14-478: Dyson may refer to: Dyson (surname) , people with the surname Dyson Dyson (company) , a Singaporean multinational home appliances company founded by James Dyson Dyson (crater) , a crater on the Moon Dyson (operating system) , a Unix general-purpose operating system derived from Debian using the illumos kernel, libc, and SMF init system Dyson sphere ,
28-649: A back-up spaceflight participant for Charles Simonyi 's trip to the International Space Station aboard the Soyuz TMA-14 mission which took place in 2009. In 1997, Dyson wrote that as of that time she had never voted. The tagline of her email signature block reads “Always make new mistakes”. Currently, Dyson is a board member and active investor in a variety of start-ups, mostly in online services, health care, logistics, artificial intelligence, emerging markets, and space travel. She
42-668: A fact-checker and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977, she joined New Court Securities following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer Holdings covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research in 1982. In 1983, when she bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen , Dyson renamed the company EDventure Holdings and his Rosen Electronic Letter newsletter Release 1.0 . She and business partner Daphne Kis sold EDventure Holdings to CNET Networks in 2004 and left CNET in January 2007. On 7 October 2008, Space Adventures announced that Dyson had paid to train as
56-482: A hypothetical megastructure that completely encompasses a star and captures most or all of its power output Dyson tree , a hypothetical plant suggested by physicist Freeman Dyson Eufloria (formerly called Dyson ), a video game based on the idea of Dyson trees USS Dyson (DD-572) , a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1942 to 1947 NOAAS Oscar Dyson (R 224) , an American fisheries and oceanographic research ship in commission in
70-572: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Esther Dyson Esther Dyson (born 14 July 1951 ) is a Swiss-born American investor, journalist, author, commentator and philanthropist. She is the executive founder of Wellville, a nonprofit project focused on improving equitable wellbeing. Dyson is also an angel investor focused on health care , open government , digital technology, biotechnology , and outer space . Dyson's career now focuses on health and she continues to invest in health and technology startups . Esther Dyson's father
84-558: The Global Business Network . Currently, she is a trustee of Charity Navigator , ExpandED Schools (outside-of-class services for kids), the Long Now Foundation , Open Corporates , and The Commons Project, where she chairs the comp and culture committee. Dyson was one of the first ten volunteers for George Church’s Personal Genome Project where you can find her complete genome. Dyson has served as
98-575: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration since 2005 Dysons , an Australian bus operator Dyson, a character in the Canadian television series Lost Girl The Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management , often referred to as "Dyson" See also [ edit ] Dysan , storage media company Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
112-619: The film Terminator 2 who was the most directly responsible for "Judgement Day" [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Dyson . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dyson_(surname)&oldid=1225930544 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Patronymic surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
126-3158: The 💕 Dyson is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Ambrose Dyson (1876–1913), Australian political cartoonist Andre Dyson (born 1979), American football player Anthony Edward Dyson (1928–2002), British literary critic Brian Dyson (born 1935), American businessman Charles Wilson Dyson (1861–1930), American naval officer Chris Dyson (born 1978), American racing driver David Dyson (naturalist) , (1823-1856) British naturalist, scientific collector, curator and weaver Edward Dyson (1865–1931), Australian writer and journalist Edward Ambrose Dyson (1908–1952), Australian illustrator and political cartoonist Esther Dyson (born 1951), Swiss-born American journalist, author, businesswoman, investor, commentator, and philanthropist Frank Dyson (1931–1979), British rugby league footballer Frank Watson Dyson (1868–1939), English astronomer Freeman Dyson (1923–2020), British-American physicist Geoff Dyson (1923–1989), English footballer George Dyson (composer) (1883–1964), English musical composer George Dyson (science historian) (born 1953), American-Canadian author and science historian H. Kempton Dyson (1880–1944), English structural engineer and architect Hugo Dyson (1896–1975), English academic Humfrey Dyson (1582–1633), English scrivener, notary, and book collector Jack Dyson (1934–2000), English cricketer and footballer James Dyson (born 1947), British inventor and engineer Jeremy Dyson (born 1966), English author, musician, and screenwriter Jerome Dyson (born 1987), American basketball player in Israel John Dyson (rugby) (1866–1909), English rugby union player John Barry Dyson (1942–1995), English footballer John Dyson, Lord Dyson (born 1943), British judge John Dyson (Australian cricketer) (born 1954), Australian cricketer John S. Dyson ( fl. 1960s–2020s), American businessman John Dyson ( fl. 1980s), English musician Kevin Dyson (born 1975), American football player Kina Malpartida Dyson (born 1980), Peruvian boxer Marianne J. Dyson (fl. 1990s–2010s), American author Mia Dyson (born 1981), Australian musician Michael Eric Dyson (born 1958), American author, preacher, radio host, and professor Rob Dyson (born 1946), American racing driver Ronnie Dyson (1950–1990), American singer and actor Ruth Dyson (born 1957), New Zealand politician Ruth Dyson (keyboardist) (1917–1997), English keyboardist Terry Dyson (born 1934), English footballer Thomas A. Dyson (1851–1898), American politician Tony Dyson (1947–2016), British special effects designer Torkwase Dyson (fl. 2000s–2010s), American contemporary artist Will Dyson (1880–1938), Australian artist, cartoonist, and caricaturist William Dyson (1857–1936), English cricketer See also [ edit ] Dyson , other uses Miles Bennett Dyson , fictional character from
140-459: The title Dyson . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dyson&oldid=1251006158 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Dyson (surname) From Misplaced Pages,
154-404: Was English-born, American-naturalized physicist Freeman Dyson , and her mother was mathematician Verena Huber-Dyson , of Swiss parentage; her brother is science historian George Dyson . Her paternal grandfather was the composer Sir George Dyson . She was educated at Harvard University , where she studied economics and wrote for The Harvard Crimson . After graduating she joined Forbes as
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#1732775606201168-412: Was a board member of Yandex , which is considered the “Google of Russia,” until March 2022. Previously, Dyson and her company EDventure Holdings specialized in analyzing the effect of emerging technologies and markets on economies and societies. She produced the following publications on technology: Dyson is an active member of a number of non-profit and advisory organizations. From 1998 to 2000, she
182-663: Was a member of the Bulgarian president's IT Advisory Council, along with Vint Cerf , George Sadowsky , and Veni Markovski , among others. She has served as a trustee of, and helped fund, emerging organizations such as Glasses for Humanity , Bridges.org, the National Endowment for Democracy , the Eurasia Foundation, StopBadware , and the Sunlight Foundation . She was previously a member of
196-645: Was the founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers . As of 2004, she sat on its "reform" committee (the At-Large Advisory Committee), dedicated to defining a role for individuals in ICANN's decision-making and governance structures. She opposed ICANN's 2012 expansion of generic top-level domains ( gTLDs ). She has followed closely the post-Soviet transition of Eastern Europe, from 2002 to 2012
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