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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20Savage | Stefan Savage (born 1969) is an American computer science researcher, currently a Professor in the Systems and Networking Group at the University of California, San Diego. There, he holds the Irwin and Joan Jacobs Chair in Information and Computer Science. Savage is widely cited in computer security, particularly in the areas of email spam, network worms and malware propagation, distributed denial of service (DDOS) mitigation and traceback, automotive hacking and wireless security. He received his undergraduate degree at Carnegie Mellon and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington (2002).
Career
In 1999, Savage's research team published TCP Congestion Control with a Misbehaving Receiver, which uncovered protocol flaws in the TCP protocol that carries most Internet traffic. By exploiting these flaws, Savage proposed means for attackers to evade congestion control, allowing attackers to monopolize crowded network connections that would otherwise be shared by multiple users. This was the first paper to address congestion control evasion as a vulnerability, rather than as a theoretical design implication. That same year, Savage published "Sting", a paper and software tool that presented a mechanism to abuse quirks in the TCP protocol to allow a single party to infer bidirectional packet loss, a valuable contribution to traffic measurement.
In 2000, Savage's team published Practical Network Support for IP Traceback, which proposed a simple stochastic extension to internet routers that would enable them to trace floods of traffic back to their origin. IP traceback is a major open networking research question, with significant implications towards DDOS mitigation: if IP traffic can be traced, Internet Service Providers can track down and halt DDOS floods. Savage later co-founded Asta Networks, which offered a product that addressed these problems.
In 2001, Savage, with colleagues at UCSD and CAIDA, published Inferring Internet Denial-of-Service Activity, which introduced the idea of the network telescope and provided major empirical results regarding DDOS attacks. Follow-on work has provided insight into the spread of network worms, including Code Red II and SQL Slammer.
In 2003, John Bellardo and Savage published 802.11 Denial-of-Service Attacks: Real Vulnerabilities and Practical Solutions, which introduced practical attacks on 802.11 wireless protocol flaws that would allow attackers to force legitimate clients off wireless networks. The paper is also a notable example of applied reverse engineering in an academic setting; Bellardo and Savage reverse engineered the Intersil wireless chipset, finding an undocumented diagnostic mode that allowed them to directly inject malicious wireless packets onto a network.
In 2004, Savage and George Varghese led a research team that published Automated Worm Fingerprinting, which introduced a novel hashing technique that allowed network operators to monitor network traffic and uncover data patterns that we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Clusterware | Oracle Clusterware is the cross-platform cluster software required to run the Real Application Clusters (RAC) option for Oracle Database. It provides the basic clustering services at the operating-system level that enable Oracle Database software to run in clustering mode. In earlier versions of Oracle (release 9i and earlier), RAC required a vendor-supplied clusterware like Sun Cluster or Veritas Cluster Server (except when running on Linux or on Microsoft Windows).
Oracle Clusterware Components
Oracle Clusterware is the software which enables the nodes to communicate with each other, allowing them to form the cluster of nodes which behaves as a single logical server. Oracle Clusterware is run by Cluster Ready Services (CRS) consisting of two key components: Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR), which records and maintains the cluster and node membership information; voting disk, which polls for consistent heartbeat information from all the nodes when the cluster is running, and acts as a tiebreaker during communication failures.
The CRS service has four components, each handling a variety of functions: Cluster Ready Services daemon (CRSd), Oracle Cluster Synchronization Service Daemon (OCSSd), Event Volume Manager Daemon (EVMd), and Oracle Process Clusterware Daemon (OPROCd). Failure or death of the CRS daemon can cause node failure, which triggers automatic reboots of the nodes to avoid the corruption of data (due to the possible failure of communication between the nodes), also known as fencing. The CRS daemon runs as "root" (super user) on UNIX platforms and runs as a service on Windows platforms.
CRSd
The following functions are provided by the Oracle Cluster Ready Services daemon (CRSd):
CRS is installed and run from a different ORACLE_HOME known as ORA_CRS_HOME, which is independent of ORACLE_HOME.
CRSd manages the resources like starting and stopping the services and failing-over the application resources. It spawns separate processes to manage application resources.
CRS daemon has two modes of running. During startup and after a shutdown. During planned clusterware start it is started as ‘reboot’ mode. It is started as ‘restart’ mode after unplanned shutdown.
In reboot mode it ‘auto’ starts all the resources under its management. In restart mode it prevails the previous state and brings back the resources to it previous state before shutdown
Manages the Oracle Cluster Registry and stores the current known state in the Oracle Cluster Registry
Runs as ‘root’ on Unix and ‘LocalSystem’ on windows and automatically restarts in case of failure.
CRS requires the public interface, private interface and the Virtual IP (VIP) for the operation. All these interfaces should be up and running, and they should be able to ping each other before starting CRS Installation. Without the above network infrastructure CRS cannot be installed.
OCSSd
Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services daemon (OCSSd) provides basic ‘group services’ suppor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urgent%20computing | Urgent computing is prioritized and immediate access on supercomputers and grids for emergency computations such as severe weather prediction during matters of immediate concern.
Applications that provide decision makers with information during critical emergencies cannot waste time waiting in job queues and need access to computational resources as soon as possible.
References
Grid computing
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JREAP | The Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol (JREAP) enables tactical data messages to be transmitted over long-distance networks, e.g. satellite links, thereby extending the range of Tactical Data Links (TDLs).
JREAP is documented in U.S. Military Standard (MIL-STD) 3011 and NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 5518, "Interoperability Standard for the Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol (JREAP)."
Purpose
JREAP was developed due to the need to communicate data over long distances without degradation to the message format or content. JREAP takes the message from the format it was originally formatted in and changes the protocol so that the message can be transmitted over Beyond Line-of Sight media.
JREAP is the protocol and message structure for the transmission and reception of pre-formatted messages over communications media other than those for which these messages were designed.
JREAP provides a foundation for Joint Range Extension (JRE) of Link 16 and other tactical data links to overcome the line-of-sight limitations of radio terminals such as the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS) and Multifunctional Information Distribution System (MIDS), and extends coverage of these data links through the use of long-haul media.
Versions
JREAP A
JREAP A uses an Announced Token Passing protocol for half-duplex communications. This protocol may be used when several terminals share the same JRE media and take turns transmitting or in a broadcast situation when one transmits and the rest receive. It is targeted to data rates down to 2400 bits per second on a serial data interface with a TSEC/KG-84A/KIV-7 or a compatible encryption device used for data security. It is designed for use with media such as: 25-kHz UHF TDMA/DAMA SATCOM, EHF Low Data Rate (LDR) Forced Mode Network Operations and 5 and 25 kHz UHF non-DAMA SATCOM.
JREAP B
JREAP B is a synchronous or asynchronous point-to-point mode of the JREAP. This mode is similar in design to the Half-Duplex Announced Token Passing protocol used by JREAP A. This mode can be used with SHF and EHF LDR point-to-point mode synchronous connections, STU-III operations via phone lines and other point-to-point media connections. This JREAP application presumes full-duplex data-transparent communication media.
JREAP C
JREAP C makes use of the Internet Protocol (IP) in conjunction with either the User Datagram Protocol (UDP) or Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). The IP suite is a standard set of protocols that is deployed worldwide in commercial as well as military networks. By using JREAP encapsulation over IP, JRE can be performed over IP-based networks that meet operational requirements for security, speed of service and so on.
See also
Global Information Grid
Network-centric warfare
S-TADIL J (J-Series messages over satellite links)
SIMPLE (M-Series and J-Series messages over IP-based networks)
References
Military communications
Application layer protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Aspire | Acer Aspire (stylised as Λspire or ΛSPIRE) is a series of personal computers by Acer Inc. aimed at casual household users. The Aspire series covers both desktop computers and laptops. Acer developed the series to range from essentials to high performance. The Aspire mainly competes against computers such as Asus' Transformer Book Flip, VivoBook and Zenbook, Dell's Inspiron and XPS, HP's Pavilion, Spectre, Stream and Envy, Lenovo's IdeaPad, Samsung's Sens and Toshiba's Satellite.
The Aspire series was first brought to the market in 1999 when the Aspire 1151 was introduced and featured a 200 MHz Intel Pentium. The Aspire series then replaced the AcerPower series in 2002 and became one of Acer's main series.
Switch tablets
Acer Aspire Switch is a series of two-in-one tablet computers running Windows 8, with a tablet and detachable keyboard sold together.
List of Acer Aspire Switch models
SW3-013
SW3-013P
SW3-016
SW3-016P
SW5-011
SW5-012
SW5-012P
SW5-014
SW5-014P
SW5-015
SW5-111
SW5-111P
SW5-171
SW5-171P
SW5-173
SW5-173P
SW5-271
SW7-272
SW7-272P
Switch 10
Acer Aspire Switch 10 was announced in April 2014. It is a 10.1-inch two-in-one, with a resolution display and Intel Atom Z3745 processor. A second-generation Acer Aspire Switch 10 was then launched in October 2014 It was given a different display resolution of , and a different Intel Atom Z3735F processor.
Switch 11
Acer Aspire Switch 11 was announced in September 2014, as a larger 11.6-inch version, that was planned for release in November. There are two models of the Acer Aspire Switch 11: The Acer Aspire Switch 11 SW5-111 with an Intel Atom Z3735 processor, 2GB RAM, and a resolution display, and the Acer Aspire Switch 11 SW5-171 with an Intel Core i3 processor, 4GB RAM, and a resolution display.
Laptop models
Acer Markets their Aspire laptops under many different sub series such as Aspire E series, Aspire F series, Aspire M series, Aspire P series, Aspire R series, Aspire S series, Aspire V Nitro series, Aspire V series and Aspire VX series.
All-in-Ones models
List of Acer Aspire All-in-Ones Models
5600U
5920G
7600U
A3-600
C20-220 Elxan
C20-720
C22-720
C22-760
C22-860
C24-760
C24-865
C24-963
U27-880
U5-610
U5-620
U5-710
Z1100
Z1110
Z1-211
Z1220
Z1-601
Z1-602
Z1-611
Z1-612
Z1620
Z1-621
Z1-621G
Z1-622
Z1-623
Z1650
Z1-751
Z1-752
Z1800
Z1801
Z1810
Z1811
Z1850
Z20-730
Z20-780
Z22-780
Z24-880
Z3100
Z3101
Z3-105
Z3-115
Z3170
Z3171
Z3280
Z3-600
Z3-601
Z3-605
Z3-610
Z3-613
Z3-615
Z3620
Z3-700
Z3-705
Z3-710
Z3-711
Z3-715
Z3730
Z3731
Z3760
Z3761
Z3770
Z3771
Z3800
Z3801
Z5101
Z5600
Z5610
Z5700
Z5710
Z5730
Z5735
Z5751
Z5760
Z5761
Z5770
Z5771
Z5801
ZC-102
ZC-105
ZC-106
ZC-107
ZC-602
ZC-605
ZC-606
ZC-610
ZC-700
ZC-700G
ZS600
ZS600G
5100 series
Desktop models
Aspire is a series of personal computers by Acer Inc. aimed at the casual household user or for small business use. The Aspire series covers both desktop computers and laptops. Acer developed the series in order to cover from essentials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOV%20%28TV%20channel%29 | MOV was a Portuguese basic cable and satellite television channel operated by Dreamia SLU, a joint venture between AMC Networks International Iberia and NOS. MOV was launched on December 1, 2007, by NOS, then Zon TV Cabo, and aired mainly TV series and movies. Later, Dreamia started a joint venture with AMC, in order to increase the channel's programming library, with new TV series and films.
On May 21, 2008, MOV did a major rebranding, including simulcasting in HD. Along with corporate sibling SportTV, MOV premiered idents, continuity and imagery produced by Red Bee Media.
The channel ended its broadcasts on March 31, 2017.
References
External links
MOV website
AMC Networks International
Mass media in Portugal
Television networks in Portugal
Defunct television channels in Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2007
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
2007 establishments in Portugal
2017 disestablishments in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20TravelMate | TravelMate is a line of business-oriented laptop computers manufactured by Acer. Of the various notebook series Acer has offered, the TravelMate is designated as a lightweight business and professional computer built to withstand day-to-day activities. Travelmate laptops are well received by reviewers, often, however, they are faulted for a lack of visual appeal. The TravelMate name was previously used by Texas Instruments, which sold its mobile computing division to Acer in 1997. The TravelMate mainly competes against business computers such as Dell's Latitude, HP's EliteBook and ProBook, Lenovo's ThinkPad and Toshiba's Portégé.
Overview
Hardware
Depending on the model, the TravelMate series' standard features may include a full specter of actual ports, include an Ethernet adapter, and one or more PC Card slots. They may also include a docking port, an optical drive, and one VGA port. The version with soldered memory is uncommon. The higher-end models come with professional graphics cards. The TPM chip is also a common option.
As with other laptops, earlier models used CFL backlit LCD screens, later transitioning to LED backlit screens. The classic models may have a pointing stick option, a docking port, fingerprint reader, and other high-end business features. The curved keyboard layout was only a TravelMate family feature.
Software
The operating system included with the Travelmate has, at various times, been Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Several proprietary utilities from Acer are usually provided, which interface with the operating system. These programs include Acer ePower Management for changing the computer's mobile power options, Acer eRecovery Management for flexible data backup, and Acer Launch Manager for configuring the computer's launch keys, which launch user-defined applications. Others utilities manage passwords, file encryption, memory optimization, and network connections. Many models organize these together into an interface called 'Empowering Technology' - with the aim of allowing safer, more comfortable, and practical use of the notebook.
History
Texas Instruments TravelMate models
TravelMate 3000 (1991)
TravelMate 4000m (1995)
Acer models
TravelMate series
TravelMate 2420
The TravelMate 2420 was a Centrino based laptop computer, featuring either a Celeron M or a Pentium M processor at 1.7 GHz, depending on the region where it was to be distributed. As of April 2007, this model was discontinued by Acer Corp in the USA and Mexico.
In Latin America it included one 256 MB DDR2 SO-DIMM, though in other countries it included one single SO-DIMM module of 512 MB. The Latin American version also included a 40 GB 4200 rpm hard disk. In other countries the hard disk was 80 GB.
As it was based on the Centrino platform, it included a 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet adapter, a wireless Ethernet adapter, a Bluetooth adapter and one PC Card slot. It also included three USB 2. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDIS | CDIS may refer to:
The CDIS (computer-based system) air-traffic control system by Praxis.
The abbreviated name of Chengdu International School, an international school for expatriate children in Chengdu, China. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20Acceleration%20API | Video Acceleration API (VA-API) is an open source application programming interface that allows applications such as VLC media player or GStreamer to use hardware video acceleration capabilities, usually provided by the graphics processing unit (GPU). It is implemented by the free and open-source library , combined with a hardware-specific driver, usually provided together with the GPU driver.
VA-API video decode/encode interface is platform and window system independent but is primarily targeted at Direct Rendering Infrastructure (DRI) in X Window System on Unix-like operating systems (including Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris), and Android, however it can potentially also be used with direct framebuffer and graphics sub-systems for video output. Accelerated processing includes support for video decoding, video encoding, subpicture blending, and rendering.
The VA-API specification was originally designed by Intel for its GMA (Graphics Media Accelerator) series of GPU hardware with the specific purpose of eventually replacing the XvMC standard as the default Unix multi-platform equivalent of Microsoft Windows DirectX Video Acceleration (DxVA) API, but today the API is no longer limited to Intel-specific hardware or GPUs. Other hardware and manufacturers can freely use this open standard API for hardware accelerated video processing with their own hardware without paying a royalty fee.
Overview
The main motivation for VA-API is to enable hardware-accelerated video decode at various entry-points (VLD, IDCT, motion compensation, deblocking) for the prevailing coding standards today (MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP/H.263, MPEG-4 AVC/H.264, H.265/HEVC, and VC-1/WMV3). Extending XvMC was considered, but due to its original design for MPEG-2 MotionComp only, it made more sense to design an interface from scratch that can fully expose the video decode capabilities in today's GPUs.
Supported hardware and drivers
As of 2022, VA-API is natively supported by:
Intel Quick Sync open-source drivers for Linux
Mesa open-source drivers for AMD and Nvidia graphics cards
AMDGPU-PRO drivers for AMD graphics cards on Linux
libva-vdpau-driver for cards supported by VDPAU
Direct3D 12 implementations with the VAOn12 driver
Supported video codecs
VA-API currently supports these video codecs in the official mainline version, but note that exactly which video codecs are supported depends on the hardware and the driver's capabilities.
MPEG-2 decode acceleration Main Profile
VC-1 / WMV3 decode acceleration Advanced Profile
MPEG-4 Part 2 (H.263) (a.k.a. MPEG-4 SP / MPEG-4 ASP, more commonly known as Xvid) decode acceleration
H.264 AVC encode acceleration Main Profile
H.264 AVC decode acceleration High Profile
H.264 / AVC Hardware Variable Length Decoding (VLD) - CABAC
H.264 / AVC Hardware Variable Length Decoding (VLD) - CAVLC
H.264 / AVC Hardware Inverse Transform (IT)
H.264 / AVC Hardware Motion Compensation (HWMC)
H.264 / AVC Hardware In-Loop Deblocking (ILDB)
H.265/HEV |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBWA%20%28FM%29 | WBWA (89.9 FM) is a radio station in Buffalo, New York, broadcasting contemporary worship music from the Air 1 network without local deviation outside of station identification. It is owned by the Educational Media Foundation. Unlike most Buffalo stations, its signal is mostly audible only in the Southtowns, and has no over-the-air availability across Lake Ontario into the Greater Toronto Area; a weak signal and adjacent-channel interference from public radio stations WNJA and WPSX make the station inaudible in most of the western Southern Tier.
History
The station signed on in 1989 as WFBF under the ownership of Family Stations, carrying its Family Radio network. In September 2019, Family Stations came to terms with the Educational Media Foundation to sell four stations, including WFBF, to that organization. Upon the sale's closing on November 22, 2019, the station became the Buffalo market's K-Love affiliate, and the station changed its call sign to WBKV.
In June 2023, EMF filed to move the WBKV call sign to WTSS (102.5 FM), which it was in the process of acquiring from Audacy, Inc.; the 89.9 facility was repurposed as Air1 station WBWA.
References
External links
Air1 radio stations
Radio stations established in 1989
1989 establishments in New York (state)
Educational Media Foundation radio stations
BKV (FM) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Wilmut | Roger Wilmut (born 1942) is a British writer and compiler of books on British comedy. Wilmut attended Warwick School, and began his 'day job' as studio technician for the BBC on leaving school in 1961. Wilmut claims to have drifted into a career as a writer "by accident".
Wilmut's books include The Goon Show Companion, Tony Hancock: Artiste, From Fringe to Flying Circus (a history of Oxbridge comedy in the sixties and seventies) and Didn't You Kill My Mother-in-law (a history of the 1980s alternative comedy movement in the UK).
Early life
Wilmut was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire in 1942. His parents moved there when they were married in 1940 and his father, who had been teaching in Caterham, Surrey, got a post at King Edward VI School in Stratford. Wilmut's mother was a keen theatregoer, and as a result he saw many of the Shakespeare productions at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre from the late 1950s to about the early 1970s.
Wilmut attended Warwick School, and began his 'day job' as studio technician for the BBC on leaving school in 1961.
Career
Wilmut's enthusiasm for the Goons led to the first of his books. In 1974, with the help of friends Tim Smith and Peter Copeland, he revised a list of the series' episodes supplied by the BBC, and his own earlier research, into a "much more complete typewritten list". He then sent it to Robson Books, who showed an interest. While writing the accompanying text he was "approached by the late Jimmy Grafton, who had been involved with the Goons in their early days, and had helped to get the show on the air. He suggested combining his memoirs with my book, and this is what happened, with the book being published in 1976 under the title The Goon Show Companion."
