Erickson alleges that Blake's pi song "sounded substantially similar, " and therefore infringes the copyrighted melody that Erickson registered in 1992.
The movie's Pi (Suraj Sharma) is considerably more circumspect than the novel's, and understandably so -- Richard Parker is more ferocious in the flesh than he was on the page.
It's only when Pi's world is turned upside down that the film really finds its sea legs.
Whether it's the ubiquitous Raspberry Pi, Intel's NUC, or any number of similar products.
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Bethan Marshall, a senior lecturer in English education at King's College London told the magazine the literary merit of picture books was often underestimated, comparing The Very Hungry Caterpillar favourably with another literary hit, Yann Martel's Life of Pi.
But "Pi's" bargain-basement metaphysics is like organic fruit salad to the collective Hollywood mindset, irrespective of ideology.
One user has compiled a map charting the Pi's global spread.
The boards are a little more expensive than Raspberry Pi's impressively cheap Model A and Model B, but you are getting some bang for that buck.
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At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, children will gather around what's described as a Pi Day shrine to sing Pi Day songs and perform Pi Day rites.
Researchers at the University of Southampton have followed their instincts and built Iridis-Pi, a tiny 64-node cluster based on the Raspberry Pi's usual Debian Wheezy distribution and linked through Ethernet.
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The people behind the ultra-cheap computer have decided to harness all that geek enthusiasm sparked since the Raspberry Pi's launch in February and create a one-stop shop where anyone can share games, applications and tools developed for the computer.
The slightly artificial quality that comes with this technology -- even wearing the spectacles puts a barrier between the movie and reality -- complements Pi's magical realist yarn, and Claudio Miranda's luminous, glossy, color-saturated cinematography gives the movie a picture book look.
And the various trades in movie land from the production designers to the boom operators were likely jazzed by "Pi's" technological achievements, notably the digitally enhanced Bengal tiger that even the movie's harsher critics believed to have stolen the movie from its human actors.
Ang Lee's 3D epic Life of Pi - which went into the awards with nine nominations - picked up two awards for cinematography and special visual effects.
The Higgs boson news coincides not only with Einstein's birthday, but also with Pi Day, March 14.
In its complaint, PI said Google's assertion that its face blurring system would result in a "few" misses was a "gross underestimation".
Kerry's many audio books include Life of Pi (Reader of the Year, APA Awards).
"The benefit of the Raspberry Pi is that it's very portable - if someone gives you an SD card with games on it you can come home and play it on your TV, your parents can see it, your friends can see it, " said the team's mentor Luke Staddon from IBM.
And in cyberspace, there's the annual ritual Drop of the Giant Pi.
This year's only male on the shortlist, Suraj Sharma, got his break when he was picked from 3, 000 hopefuls to star in Ang Lee's epic adaptation of the novel Life of Pi.
Initial reports released by the UT Police Department on Wednesday indicated that the student's cousin -- a UT student and Pi Kappa Alpha member who says he wasn't at the house that night -- told investigators that the hospitalized student had used an alcohol enema.
Another landmark today for what must be one of 2012's most successful new technology products, the Raspberry Pi.
There's instructions to help build your own Iridis-Pi at the source link, and the best part is that it won't require a university-level budget to run.
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Then there's Eben Upton who came up with the Raspberry Pi project to make a very cheap computing device for schools, and games industry legend David Braben , who has done so much to promote the idea.
If you're a computational engineer, there's no question about what you do with the Raspberry Pi: you make a supercomputer cluster.
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Ang Lee won his second Oscar for directing Life of Pi, the adaptation of Yann Martel's fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger.
Moonrise Kingdom and The Master are among the films nominated for the Writers Guild's original screenplay prize, while Argo, Life of Pi and Lincoln compete for its adapted screenplay honour.
"We are very, very sorry, " wrote Raspberry Pi community manager Liz Upton on the organisation's blog.
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