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Backus–Gilbert method

In mathematics, the Backus–Gilbert method, also known as the optimally localized average (OLA) method is named for its discoverers, geophysicists George E. Backus and James Freeman Gilbert.


BFN

In computer science, the Backus–Naur Form or Backus–Naur Form, a notation technique for context-free grammars

Bob Backus

Backus set a world record and career best of 45 feet 2 inches in the 56-pound throw at the New York Athletic Club's annual spring games, held on June 8, 1957 in Pelham Manor, New York, setting a record that broke a record he had previously set, adding an additional foot to the world mark.

British Cemetery, Callao

Europeans and their descendents include families like the Backus family, founders of the breweries, as well as descendents of the famous railway entrepreneur Mr. Enrique Meiggs who built the Souuthern Railway (Mollendo - Arequipa) during the Balta Government and, subsequently, the Central Railway.

Edward Burdette Backus

Edward Burdette Backus (1888–1955) was an American Unitarian minister and humanist.

Jan Backus

Jan Backus served as a Vermont State Senator representing Windham County from 1989 to 1994 and Chittenden County from 1997 to 2000.

A moderate-to-liberal Democrat, Backus ran for the U.S. Senate in 1994 and beat Douglas M. Costle, Environmental Protection Agency administrator under President Jimmy Carter, for her party's nomination and came within 9 points of ousting incumbent U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords (R-VT).

Kameisha Jerae Hodge

Kameisha has attended nine schools throughout the duration of her life, these schools included Ephriam Kimball Elementary School, John Phillip Sousa Middle School, Bertie Backus Middle School, General G. James Gholson Middle School, Bladensburg High School, Potomac High School, Friendship Collegiate Academy Public Charter School and the University of District of Columbia simultaneously as a student in the Early College Program, and received a Bachelor's Degree in the Arts at Lafayette College.

Peter Naur

His last name is the N in the BNF notation (Backus-Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages.

Rocket Science Games

key people = Steve Blank, founder, CEO
Peter Barrett
Ron Cobb
Mike Backus
Bill Davis
Will Harvey

SNOBOL

It is possible to implement a language interpreter in SNOBOL almost directly from a Backus-Naur form expression of it, with few changes.

Thurston Howell, III

In the last of three spin-off movies of the original series {The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island} Backus only made a cameo appearance due to illness.

Wirth syntax notation

Originally proposed by Niklaus Wirth in 1977 as an alternative to Backus–Naur Form (BNF), it has several advantages over BNF in that it can be defined using itself, it contains an explicit iteration construct, and it avoids the use of an explicit symbol for the empty string (such as or ε).


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