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Index may refer to:

Business[link]

• Index (retailer), a defunct UK catalogue retailer formerly owned by the Littlewoods group and known as Littlewoods Index
• INDEX, a market research fair in Lucknow, India
• Index fund, a collective investment scheme
• Stock market index, a statistical average of prices of securities

Publishing[link]

• Bibliographic index, a regularly updated print periodical publication that lists articles, books, and/or other information items, usually within a particular discipline
• Index (publishing), a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication
• Index (typography), a largely obsolete punctuation mark
• Index cards in a rolodex or old library card catalog, early and mid 20th century technologies for maintaining such lists
• Germany's List of Media Harmful to Young People, colloquially known as The Index, published by the Bundesprüfstelle für jugendgefährdende Medien
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a list of publications which the Catholic Church censored
• Index Magazine, a New York City-based publication for art and culture
• index.hu, a Hungarian-language news and community portal
• Indexed (cartoon), a Web cartoon by Jessica Hagy
• The Index, the student newspaper of Kalamazoo College
• The Index (journal), a European propaganda journal created by Henry Hotze to support the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War
• Thumb index, a round cut-out in the pages of a publication
• Toaru Majutsu no Index, a Japanese light novel, manga, and anime series
• Truman State University Index, the weekly student newspaper

Sciences[link]

• A scale (social sciences)

Biological sciences[link]

• Diversity index – a quantitative measure that increases when the number of types into which a set of entities has been classified increases, and obtains its maximum value for a given number of types when all types are represented by the same number of entities

Computer science[link]

• Lookup table, a data structure, usually an array or associative array, often used to replace a runtime computation with a simpler array indexing operation
• Array index, an integer pointer (into an array data structure) that identifies an element of the array
• A key in an associative array
• Database index, a data structure that improves the speed of data retrieval operations on a database table
• Index mapping, mapping of raw data, used directly as in array index, for an array
• Index register, a processor register used for modifying operand addresses during the run of a program
• The dataset maintained by search engine indexing
• Indexed color
• Indexed Sequential Access Method (ISAM), a method for indexing data for fast retrieval
• Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords
• Web indexing (Internet indexing)
• Site map, a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users
• Webserver directory index, a default or index web page in a directory on a web server, such as index.html
• BitTorrent index, a list of .torrent files available for searches

Economics[link]

• Index (economics), a single number calculated from an array of prices and quantities
  • Price index, a typical price for some good or service

Geography[link]

• Index, New York, a hamlet in the County and Town of Otsego, New York, United States
• Index, Washington, a town in Snohomish County, Washington, United States

Library and information science[link]

• Back-of-the-book index
• Bibliographic index, a regularly updated print periodical publication that lists articles, books, and/or other information items,
• Index (publishing), a detailed list, usually arranged alphabetically, of the specific information in a publication
• Subject indexing, describing the content of a document by keywords

Linguistics[link]

• Indexicality, the variation of meaning of an utterance according to certain features of the context in which it is uttered

Mathematics[link]

• A number or other symbol that indicates the location of a variable in an indexed family or set such as a list or array of numbers or other mathematical objects, usually written as a subscript to the variable; e.g. in the list Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): \lbrace x_1, x_2, x_3, x_4\rbrace

, the number Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): 3

is the index of the third element, Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): x_3

.

Algebra[link]

• Exponent
• The degree of an nth root
• Index of a subgroup, the number of a subgroup's left cosets (which is equal to the number of its right cosets)
• Index of a linear map, the dimension of the map's kernel minus the dimension of its cokernel
• The index of a real quadratic form Q is defined (but not always consistently) as p − q where Q can be written as a difference of p squared linear terms and q squared linear terms.

Analysis[link]

• The winding number of an oriented closed curve on a surface relative to a point on that surface; loosely speaking, the number of times the curve goes around the point counter-clockwise
• The index of a vector field v at an isolated zero is the degree of the map Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): x^a \mapsto \frac{v^a(x)}{\sqrt{\sum_b(v^b(x))^2}}

, taking points near the zero into the unit sphere.

