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Robert Calderbank, a Common card
Robert Calderbank is a professor of computer science, electrical engineering, and mathematics and director of the Information Initiative at Duke University.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 47
- DEF
- 21
- Power
- 68
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Power 68 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 10 % of WikiCards cards.
Robert Calderbank quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Robert Calderbank card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice ______ for Research and Internet and network systems.
Answer
President. He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems. From the Robert Calderbank article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in ____ to become Dean of Natural Sciences.
Answer
2010s. He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences. From the Robert Calderbank article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Sergey Botkin. Sergey Botkin 50 · Robert Calderbank 47 · Z-drag 44 · Kababir 40 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.
- He received a BSc from Warwick University in 1975, an MSc from Oxford in 1976, and a PhD from Caltech in 1980, all in mathematics.
- He joined Bell Labs in 1980, and retired from AT&T Labs in 2003 as Vice President for Research and Internet and network systems.
- He then went to Princeton as a professor of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Applied and Computational Mathematics, before moving to Duke in 2010 to become Dean of Natural Sciences.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Robert Calderbank article was read about 4,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 47 and blocks with 21: each hit it takes is cut by 8 %.
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Text : Wikipedia, Robert Calderbank (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Xuthoria, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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