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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITC%20Transmission | ITC Holdings Corporation (doing business as ITC Transmission) is an American energy company which owns and operates high-voltage electricity transmission networks. Headquartered in Novi, Michigan, ITC has operations in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin. The company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian energy company Fortis Inc.
History
ITC was founded in 1999 as International Transmission Co., a subsidiary of Detroit Edison (since renamed DTE Energy Electric Company, itself a subsidiary of DTE Energy), charged in the ownership, operation and maintenance of Detroit Edison's transmission system. In 2003, DTE sold the subsidiary to ITC Holdings Corp., making it the first fully independent electricity transmission company in the United States. ITC Holdings Corp. () became a publicly traded company in 2005, and began construction of its Novi headquarters in 2006. Today it owns transmission systems in several states under a unique independent business model.
On February 9, 2016, it was announced that Fortis Inc., a Canadian utility company based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, will buy ITC Holdings for about $6.9 billion. The utility operator will also assume $4.4 billion in debt in cash and stock deal. Fortis said it intends to retain all ITC employees and that ITC will continue as a stand-alone operation at its Novi headquarters.
System
ITC Michigan
The ITC Michigan system, covering much of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, is composed of transmission systems formerly owned by Consumers Energy and Detroit Edison.
The original ITC Transmission system
The original ITC Transmission system serves areas of southeastern Michigan and the Thumb region served by DTE Electric.
Largely overlapping DTE Electric's area, and launched on March 1, 2003, ITC's transmission line voltages are 345,000 volts, 230,000 volts, 138,000 volts, and 120,000 volts.
ITC has three 345 kV interconnections with First Energy Corporation in Ohio, via that company's Toledo Edison subsidiary (Bayshore-Monroe line, Majestic-Monroe-Allen Junction line, and the Majestic-Lemoyne line). Though owned by ITC these lines reside on towers designed and previously owned by Consumers, as they pass through part of their service area in southern Monroe and southeastern Lenawee Counties.
There are four interconnections with Hydro One in Ontario, Canada—one 345kV (St. Clair-Lambton #1) and three 230kV (Keith-Waterman line, St. Clair-Lambton #2 line and the Bunce Creek-Scott line).
In the early 2010s, ITC Transmission added a new 345 kV line, the "Michigan Thumb Loop", to strengthen the transmission grid in the Thumb Region to serve as a backbone for the interconnection of new generation sources in the area, including wind farms. This project was built with steel tubular pylons in a double-circuit arrangement. This was completed in 2015.
ITC Transmission has 2,800 circuit miles of transmission lines, with 17,700 transmission pylons, and 17 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%2B%20Premium | Canal+ Premium (formerly Canal+) is Poland's variation of the French television network Canal+. It is similar in many ways, including continuity and presentation.
Canal+ Poland currently consists of 12 high-definition channels: Canal+ Premium, Canal+1, Canal+ Sport, Canal+ Sport2, Canal+ Sport3, Canal+ Sport4, Canal+ Film, Canal+ Seriale, Canal+ Family, Canal+ Dokument, Canal+ Now, and Canal+ 4K Ultra HD.
Logo
TV Sports rights
Polish Ekstraklasa
English Premier League (together with Viaplay)
Spanish La Liga (together with Eleven Sports)
French Ligue 1 (together with Eleven Sports)
Rugby Six Nations Championship
American NBA
Speedway Grand Prix
Speedway Enea Ekstraliga
Speedway World Cup
MMA Bellator Fighting Championship
U.S. Open (golf)
Film rights
20th Century Studios
DreamWorks
MGM
Monolith Films
Paramount Pictures
StudioCanal
Universal Studios
References
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 1995
Premium
1995 establishments in Poland
Lechia Gdańsk sponsors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMAN | RMAN (Recovery Manager) is a backup and recovery manager supplied for Oracle databases (from version 8) created by the Oracle Corporation. It provides database backup, restore, and recovery capabilities addressing high availability and disaster recovery concerns. Oracle Corporation recommends RMAN as its preferred method for backup and recovery and has written command-line and graphical (via Oracle Enterprise Manager) interfaces for the product.
Implementation
The designers of RMAN aimed at integration with Oracle database servers, providing block-level corruption detection during backup and restore processes. RMAN optimizes performance and space-consumption during backup with file multiplexing and backup-set compression; it integrates with Oracle Secure Backup and with third-party media management products for tape backup.
The syntax system of many commands and options allows database administrators to fine-tune the methods and performance of backups and restores of Oracle data and Oracle configuration information.
"Complete recovery" entails restoring all available consistent information to the most current time. "Incomplete recovery" options allow specifying restoration to a given time in the past. It can also restore a specific tablespace (group of database objects) or a specific table.
RMAN can use a defined "fast recovery area" (originally called the "flash recovery area") for backup and recovery data.
References
External links
Marketing/technical overview
Usage overview
Oracle software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issue%20network | Issue networks are an alliance of various interest groups and individuals who unite in order to promote a common cause or agenda in a way that influences government policy. Issue networks can be either domestic or international in scope depending on their collective goal. With the rise of the internet, many interest groups have turned to online resources, such as blogs and social media, to promote and spread their cause because of its low cost and high efficiency in outreach. An issue network's tactics vary depending on their goals and purpose. In developed countries, issue networks often push for a change in policy within the government bureaucracy. An example includes the wide-ranging network of environmental groups and individuals who push for more environmental regulation in government policy. Other issue networks may revolve around such controversial issues as abortion, gun ownership rights, and drug laws. In the most extreme circumstances, issue networks may seek to achieve their means through violence, such as terrorist organizations looking to overthrow existing governments altogether. In the U.S, the most common tactic of effective issue networks is the role they play in what is called Iron Triangles. This is the three-way back-and-forth communication process between Congress, Bureaucracies, and the interest groups that make up an issue network where they discuss policy and agendas in order to compromise on solutions to satisfy each other's agendas.
Types of issue networks
In this table, subjects are categorized from high to low complexity and salience. Salience, meaning how high something affects a large number of people, and complexity meaning how much training and knowledge is needed for someone to answer the questions that can be asked about the subject. The typography below is by William T. Gormley
Iron triangles
Iron triangles are three-pronged relationships that are used between interest groups. Generally these interest groups are composed of businesses, congressional committees, and Federal agencies set to deal with a certain issue. These iron triangles do not have the general welfare of the public in mind, but are for the furthering of favorable policies for the interest group. For example, an iron triangle dealing with fossil fuels would be composed of a business or corporation dealing in fossil fuels, a congressional committee who oversees fossil fuel laws and regulations, and a fossil fuel Federal Agency which makes sure these laws are obeyed. However, iron triangles do not benefit the public, they only benefit the players within the iron triangle. Some cases these iron triangles not only benefit inside the ring, but often do so at the expense of the constituencies that Congress and these Federal bureaucracies are supposed to represent.
Iron triangles versus issue networks
Issue networks are not the same as iron triangles for several reasons. One of the main differences between iron triangles and issue networks is that |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLDB | XLDB (eXtremely Large DataBases) is a yearly conference about databases, data management and analytics. The definition of extremely large refers to data sets that are too big in terms of volume (too much), and/or velocity (too fast), and/or variety (too many places, too many formats) to be handled using conventional solutions. This conference deals with the high-end of very large databases (VLDB). It was conceived and it is chaired by Jacek Becla.
History
In October 2007, data experts gathered at SLAC National Accelerator Lab for the First Workshop on Extremely Large Databases. As a result, the XLDB research community was formed to meet the rapidly growing demands of the largest data systems. In addition to the original invitational workshop, an open conference, tutorials, and annual satellite events on different continents were added. The main event, held annually at Stanford University gathers over 300 attendees. XLDB is one of the data systems events catering to both academic and industry communities. For 2009, the workshop was co-located with VLDB 2009 in France to reach out to non-US research communities. XLDB 2019 followed Stanford's Conference on Systems and Machine Learning (SysML).
Goals
The main goals of this community include:
Identify trends, commonalities and major roadblocks related to building extremely large databases
Bridge the gap between users trying to build extremely large databases and database solution providers worldwide
Facilitate development and growth of practical technologies for extremely large data stores
XLDB Community
As of 2013, the community consisted of above one thousand members including:
Scientists who develop, use, or plan to develop or use XLDB for their research, from laboratories.
Commercial users of XLDB.
Providers of database products, including commercial vendors and representatives from open source database communities.
Academic database researchers.
XLDB Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials
The community meets annually at Stanford University where the main event is held each Spring. Those who live too far from California to attend have the opportunity to attend occasional satellite events either in Asia or Europe.
A detailed report or videos are produced after each workshop.
Tangible results
XLDB events led to initiating an effort to build a new open source, science database called SciDB.
The XLDB organizers started defining a science benchmark for scientific data management systems called SS-DB.
At XLDB 2012 the XLDB organizers announced that two major databases that support arrays as first-class objects (MonetDB SciQL and SciDB) have formed a working group in conjunction with XLDB. This working group is proposing a common syntax (provisionally named “ArrayQL”) for manipulating arrays, including array creation and query.
See also
International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
References
Further reading
Pavlo A., Paulson E., Rasin A., Abadi D. J., Dewitt D. J., Madde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paaras | Paaras is a bilingual (Urdu and English) family magazine published each month from Canada for the large Pakistani Canadian community in North America by Meridian Multimedia Network Inc. The headquarters is in Mississauga, Ontario.
History and profile
The project was founded in 2002 by a team of scholars, writers and journalists including Shah Baleeghuddin and Ibtehaj Khurram, under the leadership of internationally renowned Pakistani-Canadian intellectual and a former member of Pakistan’s parliament Shah Baleeghuddin, Paaras publishes an interesting mix of contents including integrating commentaries on current affairs, in-depth coverage of critical issues, humour and poetry. Its first issue was published in October 2002.
Paaras has played an instrumental role in highlighting the new works of Canadian Urdu writers, poets and columnists. Since its inception, Paaras has published the work of Canada's notable Urdu writers, poets and columnists, including Sultan Jamil Nasim, Sheen Nousheen, Rahim Anjaan, Rakhshinda Kaukab, Ishtiaq Talib, Wasi Mazhar Nadvi, Khalil Yousuf, Karamatullah Ghauri, Razaul Jabbar, Muneef Ash’ar, Taslim Elahi Zulfi, Tabassum Bano, etc.
Notable writers, poets and columnists have praised Paaras for its excellent mix of contents particularly articles on current affairs, short stories and humour.
References
External links
Paaras Magazine Website
Meridian Multimedia Network Inc.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080111224809/http://sultanjamilnasim.com/
2002 establishments in Ontario
Cultural magazines published in Canada
English-language magazines
Magazines established in 2002
Magazines published in Ontario
Mass media in Mississauga
Monthly magazines published in Canada
Pakistani diaspora mass media
Pakistani-Canadian culture
Urdu-language magazines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake%20My%20Wife%2C%20Please | "Brake My Wife, Please" is the twentieth episode of the fourteenth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 11, 2003. Homer loses his driver's license and Marge has to do all the family's driving. She accidentally runs over Homer and now has to care for him, too. She discovers that she hates him. To show he loves her, Homer organizes a great barbecue in her honor.
Plot
After Homer leaves the family stuck at the hospital for hours because Marge couldn't contact him to bring in their health insurance card, she insists Homer purchase a cell phone. Homer quickly goes overboard with fun devices to go along with his new phone, but unfortunately that leads into a one-car accident caused by his recklessness, forcing Marge to do all the driving when Homer somewhat unfairly has his driver's license revoked. Homer is forced to walk everywhere, and despite being bitter at first, he begins to enjoy his new method of travel.
As Homer begins to enjoy walking, Marge begins finding her duty of driving everyone places increasingly stressful. One day, as Homer walks with other Springfieldians, Marge accidentally runs him over with her car.
As Homer is now completely reliant on Marge to care for him, their relationship suffers after Marge spills hot soup on Homer and then kicks out the cane he is using, leading a horrified Homer to state that Marge is now trying to hurt him on purpose. Marge admits she hates him, not only for losing his driver's license, but also for now taking her for granted. They see a marriage counselor who advises them to write down the people important to their lives, but Homer just writes his own name. As Marge sadly leaves, the counselor advises Homer to perform one completely unselfish gesture to win Marge back. Homer invites all the people of Springfield (except for the Flanders family, whom Homer tricks into thinking Jesus wants to meet them in Montana) to the Simpson house for a backyard barbecue in Marge's honor.
Marge—returning in a foul mood after driving—walks to the backyard and is welcomed by everyone. After the barbecue, Marge tells Homer that she loves him. Homer and the other guests, including Jackson Browne, toast her before Homer turns on the sprinklers once dinner is over to get everyone to clear out.
References
External links
The Simpsons (season 14) episodes
2003 American television episodes
Television episodes directed by Pete Michels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Huang%20transform | The Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT) is a way to decompose a signal into so-called intrinsic mode functions (IMF) along with a trend, and obtain instantaneous frequency data. It is designed to work well for data that is nonstationary and nonlinear. In contrast to other common transforms like the Fourier transform, the HHT is an algorithm that can be applied to a data set, rather than a theoretical tool.
The Hilbert–Huang transform (HHT), a NASA designated name, was proposed by Norden E. Huang et al. (1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2012). It is the result of the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) and the Hilbert spectral analysis (HSA). The HHT uses the EMD method to decompose a signal into so-called intrinsic mode functions (IMF) with a trend, and applies the HSA method to the IMFs to obtain instantaneous frequency data. Since the signal is decomposed in time domain and the length of the IMFs is the same as the original signal, HHT preserves the characteristics of the varying frequency. This is an important advantage of HHT since a real-world signal usually has multiple causes happening in different time intervals. The HHT provides a new method of analyzing nonstationary and nonlinear time series data.
Definition
Empirical mode decomposition
The fundamental part of the HHT is the empirical mode decomposition (EMD) method. Breaking down signals into various components, EMD can be compared with other analysis methods such as Fourier transform and Wavelet transform. Using the EMD method, any complicated data set can be decomposed into a finite and often small number of components. These components form a complete and nearly orthogonal basis for the original signal. In addition, they can be described as intrinsic mode functions (IMF).
Because the first IMF usually carries the most oscillating (high-frequency) components, it can be rejected to remove high-frequency components (e.g., random noise). EMD based smoothing algorithms have been widely used in seismic data processing, where high-quality seismic records are highly demanded.
Without leaving the time domain, EMD is adaptive and highly efficient. Since the decomposition is based on the local characteristic time scale of the data, it can be applied to nonlinear and nonstationary processes.
Intrinsic mode functions
An intrinsic mode function (IMF) is defined as a function that satisfies the following requirements:
In the whole data set, the number of extrema and the number of zero-crossings must either be equal or differ at most by one.
At any point, the mean value of the envelope defined by the local maxima and the envelope defined by the local minima is zero.
It represents a generally simple oscillatory mode as a counterpart to the simple harmonic function. By definition, an IMF is any function with the same number of extrema and zero crossings, whose envelopes are symmetric with respect to zero. This definition guarantees a well-behaved Hilbert transform of the IMF.
Hilbert spectral analysis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAR1 | PAR1 may refer to:
PAR1 (gene), Prader–Willi/Angelman region-1 gene
PAR-1, a serine/threonine-protein kinase of the KIN2/PAR-1/MARK kinase family
Coagulation factor II receptor
Parchive, a data archive format
PAR1, one of the pseudoautosomal regions of the X or Y chromosome |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Devon%20College | South Devon College is a further education college with 9 different campuses within Torbay and the surrounding area. The college is part of The University of Plymouth Colleges network.
In December 2017, South Devon College achieved an overall grade 2 - 'Good' - in an inspection by Ofsted. South Devon College was also ranked the Number one Further Education and Tertiary College in England in 2014.
Campuses
Paignton Campus
There are three campuses in Paignton. The Vantage Point Campus is the college's main campus.
Vantage Point includes a main, three-story building and separate buildings for automotive repair and construction and on site Nursery.
The University Centre is home to University Centre South Devon which is TEF Gold rated and has lecture and seminar rooms with projection and audio technology. Rooms also have the facility to record lectures. The campus is at Long Road, Paignton, TQ4 7EJ.
The South West Energy Centre (SWEC) is a solar-powered building for courses in Business, Accounting, Plumbing and Electrical. The campus is at Long Road, Paignton TQ4 7BJ.
South Devon High School is based at South Devon College, Paignton Campus. Pupils at Key Stage 4 (pupils entering year 10) can choose up to three technical qualifications to study, including Digital Media and Creative Arts, Electronic Principles, Sports Science, Hospitality, Sustainable Construction, Childcare and Development, Health and Social Care. The campus is at Vantage Point, Long Road, Paignton, TQ4 7EJ.
Newton Abbot Campus
The Automotive Skills Centre has workshops to deliver Automotive courses from Entry Level to Level 3, as well as apprenticeships. The campus is at Bradley Lane, Newton Abbot, TQ12 1LZ.
The Brunel Centre is a construction centre. Courses covering the construction trades are run here. The campus is at Brunel Industrial Estate, Collett Way, Newton Abbot TQ12 4PH.
Torquay Campus
The Centre for Health and Care Professions. The campus is situated at 187 Newton Road, Torquay, TQ2 7FT.
Kingswear Campus
Kingswear has one campus on the banks of the River Dart.
South Devon Marine Academy is a centre for marine training and education. The Academy has 2 38 ft yachts, 5 rigid-hulled inflatable boats (RIBs), two displacement boats, workshops and research and development facilities. The location of this campus is Noss on Dart Marina, Bridge Rd, Kingswear, Dartmouth TQ6 0EA.
External links
South Devon College (Official Website)
South Devon College (Facebook)
South Devon College (Twitter)
Ofsted Report
Further education colleges in Devon
Education in Torbay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric%20Gauthier%20%28writer%29 | Éric Gauthier is a Canadian writer from Quebec.
Biography
Éric Gauthier was born in 1975 in Rouyn-Noranda, in the Abitibi region of Quebec. After a childhood spent in Abitibi, and computer science studies in Ottawa, Éric Gauthier moved to Montreal. Though he had his first taste of the scene at a reading in Abitibi, he began his first forays into the art of storytelling at the Dimanches du Conte (Sundays of Storytelling) at the bar Le Sergent Recruteur in Montreal. He has participated in storytelling events for adults and teens, alone or with his Production Cormorant colleagues, in Quebec, the rest of Canada, and in France. Most of his stories are fantasy stories in which he visits many cultures around the world, which distinguishes him from many other Québécois storytellers who prefer a more traditional repertory.
Gauthier is also a novella author specialising in science fiction and fantasy. He has won several literary prizes for Quebec science fiction, including the Grand Prix de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois in 2003 for his first release of stories on CD and his collection of short stories Terre des pigeons. He is the youngest person ever to receive this prize.
Storytelling
1999 :
Frequent participation in Dimanches du Conte since 1999.
2000 :
La Légende de la farine orpheline, multidisciplinary open-air production in Montreal
Christmas storytelling show for convicts at the Rivière-des-Prairies jail
2001 :
Participation at three festivals : Le Rendez-vous des grandes gueules of Trois-Pistoles, Les jours sont contés of l'Estrie and the Festival interculturel du conte of Montréal
Solo production Le Monde à votre porte
10 days of storytelling at the Maison du Québec in Saint-Malo (France)
2002 :
Participation at the first Festival Voix d'Amérique, at the Yukon International Storytelling festival (in English and French), at the festival Les jours sont contés in Estrie and at the Festival des Hauts Parleurs in Québec.
2003 :
Participation at the first De bouche à oreille festival in Montréal and at the Nuit internationale du conte in Acadie (in English and French)
Shows at the National Arts Centre in (Ottawa) and at the Place des Arts in Montréal.
2004 :
Organisation and participation in storytelling events in Montréal, co-foundation of the Productions Cormoran.
Participation at the festival De bouche à oreille, at the literary cabaret Planète rebelle, and in English at the Ottawa Storytelling Festival.
New solo show : Le petit théâtre des temps modernes
2005 :
Toured with the Pelleteux d'légendes in Brittany (France)
Literary prizes
1999 : prix Solaris (for La Maison de l'anxitecte)
2000 : prix Boréal (prize for the best novella for Souvenir du Saudade Express)
2000 : prix Aurora (prize for the best French novella for Souvenir du Saudade Express)
2002 : prix Solaris (for Feu sacré)
2003 : Grand Prix de la science-fiction et du fantastique québécois (for the collection Terre des pigeons, the novellas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1965–66 daytime network television schedule for the three major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers the weekday daytime hours from September 1965 to August 1966.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Monday-Friday
Saturday
Sunday
By network
ABC
Returning series:
ABC News
Annie Oakley
Beany and Cecil
The Bugs Bunny Show
The Bullwinkle Show
The Donna Reed Show
Directions '66
Discovery
Father Knows Best
General Hospital
Hoppity Hooper
Issues and Answers
News with the Woman's Touch
The New Casper Cartoon Show
The New American Bandstand 1966
Peter Jennings with the News
The Porky Pig Show
Shenanigans
A Time for Us
Where the Action Is
The Young Marrieds
New series:
Arlene Dahl's Beauty Spot
The Beatles
Ben Casey
Confidential for Women
Dark Shadows
The Dating Game
Hello, Peapickers starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
The Magilla Gorilla Show
The Milton the Monster Show
Never Too Young
The Newlywed Game
The Nurses
The Rebus Game
Shenanigans
Supermarket Sweep
The Young Set
Not returning from 1964-65:
Buffalo Bill, Jr.
