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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%20Zambian%20census | The 2000 Zambian census was conducted in Zambia in 2000 by DRS under approval of the Government of Zambia, which recorded demographic data from 13 million people and 4 million households. Planning for the project commenced in 1998. In October 2000 the census started, with more than 30,000 workers across Zambia completing the 17 million double-sided A4 forms. The census was completed in May 2001. The scanning was undertaken in collaboration with the Examinations Council of Zambia (ECZ) and published by the Central Statistical Office. The census was noted by the Milton Keynes & North Bucks Chamber of Commerce and the DRS received a special commendation for its census work in Africa.
According to the census, Zambia had a total population of 9,885,591 with 4,946,298 (50.04%) males and 4,939,293 (49.46%) females and the sex ratio was 999 for every 1,000 males. The total literacy of the population above the age of five stood at 55.3 per cent. Urban population constituted 34.67 per cent and the remaining 65.33 per cent resided in rural areas. The density of population was 13.1 persons per km2 and the decadal growth of population was 2.50 per cent. There were 22 major languages spoken in Zambia of which 30.1 per cent of the population spoke Bemba, making it the largest spoken language. Out of the seven broad ethnic groups, Bemba was the most prevalent tribal group (33.6%), followed by Eastern Province group (18.2%). The total labour force was 3,165,151 with a total of 55 per cent of the population being inactive in rural areas and 45 per cent in urban areas. Unemployment increased in the country by 29.9 per cent in 2000. Agriculture was the major occupation with 71.5 per cent involved in it.
The people affected by HIV or AIDS constituted 15 per cent of the population, amounting to one million, of which 60 per cent estimated were women. Only 49 per cent of the total population had access to safe water, while only 15 per cent had access to proper toilets. As per the mortality indicators in 2000, the Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) stood at 110 deaths per 1,000 children born. The life expectancy at the time of birth increased from 47 in 1990 to 50 in 2000.
Background
The first complete census of Africans in Zambia was carried out in Zambia during May 1963, when the country was a British colony, while the enumeration of non-African people was performed during 1961. Before the 2000 census enumeration, there were three census enumeration exercises carried out in independent Zambia during 1969, 1980 and 1990.
Administration
Zambian 2000 census was carried out from 16 October to 15 November 2000 by 30,000 persons deputed by the Census Statistical Office of Zambia. There were two forms: Form A, which had basic details of full name, sex, membership status and was expected to be answered by senior member of each household; Form B had details about individual members of the family. When the respondent was a minor, proxy members having knowledge about the family wer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%20Reserve%20Economic%20Data | Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is a database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that has more than 816,000 economic time series from various sources. They cover banking, business/fiscal, consumer price indexes, employment and population, exchange rates, gross domestic product, interest rates, monetary aggregates, producer price indexes, reserves and monetary base, U.S. trade and international transactions, and U.S. financial data. The time series are compiled by the Federal Reserve and many are collected from government agencies such as the U.S. Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Services
ALFRED (Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data) lets users retrieve vintage versions of economic data that were available on specific dates in history. The ALFRED website states that “In general, economic data for past observation periods are revised as more accurate estimates become available. As a result, previous vintages of data can be superseded and may no longer be available from various data sources." It also says that "Vintage or real-time economic data allows academics to reproduce others’ research, build more accurate forecasting models and analyze economic policy decisions using the data available at the time.”
GeoFRED is a data-mapping tool that displays FRED data series in color-coded form on the state, metropolitan statistical areas and county levels.
CASSIDI is a data service that provides nationwide data on banking market structures and definitions, as well as banking markets for individual depository institutions.
FRASER (The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) is a digital archive begun in 2004 to safeguard, preserve and provide easy access to the United States’ economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system. Digitized documents include:
Publications of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Publications of each of the Federal Reserve banks
Statements, speeches and archival materials of Federal Reserve policymakers
Government data publications
Statistical releases
Congressional hearings
Books
Reports by various organizations
To create and maintain FRASER, the St. Louis Fed collaborated with the United States Government Printing Office, Federal Depository Library Program libraries and several university and public libraries.
St. Louis Fed Research also hosts IDEAS, a bibliographic database drawn from Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), which consists of economic research from more than one million academic articles and papers. As of January 2022, the IDEAS site states it has more 3,800,000 items of research that can be browsed or searched, and more than 3,400,000 that can be downloaded in full text.
Usage
The economic data published on FRED are widely reported in the media and play a key role in financial markets. In a 2012 Business Insider artic |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSFG-LD | WSFG-LD 51 is a low-power television station in Fayette County, Alabama which receives religious programming via satellite for terrestrial rebroadcast.
WSSF-LP 48 was a station commonly owned with WSFG-LD.
In 2008 both stations, despite their LPTV status, successfully forced their programming onto West Alabama TV Cable, a local cable television provider in Hamilton-Winfield-Fayette, Alabama, by using the terrestrial loophole in federal must-carry regulations which allow "qualified LPTV stations" to obtain mandatory cable carriage normally reserved for full-power stations. The use of this provision is based on a claim that no full-power station serves Fayette County, that the community is not part of any of the 160 largest metropolitan statistical areas and that the stations meet specific technical criteria (such as signal coverage and number of hours of programming) which apply to full-service stations seeking carriage.
WSSF-LP's license was cancelled by the Federal Communications Commission on September 9, 2013, due to the station failing to file an application for license renewal.
Digital television
Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
Low-power television stations in Alabama
SGF-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-to-surface%20intersection%20problem | The surface-to-surface intersection (SSI) problem is a basic workflow in computer-aided geometric design: Given two intersecting surfaces in R3, compute all parts of the intersection curve. If two surfaces intersect, the result will be a set of isolated points, a set of curves, a set of overlapping surfaces, or any combination of these cases. Because exact solutions can be found only for some special surface classes, approximation methods must be used for the general case.
References
External links
Surface-to-surface intersections (N.M. Patrikalakis)
Further reading
Ernst Huber, Intersecting General Parametric Surfaces Using Bounding Volumes, Tenth Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry - CCCG'98,1998.
Ernst Huber, Surface-to-surface intersection based on triangular parameter domain subdivision, Proceedings of the 11th Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, UBC, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 15–18, 1999
Handbook of Computer Aided Geometric Design, By Gerald E. Farin, Josef Hoschek, Myung-Soo Kim, Published by Elsevier, 2002, ,
Geometric algorithms
Geometric intersection
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Baldi | Pierre Baldi is a distinguished professor of computer science at University of California Irvine and the director of its Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics.
Education and early life
Born in Rome (Italy), Pierre Baldi received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees at the University of Paris, in France. He then obtained his Ph.D. degree in mathematics at the California Institute of Technology in 1986 supervised by R. M. Wilson.
Career and research
From 1986 to 1988, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, San Diego. From 1988 to 1995, he held faculty and member of the technical staff positions at the California Institute of Technology and at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was awarded the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 1993. He was CEO of a start up company called Net-ID from 1995 to 1999 and joined University of California, Irvine in 1999.
Baldi's research is focused on understanding intelligence in brains and machines, through the study of the mathematical foundations of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning, and their applications to problems in the natural sciences, physics, chemistry, and biology.
Publications
Baldi has over 400 publications in his field of research and five books:
"Deep Learning in Science." Pierre Baldi. Cambridge University Press. 2021.
"Bioinformatics: the Machine Learning Approach." Pierre Baldi and Soren Brunak. MIT Press, 1998; 2nd Edition, 2001, .
"Modeling the Internet and the Web. Probabilistic Methods and Algorithms," Pierre Baldi, Paolo Frasconi and Padhraic Smyth. Wiley editors, 2003.
"The Shattered Self—The End of Natural Evolution." Pierre Baldi. MIT Press, 2001.
"DNA Microarrays and Gene Regulation." Pierre Baldi and G. Wesley Hatfield. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Awards and honors
Baldi is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the AAAS, the IEEE, and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is also the recipient of the
2010 Eduardo R. Caianiello Prize for Scientific Contributions to the field of Neural Networks and a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
References
American bioinformaticians
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Machine learning researchers
University of California, Irvine faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian emigrants to the United States
University of Paris alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzoom | Zzoom is a computer game developed by John Gibson, Mark Butler and Steve Blower for the ZX Spectrum and released by Imagine Software in 1983. It is a combat flight simulator in which the player controls an aircraft to protect refugees from enemy forces.
Gameplay
The object of the game is to protect a series of refugees from enemy aircraft, tanks and submarines. The player's view consists of a crosshairs upon a simple ground and sky horizon, with an altimeter, a shield indicator and a radar. Refugees walk along the horizon, and the player must fire his guns at enemy units to prevent them from killing the refugees. Score is gained by destroying enemy units, and for refugees crossing the screen safely.
However, due to a bug in the score calculation for refugees, should the player not allow any (or very few) refugees to survive a stage he will be rewarded with a bonus far in excess of what would be scored had the refugees been saved. To achieve this the player invariably has to shoot the refugees himself - which although not the point of the game can be just as challenging, as whilst doing this the enemy will still be launching missiles and shooting at the player.
Reception
Zzoom was received well by the video game press when it was released in 1983, and it remained among the top twenty best-selling games well into 1984. Crash called it "a very memorable game and excellent value for money", whilst Personal Computer Games described it as "one of the all-time greats in a very competitive market".
References
External links
1983 video games
Europe-exclusive video games
Imagine Software games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
ZX Spectrum-only games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closer%20%28Michael%20Paynter%20song%29 | "Closer" is a song by Australian singer-songwriter, Michael Paynter, released physically and digitally as his debut single on 28 June 2008. The song was used in advertisements for the Seven Network's drama series, City Homicide. It was to be included on Paynter's debut album This Welcome Diversion, however its release was delayed and then cancelled by Sony after Paynter was dropped from the label. However, an acoustic version of the song was included on Paynter's free album Money on Your Tongue. "Closer" peaked at number sixty-one on the ARIA Singles Chart.
Track listing
Charts
See also
Love the Fall
References
2008 singles
2008 songs
Michael Paynter songs
Sony Music Australia singles
Songs written by Gary Clark (musician)
Songs written by Michael Paynter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIX | SIX may refer to:
Computing
Seattle Internet Exchange
SIX Swiss Exchange
Slovak Internet eXchange
Slovenian Internet Exchange
Swiss Internet Exchange
Finance
SIX Financial Information, a subsidiary of SIX Group
SIX Group, a financial service provider in Switzerland
SIX Interbank Clearing, in Zurich, Switzerland, a subsidiary of SIX Group
Television
SIX (Sports Channel)
Six (TV series), an American television drama series
Six TV, the sixth free to air terrestrial television channel in the UK
Other
Six (musical), stylized as SIX
See also
6 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovak%20Internet%20eXchange | SIX (Slovak Internet eXchange) is a Slovak internet exchange point, established at the Center of Computer Technology of Slovak University of Technology (STU). , the SIX interconnects 58 ISPs operating in the Slovak Republic, and has a peak traffic rate of 501 Gbit/s, making it the most significant exchange point in Slovakia.
Information
Location: Bratislava, Slovakia
Interconnection points: 2
Connected ISPs : 58
Peak data transmission: 501 Gbit/s
Founded: 1996
Notes
See also
List of Internet exchange points by size
External links
SIX homepage
Internet_exchange_points_in_Europe
Telecommunications companies of Slovakia
Telecommunications in Slovakia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20Tuesday%20%28TV%20programme%29 | First Tuesday was a monthly television documentary strand, shown in the United Kingdom on the ITV network and was produced by Yorkshire Television. The subject matter was mainly social issues and current affairs stories from around the world. It ran from 5 April 1983 to 2 November 1993, with programmes being shown on the first Tuesday of the month, hence the title. In 1993, Network First was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
Notable programmes
The Falklands War - The Untold Story (01/04/1987)
Too Close to Home (6 December 1988), about the Armley asbestos disaster
The Wigan Hold (1989, filmed 1988), about wrestling at Riley's Gym, featuring former professional wrestlers and Riley's Gym alumni Tommy Moore and Ernie Riley (son of Billy Riley)
Four Hours in My Lai (02/05/1989 - shown in the US Frontline series as Remember My Lai)
Sonia's Baby (03/04/1990, narrated by Olivia O'Leary)
Swing Under the Swastika (02/10/1990, narrated by Alan Plater)
Cold Blood - The Massacre of East Timor (07/01/1992) Amnesty International UK Media Awards Winner, 1992.
Katie and Eilish - Siamese Twins (04/08/1992, narrated by Julie Christie - 1993 Peabody Award winner)
M25, from 1991.
References
External links
First Tuesday at the British Film Institute.
ITV documentaries
1983 British television series debuts
1993 British television series endings
1980s British documentary television series
1990s British documentary television series
Television series by Yorkshire Television
English-language television shows
Television series by ITV Studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Pains | Royal Pains is an American comedy-drama television series that ran on the USA Network from 2009 to 2016. The series was based in part on actual concierge medicine practices of independent doctors and companies. The cast of the show included Mark Feuerstein, Paulo Costanzo, Reshma Shetty, Brooke D'Orsay, Ben Shenkman, Jill Flint, and Campbell Scott.
Series synopsis
The series follows Hank Lawson, a young emergency room doctor, who after being wrongly blamed for an important patient's death, moves to the Hamptons and becomes a reluctant house-call doctor to the rich and famous.
Cast and characters
Main
Mark Feuerstein as Dr. Henry "Hank" Lawson, a formerly successful New York E.R. doctor, who is fired from his job after a wealthy hospital benefactor dies in his care. When he saves someone's life during a trip to the Hamptons, he accepts an offer from Boris, a German businessman, to remain as a "concierge doctor" in the resort community. He usually attends to wealthy clientele, but also others in need of care and often without the means to pay. According to the episode "Keeping the Faith", he and his brother are Jewish.
Paulo Costanzo as Evan Roth Lawson, Hank's younger brother. He is an accountant and self-appointed CFO of HankMed. Evan's job is to promote the HankMed business, at times using strategies that Hank finds inappropriate or too commercial. At the end of season 4, he marries Paige, the adopted daughter of a wealthy, conservative military man who is running for the United States Congress. When Boris buys Hampton Heritage in Season 7, he becomes a member of the board and the hospital's Acting Administrator.
Reshma Shetty as Divya Katdare, Hank's physician assistant. She joins the team early and is invaluable to Hank. She initially has to keep her medical career a secret from her parents. Forced by her parents into an arranged betrothal to a childhood friend, she has finally broken free of their control and is living on her own. As of season 6, Divya has a daughter named Sashi, but is involved in a bitter custody dispute with Sashi's father Rafa.
Jill Flint as Jill Casey (seasons 1–4; recurring, season 8), Hank's on again/off again girlfriend and an administrator at Hamptons Heritage, the local hospital. Jill works with Hank to open a small clinic while running the local community hospital. In the fourth season, after finally giving up on any chance of romance with Hank, she leaves the Hamptons to do relief work in Africa.
Brooke D'Orsay as Paige Lawson (seasons 4–8; recurring, seasons 2 & 3), Evan's wife. Paige is the daughter of a wealthy, conservative former military officer with political aspirations who initially does not think Evan is good enough for his daughter. Paige and Evan meet when she hires him to play her pretend boyfriend, but their pretend relationship soon blossoms into a real one. In the season 4 episode "Who's Your Daddy?", she is revealed to be adopted, and in the season 4 two-part finale/special "Off-Season Gre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20%28radio%20show%29 | Evolution is a weekly radio show hosted by Markus Schulz on the Sirius XM Radio network. The show began in June 2008 and features two 1 hour continuous mixes. Evolution originally aired exclusively on Sirius Satellite Radio channel Area 38. However, since the merger between Sirius and XM Satellite Radio was finalised, listeners can also find Evolution on XM channel 80.
Broadcasts
Evolution is broadcast each Thursday at 8pm Eastern, on Area.
Area is available on Sirus channel 38 and XM channel 80.
External links
Markus Schulz Official Website
Sirius Satellite Radio
XM Radio
American music radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20mappings | Minimal mappings are the result of an advanced technique of semantic matching, a technique used in computer science to identify information which is semantically related.
Semantic matching has been proposed as a valid solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem, namely, supporting diversity in knowledge. Given any two graph-like structures, e.g. classifications, databases, or XML schemas and ontologies, matching is an operator which identifies those nodes in the two structures that semantically correspond to one another. For example, applied to file systems, it can identify that a folder labeled “car” is semantically equivalent to another folder “automobile” because they are synonyms in English.
The proposed technique works on lightweight ontologies, namely, tree structures where each node is labeled by a natural language sentence, for example in English. These sentences are translated into a formal logical formula (according to an unambiguous, artificial language). The formula codifies the meaning of the node, accounting for its position in the graph. For example, in case the folder “car” is under another folder “red” we can say that the meaning of the folder “car” is “red car” in this case. This is translated into the logical formula “red AND car”.
The output of matching is a mapping, namely a set of semantic correspondences between the two graphs. Each mapping element is attached with a semantic relation, for example equivalence. Among all possible mappings, the minimal mapping is such that all other mapping elements can be computed from the minimal set in an amount of time proportional to the size of the input graphs (linear time) and none of the elements in the minimal set can be dropped without preventing such a computation.
The main advantage of minimal mappings is that they minimize the number of nodes for subsequent processing. Notice that this is a rather important feature because the number of possible mappings can reach n × m with n and m the size of the two input ontologies. In particular, minimal mappings become crucial with large ontologies, e.g. DMOZ, where even relatively small (non-minimal) subsets of the number of possible mapping elements, potentially millions of them, are unmanageable.
Minimal mappings provide usability advantages. Many systems and corresponding interfaces, mostly graphical, have been provided for the management of mappings but all of them scale poorly with the number of nodes. Visualizations of large graphs are rather messy. Maintenance of smaller mappings is much easier, faster and less error prone.
