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Plotkin
Plotkin (russian: Плоткин) is a surname of Russian Jewish origin, which indicates a person from Plotki, a name of several villages in Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. It may also refer to: *Alice Playten (1947–2011), born Alice Plotkin, American actress and singer * Andrew Plotkin (born 1970), American writer *Brian Plotkin (born 1984), American soccer player * Chuck Plotkin, American record producer * Diana Plotkin, American political activist * Faith Plotkin (born 1947), American writer * Gabriel Plotkin, Melvin Capital CEO * Gordon Plotkin (born 1946), British computer scientist *Gregory Plotkin, American film editor and director * Hal Plotkin (born 1957), American journalist and public servant * James Plotkin (born 1970), American guitarist * Joshua B. Plotkin, Evolutionary biologist and applied mathematician * Mark Plotkin (born 1955), American botanist *Stanley Plotkin (born 1932), American physician, vaccinologist, and immunologist *Tom Plotkin Tom Plotkin is an Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hal Plotkin
Hal Wayne Plotkin (born September 14, 1957) is an American journalist and activist. He is currently the senior open policy fellow at Creative Commons. From 2009 to 2014, Plotkin served as the Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Education, United States Department of Education, which has responsibility for all federal U.S. higher education policies and programs. In 2003, Plotkin initiated the Foothill-De Anza Community College District's Policy on Public Domain Learning Materials which are now more commonly known as Open Educational Resources. Early life Plotkin attended Palo Alto High School, where he was an editor for the student newspaper, ''The Campanile''. Family circumstances led him to drop out of high school during his junior year in order to work full-time in whatever jobs he could find, including gas station bathroom cleaner and pizza maker. Plotkin managed to graduate with his high school class in 1975 after administrators gave him course ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Plotkin
Stanley Alan Plotkin (born May 12, 1932) is an American physician who works as a consultant to vaccine manufacturers, such as Sanofi Pasteur, as well as biotechnology firms, non-profits and governments. In the 1960s, he played a pivotal role in discovery of a vaccine against rubella virus while working at Wistar Institute in Philadelphia. Plotkin was a member of Wistar’s active research faculty from 1960 to 1991. Today, in addition to his emeritus appointment at Wistar, he is emeritus professor of Pediatrics at the University of Pennsylvania. His book, ''Vaccines'', is the standard reference on the subject. He is an editor with ''Clinical and Vaccine Immunology'', which is published by the American Society for Microbiology in Washington, D.C. Early life and education Plotkin was born and raised in New York City, the son of Jewish parents, Lee and Joseph Plotkin, who emigrated from England. He attended The Bronx High School of Science in New York City. While attending Bronx Scie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melvin Capital
Melvin Capital Management LP is an American investment management firm based in New York City. It was founded in 2014 by Gabriel Plotkin, who named the firm after his late grandfather. On May 18, 2022 Plotkin announced that the fund would close and return any remaining customer funds by June 2022. Assets under management in April 2022 were about $7.8 billion. Melvin Capital invested primarily in technology and consumer stocks and was reported to have $8billion in assets under management (AUM) as of January 2021. During the GameStop short squeeze of 2021, they sustained losses of 53% or $6.8 billion, at one point losing more than a billion dollars a day; in Q1 2021, the firm's assets declined 49%, and it finished 2021 down more than 39% on the year, during which the S&P 500 rose 28.7%. Melvin Capital began January 2022 down 17%. History Background After graduating from Northwestern University with a degree in economics in 2001, Gabriel Plotkin joined Ken Griffin's hedge fund Ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordon Plotkin
Gordon David Plotkin, (born 9 September 1946) is a theoretical computer scientist in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Plotkin is probably best known for his introduction of structural operational semantics (SOS) and his work on denotational semantics. In particular, his notes on ''A Structural Approach to Operational Semantics'' were very influential. He has contributed to many other areas of computer science. Education Plotkin was educated at the University of Glasgow and the University of Edinburgh, gaining his Bachelor of Science degree in 1967 and PhD in 1972 supervised by Rod Burstall. Career and research Plotkin has remained at Edinburgh, and was, with Burstall and Robin Milner, a co-founder of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS). His former doctoral students include Luca Cardelli, Philippa Gardner, Doug Gurr, Eugenio Moggi, and Lǐ Wèi. Awards and honours Plotkin was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Plotkin
Andrew Plotkin (born May 15, 1970), also known as Zarf, is a central figure in the modern interactive fiction (IF) community. Having both written a number of award-winning games and developed a range of new file formats, interpreters, and other utilities for the design, production, and running of IF games, Plotkin is widely recognised for both his creative and his technical contributions to the homebrew IF scene. Interactive fiction Plotkin was one of the earliest writers to use Graham Nelson's Inform development system, and one of the first since Infocom's heyday to explore the boundaries of interactive fiction as an artistic medium. Many later authors cite him as a primary influence. He has won many awards within the community, and is frequently interviewed for magazine articles about interactive fiction. Plotkin has also made major technical contributions to the interactive fiction medium, designing the Blorb archive format, the Glk I/O platform, and the Glulx virtual m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Plotkin
