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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristie%20Jandric | Kristie Jandric is an Australian actress and model. She appeared in Network Ten's soap opera Neighbours from April 2007 for a three-week guest role. Jandric previously appeared on the show in a minor role in 1999.
Jandric appeared on Fox Footy's "Living With Footballers" in 2003.
Her photograph appeared in the cover of the June 2005 edition of Inside Sport.
In 2007, Jandric played the role of "Rosie" in the new Australian drama show "Satisfaction", which aired on Showtime on Foxtel. With the success of the show she was asked to come back for the second season in 2008 and third season in 2009.
Kristie Jandric features in the upcoming feature film "Big Mamas Boy", an Australian romantic comedy about an Italian man who lives with his mother.
Kristie Jandric is also showing off her culinary skills as a Celebrity Chef on the new series on Channel 31/Digital 44 called "Kidz in the Kitchen" as she attempts some of Gabriel Gate's famous recipes with the kids.
She is of Croatian descent.
References
External links
Australian female models
Australian soap opera actresses
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoDa | GeoDa is a free software package that conducts spatial data analysis, geovisualization, spatial autocorrelation and spatial modeling.
It runs on different versions of Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The package was initially developed by the Spatial Analysis Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the direction of Luc Anselin. From 2016, development continues at the Center for Spatial Data Science (CSDS) at the University of Chicago.
GeoDa has powerful capabilities to perform spatial analysis, multivariate exploratory data analysis, and global and local spatial autocorrelation. It also performs basic linear regression. As for spatial models, both the spatial lag model and the spatial error model, both estimated by maximum likelihood, are included.
OpenGeoDa is released under the GNU GPL version 3.0.
History
GeoDa replaced what was previously called DynESDA, a module that worked under the old ArcView 3.x to perform exploratory spatial data analysis (or ESDA). Current releases of GeoDa no longer depend on the presence of ArcView or other GIS packages on a system.
Functionality
Projects in GeoDa basically consist of a shapefile that defines the lattice data, and an attribute table in a .dbf format. The attribute table can be edited inside GeoDa.
The package is specialized in exploratory data analysis and geo-visualization, where it exploits techniques for dynamic linking and brushing. This means that when the user has multiple views or windows in a project, selecting an object in one of them will highlight the same object in all other windows.
GeoDa also is capable of producing histograms, box plots, Scatter plots to conduct simple exploratory analyses of the data. The most important thing, however, is the capability of mapping and linking those statistical devices with the spatial distribution of the phenomenon that the users are studying.
Dynamic linking and brushing in GeoDa
Dynamic linking and brushing are powerful devices as they allow users to interactively discover or confirm suspected patterns of spatial arrangement of the data or otherwise discard the existence of those. It allows users to extract information from data in spatial arrangements that may otherwise require very heavy computer routines to process the numbers and yield useful statistical results. The latter may also cost the users quite a bit in terms of expert knowledge and software capabilities.
Anselin's Moran scatter plot
A very interesting device available in GeoDa to explore global patterns of autocorrelation in space is Anselin's Moran scatterplot. This graph depicts a standardized variable in the x-axis versus the spatial lag of that standardized variable. The spatial lag is nothing but a summary of the effects of the neighboring spatial units. That summary is obtained by means of a spatial weights matrix, which can take various forms, but a very commonly used is the contiguity matrix. The contiguity matrix is an array that has a val |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPN | MPN may refer to:
Manufacturer part number, an identifier
Memory part number, an identifier for computer memory
Master promissory note, a wide-encompassing accounting contract
Metal-phenolic network, a supramolecular coordination structure consisting of metal ions and polyphenols
Microsoft Partner Network, a network of Microsoft partner companies and vendors
MintPress News, an American left-wing news website
Mobil Producing Nigeria, a Nigerian petroleum company
Most probable number, a method for estimating counts from positive/negative data
Movimiento Popular Neuquino, a provincial political party in the province of Neuquén, Argentina
Mutual Progressive Network, a 1970s US radio network
Myeloproliferative neoplasms, a family of blood cancers in which excess cells are produced
RAF Mount Pleasant (IATA airport code), a British military base in the Falkland Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Waitomo | Radio Waitomo 1ZW was a radio station that broadcast on 1170AM in Te Kuiti, New Zealand. The station was started on 15 March 1985 by the Radio New Zealand Commercial network. Local content was limited to just a few hours per day, programming was shared with King Country Radio at other times and on air at these times branded as King Country Radio and Radio Waitomo.
In July 1996 the New Zealand Government sold off the commercial arm of Radio New Zealand, the sale included Radio Waitomo. The new owner was The Radio Network, a subsidiary of APN News & Media and Clear Channel Communications, which operated as a division of the Australian Radio Network.
Local content was limited to just a few hours per day. At other times the station took a feed from King Country Radio or 1ZH (Hamilton) or National Radio.
In June 1998, Radio Waitomo joined the newly established Community Radio Network. As a result, the station continued to run a local breakfast show between 6-10am, but outside of these times the station carried the network feed from Taupo.
On 1 December 2000, the Taupo-based Community Radio Network was replaced with the Classic Hits network programme from Auckland. Radio Waitomo was subsequently re-branded as Classic Hits Radio Waitomo.
In November 2003, due to dwindling listenership and rising costs, The Radio Network decided to close the station.
The following year, The Voice Of Waikato/Waitomo Trust arranged a lease of the station and the frequency and it was re-launched as The Voice Of Waitomo.
In July that year, the station reverted to its original name: Radio Waitomo 1ZW.
Less than a year later, Radio Waitomo closed down permanently due to poor management and lack of local support.
References
Radio stations in New Zealand
Defunct radio stations in New Zealand
Radio stations established in 1985
Radio stations disestablished in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI-SPARC%20Architecture | The ANSI-SPARC Architecture (American National Standards Institute, Standards Planning And Requirements Committee), is an abstract design standard for a database management system (DBMS), first proposed in 1975.
The ANSI-SPARC model however, never became a formal standard. No mainstream DBMS systems are fully based on it (they tend not to exhibit full physical independence or to prevent direct user access to the conceptual level), but the idea of logical data independence is widely adopted.
Three-level architecture
The objective of the three-level architecture is to separate the user's view:
It allows independent customized user views: Each user should be able to access the same data, but have a different customized view of the data. These should be independent: changes to one view should not affect others.
It hides the physical storage details from users: Users should not have to deal with physical database storage details.
The Database Administrator (DBA) should be able to change the database storage structures without affecting the users’ views.
The internal structure of the database should be unaffected by changes to the physical aspects of the storage: For example, a changeover to a new disk.
The three levels are:
External Level (User Views): A user's view of the database describes a part of the database that is relevant to a particular user. It excludes irrelevant data as well as data which the user is not authorised to access.
Conceptual Level: The conceptual level is a way of describing what data is stored within the whole database and how the data is inter-related. The conceptual level does not specify how the data is physically stored. Some important facts about this level are:
It is only the DBA who defines and works at this level.
It describes the structure for all users.
It offers a global view of the database.
It is independent of the hardware and other software.
Internal Level: The internal level involves how the database is physically represented on the computer system. It describes how the data is actually stored in the database and on the computer hardware.
The Three Level Architecture has the aim of enabling users to access the same data but with a personalised view of it. The distancing of the internal level from the external level means that users do not need to know how the data is physically stored in the database. This level separation also allows the DBA to change the database storage structures without affecting the users' views.
Database schemas
There are three different types of schema corresponding to the three levels in the ANSI-SPARC architecture:
The external schemas describe the different external views of the data, and there may be many external schemas for a given database.
The conceptual schema describes all the data items and relationships between them, together with integrity constraints (later). There is only one conceptual schema per database.
The internal schema at the lowest level conta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20School%20of%20the%20Sacred%20Heart | International School of the Sacred Heart (ISSH) is a Kindergarten (co-ed) – Grades 1–12 (all girls) school in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, founded in 1908. As part of the Network of Sacred Heart Schools it is affiliated with schools and institutions in 44 countries.
The International School of the Sacred Heart (ISSH) is a multicultural Catholic school. Kindergarten classes for 3, 4 and 5 year olds are for boys and girls, while grades 1–12 are for girls only. ISSH is located in the Hiroo neighborhood and was founded in 1908, belonging to a worldwide network of the Schools of the Sacred Heart.
History
The International School of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo is one of an international group of schools and colleges under the direction of the religious Society of the Sacred Heart.
The Society of the Sacred Heart was founded in Amiens, France, on November 21, 1800, by Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat to meet the needs of a particular form of education for girls in a changing world.
Beginning in 2017, the school began investigating allegations of sexual abuse by a former teacher, which allegedly occurred in the 1990s and 2000s.
Curriculum
The curriculum is drawn from International curricula and provides programs such as the Advanced Placement and English as a second language (ESL).
Instruction at the school is in English, Languages including French and Japanese are offered. The testing program includes the PSAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test, the SAT, and the International Schools Assessment.
The activities program includes athletics, drama, music, as well as competition in sports, intellectual and artistic fields, mainly in the Kanto Plains Association of Schools.
Kindergarten and Junior School (Kindergarten – Grade 4)
The curriculum in the Kindergarten and Junior School (KG/JS) includes an integrated balanced literacy language arts program, (reading, writing, speaking, and listening), mathematics, science and social studies that are integrated through the International Primary Curriculum.
Middle School (Grades 5–8)
All Middle School students study English, mathematics, science, social studies, art, drama, foreign languages, music, personal and social education, physical education, pottery/3D Art, and values.
High School (Grades 9–12)
Sacred Heart has a Creative and Performing Arts department as well as an extracurricular program where students can participate in sports, music, and drama. The ISSH diploma is granted to students who have earned a minimum of 22 credits and have successfully fulfilled all of the requirements.
Notable alumni
Masako Shirasu, author and collector
Joan Fontaine, British-American actress
Yoko Narahashi, casting director
Ippongi Bang, manga artist
Maiko, actress
Emma Miyazawa, actress
Giselle, rapper and singer (aespa)
Rima Nakabayashi, rapper and singer (NiziU)
Hiroko Kuniya, news presenter and journalist
Blaine Trump, socialite and former sister-in-law of Donald Trump
See also
Japan Council of Interna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Union%20National%20Institutes%20for%20Culture | The European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC) is a network of European national institutes of culture and national bodies engaged in cultural and related activities beyond their national borders. EUNIC brings together organizations from all 27 EU member states and adds value through its global network of clusters. By pooling together the resources and expertise of its members and carrying out joint work on common areas of interest, EUNIC is a recognized partner of the European Union and its stakeholders in defining and implementing European policy on culture inside and outside the EU.
Organization
The overarching purpose of EUNIC is to create effective partnerships and networks between the participating organizations, to improve and promote cultural diversity and understanding between European societies, and to strengthen international dialogue and co-operation with countries outside Europe.
Since its establishment in 2006, EUNIC has evolved into a strong network delivering transnational collaborative projects worldwide through its 36 members and 103 clusters. Members consist of national cultural institutions or organizations. Clusters are collaboration platforms established where at least 3 local offices of EUNIC members operate together. Clusters can operate nationwide or citywide. A EUNIC cluster represents the whole of EUNIC and not only those members present in a country or location.
On 16 May 2017, during the Danish Presidency of EUNIC and the European Union signed an administrative agreement that outlines joint principles, values and objectives for cooperation, as well as practical arrangements for its implementation.
The Presidents are supported by the EUNIC Global office team based in Brussels. The EUNIC Global Office in Brussels also supports the work of EUNIC members and clusters around the world.
Management
EUNIC is managed by a bi-annual meeting of the heads of its member organizations, a general assembly. They elect from among themselves a president, vice president, and four ordinary members who together represent the EUNIC board of directors.
Presidencies
2020-2021: - DutchCulture, centre for international cooperation
2019-2020: - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (Italy)
2018-2019: - French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs
2017-2018: - Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs
2016-2017: - Danish Cultural Institute
Directors
Members of the board of directors of the Danish presidency: President Michael Metz Morch- Danish Cultural Institute; Vice-President Koen Verlaeckt - Flanders Department of Foreign Affairs; Johannes Ebert - Goethe-Institut; Anne Grillo - French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development; Teresa Indjein - Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs; Małgorzata Wierzejska - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland
2015-2016: - Instituto Cervantes
2014-2015: - Swedish Institute
Participating members
Members within the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link/cut%20tree | A link/cut tree is a data structure for representing a forest, a set of rooted trees, and offers the following operations:
Add a tree consisting of a single node to the forest.
Given a node in one of the trees, disconnect it (and its subtree) from the tree of which it is part.
Attach a node to another node as its child.
Given a node, find the root of the tree to which it belongs. By doing this operation on two distinct nodes, one can check whether they belong to the same tree.
The represented forest may consist of very deep trees, so if we represent the forest as a plain collection of parent pointer trees, it might take us a long time to find the root of a given node. However, if we represent each tree in the forest as a link/cut tree, we can find which tree an element belongs to in O(log(n)) amortized time. Moreover, we can quickly adjust the collection of link/cut trees to changes in the represented forest. In particular, we can adjust it to merge (link) and split (cut) in O(log(n)) amortized time.
Link/cut trees divide each tree in the represented forest into vertex-disjoint paths, where each path is represented by an auxiliary data structure (often splay trees, though the original paper predates splay trees and thus uses biased binary search trees). The nodes in the auxiliary data structure are ordered by their depth in the corresponding represented tree. In one variation, Naive Partitioning, the paths are determined by the most recently accessed paths and nodes, similar to Tango Trees. In Partitioning by Size paths are determined by the heaviest child (child with the most children) of the given node. This gives a more complicated structure, but reduces the cost of the operations from amortized O(log n) to worst case O(log n). It has uses in solving a variety of network flow problems and to jive data sets.
In the original publication, Sleator and Tarjan referred to link/cut trees as "dynamic trees", or "dynamic dyno trees".
Structure
We take a tree where each node has an arbitrary degree of unordered nodes and split it into paths. We call this the represented tree. These paths are represented internally by auxiliary trees (here we will use splay trees), where the nodes from left to right represent the path from root to the last node on the path. Nodes that are connected in the represented tree that are not on the same preferred path (and therefore not in the same auxiliary tree) are connected via a path-parent pointer. This pointer is stored in the root of the auxiliary tree representing the path.
Preferred paths
When an access to a node v is made on the represented tree, the path that is taken becomes the preferred path. The preferred child of a node is the last child that was on the access path, or null if the last access was to v or if no accesses were made to this particular branch of the tree. A preferred edge is the edge that connects the preferred child to v.
In an alternate version, preferred paths are determined by the h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Joe%2090%20episodes | This is the list of episodes of the Gerry Anderson television series Joe 90, filmed by Century 21 Productions for ITC Entertainment and first broadcast between 1968 and 1969 on the ITV network. Episodes are listed in the recommended broadcast order as published by ITC. Air dates are the original broadcast dates on ATV Midlands unless otherwise stated.
Main Series (1968–69)
Compilation film
In 1981, a compilation film was released comprising re-edited versions of four of the original episodes.
References
External links
List of Joe 90 episodes at Fanderson.org.uk
List of Joe 90 episodes at BigRat.co.uk
List of Joe 90 episodes at TheVervoid.com
Lists of British science fiction television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Spufi | SQL Processor Using File Input is a database facility invented by IBM for interfacing with their Db2 system. It is accessed from within TSO ISPF from the DB2I Primary Option menu.
SPUFI allows direct input of SQL commands in the TSO environment, rather than having them embedded within a program.
SPUFI defaults
Once set up the SPUFI defaults are unlikely to be changed. Their values are very similar across installations, a typical example is shown below.
CURRENT SPUFI DEFAULTS SSID: DDBA
===>
Enter the following to control your SPUFI session:
1 SQL TERMINATOR .. ===> ; (SQL Statement Terminator)
2 ISOLATION LEVEL ===> CS (RR=Repeatable Read, CS=Cursor Stability)
3 MAX SELECT LINES ===> 250 (Maximum number of lines to be
returned from a SELECT)
Output data set characteristics:
4 RECORD LENGTH ... ===> 4092 (LRECL=Logical record length)
5 BLOCK SIZE ...... ===> 4096 (Size of one block)
6 RECORD FORMAT ... ===> VB (RECFM=F, FB, FBA, V, VB, or VBA)
7 DEVICE TYPE ..... ===> SYSDA (Must be DASD unit name)
Output format characteristics:
8 MAX NUMERIC FIELD ===> 33 (Maximum width for numeric fields)
9 MAX CHAR FIELD .. ===> 80 (Maximum width for character fields)
10 COLUMN HEADING .. ===> NAMES (NAMES, LABELS, ANY or BOTH)
Mode of use
Although it is essentially an interactive tool, SPUFI operates using a pair of datasets. (A dataset on z/OS is equivalent to a file on other operating systems.) In the main SPUFI screen one specifies an input dataset and an output dataset; these can be specified once and then reused repeatedly. When the user moves on from the main screen, the standard ISPF editor is opened on the input dataset. At this point the user can enter the required SQL statements using the familiar editor. On exiting from the editor the main SPUFI screen reappears; when the user moves on this time the contents of the input dataset are executed. The results are placed in the output dataset and the ISPF editor is opened (in read-only "browse" mode) on that output. This is how the user reads their results. Interactive use of SPUFI continues around these steps; in summary the cycle is:
... Main -> edit -> Main -> view output -> Main -> edit -> Main -> view output -> Main ...
Because SPUFI uses normal datasets for the commands and the output, it is possible to pre-populate the commands or operate on the output by accessing the datasets independently of the SPUFI tool. Using datasets also means that a possibly-complicated set of SQL commands will persist from session to session rather than being lost when the user exits the tool.
Example query
SQL command
A simple query with comments.
-- Select specific fields from the EMPLOYEE table
-- for staff in Department 01.
SELECT FIRST_NAME, LAST_NAME, DATE_JOINED
FROM EMPLOYEE
WHERE DEPARTMENT = '01'
ORD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20format%20management | Data format management (DFM) is the application of a systematic approach to the selection and use of the data formats used to encode information for storage on a computer.
In practical terms, data format management is the analysis of data formats and their associated technical, legal or economic attributes which can either enhance or detract from the ability of a digital asset or a given information systems to meet specified objectives.
Data format management is necessary as the amount of information and number of people creating it grows. This is especially the case as the information with which users are working is difficult to generate, store, costly to acquire, or to be shared.
Data format management as an analytic tool or approach is data format neutral.
Historically individuals, organization and businesses have been categorized by their type of computer or their operating system. Today, however, it is primarily productivity software, such as spreadsheet or word processor programs, and the way these programs store information that also defines an entity. For instance, when browsing the web it is not important which kind of computer is responsible for hosting a site, only that the information it publishes is in a format that is readable by the viewing browser. In this instance the data format of the published information has more to do with defining compatibilities than the underlying hardware or operating system.
Several initiatives have been established to record those data formats commonly used and the software available to read them, for example the Pronom project at the UK National Archives.
See also
Data curation
Data preservation
Digital preservation
File format
Information technology governance
National Digital Library Program (NDLP)
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP)
External links
The Library of Congress, Sustainability of Digital Formats
Computer data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20key | Super key may refer to:
Super key (keyboard button), modifier key on keyboards
Superkey, database relation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS%20Laboratories | CBS Laboratories or CBS Labs (later known as the CBS Technology Center or CTC) was the technology research and development organization of the CBS television network. Innovations developed at the labs included many groundbreaking broadcast, industrial, military, and consumer technologies.
History
CBS Laboratories was established in 1936 in New York City to conduct technological research for CBS and outside clients.
The CBS Laboratories Division (CLD) moved from Madison Avenue in New York to a new facility in Stamford, Connecticut in 1958.
Dr. Peter Goldmark joined CBS Laboratories in 1936. On September 4, 1940, while working at the lab, he demonstrated the Field-Sequential Color TV system. It utilized a mechanical color wheel on both the camera and on the television home receiver, but was not compatible with the existing post-war NTSC, 525-line, 60-field/second black and white TV sets as it was a 405-line, 144-field scanning system. It was the first color broadcasting system that received FCC approval in 1950, and the CBS Television Network began broadcasting in color on November 20, 1950. However, no other TV set manufacturers made the sets, and CBS stopped broadcasting in field-sequential color on October 21, 1951.
Goldmark’s interest in recorded music led to the development of the long-playing (LP) 33-1/3 rpm vinyl record, which became the standard for incorporating multiple or lengthy recorded works on a single audio disc for two generations. The LP was introduced to the market place by Columbia Records in 1948.
In 1959 the CBS Audimax I Audio Gain Controller was introduced. It was the first of its kind in the broadcasting industry.
In the 1960s the CBS Volumax Audio FM Peak Limiter was introduced, also the first of its kind in the broadcasting industry.
Electronic Video Recording was announced in 1967.
