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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BT%20Global%20Services | BT Global is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications company BT Group that provides global security, cloud and networking services to multinational companies worldwide, with operations in 180 countries. It was established in July 2000 as BT Ignite.
History
Renaming
BT Group began operating as a private corporation after the Telecommunications Act 1984.
During the 1990s, between the loosening of national telecom monopolies and the current (largely) liberalised market, BT Group entered into a number of alliances in order to serve its mainly, then, UK-based multi-national customers. From the 90's through the early 2000s, BT Group, then known as British Telecom, struggled. The company failed to secure a strong partner, struggled to expand internationally, and had significant debt.
In 2002, the attempt at an alliance (Concert 2 with AT&T) was disbanded. Thereafter, the company brought together a number of joint ventures, partly owned assets and wholly owned subsidiaries into the single entity that exists today.
On April 1, 2002, BT’s contracts with former Concert customers were transferred to BT Global and BT Retail. BT Ignite was renamed BT Global in April 2003. By late 2003, around 50% of BT Global ’ about 5,000 staff were employed outside the UK.
Acquisitions
Between 2002 and 2009, the Global division made a string of acquisitions to expand its global footprint and broaden its business offer to customers. Most notable are Radianz, the then network arm of Reuters in 2005; the global network operator Infonet in 2005;
managed security market leader Counterpane in 2006;
US IT consultancy company International Network Services Corp. (INS) in 2007;
and Asian systems integrator Frontline in 2008. In 2016, Global signed an agreement to acquire IP Trade S.A., a provider of unified communications and collaboration solutions for trading floor environments and command-and-control dispatch centres.
Customers
In 2005, Global won a multi-year worldwide outsourcing contract to provide communication and IT services to FIAT in a deal worth €450 million (£303 million) over five years across 40 countries. BT also acquired Fiat's subsidiary, Atlanet for €80 million which provides domestic telecoms services to Fiat and other business customers across Italy. In 2006, Atlanet was merged with Albacom to form BT Italia.
In 2006, Global agreed a £100 million seven-year worldwide outsourcing contract to provide communication and IT services to PepsiCo, across their 900 locations in more than 60 countries as well as upgrading their network infrastructure.
In 2008, Global agreed a $650 million (£332 million) five-year worldwide outsourcing contract to provide communication and IT services to Procter & Gamble, across more than 1,100 locations in more than 80 countries.
In January 2016, Global agreed a £100 million seven-year contract with the BBC to provide its broadcast network from April 2017, when it finishes its remaining contract with Vodafone UK via At |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Disney%20Latin%20America | Radio Disney Latin America is a pop music and rock music network owned by The Walt Disney Company, which is broadcast in several countries in Latin America. The station is aimed primarily at youth and adolescents.
Availability
Radio Disney is available in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.
2019 Mexico breakup
On December 26, 2019, Disney and its Mexican partner, Grupo ACIR, announced they were mutually ending their relationship, which had covered twelve Mexican cities. Ten of the twelve Radio Disney stations were transitioned to ACIR's replacement pop format, Match.
However, Radio Disney stated in a press release that it would return on new stations in 2020. One article attributed the breakup to "three direct format competitors and an impressive surge in Spotify consumption in key market Mexico City.". Radio Disney returned to the country on February 1, 2020, exclusively on Mexico City station XHFO-FM.
Stations
Slogans
"Aquí está tu música" (former) ("Here is your music")
"Escucha eso que quieres sentir" (2008–present) ("Hear what you wanna feel")
"A rádio que te Ouve" (Brazil) (2010–present) ("The radio that listens to you")
"La radio que te escucha" (Mexico) (2013–2019; 2020-present) ("The radio that listens to you")
Notes
Radio Disney Bolivia is a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company Latin America and Empresa de Comunicaciones del Oriente
See also
Disney Channel Latin America
Radio Disney
References
External links
Official website (Generic Website)
Radio Disney Brazil
Official website Perú
Latin America
Radio stations in Argentina
Mass media companies of Argentina
Latin America |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROSE%20%28compiler%20framework%29 | The ROSE compiler framework, developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is an open-source software compiler infrastructure to generate source-to-source analyzers and translators for multiple source languages including C (C89, C98, Unified Parallel C (UPC)), C++ (C++98, C++11), Fortran (77, 95, 2003), OpenMP, Java, Python, and PHP.
It also supports certain binary files, and auto-parallelizing compilers by generating source code annotated with OpenMP directives. Unlike most other research compilers, ROSE is aimed at enabling non-experts to leverage compiler technologies to build their own custom software analyzers and optimizers.
The infrastructure
ROSE consists of multiple front-ends, a midend operating on its internal intermediate representation (IR), and backends regenerating (unparse) source code from IR. Optionally, vendor compilers can be used to compile the unparsed source code into final executables.
To parse C and C++ applications, ROSE uses the Edison Design Group's C++ front-end. Fortran support, including F2003 and earlier 1977, 1990, and 1995 versions, is based on the Open Fortran Parser (OFP) developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The ROSE IR consists of an abstract syntax tree, symbol tables, control flow graph, etc. It is an object-oriented IR with several levels of interfaces for quickly building source-to-source translators. All information from the input source code is carefully preserved in the ROSE IR, including C preprocessor control structure, source comments, source position information, and C++ template information, e.g., template arguments.
ROSE is released under a BSD-style license. It targets Linux and OS X on both IA-32 and x86-64 platforms. Its Edison Design Group (EDG) parts are proprietary and distributed in binary form. Source files of the EDG parts can be obtained if users have a commercial or research license from EDG.
Award
The ROSE compiler infrastructure received one of the 2009 R&D 100 Awards. The R&D 100 Awards are presented annually by R&D Magazine to recognize the 100 most significant proven research and development advances introduced over the past year. An independent expert panel selects the winners.
See also
DMS Software Reengineering Toolkit a source-to-source compiler framework using explicit pattern-directed rewrite rules that handles Fortran and C++
References
External links
Development site
Compilers
C (programming language) compilers
C++ compilers
Fortran compilers
Free compilers and interpreters
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Source-to-source compilers
Software using the BSD license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Baker%20%28physician%29 | Michael Allen Baker, (born January 24, 1943) is a Canadian physician, academic, and cancer researcher. He is Rose Family Chair in Medicine, former Physician-in-Chief, University Health Network and Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. His research has helped to improve the understanding of human leukemia and other cancers.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Baker attended Oakwood Collegiate Institute, then received his M.D. from the University of Toronto in 1966. He received his diploma from the National Board of Medical Examiners in 1967 and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada specializing in Hematology and Internal Medicine. In 1982, he joined the University of Toronto as a Professor of Medicine. In 1992, he was made Physician-in-Chief of the Toronto General Hospital.
He was president of the National Cancer Institute of Canada for 3 years and a board member of the Canadian Cancer Society for 5 years. In 2008, he was appointed by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care Executive Lead - Patient Safety, to oversee the government's patient safety agenda. In 2011, he was elected Chair of the Board of the Institute of Evaluative Sciences (ICES).
Honours
In 2008, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions to health care in Canada, notably for his work in developing an innovative, integrated medical care program for cancer patients and for his leadership in the area of infectious disease control". In 2009, he was made a member of the Order of Ontario in recognition for being "a leading researcher whose work has led to a better understanding of leukemia and other cancers". In 2006, he was made a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal and the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal.
References
1943 births
Living people
Canadian hematologists
Cancer researchers
Members of the Order of Canada
Members of the Order of Ontario
Physicians from Toronto
Academics from Toronto
Physicians from Ontario
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Toronto
Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Griebel | Michael Griebel is a German mathematician. His research focus lies on scientific computing, and he helped develop computer algorithms for sparse grids.
Griebel was director of the Institute for Numerical Simulation at the University of Bonn from 2003 to 2016. He is currently director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing in Sankt Augustin.
References
External links
Research group of Michael Griebel
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
Academic staff of the University of Bonn
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century German mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang%20Bibel | Leonhard Wolfgang Bibel (born on 28 October 1938 in Nuremberg) is a German computer scientist, mathematician and Professor emeritus at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt. He was one of the founders of the research area of artificial intelligence in Germany and Europe and has been named as one of the ten most important researchers in German artificial intelligence history by the Gesellschaft für Informatik. Bibel established the necessary institutions, conferences and scientific journals and promoted the necessary research programs to establish the field of artificial intelligence.
Bibel has worked in the fields of automated deduction, knowledge representation, architecture of deductive systems and inference, planning, learning, program synthesis, as well as on topics concerning the implications of AI technology for society. His most outstanding scientific contribution was his connection method, which allows logical conclusions to be drawn automatically in a very compact way. Bibel received the 2006 Herbrand Award for Distinguished Contributions to Automated Reasoning.
Life
Wolfgang Bibel was born in Nuremberg, Germany. Before his studies, he had to demonstrate industrial experience, which is why he completed an internship at a large power plant in Franken. Finally, in 1958, he began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Erlangen, majoring in physics. The first year of his studies was a challenge for Bibel, as the content was unknown to him, unlike his fellow students who came from science schools. During his semester breaks, he completed another internship at Siemens-Schuckertwerke. He received his intermediate diploma on May 4, 1961. From 1962 he completed part of his studies at the University of Heidelberg. With the change of his focus to mathematics, he moved to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), where he studied until 1964 and obtained his diploma in mathematics. His diploma thesis dealt with the proof of Remmert's theorem of illustration. From 1964 to 1966, he was then a scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, then headed by Werner Heisenberg. At the Max Planck Institute he met Peter Mittelstaedt, who offered him a scholarship and supervision. Mittelstaedt proposed to Bibel to work on the solution to the problem of reversal in scattering theory for his doctoral thesis but it later became known that the solution had long since been found. At the time, Mittelstaedt had not been aware of this. Later it turned out that Mittelstaedt had accepted a professorship at the University of Cologne. Bibel moved with Mittelstaedt to the University of Cologne, where he worked as a scientific assistant. The solution already found, the suddenly accepted professorship of Mittelstaedt and the distance to his girlfriend led to his resignation after a short time. In 1968 he received his doctorate with cum laude in mathematical logic under the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore%20Orioles%20Radio%20Network | The Baltimore Orioles Radio Network comprises 39 stations in five states and the District of Columbia.
Beginning in 2022, the Orioles' flagship station is once again WBAL/1090 AM and is joined by sister station WIYY/97.9 FM; a game conflict with the Baltimore Ravens sees one station carrying the Orioles, and the other the Ravens. The contract is for six years. Geoff Arnold, Brett Hollander, Melanie Newman and Scott Garceau are the Orioles' radio voices who are part of a rotation in which two broadcasters work each game. All 162 regular-season baseball games are currently broadcast throughout the network.
Affiliates
(Updated as of January 6, 2023.)
Delaware
District of Columbia
Maryland
North Carolina
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
References
Radio Business Report article on WBAL reacquiring Orioles broadcasts
Baltimore Orioles
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware | Peopleware is a term used to refer to one of the three core aspects of computer technology, the other two being hardware and software. Peopleware can refer to anything that has to do with the role of people in the development or use of computer software and hardware systems, including such issues as developer productivity, teamwork, group dynamics, the psychology of programming, project management, organizational factors, human interface design, and human–machine interaction.
Overview
The concept of peopleware in the software community covers a variety of aspects:
Development of productive persons
Organizational culture
Organizational learning
Development of productive teams, and
Modeling of human competencies.
History
The neologism, first used by Peter G. Neumann in 1977 and independently coined by Meilir Page-Jones in 1980, was popularized in the 1987 book Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister.
The term Peopleware also became the title and subject matter of a long-running series of columns by Larry Constantine in Software Development magazine, later compiled in book form.
References
Information technology consulting
Software project management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family%20Gay | "Family Gay" is the eighth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 8, 2009. In the episode, Peter becomes temporarily gay after participating in a medical drug test.
The episode was written by Richard Appel and directed by series regular Brian Iles. Seth Rogen provided a guest-voice as Peter under the effects of the "Seth Rogen gene" and Meredith Baxter provided a guest voice as herself. It received divided reviews from television sources and critics, in addition to receiving criticism from the Parents Television Council. "Family Gay", along with two other episodes, was nominated in the "Outstanding Comedy Series" category for the 2009 61st Primetime Emmy Awards.
Plot
While on his way to buy groceries, Peter instead buys a brain-damaged horse, which not only disturbs everyone but also causes $100,000 worth of damage when Peter enters it in a race and it goes on a rampage. Though the horse ends up dying of a fatal heart attack and Peter disposes of the body by flinging it into Mort Goldman's pharmacy, the Griffins are in debt for initial damages. In order to pay for the damage, Peter decides to participate in a series of medical drug tests, including one in which he is injected with an experimental gene that renders him gay.
Lois is initially upset that Peter is now gay, but she warms up to the change when he begins exhibiting stereotypical gay behaviors like shopping for clothes and cooking muffins, only to reconsider her stance when Peter rejects her sexual advances. Upon learning that the effects of the gene may be permanent, she decides to make the best of things when Peter suddenly leaves her for a man named Scott. Seeing Lois heartbroken and depressed, Stewie and Brian (who is hesitant due to his support of gay rights) attempt to bring Peter back to his normal self by kidnapping him and sending him to a straight camp for conversion therapy.
When Scott comes over looking for Peter, Brian admits his actions. Lois states that she is willing to accept Peter the way he is now and takes him out of the straight camp, telling him to go back to Scott. However, the effects of the gene are revealed to be temporary and the effects wear off right when Peter is in the middle of an orgy with Scott and nine other men. Peter returns to his family, and they agree to never speak of the incident again. The episode ends when Mort throws the horse through the Griffin's living room window yelling, "Take back your fucking horse!"
Production
"Family Gay" was written by at the time Executive Producer and future co-creator of the Family Guy spin-off The Cleveland Show, Richard Appel. This episode being his first and to date his only writing credit on the show. John Viener worked as the executive story editor for the episode. MacFarlane found a list of plot ideas from the third season that says "Peter goes gay" and he decided to make an episode with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cobalt | Open Cobalt is a free and open-source software platform for constructing, accessing, and sharing virtual worlds both on local area networks or across the Internet, with no need for centralized servers.
The technology makes it easy to create deeply collaborative and hyperlinked multi-user virtual workspaces, virtual exhibit spaces, and game-based learning and training environments that run on all major software operating systems. By using a peer-to-peer-based message passing protocol to reduce reliance on server infrastructures for support of basic in-world interactions across many participants, Open Cobalt makes it possible for people to hyperlink their virtual worlds via 3D portals to form a large distributed network of interconnected collaboration spaces. It also makes it possible for schools and other organizations to freely set up their own networks of public and private 3D virtual workspaces that feature integrated web browsing, voice chat, text chat, and access to remote desktop applications and services.
Open Cobalt uses the Squeak software environment, which is an open-source Smalltalk system freely available for Windows, Mac and Unix. As is true of almost any Smalltalk application, Open Cobalt has identical functioning on any supported platform. As a Smalltalk system, it can usually be updated while the system is running without needing a restart.
Expected uses
Open Cobalt is designed to enable the deployment of secure virtual world spaces that support education, research, and the activities of virtual organizations. By leveraging OpenGL-based 3D graphics, Open Cobalt supports highly scalable collaborative data visualization, virtual learning and problem solving environments, 3D wikis, online gaming environments termed Massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), and privately and securely maintained multi-user virtual environments.
The Open Cobalt application leverages peer-based messaging to eliminate the need for virtual world servers/commercial services and makes it very simple for end-users to create and securely share deeply collaborative virtual worlds that run on all major software operating systems. Users moving through and interacting within Open Cobalt worlds simultaneously participate and collaborate in a dynamic, concurrent environment where they can work, explore, and learn at a level of integration and extensibility not easily achieved through commercial virtual world technologies. With no licensing fees, users and developers can also freely build and share highly capable multi-user virtual workspaces, game-based learning and training environments, or even just create places to meet and interact with friends.
History
Open Cobalt is derived from the Croquet software development kit (SDK) that was publicly released under the MIT License by Hewlett-Packard and the Croquet Consortium in early 2007.
In early 2008, and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Julian Lombardi and Mark P. McCahill, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orodontidae | Orodontidae is an extinct family of cartilaginous fish that lived from the late Pennsylvanian to the Early Permian in what is now North America.
References
The Paleobiology Database
Mikko's Phylogeny Archive
Prehistoric cartilaginous fish families
Carboniferous cartilaginous fish
Permian cartilaginous fish
Carboniferous first appearances
Permian first appearances |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount%20Sinai%20Health%20System | The Mount Sinai Health System is a hospital network in New York City. It was formed in September 2013 by merging the operations of Continuum Health Partners and the Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The Health System is structured around eight hospital campuses, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON). The eight hospitals are: Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, Mount Sinai Hospital (including Kravis Children's Hospital), Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai Morningside (formerly Mount Sinai St. Luke's), Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai, and Mount Sinai South Nassau.
The Health System includes more than 6,600 primary and specialty care physicians and 13 ambulatory surgical centers. It has ambulatory practices throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Westchester County, and Long Island, along with more than 30 affiliated community health centers.
In the 2017–2018 fiscal year, the Health System employed more than 39,000 people and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai had 33 multidisciplinary research, educational, and clinical institutes. In addition, the Health System reported 3,360 beds among its seven hospitals as well as 136,528 inpatient admissions, 500,901 Emergency Department visits, and more than 14,700 babies delivered.
History
The Mount Sinai Health System began as a single hospital, founded in 1852 and opened in 1855 as the Jews' Hospital. In 1864, the hospital became formally nonsectarian and in 1866 changed its name to The Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital is one of the oldest and largest teaching hospitals in the U.S. The hospital campus is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, beside Central Park.
Educational expansion
In 1881, the Mount Sinai Hospital established a training school for doctors and nurses. Prior to its establishment it had been served by untrained male and female attendants. The school closed in September 1971 amid financial difficulties and a failed plan to affiliate with the City College of New York. The charter was taken up by The Mount Sinai Hospital School of Continuing Education in Nursing, founded in the fall of 1975.
In 1963 The Mount Sinai Hospital chartered The Mount Sinai School of Medicine, the first medical school to grow out of a non-university in more than 50 years. The school opened to students in 1968 and in 2012 changed its name to Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The school and the hospital together formed the Mount Sinai Health Center.
In 2013, Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing (PSON), founded in 1902, became the nursing school of the Mount Sinai Health System.
In 2016, the Mount Sinai Health System announced a partnership with Stony Brook Medicine, allowing for joint programs between the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University.
Mount Sinai Queens
In 1993, Astoria General Hos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSCD | CSCD may refer to:
Cascade and Columbia River Railroad
Chinese Science Citation Database
Congenital stromal corneal dystrophy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20L.%20Clarkson | Kenneth Lee Clarkson is an American computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry. He is a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center, and co-editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computational Geometry.
Biography
Clarkson received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1984, under the supervision of Andrew Yao. Until 2007 he worked for Bell Labs.
In 1998 he was co-chair of the ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry.
Research
Clarkson's primary research interests are in computational geometry.
His most highly cited paper, with Peter Shor, uses random sampling to devise optimal randomized algorithms for several problems of constructing geometric structures, following up on an earlier singly-authored paper by Clarkson on the same subject.
