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||Alexander L'vovich Brudno (Russian: Александр Львович Брудно) (b. January 10, 1918) was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. | ||Alexander L'vovich Brudno (Russian: Александр Львович Брудно) (b. January 10, 1918) was a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. | ||
||Res Jost (b. 10 January 1918) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. | |||
||1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. | ||1927 – Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. | ||
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1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military scrying engine device.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.
1960: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, announces world tour.
2007: Rhizolith Group debuts new work based on The Dark Side of the Moon.