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O0024500 (ŏk′əm), William of See William of Ockham.

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also Oc·cam O0024500 (ŏk′əm), William of 1285?-1349? English scholastic philosopher who rejected the reality of universal concepts and argued that mental and linguistic signs are the only genuinely universal features of reality.

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(ˈɒkəm) n (Biography) a variant spelling of (William of) Ockham

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n. William of, died 1349?, English scholastic philosopher. Oc`cam•is′tic, adj.

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Occam - English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)Ockham, William of Occam, William of Ockham

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, Occam William of. died ?1349, English nominalist philosopher, who contested the temporal power of the papacy and ended the conflict between nominalism and realism

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(language)(Note lower case) A language based on Anthony Hoare's CSP and David May's EPL. Named after theEnglish philosopher, William of Occam (1300-1349) whopropounded Occam's Razor. The occam language was designedby David May of INMOS to easily describe concurrentprocesses which communicate via one-way channels. It wasdeveloped to run on the INMOS transputer but compilersare available for VAX, Sun and Intel MDS, inter alia.

The basic entity in occam is the process of which there arefour fundamental types, assignment, input, output, and wait.More complex processes are constructed from these using SEQ tospecify sequential execution, PAR to specify parallelexecution and ALT where each process is associated with aninput from a channel. The process whose channel inputs firstis executed. The fourth constructor is IF with a list ofconditions and associated processes. The process executed isthe one with the first true condition in textual order. Thereis no operator precedence.

The original occam is now known as "occam 1". It was extendedto occam 2.

Simulator for VAX.

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[David May et al, 1982. "Concurrent algorithms"].

["Occam", D. May, SIGPLAN Notices 18(4):69-79, 1983].

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An early parallel processing language from Inmos Limited that was developed in the 1980s to handle concurrent operations. The Inmos Transputer executed occam almost directly. In the following statements, two items of data are read and incremented at the same time. PAR specifies that following statements are to be executed concurrently, and SEQ indicates that the following statements are executed sequentially. See transputer.

PARSEQchan1 ? item1item1 := item1 + 1SEQchan2 ? item2item2 := item2 + 1

OCCAM

Acronym	Definition
OCCAM➣Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine
OCCAM➣Oregon Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
OCCAM➣Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling
OCCAM➣Open Conditional Content Access Management
OCCAM➣Oberlin Center for Computation and Modeling (est. 2006; Oberlin College; Oberlin, OH)
OCCAM➣Opportunistic Cartesian Cosine Approximate Matcher

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noun English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)

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