It includes algorithms for finding all intersections among a set of line segments in the plane in expected time , finding the diameter of a set of points in three dimensions in expected time , and constructing the convex hull of points in -dimensional Euclidean space in expected time . The same paper also uses random sampling to prove bounds in discrete geometry, and in particular to give tight bounds on the number of ≤k-sets.
Clarkson has also written highly cited papers on the complexity of arrangements of curves and surfaces, nearest neighbor search, motion planning, and low-dimensional linear programming and LP-type problems.
Awards and honors
In 2008 Clarkson was elected a Fellow of the ACM for his "contributions to computational geometry."
References
External links
Clarkson's web page at IBM
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Researchers in geometric algorithms
Stanford University alumni
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharpada | Aharpada is a small village in Khandatada Panchayata, Bhadrak district, Orissa, India with a population of nearly 1,000.
People
Most people in this village are literate and have sound living.
The Bengali community size is large in this village.
Sights
Some temples of this village are HariHat, Durga Puja committee, Shiva temple.
All of its roads are in good condition. There is some land under cultivation around the village.
Durga puja is celebrated by Bengali community every year.
Nearby villages
The famous Bhadrakali Temple is in a nearby village called Bhadrakali Sahi. Other nearby villages are Bental and Benipur.
References
External links
Villages in Bhadrak district |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Db4o | db4o (database for objects) was an embeddable open-source object database for Java and .NET developers. It was developed, commercially licensed and supported by Actian. In October 2014, Actian declined to continue to actively pursue and promote the commercial db4o product offering for new customers.
History
The term object-oriented database system dates back to around 1985, though the first research developments in this area started during the mid-1970s. The first commercial object database management systems were created in the early 1990s; these added the concept of native database driven persistence into the field of object-oriented development.
The second wave of growth was observed in the first decade of the 21st century, when object-oriented databases written completely in an object-oriented language appeared on the market. db4o is one of the examples of such systems written completely in Java and C#.
The db4o project was started in 2000 by chief architect Carl Rosenberger, shipping in 2001. It was used in enterprise and academic applications prior to its commercial announcement in 2004 by newly created private company Db4objects Inc.
In 2008 db4o was purchased by Versant corporation, which marketed it as open-source bi-licensed software: commercial and the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Overview
db4o represents an object-oriented database model. One of its main goals is to provide an easy and native interface to persistence for object oriented programming languages. Development with db4o database does not require a separate data model creation, the application's class model defines the structure of the data. db4o attempts to avoid the object/relational impedance mismatch by eliminating the relational layer from a software project. db4o is written in Java and .NET and provides the respective APIs. It can run on any operating system that supports Java or .NET. It is offered under licenses including GPL, the db4o Opensource Compatibility License (dOCL), and a commercial license for use in proprietary software.
Developers using relational databases can view db40 as a complementary tool. The db4o-RDBMS data exchange can be implemented using db4o Replication System (dRS). dRS can also be used for migration between object (db4o) and relational (RDBMS) technologies.
As an embedded database db4o can be run in application process. It is distributed as a library (jar/dll).
Features
One-line-of-code database
db4o contains a function to store any object:
objectContainer.store(new SomeClass());
SomeClass here does not require any interface implementations, annotations or attributes added. It can be any application class including third-party classes contained in referenced libraries.
All field objects (including collections) are saved automatically. Special cases can be handled through writing custom type handlers.
Embeddable
db4o is designed to be embedded in clients or other software components invisible to the end user. Thus, db4o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker | Conficker, also known as Downup, Downadup and Kido, is a computer worm targeting the Microsoft Windows operating system that was first detected in November 2008. It uses flaws in Windows OS software (MS08-067 / CVE-2008-4250) and dictionary attacks on administrator passwords to propagate while forming a botnet, and has been unusually difficult to counter because of its combined use of many advanced malware techniques. The Conficker worm infected millions of computers including government, business and home computers in over 190 countries, making it the largest known computer worm infection since the 2003 SQL Slammer worm.
Despite its wide propagation, the worm did not do much damage, perhaps because its authors – believed to have been Ukrainian citizens – did not dare use it because of the attention it drew. Four men were arrested, and one pled guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Prevalence
Estimates of the number of infected computers were difficult because the virus changed its propagation and update strategy from version to version. In January 2009, the estimated number of infected computers ranged from almost 9 million to 15 million. Microsoft has reported the total number of infected computers detected by its antimalware products has remained steady at around 1.7 million from mid-2010 to mid-2011. By mid-2015, the total number of infections had dropped to about 400,000, and it was estimated to be 500,000 in 2019.
History
Name
The origin of the name Conficker is thought to be a combination of the English term "configure" and the German pejorative term Ficker (engl. fucker). Microsoft analyst Joshua Phillips gives an alternative interpretation of the name, describing it as a rearrangement of portions of the domain name trafficconverter.biz (with the letter k, not found in the domain name, added as in "trafficker", to avoid a "soft" c sound) which was used by early versions of Conficker to download updates.
Discovery
The first variant of Conficker, discovered in early November 2008, propagated through the Internet by exploiting a vulnerability in a network service (MS08-067) on Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008 R2 Beta. While Windows 7 may have been affected by this vulnerability, the Windows 7 Beta was not publicly available until January 2009. Although Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band patch on October 23, 2008 to close the vulnerability, a large number of Windows PCs (estimated at 30%) remained unpatched as late as January 2009. A second variant of the virus, discovered in December 2008, added the ability to propagate over LANs through removable media and network shares. Researchers believe that these were decisive factors in allowing the virus to propagate quickly.
Impact in Europe
Intramar, the French Navy computer network, was infected with Conficker on 15 January 2009. The network was subsequently quarantined, forcing aircraft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Global%20Television%20Network%20personalities |
National Anchors/Hosts
Dawna Friesen – Global National
Farah Nasser – Global National
Mercedes Stephenson – The West Block
Carolyn Jarvis – Senior Investigative Correspondent
David Akin - chief political correspondent
Cheryl Hickey – Entertainment Tonight Canada
Jeff McArthur - The Morning Show
Carolyn MacKenzie - The Morning Show
Global BC
Anchors
Sonia Sunger - Global News Morning
Coleen Christie - Global News at Noon
Chris Gailus - Global News Hour at 6
Sophie Lui - Global News at 5 and Global News Hour at 6
Anne Drewa - Consumer Matters on the News Hour
Jordan Armstrong - Global News at 11
Jennifer Palma - Global News Morning and Global News at Noon - weekend
Sarah MacDonald - Global News Hour at 6 and Global News at 11 - weekend
Katelin Owsianski - Global News Morning - traffic
Weather
Mark Madryga - Chief Meteorologist
Kristi Gordon - Senior Meteorologist
Yvonne Schalle - Meteorologist
Steph Florian
Sports
Squire Barnes - Sports Director
Jay Janower
Barry Deley
Asa Rehman
Global Okanagan
Anchors
Kimberly Davidson - Global News at 5:30 and Global News at 6:30 - weekend
Claudia van Emmerik
Jamie Tawil
Victoria Femia
Global Edmonton
Anchors
Erin Chalmers - Global News Morning and Global News at Noon
Vinesh Pratap - Global News Morning and Global News at Noon
Carole Anne Devaney- Global News at 5 and Global News Hour at 6
Scott Roberts- Global News Hour at 6
Quinn Ohler - Global News at 11
Sarah Reid- Global News Hour at 6 and Global News at 11 - weekend
Daintre Christensen - Global News Morning - traffic
Ciara Yaschuk - Global News Morning - weather
Weather
Phil Darlington - Weather Specialist
Kevin O'Connell - Weather Specialist
Global Calgary
Anchors
Dallas Flexhaug - Global News Morning and Global News at Noon
Linda Olsen - Global News at 5 and Global News Hour at 6
Bindu Suri - Global News Morning - Weekend
Joel Senick- Global News Morning - Weekend
Jayme Doll - Global News Hour at 6 and Global News at 11 - weekend
Leslie Horton - Global News Morning - traffic
Weather
Paul Dunphy - Chief Weather Anchor
Jodi Hughes - Weather Anchor
Tiffany Lizee - Chief Meteorologist
Danielle Savoni - Meterorologist
Deb Matejick - Weather Anchor
Sports
Moses Woldu
Kami Kepke
Global Lethbridge
Anchors
Quinn Campbell - Global News at 5, Global News at 6 and Global News at 11
Weather
Paul Dunphy - Global Calgary
Global Saskatoon
Anchors
Marney Blunt - Global News at 5
Blake Lough - Global News at 6 (*Regina)
Antony Robart - Global News at 10 (*Toronto)
Crystal Goomansingh - Global News at 10 (*Toronto)
Angie Seth - Global News at 6 and Global News at 10 - weekend (*Toronto)
Weather
Peter Quinlan - Chief Meteorologist
Mike Arsenault - Weather Specialist
Tiffany Lizée - Meteorologist - Regina
Ross Hull - Meteorologist
Sports
Anthony Bruno
Asa Rehman
Megan Robinson
Global Regina
Anchors
Teri Fikowski - Global News Morning
Marney Blunt - Global News at 5
Whitney Stinson - Global News at 6 and Global News at Noon
Blake Lough - Focus Sa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News%20analytics | In trading strategy, news analysis refers to the measurement of the various qualitative and quantitative attributes of textual (unstructured data) news stories. Some of these attributes are: sentiment, relevance, and novelty. Expressing news stories as numbers and metadata permits the manipulation of everyday information in a mathematical and statistical way. This data is often used in financial markets as part of a trading strategy or by businesses to judge market sentiment and make better business decisions.
News analytics are usually derived through automated text analysis and applied to digital texts using elements from natural language processing and machine learning such as latent semantic analysis, support vector machines, "bag of words" among other techniques.
Applications and strategies
The application of sophisticated linguistic analysis to news and social media has grown from an area of research to mature product solutions since 2007. News analytics and news sentiment calculations are now routinely used by both buy-side and sell-side in alpha generation, trading execution, risk management, and market surveillance and compliance. There is however a good deal of variation in the quality, effectiveness and completeness of currently available solutions.
A large number of companies use news analysis to help them make better business decisions. Academic researchers have become interested in news analysis especially with regards to predicting stock price movements, volatility and traded volume. Provided a set of values such as sentiment and relevance as well as the frequency of news arrivals, it is possible to construct news sentiment scores for multiple asset classes such as equities, Forex, fixed income, and commodities. Sentiment scores can be constructed at various horizons to meet the different needs and objectives of high and low frequency trading strategies, whilst characteristics such as direction and volatility of asset returns as well as the traded volume may be addressed more directly via the construction of tailor-made sentiment scores. Scores are generally constructed as a range of values. For instance, values may range between 0 and 100, where values above and below 50 convey positive and negative sentiment, respectively. Based on such sentiment scores, it should be possible to generate a set of strategies useful for instance within investing, hedging, and order execution.
Absolute return strategies
The objective of absolute return strategies is absolute (positive) returns regardless of the direction of the financial market. To meet this objective, such strategies typically involve opportunistic long and short positions in selected instruments with zero or limited market exposure. In statistical terms, absolute return strategies should have very low correlation with the market return. Typically, hedge funds tend to employ absolute return strategies. Below, a few examples show how news analysis can be applied in the absolu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marymount%20International%20School%2C%20Paris | Marymount International School Paris in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France is an international school in the Paris metropolitan area and is part of the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary network of Marymount schools.
The history of Marymount Paris can be traced back to 1846 when Father Jean Gailhac founded an order of Sisters in Béziers in the south of France. The objective, considered a progressive idea at that time, was the education of young women. Schools eventually opened in Portugal, England, Ireland and the United States.
When Marymount College was opened in Tarrytown, New York in 1908, the founder's new vision was to educate from an international perspective. Study abroad centers were then established in London, Paris and Rome. Marymount Paris opened on September 30, 1923 in town of Neuilly-sur-Seine, just outside Paris.
Today, Marymount International School Paris provides an international curriculum, in English and French, to students aged 2 to 14.
Notable alumni
Famous alumni include Chicago Bulls player Joakim Noah and Anna-Catherine Hartley (also known as Uffie), singer on the French label Ed Banger Records and James Thiérrée (actor, performer, artist and grandson of Charlie Chaplin).
References
American international schools in France
Educational institutions established in 1846
International schools in Île-de-France
Schools in Hauts-de-Seine
1846 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/METeOR | METeOR (Metadata Online Registry), Australia’s repository for national metadata standards for health, housing and community services statistics and information. METeOR is a Metadata registry based on the 2003 version of the ISO/IEC 11179 Information technology - Metadata registries standard. The development of METeOR was commissioned by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare to store, manage and disseminate metadata in the Australian health, community services and housing assistance sectors. Development of METeOR was performed by Aggmedia and Synop, and based on the open-source Sytadel CMS.
In August 2018, the AIHW entered an agreement with the CSIRO for the supply of a new platform for the METeOR registry, this was due to be delivered in 2020. As of August 2020, the AIHW has committed to replacing METeOR with an internally developed solution.
On 29 April 2022, the new METEOR platform was launched. By launch, over AUD$1.7 million was spent between July 2019 and June 2022 on the update of the Meteor platform, with $771,000 spent during 2021 on internal software development, and a further $267,000 spent on additional work in-progress in previous years.
Awards
In 2011, the AIHW won a FutureGov 2011 international award for innovation and modernisation.
References
External links
METeOR web site
See also
Aristotle Metadata Registry (a commercial ISO/IEC 11179 metadata registry)
Metadata
Metadata registry
ISO/IEC 11179
Content management system
Web content management system
XML
Commonwealth Government agencies of Australia
Metadata registry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20%28franchise%29 | Madagascar is an American computer-animated media franchise owned and produced by DreamWorks Animation. The voices of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith are featured in the films. It began with the 2005 film Madagascar, the 2008 sequel Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and the third film Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted in 2012. A spin off film featuring the penguins, titled Penguins of Madagascar, was released in 2014. A fourth film, Madagascar 4, was announced for 2018, but has since been removed from its schedule due to the studio's restructuring.
The overall plot through the series follows the adventures of four anthropomorphic Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa (to Madagascar initially). Now they must struggle to survive while attempting to return to New York City with the help of a crafty cadre of penguins and with many other characters along the way. The franchise's films have received mixed-to-positive critical reviews.
Films
Main films
Madagascar (2005)
Madagascar is a 2005 computer animated comedy film and the first film in the series. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, the film tells the story of four Central Park Zoo animals: Alex the lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith). These animals have spent their lives in comfortable captivity and are unexpectedly shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar.
The film was a commercial success, grossing over $532 million worldwide.
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a 2008 computer animated comedy/adventure film and the sequel to the 2005 film Madagascar. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, the film continues the adventures of Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria, who try to fly back to New York, but they crash-land in Africa, where Alex is reunited with his parents Zuba (Bernie Mac) and Florrie (Sherri Shepherd). However, a lion named Makunga (Alec Baldwin) is planning to overthrow Zuba and become alpha lion.
The film grossed over $603 million worldwide, which is higher than its predecessor.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is a 2012 computer animated comedy film, and the third installment in the series, directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, along with Conrad Vernon. Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still struggling to get home to New York. This time, their journey takes them to Europe where they purchase a failing traveling circus as they become close friends with the staff like Stefano the sea lion (Martin Short), Vitaly the tiger (Bryan Cranston), Gia the jaguar (Jessica Chastain) and Sonya the bear (Frank Welker), King Julien's (Sacha Baron Cohen) true love. Together, they spectacularly revitalize the business even as the fanatical Monaco Animal Control officer Captain Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence%20L.%20%22Ben%22%20Coates | Clarence Leroy “Ben” Coates (November 5, 1923 – October 25, 2000) was an American computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators.
Early life
He was born November 5, 1923, in Hastings, Nebraska, the son of Clarence Leroy Coates and Mildred Creighton. He earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Kansas in 1944. After completing his bachelor's degree, he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1944–1946. He then returned to the University of Kansas to obtain his master's degree in electrical engineering in 1948.
Professional career
He received his doctorate from the University of Illinois in 1953. He then taught electrical engineering and computer science at the universities of Illinois, Kansas and UT Austin and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before going to Purdue. He directed the Electronics Research Center and supervised the engineering computer facilities at Texas and started a graduate program in information sciences. At Illinois, he directed the Coordinated Sciences Laboratory, an interdisciplinary lab focused on computers, information processing and electronics.
He was a research scientist at the General Electric Research Laboratory in New York City from 1956–63 and held five patents involving waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators on computer chips. He was named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1974 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1980.
Coates joined the faculty at Purdue University in 1973 as head of the School of Electrical Engineering (now Electrical and Computer Engineering) where, for the next decade, he emphasized computer education and the development of computing facilities. He was a driving force behind the high performance computing and networking plan that led to the creation of the Engineering Computer Network (ECN) serving all of Purdue's engineering schools. He also initiated a degree program in computer engineering at Purdue. He returned to teaching in the computer field full-time in 1983 before retiring in 1988.
Ben Coates died in Osprey, Florida on October 25, 2000, at age 76. In 2009, Purdue named the Coates supercomputing cluster, after him, continuing a practice of naming the machines for prominent figures in the history of computing at the university, which began with Purdue's Steele cluster. Like Steele, Rossman and Carter, Coates is part of the DiaGrid distributed computing network. Coates will be operated by Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP), the university's central information technology organization, and the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, ITaP's research and discovery arm.
References
http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/userinfo/resources/coates/
http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/userinfo/resources/coates/bio.cfm
https://engineering.purdue.edu/ECE/People/Alumni/OECE/1993/coates.whtml
http://www.indyst |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20the%20Test%20Was%20Won | "How the Test Was Won" is the eleventh episode of the twentieth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 1, 2009. It was written by Michael Price and directed by Lance Kramer. The episode features cultural references to the television shows The Honeymooners, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady Bunch, and Cheers, and the film Footloose.
Since airing, the episode received mostly mixed reviews from television critics.
Plot
The episode starts as Marge and Homer celebrate the start of the new year of school (although Bart and Lisa's classes remain the same).
Bart is informed that he received a perfect score on a practice test for the upcoming Vice President's Assessment Test, by writing "Slurp My Snot" across his page. This enables him to attend a pizza party by helicopter. However, it all proves to be a ship-of-fools ruse to purge the school of all low-achievers. Bart actually failed the test, and the helicopter is a disguised school bus. He, Nelson, Ralph, Kearney, Dolph, and Jimbo are driven to Capital City by Otto, along with Principal Skinner, who was pushed on board the bus by Superintendent Chalmers for the same reasons as the other passengers.
On the way, Ralph stops for a bathroom break, and the bus is disassembled and stolen by vandals (while Otto is still sitting in it). The group attempts to walk the rest of the way, but they lose Ralph on a garbage barge. Skinner signals for a slingshot cargo ship to rescue Ralph with its crane, but he accidentally stuns the driver. Skinner rescues Ralph himself by jumping on board the Shipping Container hoisted by the crane and using the law of conservation of angular momentum. Eventually the container rotates into a position that allows Skinner, the boys, and Otto to run along its top and jump onto the barge. As it turns out, the barge is headed towards Springfield Elementary School. The boys now believe that education is impressive due to Skinner's saving the day, and so Skinner reads Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the boys until they arrive, which they enjoy.
