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Siskind is a German-Jewish surname meaning "sweet child", thought to have originated during the early nineteenth century period when German officials assigned surnames to Jews.Elsdon Coles Smith, ''American Surnames'' (1986), p. 264. People having this surname include: *Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), a renowned American photographer *Amy Siskind (born 1965), an American activist and writer *Arthur Siskind (born 1938), a lawyer, businessperson, and executive director of the News Corporation * Edward Siskind (1886–1955), an American football and basketball coach *Jeffrey Mark Siskind, writer of the optimizing batch whole-program Scheme compiler used in the program, Stalin *Jeremy Siskind, a jazz pianist taught by Sophia Rosoff *Martin Siskind, former manager of artist Purvis Young, who successfully petitioned for Young to be declared mentally incompetent *Murray Jay Siskind, a fictional character in the novel, ''White Noise'' *Paul Siskind, composer of the opera ''The Sailor-Boy and t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Siskind
Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American photographer whose work focuses on the details of things, presented as flat surfaces to create a new image independent of the original subject. He was closely involved with, if not a part of, the abstract expressionist movement, and was close friends with painters Franz Kline (whose own breakthrough show at the Charles Egan Gallery occurred in the same period as Siskind's one-man shows at the same gallery), Mark Rothko, and Willem de Kooning. Life Siskind was born in New York City, growing up on the Lower East Side. Shortly after graduating from City College, he became a public school English teacher. Siskind was a grade school English teacher in the New York Public School System for 25 years, and began photography when he received a camera as a wedding gift and began taking pictures on his honeymoon. Early in his career Siskind was a member of the New York Photo League, where he produced several significan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Siskind
Amy Siskind (born December 16, 1965) is an American activist and writer. She is the author of ''The List: A Week-by-Week Reckoning of Trump’s First Year'' (2018) and organizer of the We the People March. Early life and education Siskind was born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, to Jewish parents, Bernard Siskind and Selma Lipsky Siskind, and is the youngest of five siblings. She attended Marblehead High School, graduating in 1984. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Cornell University in 1987, and a Master of Business Administration in finance and international business from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1992. Career Early career As a Wall Street executive, Siskind was a pioneer and expert in the distressed debt trading market. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella & Co. in 1996, at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner. Siskind worked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Siskind
Arthur Siskind (born 11 October 1938) is an American lawyer and businessperson. He has been an executive director of the News Corporation since 1991. He served as their group general counsel from March 1991 until December 2004. He was succeeded by Lawrence Jacobs. Siskind remains on News Corporation's board of directors and continues to serve the company as senior advisor to the chairman. As executive director of New Corp., his salary was $1.7 million with a $5 million annual bonus in 2005. from He graduated from . Siskind became a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Siskind
Edward S. Siskind (May 5, 1886 – July 20, 1955) was an American football and basketball coach. He served as the head football coach at Fordham University Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its origina ... in 1918, compiling a record of 4–2–1. Siskind was also the head basketball coach at Fordham in 1909–10 and 1918–19, tallying a mark of 40–7 in two seasons. Head coaching record Football References 1886 births 1955 deaths American football ends Fordham Rams football coaches Fordham Rams football players Fordham Rams men's basketball coaches Jewish American sportspeople {{1910s-collegefootball-coach-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stalin (Scheme Implementation)
In computing, Stalin (STAtic Language ImplementatioN) is a programming language, an aggressive Optimizing compiler, optimizing batch Interprocedural optimization, whole-program Scheme (programming language), Scheme compiler written by Jeffrey Mark Siskind. It uses advanced data Data-flow analysis, flow analysis and type inference and a variety of other optimization methods to produce code. Stalin is intended for production use in generating an optimized executable. The compiler runs slowly, with little or no support for debugging or other niceties. Full R4RS Scheme is supported, with a few minor and rarely encountered omissions. Interfacing to external C libraries is straightforward. The compiler does Object lifetime, lifetime analysis and hence does not generate as much Garbage collection (computer science), garbage as might be expected, but global reclamation of storage is done using the Boehm garbage collector. The name is a joke: "Joseph Stalin, Stalin brutally optimizes." S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Siskind