Day in Court
Get the Message
Hello, Peapickers starring Tennessee Ernie Ford
The Magic Land of Allakazam
Missing Links
The Price Is Right
Trailmaster
CBS
Returning series:
Andy Of Mayberry
Art Linkletter's House Party
As the World Turns
Camera Three
Captain Kangaroo
The CBS Saturday News
CBS Evening News
CBS Morning News with Mike Wallace
CBS News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
The Guiding Light
The Heckle and Jeckle Cartoon Show
I Love Lucy
Lamp Unto My Feet
Lassie
Linus the Lionhearted
Look Up and Live
Love of Life
Mighty Mouse Playhouse
My Friend Flicka
Password
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
The Real McCoys
Search for Tomorrow
The Secret Storm
Sky King
Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales
Ted Mack’s Amateur Hour
To Tell the Truth
New series:
The Dick Van Dyke Morning Show
Tom and Jerry
Not returning from 1964-65:
The Alvin Show
The Jack Benny Daytime Show
The Jetsons
Mister Ed
World War One
NBC
Returning series:
Another World
The Bell Telephone Hour / Actuality Specials (continued into primetime)
Catholic Hour
Concentration
The Doctors
Exploring
Eternal Light
The First Look
Frontiers of Faith
Fury
Jeopardy!
The Jetsons
Let's Make a Deal
Match Game
Meet the Press
Moment of Truth
NBC News
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Night News
Open Mind
Sports in Action
The Today Show
Top Cat
Underdog
You Don't Say!
New series:
The Atom Ant Show
Chain Letter
Days of Our Lives
Eye Guess
Fractured Phrases
Let's Play Post Office
Morning Star
Paradise Bay
The Secret Squirrel Show
Showdown
Swinging Country
Not returning from 1964-65:
Call My Bluff
The Danny Thomas Show/Make Room for Daddy
Dennis the Menace
Fireball XL5
The Hector Heathcote Show
I'll Bet
The Loretta Young |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor%20of%20cytokine%20signaling%201 | Suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SOCS1 gene. SOCS1 orthologs have been identified in several mammals for which complete genome data are available.
Function
This gene encodes a member of the STAT-induced STAT inhibitor (SSI), also known as suppressor of cytokine signalling (SOCS), family. SSI family members are cytokine-inducible negative regulators of cytokine signaling. The expression of this gene can be induced by a subset of cytokines, including IL2, IL3 erythropoietin (EPO), GM-CSF, and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ). The protein encoded by this gene functions downstream of cytokine receptors, and takes part in a negative feedback loop to attenuate cytokine signaling. Knockout studies in mice suggested the role of this gene as a modulator of IFN-γ action, which is required for normal postnatal growth and survival.
Several recent viral studies have shown that viral genes, such as Tax gene product (Tax), encoded by HTLV-1, could hijack SOCS1 to inhibit host antiviral pathways, as a strategy to evade host immunity.
Interactions
The suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 has been shown to interact with:
Tax,
CD117,
Colony stimulating factor 1 receptor
Growth hormone receptor,
IRS2,
Janus kinase 2, and
TEC.
See also
SOCS
JAK-STAT signaling pathway
References
Further reading
Cell signaling
Signal transduction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Wolfe | Peter Wolfe may refer to:
Peter Wolfe (musician), British musician and poet
Peter Wolfe (sports rankings), owner of a computer system that ranks college football teams
Peter Wolfe, character in Alias Nick Beal
Peter Wolfe, character in Rocko's Modern Life
See also
Peter Wolf (disambiguation)
Peter Wolff (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20productivity%20software | This article deals with productivity software created for the Amiga line of computers and covers the AmigaOS operating system and its derivatives AROS and MorphOS. It is a split of the main article, Amiga software.
History
The Amiga originally supported such prestigious software titles as WordPerfect, Electronic Arts' Deluxe Paint, and Lattice C. Newtek's Video Toaster, one of the first all-in-one graphics and video editing packages, began on the Amiga. The Video Toaster was one of the few accessories for the "big box" Amigas (2000, 3000 and 4000) that used the video slot and enabled users to turn their Amiga into the heart of an entire TV production suite. The later addition of the Video Flyer by Newtek made possible the first non-linear video editing program for the Amiga. The Amiga made 3D raytracing graphics available for the masses with Sculpt 3D. Before the Amiga, raytracing was only available for dedicated graphic workstations such as the SGI. Other raytracing software also included TurboSilver. The Amiga was well known for its 3D rendering capability, with many titles being added to the mix as the years went by. Some titles were later ported to Microsoft Windows and continue to thrive there, such as the rendering software Cinema 4D from Maxon, and LightWave from Newtek, which was originally part of the Video Toaster. The Video Toaster itself has even been ported to the Windows platform. LightWave was used for low-cost computer generated special effects during the early 1990s, with Babylon 5 being a notable example of a TV-series utilizing LightWave. Even Microsoft produced software for use on the Amiga. AmigaBASIC, an advanced BASIC software development environment, complete with an integrated development environment (IDE), was written by Microsoft under contract.
Graphics software
Amiga had its beginnings in 1985 with a strong attitude for graphics, more so than other PCs of its age due to its peculiar hardware, and its multimedia chipset. The graphical chip Agnus could access directly RAM and pilot it with DMA (Direct Memory Access) privileges, and featured Bit Blitter and Copper circuits capable to move ranges of pixels on the screen and deal directly with the electronic beam of the TV set. It could render graphic screens of various number of colors (2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 and 4096 color HAM modes) starting from 320x200 up to 720x576 pixel graphic pages. Amiga released a vast number of graphics software programs, such as Graphicraft, Deluxe Paint, TVPaint, Photon Paint, Brilliance!, (a program entirely realized upon the suggestions and wishes of well known computer artist Jim Sachs), Aegis Images, ArtEffect, fxPAINT by IOSpirit, Personal Paint from Cloanto, Photogenics, Express Paint, Digi Paint, XiPaint, PerfectPaint, SketchBlock 24 bit painting program by Andy Broad for AmigaOS 4.x users.
Graphic applications on AmigaOne systems
Unlike Commodore Amiga systems, AmigaOne systems have no integrated multimedia chipsets. AmigaOne sys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotactic%20biopsy | Stereotactic biopsy, also known as stereotactic core biopsy, is a biopsy procedure that uses a computer and imaging performed in at least two planes to localize a target lesion (such as a tumor or microcalcifications in the breast) in three-dimensional space and guide the removal of tissue for examination by a pathologist under a microscope. Stereotactic core biopsy makes use of the underlying principle of parallax to determine the depth or "Z-dimension" of the target lesion.
Stereotactic core biopsy is extensively used by radiologists specializing in breast imaging to obtain tissue samples containing microcalcifications, which can be an early sign of breast cancer.
Uses
X-ray-guided stereotactic biopsy is used for impalpable lesions that are not visible on ultrasound.
A stereotactic biopsy may be used, with x-ray guidance, for performing a fine needle aspiration for cytology and needle core biopsy to evaluate a breast lesion. However, that type of biopsy is also sometimes performed without any imaging guidance, and typically, stereotactic guidance is used for core biopsies or vacuum-assisted mammotomy.
Stereotactic core biopsy is necessary for evaluating atypical appearing calcifications found on mammogram of the breast. If the calcifications exhibit the classic "teacup" appearance of benign fibrocystic changes, then a biopsy is usually not necessary.
References
Further reading
Meyer JE, Smith DN, Lester SC, et al. Large-core needle biopsy of nonpalpable breast lesions. JAMA 1999; 281:1638-1641
External links
Stereotactic biopsy entry in the public domain NCI Dictionary of Cancer Terms
Pathology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20support%20and%20maintenance%20software | Amiga support and maintenance software performs service functions such as formatting media for a specific filesystem, diagnosing failures that occur on formatted media, data recovery after media failure, and installation of new software for the Amiga family of personal computers—as opposed to application software, which performs business, education, and recreation functions.
The Amiga came with some embedded utility programs, but many more were added over time, often by third-party developers and companies.
Original utilities
Commodore included utility programs with the operating system. Many of these were original features, which were adopted into other systems:
Installer is a tool for the installation of Amiga software. It features a LISP-like language to handle installations. The Amiga Installer does not support dependencies or track where the installed files are delivered; it simply copies them.
AmigaGuide is a hypertext markup scheme and a browser for writing and reading web page-like documents. AmigaGuide files are text files in a simple markup language, which facilitates editing and localization in any ASCII text editor. Commodore developed the AmigaGuide format before the World Wide Web was widely known. Consumers who bought Amiga computers in a store did not receive documentation on how to write AmigaGuide documents.
Utilities borrowed from other systems
Update tools:
Updater is a utility to keep system and third party files up to date
AmiUpdate was developed by Simon Archer to keep installed third-party programs up to date.
Grunch is a software center for AmigaOS and MorphOS.
MorphUP allows MorphOS users to install and update new third-party software.
None of these update systems was widely used by the Amiga community.
Commodities and utilities
Amiga places system utilities in two standard directories:
The Utilities directory contains programs like IconEdit.
The Commodities directory (volume SYS:Tools/Commodities/ or SYS:Utilities/Commodities under AmigaOS4) contains executable applet-like utilities which enhance system usability, like for example the ScreenBlanker, the default screen saver shipped with AmigaOS. Commodities are usually loaded at system startup. Many require no interaction and do not feature any GUI interface.
A system utility called Exchange allows the user to disable, enable, hide, show, and quit Commodities.
Hard disk partitioning
AmigaOS features a standard centralized utility to partition and format hard disks, called HDToolBox.
MorphOS uses an updated version of the SCSIConfig utility (since MorphOS version 2, HDConfig) implemented by third party vendor Phase5. In spite of the name, "SCSIConfig" possessed a unique feature at the time, which was providing a consistent mechanism to manage all types of disk interfaces, including IDE, irrespective of which interface the disk(s) in question used.
Diagnostic tools
AmigaOS diagnostic tools are usually programs which display the current state of Exec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythranthe%20nudata | Erythranthe nudata, the bare monkeyflower, is a species of monkeyflower endemic to the serpentine soils of Colusa, Lake and Napa Counties in California. It is an annual flower with bright yellow tube-shaped blooms and small narrow leaves.
Taxonomy
Erythranthe nudata is a member of the Erythranthe guttata species complex, a group of closely related wildflower species that vary dramatically in mating system, life history and edaphic tolerance. Species in the E. guttata complex are largely inter-fertile, with some notable exceptions. In particular, E. nudata is reproductively isolated from other complex members via a postzygotic isolating barrier during seed development.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
USDA Plants Profile
Photo gallery
Consortium of California Herbaria
nudatus
Endemic flora of California
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of Colusa County, California
Natural history of Lake County, California
Natural history of Napa County, California
Flora without expected TNC conservation status |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic%20quantum%20computation | Adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) is a form of quantum computing which relies on the adiabatic theorem to perform calculations and is closely related to quantum annealing.
Description
First, a (potentially complicated) Hamiltonian is found whose ground state describes the solution to the problem of interest. Next, a system with a simple Hamiltonian is prepared and initialized to the ground state. Finally, the simple Hamiltonian is adiabatically evolved to the desired complicated Hamiltonian. By the adiabatic theorem, the system remains in the ground state, so at the end, the state of the system describes the solution to the problem. Adiabatic quantum computing has been shown to be polynomially equivalent to conventional quantum computing in the circuit model.
The time complexity for an adiabatic algorithm is the time taken to complete the adiabatic evolution which is dependent on the gap in the energy eigenvalues (spectral gap) of the Hamiltonian. Specifically, if the system is to be kept in the ground state, the energy gap between the ground state and the first excited state of provides an upper bound on the rate at which the Hamiltonian can be evolved at time When the spectral gap is small, the Hamiltonian has to be evolved slowly. The runtime for the entire algorithm can be bounded by:
where is the minimum spectral gap for
AQC is a possible method to get around the problem of energy relaxation. Since the quantum system is in the ground state, interference with the outside world cannot make it move to a lower state. If the energy of the outside world (that is, the "temperature of the bath") is kept lower than the energy gap between the ground state and the next higher energy state, the system has a proportionally lower probability of going to a higher energy state. Thus the system can stay in a single system eigenstate as long as needed.
Universality results in the adiabatic model are tied to quantum complexity and QMA-hard problems. The k-local Hamiltonian is QMA-complete for k ≥ 2. QMA-hardness results are known for physically realistic lattice models of qubits such as
where represent the Pauli matrices Such models are used for universal adiabatic quantum computation. The Hamiltonians for the QMA-complete problem can also be restricted to act on a two dimensional grid of qubits or a line of quantum particles with 12 states per particle. If such models were found to be physically realizable, they too could be used to form the building blocks of a universal adiabatic quantum computer.
In practice, there are problems during a computation. As the Hamiltonian is gradually changed, the interesting parts (quantum behavior as opposed to classical) occur when multiple qubits are close to a tipping point. It is exactly at this point when the ground state (one set of qubit orientations) gets very close to a first energy state (a different arrangement of orientations). Adding a slight amount of energy (from the external bath, or as a resul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartDrive%20Systems | SmartDrive Systems, Inc. is a driver safety and transportation intelligence company located in San Diego, California. The company uses video and driver data to monitor driver behavior in commercial vehicles including trucks, buses and trains.
History
SmartDrive Systems was founded in 2005 in San Diego by James Plante, an automotive entrepreneur and Andrew Nickerson, a telematics executive. Plante served as the company's first CEO until April 2008, when Greg Drew took over as CEO.
In June 2012, the company announced media executive Steve Mitgang as their new CEO.
In May 2013, Ontario, California-based beverage company The Icee Company started using SmartDrive's programs for its 680 service and distribution vehicles. In October, SmartDrive announced it would begin capturing data from third party safety systems, including systems from Bendix, now part of Knorr-Bremse; Mobileye, now part of Intel; and Meritor WABCO, an alliance formed by automobile component manufacturer Meritor and commercial vehicle system manufacturer WABCO.
In March 2014, the company announced a partnership with Meritor WABCO to roll out a performance management system called Proview. In April 2014, the Utah Transit Authority announced they would be using SmartDrive's video systems for their buses and paratransit vehicles. Also in 2014, the company partnered with ProSight Specialty Insurance on a program called SecureFleet, where Prosight helped its customers pay for SmartDrive's data and video event recording system and driver coaching program.
By 2015, the company had grown to 450 employees worldwide, with 150 in the United States. In November 2015, the company announced several single and multi-camera safety systems.
In March 2016, the company announced its video-based driver performance management system was being integrated with WABCO's OnLane lane departure warning system. In June, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority selected SmartDrive's systems for the city's bus and rail fleets. In August, truckload shipping carrier Knight-Swift announced they were installing SmartDrive's video safety systems in all of their trucks. In September, development partner Transdev North America announced they were deploying SmartDrive Rail on the Cincinnati Bell Connector streetcar fleet, which is managed by the Southwest Ohio Regional Transit Authority. In October, the company introduced SmartDrive SmartIQ, a data analysis tool that allows fleet operators to study safe driving behavior.
By March 2017, the company had grown to 594 people worldwide. In May, the company announced it was integrating its software with transportation management software from Birmingham, Alabama-based McLeod Software, to allow fleet customers of each company to share and manage driver records. Also in May, Cookeville, Tennessee transportation company Averitt Express announced it was using SmartDrive's road facing cameras in all its trucks. In September, trucking company Hub Group se |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankabut | Ankabut ( ʿAnkabūt, literally, "spider") is the United Arab Emirates’ Advanced National Research and Education Network (NREN) offering academic institutions connectivity to other education networks around the world. In addition to connecting universities, Ankabut can connect schools and public institutions together across the UAE with an effective cost model. Ankabut will also co-operate on a national, GCC, regional and international arena representing the UAE in conferences, exhibitions, and fora. Ankabut aims to offer QoS based networks with IPv4/IPv6, multicast and to introduce advanced services on a “Closed Group Network” for “Public Interest Purposes”. Ankabut is currently owned by KUSTAR and operates with a Chief Executive Officer and a professional staff.
Ankabut interconnects universities with a 10G backbone and 1G access links. Ankabut also provides international connectivity of 155 Mbit/s to its members via Internet2. It enables a closed community network that allows the transfer of real-time services such as converged IM, voice and video communication, time-critical services such as grid computing interconnect (cloud computing), non-real time services such as e-learning, email, library interconnect, off-site disaster recovery, global federated single-sign-on, and Wi-Fi networking to name a few.
Ankabut supports initiatives in the e-learning environment, library content, distribution systems, and research collaboration. Ankabut believes that identifying these initiatives and offering network, processing and storage support is the best way to develop a collective collaborative approach to research and education.
History
In August 2006 Khalifa University, the Institute of Applied Technology, United Arab Emirates University, Zayed University and Higher Colleges of Technology signed a MOU which expressed interest in an initiative to create a Research and Education network was taken.
A study was undertaken to determine the feasibility of establishing such a network, the costs involved and the funding options. The study was based on leading NRENs around the world esp. in North America, Europe and the UK.
This study was presented to the forum consisting of IAT, UAE University, Zayed University, HCT and Khalifa and a consensus reached regarding the design and architecture of the network. It was agreed that the proposed network be named Ankabut.
The task of supervising the use and operation of the network was to be entrusted to a Consortium made up of members’ organizations using the network. An MOU to this effect was signed by all the participating Universities. It was agreed that Khalifa take the role of conveyor until the consortium is formed and the by-laws are formulated.
In June 2009 the ICT Fund awarded a 5-year grant to fund the Ankabut Project with management and additional funding by Khalifa University.
Education in the United Arab Emirates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebenhengste-Hohgant-H%C3%B6hle | Siebenhengste-Hohgant-Höhle is a cave located in Switzerland, near Interlaken in the Canton of Bern north of Lake Thun, between the villages of Eriz and Habkern. The cave network formed in the Schrattenkalk Formation (Aptian age).
The cave was first explored in 1966 by the Club Jurassien, a speleology club from La Chaux-de-Fonds in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland, when three of its 42 entrances were discovered. Explorations were later undertaken by many different regional caving clubs.
Cavers are looking for, among other things, a link to the "Bärenschacht" well located below. If successful, the cave system would expand by more than 84 km in one fell swoop, making it the longest cave in Switzerland in front of the cave Hölloch.
In 2023, it was the world's 13th longest cave, with a 164.5 km development. It is also the world's 26th deepest cave at 1,340 m deep.
See also
Hohgant (F1 and K2 caves)
Sieben Hengste
List of longest caves
List of deepest caves
Bibliography
References
External links
General map of the underground network
Höhlenforschergemeinschaft Region Hoghant (Hoghant Region Cavers Community)
Club Jurassien (in French)
Caves of Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthus%20Christian%20Fellowship | Ichthus Christian Fellowship is a neocharismatic Christian church movement and Apostolic network based in London, United Kingdom. It is part of the British New Church Movement (BNCM) and has links with other BNCM leaders and movements, especially Gerald Coates of Pioneer Network.
History
Ichthus Christian Fellowship was founded in London in 1974 by Roger T. Forster. By 1982 the Forest Hill congregation had grown to around 400 people, and two new congregations were planted. In 1990 Ichthus had 43 congregations; in 1992, Ichthus had 47 congregations, and was split into three areas. After some rationalisation the number of congregations dropped to 27. In 2002 a further major change involved a number of churches disaffiliating and forming a separate group known as Transform Network; still others became independent. Ichthus congregations meet across London as well as in Essex and Kent.
Approximately 130 other churches and movements across the UK and Europe are linked with Ichthus Christian Fellowship. In comparison to other BNCM streams, the Ichthus link relationship is reasonably loose, denoting shared theology, vision and values, rather than an attempt to create a larger identity (such as Newfrontiers and the Pioneer Network).
Vision
Ichthus is characterised by "social and racial inclusiveness," according to Peter Hocken. Ichthus theology is also non-Calvinist, and shares much with Open Theism; believes in the practice of spiritual warfare and takes an egalitarian position on the issue of women's leadership, (both formal and informal), with congregations led by women. Ichthus identifies Anabaptism as the Christian tradition that has been most influential in its development. Ichthus has committed itself to social action, which has included starting a primary school, a launderette, action for the unemployed, pregnancy advice and other similar projects.
Ichthus has not identified with the "Restorationist" stream within the BNCM. Forster differed with them on their anti-denominational stance, stating that the current multiplicity of church identities was not in itself, a key problem. Even though he had been part of the core group that developed around Arthur Wallis, he became uneasy with their emphasis on separation. Hewitt says: "Any emphasis on 'new' churches to the virtual exclusion of the 'old' seemed to him both ignorant and arrogant." Instead of being distant from other churches, therefore, Ichthus has tended towards ecumenism and cooperation. Indeed, for many years the notable Christian musician Graham Kendrick was a member of Ichthus, and it was here that March for Jesus, the worldwide cross-church movement of street proclamation, began.
Conferences
Each year Ichthus hosts several conferences, one or two specifically for its leadership and the rest open to the public. Ichthus also hosts a Bible School, running on the first Saturday of each month from September to April, open to all. The main gathering point of the year is a summer B |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Matthews%20Frame | Alice Matthews Frame is a fictional character from Another World, an American soap opera on the NBC network. Created by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell, Jacqueline Courtney originated the role from 1964; she exited in 1975, and was succeeded by Susan Harney. Following Harney's exit in 1979, the role was subsequently portrayed by Wesley Ann Pfenning (1979), Vana Tribbey (1981) and Linda Borgeson (1981–1982). Courtney returned to the role in 1984 following Borgeson's exit; she exited the following year. She returned for a guest appearance in 1989.
Character history
Alice Matthews was born and raised in Bay City, Illinois, and was a member of the prominent Matthews family, though she grew up middle-class. She was an average college girl with no problems, until she met Steve Frame. They fell head over heels in love and soon decided to get married.
