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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear%20channel%20assessment%20attack | A clear channel assessment attack or Queensland attack is a physical layer DoS attack against Wi-Fi networks. The attack focuses the need of a wireless network to receive the "clear channel assessment"; which is a function within CSMA/CA to determine whether the wireless medium is ready and able to receive data, so that the transmitter may start sending it. The attack makes it appear that the airwaves are busy, which basically puts the entire system on hold.
The attack works only on 802.11b, and is not effective on the OFDM-based protocols 802.11g and 802.11a. However, some hybrid 802.11b/g access points will hinder the 802.11g network when the 802.11b network is attacked.
Discovery
The attack was originally discovered by researchers at Queensland University of Technology's Information Security Research Center, thus it is where the name Queensland attack comes from.
In practice
The signal telling the system the airwaves are busy is of course sent through the attacker's NIC, by placing it in continuous transmit mode. The attack can be set up through the use of the Intersil's Prism Test Utility (PrismTestUtil322.exe).
References
Computer security exploits |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDCA | HDCA may refer to:
Human Development and Capability Association
Hyodesoxycholic acid
Honors Diploma in Computer Application |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8%C2%BD%20%28Plan%209%29 | is a window system developed for the Plan 9 from Bell Labs operating system by Rob Pike. According to its documentation, the system has little graphical fanciness, a fixed user interface, and depends on a three-button mouse. Like much of the Plan 9 operating system, many operations work by reading and writing to special files.
Because of the limitations stemming from its unusual implementation, has been completely rewritten into its successor rio in recent Plan 9 versions.
See also
Plan 9 from Bell Labs — the operating system
mux — the predecessor to
rio — the new Plan 9 windowing system
9wm — an X window manager which attempts to emulate
External links
, the Plan 9 Window System by Rob Pike — The original paper.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20W.%20Ketchledge | Raymond Waibel Ketchledge (December 8, 1919 – October 23, 1987) was an American engineer, known for his contributions to the first computerized telephone switching control systems.
Biography
Born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ketchledge married Lois Jane Quackenbush. He earned a B.Sc. and M.Sc. (1942) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining Bell Labs where he stayed for his whole professional career (1942–1982).
At Bell Labs he first worked on the Mark 24 FIDO Torpedo used in World War II, then took part in developing the first underwater repeater systems and the L3 coaxial carrier for Transatlantic telephone cable systems (1946–54), before becoming the leader of the Switching systems development group (1956). This brought him fame due to the pioneering work on applying stored program architecture to telephone switching systems. Ketchledge oversaw the installation project for the first 1ESS switch in Succasunna (1965).
Following this he directed the Indian Hill laboratories of Naperville, Illinois (1966–75), before returning to New Jersey where he oversaw the Ocean systems research division in Whippany, New Jersey, until his retirement. He held sixty patents in diverse areas, including thirty-one in switching systems.
He died of cancer at his home in Englewood, Florida, on October 23, 1987.
Awards
National Academy of Engineering inductee (1970)
IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal (1976) with Amos E. Joel Jr. and William Keister
IEEE Fellow
New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame inductee
References
American electrical engineers
Scientists at Bell Labs
MIT School of Engineering alumni
People from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
1919 births
1987 deaths
People from Hanover Township, New Jersey
People from Englewood, Florida
Engineers from Pennsylvania
Engineers from New Jersey
20th-century American engineers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus%20Computing%20Corporation | Locus Computing Corporation was formed in 1982 by Gerald J. Popek, Charles S. Kline and Gregory I. Thiel
to commercialize the technologies developed for the LOCUS distributed operating system at UCLA. Locus was notable for commercializing single-system image software and producing the Merge package which allowed the use of DOS and Windows 3.1 software on Unix systems.
Locus was acquired by Platinum Technology Inc in 1995.
Products
AIX for IBM PS/2 and System/370
Locus was commissioned by IBM to produce a version of the AIX UNIX based operating system for the PS/2 and System/370 ranges. The single-system image capabilities of LOCUS were incorporated under the name of AIX TCF (transparent computing facility).
OSF/1 AD for the Intel Paragon
Locus was commissioned by Intel to produce a multiprocessor version of OSF/1 for the Intel Paragon a massively parallel NORMA (No Remote Memory Access) system.
The system was known as OSF/1 AD, where AD stood for "Advanced Development".
To allow inter processor process migration and communication between the individual nodes of the Paragon system they re-worked the TCF technology from LOCUS as Transparent Network Computing, or TNC, inventing the concept of the VPROC (virtual process) an analogy of the VNODE (virtual inode) from the SunOS virtual file system.
UnixWare NonStop Clusters
Locus was commissioned by Tandem Computers to include their TNC technology in a highly available single-system image clustering system based on SCO UnixWare, UnixWare NonStop Clusters.
During the course of the project Locus was acquired by Platinum Technology Inc, who transferred the team working on NonStop Clusters to Tandem.
Tandem were later bought by Compaq. The UnixWare product was acquired from SCO by Caldera Systems/Caldera International, who discontinued commercialization of the NonStop Clusters product in favor of the simpler Reliant HA system. Compaq then decided to release the NonStop Clusters code as open source software, porting it to Linux as the OpenSSI project.
Merge
Merge was a system developed by Locus in late 1984 for the AT&T 6300+ computer, which allowed DOS (and hence DOS applications) to be run under the native UNIX SVR2 operating system.
The 6300+ used an Intel 80286 processor and included special-purpose circuitry to allow virtualization of the 8086 instruction set used by DOS.
Merge was later modified to use the virtual 8086 mode provided by Intel 80386 processors. It was sold for Microport SVR3 and later SCO Unix and UnixWare.
In the late 1980, the main commercial competitor of Merge was VP/IX developed by Interactive Systems Corporation and Phoenix Technologies.
Around 1994, Merge included an innovative socket API that used Intel ring 2 for virtualization. Although this was the fastest network access of any Windows virtualization system then on the market, it did not increase sales enough to make Locus independent. This socket API was designed and developed by Real Time, Inc. of Santa Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Virginia%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce | The Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce is a membership based business network located in Fairfax County, Virginia. It represents 650+ businesses and 500,000 employees, making it the largest regional chamber of commerce in Virginia.
The chamber provides the Northern Virginia business community with access to opportunities represented by the Chamber’s four foundational pillars: business development, thought leadership, strategic advocacy, and community partnerships.
In January 2016, the organization restructured itself from the Fairfax Chamber of Commerce to the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce. In August 2018, the Chamber announced that Better Business Bureau Chief Operating Officer, Julie Coons, would be the organization's new President and CEO following a nation-wide search.
Mission statement
The Northern Virginia Chamber offers business development opportunities to organizations interested in growth through knowledge, access and influence in Northern Virginia, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Metropolitan Washington Region. The Chamber leads the business community by: engaging in thought leadership; strengthening industry knowledge; advocating for business positions; and supporting key partnerships.
Board of directors
Julie Coons, President and CEO
Todd Rowley, Chair
Kathryn Falk, Vice Chair
Luanne Gutermuth, Secretary
Susan Moser, Treasurer
Scott Hommer, General Counsel
Jennifer Siciliano, Immediate Past Chair
References
External links
Office website
Chambers of commerce in the United States
Companies based in Fairfax County, Virginia
Organizations established in 1925
1925 establishments in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ang%20Babaeng%20Hinugot%20sa%20Aking%20Tadyang | (International title: Dangerous Love / ) is a 2009 Philippine television drama thriller series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is an adaptation of Carlo J. Caparas' graphic novel. Directed by Joyce E. Bernal and Topel Lee, it stars Dingdong Dantes and Marian Rivera. It premiered on February 2, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on May 1, 2009 with a total of 63 episodes.
The series was released on DVD by GMA Records.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Dingdong Dantes as Homer Alcaraz
Marian Rivera as Proserfina J. Valdez-Alcaraz
Supporting cast
Angelu de Leon as Heleen Barrientos
Paolo Contis as Conrado "Rado" Barrientos
Eugene Domingo as Madeline "Madel" Morales
Carmi Martin as Hera Alcaraz
Francine Prieto as Sheila Velasco
Sherilyn Reyes as Galatea Alcaraz
Lovi Poe as Athena Cruz
Mart Escudero as Ulysses Valdez
Jackie Rice as Cassandra Alcaraz
Prince Stefan as Aristotle "Aris" Alcaraz
Alyssa Alano as Citas Villareal
Carlene Aguilar as Clarisse Morales
Paolo Paraiso as Mike Villareal
Celia Rodriguez as Laurenna Alcaraz
Recurring cast
Joanne Quintas as Sylvia Torres
Kiel Rodriguez as Ruel Alcaraz
Guest cast
Ricardo Cepeda as Vito Valdez
Freddie Webb as Apollo Alcaraz
Lorenz Tan as Achilles Valdez
Ryan Eigenmann as Enrico dela Cruz
Jace Flores as Anton Torres
Glydel Mercado as Celina Valdez
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 30.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 32% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2009 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine crime television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20network%20hosting%20service | A social network hosting service is a web hosting service that specifically hosts the user creation of web-based social networking services, alongside related applications. Such services are also known as vertical social networks due to the creation of SNSes which cater to specific user interests and niches; like larger, interest-agnostic SNSes, such niche networking services may also possess the ability to create increasingly niche groups of users.
List of social network hosting services
Federated Media Publishing's BigTent
BroadVision Clearvale
KickApps
Ning
Wall.fm
References
Social media
Web hosting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incognito%20%28operating%20system%29 | Incognito was a Linux distribution based on Gentoo Linux. Its main feature was the inclusion of anonymity and security tools such as Tor by default and being able to be used as a Live CD or Live USB.
Incognito's developer has stated on the project's homepage that Incognito has been discontinued and recommends Tails as an alternative.
Release history
Anonymity and security tools
Tor for anonymous internet browsing.
TrueCrypt, a file/partition encryption utility.
Enigmail, a security extension for Thunderbird.
Torbutton, a Firefox plugin to improve Tor's anonymity in Firefox.
FireGPG, Firefox plugin for using GnuPG for Webmail.
GnuPG, OpenPGP implementation for encryption.
KeePassX, a password manager.
Besides these tools, the RAM was overwritten during system shutdown to ensure no possibility of data recovery later.
License
The Tor project listed Incognito as a licensee of the Tor brand name. In accordance to this license agreement, Incognito had the right to use the Tor name and logo.
References
External links
Official Website
Incognito at Softpedia
Tails, the successor of Incognito
Gentoo Linux derivatives
Linux distributions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lulu%27s%20Islands | Lulu's Islands (, originally Lulu la Peste) is an animated series for children that premiered on 5 October 2009, on the TFOU block of France's TF1 network. It is produced by Interactive Project 4 You (IP4U) of Valenciennes and Patoon-Animation of Paris. The show uses cutout animation for its style, and is targeted to young viewers.
Synopsis
Animals of various species live happily on an untouched archipelago called the Wonderlees. One day, everything changes when a kitten named Lulu meets the first human ever to land on their shores: Peppy (or Pépin), a young shipwreck survivor turned castaway.
Characters
Lulu, a mischievous tomboy cat, and the show's heroine
Romeo, a baby elephant
Erik (Eric), a maned wolf cub
Simone, a french bulldog
Isabelle, a giraffe, and the teacher of the children
Peppy (Pépin), the boy who gets stranded on the Wonderlees
Cast
Lizzie Waterworth - Peppy
Jules de Jongh - Lulu and Erik
Joanna Ruiz - Romeo and Simone
Harriet Carmichael - Pipa and Isabelle
Eric Meyers - Daddycat, Badjijaba, Bartolo
Fabrice Ziolkowski - Dr. Button
Production
Lulu's Islands began development at Paris' HLC Productions in 2005 under the title Lulu la Peste, at a cost of €137,000. By 2008, the budget had grown to €2,931,000.
Production of the new series involves at least three crew members of another TF1 animated series, The Bellflower Bunnies: Eric Berthier, the director of Bellflower's 2nd and 3rd seasons; screenwriter Valérie Baranski; and producer Patricia Robert, who in March 2008 set up Patoon-Animation exclusively for the new show. Pierre Gillet, from the Belgian music and post-production outlet Dame Blanche, will serve as composer.
Episodes
Lulu's Islands consists of a planned 52 episodes, in addition to a four-minute pilot that was shown as an official selection at the Annecy International Animation Festival in June 2008.
Merchandise
There will also be tie-in books based on the series, although further details have not been announced since early 2008.
References
External links
2009 French television series debuts
2000s French animated television series
2010s French animated television series
French children's animated adventure television series
Fictional archipelagoes
French flash animated television series
Animated television series about cats
Animated television series about children
Animated television series about elephants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalog%20of%20Stellar%20Identifications | The Catalog of Stellar Identifications (CSI) is a star catalog which was constructed to facilitate cross-referencing between different star catalogs. It contains designations and basic data for, as of 1983, approximately 440,000 stars, and was created by merging the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog, the Henry Draper Catalogue, the AGK2/3, the Cape Photographic Catalogue, the Cape Zone Catalogue, the Yale Zone Catalogue, the Cape Catalogue of Faint Stars, and the Boss General Catalogue. It contains stellar coordinates, magnitudes, spectral types, proper motions, and cross-references to designations in the previously mentioned catalogs. It also gives cross-references to many other catalogues, such as the Index Catalogue of Visual Double Stars, which have been linked to the CSI. The CSI eventually became part of the SIMBAD stellar database.
References
Astronomical catalogues of stars |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plustek | Plustek Inc. () is a computer hardware company established in 1986 that manufactures image scanners, as well as surveillance devices in recent years. They have the MobileOffice, SmartOffice, OpticBook, OpticPro, OpticFilm, and OpticSlim line of products.
Competitors
Canon
Epson
Fujitsu
HP
KeyScan
Lexmark
Microtek
Mustek Systems
Ricoh
Xerox
Umax
Avision Inc
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Companies based in Taipei
Computer peripheral companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
Taiwanese companies established in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roads%20in%20Jamaica | The roads in Jamaica allow people and goods to traverse the island of Jamaica, which is the third largest in the Caribbean. As of 2011, Jamaica has road network 22,121 kilometres in length.
Road network
According to the National Works Agency, in 2007 Jamaica had 844 km of arterial roads, 717 km of secondary roads, 3225 km of tertiary roads, 282 km of urban roads, and 10326 km of parochial roads. Using data from 2011, the CIA World Factbook claimed Jamaica has a total road network of 22121 km, 5973 km of which was unpaved and 16148 km of which was paved.
Governing legislation
Various pieces of legislation govern the construction, maintenance, classification, and operation of roads in Jamaica. They include the Road Traffic Act, the Toll Road Act, the Parochial Roads Act, and the Main Roads Act. Government agencies with various responsibilities relating to roads in Jamaica include the Island Traffic Authority, the Toll Authority of Jamaica, and the National Works Agency.
Motorways
Starting in the late 1990s the Jamaican Government (in cooperation with private investors) embarked on the Highway 2000 project to create a system of motorways, the first such access-controlled roads of their kind on the island. The project seeks ultimately to link the two main cities (Kingston and Montego Bay) and the north coast. It is being undertaken as a series of phases:
Phase 1a was the Kingston-Bushy Park Highway (in actuality, from the Mandela Highway at Caymanas Park to Sandy Bay) which was completed in 2003, and the upgrade of the Portmore Causeway, completed June 2006.
Phase 1B Sandy Bay to Four Paths which was completed on 15 August 2012 and opened as the T1 Toll Road. There is an exit for traffic to/from the A1 Spanish Town Bypass between and from the eastern end of the T1, then to Old Harbour at , to Freetown at , to Sandy Bay at , and concludes at a junction with the A2 at , about east of the junction with Glenmuir Rd providing access to May Pen. Work on the section from Four Paths to Williamsfield was completed in September 2023. This phase will be a total of when completed.
Phase 2a Caymanas Park-Ocho Rios. The section from Linstead By-Pass to Moneague opened as the T3 on 5 August 2014, . The link to the A1 Moneague to Mount Diablo Road at from Linstead remains closed at this time. This exit allows northbound traffic to exit to the A1 and southbound traffic to join the T3.
Phase 2b Mandeville-Montego Bay. General Alignment in progress
On 2009-09-15 Jamaica's prime minister, Bruce Golding, announced to Parliament that Highway 2000 was to be renamed in honour of Usain Bolt. Those intentions were sidelined following a news paper article claiming Bolt had rejected the proposal.
Northern Coastal Highway
1998, the Government of Jamaica and the European Commission signed the financing agreement for the third segment of the Northern Coastal Highway Improvement Project in the amount of €80 million. The Project involves the reconstruction and re-ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Geman | Donald Jay Geman (born September 20, 1943) is an American applied mathematician and a leading researcher in the field of machine learning and pattern recognition. He and his brother, Stuart Geman, are very well known for proposing the Gibbs sampler and for the first proof of the convergence of the simulated annealing algorithm, in an article that became a highly cited reference in engineering (over 21K citations according to Google Scholar, as of January 2018). He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins University and simultaneously a visiting professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan.
Biography
Geman was born in Chicago in 1943. He graduated from Northern Illinois University in 1965 with a B.A. degree in English literature, and from Northwestern University in 1970 with a Ph.D in mathematics. His dissertation was entitled as "Horizontal-window conditioning and the zeros of stationary processes." He joined University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1970, where he retired as a distinguished professor in 2001. Thereafter, he became a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University. He has also been a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Work
D. Geman and J. Horowitz published a series of papers during the late 1970s on local times and occupation densities of stochastic processes. A survey of this work and other related problems can be found in the Annals of Probability. In 1984 with his brother Stuart, he published a milestone paper which is still today one of the most cited papers in the engineering literature. It introduces a Bayesian paradigm using Markov Random Fields for the analysis of images. This approach has been highly influential over the last 20 years and remains a rare tour de force in this rapidly evolving field. In another milestone paper, in collaboration with Y. Amit, he introduced the notion for randomized decision trees, which have been called random forests and popularized by Leo Breiman. Some of his recent works include the introduction of coarse-to-fine hierarchical cascades for object detection in computer vision and the TSP (Top Scoring Pairs) classifier as a simple and robust rule for classifiers trained on high dimensional small sample datasets in bioinformatics.
References
External links
Donald Geman Homepage
1943 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American statisticians
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Gift%20%281997%20TV%20series%29 | The Gift is an Australian children's television series that first screened on the Nine Network Australia in 1997. It featured 26 half-hour episodes produced by Barron Entertainment Ltd. The show reaired on the ABC in December 1998, and on ABC3 in 2011.
Synopsis
The Gift is passed on from one person to the next and gives the carrier the power to do anything they dream. When the Gift carrier discovers the Gift's true potential they have to pass it on to someone else.
Cast
Peter Rowsthorn as Raff
Kate Beahan as Enzo
Kazimir Sas as Henry
Khan Chittenden as Leo
Clinton Voss as Desmond
Claire Sprunt as Jess
Igor Sas as Robert
Gillian Alexy as Sharon
Joseph Atherden as Phillip
Nicolette Findley as Edwina
Kahren Hampton as Helen
Alan Rosenwald as Eric
Steele Sciberras as Billy
Colin McEwan
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Australian children's television series
Nine Network original programming
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming
Television shows set in Perth, Western Australia
1997 Australian television series debuts
1997 Australian television series endings
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full-service%20radio | Full service (also known as hometown radio) is a type of radio format; the format is characterized by a mix of music programming (usually drawing from formats such as adult contemporary, country, or oldies) and a large amount of locally-produced and hyperlocal programming, such as news and discussion focusing on local issues, sports coverage, and other forms of paid religious and brokered content.