At school, Lisa is unable to focus on the test, as the thought of Bart being smarter torments her. When the test ends, she has not answered a single question, along with the fact that the test is nearly impossible (the choices to a question's answer all mean the same thing, and there is a penalty for guessing). However, Skinner returns just in time to cancel the test and lift the school's "ban on dancing".
Meanwhile, Homer is late making an insurance payment, and will not be insured until 3:00 PM, so he cannot hurt himself until then. Images of injuries flood his mind when he gets home, envisioning Marge's book club being killed by a series of freak accidents (and Marge making out with Lindsey Naegle). He has to keep the entire book club safe while he is still uninsured, but ends up throwing a knife in Mr. Burns' head at 3:01 as he randomly walks on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rednecks%20and%20Broomsticks | "Rednecks and Broomsticks" is the seventh episode in the twenty-first season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on November 29, 2009. In the episode, Lisa befriends three teenaged Wiccans after getting lost in the woods during a game of hide-and-seek, and must clear her new friends' names when they are accused of cursing the townspeople with their supposed witchcraft. Meanwhile, Homer befriends Cletus after learning that he and his friends make their own moonshine.
The episode was written by Kevin Curran, and directed by Bob Anderson and Rob Oliver.
In its original airing, the episode had an estimated 9 million viewers and received a Nielsen rating of 4.2/10.
The episode also received generally positive reviews from critics.
Plot
The Simpson family becomes helplessly stuck in traffic while returning from a ski vacation. To pass the time, Bart, Lisa and Maggie spend hours playing the repetitive and noisy game "Bonk-It", much to Marge and Homer's annoyance. Homer loses his patience and throws the toy out the window, where it is crushed by passing vehicles. By a twist of fate, another father throws his children's Bonk-It out of a car window, and it lands in the hands of the Simpson children.
Eventually the batteries run out, but Bart plugs the toy into the car's cigarette lighter, causing it to play even faster. His patience long gone, Homer smashes the Bonk-It with his foot, but it becomes lodged under the brake pedal. He loses control of the vehicle, accidentally hits a deer reminiscent of Bambi and ends up on a frozen lake, where a mysterious person drags them out. When the family wakes up, they discover that the mysterious person who saved them was Cletus. Cletus tells Homer about moonshine, and invites him to taste the latest batch. Homer impresses Cletus and his hillbilly friends with his moonshine-tasting skills and is invited to be the judge of a moonshine competition.
Meanwhile, Bart and Cletus's sons play with a box of grenades that Cletus's wife Brandine, a former soldier, had brought back from Iraq, and Lisa plays hide and seek with Cletus's daughters. They do not find her, and Lisa gets lost in the woods. Trying to find her way back, she encounters three girls who are Wiccans, practicing their full moon Esbat.
Lisa is initially skeptical of their ability to cast spells, but becomes interested after she happens to mention in the witches' Circle that she wishes she did not have to hand in her unfinished art project, and her wish comes true when Miss Hoover is taken ill with a stomach virus. The girls ask Lisa to join their coven and she accepts, but on the night of Lisa's induction, Chief Wiggum turns up after being tipped off by Ned Flanders and arrests the three girls on suspicion of witchcraft. Outside the courtroom, the girls say a chant, asking their goddess to 'show their persecutors that they are blind'. Many of the townspeople then suddenly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond%20%28software%29 | Desmond is a software package developed at D. E. Shaw Research to perform high-speed molecular dynamics simulations of biological systems on conventional computer clusters. The code uses novel parallel algorithms and numerical methods to achieve high performance on platforms containing multiple processors, but may also be executed on a single computer.
The core and source code are available at no cost for non-commercial use by universities and other not-for-profit research institutions, and have been used in the Folding@home distributed computing project. Desmond is available as commercial software through Schrödinger, Inc.
Molecular dynamics program
Desmond supports algorithms typically used to perform fast and accurate molecular dynamics. Long-range electrostatic energy and forces can be calculated using particle mesh Ewald-based methods. Constraints can be enforced using the M-SHAKE algorithm. These methods can be used together with time-scale splitting (RESPA-based) integration schemes.
Desmond can compute energies and forces for many standard fixed-charged force fields used in biomolecular simulations, and is also compatible with polarizable force fields based on the Drude formalism. A variety of integrators and support for various ensembles have been implemented in the code, including methods for temperature control (Andersen, Nosé-Hoover, and Langevin) and pressure control (Berendsen, Martyna-Tobias-Klein, and Langevin). The code also supports methods for restraining atomic positions and molecular configurations; allows simulations to be carried out using a variety of periodic cell configurations; and has facilities for accurate checkpointing and restart.
Desmond can also be used to perform absolute and relative free energy calculations (e.g., free energy perturbation). Other simulation methods (such as replica exchange) are supported through a plug-in-based infrastructure, which also allows users to develop their own simulation algorithms and models.
Desmond is also available in a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated version that is about 60-80 times faster than the central processing unit (CPU) version.
Related software tools
Along with the molecular dynamics program, the Desmond software also includes tools for minimizing and energy analysis, both of which can be run efficiently in a parallel environment.
Force fields parameters can be assigned using a template-based parameter assignment tool called Viparr. It currently supports several versions of the CHARMM, Amber and OPLS force fields, and a range of different water models.
Desmond is integrated with a molecular modeling environment (Maestro, developed by Schrödinger, Inc.) for setting up simulations of biological and chemical systems, and is compatible with Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) for trajectory viewing and analysis.
See also
D. E. Shaw Research
Folding@home
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Metadynamics
Molecular design software
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Realty | Digital Realty (Digital Realty Trust, Inc.) is a real estate investment trust that owns, operates and invests in carrier-neutral data centers across the world. The company brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection services.
PlatformDIGITAL, the company’s global data center platform, provides a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges.
As of June 2023, Digital Realty provides a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. The company operates in the following regions: the Americas, EMEA, and Asia Pacific.
Digital Realty's largest operating areas are: Northern Virginia, Dallas, Chicago, New York State, Silicon Valley, and London.
In 2020, Digital Realty joined the Science-Based Target Initiative, committing to reducing its Scope 1 and 2 emissions by 68% and Scope 3 emissions by 24% by 2030 against a 2018 baseline. The company is also a signatory of the Climate Neutral Data Center Pact, a self-regulatory initiative – drawn up in collaboration with the European Data Center Association (EUDCA) and Cloud Infrastructure Services Provider in Europe (CISPE) – designed to make the industry climate neutral by 2030.
In July 2023, Digital Realty received a Certificate of Conformity, certifying its adherence to the Self-Regulatory Initiatives (‘SRIs’) set out by the Pact in Europe.
Digital Realty is a leading purchaser of renewable energy in the industry and is making considerable efforts to make the switch to renewable power across its entire portfolio. 126 data centers globally are matched with renewable energy, with 100% renewable energy powering its European portfolio and U.S. colocation data centers. Digital Realty has 1 GW of wind and solar projects under contract in U.S. states including Texas, Illinois, North Carolina, Oregon, Arizona and Virginia. Its renewable portfolio resulted in 1.8 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions (MtCO2e) avoided in 2022, which is comparable to the annual electricity needs of 361,800 U.S. homes. The company has also installed 1.8 MW of solar panels at properties in Kenya, Greece, Switzerland, and South Korea.
History
The company was formed in 2004 by GI Partners, which contributed 21 data centers that it acquired through bankruptcy auctions and from distressed companies at a 20–40% discount to replacement cost.
On November 4, 2004, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. At that time, the company owned 23 properties comprising 5.6 million square feet.
In August 2006, the company acquired a property in Phoenix, Arizona for $175 million.
By March 2007, GI Partners had sold all of its shares in the company.
In January 2010, the company acquired three data centers in Massachusetts and Connecticut for $375 million.
In Jan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptum%20Technologies | Aptum Technologies, formerly Cogeco Peer 1, is a provider of services for data centers and cloud computing. The company is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
History
Peer 1 Network Enterprises was founded in 1996 in Vancover, British Columbia, and funded in 2003.
In 2004, Peer 1 acquired ServerBeach for about US$7.5 million. ServerBeach was based in San Antonio, Texas, founded in January 2003 by Rackspace co-founder Richard Yoo.
ServerBeach had hosted video site YouTube until December 2007.
In 2005, Peer 1 acquired Interland, Inc. assets in the USA for about US$14 million, and an investment of US$ 36 million, led by Celerity Partners, of Menlo Park, California.
By 2010 Peer 1 was doing business as Peer 1 Hosting, listed as a public company on the Toronto Stock Exchange with symbol PIX, reporting yearly revenues of about CDN$98 million.
In 2012, Peer 1 acquired UK hosting provider NetBenefit for 25 million pounds, from Group NBT Limited.
Cogeco Cable purchased Peer 1 Hosting in December, 2012.
It formed Cogeco Peer 1 specializing in managed hosting, dedicated servers, cloud services and colocation.
On February 27, 2019, Cogeco agreed to sell Cogeco Peer 1 Inc. to the investment firm Digital Colony. The deal closed on May 1, 2019.
In August, 2019, Cogeco Peer 1 changed its name to Aptum Technologies. Susan Bowen was chief executive at the time.
The Canadian co-location business was sold to eStruxture in May, 2021.
In June, 2021, the parent of Digital Colony, Colony Capital, based in Boca Raton, Florida, announced it would rebrand itself to be called DigitalBridge.
In January,2023, Aptum acquired CloudOps, a Montreal, Canada-based cloud consulting, managed services and software company focused on open source, cloud native platforms, networking and DevOps.
References
External links
Cogeco
Companies formerly listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Internet hosting
Cloud computing providers
Cloud platforms
Cloud infrastructure
Computer security
Information technology companies of Canada
Information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remapping | Remapping may refer to:
Tuning an engine for better performance or fuel efficiency by remapping the Engine control unit
Redefining keys on a keyboard, for example Gateway_AnyKey#Programming
Sector remapping, the automatic replacement of bad sectors by good ones in a hard disk drive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wknd%40stv | wknd@stv was a short-lived children's programming strand on Scottish television channel, STV. The block aired on Saturdays and Sundays, usually starting at 9:25am (the first ever edition began at 9:55am). It began on Saturday 17 January 2009 with a three-hour edition. The majority of editions were one to two hours in length.
The first series was originally scheduled to run for twelve weeks (to Sunday 12 April 2009), but STV subsequently decided to extend the run, which eventually ended on 21 June, just before the Scottish school summer holidays. A second series of wknd@stv began on Saturday 15 August 2009; this ran for six weeks, ending on 20 September 2009.
Featured programming consisted of cartoons, live-action drama/comedy and gameshows, principally archive output produced or co-produced by Scottish/Grampian (formerly SMG Productions or Scottish Television Enterprises); there was also some imported programming to which STV holds the rights, such as Flying Rhino Junior High, which STV co-produced prior to the launch of wknd@stv.
At the time of wknd@stv launching, the ITV network was not airing children's programming on weekend mornings. A networked CITV block was reintroduced in March and April 2009 and again from September 2009; STV prioritised their own show, such that in weeks where both wknd@stv and the CITV block were running, STV would screen their strand first and timeshift the CITV block to run afterwards; if there was not room to do this then the CITV block would be omitted completely in favour of the local show. In several weeks where the structure of the ITV network schedule did not permit STV to opt out and/or timeshift networked content on Sundays, only a Saturday edition would run.
The links were produced in the 16:9 widescreen format. Some of the insert programming was only available in the older 4:3 format; this is cropped to be screened in the compromise 14:9 format with coloured bars at the sides of the screen to make up the difference. Shows made in 16:9 are not cropped.
The method by which the programme links were produced and broadcast – a string of programmes interlaced with 'recorded-as-live' links, clips, skits and short features – is similar to that employed by Channel 4's T4 strand.
In 2015, STV city channels STV Glasgow and STV Edinburgh began a new children's strand, "Weans' World", which re-broadcast most of the programmes shown as part of wknd@stv. The new strand doesn't feature presenters – shows are introduced by the continuity announcer, in line with all other programmes on the channels. With the merger of the STV City channels into the singular STV2 in 2017 and subsequent closure one year later, this new strand has ceased.
Presenters
The programme was presented by two Scottish teenagers, Kimberley Neill ('Kim') and Jonathon Pender ('Johnny').
Until 5 April 2009, Kim and Johnny would present on Saturdays only, with another young duo, Caitlin Murphy and Nathan Byrne, presenting on Sundays. However, from t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATV | MATV may refer to:
Midlands Asian Television, a broadcaster in Leicester, England
MAtv, a network of community channels in Quebec
Satellite Master Antenna Television, a system by which (usually) one entire large building is fed from one common set of antennas
Oshkosh M-ATV, a military vehicle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%207%20editions | Windows 7, a major release of the Microsoft Windows operating system, has been released in several editions since its original release in 2009. Only Home Premium, Professional, and Ultimate were widely available at retailers. The other editions focus on other markets, such as the software development world or enterprise use. All editions support 32-bit IA-32 CPUs and all editions except Starter support 64-bit x64 CPUs. 64-bit installation media are not included in Home-Basic edition packages, but can be obtained separately from Windows.
According to Microsoft, the features for all editions of Windows 7 are stored on the machine, regardless of which edition is in use. Users who wish to upgrade to an edition of Windows 7 with more features were able to use Windows Anytime Upgrade to purchase the upgrade and to unlock the features of those editions, until it was discontinued in 2015. Microsoft announced Windows 7 pricing information for some editions on June 25, 2009, and Windows Anytime Upgrade and Family Pack pricing on July 31, 2009.
Main editions
Mainstream support for all Windows 7 editions ended on January 13, 2015, and extended support ended on January 14, 2020. After that, the operating system ceased receiving further support. Professional and Enterprise volume licensed editions had paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) available until at most January 10, 2023. Since October 31, 2013, Windows 7 is no longer available in retail, except for remaining stocks of the preinstalled Professional edition, which was officially discontinued on October 31, 2016.
Windows 7 Starter is the edition of Windows 7 that contains the fewest features. It is only available in a 32-bit version and does not include the Windows Aero theme. The desktop wallpaper and visual styles (Windows 7 Basic) are not user-changeable. In the release candidate versions of Windows 7, Microsoft intended to restrict users of this edition to running three simultaneous programs, but this limitation was dropped in the final release. This edition does not support more than 2 GB of RAM.
This edition was available pre-installed on computers, especially netbooks or Windows Tablets, through system integrators or computer manufacturers using OEM licenses.
Windows 7 Home Basic was available in "emerging markets", in 141 countries. Some Windows Aero options are excluded along with several new features. This edition is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions and supports up to 8 GB of RAM. Home Basic, along with other editions sold in emerging markets, includes geographical activation restriction, which requires users to activate Windows within a certain region or country.
This edition contains features aimed at the home market segment, such as Windows Media Center, Windows Aero and multi-touch support. It was available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions.
This edition is targeted towards enthusiasts, small-business users, and schools. It includes all the features of Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20POWER%20%28software%29 | POWER was an IBM operating system enhancement package that provided spooling facilities for the IBM System/360 running DOS/360 or retrofitted with modified DOS/360. Upgrades, POWER/VS and POWER/VSE were available for and the IBM System/370 running DOS/VS and DOS/VSE respectively. POWER is an acronym for Priority Output Writers, Execution processors and input Readers.
The product
POWER was an operating system enhancement available for DOS/360, DOS/VS, and DOS/VSE, and came packaged with some third party DOS-based operating systems. International Business Machines released POWER in 1969 following a public introduction at the IBM Wall Street Data Center.
It 'spooled' (queued) printer and card data, freeing programs from being dependent upon the speed of printers or punched card equipment.
POWER competed with non-IBM products, namely DataCorp's The Spooler and SDI's GRASP. Unlike the other products, POWER required a dedicated partition.
It allowed a single printer (1403/2311), punch (2520, 2540) or reader (2540, 2501) to be shared by two or more processing partitions. Input data was asynchronously loaded and directed to the proper partition by Job class. Output was directed to disk and stored there - then directed to a printer or punch by the writer type, (PRT, PUN), Job Class, Priority and form code. This was provided in PRT and PUN control cards in the input stream. Once the operator put the proper form in the printer/punch and told power to start (G PUN or G PRT on the console) the device would continue until no more output of that type was available. When a new form was encountered it would alert the operator to change forms and wait for the next go command.
Platforms
The product ran on IBM systems from the S/360 Model 30 through larger machines. Generally the smaller machines that had less than 128K or Core memory (would be called RAM today but were actually magnetic cores strung on wire matrices) did not have the ability to run POWER. POWER/VS ran well on the later S/370 series - usually on the Models 135 and 145 and later on the 4331 and 4341.
Software
The product ran under several DOS-related platforms:
DOS/360
DOS/VS
DOS/VSE
DOS/360 clones, 3rd party or modified
Hardware
The hardware platforms included:
IBM/360 which ran POWER
IBM/370 which ran POWER/VS
and clones which included:
Amdahl
Fujitsu
Hitachi
Magnuson
RCA
Siemens
See also
Job entry control language
References
Power
Computer printing
Remote job entry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly%20Rowe | Holly Rowe (born June 16, 1966) is an American sports telecaster working for the ESPN sports television network. Rowe is a sideline reporter for college football and basketball games which are telecast on ESPN. Rowe made Utah Jazz history on October 22, 2021 as the team’s first female color commentator in a game against the Sacramento Kings.
Early life and career
After graduating from Woods Cross High School in Woods Cross, Utah in 1984, Rowe attended Brigham Young University. At BYU, she was the news anchor for the campus TV station, KBYU-TV. Although Rowe attended BYU for two years, she did not graduate. During this period, she also spent time as a sportswriter for the Daily Utah Chronicle and the Davis County Clipper. She later returned to school and earned a broadcast journalism degree in 1991 from the University of Utah. Right after college (1991–1992), she interned at CBS Sports.
Broadcasting career
ESPN
Rowe has been with ESPN since August 1998 as a full-time college football sideline reporter. In that capacity, she has been a part of numerous regular season games and post-season bowl games.
Before working full-time as a college football sideline reporter, she served as a part-time sideline reporter in certain ESPN broadcasts during the course of 1997. (Prior to that, with ABC Sports, in both 1995 and 1996.)
With ESPN, Rowe has also been a part of broadcasting women's college basketball games, and women's college volleyball (both since 1998; generally in a play-by-play capacity as opposed to her college football sideline duties). Other broadcasts that Rowe has been a part of during her time at ESPN include play-by-play for Women's World Cup matches, coverage of the Running of the Bulls, coverage of swimming, and broadcasts of track and field events.
Being a woman in the sports broadcasting industry, Rowe has been profiled by other media and news organizations.
She is the lead sideline reporter for ESPN's coverage of Saturday-night college football (including the College Football Playoff), women's college basketball (including the NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament), the WNBA and playoffs, the Women's College World Series and NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament, and also works on men's college basketball and NBA.
Other work
Before and during her time with ESPN, Rowe has worked with several other broadcast organizations. Rowe has been a broadcaster for women's college basketball games broadcast by Fox Sports since she started in 1993. Rowe also worked as an analyst for the WNBA’s Utah Starzz.
The Blue & White Sports Network in Provo, Utah employs Rowe in many of their broadcasts, and is the network which syndicates several Western Athletic Conference (WAC) sporting events. In addition, she has held a position on the team at CBS which produces the men's Final Four. Rowe joined the Utah Jazz broadcast team in 2021 as an analyst.
