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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20London | Smooth London is a regional radio station owned and operated by Global as part of the Smooth Radio network. It broadcasts to the Greater London area from Croydon transmitting station on 102.2 MHz. It broadcasts a soft adult contemporary radio format from Global's studios in Leicester Square, London, and replaced 102.2 Smooth FM on 26 March 2007.
History
GMG Radio ownership
The station launched on 4 March 1990 as Jazz FM, playing mainly soul and jazz music. It was relaunched in June 2005 as 102.2 Smooth FM, playing middle of the road music, soul and R&B during the day and, as part of its licence requirements, focused on jazz music at night. On 20 October 2006, GMG Radio announced that it was requesting a change of format for 102.2 Smooth FM from Ofcom, moving the station away from its daytime soul and R&B remit which had, until that point, formed an integral part of the licence. GMG proposed an easy listening music service mixed with speech for the over 50s, coupled with an improved local news service. Ofcom approved the changes on 8 December 2006, with the condition that GMG retained the 45 hours of jazz per week that constituted part of the former licence requirement.
As a result of the format change, GMG agreed to adhere to a minimum of 20% of its music during daytime being over 40 years old, to distance the station from its London rivals Magic and Heart 106.2.
In March 2008, GMG requested a format change to remove the 45-hour jazz commitment it has in place for 102.2 Smooth Radio. Part of the plans included a relaunch of Jazz FM from the jazzfm.com service (at the time broadcasting on DAB in Glasgow and online) onto a DAB multiplex in London. In a meeting on 22 April 2008 Ofcom denied GMG's request to drop its jazz commitments. GMG, under licence to The Local Radio Company relaunched Jazz FM despite the decision.
On 6 October 2008 Smooth Radio was removed from the MXR Wales and West multiplex to allow for the relaunch of Jazz FM. Although initially, Real Radio was removed, Smooth Radio was removed and Real restored on the multiplex. It replaced Jazz FM in South Wales and returned to DAB.
Local programming originated from studios in London. Networked programming was syndicated from sister station Smooth North West at Salford Quays, Manchester.
In 2010 GMG announced that it would be merging its five Smooth stations in England to create a nationwide Smooth Radio service based in Manchester. The new station was launched on 4 October 2010 and could be heard both on DAB and on the locally on the FM frequencies.
Global Radio ownership
Smooth Radio's output was relocated to new owner Global's Leicester Square headquarters from 1 October 2013, a move that coincided with a major overhaul of its schedule, and the closure of Smooth 70s after 21 months on air.
On 4 February 2014, the Radio Today website reported that Ofcom had given Global permission to remove Smooth from the Digital One platform, and to replace it with a service playing music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadberry%20Data%20Systems | Broadberry Data Systems is an independent IT hardware supplier/integrator. The company's head office is based in Perivale, Middlesex, UK, and it has a satellite sales office in the Midlands as well as two sales offices in the United States, one in Delaware and one in Florida.
Business
While manufacturing and supplying computer servers, storage solutions, workstations, rackmount cabinets and blade servers, Broadberry Data Systems also provides service and support at both the pre- and post sales stages.
The company's core brands are its own manufactured Cyberstore-range of storage appliances, which include NAS, DAS and iSCSI SAN servers ranging from 2TB to over 100TB. The company also distributes the AcoustiRACK-range of low-noise server cabinets in the UK and the USA.
History
Broadberry Data Systems was founded in October 1989 and initially consisted of only one sales office, which was based in Brentford, Middlesex. In August 2005, the company expanded and moved to a new purpose-built sales and manufacturing facility in Perivale.
In March 2006, the first U.S. Broadberry sales office was opened in Delaware. In January 2007, second U.S. sales office opened in Florida.
Acquisition
In October 2019, Broadberry Data Systems was acquired by Source Code Corporation, a private-equity backed manufacturer of server and storage devices based in Waltham, MA.
References
Computer companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pondicherry%20District%20road%20network | Pondicherry District (French: Réseau routier du district de Pondichéry) is one of the four districts of Puducherry Union Territory. It has extensive road network. Every village of Pondicherry district is connected by an all-weather metalled road.
Types of roads
List of National Highways (NH)
List of State Highways (SH)
RC Roads are the major roads in Puducherry District designated with numbering. RC Roads can be compared with State Highways. There are 33 RC roads in Puducherry District.
Other District Roads (ODR)
Rural Roads [Village Roads] (VR)
See also
Puducherry road network
Road network in Karaikal District
Road network in Yanam District
Road network in Mahe District
References
External links
Official website of Public Works Department, Puducherry UT
Roads in Puducherry
Puducherry district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puducherry%20road%20network | Puducherry (French: Réseau routier de Pondichéry) has a network of all-weather metalled roads connecting every village in the territory. The territory has a total road length of 2552 km (road length per 4.87 km2).
Road length comparison
Classification of roads
See also
Road Network in Pondicherry District
Road Network in Karaikal District
Road Network in Yanam District
Road Network in Mahe District
References
External links
Official website of Public Works Department, Puducherry UT
Infrastructure in Puducherry Union Territory
Puducherry UT Statistics
Roads in Puducherry
Transport in Puducherry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear%20%28Unix%29 | is a computer operating system command which is used to bring the command line on top of the computer terminal. It is available in various Unix shells on Unix and Unix-like operating systems as well as on other systems such as KolibriOS.
Depending on the system, clear uses the terminfo or termcap database, as well as looking into the environment for the terminal type in order to deduce how to clear the screen. The Unix command clear takes no arguments and is roughly analogous to the command cls on a number of other operating systems.
In ISO 9995-7 specifies that the following symbol be used to indicate this function on a keyboard, which is included in Unicode as: ⎚ CLEAR SCREEN SYMBOL.
One may use the reset command to erase every previous command.
History
The clear command appeared in 2.79BSD on February 24, 1979. Later, in 1985, the command was also included in Unix 8th edition.
See also
List of Unix commands
References
Further reading
External links
The manual (man) page for clear
Unix software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTLS | WTLS (1300 AM) is a radio station in Central Alabama, 30 miles northeast of Montgomery. The station broadcasts 24 hours a day. WTLS streams programming over the internet through its website.
History
WTLS began broadcasting in 1954. The original owner was Bert Bank, former state senator and founder of the Alabama Radio Network; now the Crimson Tide Sports Network (CTSN), provider of University of Alabama sports broadcasts. The radio station's first engineer, Ned Butler, purchased the radio station from Bank in 1957. Butler put the first FM station in Tuscaloosa on the air for Bank in 1953. In addition, Butler built stations in Ozark, Luverne, and Talladega in the 1950s.
The WTLS station manager for decades was Betty Butler (Ned's wife). Betty also hosted a morning show, Coffee Time, which featured styrofoam puppets "Happy" & "Menace." Harold Shedd, original producer of the country music group, Alabama, worked for Butler in 1956. In 1970, Steve Butler (Ned's son), made WTLS the first All-Country radio station in Central Alabama.
Third generation broadcaster Michael Butler (Steve's son), took over the operation in 1999 after working as Program Director for a Montgomery radio group. Akin to the early days with Betty and Ned, Michael's wife Leigh Anne serves as WTLS station manager today.
Programming
WTLS primarily has a talk/sports format, featuring a local morning show, The Wake-Up Call, with Michael, Trey Taylor, Phillip Nelson and Craig Vaught. The station also carries a Classic Hits format in the overnight hours.
Other popular programs include nationally syndicated talk show host Chris Plante and regional sports talk host Chuck Oliver. Local sportswriter Graham Dunn hosts River Region Sports. WTLS also broadcasts live play-by-play sports, including Alabama sports from the CTSN and Tallassee Tigers' high school sports. Broadcasts are on Spectrum Cable Public-access television cable TV Channel 340. All programming is streamed live on the WTLS website at and Tallassee Times TV on YouTube: Tallassee Times TV.
WTLS was the flagship station for the long-running program, Prep Sports Weekly, a statewide high school sports show with Doug Amos & Rick Cleveland that first aired in 1994. WTLS also has produced the regionally syndicated, In the Trenches, featuring former Alabama Crimson Tide center Roger Shultz and former Auburn Tigers quarterback Stan White. Yellowhammer Outdoors with Wes Allen, a daily production of WTLS, was also distributed throughout Alabama. In 2013, WTLS began producing the Lindy's Football Report, a weekly program airing on over 100 stations across the country.
One of the longest-running gospel music programs began in 1958 on WTLS, hosted by Johnny Fitzpatrick, featuring songs by the Swan Silvertones. "Gospel in the Morning-Time" continues with Charles Blalock as the host on Sunday mornings at 8:30. Blalock began working at WTLS in 1971 with the program, "The Gospel Train."
Michael Butler received the 2004 Greater Tallassee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona%20Metro%20line%205 | Line 5, currently known as Cornellà Centre – Vall d'Hebron, its termini, and often called "Línia Blava" (Blue line), is a rapid transit metro line belonging to the Barcelona Metro network operated by TMB, and part of the ATM fare-integrated transport network.
Overview
It opened in 1959 as the line 2 (originally). Line 5 is long and has 26 stations, from Cornellà to Vall d'Hebron in the northern part of Barcelona, where it meets L3.
Chronology
1959 – Sagrera-Vilapicina section opened (as the former L2)
1967 – Vilapicina-Horta section opened (as the former L2)
1969 – Collblanc-Diagonal/Provença section opened.
1970 – Diagonal/Provença-Sagrera-Vilapicina section opened. The line then known as L2 integrated into L5.
1973 – Collblanc-Pubilla Cases section opened.
1976 – Pubilla Cases-Sant Ildefons section opened.
1983 – Sant Ildefons-Cornellà section opened.
2010 – Horta-Vall d'Hebron section opened.
2021 – Ernest Lluch station opened.
Current stations
External links
Official site for Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona
Catalan Wikipedia article on the metro network
5
Transport in Eixample
Transport in Horta-Guinardó
Transport in Nou Barris
Transport in Sant Andreu
Transport in Sants-Montjuïc
Transport in Cornellà de Llobregat
Transport in Esplugues de Llobregat
Transport in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat
Railway lines opened in 1959
Standard gauge railways in Spain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlaken%20%28networking%29 | Interlaken is a royalty-free interconnect protocol.
It was invented by Cisco Systems and Cortina Systems in 2006, optimized for high-bandwidth and reliable packet transfers. It builds on the channelization and per channel flow control features of SPI-4.2, while reducing the number of integrated circuit (chip) I/O pins by using high speed SerDes technology. Bundles of serial links create a logical connection between components with multiple channels, backpressure capability, and data-integrity protection to boost the performance of communications equipment. Interlaken manages speeds of up to 6 Gbit/s per pin (lane) and large numbers of lanes can form an Interlaken interface. It was designed to handle high-speed (10 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet and beyond) computer network connections.
An alliance was formed in 2007.
Xilinx and Intel have both developed FPGAs that have Interlaken hard IP built in.
References
External links
Interlaken White Paper 2007
Altera, Sarance Technologies and Cortina Systems Join Forces on First Interlaken Protocol IP Core for FPGAs
SLE Introduces Interlaken Interconnect Protocol IP Core
Open-Silicon Interlaken IP
EE Times - Open-Silicon updates 'Interlaken' IP core
Open-Silicon Enhances its Interlaken IP Core For Very High-Speed Chip-to-Chip Serial Interfaces
Open-Silicon Secures 20th Interlaken IP License
Open-Silicon’s Interlaken IP Core Chosen for ALAXALA’s Advanced Networking Infrastructure Device
Open-Silicon’s Configurable Interlaken IP Core Delivers High-Performance Chip to Chip Interface for Networking Products at 28nm Process Node
Open-Silicon Unveils Interlaken IP Core with 600 Gbps Chip-to-Chip Interface Support for Networking, Storage and High-Performance Computing Products
Open-Silicon’s Interlaken IP Core Selected for Netronome’s Next-Generation Flow Processors
Cisco protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBS%20software%20for%20the%20TI-99/4A | There are several notable bulletin board systems (BBS) for the TI-99/4A home computer.
Technology writer Ron Albright wrote of several BBS applications written for the TI-99/4A in the March 1985 article Touring The Boards in the monthly TI-99/4A magazine MICROpendium. While Albright's article references several notable bulletin board systems, it does not confirm what was the first BBS system written for the TI-99/4A.
Zyolog BBS
The first commercially available BBS system written for the TI-99/4A in 1983 by Dr. Bryan Wilcutt, DC.S, when he was 15 years old. The name Zyolog was a play on words from Zylog who made low end 8-bit chips and was the first processor type used by the author. The software was officially copyrighted in 1985. The Bulletin Board Software was written in a mixture of TI Extended BASIC and TI Assembly Language for the TMS9900 processor. The author ran the BBS system until moving to the Amiga platform in 1991. Over 200 Zyolog BBS systems existed world wide.
TIBBS
One of the most popular BBS applications for the TI-99/4A in the early to mid 1980s was aptly named TIBBS (Texas Instruments Bulletin Board System). TIBBS was purported to be the first BBS written to run on the TI-99/4A microcomputer. Its author, Ralph Fowler of Atlanta, Georgia, began the program because he was told by TI's engineers that the machine was not powerful enough to support a BBS. Approximately 200 copies of the application were officially licensed by Fowler and many TIBBS systems popped up around the World. Operators ranged from teenagers to one sysop in Sacramento, California who was over 70 years old. Even after Texas Instruments stopped producing the TI-99/4A, TIBBS continued into the late 1980s. Eventually, Fowler made the program public domain and moved to a different PC platform.
Phillip (P.J.) Holly's BBS
12-year-old programmer Phillip (P.J.) Holly aired a BBS written in TI Extended Basic around late 1982 or early 1983 in the Northwest Chicago suburbs. His code was given to fellow BBS friends, and eventually used as a starting point for the Chicago TI-User's Group BBS, which later was coded in assembly language using TI's Editor Assembler. Holly wrote his BBS software on his own due to the lack of available BBS software options for the TI-99/4A. Months later, he discovered Mr. Fowler's TIBBS in Atlanta.
SoftWorx
Houston, Texas based programmer Mark Shields wrote a BBS program called SoftWorx in the summer of 1983 which served his board The USS Enterprise. Shields' inspiration came after watching the motion picture WarGames. The application originally made outgoing calls in an attempt to locate other computers, and was eventually adapted to accept calls. The user interface was modeled directly on Nick Naimo's Net-Works II BBS software which had been written for the Apple II. Shields used TI Extended BASIC as the basis for his application. No actual code from the Naimo's software was used, although the online experience to modem users at the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRS/Search | BRS/Search is a full-text database and information retrieval system. BRS/Search uses a fully inverted indexing system to store, locate, and retrieve unstructured data. It was the search engine that in 1977 powered Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) commercial operations with 20 databases (including the first national commercial availability of MEDLINE); it has changed ownership several times during its development and is currently sold as Livelink ECM Discovery Server by Open Text Corporation.
Early development
Development on what was to become BRS began as Biomedical Communications Network (BCN) at the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY). BCN, which went online in 1968, provided on-line access to nine databases, including MEDLINE and BIOSIS Previews, to large universities and medical schools primarily in the Northeast of the USA. State funding for the project was withdrawn in 1975, and Bibliographic Retrieval Services (BRS) was formed as a non-profit concern the following year. It was incorporated in May 1976 as a for-profit corporation with Ron Quake as president, Jan Egeland as vice president in charge of marketing and training, and Lloyd Palmer as vice president of systems.
BRS commercial operations
In December 1976, the First BRS User Meeting was held in Syracuse, New York, and by January 1977 BRS started commercial operations with 20 databases (including the first national commercial availability of MEDLINE) and 9 million records, using modified IBM STAIRS (STorage And Information Retrieval System) software, Telenet for telecommunications, and timesharing mainframe computers of Carrier Corporation. In October 1980 BRS was sold by Egeland and Quake to Indian Head, Inc., a subsidiary of the Dutch company Thyssen-Bornemisza Group.
1989–1993
In 1989 Robert Maxwell acquired BRS and the BRS/Search software; he announced the planned incorporation of the ORBIT Search Service and BRS Information Technologies and renamed the whole group Maxwell Online, Inc. At that time BRS Information Technologies was serving the medical and academic library marketplace with over 150 databases. Maxwell later bought the publishing company Macmillan and put Maxwell Online under Macmillan. In the same year BRS/LINK (hypertext connection of databases; first application delivering full text) was announced.
The initial BRS/LINK application "relates the citation in a bibliographic database to its full-text article in a second database," and "eliminates the need to re-execute a search strategy in the second database in order to find the corresponding full-text article." Initially BRS/LINK supported linking only selected bibliographic databases: MEDLINE, Health Planning and Administration, and MEDLINE References on AIDS to the full-text Comprehensive Core Medical Library.
At the time of Robert Maxwell’s death in 1991, Macmillan brought in Andrew Gregory to represent the company during the 2 years that Maxwell’s affairs were being settled and to prepare Ma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Institute%20of%20Company%20Directors | The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) is a non-profit membership organization for directors. The AICD is a founding member of the Global Network of Director Institutes (GNDI).
History
The origins of the AICD can be traced back to the United Kingdom's Institute of Directors (IoD), formed by royal charter in 1906. Branches of the IoD appeared in the Australian states in the 1960s. These branches were amalgamated in January 1971 under the Institute of Directors in Australia, an autonomous body affiliated with the IoD in the United Kingdom. The challenge of servicing state branches saw the emergence of the Company Directors Association of Australia in 1982. The two bodies merged on 1 January 1990 to form the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
In 2022, an AICD seminar on cybersecurity was crashed by hackers.
International associations
AICD is a founding member of the Global Director Development Circle, now known as the Global Network of Directors Institutes. GNDI is composed of member organizations for directors from Australia, the UK, the US, Canada, Malaysia, New Zealand, Brazil, and South Africa.
Structure
AICD is a national organization with seven state and territory divisions and an international business unit. The board of directors consists of four national directors, seven divisional representatives and the MD and CEO. Angus Armor FAICD joined as managing director and chief executive officer in August 2017.
Membership
There are six categories of membership:
Affiliate (AAICD)
Member (MAICD)
Graduate member (GAICD)
Fellow (FAICD) – List of Fellows of the Australian Institute of Company Directors
Life fellow (FAICD(Life))
International
Education
AICD courses provide access to professional development opportunities for those interested in directorship and governance.
Advocacy
The AICD advocates policies on issues of interest to directors and represents members on these issues. AICD engages with legislators, regulators and other stakeholder groups on issues affecting directors and boards. AICD engages with legislators, regulators and other stakeholder groups on issues affecting directors and boards.
