And boffins are constantly improving what bogus burgers taste like.
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In every case, the boffins were more bearish than the bettors.
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The idea was to coax the universities' boffins into business ventures.
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But the boffins at headquarters in Los Gatos help set the budgets.
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These boffins design algorithms to find patterns in big piles of digital information.
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So what makes Melbourne so damn good, according to the boffins at The Economist?
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From China to California, boffins are improving their ability to cultivate diamonds in labs.
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Perhaps the boffins at Kmart Australia didn't know what a homemade crack pipe looks like.
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The boffins at MGI scrutinised the financial performance of some 10,000 Chinese and American companies.
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Bristolian boffins are proudest not of this physical infrastructure but of the way it is organised.
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Beyond just AI researchers and top boffins, Microsoft aims to bring AI and IT to new audiences.
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He has studied with (and affectionately describes) some of the boffins devising the future of solar technology.
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In other words, the entries will be judged not by computer-science boffins, but by renowned film-makers.
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Foreign-policy boffins once fantasised about setting a truly independent course for Canada, but that now seems unrealistic.
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Sure, the 1975 didn't facilitate this (at least not the phone call anyway—they're a band, not tech boffins).
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He wove his boffins into business units, turning a cycle of self-assessment and improvement into the default pattern.
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A history of outsized revisions and unusual monthly swings was previously a headache only for the market's statistical boffins.
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But marine boffins are unable to identify the creature - but say it could be a type of whale, dolphin, or porpoise.
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Others, such as the boffins at the Big Data Lab of Baidu, China's biggest online-search company, are relying on smartphones.
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But puffin boffins fear that their numbers are falling so fast that in 20 years they may have vanished from the archipelago.
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Since AI talent is scarce, the firm has to pay heed to the principles of its boffins, at least to some extent.
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Boffins in Brussels are preparing a methodology for standardised tests that should help agencies across the EU ascertain the scale of the problem.
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Whereas in many other countries legal boffins do the drafting, in Indonesia the job can fall to politicians, many of whom are inexperienced.
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Unsurprisingly, the company also plans to work with the boffins at MIT, which is the landlord of the company's new offices in Kendall Square.
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Bytedance's boffins showed off their prowess last year with a Toutiao bot that wrote hundreds of widely read short articles during the Rio Olympics.
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As Mr Abraham follows their extraction, he finds geologists, refiners, traders, smugglers and boffins whose stories add to the intrigue of this shadowy trade.
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The idea is not to turn business types into boffins but to prepare them to work with and manage technical staff, says Mr Maglaras.
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He has little time, then, for the "scientists and boffins" who have decided that tea doesn't do active players any good, that it dehydrates them.
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The bug boffins at Google's Project Zero have identified a vulnerability in popular Android handsets like the Google Pixel 2, Samsung Galaxy S9, and Moto Z3.
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Based on how various sentences are related to one another in the memory space of the neural network, Google's language and AI boffins think that it has.
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Business is good for farmers of crocodilians, who will gather this month with conservationists and other boffins at a biennial powwow not far from Mr Süssmann's farm.
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Their initial goal was to create something that somehow contained the heartbreaking pop harmonies of the Shangri-Las and the remorseless noise of industrial boffins Einstürzende Neubauten.
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THIS BAR WAS JUST VOTED THE BEST IN THE WORLD The high-end grog was sent off to be tested by boffins at Oxford University – with shocking results.
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Ahead of this summer's World Cup they have been inundated with forecasts from algorithm-wielding boffins, who have boasted of their sophisticated number-crunching—and yielded wildly different results.
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When it ends, viewers can switch to one of the most inexpensively produced shows in the industry, "Talk the Thrones", in which boffins sit around and discuss HBO's show.
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Building these models still remains the domain of computer science boffins, but with this new feature, a far wider range of users will now be able to consume them.
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Also on the hunt were the boffins at WikiLeaks, hunching over their computers to perform an impressive-sounding "statistical analysis," looking at the language used in the anonymous op-ed.
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In 2012 Britain's energy boffins predicted that for the foreseeable future the price of non-nuclear fuels, such as natural gas, would be more than double where they are today.
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The ingredients would include masses of processing power, lots of computer-science boffins, a torrent of capital—and abundant data with which to train machines to recognise and respond to patterns.
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The government has dispatched two million boffins to visit companies, stores and even street stalls in the first few months of this year, as part of a new national economic census.
