Celebrate National Poetry Month with Thomson Gale

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich.newscom . Who is he? Go to http://www.com/poetscorner and celebrate National Poetry
Month with Thomson Gale .10 billion, is a global leader in providing
integrated information solutions to business and professional customers. "Like the
recently announced winners of ACM's A. Turing Award, these contributions all
recognize ground breaking innovations that influence how we communicate
through the Internet.

This award is accompanied by a prize of
$15,000.

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The Web site's free quiz tests knowledge of significant people and events
involved in poetry. Several years later he published his first collection
entitled Leaves of Grass.com ), with 2004 revenues from
continuing operations of $8. Its learning businesses and brands serve the needs of individuals,
learning institutions , corporations and government agencies with products and
services for both traditional and distributed learning.

NEW YORK, Bertelsmann's World of Expression
Scholarship Program, in a unique collaboration among the Bertelsmann
Foundation, SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT and Random House, Inc . The 2005 first
place winners are Gabriel Beltrone from LaGuardia High School
music/instrumental; Jennie Harney from LaGuardia High School for music/vocal;
Danicu Tiu for literature/poetry and David Jiang for literature/personnel
essay, both from Hunter College High School, and Alicia Walters from Edward R.

Bertelsmann Foundation was established in 1977 by Reinhard Mohn, a
fifth-generation descendant of Bertelsmann's founder, to develop and implement
strategies and models that help solve urgent problems in society.

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* Contemporary Women's Poets (St.

About The Thomson Corporation and Thomson Gale
The Thomson Corporation (http://www.gale. The winning high school seniors, their families,
teachers and music and publishing industry leaders will be joined on June 8th
by Doubleday's Myla Goldberg, author of the widely acclaimed novel Bee Season
and the forthcoming Wickett's Remedy, and President and Publisher of Random
House Children's Books Chip Gibson, both of whom are presenting awards.
The evening will be highlighted with readings and performances from World
of Expression winners, including several $10,000 recipients.
Murrow High School."
Judging the literature categories were: Bonnie Ammer, Executive Vice
President and Publisher at Large, Random House Worldwide; Janet Hill, Vice
President + Executive Editor Doubleday Broadway Publishing,; Richard Hoehler,
Actor, Writer and Teaching Artist; Don Linder, Fiction and Travel Writer; Sara
Nelson, Editor-in-Chief, Publishers Weekly; Evie Polesny, Educator, Actor and
Teaching Artist; Michelle Poploff, Vice President + Editorial Director, Knopf,
Delacorte + Dell; Alice Quinn, Poetry Editor, The New Yorker; Mike Romanos,
Poet's House; Barbara Rothenberg, NYC Association of Principals Supervising
English; Nita Taublib, Deputy Publisher, Bantam Dell Publishing; Isabel
Warren-Lynch, Executive Director of Art and Design, Knopf, Delacorte + Dell
Books for Young Readers .

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This year, a special day-by-day downloadable calendar highlights
important events in poetry. This deep database guides students easily through the world of
poetry, fiction and drama. And don't forget to visit your local
library to access other Thomson Gale resources, such as the new editions of:
* American Poetry, 1609-1870 (Primary Source Microfilm)
* Blackbirch Treasury of American Poetry (Blackbirch Press)
* Contemporary Poets (St.thomson. Doubleday Author Myla Goldberg
President and Publisher, Random House Children's Books Chip Gibson
Will Present Scholarship Awards to First-Place Literature Winners

Bertelsmann Foundation 's 2005 World of Expression Awards Ceremony will be held
at The Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University,
Wednesday, June 8, 2004 at 7:30 p. The scholarships are awarded on the basis of music
composition and creative writing competitions.
The Hopper Award recognizes the outstanding young computer professional
of the year.acm.

