(Encyclopedia) Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess ofReading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs, 1st marquess ofrĕdˈĭng [key], 1860–1935, British statesman. Called to the bar in 1887, he achieved great…
(Encyclopedia) Actors Studio, The, organization founded 1947 in New York City by the directors Cheryl Crawford, Elia Kazan, and Robert Lewis to train professional actors. Long directed (1948–82) by…
(Encyclopedia) Friedman, MiltonFriedman, Miltonfrēdˈmən [key], 1912–2006, American economist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1946. Friedman was influential in helping to revive the monetarist…
(Encyclopedia) Allen, Woody, 1935–, American actor, writer, and director, one of contemporary America's leading filmmakers, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Allen Stewart Konigsberg. Allen began his career…
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(Encyclopedia) Stresemann, GustavStresemann, Gustavg&oobreve;sˈtäf shtrāˈzəmän [key], 1878–1929, German statesman. A founder (1902) and director (until 1918) of the Association of Saxon…
(Encyclopedia) neural network or neural computing, computer architecture modeled upon the human brain's interconnected system of neurons. Neural networks imitate the brain's ability to sort out…