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Investors can choose a set of algorithms that match their goals and risk profile, and the code boffins benefit by seeing their code in use and by sharing in the profits.
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At KubeCon + CloudNativeCon, the bi-annual gathering of cloud-native computing boffins, Google today announced that it now offers three release channels for its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE): Rapid, Regular and Stable.
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There is no minimum weighting required, and the boffins at S&P Dow Jones Indices may be reluctant to drop the oldest constituent, especially as today's average contains few actual industrial companies.
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The tech giants certainly have big advantages in the battle to develop AI. They have tonnes of data, oodles of computing power and boffins aplenty—especially in China, which expects to charge ahead.
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"Whitehall boffins are trying to demarcate areas of knowledge and culture, trying to distill them into British identity, which is kind of amorphous," he added, using a British term for a nerdish expert.
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AT THE start of 5003 a senior official in the statistics bureau of Liaoning, an industrial province in north-eastern China, told his army of boffins to cultivate a spirit of innovation in their work.
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You see it in computer vision, where for example Google boffins may publish their early and interesting work, which is picked up by FAIR or Uber and improved or added to in another paper 8 months later.
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BARCELONA (Reuters) - Photographers will be out in force when Formula One's new cars start testing on Monday with team boffins looking closely at the pictures to try and answer a key concern: Have they missed a trick?
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Some users will argue that Google could take more drastic measures and simply use its tech prowess to stop the ad ecosystem from tracking you through cookies, fingerprinting and whatever else the adtech boffins will dream up next.
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Mr Todesca has rehired boffins who were ousted by the old regime, including Cynthia Pok, who will resume responsibility for poverty and employment data, and Ms Bevacqua, who is overseeing the construction of a new consumer-price index.
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Which is why the boffins at Swizzels Matlow have spent several years and billions and billions of pounds on a super-secret project they'll be unveiling with the help of a superstar DJ towards the end of 2017.
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The technical boffins will be taking a closer look at what their rivals have come up with, and any innovations they might have missed, as well as watching out for signs the pecking order might be about to change.
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Comprising 12 replica European "towns" spread across lush subtropical hills near the southern city of Dongguan, the campus houses 18,000 scientists, designers and other boffins in turreted German castles, Spanish mansions and Italian palazzi, connected by an antique-style red train.
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While the big pop acts could ape his production and studio budget, bedroom-bound boffins the world over heard what he could do on a 4 track, synths and a sampler in his home studio and set out to do the same.
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But what if I told you that this was not an obsessively practiced performance by a precocious 7-year-old, but the original creation of an artistic artificial intelligence, the work of the boffins at Google Research (specifically, and naturally, Google Brain)?
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Laser weaponry capable of real harm has eluded the eager boffins of the world's militaries for several reasons, none of which sound like they've been addressed in this research, which is long on bombast but short, at least in the SCMP article, on substance.
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The clean energy boffins in their labs are always upping the theoretical limit on how much power you can get out of sunshine, but us plebes actually installing solar cells are stuck with years-old tech that's not half as good as what they're seeing.
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The exhibition presents not only savings boxes of all kinds, savings books, newspaper clippings, advertising posters and explanatory texts but also controversial video recordings of financial boffins explaining the pros and cons of public and private spending (and a copy of our July 2017 cover).
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The "first in, first out" principle has previously been applied to bankruptcies, but the Cambridge boffins posit that it could also apply to the blockchain, offering a superior way to determine what's been stolen, laundered, or otherwise corrupted, and potentially return those bitcoins to their rightful owners.
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Google hasn't quite made this official yet, but after its Firebase and Google Developers Twitter accounts posted a link to a few puzzles earlier today, the boffins over at Hacker News quickly figured out when and where Google's 2017 I/O developer conference will take place.
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Its apex, the £22.5bn ($35bn) sale of third-generation (3G) wireless spectrum in Britain in 2000, was such a humdinger that the boffins who devised it described it, with a Pythonesque flourish, as the most successful auction since the Praetorian Guard sold the Roman Empire to Didius Julianus in 43AD.
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Then he was swept through the door into beery camaraderie: Boffins Corner, we called it, and I sat on my bench with my beer in the long evening sun and all my notes, all my words and rhymes and rhythms and images, all my thoughts and all the things I held in my heart, were nothing.
