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Heller School For Social Policy And Management

Heller School for Social Policy and Management

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management is one of the graduate schools of Brandeis University. Brandeis University The School was founded in 1959 as the University's first professional school. The school offers the degrees of MBA in Mission-Driven Management, M.A. in Sustainable International Development, M.S. in International Health Policy and Management, and Ph.D. in Social Policy. The School is considered to be among the best institutions of social policy in the United States.

External link

- [http://www.heller.brandeis.edu/ Official Web Site] Category:Brandeis University

Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a small, private university in Waltham, Massachusetts. It is located in the southwestern corner of Waltham, 9 miles west of Boston. Founded in 1948 as a coeducational institution on the site of the former Middlesex University, Brandeis is the youngest private research university, as well as the only nonsectarian Jewish-sponsored college or university in the United States. Despite its relatively recent founding and small size, Brandeis is highly regarded academically and has several first rate research programs (in particular, within the Life Sciences). The Heller School of Social Policy is especially renowned for its graduate programs in social work, policy, and development. The university is named for the first Jewish Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941).

About Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis As of 2005, the university had approximately 3,158 undergraduates, 1,872 graduate students and 500 faculty members. The schools of the University include:
- The College of Arts and Sciences
- The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
- Rabb School of Summer and Continuing Studies
- Brandeis International Business School The College of Arts and Sciences is comprised of 24 departments and 22 interdepartmental programs, which offer 38 majors and 42 minors. The Provost of the university, Marty Krauss is an expert on disability policy and family-based caregiving. Brandeis is home to the Rose Art Museum, a museum of modern and contemporary art. Fraternities and sororities are officially prohibited by Brandeis University, as they are contrary to a central tenet of the university, namely, that student organizations be open to all students, with membership determined by competency or interest. "Exclusive or secret societies are inconsistent with the principles of openness to which the University is committed." [http://www.brandeis.edu/studentlife/sdc/rr/html/rr_appendix.html] The university boasts an active student government, the Brandeis Student Union http://union.brandeis.edu, as well as more than 200 student organizations http://my.brandeis.edu. http://my.brandeis.edu The Brandeis University Press publishes books in a variety of scholarly and general interest fields. WBRS at 100.1 FM is the school's radio station. The university's athletic teams ("The Judges") compete in the University Athletic Association (UAA) conference of the NCAA Division III. The school's official colors are blue and white. Note that starting in 1997, the University of Louisville began calling its law school the Brandeis School of Law (Louis Brandeis was a Louisville native), but it is not affiliated with Brandeis University in any way. Brandeis University does not have a law school.

Presidents

Louisville The presidents of Brandeis University have been:
- Abram L. Sachar 1948-1968
- Morris B. Abram 1968-1970
- Charles I. Schottland 1970-1972
- Marver H. Bernstein 1972-1983
- Evelyn E. Handler 1983-1991
- Stuart H. Altman (interim) 1990-1991
- Samuel O. Thier, M.D. 1991-1994
- Jehuda Reinharz 1994-

Current and Former Notable faculty

All faculty may be found in the [http://go.brandeis.edu/facguide Brandeis Faculty Guide].
- Teresa M. Amabile: Social and organizational psychologist
- Leonard Bernstein: Composer and conductor
- Stephen Cecchetti: Economist
- Jacob "Jerry" Cohen: Expert on conspiracy theories (particularly the assassination of JFK)
- Gordie Fellman: Marxist Social Studies expert.
- Timothy J Hickey: Computer Scientist
- Anita Hill: Former colleague of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
- David Hackett Fischer: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author
- Benny Friedman: Pro Football Hall of Fame Quarterback
- Irving Howe: Political theorist, Editor and founder of Dissent
- Ray Jackendoff: Linguist
- Paul Jankowski: Historian.
- William Kapelle: Medievalist & historian.
- Max Lerner Author, syndicated columnist, and editor
- Martin Levin: Public Policy expert.
- Kanan Makiya: Iraqi dissident, advocate of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq
- Herbert Marcuse: Social theorist and member of the Frankfurt School
- Abraham Maslow: Psychologist noted for humanistic approach
- Pauli Murray: Feminist and Civil Rights expert.
- Irene Pepperberg: Student of cognition in non-human animals, particularly parrots
- James Pustejovsky: Linguist, Proposer of Generative Lexicon Theory
- Robert Reich: United States Secretary of Labor, from 1993 - 1997
- Margret Rey: Author and illustrator
- Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the United States
- Dennis Ross: Special envoy/ambassador to Middle East under President Clinton
- Morrie Schwartz: Sociologist who inspired his student Mitch Albom to write the book "Tuesdays with Morrie"
- Marion Smiley: J.P. Morgan Chase Chair in Ethics
- Gina Turrigiano: Neuroscientist, winner of the 2000 MacArthur "Genius" Award
- Stephen J. Whitfield: expert on American Jewish history
- Leslie Zebrowitz: Social Psychologist