In 1966, the CBS Vidifont was invented. It was the first electronic graphics generator used in television production. Brought to the marketplace at the NAB in 1970, it revolutionized television production.
The minicam was developed for use in national political conventions in 1968.
In 1971, a backwards-compatible 4-channel encoding technique was developed for vinyl records, called SQ Quadraphonic, based on work by musician Peter Scheiber and Labs engineer Benjamin B. Bauer. That same year, CBS Labs Staff Scientist Dennis Gabor received the Nobel Prize in Physics for earlier work on holography. Upon Peter Goldmark's retirement, also in 1971, Senior Vice President Renville H. McMann assumed the role of Labs President.
CBS Laboratories was reorganized in 1975. During this time CBS Laboratories was contracted by the department of defense to utilize several broadcast technologies for use in robotics technologies for coordinating massive amounts of flying rabbit drones However, none of this proved to be very practical and was hastily abandoned. The CLD Professional Products Department, which manufactured the products developed by the Labs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alty | Alty is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
James Alty (1939–2022), British computer scientist
Thomas Alty (1899–1982), Scottish physicist and university administrator
See also
Ally (name)
Alti
Altrincham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20Sports%20%28New%20York%29 | Spectrum Sports was a network of regional sports cable television stations serving much of the upstate New York area. The stations, which were owned and operated by Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016, were available in Rochester, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo. The network broadcast a variety of local college and minor league sports games and was the de facto successor to the Buffalo-based Empire Sports Network. Unlike most regional sports networks, Spectrum Sports was never available on satellite television, nor was it available in areas of upstate that are served by companies other than Charter Spectrum/Time Warner Cable (such as Atlantic Broadband in Cattaraugus County or Zito Media in Cayuga County).
History
The network was formed in 2003 as budget cuts at the now-defunct Empire Sports Network, the area's previous regional sports network, forced severe cutbacks in the network's ability to cover sports outside of Buffalo. As a result, Syracuse University dropped Empire and instead signed a contract with Time Warner to carry their games on a separate channel, which became Time Warner Sports. Time Warner added some other sports events from local college and minor league sports teams to create the channel, which was initially only offered in the Syracuse area. In December 2006, Time Warner Sports expanded southward into the Binghamton market.
Also in December 2006, Time Warner SportsNet (TWSN) was established by Time Warner Cable in Rochester by acquiring rights to teams owned by the Rochester Sports Group: namely the Americans (ice hockey), Knighthawks (indoor lacrosse), Rattlers (outdoor lacrosse) and Raging Rhinos (soccer). Some of those teams had previously aired on other Time Warner channels, such as WRWB (the cable-only WB affiliate on channel 16 which has since has been sold to WHAM-TV) and Time Warner's overflow channel, channel 98. In June 2007, TWSN obtained the rights to televise the games of the Rochester Red Wings baseball team. TWSN also obtained the rights to air the Rochester Razorsharks basketball team, replays of the Rochester Raiders indoor football team, and some collegiate sports. The channel serves the entire Greater Rochester area, including the Finger Lakes region and Genesee County (Batavia).
Time Warner Cable established a Buffalo version of TWSN on November 19, 2007, on channel 13 on Buffalo-area TWC systems, operating out of the former Empire studios on Indian Church Road in West Seneca. The channel replaced former local-interest channel "Time Warner 13." TWSN hired former Empire host Jim Brinson in the spring of 2008; Brinson returned to Western New York after a stint as the morning co-anchor at KOHD in Bend, Oregon and hosts programs as well as handles play-by-play duties.
In March 2009, after parent company Time Warner spun off Time Warner Cable as a separate company, all three stations were correspondingly re-branded to begin with "Time Warner Cable" instead of jus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20colon | The double colon ( :: ) may refer to:
an analogy symbolism operator, in logic and mathematics
a notation for equality of ratios
a scope resolution operator, in computer programming languages
See also
Colon (punctuation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scope%20resolution%20operator | In computer programming, scope is an enclosing context where values and expressions are associated. The scope resolution operator helps to identify and specify the context to which an identifier refers, particularly by specifying a namespace or class. The specific uses vary across different programming languages with the notions of scoping. In many languages, the scope resolution operator is written ::.
In some languages, notably those influenced by Modula-3 (including Python and Go), modules are objects, and scope resolution within modules is a special case of usual object member access, so the usual method operator . is used for scope resolution. Other languages, notably C++ and Ruby, feature both scope resolution and method access, which interact in various ways; see examples below.
C++
class A {
public:
static int i; // scope of A
};
namespace B {
int c = 2;
} // namespace B
int A::i = 4; // scope operator refers to the integer i declared in the class A
int x = B::c; // scope operator refers to the integer c declared in the namespace B
PHP
In PHP, the scope resolution operator is also called Paamayim Nekudotayim (, , the second word a colloquial corruption of נקודתיים, ), which means “double colon” in Hebrew.
The name "Paamayim Nekudotayim" was introduced in the Israeli-developed Zend Engine 0.5 used in PHP 3. Although it has been confusing to many developers who do not speak Hebrew, it is still being used in PHP 7, as in this sample error message:
$ php -r ::
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
A similar error can also occur where no scope resolution operator is present. For example, attempting to check whether a constant is empty() triggers this error:
$ php -r 'define("foo", "bar"); if (empty(foo)) echo "empty";'
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ')', expecting T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM
As of PHP 5.4, error messages concerning the scope resolution operator still include this name, but have clarified its meaning somewhat:
$ php -r ::
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected '::' (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM)
There are other less obvious ways to trigger the error, for example by attempting to use the following invalid PHP expression:
$ php -r static const '$a=1'
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected end of file, expecting :: (T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM)
Ruby
In Ruby, scope resolution can be specified using the module keyword.
module Example
Version = 1.0
class << self # We are accessing the module's singleton class
def hello(who = "world")
"Hello #{who}"
end
end
end #/Example
Example::hello # => "Hello world"
Example.hello "hacker" # => "Hello hacker"
Example::Version # => 1.0
Example.Version # NoMethodError
# This illustrates the difference between the message (.) operator and the scope operator in Ruby (::)
# We can use both ::hello and .hello, because hello is a part of Example's scope and because Example
# responds to the message hello.
#
# We can't do the same with ::Version and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearby%20Stars%20Database | The Nearby Stars Database (NStars) began as a NASA project in 1998, then was based at Northern Arizona University. It is now defunct. The stated mission of NStars was "to be a complete and accurate source of scientific data about all stellar systems within 25 parsecs." The website (see below) included search tools and links to an interactive forum.
Status
As of 1 January 2002, there were 2,633 stars in 2,029 systems in the database. As of 29 January 2008, the site is closed, displaying the message "This site is currently undergoing a major redesign and will be returned to service at a later date."
References
External links
Nearby Stars Database on the Wayback Machine
The Extrasolar Planets Encyclopaedia
Near Star Catalogue (an unofficial update of the NSTARS database)
Old Table from Wayback Machine Web Archive
List as of 1 January 2009
Astronomical catalogues of stars
Databases in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Vietnamese%20Youth%20Conference | An International Vietnamese Youth Conference is organized every two or three years by the Len Duong International Vietnamese Youth Network, drawing Vietnamese youths from around the world to gather and discuss topics relating to Vietnamese youths and to network with each other. These conferences are attended by between 200 and 600 young people from more than 15 countries. The Vietnamese spelling of the conference is "Đại Hội Thanh Niên Sinh Viên Việt Nam Thế Giới," (World Vietnamese Student Youth Conference) and is therefore also abbreviated and nicknamed "DH" (conf.), followed by the conference number, such as "DH1" for the first conference, "DH2" for the second, and so on.
Politics
The Len Duong organization stems from overseas Vietnamese in multiple countries, and have been involved in diaspora politics, where the issue of concern was the sole Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) holding authoritarian power over the entire country. These political groups justify their actions by claiming that human rights abuses in Vietnam are caused by the CPV.
Len Duong, among other groups, has organised campaigns speaking out against the detention of dissidents who call for additional political freedoms and multi-party elections (see Bloc 8406). The formation of political parties in Vietnam are prohibited by law. These kinds of critical statements against the CPV is the reason why the website is banned in Vietnam , which the government considers defaming.
Like most overseas Vietnamese political groups, Len Duong does not use the official flag of Vietnam and instead endorses the flag of South Vietnam, which is banned in Vietnam.
The initial formation of the Conference can be substantially attributed to these political activities. But while some of the conference activities are based around these political policies, others are based around the organisation's purpose to provide a platform to address issues concerning Vietnamese youth living in Vietnam and abroad, as well as to create a global social network among attendees through social mixers. Recent conferences have moved more to the left towards reconciliation, and have been attended by international students from Vietnam studying overseas.
History
Melbourne in 1999
The first conference was organised by Federal Vietnamese Students Association of Australia in January, 1999 in Melbourne, Australia.
It is primarily through this conference that the idea of an international network and a recurring conference (every 2 years) was formally introduced and later transformed into the Lenduong organisation as it is today.
Paris in 2001
The second conference was held in Paris, France, in the summer of 2001.
San Diego in 2003
The Third International Vietnamese Youth Conference was held in San Diego, United States. It was co-hosted by the Union of Vietnamese Student Associations of Southern California as well as the Phan Boi Chau Youth Network. The event started with an Opening Ceremony in Westminster, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Range%20searching | In computer science, the range searching problem consists of processing a set S of objects, in order to determine which objects from S intersect with a query object, called the range. For example, if S is a set of points corresponding to the coordinates of several cities, find the subset of cities within a given range of latitudes and longitudes.
The range searching problem and the data structures that solve it are a fundamental topic of computational geometry. Applications of the problem arise in areas such as geographical information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD) and databases.
Variations
There are several variations of the problem, and different data structures may be necessary for different variations. In order to obtain an efficient solution, several aspects of the problem need to be specified:
Object types: Algorithms depend on whether S consists of points, lines, line segments, boxes, polygons.... The simplest and most studied objects to search are points.
Range types: The query ranges also need to be drawn from a predetermined set. Some well-studied sets of ranges, and the names of the respective problems are axis-aligned rectangles (orthogonal range searching), simplices, halfspaces, and spheres/circles.
Query types: If the list of all objects that intersect the query range must be reported, the problem is called range reporting, and the query is called a reporting query. Sometimes, only the number of objects that intersect the range is required. In this case, the problem is called range counting, and the query is called a counting query. The emptiness query reports whether there is at least one object that intersects the range. In the semigroup version, a commutative semigroup (S,+) is specified, each point is assigned a weight from S, and it is required to report the semigroup sum of the weights of the points that intersect the range.
Dynamic range searching vs. static range searching: In the static setting the set S is known in advance. In dynamic setting objects may be inserted or deleted between queries.
Offline range searching: Both the set of objects and the whole set of queries are known in advance.
Data structures
Orthogonal range searching
In orthogonal range searching, the set S consists of points in dimensions, and the query consists of intervals in each of those dimensions. Thus, the query consists of a multi-dimensional axis-aligned rectangle. With an output size of , Jon Bentley used a k-d tree to achieve (in Big O notation) space and query time. Bentley also proposed using range trees, which improved query time to but increased space to . Dan Willard used downpointers, a special case of fractional cascading to reduce the query time further to . <ref
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While the above results were achieved in the pointer machine model, further improvements have been made in the word RAM model of computation in low dimensions (2D, 3D, 4D). Bernard Chazelle used compress range trees to ac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saigon%20Broadcasting%20Television%20Network | Saigon Broadcasting Television Network, abbreviated SBTN, is a 24-hour Vietnamese language and liberal television channel targeted at Vietnamese audiences living outside of Vietnam. Its headquarters are in Garden Grove, California.
The channel provides television programs in the field of Vietnamese history, news, culture, economics, talk shows, children's shows, sitcoms, and games shows. The channel strives to serve as a lifeline for the first and second generations of Vietnamese Americans with news from both the United States and Vietnam, as well as covering educational programming and daily entertainment for the family, such as talk shows, dramas, Asian movies and documentaries; it also aims to help preserve Vietnamese culture for Vietnamese populations living abroad.
SBTN has local affiliates in Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Vietnamese Media), Washington, D.C. (SBTN-DC), Dallas, Texas (SBTN DFW), and Honolulu, Hawaii.
A Canadian version, SBTN Canada, is available in Canada for Vietnamese Canadians, with programming from the United States service, plus content produced in Canada; this service is owned by the Ethnic Channels Group, under license from SBTN.
History
The network was established in 2001 in Orange County, California by Truc Ho, founder and CEO of SBTN who is also a well known songwriter/composer, producer and human rights activist in the Vietnamese community. "It was my intention to help the Vietnamese community unite and form one voice to speak out on issues related to the community. Together with a few other dedicated partners we raised the funds to launch the channel more than ten years ago."
About
The network is headquartered in Garden Grove, California, which is home of the largest Vietnamese population living outside Vietnam. The majority of SBTN's news, variety and music programming is produced in the Garden Grove facility.
SBTN is distributed by International Media Distribution, a leading provider of in-language and multi-ethnic programming in the United States and launched the network on Time Warner Cable in 2014. The network is also available throughout the United States, Canada, and Australia on DirecTV,
Comcast,
Cox Communications,
Verizon Fios,
AT&T U-Verse, and many other video service providers.
Programming
SBTN broadcasts programs such as:
SBTN Morning with Mai Phi Long and Đỗ Dzũng
Evening News with Dieu Quyen and Bao Chau / : Information from all points of the globe, from Vietnam to local communities
SBTN Daily News: Up to the minute news reports.
The Victoria To Uyen Show: A mix of Hollywood celebrities, local business leaders, scholars, athletes, politicians, and others in a one-on-one interview setting.
Hollywood First Look Features: An entertainment magazine show that highlights the best of what film and television has to offer.
A Time to Remember / : A music program featuring Asia Entertainment’s artists.
Cooking in the Kitchen with Uyen Thi / : Chef and restaurateur Uyen Thy introduces tradit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20packet | A virtual packet is a tool used to overcome the problem of trying to send data between two heterogeneous networks. If a router connecting networks A and B receives a frame constructed from network A, using protocol PA as its data exchange protocol, it won't mean ANYTHING for addressing use on network B, which we will assume uses PB as its data exchange protocol. To fix this, hardware-independent packet formats (or virtual packets) were created to overcome the heterogeneity.
Virtual packets include packets at any layer or sublayer (as those terms are used in, for example, the OSI model) above the most basic packets or frames used in a network. These "virtual packets" allow heterogeneous networks to talk to each other using a common protocol.
References
Packets (information technology) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidelay%20block%20frequency%20domain%20adaptive%20filter | The multidelay block frequency domain adaptive filter (MDF) algorithm is a block-based frequency domain implementation of the (normalised) Least mean squares filter (LMS) algorithm.
Introduction
The MDF algorithm is based on the fact that convolutions may be efficiently computed in the frequency domain (thanks to the fast Fourier transform). However, the algorithm differs from the fast LMS algorithm in that block size it uses may be smaller than the filter length. If both are equal, then MDF reduces to the FLMS algorithm.
The advantages of MDF over the (N)LMS algorithm are:
Lower algorithmic complexity
Partial de-correlation of the input (which 'may' lead to faster convergence)
Variable definitions
Let be the length of the processing blocks, be the number of blocks and denote the 2Nx2N Fourier transform matrix. The variables are defined as:
With normalisation matrices and :
In practice, when multiplying a column vector by , we take the inverse FFT of , set the first values in the result to zero and then take the FFT. This is meant to remove the effects of the circular convolution.
Algorithm description
For each block, the MDF algorithm is computed as:
It is worth noting that, while the algorithm is more easily expressed in matrix form, the actual implementation requires no matrix multiplications. For instance the normalisation matrix computation reduces to an element-wise vector multiplication because is block-diagonal. The same goes for other multiplications.
References
J.-S. Soo and K. Pang, “Multidelay block frequency domain adaptive filter,” IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 373–376, 1990.
H. Buchner, J. Benesty, W. Kellermann, "An Extended Multidelay Filter: Fast Low-Delay Algorithms for Very High-Order Adaptive Systems". Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2003.
A free implementation of the MDF algorithm is available in Speex (main source file)
See also
Adaptive filter
Recursive least squares
For statistical techniques relevant to LMS filter see Least squares.
Digital signal processing
Filter theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modbook | The Modbook is a brand of a pen-enabled Mac tablet computers first manufactured by Axiotron, Inc. from 2008 to 2010, and then by Modbook Inc. from 2012 to present. It is an aftermarket Mac conversion based on certain models of the MacBook and MacBook Pro product lines manufactured by Apple.
Manufactured using the original motherboard and all other core components of a previously purchased, genuine Apple laptop computer, the Modbook is able to run the Mac operating system unmodified and maintain the same level of compatibility with any Mac application, as the initial donor MacBook or MacBook Pro system.
Commercial sales of the Modbook are, like every Mac conversion before it, protected in the U.S. by the First-sale doctrine and similar legal concepts in most other countries.
Currently the company's website Modbook.com has been suspended and they have not updated the Kickstarter and Wefunder campaigns in years. After successful campaign funding and website preorders, the Modbook Pro X still has not been fulfilled to customers as of February 2022.
Original Modbook
Originally developed by Los Angeles, California-based Axiotron, Inc., the Modbook was introduced at the 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo as the first commercially available pen-enabled tablet Mac and won a Best in Show award.
The Modbook started shipping soon after the Macworld 2008 and was positively received as the pen-based macOS based tablet Apple fans had been waiting for, with all the components of a MacBook and a built-in Wacom digitizer for pen input, in a slate-style form factor.
The Modbook used the Apple MacBook Core 2 Duo White with speeds of 1.8 GHz and 2 GHz. Its pen support was based on Penabled Wacom digitizing technology and did not include touch input. The Axiotron Digitizer Pen featured 512 pressure levels, 2 programmable side buttons plus an eraser.
The Modbook also was equipped with a new and improved LCD panel, more suited for use as a tablet computer, offering wider viewing angles and higher contrast colors compared to the original base MacBook display. The "AnyView" display was bonded to the "ForceGlass" screen cover, which was chemically strengthened to improve the durability of the screen and featured an etched surface to improve the response of the digitizer pen.
Connectivity options on the Modbook were identical to the underlying MacBook and include two USB 2.0 ports and a single FireWire port. Networking was supported with an integrated Gigabit Ethernet port, a Wi-Fi card that supports the 802.11 a/b/g/draft-n specification and Bluetooth. The Modbook could also be connected to an external display device using a Mini-DVI port (supports DVI, VGA, S-video, and composite video). Other features included a built-in CD/DVD or DVD burner, built-in iSight Camera, built-in Mounting Locks for use with VESA compatible mounting system, and an optional built-in WAAS Global Positioning System module.
Conversion process
The top segments of the MacBook are removed, wh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Campbell | Murray Campbell is a Canadian computer scientist known for being part of the team that created Deep Blue; the first computer to defeat a world chess champion.
Biography
Campbell was involved in surveillance projects related to petroleum production, disease outbreak, and financial data. In earlier work, Campbell was a member of the teams that developed chess machines: HiTech and a project to culminate in Deep Blue, the latter being the first computer to defeat the reigning world chess champion, Garry Kasparov, in a challenge match, in 1997. Kasparov had won an earlier match the previous year. (Based on text taken from a newsletter by Mike Oettel, of the Shriver Center at UMBC.)
Campbell visited UMBC for a speech called "IBM's Deep Blue: Ten Years After" on February 5, 2007. In the University Center building, he presented the background that led up to the decisive match with Kasparov, reviewed the match itself (with Kasparov and similar matches), and explored some of the design decisions that were made when building Deep Blue. Murray put emphasis on some of the broader implications of Deep Blue's development and victory on the information technology industry and artificial intelligence.
He is a Senior Manager in the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York, USA. The mission of the Services Modeling group is to apply technical expertise in areas such as optimization, forecasting, probabilistic analysis. The focus is in the area of Business Analytics and Workforce Management. Solutions are developed that include services project management, skill analytics, demand forecasting, workplace learning, workforce optimization, and strategic planning.
Personal life
Campbell himself played chess at near National Master strength in Canada during his student days, but has not played competitively for more than 20 years. His peak Elo rating was around 2200.
Honors and awards
North American Computer Chess Championship: Member of winning teams in 1985 (HiTech), 1987 (ChipTest), 1988 (Deep Thought), 1989 (HiTech and Deep Thought), 1990 (Deep Thought), 1991 (Deep Thought) and 1994 (Deep Thought).
1989 World Computer Chess Championship, winning team (Deep Thought)
Campbell shared the $100,000 Fredkin Prize with Feng-hsiung Hsu and A. Joseph Hoane Jr. in 1997. The prize was awarded for developing the first computer (Deep Blue) to defeat a reigning world chess champion in a match.
