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Newcomb (surname)
Newcomb is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Anthony Newcomb (1941–2018), American musicologist * Bernard A. Newcomb, American businessperson and philanthropist, co-founder of E*TRADE * Bryant B. Newcomb (1867–1945), American politician * Carman A. Newcomb (1830–1902), American politician, lawyer and judge * Cyrenius A. Newcomb, Sr. (1837–1915), American businessman, reformer, and philanthropist * Deborah Newcomb (born 1954), member of the Ohio House of Representatives *George Newcomb (1866–1895), outlaw of the American Old West and member of the Wild Bunch * Frank Newcomb (1846–1934), commodore in the United States Revenue Cutter Service *Harvey Newcomb (1803–1863), American clergyman and writer *Horatio C. Newcomb (1821–1882), American attorney, judge, and politician * James Pearson Newcomb (1837–1907), journalist and Secretary of State of Texas *John Lloyd Newcomb (1881–1954), American educator *Josephine Louise Newcomb (1816–1901), American p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Newcomb
Anthony Newcomb (August 6, 1941 - November 18, 2018) was an American musicology, musicologist. He was born in New York City and studied at the University of California, Berkeley where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1962. He then studied with Gustav Leonhardt in the Netherlands while on a Fulbright Scholarship. He received an MFA (1965) and Ph.D from Princeton University in 1969. In 1968 he joined the music faculty at Harvard University, and left in 1973 to join the faculty at Berkeley. In 1981 he won the Dent Medal, a prestigious award for musicology awarded by the Royal Musical Association. From 1986 to 1990 he was the editor of the ''Journal of the American Musicological Society''. In 1990 he became Dean of Arts and Humanities at Berkeley, and later a professor emeritus. In 1992 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Newcomb's early interest was in the Italian madrigal (music), madrigal between 1540 and 1640, and especially the music of the ''concert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wesley Newcomb
Wesley Newcomb (1818–1892) was an American physician and a malacologist who specialized in land snails. Life Wesley Newcomb was born in New York in 1818. His father was physician Simon Newcomb.portrait He studied medicine at the Jefferson Medical College (now ) and in . He traveled to |
Newcomb's Paradox
In philosophy and mathematics, Newcomb's paradox, also known as Newcomb's problem, is a thought experiment involving a game between two players, one of whom is able to predict the future. Newcomb's paradox was created by William Newcomb of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. However, it was first analyzed in a philosophy paper by Robert Nozick in 1969 and appeared in the March 1973 issue of ''Scientific American'', in Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games". Reprinted with an addendum and annotated bibliography in his book ''The Colossal Book of Mathematics'' (). Today it is a much debated problem in the philosophical branch of decision theory. The problem There is a reliable predictor, another player, and two boxes designated A and B. The player is given a choice between taking only box B or taking both boxes A and B. The player knows the following: * Box A is transparent and always contains a visible $1,000. * Box B is opaque, and its content has already b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Newcomb
William Newcomb (1927 – 29 May 1999) was an American theoretical physicist and professor at the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, who is best known as the creator of Newcomb's paradox, devised in 1960. He was the great-grandnephew of the astronomer Simon Newcomb. Newcomb started at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (then University of California Radiation Laboratory) probably in 1955 in the Energy Directorate. He was also an adjunct professor in the UC Davis The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ... Livermore Department of Applied Science since 1971. References 1927 births 1999 deaths Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory staff University of California, Berkeley faculty University of California, Davis faculty {{US-academ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Newcomb
Simon Newcomb (March 12, 1835 – July 11, 1909) was a Canadian–American astronomer, applied mathematician, and autodidactic polymath. He served as Professor of Mathematics in the United States Navy and at Johns Hopkins University. Born in Nova Scotia, at the age of 19 Newcomb left an apprenticeship to join his father in Massachusetts, where the latter was teaching. Though Newcomb had little conventional schooling, he completed a BSc at Harvard in 1858. He later made important contributions to timekeeping, as well as to other fields in applied mathematics, such as economics and statistics. Fluent in several languages, he also wrote and published several popular science books and a science fiction novel. Biography Early life Simon Newcomb was born in the town of Wallace, Nova Scotia. His parents were John Burton Newcomb and his wife Miriam Steeves. His father was an itinerant school teacher, and frequently moved in order to teach in different parts of Canada, particularly in N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Newcomb