It is found mainly on small-market AM radio stations in the United States and Canada, particularly on locally-owned stations in rural areas, although it was once the norm even in larger cities prior to about the 1970s and could be found in some large markets as late as the 1980s. The format differs from community radio in that full-service radio is almost always a commercial enterprise and is not as often ideologically-driven (especially liberal) as some of the more prominent community radio operators are. Nonprofit community radio stations often run formats comparable to those on commercial full-service radio, albeit usually with less mainstream music.
Programming
Programming generally heard on full service stations can include:
Local and national (or top-of-the-hour) news, sometimes including agriculture reports.
At least one local talk show (often under a generic name such as Viewpoint, Dialogue, or Hotline), occasionally along with syndicated talk programming. These are usually politically neutral and offer local organizations and businesses time to talk about upcoming events in an unscripted format. Other programs may have an "open line" format reflecting a conservative orientation, often reflecting a community's political predilections (and thus not following the orthodoxy of national conservative talk radio), rather than those of national broadcasters such as the traditional radio networks; likewise, if such stations are in more left-leaning communities, the shows may carry a progressive lean.
Music, frequently drawing from a number of popular formats. Common ones include middle-of-the-road, adult contemporary, country, and oldies/classic hits. These usually appeal to listeners outside of the "key demographic;" that is, people over 50 years of age. Other listeners usually prefer narrower formats, where a particular music is played, or news and talk are broadcast, by a station 24 hours per day, seven days per week.
Automated programming in overnight time slots, or, depending on Federal Communications Commission designations, even a sign-off (many daytime-only stations run full-service formats).
Tradio, a free advertising service for individual listeners (not businesses) to offer items for sale. This may be known under various names, such as "Swap Shop" or "Trading Post."
High school football, basketball and other local sports. Frequently, there will be an NCAA Division I university broadcasting football and basketball games (or, in the Northern United States, ice hockey), and often a smaller college in the market – especially if the colle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20help%20authoring%20tools | This page is a list of help authoring tools, organized by operating system.
Mac
Windows
Cross-platform
References
Online help |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinkenberg%20correction | In Petrophysics a Klinkenberg correction is a procedure for calibration of permeability data obtained from a minipermeameter device. A more accurate correction factor can be obtained using Knudsen correction. When using nitrogen gas for core plug measurements, the Klinkenberg correction is usually necessary due to the so-called Klinkenberg gas slippage effect. This takes place when the pore space approaches the mean free path of the gas
Theory
Under steady state and laminar flow condition, Klinkenberg demonstrated that the permeability of porous media to gases is approximately a linear function of the reciprocal pressure.
When Klinkenberg defined the interactions to be considered, he supposed the existence of a layer (sometimes called Knudsen layer), thinner than molecular mean free path, adjacent to the pore's wall where only molecules-wall collisions would occur and collisions among molecules could be ignored. Thus the slippage velocity, as obtained from the Klinkenberg's approach, captures the contribution of molecule-wall interactions and when this velocity is zero, the Poiseuille velocity profile (which results from molecule-molecule interactions) is recovered. However, Klinkenberg's formulation ignores the transition flow region, where neither molecule-molecule nor molecule-wall interactions can be neglected because both are playing a relevant role. The feasibility of Klinkenberg linear function of the reciprocal pressure depends on the Knudsen number. For Knudsen numbers from 0.01 to 0.1 the Klinkenberg approach is acceptable.
Application
Permeability is measured in the laboratory by encasing a core plug of known length and diameter in an air-tight sleeve (the Hassler Sleeve). A fluid of known viscosity is injected into the core plug while mounted in a steel chamber. The samples are either full diameter core samples that are intervals of whole core cut, typically 6 inches long, or 1-in plugs drilled from the cores. The pressure drop across the sample and the flow rate are measured and permeability is calculated using Darcy's law.
Normally, either nitrogen or brine can be used as a fluid. When high rates of flow can be maintained, the results are comparable. At low rates, air permeability will be higher than brine permeability. This is because gas does not adhere to the pore walls as liquid does, and the slippage of gases along the pore walls gives rise to an apparent dependence of permeability on pressure. This is called the Klinkenberg effect, and it is especially important in low-permeable rocks.
In probe permeametry (mini-permeameter) measurement nitrogen gas is injected from the probe into core through a probe sealed to a core slab by a gasket. The gas flows from the end of a small-diameter tube that is sealed against the core surface. The pressure in the probe and the corresponding volumetric gas flow rate is measured together. The gas permeability is determined by the equation:
Where,
: Gas permeability
: Flow rat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosper%27s%20algorithm | In mathematics, Gosper's algorithm, due to Bill Gosper, is a procedure for finding sums of hypergeometric terms that are themselves hypergeometric terms. That is: suppose one has a(1) + ... + a(n) = S(n) − S(0), where S(n) is a hypergeometric term (i.e., S(n + 1)/S(n) is a rational function of n); then necessarily a(n) is itself a hypergeometric term, and given the formula for a(n) Gosper's algorithm finds that for S(n).
Outline of the algorithm
Step 1: Find a polynomial p such that, writing b(n) = a(n)/p(n), the ratio b(n)/b(n − 1) has the form q(n)/r(n) where q and r are polynomials and no q(n) has a nontrivial factor with r(n + j) for j = 0, 1, 2, ... . (This is always possible, whether or not the series is summable in closed form.)
Step 2: Find a polynomial ƒ such that S(n) = q(n + 1)/p(n) ƒ(n) a(n). If the series is summable in closed form then clearly a rational function ƒ with this property exists; in fact it must always be a polynomial, and an upper bound on its degree can be found. Determining ƒ (or finding that there is no such ƒ) is then a matter of solving a system of linear equations.
Relationship to Wilf–Zeilberger pairs
Gosper's algorithm can be used to discover Wilf–Zeilberger pairs, where they exist. Suppose that F(n + 1, k) − F(n, k) = G(n, k + 1) − G(n, k) where F is known but G is not. Then feed a(k) := F(n + 1, k) − F(n, k) into Gosper's algorithm. (Treat this as a function of k whose coefficients happen to be functions of n rather than numbers; everything in the algorithm works in this setting.) If it successfully finds S(k) with S(k) − S(k − 1) = a(k), then we are done: this is the required G. If not, there is no such G.
Definite versus indefinite summation
Gosper's algorithm finds (where possible) a hypergeometric closed form for the indefinite sum of hypergeometric terms. It can happen that there is no such closed form, but that the sum over all n, or some particular set of values of n, has a closed form. This question is only meaningful when the coefficients are themselves functions of some other variable. So, suppose a(n,k) is a hypergeometric term in both n and k: that is, a(n, k)/a(n − 1,k) and a(n, k)/a(n, k − 1) are rational functions of n and k. Then Zeilberger's algorithm and Petkovšek's algorithm may be used to find closed forms for the sum over k of a(n, k).
History
Bill Gosper discovered this algorithm in the 1970s while working on the Macsyma computer algebra system at SAIL and MIT.
References
Computer algebra
Hypergeometric functions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20user%20interface | In human–computer interaction, an organic user interface (OUI) is defined as a user interface with a non-flat display. After Engelbart and Sutherland's graphical user interface (GUI), which was based on the cathode ray tube (CRT), and Kay and Weiser's ubiquitous computing, which is based on the flat panel liquid-crystal display (LCD), OUI represents one possible third wave of display interaction paradigms, pertaining to multi-shaped and flexible displays. In an OUI, the display surface is always the focus of interaction, and may actively or passively change shape upon analog (i.e., as close to non-quantized as possible) inputs. These inputs are provided through direct physical gestures, rather than through indirect point-and-click control. Note that the term "Organic" in OUI was derived from organic architecture, referring to the adoption of natural form to design a better fit with human ecology. The term also alludes to the use of organic electronics for this purpose.
Organic user interfaces were first introduced in a special issue of the Communications of the ACM in 2008. The first International Workshop on Organic User Interfaces took place at CHI 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. The second workshop took place at TEI 2011 in Madeira, Portugal. The third workshop was held at MobileHCI 2012 in Monterey, California, and the fourth workshop at CHI 2013 in Paris, France.
Types
According to Vertegaal and Poupyrev, there are three general types of organic user interface:
Flexible (or deformable) user interfaces: When flexible displays are deployed, shape deformation, e.g., through bends, is a key form of input for OUI. Flexible display technologies include flexible OLED (FOLED) and flexible E Ink, or can be simulated through 3D active projection mapping.
Shaped user interfaces: Displays with a static non-flat display. The physical shape is chosen so as to better support the main function of the interface. Shapes may include spheres, cylinders or take the form of everyday objects.
Actuated (or kinetic) user interfaces: Displays with a programmable shape controlled by a computer algorithm. Here, display shapes can actively adapt to the physical context of the user, the form of the data, or the function of the interface. An extreme example is that of Claytronics: fully physical 3D voxels that dynamically constitute physical 3D images.
Organic design principles
Holman and Vertegaal present three design principles that underlie OUI:
Input equals output: In traditional GUIs, input and output are physically separated: Output is generated graphically on the screen on the basis of input provided by a control device such as a mouse. A key feature of OUI is that the display surface, and its physical deformations are always the locus of user interaction.
Function equals form: Coined by Frank Lloyd Wright, this means the shape of an interface determines its physical functionality, and vice versa. Shapes should be chosen such that they best support the func |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MegaVision%20%28cameras%29 | MegaVision is an American company that manufactures high-end digital photographic equipment. It was founded in 1983 to create a state-of-the-art image processing computer. MegaVision was the first company to produce a digital camera back for sale, using a 4 megapixel vidicon tube behind a Cambo technical view camera. MegaVision has always produced the capture software that controls their camera hardware. MegaVision produced the first live focus video in a digital still camera porting video over twisted pair wires (1993). MegaVision produced the first gamut alarm light metering with their Color Coded Light Metering (1993). MegaVision produced the first RAW file removable media digital camera with the Batpac digitizer and the S2/S3 series camera backs (1996). MegaVision produced the first computer mounted digital camera back using the E3/E4/E5 and the OQO computers (2005). MegaVision currently produces a 10 band visible plus 365 nm UV and 5 band IR EurekaVision lighting system initially developed for their 39 megapixel Monochrome camera back.
Outside of US and Canada, MegaVision products are officially distributed in Asia through Megavision International Pte Ltd. and in EMEA COUNTRIES through TechVision
Products
Digital backs
single shot
E series
E2 4 megapixel non-mydriatic diabetic retinopathy
E3/E427 6/11-megapixel ophthalmic
E7 50-megapixel
Monochrome and Bayer pattern Color
S series (discontinued)
Color information is obtained with a color filter array in front of the sensor
S4 16-megapixel 36 mm square CCD sensor with 9 µm pixel size
S3 / S3pro 6-megapixel 24 mm x 26 mm CCD sensor with 12 µm pixel size
S2 4-megapixel 31 mm square CCD sensor with 15 µm pixel size
Three-shot (discontinued)
Color information is obtained in three consecutive exposures through a red, green, and blue filter
T32
T2
Multi-Spectral
EurekaVision LED lighting system:
365 nm UV , 447 nm, 470 nm, 505 nm, 530 nm, 590 nm, 625 nm, 655 nm Visibles, 700 nm, 730 nm, 780 nm, 850 nm, 860 nm, 940 nm 1050 nm IRs
120mm f4.5 UV-VIS-IR Apo Macro, 320 nm-1100 nm, MegaVision Electronic Shutter System
Single and Double filter wheel systems for detecting and characterizing fluorescence emission
Software
Photoshoot capture software for Windows 7 and 8
Other companies with similar products
Similar digital backs are manufactured / sold by Hasselblad, Leaf, and Phase One.
References
External links
article on Digital-Photography.org
article in Shutterbug on pro-quality digital SLRs from 2001
article by John Henshall from 1998
article by Philip Greenspun on digital cameras and image sensors
PRI article by Noel King on St. Catherines Monastery palimpsest library translation
web page by Rob Beschizza on Declaration of Independence correction
web page by Adrian S. Wisnicki on Livingstone Field Diary
web page by Mary Downs on Martellus Map Project
web page article by Stephanie Pappas on Burnt Magna Carta
web page video of EurekaVision system in use at Dead Sea Sc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-intelligence%20trader | A zero-intelligence trader (ZI) is a simple algorithmic trader in a market based on the dumb agent theory who proposes to purchase (bid) or to sell (ask) randomly, subject only to minimal constraints. Constraints might be resource or bankruptcy constraints imposed externally by the rules of the market. Ownership of sufficient resources to buy the items the trader bids for, or ownership of resources the trader offers for sale are examples of such market-imposed constraints. Alternatively, the constraints may be internal to the trader. Not bidding more than the value of the resource to the trader, and not asking less than the cost of the resource to the trader are examples of such internal constraints. Under either interpretation, ZI traders use minimal intelligence in choosing their actions in markets.
Simple double auctions tend to achieve high levels of allocative efficiency even when they are populated by zero-intelligence traders. This result has been used to show that the aggregate level properties of markets can be quite different from the behavior and properties of individuals who participate in them. Specifically, any non-rationality of individuals does not necessarily carry over into outcomes of markets.
The simple form of this algorithmic trader allows it to serve as a convenient tool to explore and identify properties that can be attributed to various kinds of market institutions. Performance of markets populated with ZI traders has also served as a benchmark to compare the performance of various market and other social institutions.
References
Financial markets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20acquisitions%20by%20Adobe | Adobe Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Jose, California. In 1982, John Warnock and Charles Geschke left Xerox PARC and established Adobe to develop and sell the PostScript page description language. Apple Computer licensed PostScript in 1985 for use in its LaserWriter printers, which helped spark the desktop publishing revolution. The company has acquired 25 companies, purchased stakes in five, and divested six, most of which were software companies. Of the companies that Adobe has acquired, 18 were based in the United States. Adobe has not released the financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.
Adobe's first acquisition was Emerald City Software in March 1990. In August 1994, the company acquired Aldus Corporation, a Seattle-based software company credited with creating the desktop publishing industry with its PageMaker software. The company's products were integrated into Adobe's product line later in the year, and re-branded as Adobe PageMaker and Adobe After Effects; Aldus also owned the TIFF file format, transferring ownership to Adobe. In October 1995, Adobe acquired the desktop publishing software company Frame Technology for US$566 million, and re-branded its FrameMaker software to Adobe FrameMaker. Adobe acquired GoLive Systems in January 1999 and obtained its CyberStudio HTML editor software, releasing it as Adobe GoLive. In May 2003, Adobe acquired Syntrillium Software and its digital audio editor software Cool Edit Pro, and merged it into its product line, re-releasing it as Adobe Audition.
In the 1990s, Adobe purchased a minority stake in four companies, and it purchased a stake in one company in the 2000s. Adobe has also divested six companies, in which parts of the company are sold to another company. All of its divestments were made in the 1990s, with its most recent divestment made in August 1999 when it sold Macromedia Pathware to Lotus Software.
Acquisitions
Indirect acquisitions
Adobe also owns the assets of numerous companies, through less direct means, through the mergers or acquisitions of companies later acquired by Adobe.
Company of Science and Art (CoSA)
Acquired by Aldus
Allaire Corporation
Acquired by Macromedia
Live Software
Acquired by Allaire Corporation
Authorware Inc
Merged to form Macromedia
MacroMind
Merged to form MacroMind-Paracomp
Paracomp
Merged to form MacroMind-Paracomp
Altsys
Acquired by Macromedia
MacroMind-Paracomp
Merged to form Macromedia
iBand Software
Acquired by Macromedia
FutureWave Software
Acquired by Macromedia
Andromedia Corporation
Acquired by Macromedia
Presedia
Acquired by Macromedia
eHelp Corporation
Acquired by Macromedia
nHabit.com
Merged with GoodHome.com (Scene7)
Engage
Assets acquired by Scene7
Cascade
Acquired by Scene7
MidSystems
Acquired by Scene7
TrueSpectra
Acquired by Scene7
Touch Clarity
Acquired by Omniture
Visual Sciences, Inc. (formerly WebSideStory)
Acquired by Omniture
Offermatica
Acquired by Omniture
Mercado
Acqui |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877%E2%80%9378%20Welsh%20Cup | The 1877–78 Welsh Cup was the first season of the Welsh Cup. The cup was won by Wrexham who defeated Druids 1–0 in the final.
First round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Second replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Rhosllanerchrugog receive a bye to the next round
Believing that it was a Rugby Union competition Swansea RFC scratched to Aberystwyth when officials learned that it was one for football.
Second round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Third round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Second replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Bangor receive bye to next round
Semi-final
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Wrexham receive bye to next round
Final
The final of the inaugural Welsh Cup tournament was played at Acton Park, Wrexham on 30 March 1878 between Wrexham and Druids of Ruabon. The match was a cliffhanger, with no score until the Wrexham forwards charged the Druids' defenders to take the ball over the line to win the game in the final minute, with James Davies being credited with the goal.
References
The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993 by Ian Garland (1991)
Welsh Football Data Archive
1871-72
Welsh Cup
Wel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20M.%20Nijssen | Gerardus Maria "Sjir" Nijssen (born 18 October 1938, Schinnen) is a Dutch computer scientist, former professor of computer science at the University of Queensland, consultant, and author. Nijssen is considered the founder of verbalization in computer science, and one of the founders of business modeling and information analysis based on natural language.
Biography
Nijssen finished his study at the Eindhoven University of Technology in 1965, and started working at Philips at the department of Commercial Efficiency Research. From 1968 to 1970 he has been director of the educational institute "The Dutch Centre for Business and IT". In 1970 he moved to the Control Data Corporation, a pioneer in the field of computer science with the European headquarters in Brussels in Belgium. In those years he started fact-based modeling and developed NIAM. During this time, he was also associated with several academic institutions and international standards organizations. In 1974 he was co-founder of the IFIP WG 2.6 Database Experts group, where he served as its first chairman until 1983. He was also a member of IFIP WG 8.1 on Information Systems and a member of ISO TC97/SC5/WG3 working group on Conceptual Schemas.
During the period of 1982 to 1989 Nijssen was a full-time professor of Computer science at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, where he worked together with Terry Halpin amongst others in further developing NIAM. When returning to the Netherlands in 1989, he founded PNA Group, which stands for Professor Nijssen Associates, and accepted a position at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands.
In 2002 Nijssen retired as CEO at PNA Group. He remained active as member of the OMG SBVR 1.1 Revision Task Force (RTF), the OMG BPMN Revision Task Force (RTF), the OMG Architecture Ecosystem Special Interest Group (AE SIG) and the Fact Based Modeling Task Force.
Work
Nijssen's research interests in the field of computer science have developed over the years. In the 1970s he was focussed on information systems and database technology.
NIAM
At Control Data early 1970s Nijssen started with fact-based modeling and developed NIAM, a fact based business practice and notation. The acronym NIAM originally stood for "Nijssen's Information Analysis Methodology", and later generalised to "Natural language Information Analysis Methodology" and Binary Relationship Modeling since G. M. Nijssen was only one of many people involved in the development of the method.
Conceptual schema and relational database design, 1989
In 1989 Nijssen and Terry Halpin published 'the book Conceptual schema and relational database design: a fact oriented approach. The introduction it declared the background of this work:
"Prof. G. M. Nijssen, the originator of NIAM design method, had for a long time given a higher priority to working on new aspects of the method and advancing it, than to writing a textbook about it; but at last, here it is. The NIAM method was initiat |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Partnership%20for%20the%20Prevention%20of%20Armed%20Conflict | The Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict (GPPAC) is a member-led network of civil society organisations (CSOs) active in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding across the world. The network is organised around 15 regional networks of local organisations, each region having its own priorities, character and agenda. Each region is represented in an International Steering Group, which determines joint global priorities and actions. GPPAC was initiated through extensive consultations in 2003-4, and officially launched as part of a global conference in 2005 at the UN headquarters in New York.
