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Sommerville (other)
Sommerville may refer to: Institutions * Sommerville Manor School People * Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville, Scottish and New Zealand mathematician * George Sommerville, Scottish footballer *Ian Sommerville (academic), British academic *Ian Sommerville (technician), (fl. c. 1960s) * James Sommerville, hornist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra * James Sommerville, English graphic designer Places *Sommerville, alternative name for Somersville, California Somersville (also, Sommerville and Summerville) is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California. See also * Somerville (other) *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sommerville Manor School
Mississauga ( ), historically known as Toronto Township, is a city in the Canadian province of Ontario. It is situated on the shores of Lake Ontario in the Regional Municipality of Peel, adjoining the western border of Toronto. With a population of 717,961 as of 2021, Mississauga is the seventh-most populous municipality in Canada, third-most in Ontario, and second-most in the Greater Toronto Area after Toronto itself. However, for the first time in its history, the city's population declined according to the 2021 census, from a 2016 population of 721,599 to 717,961, a 0.5 percent decrease. The growth of Mississauga was attributed to its proximity to Toronto. During the latter half of the 20th century, the city attracted a multicultural population and built up a thriving central business district. Malton, a neighbourhood of the city located in its northeast end, is home to Toronto Pearson International Airport, Canada's busiest airport, as well as the headquarters of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville
Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879–1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote ''Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions'', advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the first secretary of the New Zealand Astronomical Society. Sommerville was also an accomplished watercolourist, producing a series New Zealand landscapes. The middle name 'MacLaren' is spelt using the old orthography M'Laren in some sources, for example the records of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Early life Sommerville was born on 24 November 1879 in Beawar in India, where his father the Rev Dr James Sommerville, was employed as a missionary by the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland. His father had been responsible for establishing the hospital at Jodhpur, Rajputana. The family returned home to Perth, Scotland, where Duncan spent 4 years at a private school ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Sommerville
George Douglas Liddell Sommerville (21 December 1900 – 1984) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.Sommerville, George (1921) Hamilton Academical Memory Bank He worked as an aircraft inspector during the Second World War. His sister Isa married John Steel
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Ian Sommerville (academic)
Ian F. Sommerville, (born 23 February 1951) is a British academic. He is the author of a popular student textbook on software engineering, as well as a number of other books and papers. He worked as a professor of software engineering at the University of St Andrews in Scotland until 2014 and is a prominent researcher in the field of systems engineering, system dependability and social informatics, being an early advocate of an interdisciplinary approach to system dependability. Education and personal life Ian Sommerville was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1951. He studied Physics at Strathclyde University and Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He is married and has two daughters. As an amateur gourmet, he has written a number of restaurant reviews. Academic career Ian Sommerville was a lecturer in Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland from 1975 to 1978 and at Strathclyde University, Glasgow from 1978–86. From 1986 to 2006, he was P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Sommerville (technician)
Ian Sommerville (June 3, 1940 – February 5, 1976) John Geiger, ''Chapel of Extreme Experience'', page 90. was an electronics technician and computer programmer. He is primarily known through his association with William S. Burroughs's circle of Beat Generation figures, and lived at Paris's so-called "Beat Hotel" by 1960, when they were regulars there, becoming Burroughs's lover and "systems adviser". Sommerville was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, and at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Around 1960, he programmed a random-sequence generator that Brion Gysin used in his cut-up technique. He and Gysin also collaborated in 1961 in developing the Dreamachine, a phonograph-driven stroboscope described as "the first art object to be seen with the eyes closed", and intended to affect the viewer's brain alpha wave activity. Sommerville and Burroughs made the 5-minute tape "Silver Smoke of Dreams" in the early 1960s, and later provided the basis for the quarter-hour aud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Sommerville
James Sommerville is a Canadian orchestral hornist and conductor. He was the current principal hornist for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and former Conductor and Music Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic, in Hamilton, Ontario."THE SCOOP , Boston Symphony Orchestra To Tour Canada This March" ''Musical Toronto'', By Michael Vincent on January 17, 2017 Early life and education Sommerville was born in Women's College Hospital in Toronto in 1962. He attended high school at UTS and later studied at the |
Somersville, California
Somersville (also, Sommerville and Summerville) is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California.SOMERSVILLE GhostTowns.com, retrieved September 12, 2007 It is located north-northeast of , at an elevation of 741 feet (226 m). Somersville was founded in the 1850s by gold miners. It was named after Francis Somers, who had discovered the Black Diamond Mine. Somersville was home to the Manhattan, Union, Eureka, Pittsburg and Independent mines. The town is no longer populated and is within the boundaries of the |
Somerville (other)
Somerville may refer to: * Somerville College, Oxford, a constituent college of the University of Oxford Places *Somerville, Victoria, Australia * Somerville, Western Australia, a suburb of Kalgoorlie, Australia * Somerville, New Zealand, a suburb of Manukau City, New Zealand United States *Somerville, Alabama * Somerville (Kenton, Delaware), a historic house *Somerville, Indiana * Somerville, Maine *Somerville, Massachusetts * Somerville, New Jersey ** Somerville Circle, a traffic circle near Somerville, New Jersey *Somerville, Ohio *Somerville, Queens, a neighborhood located in Arverne, Queens in New York City *Somerville, Tennessee *Somerville, Texas **Somerville Lake, a reservoir near Somerville, Texas Other uses *Somerville (surname) *Somerville (crater), a crater in the eastern part of the Moon * ''Somerville'' (video game), a 2022 game from Jumpship *Somerville College Boat Club, the rowing club of Somerville College, Oxford See also *Somervell, a surname *Somersville ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