Campbell received the Allen Newell Research Excellence Medal in 1997, citing his contributions to Deep Blue (first computer to defeat a world chess champion), Deep Thought (first Grandmaster level computer) and HiTech (first Senior Master level computer).
Campbell was elected Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in 2012 for "significant contributions to computer game-playing, especially chess, and the associated improvement in public awareness of the AI |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%20Simmons%20%28comedian%29 | Sam Simmons (born 19 March 1977) is an Australian comedian and radio and TV presenter.
Career
Simmons has appeared on Conan, 8 Out of 10 Cats, Room 101, and Adam DeVine's House Party. Network appearances include NBC, BBC, Channel 4, ABC, and all other Australian networks.
Previously, he was a regular host on Triple J as well as jtv interviewing bands, he developed his style of non-sequitur and surrealist non-humour. This led to his first television show, The Urban Monkey with Murray Foote, in 2009.
In 2012, Simmons followed up with a sketch-style TV series Problems, with a tone more similar to that of his surrealist stand-up shows. He performed at TEDxSydney in 2014 and filmed a US pilot in Albuquerque with David Quirk described by Simmons as "a reality show about animals". Simmons regularly appears on the comedy quiz show Dirty Laundry Live.
In 2015, he won the Edinburgh Fringe Comedy award having been nominated three times previously, and the 2015 Barry Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In 2017, he provided the voice of Mr Wallaby in Peppa Pig.
In 2019, Simmons performed a new show "26 Things You're Doing Wrong with Sam Simmons" about unconventional life hacks. in 2020 he appeared in the Australian comedy series LOL: Last one Laughing.
Filmography
Awards and nominations
Awards
2003 Participation Award for The Steve Promise Story
2003 Moosehead Award for The Steve Promise Story
2006 Adelaide Fringe Festival Best Emerging Comedy Award for Tales from the Erotic Cat
2006 The Groggy Squirrel Critics' Award for Tales from the Erotic Cat
2008 MICF Directors' Choice Award for Where can I win a bear around here?
2010 MICF Golden Gibbo Award for The Incident with David Quirk
2010 MICF Piece of Wood Award for Fail
2011 Adelaide Fringe Festival Best Comedy Award for Sam Simmons and the Precise History of Things
2014 Sydney Comedy Festival Director's Choice Award for Death of a Sails-Man
2015 MICF Barry Award for Spaghetti for Breakfast
2015 Fosters Edinburgh Comedy award, best show for Spaghetti for Breakfast
Nominations
2003 Triple J Raw Comedy Competition (finalist)
2006 MICF Barry Award for Tales from the Erotic Cat
2011 MICF Barry Award for Precise History of Things (Meanwhile -UK)
2011 Edinburgh Best Comedy Award for Meanwhile
2014 Edinburgh Best Comedy Award for Death of a Sails-man
2015 MICF Barry Award for Spaghetti for Breakfast
2015 Edinburgh Best Comedy Award for Spaghetti for Breakfast
References
External links
Triple J Sam Simmons page
The Groggy Squirrel's Sam Simmons page
MICF Sam Simmons page
Living people
People from Adelaide
Triple J announcers
1977 births
Australian stand-up comedians
Helpmann Award winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Waley | Jim Waley (born 5 October 1948) is an Australian former television presenter, best known for his work as a news anchor. on the Nine Network and Sky News.
Career
In 1981, Waley was appointed founding host of Sunday. In 1986 he was invited to be founding presenter of the network's business and finance program Business Sunday.
He hosted Sydney Extra, a news-based program for Sydneysiders, in 1992 and later that year was appointed presenter/reporter for Nightline, the nightly 30-minute late-night news program seen nationally.
Widely regarded as the newsreader with the most credibility and gravitas, Waley worked largely in the studio until 1994 when it was suggested he should report from the field for the Sunday program. For example, in March 1998, he went on the trail of Saddam Hussein's hidden fortune, a journey that took him to Switzerland and a confrontation at the home of Saddam's private banker. The report won the gold medal for Best Special Report at the New York Festivals.
On several occasions every year, Waley would host the Sunday program from major world events, including elections in the United States and Russia, conflicts in the Balkans and the Middle East, and the British Hong Kong handover to China in 1997. He also reported Princess Diana's funeral service in August 1997.
Other foreign assignments included Waley's coverage from Sarajevo in 1998 and reporting breaking news in Washington of the growing political storm engulfing US President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. Waley also went on assignment to Nepal and the United States to profile the inspirational Tom Whittaker who, despite having an artificial leg, climbed to the top of Mount Everest.
On 2 December 2002, Waley replaced the retiring Brian Henderson as the anchor of National Nine News in Sydney. Although the bulletin continued to retain its long-standing ratings lead over rivals 10 News First and Seven News in Sydney during his tenure (including maintaining a winning margin of over 100,000 viewers in 2003), he was replaced partway through a five-year contract by Mark Ferguson in early 2005. Under Ferguson's tenure, Nine News Sydney ratings started to deteriorate; it was not until when Peter Overton took over in January 2009 that it would experience such high ratings once again.
After the axing of the Clive Robertson late night news program in 1992, Waley moved into the timeslot and hosted The World Tonight. This first version of what was later rebranded as Nightline focused exclusively on international news. At the 20th anniversary lunch in October 2007, Waley said he had plans to return to the media in the near future.
On 9 May 2009 Sky News announced that Waley had joined the 24-hour news channel to present a new nightly news bulletin called Sky National News with Jim Waley. The new bulletin premiered on 29 June 2009 at 6:00pm (AEST).
In May 2010, Sky News announced that Waley had been diagnosed with a recurrence of cancer in his left ear, and he would be taking a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20reference | A soft reference is a reference that is garbage-collected less aggressively. The soft reference is one of the strengths or levels of 'non strong' reference defined in the Java programming language, the others being weak and phantom. In order from strongest to weakest, they are: strong, soft, weak, phantom.
Soft references behave almost identically to weak references. Soft and weak references provide two quasi-priorities for non-strongly referenced objects: the garbage collector will always collect weakly referenced objects, but will only collect softly referenced objects when its algorithms decide that memory is low enough to warrant it.
Soft references may be used, for example, to write a free memory sensitive cache such that cached objects are kept until there is not enough heap space. In some cases weakly referenced objects may be reclaimed too quickly to make such a cache useful.
See also
Circular reference
Phantom reference
Weak reference
External links
Java developer article: 'Reference Objects and Garbage Collection'
Data types
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom%20reference | A phantom reference is a kind of reference in Java, where the memory can be reclaimed. The phantom reference is one of the strengths or levels of 'non strong' reference defined in the Java programming language; the others being weak and soft. Phantom reference are the weakest level of reference in Java; in order from strongest to weakest, they are: strong, soft, weak, phantom.
An object is phantomly referenced after it has been finalized.
In Java 8 and earlier versions, the reference needs to be cleared before the memory for a finalized referent can be reclaimed. A change in Java 9 will allow memory from a finalized referent to be reclaimable immediately.
Use
Phantom references are of limited use, primarily narrow technical uses. First, it can be used instead of a finalize method, guaranteeing that the object is not resurrected during finalization. This allows the object to be garbage collected in a single cycle, rather than needing to wait for a second GC cycle to ensure that it has not been resurrected. A second use is to detect exactly when an object has been removed from memory (by using in combination with a ReferenceQueue object), ensuring that its memory is available, for example deferring allocation of a large amount of memory (e.g., a large image) until previous memory is freed.
See also
Ephemeron
Weak reference
Soft reference
Circular reference
References
Programming constructs
Memory management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportsChannel%20Philadelphia | SportsChannel Philadelphia was an American regional sports network owned as a joint venture between Rainbow Sports, a unit of the Rainbow Media subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation, and NBC (which both owned 50%), and operated as an affiliate of SportsChannel. Operating as a sister network of the premium service PRISM and headquartered in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, the channel provided regional coverage of sports events involving professional sports teams based in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and college and high school sports events throughout the Delaware Valley region.
History
Plans to develop a Philadelphia-based SportsChannel network date back to 1986, when Rainbow Media announced plans to launch a regional sports network that would serve as a companion to the primarily movie-based premium channel PRISM, which would share the regional television rights to games from three of Philadelphia's major professional sports teams, the Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA and the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL (the rights to the teams' road games were split at the time between independent stations WTAF-TV (channel 29, now Fox owned-and-operated station WTXF-TV), WPHL-TV (channel 17, now a MyNetworkTV affiliate) and WGBS-TV (channel 57, now CW owned-and-operated station WPSG), while PRISM carried home games involving all three franchises). Originally slated to launch in January 1987, Rainbow later chose to delay the launch of the channel.
After three years of delays, SportsChannel Philadelphia officially launched on January 1, 1990, with an estimated 450,000 subscribers region-wide. In addition to local sporting events, the network also carried Philadelphia Big 5 college basketball games as well as programming distributed nationally by sister service SportsChannel America, including college football and basketball games, NASCAR races and NHL games involving other out-of-market teams to complement the Flyers broadcasts. Unlike PRISM, SportsChannel Philadelphia was distributed from launch as a basic cable channel. On January 23, 1990, the Phillies reached a four-year, $12 million contract with Rainbow/NBC, awarding SportsChannel Philadelphia and PRISM the regional cable television rights to the majority of the team's games.
Comcast-Spectacor purchase and uncertain future for SportsChannel Philadelphia
On March 19, 1996, Comcast acquired Spectacor (once the original part-owner of PRISM) and a 66% interest in its primary assets – the Flyers, The Spectrum and the then-recently completed CoreStates Center – for $240 million and the assumption of a collective $170 million in debt; the new Comcast Spectacor also immediately purchased a 66% interest in the 76ers. Immediately after the purchase was announced, speculation arose as to whether Comcast would let at least some of Spectacor's broadcasting contracts with Rainbow Media lapse, and create a sports network of its own, displacing both SportsCha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5RPH | Radio 5RPH (1197 kHz) is a volunteer manned AM band community radio station in Adelaide, South Australia Australia for the blind.
Radio 5RPH is a member of the Radio Print Handicapped Network. Its stated mission is to "provide a quality reading and information service to those within its broadcast area who are unable (for whatever reason) to access daily printed material".
Newspapers, magazines, books, and other printed material are read to air. The station also hosts a morning sports show weekday mornings and broadcasts matches from the South Australian National Football League.
See also
List of radio stations in Australia
Radio Print Handicapped Network
References
External links
RPH South Australia
IRIS Adelaide (DAB +)
Radio stations in Adelaide
Radio reading services of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon%20Network%20Racing | Cartoon Network Racing is a racing video game developed by Eutechnyx for PlayStation 2 and Firebrand Games for Nintendo DS, published by Danish video game developer The Game Factory, and released on December 4, 2006, in North America, and on February 9, 2007, in Europe. The gameplay is similar to Nintendo's 2003 game Mario Kart: Double Dash, but the characters and racetracks are all from six of Cartoon Network's original animated television series: Courage the Cowardly Dog, Cow and Chicken, Dexter's Laboratory, I Am Weasel, Johnny Bravo, and The Powerpuff Girls.
Gameplay
There are two characters the player must choose: a driver, who drives a go-kart, and a co-driver, who uses all weapons and has two "toon powers". There are tournaments which players must race a series of races and win with the most points. Battle modes in arenas let two teams battle in different modes, and Cartoon Eliminators are endurance races where last kart in each lap is eliminated. The karts have three stats: acceleration, speed, and handling (if chosen as driver). If co-driver, they have two toon powers that fall into four categories: Shield, Attack, Boost and Flight.
All 20 characters (9 at start) in the DS version get their own kart (the Powerpuff Girls have separate karts, unlike the PS2 version). Each character's toon power can be used when their toon power bar is full. There are 1-8 players available in this version. Unlike the PlayStation 2 version, there are two mini-games and three cartoons.
A gallery in the PlayStation 2 version contains two cartoons from each show. The first cartoon is unlocked by completing each cartoon-themed tournament while the other is unlocked by winning the super tournament with the driver of the series the player wants to unlock.
Reception
The DS version received "mixed" reviews, while the PlayStation 2 version received "generally unfavorable reviews" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.
Lucas M. Thomas of IGN criticized the DS version for its similarities to the Mario Kart series, especially Mario Kart DS, as well as for having no characters from other Cartoon Network shows that were airing new episodes at the time. GameSpot's Aaron Thomas pointed out the same version's resemblance to Mario Kart, but he explained that a younger audience would find the game more enjoyable than an audience of serious gamers would.
References
External links
Cartoon Network video games
Crossover racing games
Kart racing video games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation 2 games
2006 video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
The Game Factory games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Firebrand Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Greenberg | Ron Greenberg (born 1940?) is an American television game show producer who worked on numerous network and syndicated programs of that genre from the 1960s through the 1990s.
His credits include Camouflage, Word for Word, Let's Play Post Office, Reach for the Stars, Dream House, Sale of the Century, The Money Maze, The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough, Hollywood Connection, Play the Percentages, and Bullseye.
He packaged five games: The Who, What or Where Game (1969-1974); The Big Showdown (1974-1975); The Pop 'N Rocker Game (1983-1984); a remake of The Who, What, or Where Game titled The Challengers (1990-1991); and a remake of Let's Make a Deal (1990-1991).
Greenberg created and hosted a weekly quiz radio show on Shokus Internet Radio titled Anyone Can Play ... But Don't Call Us, We'll Call You. However, Greenberg has since relinquished hosting duties to game show veteran Larry Anderson.
References
David Schwartz, Steve Ryan and Fred Wostbrock, The Encyclopedia of TV Game Shows, Third edition (New York: Checkmark Books, 1999)
External links
Shokus Internet Radio site
American television producers
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20language | An expression language is a language for creating a computer-interpretable representation of specific knowledge and may refer to:
Advanced Boolean Expression Language, an obsolete hardware description language for hardware descriptions
Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), an expression language developed by Microsoft and used in Power Pivot, among other places
Jakarta Expression Language, a domain-specific language used in Jakarta EE web applications. Formerly known as "Unified Expression Language", "Expression Language" or just "the Expression Language").
Rights Expression Languages, machine processable language used for representing immaterial rights such as copyright and license information |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20UI%20Automation | Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) is an application programming interface (API) that allows one to access, identify, and manipulate the user interface (UI) elements of another application.
UIA is targeted at providing UI accessibility and it is a successor to Microsoft Active Accessibility. It also facilitates GUI test automation, and it is the engine upon which many test automation tools are based. RPA tools also use it to automate applications in business processes.
UIA's property providers support both Win32 and .NET programs.
The latest specification of UIA is found as part of the Microsoft UI Automation Community Promise Specification. Microsoft claims that portability to platforms other than Microsoft Windows was one of its design goals. It has since been ported to Mono.
History
In 2005, Microsoft released UIA as a successor to MSAA framework.
Managed UI Automation API was released as a part of .NET Framework 3.0.
The native UI Automation API (provider) is included as part of the Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 SDK and is also distributed with the .NET Framework.
UIA is available out of the box in Windows 7 as a part of Windows Automation API 3.0 and as a separate download for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2003 and 2008.
Motivation and goals
As a successor to MSAA, UIA aims to address the following goals:
Enable efficient client performance without forcing clients to hook into a target application’s process.
Expose more information about the UI.
Co-exist with and use MSAA, but do not inherit problems that exist in MSAA.
Provide an alternative to MSAA that is simple to implement.
Technical overview
At client side, UIA provides a .NET interface in UIAutomationClient.dll assembly and a COM interface implemented directly in UIAutomationCore.dll.
At server side, UIAutomationCore.dll is injected into all or selected processes on the current desktop to perform data retrieval on behalf of a client. The DLL can also load UIA plugins (called providers) into its host process to extract data using different techniques.
UIA has four main provider and client components, as shown in the following table.
Elements
UIA exposes every piece of the UI to client applications as an Automation Element. Elements are contained in a tree structure, with the desktop as the root element.
Automation Element objects expose common properties of the UI elements they represent. One of these properties is the control type, which defines its basic appearance and functionality as a single recognizable entity (e.g., a button or check box).
In addition, elements expose control patterns that provide properties specific to their control types. Control patterns also expose methods that enable clients to get further information about the element and to provide input.
Clients can filter the raw view of the tree as a control view or a content view. Applications can also create custom views.
Tree
Within the UIA tree there is a root eleme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snub%20TV | Snub TV (also known as simply Snub) was an alternative culture television program that aired from 1987 to 1989 as a segment on the Night Flight overnight programming on the USA Network, and subsequently for three seasons on the BBC.
Production
The original US program was developed by executive producer Fran Duffy and aired as part of Nightflight on a fortnightly basis. The first two seasons were produced in the UK by Pete Fowler and Brenda Kelly. A third season was produced in the US by Duffy with help from Giorgio Gomelsky.
In 1989-1991 a UK version, produced by Fowler and Kelly, aired for three seasons on the BBC, and was syndicated to the pan-European TV channel Super Channel and in other countries in Europe, such as Russia, Portugal, Denmark and Greece.
Content
Snub early focus on emphasis on the indie and underground music scene in the UK was very much informed by Kelly's position as editor of The Catalogue, house magazine of The Cartel record distribution group, plus Fowler's work producing videos for bands. As the BBC show developed the program covered the rise of Madchester documenting such as The Stone Roses. The British series also featured other acts such as comedians.
Influence
Snub TV has been credited with giving many then-new bands and musical acts initial or early television exposure vital to their careers.
Archive release
In 2017 Fowler stated that plans to release a complete archive had been shelved due to lack of funds.
References
External links
Ian Jones: "Everyone Must Be Young and Beautiful": DEF II Revisited—Part One: "I Want to Subvert Mainstream TV" (October 2001) (includes brief interview with Fowler, bottom of page 1)
Daniel Dylan Wray: Snub TV: cult music show that unearthed the underground (The Guardian) 6 June 2017
BBC Television shows
1980s British music television series
1987 British television series debuts
1989 British television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Data%20Seal | In cryptography, New Data Seal (NDS) is a block cipher that was designed at IBM in 1975, based on the Lucifer algorithm that became DES.
The cipher uses a block size of 128 bits, and a very large key size of 2048 bits. Like DES it has a 16-round Feistel network structure. The round function uses two fixed 4×4-bit S-boxes, chosen to be non-affine. The key is also treated as an 8×8-bit lookup table, using the first bit of each of the 8 bytes of the half-block as input. The nth bit of the output of this table determines whether or not the two nibbles of the nth byte are swapped after S-box substitution. All rounds use the same table. Each round function ends with a fixed permutation of all 64 bits, preventing the cipher from being broken down and analyzed as a system of simpler independent subciphers.
In 1977, Edna Grossman and Bryant Tuckerman cryptanalyzed NDS using the first known slide attack. This method uses no more than 4096 chosen plaintexts; in their best trial they recovered the key with only 556 chosen plaintexts.
References
Broken block ciphers
Feistel ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Wars%20%281992%20pinball%29 | Star Wars is a 1992 pinball machine released by Data East. It is based on the Star Wars original trilogy of films.
A semi-official update, tweaking and refining the gameplay rules was released 20 years later.
References
External links
IPDB entry for Star Wars.
Recent Auction Results for Star Wars
1992 pinball machines
Pinball machines based on films
Star Wars pinball machines
Data East pinball machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%20man%20computer | The Little Man Computer (LMC) is an instructional model of a computer, created by Dr. Stuart Madnick in 1965. The LMC is generally used to teach students, because it models a simple von Neumann architecture computer—which has all of the basic features of a modern computer. It can be programmed in machine code (albeit in decimal rather than binary) or assembly code.
The LMC model is based on the concept of a little man shut in a closed mail room (analogous to a computer in this scenario). At one end of the room, there are 100 mailboxes (memory), numbered 0 to 99, that can each contain a 3 digit instruction or data (ranging from 000 to 999). Furthermore, there are two mailboxes at the other end labeled INBOX and OUTBOX which are used for receiving and outputting data. In the center of the room, there is a work area containing a simple two function (addition and subtraction) calculator known as the Accumulator and a resettable counter known as the Program Counter. The Program Counter holds the address of the next instruction the Little Man will carry out. This Program Counter is normally incremented by 1 after each instruction is executed, allowing the Little Man to work through a program sequentially. Branch instructions allow iteration (loops) and conditional programming structures to be incorporated into a program. The latter is achieved by setting the Program Counter to a non-sequential memory address if a particular condition is met (typically the value stored in the accumulator being zero or positive).
As specified by the von Neumann architecture, any mailbox (signifying a unique memory location) can contain either an instruction or data. Care therefore needs to be taken to stop the Program Counter from reaching a memory address containing data - or the Little Man will attempt to treat it as an instruction. One can take advantage of this by writing instructions into mailboxes that are meant to be interpreted as code, to create self-modifying code. To use the LMC, the user loads data into the mailboxes and then signals the Little Man to begin execution, starting with the instruction stored at memory address zero. Resetting the Program Counter to zero effectively restarts the program, albeit in a potentially different state.