In 2022, AICD announced they would support the Indigenous Voice to Parliament.
Publications
AICD produces a range of publications on corporate governance and directorship, including freely available resources to support governance in nonprofit organisations.
References
External links
Australian Institute of Company Directors
Centre for Governance Excellence and Innovation
Small business directors and financial reporting
Corporate governance in Australia
Organizations established in 1990
1990 establishments in Australia
Professional associations based in Australia
Institute of Directors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circus%20of%20the%20Stars | Circus of the Stars was an annual television special, broadcast by the CBS network in the United States, in which celebrities performed circus-type acts. With 19 shows in total, the first was broadcast in 1977 and the last was in 1994. Over the years the series featured many leading movie and television stars.
Towards the end of its life, the program title was changed slightly. In 1992, it was Circus of the Stars and Sideshow, in 1993 it became Circus of the Stars Gives Kids the World, and in 1994, it was Circus of the Stars Goes to Disneyland. The concept has also been performed in other countries, notably Stars in der Manege (1959–2008) in Germany.
Other versions and variations
The concept of celebrities turning their hand to circus acts has proved attractive to program makers around the world. The German show Stars in der Manege began in 1959 and continued annually as a charity fundraising special until 2008. It was made each winter in the Circus Krone Building in Munich, and broadcast on or around Boxing Day.
Production company Endemol has developed a reality TV format called Celebrity Circus, which takes stars from fields such as entertainment and sport, and shows them being trained in circus acts over a period of weeks. A version aired in Australia in 2005, and a Portuguese version in 2006. A British version was mooted and announcements were made that NBC had picked up the format for the American market in 2008. Variety reported that ABC might be looking to relaunch Circus of the Stars, while CBS and Fox were purportedly interested in circus concepts, as well.
List of celebrities who appeared on Circus of the Stars
The following list illustrates the range and status of celebrities who appeared on Circus of the Stars over the course of its original run. The list is compiled mainly from entries at the Internet Movie Database verified in many cases through material from official biographies and fan sites.
Kyle Aletter (show 9)
Kristian Alfonso (show 14)
Marty Allen (shows 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8)
Harry Anderson (shows 17 & 19)
Loni Anderson (shows 4 & 17)
Melissa Sue Anderson (show 14)
Susan Anton (show 16)
Lucie Arnaz (shows 2 & 10)
Bea Arthur (shows 10 & 13)
Rebeca Arthur (shows 13, 14, & 15)
Ed Asner (show 1)
Lauren Bacall (show 3)
Scott Baio (shows 5, 7, & 19)
Lucille Ball (show 2)
Bob Barker (show 5)
Barbi Benton (shows 4, 5, & 7)
Mayim Bialik (show 14)
Jane Birkin (show 1)
Karen Black (show 14)
Nina Blackwood (show 16)
Linda Blair (shows 7, 8, & 15)
Dirk Blocker (show 3)
Lindsay Bloom (shows 7 & 9)
Lloyd Bridges (show 5)
Todd Bridges (shows 6 & 7)
Danielle Brisebois (show 6, 7, & 10)
Morgan Brittany (show 15)
Downtown Julie Brown (show 17)
Delta Burke (show 12)
Steve Burton (actor) (show 13)
Claudia Cardinale (show 1)
Dixie Carter (show 16)
Lynda Carter (shows 1 & 2)
Nell Carter (show 10)
Carol Channing (show 12)
Candy Clark (shows 4, 10, & 12)
Dick Clark (shows 10, 11, & 15)
Julie Condra (sho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwise%20Prize | The K. Jon Barwise Prize (known as the Barwise Prize) was established in 2002 by the American Philosophical Association (APA), in conjunction with the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers, on the basis of a proposal from the International Association for Computing and Philosophy for significant and sustained contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing.
The Prize is awarded annually, by the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers. It serves to credit philosophers for their lifelong efforts in this field. It also serves to acknowledge and to encourage work in all areas relevant to the computational and informational turn in philosophy.
Examples of areas that are of interest to the committee in selecting candidates for this prize include: the use of computers in the teaching of philosophy; the philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence; and the area of computer ethics.
The committee selected the name of Jon Barwise for this prize because his life's work exemplified a concern with research and teaching, while his efforts were often embodied in the production of courseware and changes of curriculum.
Winners
The Award has so far been won by:
2002: Patrick Suppes (Stanford University)
2003: Daniel Dennett (Tufts University)
2004: Deborah Johnson (University of Virginia)
2005: Hubert Dreyfus (UC Berkeley)
2006: James H. Moor (Dartmouth College)
2007: David Chalmers (Australian National University)
2008: Terrell Ward Bynum (Southern Connecticut State University)
2009: Luciano Floridi (University of Hertfordshire)
2010: Jaakko Hintikka (Boston University)
2011: Douglas R. Hofstadter (Indiana University)
2012: No award given
2013: Colin Allen (Indiana University)
2014: Helen Nissenbaum (New York University)
2015: William J. Rapaport (University at Buffalo)
2016: Edward Zalta (Stanford University)
2017: B. Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury)
2018: Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri–St. Louis)
2019: Margaret Boden (University of Sussex)
2020: Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham, UK)
2021: Ben Goertzel (SingularityNET)
See also
List of computer science awards
External links
K. Jon Barwise Prize information on the APA website
James Moor's Barwise Lecture 2007 in the Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers Spring 2007
Computer science awards
Philosophy awards
American Philosophical Association
2002 establishments in the United States
Awards established in 2002 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Registry%20Service | The Web Registry Service is a software component that supports the run-time discovery and evaluation of resources such as services, datasets, and application schemes.
See also
Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
References
Geographic information systems
Open Geospatial Consortium |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IE%202600%20Class | The 2600 Class is a type of diesel multiple unit operated on the Irish railway network by Iarnród Éireann, used mainly for short-haul Commuter services. They sometimes operate Cork to Dublin services in case an InterCity unit is not available. At present the entire class is based in Cork, and is used on local services to Mallow, Midleton, Cobh and on token services to Tralee. A hybrid unit was based in Limerick until it was withdrawn in 2012 and is now stored in Cork.
Description
The 2600 Class were the first modern set of diesel railcars purchased by Iarnród Éireann, who for several years had only run multiple units on the electrified DART service. A total of seventeen individual railcars were constructed by the Tokyu Car Corporation in Japan and delivered between 1993 and 1994 for use on the commuter service between Dublin and Kildare. The stock were the first rolling stock to be delivered in Arrow livery, initially used to refer solely to the Dublin-Kildare commuter service upon which they were deployed, although they were rebranded in 2003 to the new Commuter livery. They were the very last Iarnród Éireann rolling stock to be shipped with the firm's original IR logo, though this was replaced with the IÉ version shortly after the trains entered service. The simplistic nature of its on board services and the fact the windows can be opened and closed has led to it developing the nickname the cattle car.
Deployment
Class 2600 were initially deployed on the brand new Dublin-Kildare Arrow service (now rebranded South Western Commuter). Although purchased for the new service, which began in 1994, they were also to be seen up until the early 2000s supplementing the locomotive hauled "Craven" coaching stock on Western Suburban (now Western Commuter) services, and occasionally on other lines also. Since January 2010, all 2600 class railcars have been moved to Kent Station, Cork, where they work Cork-Cobh, Cork-Midleton and Cork-Mallow services. Eight trainsets are formed with two railcars each, one with odd number, having a toilet and one with even number. Due to the odd total number of vehicles, a Hybrid set 2609/2716 had been formed. This has been withdrawn and is now stored in a shed in Cork station. All 2600 Class sets carry the new Iarnród Éireann-Irish Rail logo and silver InterCity livery since August 2013. 2613/2610 was the last 2600 Class DMU to carry the Commuter livery. Sometimes when these units go to Limerick for servicing, a 2800 Class unit is sent as a replacement. When this happens, the two types of train can operate attached, although this is a rare occurrence.
In November 2022 2610 and 2613 had their front gangway connections removed, similar to the 2800 class units.
Fleet details
References
External links
Irish Rail Fleet Information page
Iarnród Éireann multiple units
Tokyu Car multiple units |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK421 | The LK421 was a detachable computer keyboard manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation of Maynard, Massachusetts and supplied as an option to the standard LK401 keyboard with their DEC 3000 AXP workstations. The keyboard is optimized for use with the Digital Unix line of operating systems, instead of the OpenVMS operating system for which the LK401 was more suitable.
The keyboard is notable for the standard position of the Control key for use with Unix operating systems and an Escape key. The keyboard has two compose keys. There is no separate numeric keypad or edit key group. The functionality of the missing keys is implemented by some standard keys having a dual function. The user holds down the Extend key and presses the key with the appropriate legend on the front of a standard key to access the additional functions.
External links
More pictures of the LK421 including internals
Computer keyboard models
DEC hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab%20Lab%20Barcelona | Fab Lab Barcelona is a centre of production, investigation and education, that uses last generation (as of 2008) computer-assisted design software for the creation of prototypes and scale models for Architecture, Construction, Industrial Design and any activity that needs the connection to a computer to manipulate materials according to digital instructions.
Work Areas
Fab Lab Pro: to serve as place for prototype and scale models manufacture for professionals and companies of any field related to Design.
Fab Lab Masters: to serve as research and high education centre, mainly tie to the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia’s Master Program, for national and international professionals and organizations.
Central Fab Lab: to serve as educational centre for young people and children, according to the principles of Bits and Atoms Centre of the MIT, thus participating in the worldwide network of Fab Labs.
References
See also
External links
Fab Lab Barcelona
Centre for Bits and Atoms of MIT
Department of Architecture, MIT
Technical universities and colleges
Universities in Catalonia
Education in Barcelona
International schools in Spain
Industrial design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy%20Plug%20and%20Play | The term Legacy Plug and Play, also shortened to Legacy PnP, describes a series of specifications and Microsoft Windows features geared towards operating system configuration of devices, and some device IDs are assigned by UEFI Forum. The standards were primarily aimed at the IBM PC standard bus, later dubbed Industry Standard Architecture (ISA). Related specifications are also defined for the common external or specialist buses commonly attached via ISA at the time of development, including RS-232 and parallel port devices.
As a Windows feature, Plug and Play refers to operating system functionality that supports connectivity, configuration and management with native plug and play devices. Originally considered part of the same feature set as the specifications, Plug and Play in this context refers primarily to the responsibilities and interfaces associated with Windows driver development.
Plug and Play allows for detection of devices without user intervention, and occasionally for minor configuration of device resources, such as I/O ports and device memory maps. PnP is a specific set of standards, not be confused with the generic term plug and play, which describes any hardware specification that alleviates the need for user configuration of device resources.
ACPI is the successor to Legacy Plug and Play.
Overview
The Plug and Play standard requires configuration of devices to be handled by the PnP BIOS, which then provides details of resources allocations to the operating system. The process is invoked at boot time. When the computer is first turned on, compatible devices are identified and assigned non-conflicting IO addresses, interrupt request numbers and DMA channels.
The term was adopted by Microsoft in reference to their Windows 95 product. Other operating systems, such as AmigaOS Autoconfig and the Mac OS NuBus system, had already supported such features for some time (under various names, or no name). Even Yggdrasil Linux advertised itself as "Plug and Play Linux" at least two years before Windows 95. But the term plug and play gradually became universal due to worldwide acceptance of Windows.
Typically, non-PnP devices need to be identified in the computer's BIOS setup so that the PnP system will not reassign those devices. Problems in the interactions between legacy non-PnP devices and the PnP system can cause it to fail, leading to this technology having historically been referred to as "plug and pray".
Specifications
Legacy Plug and Play Specification was defined by Microsoft and Intel, which proposed changes to legacy hardware, as well as the BIOS to support operating system-bound discovery of devices. These roles were later assumed by the ACPI standard, which also moves support for power management and configuration into the operating system, as opposed to the firmware as previously required by the "Plug and Play BIOS" and APM specifications. The following standards compose what Microsoft describe as Legacy Plug and Play |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation%20rules | This is a summary of differentiation rules, that is, rules for computing the derivative of a function in calculus.
Elementary rules of differentiation
Unless otherwise stated, all functions are functions of real numbers (R) that return real values; although more generally, the formulae below apply wherever they are well defined — including the case of complex numbers (C).
Constant term rule
For any value of , where , if is the constant function given by , then .
Proof
Let and . By the definition of the derivative,
This shows that the derivative of any constant function is 0.
Intuitive (geometric) explanation
The derivative of the function at a point is the slope of the line tangent to the curve at the point. Slope of the constant function is zero, because the tangent line to the constant function is horizontal and it's angle is zero.
In other words, the value of the constant function, y, will not change as the value of x increases or decreases.
Differentiation is linear
For any functions and and any real numbers and , the derivative of the function with respect to is:
In Leibniz's notation this is written as:
Special cases include:
The constant factor rule
The sum rule
The difference rule
The product rule
For the functions f and g, the derivative of the function h(x) = f(x) g(x) with respect to x is
In Leibniz's notation this is written
The chain rule
The derivative of the function is
In Leibniz's notation, this is written as:
often abridged to
Focusing on the notion of maps, and the differential being a map , this is written in a more concise way as:
The inverse function rule
If the function has an inverse function , meaning that and then
In Leibniz notation, this is written as
Power laws, polynomials, quotients, and reciprocals
The polynomial or elementary power rule
If , for any real number then
When this becomes the special case that if then
Combining the power rule with the sum and constant multiple rules permits the computation of the derivative of any polynomial.
The reciprocal rule
The derivative of for any (nonvanishing) function is:
wherever is non-zero.
In Leibniz's notation, this is written
The reciprocal rule can be derived either from the quotient rule, or from the combination of power rule and chain rule.
The quotient rule
If and are functions, then:
wherever is nonzero.
This can be derived from the product rule and the reciprocal rule.
Generalized power rule
The elementary power rule generalizes considerably. The most general power rule is the functional power rule: for any functions and ,
wherever both sides are well defined.
Special cases
If , then when is any non-zero real number and is positive.
The reciprocal rule may be derived as the special case where .
Derivatives of exponential and logarithmic functions
the equation above is true for all , but the derivative for yields a complex number.
the equation above is also true for all , but yields a c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiceworks | Spiceworks is a professional network for the information technology (IT) industry that is headquartered in Austin, Texas. The company was founded in January 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar, and Francis Sullivan to build IT management software.
Spiceworks is an online community where users can collaborate and seek advice from one another, and also engage in a marketplace to purchase IT-related services and products. The network is estimated to be used by more than six million IT professionals and 3,000 technology vendors.
The company's free proprietary software is written in Ruby on Rails, and runs exclusively on Microsoft Windows. The software discovers IP-addressable devices and includes help desk functionality and an integrated knowledge base.
History
Founding
The company was formed in January 2006 by Scott Abel, Jay Hallberg, Greg Kattawar and Francis Sullivan, former executives at Motive. The group had originally gathered in 2005, envisioning a social methodology in which to do IT.
Spiceworks Acquisition
Ziff Davis completed the acquisition of Austin, Texas-based Spiceworks in September 2019. They joined forces to bring together Ziff Davis B2B’s rich content, data, and performance marketing capabilities with Spiceworks’ product and community expertise, ultimately delivering new insights for technology professionals, greater intent-driven market and account intelligence for technology brands, and new experiences that will connect both parties when they need it most.
Funding
The company received $5 million in series A funding from Austin Ventures in June 2006. Spiceworks' series B funding round was completed in August 2007 and included $8 million from Shasta Ventures and Austin Ventures. The company's $18 million series C funding round in January 2010 was headed by Institutional Venture Partners. In April 2011, Spiceworks received $25 million in series D funding from Adams Street Partners and Tenaya Capital and a 2014 series E financing round worth $57 million led by Goldman Sachs.
Software
In July 2006, it released a public beta. The 1.0 version of Spiceworks was released in November 2006. It focused on simplifying the process of taking inventory, monitoring networks, and generating reports for IT professionals at small and medium-sized businesses. By the end of its first year, Spiceworks had 120,000 users.
The company released the 2.0 version of its software in December 2007. Subsequent versions followed, leading up to version 7.0 in 2013. The company released a free network monitor product in December 2014.
In June 2021, Spiceworks Desktop 7.5, became unavailable for download, and at the end of the year, end of life. The company released Cloud Help Desk solution.
European expansion
In 2012, it opened its European headquarters in London, England.
Tenth anniversary
The company celebrated its tenth anniversary in January 2016 and announced plans to add 100 additional employees during the year. However, those plans w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFI%20Platform%20Initialization | The Platform Initialization Specification (PI Specification) is a specification published by the Unified EFI Forum that describes the internal interfaces between different parts of computer platform firmware. This allows for more interoperability between firmware components from different sources. This specification is normally, but not by requirement, used in conjunction with the UEFI specification.
Current version
Platform Initialization Specification 1.7, Released January 2019.
Contents
As of version 1.3, the PI specification contains five volumes:
Volume 1: Pre-EFI Initialization Core Interface
Volume 2: Driver Execution Environment Core Interface
Volume 3: Shared Architectural Elements
Volume 4: System Management Mode Core Interface
Volume 5: Standards
References
External links
UEFI Specifications and Tools
Intel Technology Journal, Volume 15, Issue 01 - "UEFI Today: Bootstrapping the Continuum"
Unified Extensible Firmware Interface |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-force | A no-force policy is used in transaction control in database theory. The term no-force refers to the disk pages related to the actual database object being modified.
With a no-force policy, when a transaction commits, the changes made to the actual objects are not "forced", that is, required to be written to disk in-place.
A record of the changes must still be preserved at commit time to ensure that the transaction is durable. This record is typically written to a sequential transaction log, so that the actual changes to the database objects as recorded on disk can be written at a later time.
For frequently changed objects, a no-force policy allows updates to be merged and so reduces the number of write operations to the on-disk database object. A no-force policy also reduces the seek time required for a commit by having mostly sequential write operations to the transaction log, rather than requiring the disk to seek to many distinct database objects during a commit.
References
Database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Bezroukov | Nikolai Bezroukov is a Senior Internet Security Analyst at BASF Corporation and was member of Computer Science at Fairleigh Dickinson University (New Jersey, United States). Also Webmaster of Open Source Software University, a volunteer technical site for the United Nations Sustainable Development Networking Programme (SDNP) that helps with Internet connectivity and distributes Linux to developing countries.
Early career
Softpanorama
From 1989 to 1996 he was founder and editor-in-chief of Softpanorama bulletin, an influential Russian language e-zine. From 1996 he is the webmaster of Softpanorama.org, a site with the self-claimed mission-statement to offer "slightly skeptical" positions regarding computer science education, system administration and software development professions.