Wilmut was then signed by the agent Roger Hancock, who then commissioned him to "write a similar book about Tony Hancock", his elder brother. The result was 1978's Tony Hancock – 'Artiste''', the book for which he conducted his first interviews. Whilst considering a book on Monty Python's Flying Circus, Roger Hancock suggested that he cover "the entire generation of comedy which arose from Oxford and Cambridge Universities after 1961". The result was From Fringe to Flying Circus.
It was not until 1985 that Wilmut's next book appeared, a history of theatrical variety, titled Kindly Leave The Stage. Over seventy people were interviewed for the project, with Wilmut remarking he thought he "ought to do the interviews as soon as possible in view of the age of the people involved."
In 1989 he produced Didn't You Kill My Mother-in-Law?, a history of British alternative comedy. The book was originally the idea of Peter Rosengard, a life insurance salesman who had helped start this comedy movement by opening The Comedy Store in London in 1979. Like Jimmy Grafton with The Goon Show Companion, the book was part memoir (this time Rosengard's), and part history of the subject by Wilmut.
Other books by Wilmut are The Illustrated Hancock, and his compi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20computer%20engineering | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to computer engineering:
Computer engineering – discipline that integrates several fields of electrical engineering and computer science required to develop computer hardware and software. Computer engineers usually have training in electronic engineering (or electrical engineering), software design, and hardware-software integration instead of only software engineering or electronic engineering. Computer engineers are involved in many hardware and software aspects of computing, from the design of individual microcontrollers, microprocessors, personal computers, and supercomputers, to circuit design. This field of engineering not only focuses on how computer systems themselves work, but also how they integrate into the larger picture.
Main articles on computer engineering
Computer
Computer architecture
Computer hardware
Computer software
Computer science
Engineering
Electrical engineering
Software engineering
History of computer engineering
General
Time line of computing 2400 BC - 1949 - 1950-1979 - 1980-1989 - 1990-1999 - 2000-2009
History of computing hardware up to third generation (1960s)
History of computing hardware from 1960s to current
History of computer hardware in Eastern Bloc countries
History of personal computers
History of laptops
History of software engineering
History of compiler writing
History of the Internet
History of the World Wide Web
History of video games
History of the graphical user interface
Timeline of computing
Timeline of operating systems
Timeline of programming languages
Timeline of artificial intelligence
Timeline of cryptography
Timeline of algorithms
Timeline of quantum computing
Product specific
Timeline of DOS operating systems
Classic Mac OS
History of macOS
History of Microsoft Windows
Timeline of the Apple II series
Timeline of Apple products
Timeline of file sharing
Timeline of OpenBSD
Hardware
Digital electronics
Very-large-scale integration
Hardware description language
Application-specific integrated circuit
Electrical network
Microprocessor
Software
Assembly language
Operating system
Database
Software engineering
System design
Computer architecture
Microarchitecture
Multiprocessing
Computer performance by orders of magnitude
Interdisciplinary fields
Human–computer interaction
Computer network
Digital signal processing
Control theory
See also
Computer Science
List of basic information technology topics
References
External links
Computer Engineering at The Princeton Review
Computer Engineering Conference Calendar
Computer engineering
Computer engineering
Computer engineering topics, basic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane%20Charette | Christiane Charette (born March 29, 1951) is a Canadian radio and television personality, who hosted the national morning program on the Première Chaîne radio network from 2006 to 2011. She also previously hosted the television talk show Christiane Charette en direct for SRC Television.
The daughter of Quebec journalist Raymond Charette, she studied art history at the Université de Montréal and worked for the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts before joining Radio-Canada.
She announced on May 5, 2011, that she would be leaving the network, effective June 3, to pursue other projects.
References
External links
Christiane Charette
1951 births
Canadian television talk show hosts
Living people
French Quebecers
Canadian talk radio hosts
CBC Radio hosts
Canadian women radio hosts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision%20and%20recall | In pattern recognition, information retrieval, object detection and classification (machine learning), precision and recall are performance metrics that apply to data retrieved from a collection, corpus or sample space.
Precision (also called positive predictive value) is the fraction of relevant instances among the retrieved instances. Written as a formula:.
Recall (also known as sensitivity) is the fraction of relevant instances that were retrieved. Written as a formula: . Both precision and recall are therefore based on relevance.
Consider a computer program for recognizing dogs (the relevant element) in a digital photograph. Upon processing a picture which contains ten cats and twelve dogs, the program identifies eight dogs. Of the eight elements identified as dogs, only five actually are dogs (true positives), while the other three are cats (false positives). Seven dogs were missed (false negatives), and seven cats were correctly excluded (true negatives). The program's precision is then 5/8 (true positives / selected elements) while its recall is 5/12 (true positives / relevant elements).
Adopting a hypothesis-testing approach from statistics, in which, in this case, the null hypothesis is that a given item is irrelevant (i.e., not a dog), absence of type I and type II errors (i.e., perfect specificity and sensitivity of 100% each) corresponds respectively to perfect precision (no false positive) and perfect recall (no false negative).
More generally, recall is simply the complement of the type II error rate (i.e., one minus the type II error rate). Precision is related to the type I error rate, but in a slightly more complicated way, as it also depends upon the prior distribution of seeing a relevant vs. an irrelevant item.
The above cat and dog example contained 8 − 5 = 3 type I errors (false positives) out of 10 total cats (true negatives), for a type I error rate of 3/10, and 12 − 5 = 7 type II errors (false negatives), for a type II error rate of 7/12. Precision can be seen as a measure of quality, and recall as a measure of quantity.
Higher precision means that an algorithm returns more relevant results than irrelevant ones, and high recall means that an algorithm returns most of the relevant results (whether or not irrelevant ones are also returned).
Introduction
In a classification task, the precision for a class is the number of true positives (i.e. the number of items correctly labelled as belonging to the positive class) divided by the total number of elements labelled as belonging to the positive class (i.e. the sum of true positives and false positives, which are items incorrectly labelled as belonging to the class). Recall in this context is defined as the number of true positives divided by the total number of elements that actually belong to the positive class (i.e. the sum of true positives and false negatives, which are items which were not labelled as belonging to the positive class but should have been).
Pr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20Abstraction%20Layer | The Spacecraft Monitoring & Control (SM&C) Working Group of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS), which sees the active participation of 10 space agencies and of the Space Domain Task Force of the Object Management Group (OMG), is defining a service-oriented architecture consisting of a set of standard end-to-end services between functions resident on board a spacecraft or based on the ground, that are responsible for mission operations.
The CCSDS Message Abstraction Layer (MAL) provides message abstraction and generic service patterns to the Mission Operation (MO) services defined in the CCSDS Mission Operations Services Concept.
Service Layering
A key feature of the MO Service Framework is the layering of services. While there are a range of potential services identified corresponding to different types of mission operations information that are exchanged within a system (status parameters, control actions, orbital data, mission timelines, etc.), these application level services are implemented in terms of a smaller set of generic interaction patterns that allow current status to be observed, operations to be invoked and bulk data transferred. This has two key benefits: it is inherently extensible, as new services can be overlaid on the existing common services; and the investment made in MO applications is further isolated from the implementation technology. Technology adapters allow the underlying communications infrastructure to be changed (or bridged) with minimal impact on the applications themselves. This improves long-term maintainability, as missions often outlive the ground technology used to deploy them initially.
The layers of the Mission Operations Service Framework are:
The Mission Operations (MO) Layer
The Common Services Layer
The Message Abstraction Layer (MAL)
A message transport layer
The interface between each layer is defined in the CCSDS standards and therefore implementations of the each layer can be replaced without change to other software.
Message Abstraction
To provide implementation language and message transport independence all operations of a service must be defined by a language/platform/encoding agnostic specification. The MAL defines this set of basic data types and how they must be used to build up the messages that make up the operations of a service. This only then has to be mapped once, in an MO standard, to a specific implementation language or transport encoding to apply to all services that are defined in terms of the MAL.
In addition to the patterns of interaction and the abstract API the MAL provides support for the following:
– generic concepts, such as domain, session and zone;
– generic facilities such as access control (authentication and authorisation) and Quality of Service.
Patterns of interaction
An operation of a service can be decomposed to a set of messages exchanged between a service provider and consumer and form a pattern of interaction. Analysis of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panasas | Panasas is a data storage company that creates network-attached storage for technical computing environments.
History
Panasas is a computer data storage product company and is headquartered in San Jose, California. Panasas received seed funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures (MDV) and others. The first Panasas products were shipped in 2004, the same year that Victor M. Perez became CEO. Faye Pairman became CEO in 2011. Tom Shea, formerly Panasas COO, was appointed as CEO in 2020.
Technology
Panasas developed an extension for managing parallel file access in the Network File System, which was later integrated in Parallel NFS (pNFS), part of the NFS version 4.1 specification, published by the Internet Engineering Task Force as RFC 5661 in January 2010. pNFS described a way for the NFS protocol to process file requests to multiple servers or storage devices at once, instead of handling the requests serially.
Panasas supports DirectFlow, NFS, Parallel NFS and Server Message Block (also known as CIFS) data access protocols to integrate into existing local area networks. Panasas blade servers manage metadata, serving data for DirectFlow, NFS and CIFS clients using 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Panasas systems provide data storage and management for high-performance applications in the biosciences, energy, media and entertainment, manufacturing, government and research sectors.
ActiveStor
The ActiveStor product line is a parallel file system appliance that integrates hybrid storage hardware (hard drives and solid state drives), the PanFS parallel file system, its proprietary DirectFlow data access protocol, and the industry standard NFS and CIFS network protocols.
ActiveStor Ultra
ActiveStor Ultra (introduced in November 2018) is the newest generation of the Panasas ActiveStor storage system and features a re-engineered, portable file system that delivers performance and reliability on suitably qualified, industry standard storage hardware platforms.
ActiveStor 20 (now ActiveStor Classic) was announced in August 2016 with increased capacity, using larger and faster disks. In November 2017, Panasas released the ActiveStor Director 100 and the ActiveStor Hybrid 100 (now ActiveStor Prime), which disaggregated the Director Blade, the controller node of Panasas storage system, from the storage nodes. In November 2018, Panasas introduced ActiveStor Ultra, which featured a completely re-engineered portable file system (PanFS® 8) running on industry standard hardware.
DirectFlow
DirectFlow is a parallel data access protocol designed by Panasas for ActiveStor. DirectFlow avoids protocol I/O bottlenecks by accessing Panasas storage directly and in parallel. DirectFlow was originally supported on Linux, and expanded in April 2016 to support Apple's MacOS.
PanFS
Panasas created the PanFS clustered file system as single pool of storage under a global filename space to support multiple applications and workflows in a single storage system. PanFS supports DirectFlow |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova%20Gera%C3%A7%C3%A3o%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | NGT ( - English New Generation of Television) is a Brazilian television network. The station came about through the acquisition of two educational television concessions by businessman Marco Antônio Bernardes Costa; one in the city of Osasco, in the state of São Paulo, on behalf of the Fundação Fátima, and another in the city of Rio de Janeiro, on behalf of the Fundação Veneza. These concessions became the two headquarters of the network, together producing its national programming. The network has 35 affiliated television stations in 15 Brazilian states, as well as several retransmitters in 17 states, covering 13.6% of Brazilian territory.
Stations
NGT São Paulo (channel 16, virtual 48)
NGT Rio de Janeiro (channel 45, virtual 12)
Programs
Anjos da Guarda
Barlada
Brazil Cook Book
Caminhos do Rodeio
Celeste Maria Recebe
Cotidiano
Desenhos Infantis
Estilo
Fala Galera!
Festa Popular
Jornal Metropolitano RJ
Jornal Metropolitano SP
Madrugadão NGT
Mulheres em Ação
Na Levada do Samba
NGT Clipes
NGT Esporte
NGT Kids
NGT Notícias
NGT Séries
Nordeste em Destaque com Fátima Dantas
Os C&D
Os Hermanos Perdidos no Brasil
P.O.L.Í.C.I.A.
Profissão Mulher
Programa do Jacaré
Serginho Total
Sessão de Filmes
Sessão de Shows
Show do Balalá
Temperando o Papo
Viaja Brasil
Programa Show Marques
External links
Official Site
Television networks in Brazil
Portuguese-language television networks
Television channels and stations established in 2003
Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city)
Mass media in São Paulo
Mass media in Osasco |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Bibliography%20of%20the%20Social%20Sciences | The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is a bibliography for social science and interdisciplinary research. The database focuses on the social science disciplines of anthropology, economics, politics and sociology, and related interdisciplinary subjects, such as development studies, human geography and environment and gender studies. It was established in 1951 and prepared by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris. Production was transferred to the London School of Economics in 1989, and then to ProQuest in 2010.
References
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Online databases
ProQuest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidate%20of%20Medicine | Candidate of Medicine ( (male), candidata medicinae (female), abbreviated cand. med.) is an academic degree awarded in Denmark, Iceland, and Norway following a six-year medical school education.
The degree can also be written as candidatus/candidata medicinæ (Æ instead of AE). In Danish and Norwegian, the degree is, similar to other Latin degrees, generally not capitalized (i.e. it is written as candidatus/candidata medicinae and abbreviated cand.med.). The abbreviation of the Latin term is almost exclusively used, i.e., they are not translated.
The term candidate refers to those running for public office in Ancient Rome. Traditionally, many doctors (and lawyers) in Denmark and Norway would hold positions directly appointed by the King.
In Denmark and Norway, a higher doctorate of medicine is known as dr.med. (doctor medicinae, literally, Doctor of Medicine). This degree is obtained by those furthering their career in research and is not required or usually obtained by those only working in clinical medicine. Formally it is not, however, required in Denmark to hold a cand.med. degree to acquire the doctorate. In practice most Doctors of Medicine are also Candidates of Medicine. In Denmark, there are currently two research degrees that can be obtained in the field of medicine, the ph.d., which is not officially a doctorate (although being called the lesser doctorate informally) and the doctorate, dr.med. (informally the higher doctorate). Dr.med. was abolished in Norway in 2008 and replaced by the PhD.
Norway
In Norway, the education is offered at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Bergen, University of Oslo, and University of Tromsø. Enrollment in a program leading to a medical degree is highly competitive in Norway. The required grades obtained in secondary education are consistently higher for medical degrees than for any other university subject. Following the education, candidates are permitted to work as a doctor and obtain the title cand.med. In order to obtain a clinical specialization (for example general surgery, internal medicine, general practice etc) a cand.med must start as a rotation doctor, first at a hospital for one year and then six months as a general practitioner. During such rotation the candidate hold the title LIS-1. After the rotation service, the candidate med continue more specific training for the specific specialization and hold the title LIS-2.
The first Norwegian to receive this degree was Carl Schultz in 1817. Along with the cand.med.vet., cand.psychol. and cand.theol. it is one of the few Latin titles to survive the "Quality Reform" in Norway.
Medical students
In Norway, the term stud.med. (abbreviation of the Latin studiosus medicinae (masculine) or studiosa medicinae (feminine)) is used to denote medical students that are in their final year of medical school and have acquired a licence to practice medicine under the guidance of a more experienced doctor. In Denmark, the term |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20tomography | Hydraulic tomography (HT) is a sequential cross-hole hydraulic test followed by inversion of all the data to map the spatial distribution of aquifer hydraulic properties. Specifically, HT involves installation of multiple wells in an aquifer, which are partitioned into several intervals along the depth using packers. A sequential aquifer test at selected intervals is then conducted. During the test, water is injected or withdrawn (i.e. a pressure excitation) at a selected interval in a given well. Pressure responses of the subsurface are then monitored at other intervals at this well and also in other wells. This test produces a set of pressure excitation/response data of the subsurface.
Once a given test has been completed, the pump is moved to another interval and the test is repeated to collect another set of data. The same procedure is then applied to the intervals at other wells. Afterward, the data sets from all tests are processed by a mathematical model to estimate the spatial distribution of hydraulic properties of the aquifer. These pairs of pumping and drawdown data sets at different locations make an inverse problem better posed, because each pair cross-validates the others such that the estimates become less non-unique. In other words, predictions of ground water flow based on the HT estimates will be more accurate and less uncertain than those based on estimates from traditional site-characterization approaches and model calibrations.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20071201142040/http://tian.hwr.arizona.edu/yeh/index.html
http://tian.hwr.arizona.edu/research/HT/examples
Hydrology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivetti%20typewriters | The Olivetti company, an Italian manufacturer of computers, tablets, smartphones, printers and other such business products as calculators and fax machines, was founded as a typewriters manufacturer by Camillo Olivetti in 1908 in the Turin commune of Ivrea, Italy.
By 1994, Olivetti stopped production of typewriters, as more and more users were transitioning to personal computers.
Mechanical models
M1 (1911)
Until the mid-1960s, the Olivetti typewriters were fully mechanical. Introduced at the Word Fair in Turin in 1911, the first Olivetti typewriter, the M1, was made of about 3000 hand made parts and weighed 17 kg. It was the first Italian typewriter and had a keyboard of 42 keys corresponding to 84 signs, 33-cm paper roll allowing for 110 characters and featured two-colored ribbon, automatic reverse direction, and return key. Heavy and massive, it was intended for professional use in offices.
M20 (1920)
In 1920 the M1 was replaced by a new model, the M20. It featured several innovations, including the trolley running on a fixed guideway. Unlike the M1, which was essentially sold in Italy, it was exported to many European and non-European markets.
M40 (1930)
To update the M20, Olivetti worked on a new model which came out in 1930 and remained in production until 1948, the M40. A second version came out in 1937 and another one in the 1940s. Customers particularly appreciated the fixed-guide carriage, the lightness of touch of the keyboard and the speed of writing.
MP1 (1932)
In 1932, Olivetti presented a portable typewriter shortly after the launch of the M40: the MP1 (Modello Portatile in Italian). Conceived by Gino Martinoli and Adriano Olivetti, engineered by Riccardo Levi, and designed by Aldo and Adriano Magnelli, it was intended for both office and domestic use. It weighed only 5.2 kilos, as compared to the M1, which weighed 17 kilos, measured 11.7 centimetres high, half the height of the M1. The mechanism was partly concealed by the body, and the monumental vertical structure of the M1 had been flattened and lightened. In addition to the black colour of the M1 and M20, the MP1 was offered in red, blue, light blue, brown, green, grey, and ivory.
Studio 42 (1935)
Also known as the M2, it was designed in 1935 by Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini, Ottavio Luzzati and Xanti Schawinsky. It is characterized by the various colors available: in addition to the classic black, it was also available in red, gray, brown and light blue.
The keyboard is the QZERTY type, as is usual for Italian machines (apart from modern computer keyboards). In addition to the writing keys, the keyboard includes a space bar, two shift keys, a shift lock, a return key, and a tab key.
The set of writing keys has an obvious lack: there is no key with the number 1, which is obtained by using the lowercase letter l (L) or the capital I (i); likewise, there is no zero, which is obtained by typing the capital O (o). Although this may seem strange today, it was quite |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Diffusion%20Network | The National Diffusion Network (United States, 1974–1995) was the first federally sponsored effort to identify and spread to America's schools innovative education programs. The program was created administratively by the then-Office of Education in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as an effort to make use of the best of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title III education innovations.