See also
Lightweight ontologies
Ontology alignment
Semantic matching
Semantic equivalence
Semantic integration
References
Semantic Web
Ontology (information science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPIC | IPIC may refer to:
Technology
IPIC Treaty, see Integrated circuit layout design protection
IPIC, computer network protocol, see IBM TXSeries
Organisations
International Petroleum Investment Company
Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, founded by Gordon Henderson (lawyer)
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelunker%20HD | Spelunker HD is a PlayStation 3 downloadable platform video game developed by and published by Irem Software Engineering and Tozai Games. It is a remake of the 1985 NES port of Irem's arcade version of Tim Martin's Spelunker and it was available on the PlayStation Network's Store. While in terms of gameplay the game does not differ greatly from the original, it adds HD graphics, although the NES version can still be played, as well as 100 all-new levels over 10 different locations. A Japanese-only version titled Spelunker Black was later made available on the PlayStation Store in 2010. It features Black Spelunker as the new protagonist along with a much narrower field of vision.
It was first announced on TGS 2008. It was released in Japan on March 26, 2009, the rest of Asia on July 28, 2009, in North America on November 23, 2010, and in Europe on August 10, 2011.
In 2015, Square Enix announced a free-to-play sequel for the PlayStation 4 titled Spelunker World.
An enhanced remake, Spelunker HD Deluxe, was released for the PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch in 2021.
PlayStation Home
Irem has released a PlayStation Home themed space based on the remake, Minna de Spelunker, in the Japanese version of PlayStation Home on March 19, 2009, and the Asian version on July 23, 2009. This space is called the "Gathering Place for Spelunkers" and includes a Message Board, a video screen, seating for the avatars, a Stone Monument which is a credits reel of the developers, eight artifact displays, three in-lounge avatars that tell the users something (Weedy Spelunker?, Wise Boy, & Muttering Old Man), and a full game launching support feature accessed by the Stone Statues of the Moon & Sun or the Stone Statues of the Wind & Rain. There are also dancing purple ghost that come out at certain times. There is also an expansion to the space, called "The Bat-infested Abandoned Mine Cave", that takes users deeper into the cave of the Gathering Place for Spelunkers. Here they can play Flashbang Launcher where they collect the Flashband, the Underground Key (Red), and the Dynamite without getting hit by bat guano, then they play Rocks that can be destroyed by dynamite and blow up rocks with the dynamite collected, then they play Minecarts and ride a cart to a place where they get chased by a boulder to a room. In the room there is a shop with Minna de Spelunker related items. There is also a door called The door to the 2nd level underground? which when accessing, gives the users a prize, but cannot be opened until a later time.
The game of Minna de Spelunker supports Home rewards such as a spelunker costume for the users avatars.
Spelunker Black
An additional version, titled Minna de Spelunker Black, was released on January 7, 2010, for Japan. Although it was never localized, western media has referred to the game as Spelunker Black. The Black version is a re-release of Spelunker HD with minor changes in gameplay and a new playable character. A large portion of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Angel | Edward Stanley Angel (born January 6, 1944) is an emeritus professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico. He has published numerous books and journal articles including many successful titles on OpenGL.
References
University of New Mexico faculty
1944 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Cullen%20%28journalist%29 | Alex Cullen is an Australian journalist and TV presenter
Cullen is currently sport presenter of Nine Network's breakfast program Today.
Early life
Cullen was born in Dubbo, New South Wales, and grew up on a farm in Coonamble, he attended Coonamble High School, and then Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, before going on to complete a journalism degree at Charles Sturt University.
Career
In early 2003, Cullen began working as a reporter for Prime News in Wagga Wagga. He then moved to Western Australia becoming a reporter for Golden West News in Kalgoorlie and then Bunbury, where he also became GWN7's sports presenter. He then began working for Seven News in Perth in 2006 as a general reporter, before moving to be on Sunrise in 2007. Six months later, Cullen returned to the screen as a general reporter for Seven News.
Cullen was appointed weekend sports presenter in late 2007, before becoming weeknight sports presenter in January 2009 after Matt White left the position to host Today Tonight.
In addition to working with Seven Network, Cullen has worked for ABC Local Radio, 2BS, B-Rock FM and 2GB.
In April 2010, Cullen was promoted to reporter of Seven's Sunday Night public affairs program, with Tony Squires replacing him as weeknight sport presenter on Seven News Sydney.
In November 2019, it was announced that Cullen would join the Nine Network after the Seven Network axed Sunday Night. It was later announced that Alex would join the Nine Network and would fill in on Today over the summer period.
In December 2019, the Nine Network announced that Cullen would join Today as sport presenter from January 2020 replacing Tony Jones.
In March 2020, Cullen replaced Tracy Vo as news presenter, as Vo returned to Perth due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In January 2023, Brooke Boney replaced Cullen as news presenter on Today taking on news and entertainment with Alex focusing on sport.
Personal life
In February 2021, Cullen announced that wife Bonnie is expecting their third child in August. They had a son born on 16 August.
Cullen is an ambassador for the Charlie Teo Foundation.
References
External links
Australian television journalists
Nine News presenters
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Channel | The Oregon Channel was a former public affairs television network in the U.S. state of Oregon. It was operated by a consortium consisting of Oregon Public Broadcasting, Southern Oregon Public Television, the Oregon Legislative Assembly, the Oregon University System and the Oregon Public Affairs Network (OPAN). It was carried on most cable television systems throughout Oregon either on a part-time or full-time basis as well as on the Internet. The station operated 24 hours a day.
Programming
When the State Legislature was in session live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Oregon State Senate and the Oregon House of Representatives was carried until adjournment sine die.
When the legislature was not in session other live gavel-to-gavel programming was carried, including the Oregon Supreme Court, and meetings of the Governor and cabinet members. When no live gavel-to-gavel meetings were underway, other local or statewide public affairs programming was carried.
Demise
Officials at the Oregon State Capitol planned to discontinue the broadcast of the Oregon Channel after the 2011 session, concluding that the channel's viewership had dropped too low to justify costs. Both the lack of interest from local Salem/Portland-area Public, educational, and government access (PEG) cable television channels and the failure of broadcasters to produce a reasonable agreement for transmission to other Government-access television (GATV) channels across Oregon ended the service.
Video of all legislative hearings and floor sessions continues to be streamed live on the legislature's website.
See also
Phil Keisling
References
External links
Oregon State Legislature - Legislative Audio
Television stations in Oregon
Commercial-free television networks
Oregon Legislative Assembly
Legislature broadcasters in the United States
University and college mass media in Oregon
Television channels and stations established in 2007
2007 establishments in Oregon
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
2011 disestablishments in Oregon
Defunct local cable stations in the United States
Defunct mass media in Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Open%20Architecture%20Developers%27%20Group | PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG, Japanese: ) is a consortium of the major Japanese personal computer manufacturers. Sponsored by IBM during the 1990s, it successfully guided Japan's personal computer manufacturing companies at that time into standardising to an IBM PC-compatible and open architecture.
History
Before the advent of the IBM PC in 1981 in the United States, there were many different varieties and designs of personal computer. Examples from that era include the Tandy RadioShack and Commodore. These machines were each based upon a different computer architecture and the software programs that ran on them were compatible only with the machine they had been designed for. In Japan, except for the MSX, this situation continued well into the early 1990s, because three of Japan's major electronics manufacturers (NEC, Sharp and Fujitsu) had also designed their own unique personal computers; although NEC with its NEC 9801 was at that time the most successful.
The American computer manufacturer IBM had entered the Japanese market with its own IBM 5550 computer. Japanese-language-capable computers at the time, however, had special requirements in terms of processor capability and screen size, and IBM's JX project, emphasizing compatibility with the IBM PC, enjoyed limited success. The whole situation was felt by many to be hindering the healthy growth of the Japanese computer industry, particularly since domestic and overseas software vendors had to develop, test and support many different software programs to run on the many different kinds of personal computers sold in Japan.
IBM developed the operating software DOS/V in Japan, and licensed it to other Japanese PC manufacturers. To promote the IBM PC architecture on which DOS/V worked, IBM sponsored a consortium which was named the PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (OADG) in 1991 and made public its internal architecture and interfaces. At the height of this enterprise, the consortium included amongst its members the major Japanese PC manufactures, such as Toshiba and Hitachi, and overseas manufacturers such as Acer of Taiwan and Dell of the United States. Together, they not only strove to develop a unified architecture, but also produced a number of DOS/V-compatible application software programs and participated in the major computer shows. By the time Microsoft's computer operating system Windows 95 had arrived in 1995, the IBM PC architecture, using DOS/V, was already a predominant force in Japan.
Members
In 2003, membership included the following companies:
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
Toshiba Corporation
IBM Japan
Hitachi
Fujitsu
Panasonic Corporation
See also
AX consortium
OS/2
NEC PC-98
FM Towns
Toshiba J-3100
MSX
References
External links
PC Open Architecture Developers' Group (former official web site)
Free Standards Group OADG is a member of the Free Standards Group.
Personal computers
IBM PC compatibles
Technology consortia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Canny | John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian computer scientist, and Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has made significant contributions in various areas of computer science and mathematics, including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, computer security, computational algebra, and computational geometry.
Biography
John Canny received his B.Sc. in Computer Science and Theoretical Physics from the University of Adelaide in South Australia, 1979, a B.E. (Hons) in Electrical Engineering, University of Adelaide, 1980, a M.S. and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983 and 1987, respectively.
In 1987, he joined the faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley.
In 1987, he received the Machtey Award and the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In 1999, he was the co-chair of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry. In 2002, he received the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Classic Paper Award for the most influential paper from the 1983 National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. As the author of "A Variational Approach to Edge Detection" and the creator of the widely used Canny edge detector, he was honored for seminal contributions in the areas of robotics and machine perception.
See also
Canny edge detector
Existential theory of the reals
Kinodynamic planning
Publications
Canny has published several books, papers and articles. A selection:
1986. A computational approach to edge detection. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 8, 1986, pp. 679–698.
1988. The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning. The ACM Distinguished Dissertation Series, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1988.
1993. "An opportunistic global path planner". With M. C. Lin. In: Algorithmica vol. 10, no. 2-4, pp. 102–120, Aug. 1993.
2007. "MultiView: Improving trust in group video conferencing through spatial faithfulness" (Best Paper Prize). With D. T. Nguyen In: Proc. 2007 SIGCHI Conf. on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '07), New York, NY: The Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2007, pp. 1465–1474.
References
External links
John F. Canny Homepage at UC Berkeley
Researchers in geometric algorithms
MIT School of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
1953 births
Living people
University of Adelaide alumni
Australian computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cristina%20Lopes | Cristina Videira Lopes is a Professor of Informatics and Computer Science at University of California, Irvine.
Prior to being a professor, she was a Research Scientist at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). While at PARC, she was most known as a founder of the group that developed Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) and started aspectj.org. More recently, she has been working in ubiquitous computing, with a focus in
communication mechanisms that are pervasive, secure and intuitive for humans to perceive and interact with.
Biography
Lopes received a PhD in Computer Science from Northeastern University in 1998 under Karl Lieberherr and Gregor Kiczales.
List of publications
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Northeastern University alumni
University of California, Irvine faculty
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East%20Timor%20and%20Indonesia%20Action%20Network | The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) is a nonprofit US organization supporting human rights throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania. ETAN was founded in 1991 to support the right to self-determination of Timor-Leste. In 1999, that goal was significantly realized when the people of East Timor voted for independence. Since then ETAN has focused on building on its success in support of justice and self-determination in Timor-Leste and the surrounding region.
Profile
The human rights organization ETAN has a 20-year record of successful advocacy for the people of Timor-Leste and Indonesia.
From the ETAN website: "The East Timor and Indonesia Action Network (ETAN) was founded in November 1991 to support genuine self-determination and human rights for the people of East Timor in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the 1960 United Nations General Assembly Resolution on Decolonization, and Security Council and General Assembly resolutions on East Timor."
History of Timor
Colonial Timor
A small country in Southeast Asia, comprising the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, the country of Timor has a history marked not only by the colonization common to Southeast Asia, but repeated violence against democratic and independence movements.
Trade with Portugal began in the early 16th century. Timor's colonial history lasted over 400 years, from the Portuguese colonization of the mid-16th century, to 1975 - Imperial Japan having briefly occupied East Timor from 1942 to 1945. East Timor declared itself independent from Portugal on 28 November 1975.
Indonesian invasion and occupation
Nine days after the 1975 declaration of independence, East Timor was invaded and occupied by Indonesian forces and incorporated into Indonesia. The subsequent occupation (1974–1999) saw an estimated 102,800 conflict-related deaths (approximately 18,600 killings and 84,200 'excess' deaths from hunger and illness).
On 30 August 1999, in a UN-sponsored referendum, East Timor voted, by an overwhelming majority, for independence from Indonesia. Again, immediately following a vote for independence, violence was used to quash the democratic process of independence. Militias organised and supported by the Indonesian military commenced a scorched-earth campaign, killing approximately 1,400 Timorese and displacing 300,000 people to West Timor, and destroying the country's infrastructure. The International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) was deployed to the country and brought the violence to an end. The United Nations took over administration for a transition period, establishing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate events of the occupation period. East Timor was internationally recognised as an independent state in 2002.
Whereas Indonesia invaded East Timor by force, another form of occupation was bequeathed to Indonesia by the borders established by occupying imperial forces when they l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahid%20Shahmehri | Nahid Shahmehri is a professor of Computer Science at Linköping University and also Senior Member of IEEE, specializing in computer and network security issues.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American expatriate academics
Academic staff of Linköping University |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20United | Digital United, commonly known as SeedNet, is one of the major Internet Service Provider based in Taipei, Taiwan.
It was first a Project SEED (Software Engineering Environment Development) sponsored by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and operated by Institute for Information Industry (III) to push-start Taiwan local Internet market.
The company Digital United was then officially found in 1998, shareholders include The Ministry of Economic, Institute for Information Industry (III) and 7-11.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
External links
Internet service providers
Telecommunications companies of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeks%20in%20Kyrgyzstan | The Greeks in Kyrgyzstan form one of the country's smaller minority groups. The existing data are contradictory. According to 2009 Census there are 451 Greeks. According to the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there are 150 families of Greek origin (650–700 people). However, the data of the General Secretariat For Greeks Abroad give an even lower number (50 people).
History
Initial settlement
According to an official census of 1920, the Greeks of Kyrgyzstan numbered only 344. Since 1939 and during World War II Greeks living in the Soviet Union—most of them were merchants, but there were also some farmers—suffered deportations, mainly to the steppes of Central Asia, particularly to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Siberia.
For a considerable time after the end of the war, these deported Greeks remained unrehabilitated, and were not allowed to return to their pre-deportation areas of settlement. Thus some of them chose to leave Siberia to settle in Kazakhstan and (to a lesser extent) in Kyrgyzstan. Most of these Greeks were finally concentrated in the Osh province, and the town of Nookat in particular.
During a second wave of deportations (1944–1949) initiated by the Stalinist regime, more than 31,000 families (Pontian Greeks and Greeks from Crimea) were sent to Bishkek; only 5,000 found a shelter living in squalid conditions. This time, the deported Greeks finally settled in the Talas Province.
Migration to Greece
In early 1990s, the Greek community of Kyrgyzstan was still vibrant, and numbered 3,000 members in all. Nevertheless, from 1985 onward, their number has been decreasing, due to outmigration by Greeks in search of work. According to the statistics, during the 1990s 860 members of the Greek community of Kyrgyzstan (0.57% of the total number of Greek immigrants from the former Soviet Union) settled in Greece.
Organization
The community is represented by the Filia (Friendship) Association of Ethnic Greeks, headed by chairwoman Olga Kupriyanova. According to her, the association has 300 members. They operate a Greek school with a Greek teacher whose salary is covered by the Greek government, Secretariat of Greeks Abroad. The University of Bishkek opened a Greek language department in 2003.
See also
Greece-Kyrgyzstan relations
Greeks in Kazakhstan
Greeks in Uzbekistan
References
Kyrgyzstan
Ethnic groups in Kyrgyzstan
Greek people
Ethnic groups in Asia
Ethnic groups in Central Asia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhangjiang%20Tram | Zhangjiang Tram was one of the two tram networks operating in Shanghai, the other being Songjiang Tram. It utilises a system manufactured by the French Translohr company. Shanghai originally had a steel wheeled electric tramway network in its urban center. Routes expanded gradually and reached largest extent in 1925 with 328 tramcars; this tram system shut down in 1975. Tram service returned to Shanghai with the opening of a rubber tired Translohr line in the suburban Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in 2010. It is the second rubber-tired tram system in both China and Asia, the first being TEDA tram in Tianjin.
Zhangjiang Tram started construction on December 23, 2007. Construction was originally planned to be completed in December 2008, but this was delayed a year, until December 31, 2009 when it was opened to traffic. Passenger operations started on December 31, 2009. Zhangjiang Tram runs for from Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Station of the Shanghai Metro Line 2 to Heqing Town with 15 stops. The total investment of the Zhangjiang tram project is about 800 million yuan.
Zhangjiang tram was planned to be built in phases. Only the first phase was constructed and ran from Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park Station on Shanghai Metro Line 2 (formerly Songtao Road Zuchongzhi Road Station) in the west, to Zhangdong Road Jinqiu Road Station in the east, which covers a distance of , with a total of 15 stops, 1 depot. Initial plans included a next phase which is an extension to Tangzhen and a third phase to Heqing Town, reaching a scale of more than by 2010. Due to successive years of losses, the Zhangjiang Tram originally planned extensions are temporarily put on hold. Zhangjiang Tram has an annual loss of more than 20 million yuan. This is because the passenger flow is unbalanced during the day (many office workers are passengers during the rush hour; when commute time is over, there are very few passengers), which is generally unsatisfactory; and the maintenance cost of vehicles is extremely high, as most parts are imported. For this reason, the supply of some parts has been stopped, making the vehicle unable to operate normally.
There were also possible plans to build tram projects in Lujiazui and Sanlin areas, which also have not been materialized.
Ultimately, although spare parts procurement was an issue, the system closed mainly due to the overwhelming saturation of the Zhangjiang area with other, faster rail transit systems, such as Line 2, 11, 13 and 16. After closure, the route was largely replaced by Pudong route 112 bus services. It was the second modern tram system in China to close, after the Zhuhai Tram in 2021 January 22.
History
The new system was built in Zhangjiang Town, because it is a planned area, and commuting between neighborhoods of the town has always been difficult. The Translohr tramway is constructed in Zhangjiang Town which is in the heartland area of Pudong New Area (east shore of Huangpu River). Due to Economic-Technological Development Area |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPJY | WPJY (88.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Blennerhassett, West Virginia, United States. It is one of the 7 "WALK FM" network of stations. The station is currently owned by Positive Alternative Radio Inc.
