Psychohistory is an interdisciplinary science that combines sociology and mathematics with the aim of predicting future events in major societies. The theory is inspired by the emergence of gases from billions of atoms, and similar quantities are taken into account when the first axiom speaks of sufficiently large populations. The real world would face challenges […]
Month: September 2021
Isaac Asimov’s epic “Foundation” series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated. | Arts and Features
This Friday, after a pandemic delay, Apple TV+ will debut “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning sci-fi book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of Apple’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, which follows a mathematician struggling to […]
Galaxy quest: Will Asimov’s Foundation series find new life on screen?
Nearly 80 years ago, a niche American genre periodical called Astounding Science Fiction published a set of eight science fiction stories, loosely based on the fall of the Roman Empire. The writer was Isaac Asimov, and the stories were later collected into a trilogy, known collectively as the Foundation series. Over the following decades, Asimov […]
Judaism was complex for Isaac Asimov, whose ‘Foundation’ series is now a TV show
JTA — Apple TV+, following a pandemic delay, is finally debuting “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning sci-fi book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of Apple’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, which follows a mathematician struggling […]
Isaac Asimov’s epic “Foundation” series is now a TV show. His Jewish life was complicated.
(JTA) — This Friday, after a pandemic delay, Apple TV+ will debut “Foundation,” the first-ever screen adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s award-winning science fiction book series. First announced in 2018 and produced in association with Skydance Television, the TV show is one of the Apple streaming service’s most expensive and ambitious productions to date. The series, […]
Lee Pace gets into the beat of Emperor on AppleTV+’s ‘Foundation’ series
Lee Pace knows how good it is to be Emperor of the Galaxy, but since he’s heading the vast “Foundation” of AppleTV+, it’s also pretty complicated. “Foundation” is an ambitious 10-episode first season of one of the late sci-fi icon Isaac Asimov’s key works, a series chronicling a group of exiles – they call themselves […]
How to watch the Foundation series premiere online tonight
The highly anticipated Foundation The series premiere kicks off tonight on Apple TV+. Find out everything you need to know to watch the show. All the details you need to know about Foundation are below. Based on the popular book series of the same name by Isaac Asimov, Foundation is an all-new Apple TV+ series […]
Clarkson University Receives National Science Foundation Research Grant for Research Workforce Development in Advanced Algorithms and High Performance Computing
From left to right: Daqing Hou, Ming-Cheng Cheng, Yu Liu and Mary Margaret Small Three Clarkson University professors received a $ 300,000 National Science Foundation Research Workforce Development Grant with a project titled “CyberTraining: Pilot: Employing Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and High -Performance Computing (HPC) in Advanced CI “. The research team includes Daqing Hou […]
Three Significant Grants Awarded by the Juneau Community Foundation Capital Fund
Juneau Community Foundation Executive Director, Amu Skilbred Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – Officials from the Juneau Community Foundation spoke about three major grants recently made from its capital fund, aimed at improving the capital and adjacent areas, while being guests on Action Line. Executive Director Amy Skilbred said a grant in the amount of $1.25 million […]