There was just one thing in the way of Steve and Alice's happiness and her name was Rachel Matthews. Rachel was married to Alice's brother, Russ. Alice already disliked Rachel since she believed she was a gold digger who had only married Russ to become part of Bay City high society (and she would be correct). Rachel also fell for Steve and one night, after Steve and Alice had a fight, the pair made love. Rachel arrived at Steve and Alice's engagement party and announced she was pregnant with Steve's baby. When Steve rejected Rachel to stay with Alice, she passed the baby off as Russ's and he was named James Gerald "Jamie" Matthews. When the truth about Jamie's paternity came out, Alice left town.
In 1971, Alice returned to Bay City and finally married Steve. Shortly after Alice was pregnant. Rachel schemed to get Steve away from Alice by making the condition that Steve could only see Jamie in her presence. One day, Steve went to visit Jamie and Alice fell off a ladder and lost their child. Alice was convinced Steve was having an affair with Rachel and she fled to New York City. In the city, she called herself Alice Talbot and was the governess of Dennis Carrington, son of the dashing Eliot Carrington. Alice grew to care deeply for Dennis and Eliot, and Eliot even proposed marriage to Alice. Iris Carrington, Eliot's ex-wife and Dennis's mother, meddled in Alice and Eliot's relationship since she was hoping to reconcile with Eliot. Steve begged Alice for a second chance. Alice agreed to try again and the pair remarried. Steve went to prison for embezzlement and Alice had a mental breakdown. Her Aunt Liz moved in to take care of her. Tim McGowan convinced Alice to sign over Steve's power of attorney to him as well as a stock transfer. He did this to embezzle money from Steve. Alice was finally put into a sanitarium to be given proper help. Tim was eventually caught and his power of attorney was revoked.
Alice recovered and went home. She then learned she could never conceive another child, which Rachel found out. When Rachel told Steve, Alice thought they were over, but Steve did not care about her infe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20Daemons%20Associates | Net Daemons Associates (NDA) was a computer system and network administration company that "ran the wave" of the 1990s high tech bubble going from a $900.00 investment to multimillion-dollar revenue, getting purchased by Interliant Corporation right at the start of the economic downturn in 1999.
The company started as a partnership between Jennifer Lawton and Christopher Caldwell with help from Rudolph Ventresca. It was founded to take care of spin-offs from the bankrupt company Stardent in 1991 under the name NDI and incorporated in 1992 as Net Daemons Associates (aka NDA). The company grew to 60 people with offices in Massachusetts, California, Colorado, and Utah and $6 million in revenue by 1999. It became one of Deloitte and Touche's fast 50 and Inc. Magazine's fastest 500 growing corporations in 1997 and 1998.
It was acquired by Interliant, a "roll-up" corporation that went bankrupt in 2002. The consulting group of Interliant was acquired by Akibia Corporation in 2002–2003.
NDA's services included performing large scale network administration for UNIX, Linux, Windows and Mac networks; assisting companies in getting onto the Internet and setting up their websites; custom programming and network automation through scripting; security audits, penetration testing; and assisting companies in moving their computer networks.
References
1991 establishments in Massachusetts
1999 disestablishments in Massachusetts
1991 mergers and acquisitions
Computer companies established in 1991
Computer companies disestablished in 1999
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct companies based in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burton%20Smith | Burton J. Smith (March 21, 1941 – April 2, 2018) was an American computer architect. He was a Technical Fellow at Microsoft.
Education
Smith graduated from the Cate School in Carpinteria, California in 1958, where he established himself as a gifted math and science student. Taking a special interest in chemistry, he placed third in a statewide competition as a senior. Smith then went on to Pomona College in Claremont, California to study physics. He transferred out of Pomona to the University of New Mexico following his freshman year, but was still unhappy with his education and subsequently dropped out of college entirely to join the Navy. Smith spent four years with the military before returning to the University of New Mexico, changing his studies from physics to Electrical engineering, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S.E.E. degree in 1967. Smith turned down acceptances from Berkeley and Stanford to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pursue his Doctorate, citing a financial aid package as the reasoning behind his decision. Part of this aid package was a work-study asking Smith to help build a database for the university's computer science department, one of Smith's first and formative experiences with computers. He earned an Sc.D. from MIT in 1972.
Career
From 1970 to 1979, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Colorado. Smith then spent six years at Denelcor Inc. in Colorado, serving as vice president of research and development. He was the primary architect of the Denelcor Heterogeneous Element Processor (HEP). From 1985 to 1988, Smith was a fellow of the Institute for Defense Analyses Supercomputing Research Center.
Smith co-founded Tera Computer Company and from 1988 until 2005 he served as its chief scientist and a member of the board of directors. He was also the company's chairman from 1988 until 1999. In 2000, Tera acquired the Cray Research business unit from Silicon Graphics, and renamed itself Cray Inc.
In December, 2005, Smith was hired by Microsoft as a Technical Fellow, working with various groups within the company to define and expand efforts in the areas of parallel and high-performance computing.
Awards
Smith received the 1991 Eckert-Mauchly Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2003, he received the Seymour Cray Computer Science and Engineering Award from the IEEE Computer Society and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Computer Society Charles Babbage Award and was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. In 2018 he received the George Cotter Award for vision and leadership in the field of data analytics from the Association for High Speed Computing.
Death
Smith died April 2, 2018, at Regional Hospital in Highline Medical Center in Burien, Washington. He is survived by two daughters, Julia and Katherine (Ray), his |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Lattner | Christopher Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American computer scientist, former Google and Tesla employee and co-founder of LLVM, Clang compiler, MLIR compiler infrastructure and the Swift programming language. , he is the co-founder and CEO of Modular Inc, an artificial intelligence platform for developers. Before founding Modular AI, he worked as the President of Platform Engineering, SiFive after two years at Google Brain. Prior to that, he briefly served as Vice President of Autopilot Software at Tesla, Inc. and worked at Apple Inc. as Senior Director of the Developer Tools department, leading the Xcode, Instruments, and compiler teams.
Education
Lattner studied computer science at the University of Portland, graduating in with a Bachelor of Science degree in 2000. While in Oregon, he worked as an operating system developer, enhancing Sequent Computer Systems's DYNIX/ptx. He moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he was awarded a Master of Science degree in 2002, followed by a PhD in 2005 for research on optimizing pointer-intensive programs, supervised by Vikram Adve.
Career
Lattner is the current CEO of Modular AI, a company that is building a next-generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) developer platform. Previously he has worked at SiFive, Google, Tesla, Inc. and Apple Inc.
SiFive
Lattner joined SiFive in January 2020 and the board changed to ("SiFive 2.0"), Lattner led the RISC-V Product and Engineering organizations (everything excluding HR, finance, sales, and customer support).
Google, Tesla and Apple
Lattner served as the Senior Director and Distinguished Engineer, TensorFlow Infrastructure and Technologies at Google from August 2017 - January 2020. Lattner served as the Vice President at Autopilot Software from January 30 - June 20, 2017, he was primarily responsible for creating Swift, the programming language for building apps on Apple platforms.
Lattner served as the Senior Director and Architect, Developer Tools Department from January 2013 - January 2017 where he took over the entire team, took the responsibilities of the Xcode IDE Instruments performance analysis tool, Apple Java releases, and a variety of internal tools.
LLVM
In late 2000, Lattner joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research assistant and M.Sc. student. While working with Vikram Adve, he designed and began implementing LLVM, an innovative infrastructure for optimizing compilers, which was the subject of his 2002 Master of Science thesis.
In 2005, Apple Inc. hired Lattner to begin work bringing LLVM to production quality for use in Apple products. Over time, Lattner built out the technology, personally implementing many major new features in LLVM, formed and built a team of LLVM developers at Apple, started the Clang project, took responsibility for evolving Objective-C (contributing to the blocks language feature, and driving the ARC and Objective-C literals features), and nurtured the open source commun |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Toy%20Castle | The Toy Castle () is a Canadian children's television show that aired on Treehouse TV, TVOntario, SCN, Access, Knowledge Network, TFO and TQS. It was aired from September 4, 2000 to December 26, 2003 and produced by Sound Venture Productions. It was inspired by Sound Venture's 1992 Christmas ballet special The Tin Soldier, which starred Frank Augustyn and was based on Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale. It is now shown during the Christmas season on Treehouse, TFO and Noovo. Told through ballet and narration, the stories are about a group of toys in a toy castle that magically come to life when the children are asleep. This series won a Gemini Award in 2003 for "Best Preschool Series".
The series also aired on public television stations in the United States, TF1, France 3, M6 and Piwi+ in France and JimJam in Italy.
Plot
The Toy Castle is a show about a group of toys that magically come to life when their children are asleep. When the children are about to wake up, the toys dash around fast until they are back in their former positions. Each episode consists of three story lines, in which the toys all dance around the castle and get into situations which the viewer may relate to.
Characters
The Soldier (Jorden Morris) enjoys marching and dancing, and loves the lovely Ballerina. Judging by his accent, he is of British nationality (French nationality in the French-language version).
The Ballerina (Elizabeth Olds) enjoys dancing and loves the soldier. Judging by her accent, she is of French nationality (British nationality in the French-language version). She is best friends with China Doll and Rag Doll.
The China Doll (Jennifer Welsman) enjoys dancing and tea. She is shy and prefers quiet activities. She is best friends with Ballerina and Rag Doll.
The Clown (Keir Knight) is a loud and wild toy. He likes joking around and playing. His best friends are Goblin and Rag Doll.
The Goblin (Yosuke Mino) enjoys playing pranks on people and teasing. His best friends are Rag Doll and Clown.
The Rag Doll (Sayaka Karasugi) enjoys twirling and playing. She dreams of being a pretty lady like Ballerina and China Doll. Her best friends are Goblin, Clown, Ballerina and China Doll.
The Sailor (Raven S. Wilder) likes to tell tales and sail the seven seas. His favorite dance is the jig.
The Strong Man (David Lucas) likes lifting weights and his stuffed cat, Meow Meow. He may be in love with China Doll, as they dated in one episode, but that was the only time it was shown.
Freida (Andrea Mislan) enjoys dancing the frog-a-doddle-five and playing with her twin brother, Fredrick. She speaks with a Southern accent (Meridional accent in the French version).
Fredrick (Sofia Costantini) enjoys dancing the frog-a-doddle-five and playing with his twin sister, Freida. He speaks with a Southern accent (Meridional accent in the French version).
Mama Mouse (Daiva Preston, Andrea Mistan) is shy. She is married to Papa Mouse, and has three children.
Papa Mouse (Mi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VS/9 | VS/9 is a computer operating system for the UNIVAC Series 90 mainframes (90/60, 90/70, and 90/80), used during the late 1960s through 1980s. The 90/60 and 90/70 were repackaged Univac 9700 computers. After the RCA acquisition by Sperry, it was determined that the RCA TSOS operating system was far more advanced than the Univac counterpart, so the company opted to merge the Univac hardware with the RCA software and introduced the 90/70. The 90/60 was introduced shortly thereafter as a slower, less expensive 90/70. It was not until the introduction of the 90/80 that VS/9 finally had a hardware platform optimized to take full advantage of its capability to allow both interactive and batch operations on the same computer.
Background
In September 1971, RCA decided to exit the mainframe computer business after losing about half a billion dollars trying (and failing) to compete against IBM. They sold most of the assets of the computer division what was then Univac. This included RCA's Spectra series of computers, various external hardware designs (such as video terminals, tape drives and punched card readers), and its operating system, Time Sharing Operating System (TSOS).
TSOS may have been a better operating system from a user standpoint than any of IBM's, but at the time, operating systems were not considered something sold separately from the computer, the manufacturer included it free as part of the purchase price. Univac introduced some additional new features to TSOS, and renamed it VS/9. The name 'TSOS' however, remained as the username of the primary privileged (System Manager) account, which on Unix-type systems, is called 'root'. RCA also sold TSOS to what would become Fujitsu, and it is the basis for Fujitsu's BS2000 operating system on its mainframes of the same name.
Use
Interactive use
Interactive use of VS/9 was done through terminals connected to a terminal concentrator unit, which passed control signals to and from the terminals, in a manner similar to the way IBM would provide with its IBM 3270-style terminals. This provided, in general, for input to the terminal to be sent in response to an enter key, as opposed to the practice on PCs of taking input one character at a time. The concentrator unit was originally known as the Communications Control Module, or CCM. However, RCA had sold the patents and designs for its CCM terminal controller to Singer Corporation, so Univac developed an emulator device for the CCM which was known as the Multiterminal Connection Controller model 16, or MCC-16.
The MCC-16 supported both the Univac standard terminal (from RCA) renamed to the Uniscope Video Display Terminal or VDT, as well as ordinary ASCII dumb terminals. Univac's Uniscope VDT provided sophisticated (for the time) editing capability including the ability to edit text on screen and make changes a line at a time or a page at a time, then transmit the text back to the computer. The VDT also supported direct cursor positionin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAB%20Trackside | TAB Trackside is a New Zealand horse racing and sports broadcast network, incorporating two pay TV channels. The TV channels are available on Sky channels and the Spark Sport streaming service. The radio station broadcasts on 14 AM radio and 16 FM radio frequencies from Kaitaia to Invercargill were suspended on 12 April 2020.
Together, the outlets provide full coordinated coverage of all thoroughbred horse racing, harness horse racing and greyhound racing in New Zealand, most racing from Australia, and many races from Hong Kong, Singapore and other countries. The channels provides tickers and commentary with up-to-the-minute odds, field and dividend information. Between races, they feature on-track interviews, in-studio analysis, live footage of horses warming up for races, replays of previous races, and recaps of betting odds.
The live broadcasting of horse racing in the New Zealand dates back to the launch of a racing radio network in 1978. The station, originally known as Radio Pacific and later as bSport and LiveSport, became TAB Trackside Radio. A racing television station launched in 1992, initially known as Action TV and later as Trackside, is now TAB Trackside 1. A second racing television station launched in 2007, known initially as TAB TV, is now TAB Trackside 2.
History
Radio Pacific
Racing network Radio Pacific began in Auckland in 1978, and became one of the first commercial stations to be networked across the country in the early 1990s. The network combined news, news talkback, sports talkback and live racing commentaries.
Radio Pacific became a listed company on the New Zealand Stock Exchange and the Totalisator Agency Board became its major shareholder. Radio Pacific's Waikato station began as Radio Waikato, New Zealand's third privately owned station. It originally broadcast in 930AM in 1971, before moving 954AM in 1978. In 1986 Radio Waikato changed to a country music format and was renamed Country Gold - Waikato 954. In 1988 it was sold to Radio Pacific and transitioned into a local talk radio format with national racing commentary. It changed its name to Radio Pacific and eventually replaced local programmes with Auckland networked programmes. A new station of the same name also operated in Hamilton between 1993 and 1994.
Other radio stations
The company also owned the North Island music station group Energy Enterprises and merged with the South Island radio company Radio Otago in 1999. Between May 2000 and January 2001 it was purchased by CanWest Global Communications, becoming part of RadioWorks and later part of MediaWorks New Zealand. Part of the company was purchased in July 2004, and the entire company was sold off in June 2007.
Before 2005 live races and betting odds had been broadcast on Radio Pacific in pre-determined, limited periods during the race day under a contract with the New Zealand Racing Board. Between 2001 and 2005, this was also complemented by a trial Radio Trackside station in the Southland mar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia%20Business%20News | Asia Business News (ABN) was a business news television channel based in Singapore. A subsidiary of Dow Jones & Company that also owns The Wall Street Journal Asia daily, it was the sister network of London-based European Business News (EBN). Its programmes originate from Singapore. It was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening breakfast in Singapore on 1 November 1993 at 6:00am SST based in Singapore and it operated from ABN's head office and headquarters in Singapore.
History
Opening breakfast
Asia Business News (ABN) was officially opening ceremony at grand opening or formally opening morning in Singapore on 1 November 1993 at 6:00am SST after officially opening ceremony by President of Singapore Ong Teng Cheong based in Singapore owned and company by Dow Jones & Company who that owns The Wall Street Journal Asia daily with the first programme at launching ceremony as Asian Wall Street Journal on Air. It was originally based in Singapore. Anchors/presenters such as Coco Quisumbing, Martin Soong, Sydnie Kohara, Karen Koh and Lynette Lithgow. Correspondents such as Keiko Bang, Lisa Barron, Stuart Pallister, Jim Sciutto and Chris Slaughter were part of the original ABN team which includes around 170 Singapore based staff. ABN programme such as Breakfast Briefing, Asian Wall Street Journal on Air, Trading Day, Asia Market Digest, Storyboard, Far Eastern Economic Review on Air, Money Talk, dot.com and Corporate Raiders.
Becomes CNBC Asia
On 31 January 1998 at 11:59pm SST the channel officially merged with NBC's CNBC Asia. Initially, most of ABN's programmes and presenters migrated to the new channel and it operated from ABN's former headquarters in Singapore. The officially merged channel was officially initially named CNBC Asia Business News but on 30 June 1998 at 11:59pm SST it was officially referred to as CNBC Asia.
Programmes
Breakfast Briefing
Asian Wall Street Journal on Air
Trading Day
Asia Market Digest
Storyboard
Far Eastern Economic Review on Air
Money Talk
dot.com
Corporate Raiders
Anchors/presenters
Coco Quisumbing
Martin Soong
Sydnie Kohara
Karen Koh
Lynette Lithgow
Correspondents
Keiko Bang
Lisa Barron
Stuart Pallister
Jim Sciutto
Chris Slaughter
References
Defunct television channels
Television in Singapore
Television stations in Singapore
Broadcasting in Singapore
Mass media in Singapore
Mass media in Southeast Asia
Television news in Singapore
Television channels and stations established in 1993
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1998
Defunct mass media in Singapore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%82adzimir%20Katko%C5%ADski | Uładzimir Katkoŭski (, June 19, 1976, Minsk – May 25, 2007) was a Belarusian blogger, web designer and website creator.
Biography
Katkoŭski took a degree in computer science at the American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad and later worked as an IT specialist in Budapest and in Frankfurt am Main. From 2002, he worked for the Belarusian edition of Radio Free Europe.
On June 16, 2006, he and his wife had a car crash on a street in Prague. Katkoŭski was in a coma for almost a year until he died on May 26, 2007.
Activity on the Internet
In the mid-1990s, Katkoŭski became one of the pioneers of the Belarusian speaking Internet. In the late 1990s, together with his future wife and other Belarusian Internet users, he created the Belarusian historical website Litvania that had notable popularity. Katkoŭski was one of the first and most popular bloggers in Belarusian language known as rydel23. In 2006, he was awarded by the Belarusian top web portal TUT.by for his blog br23.net.
Katkoŭski created the websites Pravapis.org (about issues concerning Belarusian language) and Martyraloh Biełarusi - "The Belarusian Martyrologe" about victims of Stalinist terror in Belarus. He translated the interface of Google into Belarusian, and was one of the founders of the Belarusian Wikipedia.
He was the creator and administrator of the website of the Belarusian edition of Radio Free Europe.
See also
List of Wikipedia people
References
External links
Blog by Uładzimir Katkoŭski, in Belarusian and English
Rydel's blog
Pravapis.org
"Litvania, the land of litvins"
An obituary, Radio Free Europe Belarusian edition
Belarusian bloggers
Pedestrian road incident deaths
1976 births
2007 deaths
Wikipedia people
Road incident deaths in the Czech Republic
People from Minsk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLAME%20clustering | Fuzzy clustering by Local Approximation of MEmberships (FLAME) is a data clustering algorithm that defines clusters in the dense parts of a dataset and performs cluster assignment solely based on the neighborhood relationships among objects. The key feature of this algorithm is that the neighborhood relationships among neighboring objects in the feature space are used to constrain the memberships of neighboring objects in the fuzzy membership space.
Description of the FLAME algorithm
The FLAME algorithm is mainly divided into three steps:
Extraction of the structure information from the dataset:
Construct a neighborhood graph to connect each object to its K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN);
Estimate a density for each object based on its proximities to its KNN;
Objects are classified into 3 types:
Cluster Supporting Object (CSO): object with density higher than all its neighbors;
Cluster Outliers: object with density lower than all its neighbors, and lower than a predefined threshold;
the rest.
Local/Neighborhood approximation of fuzzy memberships:
Initialization of fuzzy membership:
Each CSO is assigned with fixed and full membership to itself to represent one cluster;
All outliers are assigned with fixed and full membership to the outlier group;
The rest are assigned with equal memberships to all clusters and the outlier group;
Then the fuzzy memberships of all type 3 objects are updated by a converging iterative procedure called Local/Neighborhood Approximation of Fuzzy Memberships, in which the fuzzy membership of each object is updated by a linear combination of the fuzzy memberships of its nearest neighbors.
Cluster construction from fuzzy memberships in two possible ways:
One-to-one object-cluster assignment, to assign each object to the cluster in which it has the highest membership;
One-to-multiple object-clusters assignment, to assign each object to the cluster in which it has a membership higher than a threshold.
The optimization problem in FLAME
The Local/Neighborhood Approximation of Fuzzy Memberships is a procedure to minimize the Local/Neighborhood Approximation Error (LAE/NAE) defined as the following:
where is the set of all type 3 objects, is the fuzzy membership vector of object , is the set of nearest neighbors of , and with are the coefficients reflecting the relative proximities of the nearest neighbors.
