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Plotkin
Plotkin () 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 *Mark Plotkin (chess player), Mark Plotkin (born 1998), Canadian chess player *Stanley Plotkin (born 1932), American physician, vaccinologist, and immuno ... [...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] |
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 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua B
Joshua ( ), also known as Yehoshua ( ''Yəhōšuaʿ'', Tiberian: ''Yŏhōšuaʿ,'' lit. 'Yahweh is salvation'), Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible. His name was Hoshea ( ''Hōšēaʿ'', lit. 'Save') the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him "Yehoshua" (translated as "Joshua" in English),''Bible'' the name by which he is commonly known in English. According to the Bible, he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus. The Hebrew Bible identifies Joshua as one of the twelve spies of Israel sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. In and after the death of Moses, he led the Israelite tribes in the conquest of Canaan, and allocated lands to the tribes. According to biblical chronology, Joshua lived some time in the Bronze Age. According to Joshua died at the age of 110. Joshua holds a position of respect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surnames Of Jewish Origin
In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several given names and surnames are possible in the full name. In modern times most surnames are hereditary, although in most countries a person has a right to change their name. Depending on culture, the surname may be placed either at the start of a person's name, or at the end. The number of surnames given to an individual also varies: in most cases it is just one, but in Portuguese-speaking countries and many Spanish-speaking countries, two surnames (one inherited from the mother and another from the father) are used for legal purposes. Depending on culture, not all members of a family unit are required to have identical surnames. In some countries, surnames are modified depending on gender and family membership status of a person. Compound sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Płotka
Płotka or Plotka is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Michał Płotka (born 1988), Polish footballer * Wolfgang Plotka (born 1941), German ice hockey player See also * Płotkowo * Plotkin {{DEFAULTSORT:Plotka Polish-language surnames ... [...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 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Plotkin
Tom Plotkin is an American actor. He is primarily a Broadway performer and is most famous for originating the role of Willard Hewitt in ''Footloose''. He was also in the original Broadway companies of ''Seussical'', ''High Fidelity'', '' Triumph of Love'', and in the City Center "Encores" production of ''Hair'' in the role of Berger. He was also in the International tour of ''Hair'' playing Berger in the languages of French, German, and English. Off Broadway he was in ''Forbidden Broadway'' and can be heard on the "unoriginal" cast recording, ''Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back ''Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back'' is a version of ''Forbidden Broadway'' created by Gerard Alessandrini. It previewed September 5, 1996 and opened at the Triad Theater October 16, 1996. The show won Alessandrini the 1997 Drama Desk Award for O ...'' External links * * Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male stage actors American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Plotkin
Stanley Alan Plotkin (born 12 May 1932) is an American physician specializing on the development of vaccines. 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. , ''Vaccines'' is in its eighth edition. 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 Science, at the age of 15, he read a pair of books that g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Plotkin (chess Player)
Mark Plotkin (; born December 2, 1998) is a Canadian chess player and coach. He holds the FIDE title of International Master. Biography Mark Plotkin was born in Israel to Victor Plotkin, International Master and the captain of the Canadian Olympiad team. He attended the University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ... where he helped the team win the Canadian University Chess Championship. During the pandemic chess boom, Mark became a full time chess teacher, while still continuing to participate in Grandmaster norm tournaments. In 2021, Plotkin won the Canadian Banff Chess Tournament. In 2022, Plotkin finished fifth in the Titled Tuesday Tournament in a field of 340 titled players. Currently, Plotkin is ranked number 16 among active players in Canada. and ... [...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 the ''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 un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Jewish
The history of the Jews in Russia and areas historically connected with it goes back at least 1,500 years. Jews in Russia have historically constituted a large religious and ethnic diaspora; the Russian Empire at one time hosted the largest population of Jews in the world. Within these territories, the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish communities of many different areas flourished and developed many of modern Judaism's most distinctive theological and cultural traditions, while also facing periods of antisemitic discriminatory policies and persecution, including violent pogroms. Many analysts have noted a "renaissance" in the Jewish community inside Russia since the beginning of the 21st century;Renaissance of Jewish life in Russia November 23, 2001, By John Daniszewski, Chica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