History
The station went on the air as WPJY on 1998-10-06. on 2005-12-12, the station changed its call sign to the current WPJY.
References
External links
PJY |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiListan | DigiListan is a Swedish radio programme in SR P3 airing the top singles sold electronically to computers, mobile phones and other kinds of media players in Sweden (downloaded music). The statistics are created using Nielsen SoundScan.
The programme was first aired in January 2007.
See also
Sverigetopplistan—Swedish national music chart
External links
DigiListan
Listen to all lists on Spotify
Swedish radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20Player%20%28Windows%29 | CD Player is a computer program that plays audio CDs using the computer's sound card. It was included in Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT 3.51, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 (as Deluxe CD Player). It was removed from Windows ME and beyond in favor of "CD/DVD playback functionality" in Windows Media Player.
Features
When the CD Player is launched, it searches the computer's optical disc drive for CD audio tracks, looks up disc metadata with an Internet service and plays the CD. If no CD is inserted, one of the following error messages is returned by the program: Data or no disc loaded. or Please insert an audio compact disc.
CD Player's time display can be toggled between Track Time Elapsed, Track Time Remaining, and Disc Time Remaining. Tracks can be played in sequence or in random order. CD recognition, track and artist data can be manually entered and are re-displayed on next load. The database information is stored in a cdplayer.ini file which is limited to 64 kilobytes.
Deluxe CD Player
A modified version of CD Player with a different skin called Deluxe CD Player was also included in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME until "beta 3" stage and Windows XP (Whistler) until beta 2 build 2446.
As a feature upgrade to the standard CD Player, Deluxe CD Player was able to retrieve album metadata from the now defunct Tunes.com and Music Boulevard. The database information is stored in a DeluxeCD.mdb file, a Microsoft Access file format.
References
External links
CD-ROM Extras for Microsoft Windows 95 Upgrade
Microsoft's CD Players (Internet Archive copy)
GUIdebook - Screenshots of CD Player
Discontinued Windows components
Microsoft Windows multimedia technology
Tag editors
Windows media players
1998 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veeco | Veeco is a global capital equipment supplier, headquartered in the U.S., that designs and builds processing systems used in semiconductor and compound semiconductor manufacturing, data storage and scientific markets for applications such as advanced packaging, photonics, power electronics and display technologies.
Veeco's processing system capabilities include laser annealing, photolithography, ion beam etch and deposition, metal organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), wet wafer processing, molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), atomic layer deposition (ALD), physical vapor deposition (PVD), dicing and lapping, and gas and vapor delivery.
These technologies are used to enable artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, high performance computing, autonomous vehicles, 5G wireless communication networks and cloud storage.
History
Veeco was incorporated in 1945 by two scientists, Frank Raible and Al Nerken, who created the helium leak detector. The company's name "Veeco" stood for Vacuum Electronic Equipment Company. In the 1960s, the original Veeco merged with Lambda, a manufacturer of power supplies, and in the late 1980s, was purchased by British company Unitech.
In 1990, Edward H. Braun, then COO of Veeco, and a group of senior company executives purchased Veeco's instrument business from Unitech in a management buyout. The company again used the Veeco Instruments trade name and completed an initial public offering on the Nasdaq National Market in 1994 (NASDAQ: VECO). The IPO netted the company $27.5 million.
Since going public in 1994, Veeco has completed more than a dozen acquisitions. The company purchased Ion Tech Inc. in 1999 and entered the optical coating market.
In 2001, Veeco purchased Applied EPI, its present-day Molecular Beam Epitaxy group that currently maintains a leadership position in MBE technology worldwide.
In 2003, Veeco purchased Emcore, paving the way for its unique metal organic chemical vapor deposition technologies in the advanced LED, Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) and photonics markets.
From 2007 to 2018, Veeco invested heavily in ALD research, publishing numerous papers on the topic.
In July 2007, Braun, then 68, became chairman of the board of Veeco, with John R. Peeler, 52, joining the company as chief executive officer. Peeler was formerly president of JDSU's Communications Test and Measurement Division
In 2008, Veeco settled a patent litigation it had brought against Asylum Research Corporation in 2003.
In October 2010, Veeco announced the sale of its metrology business to Bruker Corporation in a cash deal for $229.4 million.
In May 2012, John Peeler became chairman of the board of Veeco.
In 2014, Veeco purchased Solid State Equipment Co., expanding its portfolio of solvent-based wet etch and clean technologies for semiconductor and compound semiconductor markets.
On May 26, 2017, Veeco acquired front-end semiconductor process control equipment manufacturer Ultratech to expan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTV%20Mobile | MTV Mobile was a Netherlands/Italy-based Mobile virtual network operator. The network was launched in 2008 by the owner MTV Italy (under Viacom license) and based on Telecom Italia Mobile network in Italy, and in 2009, by MTV Benelux based on the KPN network.
The network also offered special editions of the Sony Ericsson W760, Nokia 5320, Samsung C6620, Nokia N73 and ASUS Eee PC 901 in Italy.
At the end of March 2012, thanks to an agreement between MTV and Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa (now T-Mobile Polska), MTV Mobile also appeared in Poland. From November 2013, the stagnation process began, and at the beginning of 2014, the customer base was migrated to the T-Mobile network.
References
Telecom Italia Media
Mobile phone companies of Italy
Mobile phone companies of the Netherlands
Mobile virtual network operators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSURGO | SSURGO (Soil Survey Geographic database) refers to digital soils data produced and distributed by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) - National Cartography and Geospatial Center (NCGC) in the United States.
The database has information on soil types and their distribution. The information covers soil characteristics, soil properties, and addresses limits, risks and suitability for various uses.
References
External links
NRCS's SSURGO page
United States Department of Agriculture agencies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27an%20News%20Agency | Ma'an News Agency (MNA; ) is a large wire service created in 2005 in the Palestinian territories. It is part of the Ma'an Network, a non-governmental organization media network created in 2002 in the Palestinian territories among independent journalists throughout the West Bank and Gaza Strip. It has partnerships with eight local television stations and twelve local radio stations. Ma'an News Agency publishes news 24 hours a day in Arabic, Hebrew and English, and claims to be one of the largest wire services in the Palestinian territories, with over three million visits per month. Ma'an News Agency also publishes feature stories, analysis and opinion articles. The agency's headquarters are based in Bethlehem and it has an office in Gaza.
History
The Ma'an Network was launched in 2002 as a partnership between Bethlehem TV and local Palestinian media organizations. The name Ma'an is the Arabic word for "together". The group is run by Raed Othman, the former manager of Bethlehem TV. Ma'an has produced three soap operas (one of which, Mazih fi Jad (Joking Seriously), was described as the first television drama series produced in the Palestinian territories), numerous news and public affairs programs and the television film Kafah. Ma'an's programs are broadcast by ten independent terrestrial television stations in the West Bank and occasionally by the Fatah-run Palestine TV satellite broadcaster.
The Ma'an News Agency was launched in 2005 with funding from the Danish and Dutch Representative Offices to the Palestinian National Authority. The news agency is the most visible component of the Ma'an Network.
Independence
Ma'an News Agency says that it "scrupulously maintains its editorial independence and aims to promote access to information, freedom of expression, press freedom, and media pluralism in Palestine." The Ma'an Network was founded with the goal of creating a media source that was free of factional control, unlike the major existing broadcasters such as Hamas' Al-Aqsa TV and Fatah's Palestine TV. In an interview with media scholar Matt Sienkiewicz, former Ma'an Chief financial officer Wisam Kutom stated that he told potential Ma'an funders that: "Palestinian television is factional television right now we [Palestinians] cannot tell the stories we want to, only the stories the factions will let us. There is no independent television".
Funding
Funding for Ma'an Network comes from advertising revenue and from foreign donors.
Hamas pressure
In July 2007, at the time the de facto Gaza Strip government, MNA alleged that MNA's chief editor had received "direct threats" from Hamas to carry out a "defamation campaign" against MNA, and to cease its criticism of "the Hamas movement".
In July 2013, Hamas closed the Gaza City bureaus of Ma'an and Al-Arabiya after the outlets reported that Hamas was sheltering Muslim Brotherhood figures who had fled Egypt. Hamas officials also questioned Ma’an News bureau chief Emad Eid for several hours on 30 Ju |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiniDVD%20%28disambiguation%29 | MiniDVD is a physically smaller 80mm version of the standard-sized 120mm DVD, often used in camcorders.
Mini DVD or Mini-DVD may also refer to
cDVD or mini-DVD, a standard CD with data written to it in the DVD-video format
Universal Media Disc or Mini DVD, a format used by Sony's PlayStation Portable
See also
Minidisk (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2TV | 2TV was an Irish music programme broadcast on Sunday mornings on both Network 2 television and RTÉ 2fm radio from 1995 until at least 2001, even during the summer months. It was presented by Dave Fanning, with Bianca Luykx, although Ray D'Arcy (who was known at the time for working weekdays on the children's television programme The Den) was once said to have done a summer show to allow Fanning to spend more time with his family, being referred to as "Dave" "about a dozen times". The programme was essentially a continuation of Ian Dempsey's The Beatbox, which (also as a TV and radio "simulcast") had occupied 2TV's Sunday morning time-slot for the previous number of years. In 2000, Fanning admitted that he did no work on the show and that he did not like most of the music he played on it. This was not however the reason for its cancellation as he also said he would continue presenting it. Fanning described it as "not rocket science, it's moron television", saying he "hardly even knew where the 2TV office was, and that's God's honest truth". Promotions for the show were created by a Swede, Jorgen Andreason, who had ten years experience at Swedish Television before moving to Ireland.
2TV drew much criticism for its limited choice of musical style. A typical video featured would be "Dreams" by The Corrs, whilst programme editor Ed Darragh, a writer, producer and performer on numerous radio commercials and researcher and interviewer on several radio programmes, including The Gerry Ryan Show and Moloney After Midnight, was misquoted in a Hot Press interview saying that: "The Saw Doctors are shite. She expressed that they are superb 2TV material. We also have lot of time for bands like Aslan." Other bands whose videos would be featured or that would be discussed or interviewed on the programme included The Fugees, A Tribe Called Quest, B*Witched, Trisha Yearwood, Kerri Ann, Stereophonics, Boyzone, Brandy and Monica, Matchbox 20 and Neil Finn. From October 1998, the programme was Edited, and Directed by Finín O Ceallacháin, until it was taken off air in 2000. A major reason for the show's cancellation was the rise of 24-hour music-video channels, which also led to the end of The Top 30 Hits, The Chart Show and even Top of the Pops.
References
External links
Paddy Usher
1990s in Irish music
1995 Irish television series debuts
Irish music television shows
RTÉ original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20user%20interaction | In computing, 3D interaction is a form of human-machine interaction where users are able to move and perform interaction in 3D space. Both human and machine process information where the physical position of elements in the 3D space is relevant.
The 3D space used for interaction can be the real physical space, a virtual space representation simulated on the computer, or a combination of both. When the real physical space is used for data input, the human interacts with the machine performing actions using an input device that detects the 3D position of the human interaction, among other things. When it is used for data output, the simulated 3D virtual scene is projected onto the real environment through one output device.
The principles of 3D interaction are applied in a variety of domains such as tourism, art, gaming, simulation, education, information visualization, or scientific visualization.
History
Research in 3D interaction and 3D display began in the 1960s, pioneered by researchers like Ivan Sutherland, Fred Brooks, Bob Sproull, Andrew Ortony and Richard Feldman. But it was not until 1962 when Morton Heilig invented the Sensorama simulator. It provided 3D video feedback, as well motion, audio, and feedbacks to produce a virtual environment.
The next stage of development was Dr. Ivan Sutherland’s completion of his pioneering work in 1968, the Sword of Damocles.
He created a head-mounted display that produced 3D virtual environment by presenting a left and right still image of that environment.
Availability of technology as well as impractical costs held back the development and application of virtual environments until the 1980s. Applications were limited to military ventures in the United States. Since then, further research and technological advancements have allowed new doors to be opened to application in various other areas such as education, entertainment, and manufacturing.
Background
In 3D interaction, users carry out their tasks and perform functions by exchanging information with computer systems in 3D space. It is an intuitive type of interaction because humans interact in three dimensions in the real world. The tasks that users perform have been classified as selection and manipulation of objects in virtual space, navigation, and system control. Tasks can be performed in virtual space through interaction techniques and by utilizing interaction devices. 3D interaction techniques were classified according to the task group it supports. Techniques that support navigation tasks are classified as navigation techniques. Techniques that support object selection and manipulation are labeled selection and manipulation techniques. Lastly, system control techniques support tasks that have to do with controlling the application itself. A consistent and efficient mapping between techniques and interaction devices must be made in order for the system to be usable and effective. Interfaces associated with 3D interaction are called 3D |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics | Cybernetics is a wide-ranging field concerned with circular causal processes such as feedback. The field is named after an example of circular causal feedback—that of steering a ship (the ancient Greek κυβερνήτης (kybernḗtēs) means "helmsperson"). In steering a ship, the helmsperson adjusts their steering in continual response to the effect it is observed as having, forming a feedback loop through which a steady course can be maintained in a changing environment, responding to disturbances from cross winds and tide. Cybernetics is concerned with the principles of circular causal processes such as steering however they are embodied, including in ecological, technological, biological, cognitive and social systems and also in the context of practical activities such as designing, learning, managing, etc. Cybernetics' transdisciplinary character has meant that it intersects with a number of other fields, leading to it having both wide influence and diverse interpretations.
Definitions
Cybernetics has been defined in a variety of ways, reflecting "the richness of its conceptual base." One of the most well known definitions is that of Norbert Wiener who characterised cybernetics as concerned with "control and communication in the animal and the machine." Another early definition is that of the Macy cybernetics conferences, where cybernetics was understood as the study of "circular causal and feedback mechanisms in biological and social systems." Margaret Mead emphasised the role of cybernetics as "a form of cross-disciplinary thought which made it possible for members of many disciplines to communicate with each other easily in a language which all could understand."
Other definitions include: "the art of governing or the science of government" (André-Marie Ampère); "the art of steersmanship" (Ross Ashby); "the study of systems of any nature which are capable of receiving, storing, and processing information so as to use it for control" (Andrey Kolmogorov); "a branch of mathematics dealing with problems of control, recursiveness, and information, focuses on forms and the patterns that connect" (Gregory Bateson); "the art of securing efficient operation" (Louis Couffignal); "the art of effective organization." (Stafford Beer); "the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence" (Gordon Pask); "the art of creating equilibrium in a world of constraints and possibilities" (Ernst von Glasersfeld); "the science and art of understanding" (Humberto Maturana); "the ability to cure all temporary truth of eternal triteness" (Herbert Brun); "a way of thinking about ways of thinking (of which it is one)" (Larry Richards);
Etymology
The Ancient Greek term κυβερνητικης (kubernētikēs, '(good at) steering') appears in Plato's Republic and Alcibiades, where the metaphor of a steersman is used to signify the governance of people. The French word cybernétique was a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991%20Bangladeshi%20census | In 1991, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, conducted a national census in Bangladesh. They recorded data from all of the districts and upazilas and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children etc. According to the census, Hindus were 10.5 per cent of the population, down from 12.1 per cent as of 1981.
Bangladesh have a population of 106,314,992 as per 1991 census report. Majority of 93,886,769 reported that they were Muslims, 11,184,337 reported as Hindus, 616,626 as Buddhists, 350,839 as Christians and 276,418 as others.
See also
Demographics of Bangladesh
2001 Census of Bangladesh
2011 Census of Bangladesh
2022 Census of Bangladesh
References
External links
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, "Census Reports: Population Census-2001", 2001. The 1991 census figures can be seen compared to the 2001 census.
Censuses in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Census |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh%20Common%20Lisp | Macintosh Common Lisp (MCL) is an implementation and IDE for the Common Lisp programming language. Various versions of MCL run under the classic Mac OS (m68k and PPC) and Mac OS X.
Versions of MCL up to and including 5.1 are proprietary. Version 5.2 has been open sourced.
In 2009 a new different version of MCL has been open sourced: RMCL. RMCL is based on MCL 5.1 and does run under Rosetta on Intel-based Macs.
Features of MCL
MCL was famous for its integration with the Macintosh toolbox (later: Apple Carbon), which allowed direct access to most of the Mac OS functionality directly from Lisp. This was achieved with a low-level interface that allowed direct manipulation of native Mac OS data structures from Lisp, together with a high-level interface that was more convenient to use.
In a 2001 article in Dr. Dobb's Journal, Peter Norvig wrote that "MCL is my favorite IDE on the Macintosh platform for any language and is a serious rival to those on other platforms".
History of MCL
Development on MCL began in 1984.
Over its history, MCL has been known under different names:
Running on 68k-based Apple Macintosh Computers:
1987, Coral Common Lisp
1987, Macintosh Allegro Common Lisp
1988, Apple Macintosh Common Lisp
Running on PowerPC-based Apple Macintosh Computers:
1994, Digitool Macintosh Common Lisp
It has also spawned at least one separately maintained fork:
1998, Clozure CL (CCL), known previously as OpenMCL
In 2007 MCL 5.2 was open sourced.
In 2009 RMCL (MCL running under Rosetta) was published as open source.
Since 2009 an open source version of RMCL (based on MCL 5.2) is hosted at Google Code MCL. This version runs under Rosetta (Apple's PPC to Intel code translator that is an optional install under Mac OS X 10.6).
References
External links
Homepage for the commercial version (now legacy)
MCL 5.2 (sources and binary).
RMCL (sources and binary).
MCL 5.2 at Google Code
Mac Common Lisp at NIST
Common Lisp implementations
Common Lisp (programming language) software
Lisp (programming language)
Functional languages
Free compilers and interpreters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001%20Bangladeshi%20census | In 2001, the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics conducted a national census in Bangladesh, ten years after the 1991 census. They recorded data from all of the districts, upazilas, and main cities in Bangladesh including statistical data on population size, households, sex and age distribution, marital status, economically active population, literacy and educational attainment, religion, number of children, etc. According to the adjusted 2001 census figures, Bangladesh's population stood at 129.3 million (an initial count put it at 124.4 million; an adjustment for the standard rate of undercounting then boosted the figure). According to the census, Hindus were 9.2 per cent of the population, down from 10.5 per cent as of 1991.