The NAE can be minimized by solving the following linear equations with unique solution which is the unique global minimum of NAE with value zero:
where is the number of CSOs plus one (for the outlier group). The following iterative procedure can be used to solve these linear equations:
A simple illustration on a 2-Dimension testing dataset
See also
Data clustering
Fuzzy clustering
External links
BMC Bioinformatics (2007): FLAME, a novel fuzzy clustering method for the analysis of DNA microarray data
FLAME source codes in C released under FreeBSD-like license on GoogleCode
Cluster analysis algorit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny%20Lehman%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Meir "Manny" Lehman, FREng (24 January 1925 - 29 December 2010) was a professor in the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University. From 1972 to 2002 he was a Professor and Head of the Computing Department at Imperial College London. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution.
Career
Lehman was born in Germany on 24 January 1925 and emigrated to England in 1931. He studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Imperial College London where he was involved in the design of the Imperial College Computing Engine's Digital Computer Arithmetic Unit. He spent a year at Ferranti in London before working at Israel's Ministry of Defense from 1957 to 1964. From 1964 to 1972 he worked at IBM's research division in Yorktown Heights, NY where he studied program evolution with Les Belady. The study of IBM's programming process gave the foundations for Lehman's laws of software evolution. In 1972 he returned to Imperial College where he was Head of Section and later Head of Department (1979–1984). Lehman remained at Imperial for some thirty years until 2002 when he moved to the School of Computing Science at Middlesex University.
After retiring from Middlesex he moved to Jerusalem, Israel, where he died on 29 December 2010.
Awards and honours
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1989)
Fellow of the ACM (1994)
Harlan D. Mills Award (2001)
References
M.M. Lehman. "Programs, life cycles, and laws of software evolution", Proceedings of the IEEE, pages 1060–1076, September 1980
Laszlo Belady, M. M. Lehman: A Model of Large Program Development. IBM Systems Journal 15(3): 225–252 (1976)
External links
FEAST Publications
IEEExplore
A unified theory of software evolution, Salon.com, 2002.
Manny Lehman's Home Page
Lehman's official academic archive
1925 births
2010 deaths
Academics of Middlesex University
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
British computer scientists
British software engineers
Software engineering researchers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20GIS | Distributed GIS refers to GI Systems that do not have all of the system components in the same physical location. This could be the processing, the database, the rendering or the user interface. It represents a special case of distributed computing, with examples of distributed systems including Internet GIS, Web GIS, and Mobile GIS. Distribution of resources provides corporate and enterprise-based models for GIS (involving multiple databases, different computers undertaking spatial analysis and a diverse ecosystem of often spatially-enabled client devices). Distributed GIS permits a shared services model, including data fusion (or mashups) based on Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services. Distributed GIS technology enables modern online mapping systems (such as Google Maps and Bing Maps), Location-based services (LBS), web-based GIS (such as ArcGIS Online) and numerous map-enabled applications. Other applications include transportation, logistics, utilities, farm / agricultural information systems, real-time environmental information systems and the analysis of the movement of people. In terms of data, the concept has been extended to include volunteered geographical information. Distributed processing allows improvements to the performance of spatial analysis through the use of techniques such as parallel processing.
Etymology
The term Distributed GIS was coined by Bruce Gittings at the University of Edinburgh. He was responsible for one of the first Internet-based distributed GIS. In 1994, he designed and implemented the World Wide Earthquake Locator, which provided maps of recent earthquake occurrences to a location-independent user, which used the Xerox PARC mapping system (based in California, USA), managed by an interface based in Edinburgh (Scotland), which drew data in real-time from the National Earthquake Information Center (USGS) in Colorado, USA.
Types
Parallel computing in GIS
Parallel processing is the use of multiple CPU’s to execute different sections of a program together. The terms "concurrent computing," "parallel computing," and "distributed computing" do not have a clear distinction between them. Parallel computing today involves the utilization of a single computer with multi-core processors or multiple computers that are connected over a network working on the same task. In the case of Distributed GIS, parallel computing using multi-core processors on the same machine would be where the line starts to blur between traditional desktop GIS and distributed. When done in different locations, it is much clearer. As parallel computing has become the dominant paradigm in computer architecture, mainly in the form of multi-core processors, this is important to mention.
Today, there are many examples of applying parallel computing to GIS. For example, remote sensing and surveying equipment have been providing vast amounts of spatial information, and how to manage, process or dispose of this data have become major issues |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raiden%20Fighters%20Aces | is a 2008 video game for the Xbox 360, published by Japanese computer software company Success Corporation. It is a compilation of all three video games in the Raiden Fighters series by Seibu Kaihatsu: the first Raiden Fighters (1996), Raiden Fighters 2: Operation Hell Dive (1997), and Raiden Fighters Jet (1998).
Gameplay
Features
Raiden Fighters Aces takes advantage of the connectivity of the Xbox 360 and implements various features. The features include:
Full support for vertical monitors
Online high-score rankings
Upload and download game replay data
Strategy guide directly on the game DVD
Gameplay videos of Japan's best players on all three games
Development
Previous conversion attempts
Before Raiden Fighters Aces, there were multiple attempts to port Raiden Fighters games to home consoles; these attempts have all failed.
Electronic Arts Victor was working on a Sega Saturn port of the first Raiden Fighters in 1997.
In 2003, a now-defunct Japanese company, New World System, was working on ports of Raiden Fighters and Raiden Fighters 2 for the Xbox and PC under the name of Raiden Fighters Evolution.
Demo
A demo version of this game was released in March 2008, and included one stage from each title. It included Arcade (NORMAL, BOSS RUSH, EXPERT) and Training modes. Available fighters are the standard craft, without secret fighters. Games were set at normal difficulty. Xbox Live features and replays were not implemented.
Update patch
The Japanese version of the game received an update patch to version 1.1. The patch does the following:
Fixes:
Improved player control.
Sound glitches fixed.
In Raiden Fighters''' boss rush mode, a bug during the stage 3 boss was fixed.
In Raiden Fighters Jet, the Ixion's slave could not be used in training mode.
Saving the gamer tags in leader board replays and scores.
Additions:
Added score attack mode.
In Raiden Fighters Jet, full run mode is added to all stages.
When continuing, player can choose the Slave.
In leaderboard, friend ranking is added.
Added credit setting. The feature of increasing credits based on play time is removed.
In arcade mode, the option to disable medals is added.
In training mode, player can set player lives stock and amount of armor the slave has.
In Raiden Fighters Jet training, an Ixion mode is added for all fighters.
In score name entry, the addition of default setting option.
After using the patch, the time of play is reset to zero, game replays may become incompatible with the patched version. The patch could be downloaded only through the Xbox Live service.
ReleaseThe Onslaught Raiden Fighters Special Edition is an official game strategy DVD of the game, produced by INH CO., LTD. It was based on The Onslaught Raiden Fighters walkthrough video series, but with remastered video footage, new tutorial layout, audio commentaries from producers, players, composers. The INH shop order also includes Raiden Fighters Aces Secret File'', which includes additional strategies and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NU-Tech | NU-Tech is a digital signal processing (DSP) platform to validate and real-time debug complex algorithms, simply relying on a common PC. It is based on a typical plug-in architecture and thanks to a free software development kit (SDK), the developer can write his own plug-in (aka NUTSs = NU-Tech Satellites) in C++.
NUTSs are not compelled to provide a GUI. To ease the developer in quickly creating new NUTSs without having to deal with GUI programming, NU-Tech provides a window called "RealTime Watch" to be associated to each NUTS (a tab on the NU-Tech bottom Multitab pane).
The developer chooses, by code, whether to "expose" some NUTSs' internal variables on this window, in order to control his plug-in.
NU-Tech can connect to the external world by means of interchangeable drivers. For audio real-time applications ASIO 2.1 has been adopted in order to guarantee minimum and repeatable latencies, fully exploiting compatible sound cards hardware resources.
NU-Tech is freeware for non-commercial use.
Available features
Audio streaming
Video streaming and synchronization mechanism
Virtual Studio Technology support
ASIO 2.1 support
DirectX support
Performance_analysis information
Free SDK
References
Papers about NU-Tech applications
See also
Digital audio editors
Acoustics software
Windows-only freeware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maleflixxx%20Television | Maleflixxx Television is a Canadian exempt English language specialty channel. It is a premium adult entertainment television channel, with programming consisting of gay male pornography. It is also noted as the first 24-hour channel of its kind in the world. Maleflixxx Television also has plans to be distributed internationally in the future, including the United States and Europe. | WWW.Flivetv.com
Maleflixx Television is owned by Channel Zero Inc. in conjunction with Sureflix Digital Distribution (a provider of gay adult programming) who program and operate the service.
See also
AOV Adult Movie Channel
XXX Action Clips Channel
References
External links
(Note: adult content)
Channel Zero (company)
Canadian pornographic television channels
LGBT-related mass media in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2004
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Gay culture in Canada
Gay pornographic television channels
Commercial-free television networks
2004 establishments in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20government%20security%20breaches | This page is a time-line of published security lapses committed by governmental entities in the UK, including data security breaches. This article does not attempt to capture security vulnerabilities.
Timeline
1980s
1990s
2000s
December 2004 - An undercover journalist reportedly entered restricted areas and walked unchecked and unnoticed around passenger aircraft due to take off from London Heathrow airport. The journalist also entered British Airways offices and other out-of-bounds areas at the London airport which housed confidential security documents.
April 2007 - Medical Training Application Service (MTAS) was an on-line application system for the selection of junior doctors, and allocating them to jobs in the UK. Personal details (including phone numbers, home addresses and sexual orientation) of junior doctors became publicly available for several hours to anyone with the right URL. It was also reported that applicants had been able to see each other's files by changing two digits in the personalised web address given to each individual, and the MTAS system was eventually suspended.
July 2007 - Newcastle City Council admitted that personal data and payment card details of up to 54,000 local residents had been downloaded from an insecure server to an IP address outside the country. The stolen data included names, addresses and card details from transactions between February 2006 and April 2007, mainly for payment of council tax, business rates, parking fines or council housing rent.
October 2007 - A laptop containing sensitive financial details of up to 400 customers of several financial institutions was stolen from the car of an HM Revenue and Customs employee the earlier month The laptop was protected by "a complex password and top level encryption". The theft also involved a printout of some names and financial details.
November 2007 - Two discs containing information on 25 million British Citizens disappeared after being sent through the courier used by HM Revenue and Customs office. A junior bureaucrat sent the discs in the post from HM Revenue and Customs to the National Audit Office in London. The discs were believed to contain names, addresses, dates of birth, national insurance numbers and in some cases banking details for 25 million adults and children.
Data security
Political scandals in the United Kingdom
Government of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Bell%20%28disambiguation%29 | Gordon Bell (born 1934) is an American electrical engineer, designer of the DEC PDP computer, namegiver and funder of the ACM Gordon Bell Prize.
Gordon Bell may also refer to:
Charles Gordon Bell (1889–1918), British pilot
Gordon Bell (surgeon) (1887–1970), New Zealand surgeon and university professor
Gordon Bell (physician) (1911–2005), Canadian physician
Gordie Bell (1925–1985), Canadian ice hockey goaltender
Gordon Bell (cartoonist) (1934–2014), British cartoon artist
Gordon Bell (American football) (born 1953), American football running back
Gordon Bell (footballer) (1906–1979), English footballer
Gordon Bell (singer-songwriter) (born 1969), Scottish musician based in Switzerland
Gordon Bell (QNX), Canadian software designer, co-founder of the QNX operating system
See also
Gordon Bell High School, Winnipeg, Canada
Gordon Bell Prize, ACM prize for high performance computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine%20Cassell | Justine M. Cassell (born March 19, 1960) is an American professor and researcher interested in human-human conversation, human-computer interaction, and storytelling. Since August 2010 she has been on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) and the Language Technologies Institute, with courtesy appointments in Psychology, and the Center for Neural Bases of Cognition.
Early life and education
Justine Cassell was born in New York City and attended Brooklyn's Saint Ann's School. She holds a DEUG in Lettres Modernes from the Université de Besançon (1981), a BA in Comparative Literature/Linguistics from Dartmouth College (1982), an M.LITT. in Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh (1986), and a double PhD in Linguistics and Developmental/Cognitive Psychology from the University of Chicago (1991) where she studied under David McNeill.
Career
As a tenured professor, Cassell was the director of the Gesture and Narrative Language Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. After leaving MIT, she became a full professor in the departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Communication Studies at Northwestern University. There she was the founding director of Technology and Social Behavior Ph.D. program, and the interdisciplinary Center for Technology and Social Behavior. In 2001, Cassell received the Edgerton Faculty Award at MIT; in 2008 she received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award for Leadership; in 2009 Cassell was made an ACM Distinguished Lecturer. Cassell has authored more than 100 journal articles, conference proceedings and book chapters on these topics; she has given more than 50 keynote addresses at various conferences. In March 2016 she was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in recognition of her contributions to computer science and to human-computer interaction.
Cassell's early work involved verbal and nonverbal aspects of human communication, into which she began introducing computational systems in order to deconstruct the linguistic and nonverbal communication to allow machines to interact with humans. Randal Bryant, Dean of Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, commented on her appointment to the directorship of the Human Computer Interaction Institute that she would "expand the horizons of the institute." The Institute studies how people communicate with and through technology.
Cassell has done work on "animated conversation," designing a human figure animation that integrates gesture, intonation, and facial expression. She helped design a web-based storytelling system called "Renga, the Cyberstory" to help draw girls into new technology. During 1994-1995 she designed and coordinated workshops on survival skills for women in academia at the University of Pennsylvania and the Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute in Linguistics. She also has worked on research into what constitutes a "normal" career path in linguist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Direct%20Attached%20Storage | Network Direct Attached Storage (NDAS) is a proprietary storage area network system, originally marketed by the company Ximeta, for connecting external digital storage devices such as hard-disks, flash memory and tape drives via the Ethernet family of computer networks. Unlike other more common forms of networked storage, NDAS does not use TCP/IP to communicate over the network.
Instead a Lean Packet Exchange (LPX) protocol is used. NDAS also supports some limited RAID functions such as aggregation and mirroring.
History
In 2001, Han-gyoo Kim of Korea and Zhe Khi Pak of Russia applied for a US patent on a "network-attached disk".
By 2002 the first NetDisk (up to 80 GB) was marketed as a low cost alternative to full computer based network storage options.
The Ximeta company was founded in 2003.
In 2004 Kim applied for a patent to allow multiple clients write access to the shared block storage device.
By 2006, sizes up to 500 GB were supported.
In 2008 an NDAS device called "ShareDisk Gigabit" created by Co-World Cs in Germany briefly claimed the title of world's fastest network storage device.
In 2011 IOCELL Networks announced ownership of the NDAS system and NetDisk patents. The following year, IOCELL revived Linux client support for NDAS—which Ximeta had "temporarily suspended" in September 2009—by releasing the drivers under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) as the open-source "ndas4linux" project.
Benefits
Hardware is typically easy to set up and use, particularly when a unit is purchased with a disk installed.
The disk drive can be used via multiple interfaces (typically eSATA, USB or Ethernet) though not concurrently: USB and eSATA allow access by only one host.
The disks do not require special formatting so they can be treated as external disks on a wide variety of computers.
Performance (speed vs. cost) is claimed to be better than similarly priced storage devices.
Devices are isolated from external network discovery since the protocol is not visible through a router.
Drawbacks
The LPX Protocol is not routable, thus limiting access to one local area network.
Some firewall programs block the LPX protocol by default. It uses EtherType value 0x88AD.
Drivers required to operate NDAS devices over a network are not shipped with operating systems. The devices are usually accompanied with client driver software for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
Drivers for Linux-based operating systems (Linux distributions such as Fedora, Ubuntu or Debian) were originally available only from the manufacturer.
See Also
A similar protocol is ATA over Ethernet.
References
Storage area networks
Network protocols
Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informational%20interview | An Informational Interview (also known as an informational meeting, coffee chat, or more generically, networking) is a conversation in which a person seeks insights on a career path, an industry, a company and/or general career advice from someone with experience and knowledge in the areas of interest. Informational interviews are often casual and candid conversations where both parties are focused simply on acquiring and sharing knowledge. They can also be formal if the knowledge seeker is a job seeker and the knowledge provider is a potential employer whose goal is not only to provide information to the job seeker, but also to learn about the job seeker and judge their professional potential and corporate fit.
Knowledge seekers use informational interviews to gather information on an industry and on specific companies where they might want to work, explore career paths, uncover job opportunities, and expand their professional network. Knowledge providers use informational interviews to share their knowledge and lend a helping hand, expand their professional network and meet potential employees and business partners.
Informational interviews differ from job interviews because the conversation is not about hiring and not about a specific job. The knowledge seeker asks general questions about an industry, company or career path, and the knowledge provider has an opportunity to learn about the knowledge seeker's character and qualifications outside of a formal job interview process. Thus, informational interviews help overcome a problem in recruiting/job-seeking processes, where each side may be hesitant to talk to the other because they are uncertain about whether they might be wasting their time with an unqualified candidate or unsuitable workplace. Informational interviews provide a "non-threatening forum" for discussion as the two sides learn about each other.
The term was coined by Richard Nelson Bolles, author of the best-selling career handbook What Color Is Your Parachute?.
Sources of informational interviews
Sources of informational interviews include a knowledge seeker's friends and family, school alumni, fellow members of a community, social, non-profit or religious organization, former co-workers, partners and clients, professional acquaintances, and even total strangers, including industry leaders. Career advisors, coaches, teachers and recruiters can help connect knowledge seekers to other sources. Professional and social networking platforms are often used by knowledge seekers to identify and reach out to knowledge providers. These sites include LinkedIn and KIP101, a new platform launched in 2020 that focuses on connecting people for informational interviews.
Etiquette for Informational Interviews
When the job seeker initiates the interview, the professional being interviewed is doing a favor by providing information. It is important to be mindful of guidelines of informational interview etiquette, in addition to etiqu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGOW | KGOW (1560 AM) is a Vietnamese language terrestrial full service radio station based in Houston, Texas, United States, owned by Gow Media, LLC. KGOW's programming schedule is leased to a third party group that utilizes the broadcast day to air Vietnamese focused programming for southwest Houston, Bellaire, and the areas in southwest Harris County where 1560's signal is strongest. Viet Radio programming is simulcasted on 1480 KNGO Dallas.
The daytime transmitter site is located in Lochridge, Texas, across from Brazos Bend State Park. The nighttime transmitter site is in western Harris County, halfway between Katy, Texas and Hockley, Texas. KGOW used its nighttime authorization at 15 kilowatts full-time, as the 46 kilowatt daytime site was damaged by floodwaters during a flooding event in 2016, then again in Hurricane Harvey. KGOW did not operate on the day power for over one year, authorized by the Federal Communications Commission through a Special Temporary Authority that allows KGOW to operate at reduced power until which time the daytime site could be repaired. This occurred in March 2018.
The studios are located in Uptown Houston one block from The Galleria. The facility originated in Port Lavaca, Texas and began operations in 1961 as KGUL, which remained as such until 1996, when the RAFTT Corporation purchased it and moved the facility into the Houston metropolitan area, licensed to Bellaire.
History
1560 first appeared in south Texas as KGUL, based in Port Lavaca, Texas. It was, at one time, a sister station to 95.9 (now KHMC) and 93.3 (now KNAL).
1270 KIOX, licensed to Bay City, Texas, through the ill-advised actions of its owner at the time, moved KIOX from Bay City to Stafford Texas without proper FCC permission, wishing to capitalize on the money that could be commanded from having the signal closer to the Houston market, and directly within the exploding suburbs of Stafford, Missouri City, and Sugar Land. The station then applied and was granted a call set change to KFCC. After the Federal Communications Commission investigated the illegal move, KFCC's license was deleted, and the facility went dark. After it was clear that KFCC was permanently deleted, the principals secured a front "real party in interest" to take the KGUL Port Lavaca facility to Houston instead. Now KILE, it originally operated with 800 watts from just south of the 610 South Loop, then later 5,000 watts on a simple directional system, retaining the 800 watts for nighttime operation. KILE featured programming with a Multi-Language talk radio format, and was the only one in the Houston area to broadcast in many languages. This format remained in place until August 1, 2007, when Gow Media was ready to begin transmission testing from the new 46 kilowatt daytime and 15 kilowatt nighttime facilities. As a stunt, Gow Media began airing classic hits on KILE for the testing purposes. After testing concluded, a sports/guy talk format debuted on KILE (now as KGOW) on Augu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn%20Thomas | Martyn Thomas CBE FREng FIET FRSA (born 1948) is a British independent consultant and software engineer.
Overview
Martyn Thomas founded the software engineering company Praxis in 1983, based in Bath, southern England. He has a special interest in safety-critical systems and other high integrity applications. He has acted as an expert witness involving complex software engineering issues.
Thomas was born in Salisbury, southern England. He studied biochemistry at University College London, graduating in 1969, when he started working in the field of computing. Between 1969 and 1983, he was employed at universities in London and the Netherlands, at STC working on telecommunications software, and at the South West Universities Regional Computer Centre in Bath.
In 1983, Thomas founded Praxis with David Bean, where he encouraged the use of formal methods within the company for software development. In 1986, Praxis became the first independent systems house to achieve BS 5750 (later ISO 9001) certification for all its activities. Praxis became internationally recognised as a leader in the use of rigorous software engineering, including formal methods, and grew to around 200 staff.
In December 1992, Praxis was sold to Deloitte and Touche, an international firm of accountants and management consultants, and Martyn became a Deloitte Consulting international partner whilst remaining chairman and, later, managing director of Praxis. He left Deloitte Consulting in 1997.
He is currently director of Martyn Thomas Associates Limited and a visiting professor at the University of Manchester, and a Fellow and Emeritus Professor at Gresham College. He lives in London.