References
External links
Rowe ESPN bio
Daily Oklahoman article on Rowe
Videos |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insert%20Subscriber%20Data | Insert Subscriber Data is a Subscriber Data Handling procedure in LTE services. This procedure is used to manage the subscription data of subscriber in MME and SGSN over S6a/S6d interface. IDR is invoked by Home Subscriber Server for subscription data handling.
IDR is MAP subscriber management service utilized in GSM/UMTS networks, standardized by 3GPP, and defined in the MAP specification, TS 29.002. This service is used to provide specific subscriber data in the following environments: by an HLR to update a VLR, by an HLR to update a SGSN, and by an HSS to update a MME via IWF in an EPS. This service is primarily used by the home subscriber management entity to update the serving subscriber management entity when there is either a change in a subscriber parameter, or upon a location updating of the subscriber.
Parameters
As of specification released December 2008, the following parameters are supported by the Insert Subscriber Data service:
Invoke Id
IMSI
MSISDN
Category
Subscriber Status
Bearer service List
Teleservice List
Forwarding information List
Call barring information List
CUG information List
SS-Data List
eMLPP Subscription Data
MC-Subscription Data
Operator Determined Barring General data
Operator Determined Barring HPLMN data
Roaming Restriction Due To Unsupported Feature
Regional Subscription Data
VLR CAMEL Subscription Info
Voice Broadcast Data
Voice Group Call Data
Network access mode
GPRS Subscription Data
EPS Subscription Data
Roaming Restricted In SGSN/MME Due To Unsupported Feature
North American Equal Access preferred Carrier Id List
SGSN CAMEL Subscription Info
LSA Information
IST Alert Timer
SS-Code List
LMU Identifier
LCS Information
CS Allocation/Retention priority
Super-Charger Supported In HLR
Subscribed Charging Characteristics
Access Restriction Data
ICS Indicator
CSG Subscription Data
Regional Subscription Response
Supported CAMEL Phases
Offered CAMEL 4 CSIs
Supported Features
References
3GPP standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Mission | Last Mission may refer to
The Last Mission, 1950 Greek movie directed by Nikos Tsiforos
Last Mission (arcade game), 1986 arcade game by Data East
The Last Mission (video game), 1987 video game by Opera Soft
The Last Mission (documentary), a documentary about the last hours before the Japanese surrender in World War II
The Last Mission (novel), a novel by Harry Mazer about an underage USAAC soldier in World War II
Hunter × Hunter: The Last Mission, a 2013 animated film based on the Hunter × Hunter series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann%20Boemus | Johann Boemus (Bohm, Bohemus) ( 1485–1535) was a German humanist, canon of Ulm Minster, traveller, and Hebraist. He was compiler and author of the first ethnographic compendium of the Early Modern period in Europe.
His Omnium Gentium Mores, Leges et Ritus was published in 1520. It was reprinted multiple times in the sixteenth century, including a 1571 edition. There were later editions, accumulating related treatises by other scholars. It influenced Sebastian Muenster's Cosmography, and helped inspire the Hauptchronik of Sebastian Franck. It helped set the stage for subsequent investigations of the connections of law to culture, including Paul Henri Mallett's Northern Antiquities (1770).
There were English translations by William Waterman (1555) (The Fardle of Facions) and Edward Aston, The Manners, Lawes and Customs of all Nations (London: G. Eld, 1611). This book is cited as the first scientific approach to ethnography available in English.
Notes
1485 births
1535 deaths
German Renaissance humanists
Christian Hebraists
German male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Dinouart | Joseph Antoine Toussaint Dinouart (November 1, 1716 – April 23, 1786) was a preacher, polemicist, compiler of sacred learning, and apologist for French feminism.
Born in Amiens, he was ordained as a priest in there in 1740. In his youth, he showed a talent for Latin poetry, but soon neglected this in favor of his religious studies. After writing a short essay on women's rights, he had a falling out with his bishop and moved to Paris, where he joined the Saint-Eustache parish. He soon left, however, to tutor the son of a police lieutenant. This position gave him a stable yearly income and allowed Dinouart to devote himself to the study of literature.
In 1760, he founded the Journal ecclésiastique, which he edited until his death. The collected work of this journal numbers more than 100 volumes. It contains extracts from sermons, treatises on morality and piety, and research on ecclesiastical law and councils.
Written works
1. Lettre à l'abbé Gouget, au sujet des hymnes de Santeuil, adoptées dans le nouveau Bréviaire
2. Le Triomphe du sexe
3. Éloquence du corps dans le ministère de la chaire
4. Manuel des pasteurs
5. Exercitium diurnum, seu Manuale precum in usum et gratiam sacerdotum ; nunc denuo editum a sacerdote gallicano exsule
Translations
Father Dinouart made numerous translations from Latin, including a translation of Cicero.
Works edited
Dinouart served as the editor or compiler of many books and journals. Among these was L'art de se taire, principalement en matière de religion, a nearly perfection transcription of an earlier anonymous work entitled Conduite pour se taire et pour parler, principalement en matière de religion. This was re-issued in Paris in 1987.
References
"Joseph Antoine Toussaint Dinouart." Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne : histoire par ordre alphabétique de la vie publique et privée de tous les hommes avec la collaboration de plus de 300 savants et littérateurs français ou étrangers, Ed. Louis-Gabriel Michaud. 1843–1865.
see also :fr:Joseph Antoine Toussaint Dinouart
1716 births
1786 deaths
Apologetics
French feminists
18th-century French Roman Catholic priests
Male feminists
Proponents of Christian feminism
French male writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper%20%28film%29 | Casper is a 1995 American live-action/computer animated supernatural comedy-drama film directed by Brad Silberling, in his feature film directorial debut, based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character Casper the Friendly Ghost created by Seymour Reit and Joe Oriolo. The film stars Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman, Cathy Moriarty and Eric Idle, with voice talents of Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey, Brad Garrett and the film introduction of Malachi Pearson in the title role.
The film makes extensive use of computer-generated imagery to create the ghosts, and it is the first feature film to have a fully CGI character in the lead role. It goes for a darker interpretation of Casper in comparison to the previous comics, cartoons and theatrical shorts, notably providing the character a tragic backstory that addresses his death.
Casper was released in cinemas on May 26, 1995, by Universal Pictures. It received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the film for its faithfulness to its source material (specifically the title character's portrayal), visual effects, music score, and performances, but criticized its dark story and humor. The film earned $287.9 million on a $55 million budget, and spawned two direct-to-video/made-for-TV indirect prequels, Casper: A Spirited Beginning (1997) and Casper Meets Wendy (1998) as follow-ups to the film and released by 20th Century Fox, and an animated television spin-off, The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper.
Plot
Following the death of her father, neurotic and spoiled heiress Carrigan Crittenden discovers she has only been left Whipstaff Manor, located in Friendship, Maine, in the will while his vast wealth has gone to several charities. Carrigan and her lawyer and close friend Dibs find a map within the will's papers that tell of an alleged treasure hidden inside the manor, but find the property haunted by a friendly ghost named Casper and his poltergeist uncles the Ghostly Trio. They unsuccessfully attempt to force the ghosts out by way of paranormal experts and a demolitions team. A lonely Casper watches a news report about paranormal therapist James Harvey and is instantly smitten with his teenage daughter, Kat, prompting Casper to inspire Carrigan in summoning Harvey to Whipstaff. Kat dislikes her father's reputation and obsession with contacting the ghost of his late wife, Amelia. The Harveys move into Whipstaff, but Casper's attempt to befriend them fails when his uncles try to torment and scare them away, which eventually fails.
Casper gains the Harveys' trust when he serves them breakfast, and follows Kat to school, where she becomes popular when her class learns she is living in Whipstaff, and agrees to host their Halloween party there. Her classmate Amber plots with her friend, Vic, to humiliate Kat during the party. Harvey attempts therapy sessions with the Ghostly Trio, who reveal they know Amelia; in exchange for convincing Carrigan to leave them alone, they promise to get Harvey a meeting with his wif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid%20%26%20Marty%20Krofft%27s%20Red%20Eye%20Express | Sid and Marty Krofft's Red Eye Express was a late-night variety special that aired on CBS on March 9, 1988. It was the lowest-rated program on network television that week.
Plot
Featuring a format similar to the Kroffts' then-current syndicated series, D.C. Follies, Ron Reagan stars as the owner of The Red Eye Express, a nightclub frequented by celebrities (and celebrity look-alike Krofft puppets). Through the course of the hour, Reagan mingles with various puppets (Cher, Jack Nicholson, Whoopi Goldberg, Ronald Reagan Sr., etc.), real-life people (Chuck Berry, Lou Albano) and performing guests (Gloria Estefan, Eric Carmen, Rick Astley).
Music
Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine – "Anything for You", "Surrender"
Rick Astley – "Never Gonna Give You Up"
Eric Carmen – "Hungry Eyes"
References
1980s American television specials
Television pilots not picked up as a series
American television shows featuring puppetry
1988 television specials
1988 in American television
Sid and Marty Krofft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20the%20American%20Teenager%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of The Secret Life of the American Teenager, an American television series created by Brenda Hampton, debuted on the ABC Family television network on July 1, 2008. The first season comprises 23 episodes, the first eleven of which ended on September 9, 2008. Despite marketing issues, the remaining twelve ended up as part of the first season, which concluded its initial airing on March 23, 2009. Season one regular cast members include Shailene Woodley, Molly Ringwald, Daren Kagasoff, Kenny Baumann, Francia Raisa, Megan Park, India Eisley, Greg Finley II, Jorge Pallo, Mark Derwin, and Luke Zimmerman.
Kyle XY was ABC Family's highest rated original series from June 2006 - July 2016, but lost its reign when the series premiere of The Secret Life of the American Teenager brought in 2.8 million viewers. The season finale brought in 4.50 million viewers, 2.4 million of whom were females. The show was the number one scripted telecast on March 23, 2009 in viewers 12-34 and the number one telecast that night in viewers.
The season focuses on the relationships between families and friends dealing with the unexpected teen pregnancy of character Amy Juergens, portrayed by Shailene Woodley. Probably the last girl anyone would expect to suffer such a scandalous event, Amy's world begins to expand as she discovers that virtually every student at her high school deals with some secret or unexpected problems, from the religious good-girl Grace to the tough-kid Ricky and to clingy loving Ben.
Main cast
Shailene Woodley as Amy Juergens
Kenny Baumann as Ben Boykewich
Mark Derwin as George Juergens
India Eisley as Ashley Juergens
Greg Finley as Jack Pappas
Daren Kagasoff as Ricky Underwood
Jorge-Luis Pallo as Marc Molina
Megan Park as Grace Bowman
Francia Raisa as Adrian Lee
Molly Ringwald as Anne Juergens
Episodes
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Donskoy | Mikhail Vladimirovich Donskoy (), (9 September 1948 – 13 January 2009) was a Soviet and Russian computer scientist. In 1970 he graduated from Moscow State University and joined the Institute of Control Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences, where he became one of the lead developers of Kaissa, a computer chess program that won the first World Computer Chess Championship in 1974.
After the dissolution of the Soviet computer chess initiative in the beginning of the 1980s he went into development of databases. In 1994 he established his own company, DISCo (Donskoy Interactive Software Company), which, among other projects, developed the Symbian interface for ABBYY Lingvo dictionaries.
References
Soviet computer scientists
Computer chess people
2009 deaths
1948 births
Soviet inventors
20th-century chess players
Russian scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20embedded%20computer%20systems%20on%20board%20the%20Mars%20rovers | The embedded computer systems onboard Mars rovers are designed to be robust against withstand high radiation levels and large temperature changes in space. For this reason their computational resources are more yet limited compared to systems commonly used on Earth.
In operation
Direct teleoperation of a Mars rover is impractical, since the round trip communication time between Earth and Mars ranges from 8 to 42 minutes and the Deep Space Network system is only available a few times during each Martian day (sol). Therefore, a rover command team plans, then sends, a sol of operational commands to the rover at one time.
A rover uses autonomy software to make decisions based on observations from its sensors. Each pair of images for stereo the Sojourner rover could generate 20 navigation 3D points (with the initial software version the craft landed with). The MER rovers can generate 15,000 (nominal) to 40,000 (survey mode) 3D points.
Performance comparisons
With the exception of Curiosity and Perseverance, each Mars rover has only one on-board computer. Both Curiosity and Perseverance have two identical computers for redundancy. Curiosity is, as of February 2013, operating on its redundant computer, while its primary computer is being investigated for the reasons why it started to fail.
Mars Rovers
See also
Radiation hardening
References
External links
The CPUs of Spacecraft Computers in Space
Radiation‑hardened electronics product guide - BAE Systems
Space technology
Exploration of Mars
Computing comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20Explorer | The Texas Instruments Explorer is a family of Lisp machine computers. These computers were sold by Texas Instruments (TI) in the 1980s. The Explorer is based on a design from Lisp Machines Incorporated, which is based on the MIT Lisp machine. The Explorer was used to develop and deploy artificial intelligence software.
Notable is also the early use of the NuBus as the system bus for the Explorer computer family.
History
The Explorer was used to develop and deploy artificial intelligence software. Later models were based on a special 32-bit microprocessor developed by TI, which hardware had enhanced support for executing Lisp software.
Operating system
The operating system of the Explorer was written in Lisp Machine Lisp and also supported Common Lisp.
Use
A notable application is SPIKE, the scheduling system for the Hubble Space Telescope. SPIKE was developed on Texas Instruments Explorer workstations.
Models
Explorer
Explorer II, based on the Lisp microprocessor
Explorer LX, which combines the Explorer with a co-processor running a version of Unix (TI System V)
MicroExplorer, a NuBus board for the Apple Macintosh based on the Lisp microprocessor
References
Publications
Software innovations for the Texas Instruments Explorer computer, Tennant, H.R.; Bate, R.R.; Corey, S.M.; Davis, L.; Kline, P.; Oren, L.G.; Rajinikanth, M.; Saenz, R.; Stenger, D.; Thompson, C.W., Proceedings of the IEEE Volume 73, Issue 12, Dec. 1985 Page(s): 1771 - 1790
Artificial intelligence hardware architectures for the Space Station era: The Texas Instruments Explorer and Compact LISP Machine, Krueger, S. ; Manuel, G. ; Matthews, G. ; Ott, G. ; Watkins, C., Opt. Eng. ; Vol/Issue: 25:11
Dussud, P. H. 1988. Lisp hardware architecture: the Explorer II and beyond. SIGPLAN Lisp Pointers 1, 6 (Apr. 1988), 13–18. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1317224.1317226
P.H. Dussud, TICLOS: An implementation of CLOS for the Explorer Family, In Proc. OOPSLA'89, International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications, 1989, pp. 215–219.
Zeitgeist: Database Support for Object-Oriented Programming (1988), by S Ford, J Joseph, D Langworthy, D Lively, G Pathak, E Perez, R. Peterson, D. Sparacin, S. Thatte, D. Wells, S. Agarwal, In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Object-Oriented Database Systems (Zeitgeist was an OODBMS developed by Texas Instruments for the Explorer)
External links
TI MicroExplorer documentation
TI Explorer documentation
Texas Instruments history, In search for a market
TI Explorer Lisp Machine Source Code (1991)
TI Explorer Lisp Code: The Stanford Knowledge Systems Lab's set of Explorer patches and tools.
Emulators
Lisp (programming language)
Computer workstations
Explorer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20segment | A segment of a system variable in computing shows a homogenous status of system dynamics over a time period. Here, a homogenous status of a variable is a state which can be described by a set of coefficients of a formula. For example, of homogenous statuses, we can bring status of constant ('ON' of a switch) and linear (60 miles or 96 km per hour for speed). Mathematically, a segment is a function mapping from a set of times which can be defined by a real interval, to the set [Zeigler76],[ZPK00], [Hwang13]. A trajectory of a system variable is a sequence of segments concatenated. We call a trajectory constant (respectively linear) if its concatenating segments are constant (respectively linear).
An event segment is a special class of the constant segment with a constraint in which the constant segment is either one of a timed event or a null-segment. The event segments are used to define Timed Event Systems such as DEVS, timed automata, and timed petri nets.
Event segments
Time base
The time base of the concerning systems is denoted by , and defined
as the set of non-negative real numbers.
Event and null event
An event is a label that abstracts a change. Given an event set , the null event denoted by stands for nothing change.
Timed event
A timed event is a pair where and denotes that an event occurs at time .
Null segment
The null segment over time interval is denoted by which means nothing in occurs over .
Unit event segment
A unit event segment is either a null event segment or a timed event.
Concatenation
Given an event set , concatenation of two unit event segments over and over is denoted by whose time interval is , and implies .
Event trajectory
An event trajectory
over an event set and a time interval is concatenation of unit event segments and where
.
Mathematically, an event trajectory is a mapping a time period to an event set . So we can write it in a function form :
Timed language
The universal timed language over an event set and a time interval , is the set of all event trajectories over and .
A timed language over an event set and a timed interval
is a set of event trajectories over and if .
See also
Outline of computing
References
[Zeigler76]
[ZKP00]
[Giambiasi01] Giambiasi N., Escude B. Ghosh S. “Generalized Discrete Event Simulation of Dynamic Systems”, in: Issue 4 of SCS Transactions: Recent Advances in DEVS Methodology-part II, Vol. 18, pp. 216–229, dec 2001
[Hwang13] M.H. Hwang, ``Revisit of system variable trajectories``, Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling & Simulation - DEVS Integrative M&S Symposium , San Diego, CA, USA, April 7–10, 2013
Automata (computation)
Formal specification languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membership%20software | Membership software (also known as an association management system) is a computer software which provides associations, clubs and other membership organizations with the functionality they require to provide their services to their members.
It normally includes at least the following:
Storing and editing member information in a database.
Creating, renewing, upgrading and downgrading memberships.
Communicating with members by email, social media, telephone or post.
Membership organizations have diverse needs and structures, and this is reflected in the additional features membership software sometimes includes:
Organizing and selling tickets to events or series' of events.
Publishing and delivering textual or audio-visual content.
Providing advertising opportunities via listings or targeted placements.
Facilitating interaction and collaborative file sharing between members.
Tracking members' interests and activities to provide relevant services.
Raising supplementary income from donations.
Like many other modern software, membership software was initially delivered as desktop software, evolved into website-based software delivered from a web server, and is now increasingly delivered as a software as a service.
In the initial (desktop software) and intermediate (website based software) stages of its development, Membership software was often combined with a separate public-facing website, which members would use to interact with the association (subscribing, booking events, purchasing content and advertising, posting discussions, uploading files). This necessitated complex integrations between proprietary membership software databases and content management systems. Today, membership software often integrates the core features of a content management system, to provide a single coherent interface for members and administrators. These are available as standalones or as plugins for popular open source content management systems.
The smallest associations and clubs often create their own ecosystem of services to offer some of the same functionality as membership software. They do this by using generic database or spreadsheet software, and adding on external options as they need them (e.g. event registration, online payments, or email newsletters).
The membership software market spans the rest of the industry, from small and medium-sized organizations with limited resources, to very large and complex multi-chapter organizations of national and international renown, to association management organizations which manage multiple associations using a single product. There are many products available from a wide variety of different commercial providers and open source projects. Most are generic, but many are also targeted at very particular segments (e.g., church software).