Execution cycle
To execute a program, the little man performs these steps:
Check the Program Counter for the mailbox number that contains a program instruction (i.e. zero at the start of the program)
Fetch the instruction from the mailbox with that number. Each instruction contains two fields: An opcode (indicating the operation to perform) and the address field (indicating where to find the data to perform the operation on).
Increment the Program Counter (so that it contains the mailbox number of the next instruction)
Decode the instruction. If the instruction uses data stored in another mailbox then use the address field to find the mailbox number for the data it will work on, e.g. 'get data from mailbox 42')
F |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain%20King%20Studios | Mountain King Studios (formerly known as Cygnus Studios) is a computer game company located in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded by game programmer/game designer Scott Host. In addition to the development of Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Cygnus also collaborated with Apogee Software on a number of their games. Some members of the company split to form Rogue Entertainment, while the company itself was renamed "Mountain King Studios".
History
The company started with their former name "Cygnus Studios". After completing their first ever game Galactix, Scott Miller of Apogee Software sent a letter to the leading developer, Scott Host. In response Host contacted him and made an agreement to work with Apogee. After some work on the short-lived RPG The Second Sword, Cygnus Studios and Apogee worked on a vertical-scrolling shooter called "Mercenary 2029" as its working title and then renamed "Raptor: Call of the Shadows". Cygnus also helped Apogee with some of their other games under the name "Cygnus Multimedia Productions" including Duke Nukem II, Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold, Hocus Pocus and Realms of Chaos.
id Software was intrigued by the company's progress and convinced them to relocate to Texas by their office and work with them. Paul Radek, who worked on the audio for Raptor, provided id the DMX sound library for their game Doom. By December 1994, members of the company Jim Molinets, Rich Fleider and Tim Neveu went against Scott Host and left Cygnus to form their own company Rogue Entertainment. After this, Cygnus relocated back to their old place in Chicago and renamed themselves "Mountain King Studios".
By 2008, the president of Blitwise Productions, Michael P. Welch met up with Scott Host. Raptor: Call of the Shadows was Welch's favorite game on the PC and he proposed to Host to port it on the iPhone platform. Using the original source code, lead programmer Ben Moreno programmed the game on a Macintosh computer. The port took 1.5 years to make.
Games
Released
Cancelled
Before Raptor: Call of the Shadows was in development, Cygnus Studios had worked on a game titled The Second Sword for Apogee Software, which was to be a Role playing game and use the Shadowcaster engine. However the project was cancelled. Strife, was briefly under development and was to be published by id Software; after a few months and during a dispute between some developers and Scott Host, it was cancelled. It was later finished by Rogue Entertainment and published by Velocity in 1996. After renaming themselves "Mountain King Studios", the company tried to develop a 3D RPG titled Mantra, but this was also cancelled in favor of the Demonstar game.
References
External links
Official website
Video game companies of the United States
Video game development companies
Companies based in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorval%20station%20%28Exo%29 | Dorval station () is an intermodal bus and commuter rail station in Dorval, Quebec, Canada located on the Vaudreuil–Hudson line (exo1) of the Greater Montreal Exo public transport network. It is located within walking distance to inter-city rail services at Dorval Via Rail station.
Dorval is in ARTM fare zone A, and the station currently has 372 parking spaces. The adjacent STM bus terminal rivals the Fairview Bus Terminal as the busiest in the West Island but serves as the main interchange and the fastest link to Downtown Montreal for West Island travelers. The 211 bus route is the quickest link to a Metro station from the West Island. Nine Metro stations are served via the Dorval bus terminal, the most of any West Island train station. Roughly 15,000 people transit through the terminus daily, or 4.14 million a year.
on weekdays, all 11 inbound trains and 12 outbound trains on the line call at this station. On weekends, all trains (four on Saturday and three on Sunday in each direction) call here.
The station is located north of Autoroute 20 alongside the Dorval Circle interchange, about one kilometre south of Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport. The station has two side platforms; access between them is provided by a tunnel connecting the large headhouses on either side of the tracks with the bus terminal building to the south.
The current commuter station and bus terminal opened on August 29, 1988.
Despite the proximity of the airport, there is no direct pedestrian or transit access other than the infrequent route 204 and 460 bus. Due to the construction of the Réseau express métropolitain (REM) rapid transit link to the airport, there have been calls for the connection to be extended one kilometre south to link with the train and bus stations here.
Bus services
Société de transport de Montréal
Nearby points of interest
Montréal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport
Jardins Dorval
References
External links
Dorval Commuter Train Station Information (RTM)
Dorval Commuter Train Station Schedule (RTM)
2022 Exo Commuter Train Map (Réseau de trains)
Exo commuter rail stations
Railway stations in Montreal
Buildings and structures in Dorval
Transport in Dorval
Railway stations in Canada opened in 1887 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DontStayIn | DontStayIn, commonly abbreviated to DSI, was a social networking site based around clubbing. Primarily covering the UK, it listed nearly 185,000 events, and at its peak had over five million verified members. Members were encouraged to upload picture galleries to the site for events they've attended, add events and venues and otherwise contribute. "Spotters" were DSI members who reviewed and photographed events.
The site was also ranked continuously from April 2006 to December 2008 in the top 3 websites in the UK on Hitwise in the "Entertainment - Nightlife" category.
The format of the site allowed any user to add event listings, post comments and upload photos from anywhere in the world. DSI members were known for their loyalty to and promotion of the site. Many users had also commented favourably about the site and its impact on their lives when it is mentioned by reviewers.
DSI users (often referred to "DSIers"), also used DontStayIn to set up events and user-groups to promote the meeting up of DSIers in real life.
In November 2006 DSI was reportedly used to organise what has been described as the biggest flash mob ever in Paddington Station, London, UK.
In 2005, DSI was featured in a documentary made by Juniper TV as part of Channel 4's "Trouble Online" series that profiled new media enterprises that have been set up by young entrepreneurs.
On 14 April 2009, DontStayIn Ltd was acquired for an undisclosed sum by Development Hell Ltd, the publishers of The Word and Mixmag.
In December 2012 DontStayIn was taken over by Love Socio Ltd, a subsidiary company of Web Giants Ltd., and the website was revamped the following year. Both the main website and the associated Facebook page ceased being updating in mid-2016.
Awards/history
2003
Set up by founders under initial name of "YouGotSpotted.com"
2004
Renamed "DontStayIn.com"
2005
Won the House Music Awards prize for "Best Web Resource".
2006
Entered the "Hitwise" top 3 for the category "Entertainment - Nightlife" in the UK
Won the Hard Dance Awards "Best Website" award
Won the Musik 4 You Awards "Best Website" award
2007
Became number 1 in the "Hitwise" rankings for the category "Entertainment - Nightlife" in the UK - remained number 1 until Q4/2008
Won the Hard Dance Awards "Best Website" award
Won the Hardcore Heaven Awards] "Best Website" award
2008
Won the Hard Dance Awards "Best Website" award
2009
Taken over by Development Hell Ltd.
2012
Taken over by Love Socio Ltd, a subsidiary company of Web Giants Ltd.
2013
The Don't Stay In brand was updated in June 2013 followed by a complete website update. The first phase of the new update was launched in Beta in July 2013.
2016
Both the main DSI website and the associated Facebook page ceased to be updated in early 2016.
DSI stats
From the site (as of 28 April 2009):
Photos - Nearly 12 million photos have been uploaded to DSI so far. On average around 150,000 photos are uploaded every month and there are around 13 million phot |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20van%20Harmelen | Frank van Harmelen (born 1960) is a Dutch computer scientist and professor in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning in the AI department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He was scientific director of the LarKC project (2008-2011), "aiming to develop the Large Knowledge Collider, a platform for very large scale semantic web reasoning."
Biography
After studying mathematics and computer science in Amsterdam, Van Harmelen moved to the Department of AI of the University of Edinburgh, where he was awarded a PhD in 1989 for his research on meta-level reasoning. While in Edinburgh, he "co-developed a logic-based toolkit for expert systems, and worked with Alan Bundy on proof planning for inductive theorem proving".
After his PhD research, he moved back to Amsterdam where he worked from 1990 to 1995 in the SWI Department under Professor Bob Wielinga, on the use of reflection in expert systems, on the formal underpinnings of the CommonKADS methodology for Knowledge-Based Systems. In 1995 he joined the AI research group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where he co-lead the On-To-Knowledge project, one of the first Semantic Web projects. He was appointed full professor in 2002, and is leading the Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Group. Currently he is scientific director the LarKC project aiming to develop the Large Knowledge Collider, a platform for very large scale semantic web reasoning.
Van Harmelen was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017.
In 2019, Van Harmelen received a Zwaartekracht grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science for The Hybrid Intelligence Center
Work
Van Harmelen's research interests include artificial intelligence, knowledge representation and the semantic web, approximate reasoning and Medical Protocols. He was one of the co-designers of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the Ontology Inference Layer (OIL), and has published books on meta-level inference, on knowledge-based systems, and on the Semantic Web.
Publications
Van Harmelen has published several books and over 100 research papers, Books:
1989. Logic-Based Knowledge Representation. With P. Jackson and H. Reichgelt. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989. .
1991. Meta-level Inference Systems F. van Harmelen. Research Notes in AI. Pitmann, Morgan Kaufmann, London, San Mateo, California, 1991.
2003. Towards the semantic web: ontology-driven knowledge management With John Davies and Dieter Fensel (eds.) John Wiley & Sons, 2002,
2004. A Semantic Web Primer (Cooperative Information Systems). With Grigoris Antoniou. MIT Press.
2004. Information Sharing on the Semantic Web. With Heiner Stuckenschmidt. Springer.
2008. Handbook of Knowledge Representation. With V. Lifschitz and B. Porter, Elsevier, 2008. .
Articles, a selection:
References
External links
An interview with Frank van Harmelen about the Semantic Web
Blog written by Frank van Harmelen
1960 births
Living people
Alumni of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20V.%20Raman | T. V. Raman (born 4 May 1965) is a computer scientist who specializes in accessibility research. His research interests are primarily in the areas of auditory user interfaces and structured electronic documents. He has worked on speech interaction and markup technologies in the context of the World Wide Web at Digital's Cambridge Research Lab (CRL), Adobe Systems and IBM Research. He currently works at Google Research. Raman has himself been partially sighted since birth, and blind since the age of 14.
Early life and education
He grew up in Pune, India. Raman became blind at the age of 14 due to glaucoma, being previously partially sighted and able to see with his left eye. To deal with his blindness he had his brother, his mentors, and his aide read out textbooks and problems to him. Although unable to see, he was able to solve Rubik's Cube with a braille version, write computer programs, and perform mathematics.
Raman attended the University of Pune with a BS in mathematics, IIT Bombay with an MS in mathematics, and Cornell University earning an MS in computer science and a PhD in applied mathematics under advisor David Gries. His PhD thesis titled "Audio System For Technical Readings (AsTeR)" was awarded the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award in 1994.
Career
Recently Raman has incorporated these features in the Chrome browser. Raman went on to apply the ideas on audio formatting introduced in AsTeR to the more general domain of computer interfaces Emacspeak. On 12 April 1999, Emacspeak became part of the Smithsonian's Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. In 2005 he began work at Google. In 2018, IIT Bombay felicitated Raman with a Distinguished Alumnus Award
Work
AsTeR – Audio System For Technical Readings
Aural CSS – producing rich auditory presentations from Web content
Emacspeak – the complete audio desktop
XForms – Next Generation Web Forms
XML Events – A reusable eventing syntax for XML
XHTML+Voice – Enabling the multimodal Web via voice interaction
RDC – Reusable Dialog Components
AxsJAX – Access Enabling AJAX
Google Accessible Search – for finding accessible Web content
Thinking Of Mathematics – Thinking Of Mathematics—An Essay on Eyes-Free Computing
Eyes-Free – Speech enabled Google Android applications.
ChromeVox – Screen reader from Google Chrome and ChromeOS
Chakshumati At 10 Eyes-Free Stem Education In India and Chakshumati: Profile Of T.V. Raman
Other interests
His favorite hobby is recreational mathematics, especially those that involve an intuitive feel for mathematics.
References
External links
T.V. Raman's Personal Home Page
Indian computer scientists
Living people
1965 births
Cornell University alumni
Blind scholars and academics
Scientists from Pune
Google employees
IIT Bombay alumni
Scientists with disabilities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Lange | Danny B. Lange is a Danish computer scientist who has worked on machine learning for IBM, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Uber, and Unity Technologies.
Early life and education
Lange was born in Denmark. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the Technical University of Denmark.
Career
During the 1990s, Lange worked at IBM Research – Tokyo, where he developed the Aglets software. From 1997 to 2002, he served as chief technology officer of General Magic, where he led the development of the company's Java agent platform, called Odyssey. He also led the design of General Motors' OnStar systems during the late 1990s.
Lange founded the startup company Vocomo Software in Cupertino, California in 2001. The company's VoiceXML technology and support staff were acquired by Voxeo in 2005. In addition to IBM, Lange has worked on machine learning for several companies, including Microsoft, Amazon Web Services (AWS), a subsidiary of Amazon, and Uber. He was principal architect at Microsoft's Startup Business Group, as of 2010. During his nearly two years at AWS, he managed the cloud computing provider's internal machine learning platform. He also led the launch of the Amazon Machine Learning product in his role as general manager.
Lange led Uber's machine learning team for more than a year, serving in the role of Head of Machine Learning starting in 2015. He managed developers in San Francisco and Seattle, and also worked within the company's autonomous car division. He served as Unity Technologies' vice-president of artificial intelligence and machine learning from late 2016 until 2023, where he led all efforts connected to the company's activities in these areas. At Unity he worked on artificial intelligence and machine learning for augmented and virtual reality. As of mid-2023, Danny Lange now serves as the Vice President of Business Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence (BI+AI) at Google.
In mid 2017, Lange joined the board of directors of the Danish visual effects company Spektral, which is developing machine learning-based chroma key technology. The company was acquired by Apple Inc. in 2018. He has invested in the Danish startup company Corti, which developed artificial intelligence for detecting cardiac arrest, and is a limited partner in byFounders, a Nordic venture capital firm.
Personal life
Lange is married to Eva Moe. Their daughter, Yina Moe-Lange, competed as an alpine skier in the 2010 Winter Olympics. She was born in Tokyo in 1993. In addition to Japan, Lange and his family have lived in Silicon Valley and Sammamish, Washington.
References
Further reading
External links
1960s births
Amazon (company) people
Chief technology officers
Danish computer programmers
Danish computer scientists
IBM employees
Living people
Microsoft employees
Technical University of Denmark alumni
Uber people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Allen | Frances Elizabeth Allen (August 4, 1932August 4, 2020) was an American computer scientist and pioneer in the field of optimizing compilers. Allen was the first woman to become an IBM Fellow, and in 2006 became the first woman to win the Turing Award. Her achievements include seminal work in compilers, program optimization, and parallelization. She worked for IBM from 1957 to 2002 and subsequently was a Fellow Emerita.
Early life and education
Allen grew up on a farm in Peru, New York, near Lake Champlain, as the oldest of six children. Her father was a farmer, and her mother an elementary schoolteacher. Her early elementary education took place in a one-room school house a mile away from her home, and she later attended a local high school.
She graduated from The New York State College for Teachers (now part of the University at Albany, SUNY) with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics in 1954 and began teaching school in Peru, New York. After two years, she enrolled at the University of Michigan and earned a Master of Science degree in mathematics in 1957.
Career and research
Deeply in debt with student loans, she joined IBM Research in Poughkeepsie, New York, as a programmer in 1957, where she taught incoming employees the basics of Fortran. She planned to return to teaching once her student loans had been paid, but ended up staying with IBM for her entire 45-year career. In 1959, Allen was assigned to the Harvest project for code breaking with the National Security Agency, and worked on a programming language called Alpha. She managed the compiler-optimization team for both Harvest and the Stretch project.
In 1962, she was transferred to Thomas J. Watson Research Center, where she contributed to the ACS-1 project, and later in the 1970s, to PL/I. During these years, she worked with fellow researcher John Cocke to write a series of seminal papers on optimizing compilers, helping to improve the efficiency of machine code translated from high-level languages.
From 1970 to 1971 she spent a sabbatical at New York University and acted as adjunct professor for a few years afterward. Another sabbatical brought her to Stanford University in 1977.
From 1980 to 1995, Allen led IBM's work in the developing parallel computing area, and helped to develop software for the IBM Blue Gene project. Allen became the first female IBM Fellow in 1989. She retired from IBM in 2002, but remained affiliated with the corporation as a Fellow Emerita. In 2007, the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship Award was created in her honor. After retiring, she remained active in programs that encourage women and girls to seek careers in science and computing.
Her A. M. Turing Award citation reads:
Awards and honors
Allen was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In 2000, she was made a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for her contributions to program optimization and compiling for parallel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RateItAll | RateItAll is a consumer-review website that also incorporates social networking. Consumers review diverse products and services, share information, and get paid modestly for their reviews. Its reviews include a five-star ranking system for those items being rated. It is one of the largest consumer-review internet based services, offering free access to over 8 million reviews posted on its website to date (as of 2010).
It serves as a free alternative to Consumer Reports and Angie's List which provide some similar fee-based services.
Business model
RateItAll was founded in San Francisco in 1999 by software entrepreneur Lawrence Coburn and one other creator with the following business idea. The Internet features a wide range of user reviews and ratings for numerous purposes including social networking sites and blogs. The business premise was to provide useful reviews to prospective consumers as well as compensate reviewers for their effort. Since user reviews can be posted next to advertising, when people read the reviews, there is a chance that they will also see advertising beside the review, which may possibly lead to a sale or at least result in positive exposure. This benefits the advertiser. Since it is possible to track readership (of reviews and hopefully advertising) using Google's AdSense service, it's possible for advertisers to pay for this exposure through Google to RateItAll, and it's possible for RateItAll to share some of these revenues with reviewers to encourage contributions. Such was the business model.
Accordingly, RateItAll lets users rate a wide variety of things such as consumer products, services, movies, people, politics, travel, musicians, actors, colleges, baseball teams, drinks, and other things by uploading ratings and reviews from their computer to the RateItAll website. Reviewers are paid according to readership; this usually amounts to pennies per review, and the total amounts paid are not sizeable, even for prominent reviewers. RateItAll was an early proponent among Internet ratings services of sharing advertising revenues. In addition, the RateItAll website allowed users seeking information to use filters to isolate the opinions of specific demographic groups. Reviewers can manage their ratings lists with online tools. RateItAll also lets users submit lists.
RateItAll has different offerings.
RateItAll Index: interactive ratings lists within nine consumer categories.
RateItAll Local: interactive directories of local businesses.
RateItAll Weblists: interactive ratings lists published by registered site members.
Chronology
In January 2000, RateItAll had 10,000 ratings with a database of 150,000 reviews and ratings, according to one estimate. In 2001, a reporter writing about a reality show contestant on Survivor II airing on CBS television, quoted RateItAll's ratings in a newspaper story: "On RateItAll.com, 25 percent of the viewers hate her (the Survivor contestant), 25 percent think she's great, and the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jef%20Poskanzer | Jeffrey A. Poskanzer is a computer programmer. He was the first person to post a weekly FAQ to Usenet. He developed the portable pixmap file format and pbmplus (the precursor to the Netpbm package) to manipulate it. He has also worked on the team that ported A/UX. He has shared in two USENIX Lifetime Achievement Awards – in 1993 for Berkeley Unix, and in 1996 for the Software Tools Project.
He owns the Internet address acme.com (which is notable for receiving over one million e-mail spams a day), which is the home page for ACME Laboratories. It hosts a number of open source software projects; major projects maintained include both pbmplus and thttpd, an open source web server.
Notes
External links
ACME Laboratories
Jef Poskanzer's Resumé
A/UX people
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J48 | J48 may refer to:
Gyroelongated pentagonal birotunda
, a paddle steamer of the Royal Navy
Pratt & Whitney J48, a turbojet engine
J48, an implementation of the C4.5 algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Learning%20Agency | The Open Learning Agency (OLA) was a Crown Agency of the province of British Columbia, Canada.
Its primary function was the management of the Knowledge Network, a public television station in British Columbia, and the Open Learning Institute. It once played a larger role in education and a university function, before being scaled back by the provincial government in 2004.
As of April 1, 2005, British Columbia Open University (BCOU) in Burnaby, that was a service of the Open Learning Agency became a part of the newly created Thompson Rivers University (TRU), located in Kamloops. From this date, BCOU is known as Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning or TRU Open Learning (TRU-OL).