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University Boffins Print Self-Generating OrigamiEmploying the same physical forces that power Shrinky Dinks, researchers at North Carolina State…Read more Read Back in 2011, we reported about the same research team's original attempts to make self-assembling origami objects that used black lines printed on plastic sheets—not unlike the popular Shrinky Dinks toys—to self-fold when exposed to UV light.
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It's like they initially released this guide to creating techno dance music and really brazenly claimed that computers are the ONLY way to make techno dance music and some beardy guys who make techno dance music using machines made of sawdust and old circuit boards got very annoyed about the way the multi-brained boffins at WikiHow HQ had denied them a voice.
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Either way, it seems to have originated with servicemen working with radar 'boffins' and quickly adapted by other servicemen and boffins themselves.
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John Wyndham's novel The Kraken Wakes (1953) includes a song called "The Boffin's Lament" or "The Lay of the Baffled Boffin", with Naval Boffins. A 1959 biography refers to 'muzzle-headed boffins in cob-webby small backrooms'. By the 1980s boffins were relegated, in UK popular culture, to semi-comic supporting characters such as Q, the fussy armourer-inventor in the James Bond films, and the term itself gradually took on a slightly negative connotation.
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The British engine boffins achieved this transformation by remapping the engine management system to squirt more fuel into the cylinders for preignition.
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Boffins follows the adventures of four tiny furry alien-like creatures known as Boffins, who spend their days in kitchen cupboards and surrounding areas, trying to discover the science behind how the world works, Madame Curie and Aristotle are very close to some of the answers, but Newton and Echo, the young boffins from the house next door are only interested in having fun! The series was designed to introduce primary school children to some of the basic laws of science. Each episode explores a different concept; the transmission of sound, levers, pulleys, magnetism, gravity, siphons, evaporation, reflection and dispersion of light, friction, and requirements for growth.
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Boffins (also referred to as The Boffins) is an Australian children's television programme produced by Film Australia in 1993. It was created by John Patterson and Ian Munro, who also co-created Johnson and Friends. The series was never broadcast or picked up by a network within Australia. The ABC initially wanted to show it as part of their schools programming, but this never happened for unknown reasons.
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Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations, by George Drower. The History Press. 1 May 2011. We invented the international 'modern' Rig, by Dr. Edward C. Harris, MBE, Executive Director of the Bermuda Maritime Museum.
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284 Thus (for example) the character eventually known as Peregrin (Pippin) Took was, in a series of rewriting and of deleted adventures, variously known as Odo, Frodo, Folco, Faramond, Peregrin, Hamilcar, Fredegar, and Olo – the figures also being Boffins and Bolgers, as well as Tooks.
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Administration of the Film Australia Collection was transferred from Screen Australia to the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) on 1 July 2011. However, the Australian Children's Television Foundation are now the distributors for Film Australia's children's catalogue, with the exception of Boffins, which is maintained by the NFSA.
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She also appeared in two children's programs, Johnson and Friends and Boffins. Kennedy also delivered the famous (in Australia) catch- phrase "Not happy, Jan!" in the oft-quoted TV commercial for the Yellow Pages telephone directory. In the 2000s television guest roles have included appearances series MacLeod's Daughters and Welcher & Welcher.
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Norman Foster is cited as carrying forward the spirit of the boffin. There has also been academic recognition that by 1959 boffins had become under-appreciated, under- valued and under-used, to the extent that the post-war vision of an integrated approach to the development and use of the sciences was never fully realized.
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Nelson makes films for the European Space Agency. She hosts the podcast Space Boffins through her media company Boffin Media, which has welcomed guests such as Buzz Aldrin, Eileen Collins, Helen Sharman and Tim Peake. She presented the 2017 BBC World Service documentary Before I Go. In 2018 she was taken to SAI International School with the British Council.
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However all was not lost. The plane was in such a flat spin when it reached the ground that it skidded sideways over the surface of a field until the tail section hit a haystack and broke off. The four "boffins" walked away relatively unharmed, the knotted rope being their only positive remedy for an Oxford in a spin.
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She has a terror of the workhouse. When Lizzie Hexam finds Mrs Higden dying, she meets the Boffins and Bella Wilfer. In the meantime Eugene Wrayburn has obtained information about Lizzie's whereabouts from Jenny's father and finds the object of his affections. Bradley Headstone engages with Riderhood, now working as a lock-keeper, as Headstone is consumed with making good his threats about Wrayburn.