Multi-chapter membership software tailors to organizations that are made up of chapters, clubs, regions, or segments that are part of the larger association. This parti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Your%20Way | On Your Way was an American game show that aired on the DuMont Television Network from September 9, 1953, to January 20, 1954, before moving to ABC from January 23 to April 17.
The series originated from New York City, and was sponsored by Welch's Family Wine.
Gameplay
In this quiz show the contestants, which consisted of pairs, had the chance to win a trip to any part of the United States. The more questions they won, the further they would get to travel on bus. For example, in one episode a contestant and her partner/friend stated that they would like to travel to Austin, Texas, so that they could improve their education. Occasionally, the full prize would be given to the contestants even if they didn't win, if it was decided that they had a sad enough story.
At the end of each episode, the winning couples would get a chance to fly to their destination on an airplane, then a luxury to most people.
Format change
After the series moved to ABC, the network only used the game show format on January 23 and 30; on February 6, the program was changed to a talent contest.
Episode status
One of the last three DuMont episodes is known to exist from January 1954, with special guest Jackie Cooper; although the gameplay is intact, all copies found have no last segment.
See also
Down You Go (another popular DuMont game show)
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
Wiping
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1953 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
American Broadcasting Company original programming
1950s American game shows
Black-and-white American television shows
DuMont Television Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD | FreeCAD is a general-purpose parametric 3D computer-aided design (CAD) modeler and a building information modeling (BIM) software application with finite element method (FEM) support. It is intended for mechanical engineering product design but also expands to a wider range of uses around engineering, such as architecture or electrical engineering. FreeCAD is free and open-source, under the LGPL-2.0-or-later license, and available for Linux, macOS, and Windows operating systems. Users can extend the functionality of the software using the Python programming language.
Features
General
FreeCAD features tools similar to CATIA, Creo, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, NX, Inventor, Revit, and therefore also falls into the category of building information modeling (BIM), mechanical computer-aided design (MCAD), PLM, CAx and CAE. It is intended to be a feature-based parametric modeler with a modular software architecture, which makes it easy to provide additional functionality without modifying the core system.
As with many modern 3D CAD modelers, FreeCAD has a 2D component to facilitate 3D-to-2D drawing conversion. Under its current state, direct 2D drawing (like AutoCAD LT) is not the focus for this software, and neither are animation or 3D model manipulation (like Blender, Maya, or Cinema 4D). However, the modular nature of FreeCAD allows the user to adapt its workflow for such environments via the use of plugins.
FreeCAD uses open-source libraries from the field of computing science; among them are Open CASCADE Technology (a CAD kernel), Coin3D (an incarnation of Open Inventor), the Qt GUI framework, and Python, a popular scripting language. FreeCAD itself can also be used as a library by other programs.
There are moves to expand FreeCAD in the architecture, electrical, and construction (AEC) engineering sectors and to add building information modeling (BIM) functionality with the Arch Module.
As of late 2020, 3D Models searcher of CADENAS called 3DfindIT.com is integrated into FreeCAD.
Supported file formats
FreeCAD's own main file format is FreeCAD Standard file format (.FCStd). It is a standard zip file that holds files in a certain structure. Document.xml file has all geometric and parametric objects definitions. GuiDocument.xml then has visual representation details of objects. Other files include brep-files for objects and thumbnail of drawing.
Besides FreeCAD's own file format, files can be exported and imported in DXF, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics), STEP, IGES, STL (STereoLithography), OBJ (Wavefront), DAE (Collada), SCAD (OpenSCAD), IV (Inventor) and IFC.
DWG support
FreeCAD's support for the proprietary DWG file format has been problematic due to software license compatibility problems with the GNU LibreDWG library. The GNU LibreDWG library started as a real free alternative to the source-available OpenDWG library (later Teigha Converter and now ODA File Converter) and is licensed under the GPLv3. As FreeCAD (and also LibreCAD) has depen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spykee | Spykee is a robotic toy made by Erector/Meccano. It contains a USB webcam, microphone and speakers. Controlled by computer locally or over the internet, the owner can move the robot to various locations within range of the local router, take pictures and video, listen to surroundings with the on-board microphone and play sounds/music or various built-in recordings (Robot laugh, laser guns, etc.) through the speaker. Spykee has a WiFi connectivity to let him access the Internet using both ad hoc and infrastructure modes.
The electronics inside Spykee were built by a French start-up called WaveStorm.
Introduction
The Spykee robot was conceived in 2006 and began shipping in the United States in late 2008.
Assembly
Spykee is marketed for children ages 8 and up and claims to require 1.5 hours installation time. A review of Amazon.com product reviews indicates the actual assembly time is longer.
Modifications
Spykee is compatible with other Meccano set parts.
At least one owner has modified Spykee to be able to move its "head" (and thus its webcam) up and down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN_9rkovW6s
It is advertised as an open-source robot, although no API or SDK has been officially released. However, http://spykee.duskofsolace.com is an unofficial wiki containing information on how to access Linux on Spykee. There is information on how the hardware works and new unofficial firmware, that mainly addresses issues on accessing linux and has the capability of mounting network or USB partitions in linux.
As of May 2010 (possibly earlier), the full source code for the robot firmware, as well as documentation, has been made available, see: http://www.spykeeworld.com/spykee/US/freeSoftware.html
A home made robot daemon open source project (named Phobos Daemon) is available on spykeewiki as well. The aftermarket daemon supports all the basic functionality of Spykee and has additional features.
As of October 2010, there exists an application to control Spykee from an Android Smartphone. http://www.aspykee.com . There is also a perl application to control Spykee from for example Linux. https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/libspykee-perl .
References
Online review on robotreviews.com
Online review on tech.spotcoolstuff.com
External links
Perl library
Entertainment robots
2000s toys
Toy robots
Rolling robots
Robots of the United Kingdom
2006 robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20U.S.%20Television | Miss U.S. Television was a series of contests held by the DuMont Television Network and its affiliates during 1950. The contest searched for the woman "with the most outstanding talent and beauty".
The grand finals, aired September 3, 1950, featured 13 contestants, including Edie Adams, then known as Edith Adams, who performed an opera aria and won the contest. Broadcast from the Chicago Fair of 1950, a brief clip of the grand finals was shown during the WGN-TV 40th Anniversary Special in 1988.
Episode status
No copies of the local broadcasts are known to exist. The nationally aired Grand Finals episode is at the Museum of Broadcast Communications and on Internet Archive.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Kinescope of Grand Finals at the Internet Archive
1950s American television specials
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Beauty pageants in the United States
American awards
1950 television specials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan%20Opera%20radio%20broadcasts | The Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts are a regular series of weekly broadcasts on network radio of full-length opera performances. They are transmitted live from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network airs the live performances on Saturday afternoons while the Met is in season, typically beginning the first Saturday in December, and totaling just over 20 weekly performances through early May. The Met broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history, and the series has won several Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting.
The series is currently broadcast on over 300 stations in the United States, and stations in 40 countries on 5 continents. These countries include Canada, Mexico, 27 European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay, China, and Japan. The broadcasts are also listenable online via streaming audio; and select broadcasts and excerpts are listenable year-round on the "Met Opera on Demand" service and on the free online service Rhapsody.
History
The Met's radio broadcast history dates back to 1910, when radio pioneer Lee De Forest transmitted — experimentally, with erratic signal — two live partial performances from the stage of the Met, which were reportedly heard as far away as Newark, New Jersey. The first of these was a performance of Acts II and III of Tosca on January 12, 1910, starring Antonio Scotti as Scarpia. The following evening, January 13, 1910, parts of Pagliacci starring Enrico Caruso were broadcast.
The first network broadcast was heard on Friday, December 25, 1931: a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel. The series was created as the Met, financially endangered in the early years of the Great Depression, sought to enlarge its audience and support through national exposure on network radio. In the first broadcast season only Hänsel und Gretel and Das Rheingold (February 26, 1932) were presented in their entirety; most operas were only heard partially. From the start of the 1933-34 season, complete opera broadcasts became the norm. Since 1931 most broadcasts have been of Saturday matinee performances, with only a handful of exceptions such as the opening night of the new Met, which featured a broadcast of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra on Friday September 16, 1966.
The live radio broadcasts were originally heard on NBC, and became a staple of its Blue Network. Starting in 1944 the series continued on the Blue Network's successor, ABC, through 1958. From 1958 to 1960 the series was broadcast on CBS. As network radio waned with the rise of television, the Met founded its own independent Metropolitan Opera Radio Network in 1960, which is now heard on radio stations around the world. The Met's first live closed-circuit television transmission was Carmen with Rise Stevens, sent to 31 movie theaters in 27 US cities on December 11, 1952.
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILN | ILN can refer to:
International Lunar Network
International Location Number, see Global Location Number
Wilmington Air Park, formerly known as Airborne Airpark
The Illustrated London News
International Lawyer's Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mt.%20Ascutney%20Hospital%20and%20Health%20Center | Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center is a Vermont-based, not-for-profit hospital network dedicated to improving the lives of those we serve. Founded in 1933, the Hospital’s network includes the critical access-designated Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Historic Homes of Runnemede senior living community in Windsor, and Ottauquechee Health Center in Woodstock. Affiliated with Dartmouth Health, the Hospital provides people in communities across Southern Windsor County in Vermont and Sullivan County in New Hampshire with primary care and a comprehensive suite of specialty services, along with 25 inpatient beds, a therapeutic pool, and the 10 beds of the region’s most advanced inpatient rehabilitation center. The Hospital is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF), as well as the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) with Level 3 status, the highest level of medical home designation for delivering quality care.
References
External links
Hospital buildings completed in 1933
Hospitals in Vermont
Buildings and structures in Windsor, Vermont
1933 establishments in Vermont
Hospitals established in 1933 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premio%20Lo%20Nuestro%202009 | Premio Lo Nuestro 2009 was held on Thursday March 26, 2009 at the BankUnited Center at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. It is broadcast live by Univision Network. The nominees were announced on Wednesday January 14, 2009 during a live televised morning show Despierta América! on Univision Network.
The show featured a short speech in both English and Spanish by U.S. president Barack Obama, the first time since his 2008 election campaign in which he utilized the Spanish language for a mass audience.
Hosts
Eugenio Derbez
Ninel Conde
Performers
01. — Wisin & Yandel — "Me Estas Tentando" — 04:00
02. — Gloria Trevi Along With Los Horóscopos de Durango — "Cinco Mintuos" — 03:36
03. — Luis Fonsi, Aleks Syntek, Noel Schajris & David Bisbal — "No Me Doy Por Vencido / Aquí Estoy Yo" — 05:36
04. — El Chapo De Sinaloa
05. — Enrique Iglesias Along With Wisin & Yandel — "Llóro Por Tí" — 04:04
06. — Alejandra Guzmán Along With Camila — "Hacer Él Amor Con Orto / Así Es A Final / Tú Eres Mi Luz" — 06:41
07. — Flex And Pee Wee — "Dime Si Te Vas Con Él" — 03:30
08. — Franco De Vita Along With K-Paz de la Sierra
09. — Reik
10. — Aventura — "Por Un Segundo" — 03:39
11. — Emmanuel
12. — Víctor Manuelle
13. — La Arrolladora Banda El Limón
14. — Fanny Lu
15. — NG2 Feat. Gilberto Santa Rosa — "Ella Menea" — 03:49
Presenters
Jorge Salinas
Grupo Montéz de Durango
Alessandra Rosaldo
Angélica Vale
Jenni Rivera
Christopher Uckermann
Christian Chávez
Cristián de la Fuente
Diana Reyes
Alexandra Cheron
MJ
Silvia Pinal
Los Horóscopos de Durango
Lorena Herrera
Camila
Yuridia
José Ángel Llamas
Elizabeth Álvarez
Pablo Montero
Tommy Torres
Eiza ("Lola")
Pee Wee
Gloria Trevi
Juanes
Gilberto Santa Rosa
Scarlet Ortiz
Alexis & Fido
Elvis Crespo
Olga Tañón
Alacranes Musical
Wilmer Valderrama (Guest Appearance)
Special awards
Premio Lo Nuestro a la Excelencia (Lifetime Achievement Award)
Emmanuel
Trayectoria Artist of the Year
Alejandra Guzmán
Awards (winners in bold)
Pop
Album of the Year
95/08 Exitos - Enrique Iglesias
Empezar Desde Cero - RBD
Entre Mariposas - Yuridia
Fuerza - Alejandra Guzmán
Tarde o Temprano - Tommy Torres
Male Artist
Alejandro Fernández
Chayanne
Enrique Iglesias
Luis Fonsi
Tommy Torres
Female Artist
Alejandra Guzmán
Gloria Trevi
Julieta Venegas
Kany García
Yuridia
Group or Duo
Belanova
Camila
Jesse & Joy
RBD
Reik
Breakout Artist or Group of the Year
Ana Isabelle
Eiza ("Lola")
Juan
La Nueva Banda Timbiriche
Playa Limbo
Song of the Year
"Ahora Entendí" - Yuridia
"Cada Que..." - Belanova
"¿Dónde Están Corazón?" - Enrique Iglesias
"Inalcanzable" - RBD
"Soy Solo Un Secreto" - Alejandra Guzmán
Rock
Album of the Year
17 - Motel
La Vida... Es un Ratico - Juanes
Arde El Cielo - Maná
Mucho - Babasónicos
Sino - Café Tacuba
Artist of the Year
Black Guayaba
Café Tacuba
Juanes
Maná
Motel
Song of the Year
"Arde el Cielo" - Maná
"Gotas de Agua Dulce" - Juanes
"Me Enamora" - |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIPR | The RIPRNet (Releasable Internet Protocol Router Network) is a TCP/IP based computer network for joint South Korea-US access, analogous to the SIPRNet.
Whereas SIPRNet is the de facto SECRET-level TCP/IP network for general use, RIPR is for information classified as Releasable to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and US Secret. In other words, RIPR is a secure coalition network for joint ROK-US usage. RIPRNet's architecture is based on a multi-layered approach. Utilizing state-of-the-art encryption, the network facilitates communication among pre-vetted and authorized users. The network's design is said to borrow heavily from earlier network model, but with enhanced features that focus on specific features.
Like SIPR and NIPR, it is commonly pronounced "ripper".
See also
NIPRNet
SIPRNet
JWICS
Notes and references
Wide area networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Phoebus | The HTC S520 (A.K.A. HTC Phoebus, HTC Juno) is a Windows Mobile based smartphone manufactured by High Tech Computer Corporation. It is available in the US market as the T-Mobile Shadow and in Taiwan as the Dopod C750. The T-Mobile version supports MyFaves.
Neo interface
T-Mobile, HTC, and Microsoft collaborated on the Neo interface introduced on the T-Mobile version. The interface was designed to allow a more familiar cell phone user interface on a smartphone.
Shadow 2009
T-Mobile replaced the original Shadow model with a newer one in early 2009. In addition to a design facelift and new colors, it supports Unlicensed Mobile Access through the T-Mobile @Home service. It will also have Windows Mobile 6.1 Standard installed.
References
External links
T-Mobile Shadow
Windows Mobile Standard devices
Phoebus |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn%20Henry%20%28IT%20entrepreneur%29 | Glenn Henry (né Gaylord Glenn Henry; born July 26, 1942 Berkeley, California), is an American computer industry executive, cofounder of Centaur Technology, and inventor of computer technology at the advent and frontier era of the development of personal computers. He holds over 300 US patents.
Education
In 1966, Henry earned a BS degree in mathematics from California State University, Hayward. The following year he earned a MS degree in mathematics.
Career
Henry started his business career at IBM, where he worked for 21 years until 1988. He was the instigator, lead architect and development manager responsible for the IBM System/32, IBM System/38 (forerunner of the IBM AS/400), and IBM RT PC (forerunner of Power systems). He was appointed an IBM Fellow in 1985.
He went to work for Dell in 1988 as the company's first VP of R&D. In 1993 he was Dell's Senior Vice President in charge of products. While working there, he discovered that it was not possible to buy computer processors for less than $160 wholesale, thereby constraining the ultimate retail price of the resulting computer. In 1994, Henry left Dell and began working on a new Intel compatible design. Funding for this new processor was provided by IDT. His work lead to the foundation of Centaur Technology Inc. Centaur's first processor came to market in 1997. The company was subsequently bought by VIA Technologies in 1999.
Henry was the President of Centaur Technology until his partial retirement in 2019 (he still works part-time remotely). In addition to his management duties, he wrote microcode for the company's Intel compatible processors, and he designed hardware for several co-processors.
Honors
In 1985, Henry was named an IBM Fellow.
In 2016, Henry was named a "Distinguished Alumni" of California State University.
In 2017, the Computer History Museum added Henry's oral history to their "key pioneers and contributors" history collection.
References
Further reading
External links
"Oral history interview with Glenn Henry," Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, August 7, 2001
"Oral history interview with Glenn Henry," Computer History Museum, August 7, 2017
Documentary about Centaur Technology featuring Glenn Henry, 2015
American computer scientists
American computer businesspeople
California State University, East Bay alumni
IBM employees
IBM Fellows
1942 births
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap%20flag | A trap flag permits operation of a processor in single-step mode. If such a flag is available, debuggers can use it to step through the execution of a computer program.
Single-step interrupt
When a system is instructed to single-step, it will execute one instruction and then stop. The contents of registers and memory locations can be examined; if they are correct, the system can be told to go on and execute the next instruction. The Intel 8086 trap flag and type-1 interrupt response make it quite easy to implement a single-step feature in an 8086-based system.
If the trap flag is set, the 8086 will automatically do a type-1 interrupt after each instruction executes. When the 8086 does a type-1 interrupt, it pushes the flag register on the stack.
Setting
The 8086 has no instruction to directly set or reset the trap flag. These operations are done by pushing the flag register on the stack, changing the trap flag bit to what the programmer wants it to be, and then popping the flag register back off the stack.
The instructions to set the trap flag are:
PUSHF ; Push flags on stack
MOV BP,SP ; Copy SP to BP for use as index
OR WORD PTR[BP+0],0100H ; Set TF flag
POPF ; Restore flag Register
Actually you do not use the Trap flag in this way, because you are normally monitoring a program from an Interrupt Service Routine (ISR).
You continue execution of the program by an IRET.
Int3ServiceRoutine: ; Stack: Ret, Flags
PUSHA ; Stack: Ret, Flags, AX, CX, DX, BX, SP, BP, SI, DI
PUSH DS
PUSH ES ; Stack: Ret, Flags, AX, CX, DX, BX, SP, BP, SI, DI, DS, ES
... the ISR code using only integer (otherwise you must also store floating point registers)
MOV BP,SP ; Stack: Ret, Flags, AX, CX, DX, BX, SP, BP, SI, DI, DS, ES
MOV BP,[BP+10] ; Stored SP
OR WORD PTR[BP+0],0100H ; Set TF flag in the stored Flag register
POP ES
POP DS
POPA
IRET ; continue execution for ONE instruction, then calling ISR again.
Resetting
To reset the trap flag, simply replace the OR instruction in the preceding sequence with the instruction:
AND WORD PTR[BP+0],0FEFFH
The trap flag is reset when the 8086 does a type-1 interrupt, so the single-step mode will be disabled during the interrupt-service procedure.