The census data were collected from January 23 to 27, 2001. The 2001 census was the first in Bangladesh to use optical mark recognition (OMR) technology.
Bangladesh have a population of 124,355,263 as per 2001 census report. Majority of 111,397,444 reported that they were Muslims, 11,614,781 reported as Hindus, 771,002 as Buddhists, 385,501 as Christians and 186,532 as others.
See also
Demographics of Bangladesh
1991 Census of Bangladesh
2011 Census of Bangladesh
2022 Census of Bangladesh
References
External links
Censuses in Bangladesh
Census
Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APC%20series | The APC (Advanced Personal Computer) was a series of business microcomputers released outside of Japan by the NEC Corporation. The series comprised the APC, the APC II and APC III, international versions of models from the Japanese NEC N5200 series.
The 8086-based N5200, released in 1981, was the first computer to use the NEC µPD7220 High-Performance Graphics Display Controller.
The better-known PC-9800 series, released a year later by the different division, had a similar architecture to the original N5200 and used many of the same components. The most significant differences between the two were that the PC-9801 had slightly lower vertical screen resolution, graphics were standard instead of optional (still using a second µPD7220) and it used 5.25" floppy drives instead of 8".
The APC IV, despite sharing the series name, was an ordinary IBM PC/AT compatible and not compatible with the earlier APC models.
N5200
The N5200 is a series of personal computers released in 1981. The APC is a version of the N5200 that was sold outside Japan.
Although its computer architecture is very similar to the PC-98, it was developed and marketed in a different way. At that time, NEC was a vertical integrated company as seen in other big Japanese companies, and intended to open new business. The management allowed a few divisions to start a new computer business, so each divisions developed own computer systems for different markets. The N5200 was marketed as a personal computer which could be used as both a standalone computer and a computer terminal for ACOS mainframe platforms. It was developed by the Terminal Units Division who developed computer terminals for mainframes, but the PC-98 was developed by the Small Systems Division who developed standalone enterprise systems. The position of the N5200 is similar to IBM 3270 PC, but there is significant difference that the N5200 didn't offer the PC-98 compatibility instead it had own software library.
As of 1982, both CP/M-86 and MS-DOS lacked task switching and an ISAM support, so NEC developed a proprietary operating system for the N5200, called PTOS. PTOS was ported to the PC-98 in the early 1990s, and the N5200 computer line was absorbed.
APC
The first APC was released in 1982 at for a single-floppy monochrome system or for a dual-floppy color system. It used a 16-bit NEC μPD 8086 CPU with 128K of RAM (expandable to 256K), 8K of ROM, and 4K of battery-backed CMOS RAM, a clock/calendar chip, parallel printer and RS-232 serial interfaces, and one or two built-in 8" floppy diskette drives supporting both single-sided single-density (243 KB) and double-sided double-density (1 MB) formats. (An external 10 MB hard disk drive was also available.) The detachable keyboard had 86 keys (including the numeric keypad) and an additional 22 function keys.
Display
A built-in 12" monochrome or 8-colour display was driven by an NEC µPD7220 display controller generating an 80 column by 25 line character display. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA%20Research%20and%20Engineering%20Network | The NASA Research and Engineering Network (NREN) is a nationwide wide area network which connects selected NASA centers and peers with other high-performance network test-beds. It enables NASA scientists, engineers, and researchers to reach their partners within other federal agencies and academia.
The NREN was initially developed in 1996 enabling:
Aerospace engineers to revolutionize air travel by remotely controlling wind tunnels on their desktops,
astronauts and engineers to train together in realistic simulations of space flight,
medical researchers to safely monitor and treat humans in space from the Earth,
Earth scientists from all over the country to develop climate models that allow us to predict and respond to environmental events such as floods, and
space scientists to chart the evolution of the universe.
NASA led the creation of the Next Generation Internet - as the lead organizer of the NGI Implementation Plan NREN pioneered three initial NGI Exchanges (NGIXs) with its interagency partners.
Since its creation NREN has been upgraded several times. It currently has 10 Gigabits-per-second (Gbit/s) connectivity across the continental United States, primarily to link to the Columbia supercomputer at the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
In March 2006, NREN developed and implemented a custom wireless networking protocol known as Dynamic Source Routing (DSR). DSR was to be used by field teams and robots to facilitate communication in difficult field conditions.
In September 2006 the NREN was used to develop a high transfer rate application called BBFTP to support GOES 5 operations between Ames and Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). BBFTP achieved transfer rates as high as 52 Megabytes/sec, and a net transfer of well over 4 terabytes worth of data.
The NREN supported operations of the McGill High Arctic Research Station (MARS).
See also
Defense Research and Engineering Network
References
Wide area networks
NASA online
Goddard Space Flight Center
Ames Research Center |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20G.%20Harrison | Peter George Harrison (born 1951) is an Emeritus Professor of Computing Science at Imperial College London known for the reversed compound agent theorem, which gives conditions for a stochastic network to have a product-form solution.
Harrison attended Christ's College, Cambridge, where he was a Wrangler in Mathematics (1972) and gained a Distinction in Part III of the Mathematical Tripos (1973), winning the Mayhew Prize for Applied Mathematics.
After spending two years in industry, Harrison moved to Imperial College, London where he has worked since, obtaining his Ph.D. in Computing Science in 1979 with a thesis titled "Representative queueing network models of computer systems in terms of time delay probability distributions" and lecturing since 1983.
Current research interests include parallel algorithms, performance engineering, queueing theory, stochastic models and stochastic process algebra, particularly the application of RCAT to find product-form solutions.
Harrison has coauthored two books, Functional Programming with Tony Field, and Performance Modelling of Communication Networks and Computer Architectures with Naresh Patel and published over 150 papers.
Harrison is an associate editor of The Computer Journal.
Via Saharon Shelah and Dov Gabbay, Harrison has an Erdős number of 3.
References
Queueing theorists
Academics of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London
Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge
British computer scientists
Living people
1951 births
Alumni of the Department of Computing, Imperial College London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Software%20Engineering%20and%20Formal%20Methods | The International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM) is an international academic conference in the field of software engineering.
History
Until 2002, SEFM was a workshop; it then became a full international conference. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The 1st IEEE International Conferences on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2003) was held at Brisbane, Australia in September 2003. Submissions originated from 22 different countries. As well as IEEE-CS, supporters for SEFM 2003 included the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Boeing Australia, and the Italian Embassy in Canberra.
The proceedings for the conference are published by the Springer Science+Business Media in LNCS since 2011. Previously, the proceedings were published by IEEE.
Aims
SEFM aims to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry, and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to help in their large-scale application in the software industry, and to encourage their integration with other practical software engineering methods.
The conferences are often held in the Asia and Pacific regions and specifically in developing countries. An important aim of the SEFM conferences is to encourage research cooperation between developing countries and industrialized countries. SEFM 2010 was in Pisa, Italy. SEFM 2013 was in Madrid, Spain. SEFM 2014 takes place in Grenoble, France
The SEFM conference series is included on the DBLP online publications database. Revised selected papers sometimes appear as special journal issues.
References
External links
SEFM website
Recurring events established in 2003
Software engineering conferences
Formal methods
IEEE conferences
September events |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmkids | Farmkids (styled as FARMkids) is an Australian children's computer-animated comedy television series about pampered zoo animals accidentally being shipped to a dude ranch. Thirteen episodes were broadcast in Series 1 and another thirteen in Series 2, both of which aired in 2008.
Overview
The series is based around the irony of farm animals who know nothing about living in the countryside. They are a bunch of fastlane pampered city animals who live a star studded life in a popular nursery petting zoo, but their lives take a funny unexpected turn when they are suddenly relocated. To top it off their new home is nothing like one would expect from a simple old farm. At its core, this series is aiming at twisting and repackaging a strong and timeless farm theme into a fast, edgy comedy. Dude Ranch, the FARMkids new home, is a place where the old, modern and twilight zone elements meet to make this a way out of the ordinary environment. This is not the average city slickers on the Old MacDonald type of situation; Farmkids represents a twisted and very entertaining approach to a time tested theme.
Voice cast
Louise Brehmer as Bean, Poppit and Punky
Liz Buchanan as Frizz and Splat
Tiffany Lamb as MooLoo
Todd Levi as Gilly
Danny Murphy as Buster
Andrew Buchanan as Doogie, Rodd and Russ
Bill McDonald as Dumpster
Bryan Probets as Drumstick
John Harmon as Phill
Warren Humphreys as Carlos
Scott Strachan as Stretch
Episodes
Series One (2008)
Series Two (2008)
DVD release
In 2008, 3 DVDs were released entitled Chaos in the Country, Dude Ranch Boot Camp, and Hair, Wool, Feathers, and Fur.
Awards and nominations
As of November 2008, FARMkids and finalists in the Atom Awards for Best Children's Television Series.
References
External links
Official FARMkids website
2000s Australian animated television series
2008 Australian television series debuts
2008 Australian television series endings
Australian children's animated comedy television series
Australian computer-animated television series
Animated television series about mammals
Television shows set on farms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glin | Glin or GLIN may refer to:
Global Legal Information Network, federation of government agencies that contribute national legal information
Glin, County Limerick, village in Ireland
Glin GAA Club, a team in West Limerick
Knight of Glin, hereditary title held by the Fitzgeralds of Limerick
Glin Castle, manor home in the village of Glin that was the seat of the Knight of Glin
Great Lakes Information Network, an initiative of the Great Lakes Commission in the United States
Glin the good fairy, character in Oz (1976 film)
Glin, member of the Sweeper Alliance in the manga Black Cat
Glin, a province in the science fiction novel A Time of Changes
See also
Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin (1937-2011), an Irish nobleman and president of the Irish Georgian Society
Glen
Glinn (disambiguation)
Glyn (disambiguation)
Glynn (disambiguation)
Glynne (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s%20Kitchen%20%28American%20season%205%29 | Season 5 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen began airing on the Fox Network starting on January 29, 2009. The season concluded on May 14, 2009. Gordon Ramsay returned as head chef, as well as sous chefs Scott Leibfried and Gloria Felix and maître d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic.
Executive Chef Danny Veltri won the series and was awarded a sous chef position under Stephen Kalt at Italian restaurant Fornelletto at the Borgata in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Danny also received $250,000 in prize money from the show.
This season also set a high number of unusual eliminations; with one chef eliminated without nomination, two chefs leaving due to medical issues, and two chefs eliminated during service, in addition to the first time a chef was eliminated despite being on the winning team, which would become more prominent in later seasons.
Format
The first half of each episode consists of a team challenge, in which the winning side gets a reward of some sort of leisure activity, while the losing side has to clean up and prepare both kitchens, as well as some activity that is not so pleasant. Afterwards, the teams compete in executing a dinner service, during which Ramsay can impose additional punishments or kick chefs out of the kitchen. The losing team(s) nominates chefs to be considered for elimination. Ramsay can also nominate chefs, and ultimately sends a chef home. At six chefs left, the teams merge to one, and the chefs compete as individuals.
Staff
Gordon Ramsay returned as the head chef, sous chefs Scott Leibfried of blue team and Gloria Félix of the red team, and Maître d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic as well.
Contestants
16 chefs competed in season five, and were initially separated by gender.
Contestant Progress
Each week, the best member (as determined by Ramsay) from the losing team during the latest service period is asked to nominate two of their teammates for elimination; one of these two is meant to be sent home by Ramsay. On some weeks, there is a variation in the nomination process, depending on the losing team's (or even winning team's) performance.
Episodes
Notes
References
External links
Hell's Kitchen official Fox.com website by Fox Broadcasting Company
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)
2009 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KYKN | KYKN (1430 AM) is a radio station licensed to serve Keizer, Oregon, United States. The station, established in 1951, is currently owned by the Willamette Broadcasting Company.
Programming
KYKN broadcasts a news/talk radio format to the Salem, Oregon, area that includes select programming from Premiere Radio Networks and Salem Radio Network (SRN). KYKN programs include syndicated conservative-leaning talk shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck.
History
Launch as KGAE
This station began broadcasting in 1951 as KGAE with 1,000 watts of power, daytime-only, on a frequency of 1430 kHz. The station, licensed to serve the city of Salem, Oregon, was owned by a partnership known as Allen, Truhan, & Clark with partner W. Gordon serving as president and general manager. This partnership would be soon dissolved leading to a now-oft cited court case that went all the way to the Oregon Supreme Court. As a result, Allen took control of the stations in 1952 with the broadcast license transferred to a new company called KGAE, Inc. Allen remained president but Hal Davis took over the general manager duties.
Change to KGAY
In 1956, the station's call sign was changed to KGAY and the name of the license holding company was changed to KGAY, Inc., with W. Gordon Allen still in control. That same year, KGAY was authorized to increase the power of its broadcast signal to 5,000 watts although it was still restricted to daytime operation.
After a succession of station managers through the 1950s, W. Gordon Allen resumed the general manager duties in 1959. By this time Allen, who owned a two-thirds interest in flagship KGAY, had also acquired a 70% interest in KGAL in Lebanon, Oregon, and a 48% interest in KMAT in Winnsboro, Louisiana, as part of his W. Gordon Allen Stations group.
After nearly a decade of ownership, W. Gordon Allen and KGAY, Inc., agreed to sell the station to a company known as Radio Wonderful Willametteland, Inc. The deal was consummated on July 1, 1961. Glen M. Stadler took the title of general manager while Robert Bruce was named station manager. Stadler owned a one-third interest in KGAY, as did his partners Harry Rubenstein and Alex Dreier. The three men also owned equal shares in KGAL in Lebanon, Oregon. Stadler was the sole owner of KEED and KEED-FM in the Springfield-Eugene, Oregon, area. By the end of the 1960s, KGAY, Inc., was wholly owned by Glen Stadler and his wife, Helen N. Stadler, who also served as vice president of the company.
In 1968, the Stadlers announced their intention to retire from radio to "enter the academic field" and so they put KGAY up for sale. They contracted to sell the station to Capitol Equities, Inc., for a reported cash price of $175,000. The deal closed on August 15, 1968, and Donald H. Cushing took over as president of the company with Leslie J. Manning as general manager. By 1970, the station was airing a pure country & western music format. They would maintain this focus on country music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganti%20%282005%20TV%20series%29 | (International title: Vengeance of the Heart / ) is a 2005 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the second installment of Now and Forever. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Sheryl Cruz, Nadine Samonte and Cogie Domingo. It premiered on June 13, 2005 replacing Mukha. The series concluded on October 21, 2005 with a total of 95 episodes. It was replaced by Agos in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sheryl Cruz as Samantha
Nadine Samonte as Marianne
Cogie Domingo as Javier
Supporting cast
Zoren Legaspi as Dennis
Jean Saburit as Eva
James Blanco as Luis
Beth Tamayo as Carmela
Romnick Sarmenta as Henry
Cris Villanueva as Alfred
Katrina Halili as Alexa
Tin Arnaldo as Josephine
Rainier Castillo as Ricky
Recurring cast
Noel Trinidad as Manolo
Roy Alvarez as Gerardo
Ces Quesada as Ditas
Jordan Herrera as Nestor
Valerie Concepcion as Emily
Eva Darren as Nenita
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2005 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agos%20%28TV%20series%29 | (International title: Stream of Life / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is the third installment of Now and Forever. Directed by Mac Alejandre, it stars Sunshine Dizon, Dennis Trillo, Tanya Garcia, Lani Mercado and Christopher de Leon. It premiered on October 24, 2005, replacing Ganti. The series concluded on January 6, 2006, with a total of 55 episodes. It was replaced by Tinig in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Christopher de Leon as Armando
Lani Mercado as Olivia
Tanya Garcia as Sophia
Sunshine Dizon as Erika
Dennis Trillo as Danilo
Supporting cast
JC de Vera as Julius
Pauleen Luna as Clarissa / Cristina
Polo Ravales as Pablo
Recurring cast
Bella Flores as Consuelo
Daniel Fernando as Ariel
Juan Rodrigo as Ricardo
Mon Confiado as Edwin
Ynez Veneracion as Rhoda
Odette Khan as Minerva
Jeffrey Santos as Egay
Tony Mabesa as Blanco
Rich Vergara as Greg
Ella Guevara as Jane
Czarina de Leon as Monette
Guest cast
Joyce Ching as young Erika
References
External links
2005 Philippine television series debuts
2006 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Alamo%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Alamo Bowl throughout the years.
Television
2020s
2010s
2000s
1990s
Radio
2020s
2010s
2000s
References
Alamo
Broadcasters
Alamo Bowl
Alamo Bowl
Alamo Bowl broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election%20Working%20Group | The Election Working Group (EWG) is a non-partisan, 32-member network of civil society organizations. Established in 2006, EWG members share a common commitment to free and fair elections and good governance in Bangladesh.
The guiding objectives of the EWG are:
1. To support free and fair elections through pre-election, election day, and post-election observation
2. To conduct voter and civic education in key thematic areas that encourage the full participation of all segments of society in the electoral process
3. To promote electoral reform through public dialogue and advocacy
The National Secretariat of the EWG, headed by a Director, coordinates the day-to-day activities of the EWG on behalf of its members, with oversight from an elected Executive Committee.
Through its wide and varied membership, the EWG has outreach down to the village level throughout Bangladesh, making it an effective network through which to deliver voter information materials and to recruit both stationary and mobile election observers.
A national network, but international in reach, EWG members have participated in election observation missions in various countries, including Thailand and the Philippines.
EWG Programs
The EWG has implemented several programs since its establishment. These include:
Preparation for the 2006 elections: the EWG planned to implement voter education and election observation activities for the cancelled January 2007. Using a multi-tier program delivery mechanism, the network had outreach to the sub-union level. By early January 2007, when the EWG pre-election program activities were suspended on the basis of a consensus decision of all members, the EWG secretariat and member organizations had recruited and trained 64 district coordinators, over 500 sub-district or thana coordinators, and more than 5,000 union coordinators to implement field activities. Over 165,000 stationary and mobile observers were prepared to act as election day observers.
