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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECS/GEM | The SECS/GEM is the semiconductor's equipment interface protocol for equipment-to-host data communications. In an automated fab, the interface can start and stop equipment processing, collect measurement data, change variables and select recipes for products. The SECS (SEMI Equipment Communications Standard)/GEM (Generic Equipment Model) standards do all this in a defined way.
Developed by the SEMI (Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International) organization, the standards define a common set of equipment behaviour and communications capabilities.
The Generic Model for Communications and Control Of Manufacturing Equipment (GEM) standard is maintained and published by the non-profit organization Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). Generally speaking, the SECS/GEM standard defines messages, state machines and scenarios to enable factory software to control and monitor manufacturing equipment.
The GEM standard is formally designated and referred to as SEMI standard E30, but frequently simply referred to as the GEM or SECS/GEM standard. GEM intends "to produce economic benefits for both device manufacturers and equipment suppliers..." by defining "... a common set of equipment behavior and communications capabilities that provide the functionality and flexibility to support the manufacturing automation programs of semiconductor device manufacturers" [SEMI E30, 1.3]. GEM is a standard implementation of the SECS-II standard, SEMI standard E5. Many equipment in semiconductor (front end and back end), surface mount technology, electronics assembly, photovoltaic, flat panel display and other manufacturing industries worldwide provide a SECS/GEM interface on the manufacturing equipment so that the factory host software can communicate with the machine for monitoring and/or controlling purposes. Because the GEM standard was written with very few semiconductor-specific features, it can be applied to virtually any automated manufacturing equipment in any industry.
All GEM compliant manufacturing equipment share a consistent interface and certain consistent behavior. GEM equipment can communicate with a GEM capable host using either TCP/IP (using the HSMS standard, SEMI E37) or RS-232 based protocol (using the SECS-I standard, SEMI E4). Often both protocols are supported. Each equipment can be monitored and controlled using a common set of SECS-II messages specified by GEM.
There are many additional SEMI standards and factory specifications that reference the GEM standard its features. These additional standards are either industry-specific or equipment-type specific. Following are a few examples.
Semiconductor Front-End
The semiconductor front-end industry defined a series of standards known as the GEM300 standards that includes SEMI standards E40, E87, E90, E94 and E116 and reference the E39 standard. Each standard provides additional features to the GEM interface yet build upon the features in GEM E30 standard. 300 mm f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPTICS%20algorithm | Ordering points to identify the clustering structure (OPTICS) is an algorithm for finding density-based clusters in spatial data. It was presented by Mihael Ankerst, Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel and Jörg Sander.
Its basic idea is similar to DBSCAN, but it addresses one of DBSCAN's major weaknesses: the problem of detecting meaningful clusters in data of varying density. To do so, the points of the database are (linearly) ordered such that spatially closest points become neighbors in the ordering. Additionally, a special distance is stored for each point that represents the density that must be accepted for a cluster so that both points belong to the same cluster. This is represented as a dendrogram.
Basic idea
Like DBSCAN, OPTICS requires two parameters: , which describes the maximum distance (radius) to consider, and , describing the number of points required to form a cluster. A point is a core point if at least points are found within its -neighborhood (including point itself). In contrast to DBSCAN, OPTICS also considers points that are part of a more densely packed cluster, so each point is assigned a core distance that describes the distance to the th closest point:
The reachability-distance of another point from a point is either the distance between and , or the core distance of , whichever is bigger:
If and are nearest neighbors, this is the we need to assume to have and belong to the same cluster.
Both core-distance and reachability-distance are undefined if no sufficiently dense cluster (w.r.t. ) is available. Given a sufficiently large , this never happens, but then every -neighborhood query returns the entire database, resulting in runtime. Hence, the parameter is required to cut off the density of clusters that are no longer interesting, and to speed up the algorithm.
The parameter is, strictly speaking, not necessary. It can simply be set to the maximum possible value. When a spatial index is available, however, it does play a practical role with regards to complexity. OPTICS abstracts from DBSCAN by removing this parameter, at least to the extent of only having to give the maximum value.
Pseudocode
The basic approach of OPTICS is similar to DBSCAN, but instead of maintaining known, but so far unprocessed cluster members in a set, they are maintained in a priority queue (e.g. using an indexed heap).
function OPTICS(DB, ε, MinPts) is
for each point p of DB do
p.reachability-distance = UNDEFINED
for each unprocessed point p of DB do
N = getNeighbors(p, ε)
mark p as processed
output p to the ordered list
if core-distance(p, ε, MinPts) != UNDEFINED then
Seeds = empty priority queue
update(N, p, Seeds, ε, MinPts)
for each next q in Seeds do
N' = getNeighbors(q, ε)
mark q as processed
output q to the ordered list
if core-distance(q, ε, MinPts) != |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation%20algorithms%20for%20atomic%20DEVS | Given an atomic DEVS model, simulation algorithms are methods to generate the model's legal behaviors which are trajectories not to reach to illegal states. (see Behavior of DEVS). [Zeigler84] originally introduced the algorithms that handle time variables related to lifespan and elapsed time by introducing two other time variables, last event time, , and next event time with the following relations:
and
where denotes the current time. And the remaining time,
is equivalently computed as
, apparently .
Since the behavior of a given atomic DEVS model can be defined in two different views depending on the total state and the external transition function (refer to Behavior of DEVS), the simulation algorithms are also introduced in two different views as below.
Common parts
Regardless of two different views of total states, algorithms for initialization and internal transition cases are commonly defined as below.
DEVS-simulator
variables:
parent // parent coordinator
// time of last event
// time of next event
// the associated Atomic DEVS model
when receive init-message(Time )
when receive star-message(Time )
if then
error: bad synchronization;
send y-message() to parent;
View 1: total states = states * elapsed times
As addressed in Behavior of Atomic DEVS, when DEVS receives an input event, right calling , the last event time, is set by the current time,, thus the elapsed time becomes zero because .
when receive x-message(, Time )
if and == false then
error: bad synchronization;
View 2: total states = states * lifespans * elapsed times
Notice that as addressed in Behavior of Atomic DEVS, depending on the value of return by , last event time,, and next event time,,consequently, elapsed time, , and lifespan, are updated (if ) or preserved (if ).
when receive x-message(, Time )
if and == false then
error: bad synchronization;
if then
See also
Atomic DEVS
Behavior of atomic DEVS
Simulation algorithms for coupled DEVS
References
[Zeigler84]
[ZKP00]
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Home%20Video | (JHV) is a Japanese media corporation which produces and distributes film and video products and is also involved in TV programming and game software. It uses the label for its adult video production.
Company history and finances
JHV was established in May 1984 to take advantage of the explosion of videocassette recorders (VCRs) in Japan at that time. Following the introduction of commercial VCR Beta recorders in 1975 (and the VHS format in 1976), VCR production in Japan went from one million units in 1978 to 44 million by 1985 fueled largely by the number of movies (including pornography) available on VHS. By November 1984, the company had expanded enough to move to new headquarters in the fashionable Harajuku district of Tokyo.
The company originally used the Penguin () label for its videos but in April 1986, JHV founded Alice Japan (アリスJAPAN) as a label for their adult videos (AV). The company subsequently expanded into softcore movies, anime productions, computer games and, in 1996, the satellite broadcasting business. In February 2000, JHV acquired a building in the Jinbocho area of Tokyo and transferred its headquarters there. A further move brought the Production Center to their own building in Tokyo's Nakano City in March 2005 which also became the company headquarters in April 2007.
For the 2007 fiscal year, the corporation had sales of 2.25 billion yen (about $22.5 million) and a capital of 27 million yen (about $227,000). The company employed 34 people and had its headquarters in the JHV Building () in Nakano, Tokyo.
Products
The company is involved in the production and distribution of film, video products, music and TV programs.