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The reason for this was the increased height necessary for a single mast, which led to too much canvas. The solid wooden masts at that height were also too heavy, and not sufficiently strong. Single-masted sloops quickly became the norm in Bermudian racing, with the introduction of hollow masts and other refinements.Boats, Boffins and Bowlines: The Stories of Sailing Inventors and Innovations, by George Drower.
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Boffin continued, in the immediate postwar period, to carry some of its wartime connotation, as a modern-day wizard who labours in secret to create incomprehensible devices of great power. For example, the comics of the period depicted them as developing imaginative machines.Ed. Daniel TatarskyEagle Annual of the Cutaways, Orion Books,2009 However, their more nuanced wartime role was not reflected in popular culture, such as the 1951 Festival of Britain and the term was even used in the UK parliament (1953) to refer to boffins as narrow academics. The image of the technical boffin-hero was popularised by Nevil Shute's novel No Highway (1948), PaulBrickhill's non- fiction book The Dambusters (1951) and Shute's autobiography Slide Rule (1954). Films of The Small Back Room (1948), No Highway (1951, as No Highway in the Sky), and The Dambusters (1954) also featured boffins as heroes, as did stand-alone films such as The Man in the White Suit (1951) and The Sound Barrier (1952).
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Despite being relatively obscure and never airing in Australia, Boffins was broadcast in various countries around the world - including Singapore, Malaysia, Israel, Brunei, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, The Middle East, Africa and possibly elsewhere. It was also translated and dubbed into Hebrew, Malay and Portuguese, among other languages. The series was also released in the United States and Canada as a set of educational videos, which were only available to schools and universities.
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Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research and development. The World War II conception of boffins as war-winning researchers lends the term a more positive connotation than related terms such as nerd, egghead, geek or spod. A "boffin" was viewed by some in the regular services as odd, quirky or peculiar, though quite bright and essential to helping in the war effort.
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However, Goodwin was unable to cope with the fast-paced life in America and returned to England. After returning to the UK he was the scriptwriter for Bright's Boffins (1970) and in 1974 wrote shows for Max Bygraves and David Frost. He was married twice: his first marriage was to Barbara (1956) with whom they had two children — Jeremy (1958) and Suki (1960). They divorced in 1967 and in 1971 he married Jane Cappleman.
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The blurb bills it as "Humphrey Paxton, the son of one of Britain's leading atomic boffins, has taken to carrying a shotgun to 'shoot plotters and blackmailers and spies'. His new tutor, the plodding Mr Thewless, suggests that Humphrey might be overdoing it somewhat. But when a man is found shot dead at a cinema, Mr Thewless is plunged into a nightmare world of lies, kidnapping and murder - and grave matters of national security".
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School for Secrets (also known as Secret Flight) is a 1946 British black-and- white film written and directed by Peter Ustinov and starring Ralph Richardson. In leading supporting roles were David Tomlinson, Raymond Huntley, Finlay Currie, Richard Attenborough, John Laurie and Michael Hordern. Based on a 1942 RAF training video for would-be 'boffins' and developed with the full cooperation of the Air Ministry, the film celebrates the discovery of radar, its discoverers and the enabling culture.
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She became qualified as a teacher at the University of Birmingham and worked as a primary school teacher from 1944, before she gave up teaching in 1962 in order to write. Of the second Hubbles or Boffins Club book, the American journal Kirkus Reviews complemented the easy transitions between fantasy and reality and observed that the children "keep up a steady banter often pleasantly silly, frequently affected, and always very British." Horseman died in Bristol, April 1999.
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Film Australia also created one of Australia's most successful children's television programs, Johnson and Friends, which ran for four series. The program sold to over 50 territories and ran from 1990 until 1995. This venture also lead to the creation of further children's programs, including The Girl from Tomorrow / Tomorrow's End, Boffins, Escape from Jupiter / Return to Jupiter and Spellbinder / Land of the Dragon Lord. The operations of Film Finance Corporation Australia, Australian Film Commission, and Film Australia were merged as Screen Australia in July 2008.
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In 1952 the Secretary of State for War noted the need to develop 'Colonel Boffins' at Shrivenham (1952). Notably,Richard Vincent acquired the nickname 'the boffin' after working at Malvern (1960-62) as a Gunnery Staff Captain and, via RMCS Shrivenham, rosing to become Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)."Field Marshal Lord Vincent obituary", 13 September 2018, The Times In the 12 January 1953 issue of Life magazine, a short article on Malcolm Compston depicted him testing "the Admiralty's new plastic survival suit" in the Arctic Ocean; the article, entitled "Cold Bath for a Boffin", defines the term for its American audience as "civilian scientist working with the British Navy" and notes that his potentially life- saving work demonstrates "why the term 'boffin', which first began as a sailor's expression of joking contempt, has become instead one of affectionate admiration". By 1962 Boffins were characterised as 'the man (sic) who could understand the viewpoint of the Services, who worked with them, and who frequently shared their dangers' and R V Jones, wartime head of scientific intelligence, was referred to as a boffin.
