Occam or Ockham may refer to:
People:
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William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian, after whom
Ockham's Razor is named
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Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), British peer
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Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham
Peter King, 1st Baron King, (c. 1669 – 22 July 1734), commonly referred to as Lord King, was an English lawyer and politician, who became Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
Life
King was born in Exeter in 1669, and educated at Exeter Gram ...
(1669–1734), English lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor of England
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Ockham, Surrey, England, a village believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham
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Ockham Park Occam or Ockham may refer to:
People:
* William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian, after whom Ockham's Razor is named
* Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), British peer
* Peter King, 1st Baron King ...
, seventeenth century English country house in Ockham, Surrey
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HMS Ockham (M2714)
HMS ''Ockham'' was one of 93 ships of the of inshore minesweepers.
Their names were all chosen from villages ending in ''-ham''. The minesweeper was named after Ockham in Surrey
Surrey () is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in ...
, one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers
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occam (programming language)
occam is a programming language which is concurrent and builds on the communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra, Inmos document 72 occ 45 03 and shares many of its features. It is named after philosopher William of Ockham after wh ...
, also named after William of Ockham
OCCAM as acronym:
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, established in 1996 by UNESCO in Milan
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Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM) is an office of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis. OCCAM was founded in 1998 and is responsible for NCI's research agenda in ...
, an office of the National Cancer Institute
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Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics
The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and appli ...
, a research centre at the University of Oxford
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Ockham algebra In mathematics, an Ockham algebra is a bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism, that is, an operation ~ satisfying ~(''x'' ∧ ''y'') = ~''x'' ∨ ~''y'', ~(''x'' ∨ ''y'') = ~''x'' ∧ ~''y'', ~0 = 1, ~1 = 0. They were introduced b ...
, bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism
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Ockham Awards, annual awards by ''The Skeptic'' magazine
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Occam learning
In computational learning theory, Occam learning is a model of algorithmic learning where the objective of the learner is to output a succinct representation of received training data. This is closely related to probably approximately correct (P ...
, model of algorithmic learning
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Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards events: the New Zealand Book Awards, which ran from 1976 to 1995, and the Goodman Fielder W ...
, series of awards to works of New Zealand citizens
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Occam process
The Occam process is a solder-free, Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS)-compliant method for use in the manufacturing of electronic circuit boards developed by Verdant Electronics. It combines the usual two steps of the construct ...
, a method for the manufacture of populated, printed circuit boards
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Occam's razor
Occam's razor, Ockham's razor, or Ocham's razor ( la, novacula Occami), also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony ( la, lex parsimoniae), is the problem-solving principle that "entities should not be multiplied beyond neces ...
, a methodological principle named after the philosopher
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Ockham's Razor Theatre Company
Ockham's Razor Theatre Company is a British aerial theatre company. Their critically acclaimed work combines circus and theatre, and they specialise in creating physical theatre on original pieces of aerial equipment and create stories from the vul ...
, an aerial theatre company
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