Film and video
JHV has produced and/or distributed a number of theatrical movies, including several in the science fiction or horror genre and often with erotic overtones. Some notable film productions include the 1989 cult horror movie Tetsuo: The Iron Man directed by Shinya Tsukamoto and the Yakuza zombie flic Junk: Shiryô-gari from 2000. Also in the horror genre were Evil Dead Trap or Shiryo no wana directed by Toshiharu Ikeda and featuring AV actress Hitomi Kobayashi which was released in 1988 and the sequel Evil Dead Trap 2: Hideki (死霊の罠2ヒデキ) from 1992. Evil Dead Trap was later released by JHV on DVD.
JHV also produced the first three live-action videos of the manga based superheroine series Kekko Kamen, the 1991 Kekko Kamen, Kekko Kamen 2 from 1992, and Kekko Kamen 3, released in 1993.
More recent productions were the 2004 drama which won awards at the 2005 Yokohama Film Festival for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best New Director and the 2004 comedy eiko (エイコ).
JHV's Cinemadict Collection () is a series of remastered worldwide classic movies with Japanese subtitles released on DVD. The collection includes the hard-to-find Alfred Hitchcock silent film Downhill.
In the area of erotica, JHV makes softcore V-Cinema videos under the V Muvii () label or the SEN Planning label. Some popula |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opaque%20data%20type | In computer science, an opaque data type is a data type whose concrete data structure is not defined in an interface. This enforces information hiding, since its values can only be manipulated by calling subroutines that have access to the missing information. The concrete representation of the type is hidden from its users, and the visible implementation is incomplete. A data type whose representation is visible is called transparent. Opaque data types are frequently used to implement abstract data types.
Typical examples of opaque data types include handles for resources provided by an operating system to application software. For example, the POSIX standard for threads defines an application programming interface based on a number of opaque types that represent threads or synchronization primitives like mutexes or condition variables.
An opaque pointer is a special case of an opaque data type, a datatype that is declared to be a pointer to a record or data structure of some unspecified data type. For example, the standard library that forms part of the specification of the C programming language provides functions for file input and output that return or take values of type "pointer to FILE" that represent file streams (see C file input/output), but the concrete implementation of the type FILE is not specified.
Uses in various languages
Some languages, such as C, allow the declaration of opaque records (structs), whose size and fields are hidden from the client. The only thing that the client can do with an object of such a type is to take its memory address, to produce an opaque pointer.
If the information provided by the interface is sufficient to determine the type's size, then clients can declare variables, fields, and arrays of that type, assign their values, and possibly compare them for equality. This is usually the case
for opaque pointers.
In some languages, such as Java, the only kind of opaque type provided is the opaque pointer. Indeed, in Java (and several other languages) records are always handled through pointers.
Some languages allow partially opaque types, e.g. a record which has some public fields, known and accessible to all clients, and some hidden fields which are not revealed in the interface. Such types play a fundamental role in object-oriented programming.
The information which is missing in the interface may be declared in its implementation, or in another "friends-only" interface. This second option allows the hidden information to be shared by two or more modules.
See also
Abstract data type
Black box
Transparent identifiers
Forward declaration
Information hiding
References
Data types
Object-oriented programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Perinatal%20Network | The Canadian Perinatal Network (CPN) is made up of Canadian researchers who collaborate on research issues relating to perinatal care. The network commenced in September 2005, and includes members from 25 tertiary perinatal units. CPN will enable health care professionals, researchers, and administrators to participate actively in clinical, epidemiologic, health services, health policy, and informatics research aimed at improving the effectiveness and efficiency of perinatal care.
Primary Goals
The primary goals of CPN are:
Joint examination of the whole spectrum of risks and their interactions, from the antenatal and obstetric to the neonatal periods, on maternal and perinatal outcomes
Iterative hypothesis testing and acquisition of new knowledge about obstetric practices associated with good or poor maternal and perinatal outcomes, which will inform the care of women and babies in Canada
Longitudinal monitoring of obstetric practices and resource use known to be associated with a decrease in adverse events, which will inform knowledge transfer activities
Longitudinal monitoring of outcomes and resource use, which will be important for auditing quality of care and providing information that is critical to planning of care and resource allocation.
CPN centres
CPN comprises the following hospital sites:
Victoria General Hospital, Victoria, BC
BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre, Vancouver, BC
Royal Columbian Hospital, New Westminster, BC
Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB
Royal Alexandra Hospital, Edmonton, AB
Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK
Regina General Hospital, Regina, SK
The Women's Hospital, Winnipeg, MB
Kingston General Hospital, Kingston, ON
McMaster University Medical Centre, Hamilton, ON
Saint Joseph's Health Centre, London, ON
Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, ON
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, ON
The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON
Royal Victoria Hospital, Montréal, QC
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC
Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec, Québec City, QC
IWK Health Centre, Halifax, NS
Women's Health Program, Eastern Health, St. John's, NL
Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB
Hôpital Sainte-Justine, Montréal, QC
St. Boniface General Hospital, Winnipeg, MB
Windsor Regional Hospital, Windsor, ON
Dr. Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital, Fredericton, NB
The Moncton Hospital, Moncton, NB
BILBO: birth before 29 weeks: interventions leading to better outcomes for mothers and babies
The inaugural project of CPN was BILBO (Birth before 29 weeks: Interventions Leading to Better Outcomes for mothers and babies). BILBO built a standardized national database of pregnancies at high risk of very preterm birth at 220 to 28+6 weeks gestation.
In Canada, more than 350,000 babies are born each year. Preterm birth complicates 7.6% of births, with variations of ±15% between provinces. Preterm birth is the most important cause of perinatal mortality and morbidity, and is recognized to hold |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulation%20algorithms%20for%20coupled%20DEVS | Given a coupled DEVS model, simulation algorithms are methods to generate the model's legal behaviors, which are a set of trajectories not to reach illegal states. (see behavior of a Coupled DEVS model.) [Zeigler84] originally introduced the algorithms that handle time variables related to lifespan and elapsed time by introducing two other time variables, last event time, , and next event time with the following relations:
and
where denotes the current time. And the remaining time,
is equivalently computed as
apparently .
Based on these relationships, the algorithms to simulate the behavior of a given Coupled DEVS are written as follows.
Algorithm
algorithm DEVS-coordinator
Variables:
parent // parent coordinator
: // time of last event
: // time of next event
// the associated Coupled DEVS model
when receive init-message(Time t)
for each do
send init-message(t) to child
;
;
when receive star-message(Time t)
if then
error: bad synchronization;
send star-message(t)to
;
;
when receive x-message(, Time t)
if and == false then
error: bad synchronization;
for each do
send x-message(,t) to child
;
;
when receive y-message(, Time t)
for each do
send x-message(,t) to child
if then
send y-message(, t) to parent;
;
;
See also
Coupled DEVS
Behavior of Coupled DEVS
Simulation Algorithms for Atomic DEVS
References
[Zeigler84]
[ZKP00]
Algorithms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBN-TV | JBN-TV (Jesus Broadcasting Network) is a Honduran television channel dedicated to Christianity in the Spanish language. Part of the International Family Network, the channel was founded in 2000 in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
History
Part of the International Family Network, the television channel was founded by the Manmin Central Church in 2000 in the city of Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. JBN-TV's headquarters are in the city of San Pedro Sula, department of Cortés, Honduras.
Calendar
Currently, JBN-TV is also the Honduran satellite channel with the most coverage in international news. JBN-TV offers news, sports, lifestyle and entertainment programs including movies, documentaries, music, reviews, interviews and special events marked by the values of Christianity, and particularly refers to Manmin Central Church, an evangelical church. Founded in Seoul, South Korea, in 1982.
JBN-TV transmits through 5,000 cable television companies and 35 television channels throughout Latin America, while in Honduras it transmits with an approximate number of 700 companies throughout the country.