Technologies[link]

Mechanics[link]

• Indexing (motion), a kind of motion in many areas of mechanical engineering and machining

Optics[link]

• Refractive index, a measure for optical properties of transparent materials.

Other usages[link]

• Index finger, the second digit of a human hand
• Index: a Denmark nonprofit organization which promotes Design for Life
• Index Ventures, a venture capital investment firm based in Switzerland
• The Index, an item on a halo megastructure in the Halo series of video games
• The Index (Dubai), a skyscraper in Dubai
• FamilySearch Indexing
• Index Librorum Prohibitorum, a character from Toaru Majutsu no Index, otherwise shortened to simply "Index".

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Roger Montgomery (1925–2003) was a city planner, urban designer, architect, and educator.

Biography[link]

He was born in New York City to parents Graham Livingston Montgomery and Anne Cook and lived in Greenwich Village until 1930, when he moved to Port Washington, Long Island. Roger's father died suddenly from a heart attack in 1942. In 1945 he was accepted into the army, where he served in an intelligence unit in occupied Germany as a radio operator. On April 23, 1949 Roger married Oberlin College graduate Mary Hoyt. Roger has four sons, Richard Wallace (born 1956), Thomas Vinton (1958), John 1960, and Peter George (1965). In 1957 Roger was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He died of cancer on October 25, 2003.

Training[link]

Roger attended a John Dewey-influenced grade school in Port Washington, which emphasized mechanical skills over traditional subjects such as reading and writing. In high school he was voted ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ and ‘The Great Orator’. He was excused from military service in 1941 because of a punctured eardrum and subsequently enrolled in Oberlin College,^[1] but was dismissed from the college in 1945. Roger began his architectural work in 1948 as an apprentice in Springfield, Ohio and was soon successful, in part because of a shortage of architects and large post-war boom in construction. From 1955 to 1956 Roger attended the Harvard Graduate School of Design^[2] where he received a Masters of Architecture degree under professors Josep Lluís Sert and Sigfried Giedion, while studying with classmates Fumihiko Maki and Ben Weese.

Accomplishments[link]

• 1957: Began position as professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. Also named founding Director (1957–1963) of the Landmarks Association of St. Louis, one of the nation's first building and neighborhood preservation groups.
• 1960: Started the architectural practice of Schnebli, Anselevicius, and Montgomery (SAM) that designed the Washington University Law School Building in 1972. Founded the Urban Design Program at Washington University with Fumihiko Maki^[3]
• 1961: Worked for the Kennedy Administration as the first Urban Design Officer in the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency (later HUD).
• 1964: Named founding Director of Washington University's Urban Renewal Design Center and planned and designed ‘Towne South’, a community outside of St. Louis
• 1965: Named founding Director of the Urban Housing Foundation, Inc. (1965–1967).
• 1967: Hired as professor with joint appointment in both the departments of City & Regional Planning, and of Architecture, at the University of California, Berkeley.
• 1968: Named a juror from the Progressive Architecture P/A Design Awards.
• 1967-72: Served as west coast editor for Architecture Forum^[4] magazine.
• 1973: Published Housing in America (co-authored with Daniel Mandelker), a survey of housing economics, race, and land use issues. Also published A Guide to Architecture in San Francisco and Northern California (co-authored with David Gebhard and Sally Woodbridge).
• 1977: Published a guide to the architecture and vernacular buildings of Washington State, titled A guide to architecture in Washington State: an environmental perspective.^[5]
• 1980s: During this period Montgomery served as President of the California Council of Architectural Education, and the National Board of Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility. Additionally, he served on boards for a number of voluntary organizations related to the design professions including Planners for Equal Opportunity, Planners Network and Northern California Non-Profit Housing Coalition. In the Bay Area, Montgomery advised City and County boards in Berkeley, Alameda County, Santa Clara and San Francisco. Montgomery was also named Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and later Acting Dean.
• May 1, 1989: Named Dean of the College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, a position he holds until January 1996. During 1989, Montgomery was named to the Board of Trustees of the Berkeley Art Museum, a position he holds until 2002.

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Roger Montgomery obituary in the San Francisco Chronicle
• Press Release from University of California, Berkeley
• In Memorium from the University of California