EWG monthly public perception studies: Since February 2007, the EWG has conducted monthly national public perception studies on the political and economic environment under the state of emergency. The studies probe key aspects of public opinion such as citizen concerns about current policies, confidence in the Caretaker Government, perceptions of the economy, views on anti-corruption activities, and overall appraisal of current circumstances as compared to those under the past elected government.
EWG support for the national voter registration process: Between August 2007 and August 2008 the EWG conducted a nationwide program of voter education designed to motivate eligible voters to complete registration for the milestone national electoral roll with photographs. This was carried out through a cooperative working relationship with the Bangladesh Election Commission. The EWG campaign had a strong focus on historically difficult to reach segments of the population including women, ethnic and re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic%20hits%20%28disambiguation%29 | Classic hits is a radio format.
Classic hits may also refer to:
Radio stations and networks
Classic Hits (Ireland), a Dublin-based multi-region radio station
The Hits (radio station), a New Zealand radio station, formerly called Classic Hits
Classic Hits/Pop, a music format produced by Westwood One
Classic Hits 954/1530, now Sunshine 1530, an English radio station
Pure Gold Network, formerly Classic Hits Network, an Australian radio network
Television channels
Classic Hits (television channel), a television channel formed by That's Media to replace That's Music on Freeview
Albums
Classic Hits (John Paul Young album), 1988
Classic Hits Live, by Kottonmouth Kings, 2003
Classic Hits Live/Best of Live, by Foreigner, 1993
See also
Classic Hits of Harry Chapin, a 2003 album |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia%20Drossopoulou | Sophia Drossopoulou () is a computer scientist, currently working at Imperial College London, where she is Professor in Programming Languages. She earned her Ph.D. from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Her research interests are mainly in formal methods for programming languages; her work is notable for a proof of the soundness of the Java programming language.
Her first Ph.D. student was Diomidis Spinellis. She is the daughter of the lawyer and politician Antonis Drossopoulos, and of the author Athena Cacouris ().
She is a lecturer for undergraduate students studying Computing and Joint Mathematics and Computing at Imperial College London. She teaches courses on "Logic & Reasoning" to first-year students and "Models of Computation" to second-year students.
Bibliography
References
External links
Living people
Greek computer scientists
Greek women computer scientists
Academics of Imperial College London
Year of birth missing (living people)
Expatriates in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202006 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, which is published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales. In 2006, 42 albums reached the peak of the charts.
Chart history
References
Japan Oricon Albums
Lists of number-one albums in Japan
2006 in Japanese music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Liberty%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Liberty Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
External links
Historical Bowl Game Announcers
Liberty
Broadcasters
Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl
Liberty Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Oricon%20number-one%20albums%20of%202008 | The highest-selling albums and mini-albums in Japan are ranked in the Oricon Weekly Chart, published by Oricon Style magazine. The data are compiled by Oricon based on each album's weekly physical sales. Thirty-seven albums reached the peak of the chart in 2008.
R&B singer Namie Amuro's Best Fiction had the longest chart run of 2008. The album remained at the top of the charts from its issue date of August 11 to September 15. Amuro became the first solo female artist in 28 years to have an album chart number one for six consecutive weeks after , who had an album at number one for seven consecutive weeks in 1980. Pop singer Mariya Takeuchi's greatest hits album Expressions stayed atop the charts for three consecutive weeks, making her the first artist over 50 years of age to accomplish this. Other artists who had extended runs on the chart include Kobukuro, Kumi Koda, Exile, Madonna, Superfly, Greeeen, and Mr. Children; each spent two straight weeks on the chart.
Korean pop singer BoA's Japanese album The Face debuted at number one, making her the second artist after Ayumi Hamasaki to have six consecutive number-one studio albums since her debut. American pop singer Madonna is the only Western act to reach number one during 2008 with her eleventh studio album, Hard Candy. It became the singer's first album in 18 years to debut at number one on the Oricon chart. With the release of their second album, Game, girl group Perfume became the second technopop group (after Yellow Magic Orchestra) to have a number-one album on the charts.
B'z The Best "Ultra Pleasure" was hard rock duo B'z's 22nd number-one album, surpassing Yumi Matsutoya for having the most number-one albums. Their record increased to 23 number-one albums with the release of B'z The Best "Ultra Treasure". Rock singer Yui's B-side album My Short Stories debuted atop the charts, making her the second female artist after Seiko Matsuda to have a B-side album debut at the top.
The best-selling album overall of 2008 was R&B group Exile's Exile Love, released in late 2007, which sold over 1,470,000 copies. The second-best-selling album was Amuro's Best Fiction, which sold more than 1,447,000 copies, followed by pop folk band Kobukuro's 5296, with nearly 1,405,000 albums sold. The fourth- and fifth-best-selling albums were Exile Catchy Best and Heart Station by Exile and pop singer Hikaru Utada respectively. Exile Catchy Best sold over 1,222,000 copies, while Heart Station sold a little over 997,000 copies.
Chart history
See also
2008 in music
References
Number-one albums
Japan
2008 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janine%20Hosking | Janine Hosking is an Australian documentary film maker. She won a Walkley Award in 1997 for a Seven Network television report titled Tjandamurra, the story of Tjandamurra O'Shane.
Other documentaries include:
My Khmer Heart. Ikandy Films (2001) – story of an Australian nurse and her work in an orphanage outside Phnom Penh.
Mademoiselle and the Doctor. Ikandy Films (2004) – story of the suicide of 80-year-old French-Australian woman Lisette Nigot and euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke. A scene from the film showing the use of a suicide bag was controversially edited from the ABC screening by Compass presenter Geraldine Doogue and was the subject of a separate report on Media Watch.
With this Ring (2005) – aired on ABC Television's Australian Story
Ganja Queen (2007) – about the arrest, trial, and imprisonment of Schapelle Corby
I'm Not Dead Yet (2011) – about Australian country music legend Chad Morgan
The Lost Diggers of Fromelles (2013)
35 Letters (2014)
Lebanese Beauty Queens (2018)
The Eulogy (2018, about pianist Geoffrey Tozer)
Knowing the Score (2023, about conductor Simone Young)
References
External links
Australian film producers
Australian documentary filmmakers
Australian film directors
Australian women film directors
Living people
Women documentary filmmakers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy%20Story%20%28disambiguation%29 | Toy Story is a 1995 computer-animated children's film.
Toy Story may also refer to:
Toy Story (franchise)
Toy Story (soundtrack)
Toy Story (video game)
Toy Story: The Musical (2008–2016)
"Toy Story" (Raising Hope), an episode of Raising Hope
"Toy Story", a song by David Guetta from Nothing but the Beat
See also
James May's Toy Stories, a UK documentary television series
"No Toy Story", an episode of Fanboy & Chum Chum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracol%20Internacional | Caracol Internacional is the international signal of Colombia's Caracol TV. It offers general programming aimed to Colombians abroad, mostly consisting of old Caracol TV telenovelas, series, and entertainment shows. It also simulcasts Noticias Caracol, El radar, and breakfast television show Día a día with Colombia's Caracol TV, as well as Venezuela's RCTV flagship newscast El Observador.
Gallery
External links
Official website
Caracol Televisión
Television networks in Colombia
Television channels and stations established in 2002
Television stations in Colombia
Latin American cable television networks
Spanish-language television stations
2002 establishments in Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB%2009%3A%20The%20Show | MLB 09: The Show is a baseball video game developed by San Diego Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3. It is the fourth edition of the MLB: The Show series, as well as the last to use THX technology. 2008 American League MVP Dustin Pedroia is the cover athlete.
Gameplay
MLB 09: The Show adds features to its predecessor The franchise and career modes have been altered with Road to the Show 3.0, which updated the mode with a steal and lead-off system, as well as more interaction with the player's coaches. Franchise 2.0 added several features to its career mode which include salary arbitration, waiver transactions, September call-ups, and the 40-man roster.
Also receiving an update is the game's online league play, allowing players to play out-of-order games and create their own custom rosters, and upload them online for other players to use. Players may also create custom chants.
Among the in-game alterations, there are more dynamic animations and reactions, improved bare-handed flips, in addition to "Progressive Batting Performance", in which player abilities improve or regress depending on how they play. With "Multi-Branch Fielding", players can now take full control of fielders and break out of any animation in the process, while "Adaptive Pitching Intelligence" (API) allows catchers to call the game based on the individual strengths and weaknesses of each pitcher and analyze tendencies of batters. The "Pitch Command System" (PCS) affects a pitcher's ability to throw a specific pitch change depending on how often the pitcher throws it.
The game also features pitch analysis, a breakdown of all the pitches thrown during the current game being played. This feature is also available for batters, and the batter analysis allowed for a breakdown of how a batter has performed. SportsConnect Online User Tracking (SCOUT) allows players to set their game preferences, store them on the server, and then allow the system to look for a Quick Match with an opponent that fits their criteria.
The game also features live MLB updates in-game, as well as SportsConnect Headline News. In addition, SportsConnect provides weekly roster updates that can be downloaded onto the console.
Reception
The PlayStation 3 version of MLB 09 The Show received "universal acclaim", while the PlayStation 2 and PSP versions received "generally favorable reviews", according to Metacritic.
See also
Major League Baseball 2K9
MLB 08: The Show
MLB 10: The Show
References
External links
2009 video games
Major League Baseball video games
North America-exclusive video games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Portable games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
Sports video games with career mode
09
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Maryland
San Diego Studio games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse%20gas%20emissions%20by%20Australia | Greenhouse gas emissions by Australia totalled 533 million tonnes -equivalent based on greenhouse gas national inventory report data for 2019; representing per capita e emissions of 21 tons, three times the global average. Coal was responsible for 30% of emissions. The national Greenhouse Gas Inventory estimates for the year to March 2021 were 494.2 million tonnes, which is 27.8 million tonnes, or 5.3%, lower than the previous year. It is 20.8% lower than in 2005 (the baseline year for the Paris Agreement). According to the government, the result reflects the decrease in transport emissions due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, reduced fugitive emissions, and reductions in emissions from electricity; however, there were increased greenhouse gas emissions from the land and agriculture sectors.
Australia uses principally coal power for electricity, accounting for 66% of grid-connected electricity generation in 2020, but this is rapidly decreasing with a growing share of renewables making up the energy supply mix, and most existing coal-fired power station scheduled to cease operation between 2022 and 2048. Emissions by the country have started to fall and are expected to continue to fall in coming years as more renewable projects come online.
Climate Action Tracker rates Australia's overall commitment to emissions reduction as "highly insufficient". Policies and action as well as the domestic target are both "insufficient", fair share target is "highly insufficient", and climate finance is "critically insufficient". This is because the Australian government has continued to invest in natural gas projects, refused to increase its 2030 domestic emissions target, and is not on track to meet its current target.
Climate change in Australia is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, and the country is generally becoming hotter, and more prone to extreme heat, bushfires, droughts, floods and longer fire seasons because of climate change.
Contribution
Total contributions
The Australian government calculates that Australia's net emissions (including Land use, land-use change, and forestry) for the 12-month period to September 2020 were 510.10 million tonnes -equivalent. The sectoral contributions based on the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report metrics were as follows: electricity 170.36Mt, 33.4%; stationary energy (excluding electricity) 101.83Mt, 20.%; transport 89.83Mt, 17.6%; agriculture 72.04Mt, 14.1%; fugitive emissions 51.23Mt, 10.0%; industrial processes 30.29Mt, 5.9%; waste 13.28Mt, 2.6%, and LULUCF -18.76Mt, -3.7% (due to carbon sequestration).
In 2017, the electricity sector emissions totaled 190 million tons, of which 20 million tons was for primary industry, 49 million tons for manufacturing (which might include aluminum smelting), 51 million tons Commercial, Construction and Transport, and 33 million tons Residential.
The Australian National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) indicated in 2006 that the energy sector accounts for 69 per cent of Aus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Peach%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Peach Bowl throughout the years.
From 2006 to 2013, for sponsorship reasons, the game was known as the Chick-fil-A Bowl.
Television
Radio
References
Peach
Broadcasters
Peach Bowl
Peach Bowl
Peach Bowl
Peach Bowl
Peach Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADInstruments | ADInstruments is an international company that produces data acquisition and analysis systems for the life sciences industry. It is headquartered in Dunedin, New Zealand and has more than 170 staff worldwide. Voted a finalist in Kenexa/JRA Top 10 Best Place to work in 2009, 2010., 2011 and 2012, and voted number one place to work in the life sciences industry in 2012 by The Scientist Magazine. ADInstruments partners with several producers of life sciences equipment, including Transonic Systems Inc., Radnoti Glass Technologies Inc., Panlab s.I. and Millar Instruments Ltd. ADInstruments is also an Applied Science industry partner with the University of Otago (New Zealand)
History
In 1985, the Physiology Department at New Zealand's University of Otago encouraged the development of a computer-based data acquisition system to replace their paper-based systems. In 1985, as part of his Computer Science Masters at the university, Michael Macknight built the MacLab, one of the first analog-to-digital converters that connected to a Macintosh computer.
Michael and his father, Tony Macknight, created a company initially known as Analog Digital Instruments. Very soon, they formed a partnership with Boris Schlensky who bought in skills around manufacturing, marketing and distribution.
Two software packages were initially developed: Chart (chart-recorder software, now LabChart) and Scope (digital oscilloscope software), which provided software control of the recording unit as well as a range of display and analysis features:
In 1988, business name was registered and the company began manufacturing Macintosh computer-based data acquisition systems for the life sciences research market.
In 1996 the company's first Windows compatible data acquisition system was released. The Windows compatible MacLab data acquisition systems were branded as PowerLab.
In 2005 the LabTutor software for education was released.
In 2015 the kuraCloud cloud based learning platform was released.
Sponsorship
The company provides grants, awards and sponsorship to students, researchers and educators in the life sciences industry:
Undergraduate
The Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience (FUN) presents awards to undergraduate neuroscience students.
Prize for Human Structure and Function, for the highest aggregate mark in human structure and function subjects at the University of Newcastle (Australia).
Zoology Prize, awarded annually to a student of La Trobe University (Australia) with the highest aggregate mark in the animal physiology stream of Zoology Honours
Educator
The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) Technology Innovation Grant
Progressive Educator Award
CRAWFLY Educator Scholarship Program
Award nomination
In 2008 the company was nominated for two Life Science Industry Awards:
Best Sales Representative
Most Knowledgeable Technical Support
References
External links
BusinessWeek profile
Companies established in 1988
Electronics companies of Australia
Manufac |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laojie%20station | Laojie station (), is a station on the Shenzhen Metro. It provides cross-platform interchange between Line 1 and Line 3. The station is the busiest on the network with 61,600 passenger entries and exits a day. The Line 1 platforms opened on 28 December 2004 and the Line 3 platforms opened on 28 June 2011. It is located underneath the junction of Shennan Fudao (), Jiefang Road () and Jianshe Road () in the Luohu District of Shenzhen, China. The station is the closest to the Dongmen Business Area (), one of the oldest areas in Shenzhen established in the Ming dynasty.
Station layout
Exits
See also
Dongmen
Chegongmiao station
Hongshuwan South station
Admiralty station (MTR)
References
External links
Shenzhen Metro stations
Luohu District
Railway stations in China opened in 2004
Railway stations located underground in China |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upstream%20%28networking%29 | In computer networking, upstream refers to the direction in which data can be transferred from the client to the server (uploading). This differs greatly from downstream not only in theory and usage, but also in that upstream speeds are usually at a premium. Whereas downstream speed is important to the average home user for purposes of downloading content, uploads are used mainly for web server applications and similar processes where the sending of data is critical. Upstream speeds are also important to users of peer-to-peer software.
ADSL and cable modems are asymmetric, with the upstream data rate much lower than that of its downstream. Symmetric connections such as Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL) and T1, however, offer identical upstream and downstream rates.
If a node A on the Internet is closer (fewer hops away) to the Internet backbone than a node B, then A is said to be upstream of B or conversely, B is downstream of A. Related to this is the idea of upstream providers. An upstream provider is usually a large ISP that provides Internet access to a local ISP. Hence, the word upstream also refers to the data connection between two ISPs.
See also
Upstream server
Return channel
References
Data transmission
Orientation (geometry) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20matching | Semantic matching is a technique used in computer science to identify information which is semantically related.
Given any two graph-like structures, e.g. classifications, taxonomies database or XML schemas and ontologies, matching is an operator which identifies those nodes in the two structures which semantically correspond to one another. For example, applied to file systems it can identify that a folder labeled "car" is semantically equivalent to another folder "automobile" because they are synonyms in English. This information can be taken from a linguistic resource like WordNet.
In the recent years many of them have been offered. S-Match is an example of a semantic matching operator. It works on lightweight ontologies, namely graph structures where each node is labeled by a natural language sentence, for example in English. These sentences are translated into a formal logical formula (according to an artificial unambiguous language) codifying the meaning of the node taking into account its position in the graph. For example, in case the folder "car" is under another folder "red" we can say that the meaning of the folder "car" is "red car" in this case. This is translated into the logical formula "red AND car".
The output of S-Match is a set of semantic correspondences called mappings attached with one of the following semantic relations: disjointness (⊥), equivalence (≡), more specific (⊑) and less specific (⊒). In our example the algorithm will return a mapping between "car" and "automobile" attached with an equivalence relation. Information semantically matched can also be used as a measure of relevance through a mapping of near-term relationships. Such use of S-Match technology is prevalent in the career space where it is used to gauge depth of skills through relational mapping of information found in applicant resumes.
Semantic matching represents a fundamental technique in many applications in areas such as resource discovery, data integration, data migration, query translation, peer to peer networks, agent communication, schema and ontology merging. Its use is also being investigated in other areas such as event processing. In fact, it has been proposed as a valid solution to the semantic heterogeneity problem, namely managing the diversity in knowledge. Interoperability among people of different cultures and languages, having different viewpoints and using different terminology has always been a huge problem. Especially with the advent of the Web and the consequential information explosion, the problem seems to be emphasized. People face the concrete problem to retrieve, disambiguate and integrate information coming from a wide variety of sources.
See also
Ontology alignment
Semantic integration
Semantic unification
Semantic technology
Minimal mappings
References
External links
Semantic Web
Ontology (information science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gogoyoko | gogoyoko.com was an online music store and social networking music website where artists could sell directly to their fans. The site offered free streaming of all tracks, which were subsidized with advertisements in the music store. The focus of the site was on independent music both from independent artists and labels and distributors working in the independent music sector. The aim of the site was to have artists paid fairly for the sale and distribution their music on the Internet, without having to go through a record label or digital aggregators.