Thompson Rivers University (TRU), through its Open Learning Division (TRU-OL), became one of Canada’s leading distance education providers. Educational goals are obtainable for anyone through accessible and varied courses that can be taken anytime and at an individually determined pace. With over 400 individual courses and more than 57 programs available for completion by distance and online learning, students can take a variety of programs such as: adult secondary school completion; certificates and diplomas, including advanced and post-baccalaureate; associate degrees; and bachelor's degrees.
Knowledge Network (KN), another service of the Open Learning Agency, continues to operate as part of the Open Learning Agency, broadcasting its unique educational programming throughout British Columbia.
See also
Thompson Rivers University is BC's fourth largest provincial university and, through its Open Learning Division (Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning (TRU-OL)), is one of Canada’s leading distance education providers.
Also included is Open School BC (OSBC), currently of the Services and Technology Division in the Ministry of Education. This was the K-12 branch of OLA.
As well as correspondence material they also developed the first online courses in 1998 with OSCAR (Open School Courses and Resources).
Working with the Distance Education (DE) Schools of BC they purchased, developed and managed the first Learning Management System (LMS) WebCT).
Now Open School BC has over 50 online courses that they offer to Distributed Learning programs and to public sector clients across the province in Blackboard and Moodle Learning Management Systems. http://www.openschool.bc.ca
External links
Open School BC
Thompson Rivers University
Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning
TRU Open Learning registration
TRU-OL Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition (PLAR)
TRU, Williams Lake Learning Centre
Educational organizations based in British Columbia
British Columbia government departments and agencies
Distance education in Canada
Organizations disestablished in 2004
2004 disestablishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson%27s%20theorem | Jackson's theorem may refer to:
Jackson networks, in queueing theory (after James R. Jackson)
Jackson's inequality, in analysis (after Dunham Jackson) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Kent | Tom Kent (born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina), is an American radio personality and author. As the head of the Tom Kent Radio Network (TKRN), Tom hosts and produces syndicated daily, weekend and, 24/7 programming each week on approximately 600 stations. The majority of Kent's programming is centered on classic hits and adult contemporary music formats, with selected programming made available to stations of any music format.
There are 24 different syndicated radio products available on TKRN and are heard in seven different formats.
Biography
Prior to becoming syndicated, Kent worked on the air and in programming at the top 40 radio station WLS in Chicago. Kent also worked on the air at KLIF in Dallas, WIBG Philadelphia, WGCL and WIXY in Cleveland, WMXJ in Miami, WAVA-FM in Washington, D.C. where he was also the Program Director, and WBZZ (B-94) Pittsburgh.
In addition, Kent worked in the music industry as a promotion executive for Elektra Entertainment, which was a division of Time-Warner's Warner Music Group. While an executive at Elektra, Kent received many awards including "Promotion Rookie of the Year" and "Promotion Executive of the Year" both separate and individual awards in different years. He helped break and bring to the national music spotlight national music recording artists Tracy Chapman, Third Eye Blind, Keith Sweat, Moby, Natalie Merchant, Simply Red, Missy Elliott, Gerald Levert, Metallica, Yolanda Adams, and En Vogue.
On August 6, 2015, The National Radio Hall of Fame in Chicago nominated Tom Kent in the category of syndicated music personality.
Syndication
On June 29, 2002, Kent launched the Tom Kent Organization and its radio network, the TKO Radio Network. It was here that Kent launched what was then oldies programming, centered around the decades of 1964 to 1973. Drawing on inspiration from classic Top 40 disc jockeys, Kent's goal was to create a broad-based persona that, while still appealing to the "adult power demo" (persons 25 to 54, many of whom listened to Top 40 radio at a young age), would be enjoyed by all ages. During this time, Kent created and hosted the programs "Into the Seventies," a five-hour weekly program devoted to 1970s music, and "Hall of Fame Coast to Coast", a general six-day-a-week oldies program. The programming was immensely successful and significantly boosted ratings on the stations it aired. In 2006, Kent turned the network into the "Classic Top 40" network, renaming the weeknight show from "Hall of Fame Coast to Coast" to "Classic Top 40 Weeknights." The long-term goal was to create a 24-hour network out of this with similar programming.
Exactly five years after Kent launched the network, on June 29, 2007, he resigned as host and sold the company.
Tom Kent Radio Network
Kent then launched a new network, the Tom Kent Radio Network. Programs include a five-hour totally live daily show called, "The Music Magazine" as well as weekend shows: "The Ultimate Party" (a live five-hour Saturd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geni | Geni or GENI may refer to:
Geni.com, a genealogy-related web service
Geni (footballer) (b. 1980), Spanish football (soccer) player, full name Eugenio Suárez Santos
Global Environment for Network Innovations, a planned National Science Foundation facilities project
Global Energy Network Institute, a research and education organization focusing on electric power transmission networks between nations and continents
Geni, Siliguri, a census town in Darjeeling district, West Bengal, India
See also
Genie (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Lawrence%20%28disambiguation%29 | Steve Lawrence (born 1935) is an American actor and singer whose career started in the 1950s.
Steve Lawrence may also refer to:
Steve Lawrence (computer scientist), Australian computer scientist who works mainly on internet search engines
Steve Lawrence, bassist with bands including the Phantom Chords
Steve Lawrence (cyclist) (born 1955), British racing cyclist
See also
Steven Lawrence (born 1976), Australian footballer
Stephen Laurence, scientist and philosopher
Stephen Lawrence (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93Computer%20Interaction%20Institute | The Human–Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) is a department within the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is considered one of the leading centers of human–computer interaction research,
and was named one of the top ten most innovative schools in information technology by Computer World in 2008. For the past three decades, the institute has been the predominant publishing force at leading HCI venues, most notably ACM CHI, where it regularly contributes more than 10% of the papers. Research at the institute aims to understand and create technology that harmonizes with and improves human capabilities by integrating aspects of computer science, design, social science, and learning science.
HCII offers Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as an additional major for undergraduates, as well as a master's degree and PhDs in HCI. Students from various academic backgrounds come together from around the world to participate in this program. Students hold undergraduate degrees in psychology, design, and computer science, as well as many others. Students enter the program at various stages in their academic and professional careers. HCII research and educational programs span a full cycle of knowledge creation. The cycle includes research on how people work, play, and communicate within groups, organizations, and social structures. It includes the design, creation, and evaluation of technologies and tools to support human and social activities.
Academics
The institution offers degrees in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies.
Notable faculty
Randy Pausch was a professor of computer science, human-computer interaction and design. Pausch was also a best-selling author, who became known around the world after he gave "The Last Lecture" speech on September 18, 2007, at Carnegie Mellon. Pausch was instrumental in the development of Alice, a computer teaching tool. He also co-founded Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Randy Pausch died on July 25, 2008.
Jodi Forlizzi is the Charles M. Geschke Director of the HCII Institute. She has been a faculty member with the department since 2000. She specializes interaction design and received a self-defined Ph.D. in human computer interaction and design at Carnegie Mellon University in 2007. She has a background of fine arts with a bachelor's degree in Illustration from University of the Arts. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery’s CHI Academy and the Walter Reed Army Medical Center has honored her for excellence in human-robot interaction design research.
Chris Harrison is a professor at and director of the Future Interfaces Group within the Human–Computer Interaction Institute. He has previously conducted research at AT&T Labs, Microsoft Research, IBM Research and Disney Research. He is known for his pioneering work on scratch input and for developing Skinput and Omnitouch. He is also the CTO and co-founder of Q |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20%28computational%20chemistry%29 | In computational chemistry, a constraint algorithm is a method for satisfying the Newtonian motion of a rigid body which consists of mass points. A restraint algorithm is used to ensure that the distance between mass points is maintained. The general steps involved are: (i) choose novel unconstrained coordinates (internal coordinates), (ii) introduce explicit constraint forces, (iii) minimize constraint forces implicitly by the technique of Lagrange multipliers or projection methods.
Constraint algorithms are often applied to molecular dynamics simulations. Although such simulations are sometimes performed using internal coordinates that automatically satisfy the bond-length, bond-angle and torsion-angle constraints, simulations may also be performed using explicit or implicit constraint forces for these three constraints. However, explicit constraint forces give rise to inefficiency; more computational power is required to get a trajectory of a given length. Therefore, internal coordinates and implicit-force constraint solvers are generally preferred.
Constraint algorithms achieve computational efficiency by neglecting motion along some degrees of freedom. For instance, in atomistic molecular dynamics, typically the length of covalent bonds to hydrogen are constrained; however, constraint algorithms should not be used if vibrations along these degrees of freedom are important for the phenomenon being studied.
Mathematical background
The motion of a set of N particles can be described by a set of second-order ordinary differential equations, Newton's second law, which can be written in matrix form
where M is a mass matrix and q is the vector of generalized coordinates that describe the particles' positions. For example, the vector q may be a 3N Cartesian coordinates of the particle positions rk, where k runs from 1 to N; in the absence of constraints, M would be the 3Nx3N diagonal square matrix of the particle masses. The vector f represents the generalized forces and the scalar V(q) represents the potential energy, both of which are functions of the generalized coordinates q.
If M constraints are present, the coordinates must also satisfy M time-independent algebraic equations
where the index j runs from 1 to M. For brevity, these functions gi are grouped into an M-dimensional vector g below. The task is to solve the combined set of differential-algebraic (DAE) equations, instead of just the ordinary differential equations (ODE) of Newton's second law.
This problem was studied in detail by Joseph Louis Lagrange, who laid out most of the methods for solving it. The simplest approach is to define new generalized coordinates that are unconstrained; this approach eliminates the algebraic equations and reduces the problem once again to solving an ordinary differential equation. Such an approach is used, for example, in describing the motion of a rigid body; the position and orientation of a rigid body can be described by six indepe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yhc | The York Haskell Compiler (Yhc) is a no longer maintained open source bytecode compiler for the functional programming language Haskell; it primarily targets the Haskell '98 standard. It is one of the four main Haskell compilers (behind GHC, Hugs and nhc98).
Yhc is based on the nhc98 Haskell compiler, and is intended eventually to be a more portable, cleaner, better performing rewrite of nhc98 with more and better features. In particular, Yhc features integrated support for Hat, the Haskell tracer. The Yhc project uses Darcs for version control. It was originally developed at the Department of Computer Science at the University of York in the UK.
References
External links
Yhc page on the haskell.org wiki
Yhc home page
Free compilers and interpreters
Free Haskell implementations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Top%20%28video%20game%29 | Big Top is a circus-themed platform game for the IBM PC family of computers, written by Michael Abrash and published by Funtastic in 1983. The game was distributed on a self-booting disk.
Gameplay
Big Top features a circus "big top" theme. The user plays the part of a clown with the job of gathering all the hats on each ladder-filled level—where, in keeping with the theme, levels are called rings. Each ring spans across at least two screens and has an upper and lower level. Obstacles include evil clowns, cannons, and rolling barrels.
Reception
See also
Sammy Lightfoot, a similarly-themed game also from 1983
References
External links
Big Top blog entry at Bunny Abandonware
1983 video games
Funtastic games
Platformers
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CastleCops | CastleCops was a volunteer security community focused on making the Internet a safer place. All services to the public were free, including malware and rootkit cleanup of infected computers, malware and phish investigations and terminations, and searchable database lists of malware and file hashes. It was targeted by spammers throughout its existence but fought back using legal means to defeat them.
History
Education and collaborative information sharing were among CastleCops (formerly known as Computer Cops before the name change in 2005) highest priorities. They had been achieved by training the volunteer staff in their anti-malware, phishing, and rootkit academies and through additional services including CastleCops forums, news, reviews, and continuing education.
CastleCops consistently worked with industry experts and law enforcement to reach their ultimate goal of securing a safe and smart computing experience for everyone online. CastleCops reached its five-year anniversary in February 2007 with accolades from well-known computer security industry pundits and players.
On December 24, 2008, the website announced that "All things come to an end" and that CastleCops has ceased to exist, for an as yet undisclosed reason. It was later reported that the founder, Paul Laudanski, was offered a job with Microsoft. However, the domain name has remained active ever since, albeit with no content, in order to prevent it from being purchased by criminals.
Malware databases
The CastleCops "malware databases", well known in security circles, had already been moved to Systemlookup.com before the demise of the site.
Notable members
Paul Laudanski
Kenneth L.Fisher
Dave Kleiman
Larry H Stevenson
References
External links
CastleCops home page
CastleCops shuts up shop — Sad demise of volunteer security community.
Spywarehammer.com - Majority of CastleCops former Staff and Moderators can be found here.
Computer security organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy%20list | A proxy list is a list of open HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS proxy servers all on one website. Proxies allow users to make indirect network connections to other computer network services. Proxy lists include the IP addresses of computers hosting open proxy servers, meaning that these proxy servers are available to anyone on the internet. Proxy lists are often organized by the various proxy protocols the servers use. Many proxy lists index, which can be used without changing browser settings.
Proxy Anonymity Levels
Elite proxies - Such proxies do not change request fields and look like a real browser, and your real IP address is hidden. Server administrators will commonly be fooled into believing that you are not using a proxy.
Anonymous proxies - These proxies do not show a real IP address, however, they do change the request fields, therefore it is very easy to detect that a proxy is being used by log analysis. You are still anonymous, but some server administrators may restrict proxy requests.
Transparent proxies - (not anonymous, simply HTTP) - These change the request fields and they transfer the real IP. Such proxies are not applicable for security or privacy uses while surfing the web, and should only be used for network speed improvement.
SOCKS is a protocol that relays TCP sessions through a firewall host to allow application users transparent access across the firewall. Because the protocol is independent of application protocols, it can be (and has been) used for many different services, such as telnet, FTP, finger, whois, gopher, WWW, etc. Access control can be applied at the beginning of each TCP session; thereafter the server simply relays the data between the client and the application server, incurring minimum processing overhead. Since SOCKS never has to know anything about the application protocol, it should also be easy for it to accommodate applications that use encryption to protect their traffic from nosy snoopers. No information about the client is sent to the server – thus there is no need to test the anonymity level of the SOCKS proxies.
References
External links
Computer network security
Computer networking
Internet privacy
Computer security software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20Tropical | Cinema Tropical is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to the distribution, programming and promotion of Latin American cinema in the United States.
The non-profit company was co-founded by Carlos A. Gutiérrez and Monika Wagenberg in 2001.
The company serves as a distributor and acquires Latin American films and helps its directors and producers gain national exposure in theaters, institutions, and film festivals.
It also curates special series and retrospectives for theaters, institutions, and film festivals.
The Cinema Tropical Film Series
The Cinema Tropical Film Series features one recent Latin American film every month at venues throughout the United States. As of February 2007 the series travels to 12 highly prominent theatres and cultural institutions. The series is currently divided among the following three regions:
The Cinema Tropical Series New York:
Cinema Village (Manhattan)
American Museum of Moving Image (Queens)
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn)
Cinema Arts Centre (Long Island)
Jacob Burns Film Center (Westchester)
Cornell Cinema (Ithaca, NY)
The Cinema Tropical Series East:
The Tower Theatre (Miami, FL)
The Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA)
Wadsworth Museum of Art (Hartford, CT)
International House (Philadelphia, PA)
Avon Theatre (Stamford, CT)
The Cinema Tropical Series Midwest/West:
The Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Northwest Film Center (Portland, Oregon)
The Facets Cinémathèque (Chicago, IL)
Loft Cinema (Tucson, AZ)
Distributor filmography
Bolivia (2001)
25 Watts (2001)
La Tropical (2002)
Los Archivos privados de Pablo Escobar (2002)
A Red Bear (2002)
El Carro (2003)
Suite Habana (2003)
Los Guantes mágicos (2003)
Dependencia sexual (2003)
Más allá del mar (2003)
El Perro (2004)
Días de Santiago (2004)
Al otro lado (2005)
Hermanas (2005)
Toro negro (2005)
Soy Cuba, O Mamute Siberiano (2005)
External links
Cinema Tropical Official web site.
Organizations established in 2001 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20Ericsson%20K810i | The Sony Ericsson K810i Cyber-shot is a dual-mode UMTS phone with a 3.2 Megapixel camera with autofocus and 16x digital zoom. It has the full range of mobile entertainment and business features including video telephony, Memory Stick Micro removable storage (up to 8 GB available), picture blogging, full HTML browser, RSS feed support, and music and video players. It is a later iteration of the Sony Ericsson K800i, and both phones have since been succeeded by the Sony Ericsson K850i.
Overview
The 17 mm thin 3G K810i has a 240x320 pixels, QVGA, 262,144 colour display and supports Sony Ericsson Java Platform 7 (JP-7) with a range of JSRs, including Advanced Multimedia Supplements (JSR 234) for enhanced camera and image handling. Mobile Java 3D gaming is supplemented with A/B gaming buttons for landscape mode gaming. K810i is designed after Sony Ericsson K800i, with many similarities with the latter. It is succeeded by Sony Ericsson K850i, the last of the K series phones. K810i is available in 3 colours: Noble Blue, Pulse Red, Golden Ivory.
Specifications
Networks
GSM/GPRS 900/1800/1900
Dual-mode UMTS 2100
Screen
240x320 pixels 262,144 colour TFT QVGA
OS
Sony Ericsson Java Platform 7 (Java ME)
Internet
WAP 2.0, XHTML
Browser: Access Netfront 3.3
Messaging
EMS/SMS/MMS
Email: POP3, IMAP4
Multimedia Support
Audio: MP4, MP3, M4A, 3GPP, WAV, MIDI, RealAudio 8, eMelody, iMelody, RHZ, XMF, WMA
Video: MP4, 3GPP, RealVideo 8, WMV
Image: JPEG, GIF, BMP, PNG, SVG, WBMP
Streaming: RTSP (according to 3GPP)
Local Connectivity
USB 2.0
Bluetooth 2.0
IR
Camera
K810i is Cyber-shot branded and hence includes some of the Cyber-shot features.
3.2 MP Camera
Photo fix
BestPic
Digital Zoom - up to 16x
Image stabiliser
Picture blogging
Red-eye reduction
Video stabiliser
Xenon flash
Auto focus
Video recording
There are 2 built-in cameras. For high quality imaging, the main 3.2 MP camera provides the above features. Also, there is horizontal user interface for easier camera handling. The active lens cover and the illuminable camera icons contribute to the intuitive operation of the K810i camera. The phone is also equipped with a VGA video call camera.
Main Features
Cyber-shot Camera
PictBridge
Picture Blogging
Push Email
Bluetooth
PlayNow
TrackID
3G Video Calling
RSS Reader
Audio/Video Recording
Web
FM Radio
Variant
Sony Ericsson K818c, the non-3G version of K810i developed for mainland China
External links
K810i specifications at Sony Ericsson
K810i specifications at Sony Ericsson Developer World
K810i specifications at Sony Ericsson Developer World
K810i review at Mobile-review.com
Sony Ericsson K810i
Cyber-shot cameras
Sony Ericsson mobile phones
Mobile phones with infrared transmitter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JEOS | JEOS may refer to:
Just enough operating system
Journal of the European Optical Society: Rapid Publications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncation%20error | In numerical analysis and scientific computing, truncation error is an error caused by approximating a mathematical process.
Examples
Infinite series
A summation series for is given by an infinite series such as
In reality, we can only use a finite number of these terms as it would take an infinite amount of computational time to make use of all of them. So let's suppose we use only three terms of the series, then
In this case, the truncation error is
Example A:
Given the following infinite series, find the truncation error for if only the first three terms of the series are used.
Solution
Using only first three terms of the series gives
The sum of an infinite geometrical series
is given by
For our series, and , to give
The truncation error hence is
Differentiation
The definition of the exact first derivative of the function is given by
However, if we are calculating the derivative numerically, has to be finite. The error caused by choosing to be finite is a truncation error in the mathematical process of differentiation.
Example A:
Find the truncation in calculating the first derivative of at using a step size of
Solution:
The first derivative of is
and at ,
The approximate value is given by
The truncation error hence is
Integration
The definition of the exact integral of a function from to is given as follows.
Let be a function defined on a closed interval of the real numbers, , and
be a partition of I, where
where and .
This implies that we are finding the area under the curve using infinite rectangles. However, if we are calculating the integral numerically, we can only use a finite number of rectangles. The error caused by choosing a finite number of rectangles as opposed to an infinite number of them is a truncation error in the mathematical process of integration.
Example A.
For the integral
find the truncation error if a two-segment left-hand Riemann sum is used with equal width of segments.
Solution
We have the exact value as
Using two rectangles of equal width to approximate the area (see Figure 2) under the curve, the approximate value of the integral
Occasionally, by mistake, round-off error (the consequence of using finite precision floating point numbers on computers), is also called truncation error, especially if the number is rounded by chopping. That is not the correct use of "truncation error"; however calling it truncating a number may be acceptable.
Addition
Truncation error can cause within a computer when because (like it should), while . Here, has a truncation error equal to 1. This truncation error occurs because computers do not store the least significant digits of an extremely large integer.
