Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces
Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cutting and shaping industry (who may also set the stones)
MASON is a multi-agent simulation environment developed in Java.
Development
MASON is developed at George Mason University's Evolutionary Computation Laboratory in conjunction with the GMU Center for Social Complexity. First released in 2003, the environment continues to be maintained and kept up to date. The name, as well as referring to the parent institution, derives from the acronymMulti-Agent Simulator Of Neighborhoods (or Networks).
MASON development started within the Java.net environment, then moved to Google Code and is now at GitHub.
Whilst MASON is less extensive than other similar libraries it is designed with simplicity and execution speed as a priority.
Homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, USS Mason is the 37th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and the ninth of the Flight IIA variant. She was commissioned in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in April 2003. Her first captain was Commander David Gale.
This is the third ship with the name USS Mason. The first Mason(DD-191), in service from 1920 to 1941, was named for John Young Mason, well known for his service as the Secretary of the Navy for two American Presidents. The second Mason(DE-529) was named for Ensign Newton Henry Mason, a Naval Aviator who was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. This ship is named for the crew of the second Mason(DE-529) as this was the first ship in the US Navy with this distinction of a predominantly black crew.
Ship history
USS Mason conducted her maiden deployment with the USSHarry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in late 2004. Mason returned home after six months on 18 April 2005.
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