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unusual facts about Bruce R. Powers



Aaron Rose

Aaron Rose is a film director, art show curator and writer who is a key part of the Beautiful Losers art movement, which has featured and helped notarize the work of artists such as Barry McGee, Steven "Espo" Powers, Harmony Korine and Shepard Fairey.

Albert E. Powers

Albert E. Powers was the acting president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute from 1887-88.

Bruce Kennedy

Bruce R. Kennedy (1938–2007), businessman and former CEO of Alaska Airlines

Bruce R. Davis

In 1988, he developed SUGAR—a circuit analysis simulation tool named in allusion to University of California Berkeley's software called SPICE.

In 1992, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Communications Division of the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO), Salisbury, South Australia, and was involved with high frequency data communication systems.

Bruce R. Ellingwood

In 1975, he moved to the Center for Building Technology at the National Bureau of Standards (now the National Institute of Standards and Technology), and later became the leader of the Structural Engineering Group for the Center for Building Technology.

Bruce R. Korf

He was associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School and directed postdoctoral training in medical and laboratory genetics at hospitals affiliated with Harvard.

Bruce R. Kuniholm

Before coming to Duke University, Kuniholm worked in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and as a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Dept. of State.

Bruce R. Lang

Lang was a regular panelist on the Violet Round Table, a weekly public affairs TV program on WPRI-TV, hosted by Arlene Violet.

Bruce R. McConkie

He held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel at his discharge on February 26, 1946, one of the youngest in Army Intelligence to hold that rank.

Charles T. Powers

He spent long stretches of his tenure with the Times as a foreign correspondent in Africa, based in Nairobi from 1980 to 1986, and as Eastern European Bureau Chief from 1986 to 1991, during which time he lived in Warsaw.

David G. Hays

In 1982 he published Cognitive Structures, in which he developed a novel scheme for grounding cognition in perception and action as conceived in the control theory of William T. Powers.

Marshall McLuhan bibliography

# 1989 The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century with Bruce R. Powers; Oxford University Press ISBN 0-19-505444-X.

Michael R. Powers

At Harvard, he wrote his dissertation under the direction of John W. Pratt.

Nicholas J. Phillips

D. Abbott, B. R. Davis, N. J. Phillips, and K. Eshraghian, "Simple derivation of the thermal noise formula using window-limited Fourier transforms," IEEE Trans. Education, 39(1) (1996) pp.

Patrick Powers

Patrick T. Powers (1860–1925), American baseball executive and manager

Perceptual control theory

Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the principles of negative feedback, but differing in important respects from engineering control theory developed by William T. Powers.

The unaffiliated scientist William T. Powers recognized that to be purposeful implies control, and that the concepts and methods of engineered control systems could be applied to biological control systems.

Reinsurance

Using game-theoretic modeling, Professors Michael R. Powers (Temple University) and Martin Shubik (Yale University) have argued that the number of active reinsurers in a given national market should be approximately equal to the square-root of the number of primary insurers active in the same market.

Samuel L. Powers

This is also the name of a major character from the TV series Saved by the Bell.

The 1989 Annual World's Best SF

For the hardcover edition the original cover art by Jim Burns was replaced by a new cover painting by Richard M. Powers.

William Powers

William T. Powers, scientist associated with Perceptual Control Theory


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