See also
Quantization error
References
.
Numerical analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download%20to%20own | Download-to-own (DTO) is a concept where users legally download movies to their computers through the internet. It provides convenience by allowing instant access to saved movies on the hard drive, eliminating the need to find and insert a physical DVD. To obtain movies through DTO, users typically require a broadband internet connection and an account with an internet distribution company.
DTO movies are usually saved on the hard drive in formats like AVI and compressed using MPEG-4 or DivX compression formats. However, there are some disadvantages associated with this method. Firstly, DTO movies tend to have large file sizes, ranging from 600MB to over 1GB. Consequently, downloading them may take a considerable amount of time, and they can quickly occupy a significant portion of the hard drive's storage capacity.
Another drawback is that the image quality of DTO movies is generally lower than that of regular DVDs and considerably lower than high-definition formats. Furthermore, they often lack multi-channel audio. Additionally, DTO movies may be distributed in a DRM-protected format, such as those found on platforms like iTunes. DRM restrictions can make it challenging to play these movies on other portable devices or burn them to a DVD for playback on a television.
While accidental deletion or loss due to a hard drive crash is a potential risk, employing proper backup procedures can help mitigate these problems. Furthermore, with the decreasing prices of larger hard drives, storage limitations are becoming less of an issue.
References
File sharing
Home video |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I-Chen%20Wu | I-Chen Wu () is a professor at Department of Computer Science, National Chiao Tung University. He received his B.S. in Electronic Engineering from National Taiwan University (NTU), M.S. in computer science from NTU, and Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie-Mellon University, in 1982, 1984 and 1993, respectively.
Wu invented a new game, named Connect6, a variation of the five-in-a-row game, and presented this game in the 11th Advances in Computer Games Conference (ACG'11) in 2005. The game-tree complexity of this game is quite high, close to Chinese Chess. Since presented in 2005, Connect6 has been a tournament item in Computer Olympiad. He wrote a program, named NCTU6, and won the gold in the tournament in 2006. Up to date, there have been at least four game websites supporting this game, at least 10 web forums for this game (in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, English, Spanish and multi-lingual), hundreds of thousands games played over the Internet, several Josekis (opening moves) and Tsumegos (like puzzles) developed, and one human Connect6 open tournament held in Summer 2006.
Wu also developed a game platform over Internet and actively participated in software development leading a team to major software components and framework in both clients and servers. In the client side, the team led by him developed a portable AWT/Swing architecture for Java game development, which has been used in some game companies including Sina Inc., Hinet, and ThinkNewIdea Inc., in Taiwan.
References
External links
Homepage of I-Chen Wu
Homepage of Connect6
Chess Programming Kiwi -- I-Chen Wu
Academic staff of the National Chiao Tung University
Affiliated Senior High School of National Taiwan Normal University alumni
Artificial intelligence researchers
Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Living people
National Taiwan University alumni
Taiwanese computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Plus%20Network | Sports Plus Network was a service run by SportsChannel in 1988-1993 that filled the airtime when SportsChannel was not on the air. It was an "automated" service that featured sports news and scores displayed using NAPLPS graphics.
The service appears to have had some similarity to teletext, but the major difference was that it was not interactive, stories stay on screen for a few seconds and it moves to the next screen.
According to the ticker that scrolled at the bottom of the screen, the service was a joint venture by SportsChannel, Tribune Media Services, and the Associated Press.
In early 1991, the graphics used were updated.
In popular culture
The channel could sometimes be seen on a monitor in the newsroom on the set of Murphy Brown.
External links
Video of Sports Plus Network from January 1990 on YouTube
Sports Plus Network, May 1991 (YouTube)
Sports television networks in the United States
Teletext
SportsChannel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20similarity%20detection | Plagiarism detection or content similarity detection is the process of locating instances of plagiarism or copyright infringement within a work or document. The widespread use of computers and the advent of the Internet have made it easier to plagiarize the work of others.
Detection of plagiarism can be undertaken in a variety of ways. Human detection is the most traditional form of identifying plagiarism from written work. This can be a lengthy and time-consuming task for the reader and can also result in inconsistencies in how plagiarism is identified within an organization. Text-matching software (TMS), which is also referred to as "plagiarism detection software" or "anti-plagiarism" software, has become widely available, in the form of both commercially available products as well as open-source software. TMS does not actually detect plagiarism per se, but instead finds specific passages of text in one document that match text in another document.
Software-assisted plagiarism detection
Computer-assisted plagiarism detection (CaPD) is an Information retrieval (IR) task supported by specialized IR systems, which is referred to as a plagiarism detection system (PDS) or document similarity detection system. A 2019 systematic literature review presents an overview of state-of-the-art plagiarism detection methods.
In text documents
Systems for text similarity detection implement one of two generic detection approaches, one being external, the other being intrinsic.
External detection systems compare a suspicious document with a reference collection, which is a set of documents assumed to be genuine.
Based on a chosen document model and predefined similarity criteria, the detection task is to retrieve all documents that contain text that is similar to a degree above a chosen threshold to text in the suspicious document.
Intrinsic PDSes solely analyze the text to be evaluated without performing comparisons to external documents. This approach aims to recognize changes in the unique writing style of an author as an indicator for potential plagiarism.
PDSes are not capable of reliably identifying plagiarism without human judgment. Similarities and writing style features are computed with the help of predefined document models and might represent false positives.
Effectiveness of those tools in higher education settings
A study was conducted to test the effectiveness of similarity detection software in a higher education setting. One part of the study assigned one group of students to write a paper. These students were first educated about plagiarism and informed that their work was to be run through a content similarity detection system. A second group of students was assigned to write a paper without any information about plagiarism. The researchers expected to find lower rates in group one but found roughly the same rates of plagiarism in both groups.
Approaches
The figure below represents a classification of all detection approaches currently |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Bach | Eric Bach is an American computer scientist who has made contributions to computational number theory.
Bach completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and got his Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984 under the supervision of Manuel Blum. He is currently a professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Among other work, he gave explicit bounds for the Chebotarev density theorem, which imply that if one assumes the generalized Riemann hypothesis then is generated by its elements smaller than 2(log n)2. This result shows that the generalized Riemann hypothesis implies tight bounds for the necessary run-time of the deterministic version of the Miller–Rabin primality test. Bach also did some of the first work on pinning down the actual expected run-time of the Pollard rho method where previous work relied on heuristic estimates and empirical data. He is the namesake of Bach's algorithm for generating random factored numbers.
References
American computer scientists
Living people
University of Michigan alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Number theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay.com | Gay.com was a chat, personals, and social networking website catering to the LGBT community. The site was a digital brand of Here Media Inc. In addition to community features, the site featured LGBT-related news and features. As of September 2005, San Jose Mercury News ranked gay.com as the most popular online gay personals site in the United States. As of March 2007, Hitwise ranked it number three in domestic American popularity after Adam4Adam and Manhunt. Gay.com also used to compete internationally with dudesnude, gayromeo, and gaydar.
History
Gay.com was founded by Mark Elderkin in 1994 and launched with a Java-based chat system in 1996. Gay.com's parent company acquired PlanetOut in 2001. In October 2008 the company relaunched gay.com., updating the visual style of the site and replacing the former Java-based chat system. Technical problems caused by the upgrade led to service interruptions and lags. In an open letter from PlanetOut management, "hardware configurations and software code" were cited as culprits. Many users asked the service to revert to its former system, and the formerly solid user base eroded after the relaunch.
In October 2009, Here Media Inc. bought gay.com from PlanetOut Inc.
In 2016, Here Media Inc. partnered with The Veloz Group to redesign gay.com and revitalize the business. Later that year, gay.com was sold to VS Media Inc. Upon purchasing the site was changed to a webcam model. In 2017, VS Media Inc. donated the domain to the Los Angeles LGBT Center, and it now acts as a redirect to the center's own website.
See also
Homosocialization
References
External links
gay.com – official website (redirects to lalgbtcenter.org)
Behind the website
PlanetOut, Inc – corporate website
Gay men's websites
LGBT social networking services
Online dating services of the United States
LGBT online dating services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton%20Keynes%20grid%20road%20system | The Milton Keynes grid road system is a network of predominantly national speed limit, fully landscaped routes that form the top layer of the street hierarchy for both private and public transport in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire. The system is unique in the United Kingdom for its innovative use of street hierarchy principles: the grid roads run in between districts rather than through them. This arrangement permits higher speed limits due to the absence of buildings close to the roads although more recently some have been limited in part to . The grid road system also serves an important purpose of discouraging through-traffic from travelling through neighborhoods and thus reduces traffic noise and pollution in pedestrian areas. Motor traffic is segregated from pedestrian and leisure cycling traffic, which uses the alternative Milton Keynes redway system. Almost all grid junctions are roundabouts, and the absence of traffic lights (from most) enables free and efficient movement of traffic.
The grid roads
The grid system is made up of 11 roads aligned roughly north–south and 10 aligned roughly east–west. In early planning documents, these were simply designated as "V roads" and "H roads" respectively (for "vertical", roughly North/South, and "horizontal", roughly East/West); these designations have remained popular alongside the subsequent formal (conventional) names. V-roads are named as "Streets", and H-roads as "Ways". The roads are not precisely straight and aligned, and there are several places where two H roads, or two V roads, meet at a junction. The districts enclosed by the grid roads are known as grid squares.
In addition, the A5 road between Old Stratford and Little Brickhill is a grade separated dual carriageway that is independent of the system (built to bypass the old Watling Street route), running between the grid roads but with four interchanges with the system. It is sometimes locally referred to as the A5(D), for 'diversion', to distinguish it from the 'old A5' which is now V4 Watling Street.
Below is a list of the grid roads. Some double as national roads for parts of their routes; these are shown in brackets:
Characteristics
Grid roads are characterised by high speed limits, generous landscaping and greenery along their routes, all pedestrian crossings being by means of under- or overpasses, roundabouts at every intersection and an almost total lack of road-fronting buildings.
Horizontal grid roads (ways)
The H1 Ridgeway runs from the southern edge of Stony Stratford, across V4 Watling Street to a point on the V5 east of Wolverton. It is the shortest of all grid roads, having only two grid roundabouts and with a large gap where a bridge over the A5 should be. It serves Stony Stratford, Fullers Slade, Wolverton Mill and Greenleys.
The H2 Millers Way is another short route. It begins at V4 Watling Street, at Fairfields, bridges over the A5 and the West Coast Main Line (WCML), then joins the V6 Grafton Street at Br |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SXAL/MBAL | In cryptography, SXAL (substitution xor algorithm, sometimes called SXAL8) is a block cipher designed in 1993 by Yokohama-based Laurel Intelligent Systems. It is normally used in a special mode of operation called MBAL (multi-block algorithm). SXAL/MBAL has been used for encryption in a number of Japanese PC cards and smart cards.
SXAL is an 8-round substitution–permutation network with block size and key size of 64 bits each. All operations are byte-oriented. The algorithm uses a single 8×8-bit S-box K, designed so that both K(X) and X XOR K(X) are injective functions. In each round, the bytes of the block are first permuted. Then each byte is XORed with a key byte and an earlier ciphertext byte, processed through the S-box, and XORed with the previous plaintext byte.
The key schedule is rather complex, processing the key with SXAL itself, beginning with a null key and using permuted intermediate results as later keys.
MBAL
MBAL is an encryption algorithm built using SXAL that can be applied to messages any number of bytes in length (at least 8). It uses two 64-bit extended keys for key whitening on the first 64 bits. The algorithm consists of 9 steps:
Pre-whitening
Fm: An expanded version of SXAL applied to the entire message
SXAL the block consisting of the first 4 and last 4 bytes
Reverse the byte order of the entire message
Fm
Reverse
SXAL the ends
Fm
Post-whitening
MBAL has been shown to be susceptible to both differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis.
References
External links
ISO/IEC9979-0012 register entry (PDF), registered 23 October 1995
, a patent on a communications system using SXAL/MBAL for encryption. Includes a description of SXAL/MBAL.
Broken block ciphers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Madeleine%20Fourcade | Marie-Madeleine Fourcade (11 August 1909 – 20 July 1989) was the leader of the French Resistance network "Alliance", under the code name "Hérisson" ("Hedgehog") after the arrest of its former leader, Georges Loustaunau-Lacau (“Navarre”), during the occupation of France in the Second World War.
Youth
Born Marie-Madeleine Bridou in Marseille, in Bouches-du-Rhône, she grew up and attended convent schools in Shanghai where her father had a position with the French Maritime service. She married young, with the future colonel . They had two children, but the couple became estranged and she would not visit her children for years at a time. In 1936, Fourcade met and impressed the former French military intelligence officer Major Georges Loustaunau-Lacau, code name "Navarre".
Wartime resistance
Fourcade worked with Navarre on his magazine L'ordre national, an espionage publication. Navarre believed espionage to be crucial in the war effort. Navarre recruited Fourcade for a network of spies and to work on L'ordre national. She was barely 30 at this point. Her first mission for Navarre was to create sections of unoccupied France, then recruit and assign an agent to these sections. This network became the "Alliance" (later called "Noah's Ark").
In July 1941, a little over a year after the German invasion, Navarre was arrested and sentenced to two years in prison. He had picked Fourcade to lead the movement he had started. One example of her spying success was through her agent Jeannie Rousseau, who convinced a Wehrmacht officer to draw a rocket and a testing station on Peenemünde, thereby revealing the V2 rocket program to the Allies. When the Vichy-governed part of France was also occupied by Germany, Fourcade spent months on the run as she moved from city-to-city to avoid detection. During this time, she gave birth to her third child. The child, a son, had to be hidden at a safe-house. In July 1943, she left for London, where she worked with British intelligence, particularly via her friend Cmdr. Kenneth Cohen, an MI6 officer in charge of French intelligence. While she wanted to head back to France, she was forced by her control officers to stay in England until July 1944, when she eventually was allowed to return to France to join her agents in the field and managed to avoid capture.
Post-war activities
Fourcade took care of 3,000 resistance agents and survivors, as well as social works and the publication of Mémorial de l'Alliance, dedicated to the resistance group's 429 dead. Despite her high profile position in the French resistance, being the leader of the longest-running spy network, Charles de Gaulle did not include her among the 1,038 people he designated resistance heroes (which included only 6 women altogether). Strangely she was not given the Order of the Liberation, though her husband Édouard Méric was.
From 1962, Fourcade chaired the Committee of Resistance Action, as well as the jury of honour of Maurice Papon in 1981. She remarried, wa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%20Network%20Systems | Hughes Network Systems, LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar. It is headquartered in Germantown, Maryland and provides satellite internet service. HughesNet has more than 1.4 million subscribers in the Americas.
History
Hughes Communications was founded in 1971 under the name Digital Communication Corporation (DCC) by a group of seven engineers and a lawyer led by John Puente and Dr. Burton Edelson, who all previously worked together at Comsat Laboratories. With $40,000 in startup capital, the company operated from a garage in Rockville, Maryland, designing circuit boards for telecom related products.
By 1977, Digital Communications Corp. had 250 employees and $10.6 million in revenue. In 1978, Digital Communications Corp. was acquired by Microwave Associates for an undisclosed sum, becoming MA/COM-DCC and began developing satellite related products. The company invented the very small aperture terminal (VSAT) in 1985. That year, the company sold its first VSAT network to Wal-Mart, which used the “technology to connect retail stores in rural areas.” According to SatMagazine, “the global VSAT market is estimated to reach $10 billion by 2021.” In 1987, MA/COM-DCC was acquired by Hughes Aircraft Corporation for $105 million and renamed Hughes Communications.
In 2004, News Corp acquired a controlling interest in Hughes through a $6.5 billion purchase intended primarily for its DirecTV unit. DirecTV also began selling off its ownership interests, culminating in a $100 million sale to a private equity firm. As a result, Hughes became a wholly owned subsidiary of SkyTerra Communications Inc., which was controlled by the investment firm. Hughes Communications was spun-off as an independent public company in 2007 and was acquired by EchoStar for about $2 billion in 2011.
Technology and services
HughesNet is Hughes Network Systems' satellite-based broadband internet service. As of 2018, Hughes controls 69 percent of the market for residential satellite-based internet connections, which are mostly used by rural customers out-of-reach of wired infrastructure. Hughes also markets its services to government, business, and military.
Satellite systems
In 2012, Hughes launched the Jupiter (stylized as JUPITER) System, Hughes' VSAT ground system that provides high-performance terminals, increased gateway architecture, and advanced air interface for both high-throughput and conventional satellites. The Jupiter System supports applications such as broadband Internet and Intranet access, community Wi-Fi hotspots, cellular backhaul, digital signage and mobility, including airborne services.
Through its Jupiter Aero System, an integrated system of airborne and ground equipment and software, Hughes provides broadband access to aircraft. As of 2018, about 1,000 aircraft carry Hughes technology on board.
In March 2018, Hughes announced improvements to the Jupiter system, doubling the throughput of HT2xxx terminals to more than 200 Mbit/s and increasing cap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBA%20News | Until May 2017, the Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA) provided news programming in 14 foreign languages directed at audiences abroad or in Israel. The goal of these programs is to present a balanced and impartial picture of what happens in Israel in particular and in the region in general. Each language has its own schedule of programs focusing on news, political, social, educational, economic, technological and cultural issues.
Video programming
The daily IBA English News broadcast was available on-demand via the IBA World website. News Anchors are Erin Viner, Laura Cornfield and Arieh O'Sullivan. Chief Editor is Steve Leibowitz, Senior Editor and Correspondents include Efrat Battat and Brian Freeman. IBA News was broadcast on Israel Channel One at 4:50 PM Sunday-Thursday, and Channel 33 Sunday- Thursday at 5:00 PM. Friday and Saturday broadcasts are at 6:00 PM on Channel 33 only. The weekly IBA Close-Up magazine formerly used to complement the English newscast.
The IBA News program is rebroadcast on certain Christian broadcasting channels, primarily LeSEA. This includes METV Middle East Television. In the USA, the IBA News English language program airs on the satellite channel WHT (DirecTV channel 367) at 6:00 PM (Eastern time.) The IBA News also airs multiple times a day on JBS Jewish Broadcasting Service. As of January 1, 2013, the IBA News is no longer on the MHz WorldView channel. That timeslot was replaced with JN1 Jewish News 1.
Audio programming
The IBA provides daily audio programming with news and views from Israel. The programs may be listened to on the internet live and on-demand via IBA World, On-demand audio becomes available about 20 minutes after the end of a live broadcast. IBA audio programming is available in the following languages: English, French, Russian, Moroccan Arabic, Amharic, Bukhori, Persian, Romanian, Ladino, Spanish, Yiddish, Tigrinya, and Hungarian.
Weekly audio magazine programs in English titled Weekend Report, Sunday Edition, Culture Report and Face to Face are available on the IBA World website. The IBA World website also provides Hebrew language lessons and an archive of certain historical radio broadcasts.
Two programs in English also available via the World Radio International WRN stream. The on-demand audio is no longer available.
News headlines
IBA World also provides text news headlines, local weather in Israel, and foreign exchange rates for the US Dollar, the Euro and British Pound Sterling.
See also
Culture of Israel
Israel Broadcasting Authority
Israel Radio International, the official radio service for immigrants and for listeners outside Israel
Kol Yerushalayim, the Hebrew program of Jerusalem Calling, the radio station of the British Mandatory Authority
Kol Yisrael, Israel's public domestic and international radio service.
Media of Israel
References
External links
IBA World / REKA
WRN
MHZ Networks Worldview
Shalom TV
IBA's Official web site
IBA's Facebook Page
News
Israeli t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20Media%20Path | The Protected Media Path is a set of technologies creating a "Protected Environment," first included in Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, that is used to enforce digital rights management (or DRM) protections on content.
Its subsets are Protected Video Path (PVP) and Protected User Mode Audio (PUMA). Any application that uses Protected Media Path in Windows uses Media Foundation.
Overview
The protected environment in which DRM content is played contains the media components that play DRM content, so the application only needs to provide remote control (play, rewind, pause, and so on), rather than having to handle unprotected content data. The protected environment also provides all the necessary support for Microsoft-approved (signed) third-party software modules to be added. It provides a "wall" against outside copying, where within the walls, content can be processed without making the content available to unapproved software.
In order to prevent users from copying DRM content, Windows Vista provides process isolation and continually monitors what kernel-mode software is loaded. If an unverified component is detected, then Vista will stop playing DRM content, rather than risk having the content copied. The protected environment is implemented completely in software, so software-based attacks such as patching the Windows kernel are possible.