Central processing unit
Debugging |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Scanner | In August 1988 Apple Computer introduced the Apple Scanner. It was their first A4 (8.5 in × 14.0 in) flatbed scanner. It was capable of a 4-bit image with 16 levels of grey in a maximum resolution of 300 dpi. The scanner could complete a full scan in 20.4 seconds. It shipped with a SCSI connection with an unused serial port.
To control the scanner, it came with both AppleScan and HyperScan, the latter allowed users to scan directly from within HyperCard. Later, only AppleScan was offered.
The scanner was upgraded to the short-lived Apple OneScanner in 1991 with 256 levels of grey.
References
Apple Inc. peripherals
Imaging
Products introduced in 1988
Products and services discontinued in 1991
it:Lista degli scanner Apple#Apple Scanner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGUCCS | SIGUCCS (Special Interest Group on University and College Computing Services) is an association of professionals who support and manage the diverse aspects of information technology services at higher education institutions by providing professional development opportunities for SIGUCCS members and other individuals in the field. SIGUCCS is one of 34 special interest groups of ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.
Founded in 1963, ACM SIGUCCS focuses on issues surrounding the support, delivery and management of information technology services in higher education. Areas of special interest include but are not limited to: end user services (help desk, student labs, training, documentation, consulting), curricular support, audio-visual services, educational technology issues, information technology management, academic technology, and faculty support.
Conference
ACM SIGUCCS hosts a single conference annually, typically in October or November. Conference proceedings are available online through the ACM Digital Library to SIGUCCS members or library subscribers. Information about past conferences and SIGUCCS-sponsored travel grants is available on the ACM SIGUCCS Website.
The SIG hosts webinars throughout the year. Ongoing communication to allow networking in between conferences is available through an email discussion list and social media.
Awards
The ACM SIGUCCS Penny Crane Award for Distinguished Service is a high-level award to recognize significant, multiple contributions from individuals over an extended period of time. This award was named after Penny Crane, who was actively involved in SIGUCCS from the mid-70's until her untimely death in January 1999.
The ACM SIGUCCS Hall of Fame Award is an ongoing, web-based recognition of many individuals who have contributed significant time and energy in support of SIGUCCS activities.
Each year SIGUCCS sponsors Communication Awards to recognize outstanding publications developed at college and university computing centers. These awards recognize excellence in developing useful and attractive publications and provide SIGUCCS conference participants with an opportunity to review model publications that may help them develop or enhance their own work.
History
Founded in 1963, SIGUCCS began as SIGUCC (Special Interest Group for University Computing Centers) but changed its name in 1981 to reflect the growing use of computing among large and small institutions of higher education. Originally meeting at ACM events, it began hosting its own conferences in 1973 (fall user services) and 1974 (spring management symposium). In 2011, the two conferences began to be held back-to-back and in 2016 the content from each was combined into a single conference that supports the needs of all information technology professionals in higher education, from help desk to leadership.
References
External links
SIGUCCS official web site
Ass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evening%20Edition | Evening Edition is an American weather program broadcast by The Weather Channel. Evening Edition included multiple hours of programming, cut into by long-form programs such as When Weather Changed History, as well as a repeating overnight hour.
It broadcast (including long-form programming) every weeknight from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m. ET.
Program history
Evening Edition debuted in 2001, the first program to cut into the time slot of Weather Center, as part of a shift from 24-hour Weather Center to multiple focused programs that occurred during 2000 and 2001.
Because of long-form programs, Evening Edition aired its first hour, then long-form programs, then two hours, then long-form programs repeated from earlier, followed by the overnight hour (respectively from 9 to 10 p.m., 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. and 2 to 3 a.m. Eastern).
During the final five months of its run, the first hour of Evening Edition, aired at 8pm eastern (instead of 9pm eastern), was hosted by Stephanie Abrams and Mike Bettes and, for most intents and purposes, was an extension of the preceding program, Abrams & Bettes: Beyond the Forecast. The second and third hours were the main program, hosted by Jim Cantore, Paul Goodloe and Alexandra Steele.
The overnight hour aired live (at 2am) after the second hour of long-form programs (repeated from the first hour). It was hosted by one meteorologist and then was repeated until the next morning's first program (either First Outlook on weekdays or When Weather Changed History on weekends).
It was revealed via changes to electronic program guide systems and through an inadvertent image change on the Weather Channel media kit website that the show's time slots would be given to a relaunched version of Weather Center, which contains a mix of the traditional Evening Edition format as well as new segments. Weekends were also slated to feature PM Edition Weekend in place of Evening Edition, but only for three hours - it later turned out that Weather Center was to take this over too. The remainder of the weekend evenings now featured long-form programming.
Evening Edition’s final broadcast aired on March 1, 2009.
Former Hosts
Weeknight East Coast Version
Paul Goodloe - original and last official anchor
Kim Cunningham (Perez) - original anchor; left October 2002 for First Outlook
Jennifer Lopez - left in November 2004 for PM Edition, left TWC in June 2008 for KXAS-TV in Dallas, returned to TWC in April 2013
Alexandra Steele - last official anchor
Weeknight West Coast Version
Hillary Andrews - left TWC in September 2006
Sandra Diaz
Lisa Mozer
Rich Johnson - departed November 2008
Warren Madden
Sharon Resultan - last official anchor; departed February 2009 to be a daytime fill-in; left TWC in March 2009
Dave Schwartz - laid off by TWC in October 2008
Weekend Version
Adam Berg - last official anchor; left The Weather Channel October 6, 2012
Carl Parker - original anchor; left May 2002 for Weather Center from 6-8p ET (later PM Edition)
Mike Bettes - lef |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangon%20Circular%20Railway | Yangon Circular Railway ( ) is the local commuter rail network that serves the Yangon metropolitan area. Operated by Myanma Railways, the 39-station loop system connects satellite towns and suburban areas to the city. Circa 2008–2010, the railway had about 200 coaches, had 20 daily runs, and sold 100,000 to 150,000 tickets daily.
The railway is heavily utilized by lower-income commuters, as it is (along with buses) the cheapest method of transportation in Yangon.
The hours of service have been consistent over the years, from 3:45 am to 10:15 pm daily. In 2011, the cost of a ticket for a distance of 15 miles was two hundred kyats (~eighteen US cents), and that for over 15 miles was four hundred kyats (~37 US cents). In the new currency (introduced in 2012) long distance tickets are 200 kyat (~20 US cents).
History
Yangon Circular Railway was built during colonial times by the British. The double track railway was built in 1954.
In July 2011, the Ministry of Rail Transportation announced that it intended to privatize the Yangon Circular Railway, since the government-run system operates at a loss for the government, with monthly operating costs about 260 million kyats () and monthly revenues about 42 million kyats (). Ticket prices have been kept low because of ministry subsidies.
In December 2012, Japan International Cooperation Agency began its collaboration with Yangon City Development Committee to develop a master plan for the Greater Yangon region, including the issue of public transport. In 2015 air conditioned coaches were introduced with a slightly higher ticket cost, but these did not last long, and by mid 2016 air conditioning was no longer available.
Myanma Railways has had plans for a major upgrade for the Circle Line since 2012. It is to be funded in large part by a $212 million loan from Japan’s development agency. The hope is for all of the coaches and engines to be replaced by 2020, along with automation of the signaling systems and replacement of the aging tracks. The frequency of trains would be increased from the current two per hour. In December, 2020, a contract was awarded to a consortium of Japan's Mitsubishi and Spain's CAF to provide 11 six-car diesel powered trains with the aim of reducing the travel time of the full loop from 170 to 110 minutes.
Route and stations
The loop network consists of 39 stations, linking various parts of Yangon. The entire circular trip takes approximately 3 hours. Map from train is shown to the right, with approximate location of stations.
The loop begins from Yangon Central Railway Station to Mingaladon Railway Station near Yangon International Airport, via Insein to the west and Okkalapa in the east.
The major stations are as follows:
Yangon Central
Dagon University
Danyingon
Hlawga
Insein
Mingaladon
Okhposu
Paywetseikkon
Thilawa
Togyaunggalay
Ywathagyi
University of Computer Studies, Yangon
Rolling stock
KiHa 40 series
KiHa 11
KiHa 38
Gallery
See also
Referenc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIDI-FM | CIDI-FM is an English language community radio station with French programming that broadcasts at 99.1 FM in Brome Lake, Quebec, Canada.
Owned by Radio communautaire Missisquoi, a non-profit organization, the station was licensed in 2003.
References
External links
CIDI-FM history - Canadian Communication Foundation
CIDI Facebook Page
Idi
Idi
Idi
Radio stations established in 2003
2003 establishments in Quebec
Brome-Missisquoi Regional County Municipality |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CcHost | ccHost is a web-based media hosting engine upon which Creative Commons' ccMixter remix web community is built. The software is written in PHP and uses the MySQL database server. In 2005 it won Linux World's award for Best Open Source solution.
Nathan Willis wrote:
References
Further reading
External links
ccHost at SlideShare
Artisan Website Creator
Vsis Specialized In Hosting
Content management systems
Creative Commons
Website management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Las%20Vegas%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's Las Vegas Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
Other sources
Further reading
Las Vegas
Broadcasters
Las Vegas Bowl
Las Vegas Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country%20Style%20%28American%20TV%20series%29 | Country Style is an American musical variety show on the DuMont Television Network from July 29 to November 25, 1950, on Saturday nights from 8–9 p.m. Eastern Time
The setting was a small town bandstand on a Saturday night. Musical numbers, comedy vignettes and square dancing took place around the bandstand, where Alvy West and the Volunteer Firemen's Band played. The host was Peggy Ann Ellis. Regulars included Pat Adair, Bob Austin, Emily Barnes, Gordon Dilworth, and The Folk Dancers.
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to survive. This series should not be confused with the radio and TV series Country Style, USA (1957–60).
Jimmy Dean program
During 1957, Jimmy Dean hosted Country Style, a daytime TV version of The Jimmy Dean Show, which aired on WTOP-TV in Washington, DC, on weekday mornings.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950-51 United States network television schedule
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
DuMont Television Network original programming
Black-and-white American television shows
1950s American variety television series
Lost television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%80%A1biblios.net | ‡biblios.net is a free browser-based cataloging service with a data store containing over thirty million records. Records are licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License, making the service the world's largest repository of freely-licensed library records. The service was created and is maintained by LibLime.
Features
‡biblios.net (pronounced 'biblios dot net') features a metadata editor with templates, macros, authority auto-completion and embedded context-sensitive help. The central record repository contains 25-million bibliographic records and just under eight-million authority records. The data is maintained by ‡biblios.net users. Catalogers can use and contribute to the database without restrictions because records in ‡biblios.net are freely-licensed under the Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License.
‡biblios.net also includes a built-in federated search system, allowing catalogers to find records from any Z39.50 target. Additionally, there is a central Search Target Registry, seeded with over 2,000 Z39.50 servers, for catalogers to find, create and share Z39.50 targets.
In addition to offering a traditional cataloging interface, ‡biblios.net offers social cataloging features. Built-in forums and private messaging make finding help and communicating with others possible within the software.
References
External links
‡biblios.net Website
LibLime's Homepage
Library cataloging and classification
Open data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trados%20Studio | Trados Studio is a computer-assisted translation software tool which offers a complete, centralized translation environment for editing, reviewing and managing translation projects and terminology – It can be used both offline in a desktop tool or online in the cloud. Trados Studio is part of the Trados product portfolio, which is a suite of intelligent translation products owned by RWS that enables freelance translators, language service providers (LSPs) and corporations to streamline processes and improve efficiencies while keeping costs down.
The UK-based company RWS, who offer technology-enabled language, content management and intellectual property services, is considered the market leader in providing translation software across the entire translation supply chain.
History
Trados Studio is the successor of Translators Workbench, originally developed by the German company Trados GmbH. It was renamed SDL Trados in 2005 when Trados was bought by SDL plc. The name reverted to Trados Studio after SDL merged with RWS in 2020.
Trados GmbH was founded as a language-service provider (LSP) in 1984 by Jochen Hummel and Iko Knyphausen in Stuttgart, Germany. The company began developing translation software in the late 1980s, and released the first Windows versions of two of the suite's major components in the early 1990s – MultiTerm in 1992, and Translator's Workbench in 1994.
Trados was acquired by SDL in 2005, which was then acquired by RWS on 4 November 2020.
Configuration
Trados Studio 2022 is the latest release of this computer-assisted translation tool. It is delivered with several tools and applications, including:
Trados Studio
The main desktop-based application providing a complete environment to edit or review translations, manage translation projects, organize terminology, and connect to machine translation. The latest edition, Trados Studio 2022, also provides users with cloud capabilities, enabling them to choose between desktop ways of working, cloud, or a combination of both.
Trados Studio cloud capabilities
The free essential cloud capabilities available with Trados Studio 2022 are built on the RWS Language Cloud platform, a scalable solution providing multiple subscription offerings. This entry level offering enables users to connect to the cloud whilst working in Trados Studio to securely back up their work. There is also an online editor, so users can translate in a browser from any device.
MultiTerm
A terminology management tool that is integrated with Trados Studio for adding, editing and managing terms. It is also provided as a standalone tool.
RWS AppStore
An online store enabling users to customize and extend the functionality of their Trados solution. Apps provide users different ways to manage your translation, review and terminology process. There are over hundreds of apps available, of which the majority are designed for Trados Studio. If you are using Trados Studio 2021 or 2022, you can manage your |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ReliaQuest%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's ReliaQuest Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
Outback
Broadcasters
Outback Bowl
Outback Bowl
Outback Bowl
Outback Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%20%28data%20format%29 | NeXus is a data format for experimental science that is commonly used in the neutron, x-ray, and muon scientific communities. It is being developed as an international standard by scientists and programmers representing major scientific facilities in Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America in order to facilitate greater cooperation in the analysis and visualization of scientific data. Technically, NeXus is a data model rather than a file format, because it describes how data should be organised and structured within a file and has little to say about how that data is encoded for storage. A NeXus file can be mapped into many different container formats, though the preferred and best supported backend is HDF5. XML is used for demonstration purposes mainly.
Early history and motivation
By the early 1990s, several groups of scientists in the fields of neutron and X-ray science were frustrated that each of the instruments they worked with had a locally defined format for recording experimental data. With various formats, much of the scientists' time was being wasted in the task of writing import readers for processing and analysis programs. As is common, the exact information to be documented from each instrument in a data file evolves and makes compromises based on new features and limitations in the evolving hardware. Many of these formats lacked the generality to extend to the new data to be stored, thus another new format was devised. In such environments, the documentation of each generation of data format is often lacking.
Three parallel developments led to the creation of NeXus:
June 1994: Mark Könnecke (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland) made a proposal using netCDF for the European neutron scattering community while working at the ISIS pulsed neutron facility.
August 1994: Jon Tischler and Mitch Nelson (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA) proposed an HDF-based format as a standard for data storage at the Advanced Photon Source.
October 1996: Przemek Klosowski (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA) produced a first draft of the NeXus proposal drawing on ideas from both sources.
These scientists proposed methods to store data using a self-describing, extensible format that was already in broad use in other scientific disciplines. Their proposals formed the basis for the current design of the NeXus standard which was developed across a series of workshops organized by Ray Osborn (ANL), attended by representatives of a range of neutron and X-ray facilities. The NeXus API was released in late 1997.
Main features
NeXus is primarily concerned with how data is organised within a file. To achieve this, NeXus provides:
A defined dictionary of terms
A set of data storage objects
A set of technique-specific sub-formats
A support community and democratic guiding authority
The NeXus format is composed of "Base Class" objects that represent various types of hardware and other convenient groupings of information, such as |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20layer | In intelligent networks (IN) and cellular networks, service layer is a conceptual layer within a network service provider architecture. It aims at providing middleware that serves third-party value-added services and applications at a higher application layer. The service layer provides capability servers owned by a telecommunication network service provider, accessed through open and secure Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) by application layer servers owned by third-party content providers. The service layer also provides an interface to core networks at a lower resource layer. The lower layers may also be named control layer and transport layer (the transport layer is also referred to as the access layer in some architectures).
The concept of service layer is used in contexts such as Intelligent networks (IN), WAP, 3G and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS). It is defined in the 3GPP Open Services Architecture (OSA) model, which reused the idea of the Parlay API for third-party servers.
In software design, for example Service-oriented architecture, the concept of service layer has a different meaning.
Service layer in IMS
The service layer of an IMS architecture provides multimedia services to the overall IMS network. This layer contains network elements which connect to the Serving-CSCF (Call Session Control Function) using the IP multimedia Subsystem Service Control Interface (ISC). The ISC interface uses the SIP signalling protocol.
Elements of the IMS service layer
The network elements contained within the service layer are generically referred to as 'service platforms' however the 3GPP specification (3GPP TS 23.228 V8.7.0) defines several types of service platforms:
SIP Application Server
OSA Service Capability Server
IM-SSF
SIP Application Server
The SIP Application Server (AS) performs the same function as a Telephony Application Server in a pre-IMS network, however it is specifically tailored to support the SIP signalling protocol for use in an IMS network.
OSA Service Capability Server
An OSA Service Capability Server acts as a secure gateway between the IMS network and an application which runs upon the Open Services Architecture (this is typically a SIP to Parlay gateway)
IM-SSF
The IM-SSF (IP Multimedia Service Switching Function) acts as a gateway between the IMS network and application servers using other telecommunication signalling standards such as INAP and CAMEL.
Service layer in SOA
In service-oriented architecture (SOA), the service layer is the third layer in a five-abstraction-layer model. The model consists of Object layer, Component layer, Service layer, Process layer and Enterprise layer. The service layer can be considered as a bridge between the higher and lower layers, and is characterized by a number of services that are carrying out individual business functions.
See also
Service layers pattern
IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)
Open Services Architecture (OSA)
Hierarchical internetworking model
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurostep | Eurostep (European Solidarity Towards Equal Participation of People) was a network of autonomous European non-governmental development organisations working towards peace, justice and equality in a world free of poverty. Its membership, rooted in their own societies, worked together to influence Europe's role in the world, particularly in pursuing the eradication of injustice and poverty.
The organization advocated changes in Europe's development policies and practice based on the perspectives drawn from direct experiences of an active involvement of its members and their partners in development in over 100 countries across the world.
Members of the network included NGOs such as Alliance Sud (Switzerland), ACSUR Las Segovias (Spain), CFSI (France), Concern (Ireland), Deutsche Welthungerhilfe (Germany), FDSC (Romania), KEPA (Finland), Hivos (The Netherlands), Mani Tese (Italy), Marie Stopes International (United Kingdom), Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke (Denmark), Network of East West Women (Poland), OIKOS (Portugal), Oxfam Novib (the Netherlands), People in Need (Czech Republic), Sloga (Slovenia), SNV (the Netherlands), Terre des hommes (Germany) and 11.11.11 (Belgium). Eurostep was a member of CONCORD, the European NGO Confederation for Relief and Development.
Founded in 1990 and based in Brussels, the organization was no longer in operation by August 2017, with a message on its website stating "Eurostep is no longer active under that name. The association has been transformed to being the European External Programme with Africa."