The NDN operated successfully, at a congressionally approved appropriations level varying between $8-million and $14-million per year, for 20 years. It, like several other small programs then administered by the U.S. Department of Education was eliminated by having its funding stopped by the 105th Congress, under the implementation of a cost-cutting initiative sponsored by new Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, called the Contract with America.
There were several components of the National Diffusion Network. The most central were Developer Demonstrators, projects of educational innovations that had been rigorously reviewed and validated by a federal panel, the Joint Dissemination Review Panel. The Developer Demonstration projects, or DDs, offered their professional development and other services to schools and school districts who had need for the specific education reform and improvement innovations.
A catalog listing all the DDs available to schools, Educational Programs That Work was published yearly by Sopris West, a private contractor, and distributed nationally.
A second critical component of the NDN were its state facilitators (SFs). There was at least one SF grantee in each of the 50 states, plus designated agencies in the District of Columbia and U.S. Territories. The role of the SFs was to act as liaisons between schools in their state that had need for assistance and the NDN-approved Developer Demonstrators. Matches were called "program adoptions."
The principal congressional sponsors of the NDN were Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI) and Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-RI), both of whom sponsored legislation to maintain and extend the work of the program throughout the nation. When the National Diffusion Network's funding was threatened by David Stockman, OMB director in 1981, during the first year of the Ronald Reagan administration, personnel staffing National Diffusion Network projects formed a professional advocacy group, the National Dissemination Association. The association was led by Max McConkey, artist, later the chief policy officer at WestEd and board president of Knowledge Alliance. NDA appealed to both Education Secretary Terrel Bell and to Congressman Kildee and Senator Pell. The three collaborated in a successful effort to save the Network.
While the National Diffusion Network officially ended in 1995, many of its innovative programs continue to be disseminated to schools throughout the nation, contributing to the resources used for the implementation of the ESEA reauthorization of 2001—the No Child Left Behind Act.
Notes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen%20Champ%3A%20The%20Untold%20Story%20of%20Mike%20Tyson | Fallen Champ: The Untold Story of Mike Tyson is a 1993 American made-for-television documentary film that is directed by Barbara Kopple and aired on the NBC television network on February 12, 1993.
Though Tyson was in jail serving a sentence for rape, Kopple used existing interviews with the boxer, as well as her own extensive interviews with those closest to Tyson, to explore the man's history. The film traces Tyson's story from his troubled and tumultuous upbringing, through his rapid ascendancy in the ranks of the boxing world and his subsequent struggle with the trappings of fame. Fallen Champ earned Barbara Kopple a Directors Guild of America (DGA) award as Best Documentary Director of 1993.
The film was released on VHS by Columbia TriStar Home Video on March 5, 1996.
In 2011, the film was aired on ESPN Classic.
References
External links
Director Barbara Kopple's Website
Documentary films about sportspeople
Documentary films about boxing
Films directed by Barbara Kopple
American sports documentary films
1993 films
Mike Tyson
1993 television films
1993 documentary films
NBC network original films
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBinder | OpenBinder is a system for inter-process communication. It was developed at Be Inc. and then Palm, Inc. and was the basis for the Binder framework now used in the Android operating system developed by Google.
OpenBinder allows processes to present interfaces which may be called by other threads. Each process maintains a thread pool which may be used to service such requests. OpenBinder takes care of reference counting, recursion back into the original thread, and the inter-process communication itself. On the Linux version of OpenBinder, the communication is achieved using ioctls on a given file descriptor, communicating with a kernel driver.
The kernel-side component of the Linux version of OpenBinder was merged into the Linux kernel mainline in kernel version 3.19, which was released on February 8, 2015.
References
Inter-process communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%27s%20algorithm | Raymond's Algorithm is a lock based algorithm for mutual exclusion on a distributed system. It imposes a logical structure (a K-ary tree) on distributed resources. As defined, each node has only a single parent, to which all requests to attain the token are made.
Algorithm
Nodal properties
Each node has only one parent to whom received requests are forwarded
Each node maintains a FIFO queue of requests each time that it sees the token;
If any node is forwarding privilege to other node and has non-empty queue then it forwards a request message along
Algorithm
If a node i (not holding the token) wishes to receive the token in order to enter into its critical section, it sends a request to its parent, node j.
If node j FIFO is empty, node j shifts i into its FIFO queue; j then issues a request to its parent, k, that it desires the token
If node j FIFO queue is not empty, it simply shifts i into the queue
When node k has token and receives the request from j it sends token to j and sets j as its parent
When node j receives the token from k, it forwards the token to i and i is removed from the queue of j
If the queue of j is not empty after forwarding the token to i, j must issue a request to i in order to get the token back
Note: If j wishes to request a token, and its queue is not empty, then it places itself into its own queue. Node j will utilize the token to enter into its critical section if it is at the head of the queue when the token is received.
Complexity
Raymond's algorithm is guaranteed to be O(log n) per critical section entry if the processors are organized into a K-ary tree. Additionally, each processor needs to store at most O(log n) bits because it must track O(1) neighbors.
References
See also
Ricart-Agrawala algorithm
Lamport's bakery algorithm
Lamport's distributed mutual exclusion algorithm
Maekawa's algorithm
Suzuki-Kasami's algorithm
Naimi-Trehel's algorithm
Concurrency control algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20S.%20Turner | Jonathan Shields Turner is a senior professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include the design and analysis of high performance routers and switching systems, extensible communication networks via overlay networks, and probabilistic performance of heuristic algorithms for NP-complete problems.
Biography
Jonathan Shields Turner was born on November 13, 1953, in Boston. Turner started his undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, and later enrolled in the undergraduate engineering program at Washington University. In doing so, he became one of the first dual-degree engineering graduates from Washington University. In 1975, he graduated with a B.A. in Theater from Oberlin College. Then, in 1977, he graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Washington University
Once Turner graduated, he began attending Northwestern University for Computer Science graduate school, and simultaneously began working at Bell Labs as a member of their technical staff. In 1979, he received his M.S. in computer science from Northwestern, and continued on as a doctoral student under the supervision of Hal Sudborough. From 1981 to 1983, he became the principal system architect for the Fast Packet Switching project at Bell Labs. He received eleven patents for his work on the Fast Packet Switching project. In 1982 he published his doctoral dissertation, receiving his Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern.
Turner joined Washington University in 1983 as an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments. In 1986, he published a paper titled "New Directions in Communications (or Which Way to the Information Age)", which forecast the convergence of data, voice, and video traffic on networks, and proposed scalable switching architectures to handle such a traffic load. This paper would later be reprinted in the 50th anniversary issue of the IEEE Communications Magazine as a "landmark article". In 1988 he founded the Advanced Networking Group and co-founded the Applied Research Laboratory with Washington University colleagues Jerome R. Cox and Guru Parulkar. Turner directed the Applied Research Laboratory (ARL) from its inception to 2012, and directed the Advanced Networking group until it was subsumed by the ARL in 1992. He was promoted to full professor by 1990. He became the Computer Science department chair in 1992 and held this position through 1997. In 1998 Turner co-founded a company named Growth Networks—again in collaboration with Professors Jerome Cox and Guru Parulkar—which focused on high performance switching components for Internet routers and Asynchronous Transfer Mode switches. Turner was Chief Scientist at Growth Networks. In 2000 Cisco acquired Growth Networks for $355 million in stock, largely for the intellectual property and engineering talent. At the time of acquisition, Growth Ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTN | VTN may refer to:
Vitronectin, a glycoprotein
Vietnam, ITU country code
Victory Television Network, a religious independent television network
Miller Field (airport), Valentine, Nebraska (IATA code)
Vaitarna railway station (Indian Railways code)
Vleuten railway station, Netherlands (NS abberivation)
Vertumnite, a transparent silicate mineral (mineral symbol); see List of mineral symbols
Andringitra (plant) (CoL taxon identifier) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec%20C | Aztec C is a discontinued C programming language compiler for CP/M-80, MS-DOS, Apple II (both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS), Commodore 64, early Macintosh, Amiga, and Atari ST. It was sold commercially by Manx Software Systems.
History
Manx Software Systems of Shrewsbury, New Jersey produced C programming language compilers beginning in the 1980s for CP/M, Apple II, IBM PC compatibles, Macintosh, and other systems.
Manx was started by Harry Suckow, with partners Thomas Fenwick, and James Goodnow II, the two principal developers. They were all working together at another company at the time. Suckow had started several companies of his own anticipating the impending growth of the personal computer market. A demand came for compilers first and he disengaged himself from the other companies to pursue Manx and Aztec C.
Another developer, Chris Macey, assisted them momentarily with 80XX development, apart from other areas.
One of the main reasons for Aztec C's early success was the floating point support in the Z80 compiler, which was extended to the Apple II shortly after.
During the move to ANSI C in 1989, Robert Sherry represented them on the ANSI committee but left shortly after. He also fixed numerous bugs in the Aztec C after Chris Macey and Thomas Fenwick left the company.
By this time Microsoft had targeted competitors for their C compiler and Aztec C was being pushed-out of the general IBM PC compatible compiler market, followed by competition with Apple's MPW C on the Macintosh side and Lattice C on the Amiga after SAS bought them.
In 1989 Thomas Fenwick left to work for Microsoft, and James Goodnow worked on Aztec C occasionally but was pursuing other projects outside the company and eventually left the company altogether. Chris Macey returned as a consultant but eventually left to become chief scientist for another company.
Throughout the 1990s they continued to make their Aztec C compiler. As their market share dropped, they tried to make the move to specializing in embedded systems development, but it was too late. They disappeared a few years back following the loss of market presence of some of their target platforms (various 6502 machines, Atari and Amiga 68xxx, etc.).
In the end, Jeff Davis and Mike Spille helped Harry Suckow keep the company going before Suckow finally closed it. Suckow is still the copyright holder for Aztec C.
Many developers used the Aztec C compiler until it became operationally extinct.
Legacy
Aztec C remains copyrighted. Harry Suckow is the copyright holder.
At least two free Internet distributions exist for native Aztec C compilers for the Apple II; one forDOS 3.3 and the other for ProDOS 8. Free Internet distributions exist for the Amiga, MS-DOS, and a limited version of the MS-DOS cross-compiler for Apple II ProDOS 8.
References
C (programming language) compilers
Apple II software
CP/M software
Commodore 64 software
Amiga development software
Atari ST software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin%20Smalltalk | Dolphin Smalltalk, or "Dolphin" for short, is an implementation of the Smalltalk programming language for Microsoft Windows.
The Dolphin 7 version release coincided with the project going open-source using the MIT License.
Dolphin uses an integrated development environment. The toolset of this Smalltalk dialect include an integrated refactoring browser, a package browser and a WYSIWYG "view composer". Dolphin deviates from the convention of the Smalltalk MVC framework with the choice of a Model–view–presenter framework.
Features
Integration of the Refactoring Browser tools from Refactory Inc.
Package-based browsing environment as an alternative to a conventional Smalltalk class hierarchy browser.
A "tabbed" container for managing Dolphin browsers and tools and associating them together with a particular idea or workflow. The goal is to save screen space and clutter and to help developers focus on their train of thought.
Source code management very similar to the ENVY source code manager that was available for some other commercial Smalltalk dialects.
References
External links
Object Arts website( site appears to be no longer reachable).
Dolphin Smalltalk on Github
Smalltalk programming language family
Software using the MIT license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShowBIZ%20Data | ShowBIZ Data is a website that tracks domestic and international box office and other performance related information. Established by producer Oliver Eberle in 1997, and based on the principle that understanding the information based upon which movies are made is key to working in Hollywood, ShowBIZData.com is a comprehensive entertainment industry database online. The company's flagship service provides entertainment professionals and enthusiasts with a fast and easy way to obtain detailed information about the film industry.
Since 2012, the website (showbizdata.com) has not been active.
See also
AICN
The Movie Insider
Cinema Blend
Dark Horizons
Joblo
External links
ShowBIZ Data
Film box office
American film websites
Internet properties established in 1997 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing%20%28computing%29 | Fencing is the process of isolating a node of a computer cluster or protecting shared resources when a node appears to be malfunctioning.
As the number of nodes in a cluster increases, so does the likelihood that one of them may fail at some point. The failed node may have control over shared resources that need to be reclaimed and if the node is acting erratically, the rest of the system needs to be protected. Fencing may thus either disable the node, or disallow shared storage access, thus ensuring data integrity.
Basic concepts
A node fence (or I/O fence) is a virtual "fence" that separates nodes which must not have access to a shared resource from that resource. It may separate an active node from its backup. If the backup crosses the fence and, for example, tries to control the same disk array as the primary, a data hazard may occur. Mechanisms such as STONITH are designed to prevent this condition.
Isolating a node means ensuring that I/O can no longer be done from it. Fencing is typically done automatically, by cluster infrastructure such as shared disk file systems, in order to protect processes from other active nodes modifying the resources during node failures. Mechanisms to support fencing, such as the reserve/release mechanism of SCSI, have existed since at least 1985.
Fencing is required because it is impossible to distinguish between a real failure and a temporary hang. If the malfunctioning node is really down, then it cannot do any damage, so theoretically no action would be required (it could simply be brought back into the cluster with the usual join process). However, because there is a possibility that a malfunctioning node could itself consider the rest of the cluster to be the one that is malfunctioning, a split brain condition could ensue, and cause data corruption. Instead, the system has to assume the worst scenario and always fence in case of problems.
Approaches to fencing
There are two classes of fencing methods, one which disables a node itself, the other disallows access to resources such as shared disks. In some cases, it is assumed that if a node does not respond after a given time-threshold it may be assumed as non-operational, although there are counterexamples, e.g. a long paging rampage.
The STONITH method stands for "Shoot The Other Node In The Head", meaning that the suspected node is disabled or powered off. For instance, power fencing uses a power controller to turn off an inoperable node. The node may then restart itself and join the cluster later. However, there are approaches in which an operator is informed of the need for a manual restart for the node.
The resources fencing approach disallows access to resources without powering off the node. This may include:
Persistent reservation fencing uses the SCSI3 persistent reservations to block access to shared storage.
Fibre Channel fencing disables the fibre channel port
Global network block device (GNBD) fencing which disables access to the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogstar%20%28TV%20series%29 | Dogstar is an Australian animated television series produced by Media World Pictures which first screened on the Nine Network and then Disney Channel Australia. There are 26 episodes in each season.
Dogstar was produced by Colin South and Ross Hutchens, written by Doug MacLeod and Philip Dalkin, designed by Scott Vanden Bosch and directed by Aaron Davies. Editing and special effects were done by Merlin Cornish and the music was composed by Yuri Worontschak.
Series synopsis
After thousands of years of wars, pollution, undrinkable water and silly cartoon shows, humans are forced to leave Earth and move everything and everyone to a new planet: New Earth. But not everything goes to plan when the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world's dogs, goes off course and becomes lost in space. On New Earth, the evil Bob Santino makes his fortune selling canine replacement units, Robogs, and plots to ensure the Dogstar is never found. But the Clark kids desperately miss their real dog, Hobart, and begin a quest through space to find the Dogstar - with Bob in hot pursuit.
Series 1: 2006
A Dog's Tale - 4 September 2006
Obedience School - 18 September 2006
Fetch - 11 September 2006
Pedigree - 25 September 2006
Dogfight - 2 October 2006
Dog Ears - 9 October 2006
Underdogs - 16 October 2006
Sit Drop Stay - 23 October 2006
The Beagle Has Landed - 30 October 2006
Sick as a Dog - 6 November 2006
Puppy Love - 13 November 2006
Running with the Pack - 20 November 2006
Paws - 27 November 2006
Dog Show - 16 April 2007
Old Dog New Tricks - 23 April 2007
Hounded - 30 April 2007
Dog Gone - 7 May 2007
Bad Dog - 14 May 2007
Dog Leg - 21 May 2007
Top Dog - 4 June 2007
Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - 11 June 2007
Off Lead Area - 18 June 2007
Dogged Determination - 25 June 2007
Man Bites Dog - 2 July 2007
Smart Dog - 9 July 2007
A Tail's End - 16 July 2007
Series 2: 2011
Public Enemy Number One
The Quick and the Dog
Fred Ward
Even Deeper Impact
Father's Day
Absent Friends
Robbie
The Big Bang
Little Boy Lost
Fatal Attraction
Robot Revolution
Twice The Excitement
Dogtopia
Game Time
Mensamania
Rockin' In The Flea World
The Greatest Superhero
It's The End of the World As We Know It
Robosauria
Secrets And More Secrets
Persuasion
The Good, The Bad and the Baba
Titanium Chef
Reach Out And Touch Somebody's Paw
The Greening of Gavin
Relative Dimensions in Space
Christmas special
Media World Pictures produced a movie length Christmas special called Dogstar – Christmas in Space for the Nine Network, which was released in Christmas 2016.
Cast
The series featured the following voice artists:
Brandon Burns (voice of Glenn Bruce Clark)
Kate McLennan (Simone Clark)
Emma Leonard (Lincoln Clark)
Roslyn Oades (Gemma)
Beverley Dunn (Gran Clark)
Henry Maas (Bob Santino)
Marg Downey (Alice, Daina and Greta)
Matt Tilley (Zeke)
Gary Files (Ramon Ridley)
Michael Veitch (Mark Clark)
Matthew King (Hank and Planet Man)
Simone Ge |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20for%20Laughs%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Just for Laughs was an Australian light entertainment television program that aired on the Nine Network. The show was hosted by David Whitehill, and showed humorous hidden cameras clips from around the world.
Just For Laughs Comedy Festival
Just For Laughs Australia, is filmed at the Sydney Opera House during the Just For Laughs Comedy Festival (Network Ten 2013–) (Fox Comedy 2013–)
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Nine Network original programming
2007 Australian television series debuts
2007 Australian television series endings
Sydney Opera House |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd%20Tony%20Awards | The 3rd Annual Tony Awards were held on April 24, 1949, at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom in New York City, and broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The Masters of Ceremonies were Brock Pemberton and James Sauter.
Ceremony
The silver Tony medallion, designed by Herman Rosse, was awarded for the first time. The face of the medallion portrayed an adaptation of the comedy and tragedy masks and the reverse side had a relief profile of Antoinette Perry.
Performers: Yvonne Adair, Anne Renee Anderson, Carol Channing, Alfred Drake, Bill Eythe, Nanette Fabray, Jane Froman, Lisa Kirk, Mary McCarty, Lucy Monroe, Gene Nelson, Lanny Ross, Lee Stacy, Lawrence Tibbett, Betty Jane Watson, and Paul Winchell.
The American Theatre Wing "emphasized that it avoids any 'firsts' or 'bests' and presents the prizes for a 'notable contributuion to the current season'.... Anything that enlivens the theatre may win a 'Tony'". South Pacific, which had won the Critics' Circle Award, was not eligible for these Tony Awards, which were confined to productions opening up to March 1, 1949. It was eligible for the following year.
Award winners
Note: nominees not shown
Production
Performance
Craft
Multiple nominations and awards
The following productions received multiple awards.
6 wins: Death of a Salesman
5 wins: Kiss Me, Kate
2 wins: Anne of the Thousand Days
References
External links
Official site
Infoplease listing, 1949
Tony Awards ceremonies
1949 in theatre
1949 awards
1949 in the United States
1949 in New York City
April 1949 events in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKDG | WKDG (1540 AM) was a radio station licensed to serve Sumiton, Alabama, United States. The station, originally licensed in 1980, was owned by Kingdom Radio Network, Inc.
WKDG previously broadcast a gospel music format.
History
WRSM was originally granted a construction permit by the FCC on October 27, 1977. The station was granted a license to cover on May 6, 1980.
