A male given name from the Celtic languages.
alan
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for alan.
Editorial note
But yeah, Ted was right, as were Vannevar Bush and Doug Englebart before him, or Alan Kay after.
Quick take
A male given name from the Celtic languages.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of alan gathered in one view.
A surname.
A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for alan.
noun
A male given name from the Celtic languages.
noun
A surname.
noun
A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Elon.
noun
Initialism of artificial light at night.
Example sentences
But yeah, Ted was right, as were Vannevar Bush and Doug Englebart before him, or Alan Kay after.
MVC (Model, View, Controller) was created by Alan Kay while working at Xerox, when he created SmallTalk and that was back in 1972.
Similar to, say, Alan Kay's views on OOP in C++.
And when the story did eventually begin to emerge, the star-studded heroes of Bletchley's narrative were men, led by the most famous cryptanalyst of them all, Alan Turing.
- Alan Watts You can't solve a problem with the same mind that created it.
I love this bit about the humility within the Clojure community: ------------------ Well, I was bragging to Alan about a Drake release, which I was calling 0.2.0.
I can't help but wonder if there is a dusty film in someone's basement of Alan Turing swing-dancing to Glenn Miller in front of Bletchley Park sometime in the early 1940s.
The spread of these ideologies, which is very attractive to concentrated wealth and privilege, hence their success, was epitomized in Alan Greenspan, who at least had the decency to say it was all wrong when it collapsed.
Our products are depended upon by musicians like Beyoncé, Danny Elfman, Michael Giacchino, Alan Menkin, Pat Metheny, Alexandre Desplat, Pete Townshend, Cirque du Soleil and Madonna.
Indeed, much-cited studies by two well-regarded labor economists, David Card and Alan Krueger, find that where there have been more or less controlled experiments, for example when New Jersey raised minimum wages but Pennsylvania did not, the effects of the increase on employment have been negligible or even positive.
Quote examples
Alan Greenspan needs to create a housing bubble to replace the Nasdaq bubble." The wording is ambiguous, but to me it sounds less like a prediction and more like advocacy.
That may seem obvious, but to conceptual thinkers like myself, experiencing non-duality (no-self) and "Thusness" (as Alan Watts calls it) is difficult.
This group (jokingly designated "The Collective") included future Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
In short, Alan Turning proved these problems are "undecidable" for the general case (under our model/definition of computing, now know as the Turning Machine).
Proper noun examples
Alan Kay has said the same thing on a few occasions (though he did get an undergraduate degree in the subject).
Alan Hamlett is awesome and I wish that team all the best!
'Alan Mushing sprays a sample magnetic stripe with a fluid suspension of iron filings – instantly showing up the patterns of zeroes and ones on the card as a series of light and dark bands.' -- That sounds very interesting, i've not heard of anyone doing that before, would you then need an optical microscope to see the patterns I wonder?
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use alan in a sentence?
But yeah, Ted was right, as were Vannevar Bush and Doug Englebart before him, or Alan Kay after.
What does alan mean?
A male given name from the Celtic languages.
What part of speech is alan?
alan is commonly used as noun.