Diffusion
In 2000, JBN TV Canale 39 was founded in the city of Tegucigalpa, later it received the opportunity in 2002 to broadcast its programs throughout the country. Currently, JBN-TV has more than 35 channels in Honduras, including channel 51 in San Pedro Sula. Since May 2006, JBN-TV has been broadcasting 806 NOTICIAS via satellite, reaching more than 700 cables in Honduras and 5,000 in Latin America.
The open frequencies with national coverage are distributed as follows:
Channel 39: Tegucigalpa, MDC
Channel 51: Valle de San Pedro Sula, Cortés
Channel 54: La Ceiba, Tela and the department of Atlántida
Channel 52: Danlí, Olancho and the eastern sector.
Channel 51: Choluteca and Valle de Ángeles
Channel 61: Quimistán Comayagua and central sector Some of its main programs are the morning magazine Buenos Dias (Good Morning) Latinoamérica, which has achieved high audience ratings in public broadcasting since 2009, and its famous international newscast and JBN News in two editions, one at 12 and another at 5 in the afternoon.
See also
Manmin Central Church
Jaerock Lee
References
External links
JBN-TV at LyngSat Address
Television in Honduras
Television channels and stations established in 2000
Mass media in Tegucigalpa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STVS | STVS (Surinaamse Televisie Stichting) is a television network in Suriname and was founded in 1965 by Prime Minister Johan Adolf Pengel. It broadcasts in the Dutch language and it is owned by the government. It is headquartered in Paramaribo, Suriname. The picture format of the STVS television network is 480i (SDTV).
History
Television was first trialed in Suriname in 1958, at the Kersten firm in Paramaribo. On 24 February 1964, the Surinamese government founded the Surinaamse Televisie Stichting (STVS) and ordered the construction of a studio. The studio was opened on 1 October 1965, and on the same day trial broadcasts were started. Regular broadcasts started on 20 October 1965. First director of STVS was Frits Pengel, who had taken a television broadcasting course in the Netherlands. Pengel would remain director of STVS until 1994.
References
External links
Television stations in Suriname
Publicly funded broadcasters
Companies of Suriname
1965 establishments in Suriname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzzy%20matching%20%28computer-assisted%20translation%29 | Fuzzy matching is a technique used in computer-assisted translation as a special case of record linkage. It works with matches that may be less than 100% perfect when finding correspondences between segments of a text and entries in a database of previous translations. It usually operates at sentence-level segments, but some translation technology allows matching at a phrasal level. It is used when the translator is working with translation memory (TM). It uses approximate string matching.
Background
When an exact match cannot be found in the TM database for the text being translated, there is an option to search for a match that is less than exact; the translator sets the threshold of the fuzzy match to a percentage value less than 100%, and the database will then return any matches in its memory corresponding to that percentage. Its primary function is to assist the translator by speeding up the translation process; fuzzy matching is not designed to replace the human translator.
History
Because of the polymorphous and dynamic nature of language, particularly English (which accounts for 90% of all source texts undergoing translation in the localisation industry), methods are always being sought to make the translation process easier and faster. Since the late 1980s, translation memory tools have been developed to increase productivity and make the whole translation process faster for the translator.
In the 1990s, fuzzy matching began to take off as a prominent feature of TM tools, and despite some issues concerning the extra work involved in editing a fuzzy match "proposal", it is still a popular subset of TM. It is currently a feature of most popular TM tools.
Methodology
The TM tool searches the database to locate segments that are an approximate match for a segment in a new source text to be translated. The TM, in effect, "proposes" the match to the translator; it is then up to the translator to accept this proposal or to edit this proposal to more fully equate with the new source text that is undergoing translation. In this way, fuzzy matching can speed up the translation process and lead to increased productivity.
This raises questions about the quality of the resulting translations. On occasions a translator is under pressure to deliver on time and is thus led to accept a fuzzy match proposal without checking its suitability and context. TM databases are built up by input from numerous different translators working on a variety of different texts, with a danger that sentences extracted from this word "tapestry" will be a stitched-together hodgepodge of styles, and the antithesis of the striven-after consistency – what some critics have dubbed "sentence salad". The question of faith in the TM's proposals can be a problem when trying to strike a balance between a faster translation process and the quality of that translation. Nevertheless, fuzzy matching is still an important part of the translator's tool-kit.
External links
Essel |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kentucky%20Derby%20broadcasters | The following is a list of national American television networks and announcers that have broadcast Kentucky Derby.
Television
2020s
2010s
In 2014, NBC renewed its broadcast agreement with Churchill Downs through 2025.
2000s
1990s
1980s
In 1985, a group of people wanted to increase the stature of the Triple Crown on television. Other than the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes were considered the two "other" races. ABC Sports, which had broadcast the Derby since 1975, wanted to televise all the races as a three race package. CBS Sports, which showed the other two races, had much lower ratings for them, with the possible exceptions of years in which the Crown was at stake like 1973, 1977, and 1978.
1970s
1960s
1950s
On May 16, 1925, the first live radio broadcast of the Kentucky Derby was originated by WHAS and was also carried by WGN in Chicago. On May 7, 1949, the first television coverage of the Kentucky Derby took place, produced by WAVE-TV, the NBC affiliate in Louisville. This coverage was aired live in the Louisville market and sent to NBC as a kinescope newsreel recording for national broadcast. This broadcast was the first time Zoomar lenses were used on a broadcast TV sports show. On May 3, 1952, the first national television coverage of the Kentucky Derby took place, aired from then-CBS affiliate WHAS-TV. In 1954, the purse exceeded $100,000 for the first time.
See also
References
Lists of horse racing writers and broadcasters
ABC Sports
CBS Sports
NBC Sports
Kentucky Derby
American horse racing announcers
Wide World of Sports (American TV series)
CBS Sports Spectacular
Broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Falcon%20%28radio%20series%29 | The Falcon radio series premiered on the Blue Network on April 10, 1943, continuing on NBC and Mutual until November 27, 1954. Some 70 episodes were produced.
Background
"Drexel Drake" (a pseudonym of Charles H. Huff) created Michael Waring, alias the Falcon, a free-lance investigator and troubleshooter, in his 1936 novel, The Falcon's Prey. It was followed by two more novels (The Falcon Cuts In, 1937 and The Falcon Meets a Lady, 1938) and a 1938 short story. In 1941, RKO Radio Pictures launched a Falcon movie series, but that was based on a different character (Gay Lawrence) by a different author (Michael Arlen). Only the popularity of the film series prompted the radio series; the film and radio series were otherwise unrelated. The radio series was based on the Drexel Drake character. No explanation for the nickname was ever mentioned in any of the dramatizations.
The Michael Waring Falcon was also the hero in three late 1940s movies starring John Calvert, and a television series starring Charles McGraw.
Characters and story
Like the Falcon film series, the radio plots mixed danger, romance and comedy in equal parts. Each show began with a telephone ringing and Michael Waring, the Falcon, answering the phone. Speaking with a woman whose voice was never heard, Waring would explain that he had an urgent situation in which he had to deal with criminals. This led into the standard opening, followed by the week's tale of adventure. Often, incompetent police were unable to solve the mysteries without his help.
Actors
The program's characters and the actors who played them are indicated in the table below.
Source (except for years): Radio Programs, 1924-1984: A Catalog of More Than 1800 Shows
Those heard in supporting roles included Robert Dryden, Ethel Everett and Everett Sloane. Russ Dunbar and Ed Herlihy were the announcers. The organist was Bob Hamilton, with Emerson Buckley and Harry Sosnik as orchestra leaders. Bernarld L. Schubert was the producer.
References
External links
Internet Archive: The Falcon (all available episodes, certified by OTRR)
Zoot Radio, free old time radio show downloads of 'The Falcon.'
1943 radio programme debuts
1954 radio programme endings
1940s American radio programs
1950s American radio programs
Mutual Broadcasting System programs
NBC Blue Network radio programs
NBC radio programs
Detective radio shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20Age%20Floods%20National%20Geologic%20Trail | The Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail is a network of routes connecting natural sites and facilities that provide interpretation of the geological consequences of the Glacial Lake Missoula floods of the last glacial period that occurred about 18,000 to 15,000 years ago. It includes sites in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. It was designated as the first National Geologic Trail in the United States in 2009.
