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7 unusual facts about PARC


Cristina Lopes

While at PARC, She was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org.

Exit 67

Tossed from one foster family to another, Jecko finally finds the sense of belonging he’s lacked when he starts hanging out with the young hoodlums of the St-Michel neighbourhood.

Jürg Gutknecht

After a sabbatical at PARC in 1984/1985, he developed conjointly with Niklaus Wirth the Oberon System based on the Oberon programming language.

Parc, Penrhyndeudraeth

Parc (meaning Park in English) is the name of an ancient mansion found near the village of Croesor in the community of Llanfrothen near Penrhyndeudraeth, in Gwynedd, Wales.

Universal Time-Sharing System

CP-6 was a command line oriented system, no GUI interface (as GUIs had only just been invented at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)).

Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension

The growth of the manufacturing sector, notably the textile industry, were incentives for new immigrants to settle in the borough.

In the early Twentieth century, Park Extension became industrialized, and a dozen quarries opened which led to the economic development of the area.


Alice Charlotte von Rothschild

The château in Grasse later became the hotel "Parc Palace", where the famous French actor Gérard Philipe was raised.

American–German Colony

Their travel agency Thomas Cook accommodated the imperial guests with Ustinow because his "Hôtel du Parc" was considered the only establishment in Jaffa suited for them.

Andrew Szanton

During his career he has worked with a wide range of subjects including civil rights pioneer Charles Evers, Nobel Prize winning physicist Eugene Wigner, former co-chairman of Goldman Sachs John Whitehead, former United States Senator Edward Brooke, founding director of Xerox PARC George Pake, eminent surgeon Dr. Charles Epps, and head of the Missouri Botanical Garden Peter Raven.

Angel's chameleon

It has been found in Bongolava, and between Anjiamangirana I and Tsingy de Namoroka Strict Nature Reserve (Namoroka National Park or Parc National de Namoroka).

Anne Balsamo

John Seely Brown, former chief scientist of Xerox Corporation and Director of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) argues that Balsamo "portrays both the necessity and the challenge of cultivating the technological imagination in all of us...Her insights into expanding the traditional considerations of socio-technical design to consider issues of culture are coming at a critical time."

Balard shooting range

The Air Ministry now occupies the site, and it also forms part of the parc Suzanne Lenglen situated on the old héliport de Paris, opened in 1957.

Barcelona Zoo

Barcelona Zoo (Parc Zoològic de Barcelona in Catalan, Parque Zoológico de Barcelona in Spanish) is a zoo in the Parc de la Ciutadella in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

Chaosnet

Chaosnet can be regarded as a contemporary of both the PUP protocols invented by PARC, and the Internet Protocol (IP), and was recognized as one of the other network classes (other than "IN") in the Domain Name System.

Château de Gizeux

The Château de Gizeux is situated some fifteen kilometres north of Bourgueil and 25 kilometres from Saumur, within the green and wooded parc naturel régional de Loire-Anjou-Touraine.

EFTP

John Shoch, EFTP: A PUP-based Ether File Transfer Protocol (Xerox PARC, Palo Alto, June 1976)

Flip Wilson

The phrase "What you see is what you get" was often used by Wilson's Geraldine character and inspired researchers at PARC and elsewhere to create the acronym WYSIWYG.

Forêt de Brotonne

It is a part of the Parc naturel régional des Boucles de la Seine normande (Regional natural parc of Boucles de la Seine normande), which allows for the safeguarding of a large natural space stretching from the banlieue of Rouen to the commune of Marais-Vernier.

Galeries de la Capitale

1988 saw the opening of the indoor amusement park Mega-Parc, the second largest of its kind in Canada after West Edmonton Mall.

George Savoidakis

He served on the Montreal city council from 1978 to 1986, representing the Parc-Extension ward as a member of mayor Jean Drapeau's Civic Party of Montreal.