See also
ACP-EU Development Cooperation
European Development Fund
References
External links
Eurostep Website via Wayback Machine
The Independent European Development Portal via Wayback Machine
European Commission DG dev
Development organizations
International organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IoSafe | ioSafe is a manufacturer of disaster protected hard drives and network attached storage (NAS) appliances. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Roseville, California. ioSafe's storage systems are optimized for heat from fire and complete submersion in fresh or saltwater with the ability to recover data located on the disk drive inside.
History
ioSafe, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 by the primary inventor and CEO, Robb Moore. In response to independent research regarding data loss and catastrophic business loss from fire, flood and other natural disasters their first product (released in 2005) was the ioSafe S1, the first external hard drive to have both fire and flood protection. The ioSafe S1 hard drive was later redesigned and re-released in a dual drive RAID configuration called the S2.
In 2006, in response to enterprise business demand for a fire and flood resistant network storage, the ioSafe R4 was introduced. Shortly after this NAS appliance entered production, ioSafe was granted and published patents in May 2007 for their FloSafe (fireproof) and HydroSafe (waterproof) technology.
The company was purchased by Vancouver, Washington-based CRU in July 2018. This acquisition was a strategic combination of the hardware safeguards provided by ioSafe and CRU which could subsequently address the combined and non-overlapping customer bases of the two companies.
Company Milestones
2004 — ioSafe introduces first fire and flood protected external hard drive
2005 — ioSafe incorporates in the State of California
April 2006 — Awarded Golden Mousetrap Award by Design News magazine
November 2006 — Introduces a Network Attached Storage system with shock-protection, fire protection and water submersion protection
May 2007 — Patents granted and published for protecting active electronic devices inside a fire safe
November 2007 — Patents granted and published for protecting active electronics from water
July 2008 — Introduces a 3.5” internal hard drive with integrated disaster protection
January 2009 — Introduces a 1.5 TB disaster protected external hard drive
January 2010— Introduces a disaster protected external solid state drive
January 2011— Introduces a disaster protected portable hard drive
January 2012— Introduces a disaster protected Thunderbolt (interface), rugged portable SSD, with Intel
January 2013— NAS product named PC Magazine Editor's Choice
July 2018— Acquired by CRU Acquisition Group, LLC (now CRU Data Security Group, LLC)
Products and product characteristics
ioSafe sells fire- and water-proof storage servers and network attached storage devices. Temperature protection has been typically at least the ASTM E119 industry minimum of 1,550 degrees Fahrenheit. Their products are not all designed in-house; for instance some products have been designed by the Taiwanese company Synology.
The company has developed several protective technologies, such as a patented rugged case, and three protective technologies for internal hard drive |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20science%20education | Computer science education or computing education is the field of teaching and learning the discipline of computer science, and computational thinking. The field of computer science education encompasses a wide range of topics, from basic programming skills to advanced algorithm design and data analysis. It is a rapidly growing field that is essential to preparing students for careers in the technology industry and other fields that require computational skills.
Computer science education is essential to preparing students for the 21st century workforce. As technology becomes increasingly integrated into all aspects of society, the demand for skilled computer scientists is growing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment of computer and information technology occupations is projected to "grow 21 percent from 2021 to 2031", much faster than the average for all occupations.
In addition to preparing students for careers in the technology industry, computer science education also promotes computational thinking skills, which are valuable in many fields, including business, healthcare, and education. By learning to think algorithmically and solve problems systematically, students can become more effective problem solvers and critical thinkers.
Background
The history of computer science education can be traced back to the early days of computing, when programming was primarily done by scientists and mathematicians. As computers became more widely used in industry and government, the need for skilled programmers grew, and universities began to offer courses in computer science.
In comparison to science education and mathematics education, computer science (CS) education is a much younger field. In the history of computing, digital computers were only built from around the 1940s – although computation has been around for centuries since the invention of analog computers.
Another differentiator of computer science education is that it has primarily only been taught at university level until recently, with some notable exceptions in Israel, Poland and the United Kingdom with the BBC Micro in the 1980s as part of Computer science education in the United Kingdom. Computer science has been a part of the school curricula from age 14 or age 16 in a few countries for a few decades, but has typically as an elective subject.
Primary and secondary computer science education is relatively new in the United States with many K-12 CS teachers facing obstacles to integrating CS instruction such as professional isolation, limited CS professional development resources, and low levels of CS teaching self-efficacy. According to a 2021 report, only 51% of high schools in the US offer computer science.
Elementary CS teachers in particular have lower CS teaching efficacy and have fewer chances to implement CS into their instruction than their middle and high school peers. Connecting CS teachers to resources and peers using methods such as Virtual Commu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMAA | SMAA may refer to:
The Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts
Enhanced Subpixel Morphological Antialiasing, a computer graphics antialiasing technique
Stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis, a multiple criteria decision aiding method
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Association, an American trade union, 1886-1894 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Principles%20of%20Distributed%20Computing | The ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC) is an academic conference in the field of distributed computing organised annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS).
Scope and related conferences
Work presented at PODC typically studies theoretical aspects of distributed computing, such as the design and analysis of distributed algorithms. The scope of PODC is similar to the scope of International Symposium on Distributed Computing (DISC), with the main difference being geographical: DISC is usually organized in European locations, while PODC has been traditionally held in North America. The Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing is presented alternately at PODC and at DISC.
Other closely related conferences include ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA), which – as the name suggests – puts more emphasis on parallel algorithms than distributed algorithms. PODC and SPAA have been co-located in 1998, 2005, and 2009.
Reputation and selectivity
PODC is often mentioned to be one of the top conferences in the field of distributed computing. In the 2007 Australian Ranking of ICT Conferences, PODC was the only conference in the field that received the highest ranking, "A+".
During the recent years 2004–2009, the number of regular papers submitted to PODC has fluctuated between 110 and 224 each year. Of these submissions, 27–40 papers have been accepted for presentation at the conference each year; acceptance rates for regular papers have been between 16% and 31%.
History
PODC was first organised on 18–20 August 1982, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. PODC was part of the Federated Computing Research Conference in 1996, 1999 and 2011.
Between 1982 and 2009, PODC was always held in a North American location – usually in the United States or Canada, and once in Mexico. In 2010, PODC was held in Europe for the first time in its history, and in the same year, its European sister conference DISC was organised in the United States for the first time in its history. PODC 2010 took place in Zürich, Switzerland, and DISC 2010 took place in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Since 2000, a review of the PODC conference appears in the year-ending issue of the ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column. The review is usually written by a member of the distributed computing research community.
See also
The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
PODC proceedings in ACM Digital Library.
PODC proceedings information in DBLP.
Distributed computing conferences
Theoretical computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship%20gun%20fire-control%20system | Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) are analogue fire-control systems that were used aboard naval warships prior to modern electronic computerized systems, to control targeting of guns against surface ships, aircraft, and shore targets, with either optical or radar sighting. Most US ships that are destroyers or larger (but not destroyer escorts except Brooke class DEG's later designated FFG's or escort carriers) employed gun fire-control systems for and larger guns, up to battleships, such as .
Beginning with ships built in the 1960s, warship guns were largely operated by computerized systems, i.e. systems that were controlled by electronic computers, which were integrated with the ship's missile fire-control systems and other ship sensors. As technology advanced, many of these functions were eventually handled fully by central electronic computers.
The major components of a gun fire-control system are a human-controlled director, along with or later replaced by radar or television camera, a computer, stabilizing device or gyro, and equipment in a plotting room.
For the US Navy, the most prevalent gunnery computer was the Ford Mark 1, later the Mark 1A Fire Control Computer, which was an electro-mechanical analog ballistic computer that provided accurate firing solutions and could automatically control one or more gun mounts against stationary or moving targets on the surface or in the air. This gave American forces a technological advantage in World War II against the Japanese, who did not develop remote power control for their guns; both the US Navy and Japanese Navy used visual correction of shots using shell splashes or air bursts, while the US Navy augmented visual spotting with radar. Digital computers would not be adopted for this purpose by the US until the mid-1970s; however, it must be emphasized that all analog anti-aircraft fire control systems had severe limitations, and even the US Navy's Mark 37 system required nearly 1000 rounds of mechanical fuze ammunition per kill, even in late 1944.
The Mark 37 Gun Fire Control System incorporated the Mark 1 computer, the Mark 37 director, a gyroscopic stable element along with automatic gun control, and was the first US Navy dual-purpose GFCS to separate the computer from the director.
History of analogue fire control systems
Naval fire control resembles that of ground-based guns, but with no sharp distinction between direct and indirect fire. It is possible to control several same-type guns on a single platform simultaneously, while both the firing guns and the target are moving.
Though a ship rolls and pitches at a slower rate than a tank does, gyroscopic stabilization is extremely desirable. Naval gun fire control potentially involves three levels of complexity:
Local control originated with primitive gun installations aimed by the individual gun crews.
The director system of fire control was incorporated first into battleship designs by the Royal Navy in 1912. All guns on a si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JooJoo | The JooJoo was a Linux-based tablet computer. It was produced by Singapore development studio Fusion Garage. Originally, Fusion Garage was working with Michael Arrington to release it as the CrunchPad, but in November 2009 Fusion Garage informed Arrington it would be selling the product alone. Arrington has responded by filing a lawsuit against Fusion Garage.
History
Crunchpad
The CrunchPad project was started by Michael Arrington in July 2008, initially aiming for a US$200 tablet, and showed a first prototype (Prototype A) a month later.
Beginning 2009, working Prototype B was introduced by the TechCrunch team led by Louis Monier, based on a 12 inch LCD screen, a VIA Nano CPU, Ubuntu Linux and a custom Webkit-based browser. The device was rapidly prototyped by Dynacept and a customized version of the Ubuntu distribution was compiled by Fusion Garage. After announcing Prototype B, there arose a desire for the tablet to come into production. Louis Monier worked closely with Fusion Garage as the team's lead designer.
April 9, 2009 - Prototype C is shown, looking very much like the original concept pictures. Michael Arrington wrote that the hardware, software and industrial design improvements seen in Prototype C were all driven by Fusion Garage. "... one thing I’ve learned about hardware in the last year is that you need partners to actually make things happen, and the credit for what we saw today goes entirely to the Fusion Garage team.", he said.
June 3, 2009 - near-final industrial design
November 17, 2009 - Fusion Garage CEO Chandra Rathakrishnan emails Techcrunch, and informs them "out of the blue" that Fusion Garage's investors want to pull out of the partnership, and that they are under the impression that Techcrunch does not own rights to the project, but are simply helping advertise it.
Initially in 2008, $200 was mentioned as the target price-point. In the first half of 2009, $300 was mentioned as more likely.
By the end of July 2009, news stories said the actual price when it would ship in November 2009 would be about $400, putting it in potential competition with netbooks and low-end laptops.
The project generated some press and was mentioned in Washington Post and other media.
In July 2009, it was reported that Arrington founded a company of 14 employees around the tablet (Crunchpad Inc.) in Singapore, and that there would be a public presentation of a finished product later in the month.
By late September 2009, the lack of publicity on the CrunchPad led Dan Frommer of The Business Insider to ask, in an article headline, "Where's The CrunchPad?" Apple and Microsoft were rumored to be working on new tablet computers, receiving more media coverage.
In early October 2009, Popular Mechanics magazine recognized the CrunchPad with an award as one of the top
10 Most Brilliant Products of 2009,
"the top 10 most brilliant gadgets, tools and toys that you can buy in 2009." Other organizations questioned the appropriateness of the award |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEC%2040 | WEC 40: Torres vs. Mizugaki was a mixed martial arts event held by World Extreme Cagefighting on April 5, 2009 at the UIC Pavilion in Chicago, Illinois. The event aired live on the Versus Network.
Background
This was the first WEC event to exclusively feature fights in the lightweight, featherweight, and bantamweight weight classes. The organization's heavier weight classes had been folded into the UFC over the previous four months. World Extreme Cagefighting would maintain this weight class structure for the remainder of the promotion's existence.
WEC Bantamweight Champion Miguel Torres was to defend his title against Brian Bowles at this event, but Bowles was forced to withdraw from the bout due to a back injury, and was replaced by WEC newcomer Takeya Mizugaki. The Torres/Bowles bout was rescheduled for WEC 42 that August, where Bowles won the title by knockout.
Early reports suggested that Wagnney Fabiano could face former WEC Featherweight Champion Urijah Faber at this event, though he was later confirmed to be facing Fredson Paixao instead.
Anthony Pettis was scheduled to make his WEC debut at this event against Anthony Njokuani, but was forced from the card with a broken hand and was replaced by Bart Palaszewski.
Cole Province was originally slated to face Rafael Dias at this event, but bowed out due to an injury and was replaced by Mike Budnik.
A featherweight bout between Cub Swanson and Diego Nunes was once scheduled for this card, but was cancelled after Nunes suffered a hand injury three days prior to the event.
The event drew an estimated 470,000 viewers on Versus.
Results
Bonus Awards
Fighters were awarded $10,000 bonuses.
Fight of the Night: Miguel Torres vs. Takeya Mizugaki
Knockout of the Night: Anthony Njokuani
Submission of the Night: Rani Yahya
See also
World Extreme Cagefighting
List of World Extreme Cagefighting champions
List of WEC events
2009 in WEC
External links
Official WEC website
References
World Extreme Cagefighting events
2009 in mixed martial arts
Mixed martial arts in Chicago
Sports competitions in Chicago
2009 in sports in Illinois
Events in Chicago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Bonneau | Richard Bonneau is an American computational biologist and data scientist whose primary research is in the following areas: learning networks from functional genomics data, predicting and designing protein and peptiodomimetic structure and applying data science to social networks. A professor at New York University, he holds appointments in the department of biology, the Center for Data Science and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.
Biography
Bonneau is Vice-President, Machine Learning for Drug Discovery at Genentech and Group leader for the Systems Biology group in the center for computational biology at the Flatiron Institute. He was previously director of New York University Center for Data Science.
Scientific work
In the area of structure prediction, Bonneau was one of the early authors on the Rosetta code, one of the first codes to demonstrate the ability to predict protein structure in the absence of sequence homology. Using IBM's World Community Grid to carry out folding of whole proteomes, his group has also applied structure prediction to the problem of genome and proteome annotation.
His group has made key contributions to the areas of genomics data analysis, focusing on two primary areas: 1. methods for network inference that uncover dynamics and topology from data and 2. methods that learn condition dependent co-regulated groups from integrations of different genomics data-types.
In 2013, he and his colleagues at NYU started a project to examine the impact of social media use on political attitudes and participation by applying methods from a range of academic disciplines. The project-- Social Media and Political Participation (SMaPP) --relies on both survey data and publicly available social media data to address a range of questions concerning the causal processes that shape political participation.
Network inference and systems biology
Along with Vestienn Thorsson, David Reiss and Nitin Baliga he developed the Inferelator and cMonkey, two algorithms that were critical to an effort to learn a genome-wide model of the Halobacterium regulatory network. Baliga and Bonneau used their model to predict the genome-wide transcriptional dynamics of the cell’s response to new environments (publication in Cell in December 2007). This work represents the first fully data driven reconstruction of a cells regulatory network to include learning of kinetic/dynamical parameters as well as network topology.
References
Structure prediction
Bonneau, R & Baker, D. (2001). Ab Initio Protein Structure Prediction: Progress and Prospects. Annu. Rev. Biophys. Biomol. Struct. 30, 173-89.
Bonneau, R., Dylan Chivian, Charlie EM Strauss, Carol Rohl, David Baker. (2002) De Novo Prediction of Three Dimensional Structures for Major Protein Families. JMB, 322(1):65-78.
Bonneau R, Baliga NS, Deutsch EW, Shannon P, Hood L. (2004) Comprehensive de novo structure prediction in a systems-biology context for the archaea Halobacterium sp. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redcliffe%20Peninsula%20railway%20line | The Redcliffe Peninsula line is a stretch of heavy gauge dual-track railway between Petrie and Kippa-Ring on the Redcliffe peninsula. The new line is part of Queensland Rail's City suburban network, branching from the North Coast line. It starts north of Petrie railway station, extending from ( to north of Central railway station).
The line has six stations: Kallangur, Murrumba Downs, Mango Hill, Mango Hill East (previously called Kinsellas Road), Rothwell and Kippa-Ring. Funding for the project consisted of $742 million from the Commonwealth Government, $300 million from the Queensland Government (plus another $120 million for land) and $105 million from the Moreton Bay Regional Council.
The line was officially opened on 3 October 2016, about 130 years after it was first proposed. The first train to depart from Kippa-Ring was SMU 285 and 295, with the Prime Minister, Queensland Premier and the first train ballot winners on board.
Early history
A rail line to Redcliffe was first proposed in 1895 when the Queensland Government's Minister for Railways, the Hon. Robert Philp, considered three proposals, preferring a route via North Pine (Petrie). In more recent times, the route for a Redcliffe railway was identified in the 1970s, and the required land was purchased and preserved as a transport corridor by the state government in the 1980s. The issue of the proposed railway line seemed to be a recurrent theme during state elections, leading to scepticism the line would ever be constructed.
Petrie to Kippa-Ring Public Transport Corridor Study
In 1999, the newly elected state government commissioned an investigative study into the transport corridor between Petrie to Kippa-Ring, conducted by GHD Group. Key components under investigation included the mode of transport, the route and location of stations, future public transport usage, and the timing of construction.
The study was conducted in two parts. The first was completed in June 2000. It aimed to meet the state government's obligations to identify or forgo rights to a transport corridor running through the North Lakes residential development. This first stage was to decide on the preferred mode of transport, the viability of public transport along the corridor, and the preferred alignment of the corridor. Four modes of transport were investigated: heavy rail, buses or a busway, light rail, and monorail. It was decided that heavy rail was the preferred mode of transport along the existing preserved corridor as it was the only option to give an acceptable level of economic efficiency. The study found that heavy rail had a benefit-cost ratio of 1.46, and would generate the highest levels of patronage due to its integration into the existing Citytrain network, requiring no change mode.
The second part of the study was completed in October 2003. It looked at the route of the corridor between Petrie railway station and Kallangur railway station at Goodfellows Road. The original, preserved route |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%2068%20Ventures%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's 68 Ventures Bowl throughout the years.
Television broadcasts
Radio broadcasts
The radio broadcasts have been done under a branding of the sponsor's name plus "bowl network". The broadcast team is provided by Grace Unlimited Media. Originally Nevada Sports Network produced the bowl broadcasts with Alex Shelton acting as the producer, but those are also now handled by Grace Unlimited Media.
References
Broadcasters
LendingTree Bowl
LendingTree Bowl
LendingTree Bowl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Rangers%20%28video%20game%29 | Star Rangers is a space flight simulator and strategy computer game for DOS developed by Interactive Magic and published in October 1995.
Plot
Players take on the role of a Star Ranger, the equivalent of law enforcement in the 23rd century, a pilot of a high-tech spaceship which he uses to repel Tuareg bandits along shared borders.
Gameplay
The game starts in a practice mode in which the player continually faces waves of enemies until death. This is an 'arcade' option of the game, which doesn't explore the storyline. The game offers a campaign mode which comprises a group of missions in which these encounters escalate. These missions evolve from incursion defense, to escort duty, to outright assaults.