Contributions
He created a classification systems for computer viruses, an influential Russian language book on the subject – Computer Virology (1991) – and organized the first conference of anti-virus researchers for the region. His later Virus Bulletin Conference review became popular and is reproduced by multiple hacker and antivirus defence web sites.
He claims to have coined the term "Orthodox File Managers" (OFM) in 1996 in the first e-book devoted to the subject that systematized the field and tried to define the common features of major implementations of this class of file managers: such as FAR, Total Commander and Midnight Commander.
Open source issues
Since 1998 he has been a critic of the possibilities of open source and the dangers of its commercialization. In 1999 he introduced the highly controversial term "Vulgar Raymondism" and in 2005 coined the names of two philosophical schools on writing open source software: "Software Realism" and "Software Idealism".
In 1999 he published two influential papers devoted to analyses and critique of Eric Raymond's views on the development of open source software: "Critique of vulgar Raymondism" and "A second look at the Cathedral and the Bazaar". These papers discuss the similarities between open source software development and academic research. The first paper produced a sharp response from Eric Raymond.
In 2000 he published a third paper, cited in academia, in which he analyzed the essence of Stallman's software development model and provided a comprehensive critique of GPL's foundations.
In 2005 he published the next of his series of papers devoted to a critical assessment of open source development, in which he tried to analyze achievements and pitfalls of two similar operating systems: Linux and Solaris.
References
External links
Bezroukov's website "Softpanorama"
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fairleigh Dickinson University faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System32 | System 32 may refer to:
IBM System/32, a computer.
System32, a special folder in the Windows operating system containing systems and libraries.
Sega System 32, an arcade system board. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragons%20of%20Flame%20%28video%20game%29 | is a video game released in 1989 for various home computer systems and consoles. It is a sequel to Heroes of the Lance.
Gameplay
Like Heroes of the Lance it is arcade oriented, with few RPG elements. The style of the game is very much like its predecessor, horizontally scrolling fighting controlling one character at a time.
Plot
It is based on the second Dragonlance campaign module, Dragons of Flame, and the second half of the first Dragonlance novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The plot is a faithful representation of the books it is based on.
Development
Dragons of Flame was adapted from the Dragons of Flame printed adventure module. The game Shadow Sorcerer is a sequel to this game's storyline, but has quite different gameplay.
Reception
Dragons of Flame was successful for SSI, selling 55,711 copies. According to GameSpy, "while the number of characters was increased to 10, the gameplay remained the same moderately competent, hack-'n-slash, side-scrolling action, marking this as another less than stellar entry on SSI's resume".
ST Action magazine reviewed the Atari ST version, giving it an overall score of 73%, stating "When U.S. Gold announced they were going to produce an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons range I thought we were going to be in for the usual graphic-lacking role-playing games. ... I've been proven very wrong. This latest game seems to offer more of a challenge than its predecessor, Heroes of the Lance. ... The thing I noticed about Dragons of Flame was the playability. Although the game uses complex menus, they have all been set out in a friendly, easy-to-use manner." ST Action also praised the variety of monsters, graphics, and "well implemented" gameplay.
References
Reviews
Review in Info
Review in Page 6
External links
1989 video games
Action-adventure games
Amiga games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Atelier Double games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Dragonlance video games
FM Towns games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Single-player video games
Strategic Simulations games
U.S. Gold games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games scored by Hitoshi Sakimoto
ZX Spectrum games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sengoku%20Ninja%20Tai | Sengoku Ninja Tai (Japanese: The Sengoku's Greatest Ninja) is an arcade video game released by Data East in December 1980. Also known as Ninja, Sengoku Ninja Tai was the second game released for the DECO Cassette System, following Highway Chase also released in December 1980. The objective of the game is to shoot the ninjas before they reach the top of the castle.
References
External links
1980 video games
Action games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Data East video games
Video games about ninja
Video games developed in Japan
Data East arcade games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Misner | Ivan Misner is the founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the business networking organization BNI.
Career
After starting his own consultancy business, Misner founded BNI in Arcadia, California in 1985 after losing an important client at his consultancy. The company expanded through a franchise-based business model.
Misner has written several books, including Truth or Delusion? Busting Networking's Biggest Myths and The 29% Solution: 52 Weekly Networking Success Strategies.
References
External links
Personal website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Southern California alumni
American business writers
People from Claremont, California
Businesspeople from Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage%20%28software%29 | Montage is screenwriting software developed for Mac OS X. It allows the creation, editing, and management of screenplays on Macintosh computers. Montage can import Final Draft documents and text- and RTF-formatted files. It includes custom, pre-formatted templates for film, TV, and theater.
See also
Screenplay
Screenwriting
References
External links
AppleLinks Review
Screenwriting software
MacOS software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirrorshades | Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) is a cyberpunk short story collection, edited by American writer Bruce Sterling.
Contents
"The Gernsback Continuum" by William Gibson
"Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox
"Rock On" by Pat Cadigan
"Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker
"400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw
"Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly
"Petra" by Greg Bear
"Till Human Voices Wake Us" by Lewis Shiner
"Freezone" by John Shirley
"Stone Lives" by Paul Di Filippo
"Red Star, Winter Orbit" by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson
"Mozart in Mirrorshades" by Bruce Sterling and Lewis Shiner
References
1986 anthologies
American short story collections
Cyberpunk short stories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Smith%20%28running%20back%29 | Robert Scott Smith (born March 4, 1972) is an American college football analyst for Fox Sports and the Big Ten Network. He played professionally as a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for eight seasons with the Minnesota Vikings, and played college football at The Ohio State University. Currently, Smith serves as the Founder/Chairman of Fan Huddle, an on-demand digital wellbeing platform offering content on wellness, mindfulness and healthy living.
High school career
Born and raised in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb on the northeastern border of Cleveland, Smith became the first player to win Ohio's Mr. Football Award twice (in 1988 and 1989). junior at Euclid High School, he gained 1,564 yards on 177 rushes (8.8 yards per carry) and averaged 31 yards on 10 punt returns. senior season in 1989, he gained 2,042 yards on 203 carries and scored 31 touchdowns and was awarded the Bobby Dodd National Back of the Year by the Touchdown Club of Atlanta. During his Panthers' career, he rushed for a total of 5,038 yards on 548 carries with 67 touchdowns.
College career
Smith narrowed his college choices to Miami, USC, UCLA, and Ohio State. In his two seasons with the Buckeyes Smith ran for a total of 1,945 yards, leading the team both years. freshman in 1990, he had a personal-best per game), and rushed for
Smith sat out the 1991 football season, switching to a track and field scholarship, and posted a personal-best time of 10.24 seconds in the for He seriously considered transferring to either USC or Stanford in the Pac-10 to play football; Ohio State coach John Cooper had kept the door open for Smith to return to the Buckeyes' football team, and he
Professional career
Smith was selected by the Minnesota Vikings in the first round of the 1993 NFL Draft, the 21st overall pick. Although he suffered from a number of ailments in his first few seasons, he finally broke through in 1997 with 1,266 yards rushing. Smith's finest year as a pro came in 2000 at age 28, leading the NFC in rushing with 1,521 yards; despite being at the peak of his career, he retired after the season.
In eight NFL seasons, Smith rushed for 6,818 yards and 32 touchdowns, along with 178 receptions for 1,292 yards and 6 touchdowns, and only nine fumbles. He also returned 1 punt for 4 yards and 19 kickoffs for a total of 460 yards. Smith wore number 20 as a rookie in 1993, but switched to number 26 when it became available in 1994 and wore it until his retirement.
Records
NFL
Second all-time Minnesota Vikings record for career rushing yards (6,818). Passed by Adrian Peterson on September 9, 2012. The previous record was 5,887; which was set in 1979 by Chuck Foreman.
Holds the all-time NFL record for average yards per touchdown run at 27.2
After retirement
Smith retired after only eight seasons in the NFL. He walked away from the game to pursue a career in medicine as well as to avoid any serious injuries. He has maintained a mostly private life since his retire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varian%20Data%20Machines | Varian Data Machines was a division of Varian Associates which sold minicomputers. It entered the market in 1967 through acquisition of Decision Control Inc. (DCI) in Newport Beach, California. It met stiff competition and was bought by Sperry Corporation in 1977.
Products
The DCI 1966 DATA/620 was a parallel, binary 16-bit general-purpose digital computer with magnetic-core memory expandable to 32,768 words. An 18-bit word length (for data, not addresses) was optionally available. A basic machine cycle took 1.8 microseconds, and the core memory read time was 700 nanoseconds. The computers use two's complement arithmetic and had four main registers - accumulator A, accumulator extension B, an index register X and a program counter register. Addressing modes were direct, immediate and indexed. The instruction set had more than one hundred arithmetic, logic and control instructions and some variants supported microprogramming. These models used a hardware front panel console that allowed starting and stopping the machine, examining memory and registers and changing memory or registers with front-panel switches. It used "Versalogic" (discrete transistorized) circuits with a bit-sliced architecture.
The 620/i shipped in June 1967; it and subsequent series were made with integrated circuit transistor–transistor logic from the 7400 series. The system was packaged in a 19-inch rack and consumed 340 watts at 120 V AC. The 620/F was a variation with a faster machine cycle time of 750 nanoseconds.
The ruggedized R-620/i was announced in 1968.
A lower cost 520/i shipped in October 1968
The 620/L-100 was released in 1973. It had a cycle time of 950 nanoseconds and a more compact system chassis than the 620/F. The Sperry V70 series had semiconductor memory, but could also support magnetic core. Various models were released between 1972 and 1977.
Varian V72 computer systems were installed at Bruce Nuclear Generating Station on the eastern shore of Lake Huron in Ontario, Canada, as the digital control computer system that monitors and controls the major reactor and power plant functions. these were still in operation and scheduled to be replaced by more modern systems in 2018 and 2019.
References
External links
American companies established in 1967
American companies disestablished in 1977
Computer companies established in 1967
Computer companies disestablished in 1977
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-DAC%20Thiruvananthapuram | The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram (C-DAC[T]) is a branch of the Indian Centre for Development of Advanced Computing based in Thiruvananthapuram.
It is a National Centre of Excellence, pioneering application oriented research, design and development in Electronics and Information Technology.
The centre has contributed to the electronics sector through the indigenous development of systems and products, foreign technology absorption, adaptation and upgrades, consultancy and training and turnkey implementation of contract projects.
Major development groups
Language Technology Section
This section under the C-DAC is specialized in Indian language speech, natural language processing and assistive technologies.
Major products
Malayalam speech synthesis add-on for NVDA
Malayalam Automatic Speech recognition system
Indian Language handwriting recognition system
Mithram an android application for people with ALS or for those which difficulty in speech.
Power Electronics Group
Power Electronics is a part of industrial control and is a major thrust area for C-DAC. The activities of the group are focused on Custom Power Devices, Power Controllers for tapping energy from non-conventional energy sources like wind and solar, Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Automotive Electronics, Systems for Industrial Automation, Digital Controllers and Power Control Systems for Industrial application, Networking of Power Electronic systems and the Development of industrial control products like Variable Speed Drive systems, High Performance Uninterruptible Power Supply systems, High efficiency Switched Mode Power Converters, and Remote Controlled Mobile platforms.
In addition to technology development projects, the group undertakes contract projects for industries. The centre also acts as the nodal centre for the National Mission on Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET).
National Mission on Power Electronics Technology (NaMPET)
NaMPET is a national mission programme launched in November 2004 by the Department of Information Technology (DIT) under Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, Government of India. The five-year programme is implemented through the Nodal Centre at the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing. Academic institutions in the country, manufacturing industries and user industries of Power Electronics Systems participate in the programme. A National Steering Committee composed of experts from agencies and institutions in India guides the activities of NaMPET.
Major technologies
Vehicle Control Unit and Train Communication Network for Indian Railways
Universal Auxiliary Converter for Rolling Rolling Stock Applications
Smart Energy Meters for Advanced Metering Infrastructure
Low Voltage Direct Current (LVDC) Architecture for various applications
Broadcast and Communication Group
The group is involved in the design and development of products and technology for Broadcast and Communication applicat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20counties%20with%20Native%20American%20majority%20populations | The following is a list of United States counties in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is Native American (American Indian or Alaska Native), according to data from the 2020 Census. There are 28 counties in 7 states with Native American majority populations. County-equivalents, such as boroughs and census areas in Alaska, are included in this list. This list does not include Pacific Islanders / Native Hawaiians; in any case, there are no counties with majorities. The highest percentage of Pacific Islanders in any U.S. county is Kalawao County, Hawaii, with 48%, although it only has 82 inhabitants.
List
See also
List of U.S. communities with Native American majority populations
Lists of U.S. cities with non-white majority populations
References
Native American majority populations, counties
Native American-related lists
Native American topics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20member%20functions | Special member functions in C++ are functions which the compiler will automatically generate if they are used, but not declared explicitly by the programmer.
The automatically generated special member functions are:
Default constructor if no other constructor is explicitly declared.
Copy constructor if no move constructor and move assignment operator are explicitly declared.
If a destructor is declared generation of a copy constructor is deprecated (C++11, proposal N3242).
Move constructor if no copy constructor, copy assignment operator, move assignment operator and destructor are explicitly declared.
Copy assignment operator if no move constructor and move assignment operator are explicitly declared.
If a destructor is declared, generation of a copy assignment operator is deprecated.
Move assignment operator if no copy constructor, copy assignment operator, move constructor and destructor are explicitly declared.
Destructor
The 'address of' operator (unary '&' operator)
In these cases the compiler generated versions of these functions perform a memberwise operation. For example, the compiler generated destructor will destroy each sub-object (base class or member) of the object.
The compiler generated functions will be public, non-virtual and the copy constructor and assignment operators will receive const& parameters (and not be of the alternative legal forms).
Example
The following example depicts two classes: for which all special member functions are explicitly declared and for which none are declared.
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <utility>
class Explicit {
public:
Explicit() { std::cout << "Default constructor " << message_ << '\n'; }
explicit Explicit(std::string message) : message_(std::move(message)) {
std::cout << "Non-default constructor " << message_ << '\n';
}
Explicit(const Explicit& other) {
std::cout << "Copy constructor " << message_ << '\n';
*this = other; // invoke copy assignment operator
}
Explicit& operator=(const Explicit& other) {
std::cout << "Copy assignment operator " << message_ << '\n';
if (this != &other) {
message_ = other.message_;
}
return *this;
}
Explicit(Explicit&& other) noexcept {
std::cout << "Move constructor " << message_ << '\n';
*this = std::move(other); // invoke move assignment operator
}
Explicit& operator=(Explicit&& other) noexcept {
std::cout << "Move assignment operator " << message_ << '\n';
if (this != &other) {
message_ = std::move(other.message_);
}
return *this;
}
~Explicit() { std::cout << "Destructor " << message_ << '\n'; }
private:
friend class Implicit;
std::string message_;
};
class Implicit : public Explicit {
public:
void Spew() {
std::cout << "Implicit(" << message_ << ", " << member_.message_ << ")\n";
}
private:
Explicit member_;
};
Signatures
Here are the signatures of the special member functions:
C++03
In C++03 before the i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Abrahams | David Abrahams may refer to:
David Abrahams (businessman) (born 1944), British businessman and part of the Labour party proxy and undeclared donations (2007) scandal
David Abrahams (computer programmer), best known for his activities related to the C++ and Swift programming languages
David Abrahams (mathematician) (born 1958), English mathematician at the University of Manchester
David Abrahams (swimmer) (born 2001) American Paralympic swimmer
See also
David Abraham (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALS%20Raster%20file%20format | The CALS Raster file format is a standard for the interchange of graphics data. It was developed by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) as part of the Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support (CALS) initiative. It defines a standard storing raster (bit-mapped) image data, either uncompressed or compressed using CCITT Group 4 compression.
References
MIL-R-28002 Requirement for Raster Graphics Representation in Binary Format
MIL-PRF-28002
External links
CALS Raster File Format Summary
Graphics file formats
Technical communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POPLmark%20challenge | In programming language theory, the POPLmark challenge (from "Principles of Programming Languages benchmark", formerly Mechanized Metatheory for the Masses!) (Aydemir, 2005) is a set of benchmarks designed to evaluate the state of automated reasoning (or mechanization) in the metatheory of programming languages, and to stimulate discussion and collaboration among a diverse cross section of the formal methods community. Very loosely speaking, the challenge is about measurement of how well programs may be proven to match a specification of how they are intended to behave (and the many complex issues that this involves). The challenge was initially proposed by the members of the PL club at the University of Pennsylvania, in association with collaborators around the world. The Workshop on Mechanized Metatheory is the main meeting of researchers participating in the challenge.
The design of the POPLmark benchmark is guided by features common to reasoning about programming languages. The challenge problems do not require the formalisation of large programming languages, but they do require sophistication in reasoning about:
Binding Most programming languages have some form of binding, ranging in complexity from the simple binders of simply typed lambda calculus to complex, potentially infinite binders needed in the treatment of record patterns.
Induction Properties such as subject reduction and strong normalisation often require complex induction arguments.
Reuse Furthering collaboration being a key aim of the challenge, the solutions are expected to contain reusable components that would allow researchers to share language features and designs without requiring them to start from scratch every time.
The problems
, the POPLmark challenge is composed of three parts. Part 1 concerns solely the types of System F<: (System F with subtyping), and has problems such as:
Checking that the type system admits transitivity of subtyping.
Checking the transitivity of subtyping in the presence of records
Part 2 concerns the syntax and semantics of System F<:. It concerns proofs of
Type safety for the pure fragment
Type safety in the presence of pattern matching
Part 3 concerns the usability of the formalisation of System F<:. In particular, the challenge asks for:
Simulating and animating the operational semantics
Extracting useful algorithms from the formalisations
Several solutions have been proposed for parts of the POPLmark challenge, using following tools: Isabelle/HOL, Twelf, Coq, αProlog, ATS, Abella and Matita.
See also
Expression problem
QED manifesto
POPL conference
References
Brian E. Aydemir, Aaron Bohannon, Matthew Fairbairn, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Peter Sewell, Dimitrios Vytiniotis, Geoffrey Washburn, Stephanie C. Weirich, and Stephan A. Zdancewic. Mechanized metatheory for the masses: The POPLmark challenge. In Theorem Proving in Higher Order Logics, 18th International Conference, TPHOLs 2005, volume 3603 of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout%20Pulse | Wipeout Pulse (stylised as wipEout pulse) is a futuristic racing video game developed by Studio Liverpool and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. It was released in December 2007 in Australia and Europe, and in February 2008 in North America. A PlayStation 2 port was released in Europe in June 2009. The game is the seventh installment of the Wipeout series and serves as a sequel to Wipeout Pure. It takes place in 2207 and revolves around players competing in the FX400 anti-gravity racing league.