Mark J. Plotkin (born May 21, 1955) is an ethnobotanist and a plant explorer in the Neotropics, where he is an expert on rainforest ecosystems. Plotkin is an advocate for tropical rainforest conservation and host of Plants of the Gods: Hallucinogens, Healing, Culture and Conservation podcast. Background and career After attending Isidore Newman School in New Orleans, Plotkin worked at Harvard University's Museum of Comparative Zoology when he joined an expedition searching for an elusive crocodilian species in 1978 and was galvanized into returning to education. He completed his bachelor of liberal arts degree at Harvard University's Harvard Extension School, his master's degree in forestry at Yale School of Forestry, and his Ph.D. at Tufts University; during which he completed a handbook for the Tiriyó people of Suriname detailing their own medicinal plants—the only other book printed in Tiriyó language being the Bible. He went on to do research at Harvard under R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Plotkin
James Plotkin is an American guitarist and producer known for his role in bands such as Khanate and OLD but with an extensive catalogue outside these bands. He has played guitar for Phantomsmasher and Scorn and continues to remix tracks for bands such as KK Null, Nadja, Sunn O))), ISIS, Pelican and Earth. He works in the genres of grindcore, industrial metal, noise music, drone metal, dark ambient, digital hardcore and post-metal. Discography Solo work *James Plotkin - A Strange, Perplexing - 1996 *James Plotkin - The Joy Of Disease - 1996 *James Plotkin / Pole - Split Series #8 (withdrawn version) - 2000 *James Plotkin / Pimmon - Split Series #8 - 2000 *James Plotkin - Kurtlanmak/Damascus - 2006 *James Plotkin - Indirmek - 2007 Collaborative releases *James Plotkin & Kazuyuki K Null - Aurora - 1994 *Jimmy Plotkin & Alan Dubin (2X self-titled 7"'s) - 1995 *James Plotkin & K.K. Null - Aurora Remixes - 1996 *James Plotkin & Mick Harris - Collapse - 1996 *James Plotkin & Mark S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Plotkin
Brian Plotkin (born August 3, 1984 in Lisle, Illinois) is the head Coach of the Army Black Knights men's soccer team and is a retired professional soccer player. Career College and Amateur Brian Plotkin played college soccer for Indiana University from 2002 to 2005, featuring in 90 games and accumulating 24 goals and 36 assists. He was a member of National Championship winning teams in 2003 and 2004. He was the runner-up for the 2005 Hermann Trophy Award and was also named NSCAA First Team All-American and Big 10 Player of the Year. He also went on to gain First Team All Big Ten honors three consecutive years from 2003 to 2005, and an Academic All Big-Ten award in 2003. Plotkin played club soccer for the Chicago Sockers from the U12 to U19 levels and was a member of their U16 National Championship team in 2001. He was also named a Parade All-American and played at various times for US Youth National Teams at the U14, U16, U17 and U20 levels. Professional Plotkin was selected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregory Plotkin
Gregory Plotkin is an American film editor and director, known for his work in horror films, including ''Get Out'' (2017), ''Happy Death Day ''Happy Death Day'' is a 2017 American black comedy slasher film directed by Christopher Landon, and written by Scott Lobdell. It stars Jessica Rothe and Israel Broussard. The film was produced by Jason Blum through his Blumhouse Productions ba ...'' (2017), '' Game Night'' (2018), and several films within the ''Paranormal Activity'' franchise. In 2015, he made his directorial debut with '' Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension''. Filmography Film Television References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Plotkin, Gregory Living people American film editors American film directors Year of birth missing (living people) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Plotkin
Charles Richard Plotkin (born September 8, 1942) is a recording engineer and producer, best known for his work with Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan. Recording engineer Plotkin has recorded, engineered, mastered and produced albums by Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, and many other artists, starting with The Floating House Band in 1972. Just before hooking up with Springsteen for the mixing of "Darkness On The Edge Of Town", Plotkin produced the critically acclaimed "Cocaine Drain" album by The Cowsills. Among Plotkin's major achievements as an engineer, according to Springsteen official biographer Dave Marsh, was the mastering of Bruce Springsteen's ''Nebraska'' album. Springsteen recorded the album as a set of demonstration tapes on an inexpensive home cassette recorder. According to Marsh, the task of turning the raw, unprocessed cassette tape (which had spent weeks in Springsteen's pants pocket) into a professional-sounding vinyl LP was a daunting one, and a major technica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plotkin Bound
In the mathematics of coding theory, the Plotkin bound, named after Morris Plotkin, is a limit (or bound) on the maximum possible number of codewords in binary codes of given length ''n'' and given minimum distance ''d''. Statement of the bound A code is considered "binary" if the codewords use symbols from the binary alphabet \. In particular, if all codewords have a fixed length ''n'', then the binary code has length ''n''. Equivalently, in this case the codewords can be considered elements of vector space \mathbb_2^n over the finite field \mathbb_2. Let d be the minimum distance of C, i.e. :d = \min_ d(x,y) where d(x,y) is the Hamming distance between x and y. The expression A_(n,d) represents the maximum number of possible codewords in a binary code of length n and minimum distance d. The Plotkin bound places a limit on this expression. Theorem (Plotkin bound): i) If d is even and 2d > n , then : A_(n,d) \leq 2 \left\lfloor\frac\right\rfloor. ii) If d is odd an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faith Plotkin
Faith Popcorn (born Faith Plotkin, May 11, 1943) is a futurist, author, and founder and CEO of marketing consulting firm BrainReserve. She has written three best selling books:''The Popcorn Report'' (1991), ''Clicking'' (1996), and ''EVEolution'' (2000). Biography Born as Faith Plotkin, she later legally changed her name to "Faith Popcorn." She was born in New York City, where both of her parents were lawyers and spent her early childhood in Shanghai before returning to the United States. She attended the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, followed by New York University. Accepted into NYU Law School, she decided instead to go into advertising in the early 1970s, which she said she considered to be more glamorous. After working in advertising for eight years, she founded the marketing consulting firm BrainReserve in 1974. It works with companies to identify future trends that will affect their business. Popcorn is reported to have advised Coca-Cola, in 1981, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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