These restrictions concern the various outputs from the PC. For DRM content, digital outputs such as Digital Visual Interface (DVI) and High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) will have High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) enabled, to prevent someone from recording the digital stream. Even analog TV-style outputs typically require some restrictions, provided by mechanisms such as Macrovision and CGMS-A. These restrictions only apply to DRM-restricted content, such as HD DVD or Blu-ray that are encrypted with AACS, and also apply in Windows XP using supported playback applications. Users' standard unprotected content will not have these restrictions. Some output types such as S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interchange Format) typically don't have a suitable DRM scheme available, so these need to be turned off reliably if the content so specifies.
In Vista, the control of PC video outputs is provided by PVP-OPM, which is essentially the next generation of Certified Output Protection Protocol (COPP) introduced in Windows XP. However, rather than being a software application programming interface, PVP-OPM operates with the Windows media components in the protected environment.
Additionally, PVP-UAB (Protected Video Path - User-Accessible Bus) is used to encrypt video and audio data as it passes over the PCI-Express bus, to prevent it from being intercepted and copied on the way to the graphics card. It is complementary to PVP Output Protection Management.
Possible bypass
In January 2007 the developer Alex Ionescu announced that he had found a method that allows end users to bypass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20free%20and%20open-source%20software | In the 1950s and 1960s, computer operating software and compilers were delivered as a part of hardware purchases without separate fees. At the time, source code, the human-readable form of software, was generally distributed with the software providing the ability to fix bugs or add new functions. Universities were early adopters of computing technology. Many of the modifications developed by universities were openly shared, in keeping with the academic principles of sharing knowledge, and organizations sprung up to facilitate sharing. As large-scale operating systems matured, fewer organizations allowed modifications to the operating software, and eventually such operating systems were closed to modification. However, utilities and other added-function applications are still shared and new organizations have been formed to promote the sharing of software.
Sharing techniques before software
The concept of free sharing of technological information existed long before computers. For example, in the early years of automobile development, one enterprise owned the rights to a 2-cycle gasoline engine patent originally filed by George B. Selden. By controlling this patent, they were able to monopolize the industry and force car manufacturers to adhere to their demands, or risk a lawsuit. In 1911, independent automaker Henry Ford won a challenge to the Selden patent. The result was that the Selden patent became virtually worthless and a new association (which would eventually become the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association) was formed. The new association instituted a cross-licensing agreement among all US auto manufacturers: although each company would develop technology and file patents, these patents were shared openly and without the exchange of money between all the manufacturers. By the time the US entered World War 2, 92 Ford patents and 515 patents from other companies were being shared between these manufacturers, without any exchange of money (or lawsuits).
Free software before the 1980s
In the 1950s and into the 1960s almost all software was produced by academics and corporate researchers working in collaboration, often shared as public-domain software. As such, it was generally distributed under the principles of openness and cooperation long established in the fields of academia, and was not seen as a commodity in itself. Such communal behavior later became a central element of the so-called hacking culture (a term with a positive connotation among open-source programmers). At this time, source code, the human-readable form of software, was generally distributed with the software machine code because users frequently modified the software themselves, because it would not run on different hardware or OS without modification, and also to fix bugs or add new functions. The first example of free and open-source software is believed to be the A-2 system, developed at the UNIVAC division of Remington Rand in 1953, which was released to cust |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook%20Duo%20210 | The PowerBook Duo 210 is a portable subnotebook personal computer, manufactured by Apple Computer Inc. and introduced in October 1992. Priced at US$2250, the PowerBook Duo 210 was the low-end model of the two simultaneously released PowerBook Duos (the PowerBook Duo 230 was priced at US$2610). The specifications of the PowerBook Duo 210 are almost identical to the PowerBook 160, except that the PowerBook Duo 210 has a smaller display (9.1 inch). Its case design is identical to the PowerBook Duo 230, but it shipped with 25 MHz Motorola 68030, instead of the faster 33 MHz 68030 on the Duo 230. The PowerBook Duo 210 had a 80MB SCSI Hard Disk Drive. It was discontinued on October 21, 1993.
Specifications
Processor: Motorola 68030 CPU running at 25 MHz
Floating Point Unit: None
RAM: 4 MB, expandable to 28 MB via a DRAM card
Hard disk: 80 MB
Floppy disk: None
Systems Supported: 7.1-7.6.1
ADB: No
Serial: 1 Mini-DIN-8 (includes LocalTalk)
Modem: optional
Expansion: external 152 pin Processor Direct Slot, used for a docking station
Screen: 9.1" 4-bit grayscale passive matrix LCD, 640×400 resolution
Timeline
References
Duo 210 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook%20Duo%20230 | The PowerBook Duo 230 is a subnotebook personal computer introduced on October 19, 1992 by Apple Computer, Inc. Priced at US $2,610, the PowerBook Duo 230 was the high end model of the two simultaneously released PowerBook Duos, the lower end being the US $2,250 PowerBook Duo 210. With a 33 MHz Motorola 68030 microprocessor, 4 MB of RAM and an 80 or 120 MB SCSI hard disk drive, the PowerBook Duo 230 was nearly identical to the simultaneously released PowerBook 180 except for the smaller 9.1 inch greyscale "supertwist" passive-matrix LCD and the lack of a 68882 floating-point unit.
With the October 1993 introduction of the PowerBook Duo 250 and 270c, the 230 replaced the 210 in the entry level, eventually being discontinued entirely on July 27, 1994 shortly after the introduction of the 68040-based PowerBook Duo 280 and 280c.
Specifications
Processor: Motorola 68030 CPU running at 33 MHz
Floating Point Unit: None
RAM: 4 MB, expandable to 28 MB via a DRAM card
Hard disk: 80 or 120 MB
Floppy disk: None
Systems Supported: 7.1-7.6.1
ADB: No
Serial: 1 Mini-DIN-8 (includes LocalTalk)
Modem: optional
Expansion: external 152 pin Processor Direct Slot, used for a docking station
Screen: 9.1" 4-bit grayscale passive matrix LCD, 640×400 resolution
Timeline
References
Duo 230
Computer-related introductions in 1992 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket%20Master | Basket Master is the European version name of the computer basketball game Fernando Martín Basket Master developed by Dinamic during 1987. Some versions, like C64 one, were developed by Imagine
It features Fernando Martín, a popular Spanish basketballer in the eighties. He was the first Spaniard who played in the NBA.
References
External links
Basket Master screenshots at mobygames.com
Basket Master at computeremuzone.com
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
Dinamic Software games
Europe-exclusive video games
Video games developed in Spain
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Basketball video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax%20%28disambiguation%29 | Fax, short for facsimile, is a telecommunications technology used to transfer copies of documents over the telephone network.
Fax or FAX may also refer to:
Media
Fax (Argentine TV show), between 1991 and 1992
Fax (Pern), a character in Anne McCaffrey's Dragonriders of Pern series
Fax (TV series), BBC children's show between 1985 and 1988
Fax (video game), a trivia arcade game
Other
FAX +49-69/450464, a German record company releasing ambient music
FlyAsianXpress, commonly known as FAX, an airline operating in Malaysia
Fresno Area Express, a public transit agency operating in Fresno, California
Fax (surname), various people
See also
FACS (disambiguation)
Faxe, a town in Denmark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGIR | SIGIR may refer to:
Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, part of the Association for Computing Machinery
See also
SIGIRR, a human protein and gene
Sigiri or Sigiriya, an ancient rock fortress in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20novo%20protein%20structure%20prediction | In computational biology, de novo protein structure prediction refers to an algorithmic process by which protein tertiary structure is predicted from its amino acid primary sequence. The problem itself has occupied leading scientists for decades while still remaining unsolved. According to Science, the problem remains one of the top 125 outstanding issues in modern science. At present, some of the most successful methods have a reasonable probability of predicting the folds of small, single-domain proteins within 1.5 angstroms over the entire structure.
De novo methods tend to require vast computational resources, and have thus only been carried out for relatively small proteins. De novo protein structure modeling is distinguished from Template-based modeling (TBM) by the fact that no solved homologue to the protein of interest is used, making efforts to predict protein structure from amino acid sequence exceedingly difficult. Prediction of protein structure de novo for larger proteins will require better algorithms and larger computational resources such as those afforded by either powerful supercomputers (such as Blue Gene or MDGRAPE-3) or distributed computing projects (such as Folding@home, Rosetta@home, the Human Proteome Folding Project, or Nutritious Rice for the World). Although computational barriers are vast, the potential benefits of structural genomics (by predicted or experimental methods) to fields such as medicine and drug design make de novo structure prediction an active research field.
Background
Currently, the gap between known protein sequences and confirmed protein structures is immense. At the beginning of 2008, only about 1% of the sequences listed in the UniProtKB database corresponded to structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), leaving a gap between sequence and structure of approximately five million. Experimental techniques for determining tertiary structure have faced serious bottlenecks in their ability to determine structures for particular proteins. For example, whereas X-ray crystallography has been successful in crystallizing approximately 80,000 cytosolic proteins, it has been far less successful in crystallizing membrane proteins – approximately 280. In light of experimental limitations, devising efficient computer programs to close the gap between known sequence and structure is believed to be the only feasible option.
De novo protein structure prediction methods attempt to predict tertiary structures from sequences based on general principles that govern protein folding energetics and/or statistical tendencies of conformational features that native structures acquire, without the use of explicit templates. Research into de novo structure prediction has been primarily focused into three areas: alternate lower-resolution representations of proteins, accurate energy functions, and efficient sampling methods.
A general paradigm for de novo prediction involves sampling conformation space, guided by scoring f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune%27s%20algorithm | Fortune's algorithm is a sweep line algorithm for generating a Voronoi diagram from a set of points in a plane using O(n log n) time and O(n) space. It was originally published by Steven Fortune in 1986 in his paper "A sweepline algorithm for Voronoi diagrams."
Algorithm description
The algorithm maintains both a sweep line and a beach line, which both move through the plane as the algorithm progresses. The sweep line is a straight line, which we may by convention assume to be vertical and moving left to right across the plane. At any time during the algorithm, the input points left of the sweep line will have been incorporated into the Voronoi diagram, while the points right of the sweep line will not have been considered yet. The beach line is not a straight line, but a complicated, piecewise curve to the left of the sweep line, composed of pieces of parabolas; it divides the portion of the plane within which the Voronoi diagram can be known, regardless of what other points might be right of the sweep line, from the rest of the plane. For each point left of the sweep line, one can define a parabola of points equidistant from that point and from the sweep line; the beach line is the boundary of the union of these parabolas. As the sweep line progresses, the vertices of the beach line, at which two parabolas cross, trace out the edges of the Voronoi diagram. The beach line progresses by keeping each parabola base exactly half way between the points initially swept over with the sweep line, and the new position of the sweep line. Mathematically, this means each parabola is formed by using the sweep line as the directrix and the input point as the focus.
The algorithm maintains as data structures a binary search tree describing the combinatorial structure of the beach line, and a priority queue listing potential future events that could change the beach line structure. These events include the addition of another parabola to the beach line (when the sweep line crosses another input point) and the removal of a curve from the beach line (when the sweep line becomes tangent to a circle through some three input points whose parabolas form consecutive segments of the beach line). Each such event may be prioritized by the x-coordinate of the sweep line at the point the event occurs. The algorithm itself then consists of repeatedly removing the next event from the priority queue, finding the changes the event causes in the beach line, and updating the data structures.
As there are O(n) events to process (each being associated with some feature of the Voronoi diagram) and O(log n) time to process an event (each consisting of a constant number of binary search tree and priority queue operations) the total time is O(n log n).
Pseudocode
Pseudocode description of the algorithm.
let be the transformation ,
where is the Euclidean distance between and the nearest site
let be the "beach line"
let be the region covered by site .
let be the bound |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira%20A.%20Fulton%20College%20of%20Engineering | The Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering represents Brigham Young University's (BYU) engineering discipline and includes departments of chemical, civil, electrical and computer, and mechanical engineering and the school of technology. The college awards about 700 degrees every year (600 BS, 90 MS, 18 PhD) and has almost 3,600 students.
History
The college has roots going back to the introduction of Brigham Young Academy, but its more official beginning occurred when the first dean, Harvey Fletcher, organized the engineering program at BYU in 1952. This was the department of engineering science that, at the time, was part of the BYU College of Arts and Sciences. By 1965, there were four engineering departments (chemical, physical, civil and electrical), with enrollment at the median compared to engineering schools in the United States. By 1969, enrollment had reached the 70th percentile. The college has continued to expand, and now includes five main facilities for its students: the Engineering Building, Engineering Research Laboratory and the Clyde, Crabtree and Snell buildings. Fletcher's design of the acoustics for the DeJong Concert Hall of the College of Fine Arts at BYU is at times attributed to this college since Fletcher was the first head of the engineering department. However, since acoustics is a sub-field of physics it is also possible to attribute that work more to the College of Physical and Engineering Sciences, which is where both physics and engineering were housed at that time. That college is a partial ancestor of the College of Engineering but also of the BYU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
The Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering was formed in 1972 by merging the four engineering departments from the College of Physical and Engineering Sciences, which was then renamed the college of Physical and Mathematical Sciences with most of the College of Industrial and Technical Education.
The College of Industrial and Technical Education was formed in 1965 when it was split from the General College, which was separated from the College of Biological and Agricultural Sciences in 1957. The placement of technical and industrial education in a college labeled Biological and Agricultural Sciences had arguably never been entirely logical. It did make a little sense considering one possible program was vocational agriculture, but the general disconnect between the terminology and the actual programs probably explains why the industrial and technical education programs had only been in the College of Biology and Agriculture for three years. Before 1954, what became the college of Biology and Agriculture had along with what became the College of Family Living, which in turn was a predecessor of the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences been the college of Applied Science. Under this name the inclusion of technical education programs had made sense.
The specific origins of the College of Engineering Sciences was the M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohloff | Rohloff AG is a German company from Fuldatal near Kassel that manufactures hub gears, bicycle chains and tools that are known for their durability and high performance. The company’s logo is a black silhouette of a raven on a yellow background.
History
Rohloff AG was founded in 1986 and began by producing a high-tech, premium priced bicycle chain, the SLT 99. Sales of this chain generated revenues of €1m in 1991, and approximately €0,5m annually from 1992–1998.
Development of Rohloff Speedhub 500/14
While at the Tour de France road race in France in 1994, the Rohloffs went bicycling on the beach in France. The bikes got stuck in the sand, and the primitive derailleur gear systems would not work properly. This triggered Bernhard Rohloff to develop a new internally geared hub.
At the 1996 IFMA in Cologne, Rohloff announced a 14-speed gear hub with a weight of 1700 grams. At the time, the gear hub with the greatest number of speeds was the unreliable 3700 gram 12 speed Sachs Elan (discontinued by 2000), made by the hub-gear manufacturer Sachs (later acquired by SRAM). A year later Rohloff presented a workable prototype at the 1997 IFMA and won a crate of champagne from the employees at Sachs, who had bet against them the year before. The managing director of the dominant cycling component manufacturer Shimano approached Rohloff and asked: "Shimano could release a 14 speed gear hub onto the market tomorrow, but it would weigh double as much as yours" - "How do you manage this?"
The Rohloffs had been granted a DM 1 million bank loan for development of the new product, and for the start of production, guarantees in the amount of several million marks. At this time, the design just existed on paper. The company was not successful in raising financing from investors. However, just 10 days after IFMA, the loan guarantees were retracted. The granting bank had gone bankrupt, was acquired by another bank, and the restructuring specialist hired had previously been involved with financing development of the competing Sachs Elan hub.
Rohloff searched but was unable to raise a bank loan. The company was in dire straits; if the product could not be launched, it could not repay the loans. The founders had personally guaranteed for the initial million mark loan.
Eventually Rohloff obtained a state guarantee which paved the way for a bank loan to pay local parts suppliers and commence production of the Speedhub. The decision maker at the financial and economic ministry in Hessen was a keen cyclist. When he had first heard of the Rohloff, he had already decided to buy a hub if it became available. Following a test-ride in May 1998, the loan was granted, enabling Rohloff AG to sign production contracts with local suppliers by the summer. The first Speedhub units were shipped to customers by Christmas of 1998.
Products
Each year Rohloff produces approximately 20,000 gear hubs. The Rohloff Speedhub 500/14 is the only bicycle hub with 14 gears, which can replace a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth%20Clan | The Sixth Clan is a women's network active in Somali politics founded by Asha Haji Elmi. The name stems from the fact that traditionally Somalia's society is said to consist of five major clans. The "sixth clan" is the pan-Somali women's movement.
The movement stems from the earlier organization founded by Asha Haji Elmi, Save Somali Women and Children (SSWC), and grew out of a group of women with cross-clan marriages.
In 2002, she led a group of women to the Somali Peace and Reconciliation conference in Eldoret, Kenya. There, the "sixth clan" was officially recognized, and women representatives were allowed to officially participate in the discussions.
This political activism led the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to adopt in the Transitional Federal Charter (TFC) a quota of 12% of the 275 seats in the Transitional Federal Parliament (TFP) to be reserved for women. While that should result in 33 seats, only 8% of the seats awarded were granted to women.
References
Women's organisations based in Somalia
Politics of Somalia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Arts%20Society | The Computer Arts Society (CAS) was founded in 1968, in order to encourage the creative use of computers in the arts.
Foundation
The three founder members of the Society – Alan Sutcliffe, George Mallen, and John Lansdown – had been involved with computing and its related concepts for some time. They knew Jasia Reichardt, the curator of Cybernetic Serendipity (1968) and had participated in or advised on aspects of the exhibition. Sutcliffe was involved with the exhibition through his collaboration with composer Peter Zinovieff and Electronic Music Studios (EMS). Mallen was working with the English cybernetician Gordon Pask at Systems Research and assisted on the production of the interactive robotic work Colloquy of Mobiles shown at the exhibition. Although not mentioned in the catalogue credits, Reichardt knew and respected Lansdown, who from 1963, had used computing techniques in architectural design and planning.
The original idea for a society dedicated to the computer arts (which was to become the Computer Arts Society) was instigated by Sutcliffe, at the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) Congress in August 1968 in Edinburgh. Sutcliffe and Zinovieff had won second prize with ZASP, their piece of computer-composed music. Members of the Congress suggested to Sutcliffe that he might like to convene a meeting of people working in a similar field whilst they were all together at the Congress, as most had not had a chance to meet like-minded persons outside their own team before. Sutcliffe collated the names of interested individuals and the group formed out of this, with the first meetings in London held in a room belonging to University College London, in or near Gower Street in September 1968. Subsequent meetings were often held at the offices of Lansdown’s architectural practice (he became the Secretary with Sutcliffe the Chairman and Mallen, Treasurer.)
The Computer Arts Society was founded to encourage the creative use of computers and to allow the exchange of information in this area. It was recognised that this was an area where there had been increasing activity, but with little formal publication of methods and results and little communication between artists in different fields (music, visual, performing arts, and so on).
Early activities
At this time Sutcliffe was a programmer at International Computers Limited (ICL) in Bracknell, Berkshire with the official title of Manager of New Series Branch. His area of expertise and responsibility covered what today is called research and development of software. He has commented that ICL was always supportive of his outside artistic endeavours, offering for example, allocation of time on the mainframes, which he undertook mostly outside of peak hours. As the Bracknell branch of ICL did not initially have a mainframe computer, Sutcliffe would occasionally travel to the Putney, London branch. This was located across the River Thames from EMS and this facilitated his col |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Spatial%20Data%20Infrastructure | The United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) is an institutional and technical mechanism for establishing system coherence for the exchange and applications of geospatial data and information for UN activities and supporting SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) development activities in Member Countries.
Background of UNSDI
UNSDI is an initiative of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG), a voluntary network of UN professionals working in the fields of cartography and geographic information science.
UNSDI aims to contribute to the mission of the United Nations, from to peacekeeping to humanitarian relief, from climate change to disaster reduction, response and recovery, from environmental protection to poverty reduction, food security, water management and economic development and to contribute to the realization of the UN Millennium Development Goals. By facilitating efficient global and local access, exchange and utilization of geospatial information, UNSDI will make the United Nations system more effective and support its “Delivering as One” policies.
Spatial data infrastructures provide the institutional and technical foundation of policies, standards and procedures that enable organizations and information systems to interact in a way that facilitates spatial data discovery, evaluation and applications.
Given that UN agencies vary in their ability to utilise and manage geospatial information it is foreseen that UNSDI will reduce development and operational costs by working together to achieve economies of scale through generic standards, guidelines and implementation tools. Thus, the development of UNSDI is considered essential for increasing system coherence in the use and exchange of geospatial data and information for UN activities.
In the short term, UNSDI is an investment into the capacities of the United Nations System to manage its existing geo-spatial assets more effectively. Additionally UNSDI may serve as a model and vehicle for capacity building in some Member States that request assistance from the United Nations in managing and applying geospatial data to support their national development agenda.