Current career
Fellow, Emeritus Professor and member of Council. Gresham College,
Visiting Professor of Software Engineering at Aberystwyth University, UK,
Fellow at The Royal Academy of Engineering,
Member at UK Computing Research Committee,
Owner, Principal Consultant and Expert Witness at MTAL.,
Past career
Non-executive director of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE),
IT Livery Company Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College,
Member of Advisory Council at Foundation for Information Policy Research,
Non-executive Director of the Serious Organised Crime Agency,
Non-executive Director of the Office of the Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education,
Fellow at British Computer Society,
Chair, Executive Board at DEPLOY Project,
Member, "Sufficient Evidence" study at National Academies / CSTB,
Chair, Steering Committee at DIRC,
Member of Council at EPSRC,
Member of Advisory Group at OST Foresight programmes,
Partner at Deloitte Consulting,
Founder/Chairman/managing director at Praxis,
Chairman at Praxis Critical Systems,
Deputy Director at SWURCC,
Software Engineer at STC.
Honors and awards
Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE,
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering,
Honorary DSc (Hull),
Honorary DSc (Edinburgh),
Honorary DSc (City),
Honorary DSc (Bath), Dr of E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed%20Steinberg | Ed Steinberg is a New York City-based music video producer/director. Steinberg also founded the RockAmerica video distribution network. Steinberg has a colorful reputation. He is perhaps best known for making Madonna's first ever music video in 1982 for the song "Everybody", but has produced and directed more than 90 music videos for other artists such as Gipsy Kings, Cheap Trick, U2 and Yello. Long-form television programs he has produced include music specials for MTV, Alive From Off Center for PBS, and The Palladium, Where Mambo was King for Bravo. His videos are in collections in the Whitney Museum, The Museum of Modern Art and The Guggenheim. He has served as the musical director for the Havana Film Festival New York since 2000.
Steinberg is currently the President of RockaMedia LLC, a media production and distribution company and he is also media advisor to Kidos and www.Magicflix.com educational websites for 3– to 9-year-old children.
Music videos
References
Ed Steinberg Videography mvdbase.com
External links
Rockamedia
RockAmerica
Retail Entertainment Design
American music video directors
Music video producers
American television producers
Music directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20representation%20in%20children%27s%20television | LGBT representation in children's television programming is representation of LGBT topics, themes, and people in television programming meant for children. LGBT representation in children's programming was often uncommon to non-existent for much of television's history up to the 2010s, but has significantly increased since then.
When Sailor Moon was released in the United States, elements of the story were removed because Optimum Productions, the Canadian company in charge of the English language product, claimed that some of the content “is not suitable for children.”
Early children's programming addressing LGBT-related subject matter in the United States includes two episodes of CBS Schoolbreak Special. "What If I'm Gay?" originally aired on March 31, 1987. The episode told the story of a teenage boy struggling to come to terms with his sexuality. It was nominated for three Daytime Emmy Awards, winning for Outstanding Direction in Children's Programming. The 1993 episode "Other Mothers" featured a boy who was afraid that his friends would think he was gay because he has two mothers. The episode was nominated for five Daytime Emmys, winning for Outstanding Writing in a Children's Special, Outstanding Performer in a Children's Special (Justin Whalin) and Outstanding Sound Mixing in a Children's Special. In 1986, HBO broadcast The Truth About Alex, which told the story of a high school athlete who discovers that his best friend Alex is gay.
LGBT representation on Nickelodeon
On June 18, 2002, children's cable network Nickelodeon ran a program entitled Nick News Special Edition: My Family Is Different. Produced by Linda Ellerbee's Lucky Duck Productions and hosted by Ellerbee, My Family Is Different featured children of gay and lesbian parents talking with children from households that oppose equal rights for gay and lesbian families. This program was subject to much criticism from Christian organizations, such as the Washington-based Traditional Values Coalition, who believed the program pushed a "pro-homosexual agenda" and was not suitable for children. Another organization that opposed this episode was the Parents Television Council who claimed they had no problem with same-sex parents but did not think it was appropriate for Nickelodeon's young target audience.
The confirmation of SpongeBob in SpongeBob SquarePants as asexual was not done directly in the show. In 2005, in response to criticism from Focus on the Family, a Christian fundamentalist organization, and the American Family Association, also a Christian fundamentalist organization, series creator Stephen Hillenburg described him as asexual, not gay. He repeated this in 2002 when Focus on the Family claimed that SpongeBob SquarePants was "homosexual propaganda," with Alan Sears, head of the Alliance Defense Fund, and James Dobson of Focus on the Family saying the same. In 2016, it was revealed that Hillenburg instructed those working on the show that SpongeBob should never have a r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whose%20Wedding%20Is%20It%20Anyway%3F | Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? is an American reality TV show on the Style Network. Season 1 began in 2003, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. Each episode runs 60 minutes and follows two different couples who plan their weddings in different states and sometimes a destination wedding in a foreign country.
Each episode begins with the bride and groom meeting the wedding planner to discuss theme and what plans might already have been made. The episode then chronicles the wedding planner at work, coordinating the details of the pre-wedding festivities, including rehearsal, the actual wedding, and the reception.
Each affianced couple have unique requests, from flowers, invitations, placecards, the cake, the wedding venue, and the reception. Some of the wedding planners also specialize in cultural weddings.
While the brides are followed to bridal boutiques to pick out the perfect wedding dress, some select two dresses, one for the wedding and one for the reception, to honor special cultural wedding traditions and customs, or simply for a different reception look. The wedding planners help couples, including same-sex couples, explore and celebrate their individuality and personal style, as well as addressing difficult family circumstances.
Voice-over narrators have included Shari Albert and Masasa Moyo.
Those couples featured on the show usually receive a few nights paid accommodation at a resort or hotel as a wedding gift from the Style Network. Couples can apply on-line for consideration. The Web site also provides a list of wedding planners and budget tips.
The show travels to a variety of vendor meetings: dressmakers, florists, reception sites especially. In Season 4 Episode 3 "Pop Stars and Dictators" the show goes to the Hoboken cake shop. This vendor, Buddy, winds up having his own show, Cake Boss, 2 years later. He appears semi-regularly after that: he saves the day (and pranks the bride a little) in S5:E4 "Born to Be a Bride and Last Minute Loss", helps a gay couple with a dream cake on "Lofty Expectations" (S6:E9), and reins in a control-freak bride in "Alter Images" (S6:E10).
Notable people
Wedding planners
Ana Cruz
Jung Lee
Donnie Brown
Kevin Covey
Gina Sole
James Tramondo
Jenny Orsini
Jes Gordon
Julie Conley
Kim Bradford
Linnyette Richardson-Hall
Michelle Lynn Buckley
Samantha Goldberg
Stella Inserra
Tracy French
Sasha Souza
Vicky Johnson
Shawn Rabideau
Susan Southerland
Mark Kingsdorf
Mary Dann also appeared on Whose Wedding Is It Anyway
References
External links
'Whose Wedding Is It Anyway? - BridesTelevision.com
Style Network original programming
2000s American reality television series
2003 American television series debuts
2010s American reality television series
2010 American television series endings
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
Wedding television shows
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooter | Rooter or Rooters may refer to:
Rooter: A Methodology for the Typical Unification of Access Points and Redundancy, a nonsense computer science research paper
Rooter (Ender's Game), a fictional character
Royal Rooters, fan club for the Boston Americans
Cumberland Rooters, minor league baseball club in the Western Pennsylvania League
See also
Rooster (disambiguation)
Root (disambiguation)
Rooting (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carole%20Simpson | Carole Simpson (born December 7, 1940) is an American broadcast journalist, news anchor, and author. She is the first African-American woman to anchor a major United States network newscast.
Education and career
Simpson, a graduate of the University of Michigan, began her career on radio at WCFL in Chicago, Illinois, and was later hired at WBBM. She moved to television at Chicago's WMAQ and onto NBC News in 1975, becoming the first African-American woman to anchor a major network newscast. She joined ABC News in 1982, and was an anchor for the weekend edition of World News Tonight from 1988 until October 2003.
She became the first woman of color to moderate a presidential debate when she moderated the debate held between George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot, at Richmond, Virginia, in 1992. That same year she was the recipient of the Journalist of the Year Award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
Simpson is on the Advisory Council at the International Women's Media Foundation.
She retired from ABC News in 2006 to begin teaching journalism at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she taught until 2019.
Simpson is a former member of the Radio Television Digital News Foundation Board of Trustees, an affiliate of the Radio Television Digital News Association. There, she established the Carole Simpson Scholarship to encourage and help minority students overcome hurdles along their career path, which is offered annually to aspiring journalists.
In 2010, her autobiography, Newslady, was published by AuthorHouse.
Personal life
Simpson is a cousin of sportswriter and ESPN commentator Michael Wilbon.
See also
List of Emerson College people
Lists of journalists
List of people from Chicago
List of University of Michigan alumni
References
External links
"Interview with Carole Simpson". Retrieved November 27, 2007.
"Carole Simpson 2008 Schwartz Visiting Fellow".
"Carole Simpson Honored in 1993 with Striving for Excellence Awards" through The Minorities in Broadcasting Training Program
1941 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American journalists
20th-century American women journalists
20th-century American biographers
American women biographers
20th-century American educators
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American journalists
21st-century American women journalists
21st-century American biographers
21st-century American educators
21st-century American women writers
ABC News personalities
21st-century African-American academics
21st-century American academics
African-American radio personalities
African-American television hosts
African-American women journalists
African-American journalists
American autobiographers
Educators from Illinois
Emerson College faculty
Hyde Park Academy High School alumni
NBC News people
Radio personalities from Boston
Radio personalities from Chicago
Television anchors from Boston
Television anchors from Chicago
Universit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Mango%2091.9 | Radio Mango is an Indian FM Radio network channel headquartered in Kochi, Kerala. Radio Mango started broadcasting from Kozhikode as Kerala's first Malayalam private FM station on 29 November 2007. It was established as a venture of the Malayala Manorama group, and its programming includes entertainment, music and news.
It has satellite stations in Kochi, Thrissur, Kozhikode, Kannur, and Alappuzha. From August 2014 until January 2019, it had a satellite station in Dubai and was one of the few radio stations in the city broadcasting in Malayalam. Its closure in 2019 made it the second Malayalam radio station to close in Dubai in the span of a year.
Like other radio stations, Radio Mango had to adjust to the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, which it did by equipping on-air talent to broadcast entirely from home, and by participating in a coalition with other stations and the national Ministry of Information and Broadcasting to broadcast information about the pandemic to listeners.
Stations
Former Stations
References
External links
Malayala Manorama group
Radio stations in Kerala
Radio stations established in 2007
Malayalam-language radio stations
2007 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HARNET | HARNET (Hong Kong Academic and Research Network) is the wide area network that links up the campus networks of the eight tertiary institutions in Hong Kong.
It was founded in 1991 or 1992. Its goal is to facilitate information sharing among academic libraries. It is primarily operated by the University of Hong Kong.
References
External links
HARNET - The Hong Kong Academic and Research NETwork
Internet in Hong Kong
National research and education networks
Telecommunications in Hong Kong
University of Hong Kong
1991 establishments in Hong Kong |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetarium%20software | Planetarium software is application software that allows a user to simulate the celestial sphere at any time of day, especially at night, on a computer. Such applications can be as rudimentary as displaying a star chart or sky map for a specific time and location, or as complex as rendering photorealistic views of the sky.
While some planetarium software is meant to be used exclusively on a personal computer, some applications can be used to interface with and control telescopes or planetarium projectors. Optional features may include inserting the orbital elements of comets and other newly discovered bodies for display.
Comparison of planetarium software
See also
Space flight simulation game
List of space flight simulation games
List of observatory software
References
Educational software
Entertainment software
Astronomy software
Planetarium technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransXChange | TransXChange is a UK national XML based data standard for the interchange of bus route and timetable information between bus operators, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency, local authorities and passenger transport executives, and others involved in the provision of passenger information.
The format is a UK national de facto standard sponsored by the UK Department of Transport. The standard is part of a family of coherent transport related XML standards that follow UK GovTalk guidelines and are based on the CEN Transmodel conceptual model.
Although TransXChange is currently used mainly to exchange bus timetables, it may also be used for schedules for rail and other modes.
History
TransXChange is intended as a successor to the widely used ATCO-CIF format for bus timetables and was developed as a modernised representation of ATCO-CIF content, using an XML representation based on the Transmodel Reference model for Public Transport.
Version 1.0 versions of TransXchange were developed in 2000-2001 and used in pilot projects.
Version 2.0 of the TransXChange standards released in April 2005. 2.1 was a major rewrite to meet additional requirements and harmonise with eGOV standards. It introduced a modular structure of packages in particular to use the UK NaPTAN and National Public Transport Gazetteer or NPTG standard to define the names and location of stops.
Version 2.1 was released in February 2006 and is now supported by most UK suppliers of Public Transport Scheduling software. Version 2.1 has now been adopted as the baseline standard for Electronic Bus Service Registration conducted by the UK Vehicle and Operator Services Agency (VOSA), and as the general standard to which all related developments are expected to comply. 2.1 was accompanied by an enhanced TransXChange Publisher tool which can plot a bus route on a map.
In 2007 an open source tool known as TransXChange2GoogleTransit to output a TransXChange schedule in General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), the format used by Google Transit, was released.
Version 2.2 with minor modifications is being planned and is likely to appear in 2008.
Version 2.4 was released in 2012
Version 2.5 was released in 2013
TransXChange is supported by all main UK suppliers of bus timetable systems and has also been used to exchange data for metro and other modes.
Scope
TransXChange provides a rich model based representation of a bus timetable that can be used for a wide variety of purposes. TransXChange documents can be used to exchange the following information:
Bus schedules including stops, routes, departures times/frequencies, operational notes, and maps. Routes may have complex topologies such as circular routes, cloverleaf and lollipops, and complex workings such as short working and express patterns. Connections with other services can also be described;
The days on which the services run, including availability on public holidays and other exceptions;
Term times and holidays of School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads | Goodreads is an American social cataloging website and a subsidiary of Amazon that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. The website's offices are located in San Francisco.
Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler. In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members and 10,000,000 books had been added. By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees. On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads, and by July 23, 2013, Goodreads announced their user base had grown to 20 million members.
By July 2019, the site had 90 million members.
History
Founders
Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler first met while studying at Stanford (Engineering and English respectively). After university Chandler initially worked as a programmer in on-line businesses, including dating sites, and Khuri Chandler as a journalist. Chandler and Khuri both grew up in California. Chandler is a descendant of the publisher of the Los Angeles Times; Otis Chandler.
Foundation and mission
Goodreads was founded in 2006. The idea came about when Otis Chandler was browsing through his friend's bookshelf. He wanted to integrate this scanning experience and to create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read.
Goodreads addressed what publishers call the "discoverability problem" by guiding consumers in the digital age to find books they might want to read.
Early years
Before gaining much traction, Otis and Elizabeth Chandler grew the platform through their friends of friends where it reached 800 users. Eventually, it gained attention through the media such as Mashable and other various blogs. During its first year of business, the company was run without any formal funding. In December 2007, the site received funding estimated at $750,000 from angel investors. This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures.
In October 2010, the company opened its application programming interface, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles.
In 2011, Goodreads acquired Discovereads, a book recommendation engine that employs "machine learning algorithms to analyze which books people might like, based on books they've liked in the past and books that people with similar tastes have liked." After a user has rated 20 books on its five-star scale, the site will begin making recommendations. Otis Chandler believed this rating system would be superior to Amazon's, as Amazon's includes books a user has browsed or purchased as gifts when determining its recommendations. Later that year, Goodreads introduced an al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam%27s%20Red%20Data%20Book | Vietnam's Red Data Book (Vietnamese: Sách đỏ Việt Nam) is a list of rare and endangered species of fauna and flora native to Vietnam. This is the important legal basis for relating governmental regulations for the protection of biodiversity and wildlife in Vietnam. Criteria for this book are set forth on the basis of those specified by IUCN Red List.
Nature conservation in Vietnam
Ecology literature
IUCN Red List |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20Interface%20for%20Real%20Time%20Information | The Standard Interface for Real-time Information or SIRI is an XML protocol to allow distributed computers to exchange real-time information about public transport services and vehicles.
The protocol is a CEN norm, developed originally as a technical standard with initial participation by France, Germany (Verband Deutscher Verkehrsunternehmen), Scandinavia, and the UK (RTIG)
SIRI is based on the CEN Transmodel abstract model for public transport information, and comprises a general purpose model, and an XML schema for public transport information.
A SIRI White Paper is available for further information on the protocol.
Scope
CEN SIRI allows pairs of server computers to exchange structured real-time information about schedules, vehicles, and connections, together with informational messages related to the operation of the services. The information can be used for many different purposes, for example:
To provide real-time departure from stop information for display on stops, internet and mobile delivery systems;
To provide real-time progress information about individual vehicles;
To manage the movement of buses roaming between areas covered by different servers;
To manage the synchronisation of guaranteed connections between fetcher and feeder services;
To exchange planned and real-time timetable updates;
To distribute status messages about the operation of the services;
To provide performance information to operational history and other management systems.
CEN SIRI includes a number of optional capabilities.
Different countries may specify a country profile of the subset of SIRI capabilities that they wish to adopt.
Architecture
The CEN SIRI standard has two distinct components:
SIRI Common Protocol Framework. The Framework provides a uniform architecture for defining data messages either as request/response pairs or as publish/subscribe services. The payload content model is separated from the messaging aspects so that the same payload content can be used in both request and subscription services and the same common messaging components can be used for all the different functional services. Common functions for subscription management, service monitoring, content level authentication, etc are provided.
SIRI Functional Services. The SIRI specification specifies a number of distinct functional services, each designed for the exchange of a specific type of public transport data, all using the same protocol framework and basing their payload content on the Transmodel conceptual model. Additional functional services may be added that use the same framework but different payload content models to cover additional services.
CEN SIRI Functional Services
SIRI V1.0 defined eight functional services;
SIRI-PT: Planned Timetable service: Allows the exchange of the planned timetable for a public transport service along a route.
SIRI-ET: Estimated Timetable service: Allows the exchange of the real-time timetable for a public transport servic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ioannis%20Kakadiaris | Ioannis A. Kakadiaris is a Greek-born American computer scientist who has developed an identity verification system at the University of Houston. He is a Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen University Professor of Computer Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Houston, a position to which he was appointed in 2011.
Early life and education
Ioannis A. Kakadiaris received his BSc in physics (1989) from the University of Athens.
After moving to the United States, he received MSc in computer science (1991) from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and his PhD in computer science (1997) from the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA).
Identity verification system
The system works by extracting a unique biometric signature of a person's face based on combination of 3D shape, texture, infrared, and time variables. While earlier face recognition methods have focused on appearance - capturing, representing, and matching facial characteristics as they appear on 2D images in the visible spectrum, the proposed URxD system uses a webcam to capture a continuous video stream which is used to detect whether a person is facing the 3D camera, and if the subject is facing the camera relatively still for more than two seconds, the system triggers the optical scanner and the 3D data are captured. It can also determine whether the person is wearing glasses. The system has achieved the best published results when tried to 4,007 datasets as a part of the international face recognition Grand Challenge organized by NIST in 2007.
References
External links
Ioannis Kakadiaris's rating
About the URxD system's hardware
About "3D Data Extraction"
About "Infrared Mapped onto 3D Data"
"The New Face of Identity...", University of Huston's 30 July 2007 News Release
Video interview with Professor Kakadiaris
Living people
Greek emigrants to the United States
Northeastern University alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
American computer scientists
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
University of Houston faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Hinchey | Michael Gerard Hinchey (born 1969) is an Irish computer scientist and former Director of the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero), a multi-university research centre headquartered at the University of Limerick, Ireland. He now serves as Head of Department of the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems at University of Limerick.
Mike Hinchey studied at the University of Limerick as an undergraduate (was the leading student in his graduating year), Oxford University (at Wolfson College) for his MSc and Cambridge University (at St John's College) for his PhD.
Hinchey has been a promulgator of formal methods throughout his career, especially CSP and the Z notation. He was Director of the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and is the founding editor-in-chief of the NASA journal Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, launched in 2005.
He has held many academic positions, both visiting and permanent, at a number of universities including the University of Nebraska, Queen's University Belfast, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hiroshima University the University of Skövde in Sweden and was at Loyola College in Maryland (now Loyola University Maryland), United States, before his current post.
Hinchey is a Member of Academia Europaea, a Fellow of the IET, a Fellow of the IMA, and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Professional Engineer, Chartered Mathematician and Chartered IT Professional.
As of 2016, Hinchey has been serving as President of IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing).
Selected publications
Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Applications of Formal Methods. Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1995. .
Dean, C.N. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, Teaching and Learning Formal Methods, Academic Press, London, 1996. .
Bowen, J.P. and Hinchey, M.G., editors, High-Integrity System Specification and Design. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. .
Hinchey, M.G. and Bowen, J.P., editors, Industrial-Strength Formal Methods in Practice. Springer-Verlag, London, FACIT series, 1999. .
References
External links
Mike Hinchey web page
Interview – The Irish Times
1969 births
Living people
Alumni of the University of Limerick
Alumni of Wolfson College, Oxford
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Irish computer scientists
Formal methods people
Fellows of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
NASA people
Loyola University Maryland faculty
Academics of the University of Limerick
Irish book editors
Irish non-fiction writers
Irish male non-fiction writers
Senior Members of the IEEE
Computer science writers
Academic journal editors
Academic staff of the University of Skövde |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellcats%20over%20the%20Pacific | Hellcats over the Pacific is a combat flight simulation game for the Macintosh computer. It was written by Parsoft Interactive and released by Graphic Simulations in 1991. Hellcats was a major release for the Mac platform, one of the first 3D games to be able to drive a 640 x 480 x 8-bit display at reasonable frame rates in an era when the PC clone's VGA at 320 x 240 x 4-bit was the standard. The graphics engine was combined with a simple Mac interface, a set of randomized missions, and a number of technical features that greatly enhanced the game's playability and made it a lasting favorite into the mid-1990s. The original game was followed with a missions disk in 1992, Hellcats: Missions at Leyte Gulf, which greatly increased the visual detail and added many more objects to the game.
After the release of Leyte Gulf, ParSoft began work on another flight simulator for Graphics Simulations, based around the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The two companies parted ways during the initial development. ParSoft began work on a new networked flight simulator that would emerge years later as A-10 Attack! and followed by its own missions expansion, A-10 Cuba. Graphics Simulations continued work on the nascent F-18 simulator and released it as F-18 Hornet. They also licensed the basic flight engine to another group of programmers, who used it as the basis for early versions of the online game, WarBirds.
During its original run, Hellcats sold approximately 50,000 copies, making it a "megahit".
Description
Hellcats is a combat simulation of the F6F Hellcat aircraft in a series of fictional missions during 1943's Guadalcanal Campaign.
Hellcats focused almost entirely on the flying of the aircraft, with a minimum of setup or in-game controls. After starting the game the player finds themselves in a minimal interface consisting of a small number of dialog boxes for preferences and selecting missions. The entire interface was based on the Mac's built-in UI, as opposed to hand-rolled elements built out of the game engine itself. This made for a spartan but easy-to-use interface. After the initial setup the user rarely used any of the out-of-game controls except for the mission setup dialog box, where radio buttons allowed the player to select one of the eight missions, along with their fuel load and zero, one or two bombs. Nothing else was required, and after selecting a mission the game switched to the in-cockpit view.
Due to the simplicity of the game engine, the flight controls were also quite simple, offering basic controls for the engine, rudder, flaps, and landing gear. Primary flight control for roll and pitch was normally handled by the mouse, which included a scaler that improved the "feel", although the flight engine was also fairly insensitive to overcontrol. Joysticks could also be used, but were supported via "mouse mapping", not directly. View controls allowed for a number of different options, including tower views and similar, but also a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karn%27s%20algorithm | Karn's algorithm addresses the problem of getting accurate estimates of the round-trip time for messages when using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in computer networking. The algorithm, also sometimes termed as the Karn-Partridge algorithm was proposed in a paper by Phil Karn and Craig Partridge in 1987.
Accurate round trip estimates in TCP can be difficult to calculate because of an ambiguity created by retransmitted segments. The round trip time is estimated as the difference between the time that a segment was sent and the time that its acknowledgment was returned to the sender, but when packets are re-transmitted there is an ambiguity: the acknowledgment may be a response to the first transmission of the segment or to a subsequent re-transmission.
Karn's Algorithm ignores retransmitted segments when updating the round-trip time estimate. Round trip time estimation is based only on unambiguous acknowledgments, which are acknowledgments for segments that were sent only once.
This simplistic implementation of Karn's algorithm can lead to problems as well. Consider what happens when TCP sends a segment after a sharp increase in delay. Using the prior round-trip time estimate, TCP computes a timeout and retransmits a segment. If TCP ignores the round-trip time of all retransmitted packets, the round trip estimate will never be updated, and TCP will continue retransmitting every segment, never adjusting to the increased delay.
A solution to this problem is to incorporate transmission timeouts with a timer backoff strategy. The timer backoff strategy computes an initial timeout. If the timer expires and causes a retransmission, TCP increases the timeout generally by a factor of two. This algorithm has proven to be extremely effective in balancing performance and efficiency in networks with high packet loss. Ideally, Karn's algorithm would not be needed. Networks that have high round-trip time and retransmission timeouts should be investigated using root cause analysis techniques.
References
External links
- TCP Congestion Control
- Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer (obsoleted by RFC 6298)
- Computing TCP's Retransmission Timer
Networking algorithms
Transmission Control Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%20Balam | Kan Balam (Spanish pronunciation:kan' balaːm, Tzotzil Maya pronunciation: 'kʱaŋ βalɒm) is a computer cluster located in Mexico City, on the main campus of the UNAM. With a rated capacity of 7.1 teraFLOPS, 3.02 TB of RAM and 160 TB of storage. It started working on January 16, 2007, and was ranked as the number one in Latin America until June 2008. The current best supercomputer in Latin America is run by Brazil.
Among the objectives of this super computer is to allow Mexican researchers to work with highly modern infrastructure without the necessity of leaving the country, thus helping to stop the brain drain that the country has had in the last years.
The principal subjects aided by this computer are astrophysics, particle physics, quantum physics, geology and is mainly devoted towards seismic engineering. It will also be used for weather measurements and it will be available for public and private companies.
Characteristics
Processing
The computer has 1368 AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processors and 3016 GB RAM, distributed in 337 calculation nodes, each with 8 GB RAM and two DUO processors and in five specialized nodes with 64 GB RAM each.
Storage
KanBalam has a storage system of 768 hard disks, with 200 GB each.
Interconnection
The processing nodes communicate with the storage system in a high-speed network. It connects 576 ports with 2 switches infiniband, reaching a speed of the order of 10 Gbyte/s.
Control
The computer has 4 HP service nodes.
OS
Kan Balam runs in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operative System.
Issues
At the very beginning the computer was unable to run at optimal speed or make use of the full power of the processors, a problem which DGSCA was already well aware of (it was inaugurated before its final installation was completed). Technically a whole 1/3 of the nodes were unable to run due to temperature issues in the work room (when running all nodes at 100% their capacity). In recent dates, the computer's performance has been stabilized (with the addition of two more cooling units) and is near optimal condition.
This prompted an alarmist reaction among the first users which provoked a local periodical to falsely publish and fabricate a supposed "meltdown" of the nodes in early June 2007.
In 2011, UNAM acquired the Miztli supercomputer, an HP cluster with 5320 Cores, speed of 118 Tflops, 13 Tbytes RAM, 344 HP Proliant servers.
References
External links
Gaceta UNAM N°3953. La UNAM, líder del supercómputo en AL
La Jornada - La Kan Balam puede realizar 7.1 billones de operaciones matemáticas por segundo
Esmas.com - Inaugura UNAM nueva supercomputadora
X86 supercomputers
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Science and technology in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kan%20Balam%20%28disambiguation%29 | Kan Balam can refer to:
Kan Bahlam I (524–583), ajaw of Palenque
K'inich Kan Bahlam II (635-702), ajaw of Palenque
Kan Balam, super computer in Latin America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani%20people%20in%20Ireland | The number of Romani people in Ireland is roughly estimated, as the Central Statistics Office collects its data based on nationality and not ethnic origin. For this reason a precise demographic profile of the Romani in Ireland is not available. Some estimates of Romani in Ireland give the population at 1,700 in 2004, rising to between 2,500 and 3,000 in 2005. The majority derived from Romani populations originating in Ukraine and Hungary.
History
Origin
The Romani people originate from Northern India, presumably from the northwestern Indian states Rajasthan and Punjab.
The linguistic evidence has indisputably shown that roots of Romani language lie in India: the language has grammatical characteristics of Indian languages and shares with them a big part of the basic lexicon, for example, body parts or daily routines.
More exactly, Romani shares the basic lexicon with Hindi and Punjabi. It shares many phonetic features with Marwari, while its grammar is closest to Bengali.
Genetic findings in 2012 suggest the Romani originated in northwestern India and migrated as a group.
According to a genetic study in 2012, the ancestors of present scheduled tribes and scheduled caste populations of Northern India, traditionally referred to collectively as the Ḍoma, are the likely ancestral populations of the modern European Roma.
In February 2016, during the International Roma Conference, the Indian Minister of External Affairs stated that the people of the Roma community were children of India. The conference ended with a recommendation to the Government of India to recognize the Roma community spread across 30 countries as a part of the Indian diaspora.
Migration to Ireland
Romani have been present in Ireland since the 18th century. Traditionally, Romani arrived from Britain for seasonal work, either as farm labourers or as coppersmiths
Post-1989
After the dissolution of Eastern Bloc, thousands of Romani, among others, sought asylum in Ireland and other Western countries. Their arrival prompted contrasting editorials in the mainstream newspapers. In 1989, Romani started to arrive in Ireland, predominantly by hiding in container lorries. In the summer of 1998, several hundred Romani arrived hidden in freight containers in Rosslare Harbour, many of them illegally trafficked.
A second impetus for Romani immigration arose after the admittance of an additional 15 states to the European Union, with the populations coming to Dublin and the other major towns and cities.
References
External links
Access Ireland - Training Roma as cultural mediators
Roma Educational Needs in Ireland - Context and Challenges Lesovitch, L., June 2005 City of Dublin VEC
Ireland
Ireland
Society of Ireland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1951%E2%80%9352%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | Following are the programs on the 1951–1952 United States network television weekday schedule, listing daytime Monday–Friday schedules on four networks for each calendar season from September 1951 to August 1952. All times are Eastern and Pacific. This page is missing info on the DuMont Television Network, which started daytime transmission before any other United States television network.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Fall 1951
Winter 1951/1952
Spring 1952
Summer 1952
By network
ABC
Returning Series
New Series
The Dennis James Show
The Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show
The Gayelord Hauser Show
The Paul Dixon Show
Not Returning From 1950-51
The Half-Pint Party
Hold'er Newt
Lois and Looie
The Mary Hartline Show
Mr. Magic and J.J.
Ozmoe
Paddy the Pelican
Space Patrol
TV Tots Time
CBS
Returning Series
Action in the Afternoon
As the World Turns
The Big Payoff
The Bill Cullen Show
The Bob Crosby Show
Break the Bank
Bride and Groom
CBS News
CBS Evening News
The Edge of Night
The Egg and I
Face the Nation
The First Hundred Years
Freedom Rings
The Garry Moore Show
The Guiding Light
Homemaker's Exchange
Love of Life
Meet Your Cover Girl
The Mel Torme Show
Morning News
Search for Tomorrow
The Steve Allen Show
Strike It Rich
The U.N. in Action
New Series
The Al Pearce Show
Arthur Godfrey Time
Bert Parks Show
The Eddy Arnold Show *
Mike and Buff
Summer School
Whistling Wizard
Your Surprise Store
Not Returning From 1950-51
All Around the Town
The Betty Crocker Show
The Chuck Wagon
Fashion Magic
It's Fun to Know
The Johnny Johnston Show
Life with Snarky Parker
Look Your Best
Lucky Pup
Robert Q's Matinee
Two Sleepy People
Vanity Fair
The World Is Yours
NBC
Returning Series
The Bill Cullen Show
Breakfast Party
Howdy Doody
The Kate Smith Hour
Meet the Press
NBC News Update
NBC Saturday Night News
NBC Sunday Night News
Strike It Rich
The Today Show
Vacation Wonderland
New Series
The Big Payoff
The Bill Goodwin Show
The Bunch
Dave & Charlie
The Gabby Hayes Show
Here's Looking at You
It's a Problem
It's in the Bag
The Johnny Dugan Show
Kovacs on the Corner
Matinee in New York
The Ralph Edwards Show
Richard Harkness News Review
Ruth Lyons 50 Club
Winner Take All
Not Returning From 1950-51
America Speaks
Cowboy Playhouse
Miss Susan
The NBC Comics
Panhandle Pete and Jennifer
The Ransom Sherman Show
Remember this Date
The Straw Hat Matinee
Dumont
Not Returning From 1950-51
Okay, Mother
TV Shopper
See also
1951-52 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
United States weekd |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzene%20%28disambiguation%29 | Benzene is an aromatic hydrocarbon.
Benzene or related words may also refer to:
Benzene (data page)
The homophones benzene and benzine are alternate names for gasoline in many countries
Benzine can refer to petroleum ether
"Benzin" is a song by Rammstein
Benzene Convention, 1971
Benzyne, the hydrocarbon 1,2-didehydrobenzene
Benzene were an Israeli band featuring Yehuda Poliker |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston%20W.%20Royce | Winston Walker Royce (August 15, 1929 – June 7, 1995) was an American computer scientist, director at Lockheed Software Technology Center in Austin, Texas. He was a pioneer in the field of software development, known for his 1970 paper from which the Waterfall model for software development was mistakenly drawn.
Biography
Born in 1929, Royce entered the California Institute of Technology, where he received his BS in physics, his MS in aeronautical engineering and in 1959 his PhD in aeronautical engineering under Julian David Cole with the thesis Transonic flow over a non-lifting, slender body of revolution.
Royce had begun his career as assistant professor at the California Institute of Technology. In 1961 he started as project manager in the aerospace division of TRW. His first project concerned the design of a mission planning and orbit selection system for spacecraft. In the following years he was involved in the research and development of several large and complex software systems, and started developing new methodologies for improving the management of software project. In 1970 he published his influential article "Managing the development of large software systems", in which he presented several project management models, including what we now know as waterfall, iterative, and agile. In 1985, he received the AIAA Information Systems Award. During the 1980s he was director at Lockheed Software Technology Center in Austin, Texas. He retired in 1994 and died the following year at his home in Clifton, Virginia.
His eldest son is Walker Royce, Chief Software Economist of IBM's Rational division, and author of "Software Project Management, A Unified Framework", and a principal contributor to the management philosophy inherent in the IBM Rational Unified Process.
Work
Managing the development of large software systems
The Waterfall model for software development is mistakenly attributed to Royce. Barry Boehm wrote in 1987:
Royce's 1970 paper is generally considered to be the paper which defined the stagewise "waterfall" model of the software process. But it is surprising to see both that the earlier Benington and Hosier papers had good approximations to the waterfall model, and that Royce's paper already incorporates prototyping as an essential step compatible with the waterfall model.
In fact, Royce demonstrated that while the development of large software systems required a more thorough approach, there was inherent risk in a single-pass sequential approach. He proposed an iterative approach and advocated that projects should pass through this at least twice.
Royce started his 1970 article 'Managing the development of large software systems' with a statement about the origin of his ideas:
I am going to describe my personal views about managing large software developments. I have had various assignments during the past nine years, mostly concerned with the development of software packages for spacecraft mission planning, commanding an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikarus%20%28Scheme%20implementation%29 | Ikarus Scheme is a free software optimizing incremental compiler for R6RS Scheme that compiles directly to the x86 IA-32 architecture. Ikarus is the first public implementation of a large part of the R6RS Scheme standard.
Version 0.0.3 has 94% of the total R6RS forms and procedures.
Development stopped in 2008.
Design
The compiler developer, Abdulaziz Ghuloum, was a Ph.D. student at Indiana University under R. Kent Dybvig, the developer of Chez Scheme, who has influenced the development of Ikarus.
Some of the ideas behind the design of Ikarus Scheme are detailed in "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" by the developer. Ikarus is self-hosting with most of the compiler and primitives written in Scheme and only a few parts of the runtime system written in C. Also, rather than using an external intermediate language like C, LLVM, or C--, it compiles directly to machine code to better exploit the underlying machine architecture.
Ikarus uses the portable R6RS library and syntax-case system which is also developed by Abdulaziz Ghuloum and is described in a paper, "Implicit phasing for R6RS libraries". Finally, the paper "Generation-Friendly Eq Hash Tables" covers the hash table implementation in Ikarus.
System requirements
Ikarus runs on x86 but requires SSE2 support to handle floating-point arithmetic (FP) computations so it will not produce code for Intel chips earlier than Pentium 4 or for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) chips before Athlon 64.
Release 0.0.3 has been tested and runs on:
macOS, version 10.4 and 10.5
Linux, 2.6.18; Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, and Ubuntu
FreeBSD, version 6.2
NetBSD, version 3.1
Windows XP, using Cygwin 1.5.24
References
External links
Ikarus Scheme
Ikarus Scheme development site
R6RS library and syntax-case system home page
R6RS library and syntax-case system development site
Ikarus Scheme User's Guide
The R6RS Standard
Benchmarks
formerly supported by The Computer Language Benchmarks Game: entry for Ikarus Scheme (Intel Pentium 4)
Benchmarks comparing Ikarus to other R5RS scheme implementations (These results are for 0.0.2 and haven't been updated for 0.0.3.)
Benchmarks comparing Ikarus to other R6RS scheme implementations (These results are for 0.0.2 and haven't been updated for 0.0.3.)
Reviews
Everything Scheme - Ikarus: The new Scheme on the Block
Scheme (programming language) implementations
Scheme (programming language) compilers
Free compilers and interpreters
R6RS Scheme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203592 | The IBM 3592 is a series of enterprise-class tape drives and corresponding magnetic tape data storage media formats developed by IBM. The first drive, having the IBM product number 3592, was introduced under the nickname Jaguar. The next drive was the TS1120, also having the nickname Jaguar. , the latest and current drive is the TS1170. The 3592 line of tape drives and media is not compatible with the IBM 3590 series of drives, which it superseded. This series can store up to 50 TB of data (uncompressed) on a cartridge and has a native data transfer rate of up to 400 MB/s. In August 2023 IBM announced the TS1170 tape drive with 50TB cartridges, more than 2.5 times larger than LTO-9 cartridges.
Like the 3590 and 3480 before it, this tape format has half-inch tape spooled onto 4-by-5-by-1-inch data cartridges containing a single reel. A take-up reel is embedded inside the tape drive. Because of their speed, reliability, durability and low media cost, the 3592 tape drives are still in high demand.
Since TS1120 all drives include built-in encryption processing, with platform software (for example, z/OS Security Server) managing encryption keys. Prior drives require server-based software to encrypt and decrypt tapes.
Drives
Notes
IBM Redbook with information on 3592 models (See sections 2.5 and 2.6)
Cartridges
Unlike many other tape standards, the 3592 format allows an extensive reuse of cartridges already owned. Older generation tapes can be reformatted to higher capacities with every new drive generation, according to the table below. Cartridges are expected to operate in read-and-write mode across at least three drive generations, except in conjunction with technology leaps, e.g. the introduction of BaFe with JC cartridges or SrFe with JF. The observed media replacement rate in large archives is therefore lower than with most other standards.
Reformatting a cartridge means increasing its track density (only), as the linear bit density is limited by the tape coating. In the table below, a 'JA' type cartridge can be reformatted from 300 GB initially to 640 GB in the TS1130 drive. A later 'JB' type cartridge will carry 1 TB since its better coating also permits a higher linear bit density. Generally speaking, linear density is limited by material, semiconductor and signal processing technologies, whereas track density is limited by the servo technology that prevents track runout.
Notes
The TS1150 drive CAN NOT read or write to any Gen 1 or Gen 2 cartridges.
The TS1140 drive CAN read but not write to Gen 1 cartridges of any format, and Gen 2 cartridges in TS1120 format. It can, however, read and write to Gen 2 cartridges in TS1130 format.
The TS1170 drive does not support previous generation 3592 cartridges, only 3592 Type F(JF) cartridge is supported.
3592 media datasheet
IBM 3592 Cartridges and Compatibility
References
External links
IBM Tape storage
Fifty years of storage innovation
Read/Write Compatibility Matrix
PC Magazine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93computer%20information%20retrieval | Human–computer information retrieval (HCIR) is the study and engineering of information retrieval techniques that bring human intelligence into the search process. It combines the fields of human-computer interaction (HCI) and information retrieval (IR) and creates systems that improve search by taking into account the human context, or through a multi-step search process that provides the opportunity for human feedback.
History
This term human–computer information retrieval was coined by Gary Marchionini in a series of lectures delivered between 2004 and 2006. Marchionini's main thesis is that "HCIR aims to empower people to explore large-scale information bases but demands that people also take responsibility for this control by expending cognitive and physical energy."
In 1996 and 1998, a pair of workshops at the University of Glasgow on information retrieval and human–computer interaction sought to address the overlap between these two fields. Marchionini notes the impact of the World Wide Web and the sudden increase in information literacy – changes that were only embryonic in the late 1990s.
A few workshops have focused on the intersection of IR and HCI. The Workshop on Exploratory Search, initiated by the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab in 2005, alternates between the Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) and Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conferences. Also in 2005, the European Science Foundation held an Exploratory Workshop on Information Retrieval in Context. Then, the first Workshop on Human Computer Information Retrieval was held in 2007 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Description
HCIR includes various aspects of IR and HCI. These include exploratory search, in which users generally combine querying and browsing strategies to foster learning and investigation; information retrieval in context (i.e., taking into account aspects of the user or environment that are typically not reflected in a query); and interactive information retrieval, which Peter Ingwersen defines as "the interactive communication processes that occur during the retrieval of information by involving all the major participants in information retrieval (IR), i.e. the user, the intermediary, and the IR system."
A key concern of HCIR is that IR systems intended for human users be implemented and evaluated in a way that reflects the needs of those users.
Most modern IR systems employ a ranked retrieval model, in which the documents are scored based on the probability of the document's relevance to the query. In this model, the system only presents the top-ranked documents to the user. This systems are typically evaluated based on their mean average precision over a set of benchmark queries from organizations like the Text Retrieval Conference (TREC).
Because of its emphasis in using human intelligence in the information retrieval process, HCIR |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rede%20Brasil%20de%20Televis%C3%A3o | Rede Brasil de Televisão (Brazil Television Network, also known as Rede Brasil or RBTV) is a Brazilian television network headquartered in the city of Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. The network first aired in April 2007 and has its studios in the city of São Paulo, São Paulo. Its network is administered by Marcos Tolentino da Silva.
Since its foundation, RBTV has a growing number of Brazilian municipalities receiving its signal, with 512 municipalities having the option to watch RBTV.