Sean, also spelled Seán or Séan in Irish English, is a male given name of Irish language, Irish origin. It comes from the Irish versions of the Biblical Hebrew name ''Yohanan'' (), Seán (Anglicisation of names, anglicized as ''Shaun/Shawn (given name), Shawn/Shon (given name), Shon'') and Séan (Ulster variant; anglicized ''Shane/Shayne''), rendered ''John (given name), John'' in English and Johannes/Johann/Johan in other Germanic languages. The Norman language, Norman French ''Jehan'' (see ''Jean (male given name), Jean'') is another version. For notable people named Sean, refer to List of people named Sean. Origin The name was adopted into the Irish language most likely from ''Jean'', the French variant of the Hebrew name ''Yohanan''. As Gaelic has no letter (derived from ; English also lacked until the late 17th Century, with ''John'' previously been spelt ''Iohn'') so it is substituted by , as was the normal Gaelic practice for adapting Biblical names that contain in o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronda Storms
Ronda R. Storms (born Ronda Rehnell Newcomb on September 5, 1965) is an American politician representing her adopted home state of Florida. Affiliated with the Republican Party (United States), Republican Party, she represented the 10th District in the Florida Senate from 2006 to 2012. She decided not to run in 2012 for the new 24th District. Storms had an eight-year tenure on the Hillsborough County, Florida, Hillsborough County Commission (1998-2006) and advanced a number of controversial issues. Background and personal life Ronda Newcomb was born in Des Moines, Iowa, into a military brat (U.S. subculture), military family, and moved around often, growing up in Germany, Turkey and Alabama. Spending many formative years in Turkey, she used to be fluent in the Turkish language, but has had "little call for the language recently." The Newcomb family finally settled in Brandon, Florida when Ronda was 16, and she graduated from Brandon High School (Brandon, Florida), Brandon High S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Newcomb
Robert Newcomb (born 1951) is an American author of fantasy novels published by Del Rey Books. In 2008, Del Rey ceased publishing his books. Selected works * '' The Fifth Sorceress'' (2002), . * ''The Gates of Dawn'' (2003), . * ''The Scrolls of the Ancients'' (2004), . * '' Savage Messiah'' (2005), . * '' A March into Darkness'' (2007), . * ''Rise of the Blood Royal'' (December 26, 2007), . ''The Fifth Sorceress'' Newcomb's debut novel ''The Fifth Sorceress'' was accused of misogyny or sexism Sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on one's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls.There is a clear and broad consensus among academic scholars in multiple fields that sexism refers primari ..., and was critically panned. In response to the criticism, Newcomb said his intent was not "to be sexist or to be controversial, or to espouse some anti-politically correct viewpoint. It just happened to be the particular story I wanted to tel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Newcomb
Richard Fairchild Newcomb (June 6, 1913 – December 3, 2004) was a wartime naval War correspondent, correspondent during World War II and received a Purple Heart. He was a news editor of the Associated Press and the author of a number of books on the Pacific War, battles in the Pacific during the Second World War, including ''Abandon Ship!'', ''Savo'', in particular ''Iwo Jima'', an account of the Battle of Iwo Jima. Newcomb was from Haworth, New Jersey. He graduated from the School of Journalism, Rutgers College in 1932. His two books ''Abandon Ship!'' (1958) and ''Iwo Jima'' (1965) were bestsellers. ''Abandon Ship!'' is the first book written on the sinking of USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Indianapolis, while ''Iwo Jima'' is an oral history of the veterans involved in the assault on Iwo Jima. He retired to Palm Coast, Florida in 1984, and died on December 3, 2004. Works *Newcomb, Richard F. ''Abandon ship!''. Holt, NY 1958, republished by HarperCollins Publishers, 2000. *New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rexford Newcomb
Rexford G. Newcomb (April 24, 1886 – March 16, 1968) was an American architectural historian. Biography Newcomb was born in Independence, Kansas, on April 24, 1886. After undergraduate study at the University of Kansas, he earned both a second bachelor's degree in architecture and a master's in architecture at the University of Illinois, and a master of arts at the University of Southern California. He married Ruth Bergen on October 24, 1911 in Wichita, Kansas; they had three children. After stints teaching at the Long Beach Polytechnic High School and Long Beach Evening High School, University of Southern California and Texas A&M University, Newcomb returned to the University of Illinois as a faculty member in 1918. He remained there until 1954. He served as dean of the College of Fine and Applied Arts from 1932 to 1954. He was also the second president of the Society of Architectural Historians. Newcomb died on March 16, 1968, at Princeton, Illinois. Recognition Newcomb was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Newcomb
Philip H. Newcomb (born 1950s) is an American software engineer and CEO of The Software Revolution, Inc., known for his work in the field of formal methods of software engineering.Anquetil, Nicolas, and Timothy C. Lethbridge. "Experiments with clustering as a software remodularization method." ''Reverse Engineering, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth Working Conference on.'' IEEE, 1999. Biography Newcomb started his studies at the Indiana University in 1972, and obtained his BSc in Cognitive Psychology in 1976. In 1977 he did graduate work in computer science at the University of Washington and at Carnegie Mellon University. In 1984 he continued his studies at the Ball State University, where he obtained his MA in Computer Science in 1988. In 1983 Newcomb started as researcher at the Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center in Seattle, working in the field of formal methods for software engineering and artificial intelligence. He became senior principal scientist, and in 1989 director of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