As part of its mission to work towards a global shift from reaction to prevention of violent conflict, GPPAC strives towards multi-actor collaboration and local ownership. Together, GPPAC members aim to achieve greater synergy in the field of conflict prevention and peacebuilding by connecting different levels (from national to regional and global), and to strengthen the role of local civil society groups in conflict regions.
GPPAC supports the capacity of the regional networks to interact and act together, and facilitates regional and global exchanges, where members from different parts of the world come together and learn from each other's experiences and develop joint strategies. GPPAC also connect its members with other relevant actors, including the UN, regional intergovernmental organisations, state actors, the media and academia. This has enabled unique initiatives, showing GPPAC’s ability to bridge global policy making with local ownership and practice on the ground.
Achievements of GPPAC so far have included:
Greater access and direct involvement of local civil society in policy processes such as the Geneva Declaration on Armed Violence and Development and UN initiatives such as the UN Peacebuilding Commission;
Mobilisation of the global network in support of local CSOs - through tools, advice, contacts, political leverage or international civil society delegations – contributing to efforts to prevent or constrain violence in times of crisis or political change, as seen during the post-election crisis in Kenya, the political transition in Guinea Conakry, and clashes in Kyrgyzstan;
The development of a Preventive Action framework to enable CSOs to engage from the stage of conflict assessment to the implementation and monitoring of conflict prevention strategies;
Promotion of networks and dialogue initiatives (track II diplomacy) in the Caucasus, Latin America and other politically sensitive regions such as South Asia and Northeast Asia (Ulaanbaatar Process);
Initiation of a dialogue and collaboration between CSOs and regional organisations such as the OAS, ECOWAS, SAARC and ASEAN on security issues
Increased capacity of CSOs to work together in reaching out to the media and policy makers through ‘Media Focal Points’, quiet diplomacy workshops and policy liaison functions.
Setting up of the Peace Portal, an online |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Automation%20Language | Two forms of GAL are available. The first is General Automation Language for device automation and the second is Generalized Automation Language (GAL) which a very high level programming language for MVS based systems such as OS/390 and z/OS.
General Automation Language
Developed by iLED to provide a common language for standardising automation and control of devices in the residential (Home Automation) and commercial control environments. The language provides a standardised method of communicating to/from controlled/controlling devices. At each device, GAL is converted into the machine specific protocol and medium. An example is the control of a DVD player. The GAL command will be <MyHouse MyArea MyRoom MyDevice MyCommand> FredsHouse GroundFloor Lounge DVDplayer ON. The GAL device will then convert this to the discrete IR command to switch on the DVD Player.
Generalized Automation Language
Developed by Expans Systems to provide features and constructs that enable the programmer to intercept systems events and schedule responses, as implemented via their product AutoMan. Somewhat akin to BASIC, GAL enables systems programmers and operators to define logic to apply to systems messages as they flow through a multi-system (sysplex) environment. GAL also enables the programmer to define events that have occurred in the past, by intercepting Action Message Retention Facility (AMRF) messages. The language has built-in constructs to obtain the age of a retained message and make decisions about its fate depending on age. GAL can be used to write new systems commands, by intercepting and interpreting anything that is entered into an Operator Console. GAL uses keywords such as names of days of the week, names of month etc. to automatically schedule events in the system. Like REXX, GAL is both an interpretive language and a compiled language. GAL statements can be entered to the interpreter on the fly, or entire automation scenarios can be predefined, such as the logic to define unattended operations of a system, and can be compiled offline, using the compiler program GALCOMP.
GAL implements comparison by IF statements, setting of variables, by the LET statement and subroutine calls. GAL allows the programmer to break into REXX, and Assembler where it is needed. The very high level nature of GAL is exemplified by the EMAIL statement, which enables the programmer to send an email alert when an event is detected that requires human intervention. Assuming that this message event requires an alert to be sent to a default recipient:
MSG=XID999S
VAR &MSGTXT LEN 100
LET &MSGTXT = $$MSGTXT
EMAIL
SUBJECT '&MSGTXT'
'This is a problem that needs urgent attention'
GAL uses text capture and replacement facilities. In this simple example, the text of the system message is captured into a variable and the text in that variabl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalization | Physicalization of computer hardware (the opposite of virtualization), is a way to place multiple physical machines in a rack unit.
It can be a way to reduce hardware costs, since in some cases, server processors cost more per core than energy efficient laptop processors, which may make up for added cost of board level integration. While Moore's law makes increasing integration less expensive, some jobs require much I/O bandwidth, which may be less expensive to provide using many less-integrated processors.
Applications and services that are I/O bound are likely to benefit from such physicalized environments. This ensures that each operating system instance is running on a processor that has its own network interface card, host bus and I/O sub-system unlike in the case of a multi-core servers where a single I/O sub-system is shared between all the cores / VMs.
A data physicalization (or simply physicalization) is a physical artefact whose geometry or material properties encode data. It has the main goals to engage people and to communicate data using computer-supported physical data representations.
History
Before the invention of computers and digital devices, the application of data physicalization already existed in ancient artifacts as a medium to represent abstract information. One example is Blombo ocher plaque which is estimated to be 70000 – 80000 years old. The geometric and iconographic shapes engraved at the surface of the artifact demonstrated the cognitive complexity of ancient humans. Moreover, since such representations were deliberately made and crafted, the evidences suggest that the geometric presentation of information is a popular methodology in the context of society. Although researchers still cannot decipher the specific type of information encoded in the artifact, there are several proposed interpretations. For example, the potential functions of the artifact are divided into four categories, categorized as "numerical", "functional", "cognitive", and "social". Later, at around 35,000 B.C, another artifact, the Lebombo bone, emerged and the encoded information became easier to read. There are around 29 distinct notches carved on the baboon fibula. It is estimated that the number of notches is closely related to the number of lunar cycles. Moreover, this early counting system was also regarded as the birth of calculation.
Right before the invention of writing, the clay token system was spread across ancient Mesopotamia. When the buyers and sellers want to make a trade, they prepare a set of tokens and seal them inside the clay envelope after impressing the shape on the surface. Such physical entity was widely used in trading, administrative documents, and agricultural settlement. Moreover, the token system is evidence of the early counting system. Each shape corresponds to a physical meaning such as the representation of "sheep", forming a one-to-one mapping relationship. The significance of the token is it uses phys |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltron%3A%20The%20Third%20Dimension | Voltron: The Third Dimension is an American computer-animated television series produced by World Events Productions. It is a sequel to the 1980s animated series Voltron: Defender of the Universe and is set five years after the end of the series. Neil Ross, Michael Bell, and B.J. Ward reprised their roles as Keith, Lance, and Princess Allura for the series. The show was animated by Netter Digital Entertainment, inc. and Mike Young Productions. It departed from the original Voltron's animated look, as well as some character changes, such as the physical appearance of Prince Lotor (now voiced by Tim Curry, taking over the role originally voiced by Lennie Weinrib).
Plot
The story takes place in the Denubian Galaxy. Shannon Muir mapped the galaxy in the 1980s as a fan and posted it online. In 1996, World Events Productions became aware of the work and made it the official starmap for the show.
With antagonist Prince Lotor's escape from prison, the heroic Voltron Force re-assemble against him, but must contend simultaneously with the various monsters and warships sent by Lotor (at times, captained by him) and with opposition on their own side, represented by the artificial intelligence "Amalgamus", a sophisticated computer who objects periodically to the Voltron Force's methods.
Cast
Clancy Brown – Queeque and Igor
Michael Bell – Lance and Coran
Tim Curry – King Alfor and Prince Lotor
Tress MacNeille – Lafitte
Kevin Michael Richardson – Hunk, King Zarkon, and Narrator
Neil Ross – Keith and Amalgamus
B.J. Ward – Princess Allura and Haggar
Billy West – Pidge
Episodes
Season 1 (1998–1999)
Season 2 (1999–2000)
Home media
The series was first made available through a combination of Netflix and Vudu accounts through the Xbox 360 console. Episodes would have to be purchased individually. The first season was available in full on iTunes for $15 but, like its sister property Voltron: Defender of the Universe, it has been removed from the iTunes and Google Play stores, although the soundtrack for the series is still available for purchase.
Awards
The show won a 1999 Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing – Special Class Rick Hinson (supervising sound editor), for Elizabeth Hinson.
References
External links
. Pages created by the developer of the official Denubian Galaxy Starmap.
1998 American television series debuts
2000 American television series endings
1990s American animated television series
2000s American animated television series
1990s American science fiction television series
2000s American science fiction television series
American children's animated action television series
American children's animated space adventure television series
American children's animated science fantasy television series
American computer-animated television series
American sequel television series
Anime-influenced Western animated television series
English-language television shows
Voltron
Television series by Universal Television
First-r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1878%E2%80%9379%20Welsh%20Cup | The 1878–79 Welsh Cup was the second season of the Welsh Cup. The cup was won by Newtown White Star who defeated Wrexham 1–0 in the final.
First round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Oswestry receive a bye to the next round
Second round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Newtown receive bye into next round
Third round
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Wrexham receive bye to next round
Semi-final
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Replay
Source: Welsh Football Data Archive
Final
References
The History of the Welsh Cup 1877-1993 by Ian Garland (1991)
Welsh Football Data Archive
1878-79
Wel
Welsh Cup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cromemco%20Z-2 | Z-2 is a series of microcomputers made by Cromemco, Inc. which were introduced to the market in the middle to late 1970s. They were S-100 bus machines powered by the Zilog Z80 processor and typically ran on the CP/M operating system.
They were originally available in assembled or kit form to serve both a commercial market and the computer enthusiast market. Later the machines were only available factory-assembled. The machines were widely respected for their speed, configurability, durability, and reliability.
The Z-2 was a Z80–based microcomputer system that was introduced in 1977. The original Z-2 in kit form included a ZPU-K Z80 CPU card, S-100 bus motherboard, all-metal rack-mount chassis and dust case, card socket and card guide; the assembled form included a complete set of sockets and card guides, and a cooling fan. The Z-2 series was capable of supporting up to 21 S-100 boards and could be configured with any of the boards supplied by Cromemco.
The Z-2 gave an impression of solidity due to its hefty 450-watt power supply and heavy metal chassis. A TU-ART (dual serial and parallel board), 4FDC Floppy Disk Controller, one or more 16KZRAM cards, and a Wangco 5¼" floppy disk drive would be added to form a basic system.
An unusual feature of the Z-2 was switch–selectable CPU speed; 250 or 500 nanosecond cycle time were available. The ZPU speed was 4 MHz at a time when less than 2 MHz was normal, and boards from other manufacturers might still require the slower speed. The ZPU card in the Z-2 could address up to 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM. However, the 16KZ memory card supported bank-switching with 8 banks of 64 kilobytes each. When using the 16KZ, the maximum RAM of the Z-2 was limited by the available S-100 slots. If 16 of the slots were occupied by 16KZ cards, then the system had 4 banks of 64 kilobytes each, for a total of 256 kilobytes (262,144 bytes).
Additional S-100 slots were required for cards controlling peripherals, disk drives, and I/O interfaces. Communication with the processor was normally performed through a TU-ART or other S-100 bus compatible interface card, which could run a CRT terminal or teletype.
Cromemco Z-2D
The Cromemco Z-2D computer was a Z80–based microcomputer system which differed from a Z-2 by having one or two Wangco 5¼" disk drives, a disk power supply and a 4FDC disk controller in a Z-2 chassis. The Z-2D was available in assembled and kit form. The Z-2D was also called the "System Two".
Cromemco Z-2H
The Cromemco Z-2H computer was based on the Z-2D, but in addition had an 11 megabyte internal hard disk drive. While the Z-2 and Z-2D had 21 S-100 slots, the Z-2H was limited to 12 expansion slots due to the size of the internal hard disk. Over 1000 Z-2H systems were sold in the first six months on the market. The 11-megabyte hard disks were also offered as a separate unit, the HDD, that could be used with a Z-2D computer. The HDD came with either one or two hard disks, for up to 22 megabytes of s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20encryption%20cracking | Network encryption cracking is the breaching of network encryptions (e.g., WEP, WPA, ...), usually through the use of a special encryption cracking software. It may be done through a range of attacks (active and passive) including injecting traffic, decrypting traffic, and dictionary-based attacks.
Methods
As mentioned above, several types of attacks are possible. More precisely they are:
Decrypting traffic based on tricking access points (active attack)
Injecting traffic based on known plaintext (active attack)
Gathering traffic and performing brute force/dictionary based attacks
Decrypting traffic using statistical analysis (passive attack)
Injecting traffic
Injecting traffic means inserting forged encrypted messages into the network. It may be done if either the key is known (to generate new messages), or if the key is not known and only an encrypted message and plaintext message is gathered, through comparison of the two. Programs able to do the latter are Aireplay and WepWedgie.
Decrypting
Decryption often requires 2 tools; 1 for gathering packets and another for analysing the packet and determining the key. Gathering packets may be done through tools such as WireShark or Prismdump and cracking may be done through tools such as WEPCrack, AirSnort, AirCrack, and WEPLab.
When gathering packets, often a great amount of them are required to perform cracking. Depending on the attack used, 5-16 million frames may be required. The attack command itself, however, is surprisingly simple.
WEPCrack
Commands to be inputted into WEPCrack are:
$ perl \progra~1\wepcrack\pcap-getIV.pl
This command generates a log-file (ivfile.log) from a captured packet obtained by WireShark or prismdump A packet with at least 5 million frames is required.
$ perl \progra~1\wepcrack\wepcrack\.pl ivfile.log
This command asks WEPCrack to determine the key from the log file.
AirCrack
Aircrack is another program that's even simpler to use, as no command need to be entered; instead the user is asked to type in some parameters and click some buttons.
First airodump is started to gather the packets; herefore channel and MAC-filter are asked, yet the user does not need to know them per se (instead 0 and p may be inputted respectively). Then, AirCrack is started, the file just created by airodump is accessed, a 0 needs to be entered and the program determines the key.
AirSnort
AirSnort is a software program that passively collects traffic on an IEEE 802.11b network that was released in August 2001. After enough packets have been collected, the program can then compute the key for the wireless network. As the software makes use of brute-force attack however, cracking the encryption can take between a few hours to several days, based on the activity on the network.
References
External links
A comparison of the tools listed above may be found at Security Focus
Computer network security
Security |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turku%20Centre%20for%20Computer%20Science | Turku Centre for Computer Science (abbr. TUCS, , ) is a joint department of University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. TUCS was founded on March 21, 1994. The mission of TUCS is to coordinate the education, research and societal interaction of the affiliate Universities in the field of ICT. The TUCS office facilities are located in Turku in the Turku Science Park area.
Departments involved in TUCS
University of Turku
Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Department of Information Technology.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Turku School of Economics
The Institute of Information Systems Sciences
Åbo Akademi University
Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology
Computer Science
Computer Engineering
Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics
Information Systems
Organization
Turku Centre for Computer Science coordinates education and research Computer Science (understood in a broad sense) in Turku. TUCS is governed by a board. The Director of TUCS is Prof. Ion Petre.
TUCS boasts a long history of high-level achievements of its affiliated researchers, in terms of articles in high-level journals and conferences, high number of citations, invitations to speak in the most important conferences in the field, and memberships in editorial boards of many high-level international journals. TUCS has been a Center of Excellence of Research of the Academy of Finland in the very first round of such centers in Finland, 1995–1999. A unit of TUCS, the Centre for Reliable Software Technology (CREST), has also been a Center of Excellence during 2002–2007. Two Academy Professors, as well as three FIDIPRO professors have been / are affiliated with TUCS.
The research in TUCS is focused on TUCS Research Programmes. Currently the research programmes are:
Combinatorics, Complex Systems and Computability (Com3) - director Prof. Jarkko Kari
From Computational Biology and Medical Informatics to Health and Wellbeing (BioHealth) - directors Prof. Tapio Salakoski and Prof. Ion Petre
Resilient IT Infrastructures (RITES) - directors Prof. Ivan Porres and Dr. Juha Plosila
Turku Information Systems Research Alliance (TISRA) - directors Prof. Emer. Christer Carlsson and Prof. Jukka Heikkilä
The research is carried out in 17 research units.
TUCS organises the TUCS Distinguished Lecture Series, a forum for public lectures delivered by outstanding national and international scientists and innovators in all aspects of computing. They come from diverse backgrounds from academia, as well as from industry. The purpose is to facilitate contacts between young scientists and top research groups as well as inform and inspire wider audiences about recent developments and future visions in ICT-related theory and practice. The lectures are recorded and published on YouTube channel.
TUCS coordinates the master- and doctoral-level education in computer science, computer engineering, mathematics, and information systems between the two universities in Turk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDay | eDay was a New Zealand initiative to hold an annual ewaste collection day, started as Computer Access New Zealand (CANZ) to raise awareness of the potential dangers associated with electronic waste and to offer the opportunity for such waste to be disposed of in an environmentally friendly fashion.
History
eDay was first held in Wellington in 2006, as a pilot sponsored by Dell, the event bought in of old computers, mobile phones and other non-biodegradable electronic material. In 2007 the initiative was extended to cover 12 locations, which resulted in it becoming a national initiative, were collected.
eDay 2008 was held on October 4 and extended to 32 centres. In 2009 an estimated was collected at 38 locations around the country.
Purpose
The initiative was started to minimise the amount of electronic waste being disposed on in landfills, based on evidence from reports that there was an estimated 16 million electronic devices in use in New Zealand and that 1 million new devices were being introduced every year, the report found that the majority of these devices were being disposed in landfills rather than being recycled. A separate report found that half of New Zealand schools did not recycle outdated and replaced equipment, opting instead to deposit it in landfills. When disposed in landfills there is a possibility of the harmful chemicals in the electronic equipment, such as mercury, lead and cadmium, contaminating groundwater and coming into contact with humans or animals, the toxins in the chemicals are capable of causing serious health issues, such as nervous system and brain damage. When recycled, the chemicals are disposed of safely and potentially valuable parts can be reused.
Initiative
On the day, drive-thru collection points are established and volunteers operate each centre. Businesses, schools and the public are encouraged to dispose of old computer hardware, mobile phones and printer cartridges. As well as collecting material, the initiative is also designed to increase awareness about the harmful effects of electronic waste.
Acclaim
CANZ were awarded the New Zealand Ministry for the Environment 2008 Green Ribbon Award for Community action and involvement.
In 2009 CANZ won the Outstanding Industry Initiative in the PricewaterhouseCoopers Hi-Tech Awards.
See also
Computer recycling
Electronic waste in New Zealand
E-Cycling
References
External links
eDay
October observances
Electronic waste in New Zealand |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Cloud%20Object%20Storage | IBM Cloud Object Storage is a service offered by IBM for storing and accessing unstructured data. The object storage service can be deployed on-premise, as part of IBM Cloud Platform offerings, or in hybrid form. The offering can store any type of object which allows for uses like data archiving and backup, web and mobile applications, and as scalable, persistent storage for analytics. Interaction with Cloud Object Storage is based on Rest APIs.
Design
IBM Cloud Object Storage stores objects that are organized into buckets (as S3 does) identified within each bucket by a unique, user-assigned key. All requests are authorized using an access control list associated with each bucket and object. Bucket names and keys are chosen so that objects are addressable using HTTP URLs.
Features
IBM Cloud Object Storage offers different storage classes, identical in data protection, security, durability and resiliency. The classes differ in data pattern and availability needs.
History
The offering was originally introduced by Cleversafe Inc., a company based in Chicago, Illinois. Cleversafe sold an object storage system, which it calls the Dispersed Storage Network or dsNet. Cleversafe was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 2004 by S. Christopher Gladwin and was originally based in IIT's technology incubator. The company has stated that it provides "limitless data storage". The company had 116 patents issued to it in 2014.
