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Stocky (other)
Stocky may refer to: Humans * Tom Stocky * Stocky Edwards Snail *Stocky pebblesnail The stocky pebblesnail (''Somatogyrus crassus'') is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. ... See also * Stocki (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Stocky
Tom Stocky is an American computer scientist and technology executive. He is vice president of product at insitro, a drug discovery startup. He was previously vice president of Search at Facebook. Stocky was a director of product management at Google. He was part of the founding team for Google App Engine, which laid the foundation for the Google Cloud Platform. In 2011, Stocky joined Facebook to become VP of Search. He grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day. He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network, and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook. Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of ''The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley''. Stocky also started Facebook's language technology team, which developed an AI-powered translation engine for Facebook posts that completes 4.5 billion automatic translations per day ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stocky Edwards
James Francis Edwards, CM, DFC & Bar, DFM, CD (5 June 1921 – 14 May 2022), later known as Stocky Edwards, was a Canadian fighter pilot during World War II. With 19 confirmed aerial victories, Edwards is Canada's highest scoring ace in the Western Desert Campaign. Early life Born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan, Edwards grew up in Battleford, Saskatchewan. After graduating from St Thomas College in 1940 he volunteered for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). World War II Sergeant Edwards was posted to 94 Squadron RAF of 223 Wing in January 1942 flying the P-40 "Kittyhawk". On 23 March, he flew his first operational trip, during which he shot down his first enemy aircraft, a Bf 109. In May, he was posted to 260 Squadron, and saw intensive action for the rest of 1942. By September, he had 6 "kills" and was commissioned, jumping four grades to the rank of flight lieutenant. He was awarded a Distinguished Flying Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross by the start of 1943, by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stocky Pebblesnail
The stocky pebblesnail (''Somatogyrus crassus'') is a species of very small freshwater snail with a gill and an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusc in the family Lithoglyphidae. This species is endemic to Alabama in the United States. Its natural habitat is the Coosa River. The IUCN The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ... classification is also supported by The Nature Conservancy, as it has not been recorded since the river was impounded. References Endemic molluscs of the United States Somatogyrus Gastropods described in 1904 Taxonomy articles created by Polbot Endemic fauna of Alabama {{Lithoglyphidae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |