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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Index Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is an American philanthropic nonprofit organization. [1]

85 relations: Alfred P. Sloan, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, Alfred P. Sloan Prize, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Animation, Barcode of Life Data System, Bioterrorism, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Capitalism, Census of Marine Life, Chief executive officer, Computer science, Cornell University, Council on Foreign Relations, Deep Carbon Observatory, Econometric Society, Economics, Elmer Fudd, Encyclopedia of Life, Environmental economics, Exelon, Foreign Affairs, Friz Freleng, General Motors, Grant (money), Hamptons International Film Festival, Harold S. Sloan, Harvard University, Heir-Conditioned, IBM, International Economic Review, Journal of Applied Econometrics, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Political Economy, Kathleen E. Christensen, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–59), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT Sloan School of Management, Molecular biology, Neuroscience, New York (state), New York City, New York Public Library, New York University, New York University Stern School of Business, Nonprofit organization, Ocean Biogeographic Information System, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Paul Joskow, ..., Philanthropy, President, Princeton University, Public finance, Ralph E. Gomory, Science, Short film, Sloan Digital Sky Survey, Sloan Research Fellowship, Sundance Film Festival, Sylvester the Cat, Technology, The American Economic Review, The Energy Journal, The Journal of Law and Economics, The New England Journal of Medicine, The New York Times, The RAND Journal of Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Toulouse School of Economics, TransCanada Corporation, Tribeca Film Institute, United States dollar, United States Environmental Protection Agency, University of Pennsylvania, Vannevar Bush, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Wikimedia Foundation, WNET, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Yale Law Journal, Yale University, Yankee Dood It, 1,000,000,000. Expand index (35 more) »

Alfred P. Sloan

Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (May 23, 1875–February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize award of $25,000.00 USD has been granted annually at the Hamptons International Film Festival since 2000 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

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Alfred P. Sloan Prize

The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States of America.

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Animation

Animation is a dynamic medium in which images or objects are manipulated to appear as moving images.

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Barcode of Life Data System

The Barcode of Life Data System (commonly known as BOLD or BOLDSystems) is a sequence database specifically devoted to DNA barcoding.

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Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism is terrorism involving the intentional release or dissemination of biological agents.

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Boston Symphony Orchestra

The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system based upon private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.

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Census of Marine Life

The Census of Marine Life was a 10-year scientific initiative, involving a global network of researchers in more than 80 nations, engaged to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the oceans.

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Chief executive officer

Chief executive officer (CEO) is the position of the most senior corporate officer, executive, administrator, or other leader in charge of managing an organization especially an independent legal entity such as a company or nonprofit institution.

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Computer science

Computer science deals with the theoretical foundations of information and computation, together with practical techniques for the implementation and application of these foundations.

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Cornell University

Cornell University is a private and statutory Ivy League research university located in Ithaca, New York.

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Council on Foreign Relations

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), founded in 1921, is a United States nonprofit think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Deep Carbon Observatory

The Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) is a global research program designed to transform understanding of carbon's role in Earth.

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Econometric Society

The Econometric Society is an international society of academic economists interested in applying statistical tools to their field.

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Economics

Economics is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services.

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Elmer Fudd

Elmer J. Fudd is a fictional cartoon character and one of the most famous Looney Tunes characters, and the de facto archenemy of Bugs Bunny.

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Encyclopedia of Life

The Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) is a free, online collaborative encyclopedia intended to document all of the 1.9 million living species known to science.

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Environmental economics

Environmental economics is a sub-field of economics that is concerned with environmental issues.

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Exelon

Exelon Corporation is an American Fortune 100 energy company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

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Foreign Affairs

Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, membership organization and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs.

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Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906May 26, 1995), often credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work on the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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General Motors

General Motors Company, commonly referred to as General Motors (GM), is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Detroit that designs, manufactures, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts, and sells financial services.

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Grant (money)

Grants are non-repayable funds or products disbursed or gifted by one party (grant makers), often a government department, corporation, foundation or trust, to a recipient, often (but not always) a nonprofit entity, educational institution, business or an individual.

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Hamptons International Film Festival

The Hamptons International Film Festival (HIFF) is an international film festival founded in 1993, the festival has since taken place every year in East Hampton, New York.

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Harold S. Sloan

Harold Stephenson Sloan (1888 – November 5, 1988) was an economist who wrote extensively and taught in the field of economics.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Heir-Conditioned

Heir-Conditioned is a Warner Bros. Pictures Looney Tunes theatrical cartoon short released in 1955 and directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster.

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IBM

The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States, with operations in over 170 countries.

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International Economic Review

The International Economic Review, (IER) is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal in economics published by the Economics Department of the University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University.

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Journal of Applied Econometrics

The Journal of Applied Econometrics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering econometrics, published by John Wiley & Sons.

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Journal of Econometrics

The Journal of Econometrics is a scholarly journal in econometrics.

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Journal of Political Economy

The Journal of Political Economy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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Kathleen E. Christensen

Kathleen E. Christensen is an American social scientist and author best known for her research on the changing nature of work, including remote and contingent work, as well as workplace flexibility.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City.

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Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies filmography (1950–59)

This is a listing of all the animated shorts released by Warner Bros. under the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies banners between 1950 and 1959.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management (also known as MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology which concerns the molecular basis of biological activity between biomolecules in the various systems of a cell, including the interactions between DNA, RNA, proteins and their biosynthesis, as well as the regulation of these interactions.

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Neuroscience

Neuroscience (or neurobiology) is the scientific study of the nervous system.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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New York Public Library

The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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New York University Stern School of Business

The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (commonly known as The Stern School or Stern) is a business school in New York University.

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Nonprofit organization

A non-profit organization (NPO), also known as a non-business entity or non-profit institution, is dedicated to furthering a particular social cause or advocating for a shared point of view.

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Ocean Biogeographic Information System

The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) is a web-based access point to information about the distribution and abundance of living species in the ocean.

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Oxford Review of Economic Policy

Oxford Review of Economic Policy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of economics.

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Paul Joskow

Paul Lewis Joskow (born June 30, 1947) is an American economist and professor.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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President

The president is a common title for the head of state in most republics.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Public finance

Public finance is the study of the role of the government in the economy.

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Ralph E. Gomory

Ralph Edward Gomory (born 7 May 1929) is an American applied mathematician and executive.

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Science

R. P. Feynman, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol.1, Chaps.1,2,&3.

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Short film

A short film is any motion picture not long enough to be considered a feature film.

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey or SDSS is a major multi-spectral imaging and spectroscopic redshift survey using a dedicated 2.5-m wide-angle optical telescope at Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico, United States.

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Sloan Research Fellowship

The Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation since 1955 to "provide support and recognition to early-career scientists and scholars".

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the Sundance Institute, takes place annually in Park City, Utah.

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Sylvester the Cat

Sylvester J. Pussycat Sr., usually called Sylvester, is a fictional character, a three-time Academy Award-winning anthropomorphic, 40, 50, or 60-Inch tall Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons.

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Technology

Technology ("science of craft", from Greek τέχνη, techne, "art, skill, cunning of hand"; and -λογία, -logia) is first robustly defined by Jacob Bigelow in 1829 as: "...principles, processes, and nomenclatures of the more conspicuous arts, particularly those which involve applications of science, and which may be considered useful, by promoting the benefit of society, together with the emolument of those who pursue them".

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The American Economic Review

The American Economic Review is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics.

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The Energy Journal

The Energy Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the International Association for Energy Economics and covering issues related to energy economics.

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The Journal of Law and Economics

The Journal of Law and Economics is an academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press.

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The New England Journal of Medicine

The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly medical journal published by the Massachusetts Medical Society.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The RAND Journal of Economics

The RAND Journal of Economics (usually called Rand Journal or simply Rand) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal of economics published quarterly by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the RAND Corporation.

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The Review of Economics and Statistics

The Review of Economics and Statistics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering applied quantitative economics.

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Toulouse School of Economics

The Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) is a school within Toulouse 1 University Capitole.

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TransCanada Corporation

TransCanada Corporation is a major North American energy company, based in Calgary, Alberta in Canada, that develops and operates energy infrastructure in North America.

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Tribeca Film Institute

The Tribeca Film Institute (TFI) is a year-round non-profit arts organization founded by Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, and Craig Hatkoff in the wake of September 11, 2001.

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United States dollar

The United States dollar (sign: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ and referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, or American dollar) is the official currency of the United States and its insular territories per the United States Constitution since 1792.

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is an independent agency of the United States federal government for environmental protection.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Vannevar Bush

Vannevar Bush (March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator, who during World War II headed the U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD), through which almost all wartime military R&D was carried out, including initiation and early administration of the Manhattan Project.

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Warner Bros. Cartoons

Warner Bros.

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Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (also known as The Wharton School or Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (WMF, or simply Wikimedia) is an American non-profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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WNET

WNET, channel 13 (branded as THIRTEEN), is a non-commercial educational, public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey and serving the New York metropolitan area.

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Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is a professional public policy school at Princeton University.

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Yale Law Journal

The Yale Law Journal is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School.

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Yale University

Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Yankee Dood It

Yankee Dood It is a Warner Brothers Merrie Melodies theatrical cartoon short released in 1956 and directed by Friz Freleng and written by Warren Foster.

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1,000,000,000

1,000,000,000 (one billion, short scale; one thousand million or milliard, yard, long scale) is the natural number following 999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,001.

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