Gogoyoko was known as a "forward-thinking" company due to their focus on artists' rights and the concept of "Fair Play in Music", which was term that gogoyoko used to describe its business model and as a general slogan for its activities in organizing concerts for charity and to promote grassroots musical movements. gogoyoko partnered with other companies with a focus on artists' rights and fair business models in the music industry.
History
Gogoyoko was founded in Reykjavík, Iceland, in December 2007 by musicians Haukur Magnússon and Pétur Úlfur Einarsson. Reynir Harðarson, one of the founders of CCP Games and the original art director of the massively multiplayer online game Eve Online, was also a founding member of the company and one of its owners. Their headquarters were located in the downtown Reykjavík area.
On November 15, 2008, gogoyoko launched its Alpha test mode. On May 1, 2009, it launched its beta version. The Beta version became open for everybody in Iceland, where the company was based. On October 1, 2009, the site launched in Scandinavia. For those located outside of Iceland and Scandinavia an invitation to the page was needed.
In 2013, the financial problems the company had been suffering from culminated in the entire staff being laid off and changes in management. Eventually, the service shut down. Its website displayed a message stating that it was "temporarily closed" until as late as May 2015, and was unreachable in December 2016.
Fair Play
Gogoyoko claimed to provide artists and record labels with a greater control of their work in the digital age and a "ground-breaking revenue split" when selling their digital music online. A 10% transaction cost was charged by the company for music sales of downloaded music and the artists received the rest of the revenue from sales after applicable sales taxes and royalties are paid by gogoyoko. The company also shared 40% of advertisement revenues made from their website with artists and copyright holders of the music, which was based pro rata on how much each artist (or label) streamed on the site.
gogoyoko used the slogan "Fair play in music" and that it was "made by artists for artists". gogoyoko was not the only formation in the music scene to use the term "fair play". The Featured Artists' Coalition, whose members include Radiohead, Kate Nash, Iron Maiden and Kaiser Chiefs, has issued a whole campaign based on the "fair pl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi%20Legal%20Database | The Iraqi Legal Database (ILD) is the first comprehensive and electronic legal database to be created in the Arab region. The project to create the ILD was launched in 2004 by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), through its Programme on Governance in the Arab Region (POGAR). The project was implemented in cooperation with the Iraqi High Judicial Council.
See also
United Nations Development Programme
References
External links
The Iraqi Legal Database (-2013)
The Iraqi Legal Database (2014- )
The Programme on Governance in the Arab Region
United Nations Development Programme (Iraq Country Office)
The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
Iraqi Local Governance Law Library
Government of Iraq
Law of Iraq
United Nations Development Programme
Online law databases
Databases in Iraq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimage | Archimage is a Houston-based visual arts studio that has used its experience in computer-based architecture to specialize in Serious Video Game development for the medical research community. Archimage created Escape From Diab and Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space, two multimillion-dollar PC games funded by the National Institutes of Health to combat obesity and type 2 diabetes in children.
Early history
Archimage, Inc was formed in Houston, Texas in 1990. The firm is the successor to Buday Wells, Architects, (Richard Buday, AIA and Dwayne Wells, AIA, RIBA partners) formed in 1983.
Throughout most of its history, Archimage has been the poster child for creative companies successfully adapting to rapidly changing market conditions. Buday Wells, Architects, which opened during a severe contraction in Houston's oil-based economy, was an early pioneer in the use of computers in architecture. When founding partner Dwayne Wells died in 1990, the company incorporated as Archimage to more fully reflect its hybrid design practice. A variety of non-traditional architecture commissions such as broadcast television commercials resulted in the company winning 14 Caddie awards for its innovative computer-based design work in the architecture world.
The visibility Archimage gained from its commissions and awards resulted in work expanding into mainstream animation. In 1992, Nintendo of America used the firm to create an animated trade show presentation, and business from the Walt Disney Company soon followed with the design of "Happy Castle." In 1994, Archimage was enlisted to create 3D games and environments for 3D Dinosaur Adventure.
Serious Video Game Design and Production
Much of Archimage's recent work has been in a new area of interactive media called Games for Health, a genera of serious games. Their work in this field began by creating interactive tools for researchers at Baylor College of Medicine in the early '90s, which was later followed by the production and design of several multimedia behavioral interventions research projects created for kids. Archimage is one of the few design firms in this specialized area of game design.
In 2003, the firm was awarded a Small Business Innovative Research Grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, a division of the National Institutes of Health, to create two computer-based interventions for childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes. Archimage worked with behavior psychologists, nutritionists, and physical activity experts at the Children's Nutrition Research Center of Baylor College of Medicine to create two epic PC adventure video games about healthy eating and exercise entitled Escape from Diab and Nanoswarm: Invasion from Inner Space. Escape From Diab won several design awards including a Horizon Interactive Media Award, a Webby Award Nomination and an INDEX Award. Both games have gone under extensive clinical testing by BCM for efficacy in changing childre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulligrubs | Mulligrubs was an Australian children's television series that aired on Network Ten from 3 October 1988 to 27 December 1996. The series was made by affiliate ADS in Adelaide and was aimed at pre-schoolers.
About 550 episodes were made, with about 425 being stored intact at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
The show was best remembered for the face (made up of just eyes, eyebrows, nostrils and mouth) on a blue screen that appeared occasionally during the program. The actress who played the part of 'the face' was Diana Kidd (born circa. 1951–1952).
References
External links
Portion of a Mulligrubs episode on YouTube
Australian children's television series
Australian preschool education television series
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Network 10 original programming
1988 Australian television series debuts
1996 Australian television series endings
Television shows set in Adelaide |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20provider | Network provider may refer to:
Communications service provider, general term for service providers which transport information electronically
Internet service provider
Network service provider, which provides direct Internet backbone access to internet service providers
Wireless service provider
See also
Network (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federation%20%28information%20technology%29 | A federation is a group of computing or network providers agreeing upon standards of operation in a collective fashion.
The term may be used when describing the inter-operation of two distinct, formally disconnected, telecommunications networks that may have different internal structures. The term "federated cloud" refers to facilitating the interconnection of two or more geographically separate computing clouds.
The term may also be used when groups attempt to delegate collective authority of development to prevent fragmentation.
In a telecommunication interconnection, the internal modi operandi of the different systems are irrelevant to the existence of a federation.
Joining two distinct networks:
Yahoo! and Microsoft announced that Yahoo! Messenger and MSN Messenger would be interoperable.
Collective authority:
The MIT X Consortium was founded in 1988 to prevent fragmentation in development of the X Window System.
OpenID, a form of federated identity.
In networking systems, to be federated means users are able to send messages from one network to the other. This is not the same as having a client that can operate with both networks, but interacts with both independently. For example, in 2009, Google allowed GMail users to log into their AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) accounts from GMail. One could not send messages from GTalk accounts or XMPP (which Google/GTalk is federated with—XMPP lingo for federation is s2s, which Facebook and MSN Live's implementations do not support) to AIM screen names, nor vice versa. In May 2011, AIM and Gmail federated, allowing users of each network to add and communicate with each other.
See also
Fediverse
Federated Mission Networking
Federated database system
Distributed social network
Federated Portal Network
Federated VoIP
Webmention
MX record, *SRV record: Ways of designating what services domains provide and how to access them
Active Directory Federation Services
ActivityPub: Introduced in January 2018, ActivityPub is a standard for the Internet in the Social Web Networking Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Usenet
Distributed computing
Decentralized computing
References
Interoperability
Interoperable communications
Networking standards
Computer standards
Distributed computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNDF | The Route Network Definition File (RNDF) specifies accessible road segments and provides information such as waypoints, stop sign locations, lane widths, checkpoint locations, and parking spot locations. The route network has no implied start or end point. In addition to road segments, the RNDF specifies free-travel ‘zones’ that have a defined perimeter, but for which no waypoints are provided. Zones are used to represent parking lots and areas with moving or stationary obstacles or vehicles. It is used by DARPA for its Grand Challenge program.
DARPA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerLab | PowerLab (before 1998 was referred to as MacLab) is a data acquisition system developed by ADInstruments comprising hardware and software and designed for use in life science research and teaching applications. It is commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, sports/exercise studies and psychophysiology laboratories to record and analyse physiological signals from human or animal subjects or from isolated organs. The system consists of an input device connected to a Microsoft Windows or Mac OS computer using a USB cable and LabChart software which is supplied with the PowerLab and provides the recording, display and analysis functions. The use of PowerLab and supplementary ADInstruments products have been demonstrated on the Journal of Visualised Experiments.
The original MacLab unit was developed in the late 1980s to run with only Macintosh computers to perform computer-based data acquisition and analysis. The MacLab product range was renamed "PowerLab" in 1997 to reflect the cross-platform nature of the system.
The PowerLab system is essentially a peripheral device designed to perform various functions needed for data acquisition, signal conditioning and pre-processing. Versatile display options and analysis functions are complemented by the ability to export data to other software (such as Microsoft Excel).
How is data acquired?
External signals detected are converted into analog electrical signal
Signals are amplified to amplify signals and filtered to remove unwanted frequencies or noise
Analog signal is multiplexed to an analog-to-digital converter
The digitized signal is transmitted to the computer using USB connection
Software receives, displays, analyses and records data in real time
PowerLab Models
Current
/35 Series for research: Released in 2011. Includes PowerLab 4/35, PowerLab 8/35 and PowerLab 16/35.
/30 Series for research: Released in 2004. Includes PowerLab 4/30, PowerLab 8/30 and PowerLab 16/30.
/26 Series for teaching: Released in 2007. Includes PowerLab 2/26, PowerLab 4/26, PowerLab26T
/T Series for teaching: Released in 2007. Includes PowerLab 15T
Previous
Original MacLab: First released November 1988. Includes MacLab/4 and MacLab/8.
E series: First released October 1992. Includes MacLab /2e, MacLab /4e, MacLab /8e, MacLab /200, PowerLab /200, MacLab /400, PowerLab /400, PowerLab /410, PowerLab /415, and PowerLab /800
S series: First released August 1994. For SCSI connection only and includes MacLab /4S, PowerLab /4S, PowerLab /8S and PowerLab /16S.
SP series: First released May 1999. For SCSI and USB connections and includes PowerLab /4SP, PowerLab /8SP, PowerLab /16SP, and PowerLab 4ST.
/20 series: First released July 2000. USB connections only and includes PowerLab 2/20, PowerLab 4/20, and PowerLab 4/20T.
/T series: First released September 2002. PowerLab 10T for teaching.
/25 series: First released September 2003. Requires high speed USB 2.0 connections and includes PowerLa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20production%20in%20Brazil | Brazil is a major producer of oranges, which were introduced to Brazil by the Portuguese around 1530.
Production
According to the statistical database of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, 702,200 hectares of oranges were harvested in 2013; this is down from 836,041 hectares in 2003.
Brazil is also the world's largest exporter of orange juice. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, the country shipped 1.2 million metric tons of orange juice in 2012—twelve times more than the United States, the world's 2nd-largest exporter.
In 2013, it was reported that many Brazilian orange-growers were giving up on oranges and other citrus fruits and turning instead to sugarcane and other crops. Brazilian orange-growers have been pushed out of the market because of a decline in domestic prices of oranges, as well as rising costs of labor and chemicals. One reason for low prices in 2013 was consecutive bumper crops in Brazil during the two previous growing seasons, which increased global supply and led to a 31% decline in world market prices.
The state of São Paulo is the biggest producer in Brazil. In 2019, São Paulo produced 13,256,246 tons of orange. São Paulo production is equivalent to 78% of Brazilian production of 17,073,593 tons, exceeds the production of China (2nd largest orange producer in the world) of 2019 (which was 10,435,719 tons) and was equivalent to 16.84% of world production of orange in the same year (78,699,604 tons). Other states that are large orange producers are Minas Gerais (989,032 tons), Paraná (694,424 tons), Bahia (574,211 tons) and Sergipe (364,766 tons).
Three Brazilian companies dominate the orange-juice export market: Citrosuco SA Agroindústria, Sucocitrico Cutrale Ltda, and Louis Dreyfus Commodities Brasil SA. Together, these companies account for about 40% of Brazilian orange production and 98% of Brazilian juice exports. The domination of the market by these three companies is also blamed for the low orange prices.
According to the Center for Advanced Studies on Applied Economics at the University of São Paulo, the average price per box of oranges offered by industrial buyers in Brazil fell almost 60% from January 2007 to May 2013, from 15.46 Brazilian reals to 6.50 Brazilian reals.
Human rights violations
A recurrent issue in agricultural large-scale production are human rights violations, in which the orange sector has been involved as well.
In 2015 for example, the German NGO Christliche Initiative Romero and Austrian NGO Global 2000 reported that workers on a plantation in Brazil supplying orange juice giant Cutrale had not been paid for several weeks. Furthermore, the debts of the workers were increasing daily due to the high costs they were being charged for transport to the plantation, accommodation and food, which was provided by the local labour contractor at extortionate prices. The workers were thus unable to leave the plantation as they were heavily indebted to t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strand%20Life%20Sciences | Strand Life Sciences, formerly Strand Genomics, is an Indian in silico technology company, based in Bangalore. Strand focuses in data mining, predictive modeling, computational chemistry, software engineering, bioinformatics, and research biology to develop software and services for life sciences research. Strand also offers custom solutions based on its intellectual property. In 2021, Reliance Industries' subsidiary Reliance Strategic Business Ventures acquired a controlling stake in Strand Life Sciences.
History
Strand Life Sciences was founded in October 2000 by Professors Vijay Chandru, Ramesh Hariharan, Swami Manohar, and V. Vinay. It was registered as Strand Genomics, but was later renamed to Strand Life Sciences as it dealt with various other aspects of life sciences. In August 2007, Strand and Agilent Technologies, Inc. entered an agreement in which Strand develops and supports Agilent's GeneSpring software which Agilent obtained through Silicon Genetics acquisition in August 2004. In October 2010, Strand and Agilent renewed the agreement for Strand to expand the scope of Agilent's GeneSpring across multiple life sciences disciplines.
Software
Strand NGS (formerly Avadis NGS) is a software platform for next-generation sequencing data analysis.
GeneSpring GX (version 9.0.0 onwards), GeneSpring Workgroup (version 7.0.0 onwards), and Mass Profiler Pro are developed by Strand's R&D division in Bangalore.
Avadis is a data mining and visualization platform.
Sarchitect is a platform for modeling and predicting drug-relevant properties of molecules in silico.
ArrayAssist was developed for Stratagene, Inc., based on the Avadis platform. The production was stopped after Stratagene was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Inc. in 2007.
References
External links
Strand Life Sciences
Biotechnology companies of India
Software companies of India
Biotechnology companies established in 2000
Information technology companies of Bangalore
Privately held companies of India
2000 establishments in Karnataka
Reliance Industries |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20%28journal%29 | Computing, subtitled Archives for Scientific Computing, is a scientific journal published by Springer, which publishes research in computer science and numerical computation. Its ISSN is 0010-485X for the print version and 1436-5057 for the electronic version. , the editors of the journal are Hermann Brunner, Rainer Burkard, Craig Douglas, Wolfgang Hackbusch and Dietmar Saupe. The first volume was published in 1966.
References
Mathematics journals
Computer science journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airtel%20Sri%20Lanka | Airtel (, ) is the brand name of mobile network operator, Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd, the Sri Lankan subsidiary of Indian multinational telecommunications company Bharti Airtel. The company was awarded a mobile phone operator license in 2006 and was scheduled to start operations in early 2007, however, the company didn't commence services until 12 January 2009, with approximately 3 million subscribers of the Sri Lankan mobile market as of December 2022.
Network data
MNC: 413 05
Operator code: 075
History
Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd is a subsidiary of Bharti Airtel Limited, the second largest mobile operator in the world, with over 480 million mobile customers as of September 2020. Bharti Airtel has been featured in Forbes Asia's Fab 50 list, rated amongst the best-performing companies in the world in the BusinessWeek IT 100 list 2007, and voted as India's most innovative company in a survey by The Wall Street Journal.
Airtel Sri Lanka commenced commercial operations of services on 13 January 2009. Granted a license in 2007 in accordance with the Sri Lanka Telecommunications Act No. 25 of 1991, it is also a registered company under the Board of Investment Sri Lanka. Under the license, the company provides digital mobile services to Sri Lanka. This is inclusive of voice telephony, voice mail, data services and GSM-based services. All of these services are provided under the airtel brand.
Airtel received the 2nd Place award in the 16th National Business Excellence Awards (NBEA) in 2019. Airtel Sri Lanka has 3G island wide coverage. On November Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) approved airtel high speed 4G 850 MHz band operate for indoor coverage.
Network implementation
Airtel currently uses 2G/ 4G LTE and VoLTE.
and currently under testing 5G Capabilities.
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka (TRCSL) had granted its permission to Bharti Airtel Lanka (Pvt) Ltd (Airtel) to shut down their 3G mobile network by June 24, 2022
Airtel 4G LTE broadband and coverage
Airtel invested $20 million in 2014 to improve their island-wide 3G Coverage.
Airtel has been significantly investing in its 4G infrastructure during the past few years. By November 2021, the telco added over 2,000 sites along with 400 additional towers commissioned across the country following its 4G launch. The push from the company was a result of the sharp uptick in data usage following the pandemic.
Airtel 4G will operate in the efficient 850 Mhz bands & 2100Mhz Band, 2500 MHz band in dense areas, which has higher signal propagation. This will translate into a superior 4G network experience for customers with wider network availability and, most importantly, better indoor coverage.
References
External links
Official Website
Telecommunications companies of Sri Lanka
Bharti Airtel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%201050 | IBM 1050 Data Communications System is a computer terminal subsystem to send data to and receive data from another 1050 subsystem or IBM computer in the IBM 1400, IBM 7000 or System/360 series. It first became available in 1963 and was used widely during the 1960s. The 1052 Printer-Keyboard was also the basis for the 1052-7 console Printer-Keyboard used on small and medium S/360 processors.