The game was developed by Studio Liverpool. Production was centred around focusing on the feedback left by fans regarding Wipeout Pure, and improving on aspects where the development team thought they had failed in with the predecessor. The game features sixteen licensed music tracks from techno artists, including Kraftwerk. Wipeout Pulse received positive reviews upon release. Critics praised the graphics and presentation, although some criticised the repetitiveness and high difficulty.
Gameplay
Wipeout Pulse is a racing game set in 2207, ten years after the events of Wipeout Pure. As with its predecessor, the game revolves around players competing in the FX400 anti-gravity racing league. Players pilot anti-gravity ships owned by racing corporations (collectively referred to as "teams" in-game). There are eight teams in Wipeout Pulse, with one ship available for each – although the player eventually gains the ability to change the appearance of their ships. Each ship has different characteristics; depending on the team chosen, its ship will vary in terms of handling, speed, acceleration and shield strength.
Every ship is equipped with an energy shield which will protect the player from damage sustained from weapon fire or colliding with walls, although energy is taken away if this happens. If the shield completely runs out, the ship will explode and the player will be eliminated from the race. In addition, the player's ship is equipped with air brakes which can be used for manoeuvring through difficult corners at high speed. The game features a number of weapons which can be utilised to destroy other opponents or for self-defence. Defensive weapons range from shields—which make the player's ship invulnerable to damage for a short period—to land mines and stationary bombs. Offensive weaponry vary from machine guns, missiles, plasma bolts, and a "quake" – which comes in the form of a devastating earthquake that will damage all opponents.
The campaign mode features sixteen grids divided into cells, each containing a separate event which varies from ordinary races to tournaments. Once the player finishes the event in a single cell, they will earn "completion points" needed to progress to the next grid. Clearing a cell will unlock additional cells adjoining it. Returning game modes from Wipeout Pure include single races, tournaments, time trials, and the "Zone" mode, which involves the player's ship automatically accel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiprotocol%20Encapsulation | Multiprotocol Encapsulation, or MPE for short, is a Data link layer protocol defined
by DVB which has been published as part of ETSI EN 301 192. It
provides means to carry packet oriented protocols (like for instance
IP) on top of MPEG transport stream (TS).
Another encapsulation method is Unidirectional Lightweight Encapsulation (ULE) which was developed and standardized within the IETF as RFC 4326.
Protocol Outline
MPE uses MPEG-2 Private Table sections to carry the user
datagrams. The section header is used to convey:
the frame's destination MAC address
optional ISO/IEC 8802-2 Logical Link Control (LLC) and ISO/IEC 8802-1 Sub-Network Attachment Point (SNAP) information
a payload scrambling indication
a MAC address scrambling indication
MAC addresses from 1 to 6 bytes length may be used. The format of
MPEG-2 DSM-CC sections happens to be compatible with DVB MPE.
MPE-based IP Service Offerings
Service Architecture
A complete IP service offering over MPEG-2 TS can be established by
organizing MPE streams into one or more IP Platforms carried on a
broadcast network by means of the IP/MAC Notification Table
mechanism which is also defined in ETSI EN 301 192.
Commercial Offerings
Both major European satellite operators (SES and
Eutelsat) are offering commercial IP services using MPE (such as ASTRA2Connect) to both businesses and consumers.
External links
DVB Project Homepage
ETSI Homepage
ASTRA2Connect website
See also
IP over DVB
ASTRA2Connect
Interactive television
MPEG
Logical link control
Broadcast engineering
Link protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geauga%20Park%20District | The Geauga Park District, among the Ohio Metroparks, manages a system of nature preserves scattered throughout Geauga County, Ohio. The network of 22 open parks, as well as preserves and future parks, encompass more than and includes 60+ miles of walking, bicycle and horse trails, picnic areas, a nature center and abundant fishing holes.
The park district is operated by a three-member Board of Park Commissioners, each appointed to three-year terms by the Geauga County Probate Judge. According to Chapter 1545 of the O.R.C., the Board is empowered by state law to hire professionals to manage park property, acquire land, designate law enforcement officers, and levy taxes to fund its operations. To sell or lease land, the Board must gain approval of the Probate Judge. The Board must maintain accurate and permanent records of its proceedings and is subject to open records laws in Ohio.
History
In 1959, Geauga County's League of Women Voters and several local garden clubs began to explore the creation of a park district modeled after neighboring Cleveland Metroparks in order to preserve natural areas and protect animal habitats in Geauga County. The Geauga Park District was established in August 1961 under authority of Ohio Revised Code Chapter 1545 http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/1545 by Geauga County Probate Judge Robert B. Ford. The first park operated was a 4-acre park on Woodin Road in Chardon Township.
The first employee of the district was Donald W. Meyer, who served as the agency's director from 1965 to his death in 1987. The district's administrative center at Big Creek Park in Chardon Township bears Mr. Meyer's name.
The park system has completed thousands of programs for the public and continues to do so both on and off-site. The rich base of volunteers and the expertise of the naturalist staff makes these programs possible, and they are a staple in the community. Members of the community are encouraged to reserve the many lodges and shelters scattered throughout the parks for meetings, parties and family reunions. Big Creek Park, Chickagami Park, Headwaters Park and The West Woods have camping reservations available year-round and provide lean-to sites and tent pads. Rooms available at the Meyer Center and The West Woods Nature Center also provide space for county groups and organizations to host meetings.
Nature Centers
The West Woods Nature Center is located in The West Woods.
The Donald W. Meyer Center is located at Big Creek Park.
References
External links
Geauga Park District Website
Protected areas established in 1961
Protected areas of Geauga County, Ohio
Park districts in Ohio
Nature centers in Ohio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrawars%3A%20New%20York%20Invasion | Terrawars: New York Invasion is a sci-fi first-person shooter computer game developed by Ladyluck Digital Media, first released by Tri Synergy on June 28, 2006. Designed for PCs running on Microsoft Windows, the game uses the Lithtech Jupiter engine used in No One Lives Forever 2: A Spy in H.A.R.M.'s Way.
Gameplay
The player assumes the role of John Armstrong, a medical student with the National Guard who must repel an alien invasion.
Development
The development team took about 5,000 digital photos of Downtown New York City and used many references about Manhattan to replicate the real-life locations in-game.
Reception
The game was met with universally negative reviews. The game's sound, graphics, and gameplay was criticized all around.
References
External links
Ladyluck Digital Media
GameSpot Review
2006 video games
First-person shooters
Science fiction video games
Video games developed in the Philippines
Video games set in New York City
Windows games
Windows-only games
LithTech games
Tri Synergy games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
G2 Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARIA%20%28disambiguation%29 | Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) are an Australian music industry trade group.
ARIA may also refer to:
ARIA (cipher), a block cipher algorithm developed in South Korea and described in RFC 5794
Advanced Research and Invention Agency, or ARIA, a research funding agency of the UK government
Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on Asthma, an initiative for publishing guidelines on treatment of allergic rhinitis
Amyloid-related imaging abnormalities, a side effect of some amyloid-targeting drugs
A/RIA, Apollo / Range Instrumentation Aircraft, later ARIA, Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft, a Boeing EC-135 Stratolifter
Audio and Radio Industry Awards, annual awards for excellence in UK radio and audio presenting and production.
Australian Reward Investment Alliance, a superannuation trustee for Australian Government employees
Other uses
WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications), a technical specification that specifies how to increase the accessibility of web pages
See also
Aria (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDAPI | IDAPI stands for Integrated Database Application Program Interface or Independent Database Application Program Interface. It was originally a component of the Paradox relational database management system. It is now the application program interface of the BDE or Borland Database Engine.
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Schwartz | Jacob Schwartz may refer to:
Jacob T. Schwartz (1930–2009), American mathematician and computer scientist
Jack Lawrence (songwriter) (Jacob Schwartz, 1912–2009), American musician
Jacob Schwartz (librarian) (1846-19?), American librarian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred%20shading | In the field of 3D computer graphics, deferred shading is a screen-space shading technique that is performed on a second rendering pass, after the vertex and pixel shaders are rendered. It was first suggested by Michael Deering in 1988.
On the first pass of a deferred shader, only data that is required for shading computation is gathered. Positions, normals, and materials for each surface are rendered into the geometry buffer (G-buffer) using "render to texture". After this, a pixel shader computes the direct and indirect lighting at each pixel using the information of the texture buffers in screen space.
Screen space directional occlusion can be made part of the deferred shading pipeline to give directionality to shadows and interreflections.
Advantages
The primary advantage of deferred shading is the decoupling of scene geometry from lighting. Only one geometry pass is required, and each light is only computed for those pixels that it actually affects. This gives the ability to render many lights in a scene without a significant performance hit. There are some other advantages claimed for the approach. These advantages may include simpler management of complex lighting resources, ease of managing other complex shader resources, and the simplification of the software rendering pipeline.
Disadvantages
One key disadvantage of deferred rendering is the inability to handle transparency within the algorithm, although this problem is a generic one in Z-buffered scenes and it tends to be handled by delaying and sorting the rendering of transparent portions of the scene. Depth peeling can be used to achieve order-independent transparency in deferred rendering, but at the cost of additional batches and g-buffer size. Modern hardware, supporting DirectX 10 and later, is often capable of performing batches fast enough to maintain interactive frame rates. When order-independent transparency is desired (commonly for consumer applications) deferred shading is no less effective than forward shading using the same technique.
Another serious disadvantage is the difficulty with using multiple materials. It's possible to use many different materials, but it requires more data to be stored in the G-buffer, which is already quite large and takes up a large amount of the memory bandwidth.
One more disadvantage is that, due to separating the lighting stage from the geometric stage, hardware anti-aliasing does not produce correct results anymore since interpolated subsamples would result in nonsensical position, normal, and tangent attributes. One of the usual techniques to overcome this limitation is using edge detection on the final image and then applying blur over the edges, however recently more advanced post-process edge-smoothing techniques have been developed, such as MLAA (used in Killzone 3 and Dragon Age II, among others), FXAA (used in Crysis 2, FEAR 3, Duke Nukem Forever), SRAA, DLAA (used in Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II), and post MSAA (used in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20the%20wettest%20tropical%20cyclones%20by%20country | This is a list of wettest tropical cyclones by country, using all known available sources. Data is most complete for Australia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, Micronesia's Yap and Chuuk, and the United States, with fragmentary data available for other countries. The French region of Réunion holds several world records for tropical cyclone and worldwide rainfall, due to the rough topography and its location in the Indian Ocean.
Antigua and Barbuda
Australia
Christmas Island
Christmas Island is an Australian territory located in the Indian Ocean located at the summit of a submarine mountain, which rises steeply to a central plateau that is dominated by stands of rainforest. After rainfall and wind observations started on the island during 1972, only 13 tropical cyclones passed within of the territory between 1972 and 2005.
Cocos Islands
The Cocos (Keeling) Islands are an Australian territory of 27 coral islands that are formed into two large coral atolls and cover an area of around of the Indian Ocean to the northwest of Perth, Australia. Rainfall observations started on the islands during 1907, while temperature, wind and other records started in 1952. Between 1952 and 2005 27 tropical cyclones caused storm force wind gusts of over on the islands, while only four caused hurricane-force gusts of over .
Bahamas
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has been the scene of the greatest tropical cyclone casualties in recent times. The country is quite flat and generally lies near sea level.
Belize
This country has terrain mainly across its southern sections, with elevations up to about . The highest reported rainfall in what was formerly British Honduras occurred during Hurricane Keith in 2000 when of rain fell in a 24‑hour period at Phillip Goodson International Airport in Belize City. Equally heavy rains could have fallen during Hurricane Hattie of 1961 and Hurricane Fifi of 1974.
Cambodia
Canada
Tropical cyclones are usually in transition to extratropical cyclones by the time they reach Atlantic Canada, though occasionally they retain their tropical status. No tropical cyclone has ever hit Canada's Pacific coast.
China
China is a mountainous country, which leads to rapid dissipation of cyclones that move inland as well as significant amounts of rain from those dissipating cyclones. Typhoon Nina (1975) caused the collapse of two huge reservoirs and ten smaller dams when fell in Henan during a 24‑hour period, which is the record for Mainland China. Typhoon Sam of the 1999 Pacific typhoon season became the wettest known tropical cyclone to impact Hong Kong since records began in 1884, breaking a 73‑year‑old record. Precipitation associated with tropical cyclones and their remains can bring snow to Tibet. An early October 2004 tropical depression brought daily precipitation of of liquid equivalent precipitation to Che-Ku county in the form of heavy snow, which was a new October daily precipitation record for both rain an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-WIMP | In computing, post-WIMP ("windows, icons, menus, pointer") comprises work on user interfaces, mostly graphical user interfaces, which attempt to go beyond the paradigm of windows, icons, menus and a pointing device, i.e. WIMP interfaces.
The reason WIMP interfaces have become so prevalent since their conception at Xerox PARC is that they are very good at abstracting work-spaces, documents, and their actions. Their analogous desktop metaphor to documents as paper sheets or folders makes WIMP interfaces easy to introduce to new users. Furthermore their basic representations as rectangular regions on a 2D flat screen make them a good fit for system programmers, thus favoring the abundance of commercial widget toolkits in this style.
However, WIMP interfaces are not optimal for working with certain tasks or through input devices which differ from a mouse and keyboard. WIMPs are usually pixel-hungry, so given limited screen real estate they can distract attention from the task at hand. Thus, other interfaces can better encapsulate workspaces, actions, and objects for such tasks.
Interfaces based on these considerations, now called "post-WIMP", have made their way to the general public in mobile and embedded applications. Meanwhile, software for desktop computer workstations still uses WIMP interfaces, but has started undergoing major operational changes as desktop marketshare declines. These include the exploration of virtual 3D space, interaction techniques for window/icon sorting, focus, and embellishment.
The seminal paper for post-WIMP interfaces is "Non Command User Interfaces" by Jakob Nielsen 1993, followed by "The Anti-Mac Interface". Updated proposals are discussed in "Post-WIMP user interfaces" by Andries van Dam. Michel Beaudouin-Lafon subsequently proposed a framework called instrumental interaction, that defines a design space for Post-WIMP interaction techniques and a set of properties for comparing them. Examples of Post-WIMP interaction include 3D interaction and reality-based interaction.
Examples
Computer game
Virtual reality systems
Gesture-based interfaces
Voice user interfaces
See-through tools
Smartphones and mobile apps
Zooming user interfaces
Tangible user interfaces
Web applications
See also
10-foot user interface
Natural user interface
References
Graphical user interfaces
User interface techniques |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Em | David Em (born 1952) is an American artist known for his pioneering breakthroughs in computer art.
Early life
David Em was born in 1952 in Los Angeles, California. His father was a petroleum engineer and his mother was an illustrator and watercolor painter. When he was a year old, the family moved to South America, where he grew up.
He studied painting for three years at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. In 1972 he set up a studio in San Francisco, where he began working with electronic art.
Career
Em started working with digital media before there were personal computers. He created his first digital painting at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (Xerox PARC) in 1975 with SuperPaint, "the first complete digital paint system".
In 1976, he designed an articulated 3D digital insect at Information International, Inc. that could walk, jump, and fly, the first 3D character created by a fine artist.
Em became the first artist to produce navigable virtual worlds in 1977 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he was Artist in Residence from 1976 to 1988. He also created digital art at the California Institute of Technology (1985 – 1988), and Apple Computer (1991). Em has worked independently since the early 1990s.
His digital art has been written about in Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, Der Spiegel, and many other publications.
His images have been presented internationally, including at the Centre Pompidou, the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Harvard's Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, MIT, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
Em's art has also appeared in popular media, including the covers of Herbie Hancock's Future Shock, Sound-System, and Perfect Machine albums and an electronic version of William Gibson’s Neuromancer.
He is the first digital artist to have his working papers acquired by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art.
Scope of work
Em's art spans multiple media, including virtual worlds, film, photography, printmaking, and live performance.
His work is independent of any group or movement.
He says he "makes pictures with electronic light, sculpts with memory", and "evolves images that grow into and out of each other".
Stylistically, Em's art has connections to Surrealism, abstract painting, and experimental film. Gardner's Art Through the Ages describes his work as "futuristic geometric versions of Surrealistic dreamscapes in which the forms seem familiar and strange at the same time."
Some of his early digital art created at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory incorporates deep-space themes. In the 1980s he produced light effects reminiscent of the French Impressionists, and in the 1990s he introduced otherworldly lifeforms into his images. His recent work makes references to neuroscience.
Reception
During the early stages of Em's career, most people did not believe computers could |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond%20North%20West | Diamond Bus (North West) Ltd., trading as Diamond North West, is a bus operator providing services in the districts of Bolton and Wigan in Greater Manchester operating an extensive commercial network as well as franchised Bee Network bus services on contract to Transport for Greater Manchester. It also serves some areas of the districts of Salford and Trafford.
The company was founded as Green Triangle Buses and then subsequently renamed South Lancs Travel before being purchased by Rotala and rebranded as Diamond North West in 2015. In August 2019, Diamond North West purchased First Manchester's Bolton depot.
History
South Lancs Travel
Green Triangle Buses was established in April 1998 by Martin Bott and David Stewart. The new business began with two new Mercedes-Benz Varios which were used on a Greater Manchester Passenger Transport Executive tender. These were joined by three South Lancashire Transport (also owned by the two partners) single deckers for use on school services.
Further Varios were quickly added to the fleet, which were used on Green Triangle's first commercial service, route 675 a half-hourly service between Leigh and Shakerley via Astley and Tyldesley.
Less than a year later, route 675 was withdrawn and replaced with the 670/680 circular services. This essentially provided an extension to the existing service, running back to Leigh via Atherton. This was supplemented through the introduction of route 652 (Leigh - Hindley - Wigan). All three services directly competed against the incumbent operator, Bellairs & Dootson.
An opportunity for expansion came in 1998 with the opening of the Trafford Centre. Green Triangle introduced two new daytime services to the centre in the form of the 673 from Atherton and the 674 from Leigh. The 673 only lasted a short time, although the link was later reinstated as the 132; the 674 continues to this day, although it is now numbered 126.
