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Michael Shapiro (mathematician)
Michael Shapiro may refer to: * Michael Shapiro (actor), American actor, voice actor and theatre director * Mike Shapiro (programmer), American computer programmer * Michael J. Shapiro (born 1940), American political scientist at the University of Hawai'i * Michael Jeffrey Shapiro, American composer and music director of the Chappaqua Orchestra * Mike Shapiro, bookmaker, see Sands Hotel and Casino See also * Mikhail Chapiro (born 1938), Russian artist and painter, currently lives in Canada {{hndis, Shapiro, Michael ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shapiro (actor)
Michael Shapiro is an American actor, and theatre director, best known for voicing the ''Half-Life'' characters G-Man and Barney Calhoun and the only voice actor who worked in all Half Life games. Early life In 1987, Shapiro helped launch the Annex Theater and performed in many of their productions. For a time he lived in Seattle until moving to Brooklyn, New York in 2000. Career Michael Shapiro is most famous for voicing Barney Calhoun and the G-Man in all of the characters' appearances in the ''Half-Life'' series. Other video games in which he is credited as "Mike Shapiro" are '' Blood II: The Chosen'', '' Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories'' and ''Torin's Passage''. He has also voiced many radio and TV commercials. Shapiro is a director of television shows and theater productions, with some of his shows being shown on ''Strike.TV''. In 2007, his TV pilot ''Family Values'', starring Rob Riggle, was screened at the New York Television Festival The New York Television Fes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Shapiro (programmer)
Michael W. Shapiro is an American computer programmer who worked in operating systems and storage at Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC. While working at Sun Microsystems, Shapiro developed pgrep, the Modular Debugger (MDB), DTrace, fault management and diagnosis, and other software for Sun's Solaris operating system. The pgrep and pkill utilities Shapiro created are today found in every major Unix operating system, including Linux, BSD, and macOS, and are commonly used by system administrators and developers. Shapiro and the DTrace team received a Technology Innovation Award and Overall Gold Medal for Innovation for DTrace from the Wall Street Journal in 2006. DTrace was also recognized by USENIX with the Software Tools User Group (STUG) award in 2008. Over the next 10 years, DTrace was ported and incorporated into other major operating systems, including BSD and Apple's macOS. Starting in 2006, Shapiro led Sun's engineering effort to build a commercial storage product using ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael J
Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian and Islamic religions * Michael (bishop elect), English 13th-century Bishop of Hereford elect * Michael (Khoroshy) (1885–1977), cleric of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada * Michael Donnellan (1915–1985), Irish-born London fashion designer, often referred to simply as "Michael" * Michael (footballer, born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1983), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1993), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born February 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born March 1996), Brazilian footballer * Michael (footballer, born 1999), Brazilian footballer Rulers =Byzantine emperors= *Michael I Rangabe (d. 844), married the daughter of Emperor Nikephoros I * M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro
Michael Jeffrey Shapiro is an American composer, conductor, and author. The son of a Klezmer band clarinetist, Michael Shapiro spent most of his high school years in Baldwin, a Long Island suburb, where he was a music student of Consuelo Elsa Clark, William Zurcher, and Rudolf Bosakowski. The winner of several piano competitions during his youth, he earned his B.A. at Columbia College, Columbia University, where he majored in English literature and concentrated in music, benefiting most—according to his own assessment—from some of the department's stellar musicology faculty, which, at that time, included such international luminaries as Paul Henry Lang, Denis Stevens, Joel Newman, and others. He studied conducting independently with Carl Bamberger at the Mannes College of Music in New York and later with Harold Farberman at Bard College. At The Juilliard School, where he earned his master's degree, he studied solfège and score reading with the renowned Mme. Renée Longyâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sands Hotel And Casino
The Sands Hotel and Casino was a historic American hotel and casino on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, United States, that operated from 1952 to 1996. Designed by architect Wayne McAllister, with a prominent high sign, the Sands was the seventh resort to open on the Strip. During its heyday, it hosted many famous entertainers of the day, most notably the Rat Pack and Jerry Lewis. The hotel was established in 1952 by Mack Kufferman, who bought the LaRue Restaurant which had opened a year earlier. The hotel was opened on December 15, 1952 as a casino and hotel with 200 rooms. The hotel rooms were divided into four two-story motel wings, each with fifty rooms, and named after famous race tracks. Crime bosses such as Doc Stacher and Meyer Lansky acquired shares in the hotel and attracted Frank Sinatra, who made his performing debut at Sands in October 1953. Sinatra later bought a share in the hotel himself. In 1960, the classic caper film ''Ocean's 11'' was shot at the hotel, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
