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Binford (surname)
Binford is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Greta Binford, arachnologist * Julien Binford (1908–1997), painter and professor of painting * Lewis Binford (1931–2011), archaeologist * Lloyd Binford (1869–1956), insurance executive * Melvin J. Binford (1903–1984), football and basketball coach * Sally Binford (1924–1994), anthropologist and archaeologist * Thomas Binford, computer scientist at Stanford University * Tom Binford (1924–1999), businessman and philanthropist See also * Binford (other) {{surname, Binford ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greta Binford
Greta J. Binford is a United States arachnologist, specialising in studies of spider venom. She is a Professor of Biology at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon. As a child, Binford was raised on a small corn-and-soybean farm in west-central Indiana. From 1983 to 1985 she studied psychology at Purdue University, after an abortive attempt at a degree in veterinary medicine. While qualifying to be a science teacher at Miami University, she was offered the chance to study spiders in Peru's Amazon basin for the summer, and obtained a B.A. in Zoology at Miami in 1990. Afterwards, she undertook post-graduate studies at the University of Utah from 1991–1993, obtaining an M.S. in Biology in 1993. She obtained a PhD from the University of Arizona in 2000. She joined Lewis & Clark as an Assistant Professor in 2003, becoming Associate Professor in June 2009. She was named Oregon Professor of the Year for 2011, and is the subject of the 2011 children's book ''Silk and Venom: Searchin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Binford
Julien Binford (December 25, 1908 – September 12, 1997) was an Americans, American painting, painter. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and then in France. Settling in Powhatan County, Virginia, he was known for his paintings of the rural population of his neighborhood as well as for his murals. During World War II (1944) he lived in New York City and painted views of the port during the war. These paintings (4 full pages in color) were featured in ''Life'' magazine. In 1946 he was appointed professor of painting at University of Mary Washington, Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he worked until his retirement in 1971. Youth Julien Binford was born to Julien Binford and Elizabeth Rodman Kennon on December 25, 1908 at Norwood (Powhatan, Virginia), Norwood Plantation, his maternal grandfather's estate, in Powhatan County, Virginia. His parents were both from old Southern families and Julien was the first cousin four times removed of Confederate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Binford
Lewis Roberts Binford (November 21, 1931 – April 11, 2011) was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period. He is widely considered among the most influential archaeologists of the later 20th century, and is credited with fundamentally changing the field with the introduction of processual archaeology (or the "New Archaeology") in the 1960s. Binford's influence was controversial, however, and most theoretical work in archaeology in the late 1980s and 1990s was explicitly construed as either a reaction to or in support of the processual paradigm. Recent appraisals have judged that his approach owed more to prior work in the 1940s and 50s than suggested by Binford's strong criticism of his predecessors. Early life and education Binford was born in Norfolk, Virginia on November 21, 1931. As a child he was interested in animals, and after finishing high school at Matthew Fontaine Maury High Sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lloyd Binford
Lloyd Tilghman Binford (December 16, 1866 – August 27, 1956) was an American insurance executive and film censor who was the head of the Memphis Censor Board for 28 years. The son of an infantry colonel, Binford left high school at 16 for a job as a railway postal clerk. After moving to Memphis, he eventually became president of the Columbian Mutual Life Insurance Company and a Freemason noted for his views on "Southern womanhood" and white supremacy. He once told ''Collier's'' that at his funeral "two rows of seats in the rear" would be "set aside for my Negro friends". Binford's changes included the removal of whipping and crucifixion sequences from Cecil B. de Mille's '' The King of Kings'' and cuts to or bans of numerous films with African-American stars or topics, including '' Imitation of Life'', ''Sensations of 1945'', and ''Brewster's Millions'' (1945). In 1945, he attracted national attention when he banned the Jean Renoir film '' The Southerner'', citing his opinion t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin J
Melvin is a masculine given name and surname, likely a variant of Melville and a descendant of the French surname de Maleuin and the later Melwin. It may alternatively be spelled as Melvyn or, in Welsh, Melfyn and the name Melivinia or Melva may be used a feminine form. Of Norman French origin, originally Malleville, which translates to "bad town," it likely made its way into usage in Scotland as a result of the Norman conquest of England. It came into use as a given name as early as the 19th century, in English-speaking populations. As a name Given name Academics *Melvin Calvin (1911–1997), American chemist who discovered the Calvin cycle *Melvin Day (1923–2016), New Zealand artist and art historian *Melvin Hochster (born 1943), American mathematician *Melvin Konner (born 1946), Professor of Anthropology *Melvin Schwartz (1932–2006), American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988 * Melvin Alvah Traylor, Jr. (1915–2008), American ornithologist Busines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sally Binford
Sally Binford (née Rosen; 1924–1994) was an archaeologist and feminist. A prehistorian, she contributed alongside her husband (Lewis Binford) to the formation of processual archaeology. Early life She was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Jewish parents. A collection of interviews with Binford were published by Janet Clinger in a collection of interviews called "Our Elders, Six Bay Area Life Stories." In the interviews, Binford is reported as saying that her parents were racists, and one of her first realizations of this was when she had a crush on a Chinese boy at school in the second grade. With her parents' urging, Binford started at Vassar College in 1942. In 1943, Binford quit against her parents' wishes. After working for two years, she decided to attend the University of Chicago undergraduate program. She was briefly married and had one child, Susan, before divorcing in 1950. Early career in archaeology In 1962 she completed her PhD at the University of Chicago in the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Binford
Thomas Oriel Binford has been a researcher in image analysis and computer vision since 1967. He developed a model-based approach to computer vision in which complex objects are represented as collections of generalized cylinders. His results are reflected in work in other areas of research, including the interpretation of complex scenes using invariants and quasi-invariants, inference rules and evidential reasoning in extended Bayes networks of symbolic geometric constraints, the SUCCESSOR system, a portable, intelligent vision system, stereo and visual robot navigation, segmentation and feature estimation in complex images, color image analysis, surface material analysis, and image compression. He has led the development of numerous computer vision systems, including systems successfully employed in brain surgery on humans, high-precision automated machining, and helicopter navigation. Binford received a Ph.D. in particle physics in 1965 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Binford
Thomas Wyatt Wilson Binford (April 6, 1924 – January 14, 1999) was an Indianapolis-based entrepreneur and philanthropist. One of Indianapolis' most influential men, Thomas W. Binford was a pioneer, visionary and civil rights leader. He participated in civic, philanthropic, cultural and political aspects of the city and state and was valued for his sensitivity, wise counsel, personal and financial support, and sincerity. In addition to his many personal interests, Binford spearheaded a group to buy the Indiana Pacers basketball team in 1975 and served as its president and general manager for one year. From 1974-1995, Binford served as the Chief Steward of the Indianapolis 500, presiding over its transition from United States Auto Club to Indy Racing League governance. Biography Binford attended Princeton University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was interim president of DePauw University in 1975-76. Although he did not have any prior banking experience, Binford was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