Jeremy Siskind (born October 14, 1986) is an American pianist, composer, and educator known for his innovative blending of jazz and classical music. Early life Siskind was raised in Irvine, California and began playing piano at age four. His brother, who publishes under the name "Scott Alexander", is the author of the blog ''Slate Star Codex''. Jeremy was trained in the Yamaha Music Education System, and quickly distinguished himself in their Junior Original Concert program, where he was twice selected to be the United States representative to Japan. Siskind studied jazz piano with Linda Martinez and Tamir Hendelman. Siskind earned degrees in Jazz Performance and Music Theory at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied with Tony Caramia, Bill Dobbins, and Harold Danko. In 2006, Siskind was noticed by jazz legend Marian McPartland, who invited him to record an episode of ''Piano Jazz'' on NPR. Siskind began participating in piano competitions w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophia Rosoff
Sophia Rosoff (January 26, 1924 - November 22, 2017) was an American pianist and educator, and a founder of the Abby Whiteside Foundation. She was a co-editor of the reprinted collection of Abby Whiteside's writings, along with Joseph Prostakoff. Her pupils have included the jazz pianists Brad Mehldau, Jeremy Siskind, Fred Hersch, Barry Harris, Ethan Iverson, Benoit Delbecq, Angelica Sanchez, Monique diMattina and Aaron Parks Aaron Parks (born October 7, 1983) is an American jazz pianist. Career A native of Seattle, Parks studied at the University of Washington at the age of 14 through the Transition School and Early Entrance Program as a double major in computer sc .... References American pianists American women pianists 1924 births 2017 deaths 21st-century American women {{US-pianist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Noise (novel)
''White Noise'' is the eighth novel by Don DeLillo, published by Viking Press in 1985. It won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction."National Book Awards – 1985" . Retrieved March 27, 2012. (With essays by Courtney Eldridge, Matthew Pitt, and from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog.) ''White Noise'' is a cornerstone example of . It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Steinberg
Dr. Alan L. Steinberg is an American author. He wrote the libretto for the opera ''The Falcon and the Sailor Boy'', which was performed at SUNY Potsdam in 2006, starring Stephanie Blythe. Education and career Steinberg received his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a Professor in SUNY Potsdam's English department, where he also serves as the coordinator of the writing program. Steinberg has previously taught at Paul Smith's College, Marist College and Idaho State University. Works Alan Steinberg has published the following works of fiction: * ''The Night Before the Morning After'' (Radio Play) * ''The Road to Corinth'' (Stage Play) * ''Divided: A Collection of Fiction'' (Fiction Collection) * ''Cry of the Leopard'' (Novel) * ''Fathering'' (Poetry Collection) Steinberg has published numerous other short works and essays in various journals. Steinberg was the librettist, with composer Paul Siskind Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Siskind
Sarah Siskind (born April 15, 1978) is an American folk singer and songwriter. Career Siskind grew up in North Carolina in a musical household. She learned the piano at an early age, began writing songs at age eleven and recorded her first album at fourteen. Her debut album, ''Covered'' (2002), was released independently and included appearances by jazz guitarist Bill Frisell and Jennifer Kimball. The album's songs were about love, family, and relationships. Her song "Simple Love" was recorded by Alison Krauss on the album '' A Hundred Miles or More: A Collection'' ( Rounder, 2007) and received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Country Vocal Performance. She toured with Bon Iver, who often finished his concerts with her song "Lovin's for Fools". Siskind's songs have been recorded by Jeff Austin, Brendan Benson, Madi Diaz, Gabe Dixon, Ari Hest, Wynonna Judd, Claire Lynch, Della Mae, Angaleena Presley, Maia Sharp, Randy Travis, Curtis Wright, and the Infam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slate Star Codex
''Slate Star Codex'' (SSC) was a blog focused on science, medicine (especially within psychiatry), philosophy, politics, and futurism. The blog was written by Scott Alexander Siskind, a San Francisco Bay Area psychiatrist, under the pen name Scott Alexander. ''Slate Star Codex'' was launched in 2013, and was discontinued on June 23, 2020, as Alexander feared publication of his full name in a ''New York Times'' article. , the blog is partially back online, with the content restored but commenting disabled. A successor blog, ''Astral Codex Ten'', was launched on Substack on January 21, 2021. Alexander also blogged at the rationalist community blog ''LessWrong''. Notable posts ''The New Yorker'' states that the volume of content Alexander has written on ''Slate Star Codex'' makes the blog difficult to summarize, with an ebook of all posts running to around nine thousand pages. Many posts are book reviews (typically in the social sciences or medicine) or reviews of a topic in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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