Rede Brazil is a television station that has a wide variety of segments on its programming.
History
Rede Brasil signed on for the first time on April 7, 2007. As the channel was building its line-up, most of the schedule consisted of programming from government channels, such as TV Brasil and TV Escola. In September 2007, the channel's offer of original programming consisted of Conceição Forno & Fogão, Nei e Nani (moved from the recently-shut down JBTV), the movie slot Cine Rede Brasil and a variety of cartoons and television series, among them Saint Seiya, Bewitched, Bonanza, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman and Mission: Impossible. The line-up was consolidated in 2008, increasing its roster of original programming and international TV series.
The channel received its first warning in August 2009 from the APCM (Associação Antipirataria de Cinema e Música) and representatives of 20th Century Fox, over the illegal broadcast of certain television series. Rede Brasil claimed that it received series from E+ Entretenimento, who also sold series to NGT, as well as airing DVD copies of television series to local channels (E+ in its turn said that they had the rights to the series claiming that they bought the rights from an offshore in the Virgin Islands). Although at the time dozens of local television channels were airing foreign television series in an illegal scheme, only Rede Brasil was notified and removed the series from its schedule.
On September 5, 2012, the channel started digital broadcasts on virtual channel 56.1 in São Paulo (physical channel 10), and started HD broadcasts in 2014 on both terrestrial and subscription television.
The first anime to air on the channel, Saint Seiya, returned to the schedule on April 2, 2013. The series was removed within a month, but returned in October 2016 after a legal contract with Toei Animation to broadcast the series.
In June 2016, due to the fact that the station's owner, Marcos Tolentino, was a friend and partner of Celso Russomanno in the companies Paz and Bell Hel, which were being investigated in the Federal Police's Operation Ararath, a judicial intervention was decreed for the removal of the directors of the station. broadcaster. The ruling called for Fernando Claro Iglesias, a trustee, to take over the management of the company. A search and seizure of documents from the company's archives was also ordered. Rede Brasil de Televisão released a note clarifying that it took legal action, present |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Channel%20Fort | South Channel Fort, also known as South Channel Island, is a 0.7 ha artificial island in southern Port Phillip, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north-east of the town of Sorrento. It was part of a network of fortifications protecting the narrow entrance to Port Phillip.
It is 122 m long, 76 m wide, and is 6.4 m above sea-level, and was built on a shoal, close to the main shipping channel of the bay, with 14,000 tonnes of bluestone boulders, concrete and sand. It was constructed during the 1880s as part of a defensive strategy to protect and control access by sea to Port Phillip and the cities of Melbourne and Geelong. Its principal purpose was to illuminate the main shipping channel at night, and to explode mines under attacking ships which had breached the defences at Port Phillip Heads. The fort still contains remnants of its original military equipment, including disappearing guns.
Construction
South Channel Fort was built with a protective ring of bluestone rocks which also provided a foundation. Concrete cylinders
were then sunk through to the sandstone base rock below. Resting on these is a thick table of concrete and brick with atop the concrete structure of the fort. Sand was then placed on top of the gun emplacements to absorb impact from any projectiles.
Occupants
Between 1890 and 1916 over 100 officers and men lived on the island, serving as mechanics, artillery-men and maintenance. Gradually, the increased range, rapidity of fire and efficiency of coastal defence guns allowed the entrance to Port Phillip to be protected by guns at Fort Nepean and Queenscliff. This led to South Channel Fort becoming redundant and it was deserted by the military.
Layout
Gun emplacements
There are a number of gun emplacements whose function was for artillery defence of the shipping channel, artillery protection and defence against enemy landings.
Underground "Keep"
The layout of the underground keep is a labyrinth of passages, small lobbies, magazines and a kitchen, carefully designed to ensure the safe and efficient handling of ammunition and gunpowder underground. It was constructed with red-gum timber and mass concrete. Beneath the keep is the test room from which the minefield in the South Channel was controlled and tested. The mines were placed so that they would explode below attacking ships.
Battery Observation Post
The post was built to protect the fort commander from gunfire. Constructed in 1905, it contains a plinth for a range finder, and fire control positions. It also has the best strategic view of the island and Port Phillip.
Marine life
The waters of Port Phillip surround the island. The rocks that make up the fort provide a habitat for a range of marine organisms, including kelp forests and invertebrates that attach to the rocks. Colourful sponges and soft corals grow amongst the rocks and jetty structures. The small torpedo bay supports areas of seagrass, and many fish can be seen there as well as under the pier.
South Channel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit%20Broadcasting%20Corporation | The Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) () is a television production company based in Nunavut with programming targeted at the Inuit population of Nunavut. Almost all of its programs are broadcast in Inuktitut. Some are also in English. IBC shows centre on Inuit culture. The company has five production centers in Nunavut, all staffed by Inuit. Founded in the early 1980s, the IBC was the first indigenous-language television network in North America.
History
Television was first introduced to the north through CBC's frontier coverage package, which delivered of southern programming to twenty-one northern communities. There was no northern content: CBC extended its southern coverage area into the north, but did not to develop a northern-based service for northerners.
It is difficult to gauge the impact of the sudden introduction of southern broadcast services on language, culture and day-to-day life in the traditional settlements of the Arctic. Some communities, such as Igloolik, initially voted to refuse television through a series of hamlet plebiscites, fearing irreversible damage to their lifestyle. Many national and regional aboriginal organizations voiced the same fear and insisted that native people had the right to define and contribute to any broadcast service distributed in their homelands.
The newly formed Inuit Tapirisat of Canada (ITC) did not want Inuit to become just a new market for existing southern services in English and French; they wanted communities to define their own communications environment, and be able to contribute to the Canadian broadcasting system in a significant way. One of ITC's first major policy statements called on the federal government to ensure Inuit control over the expansion of radio-telephone, community radio, videotape, and newspaper services into the Arctic.
In 1978, the Canadian Department of Communications (DOC) launched a program to test satellite applications, using the newly launched Anik B satellite. One area of particular interest to the government was the potential application of satellite technology to enable production and distribution of programming in the Arctic. The Inuit Tapirisat launched the Inukshuk Project.
Inukshuk linked six communities: Iqaluit, Pond Inlet, Igloolik, Baker Lake, Arviat, and Cambridge Bay. By today's standards this proto-network was primitive: video and audio signals were broadcast by satellite from Iqaluit, and received locally in the remaining five communities. Sound was fed back from the communities to the studio in Iqaluit by phone line. Viewers were thus able to see what was happening in the Iqaluit studio, and hear audio from the other participating communities.
As the Inukshuk Project took shape, the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) responded to northern and Aboriginal concerns by appointing Rheal Terrien to head up a committee mandated to investigate the extension of broadcasting services to northern and remote communi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adola%20Town | KibreMengist / Adola () is a town located in the Guji Zone of the Oromia Region, at an altitude of above sea level. 470 km from Addis Ababa.
Overview
KibreMengist / Adola is served by a network of roads. A new road to Shakiso was built around 1960. Two years later an all-weather road reached the town from the north and a dry-weather road south to Negele Borana. This town has both telephone and postal service, and is supplied with electricity by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation from the national grid.
The gold mine near Adola has been the most historically important gold mine in Ethiopia since its opening in 1941; in 1944, for example, its revenue came to nearly a fifth of the total government budget. However, in the public vocabulary, according to the Ethiopian historian Bahru Zewde, the name of the town signified "terror both in the forcible recruitment of labour and in the conditions of penal servitude that prevailed in the labour camp."
Adola was founded during the Italian occupation; a British soldier who travelled through the area wrote in his memoirs that he remembered a "long, wooded valley with a few recently-built villas, the beginning of a new Italian settlement named Adola", as well as rumors that the Italians had found gold in the area.
Demographics
The 2007 national census reported a total population for this town of 22,938, of whom 11,706 were men and 11,232 were women. The majority of the inhabitants said they practiced Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, with 69.35% of the population reporting they observed this belief, while 17.5% of the population were Protestant, 11.05% were Muslim.
The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 20,136 of whom 10,159 were males and 9,977 were females. It is the larger of two towns in Adola and Wadera woreda.
Notes
Cities and towns in Oromia Region |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobart%20coastal%20defences | The Hobart coastal defences are a network of now defunct coastal batteries, some of which are inter-linked with tunnels, that were designed and built by British colonial authorities in the nineteenth century to protect the city of Hobart, Tasmania, from attack by enemy warships. During the nineteenth century, the port of Hobart Town was a vital re-supply stop for international shipping and trade, and therefore a major freight hub for the British Empire. As such, it was considered vital that the colony be protected. In all, between 1804 and 1942 there were 12 permanent defensive positions constructed in the Hobart region.
Prior to Australian Federation, the island of Tasmania was a colony of the British Empire, and as such was often at war with Britain's enemies and European rivals, such as France and later Russia. The British had already established the colony of Sydney at Port Jackson in New South Wales in 1788, but soon began to consider the island of Tasmania as the potential site of a useful second colony. It was an island, cut off from the mainland of Australia and isolated geographically, making it ideal for a penal colony, and was rich in timber, a resource useful to the Royal Navy. In 1803, the British authorities decided to colonise Tasmania, and to establish a permanent settlement on the island that was at the time known as Van Diemen's Land, primarily to prevent the French from doing so. During this period tensions between Great Britain and France remained high. The two nations had been fighting the French Revolutionary Wars with each other through much of the 1790s, and would soon be engaging each other again in the Napoleonic Wars.
The first permanent British settlement in Van Diemen's Land had begun on 8 September 1803, at Risdon Cove on the Derwent River's eastern shore. However, the arrival of Lieutenant-Governor David Collins on 16 February 1804, saw him make the decision to relocate the settlement to Sullivans Cove on the western shore of the Derwent River. Within days of the settlement's establishment, Collins had decided the new colony would need protection should the French send warships up the river to threaten the fledgling colony. A crude earthwork redoubt was dug into an elevated position near the centre of Sullivan's Cove, in the area that is now Franklin Square, and two ships cannons were placed inside. For the next seven years, this muddy emplacement would serve as the only defensive position of what was growing to become Hobart Town.
When Governor Lachlan Macquarie toured the Hobart Town settlement in 1811, he was alarmed at the poor state of the defences and the general disorganisation of the colony. Along with planning for a new grid pattern of streets to be laid out, and new administrative and other buildings to be built, he commissioned the building of Anglesea Barracks, which opened in 1814, and is now the oldest continually occupied barracks in Australia. Macquarie also suggested the construction of more per |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Dellaert | Frank Dellaert is a professor in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is also affiliated with the IRIM@GT center and is well known for contributions to Robotics and Computer Vision.
Early Education
Since his first interest in robotics when he was ten, Dellaert has attended the Catholic University of Leuven, in Belgium, from 1984 to 1989 and received an academic engineering degree (Burg. Ir.) in electrical engineering. He attended the Case Western Reserve University from 1993 to 1995 and received a master's degree in computer science and engineering. In 1995 he began studying at Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked as a research assistant and received his Ph.D. in computer science in 2001. In August of that same year, he joined the faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology.
Research
Frank Dellaert holds interests in the areas of robotics and computer vision, including Bayesian inference and Monte Carlo approximations and how to attain efficiency with approximation methods. In 1999, together with his colleagues Dieter Fox, Sebastian Thrun, and Wolfram Burgard, Frank Dellaert helped develop the Monte Carlo localization algorithm, a probabilistic approach to mobile robot localization that is based on the particle filter. His methodologies for estimating and tracking robotic movements have become a standard and popular tool in mobile robotics. Since joining Georgia Tech, he has explored probabilistic model-based reasoning, paired with randomized approximation methods in advanced sequential Monde Carlo methods, Spatio-Temporal Reconstruction from images, and Simultaneous Location and Mapping. While at Tech, he has applied functional programming to robotics research and education, aiming to educate students about how functional languages embody many of the advancements in computer science and how well-suited it can be in that field.
Dellaert's research is also being used in such projects as SWAN, augmented reality research, and 4D Cities. SWAN (System for Wearable Audio Navigation) is a wearable computer system that takes in details about the web and relays certain signals to the user, aimed at assisting the blind or others during low-visibility situations. Dellaert is researching ways to make its awareness system more exact and efficient. The 4D Cities project, developed by Dellaert and Grant Schindler with help from Sing Bing Kang of Microsoft Research, provides a way to look at a 3D model of a city over time. After looking at different images of a city from different points in time, the program is able to build a 3D model of the city for those times.
Awards
Dellaert won a School of Computer Science Student Award during his stay at Carnegie Mellon University.
In 2005 Dellaert received a $90K NSF CAREER award for "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Large Scale Correspondence Problems in Computer Vision and Robotics."
In 2006, Dellaert was one of 8 Virtual Earth RFP (research for proposal) winne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drush | Drush (DRUpal SHell) is a computer software shell-based application used to control, manipulate, and administer Drupal websites. On the surface, drush is a tool for updating site modules, however Drush has a more comprehensive list of features.
Details
Drush was originally developed by Arto Bendiken for Drupal 4.7. In May 2007, it was partly rewritten and redesigned for Drupal 5 by Franz Heinzmann. Drush is maintained by Moshe Weitzman with the support of Owen Barton, greg.1.anderson, jonhattan, Mark Sonnabaum, Jonathan Hedstrom and Christopher Gervais.
External links
References
Web applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20signature | In computing, a file signature is data used to identify or verify the contents of a file. In particular, it may refer to:
File magic number: bytes within a file used to identify the format of the file; generally a short sequence of bytes (most are 2-4 bytes long) placed at the beginning of the file; see list of file signatures
File checksum or more generally the result of a hash function over the file contents: data used to verify the integrity of the file contents, generally against transmission errors or malicious attacks. The signature can be included at the end of the file or in a separate file.
External links
List of file signatures
Public Database of File Signatures
Computer files |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Dialing%20Scheme | The Global Dialing Scheme (GDS) is numbering plan for H.323 audio-visual communication networks (often used for videoconferencing). Based on the numerology provided by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union, GDS numerology resembles the international telephone system numbering plan, with some exceptions.
The Global Dialing Scheme uses a hierarchy of gatekeepers to route call set-up information nationally and internationally. National gatekeepers have knowledge of all zones within a country, World gatekeepers have knowledge of all National gatekeepers.
Each basic number consists of four parts: (International Access Code, Country Code, Organizational Prefix, Endpoint Number).
GDS history
In 2000, Victor Reis at HEAnet, Egon Verharen at SURFNet and Steve Williams at The Welsh Video Network began meeting by IP videoconference to discuss the requirements for an international H.323 videoconferencing dialling scheme that would allow E.164 dialling, avoiding clashes through the duplication of number spaces. Tim Poe from the University of North Carolina joined this meeting bringing USA involvement through VIDEnet and the NASM group.
It was envisaged that the GDS would be in place only for a few years until SIP/e-mail address dialling was adopted by vendors - in 2012 the GDS is still in use.
GDS around the world
GDS is used heavily in many of the European countries. Educonf, as part of GÉANT, maintains a connectivity table and interactive map which displays which countries currently run and maintain active GDS gatekeepers. Many countries also have a series of test numbers that can be dialed for both technical testing and GDS connectivity verification.
GDS in North America
The North American root gatekeepers serve the United States and its territories, Canada, Bermuda, and many Caribbean nations, including Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Turks & Caicos. Their purpose is to resolve h.323 numbers at the '001' prefix level under the Global Dialing Scheme (GDS) plan.
Terminology in this document follows the format of general GDS documentation. The ‘001’ above refers to the IAC of 00 and the CC of 1 for North America.
This North American node of the Global Dialing Scheme utilizes an enhanced version of the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) to distribute addresses. The address space is divided into two parts: North American E.164 Space and North American Super Space. North American E.164 Space correlates to existing telephone number assignments and is well-suited for IP telephony applications. North American Super Space utilizes unused NANP address space starting with 0 or 1 to create an address space that is separate from existing telephone numbering addresses. This North American Super Space is well suited to video over IP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20equipment%20provider | Network equipment providers (NEPs) – sometimes called telecommunications equipment manufacturers (TEMs) – sell products and services to communication service providers such as fixed or mobile operators as well as to enterprise customers. NEP technology allows for calls on mobile phones, Internet surfing, joining a conference calls, or watching video on demand through IPTV (internet protocol TV). The history of the NEPs goes back to the mid-19th century when the first telegraph networks were set up. Some of these players still exist today.
Telecommunications equipment manufacturers
The terminology of the traditional telecommunications industry has rapidly evolved during the Information Age. The terms "Network" and "Telecoms" are often used interchangeably. The same is true for "provider" and "manufacturer". Historically, NEPs sell integrated hardware/software systems to carriers such as NTT-DoCoMo, ATT, Sprint, and so on. They purchase hardware from TEMs (telecom equipment manufacturers), such as Vertiv, Kontron, and NEC, to name a few. TEMs are responsible for manufacturing the hardware, devices, and equipment the telecommunications industry requires. The distinction between NEP and TEM is sometimes blurred, because all the following phrases may imply NEP:
Telecommunications equipment provider
Telecommunications equipment industry
Telecommunications equipment company
Telecommunications equipment manufacturer (TEM)
Telecommunications equipment technology
Network equipment provider (NEP)
Network equipment industry
Network equipment companies
Network equipment manufacturer
Network equipment technology
Services
This is a highly competitive industry that includes telephone, cable, and data services segments. Products and services include:
Mobile networks like GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication), Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or GPRS (General Packet Radio Service). Networks of this kind are typically also known as 2G and 2.5G networks. The 3G mobile networks are based on UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Standard) which allows much higher data rates than 2G or *5G.
Fixed networks which are typically based on PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network).
Enterprise networks, like Unified Communication infrastructure
Internet infrastructures, like routers and switches
Companies
Some providers in each customer segment are:
Majority of revenues from service providers:
Alcatel-Lucent
Ericsson
Huawei
Samsung
TP-Link
D-Link
Juniper Networks
NEC
Nokia Networks
Ciena
ZTE
Majority of revenues from enterprise customers:
Avaya
Cisco
Motorola
Unify
The NEPs have recently undergone a significant consolidation or M&A activity, for example, the joint venture of Nokia and Siemens (Nokia Siemens Networks), the acquisition of Marconi by Ericsson, the merger between Alcatel and Lucent, and many numerous acquisitions by Cisco.
A look at the financial performance of these players according to the segment t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20System%20Design%20Guide | The PC System Design Guide (also known as the PC-97, PC-98, PC-99, or PC 2001 specification) is a series of hardware design requirements and recommendations for IBM PC compatible personal computers, compiled by Microsoft and Intel Corporation during 1997–2001. They were aimed at helping manufacturers provide hardware that made the best use of the capabilities of the Microsoft Windows operating system, and to simplify setup and use of such computers.
Every part of a standard computer and the most common kinds of peripheral devices are defined with specific requirements. Systems and devices that meet the specification should be automatically recognized and configured by the operating system.
Versions
Four versions of the PC System Design Guide were released. In PC-97, a distinction was made between the requirements of a Basic PC, a Workstation PC and an Entertainment PC. In PC-98, the Mobile PC was added as a category. In PC 2001, the Entertainment PC was dropped.
PC-97
Required:
120 MHz Pentium or MIPS R4x00 or Digital Alpha 21064 (EV4) or IBM PowerPC architecture (latter three only under Windows NT)
16 MB RAM
Initial version.
Introduced color code for PS/2 keyboard (purple) and PS/2 mouse (green) connectors
PC-98
Aimed at systems to be used with Windows 98 or Windows 2000. Required:
200 MHz Pentium processor with MMX technology (or equivalent performance)
256 KB L2 cache
32 MB RAM (recommended: 64 MB of 66 MHz DRAM)
ACPI 1.0 (including power button behavior)
Fast BIOS power-up (limited RAM test, no floppy test, minimal startup display, etc.)
BIOS Y2K compliance
PXE preboot environment
It was published as .
PC-99
Required:
300 MHz CPU
64 MB RAM
USB
Comprehensive color-coding scheme for ports and connectors (see below)
Strongly discouraged:
Non plug-and-play hardware
ISA slots
It was published as .
PC 2001
Required:
667 MHz CPU
64 MB RAM
Final version. First to require IO-APICs to be enabled on all desktop systems. Places a greatly increased emphasis on legacy-reduced and legacy-free systems. Some "legacy" items such as ISA expansion slots and device dependence on MS-DOS are forbidden entirely, while others are merely strongly discouraged.
PC 2001 removes compatibility for the A20 line: "If A20M# generation logic is still present in the system, this logic must be
terminated such that software writes to I/O port 92, bit 1, do not result in A20M# being asserted to the processor."
Color-coding scheme for connectors and ports
Perhaps the most end-user visible and lasting impact of PC 99 was that it introduced a color code for the various standard types of plugs and connectors used on PCs. As many of the connectors look very similar, particularly to a novice PC user, this made it far easier for people to connect peripherals to the correct ports on a PC. This color code was gradually adopted by almost all PC and motherboard manufacturers. Some of the color codes have also been widely adopted by peripheral manufacturers.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20members%20of%20the%20National%20Academy%20of%20Sciences%20%28computer%20and%20information%20sciences%29 |
Computer and information sciences
National Academy of Sciences (Computer and information sciences)
Lists of computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmodel | Transmodel (formally CEN TC278, Reference Data Model For Public Transport, EN12896) is the CEN European Reference Data Model for Public Transport Information; it provides a conceptual model of common public transport concepts and data structures that can be used to build many different kinds of public transport information system, including for timetabling, fares, operational management, real time data, journey planning etc.