History
The National Park Service (NPS) commissioned an environmental assessment, which concluded that creation of a "National Geologic Trail—designating the Floods pathways managed by the National Park Service, with an Interagency Technical Committee representing the federal, tribal, and state agencies and a Trail Advisory Committee to assist the Trail Manager and staff" was the preferred option. Subsequently, the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009 authorized establishing the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail in parts of Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon and established NPS administration of the Trail.
Geologic basis for the trail
At the end of the last Ice Age (the Wisconsonian Ice Age), a branch of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet moved out of Canada into the Idaho panhandle region. There it formed a -high ice dam that blocked the mouth of the Clark Fork River, creating glacial Lake Missoula, which impounded greater than of water. The lake extended up the valleys eastward for over . The periodic rupturing of the ice dam resulted in the Missoula Floods – cataclysmic floods that swept across Idaho and Eastern Washington, and then down the Columbia River Gorge approximately 40 times during a 2,000 year period. The flood front swept in a wave across Idaho and Washington at speeds approaching , and Glacial Lake Missoula drained in periods as short as 2 days.
The Columbia River channel downstream was blocked by the Okanogan lobe of the Cordilleran, impounding water in Glacial Lake Columbia. As a result, the floods could not continue down the Columbia River, being forced instead to flood over the highlands of Eastern Washington, vastly transforming the landscape by forming the Grand Coulee, Moses Coulee, the Channeled Scablands, Dry Falls, Palouse Falls and many similar features. The cumulative effect of the floods was to excavate of loess, sediment and basalt from the channeled scablands of eastern Washington and to transport it downstream. Over a period of 2,000 to 2,500 years, the repetition of ice dam failure and flood was repeated 40-60 times, leaving a lasting mark on the landscape.
There are a number of characteristic features that illustrate the effect of these ice dams and power of the resulting floods:
Large portions of the scabland region of Eastern Washington were stripped bare of topsoil and left as the base basalt rock.
The landscape is extensively eroded, with deep sheer-walled canyons in the Grand Coulee, Moses Coulee, the Wallula Gap, and the Columbia River Gorge.
There are giant ripple mark |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Undergraduate%20Technology%20Conference | The Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (CUTC) is a Canadian student-organized conference. It concerns itself with all sorts of technology-related fields, such as: engineering, programming, interactive design, electronics, biology, and chemistry. It aims to introduce undergraduate students to the future of technology.
Since its inception in 1999, it has become popular for bringing some of the biggest names in the technology. Over the last decade, the conference has reached 4000+ students in North America, with 150+ top industry partners.
Past partners come from a wide range of backgrounds. They include Deloitte, Microsoft, Nulogy, Sun Microsystems, General Electric, IBM, and CGI Group.
The Conference
The conference has a light and relaxed atmosphere. Top tier partners have collaborated with CUTC to create events that engage and challenge the delegates to problem-solve. This can range from hackathons to scavenger hunts. Keynote speakers, most often top industry leaders, share stories of how they came to be where they are today. The breakout sessions are smaller gatherings where experts can share their expertise. Finally, the tech expo is a hands-on showcase that displays some of the most recent and important innovations.
The one- or two-day conference is usually held in major tech-focused cities across Canada, including Vancouver and Toronto. Conferences in different cities are held simultaneously and often have shared speaker sessions. It brings together hundreds each year for the opportunity to listen to successful entrepreneurs, connect with industry leaders, participate in interactive workshops, compete in business and entrepreneurial case competitions, hackathons, and network with their tech-loving peers. Technology is integrated in every aspect of the conference, and delegates have the opportunity to connect through both networking sessions and social media channels.
References
http://www.cutc.ca
Student organizations in Canada
Technology conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sakiyomi%20Jum-Bang%21 | is a variety show aired on Japan's TV Tokyo network. The series' title is a of and Bang. The first episode was broadcast on April 3, 2009. It features comics from Shueisha's weekly and monthly manga anthologies (Weekly Shōnen Jump, V Jump and Jump Square) and their associated anime and games. It changed to jumpolice in march in 2014.
Characters
Akina Minami as , the host of the program.
Tetsuya Yanagihara as , one of the also known as
Yoshiyuki Hirai as , one of the Amezari Pirates. He has a Toothbrush moustache.
, the leader and mascot of the Amezari Pirates. He appears as a parrot with a pirate hat. Captain Book is voiced by .
Aki Kanada as the Narrator.
Mao Ichimichi hosted a segment called Informational Corner which ran from 2010 to 2014
Hikarigoke (played by Yūsuke Katayama and Kazumasa Kunisawa)
Main corner
Hikarigoke Katayama's Corner
Rock Lee Exercises!
Katayama practices the Rock Lee exercises shown in Naruto'''s Rock Lee & His Ninja Pals spin-off. They dance at the opening of this program. There are 3 types of exercises.
Rock Lee Katayama's Super Training Series!
Katayama trains several trainings posted by viewers. After failing many times, new exercises are started from April 6, 2012.
Zarigani Pirates' Corner
Zarigani Pirates! The Road for Yu-Gi-oh! Card World Battleship!
This segment began when Yu-Gi-Oh! was featured early in the series. When it was aired, the corner primarily showed Zaripai (who was aiming for the Yu-Gi-Oh! World Championship). Due to his poor performance, however, it was ended. After that he produced the elementary school students team named "Zaripai Japan", and it was started again.
Zarigani Pirate's Paper Comic Corner
Zaripai shows his short comics on the paper at the end of the corner when his crewmates get the paper from the writer. The paper can be downloaded from the homepages on the phones.
Akina's room
Akina Minami and Zarigani pirates talk with guests. It is parody of Tetsuko's Room, so Akina Minami speaks like Tetsuko Kuroyanagi.
Teach me, writers!
The writers answer the readers' questions. The questions change every month.
Theme songs
Opening theme: JumpClosing theme: Rotates depending on the currently featured anime
VomicVomic is a segment where voice actors lend their voices to characters from popular manga series. The word Vomic is a of voice and comic. Some clips are published on the official Vomic'' website. The series that are featured on the program are rotated monthly.
External links
Official website
Official Vomic website
References
Japanese variety television shows
TV Tokyo original programming
2009 Japanese television series debuts
Japanese children's television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinosaki%20%28train%29 | The is a limited express train service operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West). One of the services making up JR West's "Big X Network", it connects Kyoto Station and Kinosaki Onsen Station via the San-in Main Line. The color associated with the service is purple, also the line color of the Sagano Line which it uses for part of its journey.
Station stops
- - - - - - - - - - -
Some services stop at Hiyoshi Station.
Maximum operating speeds
Kyoto – Fukuchiyama:
Fukuchiyama – Kinosaki Onsen:
Rolling stock
287 series EMUs (since 12 March 2011)
289 series EMUs (from 31 October 2015)
Kinosaki services are operated with 287 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trains based at Fukuchiyama Depot. Some services operate as combined Kinosaki and Maizuru services. The 287 series EMUs were introduced on these services from 12 March 2011, replacing 183 series sets.
289 series EMUs converted from former dual-voltage 683 series trainsets were introduced on Kinosaki services from 31 October 2015, replacing the remaining JNR-era 381 series trains.
Former
183 series EMUs (until 15 March 2013)
381 series EMUs (from 1 June 2012 until 30 October 2015)
183 series EMUs were formerly used on some services, but were withdrawn by the start of the revised timetable on 16 March 2013.
Fukuchiyama-based 381 series EMUs displaced from Kuroshio services were also introduced on Kinosaki services from 1 June 2012. These were withdrawn following the final day of operations on 30 October 2015.
History
The Kinosaki service is named after the service's terminus, formerly known only as Kinosaki Station. Also, when the service began, the neighborhood in which the station stood was known as Kinosaki. Both are derived from the region's well-known area of hot springs.