In 1999 the business of Bellairs & Dootson was purchased. The combined operation was rebranded as South Lancs Travel. In 2000 the depot was relocated to its current premises.
Since then, the company has steadily expanded its network, primarily through tender gains. This expansion took the company deeper into both Wigan and Bolton, with the most significant gain being the award of the GMPTE Easylink network of services.
Commercial work was also added, with SLT taking over route 592 (between Shakerley and Bolton) in 2002, acquiring the service from the one-man Atherton Bus Company following the retirement of the owner. This was linked up with an existing service to form a through service from Leigh to Bolton.
The company also added a network of services in western Wigan in 2005, when it purchased Blue Bus of Bolton's Appley Bridge outstation. This included a small network of services to Shevington, Standish, Orrell and New Springs. The Appley Bridge outstation closed in May 2007.
In 2006 entrepreneur Julian Peddle bought a 30% stake in the company.
So |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Adams%20%28basketball%2C%20born%20June%201956%29 | Mark Adams (born June 26, 1956) is a college basketball analyst on the ESPN family of networks. Adams was previously head coach of the Central Connecticut Blue Devils from 1991 to 1996. He is also currently the head baseball coach at Miami University Middletown.
Adams was also an assistant coach at Washington State University from 1989–91, head coach at Western Oregon University from 1985–89, head coach Rocky Mountain College from 1982–85, and assistant coach at Idaho State University from 1979–82. Adams was a program rebuilder taking over three programs that won only 32% of games the season before he became head coach. In his final season as a head coach at those same schools his teams won 65% of their games including two championships.
External links
References
1956 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Central Connecticut Blue Devils men's basketball coaches
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Idaho State Bengals men's basketball coaches
University of Cincinnati alumni
Washington State Cougars men's basketball coaches
Western Oregon Wolves men's basketball coaches |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAP%20FORTRAN | DAP FORTRAN was an extension of the non IO parts of FORTRAN with constructs that supported parallel computing for the
ICL Distributed Array Processor (DAP). The DAP had a Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) architecture with 64x64 single bit processors.
DAP FORTRAN had the following major features:
It had matrix and vector operations.
Assignments could be performed under a logical mask so only some elements in the target of an assignment were changed.
On the negative side - operations were performed using the size of the underlying hardware i.e. on a 64x64 matrix or 64 element vector.
In a declaration either one or two extents could be omitted as in:
C Multiply vector by matrix
REAL M(,), V(), R()
R = SUM(M*MATR(A))
C Converge to a Laplace potential in an area
REAL P(,), OLD_P(,)
LOGICAL INSIDE(,)
DO 1 K = 1, ITERATIONS
OLD_P = P
P(INSIDE) = 0.25*(P(,+)+P(,-)+P(+,)+P(-,))
IF (MAX(ABS(P-OLD_P)) .LT. EPS) RETURN
1 CONTINUE
The omitted dimension was taken as 64, the size of one side of the DAP. The speed of arithmetic operations depended strongly on the number of bits in the value. INTEGER*n reserved 8n bits where n is 1 to 8, and REAL*n reserved 8n bits where n is 3 to 8. LOGICAL reserved a single bit.
However, DAP FORTRAN fell between two conflicting objectives. It needed to effectively exploit the DAP facilities. But also had to be accessible to the scientific computing community whose primary language, with a design closely tied to serial architectures, was FORTRAN. The dialect used was ICL's 2900-series FORTRAN which was based on an early version of the FORTRAN 77 standard and had mismatches with both FORTRAN 77 and the older FORTRAN 66 standard.
DAP FORTRAN was significantly different from either standard FORTRAN and the machine was not capable of accepting or optimising standard FORTRAN programs. On the other hand, compared with other contemporary languages which were by design extensible (notably ALGOL-68), FORTRAN was less than well suited to this task. The result was noticeably inelegant and did require a great deal of new learning. Operationally, there was an overhead to transfer computational data into and out of the array, and problems which did not fit the 64x64 matrix imposed additional complexity to handle the boundaries (65x65 was perhaps the worst case!) – but for problems which suited the architecture, it could outperform the current Cray pipeline architectures by two orders of magnitude.
A later version of the DAP used Fortran-Plus instead which was based on
FORTRAN 77 and had more flexible indexing. In particular it automatically mapped user sized arrays onto the underlying hardware.
External links
ICL DAP Fortran
Concurrent programming languages
Fortran programming language family
ICL programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20for%20Earthquake%20Engineering%20Simulation | The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) was created by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to improve infrastructure design and construction practices to prevent or minimize damage during an earthquake or tsunami. Its headquarters were at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana as part of cooperative agreement #CMMI-0927178, and it ran from 2009 till 2014. The mission of NEES is to accelerate improvements in seismic design and performance by serving as a collaboratory for discovery and innovation.
Description
The NEES network features 14 geographically distributed, shared-use laboratories that support several types of experimental work: geotechnical centrifuge research, shake table tests, large-scale structural testing, tsunami wave basin experiments, and field site research. Participating universities include: Cornell University; Lehigh University;Oregon State University; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; University at Buffalo, SUNY; University of California, Berkeley; University of California, Davis; University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, San Diego; University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota; University of Nevada, Reno; and the University of Texas, Austin.
The equipment sites (labs) and a central data repository are connected to the global earthquake engineering community via the NEEShub, which is powered by the HUBzero software developed at Purdue University specifically to help the scientific community share resources and collaborate. The cyberinfrastructure, connected via Internet2, provides interactive simulation tools, a simulation tool development area, a curated central data repository, user-developed databases, animated presentations, user support, telepresence, mechanism for uploading and sharing resources and statistics about users, and usage patterns.
This allows researchers to: securely store, organize and share data within a standardized framework in a central location, remotely observe and participate in experiments through the use of synchronized real-time data and video, collaborate with colleagues to facilitate the planning, performance, analysis, and publication of research experiments and conduct computational and hybrid simulations that may combine the results of multiple distributed experiments and link physical experiments with computer simulations to enable the investigation of overall system performance. The cyberinfrastructure supports analytical simulations using the OpenSees software.
These resources jointly provide the means for collaboration and discovery to improve the seismic design and performance of civil and mechanical infrastructure systems.
Cyberinfrastructure
Cyberinfrastructure is an infrastructure based on computer networks and application-specific software, tools, and data repositories that support research in a particular discipline. The term "cyberinfrastructure" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Luv%20NY | I Luv NY (International title: I Love New York) is a 2006 Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the first Philippine television drama series filmed in New York City. It stars Jolina Magdangal, Jennylyn Mercado, Mark Herras and Marvin Agustin. It premiered on May 15, 2006 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on September 8, 2006 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced by Bakekang in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Jolina Magdangal as Apolinaria "Polly" Balumbalunan
Marvin Agustin as Albert Sandoval
Jennylyn Mercado as Natalie Young
Mark Herras as Sebastian "Baste" Santos
Supporting cast
Isabel Oli as Wendy
Alfred Vargas as Sebastian "Seb" Santos
Tirso Cruz III as Edward Young
William Martinez as Joaquin Santos
Carmi Martin as Diane Young
Yayo Aguila as Susan Santos
Caridad Sanchez as Juliana
Mike Tan as Jero
LJ Reyes as Ponyang
Gabby Eigenmann as Paul Young
Chinggoy Alonzo as Johnny
Krizzy Jareño as Shayne Young
Kirby de Jesus as Sunshine
Neil Ferreira as Billy
Raymon Salvador as Kapitan Harabas
Tetchie Agbayani as Polly's mother
Tess Bomb as Ging
Arnell Ignacio as Chichi Florence LaRoux
Jocas de Leon as a hotel supervisor
Tiya Pusit as Esther
Craig Scribner as an immigration officer
Guest cast
Gerald Santos as Gerry Balumbalunan
Jonalyn Viray as Jenny de Castro
Joey de Leon as himself
Allan K. as himself
Sugar Mercado as herself
Tanya Gomez as Lumeng
References
External links
2006 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in New York City
Television shows set in Metro Manila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20Pictures | GMA Pictures, formerly Cinemax Studios and GMA Films, is a Filipino film and television production company established by GMA Network Inc. in 1995. Its films include Jose Rizal, Muro Ami, and Deathrow.
Filmography
History
Background
GMA tested the movie waters by co-producing films with Viva Films. Among the movies that were co-produced were Ober Da Bakod: The Movie, Forever and Sana Dalawa ang Puso Ko. Although not credited in the opening and closing credits of the movies, the network's logo appeared in the aforementioned movies' posters in theaters and newspaper ads.
1995–2000: early years
In 1995, GMA launched its own film outfit as Cinemax Studios under the supervision of Jimmy Duavit and Butch Jimenez, with Run Barbi Run as its maiden movie. Later that year, Cinemax inked a co-production deal with OctoArts Films in which OctoArts would distribute the movies in theaters nationwide, while Cinemax (through its mother network, GMA) would handle publicity and promotions of the movies for TV and radio. GMA Network holds the airing rights for those movies. Films co-produced with other production companies are distributed by Cinemax.
In 1997, Cinemax began producing and distributing its own movies, beginning with Mga Bangka sa Tag-araw (later on known as Sa Pusod ng Dagat) and Indios (later on known as My Guardian Debil). At this time, it partnered with sister companies Film Experts and Optima Digital for production and post-production of its movies respectively.
In 1998, it changed its name to GMA Films after HBO's sister channel Cinemax entered the Southeast Asian market. The same year, GMA received critical and commercial success for Sa Pusod ng Dagat and José Rizal, both produced and directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya. GMA Films also produced Muro-Ami and Deathrow, both which were entries at their respective MMFFs and also critically acclaimed.
In 2000, after the departure of Butch Jimenez from GMA Network, GMA Films was placed on hiatus.
2004–2009: comeback and breakthrough
In late 2004, GMA Films made a comeback with the beginning of production for the romantic movie Let the Love Begin. It became the highest-grossing Valentine film in the Philippines when it released in February 2005.
It later released other films that also became hits in the Philippine Box-office.
In 2007, the award-winning film Ouija co-produced with Viva Films was supposed to be its first film to be released internationally. However, the scheduled overseas premieres in four U.S. cities (Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego) were cancelled. Only the one in New Jersey pushed through. The movie is titled Seance internationally.
In 2009, GMA Films produced the reboot of the classic komiks novel Ang Panday in partnership with Imus Productions. Starring Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. in the title role, it became the official entry of GMA Films and Imus Productions for the 2009 Metro Manila Film Festival. It became the festival's top grosser and won 6 major aw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babble.com | Babble was an online magazine and blog network targeting young, educated, urban parents. Their site operated a large network of parent blogs, employing many bloggers on the subjects of parenting and child-raising.
In early 2019, it was announced that Babble had been shut down.
History
Babble was launched in December 2006 by co-founders Rufus Griscom and Alisa Volkman. After one year, the site grew to half a million readers per month. Babble Media became an independent company in 2009, and was acquired by Disney Interactive Media Group in 2011.
Reception
The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) shortlisted Babble for its 2008 "General Excellence Online" award, writing that the "magazine skillfully combines in-depth reporting, thoughtful journalism, a dazzling variety of blog voices and visually arresting, interactive digital features. The result is a smart, hip and endlessly entertaining website that has revolutionized the parenting field."
Time magazine listed Babble.com as one of the 50 Best Websites of 2010, while Forbes named Babble as one of the Top 100 Websites for Women.
Babble advertising and sponsorship policies came under fire in 2010 and 2011 after several parenting authors and bloggers noted their breastfeeding guide was sponsored by Similac maker Mead Johnson.
References
External links
Babble.com
Top 100 Mom Blogs
Latin America Babble
Disney Interactive
Magazines established in 2006
Magazines disestablished in 2019
Online magazines published in the United States
Parenting magazines
Spanish-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Summer%20Show | The Summer Show is a British comedy sketch show made in 1975. It featured winners of the ATV talent show New Faces, and was made by ATV for the ITV network
Designed to emulate the fast moving style of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, it featured Marti Caine, Lenny Henry, Victoria Wood, Aiden J Harvey and singer Trevor Chance. To help out with the first show was the more experienced TV personality Leslie Crowther.
The Summer Show consisted of five, forty-five-minute specials on the subjects of "holidays", "health and strength","mystery and crime","kids", and "entertainment".
The performers, who were paid £175 a week for their efforts (a pay increase for Wood and a pay cut for Caine), were encouraged to diversify. Thus it featured the unlikely sight of Wood and Crowther duetting and other thrown-together combinations for songs, sketches and dances.
Wood said of the experience "it was one of those really bad variety shows where they got the scripts out of other people's dustbins. It was just dreadful." She was told by costumers, who said she was too big for the costumes, "if only you'd lose two stone you could wear this of Anna Massey's."
Wood immediately went back to the unemployment queue when it ended. Whereas the series was a springboard for other cast members. Caine got her own TV series and Henry joined The Black and White Minstrel Show.
Archive status
Like so many shows of its time, The Summer Show is completely missing from the television archives.
References
1975 British television series debuts
ITV sketch shows
Lost television shows
1970s British television sketch shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadah%20Khanfar | Wadah Khanfar (; born 20 September 1968) is the President of Al Sharq Forum, an independent network dedicated to developing long-term strategies for political development, social justice and economic prosperity of the people of the Middle East. He previously served as the Director General of Al Jazeera Media Network. He has been ranked by Foreign Policy Magazine in 2011 as the first in The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers, and in Fast Company as the first in the 100 Most Creative People in Business (2011) and as one of the most 'Powerful People in the World' by Forbes magazine (2009)., in 2008 World Economic Forum named Khanfar as one of the 'Young Global Leaders'. During his tenure Al Jazeera went from a single channel to a media network with multiple properties including the Al Jazeera Arabic channel, Al Jazeera English, Al Jazeera Documentary, Al Jazeera Sport, Al Jazeera's news websites, the Al Jazeera Media Training and Development Center, the Al Jazeera Center for Studies, Al Jazeera Mubasher (Live), and Al Jazeera Mobile. On 20 September 2011, he stepped down as the head of Al Jazeera Network.
Early years and education
Wadah was born in the Palestinian town of Rama in 1968. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering at the University of Jordan in 1990 and went on to complete a post-graduate degree in philosophy, a diploma in African Studies from Sudan International University and an Honors Degree in International Politics. During this time, Khanfar started a student's union that soon spread to several other universities and an inter-university dialogue group among students constituted from a range of political backgrounds. By 1989, the student's union was playing an active role in debating the future of the democratic process, and Khanfar started making a name for himself as a charismatic and natural leader, helping to organize forums, protests, festivals and demonstrations for student rights.
Journalism
Africa
When Al Jazeera was established in 1996, Khanfar was a graduate student in International Politics and African Studies in South Africa, and a researcher and consultant in Middle Eastern economics and political affairs. He was asked by the channel to provide an analysis on African affairs, which led to him becoming a correspondent in South Africa until 2001. At a conference in Pretoria on 27–29 August 2012, Khanfar said that he had learned about both political struggle and reconciliation during his years in South Africa.
Afghanistan
In 2001 and 2002, Khanfar reported on Afghanistan from New Delhi. Al Jazeera was unable to get its own correspondent back into the northern territories controlled by the Northern Alliance on the eve of the war, so New Delhi was used, India having a strong Northern Alliance diplomatic presence. As the Taliban regime was collapsing, Al Jazeera's presence in Kabul was threatened by problems including US fire, and concerns from journalists and diplomats that the then bureau chief and correspondent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slider%20%28computing%29 | A slider or track bar is a graphical control element with which a user may set a value by moving an indicator, usually horizontally. In some cases user may also click on a point on the slider to change the setting. It is different from a scrollbar in that it is not continuous but used to adjust a value without changing the format of the display or the other information on the screen.
Its most popular use is for viewing and jumping to a playback position in media player software.
Usage with progress bars
Sliders are also combined with progress bars in the playback of streaming media over a network connection (e.g., YouTube videos) in order to show the content buffering position versus the playback position. This is done by superimposing a colored shaded area (progress bar) on top of the slider, indicating whether the user can "jump" forward or not.
External links
Yahoo! UI Library
ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit
script.aculo.us wiki
Graphical control elements |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinner%20%28computing%29 | A spinner or numeric updown is a graphical control element with which a user may adjust a value in an adjoining text box by either clicking on an up or down arrow, by pressing an arrow key down or moving mouse wheel, causing the value in the text box to increase (if the up arrow is held down) or decrease (if the down arrow is held down). A spinner is typically oriented vertically. In most cases holding a button down causes the speed at which the associated value changes to increase. Usually, the value of the spinner is displayed in a text box next to the spinner, allowing the user to use the spinner to adjust the value, or to type the value into the text box. The combination of spinner and text box was coined as a Value Box.
A spinner is different from a scrollbar or slider in that a spinner is typically used to adjust a value without changing the format of the display or the other information on the screen. Thus, the appearance of the spinner at a given time does not represent the quantity of the associated value.
References
External links
Javascript spinner control (up/down buttons): example for emulating spinners for HTML in JavaScript
Graphical control elements
Technology neologisms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDHomeRun | HDHomeRun is a network-attached digital television tuner box, produced by the company SiliconDust USA, Inc.
Overview
Unlike standard set-top box (or set-top unit) appliances, HDHomeRun does not have a video output that connects directly to the user's television. It instead receives a live TV signal and then streams the decoded video over a local area network to an existing smart phone, tablet computer, smart tv, set top streaming device, computer, or game console. This allows it to stream content to multiple viewing locations.
General details
There are currently a number of HDHomeRun models on the market:
single-tuner ATSC/clear QAM
dual-tuner ATSC/clear QAM
dual-tuner commercial (TECH) ATSC/clear QAM
dual-tuner DVB-T/unencrypted DVB-C
three tuner CableCard/clear QAM
All models are designed to receive unencrypted digital broadcast or cable television and stream it over a network for use by any PC on the network. HDHomeRun normally receives an IP address via DHCP but will also work via an auto IP address if no DHCP server is available.
The HDHomeRun Windows driver presents the tuners as standard BDA tuners, enabling BDA-compliant applications to work with the HDHomeRun. The HDHomeRun can also be controlled via a command-line application which is available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, FreeBSD, and other POSIX-compliant operating systems. The control library is open source and is available under the LGPL for use in custom applications.
Select retail packaged HDHomeRun units are distributed with Arcsoft TotalMedia Theatre.