Notable alumni

Leslie Zebrowitz
- Jack Abramoff: Republican activist and political lobbyist
- Mitch Albom: Sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press, author of Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Paula Apsell: Executive Producer of Nova, the longest-running science documentary series and winner of eight Emmy Awards
- Bonnie Berger: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sidney Blumenthal: Adviser to President Clinton, and journalist
- Arthur L. Caplan: Director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
- Bernard Coard: Grenadian politician who led the coup that ousted Maurice Bishop
- Tyne Daly: Actress
- Arthur Levine: President of Columbia University Teachers College
- Angela Yvonne Davis: Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Radical activist
- Loretta Devine: Actress
- Thomas L. Friedman: Foreign Affairs Columnist for The New York Times and award-winning author. He is the winner of three Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award.
- Tony Goldwyn: Actor and Director
- Rob Hand: notable astrologer
- Christie Hefner: Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Playboy Enterprises, Inc., daughter of Hugh Hefner. Hefner has also served on the University's board of trustees.
- Marshall Herskovitz: Director and Producer of the movie Dangerous Beauty, Producer and Screenwriter of Last Samurai, Producer of I Am Sam, and Traffic.
- Myra Hiatt Kraft: Philanthropist and wife of Bob Kraft, owner of New England Patriots
- Abbie Hoffman: Social and political activist, Co-founder of the Youth International Party ("Yippies")
- John Hopps: Physicist, Politician John Hopps
- Margo Jefferson: The New York Times Sunday theater critic and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Criticism
- Ha Jin: critically acclaimed Novelist, winner of the 2000 PEN/Faulkner Award.
- Michael Kaiser: President, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
- Marta Kauffman: Executive Producer and cocreator of the Emmy Award-winning television series Friends, and Cocreator of the comedy series Family Album, Dream On, and The Powers That Be
- Suk-Won Kim: Chair of Ssangyong Business Group, one of the largest companies in the Republic of Korea
- Mark Leyner: Novelist
- Leslie Lamport: Computer scientist and inventor of LaTeX, a widely-used document preparation system
- Osman Faruk Logoglu: Ambassador to the United States from the Republic of Turkey
- Roderick MacKinnon: Head of the Rockefeller University's Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology and Biophysics, Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2003
- Gates McFadden: Actress, best known as Dr. Beverly Crusher on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Fatema Mernissi: Leading authority on Qur'anic studies in the Arab world
- Debra Messing: Actress in television series Will & Grace
- Barry Newman: Actor
- Martin Peretz: Editor in chief of The New Republic
- Katherine Ann Power: Anti-war activist and former fugitive from justice
- Dimitrij Rupel: Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia
- David Ian Salter: Film editor of Toy Story 2 and Finding Nemo
- Fr. Antonio S. Samson: president of Jesuit-run Ateneo de Davao University in the Philippines
- Bill Schneider: CNN's senior political analyst
- Eli J. Segal: Assistant to the President of the United States from 1993 - 1996
- Judith R. Shapiro: President, Barnard College
- Stephen J. Solarz: Former U.S. Representative from Brooklyn, New York
- Shen Tong: Student leader in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
- Michael Walzer: Professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton
- Edward Witten: Physicist, Recipient of the Fields Medal in 1990

Campus Publications

The Justice is Brandeis' independent student weekly newspaper, which appears every Tuesday on campus and at [http://www.thejusticeonline.com www.thejusticeonline.com]. The Hoot is Brandeis' community newspaper which is written by students and provides coverage of topics of interest and concern to Brandeis students, faculty, staff, and alumni. It appears every Friday on campus and at [http://www.thehoot.net www.thehoot.net]. The Archon is Brandeis' yearboook, which is produced by students. Gravity Humor Magazine is produced by students and alumni, and features funny quotes by Brandeis professors.

