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Michael Irwin Jordan ForMemRS (born February 25, 1956) is an American scientist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, research scientist at the Inria Paris, and researcher in machine learning, statistics, and artificial intelligence.
May 30, 2023 · Template:Infobox basketball biography Michael Jeffrey Jordan (born February 17, 1963), also known by his initials MJ, [ 1] is an American former professional basketball player and businessman. His biography on the official National Basketball Association (NBA) website states: "By acclamation, Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player of ...
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- A Slow Starter
- Talent, Desire, Success
- Life in A Fishbowl
- Personal Tragedy and Its Aftermath
- Announced Retirement in October of 1993
- Sources
Michael Jordan was born February 17, 1963, in Brooklyn, New York, while his father was stationed there briefly on business. The fourth of five children, Michael has two brothers and two sisters. While he was still
Michael Jordan never warmed the bench at the University of North Carolina. He was a starter for the Tar Heels from the first game of his freshman year. He became a national celebrity later that season when he sank a winning fifteen-foot jump shot in the final seconds of the 1982 NCAA Championship. Teammates and fans nicknamed him “Superman” and “La...
Many athletes have found that their on-court skills have been eroded when the demands of commercial endorsements and the crush of fame descend upon them. Jordan only seemed to get stronger. As the Bulls were rebuilt around him with a group of hungry young players, he continued to lead the NBA in scoring and often landed on the all-defensive first t...
The Jordan family faced tragedy in the summer of 1993 when Michael’s father, James, was brutally murdered in North Carolina. Jordan fought tears and tried to dodge the press during his father’s funeral and the subsequent police investigation that uncovered two teenage suspects and an apparent motive of car theft. His father’s untimely death was yet...
Jordan had often referred to basketball as his “refuge,” but the combined toll of his father’s brutal murder, the media scrutiny surrounding his own gambling debts, the continuing pressures of his megastardom, and his professed feelings of having nothing left to prove on the basketball court are believed to have played a part in his decision to ret...
Books
Current Biography Yearbook 1997, H.W.Wilson Co., 1998. Greene, Bob, Hang Time, Doubleday, 1992. Jordan, Michael, Rare Air: Michael on Michael, photographed by Walter looss, Jr., edited by Mark Vancil, Collins Publishers San Francisco, 1993.
Periodicals
Associated Press wire report, October 5, 1993. Ebony, December 1993, pp. 128-38. Esquire, November 1990, pp. 138-216. Forbes, May 25, 1992, p. 168. Gentleman’s Quarterly, March 1989, pp. 319-97. Newsweek, May 29, 1989, pp. 58-60; December 4, 1989, pp. 80-81; June 14, 1993, pp. 72-74; August 23, 1993, p. 60; August 30, 1993, p. 59; October 18, 1993, pp. 65-70; October-November 1993 Collector’s Issue (devoted to Jordan). New Yorker, December 21, 1998, pp. 48-55. New York Times Biographical Serv...
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Michael Jordan was profiled on Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, CBS-TV, July 15, 1993; an interview with Jordan conducted by Oprah Winfrey for Oprah, was first broadcast on ABC-TV on October 29, 1993. —Mark Kram and Rebecca Parks
Jordan is the only player in NBA history to record back-to-back 50-point games in the playoffs, scoring 50 and 55 in Games 1 and 2 against the Cavs. He also scored 49 points on April 17, 1986 and 63 on April 20, 1986 in back-to-back games against the Boston Celtics. Games scoring 45 or more points, career: 23.
Michael Jordan is an English mycologist, author of The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe, founder and chairman of the Association of British Fungal Groups (ABFG). [1] Jordan founded ABFG in 1996, having observed an upsurge in interest in mushroom hunting since presenting Mushroom Magic , a documentary on Channel 4 in 1989.
Michael Jordan. basketball player, actor, endorser, mass-media phenomenon. Born: 2/17/1963. Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York. Professional basketball player, actor, and mass-media phenomenon, Jordan is a star of international status. After joining the Chicago Bulls after his junior year at the University of North Carolina, he quickly proved ...
May 7, 2020 · Biography. Considered one of the most influential computer scientists in the world and a leader in advancing the field of machine learning, Michael I. Jordan helped develop unsupervised learning into a powerful algorithmic tool for solving real-world challenges in many areas including natural language processing, computational biology, and ...