March 1, 1962: the Kinosaki service begins as two daily round trips between Kyoto and Kinosaki.
April 20, 1963: the Kinosaki running from Fukuchiyama Station is renamed to Tango. Daily service consists of four round trips per day.
March 5, 1966: the Kinosaki and Tango become express services.
November 10, 1968: Hakuto services departing Kyoto no longer connected with more cars at Ōsaka station. That service becomes the Daisen. The Kinosaki name is discontinued, and Tango services are increased to seven round trips daily. All Tango services are classified as express.
December 1990: 183 series trains providing seasonal express service between Osaka and Kinosaki are once again called Kinosaki.
1995: seasonal express service ends. The following year, it is decided that permanent limited express Kinosaki service will be restored between Kyoto and Kinosaki.
March 18, 2007: All cars become non-smoking.
March 16, 2013: From the start of the revised timetable, 183 series EMUs are withdrawn from Kinosaki services.
References
External links
JR West 287 series Kinosaki
JR West 289 series Kinosaki
Named passenger trains of Japan
West Japan Railway Company
Railway services introduced |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20SolarFlix | This is a list of programs broadcast by SolarFlix, a Philippine free-to-air television network owned by Solar Entertainment Corporation through its subsidiary Southern Broadcasting Network. Its programming includes Turkish dramas, Latin American telenovelas, classic Filipino movies and independent Filipino films, and Hollywood and foreign acquired movies.
Current programming
Film presentation
Late Night Delight
Pinoy Mega Hits
Reel Time
Sine Siesta
Weekend Sine Nights
Informercials
Shop TV
Lifestyle
Etcetera (re-run)
The Peep Show (re-run)
In Her Shoes (re-run)
Religious
Oras ng Himala
The Word Exposed
Drama
My Sweet Lie
A Kiss in The Rain (re-run)
Marimar
In Between
Programming
SolarFlix
SolarFlix |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandai%20Channel | is a subscription video on-demand streaming service and anime distributor. It was established on March 1, 2002, by Bandai in coordination with Sunrise, Bandai Visual, and Bandai Networks. Its headquarters is located in Kajicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
By October 2003, Bandai Channel had exceeded paid viewings.
List of program broadcast in the Bandai Channel
References
External links
2002 establishments in Japan
Anime and manga websites
Anime companies
Bandai
Bandai Namco Holdings subsidiaries
Companies based in Tokyo
Internet properties established in 2002
Internet television streaming services
Mass media companies established in 2002
Mass media companies of Japan
Mass media in Tokyo
Subscription video on demand services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WAZA%20%28FM%29 | WAZA (107.7 FM) is an American radio station licensed to serve the community of Liberty, Mississippi. The station is owned and operated by North Shore Broadcasting Co., Inc.
Programming
WAZA was launched as an urban outlet branded as "The Spot 107.7" in 1998. Throughout its early years it also had other formats including Variety Hits and Oldies. In mid-2010, the station flipped to sports talk as a Fox Sports Radio affiliate branded as "Sportstalk 107.7FM". Since April 2011, the station has broadcast an urban adult contemporary music format branded as "The Touch 107.7" and serves the McComb, MS area. 107.7 WAZA is known for the Blues Cruise with DJ Lonnie MC, which airs weekdays from 3-7pm and Saturdays 10am-1pm. In 2023, it became the home for The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
History
WAZA was also the call letters of an AM station in the 1970s in Bainbridge, Georgia.
After applying in July 1996, this station received its original construction permit from the Federal Communications Commission on January 22, 1998. The new station was assigned the WAZA call sign by the FCC on February 20, 1998. WAZA received its license to cover from the FCC on September 25, 1998.
On September 21, 2011, Charles W. Dowdy, acting as the sole owner of license holder Southwest Broadcasting, Inc., dissolved the corporation and assigned the broadcast licenses it held (WAZA plus sister stations WAKH, WAKK, WAPF, WFCG, WJSH, WKJN, and WTGG) to himself acting as debtor in possession before initiating a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The FCC approved the license transfer on December 19, 2011.
On October 25, 2019, the stations emerged and this signal was transferred to North Shore Broadcasting.
References
External links
AZA
Urban contemporary radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1998
Amite County, Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Years%20Younger%20in%2010%20Days | 10 Years Younger in 10 Days is a reality make-over show that screens on the Seven Network in Australia. The series is presented by Sonia Kruger and is based on the British series 10 Years Younger.
With the help of experts the participants of the show are given a complete make over in an attempt to make them look 10 Years Younger in 10 Days. At the start of the program the person's age is guessed by people on the street and an average is taken. From this average the target image is set. At the end of the show this happens again to see the results.
The show premiered on 21 April 2009 and rated 1,348,000 viewers and came in fifth position for the night, a particularly strong result given its 9:30pm timeslot.
Experts
Sonia Kruger – Host
Will Fennell – Grooming
Troy Thompson – Hair Stylist
Jane Johnston – Stylist
Julianne McGuigan – Hair Stylist
Cathy Savage – Beauty and Make-Up
Ken Thompson – Stylist
Dr Warwick Nettle – Health Professional/Plastic Surgeon
Dr Fadi Yassmin – Health Professional/Cosmetic Dentistry
Dr David Carr – Health Professional/Cosmetic Dentistry
Andreas Lundin – Health Professional/Personal Trainer
See also
10 Years Younger (UK) UK version on Channel 4
10 Years Younger (US) US version on the TLC network.
References
External links
Official website http://au.tv.yahoo.com/10-years-younger-in-10-days
Cornerbox Productions http://cornerbox.com.au/
Seven Network original programming
2000s Australian reality television series
2009 Australian television series debuts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGA%20Tour%20on%20CBS | PGA Tour on CBS (or Golf on CBS) is the branding used for broadcasts of the PGA Tour that are produced by CBS Sports, the sports division of the CBS television network in the United States.
Coverage overview
CBS Sports has been a carrier of PGA Tour golf since 1970. CBS was the Tour's primary television partner from 1970 to 1998, carrying 20 or more events per season. CBS shared duties as primary Tour carrier with ABC Sports from 1999 to 2006, covering around 15 events per season. CBS regained its primary status in 2007, once again covering 20 or more events per season, and has remained so ever since. CBS also holds broadcast television rights to the two of the four majors, the Masters Tournament and PGA Championship. CBS has long-term deals for the PGA Championship (initially from 1958 to 1964 and again starting in 1991). Meanwhile, the Masters operates under one-year contracts; CBS has been the main television partner every year since 1956.
Innovations
Frank Chirkinian was known as the 'father of televised golf' for the impact he had on golf broadcasting. He came to the attention of CBS after he impressed with his direction of the 1958 PGA Championship. Recruited by the network, who had no one with expertise in the relatively new field of golf broadcasting, he went on to be executive producer of CBS's golf coverage from 1959 to 1996. During his time at CBS, he was nicknamed "The Ayatollah" for his brusque, uncompromising approach to directing broadcasts. Chirkinian was particularly well regarded for the coverage of the Masters Tournament that he oversaw for four decades, working closely with the management of Augusta National to ensure they were satisfied. Following his retirement, he remained a consultant to CBS for golf coverage.
Chirkinian was responsible for a number of innovations in the television presentation of golf. He ensured as many microphones as possible were placed around the golf course to pick up the sounds of the tournament and golfers' conversations, rather than having commentators talk over silent footage. He showed as many golf shots as possible, cutting quickly from player to player to keep up the pace of the broadcast, unafraid of focusing on the game's stars. The use of multiple cameras was introduced during Chirkinian's tenure, including high-angle cameras mounted in trees and on blimps for the first time. Chirkinian said that he was most proud of being the first to display golfers' scores relative to par, rather than cumulatively, making it simpler to work out how they were faring relative to the rest of the field. Most of all, Chirkinian thought it important to allow coverage to focus on golfers and the shots they made, and was critical of recent innovations in golf broadcasting that he saw as distracting and unnecessary.
