Warren Weaver
Warren Weaver 1894-1978, American scientist, b. Reedsburg, Wis., grad. Univ. of Wisconsin. He taught mathematics at Wisconsin (1920-32), was director of the division of natural sciences at the Rockefeller Institute (1932-55), and was science consultant (1947-51), trustee (1954), and vice president (from 1958) at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research. Weaver's chief researches were in the problems of communication in science and in the mathematical theory of probability. He was one of the founders of information theory , or communication theory. His writings include the preface to the seminal work in the field, Claude E. Shannon 's The Mathematical Theory of Communication (1949).
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Delos Group Receives A.M. Best Ratings.
Business Wire; 7/5/2007; 700+ words
; ...graph, first sentence of release should read: Delos Insurance Company, a leader in program business...credit ratings (ICR) of "a-" to Lightyear Delos Group and its members (sted Delos Insurance Company, a leader in program business...
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Man arrested on kidnapping charges: Police say Lucas Aaron Delos-Rios used gun to force 18-year-old man out of a car.
Newspaper article from: Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA); 1/25/2007; 700+ words
; ...kidnapped a man at gunpoint. Lucas Aaron Delos-Rios, 24, of Blossburg, was captured...is accused of kidnapping. Police said Delos-Rios accused Hughes, 18, of trying to steal $600 from him. Delos-Rios had traveled from his home to Nanticoke...
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A.M. Best reaffirms Delos Insurance Group's Rating.
Business Wire; 10/6/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Delos Insurance Company (Delos), a leader in program business, today announced that A.M...Company, the credit rating organization, has reaffirmed Lightyear Delos Group and its member companies' Financial Strength Rating of...
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Europe In Searc of Specialties; On the Greek Isle of Delos, Apollo Lives
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/15/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...barren and rocky, the small island of Delos lies in the heart of the deep blue Aegean...Kynthos. Along with Olympia and Delphi, Delos is one of the most important archaeological...disgorging large numbers of tourists, but Delos must be approached as the ancients approached...
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Delos Insurance Company Signs Agreement With FirstComp; Delos Expands into Workers' Compensation.
Business Wire; 9/12/2006; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Program business insurer Delos Insurance Company announced today that...compensation group the first addition to Delos's program portfolio after the completion...and we are thrilled to be working with Delos in the workers' compensation market...
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Delos Insurance Forms Naxos, a New Excess & Surplus Company.
Business Wire; 4/17/2007; 666 words
; ...for E&S Marketplace NEW YORK -- Delos Insurance Company, a leader in program...will be a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delos. The new entity, Naxos Insurance Company...managed under terms of an agreement with Delos. Incorporated and licensed in Delaware...
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Delos Insurance Group Appoints Shettle as Chairman.
Business Wire; 9/22/2008; 700+ words
; NEW YORK -- Delos Insurance Group, a leader in program business insurance...was announced in July 2008. Shettle joined Lightyear Delos Acquisition Corporation, the holding company for Delos Insurance Group, in November 2007 as a member of the...
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Delos launches CMX at Gartner Group's largest strategic executive conference.
PR Newswire; 10/10/2001; 700+ words
; ...10 /PRNewswire/ - GARTNER SYMPOSIUM - Delos Technology Inc. (www.delostechnology...today launched its flagship product the Delos CMX platform, at the Gartner Symposium...source of accurate enterprise data. "Delos designed CMX to provide CIOs with a solution...
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DataFlux and Delos partner for Real-time Customer Data Integration.
Business Wire; 2/11/2003; 700+ words
; ...data integration technology embedded in Delos' enterprise integration solution DataFlux...of enterprise-wide data assets, and Delos Technology, a leader in enterprise data...from multiple sources. The combination of Delos and DataFlux technologies provides a comprehensive...
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AMELIA HAYGOOD ; Founder of the Delos record label
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 4/4/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...seemed to her a logical choice to call it Delos, after the birthplace of Apollo, god...three and a half decades that followed saw Delos accrue a roster of musicians that would...who began his recording career with Delos as a trumpeter. Haygood owed her love...
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Delos
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Delos , island, c.1 sq mi (2.6 sq km), SE Greece, in...Greek mythology, Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis on Delos; and the island was particularly sacred to Apollo. Delos was of great commercial and political importance in antiquity...
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Boyer, Paul Delos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Paul Delos Boyer American biochemist Paul D. Boyer (born 1918) is the co –...explored the biochemical processes affecting life. Future Nobel Laureate Paul Delos Boyer was born July 31, 1918, in Provo, Utah, the son of Dell Boyer...
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Cyclades
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...circle ( k í klos ) around the ancient sacred island of Delos. Location. The Cyclades lie in the Aegean Sea to the south...city-states. From the eighth century b.c. the island of Delos was an important holy place for Ionian Greeks; during Hellenistic...
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Delian League
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...equal vote in a council established in the temple of Apollo at Delos, a politically neutral island, where the league's treasury...danger of Persian attack, the treasury was transported from Delos to the Athenian Acropolis. The league had in effect become...
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Delium
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Delium , town of ancient Greece, a port in E Boeotia, named for its temple of Apollo similar to the one at Delos. In the Peloponnesian War the Athenians were defeated (424 BC) by the Boeotians there; Socrates fought in the battle.
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