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Eric Partridge noted that the word was used in the Royal Navy as "an unkind term for any officer over forty".Ronald W. Clark, The Rise of the Boffins, Phoenix House, 1962 Chris Roberts, Heavy Words Lightly Thrown: The Reason Behind Rhyme, Thorndike Press, 2006 () On the other hand, the Oxford English Dictionary quotes use in The Times in September 1945: First published in A Supplement to the OED I, 1972. Malvern was home to both TRE and RRDE, who were later merged into RRE. It supported all the services.
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School for Secrets tells the story of the "boffins" - research scientists - who discovered and developed radar and helped avoid the German invasion of Britain in 1940. Five scientists, led by Professor Heatherville (Ralph Richardson), are brought together to work in secrecy and under pressure to develop the device. Their dedication disrupts their family lives as they are forced to sacrifice everything to make a breakthrough. Their success is illustrated by the effect radar has on the fighting abilities of the RAF over the skies of Britain in the summer and autumn months of 1940.
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By 1960 he had started working for Punch and was busy enough to become a full-time cartoonist. Shortly after this he sold a regular cartoon strip ‘Patsy & John’ to The Sunday Telegraph and started a long relationship with that newspaper. Other features followed, notably ‘Them’, ‘Boffins at Bay’, ‘Raymonde’s Rancid Rhymes’ (when he forayed into the world of comic poetry) and ‘Raymonde’s Blooming Wonders’ – clever character sketches of notable personalities in the guise of a Victorian botanical encyclopedia. In 1966 he won the Cartoonist’s Club of Great Britain’s Feature Cartoonist of the Year award.
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Ladybird children's clothing first appeared on UK rails in 1938. The brand was owned by Adolf Pasold & Son, and sold through various well-known high street retailers, including Woolworths and Littlewoods. The name "Ladybird" was bought by Adolf Pasold & Son for just £5 from the Klinger Manufacturing Company because, according to legend, company founder Johannes Pasold had seen a ladybird in a dream when first starting the family firm in the 18th century. The 1950s saw the first of the famous Ladybird press adverts, depicting Ladybirds in various human-like roles including scientists and computer boffins.
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The long running Shortland Street casting director Marianne Willison named Rooney's casting as Emily to be one of her favourite decisions. Rooney worked as a scriptwriter and editor 20 years after leaving the role and described the "fun" she had playing the character with a "bun, glasses, and a centre-part." The character was referred to by The New Zealand Herald as a previous portrayal of the "classic nerd" archetype with "memorable bad-hair- and-glasses boffins". Emily's return and dementia diagnosis was praised and noted as an example of Shortland Street depicting social commentary within its storylines.
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Louise Smit received national and international acclaim for her work. Seven Artes awards for best magazine programme and children's programmes, SABC Two Star Tonight Awards for Liewe Heksie (as director) and a series in Tswana: Kabarete ya Poone (Cabaret of the Mielies (Corn)) Unima Award for best contribution to puppetry in South Africa M-Net Award for a children's programme: Eko-Boffins Tokio International Television Prize (Japan Prize) for Kideo - most innovative programme, 1995 Prix de Jeunesse prize, Munich, 1996, third prize for Kideo (Denmark 1st, BBC 2nd, Sesame Street 4th) ATKV Woordveertjie for Bennie Boekwurm se Tonnelhuisie - NB-Publishers South African Literary Award (SALA) for her life achievement work.
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Riderhood fetches the bundle of clothing and attempts to blackmail Headstone. Headstone is overcome with the hopelessness of his situation, as Wrayburn is alive, recovering from the brutal beating, and is married to Lizzie. Confronted by Riderhood in his classroom, Headstone is seized with a self-destructive urge, proceeding to the lock, where he flings himself into the lock, pulling Riderhood with him so that both are drowned. The one-legged parasite Silas Wegg has, with help from Mr Venus, an "articulator of bones", searched the mounds of dust and discovered a will subsequent to the one which has given the Boffins the whole of the Harmon estate.
