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Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot
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Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot, (born 1845, Magneux, France—died March 28, 1903, Sceaux), engineer who, in 1874, received a patent on a telegraph code that by the mid-20th century had supplanted Morse Code as the most commonly used telegraphic alphabet.
In Baudot’s code, each letter was represented by a five-unit combination of current-on or current-off signals of equal duration; this represented a substantial economy over the Morse system of short dots and long dashes. Thus, 32 permutations were provided, sufficient for the Roman alphabet, punctuation signs, and control of the machine’s mechanical functions. Baudot also invented (1894) a distributor system for simultaneous ... (100 of 157 words)
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Friday, August 22, 2003
Q&A: Critical mass forming for UW genetic research
By Luke Timmerman
Seattle Times business reporter
Robert Waterston made his name as a leader of the Human Genome Project, the historic job that put the genetic instruction book on the desktop of all biologists.
These days, Waterston is settling in as a Seattleite. He bicycles to work down the Burke-Gilman Trail thinking of a new challenge: making sense of the flood of genetic data to improve human health.
Waterston, who turns 60 next month, came to the University of Washington in January to lead the department of genome sciences, which has three of the eight recognized leaders of the genome project. Last week, he broke ground on a $150 million state-of-the-art building to house his department and that of bioengineering. Nearly half the money for the building, a key recruiting tool, came from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Q: What should the public, most of which dimly recalls ninth-grade biology, be doing to learn about this new biology that is changing health care and the economy?
A: They have to read. Seriously. A lot of biology is very complex, and depends on detailed understanding, but the great thing about DNA is (that) it's conceptually straightforward. People understand it's a language, with A, G, C and T, and different combinations have different meanings, just like words.
Q: What is the biggest obstacle to genome-science progress?
A: People's participation.
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felony murder doctrine
a rule of criminal statutes that any death which occurs during the commission of a felony is first degree murder, and all participants in that felony or attempted felony can be charged with and found guilty of murder. A typical example is a robbery involving more than one criminal, in which one of them shoots, beats to death or runs over a store clerk, killing the clerk. Even if the death were accidental, all of the participants can be found guilty of felony murder, including those who did no harm, had no gun, and/or did not intend to hurt anyone.
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Felony Murder Doctrine
The felony murder rule is a legal doctrine current in some common law countries that broadens the crime of murder in two ways. First, when a victim dies accidentally or without specific intent in the course of an applicable felony, it increases what might have been manslaughter (or even a simple tort) to murder. Second, it makes any participant in such a felony criminally responsible for any deaths that occur during or in furtherance of that felony.
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Volume 7, Number 31 August 15, 2003
Groundbreaking held for research building
A groundbreaking ceremony was held Tuesday, Aug. 12, to begin construction of the Genome Sciences and Bioengineering Building in Seattle.
Speakers at the event included U.S. Senator Patty Murray and Congressman Norm Dicks, who, along with U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell and others, were instrumental in obtaining the federal funding for the new building.
Others speaking at the groundbreaking were Lee Huntsman, interim UW president; Paul Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine; Denice Denton, dean of the School of Engineering; Yongmin Kim, chair of bioengineering; and Robert Waterston, chair of genome sciences.
$70 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation enabled the project. Additional funding was provided by the federal government, at $12 million, and $10 million from the Whitaker Foundation. Other private sources contributed toward the $150 million building cost.
All seven speakers, joined by UW Regents William H. Gates and Gerald Grinstein, sporting hardhats and shovels, broke the ground at the construction site west of the UW Health Sciences complex. The building is expected to be completed in 2005.
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Baud
In telecommunications and electronics, baud (unit symbol "Bd") is synonymous to symbols per second or pulses per second. It is the unit of symbol rate, also known as baud rate or modulation rate; the number of distinct symbol changes (signaling events) made to the transmission medium per second in a digitally modulated signal or a line code.
The baud unit is named after Émile Baudot, the inventor of the Baudot code for telegraphy
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