Technical specifications
ATSC OTA models
8VSB ATSC 1.0 US over-the-air digital TV
ATSC 3.0 (HD*-4k models only)
QAM 64/256 unencrypted digital cable TV
100 Mbit RJ45 connection
CableCard models
QAM 64/256 unencrypted digital cable TV
CableCard US encrypted digital cable TV
1 Gbit RJ45 connection
ISDB model
ISDB-T South America over the air
DVB models
DVB-T / DVB-T2 over-the-air unencrypted digital TV
DVB-C QAM 64/128/256 (annex A/C) unencrypted digital cable TV
6/7/8 MHz channel bandwidth (Australia, Europe, New Zealand, Taiwan)
100Mbit Ethernet RJ45 connection
Compatibility
The HDHomeRun can be controlled and viewed from a wide variety of DVR/PVR software. Microsoft provides Windows Media Center for Windows XP through 8, but discontinued the product in Windows 10. Apple macOS 10 runs EyeTV 3. Linux runs Myth TV.
Newer models of HDHomeRun are DLNA device compatible.
HDHomeRun Tuners
Consumer Tuners
Commercial Tuners
Sources:
HDHomeRun PRIME
Introduced Fall 2011, the HDHomeRun PRIME provided the ability to view and record all the digital cable channels they subscribe to without using a cable supplied set-top-box. The device employed a CableCARD to replace the set-top box. The rental fee was usually much less than the rental fee for the cable box. The HDHomeRun PRIME integrated easily with Windows Media Center (WMC), included with Windows 7 and available with Windows 8, and turned your PC into |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hertie%20School | The Hertie School (until 2019 Hertie School of Governance) is a German private, independent graduate school for governance (public policy, international affairs and data science) located in Berlin. Hertie School is accredited to confer master's and doctoral degrees. Half of the school's students are international, with more than 95 countries represented among alumni and currently enrolled students. The working language is English.
The research focus of the Hertie School, which has existed since its founding, lies in the analysis of the conditions, structures and dynamics of governance.
Since 2018, the Hertie School has established five research centres (Centres of Competence) that focus on future key governance challenges: the Centre for International Security, the Centre for Digital Governance, the Centre for Fundamental Rights, the Jacques Delors Centre and the Centre for Sustainability (from 2021). Additionally, the School's Data Science Lab uses research in data science and artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle major societal problems.
History
The Hertie School was founded by the Hertie Foundation, located in Frankfurt. The school was established in 2003 as one of the first European professional schools for public policy. Since 2008 it has been located in the Quartier 110 building on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin. The first study program offered was the Master of Public Policy (MPP). In 2015, the Master of International Affairs (MIA) was added. The Master of Data Science was set up in 2021.
In February 2005, the Hertie School was awarded state recognition as college of higher education by the Berlin Ministry of Science, Research, and Culture (Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur). The work of the Hertie School is based on four pillars: Research, Degree Programmes (Master of Public Policy, Master of International Affairs, Executive Master of Public Administration, Master of Data Science for Public Policy (from September 2021), and the Berlin School for Transnational Studies), Executive Education, and Knowledge Transfer.
In October 2017, the Hertie School once again received full accreditation to confer doctoral degrees for another ten years.
In February 2019, the Hertie School announced that it would move to the Robert Koch Forum from summer 2025 to enable its growth plans. The historic Robert Koch Forum is currently being renovated by the city of Berlin with a budget of 87 million euros.
Enrollment and Degrees
As of September 2020, a total of 687 students were enrolled in the school. This includes 539 master's students, 51 Executive MPA participants and 63 doctoral students. There are over 2,100 alumni.
Predominantly, Hertie School's students have backgrounds in law, economics, political science and international relations and pursue a Master of Public Policy, Master of International Affairs or Master of Data Science for Public Policy degree. The school offers its students the opportunity to complete a "professional y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth%20Haberman | Seth Haberman is CEO of Sense Education, an artificial intelligence company that uses unsupervised machine learning technology, as well as bioinformatic algorithms, to identify how people solve open-ended problems. He was also the founder of VisibleWorld, a developer of viewer-customized television advertising.
Prior to founding Sense Education and Visible World, Haberman was founder of Montage Group, where he invented and licensed seminal non-linear editing technologies to all of the leading manufacturers of non-linear editing systems (such as Avid and Final Cut Pro). Montage’s innovative work developing its "MServer" software earned an Academy Award for technological achievement in 1987, an Emmy Award in 1993 for "Enabling Technology for Non-Linear Editing Systems Using Digital Images and Sounds", shared with EMC among others.
He has been Chair of the Video Gaming and Technology awards panel for the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which awards the technology Emmy Awards.
He earned a BA in physics and math in 1981 from Columbia College, Columbia University.
References
Living people
Columbia College (New York) alumni
20th-century American Jews
American synth-pop musicians
21st-century American Jews
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi%21 | Kiwi! is a 2006 computer-generated animation created by Dony Permedi, a student in the New York City School of Visual Arts, as his Master's Thesis Animation, with music composed and performed by Tim Cassell. The animation's story of a kiwi that aspires to fly created a major Internet phenomenon after it was hosted on the video sharing site YouTube. Unofficial versions of the video pair it with "Mad World" by Gary Jules. These versions became popular viral videos.
Plot
The video itself centers around a kiwi bird who is seen nailing an array of trees to the side of a sheer cliff so that they stick out horizontally. After the kiwi finishes it returns to the top of the cliff, before donning an aviator's cap and suddenly jumping off. As it dives down the cliff head-first the camera view turns sideways, revealing the purpose behind the kiwi's efforts. A tear wells from one eye as the kiwi achieves its dream, flapping its tiny wings as it "flies" above the forest of trees. The ultimate fate of the kiwi is not explicitly shown (though a sound can be heard at the end of the video that has been interpreted as either a crash or the sound of a parachute opening).
Reception
Kiwi! has received a large following for its deep meaning and heart touching manner. One of the most popular activities in the fan base is to create an alternate ending (usually one where the kiwi survives). , the animation has been viewed over 44 million times. It won official recognition on March 26, 2007, when viewers voted it the Most Adorable video of 2006 in the first annual YouTube Video Awards. This was an event large enough to draw international media attention with ABC News describing Kiwi! as "so cute it hurts" while the International Herald Tribune, critical of the awards, characterized the video as being "sweet but dull."
See also
Gagarin (Ger.) - cartoon about a caterpillar who dreams of flying.
References
External links
Kiwi! video on YouTube
Dony Permedi's website
Dony Permedi interviewed
Kazakhstani YouTube-like project named after this animation (Archived)
2006 independent films
2006 short films
2006 films
2006 YouTube videos
American aviation films
American computer-animated films
Fictional kiwi
American student films
Animated films without speech
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Calon | Christian Calon (born 5 September 1950) is a French-born Canadian composer who is active in electroacoustic music. He has worked extensively in large computer-based studios in Canada and Europe and has received commissions from the Canada Council, the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille, and the Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec. His work is written in an expressionist and narrative style and his pieces are characterized by acousmatic diffusion.
Life
Born in Marseille, he immigrated to Canada in 1966 and settled in Montréal. Calon is a largely self-taught musician who became interested in electroacoustic music through his friend and mentor, Francis Dhomont. He received his only formal training at McGill University where he pursued graduate studies in computer music for one year.
Calon began his composing career in Montréal. In 1986 he co-founded the Canadian Electroacoustic Community with some 100 other musicians, serving as the organization's vice-president in 1989–90. In 1985 his work Portrait d'un Visiteur won first prize at the 1985 Luigi Russolo International Competition. He moved to Europe in 1990, and in 1991 was appointed music director of the studios of the Groupe de Musique Expérimentale de Marseille. In 1995–96, with the support of the DAAD (Germany), he was one of the foreign artists in residence in Berlin. He is currently based in Montreal.
List of works
Aiguiser l'ouïe (2001)
Atlas (2005–08)
Constellations (1992–94)
Les corps éblouis (1994)
La disparition (1988)
Documents de surface (2002), radio roadmovie in collaboration with Chantal Dumas
Dunkelblau (2008), film opera in collaboration with Uli Aumüller
En vol (1994)
Infamie: Fragmente einer Kartographie (2005)
[improvisation] (2005)
Lettre à M. (1995), radio work
men women train (1995)
Minuit (1989)
Le petit homme dans l'oreille (2000), radio roadmovie in collaboration with Chantal Dumas
Portrait d'un visiteur (1985)
Prochaine station (1990), in collaboration with Claude Schryer
Le projet Ulysse (1997–2000),
Sémaphore-Nord (1997)
Souffles primitifs (2001), bass flute, and tape
The Standing Man (1994–96), installation-performance for three-dimensional sound spaces (projected from 24 channels), on a poem by François Villon
The Ulysses project (1997–1998), radio work, for DeutschlandRadio Berlin
Temps incertains (1990)
Time Well (2000)
Vers les oiseaux (2002)
Die Windrose (2008)
Die Zimmer der Erinnerung [Les chambres de la mémoire] (1997), a fictional essay for radio after Marcel Proust (DeutschlandRadio Berlin)
z | s (un essai sur le Temps) (1999–2002), (DeutschlandRadio Berlin)
Awards
2006 - Prix Opus, Quebec
2004 - Represents Canada at the World New Music Days (Switzerland)
2003 - Distinction at the International CIMESP competition (Brazil)
2003 - Selection of the Confluencias International Competition (Spain)
2001 - Grand Prix Phonurgia Nova (France)
1999 - Grand Prix Marulic of the UER/EBU
1997 - Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica (Austria)
1996 - Ly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica%20%28disambiguation%29 | A replica is a copy that is relatively indistinguishable from the original.
Replica may also refer to:
Science and technology
Replica trick
Replication (computing)
Replica (Microbiology), Complementary copy of single stranded DNA.
Replica (Microtechnology), Complementary copy of a structure or pattern containing inverted detail.
Replica (Plan 9), a client-server data replication system
Replica 1, a clone of the Apple I computer
BAE Replica, a BAE Systems aircraft research project
T-Rex Replica, a digital delay guitar pedal made by T-Rex Engineering
Entertainment
Replicas (film), a 2018 American science fiction thriller film
Replica, comic book character from Guardians of the Galaxy (1969 team)
"Replica" (The Outer Limits), TV series episode
Replica Magazine, an online magazine and advocate of collective journalism
Replica, a novel series by Marilyn Kaye
Music
Replicas (album), a 1979 album by Gary Numan and Tubeway Army
Replica (Threshold album), 2004
Replica (Oneohtrix Point Never album), 2011
"Replica" (song), a 2014 song by Maaya Sakamoto
"Replica", a song by Beck from Modern Guilt
"Replica", a song by Fear Factory from the album Demanufacture
"Replica", a song by Sonata Arctica from Ecliptica
See also
Replica Replica, an album by Red Riders
ReplicaNet, a freeware network program
Replicant, a type of being in the film Blade Runner
Replication (disambiguation)
Replika, an online chatbot service
Replikas, a Turkish rock band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%201 | DOS 1 or DOS-1 may refer to:
The Soviet space station Salyut 1, also called DOS-1
It may also refer to versions of Seattle Computer Product's 86-DOS (the predecessor to MS-DOS and PC DOS):
86-DOS 1.00, SCP OEM released version on 28 April 1981, licensed to OEMs including Microsoft
86-DOS 1.01, SCP internal version in May 1981
86-DOS 1.10, SCP OEM released version in July 1981, sold to Microsoft and renamed to MS-DOS
86-DOS 1.14, basis for IBM Personal Computer DOS 1.0
It may also refer to versions of the Microsoft MS-DOS family:
MS-DOS 1.11, Microsoft internal version in 1981
MS-DOS 1.12, Microsoft internal version in 1981
MS-DOS 1.13, Microsoft internal version in 1981
MS-DOS 1.20, Microsoft internal version in 1981
MS-DOS 1.21, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.22, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.23, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.24, Microsoft internal version in 1982, basis for IBM Personal Computer DOS 1.1
MS-DOS 1.25, basis for OEM versions of MS-DOS other than IBM in 1982, including SCP MS-DOS 1.25
MS-DOS 1.26, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.27, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.28, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.29, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.30, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.40, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.41, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.50, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.51, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.52, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.53, Microsoft internal version in 1982
MS-DOS 1.54, Microsoft internal version in 1982
It may also refer to versions of the IBM Personal Computer DOS family:
IBM Personal Computer DOS 1.0, OEM version of 86-DOS 1.14 in 1981
IBM Personal Computer DOS 1.1, OEM version of MS-DOS 1.24 in 1982
It may also refer to versions of the Digital Research operating system family:
DOS Plus 1.0, a single-user variant of Concurrent PC DOS in 1985
DOS Plus 1.1, a single-user variant of Concurrent PC DOS in 1985
DOS Plus 1.2, a single-user variant of Concurrent PC DOS 4.1 in 1986
PalmDOS 1.0, a Novell successor to Digital Research's DR DOS 6.0 tailored for early palmtop PCs
It may also refer to versions of the FreeDOS operating system:
FreeDOS 1.0, a free and open-source DOS 7.1-compatible operating system distributed since September 2006
FreeDOS 1.1, a successor released in January 2012
FreeDOS 1.2, a successor released in December 2016
See also
DOS (disambiguation)
DOS 2 (disambiguation)
DOS 10 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wielkopolski%20Bank%20Kredytowy | Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy SA (Greater Poland Credit Bank) was a Poland-based commercial bank, which offered the normal range of retail and commercial financial services through its branch network. In 2001, Allied Irish Banks, its owners, merged it with Bank Zachodni to form BZ-WBK (which changed its name to Santander Bank Polska in 2018).
References
Allied Irish Banks
Banks of Poland
Banks established in 1989
2001 disestablishments in Poland
2001 mergers and acquisitions
Polish companies established in 1989 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONeDL%20%3A%20Open%20Network%20of%20Digital%20Libraries | Digital Libraries are virtual spaces that mediate access, use and generation of knowledge.
The Corporation of Universities for the Development of Internet in Mexico promotes the development of digital libraries. The Open Network of Digital Libraries (ONeDL, or "RABiD" after its initials in Spanish) integrates and consolidates efforts of the corporation members to promote federated access to their collections and services. Software and standards will be produced in order to facilitate the inclusion of more Digital Libraries into ONeDL.
Initial collections include
Digital Theses
Publications by ONeDL members
Public academic papers
Digitized Ancient Books Collections
Initial services include
Metasearch engines
Virtual Reference environments
Collection visualization
Infrastructure for personal collections
Collaborative recommendation
This network will take advantage of ongoing developments at each of its member institutions.
Members
Initial members of the network are
Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP)
Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM Campus Monterrey)
Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora (MORA)
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México (UAEM)
Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP)
Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG)
Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLA)
Universidad Veracruzana (UV)
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
This is an open network so new members will be added to this list.
New members
Texas A&M University Libraries
Through its Mexico City Center, the Libraries of Texas A&M University make their aerial scanning equipment available to all network members interested in digitizing ancient books and archives.
Universidad de Sonora
Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo
Universidad de Colima (UCOL)
Available documents
Home Page ONeDL : Open Network of Digital Libraries
Software
VOAI OAI-PMH metadata server generator for relational databases
XOAI OAI-PMH metadata server generator for xml databases
xmLibris digitized documents administrator
CIText digitized ancient books administrator
[PDLib] Personal Digital Library
Project communication:
ONeDL Wiki, official community wiki
ONeDL Bulletin Board for comments, questions and discussions from members and not members.
Mexican culture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISLE | The Marine Information for Safety and Law Enforcement (MISLE) is a database system managed and used by the United States Coast Guard (USCG). The MISLE is used to store data on marine accidental and deliberate pollution and other shipping and port accidents in US territorial waters. It accounts for vessels and other facilities, like port terminals and shipyards. The system has now been operational for a few years. It was introduced in December 2001 to replace the previous Marine Safety Information System (MSIS).
The public may access portions of the data contained on the MISLE system through the Port State Information eXchange (PSIX). Originally, the PSIX system was designed to provide other countries with Port State Intervention data on foreign-flagged vessels. Currently, it contains information on over 650,000 U.S. and foreign flagged vessels (including those used for recreational purposes). The PSIX system contains vessel specific information derived from the United States Coast Guard's Marine Information Safety and Law Enforcement System (MISLE). The information contained in PSIX represents a weekly snapshot of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) data on U.S. flag vessels, foreign vessels operating in U.S. waters, and Coast Guard contacts with those vessels. Information on unclosed cases or cases pending further action is considered privileged information and is precluded from the PSIX system.
References
External links
Report by the US General Accounting Office on the partially completed system as of 2001.
United States Coast Guard |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinuxForums.org | LinuxForums.org was an Internet forum for Linux users needing free help and support with their Linux distributions and software, and computer hardware. It was owned by MAS Media Inc. With more than 200,000 registered members, it was one of the most active Linux forums and free software community sites on the Internet.
Support was given in different ways in specific forums, such as on a distribution level (for major distribution such as Red Hat/Fedora Core, Ubuntu, Suse, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, Arch), but also on an operational level (for areas such as Wireless, Applications, Servers, Networking, Desktop / X Window, Programming & Scripting).
In November 2008 the forum changed ownership and did a complete overhaul of the site.
Breach and shutdown
In May 2018, the Linux Forums website suffered a data breach which resulted in the disclosure of 276k unique email addresses.
Since November 2019, the website has been offline. No explanation has been provided.
References
Internet properties established in 2009
Internet properties disestablished in 2020
Defunct websites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W100 | W100 may refer to:
Automobiles
Dodge Power Wagon W100, a medium duty truck
Mercedes-Benz W100, a luxury car
Toyota Avanza (W100), a MPV
Consumer electronics
LG W100, a smartwatch
Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W100, a digital camera
Toshiba Libretto W100, a laptop
Other uses
Small dodecahemicosahedron
W100, a classification in masters athletics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical%20Fellowship%20of%20Missions%20Agencies | The Evangelical Fellowship of Missions Agencies was formed in 1946 as a result of the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) recognition that there was not a sufficient amount of networking and communication between the missions arms of the NAE members.
In 2012, the EFMA (renamed as "The Mission Exchange") was merged with Cross Global Link to form Missio Nexus. The current president of Missio Nexus is Ted Esler.
References
Evangelical parachurch organizations
Christian organizations established in 1946
Evangelical organizations established in the 20th century
Christian missions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guild%20%28disambiguation%29 | A guild is an association of craftspeople in a particular trade.