Ownership
In 2002, a legal dispute between a shareholder of Sumiton Broadcasting Company and the estate of a deceased shareholder led to the station being taken off the air for more than a year. The FCC cancelled the broadcast license and withdrew the WRSM call letters until a successful petition, filed in August 2005, was granted in March 2007. Sumiton announced its intention to sell WRSM to American Trust Corporation, a subsidiary of Hilliard & Co., for $106,501. This application was dismissed by the FCC in April 2008.
In May 2008, Sumiton filed a new application to transfer the broadcast license to Joy Christian Communications, Inc. This transfer would be a straight donation to a non-profit organization. The transfer was approved on November 18, 2008, but as of February 18, 2009, the transaction had yet to be consummated. The station's call sign was changed from WRSM to WKDG on August 27, 2009, when the license was transferred to Communications and Educational Development Initiatives, aka Kingdom Radio Network. The license transfer was consummated and approved by the FCC in September 2009.
On February 12, 2019, WKDG's license was cancelled by the FCC.
References
External links
FCC Station Search Details: DWKDG (Facility ID: 63652)
FCC History Cards for WKDG (covering 1977-1989 as WRSM)
KDG
Radio stations established in 1980
1980 establishments in Alabama
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2019
2019 disestablishments in Alabama
Defunct religious radio stations in the United States
KDG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20diplomatic%20missions%20of%20Romania | Romania has an extensive and a large diplomatic network.
This listing excludes honorary consulates, trade missions, and cultural institutes.
Current missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
Multilateral organizations
Gallery
Closed missions
Africa
Americas
Asia
Europe
Oceania
See also
List of diplomatic missions in Romania
Foreign relations of Romania
Visa requirements for Romanian citizens
List of Romanian diplomats
Notes
External links
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania
References
Diplomatic missions
Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIZB | WIZB (94.3 FM, "The Joy FM 94.3") (formerly branded as "His Radio") is a radio station licensed to serve Abbeville, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Radio Training Network, Inc. It broadcasts a Contemporary Christian format to the Dothan, Alabama, area.
The station also broadcasts its signal on a translator at 96.1 MHz inside the Ross Clark Circle in Dothan to improve its signal within the city.
History
WIZB started as WARI-FM on February 22, 1968, as the sister station to WARI/1480. It changed callsigns to WXLE in 1976. In August 1985, Henry County Radio, Inc., reached an agreement to sell WXLE to Abbeville Wireless Corporation. The deal was approved by the Federal Communications Commission on October 2, 1985, and the transaction was consummated on January 7, 1986.
The station was assigned the WIZB call letters by the FCC on April 2, 1986.
In July 1994, Abbeville Wireless Corporation reached an agreement to sell this station to Genesis Radio Company, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on November 8, 1994, and the transaction was consummated on November 25, 1994.
In March 2005, Celebration Communications Company, Inc. (Art Morris, acting chairman) reached an agreement to sell this station to Radio Training Network, Inc. (James L. Campbell, president/CEO) for a reported $288,416. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 29, 2005, and the transaction was consummated on May 26, 2005.
Programs
Dr David Jeremiah 4a-4:30a
Dr Charles Stanley 4:30a-5a
The Morning Cruise - weekday mornings from 5-9a
Talkin' with Terris - weekdays from 9a-3p
Russ & Nancy - weekdays 3-7p
Evenings with Dan - weekdays 7-11p
Toni - weekdays 11p-4a
Saturdays, Earl 6-10a, Toni 10-2p, Earl 2-6p, Donna Cruz 6p-12a
Sundays, Warm Up To Worship 5-9a, Churches 9a-12p, Nancy 12-3p, Misty 3-6p Donna Cruz 6p-11p
References
External links
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States
Henry County, Alabama
Radio stations established in 1986
1986 establishments in Alabama
IZB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTID%20%28FM%29 | WTID (101.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Graceville, Florida, United States. It serves the Dothan, Alabama, area. The station is owned by Radio Training Network, Inc.
In May 2020, the then-WTOT-FM returned to the air with oldies. The call sign was changed to WTID, effectively swapping with 980 AM, on August 5, 2020.
In January 2022, WTID changed its format from oldies to contemporary Christian, branded as "The Joy FM".
References
External links
TID
1996 establishments in Florida
Radio stations established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisnes | Cisnes (Spanish for: "port swans") is a Chilean commune located in the Aysén Province, Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. The commune spans an area of .
Demographics
According to data from the 2002 Census of Population and Housing, Cisnes had 5,353 inhabitants; of these, 2,507 (43.7%) lived in urban areas and 3,232 (56.3%) in rural areas. At that time, there were 3,414 men and 2,325 women.
Administration
As a commune, Cisnes is a third-level administrative division of Chile administered by a municipal council, headed by an alcalde who is directly elected every four years. The 2008–2012 alcalde (mayor) is Luis Valdés Gutiérrez (PS).
Within the electoral divisions of Chile, Cisnes is represented in the Chamber of Deputies by René Alinco (PDC) and David Sandoval (UDI) as part of the 59th electoral district, which includes the entire Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region. The commune is represented in the Senate by Antonio Horvath Kiss (RN) and Patricio Walker Prieto (PDC) as part of the 18th senatorial constituency (Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region).
Notes and references
External links
Municipality of Cisnes
Communes of Chile
Populated places in Aysén Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNGL | WNGL (1410 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Mobile, Alabama, United States. Since September 2009, the station has been owned by Fairhope-based Archangel Communications, Inc.
Programming
WNGL broadcasts a Catholic radio format to the Mobile metropolitan area. The station primarily airs programming from EWTN Global Catholic Radio and also broadcasts a local Live Hour program weekdays at 7AM, along with McGill-Toolen High School Football games.
History
The beginning
The oldest radio station in Mobile, WODX first broadcast from the Battle House Hotel in downtown Mobile on February 7, 1930. Owned by W.O. Pape's Pape Broadcasting Company, the station changed its call sign to WALA in 1933. The book Alabama's First Broadcast Stations by Harry Butler says the calls WALA once stood for "We Are Loyal Alabamians".
January 1953 saw the launch of co-owned NBC-affiliated television station WALA-TV (channel 10) in Mobile and the start of a new era for the AM radio station. A shift by the Pape family in January 1956 saw WALA transferred to a new company called Pape Television Company.
The country era
In 1963 the ownership of the radio and television stations was split and the AM station's callsign was changed to WUNI. The callsign was intended to sound out the phrase "You and I". The re-christened radio station was acquired by a new company called WUNI Inc. on December 3, 1964. It was with this ownership change that WUNI became the first full-time country music radio station in Mobile. The station was sold again, this time to the similarly named Radio Station WUNI Inc. on August 1, 1976.
In October 1983, Radio Station WUNI, Inc., agreed to sell the station to country music legend Mel Tillis through his Tillis Communications, Inc. The deal was approved by the FCC on December 2, 1983. Tillis had the Federal Communications Commission assign new call letters WMML on January 3, 1984. As with sister station KMML in Amarillo, Texas, the new callsign stood for "M-M-Mel Tillis" as a play on Mel's famous stutter. WMML continued to air the country music format it had adopted back in 1964.
R&B and religion
Tillis exited the radio business in 1985 and WMML was sold to Bridgeway Communications, Inc., owned by St. Louis Media Hall of Fame inductee Doug Eason. Bridgeway changed the format to urban-oriented rap music which did well in the ratings but proved a tough sell to area advertisers. In December 1989, station owner Bridgeway Communications, Inc., faced financial difficulties and the license for this station was involuntarily transferred to Bridgeway Communications, Inc., Debtor-In-Possession. The transfer was approved by the FCC on December 11, 1989. In January 1990, Bridgeway Communications, Inc., Debtor-In-Possession gained approval to sell this station to Lonnie M. Tillis. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 2, 1990, and the transaction was consummated on May 30, 1990.
In March 1991, Lonnie M. Tillis made a deal to sell WMML to Albert L. Crain. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIJD | WIJD (1270 AM) is a radio station licensed to the community of Prichard, Alabama, United States, and serves the greater Mobile, Alabama, area. The station is owned by Wilkins Communications Network Inc. and the license is held by the Mobile Bay Corporation. It airs a Christian talk radio format.
History
This station signed on in the 1954 as WAIP, a daytime-only station with a country music format. In the early 1960s, under the ownership of Holt Broadcasting, it flipped to an easy listening format with the call letters WSIM (for "Wonderful Sound In Mobile"). The station briefly flipped to Top 40 then changed callsigns to WZAM and resumed a country format. In 1965, Kenneth S. Johnson bought the station and changed the call letters to WKSJ as a complement to and simulcast of country formatted WKSJ-FM. In the late 1970s the station was briefly a Music of Your Life station known as WLLF before switching back to country music.
In the late 1990s, the station flipped to a syndicated talk radio format as "Impact 1270". The station changed callsigns again to WIJD on October 1, 2003. This corresponded with a brief experiment as a simulcast of the contemporary Christian music format of WGCX in Pensacola, Florida, before returning to talk. In Summer 2004, the station returned to religious broadcasting full-time.
In April 2006, Satellite Radio Network (Michael Glinter, president) reached an agreement to sell WIJD to Wilkins Communications Network Inc. (Robert Wilkins, president) for a reported sale price of $450,000.
In 2012, Wilkins Radio started broadcasting on its FM translator (W239AP) at 95.7 in Mobile, Alabama. The programming on FM is a simulcast of WIJD AM 1270. The translation is operating as W250CB at 97.9 as of December 12, 2016.
References
External links
IJD
IJD
Talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1954
1954 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X%3Atalk | The x:talk project is a London-based network of sex workers and migrants' rights activists who organise, co-ordinate, and deliver free English classes for workers in the sex industry.
Purpose and activities
x:talk is listed on the Co-operatives UK website as a workers' co-op. It began in 2007 when an Australian in London, studying post-colonial theory and involved in the International Union of Sex Workers, became aware that some of the escorts working alongside her were subject to debt bondage and other forms of abuse, and lacked the English language skills to negotiate a better deal. A group was formed which successfully applied for a grant from the trust associated with Feminist Review, an academic journal, and found support and space from the NHS.
The project is open to all migrant sex workers and is designed to help them communicate better at work and with clients, managers, and landlords in a safe and confidential environment. x:talk aims to "create an open and critical space to organise and empower workers in the sex industry and to encourage critical interventions into discourses about gender, labour, migration and human rights. The project is a conscious effort to make contact with migrant communities, offer a practical and useful service, and are active in the struggle for sex workers' rights. The activists behind the x:talk Project believe in "the autonomy of all people moving across borders and the dignity of every gender employing their resources in the sex industry".
As well as free English classes, other events are organised such as free breakfasts and pole dancing workshops.
Collective pen name
To avoid any of the members obtaining celebrity status or being stigmatised, the members use the collective pen name of "Ava Caradonna":
"Ava Caradonna is a migrant, a sex worker, a student, a mother, a citizen, a transgender, a person of colour, a teacher, a lesbian and a militant- she allows us to speak from different positions as sex workers and as allies, without the stigma of using our ‘real’ names and allows us to speak to the different realities in the sex industry and beyond."
Policy work
In 2010, x:talk produced the report Human Rights, Sex Work and The Challenge of Trafficking. It was a study of anti-trafficking policy and whether it had been used to advance the abolition of sex work. Amongst its recommendations were the decriminalisation of sex work and the signing and ratification of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families.
See also
Prostitution in the United Kingdom
Migrants Rights Network
Modern immigration to the United Kingdom
Migrant sex work
References
Sex worker organisations based in the United Kingdom
Prostitution in England
Immigration to the United Kingdom
English-language education
Worker co-operatives of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Tony%20Awards | The 4th Annual Tony Awards were held on April 9, 1950, at the Waldorf-Astoria Grand Ballroom in New York City, and broadcast on radio station WOR and the Mutual Network. The host was James Sauter.
Ceremony
Presenters were Helen Hayes (president of the American Theatre Wing) and Mrs. Martin Beck (chairman of the board), with a special presentation by Eleanor Roosevelt.
Performers were Yvonne Adair, Rod Alexander, John Conte, Richard Eastham, Adolph Green, Georges Guétary, Bambi Linn, Allyn McLerie, Lucy Monroe, Danny Scholl, Herb Shriner, William Tabbert, William Warfield, Lou Wills Jr., Julie Wilson, and Martha Wright.
Award winners
Source:The New York Times
Note: nominees are not shown
Production
Performance
Craft
Special awards
Maurice Evans, for work he did in guiding the City Center Theatre Company through a highly successful season
Eleanor Roosevelt presented a special award to volunteer worker Philip Faversham of the American Theatre Wing's hospital program
Brock Pemberton, founder of Tony Awards and its original chairman (posthumous)
Stage Technician, Joe Lynn, master propertyman (Miss Liberty)
Multiple nominations and awards
The following productions received multiple awards.
9 wins: South Pacific
2 wins: Come Back, Little Sheba and Regina
References
External links
Official Site
Infoplease listing
Tony Awards ceremonies
1950 in theatre
1950 awards
1950 in the United States
Tony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-European%20high-speed%20rail%20network | The Trans-European high-speed rail network (TEN-R), together with the Trans-European conventional rail network, make up the Trans-European Rail network, which in turn is one of a number of the European Union's Trans-European transport networks (TEN-T). It was defined by the Council Directive 96/48/EC of 23 July 1996.
The European Union council decision 2002/735/EC defines technical standards for interoperability of the system.
Description
The aim of this EU Directive is to achieve the interoperability of the European high-speed train network at the various stages of its design, construction and operation.
The network is defined as a system consisting of a set of infrastructures, fixed installations, logistic equipment and rolling stock.
By definition of the EC decision, a high-speed line must have one of these three infrastructure characteristics:
specially built high-speed lines equipped for speeds generally equal to or greater than
specially upgraded high-speed lines equipped for speeds of the order of
specially upgraded high-speed lines which have special features as a result of topographical, relief or town-planning constraints, on which the speed must be adapted to each case.
The rolling stock used on these lines must be compatible with the characteristics of the infrastructure.
Along important listed rail routes (TEN-T), the railway shall be of high speed type, either when new parts are built, or when upgrades are made. This creates a quality requirement on these projects.
Corridors
Corridor 1 – Berlin–Palermo
Corridor 2 – London, Paris, Amsterdam and Cologne to Brussels
Corridor 3 – Lisbon–Madrid
Corridor 4 – LGV Est
Corridor 6 – Lyon–Budapest
Corridor 7 – Paris–Bratislava
See also
High-speed rail in Europe
Trans-European Transport Networks
Trans-European Road network
Trans-European Rail network
Trans-European conventional rail network
Trans-European Inland Waterway network
Motorways of the Sea
Trans-European Seaport network
Trans-European Airport network
Trans-European Combined Transport network
References
Trans-European Rail network
High-speed rail in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20Check%20Authorization%20Network | Shared Check Authorization Network (SCAN) is a database of bad check writers in the United States. The database is used by retailers in order to reduce the number of bad checks received. The database keeps track of those who have written outstanding bad checks to any retailer using the system, and retailers can determine, based on these records, whether or not to accept a check from a particular accountholder.
Retailers using the SCAN system have at least one scanner in the store, and often one at every register, that is used to scan checks that are written. The scanner reads the account number and compares it with the database of checking account numbers for which bad checks have been written to any participating retailer and not repaid. If the account number matches one in the system, the retailer will be notified, and will not likely accept the check.
SCAN also operates a collection service on bad checks that are written.
See also
Bad check restitution program
Check fraud
ChexSystems
References
Cheques
Non-sufficient funds |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QEP | QEP may refer to:
Quadrature encoder pulse, in a rotary encoder
Query plan or query execution plan, in a database software system
Quadratic eigenvalue problem, a special case of nonlinear eigenproblem in mathematics
QEP Resources, a defunct American energy company. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capazoo | Capazoo was a social network and entertainment web site which allowed its members to add friends, write blogs, share music, photos, and videos. Capazoo was co-founded by two brothers, Michel Verville and Luc Verville in Montreal, Quebec and was launched for the first time in November 2006. Capazoo shut down for a period of time in the middle of 2007. Four months after Capazoo relaunched in October 2007 the co-founders sued each other in court due to the alleged corruption that was in the company.
Site features
Capazoo had a multi-lingual user interface which gave visitors and members the choice between English and French.
Members of Capazoo were able to search for other members and add them as friends. Friends could send messages to each other via an internal messaging system. Capazoo also provided blogging, photo, video, and music upload services.
One of Capazoo's unique features was the creation of its own online currency called Zoops. Members are able to give other members Zoops for their videos, photos, music, blogs and profiles. Each Zoop was worth $0.01 U.S. Capazoo provided their subscribed members with a debit card enabling them to turn their accumulated Zoops into usable currency. Capazoo also had a referral program that let members earn Zoops by referring new members to the site.
On March 13, 2008 at 9 am EST, Capazoo Executives had a meeting where it was decided that they would lay off their entire staff because of unresolved legal issues with the co-founders.
Ultimately, the company has become bankrupt and ceased all operations.
Partnerships
On December 18, 2007 National Lampoon Inc joined in a partnership with Capazoo. National Lampoon acquired an equity stake in Capazoo. All of National Lampoons internet content will be available on Capazoo. As well, Capazoo agreed to sponsor a series of live stand-up comedy acts.
Capazoo had a partnership in place with ComedyNet to add exclusive content to Capazoo.
Iovation was contracted to handle fraud management and security services.
Capazoo also entered into a $5 million, three-year agreement with Savvis for web hosting services, but received criticism about making such a move.
References
External links
Internet Archive - Capazoo.com - Feb 2008 Signup Page Membership Page
Internet Archive - Capazooinsiders.com - Jan 2007
Capazoo (link down)
Canoe
Internet properties established in 2006
Defunct online companies
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20Unicorn | Planet Unicorn is an American computer-animated cartoon series created by Mike Rose and Tyler Spiers for the webseries screening contest Channel 101. The fictional stories revolve around three talking unicorns - Feathers, Cadillac, and Tom Cruise - who were created by an 8-year-old gay boy named Shannon.
Characters
Episode list
Episode 1: The unicorns encounter Shannon for the first time and thwart a threat to their environment. We learn of Tom Cruise's special ability.
Episode 2: The unicorns discover the importance of expressing emotions.
Episode 3: A trip to the sea proves dangerous. Cadillac's special ability is revealed.
Episode 4: Vanity threatens to ruin the unicorns' friendship.
Episode 5: Shannon's new friend comes between him and the unicorns. Feathers displays his special ability.
Episode 6: The unicorns learn about Christmas and fill in for Santa's reindeer, while the reindeer explore Planet Unicorn.
Trivia
The series is a production for Channel 101, where it lasted six episodes before being cancelled by the live audience, and was also distributed through MySpace.
The show has been featured on NPR's Day to Day show, in Out (August 2007), Time Out New York (August 2007), and was named as one of New York'''s 20 Funniest Web Videos of 2007. The creators have also been interviewed on Red Eye w/ Greg Gutfeld''. The show received the 2008 "OMFG Internet" award from the Logo Channel.
References
External links
Tyler Spiers
Channel 101 Show Page
2007 web series debuts
Channel 101
Works about unicorns
2000s American adult animated television series
American adult animated comedy television series
American adult animated web series
American adult computer-animated television series
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about horses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20MTV2%20%28Canada%29 | This is a list of television programs formerly and currently broadcast by the Canadian television channel MTV2 (Canada) and its former incarnations as Razer and MTV Canada.
Programming
This a list of programs featured on MTV2.