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He does so and it is revealed that Mr Boffin's apparent miserliness and ill-treatment of his secretary were part of a scheme to test Bella's motives about money. When Wegg attempts to clinch his blackmail on the basis of the later will disinheriting Boffin, Boffin turns the tables by revealing a still later will by which the fortune is granted to Boffin even at young John Harmon's expense. The Boffins are determined to make John Harmon and his bride Bella Wilfer their heirs anyway so all ends well, except for the villain Wegg, who is carted away by Sloppy. Sloppy himself becomes friendly with Jenny Wren, whose father has died.
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Of the same newspaper, Luke Holland called the chorus, "bigger than a God's tea cosy" as well as writing it "feels constructed by boffins in a hermetically sealed lab to be the most effective chrome-plated slammer it can possibly be". For PopMatters, Nick Malone stated it "flourishes" in the chorus as well as praising its hook, but criticised its bassline, writing it betrays what an obvious hit is. In Rolling Stone, Brittany Spanos viewed the song as a "gorgeous euphoria" while also recommending some club remixes. Neil Z. Yeung of AllMusic called "Hallucinate" a "rapturous out-of-body rave", while Entertainment Weeklys Maura Johnston labelled in "stardust-dipped".
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During the Second World War, an organisation known as the Post Design Services (PDS) was formed at the Telecommunications Research Establishment (TRE), Malvern, Worcestershire, to provide a direct link between the designers of electronic equipment in the laboratories and the service users in the field. The organisation was manned by civilian scientists ("boffins") and serving officers and worked predominantly in the fields of airborne radar and ground-controlled interception (GCI). In 1946, PDS was disbanded and a successor organisation, the Radio Introduction Branch (RIB), was formed at RAF Medmenham. In 1952, the RIB was renamed as Radio Introduction Unit (RIU) and became responsible for the introduction into service of all airborne and ground radio systems.
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By the terms of the miser's will, the whole estate then devolves upon Mr and Mrs Boffin, naïve and good-hearted people who wish to enjoy it for themselves and to share it with others. They take the disappointed bride of the drowned heir, Miss Wilfer, into their household, and treat her as their pampered child and heiress. They also accept an offer from Julius Handford, now going under the name of John Rokesmith, to serve as their confidential secretary and man of business, at no salary. Rokesmith uses this position to watch and learn everything about the Boffins, Miss Wilfer, and the aftershock of the drowning of the heir John Harmon.
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This work has been widely reported in media.Quantum crypto boffins in successful backdoor sniff - Erroneous error-handling undermines bulletproofness retrieved 2010-05-26 The first attack that claimed to be able to eavesdrop the whole key without leaving any trace was demonstrated in 2010. It was experimentally shown that the single-photon detectors in two commercial devices could be fully remote-controlled using specially tailored bright illumination. In a spree of publications thereafter, the collaboration between the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light in Germany, has now demonstrated several methods to successfully eavesdrop on commercial QKD systems based on weaknesses of Avalanche photodiodes (APDs) operating in gated mode.
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Mr Boffin engages a one-legged ballad-seller, Silas Wegg, to read aloud to him in the evenings, and Wegg tries to take advantage of his position and of Mr Boffin's good heart to obtain other advantages from the wealthy dustman. When the Boffins purchase a large home, Wegg is invited to live in the old Harmon home. Wegg hopes to find hidden treasure in the house or in the mounds of trash on the property. Gaffer Hexam, who found the body, is accused of murdering John Harmon by a fellow-waterman, Roger "Rogue" Riderhood, who is bitter at having been cast off as Hexam's partner on the river, and who covets the large reward offered in relation to the murder.
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The N-Prize (the "N" stands for "Nanosatellite" or "Negligible Resources".) is an inducement prize contest intended to "encourage creativity, originality and inventiveness in the face of severe odds and impossible financial restrictions" and thus stimulate innovation directed towards obtaining cheap access to space. The competition was launched in 2008 by Cambridge biologist Paul H. Dear, and is intended specifically to spur amateur involvement in spaceflight as it is "aimed at amateurs, enthusiasts, would-be boffins and foolhardy optimists." The challenge posed by the N-Prize is to launch a satellite weighing between 9.99 and 19.99 grammes into Earth orbit, and to track it for a minimum of nine orbits. Most importantly the launch budget must be under £999.99 including the launch vehicle, all of the required non- reusable launch equipment hardware, and propellant.