Guild may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Guild (computer gaming), an organized group of players who regularly play video games together
Guild (video game series), game compilations Guild01 and Guild02 from Level-5
Europa 1400: The Guild, a video game
The Guild 2, sequel to Europa 1400: The Guild
The Guild (web series), a comedy series created by Felicia Day
In fantasy, an organization that aims to give aid to adventurers, for example a Thieves' guild
Brands and enterprises
Guild Guitar Company, a guitar manufacturer
Guild Inn, a park and hotel in Toronto
Places
Guild, Missouri, United States
Guild, New Hampshire, United States
Science
Guild (ecology), a group of species that exploit the same resources, or different resources in related ways
Guild (permaculture), a group of species within which each provides a unique set of diverse functions that work in conjunction or harmony
Other uses
Guild (surname)
Guild Home Video, a UK home distribution company.
The Guild, Preston, a grade II listed public house in Preston, England
The Guild of European Research-Intensive Universities, a network of European research universities
The Guild, short common name of the Church of Scotland Guild (formerly the Woman's Guild)
See also
Gild (disambiguation)
Guild Theatre (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsiveness | Responsiveness as a concept of computer science refers to the specific ability of a system or functional unit to complete assigned tasks within a given time. For example, it would refer to the ability of an artificial intelligence system to understand and carry out its tasks in a timely fashion.
In the Reactive principle, Responsiveness is one of the fundamental criteria along with resilience, elasticity and message driven.
It is one of the criteria under the principle of robustness (from a v principle). The other three are observability, recoverability, and task conformance.
Vs performance
Software which lacks a decent process management can have poor responsiveness even on a fast machine. On the other hand, even slow hardware can run responsive software.
It is much more important that a system actually spend the available resources in the best way possible. For instance, it makes sense to let the mouse driver run at a very high priority to provide fluid mouse interactions. For long-term operations, such as copying, downloading or transforming big files the most important factor is to provide good user-feedback and not the performance of the operation since it can quite well run in the background, using only spare processor time.
Delays
Long delays can be a major cause of user frustration, or can lead the user to believe the system is not functioning, or that a command or input gesture has been ignored. Responsiveness is therefore considered an essential usability issue for human-computer-interaction (HCI). The rationale behind the responsiveness principle is that the system should deliver results of an operation to users in a timely and organized manner.
The frustration threshold can be quite different, depending on the situation and the fact that user interface depends on local or remote systems to show a visible response.
There are at least three user tolerance thresholds (i.e.):
0.1 seconds
under 0.1 seconds the response is perceived as instantaneous (high user satisfaction);
1.0 seconds
between 0.1 seconds and 1.0 second a slight delay is perceived, which is regarded as annoying in a local system but tolerated in a web interface that depends on a remote system for the response; this kind of delay usually does not interrupt user's flow of thoughts;
10 seconds
between 1 second and 10 seconds, user's flow of thoughts is interrupted (user productivity is severely impacted) but user is able to keep his/her attention focused on the task being performed;
over 10 seconds of wait is regarded as unacceptable as it usually interrupts the user's attention on task being performed.
Solutions to improve responsiveness
Although numerous other options may exist, the most frequently used and recommended answers to responsiveness issues are:
Optimizing the process that delivers the output by eliminating wasteful, unproductive output from the algorithm or method by which the result is produced.
A decent process management system, giving h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConnectU | ConnectU (originally HarvardConnection) was a social networking website launched on May 21, 2004, that was founded by Harvard students Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra in December 2002. Users could add people as friends, send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Users were placed in networks based upon the domain name associated with the email address they used for registration.
History
In December 2002, Harvard students and friends Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divya Narendra wanted a better way to connect with fellow students at Harvard and other universities. As a result, the three conceived of a social network for Harvard students named HarvardConnection, which was to expand to other schools around the country. In January 2003, they enlisted the help of fellow Harvard student, programmer and friend Sanjay Mavinkurve to begin building HarvardConnection. Sanjay commenced work on HarvardConnection but left the project in the spring of 2003 when he graduated and went to work for Google.
After the departure of Sanjay Mavinkurve, the Winklevosses and Narendra approached Narendra's friend, Harvard student and programmer Victor Gao to work on HarvardConnection. Gao, a senior in Mather House, had opted not to become a full partner in the venture, instead agreeing to be paid in a work for hire capacity on a rolling basis. He was paid $400 for his work on the website code during the second half of 2003, then excused himself thereafter due to personal obligations.
Mark Zuckerberg
In November 2003, upon the referral of Victor Gao, the Winklevosses and Narendra approached Mark Zuckerberg about joining the HarvardConnection team. By this point, the previous HarvardConnection programmers had already made progress on a large amount of the coding: front-end pages, the registration system, a database, back-end coding, and a way users could connect with each other, which Gao called a "handshake". In early November, Narendra emailed Zuckerberg saying, "We're very deep into developing a site which we would like you to be a part of and ... which we know will make some waves on campus." Within days, Zuckerberg was talking to the HarvardConnection team and preparing to take over programming duties from Gao.
On the evening of November 25, 2003, the Winklevosses and Narendra met with Zuckerberg in the dining hall of Harvard's Kirkland House, where they explained to Zuckerberg the HarvardConnection website, the plan to expand to other schools after launch, the confidential nature of the project, and the importance of getting there first. During the meeting, Zuckerberg allegedly entered into an oral contract with Narendra and the Winklevosses and became a partner in HarvardConnection. He was given the private server location and password for the unfinished HarvardConnection website and code, with the understanding that he would finish the programming necessary for launch. Z |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERL | CERL may refer to:
the Central Electricity Research Laboratories of the British post-war electric power industry
the Consortium of European Research Libraries
the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory within the Engineer Research and Development Center of the US Army Corps of Engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint%20Verification%20Competition | The Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) is an international competition for fingerprint verification algorithms organized in 2000 by the Biometric System Laboratory (University of Bologna), the U.S. National Biometric Test Center (San Jose State University) and the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing Laboratory (Michigan State University). After the success of the first edition (FVC2000), three other editions were organized every two years (FVC2002, FVC2004 and FVC2006).
These events received great attention both from academic and industrial biometric communities. They established a common benchmark, allowing developers to unambiguously compare their algorithms, and provided an overview of the state-of-the-art in fingerprint recognition.
After the fourth edition, the interest shown in previous editions by the biometrics community has prompted the Biometric System Laboratory (University of Bologna) to organize a new online evaluation campaign not only limited to fingerprint verification algorithms: FVC-onGoing. FVC-onGoing offers web-based automatic evaluation of biometric algorithms on a set of sequestered datasets, reporting results using well known performance indicators and metrics. While previous FVC initiatives were organized as “competitions”, with specific calls and fixed time frames, FVC-onGoing is:
an “on going competition” always open to new participants;
an evolving online repository of evaluation metrics and results.
References
D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2000: Fingerprint Verification Competition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.24, no.3, pp.402-412, March 2002.
D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2002: Second Fingerprint Verification Competition", in proceedings 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Québec City, vol.3, pp.811-814, August 2002.
D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2004: Third Fingerprint Verification Competition", in proceedings International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA04), Hong Kong, pp.1-7, July 2004.
R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Technology Evaluations of Fingerprint-Based Biometric Systems", in proceedings 12th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2004), Vienna, Austria, pp.1405-1408, September 2004.
D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "Technology Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Algorithms", in J.L. Wayman, A.K. Jain, D. Maltoni, D. Maio, Biometric Systems - Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation, Springer, 2005.
R. Cappelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "Performance Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Systems", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.28, no.1, pp.3-18, January 2006.
R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint verification competition 2006", Biometric Technology Today, vol.15, no |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%C3%A9maux | Trémaux is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Charles Pierre Trémaux (1859–1882), French inventor of a maze solving algorithm, named after him
Pierre Trémaux (1818-1895), French architect, photographer, and author
French-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics%20suite | A robotics suite is a visual environment for robot control and simulation. They are typically an end-to-end platform for robotics development and include tools for visual programming and creating and debugging robot applications. Developers can often interact with robots through web-based or visual interfaces.
One objective of a robotics suite is to support a variety of different robot platforms through a common programming interface. The key point about a robotics suite is that the same code will run either with a simulated robot or the corresponding real robot without modification.
Some robotic suites are based in free software, free hardware and both free software and hardware.
Suites
Fedora Robotics
ArtiMinds Robot Programming Suite
Brainlab Robotic Suite
See also
AnyKode Marilou
ArduPilot
Autonomous Robot Control (ARC)
Debian Science
Evolution Robotics
Lego Mindstorms
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Player Project (formerly the Player/Stage Project or Player/Stage/Gazebo Project)
Robot software
Robot Operating System
Simbad robot simulator
URBI
Webots
References
Robotics suites |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Cybernauts | "The Cybernauts" is the third episode of the fourth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg. It was first broadcast by Scottish Television on Tuesday 12 October 1965. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show, broadcast it in its own regions four days later on Saturday 16 October. The episode was directed by Sidney Hayers and written by Philip Levene.
Plot
Hammond, a middle-aged man, is attacked at home by an unseen intruder who forces his way through the door with the force of a battering ram and appears to be immune to bullets. Steed and Mrs Peel investigate. The intruder strikes again, this time a businessman named Lambert in his office, smashing his way in the same way. On the scene, Mrs Peel notices the way Lambert's neck has been broken without bruising to the face by the angle of the head and surmises that he was killed by a type of advanced karate blow known as inku, of which there are very few expert exponents in Europe. Lambert's company, like Hammond's, is on a list of firms competing for the European rights to Japanese businessman Mr Tusamo's new circuit elements that will replace the transistor.
Mrs Peel visits a karate dojo seeking an inku specialist and is lectured by the bald sensei. After Mrs Peel proves her skill by defeating the female karate student Oyuka ("the immovable one"), the sensei allows her to join the dojo.
Steed, in place of Lambert, visits Tusamo. Mrs Peel visits Jephcott Products, a toy factory that specializes in manufacturing electronic toys. At the karate dojo, Oyama ("the tall mountain"), a 5th dan at judo and a 4th dan at karate, demonstrates his skill to a packed room, and fits the description of the tall killer, by his height and explosive strike. Mrs Peel recognizes the man as Jephcott, the head of the toy company.
Steed visits United Automation and meets the ex-ministry scientist Dr. Clement Armstrong, owner of the factory. After Steed explains his interest in computers, Armstrong's sidekick Benson contacts the scientist via two-way videophone and mentions that someone replaced Lambert at Tusamo's office. Armstrong shows his visitor to Benson, who recognizes Steed as the false Lambert. Armstrong gives Steed a parting gift: a gadget pen containing solid ink which liquefies only in the heat of the hand, thus reducing the danger of leaks.
Steed and Mrs Peel visit the toy factory and discover that Jephcott has been killed by something with the force of a ten-ton truck, leaving a hole in the wall in the shape of a tall man.
Steed revisits United Automation, this time covertly, and discovers that Armstrong has been using a robot Cybernaut named Roger to kill off his rivals for the Tusamo concession. The Cybernaut is programmed via computer to home in on a radio transmitter concealed in the gadget pen given to Steed – the same method used to kill Hammond, Lambert and Jephcott. But Steed's pen is in the possession of Mrs Peel, so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D2B | D2B can mean:
D2B (group), a Thai pop group
D²B, a low-speed IEC serial bus standard for home automation applications
Domestic Digital Bus (automotive), a high-speed isochronous ring network technology for automotive applications
Dual 2-back, a variation of the n-back mental exercise
IBM Db2, a database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo%20Palace | Kangaroo Palace is an Australian television drama miniseries which aired in 1997 on the Seven Network.
Plot summary
In 1966, Catherine Macaleese (Jacqueline McKenzie) is counting the days until she meets her father, a distant childhood memory, and starts a new life with him in England. Heather Randall (Rebecca Gibney) is Catherine's cousin and closest friend who puts her marriage plans on hold to travel on the Oriana. Richard Turner (John Polson), an aspiring journalist, decides to try his luck on Fleet Street, and promises his fiancée, Sandy, that he will return in a few months. Jack Gill (Jeremy Sims), heading along a path of self-destruction, embarks on the journey at the last minute. On board, Jack disappears with the group's money and the trio arrive penniless. The only contact they have is a friend of Jack's, the mysterious Terence Foster-Burrows (Jonathan Firth). He shows little surprise for their predicament and offers them rooms in the Palace.
Cast
See also
Cinema of Australia
References
External links
Kangaroo Palace at the Internet Movie Database
1997 television films
1997 films
1997 drama films
Australian television films
Seven Network original programming
Films shot in Melbourne
1990s English-language films
Films directed by Robert Marchand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic%20Digital%20Bus | Domestic Digital Bus may refer to:
D²B, (IEC 61030) a low-speed IEC serial bus standard for home automation applications
Domestic Digital Bus (automotive), a high-speed isochronous ring network technology for automotive applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player%20Project | The Player Project (formerly Player/Stage Project) creates free and open-source software for research into robotics and sensor systems. Its components include the Player network server and the Stage platform robotics simulators. Although accurate statistics are hard to obtain, Player is one of the most popular open-source robot interfaces in research and post-secondary education.
Overview
The Player Project is an umbrella under which two robotics-related software projects are currently developed. These include the Player networked robotics server, and the Stage 2D robot simulation environment. The project was founded in 2000 by Brian Gerkey, Richard Vaughan and Andrew Howard at the University of Southern California at Los Angeles, and is widely used in robotics research and education. It releases its software under the GNU General Public License with documentation under the GNU Free Documentation License.
The Player is set of application programming interfaces (APIs, e.g., position2d, bumper, ir, speech, power) that can be implemented by a robot chassis (Roomba, Khephera etc.), possibly over serial line or network, or by Stage (2D simulator) or Gazebo (3D simulator).
Gazebo
The Gazebo 3D robot simulator was a component in the Player Project from 2004 through 2011. Gazebo integrated the Open Dynamics Engine (ODE) physics engine, OpenGL rendering, and support code for sensor simulation and actuator control. In 2011, Gazebo became an independent project support by Willow Garage.
Supported robots
Acroname's Garcia
Botrics's Obot d100
CoroWare Inc. Corobot and Explorer
Evolution Robotics' ER1 and ERSDK robots
iRobot's Roomba vacuuming robot
K-Team's Robotics Extension Board (REB) attached to Kameleon 376BC
K-Team's Khephera
MobileRobots' (formerly ActivMedia) PSOS/P2OS/AROS-based robots
Nomadics' NOMAD200 (and possibly related) mobile robots
RWI/iRobot's RFLEX-based robots (e.g., B21r, ATRV Jr)
Segway's Robotic Mobility Platform (RMP)
UPenn GRASP's Clodbuster
Videre Design's ERRATIC mobile robot platform
White Box Robotics' 914 PC-BOT
See also
Simbad robot simulator
Microsoft Robotics Studio
Webots
URBI
Turtle (robot)
Mobile Robot Programming Toolkit
Robot Operating System (ROS)
References
Free software projects
Robotics simulation software
2000 software
2000 in robotics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20JavaScript%20libraries | This is a list of notable JavaScript libraries.
Constraint programming
Cassowary (software)
CHR.js
DOM (manipulation) oriented
Google Polymer
Dojo Toolkit
jQuery
midori
MooTools
Prototype JavaScript Framework
Graphical/visualization (canvas, SVG, or WebGL related)
AnyChart
Babylon.js
Chart.js
Cytoscape
D3.js
Dojo Toolkit
FusionCharts
Google Charts
Highcharts
JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
p5.js
Plotly
Processing.js
Raphaël
RGraph
seen.js
Snap.svg
SWFObject
Teechart
Three.js
Velocity.js
Verge3D
Webix
GUI (Graphical user interface) and widget related
Angular (application platform) by Google
AngularJS by Google
Bootstrap
Dojo Widgets
Ext JS by Sencha
Foundation by ZURB
jQuery UI
jQWidgets
OpenUI5 by SAP
Polymer (library) by Google
qooxdoo
React.js by Facebook
Vue.js
Webix
WinJS
Svelte
No longer actively developed
Glow
Lively Kernel
Script.aculo.us
YUI Library
Pure JavaScript/Ajax
Google Closure Library
Joose
JsPHP
Microsoft's Ajax library
MochiKit
PDF.js
Socket.IO
Spry framework
Underscore.js
Template systems
jQuery Mobile
Mustache
Jinja-JS
Twig.js
Unit testing
Jasmine
Mocha
QUnit
Unit.js
Web-application related (MVC, MVVM)
Angular (application platform) by Google
AngularJS by Google
Backbone.js
Echo
Ember.js
Enyo
Express.js
Ext JS
Google Web Toolkit
JavaScriptMVC
JsRender/JsViews
Knockout
Meteor
Mojito
MooTools
Next.js
OpenUI5 by SAP
Polymer (library) by Google
Prototype JavaScript Framework
PureMVC
qooxdoo
React.js
SproutCore
Vue.js
Wakanda Framework
Other
Blockly
Cannon.js
MathJax
Modernizr
TensorFlow
Brain.js
See also
Ajax framework
Comparison of JavaScript frameworks
JavaScript library |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SydneyPLUS%20International | SydneyPLUS International, now known as Lucidea Corporation, is a Canadian computer company based in Richmond, British Columbia. The company offers products and services for library automation and knowledge management to special libraries, particularly law firms.
Description of company
Lucidea serves organizations and businesses in finance, government, legal services, life sciences, media, and resources. Lucidea has offices in New York and Los Angeles in the United States, and Nottingham in the UK. A private company, its staff is organized into research and development, client services, and sales and marketing.
Lucidea offers SQL and Oracle platforms for client/server installations and an ASP hosted solution. The system is a modular design that lets users add on the applications that they need for their operations. The President of Lucideais Ron Aspe.
History
The company was founded as SydneyPLUS International in 1989, the result of a merger of International Library Systems Corporation and Sydney Development. A minicomputer version of SydneyPLUS operated in OpenVMS in the 1980s and Unix in 1993. In 1996, SydneyPLUS offered a client/server product for Windows NT or Unix servers.
SydneyPLUS acquired Cuadra Associates in 2008, developers of the Cuadra STAR family of products. It followed with the acquisition of Inmagic, Inc.'s special library business in 2011, including the DB/TextWorks Library Suite.
In June 2013, SydneyPLUS changed its name to Lucidea Corporation.
References
External links
Lucidea Corporation
Computer companies of Canada
Companies based in Richmond, British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Flach | Pieter Adriaan Flach (born 8 April 1961, Sneek) is a Dutch computer scientist and a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He is author of the acclaimed Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning by Example (John Wiley, 1994) and Machine Learning: the Art and Science of Algorithms that Make Sense of Data (Cambridge University Press, 2012).
Education
Flach received an MSc Electrical Engineering from Universiteit Twente in 1987 and a PhD in Computer Science from Tilburg University in 1995.
Research
Flach's research interests are in data mining and machine learning.