Current
A-E
1 Girl 5 Gays
California Dreams
Campus PD
Cash Cab
Comedy Now!
Disaster Date
The Ex And The Why?
Ex on the Beach
F-O
Friendzone
Geordie Shore
Girl, Get Your Mind Right
Hollywood Heights
The Hook Up
MTV Creeps
MTV Cribs
I have Nothing
Good Stuff
P-T
Panic Button
Sleeping with the Family
True Life
The Dessert
U-Z
The Valleys
As Razer
Final Programming
0-9
969 - formally called MTV Select
4REAL
A-E
Alternate Routes
America's Dumbest Criminals
America's Next Top Model
The Andy Dick Show
The Andy Milonakis Show
The Ashlee Simpson Show
Basilisk
Battle for Ozzfest
Beavis and Butt-head
Becoming
Beyond the Break
Boiling Points
Born to Be
Breaker High
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Call to Greatness
Canada's Next Top Model
Car Cruzin
Celebrity Deathmatch
Clone High
Clueless
Corner Gas
Cops, Cars & Superstars
Cowboy Bebop
Crank Yankers
Daria
Dawson's Creek
Degrassi Junior High
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Diary
Dismissed
Drop the Beat
Drop In
Duckman
Electric Playground
Extreme 16mm
Eye on Extreme
F-J
Fandemonium
Fist of Zen
FNMTV
Fraternity Life
Freshman on Campus
Fromage
Fur TV
Fusion 2001
Fusion TV
Geek to Freak
Girls Behaving Badly
Greg the Bunny
Happy Tree Friends
Hardcore Candy
Headbangers Ball
High School Project USA
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Homewrecker
Human Giant
I Bet You Will
Instant Star
Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie
Jack Osbourne: No Fear
K-O
The Kids in the Hall
Kontrol
Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County
Made
Madison
Making the Video
Malcolm in the Middle
Master of Champions
Meet the Barkers
MTV e2
MTV2 Game Trailers
MTV Live
MTV Screen
MTV Unplugged
MTV2 Videos
MTV Wannabe
Much 911
MuchAdrenaline
Music Is My Life
My Super Sweet 16
Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
The Osbournes
Odd Job Jack
P-T
Parental Control
Pee-Wee's Playhouse
Pepsi Breakout
Pimp My Ride
Punk’d
Pushing the Limit
The Real World
Reviews on the Run
Ride Guide
Ride with Funkmaster Flex
Road Rules
Rob Dyrdek's Fantasy Factory
Room 401
Room Raiders
Roswell
Sabrina, the Teenage Witch
Samurai 7
Samurai Champloo
Saved by the Bell
Scare Tactics
Scarred
The Score
Screwed Over
The Second Half
Señor Moby's House of Music
Sic 'Em Saturdays Bites
Shin Chan
Silent Library
Snoop Doggy Fizzle Televizzle
Sorority Life
Spy Groove
SpongeBob SquarePants
Straight Up
Student Bodies
Subterranean
Sucker Free
Taildaters
The Tom Green Show
Total Request Live
Trinity Blood
Trippin'
True Life
U-Z
Ultrasound
Under Attack
Vans Triple Crown
Versus
Viva La Bam
The Wade Robson Project
Wanna Come In?
Whacked Out Sports
Whistler
Who's Got Game
Wild 'N Out
Wildboyz
Wonder Showzen
World Famous for Dicking Around
World of Stupid
World's Most Amazing Videos
Wrestling Society X
The Wrong Coast
Yo Momma
Yo! MTV Raps
Kamikaze
Kamikaze was the branding and pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYFK | WYFK (89.5 FM) is a radio station licensed to the community of Columbus, Georgia, United States. The station is owned by Bible Broadcasting Network, Inc. It airs a Religious radio format.
History
This station was granted its original construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on January 13, 1986. The station was assigned the WYFK call letters by the FCC on January 27, 1986. The station was granted its license to cover on August 29, 1988. The station's long-time promoter Ron Liska died in 2012.
Translators
References
External links
YFK
Bible Broadcasting Network
Radio stations established in 1987
YFK
1987 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply | In mathematics and computer science, apply is a function that applies a function to arguments. It is central to programming languages derived from lambda calculus, such as LISP and Scheme, and also in functional languages. It has a role in the study of the denotational semantics of computer programs, because it is a continuous function on complete partial orders. Apply is also a continuous function in homotopy theory, and, indeed underpins the entire theory: it allows a homotopy deformation to be viewed as a continuous path in the space of functions. Likewise, valid mutations (refactorings) of computer programs can be seen as those that are "continuous" in the Scott topology.
The most general setting for apply is in category theory, where it is right adjoint to currying in closed monoidal categories. A special case of this are the Cartesian closed categories, whose internal language is simply typed lambda calculus.
Programming
In computer programming, apply applies a function to a list of arguments. Eval and apply are the two interdependent components of the eval-apply cycle, which is the essence of evaluating Lisp, described in SICP. Function application corresponds to beta reduction in lambda calculus.
Apply function
Apply is also the name of a special function in many languages, which takes a function and a list, and uses the list as the function's own argument list, as if the function were called with the elements of the list as the arguments. This is important in languages with variadic functions, because this is the only way to call a function with an indeterminate (at compile time) number of arguments.
Common Lisp and Scheme
In Common Lisp apply is a function that applies a function to a list of arguments (note here that "+" is a variadic function that takes any number of arguments):
(apply #'+ (list 1 2))
Similarly in Scheme:
(apply + (list 1 2))
C++
In C++, Bind is used either via the std namespace or via the boost namespace.
C# and Java
In C# and Java, variadic arguments are simply collected in an array. Caller can explicitly pass in an array in place of the variadic arguments. This can only be done for a variadic parameter. It is not possible to apply an array of arguments to non-variadic parameter without using reflection. An ambiguous case arises should the caller want to pass an array itself as one of the arguments rather than using the array as a list of arguments. In this case, the caller should cast the array to Object to prevent the compiler from using the apply interpretation.
variadicFunc(arrayOfArgs);With version 8 lambda expressions were introduced. Functions are implemented as objects with a functional interface, an interface with only one non-static method. The standard interface
Function<T,R>
consist of the method (plus some static utility functions):
R apply(T para)
Go
In Go, typed variadic arguments are simply collected in a slice. The caller can explicitly pass in a slice in place of the variadic arguments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal%20Moonshine%20of%20the%20Simpson%20Mind | "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind" is the ninth episode of the nineteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on December 16, 2007.
The episode averaged 10.15 million viewers, winning in its time slot and receiving a 12 percent audience share. The episode follows Homer's attempts to recall a deliberately forgotten memory from the previous night. Maggie Simpson doesn't appear in the episode.
At the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards, the episode won the award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour). The episode received positive reviews from critics, who often cited it as the best of the season. In 2014, showrunner Al Jean selected it as one of five essential episodes in the show's history.
Plot
One winter morning, Homer wakes up in a pile of snow and does not remember the events of the previous day, commenting that he must have drunk heavily the night before. Homer goes home and finds his family absent and Santa's Little Helper attacks him, though Homer manages to subdue him before escaping. Homer travels to Moe's, where Moe informs him that he was there the previous night and wanted to forget an unpleasant memory. Moe explains he gave Homer a "Forget-Me-Shot", which wiped out the last 24 hours of his memory. Chief Wiggum tells Homer that there was a domestic disturbance at his house last night, which was reported by Ned Flanders. Homer instantly receives a flashback to the night before, showing Wiggum questioning Marge about a black eye she had received, to which Marge nervously replies that she walked into a door.
At the Flanders house, Homer asks Ned what he has done last night; Ned admits that he does not know, but assumed the worst. A still confused Homer goes home, where a picture of Marge causes a flashback of her pleading Homer to stop, and then rubbing her eye in pain. Horrified at the thought of hurting Marge, Homer goes to Grampa Simpson for help. Grampa tells Homer about Professor Frink's new machine that helps people sort through their memories. With the help of this technology, Homer sees himself walking in on Marge with another man in an allegedly compromising position. In the flashback, Marge tells Homer that she did not want him to find out about it, so Homer decides to use Bart and Lisa from a memory of a snow day to help him unmask the man's identity. During their journey, Bart beats up 10-year-old and 20-year-old Homer in flashbacks, and accidentally destroys the memory of Homer's first kiss, who Bart says was with Apu. With their help, Homer is able to jog his memory, which reveals the man to be Duffman. Homer then concludes that Marge was cheating on him with Duffman, resulting in him beating his wife in retaliation.
Homer now considers his life to be worthless and decides to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge. He begins to reconsider, but is pushed off by his "guardian angels," Patty and Selma. While fallin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.A.R. | This is an article about the computer game. For the Pharoahe Monch album, see W.A.R. (We Are Renegades).
W.A.R. is a video game produced by Martech. The BBC Micro version was written by Michael Archer while the Amstrad CPC version was written by John Edginton.
The Amstrad CPC version supported one of the first commercial mice in the form of the AMX Mouse.
References
1986 video games
Amstrad CPC games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 64 games
ZX Spectrum games
Video games scored by Rob Hubbard
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Martech games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2824%297.ai | [24]7.ai (full company name [24]7.ai, Inc.) is a customer service software and services company based in California that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to provide targeted customer service.
History
[24]7.ai was founded in April 2000 by P. V. Kannan and Shanmugam Nagarajan. Kannan previously founded Continuum Global Solutions, a software company, which was acquired by Kana Software in 1999.
In 2003, [24]7.ai was privately funded in part by Michael Moritz and his venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. The total venture funding was estimated at $22 million. The company was profitable by the end of 2003.
In February 2012 a deal was announced in which [24]7.ai and Microsoft would combine technologies for natural user interfaces (NUIs) and data analytics at cloud scale. Microsoft made an equity investor and transferred approximately 400 employees of the former Tellme Networks to [24]7.ai. At the same time, [24]7.ai acquired the call center automation developer Voxify, which had been based in Alameda, California, and was funded by investors such as Intel. In 2012, the company rebranded its business, adopting a new logo dropping the word "Customer" and putting square brackets around the "24". In January 2013 it announced it would market some internally developed software products for combining chat with analytics.
In May 2013 the company announced the acquisition of social commerce firm Shopalize for an undisclosed amount of money. [24]7.ai was also listed on Forbes list of America's Most Promising Companies in 2013.
In November 2014, [24]7.ai acquired IntelliResponse, a provider of digital self-service technology, including virtual agent solutions.
In August 2015, [24]7.ai acquired Campanja, a Search Engine bidding platform with offices in Stockholm, London, Palo Alto, Chicago and New York, adding real-time marketing capability to the [24]7.ai offering.
In July 2015, the company announced it had become "the world's largest provider of chat agents, with more than 5,000 dedicated chat agents operating in its contact centers."
In October 2017, the company announced a name change, adding .ai to reflect the company's use of artificial intelligence.
Corporate affairs
Structure
The company is headquartered in San Jose, California. Other offices are located in Toronto, London, and Sydney. [24]7.ai has customers in many industries, including agencies, education, financial services, healthcare, insurance, retail & e-commerce, telecom, travel and hospitality, and utilities.
The company's contact centers were originally located in Bangalore and Hyderabad, India, and in the Philippines. In 2007 (at about 7,000 total employees) the company expanded to Guatemala, Nicaragua, and Colombia to support Spanish-speaking customers.
Acquisitions
2015: Campanja, a Search Engine bidding platform
2014: IntelliResponse, a provider of digital self-service technology, including virtual agent solutions
2013: Shopalize, social commerce firm
2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAMI-FM | WAMI-FM (102.3 FM, "Classic Country 102.3") is a commercial radio station licensed to serve the community of Opp, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Covington Media LLC.
Programming
WAMI-FM broadcasts a classic country music format and features select programming from Citadel Media.
References
External links
AMI-FM
Classic country radio stations in the United States
Covington County, Alabama
Radio stations established in 1974
1974 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippus%20of%20Thessalonica | Philippus of Thessalonica (Greek: Φίλιππος ὁ Θεσσαλονικεύς) (1st century) or Philippus Epigrammaticus was the compiler of an Anthology of Epigrammatists subsequent to Meleager of Gadara and is himself the author of 72 epigrams in the Greek Anthology. Philippus has one word which describes the epigram by a single quality; he calls his work an oligostikhia or collection of poems not exceeding a few lines in length. Philippus' own epigrams, of which over seventy are extant, are generally rather dull, chiefly school exercises, and, in the phrase of Jacobs, imitatione magis quam inventione conspicua (more like imitation than striking innovation). But we owe to him the preservation of a large mass of work belonging to the Roman period.
His collection of epigrams is referred to as the Garland of Philip, in imitation of the Garland of Meleager, who lived in the first century BC and had collected epigrams from the Classical and Hellenistic period.
References
About.com
Ancient Library
Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. Mackail
Anthologists
Ancient Roman poets
Roman-era Thessalonians
Ancient Macedonian poets
Ancient Macedonian anthologists
Ancient Greek anthologists
Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
1st-century Greek poets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WBMH | WBMH (106.1 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Grove Hill, Alabama. The station is owned by Thomas Butts, through licensee Pine City Radio, LLC.
Programming
Until mid-November 2017, WBMH broadcast a classic country music format and uses programming from Citadel Media and Jones Radio Network, as well as NASCAR programming from MRN Radio and the Performance Racing Network.
In addition to its usual music programming, WBMH and sister station WHOD broadcast the football and baseball games of Jackson High School, Leroy High School, Washington County High School, Jackson Academy and Clarke Preparatory School. WBMH is an affiliate station for University of South Alabama football broadcasts.
History
The station was assigned the WBMH call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on March 4, 2002.
In mid-November 2017, WBMH went silent (off the air). (info taken from Alabama Broadcast Media Page)
In February 2018, WBMH returned to the air with classic country, branded as "Bama 106".
References
External links
BMH
Radio stations established in 2000
Mass media in Clarke County, Alabama
2000 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFMH-FM | WFMH-FM (95.5 FM, "Big 95.5") is a radio station licensed to serve Hackleburg, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by TNT, Inc. It airs a country music format and features programming from The Paul Finebaum Radio Network.
History
The WFMH-FM call letters were originally used by 101.1 FM in Cullman, Alabama when it first went on the air in March 1950. This station is now WXJC-FM 101.1, the call letters having been changed by former owner Eddins Broadcasting Co.
The call letters WFMH-FM were assigned to the current 95.5 FM in 1998. This station was granted its original construction permit by the Federal Communications Commission on December 12, 1993. The new station was assigned call letters WCOC on May 20, 1994. The call letters were changed to WXXR-FM on August 9, 1996. After one extension, WXXR-FM received its license to cover from the FCC on September 3, 1996. The station was assigned the current WFMH-FM call letters by the FCC on November 22, 1998.
In May 2004, Voice of Cullman LLC (Clark P. Jones, member/manager) agreed to transfer the license for WFMH-FM and then-sister station WFMH (AM) to Williams Communications (Walton E. Williams Jr., president/director). The two stations sold for a reported total of $2.45 million.
In August 2004, the station received authorization to change its city of license from Holly Pond, Alabama, to Hackleburg, Alabama. At the time of the move, the station was a longtime affiliate of ABC Radio Networks "Real Country" Satellite format. The move began in June 2005, completed the move in August 2005, and the station received its latest license to cover in November 2005.
The future
On December 21, 2009, WFMH-FM was sold to TNT, Inc. for a reported sale of $150,000.
References
External links
FMH-FM
Country radio stations in the United States
Marion County, Alabama
Radio stations established in 1994
1994 establishments in Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WGZZ | WGZZ (94.3 FM, "Wings 94.3") is a radio station licensed to serve Waverly, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Auburn Network, Inc. It airs a classic hits music format.
The station was assigned the WGZZ call letters by the Federal Communications Commission on July 18, 2007.
On April 19, 2010, WGZZ moved from 100.3 FM to 94.3 FM.
Translators
Format and Programs
WGZZ ("Wings 94.3") airs classic rock from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. Wings features a local morning radio show, "Rich and Jeremy in the Morning", which airs weekdays from 6:00 CST to 9:00 CST featuring Rich Perkins of Wings and Jeremy Henderson of The War Eagle Reader website. The show began in January 2016 and is primarily comedy. Rich and Jeremy include live guests and phone calls during the show. Clips of the show are available on Rich and Jeremy's SoundCloud page. After Rich and Jeremy, Al Mason hosts "Rewind at 9" on weekdays at 9:00 CST, a program that spotlights a specific classic year's music. John Garrett hosts "The 4 O'Clock Beatles Block" on weekdays at 4:00 CST featuring four classic Beatles songs. Weekdays at 5:00 CST, Wings airs a "Live at 5" feature for a couple of classic rock songs recorded from a live concert.
Wings 94.3 is also the official station of Auburn High School Football. Wings airs a coaches show on Mondays prior to a game with Bill Cameron and Auburn High head coach Adam Winegarden. On game day, Bill Cameron assumes play-by-play duties, he is joined on the broadcast by Chuck Furlow, Gabe Gross, and Scott Bagwell.
On July 18, 2023, it was announced WGZZ would become the official broadcast home of Auburn Tigers football and men's basketball, alongside the university's "Tiger Talk" talk radio program, as part of a deal with owner RadioAlabama (reacquiring rights to the team after previously holding them from 2013-2016).
Sister Stations
WGZZ is a broadcast service of Auburn Network, Inc., which also owns three other radio stations, including Newstalk WANI (WANI-AM, W242AY), ESPN 106.7 (WGZZ-HD3, W294AR), and 96-3 W-LEE (WGZZ-HD2, W242AX)
References
External links
Ownership working out time in jail.Station ownership update
GZZ
Classic hits radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20bee%20colony%20algorithm | In computer science and operations research, the artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) is an optimization algorithm based on the intelligent foraging behaviour of honey bee swarm, proposed by Derviş Karaboğa (Erciyes University) in 2005.
Algorithm
In the ABC model, the colony consists of three groups of bees: employed bees, onlookers and scouts. It is assumed that there is only one artificial employed bee for each food source. In other words, the number of employed bees in the colony is equal to the number of food sources around the hive. Employed bees go to their food source and come back to hive and dance on this area. The employed bee whose food source has been abandoned becomes a scout and starts to search for finding a new food source. Onlookers watch the dances of employed bees and choose food sources depending on dances. The main steps of the algorithm are given below:
Initial food sources are produced for all employed bees
REPEAT
Each employed bee goes to a food source in her memory and determines a closest source, then evaluates its nectar amount and dances in the hive
Each onlooker watches the dance of employed bees and chooses one of their sources depending on the dances, and then goes to that source. After choosing a neighbour around that, she evaluates its nectar amount.
Abandoned food sources are determined and are replaced with the new food sources discovered by scouts.
The best food source found so far is registered.
UNTIL (requirements are met)
In ABC, a population based algorithm, the position of a food source represents a possible solution to the optimization problem and the nectar amount of a food source corresponds to the quality (fitness) of the associated solution. The number of the employed bees is equal to the number of solutions in the population. At the first step, a randomly distributed initial population (food source positions) is generated. After initialization, the population is subjected to repeat the cycles of the search processes of the employed, onlooker, and scout bees, respectively. An employed bee produces a modification on the source position in her memory and discovers a new food source position. Provided that the nectar amount of the new one is higher than that of the previous source, the bee memorizes the new source position and forgets the old one. Otherwise she keeps the position of the one in her memory. After all employed bees complete the search process, they share the position information of the sources with the onlookers on the dance area. Each onlooker evaluates the nectar information taken from all employed bees and then chooses a food source depending on the nectar amounts of sources. As in the case of the employed bee, she produces a modification on the source position in her memory and checks its nectar amount. Providing that its nectar is higher than that of the previous one, the bee memorizes the new position and forgets the old one. The sources abandoned are determined and new so |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Water%20Partnership | The Global Water Partnership (GWP) is an international network created to foster an integrated approach to water resources management (IWRM) and provide practical advice for sustainably managing water resources. It operates as a network, open to all organisations, including government institutions, agencies of the United Nations, bi- and multi-lateral development banks, professional associations, research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and the private sector.