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A Free Resource For All Poets Who Don't Know It And For Those Who Do

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to find the answer and take the quiz.
This year, more than 1,200 entries were received from 65% of New York
City's public high schools. My Bertelsmann colleagues and I are proud of their
accomplishments and inspired by their creativity. This year's winners represent innovative research teams and new
luminaries as well as renaissance thinkers in the computing field. ACM will
present these and other awards at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on June 11,
2005, in San Francisco, CA.
-- Richard Gabriel of Sun Microsystems -- the ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award
for his role in shaping the growth and impact of object technology, and
his influence in developing a software design community that cares
about clear communication of ideas. The Newell Award recognizes career contributions that
have breadth within computer science, or that bridge computer science
and other disciplines. ACM hosts the computing industry's leading
Digital Library and Portal to Computing Literature , and serves its global
membership with journals and magazines, special interest groups, conferences ,
workshops, electronic forums, Career Resource Centre and Professional
Development Centre.

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com /poetscorner ), a free Web site packed with biographies,
poems and activities to help families, students and teachers celebrate the
month. This lucky entrant will win a year's
subscription to Thomson Gale's LitFinder for their school or public library.

68 New York City Students Win $120 000 in Bertelsmann Foundation's World of Expression Scholarship Program

Since 1992, more than one million dollars have been awarded to students
and their schools by Bertelsmann's World of Expression., the world 's largest general trade book
publisher; SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, a global recorded music joint venture
with a roster of current artists that includes a broad array of both local
artists and international superstars; and FremantleMedia, a television
production division, whose shows include hits like American Idol.

For booklet or CD featuring the work of this year's winners call the WOE
hotline at 1-888-369-3434. The Kanellakis Award honors specific theoretical
accomplishments that significantly affect the practice of computing.
-- Secure Network Programming -- the Software System Award for SNP, the
software system widely used in securing communications between browsers
and servers and other Internet applications. Developed by Raghuram
Bindignavle, Simon Lam, Shaowen Su, and Thomas Woo in 1993, while at
the University of Texas at Austin Networking Research Laboratory, this
work was funded by the National Security Agency and the National
Science Foundation. This endowed award is accompanied by a
prize of $10,000, and is supported by the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence, and by individual contributions .

About ACM
ACM (http://www.

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In addition, Thomson Gale is giving away a year 's subscription to
LitFinder -- the largest, most accessible collection of literature available
online . Entries are judged on style, form, and content and each
submission is given individual consideration through a multi-level selection
process. Students enjoy participating in our program because
they are given the freedom to speak from their heart and submit songs and
stories on any topic in any style. Kelly, John Grisham, Toni Morrison, Dan
Brown, John Irving, and John Updike.
-- Yoav Freund of Columbia University and Robert Schapire of Princeton
University -- the Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award for their
contribution to highly accurate prediction rules used in web search
engines. A published poet and musician,
Gabriel conceived of java .M.
Software System Award honors an institution or individual(s) recognized
for developing a software system that has had a lasting influence, reflected
in contributions to concepts, in commercial acceptance, or both.

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If Poet's Corner whets your appetite for more , its creators have included
links to other appropriate sites.gale.m. For more about Bertelsmann 's World of
Expression Scholarship Program, please visit our website at
http://www. The awards reflect outstanding achievements
ranging from improving Internet communications to innovative programming
language and software designs to creative applications of computer science in
the fine arts.

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Melanie Fallon-Houska, Director of the World of Expression Program said,
"The World of Expression Awards were founded to stimulate expression and
creativity in students by encouraging them to pursue and develop their music
and literary talents.

NEW YORK, ACM, the Association for Computing
Machinery, today announced the winners of four prestigious awards honoring
advances in computing technology. They also serve to illustrate the integral role for
computer science skills in disparate callings like Internet traffic, network
programming, architecture and poetry," he noted .

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Thomson Gale(TM)
(http://www.com ) serves the world's information and education needs
through its vast and dynamic content pools, which are used by students and
consumers in their libraries, schools and on the Internet.