Since 2004, all of CBS's golf broadcasts outside of the Masters have featured super slow motion video of golfers' shots from a super slow motion camera used for swing analysis by Peter Kostis. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20Universal%20Digital%20Computer%20M-2 | The M-2 () was a computer developed at the Laboratory of Electrical Systems in the Institute of Energy of the USSR Academy of Sciences. The successor to the M-1, it was developed in 1952 by a team of engineers led by I.S. Brook (or Bruk).
The computer was developed and assembled in the period between April and December 1952. In 1953 M-2 became fully operational and was used for solving applied problems on round-the-clock basis, mostly having to do with nuclear fission and rocket design.
M-2 was the basis for several other Soviet computers, some of them developed at other research institutes.
References
External links
Google translation
Soviet computer systems
Soviet inventions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20Digital%20Computer%20M-1 | The project to build the M-1 or Automatic Digital Computer (ADC) M-1 () was completed at the end of 1951, at the Energetics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Overview
In charge of the Laboratory of Electrosystems was Isaak Semenovich Brook (or Bruk), who obtained the first domestic patent with the title "Digital Computer with Common Bus" in 1948.
Work to build the computer based on Brook's design began in 1950. Parts were very difficult to get due to postwar rationing. On the other hand, due to availability of copper oxide diodes which were brought as trophies from Germany, the machine had the lowest lamp count of contemporary designs, at 730. The memory was based on an original invention of an electrostatic memory using the ordinary oscilloscope cathode-ray tube. Each tube was capable of holding 32 words, 25 bit each. The computer had 8 such tubes for a total fast memory of 256 machine words.
The computer turned out to work rather reliably and was immediately put to practical use, for numerical calculations in nuclear physics. For a period of about a year this was the first and the only working digital computer in Russia, and one of the first in the world.
References
Further reading
External links
Early computers
Soviet computer systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aansoo | Aansoo () is a Pakistani drama television series aired on Pakistan Television network in 2000. The drama was written by the legendary writer Haseena Moin and directed by Ali Rizvi. The drama became immensely popular because of its interesting and romantic story line and because of its beautiful locations. The drama was shot in Pakistan, Scotland and Ireland. It was the first Pakistani serial to be filmed entirely on a digital camera. The drama serial is considered to be a classic and has aired several times on PTV since its initial release.
The title song of the serial 'Tanha Tanha' sung by Ali Azmat, composed by Waqar Ali and written by Sabir Zafar became a rage during its release and is still very popular.
Plot
Aansoo is a story of two families as they recover from tragedies that have torn them apart. Two best friends realize that they are in fact brothers living each other's lives. On the other hand, cultural differences leave two sisters living on opposite sides of the world with no knowledge of each other's existence.
Synopsis
Sami Khan [Noman Aijaz] is a Pakistani guy who falls in love with a British born girl Sofie. Sofie marries Sami Khan and moves to Pakistan. In the beginning, everything goes fine but when Sofie gives birth to a baby girl that brings tension because Sami wanted a baby boy. They have two daughters, Imaan Tasmina Sheikh and younger daughter Isha [Maheen]. They quarrel quite often and Sofie can't adjust herself in different culture and surroundings anymore and she moves back to Scotland. Imaan stays with her father and Sofie takes Isha along. Sami Khan has a sister Aaliya. She is married and has a son Saram [Asad] and they live in Scotland.
Dr. Ahsan [Talat Hussain] gets married to a Pakistani woman Sadia [Shagufta Ejaz] because his mother forces him to marry her. They have a son Aryan [Zulfikar Sheikh]. Dr. Ahsan moves to Scotland and leaves Sadia and Aryan alone in Pakistan. He marries another woman Amna [Sakina Shamoon] but they don't have a child. Dr. Ahsan returns to Pakistan after two years and takes his son from Sadia and divorces her.
Sadia wants her son back and decides to fight for her rights. She moves to Scotland in search of her son. Then Amna come to know that she is expecting a child and she gives birth to a baby boy Danial [Nabeel]. One day Sadia finds out about Dr. Ahsan and talks to his 2nd wife and gets a nanny's job in his house and takes away Amna's son very first day to take revenge.
After 22 years, Aryan and Denial turn out to be friends. Aryan becomes a doctor just like his father and Denial studies for MBA and they fall in love with the same girl – Isha.
Saram is an easy going guy and loves music. He plays guitar and keyboard and he falls in love with Imaan. Imaan loses her self-confidence and becomes very confused and disturb. She feels very lonely, sad and thinks that her mother doesn't love her. Meanwhile, Isha grows up as an independent girl, gets her mother's love and studies Law, wherea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mukha%20ng%20Buhay | Mukha ng Buhay is a Philippine drama series produced by Viva Television aired in two networks, PTV and RPN. It aired from April 15, 1996, to January 29, 1999.
Internationally it has been syndicated through MavShack a website featuring Filipino Viva Films Library of collections of classic films and licensed brands from the company since 2013. In 2017, the series is currently rerunning on Sari-Sari Channel.
Plot
The story is all about the faces of life, in dealing with love, friendship, death and family. Starting with the relationship of Emily and Eric. Emily was just a maid at the household of the rich Amanda, the mother of Eric. But the two fell in love with each other. Of course, Amanda doesn't approve this. But still, the two got married. Amanda started to make Emily's life miserable, with the help of her friend Betsay and cousin Carol. Meanwhile, Lani, a very kind-hearted daughter, experiences hardships because of her status in life, and her father, who is a gambler. At least she had her friends Bebang and Inoy to comfort her, not knowing that Inoy has eyes on her, and Bebang has eyes on him. Emily and Lani will meet when Lani applied to be a maid at their household. Will the two overcome their hardships in life?
Cast
Credited Cast
Pilar Pilapil as Amanda
Shintaro Valdes as Eric
Lovely Rivero as Emily
Bernadette Allyson as Lani
Ruby Moreno as Joyce
Nonie Buencamino as Emilio
Wowie de Guzman as Enrique
Anthony Cortes as Inoy
Idelle Martinez as Dianne
Ester Chaves as Manang Munding
Lee Robin Salazar as Luigi
Junior Paronda as Boying
Aura Mijares as Nana Tansing
Kathy Arguelles as Bebang
Extended Cast
Marianne dela Riva as Carol
Vangie Labalan as Bebang's mom
Charina Scott as Dee-dee
Renato del Prado as Mang Gustin
Staff
Writer: RJ Nuevas
Lightning Director: Monino Duque
Associate Producer: Emma Regina Llamas
Supervising Producer: Olive de Jesus
Producer: Veronique del Rosario-Corpus
Executive Producer: Vic del Rosario, Jr.