External links

- [http://www.brandeis.edu Brandeis University]
- [http://www.brandeis.edu/rose The Rose Art Museum]
- [http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/volen The Volen Center]
- [http://www.graybiel.brandeis.edu Graybiel Laboratory]
- [http://heller.brandeis.edu The Heller School]
- [http://www.brandeis.edu/studentlife/sdc/rr/html/rr_appendix.html Brandeis University policy on Fraternities and Sororities] Category:Brandeis University Category:Association of American Universities Category:New England Association of Schools %26 Colleges ja:ブランダイズ大学

1959

1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. It is also a song by The Sisters of Mercy on the album Floodland.

Events

January

- January 1 - Cultivars of plants named after this date must be named in a modern language, not in Latin.
- January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when forces of Fidel Castro advance.
- January 2 - CBS Radio cuts four soap operas: Backstage Wife, Our Gal Sunday, Road of Life, and This is Nora Drake.
- January 2 - Castro's troops approach Havana.
- January 3 - Island of Addu in the Maldives declares independence.
- January 3 - Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
- January 4 - In Cuba rebel troops lead by Che Guevara and Glenfuego enter Havana.
- January 4 - In Léopoldville 42 people are killed during clashes between the police and participants of a meeting of the Abako party.
- January 6 - Fidel Castro arrives in Havana.
- January 7 - The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
- January 8 - Charles De Gaulle inaugurated as the first president of French Fifth Republic.
- January 13 - Cuban communists execute 71 supporters of Fulgencio Batista.
- January 22 - Knox Mine Disaster - water breaches River Slope mine in Port Griffith, Pennsylvania - 12 miners dead.

February

- February 1 - A referendum in Switzerland turns down female suffrage.
- February 3 - The chartered plane transporting musicians Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper goes down in an Iowa snowstorm, killing all four occupants on board. The tragedy is later termed "The Day the Music Died," popularized in Don McLean's song, "American Pie."
- February 6 - At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
- February 15 - Mattel's Barbie doll goes on sale in the USA.
- February 16 - Fidel Castro becomes Premier of Cuba.
- February 16 - Blizzard causes a massive power outage in Newfoundland.
- February 17 - USA launches Vanguard II weather satellite.
- February 18 - Jesus Sosa Blanco, murderer of 108 people, executed in Cuba.
- February 18 - Women in Nepal vote for the first time.
- February 19 - The United Kingdom grants Cyprus its independence.
- February 22 - Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500.
- February 26 - Author Walter Mene throws acid on Rubens painting in Munich.

March-May

- March 1 - USS Tuscaloosa, USS New Orleans, USS Tennessee and USS West Virginia struck from the Naval Vessel Register.
- March 1 – Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.
- March 8 - Last television appearance of The Marx Brothers, in The Incredible Jewel Robbery.
- March 9 - The Barbie doll debuts.
- March 17 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet and travels to India.
- March 18 - American President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs bill allowing for Hawaiian statehood.
- March 19 - Two other islands join Addu in the United Suvadida Republic (abolished September 1963).
- March 31 - Busch Gardens in Tampa, Florida is dedicated and opens its gates.
- March 31 - Dalai Lama leaves Tibet.
- April 9 - NASA announces its selection of seven military pilots to become the first US astronauts (see Mercury Seven).
- April 25 - The St. Lawrence Seaway linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean officially opens to shipping.

May-July

- May - First Ten Tors event held in Dartmoor.
- late May / early June - import tariffs lifted in the United Kingdom.
- May 24 - British Empire Day becomes Commonwealth Day.
- June 3 - Singapore becomes a self governing crown colony of Britain with Lee Kuan Yew as Prime Minister.
- June 5 - A new government of the State of Singapore is sworn in by Sir William Goode. Two former Ministers were re-elected to the Legislative Assembly.
- June 8 - The USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
- June 9 - The USS George Washington is launched as the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles.
- June 14 - A three-front revolutionary invasion by air and sea takes place in the Dominican Republic consisting of exiles aided by Fidel Castro whose purpose was to overthrow dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Within a few days all but four are captured and executed. Trujillo is killed less than two years later by men partly inspired by the deaths of the 1959 martyrs.
- June 23 - Sean Lemass becomes the third Taoiseach of Ireland.
- June 23 - Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany (where he resumed a scientific career).
- June 26 - Queen Elizabeth II and US Dwight Eisenhower open Saint Lawrence Seaway.
- July 2 - Royal wedding in Belgium: Prince Albert marries the Italian princess Paola Ruffo di Calabria.
- July 4 - With the admission of Alaska as the 49th U.S. state earlier in the year, the 49-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- July 7 - 14:28 UT Venus occulted the star Regulus. The rare event which will next occur on October 1, 2044 was used for determining the diameter of Venus and the structure of Venus' atmosphere.
- July 15 - Steel industry strike in USA.
- July 24 - At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, US vice-president Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."

August-December

- August 4 - Martial law declared in Laos.
- August 7 - Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
- August 8 - Flood in Formosa leaves 2,000 dead.
- August 14 - Explorer VI sends the first picture of Earth from space
- August 15 - Cyprus gains independence.
- August 16 - Explorer VI sends back the first picture of Earth from space.
- August 21 - Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
- August 24 - Cyprus joins United Nations.
- September 13 - Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon as the first man-made object.
- September 14 - Luna II reaches Moon as the first man-made object.
- September 15 - Russian probe Luna 2 sends back first photos of the far side of Earth's Moon.
- September 25 - Ceylon's prime minister SWRD Bandaranaike assassinated.
- October 12 - At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party. They will later form APRA Rebelde.
- October 12 - Large scale diamond robbery in London.
- October 13 - USA launches Explorer VII.
- October 21 - Mau Mau leader Dedan Kimathi is arrested in Nyeri, Kenya.
- October 21 - In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public. It was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
- October 31 - Riots in the Belgian Congo.
- October 31 - Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he won't ever return to US.
- November 1 - Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Montreal Canadiens goaltender, Jacques Plante offered to return to play on the condition that he can wear his protective face mask. It was the first time such equipment was used in a regular NHL game.
- November 2 - Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
- November 15 - Four members of the Herbert Clutter Family murdered at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas.
- November 19 - The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel automobile, which had been introduced to the American public on "E Day" only two years earlier -- September 4, 1957.
- November 28 - Anti-USA demonstrations in Panama.
- December 1 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed - 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (this was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War).
- December 2 - Malpasset dam in southern France collapses and water flows over the town of Frejus - 412 dead.
- December 14 - Makarios selected first president of Cyprus.

Unknown date

- The neutrino is first experimentally detected, by Cowan and Reines.
- TAT-2 cable goes into operation.
- Workers World Party is founded by Sam Marcy.
- The first skull of Australopithecus is discovered by Louis Leakey and his wife Mary Leakey in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
- Serengeti becomes a nature preserve.
- "Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry opens on Broadway in New York.

Births

Unknown date

- Claudia Benton, American murder victim (d. 1998)
- Graham Docherty, Scottish rugby player and businessman

January-February

- January 1 - Azali Assoumani, Comorese president
- January 6 - Kathy Sledge, American singer
- January 9 - Rigoberta Menchú, Guatemalan writer, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- January 16 - Sade, Nigerian-born singer
- January 17 - Susanna Hoffs, American singer (The Bangles)
- January 24 - Nastassja Kinski, German actress
- January 27 - Keith Olbermann, American news correspondent and sportscaster
- February 4 - Lawrence Taylor, American football player
- February 14 - Renee Fleming, American soprano
- February 16 - John McEnroe, American tennis player
- February 22 - Kyle MacLachlan, American actor
- February 23 - Richard Dodds, British field hockey player
- February 26 - Rolando Blackman, Panamanian basketball player

March-April

- March 6 - Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian
- March 8 - Aidan Quinn, American actor
- March 10 -Mike Wallace, NASCAR race car driver
- March 9 Rodney A. Grant, American actor
- March 15 - Harold Baines, baseball player
- March 16 - Flavor Flav, American rapper
- March 16 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- March 17 - Danny Ainge, American basketball player, coach, and baseball player
- March 18 - Luc Besson, French film producer, writer, and director
- March 21 - Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer
- March 22 - Matthew Modine, American actor
- March 29 - Perry Farrell, American musician
- April 3 - David Hyde Pierce, American actor
- April 10 - Brian Setzer, American guitarist (Stray Cats)
- April 16 - Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
- April 21 - Robert Smith, British musician (The Cure)
- April 22 - Catherine Mary Stewart, Canadian actress
- April 22 - Ryan Stiles, American actor
- April 27 - Sheena Easton, Scottish Singer
- April 30 - Stephen Harper, Canadian politician

May-June

- May 3 - Uma Bharati, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh
- May 3 - Ben Elton, British comedian and writer
- May 5 - Steve Stevens, American guitarist
- May 14 - Patrick Bruel, French singer
- May 15 - Andrew Eldritch, British musician (The Sisters of Mercy)
- May 20 - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, American singer (d. 1997)
- May 20 - Bronson Pinchot, American actor
- May 22 - Steven Morrissey, British singer
- May 29 - Adrian Paul, British actor
- June 12 - John Linnell, American musician (They Might Be Giants)
- June 26 - Mark McKinney, Canadian actor and comedian
- June 27 - Clint Boon, British musician (Inspiral Carpets)
- June 30 - Vincent D'Onofrio, American actor

July-September

- July 3 - Julie Burchill, British journalist
- July 6 - Richard Dacoury, French basketball player
- July 7 - Ben Linder, American engineer (d. 1987)
- July 10 - Janet Julian, American actress
- July 11 - Richie Sambora, American musician
- July 11 - Suzanne Vega, American singer
- July 13 - Richard Leman, British field hockey player
- July 16 - Gary Anderson, American football player
- July 26 - Kevin Spacey, American actor
- July 29 - Sanjay Dutt, Indian actor
- July 29 - Ruud Janssen, Dutch artist
- August 1 - Joe Elliott, lead singer for band Def Leppard.
- August 2 - Apollonia Kotero, American actress and singer
- August 3 - Koichi Tanaka, Japanese scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- August 10 - Rosanna Arquette, American actress
- August 14 - Magic Johnson, American basketball player
- August 18 - Dorothy Bush Koch, sister of George W Bush and daughter of George H W Bush and Barbara Pierce Bush
- August 21 - Jim McMahon, American football player
- August 29 - Timothy Perry Shriver, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver and nephew of John F Kennedy and Robert F Kennedy and Edward M Kennedy
- August 29 - Stephen Wolfram, British scientist
- August 30 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian footballer and actor
- September 4 - Kevin Harrington, Australian actor
- September 8 - Mary Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy.
- September 14 - Morten Harket, Norwegian singer (a-ha)
- September 21 - Dave Coulier, American actor
- September 22 - James Mark Roth, American author, teacher, missionary, blogger
- September 29 - Benjamin Sehene, Rwandan writer

October-December

- October 3 - Fred Couples, American golfer
- October 3 - Greg Proops, American comedian
- October 3 - Jack Wagner, American actor
- October 9 - Michael Pare, American actor
- October 15 - Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
- October 21 - Ken Watanabe, Japanese actor
- October 23 - "Weird Al" Yankovic, American singer and parodist
- October 25 - Nancy Cartwright, American voice actress
- October 27 - Rick Carlisle, American basketball coach
- November 10 - Linda Cohn, American sports reporter
- November 14 - Paul McGann, British actor
- November 23 - Dominique Dunne, American actress (d. 1982)
- November 25 - Charles Kennedy, Scottish politician
- November 28 - Judd Nelson, American actor
- December 13 - Nadia Russ, Ukrainian-born artist
- December 14 - Dana Childs, American radio personality and basketball coach
- December 21 - Florence Griffith Joyner, American athelete (d. 1998)
- December 27 - Gerina Dunwich, American author
- December 31 - Val Kilmer, American actor

Deaths

- January 21 - Cecil B. DeMille, American film director (b. 1881)
- January 22 - Mike Hawthorn, English race car driver (b. 1929)
- February 3 - Killed in a private plane crash:
- The Big Bopper, American singer (b. 1930)
- Buddy Holly, American singer (b. 1936)
- Richie Valens, American singer (b. 1941)
- February 3 - Vincent Astor, American philanthropist (b. 1891)
- February 11 - Marshall Teague, American race car driver (b. 1922)
- February 14 - Baby Dodds, American jazz musician (b. 1898)
- February 15 - Owen Willans Richardson, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
- February 28 - Maxwell Anderson, American screenwriter (b. 1888)
- March 3 - Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (b. 1906)
- March 4 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
- March 26 - Raymond Chandler, American novelist (b. 1888)
- March 29 - Barthélemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (b. 1910)
- April 9 - Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect (b. 1867)
- May 5 - Carlos Saavedra Lamas, Argentine politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- May 14 - Sidney Bechet, American musician (b. 1897)
- May 24 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
- June 9 - Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
- June 23 - Boris Vian, French writer, poet, singer, and musician
- July 11 - Charlie Parker, English cricketer (b. 1882)
- July 15 - Ernest Bloch, Swiss composer (b. 1880)
- July 15 - Billie Holiday, American singer (b. 1915)
- August 5 - Edgar Guest, English poet (b. 1881)
- August 6 - Preston Sturges, American film director and writer (b. 1898)
- August 15 - Blind Willie McTell, American singer (b. 1901)
- August 16 - Wanda Landowska, Polish harpsichordist (b. 1879)
- August 19 - Jacob Epstein, American-born sculptor (b. 1880)
- August 28 - Bohuslav Martinů, Czech composer (b. 1890)
- October 7 - Mario Lanza, American tenor (b. 1921)
- October 14 - Errol Flynn, American actor (b. 1909)
- October 16 - George C. Marshall, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b.1880)
- October 18 - Boughera El Ouafi, Algerian athlete (b. 1898)
- November 15 - Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, Scottish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- November 17 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (b. 1887)
- November 17 - Nichijun Horigome, Japanese priest (b. 1898)

Nobel Prizes

- Physics - Emilio Gino Segrè, Owen Chamberlain
- Chemistry - Jaroslav Heyrovský
- Medicine - Severo Ochoa, Arthur Kornberg
- Literature - Salvatore Quasimodo
- Peace - Philip John Noel-Baker
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Scansoft

Nuance Communications is a computer software technology company. Their worldwide headquarters is in Burlington, Massachusetts in the United States. Nuance is known mainly for its speech recognition and speech synthesis software that power some of the world's largest automated telephone applications. Previously, the company focused mainly on desktop productivity software, like desktop dictation and imaging software. The company was known until October 2005 as ScanSoft, and before 1999 as Visioneer. Desktop software products in the company's portfolio include its desktop voice-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (formerly Dragon Dictate), the optical character recognition software OmniPage and various other desktop and enterprise speech and imaging technologies. The company has been in the news after 13 R&D engineers from the Menlo Park and Montreal offices defected to Yahoo!.

Company history

The company was founded in 1992 as Visioneer, Inc. It changed its name to ScanSoft in 1999. Prior to 2001, ScanSoft focused primarily on desktop imaging software such as OmniPage.

Acquisitions

- Mar. 2000 – Caere Corp., of Los Gatos, California – $145 million Starting in 2001, ScanSoft entered the speech and telephony markets with a series of acquisitions of companies in the speech recognition and synthesis space.
- Dec. 2001 – Lernout & Hauspie, of Merelbeke, Belgium, Speech and Language division – $39.5 million This acquisition occurred following Lernout & Hauspie's bankruptcy proceedings. Previously, Lernout & Hauspie had acquired speech technology companies BBS, Centigram Communications Corporation, FDC, Dragon Systems (in 2000) and Kurzweil AI (in 1998).
- Oct. 2002 – Phillips Speech Processing – $35.4 million Phillips had previously acquired Voice Control Systems, which had in turn had acquired Pure Speech, Scott Instruments and VPC.
- Aug. 2003 – SpeechWorks, Inc., of Boston, Massachusetts, – $132 million SpeechWorks had previously acquired both Eloquent Technologies, Inc., of Ithaca, New York in 2000 for $17 million and T-Netix.
- Jan. 2004 – LocusDialog, of Montreal, Quebec
- May. 2004 – Telelogue, Inc., of Iselin, New Jersey
- Nov. 2004 – Phonetic Systems, Ltd., of Burlington, Massachusetts and Israel – $35 million
- Nov. 2004 – ART Advanced Recognition Technologies, Ltd., of Tel Aviv, Israel – $21.5 million
- Nov. 2004 – Rhetorical Systems Ltd., of Scotland – $6.7 million
- Sep. 2005 – Nuance Communications, of Menlo Park, California – $221 million The entire company renamed itself Nuance Communications on October 18 2005. Nuance is publicly traded (Nasdaq: SSFT).

Consumer products

- PaperPort
- Omnipage
- Dragon Naturally Speaking
- Systran Translator (Distribution Agreement in Europe with Systran)
- PDF Creator

External links

- [http://www.nuance.com/news/ Official company news] Category:Software companies Category:Companies traded on NASDAQ

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Gregório de Matos Guerra
Gregório de Mattos e Guerra (Salvador da Bahia, 23 de dezembro de 1636 - Recife, 26 de Novembro de 1695), alcunhado de Boca do Inferno foi um dos grandes poetas barrocos brasileiros.

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