Tina Turner (real name - Anna Mae Bullock) was born November 26 , 1939 in Natbush (Tennessee, USA), the son of a factory worker. She - American singer, songwriter, "Queen of Rock and Roll"
Norbert Wiener , the founder of cybernetics and artificial intelligence theory, was born 26 November 1894 in Columbia, Missouri (USA).
Over the years, much has changed in the world of popular music, but two facts remain unassailably secure: (a) at it's best, music captures the raw energy and passion of human emotion; and (b) when it comes to injecting energy and passion into a song, nobody does it like Tina Turner.
ReplyDeleteRanging from giddy heights to harrowing depths and back again, Tina's personal saga testifies to her artistic passion and strength of character and those very attributes continue to fuel her international superstardom today.
Tina's creative energy roars into high gear on "Wildest Dreams," her second Virgin Records album. With inimitable confidence and power, she shines on such standouts as "Whatever You Want," "Missing You," and "Something Beautiful Remains." Of particular note are the Sheryl Crow-penned "All Kinds Of People" and Tina's galvanizing new version of "Unfinished Sympathy," the trip-hop gem originally recorded by Britain's Massive Attack.
Awards and honors
ReplyDelete-Wiener won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 1933 and the National Medal of Science in 1963, presented by President Johnson at a White House Ceremony in January, 1964, shortly before his death.
-Wiener won the 1965 U.S. National Book Award in Science, Philosophy and Religion for God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion
-The Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics was endowed in 1967 in honor of Norbert Wiener by MIT's mathematics department and is provided jointly by the American Mathematical Society and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
-The Norbert Wiener Award for Social and Professional Responsibility awarded annually by CPSR, was established in 1987 in honor of Wiener to recognize contributions by computer professionals to socially responsible use of computers.
-The crater Wiener on the far side of the Moon is named after him.
-The Norbert Wiener Center for Harmonic Analysis and Applications, at the University of Maryland, College Park, is named in his honor
-Robert A. Heinlein named a spaceship after him in his 1957 novel Citizen of the Galaxy, a "Free Trader" ship called the Norbert Wiener mentioned in Chapter 14.
In 1958, eighteen-year-old Tina became a mother for the first time, She gave birth to son Craig, during a fling with Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill. The news of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy and her performances with the Kings of Rhythm caused her mother Zelma to kick her out of her house.Hill abandoned her and their child, and Tina eventually moved into Ike Turner's house in East St. Louis. Within a couple of years, Tina was pregnant with Ike's child, and their son, Ronald, was born in October 1960. After marrying Turner in 1962, she became the stepmother of Ike's sons, Ike, Jr. (b. 1958) and Michael (b. 1959). Turner was pregnant again with Ike's child in 1968, but after discovering that her friend, Ikette member Ann Thomas, was also carrying Ike's baby, she quietly had her baby aborted.
ReplyDeleteDuring Ike and Tina's divorce trial, Ike sent Craig, Ronnie, Ike, Jr. and Michael to live at her home. Following Tina's ascent to success, Ike would accuse Tina of abandoning most of her children, even alleging that Tina had sent Michael to a mental hospital after he had entered Tina's home allegedly to have her and Ike reunite.[36] Tina later denied Ike's allegations. Tina's relationship with her mother remained estranged throughout her mother's lifetime. After Tina left Los Angeles to move to England, she had her mother move to that home. Zelma Bullock died in 1999. Tina's elder sister Aillene died after a long bout with illness in 2010.
PUBLICATIONS BY NORBERT WIENER
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- Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, Hermann et Cie, Paris, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), Wiley and Sons, New York, 1948. Second edition, revised, with two more chapters, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), Wiley and Sons, New York, 1961.
- Extrapolation, Interpolation and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series with Engineering Applications, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), Wiley and Sons, New York, Chapman & Hall, London, 1949.
- The Human Use of Human Beings, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1950.
- Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1953.
- I Am a Mathematician. The Later Life of an Ex-Prodigy, Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1956.
- The Tempter, Random House, New York, 1959.
- God, Golem, Inc. A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1964.
- Differential space, Quantum Systems and Prediction, with A. Siegel, B. Rankin, W.T. Martin, The MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1966.
Articles
About 300, among them entries in encyclopedias (19), reviews of books or articles (19) and two short stories ("The brain" and "The miracle of the broom closet").
Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (born November 26, 1919) is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" (1937), to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led (2011).
ReplyDeleteFrom about 1959 until 1969, Pohl edited Galaxy and its sister magazine If; the latter won three successive annual Hugo Awards as the year's best professional magazine.His 1977 novel Gateway won four "year's best novel" awards: the Hugo voted by convention participants, the Locus voted by magazine subscribers, the Nebula voted by American science fiction writers, and the juried academic John W. Campbell Memorial Award.[1] He won the Campbell Memorial Award again for the 1984 collection of novellas Years of the City, the only repeat winner in forty years. For his 1979 novel Jem, Pohl won a U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Science Fiction.It was a finalist for three other year's best novel awards. In all he has won four Hugo and three Nebula Awards.
Pohl became a Nebula Grand Master in 1993 and he was inducted by the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 1998. He won the Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer in 2010, for his blog "The Way the Future Blogs"
Tina Turner is a legend.She became one of the greatest female rock stars in the world. She is known worldwide for her amazing and spectacular rock concerts and powerful and raw voice, but especially in Europe she has become a huge record seller.Her albums have sold over 50 million copies worldwide. She´s admired by millions of people around the world and is one of the most beloved singers in the world. Her fans include Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and David Bowie, just to name a few. Tina deserves the title The Queen Of Rock´n´Roll, and after 40 years on stage she´s still rolling on the river. She really is Simply The Best.
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