Archimedes (Greek: Arkhimêas), a Greek mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist and engineer. He was killed by a Roman soldier during the sack of the city of Syracuse, despite orders from the Roman general, Marcellus, that he was not to be harmed.

Greek mathematician and physicist noted for his work in hydrostatics and mechanics and geometry (287-212 BC)

Greek scientist who developed the principle that a floating object displaces it own weight when put in liquid

Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium. To the south of the crater extends the Montes Archimedes mountainous region. On the southeastern rim is the Palus Putredinis flooded plain, containing a system of rilles named the Rimae Archimedes that extend over 150 kilometers.

After one year without development of the XForms based Unix email client XFMail, the coding has started again. The GTK is supposed to be the toolkit of choice and so we will take XFMail's core, restructure it, and port it to the Gimp ToolKit.

A computer mainly used in schools produced by Acorn Computers. For the six months ending in June 1997 Acorn's turnover dropped by £2.3m to £14.2m. Acorn Computers Ltd was purchased on Tuesday 1st June 1999 by Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

Archimedes - "The Open CAD" - (aka Arquimedes) is a Computer Aided Design (CAD) program being developed side by side with architecture offices in order to fulfill all their needs. In this way, the developers hope to create software better suited for architects than the currently widely used Auto CAD, or other available CAD software.