Players are provided only the Star Ranger spaceship throughout the campaign, but are offered a fair amount of customization of loadout and tuning. The player can divert energy to defenses (shield recharge) and offense (plasma gun recharge, autocannon reload). These levels can be adjusted for maximum performance or efficiency, energy being consumed faster in the former than in the latter. Players acquire a wider variety of missiles for their arsenal as they progress, from 'sharpsticks' to torpedoes.
Strategy evolves from the mapping system built-in, where pilots can travel across a certain area of space. Enemies can attack multiple targets including friendly bases and sensor buoys. Buoys contain map information and so when destroyed or not present act as a rudimentary fog of war. The player has the option, at expense of energy, to warp and near-instantaneously travel across the map to attack, defend, or refuel at a friendly base.
Development
The developers designed the game to allow players to select their next mission in an open-ended format. Producer Michael Chen explained, "We were trying to make a break from the genre that tells you where you have to be and when."
References
External links
1995 video games
Space flight simulator games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games about police officers
Video games developed in the United States
IEntertainment Network games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Watt | Dave or David Watt may refer to:
Davey Watt (born 1978), Australian motorcycle speedway rider
David Watt (computer scientist) (born 1946), British computer scientist
David Watt (judge), Canadian lawyer, judge, author, and professor
David Watt (Australian cricketer) (1916-2015), Australian cricketer
David Watt (New Zealand cricketer) (1920-1996), New Zealand cricketer and periodontist
Davie Watt (1885-1917), Scottish golfer
See also
David Watts (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20M%20series | Juniper M series is a line of multiservice edge routers designed and manufactured by Juniper Networks, for enterprise and service provider networks. It spans over M7i, M10i, M40e, M120, and M320 platforms with 5 Gbit/s up to 160 Gbit/s of full-duplex throughput. The M40 router was the first product by Juniper Networks, which was released in 1998.
The M-series routers run on JUNOS Operating System.
Models and platforms
The M-series platform of Juniper routers includes the models like M7i, M10i, M40e, M120, and M320 routers. M40 and M20 platform routers have reached the end of sale.
M40
M40 was the first product by Juniper Networks, which was released in 1998. The M40 was the first of its kind capable of scaling to meet the internet standards, which can move 40 million packets per second with a throughput rate in excess of 20 Gbit/s full-duplex. With the initial offering of m40, Juniper came up with the Internet Processor I. The proprietary ASIC was the fundamental core of Juniper's Packet Forwarding Engine (PFE). The PFE consisted of a shared memory, a single forwarding table, and a one-write, one-read architecture. The entire PFE was capable of forwarding at 40 Mpps, a capacity more than 100 times faster than that of any other available router architectures at that time. The M40 is one of the first routers on this scale, about 10 times faster than Cisco's 12000.
The M series was also the first in the industry to offer a true decoupling of the control plane and the forwarding plane.
M20
M20 was the second router introduced by Juniper Networks which was released in December 1999. The M20 also uses the Internet Processor II ASIC and is capable of throughput in excess of 10Gbit/s full-duplex. The M20 was the first Juniper router available with redundancy (power supply, routing engine, and system and switch board [SSB] ).
M160
The M160 router, which was introduced in March 2000 as the third box in the M series from Juniper Networks, outperforms its contemporary peers in areas of BGP table capacity, MPLS LSP capacity, route flapping recovery at OC-192 speeds, convergence at both OC-192 and OC-48 speeds, and filtering at both OC-192 and OC-48 speeds. In additional tests, the M160 has matched or exceeded the competition in the areas of CoS at OC-48 and OC-192 speeds and IP and MPLS baseline testing at OC-48 and OC-192 speeds.
Unfortunately the M160 unexpectedly turned out to cause packet reordering especially on OC192 interfaces, because the packets are forwarded using four Packet Forwarding Engines operating in parallel.
Packet reordering may affect the performance of transport protocol and applications.
M5 and M10
They were introduced at the same time in September 2000, because they had similar architectures with two different throughput capabilities (5Mpps and 2.5 Gbit/s on the M5, 10Mpps and 5Gbit/s on the M10). Both routers employs the Internet Processor II ASIC, providing forwarding table lookups at 40Mpps. There are two forwarding en |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epagogix | Epagogix is a UK-based company founded in 2003 that uses neural networks and analytical software to predict which movies will provide a good possibility of return on investments and which movie scripts or plots will be successful. It was featured in an article by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker. It has also been featured in Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres' book about number analysis, in CIO magazine and in Kevin Slavin's TED talk.
The Epagogix system uses a "computer enhanced algorithm" which uses data from an archive of films which analysts have broken down into hundreds of categories or plot points, such as "love scene" or "car chase". A film's script is assigned scores for these categories by an Epagogix employee, and the scores fed into a computer algorithm which estimates how much that film might take at the box office, plus or minus around ten per cent. The software may also recommend script changes.
As part of a reported testing process, the Epagogix software predicted that the $50 million 2007 film Lucky You would "bomb" and take only $7 million. Upon release, the film took $6 million. The company also interpreted the software's analysis of Casablanca as considering it "gloomy, downbeat and too long".
References
External links
Epagogix Official Website
Mass media companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Receiver%20Design | Iterative Receiver Design is a 2007 engineering book by Henk Wymeersch published by Cambridge University Press. The book provides a framework for developing iterative algorithms for digital receivers, exploiting the power of factor graphs.
Chapters
Introduction
Digital communication
Estimation theory and Monte Carlo techniques
Factor graphs and the Sum-Product algorithm
Statistical inference using factor graphs
State-space models
Factor graphs in digital communication
Decoding
Demapping
Equalization: general formulation
Equalization: single-user single-antenna communication
Equalization: multi-antenna communication
Equalization: multi-user communication
Synchronization and channel estimation
Appendices
References
2007 non-fiction books
Electrical engineering books
Cambridge University Press books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%20series | M series may refer to:
Computers
M series (Apple silicon)
M series (computer), a line of computers designed in the USSR
ThinkCentre M series, a line of desktop computers
Sony Vaio M series, a line of desktop computers and a line of netbook computers
Mobile phones
Samsung Galaxy M series
Sony Ericsson M series
Meizu M series
Transportation
M series (Toronto subway)
Bedford M series, a truck chassis
Cummins M-series engine, a diesel engine for buses and trucks
Dodge M-series chassis, a motorhome chassis
Rover M-series engine, a line of 4-cylinder gasoline car engines
Studebaker M-series truck
TVR M series, a series of sports cars
Other uses
M-series bayonet
Juniper M series, a series of routers
Leica M series, a series of cameras
QI (M series), the twelfth series of quiz show QI
See also
L series (disambiguation)
N series (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Networks%20%28journal%29 | Computer Networks is a scientific journal of computer and telecommunications networking published by Elsevier.
See also
List of scientific journals
References
External links
Computer science journals
Elsevier academic journals
English-language journals
Journals published between 13 and 25 times per year |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Communications | Journal of Communications is a scholarly peer-reviewed scientific journal published monthly, focusing on theories, systems, methods, algorithms, and applications in communications. It was initially published by Academy Publisher, based in Oulu, Finland, but since 2013 has been published by Engineering and Technology Publishing (ETP), of San Jose, California. ETP was listed on Beall's list before it was taken down in 2017.
The journal is indexed by Scopus, INSPEC, and Communication Abstracts.
References
Electrical and electronic engineering journals
Open access journals
Academic journals established in 2006
Monthly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEN2PHEN | Genotype to Phenotype Databases: a Holistic Approach (GEN2PHEN) is a European project aiming to develop a knowledge web portal integrating information from the genotype to the phenotype in a unifying portal: The Knowledge Centre].
Summary and Objectives
The GEN2PHEN project aims to unify human and model organism genetic variation databases towards increasingly holistic views into Genotype-To-Phenotype (G2P) data, and to link this system into other biomedical knowledge sources via genome browser functionality. The project will establish the technological building-blocks needed for the evolution of today’s diverse G2P databases into a future seamless G2P biomedical knowledge environment, by the projects end. This will consist of a European-centred but globally networked hierarchy of bioinformatics GRID-linked databases, tools and standards, all tied into the Ensembl genome browser. The project has the following specific objectives:
To analyse the G2P field and thus determine emerging needs and practices
To develop key standards for the G2P database field
To create generic database components, services and integration infrastructures for the G2P database domain
To create search modalities and data presentation solutions for G2P knowledge
To facilitate the process of populating G2P databases
To build a major G2P internet portal
To deploy GEN2PHEN solutions to the community
To address system durability and long-term financing
To undertake a whole-system utility and validation pilot study
The GEN2PHEN Consortium members have been selected from a talented pool of European research groups and companies that are interested in the G2P database challenge. Additionally, a few non-EU participants have been included to bring extra capabilities to the initiative. The final constellation is characterised by broad and proven competence, a network of established working relationships, and high-level roles/connections within other significant projects in this domain...
Background and Concept
By providing a complete Homo sapiens ‘parts list’ (the gene sequences) and a powerful ‘toolkit’ (technologies), the Human Genome Project has revolutionised mankind’s ability to explore how genes cause disease and other phenotypes. Studies in this domain are proceeding at a rapid and ever-increasing pace, generating unprecedented amounts of raw and processed data. It is now imperative that the scientific community finds ways to effectively manage and exploit this flood of information for knowledge creation and practical benefit to society. This fundamental goal lies at the heart of the “Genotype-To-Phenotype Databases: A Holistic Solution (GEN2PHEN)” project.
Previous genetics studies have shown that inter-individual genome variation plays a major role in differential normal development and disease processes. However, the details of how these relationships work are far from clear, even in the case of most Mendelian disorders where single genetic alterations are fully |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc%20Snir | Marc Snir is an Israeli-American computer scientist. He holds a Michael Faiman and Saburo Muroga Professorship in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently pursues research in parallel computing. He was the principal investigator (PI) for the software of the petascale Blue Waters system and co-director of the Intel and Microsoft-funded Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC).
From 2007 to 2008, he was director of the Illinois Informatics Institute. He was Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory from 2011 to 2016 and head of the Computer Science Department at Illinois from 2001 to 2007. Until 2001, he was a senior manager at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where he led the Scalable Parallel Systems research group responsible for major contributions to the IBM Scalable POWERparallel and the Blue Gene supercomputers. He was awarded the Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for his "contributions to the research, development, theory, and standardization of high-performance parallel computing, including the IBM RS/6000 SP and Blue Gene system."
Snir received a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, worked at NYU on the NYU Ultracomputer project from 1980–1982, and worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1982–1986 before joining IBM. Marc Snir was a major contributor to the design of the Message Passing Interface. He has published numerous papers and given many presentations on computational complexity, parallel algorithms, parallel architectures, interconnection networks, parallel languages and libraries and parallel programming environments.
Snir is an AAAS Fellow, ACM Fellow, and IEEE Fellow. He is on the Computing Research Association Board of Directors and the NSF CISE advisory committee.
Current Research Affiliations
Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at Illinois
Blue Waters Project at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Illinois Informatics Institute
Information Trust Institute
References
External links
Biography
Parallel Computing Research at Illinois: The UPCRC Agenda
Parallel@Illinois
Illinois Department of Computer Science
Marc Snir Discusses the Blue Waters Project with NCSA's Access Magazine
PatHPC: Workshop on Patterns in High Performance Computing
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
IBM employees
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Israeli computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto%20Bicycling%20Network | The Toronto Bicycling Network (TBN) is Toronto's largest recreational cycling organization. It was formed in 1983 by cycling enthusiasts Richard Aaron and Norm Myshok. By 2008, the TBN had grown to over 900 members.
See also
Cycling in Toronto
Toronto Donut Ride
References
External links
Toronto Bicycling Network website
Cycling organizations in Canada
T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b%20Networks | O3b Networks Ltd. was a network communications service provider building and operating a medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite constellation primarily intended to provide voice and data communications to mobile operators and Internet service providers. O3b Networks became a wholly owned subsidiary of SES S.A. in 2016 and the operator name was subsequently dropped in favour of SES Networks, a division of SES. The satellites themselves, now part of the SES fleet, continue to use the O3b name.
Overview
The network combines the relatively large reach of satellite with high speed and medium latency to deliver satellite Internet services and mobile backhaul services to emerging markets. The name "O3b" stands for "Other 3 billion", referring to the population of the world where broadband Internet is not currently available.
Orbiting at an altitude of , less than one quarter of the altitude of geostationary satellites, the O3b satellite constellation of 20 Ka-band based satellites significantly reduces communication latency.
After initially planning to launch in 2010, the first four satellites were launched on 25 June 2013. A second four satellites were launched in July 2014, and another four in December 2014 bringing the satellite constellation to 12 satellites. Three years later, four additional satellites were launched in March 2018, and in April 2019, the final four were launched to bring the constellation to 20 satellites, including the three current backup satellites which are used as in-orbit spares.
In September 2017, SES announced O3b mPOWER, the next generation of O3b satellites for broadband internet services, and placed an order for an initial seven from Boeing Satellite Systems. Then expected to launch in 2021, the O3b mPOWER constellation of MEO satellites would "be able to deliver anywhere from hundreds of megabits to 10 Gbits to any ship at sea" through 30,000 spot beams, with software-defined routing to direct traffic between the MEO satellites and SES' geostationary fleet. In August 2020, SES announced the order for four more O3b mPOWER satellites from Boeing and the fleet's launches by Falcon 9 rocket from SpaceX to start in early 2022. The launch schedule was subsequently revised and on 16 December 2022, the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched. The O3b mPower service is expected to begin operations alongside the existing O3b constellation in Q3 2023.
Ownership
O3b was founded by Greg Wyler in 2007.
The company was financially backed by SES, Google, HSBC, Liberty Global, Allen & Company, North Bridge Venture Partners, Soroof International, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Sofina and Satya Capital.
In April 2016, SES announced that (subject to regulatory approvals which were expected to be completed by the end of 2016) it would pay US$20 million to increase its fully diluted ownership of O3b from 49.1% to 50.5%, taking a controlling share in the company. In May 2016, SES said it would raise another US$71 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight%20Java | Lightweight Java (LJ) is a fully formalized and extensible minimal imperative fragment of Java. The language was designed for academic purposes within the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. The definition of LJ was proven type-sound in Isabelle/HOL.
See also
Lightweight programming language
References
Java (programming language)
C programming language family
Class-based programming languages
Object-oriented programming languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20distributed%20computing%20conferences | This is a selected list of international academic conferences in the fields of distributed computing, parallel computing, and concurrent computing.
Selection criteria
The conferences listed here are major conferences of the area; they have been selected using the following criteria:-
the notability of the conference has been confirmed by multiple independent sources; for example, it has been mentioned in textbooks or other sources, or it has received a high ranking
the conference focuses on distributed and parallel computing (instead of having a much broader scope such as algorithms in general)
the conference covers a reasonably large part of the fields of distributed and parallel computing (instead of focusing on a narrow sub-topic).
For the first criterion, references are provided; criteria 2–3 are usually clear from the name of the conference.
Conferences
CCGrid — IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ARC SIGARCH
Organized annually since 2001
DISC — International Symposium on Distributed Computing
formerly: WDAG — Workshop on Distributed Algorithms on Graphs
organized in cooperation with the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS)
ICDCS — International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP)
organized in 1979, 1981, 1983, and annually since 1984
ICPADS — International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
organized in 1992
IPDPS — International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
organized annually since 1987, next edition: 21-25 May. 2018, Vancouver, Canada
sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) and Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
proceedings published by IEEE
OPODIS — International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
organized annually since 1997
PODC — ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing
sponsored by the ACM special interest groups SIGACT and SIGOPS
organized annually since 1982
HPDC — ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing
sponsored by the ACM for design, implementation, evaluation, and the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing
PPoPP — ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming
sponsored by the ACM special interest group SIGPLAN
organised in 1988 and 1990; biennially in 1991–2005; and annually since 2006
SIROCCO — International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity
proceedings published by Springer in the LNCS series
organized annually since 1994
SPA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIEL-FM-4 | CIEL-FM-4 is a French-language Canadian radio station located in Trois-Pistoles, Quebec. The station airs a mix of locally produced programming and simulcasting of CIEL-FM in Rivière-du-Loup.
Owned and operated by Radio CJFP (1986) ltée (part of the Groupe Radio Simard), it broadcasts on 93.9 MHz with an effective radiated power of 229 watts using an omnidirectional antenna (class A1). The station has an adult contemporary format under the CIEL branding.
History
The station's roots go back to 1970, when CIEL's AM predecessor CJFP was authorized by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to add some programming from a studio in Trois-Pistoles to the main AM signal originating in Rivière-du-Loup. Because the AM signal failed to adequately serve Trois-Pistoles at nighttime, however, an FM rebroadcaster with the call sign CJTF-FM was added at Trois-Pistoles in 1985.
This transmitter was deleted from CJFP's license in 1997, becoming a separate station with a license commitment to air at least 10 hours per week of distinct programming at Trois-Pistoles. The station adopted its current call sign in 2001, at the same time as CJFP became CIEL-FM.
Notes
External links
CIEL
Iel
Iel
Iel
Iel
Radio stations established in 1985
1985 establishments in Quebec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20tax | Windows tax may refer to:
The window tax, an historic British tax on glass
"Windows tax", a term for the cost of Microsoft Windows preinstalled on a computer; see Bundling of Microsoft Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20New%20Orleans%20Bowl%20broadcasters | The following is a list of the television networks and announcers who have broadcast college football's New Orleans Bowl throughout the years.
Television
Radio
References
New Orleans
Broadcasters
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans
New Orleans-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Motors%20Concerts | General Motors Concerts, offering classical music on the radio, were heard in different formats on the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks between 1929 and 1937. The concerts began 1929-31 as a 30-minute series on the Red Network with Frank Black as the musical conductor on Mondays at 9:30pm. It also aired as General Motors Family Party.
The 1935–37 Red series, expanding to a full hour on Sundays at 10 p.m., featured Ernö Rapée conducting, along with violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Erica Morini, tenor Lauritz Melchior, and sopranos Kirsten Flagstad, Lotte Lehmann and Florence Easton.
With a title change to The General Motors Promenade Concerts, the program moved April 1937 to the Blue Network for a series of hour-long thematic shows with male/female leads, including one show of Victor Herbert music with Jan Peerce and Rose Bampton. Broadcast on Sundays at 8pm, this series continued until June 1937.
As General Motors Concert, the final 13-week series brought together radio's first concert stock company on October 3, 1937. With Rapee conducting the General Motors Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, these broadcasts were part of a Sunday Nights at Carnegie Hall series sponsored by General Motors.
Swedish tenor Jussi Björling made his American debut as part of this series on November 28, 1937. The rotating line-up of leading name performers featured Björling, Donald Dickson, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Grace Moore, Erna Sack, Joseph Schmidt and Richard Tauber. In addition to the music, John B. Kennedy narrated science stories. The announcer was Milton Cross. The series presented its final broadcast on December 26, 1937.
See also
The Ford Sunday Evening Hour
References
Listen to
Telephone interview with Grace Moore prior to her October 1937 appearance on General Motors Concert
External links
Echo (Fall 2003): "Music and Advertising in Early Radio" by Timothy D. Taylor
1920s American radio programs
American classical music radio programs
General Motors
1929 radio programme debuts
1937 radio programme endings
NBC Blue Network radio programs
NBC radio programs |
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