History
GWP grew out of decades of dissatisfaction with water management practices and a consensus that a more sustainable approach was needed. Several large international conferences and agreements had particular influence over its formation:
The 1972 Stockholm Conference on the Environment
The 1977 Mar del Plata Conference,
The 1992 Dublin Conference held in preparation for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) (Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro the same year. One outcome of the Dublin Conference were the "Dublin Principles" that are the founding pillars of IWRM.
Agenda 21 that came out of the UNECD formally integrated the Dublin principles in Chapter 18: Protection of the Quality & Supply of Freshwater Resources: Application of Integrated Approaches to the Development, Management & Use of Water Resources".
The GWP was founded in 1996 with the support of the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida). Initially functioning as a unit of Sida, GWP became an intergovernmental organisation under international law known as the Global Water Partnership Organisation (GWPO) in 2002. The secretariat is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Organisational structure
The Network currently comprises 13 Regional Water Partnerships and 68 accredited Country Water Partnerships, and includes more than 3,000 institutional Partners located in over 170 countries. The 13 regions are: Southern Africa, Eastern Africa, Central Africa, West Africa, the Mediterranean, Central and Eastern Europe, Caribbean, Central America, South America, Central Asia and the Caucasus, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and China.
Although the activities are coordinated and supported from the Secretariat, Regional and Country Partnerships manage and govern themselves, and convene stakeholders to address specific issues.
The Global Secretariat supports the Executive Secretary, the Technical Committee and other GWP Committees, and the Regional Water Partnerships in governance, finance, communications, planning, and operational management of programmes and administration. In addition, GWP is supported by its Technical Committee which consists of professionals selected for their experience in different disciplines relating to water resources management.
The GWP Chair is Howard Bamsey, who took up the position in January 2019. Executive Secretary and CEO is Darío Soto-Abril (effective 1 March 2021) and the Chair o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMFC%20%28FM%29 | WMFC (99.3 FM, "Kool Gold 99.3") is a radio station licensed to serve Monroeville, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Monroe Broadcasting Company, Inc.
Programming
WMFC broadcasts an oldies music format which includes satellite-fed programming from ABC Radio and Jones Radio Network. In addition to its usual music programming, the station airs University of Alabama athletics events including Crimson Tide football and basketball.
History
This station began regular broadcasting in November 1965 with 3,000 watts of effective radiated power on a frequency of 99.3 MHz. Launched by the Monroe Broadcasting Company, Inc., the station and its sister station WMFC (1360 AM) were owned by William M. Stewart, publisher of the weekly Monroe Journal and South Alabamian newspaper.
WMFC-FM's original broadcast studios were located in a Quonset hut near downtown Monroeville. The station's current studios are in a brick building on Alabama State Route 21, just northeast of the city.
In December 1992, WMFC-FM was issued a construction permit by the FCC that allowed them upgrade to class C2 and to increase broadcast power to 50,000 watts from an antenna 150 meters (492 feet) in height above average terrain.
On November 30, 2010, the station changed its call sign to the current WMFC.
WMFC has been owned continuously by the Stewart family since its 1965 launch. After station founder William M. Stewart died in early 1995, ownership of Monroe Broadcasting Company, Inc., passed to his widow, Carolyn H. Stewart. The AM/FM station combo is managed by their son, David Stewart, who has been involved with the station since first hosting a weekend radio show at age 10.
References
External links
MFC
Oldies radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1965
Monroe County, Alabama |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20to%20Be%20Wild%20%28TV%20program%29 | Born to Be Wild is a Philippine television travel documentary show broadcast by GMA Network. Originally hosted by Romi Garduce and Ferds Recio, it premiered on November 28, 2007, on the network's evening line up replacing Palaban. Recio and Nielsen Donato currently serve as the hosts.
Hosts
Ferds Recio
Nielsen Donato
Former hosts
Kiko Rustia
Mariz Umali
Romi Garduce
Production
In March 2020, production was halted due to the enhanced community quarantine in Luzon caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The show resumed its programming on August 2, 2020.
Accolades
References
External links
2007 Philippine television series debuts
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series
Philippine travel television series
Television productions suspended due to the COVID-19 pandemic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPPG | WPPG (101.1 FM, "Power Pig") is a radio station licensed to serve Repton, Alabama, United States. The station is owned by Wolff Broadcasting Corporation.
Programming
WPPG broadcasts a country music format including a live morning show plus "Mainstream Country" programming from Dial Global Networks and news from CNN Radio. In addition to its usual music programming, WPPG also airs Auburn Tigers football and select Auburn Tigers men's basketball games.
The Hour Of Praise Every Sunday On WPPG 101.1 FM The Power Pig 6 -7 PM.
Format: Worship & Praise, Traditional, Contemporary And Southern Gospel Music. The Program Is Hosted By Paul Crenshaw. Also Features Church And Community News And Events. The history of this program goes back to January 1998 on 93.3 the Power Pig FM In Evergreen Alabama. It was then called the hour of Joy. Live local talent such as Melvin Johnson, The Angels of Joy, The Faithful Few, The Conecuh County Male Chorus and local and national artists were featured on the program. Covering More Than 6 Counties In South Alabama And Northwest Florida.
History
This station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on June 7, 1994. The new station was assigned the call letters WYNI by the FCC on August 5, 1994.
In September 1998, McKissick Enterprises reached an agreement to transfer the construction permit for this station to Brantley Broadcast Associates. The transfer was approved by the FCC on October 29, 1998, and the transaction was consummated on November 11, 1998. The new owners had the FCC change the call letters to WFNU on March 21, 2000. WFNU was branded as "Fun 101" and played a wide variety of music.
More than nine years after the initial construction permit was granted, thanks to an unusual number of extensions and delays, and almost five years after the sale of the still-under construction station, WFNU finally received its license to cover from the FCC on August 18, 2003. Just days before the station's broadcast license was granted, Brantley Broadcast Associates reached an agreement to sell WFNU to Great South RFDC, LLC. The deal was approved by the FCC on October 24, 2003, and the transaction was consummated on November 28, 2003. The station's offices were based in Monroeville, AL.
This station was assigned new callsign WTID by the FCC on January 26, 2006.
In February 2008, Great South Wireless, LLC, reached an agreement to sell this station to Wolff Broadcasting Company. The deal was approved by the FCC on April 17, 2008, and the transaction was consummated on June 9, 2008. The new owners had the FCC assign the station the current WPPG call letters on June 13, 2008. This change accompanied a short simulcast with WPGG (1470 AM, now known as WNWF) which was then also known as the "Power Pig". The station's current office and main studio are now located in Evergreen, AL next door to Wolff Motor Company.
Construction permit
The FCC granted this station a constructi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh%20Hatcher | Leigh Hatcher (born 25 August 1955) is a veteran broadcast Australian journalist and author.
Hatcher's career highlights include working as the bureau chief for the Macquarie Radio Network in the Canberra Press Gallery. He has also worked at various radio stations including 2CA in Canberra and 5DN in Adelaide.
Hatcher was also employed by the Seven Network where he worked as a political correspondent in Canberra as well as a European correspondent when he lived in London, between the years of 1983 and 1985.
After returning from London, Hatcher took a break from television and returned to the radio station 5DN and hosted a radio show. Returning to Sydney, he worked as an on-the-road reporter for the Seven Network for a decade from 1988 to 1998. During this time he was the network's chief Olympic correspondent.
He was forced out of work for more than two years, suffering chronic fatigue syndrome. He wrote a best-selling book about the experience, I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just A Little Unwell.
Hatcher joined Sky News Australia in 2000 as a presenter of First Edition with Sharon McKenzie and later Nina May on weekdays. In January 2013, he finished presenting First Edition and was appointed news presenter on PM Agenda. In June 2013, he resigned from Sky News.
On 11 November 1975 Hatcher was one of the journalists present at former prime minister Whitlam's dismissal speech.
On 27 March 2011 Sheridan Voysey, presenter of national radio program Open House, announced Hatcher would serve as his replacement. Hatcher hosted the program, aired by Christian broadcaster Hope 103.2, until 8 December 2013.
In January 2014, after four decades of broadcast journalism, Hatcher became director for public affairs with the HammondCare organisation.
He is married with four children and three grandchildren.
Writing career
Hatcher has written three books – I'm Not Crazy, I'm Just A Little Unwell, and two books from the Open House radio program.
References
Sky News Australia profile
Not Crazy website
Open House books
External links
Interview at the Centre for Public Christianity
Living people
People with chronic fatigue syndrome
Australian journalists
1955 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS/360%20and%20successors | OS/360, officially known as IBM System/360 Operating System, is a discontinued batch processing operating system developed by IBM for their then-new System/360 mainframe computer, announced in 1964; it was influenced by the earlier IBSYS/IBJOB and Input/Output Control System (IOCS) packages for the IBM 7090/7094 and even more so by the PR155 Operating System for the IBM 1410/7010 processors. It was one of the earliest operating systems to require the computer hardware to include at least one direct access storage device.
Although OS/360 itself was discontinued, successor operating systems, including the virtual storage MVS and the 64-bit z/OS, are still run and maintain application-level compatibility with OS/360.
Overview
IBM announced three different levels of OS/360, generated from the same tapes and sharing most of their code. IBM eventually renamed these options and made some significant design changes:
Single Sequential Scheduler (SSS)
Option 1
Primary Control Program (PCP)
Multiple Sequential Schedulers (MSS)
Option 2
Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks (MFT)
MFT II
Multiple Priority Schedulers (MPS)
Option 4
VMS
Multiprogramming with a Variable number of Tasks (MVT)
Model 65 Multiprocessing (M65MP)
Users often coined nicknames, e.g., "Big OS", "OS/MFT", but none of these names had any official recognition by IBM.
IBM provided OS/360 as a set of libraries on tape that the installation had to restore to DASD in order to perform a system generation. IBM also offered a set of optional source tapes that the installation could use to modify and assemble modules that IBM normally provided as object code. In addition, IBM offered microfiche that had assembly listing of the basic program material and of subsequent service. IBM continued distributing source code until it imposed an Object Code Only (OCO) policy for licensed software.
The other major operating system for System/360 hardware was DOS/360.
OS/360 is in the public domain and can be downloaded freely. As well as being run on actual System/360 hardware, it can be executed on the free Hercules emulator, which runs under most UNIX and Unix-like systems including Linux, Solaris, and macOS, as well as Windows. There are OS/360 turnkey CDs that provide pregenerated OS/360 21.8 systems ready to run under Hercules.
Origin
IBM originally intended that System/360 should have only one batch-oriented operating system, OS/360, capable of running on machines as small as 32 KiB. It also intended to supply a separate timesharing operating system, TSS/360, for the System/360 Model 67. There are at least two accounts of why IBM eventually decided to produce other, simpler batch-oriented operating systems:
because it found that the "approximately 1.5 million instructions that enable the system to operate with virtually no manual intervention" comprising OS/360 would not fit into the limited memory available on the smaller System/360 models; or
because it realized that th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy-enhancing%20technologies | Privacy-enhancing technologies (PET) are technologies that embody fundamental data protection principles by minimizing personal data use, maximizing data security, and empowering individuals. PETs allow online users to protect the privacy of their personally identifiable information (PII), which is often provided to and handled by services or applications. PETs use techniques to minimize an information system's possession of personal data without losing functionality. Generally speaking, PETs can be categorized as hard and soft privacy technologies.
Goals of PETs
The objective of PETs is to protect personal data and assure technology users of two key privacy points: their own information is kept confidential, and management of data protection is a priority to the organizations who hold responsibility for any PII. PETs allow users to take one or more of the following actions related to personal data that is sent to and used by online service providers, merchants or other users (this control is known as self-determination). PETs aim to minimize personal data collected and used by service providers and merchants, use pseudonyms or anonymous data credentials to provide anonymity, and strive to achieve informed consent about giving personal data to online service providers and merchants. In Privacy Negotiations, consumers and service providers establish, maintain, and refine privacy policies as individualized agreements through the ongoing choice among service alternatives, therefore providing the possibility to negotiate the terms and conditions of giving personal data to online service providers and merchants (data handling/privacy policy negotiation). Within private negotiations, the transaction partners may additionally bundle the personal information collection and processing schemes with monetary or non-monetary rewards.
PETs provide the possibility to remotely audit the enforcement of these terms and conditions at the online service providers and merchants (assurance), allow users to log, archive and look up past transfers of their personal data, including what data has been transferred, when, to whom and under what conditions, and facilitate the use of their legal rights of data inspection, correction and deletion. PETs also provide the opportunity for consumers or people who want privacy-protection to hide their personal identities. The process involves masking one's personal information and replacing that information with pseudo-data or an anonymous identity.
Families of PETs
Privacy-enhancing Technologies can be distinguished based on their assumptions.
Soft privacy technologies
Soft privacy technologies are used where it can be assumed that a third-party can be trusted for the processing of data. This model is based on compliance, consent, control and auditing.
Example technologies are access control, differential privacy, and tunnel encryption (SSL/TLS).
An example of soft privacy technologies is increased transparency and access. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextClipping | textClipping is an extension used by Macintosh computers for strings of text since Mac OS 9. When a string of text is selected and dragged to the desktop or anywhere on a Macintosh computer, the computer automatically converts it into a .textClipping file. The file formed can conveniently be dragged to any text box to replicate the exact text, including its formatting.
Because of its legacy origins, the contents of textClipping files are not stored inside the actual data "fork" of the file, and the files cannot easily be shared between Macs or sent to other machines like an attachment. Opening the textClipping file in most applications will show a 0 byte empty data file. When macOS views or performs an action on a textClipping file, it performs a lookup of the file's resource fork where the contents are actually stored.
Unlike most file extensions, .textClipping separates the words in its name using capitalization (called Camel case), a practice commonly used in many programming languages.
References
MacOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo | Comodo may refer to:
Comodo, a musical term.
Comodo Group, a privately held group of companies providing computer software
Comodo Internet Security, an Internet security suite for Windows
See also
Komodo (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicers | Splicers is a role-playing game using the Palladium Books Megaversal gaming system. The game is set in the midst of a war between humans and a world-wide computer intelligence alternately referred to as the N.E.X.U.S. or the Machine. Players take on the roles of humans engaged in the fight against robotic, android, and necrotic minions of the Machine, using technology that is primarily derived from highly advanced biotechnology. The computer intelligence has released a "nanobot plague" on the world; within a few seconds of a human touching non-precious metal, the item will begin to twist and attack the person, sometimes even animating into a robotic minion of the Machine. The result is that the nanoplague has effectively made non-precious metal allergic to mammalian life.
In many ways, this game's mechanics are largely prohibitive to the introduction of characters from other games using the Palladium system (by deliberate design, and presumably to maintain game balance within the game); most conventional technology and weapons from other games simply cannot be used on the world of Splicers, due to the nature of the aforementioned nanoplague, and the Magical and Psionic powers common to most other Palladium modules are greatly reduced in this game setting.
Setting
The world of Splicers is vague as to its location or original name; humans do not know if they are on Earth, or some colony world in space. While much history has been lost in the two hundred years of fighting, they are clear that colony worlds do/did exist. What is known is that humans chose to turn over governance of their world to a computer program, the N.E.X.U.S. (Neurologic Electronic eXecutive and Utility System). Initially, it ran only a few systems, but humans turned over increasing control to it, with increasingly strict (and contradictory) guidelines on its behavior. In a twist reminiscent of the dilemma faced by Hal 9000 in the 2001 series of books, the resulting logic loops leads to the Machine forming several separate personalities, each of whom follows different directives. One of the directives charged the machine with eliminating vermin. Another charged it with environmental protection. Between them, it was concluded that humans are, for all intents and purposes, vermin to be controlled, if not eliminated.
The seven main N.E.X.U.S. personalities each have different agendas based on core tenets of the original programming. One, named Freya, wishes to maintain order within her so-called Ghost Cities, wherein robot duplicates endlessly play out their 'lives' as normal human beings. Another, named Gaia, wishes only to preserve nature, destroying robots that invade nature preserves and 'entertaining' herself with countless experiments in bioengineering. Kali is a destroyer and torturer and murderer (although she wishes to do so in such a way that her "fun" in matching wits, hunting and torturing the humans never ends); Eve attempts to protect humans and has been seemingly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%20Paxton | Lloyd Paxton is a former CEO for Air Astana and Malév. Before heading up those airlines, he worked for British Airways.
At Air Astana, he was successful in expanding that airline's network. In the summer of 2007 he became CEO of Malév, but resigned two months later. From October 2012, he has worked as chief executive of Somon Air airline (Tajikistan).
References
Living people
British chief executives
Businesspeople in aviation
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20FM | Time FM could mean any of the following radio stations operated by the Sunrise Radio Group:
Time 106.6
Time 106.8
Time 107.3
Time 107.5
British_radio_networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook%20150 | The PowerBook 150 is a laptop personal computer created by Apple Computer which was introduced on July 13, 1994, and released on July 18, 1994. It was the last member of the PowerBook 100 series to use the original case design, the most affordable of the series when introduced (priced between $1,450 and $1,600) and also the last consumer model.
It was 8 MHz faster than its predecessor, the PowerBook 145B. It lacked an ADB port and used a lower-quality passive matrix display than other contemporary offerings, both to reduce the price. It also lacked external monitor support. Like the Duos and the PowerBook 100 before it, the 150 only had a single serial printer port, however, a third-party adapter was available for use in the optional modem slot. One interesting improvement was the display's resolution of 640x480 - an increase from the earlier PowerBook resolution of 640x400, and more in line with standard desktop monitors of the time.
Though it used the 140 case design, its internals were based on the PowerBook Duo 230 and actually more similar to the features of the PowerBook 190 (which used the PowerBook 5300's case design). Notably, this new logicboard design allowed this 100 series PowerBook to use more than 14 MB RAM for the first time. It was also the first of the 100 series to include a lithium-ion backup battery to preserve RAM contents when the battery is replaced, as well as the first Macintosh ever to use less expensive and larger IDE drives (formatting required a unique software application limiting the selection of compatible drives). This was the last PowerBook model to include a trackball. Like the 145B it replaced, the 150 could not be used in SCSI Disk Mode, unlike the Duo, 190 and 5300 which had HD Target Mode implemented.
Specifications
Processor: Motorola 68030, running at 33 MHz
RAM: 4 MB on board, expandable to 36 MB
ROM: 1 MB
Hard disk: 120–240 MB
Floppy disk: 1.4 MB
Systems supported: System 7.1.1 – Mac OS 7.6.1
ADB: No
Serial: Yes (1 port)
Modem: Optional (used for this model's expansion port)
Screen: passive matrix, 2-bit greyscale (4 shades) at a resolution of 640×480
Timeline
References
External links
apple-history.com: PowerBook 150
150
68k Macintosh computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Hebbian%20algorithm | The generalized Hebbian algorithm (GHA), also known in the literature as Sanger's rule, is a linear feedforward neural network model for unsupervised learning with applications primarily in principal components analysis. First defined in 1989, it is similar to Oja's rule in its formulation and stability, except it can be applied to networks with multiple outputs. The name originates because of the similarity between the algorithm and a hypothesis made by Donald Hebb about the way in which synaptic strengths in the brain are modified in response to experience, i.e., that changes are proportional to the correlation between the firing of pre- and post-synaptic neurons.