General
IBM 1050 Data Communications System was first introduced in 1963. The printer used the same removable typing element and mechanism as the IBM Selectric typewriter. The 1050 system could include the following devices:
IBM 1051 Central Control Unit
IBM 1052 Printer-Keyboard
IBM 1053 Console Printer
IBM 1054 Paper Tape Reader
IBM 1055 Paper Tape Punch
IBM 1056 Card Reader
IBM 1057 Card punch
IBM 1058 Printing Card punch
IBM 1092/1093 Programmed Keyboards
Communication was done serially, half-duplex, at 75 or 150 bits per second. A modem, such as IBM Line Adapter, was needed for connection to a communication line. The IBM 1050 featured multipoint asynchronous communication (Start Stop protocol), and improved error checking (LRC and VRC), with speed up to 14.8 characters per second (134 baud), compared to the teleprinter's 10 cps. One IBM 1051 and another device were required per subsystem.
A set of IBM 1050 Data Communications System is exhibited at the University of Amsterdam Computer Museum in the Netherlands.
References
See also
IBM 2741
List of IBM products
1050 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20Aid | Soft Aid is a software compilation, released by Quicksilva in March 1985 to support the Famine Relief in Ethiopia. The software was released on tape for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 home computers.
An audio recording of the charity single, Do They Know It's Christmas? by Band Aid also featured on one side of the tape.
The tape was unusual in that it was released to help support a charity (possibly unique in computer gaming at the time). The cover featured artwork by British artist David Rowe,.
The tape sold in the United Kingdom for £4.99.
Games included
ZX Spectrum
Spellbound
Starbike
Kokotoni Wilf
The Pyramid
Horace Goes Skiing
Gilligan's Gold
Ant Attack
3D Tank Duel
Jack and the Beanstalk
Sorcery
Commodore 64
Gumshoe
Beamrider
Star Trader
Kokotoni Wilf
China Miner
Gilligan's Gold
Fred
Gyropod
Falcon Patrol
Flak
Reception
Soft Aid topped the UK software sales charts for seventeen weeks in 1985, setting a record for the longest number of consecutive weeks at number one. The record was eventually broken by Robocop in 1989.
References
External links
1985 video games
Commodore 64 games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Charity singles
Quicksilva games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%962 | Österreich 2 (Ö2; previously known as Österreich-Regional, ÖR until 1990) is the overall term used to refer the network of nine regional radio services provided by Austria's national public service broadcasting organization ORF.
Stations
The nine Ö2 radio stations, each of which serves one state of the Austrian Federal Republic (plus the Italian province of South Tyrol) are:
Radio Burgenland, Burgenland
Radio Kärnten, Carinthia
Radio Niederösterreich, Lower Austria
Radio Oberösterreich, Upper Austria
Radio Salzburg, Salzburg
Radio Steiermark, Styria
Radio Tirol, Tyrol (also broadcast in the Italian province of South Tyrol)
Radio Vorarlberg, Vorarlberg
Radio Wien, Vienna
These stations' output is broadcast on FM analogue and (for now, Radio Wien only) digital radio, as well as being available via cable, the internet, and satellite (Astra 19.2°E).
Operation
The Österreich Regional stations were launched on 1 October 1967 as part of a major reorganisation of the ORF's radio offerings, which also saw the formation of Ö1 and Hitradio Ö3. This was precipitated by a national referendum held in 1964 whereby more than 800,000 citizens declared themselves to be against ideological appointments of key positions within the Austrian public broadcasting service under the Proporz system. Two years later, a legal regulation of nonpartisan broadcasting was passed by the Austrian National Council (lower house of the Austrian parliament), entailing a relaunch of the ORF radio stations. The ÖR was renamed as Ö2 on 2 May 1990.
The nine stations all broadcast a large amount of regional content as well as offering news, weather, traffic (especially notable was the legendary Autofahrer unterwegs programme, aired 1957–1999), regional reports, and music, all produced in each station's own radio centres (one for each federal state).
During the 21st century, the regional stations – their core target audience being listeners in the 50+ age group – have evolved into Oldies stations in terms of their musical format and this has made them clear market leaders in terms of market share and reach. They chiefly play oldies, Schlager music, and classic hits as well as other musical genres of a less demanding nature. Some of the stations, however, such as Radio Oberösterreich, do also broadcast a certain number of classical music programmes as well as cultural and feature items similar to those aired on the nationwide Ö1 channel. Historically, one of the longest-running Ö2 programmes was the daily Autofahrer unterwegs ("motorists under way"), 15,153 editions of which were broadcast between 1957 and 1999. The popularity of this programme meant that it was broadcast nationwide by all the regional stations.
Until the 1990s, many Ö2 programmes were dominated by popular folk music (Volkstümliche Musik), leading to the network often being derogatorily referred to as "housewives' radio". In the period preceding the time when private, commercial radio stations were finally allowed to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20deferred%20decision | Principle of deferred decisions is a technique used in analysis of randomized algorithms.
Definition
A randomized algorithm makes a set of random choices. These random choices may be intricately related making it difficult to analyze it. In many of these cases Principle of Deferred Decisions is used. The idea behind the principle is that the entire set of random choices are not made in advance, but rather fixed only as they are revealed to the algorithm.
Applications
The Clock Solitaire Game
The principle is used to evaluate and determine the probability of "win" from a deck of cards. The idea is to let the random choices unfold, until the iteration ends at 52, where if the fourth card is drawn out of a group labeled "K", the game terminates.
References
Sources
M. Mitzenmacher and E. Upfal. Probability and Computing : Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic Analysis. Cambridge University Press, New York (NY), 2005. Section 1.3, page 9.
Randomized algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashtag | A hashtag is a metadata tag that is prefaced by the hash symbol, #. On social media, hashtags are used on microblogging and photo-sharing services such as X (formerly Twitter) or Tumblr as a form of user-generated tagging that enables cross-referencing of content by topic or theme. For example, a search within Instagram for the hashtag #bluesky returns all posts that have been tagged with that term. After the initial hash symbol, a hashtag may include letters, numerals, or underscores.
The use of hashtags was first proposed by American blogger and product consultant Chris Messina in a 2007 tweet. Messina made no attempt to patent the use because he felt that "they were born of the internet, and owned by no one". Hashtags became entrenched in the culture of Twitter and soon emerged across Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. In June 2014, hashtag was added to the Oxford English Dictionary as "a word or phrase with the symbol # in front of it, used on social media websites and apps so that you can search for all messages with the same subject".
Origin and acceptance
The number sign or hash symbol, #, has long been used in information technology to highlight specific pieces of text. In 1970, the number sign was used to denote immediate address mode in the assembly language of the PDP-11 when placed next to a symbol or a number, and around 1973, '#' was introduced in the C programming language to indicate special keywords that the C preprocessor had to process first. The pound sign was adopted for use within IRC (Internet Relay Chat) networks around 1988 to label groups and topics. Channels or topics that are available across an entire IRC network are prefixed with a hash symbol # (as opposed to those local to a server, which uses an ampersand '&').
The use of the pound sign in IRC inspired Chris Messina to propose a similar system on Twitter to tag topics of interest on the microblogging network. He posted the first hashtag on Twitter:
According to Messina, he suggested use of the hashtag to make it easy for lay users without specialized knowledge of search protocols to find specific relevant content. Therefore, the hashtag "was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages".
The first published use of the term "hash tag" was in a blog post "Hash Tags = Twitter Groupings" by Stowe Boyd, on August 26, 2007, according to lexicographer Ben Zimmer, chair of the American Dialect Society's New Words Committee.
Messina's suggestion to use the hashtag was not immediately adopted by Twitter, but the convention gained popular acceptance when hashtags were used in tweets relating to the 2007 San Diego forest fires in Southern California. The hashtag gained international acceptance during the 2009–2010 Iranian election protests; Twitter users used both English- and Persian-language hashtags in communications during the events.
Hashtags have since played critical roles in recent social movements such as #jesuischarlie, #BLM, and #MeT |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McIDAS | McIDAS, the "Man computer Interactive Data Access System", is a weather forecasting tool developed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the 1970s and used continually to this day. In its early incarnations, it was widely used to generate graphics for television stations, but today is used primarily by the NOAA and related agencies. Users of the McIDAS system developed a similar version for microcomputers and sold by ColorGraphics Weather Systems that generated much of the computerized weather imagery seen on television in the US in the 1980s.
History
Applications Technology Satellite (ATS)
In 1953 Verner Suomi measured the heat budget of a corn field for his doctoral thesis at the University of Chicago. For the rest of his professional career he worked in the field of remote measuring using radiometers, often working with Robert Parent. They developed a remote sensing radiometer with the intent of flying it into space and measuring the heat budget of the Earth. Their first attempt was fitted to Vanguard TV3, but this exploded on launch. A similar experiment flew on Explorer 7 in 1959. This experiment demonstrated the impact of cloud cover on the heat balance of the Earth.
To further develop the field of satellite-based meteorology, NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) grants led to the creation of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. At the SSEC, Suomi and Parent developed the Spin Scan Cloudcover Camera (SSCC) to accurately measure and map cloud cover. The SSCC imaged a single strip of the Earth at a time, feeding out its information directly to a radio for broadcast to the ground. Fixed to the body of a rotating satellite, the SSCC would build up a 2D image as the satellite spun and rotated in its orbit.
SSCC was launched on ATS-1 on 6 December 1966. On 5 November 1967 ATS-3 launched the Multicolor Spin Scan Cloudcover Camera, which provided the first color meteorological imaging. Data from these instruments was captured on realtime printouts, and required manual work to cut and paste the successive strips into a single image, and then into multiple time-lapse images. Although a number of advances were made while examining this data, the work was tedious and time consuming.
WINDCO
In order to speed up the process of examining the data, Suomi started an internal competition to develop an automated solution. Two teams were set up, one developing an analog solution and another using software. The software solution, by Smith and Phillips, was able to demonstrate the ability to calculate wind speed and direction based solely on the images of the clouds. Based on this success, Suomi was able to gain additional funding from NASA and the NSF to develop a prototype all-computerized image processing system.
Known as WINDCO, the system consisted of a video disk for storing imagery and a Raytheon 440 minicomputer controlling it. The computer was used to record the imagery from the satelli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades%20%28supercomputer%29 | Pleiades () is a petascale supercomputer housed at the NASA Advanced Supercomputing (NAS) facility at NASA's Ames Research Center located at Moffett Field near Mountain View, California. It is maintained by NASA and partners Hewlett Packard Enterprise (formerly Silicon Graphics International) and Intel.
As of November 2019 it is ranked the 32nd most powerful computer on the TOP500 list with a LINPACK rating of 5.95 petaflops (5.95 quadrillion floating point operations per second) and a peak performance of 7.09 petaflops from its most recent hardware upgrade. The system serves as NASA's largest supercomputing resource, supporting missions in aeronautics, human spaceflight, astrophysics, and Earth science.
History
Built in 2008 and named for the Pleiades open star cluster, the supercomputer debuted as the third most powerful supercomputer in the world at 487 teraflops. It originally contained 100 SGI Altix ICE 8200EX racks with 12,800 Intel Xeon quad-core E5472 Harpertown processors connected with more than 20 miles of InfiniBand double data rate (DDR) cabling.
With the addition of ten more racks of quad-core X5570 Nehalem processors in 2009, Pleiades ranked sixth on the November 2009 TOP500 with 14,080 processors running at 544 teraflops. In January 2010, the scientists and engineers at NAS successfully completed a "live integration" of another ICE 8200 rack by connecting the new rack's InfiniBand dual port fabric via 44 fibre cables while the supercomputer was still running a full workload, saving 2 million hours in productivity that would otherwise have been lost.
Another expansion in 2010 added 32 new SGI Altix ICE 8400 racks with Intel Xeon six-core X5670 Westmere processors, bringing up to 18,432 processors (81,920 cores in 144 racks) at a theoretical peak of 973 teraflops and a LINPACK rating of 773 teraflops. NASA also put an emphasis on keeping Pleiades energy efficient, increasing the power efficiency with each expansion so that in 2010 it was three times more power-efficient than the original 2008 components, which were the most power-efficient at the time. The integration of the six-core Westmere nodes also required new quad data rate (QDR) and hybrid DDR/QDR InfiniBand cabling, making the world's largest InfiniBand interconnect network with more than 65 miles of cable.
After another 14 ICE 8400 racks containing Westmere processors were added in 2011, Pleiades ranked seventh on the TOP500 list in June of that year at a LINPACK rating of 1.09 petaflops, or 1.09 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
InfiniBand DDR and QDR fiber cables are used to connect all of the nodes to each other, as well as to the mass storage systems at NAS and the hyperwall visualization system, creating a network made up of more than 65 miles of InfiniBand fabric, the largest of its kind in the world. Pleiades is built in a partial 11-D hypercube topology, where each node has eleven connections to eleven other nodes, with some making up to twel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutoid | Mutoid may refer to:
Mutoids, cybernetically-enhanced humans from sci-fi TV series Blake's 7.
Mutoid Waste Company, London rave promoters of the 1980s.
Mutoid Man, American rock band formed in 2012 in Brooklyn, New York. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000s%20in%20the%20music%20industry | In the first decade of the 21st century, the rise of digital media on the internet and computers as a central and primary means to record, distribute, store, and play music caused widespread economic changes in the music industry. The rise of digital media with high-speed internet access fundamentally changed the relationships between artists, record companies, promoters, retail music stores, the technology industry, and consumers. The rise of digital music consumption options contributed to several fundamental changes in consumption. One significant change in the music industry was the remarkable decline of conventional album sales on CD and vinyl. With the à la carte sales models increasing in popularity, consumers no longer downloaded entire albums but rather chose single songs.
The initial stage (from approximately 1998 to 2001) of the digital music revolution was the emergence of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks that allowed the free exchange of music files (such as Kazaa and Napster). By 2001, the cost of hard drive space had dropped to a level that allowed pocket-sized computers to store large libraries of music. The iPod and iTunes system for music storage and playback became immensely popular, and many consumers began to transfer their physical recording media (such as CDs) onto computer hard drives. The iTunes Music Store offered legal downloads beginning in 2003, and competitors soon followed, offering a variety of online music services, such as internet radio. Digital music distribution was aided by the widespread acceptance of broadband in the middle of the decade. At the same time, recording software (such as Avid's Pro Tools) began to be used almost exclusively to make records, rendering expensive multitrack tape machines (such as the 1967 Studer) almost obsolete.
The chief economic impact of these changes was a dramatic decline in revenues from recorded music. In the 21st century, consumers spent far less money on recorded music than they had in 1990s, in all formats. Total revenues for CDs, vinyl, cassettes and digital downloads in the U.S. dropped from a high of $14.6 billion in 1999 to $9 billion in 2008. The popularity of internet music distribution had increased and by 2007 more units were sold over the internet than in any other form.
However, as The Economist reported, "paid digital downloads grew rapidly, but did not begin to make up for the loss of revenue from CDs."
The 2000s period stands in stark contrast from the "CD boom" of 1984–1995, when profit margins averaged above 30% and industry executives were notorious for their high profile, even frivolous spending. The major record labels consistently failed to heed warnings or to support any measures that embraced the change in technology. In the early years of the decade, the industry fought illegal file sharing, successfully shutting down Napster in 2001 and threatening thousands of individuals with legal action. This failed to slow the decline in revenue and was a public |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Hellie | Dan Hellie (born May 23, 1975) is an American sports announcer for Fox Sports and the NFL Network. Hellie can also be seen on Dana White's UFC Tuesday Night Contender Series, Tennessee Titans preseason games and college football games on Fox. He was a sports anchor for WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C.
Early life
Hellie was born in Manila, Philippines, where his parents were stationed while in the Peace Corps. Hellie moved to Shoshone, Idaho until he was in fourth grade, then to Gaithersburg, Maryland. His mother was a middle school teacher for Montgomery County and his father worked at the Interior Department. He attended Magruder High School, where he played football, basketball and baseball. Hellie attended the University of Tennessee, where he was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. He earned a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism. In 2014, Hellie was awarded the University of Tennessee Alumni Promise Award.
Early career
Hellie began his career in Alexandria, Minnesota, as an editor, producer and reporter. After nine months, he moved to Florence, South Carolina, as a sports reporter-anchor for WPDE. After two years, Hellie moved to Florida, first working in West Palm Beach at WPTV then, in 2003, as sports director at WFTV in Orlando. While at WFTV, Hellie where voted best sportscaster in Florida by the Associated Press and most popular sportscaster by the Orlando Sentinel. In 2005, he was named best sportscaster in Florida. Hellie received an Associated Press award for best feature story for a segment he did on bull riding in which he rode a bull for eight seconds.
In July 2006, Hellie moved to WRC-TV in Washington D.C. area where he served as an anchor-reporter.
In 2011, Hellie was awarded Emmys for Outstanding Sports Anchor and Outstanding Sports Daily or Weekly Programs. Hellie hosted the Redskins Coaches Show.
Current career
Hellie works for the NFL Network, where he co-anchors the flagship show NFL Total Access with Lindsay Rhodes (2018). Hellie has contributed to several segments nominated for Emmy awards nominations on NFL Total Access, including Emmys for Outstanding Studio Show-Daily and the Shorty Award for Best Social Integration with Live Television.
Hellie is the play-by-play announcer for Tennessee Titans preseason games with fellow NFL Network analyst Charles Davis. He also calls NFL games for FOX. Hellie regularly calls CFB games for FOX as well.
On July 11, 2017, Hellie joined former UFC Lightweight Yves Edwards to launch Dana White's Tuesday Night Contender series which aired digitally on UFC Fight Pass. Hellie teamed with Snoop Dogg and UFC Hall of Fame Inductee Urijah Faber on the series.
Hellie is the host of the UFC's official Weigh-In Show, which is done for most pay-per-view events. He is joined by Laura Sanko, Daniel Cormier and a special guest analyst.
Hellie also calls college basketball on Fox.
Personal life
Hellie resides in Manhattan Beach, California, with his wife and thei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping%20node | A bootstrapping node, also known as a rendezvous host, is a node in an overlay network that provides initial configuration information to newly joining nodes so that they may successfully join the overlay network. Bootstrapping nodes are predominantly found in decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) networks because of the dynamically changing identities and configurations of member nodes in these networks.