IBM announced the completion of its acquisition of Cleversafe on November 6, 2015 and has since rebranded the company's products as IBM Cloud Object Storage.
References
External links
Official website
IBM acquisitions
2015 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parameter%20%28disambiguation%29 | A parameter is a quantity that changes characteristics of a system or a function.
Parameter may also refer to:
Parameter (computer programming), special kind of variable
Parameter (linguistics), a grammar rule that is variable across languages
Parameters (journal), a journal of the U.S. Army War College
In linguistics, see Principles and parameters
Statistical parameter
See also
Parametrization (disambiguation)
Perimeter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish%20Way | The Cornish Way is a cycle route which is part of the National Cycle Network that links Bude to Land's End. The route is via Padstow or St Austell and is 180 miles in length.
Trails
The First and Last Trail
From Land's End to Hayle
The Engine House Trail
Part of the Mineral Tramway Trails from Hayle to Truro
The Coast and Clay Trail
Truro to Bodmin via St Austell
The North Cornwall Trail
Bodmin to county boundary near Bude
The St Piran Trail
Truro to Padstow via Newquay
The Camel Trail
This offroad section leads from Padstow to Bodmin.
See also
Mineral Tramway Trails - the mineral tramways trails are a series of trails located in mid west Cornwall.
Clay Trails - cycleway near St Austell and the Eden Project
Sustrans - a charity promoting sustainable transport in the UK
References
External links
Cornwall County Council pages
Sustrans
National Cycle Network
Map: National Cycle Network 2008
Alternative National Cycle Network map (using OpenStreetMap data)
Cycleways in Cornwall |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhongli%20railway%20station | Zhongli () is a railway station in Taoyuan, Taiwan served by Taiwan Railways Administration. It is the third-busiest station in Taiwan's rail network. It is also a planned terminus for Taoyuan Airport MRT of the Taoyuan Metro, scheduled for completion in 2028.
Around the station
Army Academy R.O.C.
Chien Hsin University of Science and Technology
Chung Yuan Christian University
Ching Yun Commercial Center
Laojie River (about 800 meters west of the station)
Zhongli Arts Hall
Zhongli Tourist Night Market (about 1500 meters west of the station)
Zhongping Commercial District (next to the station)
Zhongping Road Story House (about 300 meters north-west of the station)
Zhongzheng Park (about 600 meters north of the station)
See also
List of railway stations in Taiwan
References
1893 establishments in Taiwan
Railway stations in Taoyuan City
Railway stations opened in 1893
Railway stations served by Taiwan Railways Administration
Railway stations in Taiwan opened in the 1890s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Contender%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of The Contender was recorded in Singapore (with the exception of the live finale), and premiered on Versus on December 3, 2008. The show was on its third network, with the first season being broadcast on NBC and second and third seasons being shown on ESPN.
Contestants
The following 16 fighters, hailing from around the globe, were selected to take part in the fourth Contender Tournament which took place in the cruiserweight division.
Records entering tournament in parentheses (W-L-D)
Trainers
Tommy Brooks
John Bray
Emcee for the series
Perry Cale -Australia
Fight results
Episode 1
Felix Cora Jr. defeats Joell Godfrey by unanimous decision.
50-45 | 50-45 | 49-46
Blue Team 1, Gold Team 0
Episode 2
Alfredo Escalera Jr. defeats Jon Schneider by unanimous decision.
49-45 | 50-44 | 49-45
Blue Team 2, Gold Team 0
Episode 3
Akinyemi "A.K." Laleye defeats Erick Vega by unanimous decision.
50-46 | 49-46 | 49-46
Blue Team 2, Gold Team 1
Episode 4
Deon Elam defeats Richard Gingras by unanimous decision.
50-45 | 49-46 | 48-47
Blue Team 2, Gold Team 2
Episode 5
Ehinomen "Hino" Ehikhamenor defeats Darnell Wilson by unanimous decision.
50-44 | 50-45 | 50-44
Gold Team 3, Blue Team 2
Episode 6
Troy Ross defeats Lawrence Tauasa by TKO (referee stoppage) in round two.
Gold Team 4, Blue Team 2
Episode 7
Rico Hoye defeats Mike Alexander by unanimous decision.
49-46 | 48-47 | 49-46
Gold Team 5, Blue Team 2
Ryan Coyne defeats Tim Flamos by split decision.
49-46 | 47-48 | 48-47
Gold Team 5, Blue Team 3
Episode 8
Quarterfinal 1
Troy Ross defeats Felix Cora Jr. by TKO (referee stoppage) in round one.
Time: 2:38
Episode 9
Quarterfinal 2
Akinyemi "A.K." Laleye defeats Alfredo Escalera Jr. by KO in round five.
Time: 1:51
Episode 10
Quarterfinal 3
Ehinomen "Hino" Ehikhamenor defeats Deon Elam by unanimous decision.
49-46 | 49-46 | 49-46
Quarterfinal 4
Rico Hoye defeats Joell Godfrey by unanimous decision.
50-44 | 49-45 | 48-46
Hoye was originally scheduled to fight Ryan Coyne, but due to the severity of Coyne's cut that he sustained in his fight with Tim Flamos, he was unable to continue in the Contender Season 4 tournament. He was replaced by Joell Godfrey, who was invited back to the tournament to fight Rico.
Episode 11
Semifinal 1
Troy Ross defeats Akinyemi "A.K." Laleye by unanimous decision.
50-45 | 50-45 | 50-45
In preparation for the fight, as per the Gold Team's ritual, A.K. spells out "gorilla warfare" on the whiteboard in his locker room. In actuality, the term is "guerilla warfare".
Semifinal 2
Ehinomen "Hino" Ehikhamenor defeats Rico Hoye by unanimous decision.
50-45 | 48-47 | 49-46
Live finale at the MGM Foxwoods Casino in Connecticut
February 25, 2009
Contender championship bout
Troy Ross defeats Ehinomen "Hino" Ehikhamenor by TKO in round four.
Third place bout
Rico Hoye defeats Akinyemi "A.K." Laleye by unanimous decision.
79-72 | 79-72 | 79-72
Other undercard bouts
Felix Cora Jr. defeats Tim Flamos by TKO in round three.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KICW | KICW (91.1 FM) is a radio station licensed to Ottumwa, Iowa. The station is owned by Iowa Public Radio, Inc., and carries the network's "Classical Network" services.
See also Iowa Public Radio
External links
Iowa Public Radio
ICW
NPR member stations
Classical music radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectorization | Vectorization may refer to:
Computing
Array programming, a style of computer programming where operations are applied to whole arrays instead of individual elements
Automatic vectorization, a compiler optimization that transforms loops to vector operations
Image tracing, the creation of vector from raster graphics
Word embedding, mapping words to vectors, in natural language processing
Other uses
Vectorization (mathematics), a linear transformation which converts a matrix into a column vector
Drug vectorization, to (intra)cellular targeting
See also
Vector (disambiguation)
Vector graphics (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fun%20Radio%20%28France%29 | Fun Radio is a French network of FM radio stations created on 2 October 1985 and offering electropop, dance and eurodance music operating on 250 different frequencies in France. The station belongs to RTL Group as do its sister stations RTL and RTL2. These three radio stations share the same headquarters located in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
As of November 2006, the station had approximately 3.2 million daily listeners.
History
1985-1988: Secession of NRJ
Fun Radio was created on October 2, 1985, in the south of France under the name FUN by Éric Péchadre, Pierre Lattès and Jean-Baptiste Blanchemain, who controlled six local NRJ franchise stations belonging to them (Nancy, Grenoble, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Carcassonne and Toulouse) and a Chic FM station (Nice) directed by Françoise Martin, director of antenna and programs within the company Cofirad SA. This secession was prepared in secret with a small team, and the two station's presenters were informed that day.
Some of the first animators of the station were DJ Didier Sinclair (until 1991), Jean-Luc Reichmann and Julien Courbet. Bernard Montiel was also one of the first animators of Fun Radio, where he hosted a cinema-related show.
Despite a good footprint in the south of France, FUN went through financial difficulties and was bought back in September 1987 by the Hersant group, which renamed it Fun Radio and merged it with the Chic FM networks. The radio moved to 143 avenue Charles-de-Gaulle (Neuilly-sur-Seine) and stayed there until 1999. Most of the Chic FM presenters, including Nagui and Laurent Boyer, were let go.
1988-1992: NRJ-styled format
In 1988, Fun Radio had more regional frequencies than any other networks: 97 compared to 56 of NRJ, 50 of Kiss FM, 16 of Skyrock and 7 of Hit FM. The station started to focus around the current hits with a format of playing six songs in a row before every advert. The appointment of Benoît Sillard to the station's director in 1989 allowed Fun Radio to find its own style.
In 1991, while staying on Skyrock, Arthur joined Fun Radio. The morning audience increased and the station had a combined audience of 5% with original and impertinent games and delusions on a large network, the "Orgasmotron". Fun was also the most listened-to station for young audience. In 1992, Arthur left Fun Radio for Europe 1.
1992-1996: Rock and provoc
In October 1992, to compete with the success of Bonsoir la Planète on Skyrock, Benoît Sillard launched the show Lovin 'Fun animated by Le Doc, Christian Spitz, and Difool. Fun Radio became the most listened to radio after 8:00 pm with this free-antenna program by focusing on love and sexuality topics.
In 1993, C.L.T. - Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Télédiffusion - (RTL Group) held a 30% stake in Fun Radio. The radio then adopted a rock-grunge format and the rest of the schedule was occupied by free-antenna programs. In the spring of 1994, Fun Radio broke its historical audience records with 8.7 points of hearing compared to 10 for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GMA%20New%20Media | GMA New Media, Inc. (or NMI) is the digital media and technology arm of GMA Network Inc. which offers interactive applications in the television, mobile, web, marketing and online gaming industry, and produces video and livestream content for social media. Its headquarters are located at the GMA Network Center in Quezon City, Philippines.
Products and services
Websites
GMA News Online
In 2007, GMA NMI launched GMA News Online (then called gmanews). In the same year, the site won several awards including Best Website in the 9th Philippine Web Awards in 2007 for the Media category.
GMA Network Portal
In late 2011, NMI launched GMANetwork, a one-stop portal that consolidates GMA’s web properties including GMA News Online, GMA Entertainment Website , and IMReady Public Service Portal . It won the Digital Filipino Web Awards for the Television category in 2014.
Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP is a joint venture of NMI (GMA Network Inc.) and Summit Digital which offers entertainment news from the local and international film and television industry.)
Sports Interactive Network (SPIN) is a joint venture of NMI (GMA Network Inc.) and Philippine Entertainment Portal, Inc. which offers local and international sports news.
Mobile applications
GMA Network
GMA News
IMReady
Kapuso Milyonaryo
You Scoop is a joint initiative between NMI and GMA News and Public Affairs (GMA News). The app allows citizen participation in journalism by sending information, photographs, videos or audio recordings of news as they happen. A team of editors screen which crowdsourced news items will be shared on the YouScoop page on GMA News Online or broadcast on GMA News and Public Affairs programs.
Broadcast applications
GMA Affordabox is a digital receiver that delivers Digital Terrestrial Transmission as well as Over-the-Top (OTT) internet-based content and applications. The device was released on June 26, 2020.
GMA Now is a DTV dongle used for Android Devices and iPhone users soon. It was released on February 7, 2021 during All-Out Sundays.
Subsidiaries and joint ventures
Digify, Inc.
Digify is a subsidiary of GMA New Media that specializes in solutions for stand-alone digital and integrated marketing campaigns for mobile, web and smart TV applications.
Media Merge Corp.
Media Merge is a subsidiary of GMA New Media that is in charge business development and operations for the Company's online publishing/advertising initiatives.:
Philippine Entertainment Portal, Inc.
Philippine Entertainment Portal is a joint venture of Summit Media and GMA New Media which operates Philippine Entertainment Portal (PEP.ph) and Sports Interactive Network Philippines (SPIN.ph).
Gamespan, Inc. (defunct)
Gamespan is a joint venture of GMA New Media and Manila Jockey Club, Inc. Gamspan operates and manages the computer systems owned by Manila Jockey Club and the infrastructure for taking bets in horse racing and other sports.
X-Play Online Games, Inc. (defunct)
X-Play was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Marco | The Motorola Marco was a Newton OS-based personal digital assistant from Motorola, launched in January 1995 at MacWorld. It was unique in that it included a compatible RadioMail and ARDIS network radio antenna, which allowed users to check and send e-mails, as well as receive and send text messages.
In 2007, Motorola dusted off the Marco moniker and used it as the name for a new cell phone line.
Hardware specifications
The Marco depended on a vigorously changed form of the MessagePad 120 in a custom case with remote capacities. It utilized a similar 20 MHz ARM 610 processor with a modified 5 MB ROM and 1 MB of static RAM. Newton OS 1.3 utilized 544 KB, leaving 480 KB accessible for client information. Extra room could be extended through the PCMCIA Type II opening. There was actual space briefly opening which was closed off and not empowered in programming. The monochrome LCD screen showed 320 x 240 pixels.
References
External links
Newtman's Motorola Marco site
Luckey's Marco site
Apple Newton
Marco
Personal digital assistants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Rat%20Short | One Rat Short is a short digital animation, written and directed by Alex Weil. It was awarded a Best of Show award at the SIGGRAPH 2006 Computer Animation Festival.
External links
One Rat Short at IMDB
The Not So Rat Race (interview with Weil at NewEnglandFilm.com)
2006 computer-animated films
American animated short films
2006 films
2006 short films
2000s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobuchi%20Dam | is a dam in Kani, Gifu, Japan. It dams the Kukuri River in the Kiso River network. It is tall, is Japan's first rock-fill embankment dam, and is intended to prevent damage to farmland from flooding. It is also known as the Kobuchi Reservoir, Kobuchi Disaster Prevention Reservoir, and Kani River Disaster Prevention Kobuchi Dam.
Summary
In 1951, the Kobuchi Dam became the first rock-fill dam built in Japan. A rock-fill dam is a dam built up of stone, so the dam must have an impermeable wall, and there are various types of dams classified depending on the type of wall. In the case of Kobuchi Dam, the upstream side is covered with a concrete cement surface making it a concrete-face rock-fill dam.
Most rock-fill dams with an upstream-facing impermeable wall subsequently tended to use asphalt in the wall, so among the many dams in Japan, there are only four dams with concrete walls, Kobuchi Dam, Ishibuchi Dam, Minase Dam, and Nozori Dam.
In particular, Ishibuchi Dam in Iwate Prefecture's Iwasa River was built at the same time as Kobuchi Dam.
That dam was finished in the same year, 1953, but construction of Kobuchi Dam began in 1945, earlier than Ishibuchi Dam, and from this fact Kobuchi Dam holds the honor of being Japan's first rock-fill dam. Currently,
Isawa Dam is under construction downstream of Ishibuchi Dam, and Ishibuchi dam will be submerged when Iwasa Dam is finished in 2013.
Sightseeing
Transportation
From Kani Station on the Taita Line, there is a bus on Tohtetsu's Kukuri Line which stops at a bus stop named Kobuchi Dam, which is right next to the dam itself.
Vicinity of the Reservoir
A park was created in vicinity of the reservoir which is known for its cherry blossoms in spring and fall colors in autumn. The Tōkai Nature Trail extends through the area. The Kobuchi Bridge is a walkway spanning the reservoir, and in the past a melody was played automatically when one crossed the bridge, so it is also called the "melody bridge." There are also other recreation areas, as well as parking lots and so on.
One is allowed to fish in the reservoir, but it is necessary to pay a 500 yen fee to the Kani Fishing Cooperative.
Dams in Gifu Prefecture
Dams completed in 1951 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonta | Bonta is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Paula Bonta, Argentinian-Canadian computer scientist and educational software designer
Rob Bonta (born 1972), American politician
Vanna Bonta (1953–2014), Italian-American writer, actress, and inventor
Zoltán Bonta (born 1954), Hungarian filmmaker and videographer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube%20TV | YouTube TV is an American streaming television service operated by YouTube, a wholly owned subsidiary of Google. Announced on February 28, 2017, the virtual multichannel video programming distributor offers a selection of live linear channel feeds and on-demand content from more than 100 television networks (including affiliates of the Big Three broadcast networks (such as ABC, NBC and CBS), Fox, The CW and PBS in most markets) and over 30 OTT-originated services, as well as a cloud-based DVR.
The service, which is aimed at cord cutters, is available only in the United States, and can be streamed through its dedicated website and mobile app, smart TVs and digital media players. Since 2017, YouTube TV has served as the presenting partner of the World Series and the NBA Finals. As of , YouTube TV has over five million subscribers.
History
2017–2018
YouTube TV launched on February 28, 2017, in five major U.S. markets—New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia and San Francisco. In addition to carrying national broadcast networks, YouTube TV offers cable-originated channels owned by the corporate parents of the four major networks and other media companies. Other channels initially available on the service included CNBC, MSNBC, BBC World News, Smithsonian Channel (a venture of Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution), Sundance TV (owned by AMC Networks), numerous sports channels, Disney Channel (owned by The Walt Disney Company), and BBC America (jointly owned by AMC Networks and BBC Studios).
YouTube TV members also received access to YouTube Premium’s original movies and series, though an additional subscription to Premium was required for customers to access ad-free content and additional app features; Showtime and Fox Soccer Plus were also purchasable as optional premium add-ons for an extra fee. Also in 2017, YouTube added MLB Network, and entered into regional streaming rights deals with two Major League Soccer clubs, Seattle Sounders FC and Los Angeles FC.
In February 2018, YouTube TV began carrying the Time Warner-owned Turner Broadcasting System's cable networks (including, among others, TBS, TNT, CNN and Cartoon Network). In addition, YouTube TV also announced a deal to add NBA TV and MLB Network. With these additional channels, the service increased its monthly price for the first time in March 2018, from $34.99 to $39.99, with no grandfathering or opt-out available. On June 19, 2018, under an agreement with Lionsgate, YouTube TV began offering Starz as a premium add-on, containing linear feeds of the six Starz and eight Starz Encore channels.
2019–2020
The service expanded to cover 98% of U.S. households by January 2019. In March 2019, YouTube TV launched in Glendive, Montana, thus making the service available in all 210 American television markets. On April 10, 2019, YouTube TV added nine networks owned by Discovery, Inc. (including Discovery Channel, HGTV, Food Network, TLC, Animal Planet and OWN), bringing the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douban | Douban.com (), launched on 6 March 2005, is a Chinese online database and social networking service that allows registered users to record information and create content related to film, books, music, recent events, and activities in Chinese cities. Douban is named after a Hutong in Chaoyang District, Beijing where the founder lived while he began work on the website.
Douban was formerly open to both registered and unregistered users. For registered users, the website recommends potentially interesting books, movies, and music to them in addition to serving as a social network website such as WeChat, Weibo and record keeper. For unregistered users, the website is a place to find ratings and reviews of media.
Douban has about 200 million registered users as of 2013 and some Chinese authors as well as critics register their official personal pages on the site. The platform has been compared to other review sites such as IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Goodreads.
Founder
Douban (Beijing Douwang Technology Co. Ltd.) was founded by Yang Bo (杨勃). He majored in physics at Tsinghua University before he attended University of California, San Diego as a PhD student. After receiving his PhD in computational physics, he worked as a research scientist at IBM. Later, he returned to China, becoming the CTO of a software company founded by one of his friends.
In 2005, Yang started to create a website for travelling named Lüzong (驴宗), initially a one-person project at a Starbucks in Beijing. In a couple of months, however, the site was transformed into what is now known as Douban.com.
