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Grosch
Grosch may refer to: * Herb Grosch (1918–2010), Canadian-American computer scientist ** Grosch's law, an observation about computer performance * Mária Grosch (born 1954), Hungarian chess player * Mathieu Grosch (born 1950), Belgian politician * Mike Leon Grosch (born 1976), German singer * Christian Heinrich Grosch (1801-1865), Norwegian architect See also * Groschen, a coin *Grolsch, similar name {{surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groschen
Groschen (; from la, grossus "thick", via Old Czech ') a (sometimes colloquial) name for various coins, especially a silver coin used in various states of the Holy Roman Empire and other parts of Europe. The word is borrowed from the late Latin description of a tornose, a ''grossus denarius Turnosus,'' in English the "thick denarius of Tours". Groschen was frequently abbreviated in old documents to ''gl'', whereby the second letter was not an '' l'' (12th letter of the alphabet), but an abbreviation symbol; later it was written as ''Gr'' or ''g''. Names and etymology The name was introduced in 13th-century France as ', lit. "thick penny", whence Old French ', Italian ', Middle High German ', Low German and Dutch ' and English '' groat''. In the 14th century, it appeared as Old Czech ', whence Modern German '. Names in other modern European languages include: * sq, grosh * Church Slavonic-derived languages: Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian and Serbo-Croatian ('), Ukrain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herb Grosch
Herbert Reuben John Grosch (September 13, 1918 – January 18, 2010) was an early computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950. Grosch's Law is an aphorism that states "economy is as the square root of the speed." Biography Born on Friday, September 13, 1918, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, Grosch was the first baby to survive incubator treatment at the Saskatoon General Hospital. As a child Grosch moved to Midland, Ontario, then Pembroke, then Chatham, and later Windsor, Ontario. Grosch moved to the United States where he received his B.S. and PhD in astronomy from the University of Michigan in 1942. In 1945, he was hired by IBM to do backup calculations for the Manhattan Project working at Watson Scientific Computing Laboratory at Columbia University. According to an IBM history, he had been previously employed as an optical engineer in defense industry and was eager to return to research. In 1951, he went on to work on Project W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Leon Grosch
Mike Leon Grosch (born 2 November 1976) is a German singer who came to fame as the runner-up of the third season of the television show ''Deutschland sucht den SuperStar'', the German version of ''Pop Idol''. Biography Grosch was born in Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia to a German-Australian father and Korean mother. He later moved to Cologne with his single mother Sung-Yun, who worked as a nurse there. He gained his first professional stage experience when he started singing at weddings and other ceremonies, while simultaneously performing with his own band. Until autumn 2005, Grosch worked as a cell phone seller. At that time he took leave from his job to participate in the third season of ''Deutschland sucht den SuperStar'' (where he also became romantically involved with co-competitor Vanessa Jean Dedmon). Because of his strong, husky voice and a few similarities to British singer Seal, Grosch became an early favourite with the judges and the audience, who enabled him to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Heinrich Grosch
Christian Heinrich Grosch (21 January 1801 – 4 May 1865) was a Norwegian architect. He was a dominant figure in Norwegian architecture in the first half of the 1800s. Biography Christian Heinrich Grosch was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. His family moved to Frederikshald (now Halden) in Østfold, Norway during 1811. He was first educated by his father, Heinrich August Grosch (1763-1843) who was a painter, graphic designer and teacher. When The Royal Drawing School was established in Christiania (now Oslo) in 1818, his father gained employment there as an instructor and re-located the family. Christian Heinrich attended the Royal Drawing School from 1819 to 1820. He also studied engineering with instructors including Benoni Aubert and Theodor Broch. In 1824, he completed his training at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Christian Grosch became Oslo's first "city conductor", which is to say he acted as the city's chief architect, planning engineer, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Grosch
Mathieu Jean Hubert Grosch (born 14 September 1950, in Eupen) is a Belgian politician and Member of the European Parliament for the German-speaking Community of Belgium with the CSP-EVP, Member of the Bureau of the European People's Party and sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism. He is a substitute for the Committee on Regional Development, a member of the Delegation to the EU-Mexico Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for the Delegation for relations with Japan. Education *1973: Germanic languages, University of Liège *1974: Accredited upper school teacher Career *1974–1981: teacher of English and German *1986–present: Member of the national bureau of the CSP *1994–present: Member of the EPP bureau *1981–1984: Adviser to the Prime Minister *1984–1985: Member of the provincial council *1986–1994: Member of Council, German-speaking Community *1986–1990: Government minister, German-speaking Community *1990–1994: Chair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grosch's Law
Grosch's law is the following observation of computer performance, made by Herb Grosch in 1953: I believe that there is a fundamental rule, which I modestly call ''Grosch's law'', giving added economy only as the square root of the increase in speed — that is, to do a calculation ten times as cheaply you must do it hundred times as fast. This adage is more commonly stated as Computer performance increases as the square of the cost. If computer A costs twice as much as computer B, you should expect computer A to be four times as fast as computer B. Two years before Grosch's statement, Seymour Cray was quoted in ''Business Week'' (August 1963) expressing this very same thought: Computers should obey a square law — when the price doubles, you should get at least four times as much speed. The law can also be interpreted as meaning that computers present economies of scale: the more costly is the computer, the price–performance ratio linearly becomes better. This implies that l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mária Grosch
Mária Grosch (born 3 August 1954) is a Hungarian chess player who holds the FIDE title of Woman International Master (WIM, 1984). Biography From the late 1970s to the middle of the 1980s, Grosch was one of Hungary's leading women chess players. She won the three bronze medals in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championships (1978, 1979, 1981). In 1986, she shared the first place in the Hungarian Women's Chess Championship, but lost Mária Ivánka an additional match for the title. In 1982, Grosch shared the 3rd place in the International Women's Chess tournament in Dortmund Dortmund (; Westphalian nds, Düörpm ; la, Tremonia) is the third-largest city in North Rhine-Westphalia after Cologne and Düsseldorf, and the eighth-largest city of Germany, with a population of 588,250 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the la ..., but in 1985 she took fourth place in the Budapest International Women's Chess tournament. In 1984, Mária Grosch was awarded the FIDE Woman International Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
