Lan Tianye Lan Tianye Lan Tianye (; born 1927) is a Chinese actor and painter. Lan is noted for his roles as Jiang Ziya in the television series "The Investiture of the Gods". Lan was born Wang Runsen () in Raoyang County, Hengshui, Hebei in 1927, during the Republic of China. Wang became a drama actor in 1944. Wang graduated from National Beiping Art School (). In 1948, during the Chinese Civil War, Wang defected to liberated areas, and changed his name Lan Tianye. Lan entered the Beijing People's Art Theatre in 1952. In 1962, Lan learned Chinese painting from Li Kuchan
Three-letter acronym the animal's name in "CAT scan". The exact phrase "three-letter acronym" appeared in the sociology literature in 1975. Three-letter acronyms were used as mnemonics in biological sciences, from 1977 and their practical advantage was promoted by Weber in 1982. They are used in many other fields, but the term TLA is particularly associated with computing. In 1980, the manual for the Sinclair ZX81 home computer used and explained TLA. The specific generation of three-letter acronyms in computing was mentioned in a JPL report of 1982. In 1988, in a paper titled "On the cruelty of really teaching computer science", eminent