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Kanada (surname)
Kanada (written: 金田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Craig Kanada (born 1968), American golfer *, Japanese mathematician *, Japanese sprint canoeist *, Japanese animator {{surname Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Kanada
Craig Andrew Kanada (born October 2, 1968) is an American professional golfer. He was born in Portland, Oregon. Kanada played on the Nationwide Tour in 1994–96, 1998–99, 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2009–10. He was a member of the PGA Tour in 1997, 2001, 2007 and 2008. He won two tournaments on the Nationwide Tour in 2006 and finished 11th on the money list. That allowed him to move up to the PGA Tour. Amateur wins (2) *1990 Western Amateur *1991 Pacific Northwest Amateur Professional wins (2) Nationwide Tour wins (2) Nationwide Tour playoff record (0–1) Results in major championships CUT = missed the half-way cut ''Note: Kanada only played in the U.S. Open.'' See also *1996 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates *2000 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates *2006 Nationwide Tour graduates __NOTOC__ This is a list of players who graduated from the Nationwide Tour in 2006. The top 22 players on the Nationwide Tour's money list in 2006 earned their PGA Tour card for 2007. *PG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasumasa Kanada
was a Japanese computer scientist most known for his numerous world records over the past three decades for calculating digits of . He set the record 11 of the past 21 times. Kanada was a professor in the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo in Tokyo, Japan until 2015. From 2002 until 2009, Kanada held the world record calculating the number of digits in the decimal expansion of pi – exactly 1.2411 trillion digits. The calculation took more than 600 hours on 64 nodes of a HITACHI SR8000/MPP supercomputer. Some of his competitors in recent years include Jonathan and Peter Borwein and the Chudnovsky brothers David Volfovich Chudnovsky (born January 22, 1947 in Kyiv) and Gregory Volfovich Chudnovsky (born April 17, 1952 in Kyiv) are Ukrainian-born American mathematicians and engineers known for their world-record mathematical calculations and developing .... See also * Chronology of computation of References External links * * * 1949 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yasunobu Kanada
Yasunobu Kanada (金田裕伸, ''Kanada Yasunobu'', born March 27, 1963) is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the C-1 500 m event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul Seoul (; ; ), officially known as the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea.Before 1972, Seoul was the ''de jure'' capital of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) as stated iArticle 103 of .... See also * Sports in Japan References External linksSports-Reference.com profile * 1963 births Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshinori Kanada
was an influential Japanese animator originally from Nara, Japan. He is best known for his popular 1984 work ''Birth'', one of the first (after Dallos) original video animations released in the market. Though he did not create many character designs, he was famous for his character animation skills. His work on ''Galaxy Express 999'' (1979) and '' Harmagedon'' (1983) were very influential to an entire generation of animators in Japan. These two works also served as partial inspiration for Takashi Murakami's Superflat art movement. During the 1980s and 1990s, he worked closely with director Hayao Miyazaki on several movies from '' Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind'' to ''Princess Mononoke''. He was also known for breaking down the directorial system in animation, allowing individual key animators to exert their own style into a particular work. He died at the age of 57 of a heart attack on July 21, 2009. His works inspired the art and works of animators such as Hiroyuki Imaishi, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |