Jade Alglave FREng (born 1984) is a French computer scientist. Her research focuses on concurrency control, consistency models, weak hardware memory models, the relationship between computer hardware and programming languages, and the “cat” domain-specific language for consistency models. She is a professor of computer science at University College London and a distinguished engineer at Arm, a British semiconductor company.
SIGPLAN is a special group within the Association for Computing Machinery that focuses on programming languages. This group studies programming language ideas and tools, including how they are designed, created, used, and understood. Members include people who develop programming languages, teach them, use them, research them, and study their theory.
William Jonathan Adam is a clergy member of the Church of England. He was born on October 28, 1969. In 2022, he was named Archdeacon of Canterbury.
Alastair Reid was born on March 22, 1926, in Whithorn, Scotland, and passed away on September 21, 2014, in Manhattan, New York. He was a Scottish poet and an expert in South American literature. Reid was known for writing playful and cheerful poems, as well as translating works by famous South American poets, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda.
Simon Ove Christian Ogilvie Spies (born September 1, 1921; died April 16, 1984) was a wealthy businessman from Denmark. He is best known for starting the charter airline Spies Rejser and the airway company Conair of Scandinavia. He was also known for his showy lifestyle and having many romantic relationships.
Rodolphe Töpffer ( / ˈ t ɒ p f ər / TOP -fər ; French: [ʁɔdɔlf tœpfɛʁ] ; 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, writer, painter, cartoonist, and artist who created funny drawings. He is most famous for his illustrated books, called “graphic literature,” which may be the earliest European comics. He is known as the “father of comic strips” and has been called the “first comics artist in history.” Töpffer studied in Paris.
The Count of Monte Cristo (French: Le comte de Monte Cristo; US: The Story of the Count of Monte Cristo) is a 1961 French adventure film based on Alexandre Dumas’s 1844 novel. Directed by Claude Autant-Lara, the film features Louis Jourdan, Yvonne Furneaux, Pierre Mondy, and Franco Silva in leading roles.
Matthew Edgar Parkinson (born on September 14, 1972) was an English cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Lancaster, Lancashire.
Penei Elama Sewell (born October 9, 2000) is an American Samoan professional football player who plays as an offensive tackle for the Detroit Lions in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and won the Outland and Morris trophies in 2019. Sewell was chosen as the seventh pick overall by the Lions in the first round of the 2021 NFL draft.
Nicholas John Benton was born on June 29, 1991. He is an Australian cricketer who played his first List A match for South Australia in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup on October 2, 2016.