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3 unusual facts about The State of the Art


Nina Sosanya

In 2003 she played Rosalind in As You Like It with the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon; in 2008 she returned to the RSC to play Rosaline in Love's Labour's Lost and in 2009 appeared in a radio adaptation of a story from the short-story collection The State of the Art.

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The State of the Art, a collection of short fiction by Iain M. Banks

The State of the Art

In late 2009 it was announced that the story "A Gift From the Culture" was in the early stages of being adapted for the cinema by Dominic Murphy, the director of White Lightnin'.



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36-bit

Prior to the introduction of computers, the state of the art in precision scientific and engineering calculation was the ten-digit, electrically powered, mechanical calculator, such as those manufactured by Friden, Marchant and Monroe.

Antonín Bečvář

Bečvář is particularly important for his star charts: he led the compilation of the Atlas Coeli Skalnate Pleso (1951), published by Sky Publishing Corporation as the Skalnate Pleso Atlas of the Heavens, which was the state-of-the-art atlas of its kind until Wil Tirion's "Sky Atlas 2000.0" in 1981.

Guitar Town

It was one of the first country music albums to be recorded digitally, utilizing the state-of-the-art Mitsubishi X-800.

Harald Ganzinger

Harald Ganzinger (October 31, 1950, Werneck – June 3, 2004, Saarbrücken) was a German computer scientist that together with Leo Bachmair developed the superposition calculus, which is (as of 2007) used in most of the state-of-the-art automated theorem provers for first-order logic.

Heinz Rutishauser

From 1948 to 1949 Rutishauser was in the USA at the Universities of Harvard and Princeton in order to study the state of the art in computing.

International Fighter Pilots Academy

The IFPA-FWS quickly established itself as the No.1 venue for international military pilots desiring to fly with the state-of-the-art modern Russian-built Jet Fighters such as the MIG-29UB and SU-27UB all with fully operational radar and weapons (Air-to-air missile (AAM), Air-to-surface missile (ASM) ordnance.

Irish Blood Transfusion Service

In 2000 the service relocated to the state-of-the-art National Blood Centre on the grounds of St. James's Hospital near Dublin Heuston railway station, on which it remains.

Kizad

Kizad benefits from adjacency to the state-of-the-art Khalifa Port, being located almost equidistant between Abu Dhabi and Dubai, as well as from extended frontage along the E11 Highway connecting the two cities.

KPIT Cummins

Integrated all offshore facilities in Pune, India into the state of the art campus at Hinjawadi.

Maritime Academy of Asia and the Pacific

Committed to be one of the world's best, MAAP was established on January 14, 1998 at Kamaya Point, Alas-asin, Mariveles, Bataan, in an 18-hectare land equipped with the state of the art facilities and an academy that is at par with other world maritime schools in terms of academic excellence in maritime education and training.

McWane Science Center

The state-of-the-art science center, aquarium and 280-seat IMAX Dome Theater is housed in the historic and refurbished Loveman's department store building.

Stanley Kalms, Baron Kalms

He is also a Governor of Dixons City Academy in Bradford, West Yorkshire (where the state of the art theatre complex is named in his honour), a Director of Business for Sterling, and a Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research.