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On May 4, 1780, the American Academy of Arts and Science was founded in Boston by James Bowdoin, John Adams, and Samuel Adams. From the article:
"History of the Academy | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, established in 1780, is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
May 4, 1780
Massachusetts legislature approves Academy Charter
In 1780, sixty-two individuals – clergymen and merchants, scholars and physicians, farmers and public leaders – signed their names to the Charter of the American Academy. Along with John Adams and James Bowdoin, the founders included Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. The Academy held its first meeting on May 30 in the Philosophical Chamber at Harvard.
The Massachusetts legislature established the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 1780. Following the broad vision of the Academy’s founder, John Adams, the charter directed the Academy’s programs toward both the development of knowledge—historical, natural, physical, and medical—and its applications for the improvement of society. The sixty-two incorporating Fellows represented varying interests and high standing in the political, professional, and commercial sectors of the state. The first new members chosen by the Academy in 1781 included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington as Fellows, as well as several Foreign Honorary Members. Since that time, over 13,000 individuals have been elected to the Academy membership, including Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Edward K. (Duke) Ellington. Foreign Honorary Members have included Leonhard Euler, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Nelson Mandela."
"History of the Academy | American Academy of Arts and Sciences
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, established in 1780, is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.
May 4, 1780
Massachusetts legislature approves Academy Charter
In 1780, sixty-two individuals – clergymen and merchants, scholars and physicians, farmers and public leaders – signed their names to the Charter of the American Academy. Along with John Adams and James Bowdoin, the founders included Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. The Academy held its first meeting on May 30 in the Philosophical Chamber at Harvard.
The Massachusetts legislature established the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on May 4, 1780. Following the broad vision of the Academy’s founder, John Adams, the charter directed the Academy’s programs toward both the development of knowledge—historical, natural, physical, and medical—and its applications for the improvement of society. The sixty-two incorporating Fellows represented varying interests and high standing in the political, professional, and commercial sectors of the state. The first new members chosen by the Academy in 1781 included Benjamin Franklin and George Washington as Fellows, as well as several Foreign Honorary Members. Since that time, over 13,000 individuals have been elected to the Academy membership, including Thomas Jefferson, John James Audubon, Joseph Henry, Washington Irving, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Edward R. Murrow, Jonas Salk, Eudora Welty, and Edward K. (Duke) Ellington. Foreign Honorary Members have included Leonhard Euler, the Marquis de Lafayette, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Nelson Mandela."
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And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth
Slides: http://hosting.cs.vt.edu/seminar/DL_series_2010-2011/Moshe_Vardi/logic.pdf Abstract: During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous...
Thank you, my friend SGT (Join to see) for making us aware that the American Academy of Arts and Sciences was established on May 4, 1780 in Boston by James Bowdoin, John Adams, and Samuel Adam.
In its beginnings those serious scientists understood that God was indeed the author of all and that human beings were at times gifted with abilities to understand more and more about the creation especially physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and other hard sciences.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is still a renowned institution.
And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth
"Abstract:
During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous, and growing interaction between logic and computer science. In fact, logic has been called "the calculus of computer science". The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer science, similar to that played by calculus in the physical sciences and traditional engineering disciplines. Indeed, logic plays an important role in areas of computer science as disparate as architecture (logic gates), software engineering (specification and verification), programming languages (semantics, logic programming), databases (relational algebra and SQL), artificial intelligence (automated theorem proving), algorithms (complexity and expressiveness), and theory of computation (general notions of computability). This non-technical talk will provide an overview of the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science by surveying the history of logic in computer science, going back all the way to Aristotle and Euclid, and showing how logic actually gave rise to computer science.
Biographical Sketch:
Moshe Y. Vardi is the George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Institute at Rice University. He is the co-recipient of three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, the ACM SIGACT Gödel Prize, the ACM Kanellakis Award, the ACM SIGMOD Codd Award, and the Blaise Pascal Medal. He is the author and co-author of about 400 papers, as well as two books: "Reasoning about Knowledge" and "Finite Model Theory and Its Applications". He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the European Academy of Science, and Academia Europea. He holds honorary doctorates from the Saarland University in Germany and Orleans University in France."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAT3B13DXs
FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) MSgt Robert C Aldi CPT Scott Sharon CMSgt (Join to see) SMSgt Tom Burns SSG Donald H "Don" Bates SSG Jeffrey Leake Sgt (Join to see) SGT Randal Groover SGT Rick Colburn SPC Mike Lake PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston Rhonda Hanson
In its beginnings those serious scientists understood that God was indeed the author of all and that human beings were at times gifted with abilities to understand more and more about the creation especially physics, chemistry, astronomy, mathematics and other hard sciences.
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is still a renowned institution.
And Logic Begat Computer Science: When Giants Roamed the Earth
"Abstract:
During the past fifty years there has been extensive, continuous, and growing interaction between logic and computer science. In fact, logic has been called "the calculus of computer science". The argument is that logic plays a fundamental role in computer science, similar to that played by calculus in the physical sciences and traditional engineering disciplines. Indeed, logic plays an important role in areas of computer science as disparate as architecture (logic gates), software engineering (specification and verification), programming languages (semantics, logic programming), databases (relational algebra and SQL), artificial intelligence (automated theorem proving), algorithms (complexity and expressiveness), and theory of computation (general notions of computability). This non-technical talk will provide an overview of the unusual effectiveness of logic in computer science by surveying the history of logic in computer science, going back all the way to Aristotle and Euclid, and showing how logic actually gave rise to computer science.
Biographical Sketch:
Moshe Y. Vardi is the George Professor in Computational Engineering and Director of the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology Institute at Rice University. He is the co-recipient of three IBM Outstanding Innovation Awards, the ACM SIGACT Gödel Prize, the ACM Kanellakis Award, the ACM SIGMOD Codd Award, and the Blaise Pascal Medal. He is the author and co-author of about 400 papers, as well as two books: "Reasoning about Knowledge" and "Finite Model Theory and Its Applications". He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, the American Academy of Arts and Science, the European Academy of Science, and Academia Europea. He holds honorary doctorates from the Saarland University in Germany and Orleans University in France."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAT3B13DXs
FYI LTC Wayne Brandon LTC (Join to see) MSgt Robert C Aldi CPT Scott Sharon CMSgt (Join to see) SMSgt Tom Burns SSG Donald H "Don" Bates SSG Jeffrey Leake Sgt (Join to see) SGT Randal Groover SGT Rick Colburn SPC Mike Lake PO3 William Hetrick PO3 Lynn Spalding SPC Mark Huddleston Rhonda Hanson
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