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Gordon Preston persuaded Max Newman (who thought that the women would not care for the "intellectual effort") to authorise talks to the Wrens to explain their work mathematically, and the talks were very popular. Women in Bletchley Park soon proved themselves to be up to the task, as they performed good work in any position they held at Bletchley Park. Though the initial focus of recruitment, particularly during the latter years of the inter-war period, focused primarily on male academics, there soon emerged an eclectic staff of "Boffins and Debs", which caused GC&CS; to be whimsically dubbed the "Golf, Cheese and Chess Society". At the outbreak of the war Dilly Knox was the GC&CS;'s chief cryptanalyst and, as such, took a leading role in the work on the various Enigma networks.
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Most Oxfords in the UK were equipped with a knotted rope from the pilot's seat to the rear door to assist evacuation should the plane inadvertently be put into a spin, which it was almost impossible to recover from. When the pilot(s) released their seat belts centripetal force would hurl them to the rear of the plane, beyond the exit door, from which it was impossible to crawl forward to the door. The rope was installed as a response to a test by four "boffins" who tried to recover from a spin from 18,000 ft. When no recovery happened no matter what was tried the four released their harness and were hurled to the rear of their plane and there remained helpless as the spiral descent continued.
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"Who are you calling a boffin?", 24 September 2010, Jenny Rohn, The Guardian Thus, by the late 1990s, while the need for 'high-calibre' research staff with 'intimate knowledge' of users and their potential needs was well recognized, the term 'boffin' was no longer used in its original sense, lest it conjure up images of 'mad scientists'. Eds. Robert Bud and Philip Gummett, Cold War Hot Science, Harwood, 1999 This changed after 2003, with Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin and with a nostalgic popular book to accompany the Science Museum's 'Dan Dare and the Birth of High-Tech Britain' Exhibition. This describes the optimism as the war-time boffins turned their attention to turning Britain into 'a place of ingenious, and beautifully crafted home-spun technology and design', until thwarted by the consumerist policies of Harold Macmillan.
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Brian Eno's original vision of ambient music as unobtrusive musical wallpaper, later fused with warm house rhythms and given playful qualities by the Orb in the 1990s, found its opposite in the style known as dark ambient. Populated by a wide assortment of personalities—ranging from older industrial and metal experimentalists (Scorn's Mick Harris, Current 93's David Tibet, Nurse with Wound's Steven Stapleton) to electronic boffins (Kim Cascone/PGR, Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia), Japanese noise artists (K.K. Null, Merzbow), and latter-day indie rockers (Main, Bark Psychosis) – dark ambient features toned-down or entirely missing beats with unsettling passages of keyboards, eerie samples, and treated guitar effects. Like most styles related in some way to electronic/dance music of the '90s, it's a very nebulous term; many artists enter or leave the style with each successive release.
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From the age of 14 Taylor served as an apprentice to a Mr Messer, a ship's block maker in Westgate Street, Southampton.Nelson's Boffins - the Taylors of Woodmill , Chapter 4 in, Pannell J P M, Old Southampton Shores, 1967, p51-72 Whilst serving at sea his father had observed the problems caused by these blocks, which were traditionally handmade. On his return from sea he visited every blockmaker's shop he could find, and closely observed how blocks were formerly made.A particular Account of the origin and progress of Mr Taylor's Machines for making blocks, shivers and pins, and also his improvements in the construction of pumps, p86-94 in The Annual Hampshire Repository, Volume 2, 1801 On acquiring the blockmaking business, at Messer's death in 1754, Taylor and his father developed hand-powered sawing, boring and turning machinery to mass-produce the rigging blocks, repeatedly and to an exact specification.
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On 4 April 1945, AH574 became part of aviation history when test pilot Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown landed it on the flight deck of HMS Pretoria Castle--the first carrier landing made by an aircraft with retractable tricycle gear--due to a declared emergency during initial trials for landings on rubber decks planned for future carriers. In his autobiography, Captain Brown described the circumstances thus: > I had already collected a few 'firsts' in aviation, and I rather wanted to > be the first pilot to put a tricycle aircraft down on a flight deck. The > Airacobra was not officially cleared for such a landing, but the boffins had > told me privately that it would probably take the strain. > This was not on the official programme at all, but I hoped that I could > persuade Captain Caspar John of the Pretoria Castle to turn a blind eye to > what I had in mind.
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