![]() Actress Hathaway from Locked Down 4 Letters.Coyote _ 2000 film starring Piper Perabo 4 Letters.Emmitt _ player who inspired the NFL rule that prohibits taking the helmet off unless injured 5 Letters. ![]() The Da Vinci _ (Dan Brown novel) 4 Letters.Card game where one may up the ante 5 Letters.Kind of talk during half-time 3 Letters.Daily Themed Mini Crossword OctoAnswers.Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. So Warwick is changing lives in Coventry and we really are "part of it" after all.Your email address will not be published. #CLIPY CROSSWORD FULL#Students in state schools will no longer be deprived of the chance to develop their full mathematical potential simply because their school or college can't find a qualified teacher or because the class is too small to be economic. The success of its 3–year pilot phase was instrumental in persuading the Government to fund the creation of a national Further Mathematics Network which will cover the country. Over 100 students from Coventry and Warwickshire are now registered with our Further Maths Centre, which started in a small way some 7 years ago. (Jolly Jack's acquisition of Westwood for the University might merit the attentions of a racy historical/political novelist.)īut here's something exciting to redress the balance: Every Wednesday lunchtime in term–time, buses (often bearing the U of W logo) roll up at Coventry schools to bring their mathematically–talented 6th formers to the University Maths Dept for an afternoon of intense teaching in A–Level Further Mathematics - the standard A-Level Mathematics syllabus does not really stretch those with a flair for the subject. Culture vultures found out when the Arts Centre got going, as did some of the city's great and good on the University Council, which occasionally got embroiled in local politics. For decades many citizens of Coventry didn't know where our campus was. The University got off to a bad start by naming itself after a county town eight miles away. I have more contact with Coventry University than I used to I deal with a Coventry solicitor my sons watch hockey and skate at the Planet Ice Arena, and swim at the Pool but from my Leamington base I can't yet claim to feel deeply and meaningfully about Lady Godiva's city in the way I do about London, where I was born. Geographically I am, because the Mathematics Institute in the Zeeman Building is on the north side of Gibbet Hill Road. While I idle at the traffic lights, I am prompted to ask: when earning my crust on campus, am I part of it? This year the bright cylindrical banners sheathing the lamp posts at the Gibbet Hill junction exhort me thus: COV '06 - be part of it! “I need a helper: a Super-Clippy to show me where to turn him off!” Simonyi was hankering for a meta-Clippy.”įollow-up to City slogans and climate change from Computer-aided assessment for sciencesĬity slogan time again. Simonyi stared at his adversary, as if locked in telepathic combat. (I am, of course, using Word to write these sentences.) Could Charles Simonyi have met his match in Clippy? ![]() He is widely regarded as the father of Microsoft Word. Simonyi spent years leading the applications teams at Microsoft, the developers of Word and Excel, whose products are used every day by tens of millions of people. ![]() “I don’t know how,” Simonyi admitted, with a little laugh that seemed to say, Yes, I know, isn’t it ironic? “You mean you haven’t turned Clippy off?” Long ago, I’d hunted through Office’s menus and checked whichever box was required to throttle the annoying anthropomorph once and for all. “That’s because Clippy is giving me some help.” Simonyi tried to ignore the cartoon aide’s antic fidgeting, but he was stymied. In the corner of the left-hand screen, a goggle-eyed paper clip popped up: the widely reviled “Office Assistant” that Microsoft introduced in 1997. ![]() He was in the middle of moving one slide around when the application just stopped responding. Simonyi was racing me through a presentation he was preparing for an upcoming conference he used Microsoft Office PowerPoint slides to outline his vision for the proposed great leap forward in programming. “On a gray afternoon last October, I sat down with Simonyi in Bellevue, WA, in front of two adjacent screens in his office at Intentional Software, the company that he founded after he left Microsoft in 2002 to develop and commercialize his big idea (meta-programming). ![]()
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