Director: Jeffrey Jeturian
See also
List of programs previously broadcast by Radio Philippines Network
List of programs aired by People's Television Network
Radio Philippines Network original programming
People's Television Network original programming
Philippine drama television series
1990s Philippine television series
1996 Philippine television series debuts
1999 Philippine television series endings
Television series by Viva Television
Filipino-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201965 | The 7th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 26 March 1965 at Palais de Danse, St Kilda in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Gerald Lyons from the ABC was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actress Donna Douglas was a guest presenter. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1965:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Jimmy Hannan
Logie
National
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Dawn Lake, Sound of Music
Best Teenage Performer
Winner:
Billy Thorpe
Best Live Show
Winner:
Sound of Music, Nine Network
Best Documentary Series
Winner:
Project 64, Nine Network
Best New Show
Winner:
Mavis Bramston Show, Seven Network
Best Australian Drama Series
Winner:
Homicide, Seven Network
Best Single Documentary
Winner:
New Heart For Graham
Most Outstanding National Show
Winner:
BP Super Show, Nine Network
Best Overseas Show
Winner:
The Beverly Hillbillies
Outstanding Services to News Reading
Winner:
Sir Eric Pearce
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Toni Lamond
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Bobby Limb
Most Popular Female
Judy Stone
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Tonight, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Glenys O'Brien
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Country and Western Hour, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Dick McCann
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jackie Ellison
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Theatre Royal, Seven Network
Special Award for News Reading
Winner:
Melody Welsh
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Graeme Smith
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Robyn Nevin
External links
Australian Television: 1962-1965 Logie Awards
TV Week Logie Awards: 1965
1965 television awards
1965 in Australian television
1965 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201966 | The 8th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Monday 21 March 1966 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. British television actors Jimmy Edwards, Doris Speed, Arthur Leslie and Pat Phoenix appeared as guests. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1966:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner:
Gordon Chater
Logie
National
Best Female Personality
Winner:
Carol Raye, The Mavis Bramston Show
Best Teenage Personality
Winner:
Normie Rowe
Best Live Show
Winner:
The Mavis Bramston Show, Seven Network
Best Documentary
Winner:
Birth
Best Overseas Show
Winner:
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Best Drama
Winner:
Homicide, Seven Network
Best Commercial
Winner:
Coca-Cola
Outstanding Contribution to Development of Talent
Winner:
Showcase 65, Network Ten
Outstanding Contribution to Children's Television
Winner:
The Magic Circle Club, ATV
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Mary Hardy
Most Popular Live Show
Winner:
In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Don Lane
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Diana Ward
Most Popular Live Show
Winner:
Tonight with Don Lane, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Pam Western
Most Popular Program
Winner:
Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner:
Gerry Gibson
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Jill McCann
Most Popular Live Show
Winner:
Theatre Royal, Seven Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner:
John Crook
Most Popular Female
Winner:
Caroline Schmit
Most Popular Live Show
Winner:
Anything Goes, Nine Network
Special Achievement Award
Winner:
Dolly Dyer, Pick-A-Box - For her cheerful devotion to Bob and their show.
External links
Australian Television: 1966-1969 Logie Awards
TV Week Logie Awards: 1966
1966 television awards
1966 in Australian television
1966 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201967 | The 9th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Monday 10 April 1967 at the Zodiac Room aboard the cruise liner Fairstar in Melbourne. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actor Vic Morrow was a guest presenter. This article lists the winners of Logie Awards (Australian television) for 1967:
Awards
Gold Logie
Most Popular Male Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Hazel Phillips
Special Gold Logie
Star of the Decade
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Logie
National
Best Teenage Personality
Winner: Johnny Young
Best Live Show
Winner: Sound of Music, Nine Network
Best Overseas Show
Winner: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Best Commercial
Winner: Minties
Best Documentary Series
Winner: Project '66, Nine Network
Best Drama
Winner: Homicide, Seven Network
Best Comedy
Winner: My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?, Seven Network
Victoria
Most Popular Male
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Most Popular Female
Winner: Patti Newton
Most Popular Live Show
Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Most Popular Male
Winner: Don Lane
Most Popular Female
Winner: Hazel Phillips
Most Popular Live Show
Winner: The Don Lane Tonight Show, Nine Network
South Australia
Most Popular Male
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Most Popular Female
Winner: Pam Western
Most Popular Live Show
Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Most Popular Male
Winner: Don Seccombe
Most Popular Female
Winner: Jill McCann
Most Popular Live Show
Winner: Theatre Royal, Seven Network
Tasmania
Most Popular Male
Winner: John Forster
Most Popular Female
Winner: Robyn Nevin; Caroline Schmit
Most Popular Live Show
Winner: Line Up, ABC
Special Achievement Award
Winner:
Tommy Hanlon, Jr. - For pioneering of television on a nationwide basis.
The Seekers - For the promotion of Australian TV talent overseas.
External links
Australian Television: 1966-1969 Logie Awards
TV Week Logie Awards: 1967
1967 television awards
1967 in Australian television
1967 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%201969 | The 11th Annual TV Week Logie Awards were presented on Friday 21 March 1969 at Southern Cross Hotel in Melbourne and broadcast on the Nine Network. Bert Newton from the Nine Network was the Master of Ceremonies. American television actors Dennis Cole, Barbara Anderson, William Shatner, Ty Hardin, British actor Barry Morse and Skippy appeared as guests.
Awards
National
Gold Logie for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television
Winner: Graham Kennedy
Best Drama Show
Winner: Homicide, Seven Network
Best Comedy Show
Winner: I've Married a Bachelor, ABC
Best Teenage Personality
Winner: Johnny Farnham
Best Overseas Show
Winner: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Best Commercial
Winner: Cambridge Cigarettes
Best Documentary
Winner: The Talgai Skull, ABC
Best Variety Show
Winner: Sound of Music, Nine Network
Best Children's Show
Winner: Adventure Island, ABC
Best Export Production
Winner: Skippy The Bush Kangaroo, Nine Network
State
Victoria
Best Male Personality
Winner: Michael Preston
Best Female Personality
Winner: Rosemary Margan
Best Show
Winner: In Melbourne Tonight, Nine Network
New South Wales
Best Male Personality
Winner: Don Lane
Best Female Personality
Winner: Penny Spence
Best Show
Winner: Tonight with Don Lane, Nine Network
South Australia
Best Male Personality
Winner: Ernie Sigley
Best Female Personality
Winner: Anne Wills
Best Show
Winner: Adelaide Tonight, Nine Network
Queensland
Best Male Personality
Winner: Dick McCann
Best Female Personality
Winner: Joy Chambers
Best Show
Winner: I've Got a Secret, Nine Network
Tasmania
Best Male Personality
Winner: Lindsay Edwards
Best Female Personality
Winner: Caroline Schmit
Best Show
Winner: Line-Up, ABC
Special Achievement Award
George Wallace Memorial Logie for Best New Talent
Winner: Gerard Kennedy, Hunter
External links
Australian Television: 1966-1969 Logie Awards
TV Week Logie Awards: 1969
1969 television awards
1969 in Australian television
1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%203D%20computer%20graphics%20software | This list of 3D graphics software contains software packages related to the development and exploitation of 3D computer graphics. For a comparison, see Comparison of 3D computer graphics software.
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123D is Autodesk's entry into the hobbyist 3D modelling market.
3D-Coat is a digital sculpting program specializing in voxel and polygonal sculpting.
3Delight, also known as 3DelightNSI, is a path tracing renderer based on its NSI API and OSL.
3DCrafter (previously known as 3D Canvas) is a 3D modeling and animation tool available in a freeware version as well as paid versions (3D Canvas Plus and 3D Canvas Pro).
3ds Max (Autodesk), originally called 3D Studio MAX, is a comprehensive and versatile 3D application used in film, television, video games, and architecture for Windows and Macintosh (but only running via Parallels or other VM software). It can be extended and customized through its SDK or scripting using a Maxscript. It can use third-party rendering options such as Brazil R/S, finalRender and V-Ray.
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AC3D (Inivis) is a 3D modeling application that began in the 1990s on the Amiga. Used in a number of industries, MathWorks actively recommends it in many of their aerospace-related articles due to price and compatibility. AC3D does not feature its own renderer, but can generate output files for both RenderMan and POV-Ray, among others.
Adobe After Effects (Adobe Systems) is a digital visual effects, motion graphics, and compositing application used in the post-production process of filmmaking and television production.
Aladdin4D (DiscreetFX), first created for the Amiga, was originally developed by Adspec Programming. After acquisition by DiscreetFX, it is multi-platform for OS X, Amiga OS 4.1, MorphOS, Linux, AROS and Windows.
Amiga Reflections is a 3D modeling and rendering software developed by Carsten Fuchs for the Amiga.
Anim8or is a proprietary freeware 3D rendering and animation package.
Animation:Master from HASH, Inc is a modeling and animation package that focuses on ease of use. It is a spline-based modeler. Its strength lies in character animation.
Aqsis is a free and open-source rendering suite compliant with the RenderMan standard.
