathematics often encountered a certain aesthetic in many aspects of mathematics. Many mathematicians talk about the elegance of mathematics, aesthetics of the lines, and the beauty of it. Simplicity and generality appreciated. There is beauty in the simplicity and elegance of the evidence provided, such as Euclid's proof of that is that there are infinite number of primes, and in an elegant numerical method that the calculation of the rate, the fast Fourier transformation. G. H. Hardy in A Mathematician's Apology expressed the belief that these aesthetic penganggapan, in itself, sufficient to support the assessment of pure mathematics

The mathematicians are working hard to find evidence of elegant theorems in particular, the quest Paul Erdős often dwell on the type of search the root of the "Bible" in which God had written his favorite proofs. Kepopularan recreational mathematics is another sign that the excitement is common when someone is able to solve math problems.

 
Call it that, in the development of mathematics is based on several algorithms that can be done easily, so the calculation is not too complicated as before. The approach used is an analytical approach in perspective, so it does not get out much of the rationale for the analysis of the mathematical fundament of thought, fancy Given that the algorithms developed in the mathematical method is inseparable from the ideas of earlier scholars, let's look at a wide range of mathematical scientists thought the results , among others:

 

Euler was responsible for many notations in use today. Modern notation makes mathematics much easier for the professional, but beginners often find it as something horrible. Solidification occurs very, very: few symbols contain a wealth of information

Al-Hassar. The first time he wrote the book called Kitab al-bayan-tadhkar wat. The book is a sort of handbook on the sum of the numbers, arithmetic operations related to numbers and fractions. This book is so phenomenal, so it occupies a very important role in the history of mathematics in North Africa. The second math book written by Al-Hassar titled Al-Kita-b al-kamil fi Sina `at al-` adad (complete book about the art of numerology). This book is the development of the first book he has written. Just as Al-Qurashi, the fruit is also thought Al-Hassar much influence on other mathematicians in the following centuries.

 

Algebra is the inventor of Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi. Algebra comes from the Arabic "al-jabr" which means "gathering", "relationship" or "completion" is a branch of mathematics that can be characterized as a generalization of the field arithmetic. Algebra is also the name of an abstract algebraic structure, namely the algebra in a field

 

Sir Isaac Newton. The work of his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687 considered the most influential books in the history of science. This book laid the foundations of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton described the laws of gravity and three laws of motion which dominated the scientific view of the universe for three centuries. Newton was able to show that the motion of objects on Earth and outer space objects are set by the set of natural laws are the same. He proved it by showing the consistency between Kepler's laws of planetary motion with the theory of gravity. His work was finally remove doubt scientists will heliosentrisme and advancing the scientific revolution.

In the field of mechanics, Newton sparked the principle of conservation of momentum and angular momentum. In the field of optics, he successfully built the first reflecting telescope and developed a theory of color based on the observation that a glass prism will split white light into other colors. He also formulated the law of cooling and studied the speed of sound.

 

Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann. was a German mathematician who made ​​important contributions to the analysis and differential geometry, some of which paved the way for further development of general relativity. His name is connected with the Riemann zeta function, Riemann integral, Riemann entry, Riemann manifold, Riemann mapping theorem, Riemann-Hilbert problem, Riemann-Roch theorem, Cauchy-Riemann equations, etc.

 

Paul A.M. Dirac. Born in Bristol, England, and studied electrical engineering there. Subsequently, he changed the interest and eventually studied mathematics and physics. He received his Ph.D. University of Cambridge in 1926.

After bringing the first paper on quantum mechanics Werner Heisenberg in 1925, Dirac immediately devise a more general theories and principles formulated in the following year according to Wolfgang Pauli exclusion principle of quantum mechanics. He studied the statistical behavior of particles which satisfy the Pauli principle, such as electrons. It was also studied independently by Enrico Fermi some time earlier. The result is called the Fermi-Dirac statistics to honor them both.

In 1928 a joint study Dirac theory of special relativity with quantum theory so as to produce a possible explanation of the theory of electron spin and magnetic moment of the electron and predicted the existence of a positively charged electron (positron). Carl Anderson discovered particles of the United States in 1932.

 

Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier (March 21, 1768 - May 16 1830) was a French mathematician and physicist best known for starting the investigation of Fourier series and its application in heat flow problems. Fourier transformation is also named in his honor.

 

Source from http://wikipedia.org  

 

  

"Aku Binatang Jalang", dedicated to Chairil Anwar, celebrating 63 years (Died in April 28th 1949)

"Aku Binatang Jalang, dari kumpulannya yang terbuang" the words that came from a young poet who lived during the Indonesian independence movement. Someone who wants to contribute to the country of Indonesia with his poems are harsh and arouse controversy, but alive. A young man who lived not so long in this world, died at the age of the productive, at the age of 27 years. I want to live another 100 years, old are still young Anwar your work but keep in mind all the time.

Anwar (born in Medan, North Sumatra, July 26, 1922 - died in Jakarta, 28 April 1949 at age 27 years), otherwise known as "The Beast Bitch" (from his work, I) is Indonesia's leading poets. Together Asrul Sani and Rivai Apin, he was named by HB Jassin as a pioneer of modern poetry Force '45 and Indonesia.


Here the famous poem from Chairil Anwar:


AKU

Kalau sampai waktuku
'Ku mau tak seorang kan merayu
Tidak juga kau

Tak perlu sedu sedan itu

Aku ini binatang jalang
Dari kumpulannya terbuang

Biar peluru menembus kulitku
Aku tetap meradang menerjang

Luka dan bisa kubawa berlari
Berlari
Hingga hilang pedih peri

Dan aku akan lebih tidak perduli

Aku mau hidup seribu tahun lagi

Maret 1943

KRAWANG-BEKASI

Kami yang kini terbaring antara Krawang-Bekasi
tidak bisa teriak "Merdeka" dan angkat senjata lagi.
Tapi siapakah yang tidak lagi mendengar deru kami,
terbayang kami maju dan mendegap hati ?

Kami bicara padamu dalam hening di malam sepi
Jika dada rasa hampa dan jam dinding yang berdetak
Kami mati muda. Yang tinggal tulang diliputi debu.
Kenang, kenanglah kami.

Kami sudah coba apa yang kami bisa
Tapi kerja belum selesai, belum bisa memperhitungkan arti 4-5 ribu nyawa

Kami cuma tulang-tulang berserakan
Tapi adalah kepunyaanmu
Kaulah lagi yang tentukan nilai tulang-tulang berserakan

Atau jiwa kami melayang untuk kemerdekaan kemenangan dan harapan
atau tidak untuk apa-apa,
Kami tidak tahu, kami tidak lagi bisa berkata
Kaulah sekarang yang berkata

Kami bicara padamu dalam hening di malam sepi
Jika ada rasa hampa dan jam dinding yang berdetak

Kenang, kenanglah kami
Teruskan, teruskan jiwa kami
Menjaga Bung Karno
menjaga Bung Hatta
menjaga Bung Sjahrir

Kami sekarang mayat
Berikan kami arti
Berjagalah terus di garis batas pernyataan dan impian

Kenang, kenanglah kami
yang tinggal tulang-tulang diliputi debu
Beribu kami terbaring antara Krawang-Bekasi

1948