Scope
Transmodel provides a comprehensive conceptual model for public transport (PT) information systems including passenger information systems, with coverage of a number of different subdomains of PT information, including transport network infrastructure and topology, public transport schedules, journey planning, fares, fare validation, real-time passenger information and operational aspects of public transport.
It is documented and diagrammed as an entity-relationship model and in Unified Modeling Language (UML), accompanied by detailed descriptions of the concepts, elements and attributes needed to represent transport information.
It uses modern informational architecture principles to separate different concerns as independent layers.
It makes extensive use of node and link concepts to describe individual transport information layers.
It supports the reuse of transport information entities for different applications.
It can represent multi-modal, multi-operator transport systems, with many different organisational structures, complex fare models, and different organisational practices.
Transmodel establishes a consistent terminology for describing public transport concepts, providing definitive equivalents for use in the National Languages of each participant nation. Where PT related words in vernacular use may span a number of different concepts and lead to differences of interpretation, it establishes a more precise technical terminology for unambiguous use by PT information system developers. For example the terms 'trip', 'journey', 'service', are overlapping concepts that in Transmodel are used only in a more specific usages.
As of 2021, the current version of Transmodel is 6.0.
History
Transmodel was originally developed within a range of European projects under several European Programmes (Drive I, Drive II, TAP) with the support of the European Commission (DGXIII), and national public institutions, in particular the French Ministry of Transport (Direction des Transports Terrestres) as well as several private companies.
Initial development & First Generation use
Transmodel development started with the Cassiope project (1989-1991, Drive I programme). The results of Cassiope were then developed further by the EuroBus and Harpist (Drive II) projects. This produced Transmodel V4.1 ENV 12896 with a E/R “Oracle” formalism.
The Telematics Applications Programme project TITAN (1996-1998) continued to validate and enhance Transmodel implementing it in three European pilot sites and has accompanie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry%20Fitzsimons | Gerry Fitzsimons (1960–2007) was a British businessman, chief executive of TTP Ventures, a director of TeraView, Oxford Diffraction and TTP Group plc. He was Cambridge Network's first company secretary.
Career
With a degree in jurisprudence from Oxford University, he left University College in 1981. After the College of Law in Guildford, he joined Clifford Chance in 1982 and qualified as a solicitor in 1984. After qualification he spent time at Clifford Chance—now the world's largest law firm—and with the leading New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling.
In 1987 Gerry moved to Taylor Vinters in Cambridge where he remained until 1996, when he started up the Cambridge Garretts office alongside Arthur Andersen. He was managing partner of the Cambridge office of Andersen Legal until 2002 when its global offices were hit by the fall-out at Arthur Andersen following the Enron scandal and the firm was closed down.
Gerry then took up the chief executive role at TTP Ventures with his familiar passion. He had been external legal counsel to TTP Group since it was formed and to the fund. He was also a director of TeraView, Oxford Diffraction and TTP Group plc.
Gerry had extensive experience of negotiating and structuring private equity transactions and exits. As a top corporate lawyer with a particular focus on the technology sector, he undertook a large number of private equity transactions – both for investee companies and funds. The major legal profession guides all rated him "an outstanding rainmaker.”
His significant transactions included the October 2000 IPO of TTP Communications plc, the December 2000 merger of The Astron Group Limited and Tactica Group plc and the merger of Dalehead Foods Limited and Roche Foods Limited in September 1999.
His regular venture capital clients had included Technomark and Lloyds Development Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners Limited, First Cambridge Gateway and TTP Ventures.
Death
Gerry Fitzsimons died aged 47 following a lengthy battle against lung cancer.
References
1960 births
2007 deaths
20th-century British businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identification%20of%20Fixed%20Objects%20in%20Public%20Transport | IFOPT (Identification of Fixed Objects in Public Transport) is a CEN Technical Specification that provides a Reference Data Model for describing the main fixed objects required for public access to Public transport, that is to say Transportation hubs (such as airports, stations, bus stops, ports, and other destination places and points of interest, as well as their entrances, platforms, concourses, internal spaces, equipment, facilities, accessibility etc.). Such a model is a fundamental component of the modern Public transport information systems needed both to operate Public transport and to inform passengers about services.
Scope
IFOPT is itself built upon the CEN Transmodel standard and defines four related sub models.
Stop Place Model: Describes the detailed structure of a Stop Place (that is stations, airports, ferry ports, bus stops, coach stations, etc., providing a point of access to public transport) including Entrances, pathways, and accessibility limitations.
Point of Interest Model: Describes the structure of a point of interest (that is tourist attractions, leisure facilities, stadia, public buildings, parks, prisons, etc.) to which people may wish to travel by public transport) including physical points of access, i.e. Entrances.
Gazetteer Topographical Model: Provides a topographical representation of the settlements (cities, towns, villages etc.) between which people travel. It is used to associate Stop and Station elements with the appropriate topographic names and concepts to support the functions of journey planning, stop finding, etc.
Administrative Model. Provides an organisational model for assigning responsibility to create and maintain data as a collaborative process involving distributed stakeholders. Includes namespace management to manage the decentralised issuing of unique identifiers.
Stop Places
The Stop Place model defines a conceptual model and identification principles for places of access (Stop Places) for all modes of transport (including airports, stations, ports, bus stops, coach stations, taxi ranks, etc.).
It distinguishes all physical points of access to transport such as platforms, gates, quays, bays, stances, taxi ranks, and also other areas of an interchange such as booking halls, concourses, waiting rooms, etc.
It describes the navigation paths between such points allowing the routing by journey planners.
It can represent detailed accessibility data about access for wheelchair users, the visually impaired, and other categories of users with special needs, etc.
It can also represent likely points of delay due to processes such as checkin, security, etc.
Stop Places and their component elements can be assigned the names, labels and codes needed to identify them to the public in different contexts.
Components can be associated with elements of other information layers such as the Road and Path Network to allow for integrated journey routing.
See also
Transmodel
NaPTA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut%20Network | The Connecticut Network, also known as CT-N, is a 24-hour Cable TV and internet streaming service that provides coverage of Connecticut state government and public affairs. Launched in 1999, CT-N is managed in partnership with the Connecticut General Assembly and The Connecticut Democracy Center (originally known as the Connecticut Public Affairs Network). While other past initiatives for covering official proceedings of Connecticut's State Legislature existed prior to 1999, CT-N represents the first 24-hour service focused on gavel-to-gavel coverage of all three branches of Connecticut state government and has run continuously since its launch. The network's scope of operations has expanded and contracted over the years and has at different points in time also included coverage of Connecticut elections, live anchored broadcasts and Election Night and Legislative Opening Day and a week-in-review program titled CT-N Capitol Report which debuted on Friday nights and ran continuously for 13 years. The network's focus on complete and balanced coverage without commercial interruption, editing or commentary has positioned it to be a window on Connecticut government and policy for many watershed events since 1999, including one governor's impeachment inquiry, political and policy responses to the 9/11 attacks and the Sandy Hook school shooting, as well as daily press briefings from the Governor's Office at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
History
Following a successful 1997 pilot project of House and Senate coverage conducted by West Hartford Community Television in cooperation with the Office of Legislative Management, the leadership of the Connecticut General Assembly agreed to the construction of a television installation for what would soon be referred to as the Connecticut Network. Founding partners with the legislature included Connecticut Public Television, the state's Community and Technical College System and a new nonprofit organization called the Connecticut Public Affairs Network or CPAN, founded in 1998 by the former Assistant Executive Director of West Hartford Community TV responsible for the initial pilot. After several months of constructing a robotically-controlled TV facility within the State Capitol Complex, CT-N went on the air for the first time on March 10, 1999.
Beginning with a 4-hour loop of programming that repeated throughout the day, CT-N's programming expanded quickly from coverage of House and Senate sessions to include legislative committee meetings and hearings, executive branch agencies and, by 2001, oral arguments before the Connecticut State Supreme Court. While CT-N was viewable live and on demand 24/7 through the network's website, cable television availability would remain restricted in most areas to 4 hours a day until CPAN, in conjunction with the leadership of the legislature's Energy and Technology Committee, negotiated 24-hour Expanded Basic cable carriage statewide with the state's cable TV industry. I |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Mapping%20Project | The Internet Mapping Project
was started by William Cheswick and Hal Burch at Bell Labs in 1997. It has collected and preserved traceroute-style paths to some hundreds of thousands of networks almost daily since 1998. The project included visualization of the Internet data, and the Internet maps were widely disseminated.
The technology is now used by Lumeta, a spinoff of Bell Labs, to map corporate and government networks.
Although Cheswick left Lumeta in September 2006, Lumeta continues to map both the IPv4 and IPv6 Internet. The data allows for both a snapshot and view over time of the routed infrastructure of a particular geographical area, company, organization, etc.
Cheswick continues to collect and preserve the data, and it is available for research purposes. According to Cheswick, a main goal of the project was to collect the data over time, and make a time-lapse movie of the growth of the Internet.
Techniques
The techniques available for network discovery rely on hop-limited probes of the type used by the Unix traceroute utility or the Windows NT tracert.exe tool. A Traceroute-style network probe follows the path that network packets take from a source node to a destination node. This technique uses Internet Protocol packets with an 8-bit time to live (TTL) header field. As a packet passes through routers on the Internet, each router decreases the TTL value by one until it reaches zero. When a router receives a packet with a TTL value of zero, it drops the packet instead of forwarding it. At this point, it sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) error message to the source node where the packet originated indicating that the packet exceeded its maximum transit time.
Active Probing – Active probing is a series of probes set out through a network to obtain data. Active probing is used in internet mapping to discover the topology of the Internet. Topology maps of the Internet are an important tool for characterizing the infrastructure and understanding the properties, behavior and evolution of the Internet.
Other internet mapping projects
Hand Drawn Maps of Internet from 1973.
The Center for Applied Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA) collects, monitors, analyzes, and maps several forms of Internet traffic data concerning network topology. Their "Internet Topology Maps also referred to as AS-level Internet Graphs [are being generated] in order to visualize the shifting topology of the Internet over time."
The Opte Project, started in 2003 by engineer Barrett Lyon, using traceroute and BGP routes for mapping.
New Hampshire Project – In 2010, the U.S. Department of Commerce has awarded the University of New Hampshire's Geographically Referenced Analysis and Information Transfer (NH GRANIT) project approximately $1.7 million to manage a program that will inventory and map current and planned broadband coverage available to the state's businesses, educators, and citizens. As a part of this project, The New Hampshire Broadband M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20for%20You%20%28Shanice%20song%29 | "It's for You" is a song by Shanice and produced by Eric Kirkland and Michael Angelo Saulsberry of Portrait with drum programming by Maurice Thompson. It also features a rap verse from Brett Bouldin. The single was released from the soundtrack of the film The Meteor Man. It became another moderate hit for the singer. A music video was filmed. Shanice also performed the song on the Family Matters episode "Rock Enroll", which originally aired January 7, 1994.
Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that the song "places Shanice's crystalline voice inside a romantic pop/R&B shuffle tune." He added, "Complemented by Brett Bouldin's understated rap, singer strikes a more mature and soulful stance than on recent efforts. Tightly woven background harmonies create a soothing and dreamy mood. Top 40 and urban radio programmers have already begun to embrace this sparkling jewel of a single. A summery delight."
Track listing
12" single
A1. It's For You (LP Version)(drum programming by Maurice Thompson) (4:05)
A2. It's For You (Street Mix) (4:34)
A3. It's For You (Mike's Swazza Mix) (4:32)
B1. It's For You (Bassapella) (4:31)
B2. It's For You (LP Instrumental) (4:05)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
1993 singles
Shanice songs
Songs written for films
Songs written by Shanice
1993 songs
Motown singles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akbot | Akbot was a computer virus that infected an estimated 1.3 million computers and added them to a botnet. It was created by an 18-year-old named Owen Walker, who was charged but unconvicted in 2008.
Infection
Akbot is an IRC controlled backdoor program. It allows an outside user to take control of the infected computer. Akbot operates by joining IRC servers and the waiting for further instructions. Once installed, Akbot can be used to gather data, kill processes, or perform DDOS attacks.
Sources
The author, 18-year-old New Zealand based bot master, Owen Walker ("AKILL"), was caught during an international investigation, Operation: Bot Roast, during which his home was raided by New Zealand police and an FBI agent. He was charged in April 2008, but not convicted because the court did not believe his motives to be criminal.
References
Botnets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectifier%20%28disambiguation%29 | The word rectifier refers to the general act of straightening. It may refer to:
Rectifier, a device for converting alternating current to direct current
Rectifier (neural networks), an activation function for artificial neural networks
Rectifier, a guitar amplifier manufactured by Mesa Boogie.
See also
Rectification (disambiguation)
Rectified spirit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20tree-based%20routing | Augmented tree-based routing (ATR) protocol, first proposed in 2007, is a multi-path DHT-based routing protocol for scalable networks. ATR resorts to an augmented tree-based address space structure and a hierarchical multi-path routing protocol in order to gain scalability and good resilience against node failure/mobility and link congestion/instability.
See also
List of ad hoc routing protocols
Mobile ad hoc network
References
Routing algorithms
Wireless networking
Ad hoc routing protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralf%20Brown%27s%20Interrupt%20List | Ralf Brown's Interrupt List (aka RBIL, x86 Interrupt List, MS-DOS Interrupt List or INTER) is a comprehensive list of interrupts, calls, hooks, interfaces, data structures, CMOS settings, memory and port addresses, as well as processor opcodes and special function registers for x86 machines from the 1981 IBM PC up to 2000 (including many clones), most of it still applying to IBM PC compatibles today.
Overview
The list covers operating systems, device drivers, and application software; both documented and undocumented information including bugs, incompatibilities, shortcomings, and workarounds, with version, locale, and date information, often at a detail level far beyond that found in the contemporary literature. A large part of it covers system BIOSes and internals of operating systems such as DOS, OS/2, and Windows, as well as their interactions.
It has been a widely used resource by IBM PC system developers, analysts, as well as application programmers in the pre-Windows era. Parts of the compiled information have been used for and in the creation of several books on systems programming, some of which have also been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Russian. As such the compilation has proven to be an important resource in developing various closed and open source operating systems, including Linux and FreeDOS. Today it is still used as a reference to BIOS calls and to develop programs for DOS as well as other system-level software.
The project is the result of the research and collaborative effort of more than 650 listed contributors worldwide over a period of 15 years, of which about 290 provided significant information (and some 55 of them even more than once). The original list was created in January 1985 by Janet Jack and others, and, named "Interrupt List for MS-DOS", it was subsequently maintained and mailed to requestors on Usenet by Ross M. Greenberg until 1986. Since October 1987 it is maintained by Ralf D. Brown, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute. Information from several other interrupt listings was merged into the list in order to establish one comprehensive reference compilation. Over the years, Michael A. Shiels, Timothy Patrick Farley, Matthias R. Paul, Robin Douglas Howard Walker, Wolfgang Lierz and Tamura Jones became major contributors to the project, providing information all over the list. The project was also expanded to include other PC development-related information and therefore absorbed a number of independently maintained lists on PC I/O ports (by Wim Osterholt and Matthias R. Paul), BIOS CMOS memory contents (by Atley Padgett Peterson), processor opcodes (by Alex V. Potemkin) and bugs (by Harald Feldmann). Brown and Paul also conducted several systematic surveys on specific hard- and software details among a number of dedicated user groups in order to validate some info and to help fill some gaps in the list.
Originally, the list was distributed in an archive name |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Woodcock | Bruce Woodcock may refer to:
Bruce Woodcock (boxer) (1920–1997), English heavyweight boxer
Bruce Woodcock (computer games analyst) (born 1970), American computer games analyst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snarfing | Snarf is a term used by computer programmers and the UNIX community meaning to copy a file or data over a network, for any purpose, with additional specialist meanings to access data without appropriate permission. It also refers to using command line tools to transfer files through the HTTP, gopher, finger, and FTP protocols without user interaction, and to a method of achieving cache coherence in a multiprocessing computer architecture through observation of writes to cached data.
Example
An example of a snarf is the Evil twin attack, using a simple shell script running software like AirSnarf to create a wireless hotspot complete with a captive portal. Wireless clients that associate to a snarf access point will receive an IP, DNS, and gateway and appear completely normal. Users will have all of their DNS queries resolve to the attacker's IP number, regardless of their DNS settings, so any website they attempt to visit will bring up a snarf "splash page", requesting a username and password. The username and password entered by unsuspecting users will be mailed to root@localhost. The reason this works is:
Legitimate access points can be impersonated and/or drowned out by rogue access points, and
Users without a means to validate the authenticity of access points will nevertheless give up their hotspot credentials when asked for them
See also
Bluejacking
Bluesnarfing
Pod slurping
References
External links
Airsnarf Attack
Wiktionary "snarf"
Privacy of telecommunications
Web security exploits
Cybercrime |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coreu | COREU (French: – Telex network of European correspondents, also EUKOR-Netzwerk in Austria) is a communication network of the European Union for the communication of the Council of the European Union, the European correspondents of the foreign ministries of the EU member states, permanent representatives of member states in Brussels, the European Commission, and the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union. The European Parliament is not among the participants.
COREU is the European equivalent of the American Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet, also known as Intelink-S). COREU's official aim is fast communication in case of crisis. The network enables a closer cooperation in matters regarding foreign affairs. In actuality the system's function exceeds that of mere communication, it also enables decision-making. COREU's first goal is to enable the exchange of information before and after decisions. Relaying upfront negotiations in preparation of meetings is the second goal. In addition, the system also allows the editing of documents and the decision-making, especially if there is little time. While the first two goals are preparatory measures for a shared foreign policy, the third is a methodical variant marked by practise that is defining for the image of the Common Foreign and Security Policy.
Members
(The following information dates from 2013):* There is one representative in each of the capital cities in the EU.(since 1973) In Germany for example, this is the European correspondent (EU-KOR) from the Foreign Office. In Austria it is the European correspondent from the Referat II.1.a in the Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs
They are the correspondents (since 1982) for the European Commission
They comprise the secretariat for the European Council
They also make up the European External Action Service (EEAS) (responsible for foreign policy issues, since 1987)
Data volume and technical details
COREU functions as a spoke-hub distribution paradigm system with the hub in Brussels. The network is operated by the European Union Intelligence and Situation Centre (formerly Joint Situation Center, JSC). The technical infrastructure is located in a building of the European Council. COREU may be described as an advanced telex system with encrypted messages via dedicated terminals.
Once a message has reached the destination, it is then redistributed via the local media. In contrast, messages of governments are transmitted via local media to the correspondents and from there delivered point-to-point to Brussels via COREU.
In 2010, approximately 8500 communications had been distributed over this network.
History
A telex-based communication system under the name COREU was established in 1973. Originally, only the ministries of Foreign Affairs in the European capitals were connected to it. This telex system was replaced in 1997 by the mail system CORTESY (COREU Terminal Equipment System). Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20K.%20Solomon | Martin K. Solomon is a professor of Computer Science at Florida Atlantic University since 1981, and is currently Assistant Chair for the Computer Science and Engineering Department. He authored two books on Oracle8i and one on Oracle9i that were published by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Solomon is also a noted scholar on Kurt Gödel, the Austrian logician and philosopher.
Notes
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Importance%20of%20Being%20Ernie | The Importance of Being Ernie was a documentary from the 40 Minutes strand of programming on BBC2 and was made in 1993 following the career of the comedian Ernie Wise after the death in 1984 of his comedy partner Eric Morecambe. It charted the current work of the comedian who, since the death of his partner, had made West End appearances in The Mystery of Edwin Drood and concentrated largely on pantomime work. His autobiography, entitled Still On My Way To Hollywood, is referenced throughout the programme. Despite having the full co-operation of the subject, the programme has been criticised for focussing on him in a negative way, portraying a somewhat tragic figure and, in one section, memorably sees him reminiscing with a view of Eric Morecambe from one of their television programmes in the background. Wise is known to have been unhappy with the outcome of the broadcast programme, and it is notable for being his last major televised work prior to his death in 1999 from heart problems.
The title of the programme, an obvious parody of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, is in itself reminiscent of one of the plays "what he wrote" at the height of the pair's popularity at the BBC in the 1970s.
References
Morecambe and Wise
1993 British television episodes
Documentary films about comedy and comedians
BBC One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For%20the%20Fans | For the Fans may refer to:
For the Fans (Backstreet Boys album)
For the Fans Vol. 1, a mini-album by Bizzy Bone
For the Fans Tour, a concert tour by Gary Barlow
For the Fans (TV network), the former Eleven Sports USA
"For the Fans", a track from the soundtrack of the 2015 video game Undertale by Toby Fox |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RetroCode | RetroCode is a universal mobile content converter originally created by Retro Ringtones LLC. RetroCode is able to read and write most common sample based ringtone formats including meta-data.
Overview
RetroCode reads and writes many common mobile sample content file formats. RetroCode takes measures for making sure that meta-data is maintained and converted between the formats. It features filters for adapting audio content to the abilities of small handheld devices. RetroCode also includes a ringback-signal synthesizer allowing to mix audio content with standard ITU ringback signals.
Compatibility
RetroCode currently supports the following formats
Dependency
RetroCode depends on a variety of open source libraries as well as some ISO reference implementations.
id3lib Version 3.8.3
faac
faad2
mp4ff part of faad2, patched for 3GPP compatibility
zlib
amrnb
amrwb
mp3lame
mad
avformat
avcodec
avutil
qscl
mpeg4ip
External links
Project home page
Audio format converters
Solaris software
Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software
Multimedia software for Linux
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIMA | AIMA can refer to:
AIMA prophecy on the Komnenian family in the Byzantine Empire
All India Management Association
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, standard university textbook on Artificial Intelligence
Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs, an Australian government agency from 1979 to 1986 |
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