Hull—Aylmer

The NDP won a poll in Lakeview Terrace as well as a poll in Parc-Glenwood, where it received less than 25% of the vote, despite winning it.

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern op artist and kinetic artist born in 1928 in Mendoza, Argentina.

Metaphor Computer Systems

David Liddle and Donald Massaro founded Metaphor in 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC.

Montserrat Tura i Camafreita

Some flagship projects during her office are the Museu Municipal Joan Abelló, the Parc dels Colors, by architect Enric Miralles, and the new Town Hall.

Morriston

The heart of transport in Morriston is located in the town centre, which contains a large car park, a wealth of parking spaces within the hear of the retail district, contains numerous bus stops ranging of bus services to nearby Swansea, Clydach, Parc Gwernfadog, other areas of Morriston and even to mid-Wales and England.

Muon spin spectroscopy

This is presently achieved at few large scale facilities in the world: the CMMS continuous source at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada; the SµS continuous source at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, Switzerland; the ISIS and RIKEN-RAL pulsed sources at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Chilton, United Kingdom; and the J-PARC facility in Tokai, Japan, where a new pulsed source is being built to replace that at KEK in Tsukuba, Japan.

Netscape portable runtime

Thread synchronization loosely depends on monitors as described by C. A. R. Hoare in "Monitors: An operating system structuring concept", Communications of the ACM, 17(10), October 1974 and then formalized by Xerox' Mesa programming language ("Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al., Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)).

Newham parks and open spaces

The Thames Barrier Park 2005 riverside park, developed following an international competition won by a team led by the acclaimed French landscape architect, Alain Provost, best known for his work at the Parc Citroen in Paris.

Parc des Eaux Vives

The Parc des Eaux Vives has a surface of 45.000 m2 and is situated at the Quai Gustave-Ador in Geneva, right next at the Parc La Grange.

Parc des Sports Michel Hidalgo

Parc des Sports Michel Hidalgo is a multi-use stadium in Sannois, France.

Parc Hosingen

The commune of Parc Hosingen was formed on 1 January 2012 from the former communes of Consthum, Hosingen and Hoscheid (the latter formerly part of the canton of Diekirch).

Parc Monceau

In 1797, Parc Monceau was the site of the first silk parachute jump, when André-Jacques Garnerin jumped from a Montgolfier hot air balloon, landing in the park where a large crowd was gathered.

Parc y Scarlets

Parc y Scarlets officially opened on 15 November to Llanelli RFC who played the first match at the stadium in a 32–3 win over Cardiff RFC in the Principality Premiership.

Pursuit of the Deadly Diamonds

That got Richard and his nephew Stephen Lane to fly to Nice, booked into a Hotel Parc and saw from binoculars that Michelle was on board a yacht named Au Revoir.

Saint-Henri, Montreal

Well-known people from Saint-Henri include strongman Louis Cyr, who served as a police officer there; the Place des Hommes-Forts and the Parc Louis-Cyr are named for him.

Salon des Réalités Nouvelles

From 2004 it has been held at the Parc Floral de Paris in Vincennes, showing paintings, sculpture and photography by over 350 artists each year.

Sannois

Sannois is home to the Parc des Sports Michel Hidalgo, where the local football team L'Entente SSG play their home games in France's Championnat National.

Sonique

Villette Sonique, a yearly music festival in Parc de la Villette in Paris, France

Stade du Rhône

Stade du Rhône is an athletics stadium located in the Parc de Parilly in the commune of Venissieux in Lyon, France.

Théâtre de Rosimond

Built in 1766, it was a wooden building, standing on the other side of Place Neuve, at the corner of the Parc des Bastions and the present-day Rue de la Croix-Rouge, for the entertainment of peacekeeping garrisons from France, Bern and Zurich, stationed in Geneva.

UJA Maccabi Paris Métropole

Alfortville plays its home matches at the Parc Départemental des Sports in the nearby commune of Choisy-le-Roi.


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