, will hand out
more than $120,000 in scholarships to New York City public high school seniors
on June 8th in Manhattan.worldofexpression.net as a self-creating and self-governed web
place where communities join to build a city of diverse interests
engaged in using the Java language and technology in routine and
innovative ways. The candidate must have been 35 years of age or less at the time the
qualifying contribution was made . This award is accompanied by a prize of $5,000 and is
endowed by contributions from the Kanellakis family, with additional financial
support provided by ACM's Special Interest Groups on Algorithms and
Computational Theory (SIGACT), Design Automaton (SIGDA), Management of Data
(SIGMOD), and Programming Languages (SIGPLAN), the ACM SIG Projects Fund, and
individual contributions.

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* Giants of American Art + Culture - Maya Angelou: America's Poetic Voice
(Blackbirch Press )
* Literary Companion Series: Robert Frost (Greenhaven Press)
* Literary Companion Series: Walt Whitman (Greenhaven Press)
* Poetry for Students (Thomson Gale)
* Poetry Criticism (Thomson Gale)
* The Importance Of: Edgar Allan Poe (Lucent Books)
* The Importance Of: Maya Angelou (Lucent Books)
* World Poets (Charles Scribner's Sons)

Bookmark http://www. Bertelsmann
is home to Random House, Inc.

ACM Awards Honor Advances in Internet Programming Software Technology

Financial support for this award is provided
by Google. This award
carries a prize of $10,000.
ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award is presented to an individual selected for
career contributions that have breadth within computer science, or that bridge
computer science and other disciplines.

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, In celebration
of National Poetry Month, Thomson Gale(TM), part of The Thomson Corporation
(NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), has created Poet's Corner
(http://www. For example, born in Brooklyn, the son of Quakers, this
poet started his own newspaper, The Long Islander, which he later quit to
pursue his poetry. From an ancient Persian poem to a modern-day
policy speech, LitFinder delivers up to a million examples of full-text,
indexed and excerpted literature -- along with thousands of biographies,
explanations, overviews and images to enhance understanding., Thomson (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC) has
approximately 38,000 employees and provides services in approximately 130
countries.

Judging the music categories: Susan Alicea, Singer/Songwriter, Teacher, +
'96 WOE Music Winner; Thomas Bellino, Director, Planet Arts; Toni Cheeseman,
Membership, ASCAP; Daniel Guss, Senior Director , Catalog Development, BMG
Classics; Jerome Korman, Musical Director, Producer, Composer and Teaching
Artist; Brian Muni, NYC Correspondent, American Songwriter Magazine; Adam
Epstein, Creative Manager , BMG Music Publishing; Michael Polesny, Composer,
Singer, Guitarist; Raheem, Original Member Grandmaster Flash and the Furious
Five; Frank Vinci, Songwriter.
Distinguished artists and authors under the Bertelsmann umbrella include The
Dave Matthews Band, Britney Spears, R.

The 2004 ACM awards winners include:

-- Jennifer Rexford of Princeton University -- the Grace Murray Hopper
Award for her work on assuring stable and efficient Internet routing.

About the Awards
Grace Murray Hopper Award is given to the outstanding young computer
professional of the year , selected on the basis of a single recent major
technical or service contribution. Financial support for the award is provided by
IBM.org) is widely recognized as the premier organization for
computing professionals, delivering resources that advance the computing and
IT disciplines, enable professional development, and promote policies and
research that benefit society.

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Students compete in short
story , drama, poetry, personal essay, vocal, or instrumental expression
categories. The entries and winners are as diverse as
the city they represent.
Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific theoretical
accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the
practice of computing.

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gale.
A random drawing will take place at the end of the month to select one
entrant who took the site's quiz. With
operational headquarters in Stamford, Conn. It is best known
for the accuracy, breadth and convenience of its data, addressing all types of
information needs -- from homework help to health questions to business
profiles -- in a variety of formats -- books, Web-based solutions and
microfilm.org. The Software System Award is given to an
institution or individual (s) recognized for developing software systems
that have had a lasting influence, reflected in contributions to
concepts and/or commercial acceptance.

"These awards highlight the essential role of computing in today's
technology-driven world," said ACM President David Patterson .

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