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Andries van Dam, a Common card
Andries "Andy" van Dam is a Dutch-American professor of computer science and former vice-president for research at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 54
- DEF
- 27
- Power
- 81
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 7,600
Power 81 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Andries van Dam quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Andries van Dam card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He also co-founded the ______ of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference.
Answer
precursor. He also co-founded the precursor of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference. From the Andries van Dam article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System in the late ____s.
Answer
1960s. Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System in the late 1960s. From the Andries van Dam article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Ramón Menéndez Pidal. Ramón Menéndez Pidal 57 · Andries van Dam 54 · Magnolia Petroleum Company 50 · John Rous 47 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Together with Ted Nelson he contributed to the first hypertext system, Hypertext Editing System in the late 1960s.
- He co-authored Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice along with J.D. Foley, S.K. Feiner, and John Hughes.
- He also co-founded the precursor of the ACM SIGGRAPH conference.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Andries van Dam article was read about 7,600 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 54 and blocks with 27: each hit it takes is cut by 11 %.
How to get Andries van Dam
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Andries van Dam in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Ramón Menéndez PidalCommon · Science · ATK 57 DEF 24
- Willem SchoutenCommon · History · ATK 52 DEF 29
- Darnell ValentineCommon · Society · ATK 56 DEF 25
- Magnolia Petroleum CompanyCommon · Society · ATK 50 DEF 31
- Clint McKayCommon · Society · ATK 55 DEF 26
- Ennio FlaianoCommon · Arts · ATK 56 DEF 25
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Andries van Dam (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alan Levine from Strawberry, United States, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