Timeline
2005
March 6, account registration opened to the public
March 8, Group (小组) was released
March 9, the first topic appeared in the Group
July 6, the traditional Chinese version of the website published
August 23, Douban Location (豆瓣同城) was released to allow users to share and discover local events and activities
December 8, English version of the website opened for public testing
2013
Douban announced that Douban covered 200 million monthly independent users in the second and third quarters of 2013, double the same period last year.
As of September 2013, Douban has 16.7 million book entries, 320 million movie reviews, 1.06 million music entries, 27,000 independent musicians, and 380,000 various interest groups.
September 17, 2013, “Douban Dongxi" (豆瓣东西)was released
Until September 2013, Douban had more than 75 million registered users, mainly from first- and second-tier cities across the country, with an average daily PV of 210 million.
2016
Until the end of 2016, Douban had 150 million registered users and 300 million monthly active users
2017
Douban launches content-paid product "Douban Time" (豆瓣时间)
2020
Beijing Douban Technology Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Douban.com, had a significant business information change on July 8. The shareholders and business scope changed.
The company's business scope has expanded from "Internet dissemination of officially published book conte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Price%20%28Prison%20Break%29 | "The Price" is the 65th episode of the American television series Prison Break and was broadcast on October 20, 2008 in the United States on the Fox Network.
Plot
Michael and Agent Self strike a deal with Gretchen Morgan, who wants Scylla for herself but holds the pages of the 'bird book' that Michael needs. Sara is reluctant about this, as she is constantly disturbed by memories of imprisonment and torture at the hands of Gretchen. Meanwhile, now without the copying device, the team targets General Krantz to obtain the sixth and final card key. Recalling a successful job from his criminal days, Lincoln devises a plan to ram the General's limousine with a car and take his card. Lincoln and Sucre are to drive the car, Michael, Sara, and Bellick are to arrive at the crash scene in an ambulance, disguised as paramedics, and Mahone is to follow in an SUV to pick up Link & Sucre after the crash. An old car is obtained, and the ambulance is stolen from an impound while Self creates a diversion.
Roland faces an increasingly hostile attitude toward him from the team after he lost the device. He contacts Wyatt by text message on his phone, offering Michael and Lincoln for cash. When demanded for proof, Roland informs Wyatt of the impending ambush on the General.
Gretchen, T-Bag, and the receptionist plan to start digging for the decoding device of Scylla. They pretend to work at GATE as usual, when Mr. Feng arrives demanding Scylla from T-Bag. However, Gretchen steps in, reassuring him to deliver Scylla for $125 million, and sends him off. After he leaves, T-Bag and the receptionist are seen secretly copying Gretchen's fingerprints.
Having set up an ambush, the team waits. Mahone is gloomy as the pursuit after his son's murderer is all but abandoned by the team; Sucre refuses to leave when Lincoln suggests doing it by himself; Sara confronts Michael of his possible condition, but Michael insists he is fine. The plan fails when the General's limousine is alerted at the last second. Wyatt arrives and shoots at Lincoln and Sucre in their car; the pair escapes, but Sucre is shot in his side. Back at the warehouse, Sara performs an emergency surgery on Sucre, who survives. Michael is suspicious about Roland, but is seemingly convinced by Roland's denial. Roland later flees the warehouse.
Gretchen sets up a meeting with Sara and gives her an opportunity to settle the score; she offers to let Sara whip her on the back with an extension cord. Sara refuses, but puts a blade to her throat, cutting it lightly, and tells Gretchen that she will pay for killing a guard ('Michelle') who helped Sara escape.
After the failed ambush, the General realizes Michael and his team are after his card, not his life. In a meeting with all the card holders, the General orders to have Scylla moved immediately, putting the post-Laos plan of the Company on hold.
Instead of getting paid, Roland gets shot by Wyatt in both his knees. Roland reveals the location of the warehouse to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MCOT%20HD | MCOT HD (in Thailand called Channel 9 MCOT HD ) is a Thai state-owned free-to-air television network launched on 24 June 1955 and owned by MCOT.
History
In 1949, Sanpasiri Wirayasiri, a foreign correspondent for the Publicity Department (present-day Public Relations Department), wrote an article to introduce readers to "Visual Radio", a new type of communication technology in the world. Later, the Department of Publicity (Current Public Relations Office) sends a group of servants to study in the United Kingdom around the year 1950, seeing the enormous benefits for the nation The Department then presented "Project to establish a radiotelephony" to the Field Marshal P. Pibulsongkram, then Prime Minister, but in the House of Representatives most MPs vehemently disagreed. because he saw that it was a waste of the national budget, therefore, temporarily interrupting the said project.
The British Pye company signed a contract to build a television station in Bangkok that would later be used as the backbone of what would be Channel 4. The station was set up by T. V. Mitchell, a Singaporean businessman. Then Prasit Thavisin, Chairman of the Board of Directors Wichian Wireless and Telephony Co., Ltd. brought a radio transmitter and 4 receivers with a total weight of over 2,000 kilos to try to transmit the Marching Band musical performances from the Department of Public Relations for Government House and public relations department for cabinet see for the first time in Thailand and also open for general public to experience in Sala Chalermkrung on 19 July 1952. The broadcast was seen by 20,000 people.
The channel was originally launched as Channel 4 Bang Khun Phrom (ช่อง 4 บางขุนพรหม) with test transmissions beginning on 6 September 1954 and beginning formal broadcasts on 24 June 1955. The then new channel operated under the management of the Thai Television Company (founded 1952). The channel began to broadcast daily in 1957.
In 1974, the channel migrated from broadcasting in black-and-white at 525-lines on VHF channel 4 to a colour using a 625-line system on VHF channel 9 (the second in Southeast Asia). On 3 February 1977, the Thai Television Company was dissolved and channel 9 was put under direct State administration.
On 28 June 1981, Princess Sirindhorn and King Bhumibol Adulyadej officially inaugurated the new MCOT buildings on a 57-meters-square terrain with a television transmission, the largest in the country at the time, at 9:25 am. On 16 July 1987, Channels 3 and 9 signed a broadcasting expansion agreement. In 1992, Sangchai Sunthornwat became the director of MCOT.
On 6 November 2002, the channel was rebranded as Modernine TV. During the 2006 Thai coup d'état, the network was forced to stop broadcasting.
Presenters
Suwit Suthiprapha
Neeracha Limsomboon
Kamphu Phuriphuwadon
Ratchanee Sutthitham
Kamonnet Nuanchan
Vanessa Samaksaruti
Danai Ekmahasawat
Amornrat Mahittirukh
Suthiwat Hongpoonphiphat
Suta Suteephichetphan
Chalermpor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Gruber | Thomas Robert Gruber (born 1959) is an American computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur with a focus on systems for knowledge sharing and collective intelligence. He did foundational work in ontology engineering and is well known for his definition of ontologies in the context of artificial intelligence.
In 2007 Gruber co-founded Siri Inc., which created the Siri intelligent personal assistant and knowledge navigator. Siri Inc. was acquired by Apple in 2010, and Siri is now an integral part of iOS.
Biography
Gruber studied psychology and computer science at the Loyola University New Orleans, where he received a double major B.S. in 1981 and graduated summa cum laude. He designed and implemented a computer-assisted instruction (CAI) system for programmed-curriculum courses. It was the first of its kind at the university, and is used routinely by the Psychology department for introductory courses. In 1984 he received a M.S. in Computer and Information Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. For his Master's research, Gruber designed and implemented an intelligent communication prosthesis assistant, a computer system which enables people with severe physical disabilities who cannot otherwise speak to communicate in natural language presented in displayed, written, or spoken form. Four years later in 1988 at the University of Massachusetts Amherst he received a Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science with the dissertation "The Acquisition of Strategic Knowledge". His dissertation research addressed a critical problem for Artificial Intelligence—knowledge acquisition—with a computer assistant that acquires strategic knowledge from experts.
From 1988 to 1994 Gruber was a research associate at the Knowledge Systems Laboratory of the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. He worked on the How Things Work, SHADE, and Knowledge Sharing Technology projects. In 1994 he became Senior Project Leader, Enterprise Integration Technologies and proposed and designed several projects using the Internet to create shared, virtual environments for collaborative learning and work (for ARPA, NASA, and NIST). During this time he also proposed a business plan for corporate training. In 1995, he founded and became Chief Technology Officer of Intraspect Software, an enterprise software company that did early commercial work on collaborative knowledge management. Intraspect applications help professional people collaborate in large distributed communities, continuously contributing to a collective body of knowledge.
Gruber has been a member of journal editorial boards of the "Knowledge Acquisition", "IEEE Expert" and "International Journal of Human-Computer Studies".
Work
Gruber's research interests in the 1990s were in the field of developing intelligent networked software to support human collaboration and learning. Areas of specialty include: knowledge acquisition, knowledge representation, computer-supported collaborative work, com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLBasic | GLBasic is a commercial BASIC programming language that can compile to various platforms including Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and some handheld devices. The language is designed to be simple and intuitive.
Overview
GLBasic started as an interpreted language with 2D commands (GL stands for Graphics Language). It now uses the GCC compiler for many different platforms to achieve fast, native code results. The GLBasic precompiler "GPC" converts the simple BASIC language into C++ code and compiles it later. Thus, the user can extend GLBasic using the INLINE command to mix C/C++ code directly with GLBasic source code. Due to this, GLBasic can easily access third-party dynamic libraries on all platforms.
The GLBasic SDK comes with an IDE, debugger, and a graphics engine built on OpenGL (or OpenGL ES) for the platforms Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, iOS, and WebOS. For handheld devices (Windows Mobile, GP2X, and GP2X Wiz), GLBasic uses its own close-to-hardware routines for fast graphics.
To compile for the iPhone or iPad, you will need an iMac (on which to compile the generated code - to comply with Apple's requirements) and the latest version of Xcode, which is a free download from the Apple website.
To be able to actually run the program on an iPhone or iPad (GLBasic programs will not work on the emulator), you need to be a member of the iPhone Apple Developer Connection.
Since the release of the 8.054 beta, it became possible to compile for the Open Pandora machine as well. However, with the lack of Windows programming tools half of the compiling process is performed on Windows, and the other half on the actual machine. Since version 10, the IDE directly builds packages on Windows for the Pandora.
Version 8.230 and above can compile for the Web-OS devices like the Palm Pre without additional hardware or developer program membership requirements. Support for the HP TouchPad was added in September 2011 via a web-update.
Version 10.057 added support to build application packages running on Android devices.
GLBasic comes with numerous examples.
Online publication
Apps created with GLBasic can be uploaded to the Apple App Store, Google Play, and HP's App Catalog; all of which require a developer account. Costs to the developer and pre-publication review level depend on the publisher used.
For Apple iOS the iOS Developer Program costs US$99 per year. All apps published on the app store are required to undergo a two-week, review-and-approval process prior to publication.
For Android there is a one-time fee of US$25. Apps published via Google Play Store are not subject to an approval process and are immediately available to the public.
Publishing via HP's App Catalog requires a free account. Apps placed for sale through HP's App Catalog undergo a five-day review process before publication.
A wrapper for the Intel AppUp Centre SDK is also available for GLBasic.
Features
GLBasic has the following features:
General
Programs are written in BASIC.
String |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockstress | Sockstress is a method of attacking servers and other devices that accept TCP connections on the Internet and other TCP-based networks. This method uses up local resources in order to crash a service or an entire machine, essentially functioning as a denial of service attack.
Sockstress was developed as internal proof-of-concept by the late Jack C. Louis at Outpost24. Louis discovered anomalies using Unicornscan to test and probe networks for corporate security, which led to the development of Sockstress. The concept was first demonstrated in September 2008. The researchers had planned on releasing more details at the T2 conference in Finland where they demonstrated the attacks. They instead chose to continue to work closely with, and give more time to, the vendor and standards communities.
In a blog entry they said "We are not putting them [the vendors] under undue pressure to get poorly implemented rushed fixes out."
A proof-of-concept tool, Nkiller2, that demonstrated an attack similar to sockstress was released by Fotis Chantzis aka ithilgore on Phrack ezine. Nkiller2 works completely statelessly, using packet-parsing techniques and virtual states, and exploits an inherent mechanism of TCP, the Persist Timer, thus being able to perform and infinitely prolong a generic DoS attack with a minimal amount of network traffic.
About Sockstress
Sockstress is a user-land TCP socket stress framework that can complete arbitrary numbers of open sockets without incurring the typical overhead of tracking state. Once the socket is established, it is capable of sending TCP attacks that target specific types of kernel and system resources such as Counters, Timers, and Memory Pools. Obviously, some of the attacks described here are considered "well known". However, the full effects of these attacks is less known. Further, there are more attacks yet to be discovered/documented. As researchers document ways of depleting specific resources, attack modules could be added into the tree of socksframework.
The sockstress attack tool consists of two main parts:
1) Fantaip: Fantaip is a "Phantom IP" program that performs ARP for IP addresses. To use fantaip, type 'fantaip -i interface CIDR', Ex., 'fantaip -i eth0 192.168.0.128/25'. This ARP/Layer 2 function could optionally be provided by other means depending on the requirements of the local network topology. Since sockstress completes TCP sockets in user-land, it is not advisable to use sockstress with an IP address configured for use by the kernel, as the kernel would then RST the sockets. This is not strictly required as the use of a firewall to drop incoming packets with rst flag can be used to achieve the same goal and prevent the kernel from interfering with the attack vector.
2) Sockstress: In its most basic use, sockstress simply opens TCP sockets and sends a specified TCP stress test. It can optionally send an application specific TCP payload (i.e. 'GET / HTTP/1.0' request). By default, post attack |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Control%20Program%20Interface | In computing, the Virtual Control Program Interface (VCPI) is a specification published in 1989 by Phar Lap Software that allows a DOS program to run in protected mode, granting access to many features of the processor not available in real mode. It was supplanted by DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) shortly after being introduced, due in large part to VCPI's inability to work in Windows 3.0's protected mode.
Overview
Developed since 1987 in cooperation with Quarterdeck Office Systems and with support by A.I. Architects, Lotus Development Corp., Quadram, Qualitas and Rational Systems, VCPI is provided by an expanded memory manager in DOS (e.g. CEMM, QEMM, later EMM386) and does allow 80386 protected-mode DOS extenders to coexist with 80386 EMS expanded memory emulators. It was eclipsed by DPMI, most notably because it was not supported for DOS programs run in Windows 3.0's native protected mode (called 386 enhanced mode) and because VCPI runs programs in Ring 0, which defeated the purpose of x86 protection. It also did not work with OS/2 2.0 and later. VCPI was only supported in Windows 3.0 real mode, some programs could run in Windows 3.x standard mode. Standard mode (286 mode) Windows 3.1 (but not 3.0) itself was VCPI compliant (it was a VCPI client). Earlier Windows/386 2.1 was not compatible with DOS extenders at all. Windows NT DOS box did not support VCPI either.
VCPI also had a comparatively limited scope in that it allowed a protected mode DOS program to run only when the program was started from DOS already running inside a virtual 8086 mode task. (This was typically accomplished through a memory manager operating as a virtual [mode] control program for the processor.) Because the virtual 8086 mode isolates programs from the hardware, it is not possible for a program to switch to protected mode without some support from the control program.
Extended VCPI
Between 1989 and February 1990 an alternative specification was proposed under the name Extended VCPI (XVCPI) by a number of companies including Intel's Software Focus Group, Lotus, Digital Research, Interactive Systems, Viewport International and others to address some of the shortcomings of VCPI and better exploit the memory management and multitasking capabilities of the 386 processor. It was used by a small number of products including operating systems like Interactive Unix and Concurrent DOS 386. Since February 1990 these efforts ultimately succumbed to the (parallel) development and publication of the DPMI specification in May 1990, which addressed similar problems, but was compatible with the implementation of Microsoft Windows 3.0 to be released the same year.
In February 1991, the Multiuser DOS Federation (MDOS), an initiative formed in July 1990, issued a statement regarding their support of DPMI.
See also
DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI)
DOS Protected Mode Services (DPMS)
Notes
References
Further reading
DOS technology
DOS memory management
DOS extenders |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PASCAL%20%28database%29 | PASCAL is a scientific bibliographic database, which is maintained by INIST (CNRS). PASCAL covers the core scientific literature in science, technology and medicine with a special emphasis on European literature.
, PASCAL maintains a database of more than 17 million records, 90% of which are author abstracts. Its coverage is from 1973 to present. Its source documents are composed of journal articles at 88% (3,085 international titles), proceedings at 9%, and dissertations, books, patents, and reports account combined for 3%.
References
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
French National Centre for Scientific Research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANOG | JANOG is the Internet network operators' group for the Japanese Internet service provider (ISP) community. JANOG was originally established in 1997.
JANOG holds regular meetings for the ISP community, with hundreds of attendees. Although JANOG has no formal budget of its own, it draws on the resources of its member companies to do so.
References
External links
JANOG English-language home page
Main Japanese-language JANOG home page
Internet Network Operators' Groups
Computer networking
Organizations established in 1997
Internet in Japan
Trade associations based in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acision | Acision was a privately held British mobile communications network infrastructure company engaged in messaging and charging systems that enable popular services such as Short message service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile internet browsing, mobile broadband, and voicemail. In particular, Acision specialised in providing IP messaging to over-the-top media services and other enterprises.
Acision was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the wireless networks business from LogicaCMG. It existed as an independent, private company until it was purchased by Comverse, Inc. in 2015.
Background
Acision's roots lie in two companies:
The Wireless Data Services (WDS) division of Anglo-Dutch consultancy and telecommunications company CMG, the first to develop a Short Message Service Centre (SMSC) in 1992 which was first deployed in 1993. CMG WDS also developed UCP/EMI, a protocol primarily used to connect to short message service centres (SMSCs).
The Irish mobile telecommunications pioneers Aldiscon, the first to commercially deploy an SMSC, Telepath, and its now standardized protocol SMPP in 1993.
Aldiscon's first deployment of its Telepath SMSC was with TeliaSonera in Sweden in 1993, followed by Fleet Call (now Nextel) in the US, Telenor in Norway and BT Cellnet (now O2 UK) later in 1993. In 1997, Aldiscon was acquired by UK-based Logica, which merged with CMG in 2002 to form LogicaCMG. Both companies' wireless divisions merged into LogicaCMG Wireless Networks.
History
Acision was born on 20 February 2007, when LogicaCMG Wireless Networks was sold for £265m (US$525m) to private investors Atlantic Bridge Ventures and Access Industries and became known as Acision. The Times wrote that the new entity was "the world's largest provider of the software, hardware and integration services that form the infrastructure behind SMS text messages". The lead investor at Atlantic Bridge (who became executive chairman at Acision), Laurence Quinn, had been one of the founders of Aldiscon.
As of 2008, Acision had over 300 mobile operators as customers. Acision claimed to serve over a billion end users, and that over 50 per cent of SMS revenue was generated through its platforms. The company employed approximately 1,500 people in 22 countries. Acision was considered one of the industry leaders in providing an MMS delivery platform to content provides, marketing providers, and the like.
In June 2015, it was announced that Acision was being acquired by Comverse, Inc. for a combination of cash and stock values at between $135 and $210 million. Soon after the acquisition, Comverse changed its name to Xura.
References
External links
Acision official website
Acision innovation network
Video interview with Shawn Barber, Director of Voice Messaging - Mobile Industry Review
Technology companies established in 2007
Technology companies disestablished in 2015
Display technology companies
Software companies of the United Kingdom
British companies establis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGEF | SGEF (Src homology 3 domain-containing Guanine nucleotide Exchange Factor) is a 97 kDa protein involved in intracellular signalling networks. It functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for RhoG, a small G protein of the Rho family.
Discovery
SGEF was discovered during a screen for androgen-responsive genes in human prostate cancer cells. Subsequent northern blot analysis revealed expression of SGEF in tissues of the heart, brain, placenta, lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, prostate, testis, small intestine and colon. SGEF is also expressed in endothelial cells of the vasculature. Several widely used cell lines express this protein, these include A431, HeLa, HUT78, HEK-293, Jurkat, THP, PC12, RAJI, U937 and Meg-01.
SGEF was identified to contribute to the formation of atherosclerosis through promoting endothelial docking structures that resulted in retention of leukocytes at athero-prone sites of inflammation. Genetic variants in SGEF have been associated with coronary artery disease
Structure and function
SGEF is part of a large class of proteins (GEFs) that function to activate small G proteins. In their resting state G proteins are bound to guanosine diphosphate (GDP) and their activation requires the dissociation of GDP and binding of guanosine triphosphate (GTP). GEFs activate G proteins by promoting nucleotide exchange.
SGEF has the canonical GEF structure of tandem DH and PH domains, which elicit nucleotide exchange and, in addition, contains an N-terminal proline-rich motif and a C-terminal SH3 domain. Proline regions and SH3 domains often mediate recruitment and binding to adaptor proteins suggesting that SGEF is probably involved in the formation of heteromultimeric protein complexes.
Regulation of activity
Data from several studies suggest that SGEF is regulated by its recruitment to transmembrane receptor-linked adaptor proteins via its SH3 domain. In one study, mutation of the SH3 domain disrupted SGEF-dependent functions in NIH-3T3 fibroblasts. In endothelial cells SGEF was recruited to the intracellular domain of the transmembrane adhesion molecule ICAM-1 upon leukocyte adhesion to the endothelium.
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punish%20Yourself | Punish Yourself is a French band best known for their stage theatrics and innovative style of industrial/punk music. They describe their style as "Fluo Cyber Punk".
Members
Current members
vx 69 (sometimes vx or Cheerleader 69; born Vincent Villalon) – vocals
Miss Z (born Sandrine Caracci) – guitar, vocals
P.RLOX (born Pierre-Laurent Clément) – guitar
X.av (born Xavier Guionie) – drums
Klodia
Fafa/MCC (born Jean-François Clément) – dance, pyrotechnics
Past members
Holivier Menini – guitar
Georges Garza – drums
Magali Arino – vocals
Séverine Naudi – keyboards
Frankie Lacosta – bass
PFX68 – bass
Stéphane Vanstaen – percussions
Gilles Alogues – keyboards
Bud Silva – drums
Olga, Dollga – dance
Discography
Studio albums
1998: Feuer Tanz System
2001: Disco Flesh: Warp 99
2004: Sexplosive Locomotive
2007: Cult Movie (CD/DVD)
2008: Gore Baby Gore
2009: Pink Panther Party
2010: Punish Yourself VS Sonic Area: Phenomedia
2013: Holiday in Guadalajara
2017: Spin the Pig
Live albums
2003: Behind the City Lights
Compilation
2005: Crypt 1996–2002
Demos
1994: First demo tape
1995: Second demo tape
Trivia
In 2004, pornographic actress Coralie Trinh Thi wrote a comic about them called Deep Inside Punish Yourself. In the same year, PY composed the song Holy Trinh Thi in reference to her.
TV apparitions
Tracks on Arte Channel, a documentary about new punk bands
On Ne Peut Pas Plaire À Tout Le Monde on France 2, a talk-show/reportage about satanism in the rock and metal music.
References
External links
French industrial music groups
French industrial metal musical groups
Organizations based in Toulouse
Musical groups from Occitania (administrative region) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20y%20Televisi%C3%B3n%20de%20Guerrero | Radio y Televisión de Guerrero is a statewide public television network and series of radio stations, owned and operated by the agency of the same name in the State of Guerrero.
History
RTG began operations in 1980 with a television station, "Televisión Educativa", channel 7 in the state capital of Chilpancingo. On April 1, 1983, Radio Guerrero, then a separate department of the state government was founded. Its first station was XEGRO-AM 870 in Chilpancingo, and the first program on the station was the second government report of Alejandro Cervantes Delgado. In 1986, XEGRC-AM 820 was built in Coyuca de Catalán.
On June 26, 1987, the television and radio services were combined as Radio y Televisión de Guerrero. The following year, the radio and TV services expanded. Channel 7 added a more powerful transmitter in Acapulco, while AM stations were added in Ometepec and Taxco. At the end of the year, XHGRC-FM 97.7 Acapulco, the flagship of the entire service, came to air. While permitted by 2000, XHZTA-FM 92.1 in Zihuatanejo did not come on air until October 2016.
XEGRO-AM in Chilpancingo was off the air beginning in June 2012, when its equipment was stolen. In 2015, the state government began working to restore the station to service with equipment shared by XECHH-XHCHH "Capital Máxima".
Radio
RTG holds permits for these radio stations:
XHGRC-FM 97.7 Acapulco
XEGRO-AM 870 Chilpancingo
XEGRC-AM 820 Coyuca de Catalán
XEGRM-AM 1100 Ometepec
XEGRT-AM 1310 Taxco de Alarcón
XHZTA-FM 92.1 Zihuatanejo (repeats XHGRC-FM)
All of the AM stations are authorized as daytimers but operate from 5am to midnight. The FM stations operate 24 hours a day.
Television
RTG broadcasts a television service on two stations and on Satmex 5 C-band satellite nationally (4105 MHz, H, 2666kbit/s, FEC 3/4).
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In the 2000s, the IPN's Once TV supplied programming to RTG under agreement. In 2006, Canal Once supplied 15 hours a day (on weekdays) of programming to RTG.
RTG's broadcasts in Chilpancingo have been sporadic. In 2012, it was reported that this transmitter was being shut down to conserve electricity. It received its digital authorization very late in 2016, for RF channel 35.
RTG began digital transmissions in 2016 in Acapulco on physical channel 33 and moved to virtual channel 4 in October 2016.
References
Television stations in Guerrero
Public radio in Mexico
Public television in Mexico |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM%20Center | FM Center is a radio network in Venezuela based on Caracas. It was founded by Rodolfo Rodríguez García and is the largest radio network of that country, owning 64 AM and FM radio stations nationwide and one internet-based. It is divided into three sub-networks: AM Center, Circuito La Romántica and Circuito Fiesta.
FM Center also delivers other radio services as news (FM Center es Noticia) and the popular traffic report with Alejandro Cañizales aboard a red Bell Ranger helicopter, Traffic Center.
History
In January 1997, with Martha Rodríguez Miranda as General Director and Enzo Cassella as vicepresident of programming and production, FM Center starts broadcasting their signal in Venezuela. For that time, the network owned only 5 radio stations: 88.9 (later to become "La Romántica"), HOT 94.1, Estrella 96.3, Fiesta 106.5 and 93.9 (Ciudad Bolívar). Only the latter was not located in the capital Caracas.
Already in 1998, FM Center swept with Venezuelan awards Premios Mara de Oro for their performance in the industry. This favored the expansion of the network towards the rest of the country. At the start of the 21st century, AM Center was created and the radio station 91.9 from Caracas was added in their stations portfolio as Life 91.9.
In 2000, the headquarters and major radio stations move to Centro Comercial Concresa in the southeast of the Venezuelan capital. The concept of the transformation was the construction of interactive studios where the audience could not only hear their programs, but also see them as they were recorded. In September, FM Center launches the first and only traffic service to drivers in the Capital District: Traffic Center. With Alejandro Cañizales aboard a red Bell Ranger helicopter, Traffic Center delivers instant and effective status of local transit. The show also informs drivers with alternative routes to avoid traffic and preventive campaigns about the many problems that affect Caracas transit system.
In 2007, FM Center launched an oversize trailer which wonders the roads of Venezuela called Showcenter Rodando. It was designed to produce live in site-transmissions and live concerts from its stage located in the rooftop of the vehicle.
In January 2008 Estrella 96.3, an emblematic and key station to the network ceased transmissions as the new state-owned ALBA Ciudad started broadcasting. The frequency was lost to FM Center when the Venezuelan government refused to renew the concession to the network. As a response, the first internet-based radio station was incorporated to the group under the name Estrella On-Line as a clear reference to Estrella 96.3, maintaining similar formats and shows. Nowadays, FM Center's radio stations are interconnected via Directv satellite.
Business
Networks
FM Center is divided into three sub-networks: AM Center, Circuito La Romántica and Circuito Fiesta. They are broadcast nationwide in Venezuela. Only 3 radio stations are not categorized in the sub-networks in order to keep th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous%20veto%20network | In cryptography, the anonymous veto network (or AV-net) is a multi-party secure computation protocol to compute the boolean-OR function. It was first proposed by Feng Hao and Piotr Zieliński in 2006. This protocol presents an efficient solution to the Dining cryptographers problem.
A related protocol that securely computes a boolean-count function is open vote network (or OV-net).
Description
All participants agree on a group with a generator of prime order in which the discrete logarithm problem is hard. For example, a Schnorr group can be used. For a group of participants, the protocol executes in two rounds.
Round 1: each participant selects a random value and publishes the ephemeral public key together with a zero-knowledge proof for the proof of the exponent . A detailed description of a method for such proofs is found in .
After this round, each participant computes:
Round 2: each participant publishes and a zero-knowledge proof for the proof of the exponent . Here, the participants chose if they want to send a "0" bit (no veto), or a random value if they want to send a "1" bit (veto).
After round 2, each participant computes . If no one vetoed, each will obtain . On the other hand, if one or more participants vetoed, each will have .
The protocol design
The protocol is designed by combining random public keys in such a structured way to achieve a vanishing effect. In this case, . For example, if there are three participants, then . A similar idea, though in a non-public-key context, can be traced back to David Chaum's original solution to the Dining cryptographers problem.
References
Public-key cryptography
Zero-knowledge protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Top%20Latin%20Albums%20of%202008 | The Billboard Top Latin albums chart, published in Billboard magazine, is a record chart that features Latin music sales information. This data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan from a sample that includes music stores, music departments at electronics and department stores, Internet sales (both physical and digital) and verifiable sales from concert venues in the United States.
There were 23 number-one albums in 2008; one of these, La Vida... Es un Ratico by Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes, won five Latin Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year. One month after the death of their lead vocalist Sergio Gómez in late December 2007, the Chicago-based group K-Paz de la Sierra returned to the top of the chart with Capaz de Todo Por Tí, which was number one for six consecutive weeks. Cómplices, the eighth number-one album by Mexican singer Luis Miguel, debuted at number 10 on the Billboard 200, the highest peak for the singer on that chart, with 32,000 album units sold. This album also gave the singer the record for the most number-one albums on this chart for one month, until it was tied by fellow Mexican singer-songwriters Marco Antonio Solís and Los Temerarios. This record was broken on October 25, 2008 by Solís with the debut of his ninth number-one album No Molestar.
Vicente Fernández's Para Siempre won the Latin Grammy Award for Best Ranchero Album; it spent three non-consecutive weeks at the top of the chart. Primera Fila, a live album by Fernández, was the last number-one album of 2008. With 26,000 album units sold, Daddy Yankee debuted at number 13 on the Billboard 200 with Talento de Barrio, a soundtrack for the movie that starred the reggaeton performer, which also debuted at number one on this chart. Wisin & Yandel returned to number one with Los Extraterrestres, an album that was awarded with the Latin Grammy Award for Best Urban Music Album. and ended the year as the best selling Latin album of 2008. On November 29, another Wisin & Yandel recording, a collaboration with DJ Nesty, titled La Mente Maestra debuted at number one. R.K.M & Ken-Y, Flex, Jenni Rivera and Los Pikadientes de Caborca peaked at number one for the first time in their careers. Luis Fonsi's Palabras del Silencio, earned his best sales week ever with 30,000 album copies sold and the second-largest sales week of the year for a Latin performer; only Luis Miguel's Cómplices sold more (32,000 albums in May). This album became the second number-one album on this chart for Fonsi.
Albums
See also
Billboard Top Latin Albums
References
2008 Latin
United States Latin Albums
2008 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDEF5 | IDEF5 (Integrated Definition for Ontology Description Capture Method) is a software engineering method to develop and maintain usable, accurate domain ontologies. This standard is part of the IDEF family of modeling languages in the field of software engineering.
Overview
In the field of computer science ontologies are used to capture the concept and objects in a specific domain, along with associated relationships and meanings. In addition, ontology capture helps coordinate projects by standardizing terminology and creates opportunities for information reuse. The lDEF5 Ontology Capture Method has been developed to reliably construct ontologies in a way that closely reflects human understanding of the specific domain.
In the IDEF5 method, an ontology is constructed by capturing the content of certain assertions about real-world objects, their properties, and their interrelationships and representing that content in an intuitive and natural form. The IDEF5 method has three main components:
A graphical language to support conceptual ontology analysis
A structured text language for detailed ontology characterization, and
A systematic procedure that provides guidelines for effective ontology capture.
Topics
Ontology
In IDEF5 the meaning of the term ontology is characterized to include a catalog of terms used in a domain, the rules governing how those terms can be combined to make valid statements about situations in that domain, and the “sanctioned inferences” that can be made when such statements are used in that domain. In every domain, there are phenomena that the humans in that domain discriminate as (conceptual or physical) objects, associations, and situations. Through various language mechanisms, one associates definite descriptors (e.g., names, noun phrases, etc.) to those phenomena.
Central concepts of ontology
The construction of ontologies for human engineered systems is the focus of the IDEF5. In the context of such systems, the nature of ontological knowledge involves several modifications to the more traditional conception. The first of these modifications has to do with the notion of a kind. Historically, a kind is an objective category of objects that are bound together by a common nature, a set of properties shared by all and only the members of the kind.
While there is an attempt to divide the world at its joints in the construction of enterprise ontologies, those divisions are not determined by the natures of things in the enterprise so much as the roles those things are to play in the enterprise from some perspective or other. Because those roles might be filled in any of a number of ways by objects that differ in various ways, and because legitimate perspectives on a domain can vary widely, it is too restrictive to require that the instances of each identifiable kind in an enterprise share a common nature, let alone that the properties constituting that nature be essential to their bearers. Consequently, enterprise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HQL | HQL may refer to:
Hibernate Query Language, a language for writing queries against Hibernate data objects
Tashkurgan Khunjerab Airport (IATA: HQL), Kashgar, Xinjiang, China
H & Q Life Sciences Investors, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Handgun Qualification License, under the gun laws in Maryland, United States
See also
Jakarta Persistence Query Language, an object-oriented query language similar to the Hibernate Query Language |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CreteTV | CreteTV () is a Greek regional television station, based in Heraklion. Its terrestrial transmission covers the region of Crete, while it also transmits via satellite through the Cosmote TV network.
References
External links
Television channels in Greece
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Mass media in Heraklion
Crete |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kieron%20O%27Hara | Kieron O'Hara is a philosopher, computer scientist and political writer. He is an associate professor and principal research fellow within the department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton where he specialises in the politics, philosophy and epistemology of technology. He is also a research fellow at the Web Science Trust and the conservative think-tank, the Centre for Policy Studies.
In Conservatism (2011), O'Hara developed the philosophy of 'small-c conservatism' that he outlined in After Blair (2005/7). He argued that conservatism must be a philosophy concerned with social change, and must be defensible using public reason. To that end, he defined conservatism as the knowledge principle plus the change principle. The knowledge principle, influenced by scepticism, states that:
“because society and its mediating institutions are highly complex and dynamic with natures that are constantly evolving as they are co-constituted with the individuals who are their members, both data and theories about society are highly uncertain”.
The change principle adds:
“because the current state of society is typically undervalued, and because the effects of social innovations cannot be known fully in advance, then social change (a) must always risk destroying beneficial institutions and norms and (b) cannot be guaranteed to achieve the aims for which it was implemented. It therefore follows that societies should be risk-averse with respect to social change, and the burden of proof placed on the innovator, not his or her opponents. It also follows that change, when it does come, should ideally be (a) incremental, (b) reversible where possible and (c) rigorously evaluated before the next incremental step”.
Influenced by Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Michael Oakeshott and Friedrich Hayek, O'Hara distanced conservative philosophy from free-market liberalism and neoconservatism. He also developed ideas about risk and uncertainty about the environment to sketch a type of green conservatism.
Other projects have included co-authoring the script of Tomb Raider 4 and an article in the Journal of Popular Culture on the film Carry On Cabby
Selected bibliography
Plato and the Internet (2002)
Trust: From Socrates to Spin (2004)
After Blair: Conservatism Beyond Thatcher (2005)
The Referendum Roundabout (2006)
inequality.com: Power, Poverty and the Digital Divide (2006, with David Stevens)
After Blair: David Cameron and the Conservative Tradition (2007)
The Enlightenment: A Beginner's Guide (2010)
Conservatism (with foreword by David Willetts, 2011)
References
Living people
20th-century British philosophers
21st-century British philosophers
Alumni of the University of St Andrews
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Video game writers
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasai%20Road%20railway%20station | Vasai Road Junction (station code: BSR) is a railway station on the Western line and Vasai Road–Roha line of the Mumbai Suburban Railway network.
Vasai is a historical suburban town north of Mumbai and it is located in Palghar district. It is a much modern part of Vasai Taluka. It is a part of the new Vasai-Virar city.
It is a major railway station which bypasses Mumbai and connects the trains coming from Vadodara to Konkan Railway and Pune Junction railway station and further towards cities of Bengaluru and Hyderabad
History
The station was formerly known as Bassein Road (Bassein being Vasai's Portuguese name). This is the reason why the station code is BSR standing for the original BaSsein Rd.
It was a station on the erstwhile BB&CI railway's (today's Western Railway) first passenger train service between Grant Rd and Ahmedabad, when it commenced operations on 28 November 1864. It was also the northern terminus of the first local service of the BB&CI railway, when it started two coach services between Grant Rd and Bassein Rd on 1 November 1865. The service had one train plying each direction. Just the following month, in an effort to construct a second platform with roof at the station, Rs. 6,522 were sanctioned in December 1865. This was necessary, since it was often, that two passenger train happened to be at the station at the same time. Wells were provided at Bassein Rd, along with a station called Pahadee (today's Goregaon station).
Station layout
Seven of the eight platforms at Vasai Road are laid out side by side. Platform 1 at Vasai Road is constructed approximately 500 meters south of platform 2, similar to platform 2 and 3 at .
Vasai Road is an important cross over point between Western and Central railways in Mumbai, as trains from Konkan region and Pune cross over to the Western line here.
Platforms 2–5 handle the local trains in the up & down directions. Platform 4,5,6 and 7 handle outstation trains that have a halt at Vasai Road. They also handle two Rajdhani Express trains.
1. 12431/12432 Thiruvananthapuram Rajdhani Express
2. 22413/22414 Madgaon Rajdhani Express
Also, it handles Humsafar Express, Duronto Express, Sampark Kranti Express trains from Kerala side towards Delhi.
Platform 1 is a dedicated platform to handle local trains that start/terminate at Vasai Road. Also platform 6 and 7 holds freight train for going towards Diva. The recent developments at Vasai railway station is the inclusion of elevator and lifts on the old as well as the new footover bridges. Currently, The Western Railway is planning to build a new outstation train terminus. The new terminus, set to come up by 2023, will also ease the present bottleneck at Vasai Road station. The project plan received a boost when Union railway minister Piyush Goyal on August 23, 2018 announced exploring the feasibility of a new main line terminal at Vasai Road.
Gallery
References
Transport in Vasai-Virar
Mumbai Suburban Railway stations
Mumbai WR railway |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20data%20model | Generic data models are generalizations of conventional data models. They define standardised general relation types, together with the kinds of things that may be related by such a relation type.
Overview
The definition of generic data model is similar to the definition of a natural language. For example, a generic data model may define relation types such as a 'classification relation', being a binary relation between an individual thing and a kind of thing (a class) and a 'part-whole relation', being a binary relation between two things, one with the role of part, the other with the role of whole, regardless the kind of things that are related. Given an extensible list of classes, this allows the classification of any individual thing and to specify part-whole relations for any individual object. By standardisation of an extensible list of relation types, a generic data model enables the expression of an unlimited number of kinds of facts and will approach the capabilities of natural languages.
Conventional data models, on the other hand, have a fixed and limited domain scope, because the instantiation (usage) of such a model only allows expressions of kinds of facts that are predefined in the model.
History
Generic data models are developed as an approach to solve some shortcomings of conventional data models. For example, different modelers usually produce different conventional data models of the same domain. This can lead to difficulty in bringing the models of different people together and is an obstacle for data exchange and data integration. Invariably, however, this difference is attributable to different levels of abstraction in the models and differences in the kinds of facts that can be instantiated (the semantic expression capabilities of the models). The modelers need to communicate and agree on certain elements which are to be rendered more concretely, in order to make the differences less significant.
Generic data model topics
Generic patterns
There are generic patterns that can be used to advantage for modeling business. These include entity types for PARTY (with included PERSON and ORGANIZATION), PRODUCT TYPE, PRODUCT INSTANCE, ACTIVITY TYPE, ACTIVITY INSTANCE, CONTRACT, GEOGRAPHIC AREA, and SITE. A model which explicitly includes versions of these entity classes will be both reasonably robust and reasonably easy to understand.
More abstract models are suitable for general purpose tools, and consist of variations on THING and THING TYPE, with all actual data being instances of these. Such abstract models are on one hand more difficult to manage, since they are not very expressive of real world things, but on the other hand they have a much wider applicability, especially if they are accompanied by a standardised dictionary. More concrete and specific data models will risk having to change as the scope or environment changes.
Approach to generic data modeling
One approach to generic data modeling has the following c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD6 | The MD6 Message-Digest Algorithm is a cryptographic hash function. It uses a Merkle tree-like structure to allow for immense parallel computation of hashes for very long inputs. Authors claim a performance of 28 cycles per byte for MD6-256 on an Intel Core 2 Duo and provable resistance against differential cryptanalysis. The source code of the reference implementation was released under MIT license.
Speeds in excess of 1 GB/s have been reported to be possible for long messages on 16-core CPU architecture.
In December 2008, Douglas Held of Fortify Software discovered a buffer overflow in the original MD6 hash algorithm's reference implementation. This error was later made public by Ron Rivest on 19 February 2009, with a release of a corrected reference implementation in advance of the Fortify Report.
MD6 was submitted to the NIST SHA-3 competition. However, on July 1, 2009, Rivest posted a comment at NIST that MD6 is not yet ready to be a candidate for SHA-3 because of speed issues, a "gap in the proof that the submitted version of MD6 is resistant to differential attacks", and an inability to supply such a proof for a faster reduced-round version, although Rivest also stated at the MD6 website that it is not withdrawn formally. MD6 did not advance to the second round of the SHA-3 competition. In September 2011, a paper presenting an improved proof that MD6 and faster reduced-round versions are resistant to differential attacks was posted to the MD6 website.
See also
Comparison of cryptographic hash functions
References
External links
MD6 website
MD6 reference paper
NIST hash function competition |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenahealth | Athenahealth (stylized as athenahealth) is a private American company that provides network-enabled services for healthcare and point-of-care mobile apps in the United States.
The company was founded in 1997 in San Diego and is now headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts. They have operational sites in Belfast, Maine, Atlanta, Georgia, Austin, Texas, Burlington, Vermont, Seattle, Washington, with international operations in Chennai, Bangalore, and Pune, India.
On February 15, 2022, the company was acquired by Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman for $17 billion.
Company history
Athena Women's Health
The company was founded by Jonathan Bush and Todd Park in 1997 as Athena Women's Health, a women's health and birthing center in San Diego, California.
At the birthing center, only 10% of babies were delivered by C-section, one third of the national average, and 90% of mothers were able to breastfeed their newborns, beating the national average of 67% at the time.
Athenahealth
In 1998, venture funder Mark Wilson offered to buy Athenahealth's software for $11 million. Bush and Park turned down the offer and transitioned the business model from birthing centers to internet-based healthcare. They rebranded Athena Women's Health to Athenahealth, Inc., pulling in Ed Park, Todd Park's younger brother, an engineer, to develop a practice management system.
In 2000, Athenahealth's first client, Anchor Medical Associates, went live on athenaCollector, and, in February, its first electronic claim was submitted. While its first office opened its doors in Waltham, Massachusetts in 2002, Athenahealth moved to Watertown, Massachusetts in 2005 and is still headquartered there today.
Athenahealth announced an initial public offering of its common stock on June 22, 2007. The offering was completed on September 20, 2007, at a price of $18 per share. It traded on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ATHN until it was taken private in 2019.
Since moving its headquarters to Watertown in 2005, Athenahealth has created campuses in: Chennai, India, in 2005; Belfast, Maine, in 2008; Princeton, New Jersey, in 2013; Atlanta, Georgia, and San Francisco, California, in 2014; Austin, Texas, in 2015; and Bangalore and Pune, India, in 2017.
In January 2015, Athenahealth announced the acquisition of RazorInsights, a "leader in cloud-based EHR and financial solutions" for rural, critical access, and community hospitals. The purchase extended Athenahealth's established position in the outpatient market into the 50-bed and under inpatient care environment, which makes up nearly one third of the hospital market.
In February 2015, Athenahealth announced that it had purchased webOMR, a web-based clinical applications and EHR platform developed by Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Athenahealth collaborated with BIDMC on the development of Athenahealth's acute care service offering, using Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Needham, a 58-bed community hospital, as the al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giada%20at%20Home | Giada at Home is a television show hosted by Giada De Laurentiis. It first aired on October 18, 2008 on the Food Network.
The show was nominated for two Daytime Emmys in 2009: for Outstanding Culinary Program and Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Program, and won for the latter award.
The show was nominated for four Daytime Emmys in 2010 for; Outstanding Multi-Camera Editing, Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Program, Outstanding Lifestyle/Culinary Host (Giada De Laurentiis) and Outstanding Culinary Program. It won in the categories of Outstanding Directing in a Lifestyle/Culinary Program (2nd year in a row) and Outstanding Culinary Program.
An episode on April 19, 2015 rated 641,000 U.S. viewers.
Production
The show moves beyond the Italian cooking featured on Everyday Italian, and instead focuses on Giada cooking for friends and family, as well as party planning.
References
External links
2000s American cooking television series
2008 American television series debuts
2010s American cooking television series
2015 American television series endings
Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Program winners
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday%20Funday | Sunday Funday may refer to:
Sunday Funday (TV program), a Philippine variety show
Sunday Funday (block), a programming block on American TV network Fox
Sunday Funday, a 1995 video game based on Menace Beach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Talk%20Network | Michigan Talk Network (often abbreviated MTN) is an internet-distributed, syndicated talk radio service that has a variety of programs airing on 20 radio affiliates in the U.S. state of Michigan. It operates in coordination with its flagship station WJIM in Lansing, Michigan and is owned by Steve Gruber, host of the Network's morning show.
The Steve Gruber Show is MTN's morning program and its flagship product; it airs live weekdays 6–9 am ET. Ivey Ramos Gruber is the programs Executive Producer and is also a frequent on air contributor. Past guests include: former President Donald Trump, Mike Pence, Gov. Rick Snyder, Steve Forbes, Dana Perino, Ted Nugent, Gov. Scott Walker, Senator Rand Paul, Dr. John Lott and more. Some or all of the show airs on 9 radio stations including: WJIM, WKMI, WFNT, WAAM, WTKG, WBCH, WLDN, WMLQ, & WMIQ.
Programs
The Steve Gruber Show
The C.A.R. Show (hosted by Roger Kwapich, Dan Pietras and Steve Stewart)
The Tom Matt Show
The Internet Advisor (hosted by Foster Braun, Gary Baker and Ed Rudel)
Travel Michigan (with Dave Lorenz, and Michelle Grinnell)
Wild Michigan with Duran Martinez (outdoors show)
The Grillin' Guys
American radio networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper%20%28video%20game%29 | Minesweeper is a logic puzzle video game genre generally played on personal computers. The game features a grid of clickable tiles, with hidden "mines" (depicted as naval mines in the original game) scattered throughout the board. The objective is to clear the board without detonating any mines, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. Variants of Minesweeper have been made that expand on the basic concepts, such as Minesweeper X, Crossmines, and Minehunt. Minesweeper has been incorporated as a minigame in other games, such as RuneScape and Minecraft 2015 April Fools update.
The origin of Minesweeper is unclear. According to TechRadar, the first version of the game was 1990's Microsoft Minesweeper, but Eurogamer says Mined-Out by Ian Andrew (1983) was the first Minesweeper game. Curt Johnson, the creator of Microsoft Minesweeper, acknowledges that his game's design was borrowed from another game, but it was not Mined-Out, and he does not remember which game it is.
Gameplay
In Minesweeper, hidden mines are scattered throughout a board, which is divided into cells. Cells have multiple possible states:
Unopened tiles (cover the board at the start of the game, can also be made by removing flags)
Numbered tiles (can show 1-8)
Blank tiles (no mines are on the diagonal/adjacent to the tile)
Flagged tiles (right-clicking an unopened tile)
(?) Question marked tiles (right-clicking a flagged tile; only exists in certain implementations)
An unopened cell is blank and clickable, while an opened cell is exposed. Flagged cells are unopened cells marked by the player to indicate a potential mine location; some implementations make flagged cells unopenable to reduce the risk of uncovering a suspected mine.
A player selects a cell to open it. If a player opens a cell containing a mine, the game ends in a loss. Otherwise, the opened cell displays either a number, indicating the number of mines diagonally and/or adjacent to it, or a blank tile (sometimes shown as a 0), and all adjacent cells will automatically be opened. This may cause a chain reaction; any blank tiles opened by other blank tiles open the surrounding tiles too. Players can also flag a cell, visualised by a flag being put on the tile, to denote that they believe a mine to be in that place. Flagged cells are still considered unopened, and may be unflagged. In some versions of the game, when the number of adjacent mines is equal to the number of adjacent flagged cells, all adjacent non-flagged unopened cells can be opened by both left and right-clicking (regardless of if any tiles are mines or not), a process known as chording.
Objective and strategy
A game of Minesweeper begins when the player first selects a cell on a board. The first click is guaranteed to be safe, whilst some variants further guarantee that all adjacent cells are safe as well. During the game, the player uses information given from the opened cells to deduce further cells that are safe t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeopteryx%20%28software%29 | Archaeopteryx is an interactive computer software program, written in Java, for viewing, editing, and analyzing phylogenetic trees. This type of program can be used for a variety of analyses of molecular data sets, but is particularly designed for phylogenomics.
Besides tree description formats with limited expressiveness (such as Newick/New Hamphshire, Nexus), it also implements the phyloXML format.
Archaeopteryx is the successor to Java program A Tree Viewer (ATV).
References
External links
phyloXML
List of phylogeny software, hosted at the University of Washington
Archaeopteryx
Phylogenetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve%20%28disambiguation%29 | A sieve is a tool to separate materials of one characteristic (for example, liquids) from materials of another (for example, solids).
Sieve may also refer to:
Places
Sieve River in Italy
Computing
Sieve (mail filtering language), a standard for specifying mail filters
Scale-invariant feature transform (or SIFT), a computer vision algorithm that detects and describes local features in images
Sieve C++ Parallel Programming System, an auto-parallelizing compiler for C++
Mathematics
Sieve (category theory)
Cyclic sieving, a phenomenon in combinatorics
Sieve estimator (statistics and econometrics)
Sieve theory, a technique for counting or filtering sets of numbers
General number field sieve
Large sieve
Quadratic sieve
Sieve of Atkin
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Sieve of Sundaram
Sieve of Pritchard
Science and healthcare
Sieve, in medicine, a "surgical sieve" refers to a very general list of diagnostic or pathological headings, against which any finding can be compared
Sieving coefficient, used in transport phenomena, in chemistry
Sieve tube element, an elongated cell in the phloem tissue of flowering plants
Tools
Sieve, a firefighting tool used when a fire engine drafts water from a body of water; it is a large metal strainer that is attached to the end of a hard suction hose that prevents debris from entering the hose
Sieve, a gardening tool, known as a riddle, used to separate soil particles and provide a finer tilth, for example by removing stones and twigs
Sieve, in plumbing, a stainless steel strainer
Other uses
Sieve (hieroglyph), an ancient Egyptian hieroglyph
Sieve, or strainer, on rivers is a dangerous obstacle that water can pass through, but people cannot (see Obstacle in whitewater canoeing)
Sieve, in sports such as hockey or lacrosse, is a common slang term used when referring to a goaltender who allows many or weak goals
Sieve analysis, a practice or procedure used to assess the particle size distribution of a granular material, such as soil
See also
CIV (band), a New York City punk rock band pronounced "sieve" |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikkicon | IKKiCON is an annual three-day anime convention held during January at the Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Round Rock, Texas.
Programming
The convention typically offers live entertainment, musical performances, panels, screening rooms, vendors, video games, and workshops.
History
IKKiCON was created in 2007, originally taking the date of Ushicon, and had higher attendance than expected. In 2009, voice actor Greg Ayres suffered a mild heart attack while attending the convention, and later thanked the staff for its response to the emergency. In 2015, the World Cosplay Summit held regional qualifiers at IKKiCON. The Ikkicon planned for January 2021 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the convention holding an event in May 2021 instead. The convention for 2021 moved to the Austin Marriott Downtown.
IKKiCON in 2023 moved to the Kalahari Resorts and Conventions in Round Rock, Texas.
Detailed Event history
References
External links
Ikkicon Website
Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 2007
2007 establishments in Texas
Annual events in Texas
Conventions in Texas
Festivals in Texas
Japanese-American culture in Texas
Tourist attractions in Williamson County, Texas
Culture of Austin, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDNR | KDNR (88.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to South Greeley, Wyoming, United States. The station carries religious programming. The station is currently owned by Western Inspirational Broadcasters.
History
The station was assigned the call letters KWRZ on 2002-06-19. On 2003-11-22, the station changed its call sign to KLCQ and on 2006-03-27 to KKGN. On 2007-03-09 the station became KEZF, and finally on 2008-05-16, the current KDNR.
Translators
In addition to the main station, KDNR is relayed by an additional two translators to widen its broadcast area.
References
External links
Radio stations established in 2002
2002 establishments in Wyoming
DNR
Laramie County, Wyoming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public%20Morals%20%281996%20TV%20series%29 | Public Morals is an American sitcom that aired on the CBS network in October 1996. Created and executive produced by Steven Bochco and Jay Tarses, the series was poorly received and was canceled after airing only one episode.
Synopsis
The show is based around a group of mismatched detectives and others in New York City's vice squad. Among the actors who appear in the series are Peter Gerety and Donal Logue. Bill Brochtrup's character John Irvin, an administrative assistant, had been imported into the show from the drama NYPD Blue, and would return to NYPD Blue after the cancellation of Public Morals. Both Public Morals and NYPD Blue were produced by Steven Bochco.
Cast
Peter Gerety as Lieutenant Neil Fogarty
Donal Logue as Detective Ken Schuler
Bill Brochtrup as John Irvin
Julianne Christie as Detective Corinne O'Boyle
Jana Marie Hupp as Sergeant Val Vandergoodt
Joseph Latimore as Officer Darnell "Shag" Ruggs
Justin Louis as Detective Mickey Crawford
Larry Romano as Detective Richie Biondi
Reception
The original pilot episode of Public Morals was scrapped because critics and some CBS affiliates believed the language was too vulgar. However, the episode that did air was also poorly received. Critics argued that the characters were one-dimensional and that some of the humor involved racial stereotypes.
Episodes
The fifth episode, The White Cover, was originally the pilot.
References
External links
1990s American sitcoms
1996 American television series debuts
1997 American television series endings
CBS original programming
English-language television shows
Fictional portrayals of the New York City Police Department
1990s American police comedy television series
Television series canceled after one episode
Television shows set in New York City
Television shows filmed in Los Angeles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty%20Denneau | Monty M. Denneau is a computer architect and mathematician. Denneau was awarded the 2002 Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award for "ingenious and sustained contributions to designs and implementations at the frontier of high performance computing leading to widely used industrial products."
Denneau currently works for IBM, where he is the chief system architect for the Cyclops64 family of supercomputers. In 2013, he was named an IBM Fellow, the company's highest technical honor.
References
Living people
Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award recipients
IBM employees
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper%20%28software%29 | Grasshopper is a framework to allow the use of Visual Basic and C# applications on a Java application server. It is produced by Mainsoft.
External links
Mainsoft page on Grasshopper
Programming tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous%20method%20invocation | In multithreaded computer programming, asynchronous method invocation (AMI), also known as asynchronous method calls or the asynchronous pattern is a design pattern in which the call site is not blocked while waiting for the called code to finish. Instead, the calling thread is notified when the reply arrives. Polling for a reply is an undesired option.
Background
AMI is a design pattern for asynchronous invocation of potentially long-running methods of an object.
It is equivalent to the IOU ("I owe you") pattern described in 1996 by Allan Vermeulen.
In most programming languages a called method is executed synchronously, i.e. in the thread of execution from which it is invoked. If the method takes a long time to complete, e.g. because it is loading data over the internet, the calling thread is blocked until the method has finished. When this is not desired, it is possible to start a "worker thread" and invoke the method from there. In most programming environments this requires many lines of code, especially if care is taken to avoid the overhead that may be caused by creating many threads. AMI solves this problem in that it augments a potentially long-running ("synchronous") object method with an "asynchronous" variant that returns immediately, along with additional methods that make it easy to receive notification of completion, or to wait for completion at a later time.
One common use of AMI is in the active object design pattern. Alternatives are synchronous method invocation and future objects.
An example for an application that may make use of AMI is a web browser that needs to display a web page even before all images are loaded.
Since method is a special case of procedure, asynchronous method invocation is a special case of asynchronous procedure call.
Implementations
Java class
FutureTask class in Java use events to solve the same problem. This pattern is a variant of AMI whose implementation carries more overhead, but it is useful for objects representing software components.
.NET Framework
Asynchronous Programming Model (APM) pattern (used before .NET Framework 2.0)
Event-based Asynchronous Pattern (EAP) (used in .NET Framework 2.0)
Task-based Asynchronous Pattern (TAP) (used in .NET Framework 4.0)
Example
The following example is loosely based on a standard AMI style used in the .NET Framework.
Given a method Accomplish, one adds two new methods BeginAccomplish and EndAccomplish:
class Example
{
Result Accomplish(args …)
IAsyncResult BeginAccomplish(args …)
Result EndAccomplish(IAsyncResult a)
…
}
Upon calling BeginAccomplish, the client immediately receives an object of type AsyncResult (which implements the IAsyncResult interface), so it can continue the calling thread with unrelated work. In the simplest case, eventually there is no more such work, and the client calls EndAccomplish (passing the previously received object), which blocks until the method has completed and the result is |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-line%20%28disambiguation%29 | A G-line in Internet Relay Chat refers to a global network ban applied to a user.
G-line may also refer to:
G (New York City Subway service)
G Line (Los Angeles Metro), a bus rapid transit line in Los Angeles County, California
G (Los Angeles Railway), former streetcar service
G Line (RTD), commuter rail line serving Denver, Colorado
A Global network ban
Goubau line, a single-wire transmission line or waveguide
The peak at 435.8 nm on the emission spectrum of mercury. See .
Metro G Line (Minnesota), a planned bus rapid transit line in Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Minnesota |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard%20L.%20Miranker | Willard L. Miranker (March 8, 1932 – April 28, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist, known for his contributions to applied mathematics and numerical mathematics.