References
1961 births
Living people
Artificial intelligence researchers
Dutch computer scientists
British computer scientists
Machine learning researchers
People from Sneek
University of Twente alumni
Tilburg University alumni
Academics of the University of Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical%20Framework%20%28programming%20language%29 | Grammatical Framework (GF) is a programming language for writing grammars of natural languages. GF is capable of parsing and generating texts in several languages simultaneously while working from a language-independent representation of meaning. Grammars written in GF can be compiled into a platform independent format and then used from different programming languages including C and Java, C#, Python and Haskell. A companion to GF is the GF Resource Grammar Library, a reusable library for dealing with the morphology and syntax of a growing number of natural languages.
Both GF itself and the GF Resource Grammar Library are open-source. Typologically, GF is a functional programming language. Mathematically, it is a type-theoretic formal system (a logical framework to be precise) based on Martin-Löf's intuitionistic type theory, with additional judgments tailored specifically to the domain of linguistics.
Language features
a static type system, to detect potential programming errors
functional programming for powerful abstractions
support for writing libraries, to be used on other grammars
tools for Information extraction, to convert linguistic resources into GF
Tutorial
Goal: write a multilingual grammar for expressing statements about John and Mary loving each other.
Abstract and concrete modules
In GF, grammars are divided to two module types:
an abstract module, containing judgement forms and .
or category declarations list categories i.e. all the possible types of trees there can be.
or function declarations state functions and their types, these must be implemented by concrete modules (see below).
one or more concrete modules, containing judgement forms and .
or linearization type definitions, says what type of objects linearization produces for each category listed in .
or linearization rules implement functions declared in . They say how trees are linearized.
Consider the following:
Abstract syntax
abstract Zero = {
cat
S ; NP ; VP ; V2 ;
fun
Pred : NP -> VP -> S ;
Compl : V2 -> NP -> VP ;
John, Mary : NP ;
Love : V2 ;
}
Concrete syntax: English
concrete ZeroEng of Zero = {
lincat
S, NP, VP, V2 = Str ;
lin
Pred np vp = np ++ vp ;
Compl v2 np = v2 ++ np ;
John = "John" ;
Mary = "Mary" ;
Love = "loves" ;
}
Notice: (token list or "string") as the only linearization type.
Making a grammar multilingual
A single abstract syntax may be applied to many concrete syntaxes, in our case one for each new natural language we wish to add. The same system of trees can be given:
different words
different word orders
different linearization types
Concrete syntax: French
concrete ZeroFre of Zero = {
lincat
S, NP, VP, V2 = Str ;
lin
Pred np vp = np ++ vp ;
Compl v2 np = v2 ++ np ;
John = "Jean" ;
Mary = "Marie" ;
Love = "aime" ;
}
Translation and multilingual generation
We can now use our grammar to translate phrases betwe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everex | Everex ("Ever for Excellence!") is a defunct American manufacturer of desktop and notebook personal computers. It was established in 1983 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company was founded by Steve Hui, John Lee and Wayne Cheung. In 1988, Everex was the leader in tape backup sales with half of the world market. On January 5, 1993 the company filed for bankruptcy and was purchased by Formosa Plastics Group, hence becoming part of a multinational conglomerate alongside companies like First International Computer, the world's leading motherboard manufacturer. On December 29, 2006 Everex Systems, Inc filed a voluntary petition for liquidation under Chapter 7, and in June 2008 NewMarket Technology has taken control of Everex.
History
In 1983, Everex shipped its first hard drive, tape backup and graphics products. Seven years later, with an ever expanding product line, annual revenues totaled over $436 million and the workforce topped 2,200 employees. In 1985, Everex began shipping personal computers under private labels, such as the popular IBM-AT compatible System 1800. Three years later the STEP computer line launched, introducing cutting edge 286 and 386-based computing to a mass audience. In addition to computer systems, high-performance file servers and a UNIX-based operating system (ESIX), the company produced tape drives, graphics boards, data and fax modems, network boards, memory enhancement and desktop publishing products, controllers for disk and tape drivers, and monitors.
1983 - Everex founded in Fremont, California
1984 - First Everex hard disk drive shipped
1986 - 286-Based STEP line of computers launched
1987 - Everex IPO under NASDAQ "EVRX"
1992 - Discussed a merger with Northgate Computers but these talks failed.
1993 - Everex files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. They sell their Esix brand to James River Group for $210,000 and their storage division to Exabyte for $5.5M.
1993 - Everex purchased by the Formosa Plastics Group
1998 - Everex launches FreeStyle, the world's first Windows CE PDA, but abandoned the line later in the year
2007 - Everex launches its first 17" widescreen Vista notebook
2007 - Everex launches low-cost green PC Impact GC3502 running gOS
2007 - Everex announces plans for sub-$300 Linux notebooks
2008 - Everex launches a series of low cost "green" systems, the CloudBook UMPC, the gBook notebook, and the gPC mini Mac mini-like desktop, all running the Ubuntu-based gOS Linux with the GNOME desktop environment. Everex is later acquired by systems integrator Newmarket Technology.
2009 - The US subsidiary of Everex closes its doors, while the Japanese and Taiwanese subsidiaries seem to remain unaffected.
See also
Everex green computers
First International Computer (FIC)
Zonbu, some of whose computers are based on Everex hardware
References
External links
Everex Company History
1983 establishments in California
2009 disestablishments in California
American companies est |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic%20Parachute | Plastic Parachute is an American Pop band based in Los Angeles, California. Parachute tunes have been heard on MTV and CBS programming as well as Jeep/Chrysler commercials and Warren Miller/Time Warner Extreme Ski Films.
Winning Los Angeles' Rock City News "Best Female Fronted Band", Plastic Parachute plays over 250 shows a year nationally and at LA rock clubs such as The Viper Room, The Knitting Factory, The Keyclub, The Cat Club, The Dragonfly & House Of Blues. Plastic Parachute is Clint, Ricky, Birdee, MichaelAngelo and Brian. Currently working with producer Ron Saint Germain.
Discography
Albums
Elephants & Giraffes (produced & mixed by Dave Darling. Betty Ford Princess mixed by Mike Shipley)
Swell (produced & mixed by Dave Darling)
External links
Plastic Parachute Official Site
Plastic Parachute MySpace
Rock music groups from California
American pop rock music groups
Musical groups from Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Adatara | is a stratovolcano in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
It is located about 15 kilometres southwest of the city of Fukushima and east of Mount Bandai. Its last known eruption was in 1996. An eruption in 1900 killed 72 workers at a sulfur mine located in the summit crater.
History
The mountain is actually multiple volcanoes forming a broad, forested massif. It abuts Mount Azuma, a dormant volcano to the north. The peak is called Minowa-yama. It is the highest peak in the Adatara range, which stretches about 9 km in a north-south direction.
The active summit crater is surrounded by hot springs and fumaroles. Sulfur mining was carried out in the 19th century, and 72 mine workers were killed in an eruption in 1900. Poems about Mount Adatara by Kōtarō Takamura from his book "Chieko-sho" helped make it famous.
Gallery
See also
List of volcanoes in Japan
List of mountains in Japan
References
Sources
See also
Mount Bandai
Mount Iide
External links
Adatarayama - Japan Meteorological Agency
Adatarayama: National catalogue of the active volcanoes in Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency
Adatara Yama - Geological Survey of Japan
Adatarayama: Global Volcanism Program - Smithsonian Institution
Mountains of Fukushima Prefecture
Volcanoes of Fukushima Prefecture
Volcanoes of Honshū
Stratovolcanoes of Japan
Active volcanoes
Pleistocene stratovolcanoes
Holocene stratovolcanoes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survey%20of%20Health%2C%20Ageing%20and%20Retirement%20in%20Europe | The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) is a multidisciplinary and cross-national panel database of micro data on health, socio-economic status and social and family networks. In seven survey waves to date, SHARE has conducted approximately 380,000 interviews with about 140,000 individuals aged 50 and over. The survey covers 28 European countries and Israel.
SHARE was founded as a response to the European Commission's call to "examine the possibility of establishing, in co-operation with Member States, a European Longitudinal Ageing Survey". It has since become a major pillar of the European Research Area, selected as one of the projects to be implemented in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) in 2006 and was given a new legal status as the first ever European Research Infrastructure Consortium (SHARE-ERIC) in March 2011.
About SHARE
Founded in 2002, SHARE is coordinated centrally at the Munich Center for the Economics of Aging (MEA), Max-Planck-Institute for Social Law and Social Policy and led by Managing Director Axel Börsch-Supan. It is a collaborative effort of more than 150 researchers worldwide who are organized in multidisciplinary national teams and cross-national working groups. A Scientific Monitoring Board composed of eminent international researchers and a network of advisors help to maintain and improve the project’s high scientific standards.
SHARE is harmonized with its role models and sister studies the U.S. Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA), and has the advantage of encompassing cross-national variation in public policy, culture and history across a variety of European countries. Its scientific power is based on its panel design that grasps the dynamic character of the ageing process. SHARE’s multi-disciplinary approach delivers a full picture of the ageing process. Procedural guidelines and programs ensure an ex-ante harmonized cross-national design.
The collected data include health variables (e.g. self-reported health, health conditions, physical and cognitive functioning, health behaviour, use of health care facilities), biomarkers (e.g. grip strength, body-mass index, peak flow), psychological variables (e.g. psychological health, well-being, life satisfaction), economic variables (current work activity, job characteristics, opportunities to work past retirement age, sources and composition of current income, wealth and consumption, housing, education), and social support variables (e.g. assistance within families, transfers of incomes and assets, social networks, volunteer activities).
SHARE data collection is based on computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) complemented by measurements as well as paper-and-pencil questionnaires. The data are available to the entire research community free of charge.
Funding
SHARE receives funding from the European Commission, the American National Institute on Aging and nat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objectivity/DB | Objectivity/DB is a commercial object database produced by Objectivity, Inc. It allows applications to make standard C++, C#, Java, or Python objects persistent without having to convert the data objects into the rows and columns used by a relational database management system (RDBMS). Objectivity/DB supports the most popular object oriented languages plus SQL/ODBC and XML. It runs on Linux, Macintosh, UNIX and Windows platforms. All of the languages and platforms interoperate, with the Objectivity/DB kernel taking care of compiler and hardware platform differences.
History
Objectivity/DB was first sold in 1990. The C++ and Java interfaces for Objectivity/DB incorporate the features defined in the ODMG'93 standard. The C# and Python interfaces were added subsequently.
Architectural features
Objectivity/DB is a distributed database that provides a single logical view across a federation of databases distributed across the network. It uses a distributed computing model that links a small software library with the client application. The client transparently communicates with remote servers that are functionally simpler than their equivalents in centralized database server architectures. There are lock, remote data transfer and query agent server processes. The distributed architecture helps make Objectivity/DB inherently scalable and reliable. It has sustained ingest rates in excess of one terabyte per hour while simultaneously supporting data fusion and query operations.
Objectivity/DB uses a distributed storage hierarchy. Objects are stored in logical clusters called containers. The containers are stored in databases that are cataloged in a federated database. Every object has a unique 64-bit Object Identifier (OID) that is a composite logical structure. The physical address space limitation for a single federation is in the millions of Terabytes range. The largest publicized Objectivity/DB installation, at SLAC's BaBar experiment, stored over a Petabyte of objects.
Objectivity/DB provides a flexible approach for defining how objects are placed within a given storage hierarchy. Database designers can define a custom placement strategy that is encapsulated in an XML configuration file and made available to the application. This strategy can define which persistent objects are stored together, which are distributed, and which are stored near designated objects.
Objects can be linked to other objects using named uni-directional or bi-directional links. The links can have a cardinality of 1:1, 1:many, many:1 or many:many and use the OIDs to speed up the navigation of networks of objects. The OIDs are also used in support of scalable collections (tree, list, set etc.), indices and hash tables. Eliminating the relational Join operations inherent in a relational database gives Objectivity/DB a performance advantage.
Objectivity/DB is also different from RDBMSs in the way in which it handles queries. The application declares and initializes an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbi%20Ray%20Carter | Bobbi Ray Carter is a long-time home shopping host on HSN. Formerly nicknamed Bubblin' Bobbi Ray, her gregarious personality has rendered her one of the network's most popular hosts. She is primarily associated with fashion and beauty products and celebrated 40 years on the Home Shopping Network (HSN) in August, 2023. She is married to Jerry Carter and has one daughter from a prior marriage.
Prior to joining HSN, she performed with the Rockettes, on tour in Europe.
References
Official HSN profile
Koepp, Stephen (June 21, 2005). "Can You Believe This Price?". Time
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American television personalities
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-rate%20picture%20transmission | The low-rate picture transmission (LRPT) is a digital transmission system, intended to deliver images and data from an orbital weather satellite directly to end users via a VHF radio signal. It is used aboard polar-orbiting, near-Earth weather satellite programs such as MetOp and NPOESS.
Purpose
LRPT provides three image channels at full sensor resolution (10-bit, 1 km/pixel, six lines/second) in addition to data from other sensors, such as atmospheric sounders and GPS positioning information.
The system is an update and replacement of the existing analog system called automatic picture transmission (APT), which has been used since the 1960s aboard NOAA's TIROS polar-orbiting satellites. The APT system provided only two image channels, which were at a reduced accuracy and resolution (8-bit, 4 km/pixel, two lines/second). Compared to the APT system, LRPT images are four times more accurate and contain twelve times the resolution. Further, the additional data from other sensors increases the applications of the satellites and the users who receive the signal.
Design
LRPT uses a packetized datastream transmitted at an approximately 62 kilobits per second (kbit/s) rate. Each sensor using the LRPT is considered an application and provided a percentage of the transmission bandwidth in the form of a virtual channel. For example, the advanced very-high-resolution radiometer (AVHRR) imaging sensor is provided approximately 40 kbit/s to transmit its three image channels, and the high-resolution infrared radiation sounder (HIRS) is provided approximately 2900 bit/s. The packetized application system provides the flexibility to transmit and receive new types of data in the future using the same hardware.
The datastream is processed using a Reed–Solomon error correction, then convolution encoded, interleaved, and padded with unique synchronization words. The resulting binary stream is approximately 160 kbit/s.
It is transmitted as an 80 kiloBaud quadrature phase-shift keyed (QPSK) signal on an RF carrier in the 137 MHz-band, with an equivalent isotropically radiated power level that varies between 3.2 dBW (2 watts) and 8.0 dBW (6.3 watts).
To ensure the low-complexity ground stations that previously received the APT signal would be able to access the LRPT signal, a design study was included with the LRPT specification. Labeled Annex 1, it shows the calculations which approximate the worst-case link budget for fixed, omnidirectional antenna reception will be 4.9 dB when the satellite is 13° above the horizon, and improve to 8.6 dB at 30° or higher elevations.
Image data
The AVHRR image data, in its raw form, consists of three images, each composed of six lines per second, at 2048 pixels per line, using 10-bits per pixel. This yields a raw datarate of 368,640 bit/s; approximately ten times greater than the allocated bandwidth. Therefore, the data is compressed using the JPEG extended DCT compression, adapted to a fixed compression ratio with continuous o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM%20Classics | XM Classics was a XM Satellite Radio Commercial-Free network that specialized in playing traditional classical music. It was available on channel 110 on XM and channel 864 on DirecTV. The program director for XM Classics was Martin Goldsmith (previously the longtime host of the public radio series Performance Today).
In November 2008, following XM's merger with rival satellite radio provider Sirius, XM Classics was replaced with Sirius's Symphony Hall channel.
Programming
Exploring Music
Millennium of Music
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Steinway's Black and White Blockbusters
The New York Philharmonic This Week
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 2001
Radio stations disestablished in 2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRBD-LP | WRBD-LP Channel 8 was a low-powered independent television station licensed to Pensacola, Florida.
The station carried selected programming from CTN & Youtoo TV and reached as many as 48,000 households in the Pensacola area. It also ran religious programs, sports, and other entertainment programs.
References
External links
RBD-LP
Television channels and stations established in 2001
2001 establishments in Florida
Defunct television stations in the United States
RBD-LP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy%27s%20Law | Joy's Law can refer to:
Joy's law (astronomy), relating the distribution of sunspots to their heliographic latitude
Joy's law (computing), describing peak computer speed as a function of time
Joy's law (management), on the fact that only some of the smartest people work for your own company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So%C5%82tys | A sołtys () is a head of a sołectwo elected by its permanent citizens in a village meeting (zebranie wiejskie). According to data from 2010, Poland had 40 thousand sołtys, 30.7% of which were women.
Role and powers
Since 1990, a sołtys is an executive of a sołectwo that is supported by a sołectwo council. The detailed powers, duties and responsibilities of the sołtys are decided in the statute made by the gmina council. The sołtys can use the legal protection of a civil servant in his favour.
Duties
A sołtys has the duty to:
Represent the sołectwo
Organise village meetings
Introduce laws made by the gmina to the sołectwo
Collect taxes
Participate in gmina council meetings
History
The office of the sołtys was introduced during the Partitions of Poland. It varied among countries. In Congress Poland, a sołtys was an executive branch of a gromada. He was supposed to guard order in the city. In Congress Poland, a gmina was made up of a few gromadas. In the Grand Duchy of Posen a sołtys usually served the role of a village owner.
In 1934, sołectwa were introduced once again to Poland, which mainly held control over business relating to the people.
In the Polish People's Republic, the role of a sołtys was replaced from 1954 to 1958 with a different position, though it was quickly changed to sołtys. A sołtys was the executive of a village government which, until 1973, ruled a gromada. From 1973 a sołtys governed a sołectwo.
See also
Schultheiß
Wójt
Wąchock jokes
References
1868 establishments in Poland
Politics of Poland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Visual%20Programming%20Language | Microsoft Visual Programming Language, or VPL, is a visual programming and dataflow programming language developed by Microsoft for the Microsoft Robotics Studio.
VPL is based on the event-driven and data-driven approach. The programming language is distinguished from other Microsoft programming languages such as Visual Basic and C#, as it is the only Microsoft language that is a true visual programming language. Microsoft has utilized the term "Visual" in its previous programming products to reflect that a large degree of development in these languages can be performed by "dragging and dropping" in a traditional wysiwyg fashion.
See also
Dataflow programming
Visual programming languages
Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio
VIPLE: Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment
References
Further reading
External links
Microsoft Visual Programming Language
Visual IoT/Robotics Programming Language Environment:
Andreas Ulbrich demonstrates the Microsoft Visual Programming Language
Visual Programming Language
Visual Programming Language
Robot programming languages
Visual programming languages |
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