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Aaron Swartz was born in Highland Park, 25 miles (40 kilometers) north of Chicago, [2] [23] into a Jewish family. [24] He was the eldest child of Susan and Robert Swartz and brother to Noah and Ben Swartz. [1] [25] He was an atheist. [26] His father founded the software firm Mark Williams Company.
Schlumberger. Schlumberger NV ( French: [ʃlumbɛʁʒe, ʃlœ̃b-] ), doing business as SLB, also known as Schlumberger Limited, [2] is an American oilfield services company. [3] [4] As of 2022, it is both the world's largest offshore drilling company and the world's largest offshore drilling contractor by revenue.
The Schlumberger company then tried to expand their activities to many other countries, but the attempts were hindered by the worldwide depression. On 15 September 1934, Schlumberger's subsidiary in the United States became Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation (SWSC) with offices in Houston, Texas. Conrad was the chairman, and Marcel was the ...
Pierre Schlumberger was born in 1914, the son of Marcel Schlumberger, a mechanical engineer, and his wife Jeanne Laurans. [1] Marcel co-founded Schlumberger in the 1920s with his brother, Conrad, a physicist. [1] Pierre was the brothers' only male heir.
Captain. Chesley Burnett " Sully " Sullenberger III (born January 23, 1951) is an American retired fighter pilot, diplomat, and airline pilot. He is best known for his actions as captain of US Airways Flight 1549 in 2009, when he ditched the plane, landing on the Hudson River after both engines were disabled by a bird strike.
In United States of America v.Aaron Swartz, Aaron Swartz, an American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist, was prosecuted for multiple violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA), after downloading academic journal articles through the MIT computer network from a source for which he had an account as a Harvard research fellow.
Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult, it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively.
Russell Wasendorf. Russell R. Wasendorf Sr. (born 1948) is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Peregrine Financial Group, also known as PFGBEST, a futures commission merchant (commonly known as a commodity broker) that filed for bankruptcy protection in Chicago in July 2012. He was arrested in July 2012 following a suicide ...