Raised in Brooklyn, New York, he earned Bachelor of Arts (1952), Master of Science (1953) and Ph.D. (1956) from the Courant Institute at New York University, the latter on the thesis The Asymptotic Theory of Solutions of U + (K2)U = 0 advised by Joseph Keller.
He then worked for the mathematics department at Bell Labs (1956–1958) before joining IBM Research (1961). After retirement from IBM, he joined the computer science faculty at Yale University (1989) as research faculty.
He also held professor affiliations at California Institute of Technology (1963), Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1968), Yale University (1973), University of Paris-Sud (1974), City University of New York (1966–1967) and New York University (1970–1973).
Miranker's work includes articles and books on stiff differential equations, interval arithmetic, analog computing, and neural networks and the modeling of consciousness.
Miranker was also an accomplished and prolific painter. Over the course of his life, Willard Miranker painted ~4000 watercolors/aquarelles and ~200 oil paintings, many of which are displayed online. He exhibited internationally in New York City, Paris and Bonn.
Awards
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
References
External links
Paintings by Will Miranker
short page at Yale University
FindaGrave entry
1932 births
2011 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences alumni
Scientists at Bell Labs
People from Brooklyn
IBM employees
Yale University faculty
California Institute of Technology faculty
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Academic staff of Paris-Sud University
City University of New York faculty
Mathematicians from New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic%20%28disambiguation%29 | Metamorphic can mean:
Computing
Metamorphic code, a programming technique used to disguise code in computer viruses
Metamorphic testing, a software testing technique
Science
Metamorphic rock, rocks that have been transformed by extreme heat and pressure
Metamorphic core complex, exposures of deep crust exhumed in association with largely amagmatic extension
Metamorphic reaction, a chemical reaction that takes place during the geological process of metamorphism
Metamorphic facies, a set of metamorphic mineral assemblages that are formed under similar pressures and temperatures
Metamorphic zone, an area where, as a result of metamorphism, the same combination of minerals occurs in the bed rocks
Other uses
Metamorphic library steps, a piece of 18th century folding furniture
Metamorphic Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm
Metamorphic Force, an arcade game released by Konami in August 1993 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanner%20%28disambiguation%29 | A spanner is a kind of hand tool.
Spanner may also refer to:
Technology and engineering
Adjustable spanner
Spanner, a brand of prostatic stent
Spanner (database), distributed database technology developed by Google
Spanner (screw drive), a type of screw drive that consists of two holes in the screw head and two pins on the tool
Arts and entertainment
Spanner (journal), a former British periodical
Spanners (album), by The Black Dog
A Spanner in the Works, a Rod Stewart album
Spanner, fictional character in Reborn! cartoons
Ralph Spanner, a fictional character in Round the Twist
J Spanner, creator and freelancer of J Spanner Blog.
Other uses
Spanner (surname)
Operation Spanner, a British police investigation
Spanner Trust, a UK BDSM activist group, set up after the operation
Spanner graph, several mathematical concepts; See K-spanner (disambiguation)
See also
Dick Spanner, P.I., a British animation series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Armstrong%20%28programmer%29 | Joseph Leslie Armstrong (27 December 1950 – 20 April 2019) was a computer scientist working in the area of fault-tolerant distributed systems. He is best known as one of the co-designers of the Erlang programming language.
Early life and education
Armstrong was born in Bournemouth, England in 1950.
At 17, Armstrong began programming in Fortran on his local council's mainframe.
Armstrong graduated with a B.Sc. in Physics from University College London in 1972.
He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden in 2003. His dissertation was titled Making reliable distributed systems in the presence of software errors. He was a professor at KTH from 2014 until his death.
Career
After briefly working for Donald Michie at the University of Edinburgh, Armstrong moved to Sweden in 1974 and joined the Ericsson Computer Science Lab at Kista in 1984.
Peter Seibel wrote:
Originally a physicist, he switched to computer science when he ran out of money in the middle of his physics PhD and landed a job as a researcher working for Donald Michie—one of the founders of the field of artificial intelligence in Britain. At Michie's lab, Armstrong was exposed to the full range of AI goodies, becoming a founding member of the British Robotics Association and writing papers about robotic vision.
When funding for AI dried up as a result of the famous Lighthill report, it was back to physics-related programming for more than half a decade, first at the EISCAT scientific association and later the Swedish Space Corporation, before finally joining the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, where he invented Erlang.
It was at Ericsson in 1986, that he worked with Robert Virding and Mike Williams, to invent the Erlang programming language, which was released as open source in 1998.
Personal life
Armstrong married Helen Taylor in 1977. They had two children, Thomas and Claire.
Death
Armstrong died on 20 April 2019 from an infection which was complicated by pulmonary fibrosis.
Publications
2007. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World. Pragmatic Bookshelf .
2013. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World. Second edition. Pragmatic Bookshelf .
References
External links
Erlang and other stuff - Joe Armstrong's current blog
Armstrong on Software - Joe Armstrong's old weblog
Joseph Leslie Armstrong - Prof. Armstrong's home page at KTH
Joe Armstrong home page at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science
1950 births
2019 deaths
British computer programmers
British computer scientists
Programming language designers
Free software programmers
Computer programmers
Erlang (programming language)
KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni
Scientists from Bournemouth
British expatriates in Sweden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPU | BPU may refer to :
Branch prediction unit, in computer science,
Beppu airport, on Kyūshū island, Japan.
Birmingham Political Union, a political party in Great Britain during the 1830s,
Biotic Processing Unit, a robotic biology cloud lab capable of carrying out remote-controlled experiments, part of a Stanford University "interactive biotechnology" project
Bill Producing Unit, a humoristic and sarcastic description in internal slang for the youngest employees in a management consulting firm, which are usually with a customer for most of their work time, which is thus entirely billable to the client, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMF | EMF may refer to:
Computing
Eclipse Modeling Framework, based on Eclipse software
Enhanced Metafile, a Microsoft Windows image file format
Electromagnetic Field (festival), a hacker camping festival
Music
EMF (band), a British band
"EMF", a bonus track on the EMF album Schubert Dip
E.M.F. (album), a 1983 album by GG Allin
Festivals
English Music Festival, in Dorchester on Thames
Electrobeach Music Festival, in Port-Barcarès, France
Essence Music Festival, in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Science and medicine
Electromagnetic field
Electromotive force
Endomyocardial fibrosis
Other uses
E-M-F Company, an early American automobile manufacturer
Edinburgh Marathon Festival, in Scotland
Educational Media Foundation, an American radio network
El Monte Flores, an Hispanic gang located in El Monte, California
Electromagnetic Field (festival), a British hacker convention
Electronic Music Foundation, an American music organization
Emerging Markets Forum, an American economic organization
Energy Modeling Forum, an American group of energy modelers
Engineers Mobility Forum, see Regulation and licensure in engineering
European Maritime Force
European Metalworkers' Federation, a trade union federation
European Minifootball Federation
European Mortgage Federation, an industry organization
European Museum Forum
Experimental Mechanized Force of the British Army |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion | Conversion or convert may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
"Conversion" (Doctor Who audio), an episode of the audio drama Cyberman
"Conversion" (Stargate Atlantis), an episode of the television series
"The Conversion" (The Outer Limits), a 1995 episode of the television series
The Convert, a 2023 film produced by Jump Film & Television and Brouhaha Entertainment
"Chapter 19: The Convert", an episode of the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian
Business and marketing
Conversion funnel, the path a consumer takes through the web toward or near a desired action or conversion
Conversion marketing, when a website's visitors take a desired action
Converting timber to commercial lumber
Computing, science, and technology
Conversion of units, conversion between different units of measurement
Computing and telecommunication
CHS conversion of data storage, mapping cylinder/head/sector tuples to linear base address
CPS conversion, in computer science, changing the form of continuation-passing
Code conversion, in telecommunication, converting from one code to another
convert (command), a command-line utility in the Windows NT operating system
Convert, a command-line (graphics) image manipulation utility that is part of ImageMagick
Data conversion, conversion of computer data from one format to another
Transcoding, analog-to-analog or digital-to-digital conversion of one video encoding to another
Type conversion, in computer science, changing the data type of a value into another data type
Other sciences
Conversion (chemistry), the ratio of selectivity to yield or the change of a molecule
Electric vehicle conversion, modification of a conventional vehicle to battery electric
Energy conversion, the process of changing one form of energy to another
Internal conversion, a radioactive decay process
Economics, finance, and property law
Conversion (exchange), the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another
Conversion (law), a voluntary act by one person inconsistent with the ownership rights of another
Conversion (options), an options-trading strategy in options arbitrage
Economic conversion, a technical, economic and political process for moving from military to civilian markets
Equitable conversion, a change in the nature of property so that real property is treated as personal property
Psychiatry
Conversion disorder, a condition in which neurological symptoms arise without a definable organic cause
Conversion therapy, a pseudo-scientific treatment to turn a homo- or bisexual person into a heterosexual person
Religion
Religious conversion, the adoption of a new religious identity
Deathbed conversion, a form of religious conversion
Forced conversion, forced adoption of a new religious identity
Marital conversion, a form of religious conversion
Secondary conversion, a form of religious conversion
Psychology of religious conversion, psychological aspect of religious conversion
Conversion to Buddhism, r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systole%20%28disambiguation%29 | Systole may refer to:
Systole (medicine), a term describing the contraction of the heart
Systolic array, a term used in computer architecture
Systolic geometry, a term used in mathematics
In mathematics, Systoles of surfaces are systolic inequalities for curves on surfaces
Also see Introduction to systolic geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20relational%20learning | Statistical relational learning (SRL) is a subdiscipline of artificial intelligence and machine learning that is concerned with domain models that exhibit both uncertainty (which can be dealt with using statistical methods) and complex, relational structure.
Note that SRL is sometimes called Relational Machine Learning (RML) in the literature. Typically, the knowledge representation formalisms developed in SRL use (a subset of) first-order logic to describe relational properties of a domain in a general manner (universal quantification) and draw upon probabilistic graphical models (such as Bayesian networks or Markov networks) to model the uncertainty; some also build upon the methods of inductive logic programming. Significant contributions to the field have been made since the late 1990s.
As is evident from the characterization above, the field is not strictly limited to learning aspects; it is equally concerned with reasoning (specifically probabilistic inference) and knowledge representation. Therefore, alternative terms that reflect the main foci of the field include statistical relational learning and reasoning (emphasizing the importance of reasoning) and first-order probabilistic languages (emphasizing the key properties of the languages with which models are represented).
Canonical tasks
A number of canonical tasks are associated with statistical relational learning, the most common ones being.
collective classification, i.e. the (simultaneous) prediction of the class of several objects given objects' attributes and their relations
link prediction, i.e. predicting whether or not two or more objects are related
link-based clustering, i.e. the grouping of similar objects, where similarity is determined according to the links of an object, and the related task of collaborative filtering, i.e. the filtering for information that is relevant to an entity (where a piece of information is considered relevant to an entity if it is known to be relevant to a similar entity)
social network modelling
object identification/entity resolution/record linkage, i.e. the identification of equivalent entries in two or more separate databases/datasets
Representation formalisms
One of the fundamental design goals of the representation formalisms developed in SRL is to abstract away from concrete entities and to represent instead general principles that are intended to be universally applicable. Since there are countless ways in which such principles can be represented, many representation formalisms have been proposed in recent years. In the following, some of the more common ones are listed in alphabetical order:
Bayesian logic program
BLOG model
Logic programs with annotated disjunctions
Markov logic networks
Multi-entity Bayesian network
Probabilistic relational model – a Probabilistic Relational Model (PRM) is the counterpart of a Bayesian network in statistical relational learning.
Probabilistic soft logic
Recursive random field
Rela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Kelley | Daniel Kelley may refer to:
Daniel E. Kelley (1843–1905), musician
Daniel Kelley (hacker), British computer hacker
Danny Kelley (born 1964), stock car racer
Dan Kelley (born 1970), former Iowa State Representative
See also
Daniel Kelly (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Economic%20Assessment%20Package | The Local Economic Assessment Package (also known as “EDR-LEAP” or “LEAP Model”) is a web-based, interactive database and software tool used by local and regional agencies in the US to improve strategies for economic development. It provides local economic performance measures, and benchmarks for comparison of economic development factors against competing regions. It works by incorporating elements of economic base analysis as well as gap analysis and business cluster analysis to identify needs for improvement and paths for economic growth.
The LEAP Model was originally developed for the Appalachian Regional Commission. Its theory and applications are discussed in peer-reviewed journal articles.
References
External links
LEAP Model
Web applications
Government software
Econometrics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayLink | DisplayLink (formerly Newnham Research) is a semiconductor and software technology company owned by Synaptics that develops the DisplayLink USB graphics technology. This technology enables computers and displays to connect using USB, Ethernet, and WiFi, and also allows for multiple displays to be connected to a single computer. DisplayLink's primary customers include notebook OEMs, LCD monitor manufacturers, and PC accessory vendors, and their technology is compatible with a wide range of operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, macOS, Android, ChromeOS, and Linux.
DisplayLink operates worldwide with offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Taiwan. The company is privately funded and by 2013, had raised $75 million in financing from venture capital organizations Atlas Venture, Balderton Capital, Cipio Partners DAG Ventures and DFJ Esprit.
Company history
DisplayLink was founded in 2003 as Newnham Research by Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Martin King. The Newnham Research team invented NIVO (Network In, Video Out) designed for low cost thin client computing over Ethernet networks. The company referred to these thin-client computers as network displays.
In 2006, Newnham Research launched its first commercially available product in partnership with the Kensington Computer Products Group: a USB 2.0 universal laptop docking station designed for the retail market.
In November 2006, Newnham Research renamed itself to DisplayLink, a name that allegedly better described their display connection technology. The name is very similar to the DisplayPort display interface, which was approved by VESA earlier that year.
DisplayLink launched its first semiconductor product family, the DL-120 and DL-160 USB 2.0 graphics devices, in January 2007, signalling a change in the company's business plan from FPGA-based systems to semiconductors. The DL-120 and DL-160 allow up to six additional monitors to be added to a PC through USB 2.0.
In May 2009, DisplayLink launched its second semiconductor product family, the DL-125, DL-165, and DL-195 USB 2.0 graphics devices. This DL-1x5 family brought improved performance, an increase in maximum resolution to 2048x1152, and the integration of a DVI transmitter and video DAC. The first products to ship with the new DL-1x5 chips were the Samsung Lapfit LD190G and LD220G monitors.
On November 17, 2009, DisplayLink announced their first Thin Client product based on their USB 2.0 virtual graphics technology, designed for Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server. Thin client manufacturer HP was the first to announce a product based on DisplayLink USB Graphics technology with the launch of the t100 Thin Client.
At the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2012, DisplayLink announced several products incorporating video and graphics over a USB 3.0 "SuperSpeed USB" connection, showing substantial improvements in performance, resolution support, and video quality.
At CES in 2013, DisplayLink demonstrated USB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab%20Towns%20Organization | The Arab Towns Organization (ATO) is a network which exists to develop cooperation between Arab cities in order to promote their development, while preserving their Arab identity.
History and profile
ATO was set up in Kuwait on 15 March 1967. It is based in Kaifan, Kuwait City.
Membership is open to municipalities, from Arab nations, other institutions with related activities and interested individuals. Member cities, according to the website (in 2008), come from the following countries : Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.
There are several related institutions, including a Development Fund for Arab Cities, which began life in 1979, and the Arab Urban Development Institute which started up in 1980, describing itself as ‘the scientific and technical wing of the ATO’. As of 2013, the organization had members from twenty-two countries.
ATO is one of the main partners in the Euro-Arab Forum, which has organised conferences in Dubai in 2008 and Malaga in 2011. The other partners are COPPEM, CEMR and the Congress of the Council of Europe.
As of 2011 the ATO Secretary General was Abdulaziz Al Adasani. He was re-elected in 2010 for another three-year term, at the 15th ATO General Assembly in Kuwait in October 2010. A decision was taken at this meeting to hold the 16th Assembly in Aleppo in 2012.
See also
List of micro-regional organizations
References
External links
Arab Towns Organization website
ATO approves soft loans for Arab cities 5/7/2006
ATO to participate in November 2008 World Urban Forum in Nanjing
1967 establishments in Kuwait
Organizations established in 1967
Local government organizations
International political organizations
International organizations based in the Middle East
Arab groups
Arab League
Organizations based in Kuwait City
Arab organizations
Municipal international relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScicomP | The IBM HPC Systems Scientific Computing User Group (ScicomP) is an international organization open to all scientific and technical users of IBM systems. At yearly meetings application scientists and staff from HPC centers present talks about, and discuss, ways to develop efficient and scalable scientific applications. These meetings provide an opportunity to give feedback to IBM that will influence the design of future systems. ScicomP is a not-for-profit group and is not affiliated with IBM Corporation.
History
ScicomP was formed in October 1999 when 285 researchers and engineers met at IBM's Advanced Computing Technology Center (ACTC) at IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, NY.
The meeting was a user-oriented and planned 3-day workshop to share information on scientific computing techniques for the users of IBM SP supercomputers. The meeting was created on the recommendations of the attendees of the IBM SP Scientific Applications Development and Optimization Workshop held in March 1999 at the San Diego Supercomputer Center. The objective of that meeting was to help computational scientists and engineers develop applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on the IBM SP systems.
ScicomP has held annual and semi-annual meetings that bring together scientific domain experts, computational
scientists, systems engineers, and IBM technical specialists to share experiences using IBM High Performance
Computing Systems. The domain encompasses all IBM HPC Systems, including Power, Blue Gene, Cell,
hybrid (e.g. the Los Alamos RoadRunner system), and blade architectures.
The meetings alternate between supercomputing sites in North America and Europe. The next meeting will be held in May 2009 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center in Barcelona, Spain.
External links
ScicomP Home Page
IBM Advanced Computing Technology Center
IBM Website
IBM user groups
User groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi%20railway%20station | Hanoi central station or simply Hanoi station () is one of the main stations of Vietnam Railways, serving as the terminus of 5 of 7 active routes in the national network, including the North–South railway (Reunification Express), the Hanoi–Lào Cai railway, the Hanoi–Haiphong Railway, the Hanoi–Đồng Đăng Railway, and the Hanoi–Quán Triều Railway. The station serves the capital city of Hanoi. The station is located at 120 Lê Duẩn Street, Cua Nam Ward, Hoan Kiem District in central Hanoi.
History
In 1895, The French Indochina choose the Hang Co Market area to build the main station of Hanoi. The old name of this station is Hang Co railway station. Hanoi railway station was built by France and opened in 1902. That time, Hanoi station had a Western-style design and It was design by Henri Vildieu. Hanoi railway station is also one of the largest station in South East Asia at that time. The building was damaged in the Vietnam War 1972 and in 1976 the central hall was rebuilt in modern style, preserving the historic side wings (only the middle was bombed).
Services
Passenger services departing from Hanoi Main station:
The train to Dong Dang is metre gauge and cannot continue on the Chinese railway network. Passengers destined for China must connect to a Chinese train at Pingxiang. Standard gauge tracks have been laid to Gia Lâm Railway Station, about across the river from the main Hanoi Railway Station. Through trains to China depart from Gia Lâm rather than the main Hanoi Railway Station.
Trains to Hai Phong reach Hanoi Station on weekends and holidays only. During weekdays, the terminus is Long Biên Station
The train to Nanning departs from Hanoi Gia Lam
2 more trains to Haiphong departing from Hanoi Gia Lam
Gallery
References
Railway stations in Hanoi
Hanoi Metro stations
Railway stations opened in 1902
French colonial architecture in Vietnam |
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