Theory
The GHA combines Oja's rule with the Gram-Schmidt process to produce a learning rule of the form
,
where defines the synaptic weight or connection strength between the th input and th output neurons, and are the input and output vectors, respectively, and is the learning rate parameter.
Derivation
In matrix form, Oja's rule can be written
,
and the Gram-Schmidt algorithm is
,
where is any matrix, in this case representing synaptic weights, is the autocorrelation matrix, simply the outer product of inputs, is the function that diagonalizes a matrix, and is the function that sets all matrix elements on or above the diagonal equal to 0. We can combine these equations to get our original rule in matrix form,
,
where the function sets all matrix elements above the diagonal equal to 0, and note that our output is a linear neuron.
Stability and PCA
Applications
The GHA is used in applications where a self-organizing map is necessary, or where a feature or principal components analysis can be used. Examples of such cases include artificial intelligence and speech and image processing.
Its importance comes from the fact that learning is a single-layer process—that is, a synaptic weight changes only depending on the response of the inputs and outputs of that layer, thus avoiding the multi-layer dependence associated with the backpropagation algorithm. It also has a simple and predictable trade-off between learning speed and accuracy of convergence as set by the learning rate parameter .
See also
Hebbian learning
Factor analysis
Contrastive Hebbian learning
Oja's rule
References
Hebbian theory
Artificial neural networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20Constellation%20System | Sun Constellation System is an open petascale computing environment introduced by Sun Microsystems in 2007.
Main hardware components
Sun Blade 6048 Modular System
Sun Blade X6275
Sun Blade X6270
Sun Blade 6000 System
Sun Datacenter Switch 3456
Sun Fire X4540
Sun Cooling Doors (5200,5600)
Software stack
OpenSolaris or Linux
Sun Grid Engine
Sun Studio Compiler Suite
Fortress (programming language)
Sun HPC ClusterTools (based on Open MPI)
Sun Ops Center
Services
Sun Datacenter Express Services
Production systems
Ranger at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) was the largest production Constellation system. Ranger had 62,976 processor cores in 3,936 nodes and a peak performance of 580 TFlops. Ranger was the 7th most powerful TOP500 supercomputer in the world at the time of its introduction.
After 5 years of service at TACC, it was dismantled and shipped to South Africa, Tanzania, and Botswana to help foster HPC development in Africa.
A number of smaller Constellation systems are deployed at other supercomputer centers, including the University of Oslo.
References
External links
Sun Constellation System at Sun.com
Sun Constellation System at SC07 (YouTube Video)
Sun Microsystems software
Sun Microsystems hardware
Petascale computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Ventilator%20Users%20Network | The International Ventilator Users Network (IVUN) is a nonprofit network of mechanical ventilation users, respiratory health professionals, and ventilatory equipment manufacturers. Its focus is on the health and independent living of ventilator users, whether they are using assisted ventilation long-term – at home or in nursing facilities—or short-term in emergency rooms and critical care units.
Many ventilator users have neuromuscular conditions, such as respiratory polio or post-polio syndrome, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), muscular dystrophy, spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), spinal cord injury (SCI), or congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS). Historically, IVUN's efforts have been primarily addressed to ventilator users with neuromuscular conditions. But people who have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or obesity hypoventilation syndrome may also need to use assisted ventilation.
Mission
IVUN's mission is “to enhance the lives and independence” of ventilator users “through education, advocacy, research, and networking” among ventilator uses, respiratory health professionals, and ventilatory equipment manufacturers. Support comes from individual members, donors, and sponsors.
IVUN's parent organization is Post-Polio Health International (PHI). It shares that organization's headquarters and staff in St. Louis, Missouri, as well as its volunteer Board of Directors. IVUN's publications, website, and volunteer advisory boards are its own, however.
Current activities
Education
IVUN publishes (both online and in print) authoritative medical information based on interaction between ventilator users and healthcare professionals. Currently, users can find online free of charge a 16-page introductory document describing the history of ventilators, the various types of ventilators, and the types of user-interfaces; a packet of documents dealing with emergency medical care for home ventilator users (checklists for users, caregivers, physicians, and Emergency medical services personnel); and a comprehensive Home Ventilator Guide which provides technical information on home/portable ventilator equipment from manufacturers worldwide. Past issues of IVUN's quarterly newsletter, Ventilator-Assisted Living, are also online. IVUN's staff maintain a telephone answer-line and answer e-mail inquiries during business hours.
Networking
IVUN publishes, and makes available free online, the Resource Directory for Ventilator-Assisted Living, which lists respiratory health professionals who are experts in long-term assisted ventilation, ventilatory equipment manufacturers and their contact information, and organizations whose members use assisted ventilation. IVUN's website manages an equipment exchange, a peer-to-peer advice page, and ventilator news digests.
IVUN staff regularly attend medical meetings and international conferences on home ventilator use, and coordinate presentations by ventilator users at medical meetings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic%20weight | In neuroscience and computer science, synaptic weight refers to the strength or amplitude of a connection between two nodes, corresponding in biology to the amount of influence the firing of one neuron has on another. The term is typically used in artificial and biological neural network research.
Computation
In a computational neural network, a vector or set of inputs and outputs , or pre- and post-synaptic neurons respectively, are interconnected with synaptic weights represented by the matrix , where for a linear neuron
.
where the rows of the synaptic matrix represent the vector of synaptic weights for the output indexed by .
The synaptic weight is changed by using a learning rule, the most basic of which is Hebb's rule, which is usually stated in biological terms as
Neurons that fire together, wire together.
Computationally, this means that if a large signal from one of the input neurons results in a large signal from one of the output neurons, then the synaptic weight between those two neurons will increase. The rule is unstable, however, and is typically modified using such variations as Oja's rule, radial basis functions or the backpropagation algorithm.
Biology
For biological networks, the effect of synaptic weights is not as simple as for linear neurons or Hebbian learning. However, biophysical models such as BCM theory have seen some success in mathematically describing these networks.
In the mammalian central nervous system, signal transmission is carried out by interconnected networks of nerve cells, or neurons. For the basic pyramidal neuron, the input signal is carried by the axon, which releases neurotransmitter chemicals into the synapse which is picked up by the dendrites of the next neuron, which can then generate an action potential which is analogous to the output signal in the computational case.
The synaptic weight in this process is determined by several variable factors:
How well the input signal propagates through the axon (see myelination),
The amount of neurotransmitter released into the synapse and the amount that can be absorbed in the following cell (determined by the number of AMPA and NMDA receptors on the cell membrane and the amount of intracellular calcium and other ions),
The number of such connections made by the axon to the dendrites,
How well the signal propagates and integrates in the postsynaptic cell.
The changes in synaptic weight that occur is known as synaptic plasticity, and the process behind long-term changes (long-term potentiation and depression) is still poorly understood. Hebb's original learning rule was originally applied to biological systems, but has had to undergo many modifications as a number of theoretical and experimental problems came to light.
References
See also
Neural network
Synaptic plasticity
Hebbian theory
Artificial neural networks
Neural circuits
Neuroplasticity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Qumran%3A%20A%20Virtual%20Reality%20Tour | Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour is the title of a computer-generated film that presents a theoretical reconstruction of the ancient Khirbet Qumran site in the West Bank. The film is silent, but is projected together with an oral presentation interpreting the Qumran site's historical significance. The film and presentation were authored by Robert Cargill, while a graduate student at UCLA and an associate of the Qumran Visualization Project (QVP) directed by UCLA bible scholar William Schniedewind. QVP presents itself as "a tool to better illustrate the daily life of the community described within the [Dead Sea] scrolls." The UCLA International Institute, cites Cargill and Schniedewind as saying that their new virtual model resolves long-simmering controversies surrounding the important Dead Sea Scrolls site.
Summary
According to a UCLA press release of June 18, 2007, "while building the world's first three-dimensional computer model" of Qumran, Cargill and Schniedewind concluded that "Qumran was established originally as a fortress, just as the archaeological evidence shows, and ... was later resettled by the Essenes, an early Jewish religious community that came from Jerusalem, bringing with them the scrolls and continuing to copy and compose new scrolls."
Referring to theories that Qumran was a fortress, the home of the Essenes, or a wealthy Jerusalem family's estate, the release states that "Cargill and Schniedewind cut the three competing theories down the middle, contending that none of them hold together without elements from the others," and further quotes Schniedewind as saying: "Once you put all the archaeological evidence into three dimensions, the solution literally jumps out at you."
Production
The computer model from which the film was produced, was built over the course of 15 months using MultiGen Creator, a 3D modeling tool for generating walk-throughs; photos from the site were used to generate textures that were applied to artifacts, wood, pottery and other artifacts. Autodesk Maya was used to add realism to the film.
According to the UCLA Qumran Visualization project website, modeling in a virtual environment allowed the archaeologists to test new ideas and re-constructions. The website asserts that the virtual environment reveals some re-constructions to be architecturally impossible, with the result that the virtual model excludes certain interpretations.
Exhibition
The San Diego Natural History Museum describes the film The Ancient Qumran: A Virtual Reality Tour as "a fully reconstructed, real-time, interactive model of the site at Khirbet Qumran. Ancient Qumran, setting the standard for Qumran archaeology, allows the ancient site to literally emerge from its remains. Every room at Khirbet Qumran is reconstructed and furnished with artifacts. The result is a journey back in time and a glimpse into a world that influenced the birth of modern Judaism and Christianity."
Steven Spielberg’s Righteous Persons Fou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoFR | Voice over Frame Relay (VoFR) is a protocol to transfer voice over Frame Relay networks. VoFR uses two sub-protocols, FRF.11 and FRF.12. FRF.11 defines the frame format of VoFR, and FRF.12 is used for packet fragmentation and reassembly.
References
Telephone services
Network protocols
Digital audio
Frame Relay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BFS | BFS may refer to:
Science and technology
Big Falcon Ship, precursor of SpaceX Starship
Benign fasciculation syndrome, a neurological disorder
Blow fill seal, a manufacturing technique
Computing
Basic feasible solution, in linear programming
Be File System, the native file system for the Be Operating System
Best-first search, a path finding algorithm
Boot File System, a file system used on UnixWare to store files necessary to its boot process
Breadth-first search, a graph search algorithm
Brain Fuck Scheduler, a process scheduler for the Linux kernel
Organisations
BFS Group, foodservice wholesaler and distributor
Bournemouth Film School, part of Arts University Bournemouth
Basketball Federation of Slovenia, sports governing body
Bibby Financial Services, UK-based multinational financial services provider
Bio Fuel Systems, a Spanish company using captured CO2 to create fuel
British Fantasy Society, a group dedicated to promoting the best in the fantasy, science fiction and horror genres
Bureau of the Fiscal Service, a US Treasury Department bureau
Federal Statistical Office (Switzerland) (, BfS)
Beltane Fire Society, arts charity based in Edinburgh, Scotland that organises twice-yearly festivals
Brooklyn Friends School, school in Brooklyn, New York, United States
Busan Foreign School, school in Busan, South Korea
Other uses
Bowling for Soup, a rock band based in Denton, Texas, US
Belfast International Airport (IATA airport code) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Productivity%20Computing%20Systems | High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) is a DARPA project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2002–10 timeframe.
The HPC Challenge (High-performance computers challenge) is part of the project. An HPCS goal is to create a multi petaflop systems.
Participants
at phase I, II and III
IBM with PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System) based on POWER7 processor, X10, AIX and Linux operating systems and General Parallel File System
Cray with Cascade, Chapel and Lustre filesystem
at phase I and II
Sun Microsystems with proximity communication and research projects of silicon photonics, object-based storage, the Fortress programming language, interval computing
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
at phase I only
HP
Silicon Graphics (SGI)
MITRE
Also (status unknown from official site):
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Los Alamos National Laboratory
A vivid description of this type of work was given by James Bamford in his March 15, 2012 article:
See also
Exascale computing program
Multiprogram Research Facility
References
External links
HPC Challenge
Last valid Waybackmachine cache of DARPA site's section about HPCS
DARPA Selects Cray and IBM for Final Phase of HPCS
DARPA
Parallel computing
DARPA projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20communication | Proximity communication is a Sun microsystems technology of wireless chip-to-chip communications. Partly by Robert Drost and Ivan Sutherland. Research done as part of High Productivity Computing Systems DARPA project.
Proximity communication replaces wires by capacitive coupling, promises significant increase in communications speed between chips in an electronic system, among other benefits. Partially funded by a $50 million award from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Comparing traditional area ball bonding, proximity communication has one order smaller scale, so it can be two order denser (in terms of connection number/PIN) than ball bonding. This technique requires very good alignment between chips and very small gaps between transmitting (Tx) and receiving (Rx) parts (2-3 micrometers), which can be destroyed by thermal expansion, vibration, dust, etc.
Chip transmitter consists (according to presentation slide) of big 32x32 array of very small Tx micropads, 4x4 array of bigger Rx micropads (four times bigger than tx micropad), and two linear arrays of 14 X vernier and 14 Y vernier.
Proximity communication can be used with 3D packing on chips in Multi-Chip Module, allowing to connect several MCM without sockets and wires.
Speed was up to 1.35 Gbit/s/channel in tests of 16 channel systems. BER < 10−12. Static power is 3.6 mW/channel, dynamic power is 3.9 pJ/bit.
External links
Slides by Robert J. Drost
List of Drost patents in Sun, most of which is about Proximity communication
Semiconductors
Semiconductor technology
Microtechnology
Sun Microsystems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducks%20Ahoy%21 | Ducks Ahoy! is an action game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers and Commodore 64 released in 1984 by CBS Software. The player maneuvers a boat around a flooded city to pick up ducks and ferry them to safety before they drown. The player must also avoid a hippopotamus, who randomly appears to try to destroy the player's boat.
References
External links
Ducks Ahoy! at Atari Mania
1984 video games
Action games
Atari 8-bit family games
CBS Software games
Commodore 64 games
Naval video games
Single-player video games
Video games about birds
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20database%20administration%20tools | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available database administration tools. Please see individual product articles for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up to date.
Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
General
Features
Legend
User Interface:
Browser based - executes on a computer server and is accessed via a network using a web browser
desktop - executes on a personal computer
Create/alter table:
Yes - can create table, alter its definition and data, and add new rows
Some - can only create/alter table definition, not data
Browse table:
Yes - can browse table definition and data
Some - can only browse table definition
Multi-server support:
Yes - can manage from the same window/session multiple servers
Some - can manage from a different window/session multiple servers
Monitoring server:
Yes - includes a headless server, that runs checks and reports failures
Features (continued)
Legend:
User manager:
Yes - user manager with support for database and schema permissions as well as for individual object (table, view, functions) permissions
Some - simple user manager with support for database and schema permissions
No - no user manager, or read-only user manager
Features - visual design and reverse engineering
Legend:
Visual schema/E-R design: the ability to draw entity-relationship diagrams for the database. If missing, the following two features will also be missing
Reverse engineering - the ability to produce an ER diagram from a database, complete with foreign key relationships
Yes - supports incremental reverse engineering, preserving user modifications to the diagram and importing only changes from the database
Some - can only reverse engineer the entire database at once and drops any user modifications to the diagram (can't "refresh" the diagram to match the database)
Forward engineering - the ability to update the database schema with changes made to its entities and relationships via the ER diagram visual designer
Yes - can update user-selected entities
Some - can only update the entire database at once
See also
Comparison of data modeling tools
Comparison of object database management systems
Comparison of object–relational database management systems
Comparison of relational database management systems
List of relational database management systems
SQL programming tool
Notes
References
Tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webmaster%20%28film%29 | Webmaster (original title Skyggen, also known as The Shadow) is a 1998 Danish cyberpunk thriller film.
Directed by Thomas Borch Nielsen, it stars Danish actor Lars Bom as the cerebral, machine-like hacker-turned-webmaster J.B., who performs his job while hanging upside down, wearing virtual reality goggles, his mind busy deep inside cyberspace. Upon witnessing a murder, he teams up with the impulsive, energetic Miauv (Puk Scharbau).
The film furthermore won a Silver Grand Prize at the 1999 Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, and a Danish Robert Award for Best Production Design.
The movie was financed by the Danish bank "Forstædernes Bank" and the final production cost was not disclosed by neither producers nor the director. When the movie was released in Denmark in 1998 it was met with mixed reviews.
References
External links
Skyggen at the Danish National Filmography
Zeitgeist (production company)
1990s science fiction films
1998 films
Cyberpunk films
Danish science fiction films
1990s Danish-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Marzullo | Keith Marzullo is the inventor of Marzullo's algorithm, which is part of the basis of the Network Time Protocol and the Windows Time Service. On August 1, 2016 he became the Dean of the University of Maryland College of Information Studies after serving as the Director of the NITRD National Coordination Office. Prior to this he was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of California, San Diego. In 2011 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Research
RAMP (Reliable Adaptive Multipath Networks)
GriPhyN (Master-worker computation in a wide-area network)
MURI (Dependent failure models & Collaborative backup for withstanding network catastrophes)
Mobility (Fault-tolerance for mobile agents & personal computational grids)
Publications
1999
Walfredo Cirne and Keith Marzullo. The computational Co-op: Gathering clusters into a metacomputer. Proceedings 13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing (IPPS/SPDP 1999). IEEE Computer Society 1999, pp. 160–6. Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
Meng-Jang Lin and Keith Marzullo. Directional gossip: gossip in a wide area network. Dependable Computing - EDDC-3. Third European Dependable Computing Conference. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.1667). Springer-Verlag. 1999, pp. 364–79. Berlin, Germany.
Chanathip Namprempre, Jeremy Sussman, and Keith Marzullo. Implementing causal logging using OrbixWeb interception. Proceedings of the Fifth USENIX Conference on Object-Oriented Technologies and Systems (COOTS'99). USENIX Assoc. 1999, pp. 57–67. Berkeley, CA, USA.
Dag Johansen, Keith Marzullo, and Kåre Lauvset. An approach towards an agent computing environment. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems. Workshops on Electronic Commerce and Web-based Applications. Middleware. IEEE Computer Society 1999, pp. 78–83. Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
Dag Johansen, Keith Marzullo, Fred B. Schneider, Kjetil Jacobsen, and Dmitrii Zagorodnov. NAP: practical fault-tolerance for itinerant computations. Proceedings. 19th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (Cat. No.99CB37003). IEEE Computer Society 1999, pp. 180–9. Los Alamitos, CA, USA.
2000
Meng-Jang Lin, Keith Marzullo and Stefano Massini. Gossip versus deterministically constrained flooding on small networks. In 14th International Conference on Distributed Computing (DISC 2000), Toledo, Spain, 4-6 Oct. 2000), pp. 253–267.
Jeremy Sussman, Keith Marzullo and Idit Keidar. Optimistic Virtual Synchrony. In Proceedings 19th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS-2000), Nürnberg, Germany, 16-18 Oct. 2000, pp. 42–51.
Idit Keidar, Jeremy Sussman, Keith Marzullo and Danny Dolev. A client-server oriented algorithm for virtually synchronous group membership in WANs. In Proceedings 20th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 10–13 Ap |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20automation | Track automation or sometimes only automation refers to the recording or handling of time-based controlling data in time-based computer applications such as digital audio workstations, video editing software and computer animation software.
Some Examples
Multitrack audio software
In modern DAWs every parameter that exists can usually be automatised, be it settings for a track's volume, applied filters or a virtual instruments.
