David W. Aha's "Aha!" Page
Aha!
This page is devoted to recording uses of Aha in
all its forms. Please let me
know if you have any suggestions. Thanks to the many people who
have contributed to this page.
Archives
Associations
Bands
- a-ha: A terrific Norweigen band
Books
Browsers
Chemistry/Skin Care
Companies/Businesses
- Abbood/Holloran
Associates, Inc.
- Advanced Hardware Architectures
(aha.com; Pullman, WA)
- The provide solutions for data compression and error correction
devices, having grown from members at the University of Idaho.
- Advanced Hardware
Assembling GmbH (Eching, Germany)
- A.H. Associates (Aha!; WWW Page
Design)
- Aha! Seminars,
Inc. (George G. Morgan, President)
- Developers and seminar presentors about the Internet, E-mail,
Windows 95, Genealogy for Librarians, etc.
- Aha & Associates (935 Westbourne Dr., West Hollywood, CA 90069-4154;
(310) 652-4245; 8252 1/2 Santa Monica Blv, West Hollywood, CA 90046-5916;
(310) 652-4227)
- Aha Acupuncture Clinic (490 Barber Ln, Milpitas, CA 95035-7914;
408-434-0883; 375 Castro St., Mountain View, CA 94041-1205;
650-691-1055)
- Aha Appliances (541 State St., Perth Amboy, NJ, 08861-3542; (908)
826-7883)
- Aha At Home Assembly (Moorehead, MN 56560; (218) 790-1242)
- A H A Candy & Grocery (1067 Allerton Ave., Bronx, NY 10469-4419;
(718) 519-0955)
- Aha Capital Equipment Leasing (409 W. Manning St., Chattanooga, TN
37405-3211; (423) 756-7665)
- Aha Cleaners Inc. (4115 National St., Corona, NY 11368-2446;
(718) 899-7750)
- A H A Co. Appliance Htg & Air (Nixa, MO 65714; (417) 725-6516)
- Aha Computer GmbH (Aachen,
Germany)
- Aha Computer Co. (Diamond Bar, CA 91765; (909) 396-9368)
- AHA Contemporary Art (Houston, TX)
- Aha Creative Solutions Inc. (3300 Northeast Expwy Access Rd.,
Chamblee, GA 30341; (770) 986-9997)
- Aha Design (Portland, OR 97225; (503) 291-1514)
- AHA Development Corporation (Ansonia, CT)
- AHA forlaget (Denmark)
- AHA Financial Group (Fowler, IN)
- AHA General Store (Minneapolis, MN)
- AHA Humanist Counselor Vance George Reed (Denver, CO)
- AHA Inc. (Carson City, NV; Mundelein, IL)
- AHA Incoporated (Boise, ID)
- AHA Insurance Resource Inc. (Chicago, IL)
- AHA, Inc.
(Makers of Iranian Business Directories)
- AHA International
(Study Abroad Program)
- AHA Macav Power Service Mohave Valley (Oatman, AZ)
- AHA Massage Therapy (Aspen, CO)
- AHA Management Consulting (Great Neck, NY)
- AHA Mini Mission Bay Golf Resort (La Jolla, CA)
- AHA Partnership Group International (Seattle, WA)
- AHA! POETRY
(Affiliated with AHA Books, Gualala CA)
- AHA Productions (Salt Lake City, UT)
- Aha! Puzzles (8/03)
- AHA Seminars Inc (Tampa, FL)
- AHA Services Inc. (Little Rock, AR and other locations)
- AHA! Software Inc.
(Victoria, BC)
- Family Games Site
- Previously, their best selling products were productivity
applications, including a video editing application
named VideoDirector.
- They once told folks that AHA was an acronym for
Acme Heuristic Applications, but that was incidental
as the name AHA! was chosen first and then an expansion
was created for it.
- aha! Software Corporation
(Mountain View, CA; 1-800-AHA-SOFT)
- One of their products, Inkwriter, allows users to
edit handwritten text entered into a handheld computer the
same way they do typewritten text (e.g., cutting and pasting).
- Aha Bought by Microsoft!
-
Ahmed Hussain Ali Trading Company, Ltd. (AHA Trading Co., Ltd)
- Albert Hydeman Associates
("Communication Research and Event Production")
- Altman-Hall
Associates (PA advertising company)
- Austria Holiday Aktiv
Definitions
- aha: "Used to express surprise, triumph, or pleasure.
[Middle English: AH + HA]." (American Heritage Dictionary)
- aha: In Czech, means "I see" or "hallo" (Karel Beran)
- aha: "In Hawaiian, aha connotes a gathering or formal session,
as meeting or a court." (Dan Davis, USC/ISI, 5 May 2004)
- aha-erlebnis: A German term in psychology indicating a sudden
insight. It is a widely used phrase in normal conversation in Holland.
(Hans Paijmans)
Departments and Groups
Dolls
Education
Email Addresses
Games
Hardware
- AHA-2742T: Adaptec's
third-generation Eisa-to-fast-SCSI host adapter (they have others)
Interactive Environments for Kids
Jokes
Non-Profit Organizations
- The Palindromes: Name of my brother's soccer team
People
Pronunciation:
Publications
- Kaplan, C. A. (1988). AHA!: A connectionist perspective on problem
solving (Technical Report AIP-38). Pittsburgh, PA; Carnegie Mellon
University, Department of Psychology.
- Nau on Zen: Dana Nau's unfavorite paper title
- I'd like to find an author named Waats. Then I can get together with
Dana Nau and that author for a paper titled Aha! Nau Waat?, or
something like that.
Question/Answering
Quotes
- Aha, now that does sound promising!
- Adams, D. (1985). The more than complete hitchhiker's guide to the
galaxy (pp. 135). London, England: Bonanza Books.
- "Aha," you say, "a blank line contains no characters, and Perl
treats the null string as false."
- Wall, L. & Schwartz, R. L. (1991). Programming perl
(p. 8). Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates.
Resorts
Rocks
- Ahaaha Rocks: A small group of rocks in the Hauraki Gulf, off
the coast of Auckland, New Zealand (thanks to Craig Nevill-Manning
for this entry)
Theatres
Towns
- Aha: A small village in nothern Bayern, Germany near Gunzenhausen,
which is located approximateley 50 kilometers
south west of Nürnberg (zip-code 91710).
- Aha: An even smaller village in Baden-Wüerttemberg
at the north end of the lake Schluchsee. This lake is 50
kilometers south east of Freiburg (zip-code 79859).
- Aha: A town on the rugged northeast coast of Okinawa. as seen
on page 100 of the June 1997 National Geographic. (Spotted by
Kevin R. Aha)
Trailer Parks
- AHA Quin Trailer Park (Blythe, CA)