Development at global level
At present the Center of Excellence for UNSDI has been established. The first phase of UNSDI developments consist of a Gazetteer, a Geospatial Data Warehouse, and a Visualization Facility. Two donor countries are involved in the present developments: Australia and Germany. Australia is funding the Gazetteer project, Germany has supplied office and staffing facilities for the UNSDI Center of Excellence in Bonn. The proposal for funding of the Geospatial Data Warehouse and associated activities is to be submitted to the Netherlands in Q4 of 2012.
Development at regional level
The following Regional Organizations joined the process:
Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Nairobi, Kenya
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Developme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Benayoun | Maurice Benayoun (aka MoBen or 莫奔) (born 29 March 1957) is a French new-media artist, curator, and theorist based in Paris and Hong Kong.
His work employs various media, including video, computer graphics, immersive virtual reality, the Internet, performance, EEG, 3D Printing, large-scale urban media art, robotics, NFTs, and Blockchain based artworks, installations and interactive exhibitions.
Biography
Born in Mascara, Algeria, in March 1957, as a war orphan. His father was killed before his birth in the Algerian independence war. He moved to France in 1958, following his mother and his brother, to live in popular suburbs in north Paris where the family stayed during most of his childhood.
Education
Bennayoun's doctorate thesis at the Sorbonne, Artistic Intentions at Work, Hypothesis for Committing Art, was published in 2011.
Career
Benayoun taught in contemporary and fine arts at Pantheon-Sorbonne University. In 1987 he co-founded Z-A Production (1987–2003), a computer graphics and virtual reality private lab.
Between 1990 and 1993, Benayoun collaborated with Belgian graphic novelists François Schuiten and philosopher Benoît Peeters on Quarxs, the first animation series made of HD computer graphics, exploring variant creatures with alternate physical laws.
For his first solo show, Benayoun presented a virtual reality installation linking two art museums: the Pompidou Center in Paris and the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal. Benayoun conceived and directed the exhibition Cosmopolis, Overwriting the City (2005), an art and science immersive installation presented during the French Year in China in Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, and Chongqing. This was Maurice Benayoun's first experience in China, and the reception by the public played an important role in later Benayoun's move to Asia.
Key concepts
Sublimation vs Reification – Benayoun identified two main trends affect the evolution of the human experience of materiality. Borrowing the term from chemistry, Sublimation is the operation converting the world into data that can be treated at the same time by natural or artificial intelligence. This allows the cognitive integration of the physical as well as its absolute control.
Coming from Karl Marx, Reification is the conversion of thoughts into objects. The process requires EEG (Electro Encephalography) and BCI (Brain-Computer Interaction) in association with construction technologies like 3D Printing.
Open Media, in 2000, considered his works as a form of Open Media Art, paraphrasing Jon Ippolito, not limited to the traditional forms, media and economic schemes of art, but also not necessarily based on a specific medium, digital or using technologies. Open takes here the sense of freedom in the means of expression.
Infra-realism – (Infra-realisme in French, could be interpreted as 'sub-realism') was coined in the early 90s to describe the specificity of the new form of realism emerging from 3D computer graphics. During the production |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20data%20infrastructure | A Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI), also called geospatial data infrastructure, is a data infrastructure implementing a framework of geographic data, metadata, users and tools that are interactively connected in order to use spatial data in an efficient and flexible way. Another definition is "the technology, policies, standards, human resources, and related activities necessary to acquire, process, distribute, use, maintain, and preserve spatial data".
A further definition is given in Kuhn (2005): "An SDI is a coordinated series of agreements on technology standards, institutional arrangements, and policies that enable the discovery and use of geospatial information by users and for purposes other than those it was created for."
General
Some of the main principles are that data and metadata should not be managed centrally, but by the data originator and/or owner, and that tools and services connect via computer networks to the various sources. A GIS is often the platform for deploying an individual node within an SDI. To achieve these objectives, good coordination between all the actors is necessary and the definition of standards is very important.
Due to its nature (size, cost, number of t-related. An example of an existing SDI, since 2002, is the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) created by the OMB Circular A-16 in the United States. At the European side, since 2007, the INSPIRE is a European Commission initiative to build a European SDI beyond national boundaries and ultimately the United Nations Spatial Data Infrastructure (UNSDI) will do the same for over 30 UN Funds, Programmes, Specialized Agencies and member countries.
Software components
An SDI should enable the discovery and delivery of spatial data from a data repository, via a spatial service provider, to a user. As mentioned earlier it is often wished that the data provider is able to update spatial data stored in a repository. Hence, the basic software components of an SDI are:
Software client - to display, query, and analyse spatial data (this could be a browser or a desktop GIS)
Catalogue service - for the discovery, browsing, and querying of metadata or spatial services, spatial datasets and other resources
Spatial data service - allowing the delivery of the data via the Internet
Processing services - such as datum and projection transformations, or the transformation of cadastral survey observations and owner requests into Cadastral documentation
(Spatial) data repository - to store data, e.g., a spatial database
GIS software (client or desktop) - to create and update spatial data
Besides these software components, a range of (international) technical standards are necessary that allow interaction between the different software components. Among those are geospatial standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (e.g., OGC WMS, WFS, GML, etc.) and ISO (e.g., ISO 19115) for the delivery of maps, vector and raster data, but also data format and i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Ihnatowicz | Edward Ihnatowicz (born 14 February 1926, Chełm – died 1988, London) was a Polish cybernetic art sculptor active in the late 1960s and early 1970s. His sculptures explored the interaction between his robotic works and the audience.
He was a pioneer of the use of computers in art and especially robots as art. As Eduardo Kac states:
...three artworks created in the mid and late sixties stand as landmarks in the development of robotic art: Nam June Paik and Shuya Abe's Robot K-456 (1964), Tom Shannon's Squat (1966), and Edward Ihnatowicz's The Senster (1969-1970). While these works are very significant in their own right, they acquire a particular meaning when re-considered today, since seen together they also configure a triangle of new aesthetic issues that has continually informed the main directions in robotic art.
He was an active member of the Computer Arts Society.
Cybernetic works
SAM
His first cybernetic work that moved directly and recognisably in response to what was going on around it was the Sound Activated Mobile (SAM). It had four microphones mounted in front of fiberglass parabolic reflectors (reminiscent of a flower) on top of a spine-like column of aluminium castings. Hydraulic pistons in the vertebra-like units allowed the neck to twist from side-to-side and bend forwards and backwards. An analogue circuit was used to control the hydraulics to move the robot to face the direction of the predominant sound. It was exhibited at the Cybernetic Serendipity exhibition which was held initially at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London in 1968 and later toured Canada and the US ending at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. SAM's behaviour, that of turning to face people as they talked and tracking their movement if they continued to make a sound, together with its sensitivity to quiet but sustained noise, rather than loud shouts, encouraged many people to spend time in front of it, trying to attract its attention.
The Senster
His most significant work was The Senster, a large hydraulically actuated robot that followed the sound and motion of the people around it, giving the impression of being alive. The Senster was the first robotic sculpture to be controlled by a computer. It used an array of four microphones to detect the direction of the sound around it and two Doppler radar arrays to measure the motion of people. A computer program controlled the hydraulic actuators to move the body so that the Senster was attracted by sound and movement but repelled by loud noises and violent motion. The program bears a strong resemblance to that used in behavior-based robotics developed a decade later.
The Bandit
His final work of Cybernetic Art was The Bandit, which was exhibited at the Computer Arts Society exhibition at the Edinburgh Festival, UK in 1973. It was a hydraulically actuated lever controlled by a computer and had two modes: one where it was position controlled and one where it was force controlled. When a visitor first h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.%20Mani%20Chandy | Kanianthra Mani Chandy (born 25 October 1944) is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He has been the Executive Officer of the Computer Science Department twice, and he has been a professor at Caltech since 1989. He also served as Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology.
Early life and education
Chandy received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering with a thesis in operations research. He also earned a Master's from the New York University, and a Bachelor's from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
Career
He has worked for Honeywell and IBM. From 1970 to 1989, he was in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, serving as chair in 1978–79 and 1983–85. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies including IBM and Bell Labs. He also served on the Engineering and Computer Science jury for the Infosys Prize in 2019.
Research
In 1984, along with J Misra, Chandy proposed a new solution to the dining-philosophers problem.
Chandy does research in distributed computing. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems, including the eponymous BCMP networks. He described the Chandy–Lamport algorithm together with Leslie Lamport.
Recognition
He received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication in 1987, the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group in 1985, and the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award in 1993.
Chandy was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for contributions to computer performance modeling, parallel discrete-event simulation, and systematic development of concurrent programs.
He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 "for contributions to queueing networks, performance analysis, distributed and parallel programming, and distributed simulation".
References
External links
Homepage and Bio at Caltech
Another Bio and discussion of his work
Indian emigrants to the United States
MIT School of Engineering alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
American people of Malayali descent
American computer scientists
20th-century Indian mathematicians
California Institute of Technology faculty
IBM employees
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Living people
IIT Madras alumni
Polytechnic Institute of New York University alumni
Scientists from Kottayam
1944 births
American people of Indian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AARLIN | AARLIN (Australian Academic Research Library Network) was a successful Australian project to develop "a national virtual research library system that will provide unmediated, personalized and seamless end-user access to the collections and resources of Australian libraries and document delivery services" and the federated search service and consortium that was the project outcome. It ceased operation at the end of 2010.
History
In late 1999, the AARLIN project, led by La Trobe University, was funded by an Australian Research Council (ARC) grant of $250,000 through its Research Infrastructure Equipment and Facilities Scheme (RIEFS).
An additional $150,000 was contributed by the National Library of Australia and nineteen Australian university libraries.
The service continued operation until December 2010, with members choosing to operate the new generation of pre-indexed library search systems in house or as vendor hosted solutions.
Pilot
Six Australian university libraries were involved in the pilot phase in 2001 and 2002:
Flinders University
Murdoch University
La Trobe University
Swinburne University
University of Canberra
Victoria University of Technology
Operational phase
The AARLIN Project received $2.8 million from the DEST Systemic Infrastructure Initiative funding over three years 2002 to 2004. to implemented the system in participating Australian university libraries.
Software
The AARLIN portal provided a simultaneous searching function, targeting OPACs, citation and fulltext databases, KINETICA, subject gateways, and other search engines. It also improved a user's access to fulltext data by deep linking to electronic resources or facilitating document delivery requests where appropriate.
The AARLIN project utilised two types of software, both produced by Ex Libris:
MetaLib, front-end federated search software that enables searching across a range of resources
SFX, an OpenURL link server that helps library patrons navigate to resources and services relevant to their search queries
The AARLIN Consortium was closely aligned with Metalib/SFX vendor Ex Libris Group, contributing heavily to their global user community and contributing features which would later be replicated and included into the main software packages.
References
External links
Homepage
1999 establishments in Australia
2010 disestablishments in Australia
Library and information science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPOS | OPOS, full name OLE for Retail POS, a platform specific implementation of UnifiedPOS, is a point of sale device standard for Microsoft Windows operating systems that was initiated by Microsoft, NCR, Epson, and Fujitsu-ICL and is managed by the Association for Retail Technology Standards. The OPOS API was first published in January 1996. The standard uses component object model and, because of that, all languages that support COM controls (i.e. Visual C++, Visual Basic, and C#) can be used to write applications.
The OPOS standard specifies two levels for an OPOS control, the control object which presents an abstract hardware interface to a family of devices such as receipt printer and the service object which handles the interface between the control object and the actual physical device such as a specific model of receipt printer. This division of functionality provides a way for the application development to write to an abstract hardware interface while allowing the application to work with a variety of different hardware. The only requirement is that a hardware vendor supplies an OPOS compatible service object with their particular hardware offering.
Typically a manufacturer of point of sale terminals will provide along with a terminal operating system an OPOS control object package with a software utility that is used to configure OPOS settings. Such a utility will specify the settings for an OPOS control object and indicate the service object to be used with a particular OPOS profile. When the point of sale application starts up, it loads the OPOS control object and the OPOS control object in turn loads the service object specified by the current OPOS profile. The Windows Registry is typically used as the persistent store for device settings. The hardware device manufacturer will normally provide a utility for device specific settings used by the service object.
Operating systems
OPOS can be deployed on the following operating systems:
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows ME
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Vista
Microsoft Windows CE
Microsoft Windows 7
Microsoft Windows 8
Microsoft Windows 10
See also
Windows Embedded
References
Microsoft application programming interfaces
Retail point of sale systems
Standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Release%20Identifier | The Global Release Identifier (GRid) is a system to identify releases of digital sound recordings (and other digital data) for electronic distribution. It is designed to be integrated with identification systems deployed by key stakeholders from across the music industry.
(GRid should not be confused with the Global Repertoire Database (GRD), a system to track ownership and control of musical works, which was planned from 2008–2014 but ultimately failed.)
Basic construction
A GRid consists of 18 alphanumerical characters (numerical digits and capital letters as defined in ISO/IEC 646:1991-IRV, which is identical to ASCII) that are grouped into four elements as follows:
Identifier Scheme element (2 characters) “A1” denotes a GRid.
Issuer Code element (5 characters) A unique identifier of the organisation responsible for allocating the GRid, issued by the International GRid Authority (i.e., the IFPI).
Release Number element (10 characters) Uniquely identifies the specific bundle of digital resources compiled by the issuer, where “a digital resource is a digital fixation of an expression of an abstract work, such as a sound recording, an audio-visual recording, a photograph, software, a graphic image or a passage of text.”
Check Character element (1 character) The check character is computed according to ISO 7064:1983 Mod 37, 36.
When a GRid is written, printed or otherwise visually presented, the four elements of the
GRid should be separated from each other by a hyphen. For clarity, it can also be prefixed with “GRid:”. Neither the hyphens nor the “GRid:”-prefix form part of
the GRid. It is recommended that when a GRid is visually presented, the font used should
clearly distinguish between the digits ‘1’ and ‘0’ on the one hand, and the letters ‘I’ and ‘O’ on the other hand.
The following character strings all denote the same GRid:
A12425GABC1234002M
A1-2425G-ABC1234002-M
GRid:A1-2425G-ABC1234002-M
Where:
A1 – Identifier Scheme element
2425G – Issuer Code element
ABC1234002 – Release Number element
M – Check Character element
Registration
GRid codes can be registered through becoming a GRid issuer with the IFPI or by using the GRid generator contained in the Sound Credit desktop application.
See also
International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)
External links
GRid home page of the IFPI
Grid Standard V2.1
References
Unique identifiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLRD | KLRD (90.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting out of San Bernardino, California and airing the Christian worship formatted Air1 network.
KLRD also broadcasts its programming over the following translators: W202CF (88.3 FM) Champaign, Illinois, K208DV (89.5 FM) Saint Cloud, Minnesota, K216DR (91.1 FM Central Point, Oregon, and K224DK (92.7 FM) Fontana, California.
External links
KLRD official website
LRD
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1988
1988 establishments in California
Educational Media Foundation radio stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacked%20Volumetric%20Optical%20Disc | The Stacked Volumetric Optical Disc (or SVOD) is an optical disc format developed by Hitachi Maxell, which uses an array of wafer-thin optical discs to allow data storage.
Each "layer" (a thin polycarbonate disc) holds around 9.4 GB of information, and the wafers are stacked in layers of 20, 25, 100, or more, giving a substantially larger overall data capacity; for example, 100× cartridges could hold 940 GB using the system as announced.
Hitachi Maxell announced the creation of the SVOD standard in 2006, intending to launch it the next year. Aimed primarily at commercial users, the target price was ¥40,000 for a cartridge of 100 thin discs, with the potential to expand into the home user market. When they announced the system, Hitachi Maxell publicly recognized the possibility that the system could be eventually modified for use with a blue-violet laser, similar to Blu-ray discs, which could have expanded the capacity of the system to 3-5 TB. It is possible that they in fact developed this "second generation" SVOD for use with standard Blu-ray lasers, with each thin disc having a storage capacity of 25 GB, or a 100-disc cartridge having a storage of 5 TB. Hitachi Maxell developed systems both for burning to the media using standard DVD optical heads, and pre-recording to the media using a special heat imprint technique they called "nanoimprinting." Though nanoimprinting initially required 6 minutes per disc for pressing, they had improved it to 8 seconds, and intended to achieve a comparable throughput to standard DVD pressing. The primary application of the SVOD system seemed to be business data archival, replacing digital tape archives.
In 2007, Japanese broadcaster NHK announced a similar system, based on Blu-ray discs, of stacked optical storage media specifically designed to rotate at high speeds, up to 15,000 RPM.
SVOD was anticipated to be a likely be a candidate, along with Holographic Versatile Discs (HVDs), to be a next-generation optical disc standard. However, as of 2021, little has been done with the format.
References
External links
Hitachi Maxell develops wafer-thin storage disc details and interview from IDG News Service (dead link, archived) (4 October 2006)
Maxell details in Japanese language (dead link, archived) (19 April 2006)
Vaporware
Rotating disc computer storage media
Audio storage
Video storage
120 mm discs
DVD
Optical discs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Postsecondary%20Education%20Data%20System | The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is a system of interrelated surveys conducted annually by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a part of the Institute for Education Sciences within the United States Department of Education. IPEDS consists of twelve interrelated survey components that are collected over three collection periods (fall, winter, and spring) each year as described in the Data Collection and Dissemination Cycle. The completion of all IPEDS surveys is mandatory for all institutions that participate in, or are applicants for participation in, any federal financial assistance program authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.
The IPEDS program department of NCES was created in 1992 and began collecting data in 1993.
Data collected in IPEDS
IPEDS collects data on postsecondary education in the United States in the following areas: institutional characteristics, institutional prices, admissions, enrollment, student financial aid, degrees and certificates conferred, student persistence and success (retention rates, graduation rates, and outcome measures), institutional human resources, fiscal resources, and academic libraries.
Institutional characteristics
Institutional characteristics data are the foundation of the entire IPEDS system. These include basic institutional contact information, tuition and fees, room and board charges, control or affiliation, type of calendar system, levels of awards offered, types of programs, and admissions requirements.
Institutional prices
IPEDS collects institutional pricing data from institutions for full-time, first-time degree/certificate-seeking undergraduate students. This includes tuition and fee data as well as information on the estimated student budgets for students based on living situations (on-campus or off-campus).
Admissions
Basic information is collected from institutions that do not have an open-admissions policy on the undergraduate selection process for first-time, degree/certificate-seeking students. This includes information about admissions considerations, admissions yields, and SAT and ACT test scores.
Enrollment
Because enrollment patterns differ greatly among the various types of postsecondary institutions, there is a need for both different measures of enrollment and several indicators of access. In IPEDS, the following enrollment-related data are collected:
Fall enrollment — Fall enrollment is the traditional measure of student access to higher education. Fall enrollment data can be looked at by race/ethnicity; gender; enrollment status (part-time or full-time); and or level of study (undergraduate or graduate).
Residence of first-time students — Data on the number of first-time freshmen by state of residence, along with data on the number who graduated from high school the previous year, serve to monitor the flow of students across state lines and calculate college-going rates by state. These data are |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazandaran%20TV | Mazanderan TV (Mazanderani: تبرستون کانال meaning channel of Tapuria ) also Mazandaran Broadcast Network, is a local bilingual IRIB television channel, broadcast in the provinces of Mazanderan and Golestan, some parts of the Semnan and Gilan provinces of Iran, and the Balkan province of Turkmenistan.
History
Early establishment of an independent TV in Mazanderan goes back to the Pahlavi era, in 1971, the first broadcast was installed in the town of Sari, in 1975 television activity developed, and after the revolution of Iran, broadcasts were installed in other cities of Mazandaran (including Gorgan). Soon afterwards, Mazandaran TV Broadcast went on air available via an independent analogue frequency (VHF 36).
Mazanderani language
One of unique sections of this channel is programming in the Mazanderani language, Early movies shown on the channel were all dubs of foreign movies, including many which had not even been dubbed into Persian before. Currently, a selection of cultural programs, music programs, movies, and some serials are broadcast in the language. Additionally, the new manager of this channel who is proud for his Mazanderani heritage asks for publishing news into this language. During the presidency of President Ahmadinejad, most of its programs were published in Mazandarani.
Notable programs
Mahtou (Cultural program)
Rowja (Academical program)
Bemoni
Mazerooni Shoo (Cultural program)
Cheraghe Soo (Cultural program)
Hira (Cultural program)
Watching from air
Satellite: Intelsat 902 @ 62°E
Channel Name: MazandaranTV
Frequency: 11067
S/R: 3610
POL: VER
FEC: 2/3
And
Satellite: Intelsat 902 @ 62°E
Channel Name: MazandaranTV
Frequency: 10980
S/R: 5300
POL: V
FEC: 3/4
External links
Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting
Television stations in Iran
Mazandaran Province
Golestan Province
Television channels and stations established in 1971 |
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