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Ockham

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Occam or Ockham may refer to:

People:

  • William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian
  • Byron King-Noel, Viscount Ockham (1836–1862), British peer
  • Peter King, 1st Baron King of Ockham (1669–1734), English lawyer, politician, Lord Chancellor of England

Places:

  • Ockham, Surrey, England, a village believed to be the birthplace of William of Ockham
  • Ockham Park, seventeenth century English country house in Ockham, Surrey

Other:

  • HMS Ockham (M2714), one of 93 ships of the Ham-class of inshore minesweepers
  • occam (programming language), also named after William of Ockham

OCCAM as acronym:

  • Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean, established in 1996 by UNESCO in Milan
  • Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an office of the National Cancer Institute
  • Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, a research centre at the University of Oxford

See also

  • Ockham algebra, bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism
  • Ockham Awards, annual awards by The Skeptic magazine
  • Occam learning, model of algorithmic learning
  • Ockham New Zealand Book Awards, series of awards to works of New Zealand citizens
  • Occam process, a method for the manufacture of populated, printed circuit boards
  • Occam (programming_language) a programming language
  • Occam's razor, a methodological principle named after the philosopher
  • Ockham's Razor Theatre Company, an aerial theatre company
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