Overview
When attempting to join a P2P network, specific discovery or membership protocols (or other configuration information) may be required, and, if a newly joining node is unaware of these protocols, the newly established joining node will not be able to communicate with other nodes and ultimately join the network. Furthermore, these protocols and configuration requirements may dynamically change as the infrastructure and membership of the P2P network evolves. Therefore, there is a need to be able to dynamically inform a newly joining node of the required protocols and configurations.
Identifying a bootstrapping node
Several methods may be used by a joining node to identify bootstrapping nodes:
A joining node may have been pre-configured with the static addresses of the bootstrapping nodes. In such a case, the bootstrapping node addresses cannot change, and therefore should be fault-tolerant members of the network, which are not able to leave the network.
Alternatively, the bootstrap node can be identified via a DNS service, where a domain name resolves to one of the bootstrapping nodes' addresses. This allows the bootstrapping nodes' addresses to change as needed.
Configuration information provided
The objective of the bootstrapping node is to provide newly joining nodes with sufficient configuration information so that the new node may then successfully join the network and access resources, such as shared content. Discovery protocol information can instruct the new node how to discover peers on the network. Membership protocol information can instruct the new node how to request-to-join and subsequently join peer groups on the network. Other configuration information, such as overlay network dependent instructions, may be provided. An example of overlay dependent instructions is instructing a new node how to obtain a zone of a CAN. Further configuration information may be designed for P2P network admission control, used when joining a network that supports trust management, and include such things as encryption/signature protocols or admission policies.
Networks that use bootstrapping nodes
Distributed hash tables
CAN
Chord
IPFS
Kademlia
Pastry
Tapestry
Cryptocurrency
Bitcoin
Ethereum
Litecoin
References
See also
Bootstrapping
Network topology
Network service
Distributed data storage
Peer-to-peer computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Input/Output%20eXchange | SIOX is an asynchronous serial communication bus that uses (default 4800) datarates. Specified by in Sweden, it is widely used in factories, plants, ships and district heating systems.
The bus can use point-to-point, bus, tree, star and ring topologies and uses a level, with a short-circuit current of . It is also recommended that twisted pair is used as well as a cable area of . are used, giving .
See also
List of network buses
References
Serial buses |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob%20Wars | Mob Wars is a multiplayer role-playing game hosted on the social networking site Facebook. It allows players to engage in Mafia-style wars with one another and has become one of the most lucrative Facebook applications and the first to net US$1M per month in revenue. However, this number has never been confirmed by the developer or any third parties.
Developed by David Maestri while he worked for Freewebs.com, it was subsequently the subject of an unsuccessful intellectual property lawsuit as Maestri's former employers attempted to claim ownership over the asset. The lawsuit was ultimately settled in December 2008 with the IP for Mob Wars remaining with Maestri but with SGN allowed to develop their own Mafia based role-playing application. In August 2008, Mob Wars had 2.5 million active users. It has spawned several very similar games with nearly identical gameplay and format on both Facebook and MySpace, some of which, such as Zynga's Mafia Wars, were the subject of further lawsuits. Zynga made some changes to Mafia Wars so it wouldn't resemble Mob Wars as closely, but Mob Wars creator David Maestri moved forward with his lawsuit. In September 2009, Maestri and Zynga settled the case for about $7–$9 million, less than the $10 million Maestri had originally demanded.
Gameplay
Mob Wars is a simple role-playing game. There is no world for the player to move around in. The only type of character interaction the player experiences with other players, is either by sending them messages, weapons, and energy boosts, or attacking them. Like many Facebook applications, most of the gameplay revolves around having friends of the player join the player's mob through means made possible in the game.
The player starts off as a petty thief and works his way up to doing bigger and better paying jobs and heists. The player gains strength by equipping his mob with weapons, armor and vehicles. These can be drops from doing jobs and heists, gifts from friends, or they can be purchased with game money (earned by doing jobs, fighting other players, or as income from investments in properties.)
Favor Points (sub-currency also known as Godfather points) can be used to heal or gain more game money. They are slowly earned as the player levels up or can be gained quickly by participating in sponsor surveys or off-site membership purchases with a credit card.
Soon after the development of the game, alliances were formed by many players, to promote levelling and to organize group attacks, and to protect against those same tactics. Some families were more organized than others and these alliances would range from only a few players to hundreds. Eventually the game itself evolved to promote the family aspect of the game, giving each player's character the option of either staying on their own, creating their own family or joining another family. If the respective character is a member of an in-game family, they would be "tagged" with the family name, which would link |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Work%20for%20Food%20%28TV%20series%29 | Will Work for Food is a Food Network show starring Adam Gertler, one of three finalists of the fourth season of The Next Food Network Star. The show premiered on Monday, January 19, 2009 at 8:30 PM EDT. According to Food Network, the series "exposes Adam to the world of little-known food jobs as he fearlessly puts his life – and mouth – on the line to try them all! Whether taking honey from three million bees, sculpting ice with a chain saw, foraging for truffles, or digging a wine cave, Adam will do anything in the name of food." The concept is somewhat similar to the Food Network program Glutton for Punishment. In each episode, Gertler featured two food related jobs.
Episodes
External links
Food Network Will Work for Food Website
Authentic Entertainment's Official Site
References
Food Network original programming
2009 American television series debuts
2009 American television series endings
Television series by Authentic Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBO | DBO may refer to:
Database owner (SQL), which can refer to either the physical owner, a user role, or a schema
Dragon Ball Online
D-Bo (born 1978), German rapper
Daulat Beg Oldi
DBO Energy, an independent Brazilian Oil & Gas company, focused on mature, producing fields
DB Oil Fund, run by Invesco PowerShares
Dubbo City Regional Airport
Dead Blackout (Theatre Lighting)
The unit dBO, decibels below overload
Design, build and operate, a type of contract for project delivery and operation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCEB%20%28Tulsa%2C%20Oklahoma%29 | KCEB, UHF analog channel 23, was a television station licensed to Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States, that maintained affiliations with NBC, ABC and the DuMont Television Network. The station was owned by Elfred Beck. KCEB operated for almost ten months from March 13 to December 10, 1954.
History
The station was founded by Tulsa oilman Elfred Beck. KCEB (which Beck named after himself as a reversal of his last name) began construction of its studio facilities atop Lookout Mountain in west Tulsa on August 21, 1953.
The station signed on the air on March 13, 1954 as the second television station to sign on in the Tulsa market. It originally operated as an affiliate of NBC and the DuMont Television Network; it also shared ABC programming with primary CBS affiliate KOTV (channel 6), which signed on 4½ years earlier in October 1949. The station was outfitted with the latest equipment.
As electronics manufacturers were not required to include UHF tuners on television sets at the time, early commercial UHF TV pioneers struggled. At one point, an estimated 100,000 UHF converters had been sold to Tulsa residents by local electronics retailers (which accounted for about 40% of all households with a set in the area). Nonetheless, NBC (which, like CBS, preferred to seek VHF affiliations) reached an agreement with KOTV that allowed that station to continue "cherry-picking" stronger shows, leaving less content available for KCEB to broadcast.
Soon after KCEB signed on, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a construction permit to Central Plains Enterprises (run by a group of businessmen led by Robert S. Kerr, William G. Skelly and Dean A. McGee), owners of local radio station KVOO (1170 AM, now KTSB), for the market's second commercial television station. KVOO-TV (channel 2, now KJRH-TV) signed-on December 5, 1954. NBC cancelled its affiliation agreements with KCEB (and later KOTV) months before channel 2's initial sign-on, moving its entire programming schedule to an exclusive contract with that station.
Beck then struck a contract with ABC to make it a primary affiliation, but ABC continued to reserve the right to give KOTV right of first refusal on carriage of all programs.
The situation rapidly grew worse for the station. The Tulsa Broadcasting Company, majority owned by grocery magnate John Toole Griffin, signed on Muskogee-licensed KTVX (channel 8, now KTUL) as the new ABC affiliate on September 18, 1954, taking all of the remaining ABC programs.
This left KCEB with some NBC programming (which it was rapidly losing) and DuMont (the nation's fourth-rated television network). DuMont's days as a network operation were numbered due to a lack of advertising revenue. Most of the network's programming was dropped by April 1, 1955; the network ceased operations in August 1956.
As a last-ditch move, Beck decided to cut back KCEB's operations to a limited four-hour-a-day program schedule in October 1954, relying on filmed programming and NBC prog |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer%20occupations |
A
A/B tester
Application analyst
B
Business analyst
C
Computer operator
Computer repair technician
Computer scientist
Computer analyst
D
Data entry clerk
Database administrator
Data analyst
Data designer
Data scientist
H
Hardware engineer
I
Information systems technician
IT assistant
IT consultant
N
Network analyst
Network administrator
P
Programmer
Product manager
Project manager
R
Rapid prototyper
S
Scrum master
Security engineer
Software analyst
Software architect
Software design
Software engineer
Software project manager
Software quality analyst
Software test engineer (Tester)
Solution architect
Support technician (Help Desk)
System administrator
Systems analyst
Systems architect
T
Test engineer
U
User experience designer
User interaction designer
User researcher
V
Video game developer
Visual designer
Virtual assistant
W
Web developer
Website administrator
External links
Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs list database in text
Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisa%20Bertino | Elisa Bertino is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and is acting as the research director of CERIAS, the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, an institute attached to Purdue University. Bertino's research interest include data privacy and computer security.
Education
Bertino received her Ph.D. from the University of Pisa in 1980 under the supervision of Costantino Thanos. After postdoctoral research on IBM System R at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and then working for the Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, she returned to academia. She was for many years on the faculty of the University of Milan, and chaired the computer science department there.
Publications
She has authored or co-authored more than 250 journal articles, more than 450 conference papers, 9 books, and 35 edited volumes, with over 300 co-authors. She has been co-editor-in-chief of the GeoInformatica Journal and VLDB Journal, program co-chair of ICDE 1998, and program chair of ECOOP 2000, SACMAT 2002, and EDBT 2004.
Honors and awards
2002 - Elected as a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers "for contributions to the theory of object-oriented databases, temporal databases, and database security."
2003 - Became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery "for contributions to secure database systems".
2002 - Winner of an IEEE Technical Achievement Award in 2002
2005 - Winner of IEEE Computer Society Tsutomu Kanai Award
2021 - IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Award
References
Living people
University of Pisa alumni
Academic staff of the University of Milan
Purdue University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexicanal | Mexicanal is a Mexican-based Spanish-language pay television network launched the August 23, 2005 by Castalia Communications and Innokap. The network's studios and broadcast center is based in the Mexican city of San Luis Potosí.
Programming
Mexicanal features news, cultural programming, sports and popular entertainment from public broadcasters, independent producers and public access stations throughout Mexico.
Programming on Mexicanal also includes its sports show LMJP “Liga Mexicana de Jaripeo Profesional”, the docuseries “Las Cantinas de Cornelio” among other own productions. In addition, the network showcases top local, national and international news, series, movies and overall entertainment from Mexico.
Other programs include:
Ahí viene la Marimba,
Con el Son de la Marimba,
Estrellas del Jaripeo,
De Kiosko en Kiosko, with host Cornelio Garcia visiting different municipalities in Jalisco to explore their culture, customs and traditions
El Grito de Independencia (The Cry of Independence), La Ruta de Mexico (The Route of Mexico), shows that portrays the festivities and traditions of Mexicans.
Charter, AT&T, Mediacom, DISH, SLING and Comcast offer Mexicanal in their "Spanish-language tier" lineups in the United States.
Mexicanal content
Since 2013 Mexicanal has been creating content:
El Rayo Vida de Lucha, a reality series following the life of a Lucha libre wrestler and promoter Juan Padron Luna, also known as "Rayo de Plata". The series takes place in San Luis Potosi and the Bajío region of Mexico. In thirteen episodes, "El Rayo Vida de Lucha" highlights the ties between El Rayo his family, employees and wrestlers.
Son Mariachis, a docu-reality series following a new generation Mariachi band. The band is composed of members of the Cuellar family. Son Mariachis now airs on NBC Universo.
Necaxa, a docu-reality series following a soccer franchise.
Imágenes de México, hosted by Javier Solórzano, Images of Mexico is a tourism show highlighting eclectic regions of Mexico from regional history to agriculture.
Dragon Con Adventure, hosted by Maria Fernanda Villanueva, highlighting Atlanta's Dragon Con 2015 parade cosplay and celebrities.
Mexican affiliates
While Mexicanal creates a limited amount of its own content, almost all of it is sourced from the various state networks, public broadcasters owned by the state governments. A notable exception was 20tv Zacatecas, which is a noncommercial station owned by commercial broadcaster Grupo Radiofónico B-15 until SIZART Canal 24 appeared and became an affiliate.
References
External links
mexicanal.com
Castalia Communications
Cablecom Mexico
Directv USA
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Spanish-language television networks in the United States
Television networks in Mexico
Mass media in San Luis Potosí City |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programmes%20broadcast%20by%208TV%20%28Malaysian%20TV%20network%29 | This is a list of television programmes broadcast by 8TV either currently broadcast or formerly broadcast on 8TV in Malaysia.
Asian Hour (Chinese drama series)
These are local drama and international drama series (mainly from China and Singapore studios and production) which broadcast on Weekdays from 6:00pm to 7:00pm.
2018
The Legendary Tycoon (15 March) (Drama suspended on 9 May 2018 due to special report on developments about Malaysia General Election)
I Am Not an Elite (15 May) (Drama repeated on 21 October 2020, Wednesday 11:00pm to Thursday 12:30am and Thursday 11:00pm to Friday 12:30am)
City Still Believe In Love (11 July) (previously broadcast on NTV7, broadcast by the channel as part of its new programme lineup)
When Duty Calls / When Duty Calls (11 September)
Sweet Combat / Sweet Combat (9 October) (Episode 1 until 12 broadcast from Monday to Thursday 9:30pm to 10:30pm, Timeslot on episode 13 onwards, Weekdays 6:00pm to 7:00pm)
My Teacher Is a Thug / My Teacher Is A Thug (13 November)
The Grainfield (18 December)
Asian Programmes
These programmes broadcast in various timeslots, depending on the programmes type. These programmes are mainly from China, Hong Kong, South Korea includes Best of Korea Hanbok (broadcast on Thursdays and Fridays in 2015), Singapore, Hito Theatre segment, Taiwan, and Japan.
1 Litre no Namida
100% Senorita
2020 JSBC Countdown Concert (29 December 2020 to 1 January 2021) (Tuesday to Friday 12:30am to 1:30am) (Reality Television)
2021 Taichung Happy New Year (12 February 2021) (Friday 1:00pm to 3:00pm) (Reality Television)
2021 JSBC Spring Festival Gala (20 February 2021) (Saturday 5:00pm to 7:00pm) (Reality Television)
2022 JSBC Countdown Concert (2 February 2022 to 4 February 2022) (Wednesday 11:00pm to Thursday 1:30am), (Thursday 11:00pm to Friday 1:00am) (Reality Television)
2022 JSBC Spring Festival Gala (2 February 2022) (Wednesday 5:00pm to 7:00pm) (Reality Television)
2022 Happy Chinese New Year (4 February 2022 to 7 February 2022) (Friday 9:30am to Monday 10:30am) (Reality Television)
A Date With Mei Feng 2022 CNY Special (1 February 2022 to 4 February 2022) (Tuesday 1:00pm to Friday 1:30pm) (Reality Television)
Absolutely Charming
Amazing World
Amazing Magician
Assassination Classroom (Taiwanese Mandarin dub)
Atashinchi (Taiwanese Mandarin dub)
Bakuman (Taiwanese Mandarin dub)
Battle of Voices
Beauty of China III
Blessings / Blessings
Bewitched in Tokyo
Beyond Show (China Talent Show) (Repeated on 23 October 2021, Saturday 11:00pm to Sunday 12:30am) (Reality Television - Talent Search Competition Show)
The Birth of Performer (Reality Television - Acting Talent Search Competition Show)
A Bite of China
Blue Exorcist: Kyoto Saga (Taiwanese Mandarin dub)
Body SOS (previous seasons from NTV7)
Body SOS Season 9 (13 November 2021) (Saturday 6:30pm to 7:00pm) (Reality Television)
The Brain (previous seasons from NTV7)
Buzzer Beat
C.L.I.F.
Canton Flavor (Season 6) (27 March 2022) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML%20Schema%20editors | The W3C's XML Schema Recommendation defines a formal mechanism for describing XML documents. The standard has become popular and is used by the majority of standards bodies when describing their data.
The standard is versatile, allowing for programming concepts such as inheritance and type creation, but it is complex. The standard itself is highly technical and published in 3 different parts, making it difficult to understand without committing large amounts of time.
XML schema editor tools
The problems users face when working with the XSD standard can be mitigated with the use of graphical editing tools. Although any text-based editor can be used to edit an XML Schema, a graphical editor offers advantages; allowing the structure of the document to be viewed graphically and edited with validation support, entry helpers and other useful features.
Editors that have been developed so far take several different approaches to the presentation of information:
Text view
The text view of an XML Schema shows the schema in its native form. XML Schema Editors generally add to the text view with features including inline entry helpers and entry helper windows, code completion, line numbering, source folding, and syntax coloring. For more lengthy and complex schema documents, this is often difficult for even highly trained content model architects to work with, paving the way for software companies to come up with new and inventive way for users to visualize these documents.
Physical view
A physical view of an XML Schema displays a graphical entity for each element within the XML Schema. This can make an XSD document easier to read, but does little to simplify editing. This is largely due to the structure of the XSD Standard, where container elements are required which are dependent on the base type used and the types contained within. This means that small changes to the logical structure can cause changes to ripple through the document.
The structure of the XSD standard also means entities are referenced from other locations within the document. Some editors allow these to be expanded and viewed in the location they are referenced from but others don't, which means manual cross referencing may be required.
Logical View
A logical view shows the structure of the XML Schema without showing all the detail of the syntax used to describe it. This provides a clearer view of the XML Schema, making it easier to understand the structure of the document, and makes it easier to edit. Since the editor shows the logical structure of the XSD document, there is no need to show every element, removing much of the complexity and allowing the editor to automatically manage the syntactical rules.
Example
The following example will show the source XSD, logical and physical views for a simple schema.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:complexType name="NameType">
<xs |
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