Either the user turns some knobs/faders/etc on a physical controller connected to the computer or the user can set keyframes with the mouse, between which the computer interpolates, or the user can draw entire data curves.
Some examples:
The volume of a track can sometimes or constantly change (fade-in/out/over)
The panning of a sound might change
A filter sweep (more or less intensive filter, or the frequency limits might change)
Animation software
The user sets some keyframes for i.e. position/rotation/size of an object or the position/angle/focus of a camera, and this movement data can be altered over time.
Video editing software
Blending between 2 clips. The track automation curve affects how one image changes into the other, be it slow/fast with/without acceleration, maybe even back and forth if one uses a Sinus-like wave.
See also
MIDI
Control voltage
External links
Audio Visual Equipment
Audio engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%27s%20Dilemma | Darwin's Dilemma is a personal computer game released in 1990 for the Macintosh and Sharp X68000 platforms. It was developed by André Ouimet and published by Inline Design.
Darwin's Dilemma is a puzzle game in which the goal is to match creatures together. After enough matches the creatures will "evolve" into new ones, and these new creatures must be again matched so they can evolve, and so on.
Reviews
1992 Games 100 in Games #112
References
Further reading
"Darwin's Dilemma: A Field Guide to Evolution", Andre Ouimet and Anne L. Peck, 2nd Printing - February 1991
"New for Macintosh: Darwin's Dilemma upgrade", Newsbytes News Network, July 9, 1992
"Review of Darwin's Dilemma", Newsbytes News Network, July 22, 1994
External links
Home of the Underdogs - Entry: Darwin's Dilemma
1990 video games
FM Towns games
Classic Mac OS games
NEC PC-9801 games
Puzzle video games
X68000 games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RBD%20%28disambiguation%29 | RBD is a Mexican pop band formed in 2004.
RBD may also refer to:
Biology and psychology
Rapid eye movement sleep behavior disorder
Receptor binding domain
Recurrent brief depression
Computing
Rational Business Developer, an IDE from IBM
RADOS Block Device, a feature of the Ceph (software) storage management system
Amiga rigid disk block (RDB), the root block of the Amiga disk partitioning structure
Robot Programming by demonstration, programming a robot by performing the desired task
Transport
Dallas Executive Airport, Texas, United States (IATA:RBD)
, or railway divisions in Germany
Other uses
Reliability block diagram, a method for evaluating system reliabity
River Basin District, a European Union designation per the Water Framework Directive
"Refined, bleached, and deodorized", a designation for some processed natural oils, such as palm oil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Rabin | Steve Rabin is an American software engineer, college instructor, and editor/author who specializes in the field of video game artificial intelligence. He is best known as the chief editor of the AI Game Programming Wisdom series of books and as an author in the Game Programming Gems series of books. Rabin is currently a principal software engineer at Nintendo of America and an instructor at both the DigiPen Institute of Technology and the University of Washington Extension.
AI Game Programming Wisdom series
Rabin has had a significant impact on the field of game AI by driving the AI Game Programming Wisdom series. With 246 articles from industry experts contained in the four volumes, this source of information on techniques and algorithms from commercial games has dwarfed other sources of game AI information, such as the Game Developers Conference which typically features fewer than half a dozen game AI presentations each year. As such, this has allowed implementation details about a great deal of groundbreaking AI to be widely known, such as empathy learning in Black & White by Richard Evans, planning in F.E.A.R. by Jeff Orkin, and agent reputation systems in Fable by Adam Russell. By leading the effort to publish commercial game AI techniques, Rabin has become a top figure in the field of game AI.
Game credits
HyperBlade (1996), AI programmer
Microsoft Baseball 3D 1998 Edition (1998), AI programmer
Dungeon Siege (2002), AI programmer
References
Video game programmers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChibiOS/RT | ChibiOS/RT is a compact and fast real-time operating system supporting multiple architectures and released under a mix of the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPL3) and the Apache License 2.0 (depending on module). It is developed by Giovanni Di Sirio.
Commercial licenses are available from ChibiOS. Additional products include ChibiOS/HAL, a hardware abstraction layer compatible with ChibiOS/RT, and ChibiStudio, a free integrated development environment based on Eclipse, the GNU Compiler Collection, and the OpenOCD Joint Test Action Group (JTAG) debugging pod.
Metrics
ChibiOS/RT is designed for embedded applications on microcontrollers of 8-, 16-, and 32-bits. Size and execution efficiency are the main project goals. As reference, the kernel size can range from a minimum of 1.2 KiB up to a maximum of 5.5 KiB with all the subsystems activated on a STM32 Cortex-M3 processor. The kernel can achieve over 220,000 created/terminated threads per second and can perform a context switch in 1.2 microseconds on an STM32 @ 72 MHz. Similar metrics for all the supported platforms are included in the source code distribution as test reports.
Features
The ChibiOS/RT microkernel supports:
Preemptive multithreading
128 priority queue levels
Round-robin scheduling for threads at the same priority level
Software timers
Counting semaphores
Mutexes with support for the priority inheritance algorithm
Condition variables
Synchronous and asynchronous Messages
Event flags and handlers
Queues
Synchronous and asynchronous I/O with timeout capability
Thread-safe memory heap and memory pool allocators.
Hardware Abstraction Layer with support for ADC, CAN, GPT (general-purpose timer), EXT, I²C, ICU, MAC, MMC/SD, PAL, PWM, RTC, SDC, Serial, SPI, and USB drivers.
Support for the LwIP and uIP TCP/IP stacks.
Support for the FatFs file system library.
All system objects, such as threads, semaphores, timers, etc., can be created and deleted at runtime. There is no upper limit except for the available memory. To increase system reliability, the kernel architecture is entirely static, a memory allocator is not needed (but is available as an option), and there are no data structures with upper size limits like tables or arrays. The system application programming interfaces (APIs) are designed to not have error conditions such as error codes or exceptions.
The RTOS is designed for applications on embedded systems (devices) and includes demo applications for various microcontrollers:
STMicroelectronics – STM32F1xx, STM32F2xx, STM32F3xx, STM32F4xx, STM32L1xx, STM32F0xx; STM8S208x, STM8S105x, STM8L152x; ST/Freescale SPC56x, MPC56xx
NXP Semiconductors – LPC11xx, LPC11Uxx, LPC13xx, LPC2148
Atmel – AT91SAM7S, AT91SAM7X, megaAVR
Texas Instruments (TI) – MSP430x1611; TM4C123G, TM4C1294
Microchip Technology – PIC32MX
Contributed ports are also available for the Coldfire and H8S families.
ChibiOS/RT has also been ported to the Raspberry Pi and the following device drivers have |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mbanga%2C%20Cameroon | Mbanga is a town in western Cameroon.
Transport
The city is a junction station on the western network of Camrail.
Farming
Mbanga is a small town in the Littoral Region of Cameroon. There are around 60,000 inhabitants. Most are coffee and cocoa farmers.
Notable people
Léonard-Claude Mpouma (1938-2019), political figure
See also
Railway stations in Cameroon
Transport in Cameroon
References
Populated places in Littoral Region (Cameroon) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa%20F%C5%ABunroku%20Hachidai%20Sh%C5%8Dgun%20Yoshimune | is a television program broadcast on January 2, 2008, on the TV Tokyo network in Japan. It was the 28th in the annual Shinshun Wide Jidaigeki series. Ten hours long, it began at 2:00 p.m. and ran until midnight.
The production stars Masatoshi Nakamura as Tokugawa Yoshimune, eighth Tokugawa shogun. Asahi Uchida portrays Ten'ichi-bō, a youth portrayed as a son of the young Yoshimune. Ken Ishiguro is Ōoka Tadasuke.
Yoshimune's mother, Oyuri, is Rino Katase. Sakurai Sachiko, Misato Tanaka, Yoko Minamino, Miki Sakai, Tomoka Kurotani (as Ejima), Yumiko Takahashi, Waka Inoue, Sachiko Kokubu, and Mari Hoshino appear.
Veteran actor Hiroki Matsukata plays Tokugawa Mitsusada, Yoshimune's father. Mito Mitsukuni, who supported Yoshimune's bid to become shogun, is portrayed by Makoto Fujita. Teruhiko Saigō portrays Ōishi Kuranosuke, leader of the Forty-seven Ronin, and Toshiyuki Nishida (whose major roles include Yoshimune in the NHK Taiga drama based on his life) takes the role of Kinokuniya Bunzaemon. Another veteran Yoshimune, Ken Matsudaira (for 25 years the star of Abarenbō Shōgun), appears as Tsuchiya Mondonosuke.
The program is based on the two-volume historical novel Yoshimune to Ten'ichi-bō by Renzaburō Shibata, the author who wrote the Sleepy Eyes of Death (Nemuri Kyōshirō) series and Gokenin Zankurō. Shunka Nagasaka (Kamen Rider X, Japan Sinks, Ultraman Zearth) wrote the script. Ichikura Haruo and Kōjirō Fujioka are the directors. The show is a joint production of TV Tokyo and Toei.
Sources
Belluna Shinshun Wide Jidaigeki Tokugawa Fūunroku at TV Tokyo
Further reading
天一坊改行 (Ten'ichi-bō Kaigyō) in the Japanese Wikipedia
天一坊事件 (Ten'ichi-bō jiken) in the Japanese Wikipedia
Jidaigeki |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/France%203%20Midi-Pyr%C3%A9n%C3%A9es | France 3 Midi-Pyrénées is a regional television service and part of the France 3 network. Serving the Occitanie regions from its headquarters in Toulouse, secondary production centre in Montpellier and newsrooms in Perpignan, Rodez, Albi and Nîmes, France 3 Sud broadcasts regional news, sport, features and entertainment programming in French, Occitan and Catalan.
History
In 1975 FR3 Sud was launched. Following the establishment of France Télévisions on 7 September 1992, FR3 Sud was rebranded to France 3 Sud.
Programming
News
France 3 Sud produces daily news programmes for its two sub-regions - programming for the Midi-Pyrénées sub-region is produced in Toulouse, with the Languedoc-Roussillon sub-region receiving programming from Montpellier. Each sub-region produces a 27-minute bulletin (midi-pile) at 1200 CET during Ici 12/13 and the main news at 1900 during Ici 19/20. Six 10-minute local bulletins serving the Toulouse, Pays Catalan, Montpellier, Quercy-Rouergue, Tarn and Pays Gardois areas are broadcast during Ici 19/20 at 1900 CET.
On 5 January 2009, a 5-minute late night bulletin was introduced, forming part of Soir 3.
On some weekends and holiday periods, as well as during major events, the Midi-Pyrénées and Languedoc-Roussillon news bulletins are combined into pan-regional "Sud" editions.
Non-news programmes
Viure al pais, programme in Occitan and Catalan.
C'est mieux le matin. breakfast programme.
Le Mag, information programme.
Rugby Magazine
Sud Courses
External links
Official site
03 Sud
Television channels and stations established in 1975
Mass media in Toulouse
Mass media in Montpellier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20data%20transmission | Remote data transmission (RDT) was a term used in the 1980s, primarily in Germany, for the transmission of data between computers over a medium using a communications protocol. At the time, the most widespread form was RDT over the telephone network.
Other transmission media like radio waves or light were also used. Most RDT now uses the Internet.
In German speaking areas, RDT is used in the special sense of the considerably more narrowly defined Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).
Systems for remote administration of facilities and remote control adjustments may use remote data transmission standards.
To be transmittable, data must be appropriately prepared for the medium. For this, special hardware, e.g., a modem or an ISDN card is necessary.
History
When remote data transmission began, data were exchanged by the use of diskettes, magnetic tape, punched tape and dispatched via courier (the so-called sneaker net).
In the beginning, electronic remote data transmission was also accomplished through special adapters on special data or telex lines, teleprinter, serial ports, and analog telephone] or over simple radio connections.
Acoustic couplers that could be attached to a normal telephone handset, and later modems, were used.
RDT achieved great significance for private users at the end of the 1980s with the arrival of local and global bulletin board systems like FidoNet and CompuServe. Many of these systems later had internet access via computer gateways, but they were mostly discontinued by the end of the 1990s with the internet rise to dominance.
Communication between PCs through the internet is also a form of remote data transmission.
Methods and Transmission Standards
Wireless LAN
RS-232
V.90
ISDN
DSL with the variations ADSL, ADSL2+, SDSL and VDSL
Ethernet
Bluetooth
GSM with the extensions HSCSD, GPRS and EDGE
UMTS with the extension HSDPA
IrDA
See also
start bit
stop bit
parity bit
baudrate
flow control
data rate
Hayes command set
electronic banking
References
Broadcast engineering
Digital technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1966–67 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday and weekend daytime hours from September 1966 to August 1967.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of older programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold, children's programs are light purple and sports programs are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Note: This is the first full season in which practically all NBC weekday programs were in color.
Monday-Friday
With the final daytime airing of Where The Action Is on March 31, 1967, ABC returned the 4:30 (ET)/3:30 (CT) timeslot to its affiliates, joining CBS and NBC in ending its daytime lineup after the aforementioned timeslot.
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
A Time for Us
ABC News
Ben Casey
Beany and Cecil
The Bugs Bunny Show
The Bullwinkle Show
Dateline:Hollywood
Dark Shadows
The Dating Game
Discovery 1966-1967
The Nurses (from CBS)
The Donna Reed Show
Father Knows Best
General Hospital
Issues and Answers
Let's Make a Deal
Linus the Lionhearted (from CBS)
The Magilla Gorilla Show
The Milton the Monster Show
The New American Bandstand 1967
The Beatles
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The Newlywed Game
News with the Woman's Touch
Peter Jennings with the News
The Peter Potamus Show
The Porky Pig Show
Supermarket Sweep
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (from CBS)
Where the Action Is
New series:
Dream Girl of '67
The Children's Doctor
Everybody's Talking
The Family Game
The Fugitive
The Honeymoon Race
The King Kong Show
One in a Million
Not returning from 1965–66
Arlene Dahl's Beauty Spot
It's Confidential For Women
Never Too Young
The Young Marrieds
The Young Set
Shenanigans
CBS
Returning series:
Andy of Mayberry
Art Linkletter's House Party
As the World Turns
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace
CBS News
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
The Guiding Light
Lamp Unto My Feet
The Linkletter Show
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Mighty Mouse & The Mighty Heroes
The NFL Today
Password
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sunrise Semester
Ted Mack's Amateur Hour
To Tell the Truth
Tom and Jerry
Underdog (moved from NBC)
Where the Heart Is
New series:
The Beagles
The Beverly Hillbillies
Candid Camera
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles
The Lone Ranger
The New Adventures of Superman
The Road Runner Show
Space Ghost and Dino Boy
Not returning from 1965-66
I Love Lucy
The Real McCoys
The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (moved to ABC)
Linus the Lionhearted (moved to ABC)
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
Sky King
Lassie
My Friend Flicka
The CBS Saturday News
NBC
Returning series:
Another World
Another World in Bay City
The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show
The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials (continues into Primetime)
Conce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gian-Carlo | Gian-Carlo may refer to:
Gian-Carlo Carra, Canadian politician
Gian-Carlo Coppola (1963–1986), American film producer
Gian-Carlo Pascutto (born 1982), Belgian computer programmer
Gian-Carlo Rota (1932 – 1999) Italian mathematician and philosopher
See also
Gian Carlo
Giancarlo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%40home | Storage@home was a distributed data store project designed to store massive amounts of scientific data across a large number of volunteer machines. The project was developed by some of the Folding@home team at Stanford University, from about 2007 through 2011.
Function
Scientists such as those running Folding@home deal with massive amounts of data, which must be stored and backed up, and this is very expensive. Traditionally, methods such as storing the data on RAID servers are used, but these become impractical for research budgets at this scale. Pande's research group already dealt with storing hundreds of terabytes of scientific data. Professor Vijay Pande and student Adam Beberg took experience from Folding@home and began work on Storage@home. The project is designed based on the distributed file system known as Cosm, and the workload and analysis needed for Folding@home results. While Folding@home volunteers can easily participate in Storage@home, much more disk space is needed from the user than Folding@home, to create a robust network. Volunteers each donate 10 GB of storage space, which would hold encrypted files. These users gain points as a reward for reliable storage. Each file saved on the system is replicated four times, each spread across 10 geographically distant hosts. Redundancy also occurs over different operating systems and across time zones. If the servers detect the disappearance of an individual contributor, the data blocks held by that user would then be automatically duplicated to other hosts. Ideally, users would participate for a minimum of six months, and would alert the Storage@home servers before certain changes on their end such as a planned move of a machine or a bandwidth downgrade. Data stored on Storage@home was maintained through redundancy and monitoring, with repairs done as needed. Through careful application of redundancy, encryption, digital signatures, automated monitoring and correction, large quantities of data could be reliably and easily retrieved. This ensures a robust network that will lose the least possible data.
Storage Resource Broker is the closest storage project to Storage@home.
Status
Storage@home was first made available on September 15, 2009 in a testing phase. It first monitored availability data and other basic statistics on the user's machine, which would be used to create a robust and capable storage system for storing massive amounts of scientific data. However, in the same year it became inactive, despite initial plans for more to come. On April 11, 2011 Pande stated his group had no active plans with Storage@home.
See also
Folding@home
Cosm
SETI@home
Genome@home
RAID
OFF System
References
Distributed computing projects
Distributed file systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beery | Beery is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Adaline Hohf Beery (1859–1929), American author, newspaper editor, songbook compiler, hymnwriter
Dan Beery (born 1975), American competition rower, Olympic champion and world champion
Janet Beery, American mathematician and historian of mathematics
Noah Beery (1882–1946), American actor
Noah Beery Jr. (1913–1994), American actor
Wallace Beery (1885–1949), American actor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netgear%20SC101 | The SC101 was a home computer networking storage product manufactured and distributed by Netgear under the Storage Central brand from around 2005 through 2010. The devices shared data stored on one or two internal disks via Ethernet links.
Description
The two models in the Storage Central line were the Netgear SC101 and SC101T.
The original SC101 model could hold one or two disks (sold separately) using Parallel ATA (known as "IDE" at the time) and had a 100 Mbit/sec Ethernet over twisted pair interface.
The later Netgear SC101T model could hold one or two Serial ATA disks and had a Gigabit Ethernet interface.
The ZSAN technology was licensed in 2005 from Zetera Corporation.
Reviews praised the low price and ease of installation, but noted limited software support and passive cooling.
At least one reviewer encountered an incompatible disk drive.
By January 2010 the Storage Central series was replaced by Netgear storage products using the ReadyNAS name.
Software
The SC101 provided a block-level storage area network (SAN) interface, as opposed to file-level network-attached storage (NAS). Thus, like any SAN device, specific drivers and software must be installed on any client PC wishing to access the device. Only the Microsoft Windows family of operating systems were supported.
Linux drivers
There was discussion of a driver for Linux in 2008. An open source driver for Linux on Google Code used the network block device technology, but because this is a block level device, the OS is responsible for creating a filesystem. Consequently, a filesystem created by Linux will not be compatible with one created by Windows.
However, a 2006 post on kerneltrap.org suggested it may be possible to use NTFS-3g on Linux. If possible, this would allow access from both Windows and Linux machines, at the expense of losing features that the proprietary file system offers, such as sharing the device access across multiple machines, as well as mirroring support.
References
Further reading
External links
Netgear SC101 Support Page
OpenWrtDocs hardware internal information on the Netgear SC101
OpenWrt Wiki Table of Hardware: Netgear SC101
SC101
Home servers
Storage area networks |
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