AutoQ3D Community is not a professional CAD program and it is focused to beginners who want to make rapid 3D designs. It is a free software package developed under the GPL. It has a commercial sibling called AutoQ3D CAD.
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Blender (Blender Foundation) is a free, open source, 3D studio for animation, modeling, rendering, and texturing offering a feature set comparable to commercial 3D animation suites. It is developed under the GPL and is available on all major platforms including Windows, OS X, Linux, BSD, and Solaris.
BRL-CAD is an open source solid modeling computer-aided design system with interactive geometry editing, ray-tracing for rendering and geometric analysis, network-distributed framebuffer display support, and image and signal processing tools. It supports a myriad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability%20in%20Europe | The Association Computability in Europe (ACiE) is an international organization of mathematicians, logicians, computer scientists, philosophers, theoretical physicists and others interested in new developments in computability and in their underlying significance for the real world. CiE aims to widen understanding and appreciation of the importance of the concepts and techniques of computability theory, and to support the development of a vibrant multi-disciplinary community of researchers focused on computability-related topics. The ACiE positions itself at the interface between applied and fundamental research, prioritising mathematical approaches to computational barriers.
The Association Computability in Europe originated as a research network called Computability in Europe (CiE) in 2003, became a conference series in 2005, and the ACiE was formed in 2008.
Association
The Association Computability in Europe was founded in Athens, Greece in 2008. Its founding president (2008 to 2015) was Professor S. Barry Cooper; its current president is Elvira Mayordomo and its current secretary general is Giuseppe Primiero.
The Association is promoting the development, particularly in Europe, of computability-related science, ranging over mathematics, computer science, and applications in various natural and engineering sciences such as physics and biology. This also includes the promotion of the study of philosophy and history of computing as it relates to questions of computability. The ACiE is an international member of the Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology of the International Union of History and Philosophy of Science (DLMPST/IUHPST).
Past and Present Presidents
Current Members of the Association Council
The current member of the Council of the Association are
Marcella Anselmo,
Arnold Beckmann,
Paola Bonizzoni (Past President),
Olivier Bournez,
Merlin Carl,
Liesbeth De Mol (Member-at-Large Executive Committee),
Gianluca Della Vedova,
Johanna Franklin,
Lorenzo Galeotti,
Daniel Graça,
Jarkko Kari,
Benedikt Löwe,
Johann Makowsky,
Florin Manea (Chair of the Conference Series Steering Committee),
Barnaby Martin (Member-at-Large Executive Committee),
Elvira Mayordomo (President),
Dag Normann (Treasurer and Past President),
Arno Pauly,
Alison Pease,
Giuseppe Primiero (Secretary General),
Mariya Soskova (Member-at-Large Executive Committee),
and Martin Ziegler.
Special Interest Groups
The Association has three Special Interest Groups (SIGs):
Women in Computability (WiC),
Transfinite Computations (TraC), and
History and Philosophy of Computing (HaPoC). SIGWiC has been organising the workshop Women in Computability at the CiE conferences since 2007;
HaPoC is also organising two separate conference series: History and Philosophy of Computing and History and Philosophy of Programming.
S. Barry Cooper Prize
In memory of the visionary engagement of its founding president, the association established the S. Barr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courtroom%20View%20Network | Courtroom View Network (CVN), a division of Courtroom Connect, is a US company webcasting live and on-demand video and editorial coverage from civil trials.
Overview
CVN webcasts civil litigation proceedings live and offers on-demand subscriptions to their Video Library. CVN's Video Library is an archive of thousands of hours of fully-indexed, searchable courtroom video. CVN's video has been used by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Associated Press, TheStreet, The American Lawyer, and LawyersUSA.
Background
CVN was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Litigation
On October 14, 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York held that CVN was entitled to webcast a federal hearing over the objection of one of the parties.
On April 16, 2009, a federal district court's order allowing CVN to webcast a hearing in a high-profile copyright infringement case was reversed by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, which blocked the webcast.
On December 3, 2010, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Courtroom View Network was a member of the news media and a news gathering organization entitled to webcast courtroom proceedings in Massachusetts.
References
External links
www.CVN.com – Official website
US News opinion article – Discussion of cameras in court, based largely on CVN's experience
Online law databases
Legal research |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanes-Sennes-Prags%20Nature%20Park | The Fanes-Sennes-Prags Nature Park (; ; ) is a nature reserve in the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy.
References
Civic network of South Tyrol
External links
Fanes-Sennes-Prags
1980 establishments in Italy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Turing%20Year | The Alan Turing Year, 2012, marked the celebration of the life and scientific influence of Alan Turing during the centenary of his birth on 23 June 1912. Turing had an important influence on computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability and made important contributions to code-breaking during the Second World War. The Alan Turing Centenary Advisory committee (TCAC) was originally set up by Professor Barry Cooper
The international impact of Turing's work is reflected in the list of countries in which Alan Turing Year was celebrated, including: Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, U.K. and the U.S.A. 41+ countries were involved.
Events
A number of major events took place throughout the year. Some of these were linked to places with special significance in Turing's life, such as Cambridge University, the University of Manchester, Bletchley Park, Princeton University. The ACM was involved from June to September 2012. Twelve museums were involved including in Germany and Brazil. Artists, musicians and poets took part in the celebrations internationally.
Events included the 2012 Computability in Europe conference, as well as Turing Centenary activities organized or sponsored by the British Computer Society, the Association for Symbolic Logic, British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, the British Society for the History of Mathematics, the Association for Computing Machinery, British Logic Colloquium, Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, the Computer Conservation Society, the Computer Society of India, the Bletchley Park Trust, the European Association for Computer Science Logic, the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, International Association for Computing and Philosophy, the Department of Philosophy at De La Salle University-Manila, the John Templeton Foundation, the Kurt Gödel Society, the IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, the Science Museum, and Turing100in2012. The Alan Turing Centenary Conference was held at the University of Manchester during June 2012.
Alan Turing Year is known on Twitter as Alan Turing Years. @alanturingyear.
Organisers
The Turing Year was coordinated by the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee (TCAC), representing a range of expertise and organisational involvement in the 2012 celebrations. Members of TCAC include Honorary President, Sir John Dermot Turing; The Chair and founder of the committee, mathematician and author of Alan Turing - His Work and Impact S. Barry Cooper; Turing's biographer Andrew Hodges; Wendy Hall, first person from outside North America elected President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in July 2008; Simon Singh; Hugh Loebner sponsor of the Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence (annual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldfeld%E2%80%93Quandt%20test | In statistics, the Goldfeld–Quandt test checks for homoscedasticity in regression analyses. It does this by dividing a dataset into two parts or groups, and hence the test is sometimes called a two-group test. The Goldfeld–Quandt test is one of two tests proposed in a 1965 paper by Stephen Goldfeld and Richard Quandt. Both a parametric and nonparametric test are described in the paper, but the term "Goldfeld–Quandt test" is usually associated only with the former.
Test
In the context of multiple regression (or univariate regression), the hypothesis to be tested is that the variances of the errors of the regression model are not constant, but instead are monotonically related to a pre-identified explanatory variable. For example, data on income and consumption may be gathered and consumption regressed against income. If the variance increases as levels of income increase, then income may be used as an explanatory variable. Otherwise some third variable (e.g. wealth or last period income) may be chosen.
Parametric test
The parametric test is accomplished by undertaking separate least squares analyses on two subsets of the original dataset: these subsets are specified so that the observations for which the pre-identified explanatory variable takes the lowest values are in one subset, with higher values in the other. The subsets needs not be of equal size, nor contain all the observations between them. The parametric test assumes that the errors have a normal distribution. There is an additional assumption here, that the design matrices for the two subsets of data are both of full rank. The test statistic used is the ratio of the mean square residual errors for the regressions on the two subsets. This test statistic corresponds to an F-test of equality of variances, and a one- or two-sided test may be appropriate depending on whether or not the direction of the supposed relation of the error variance to the explanatory variable is known.
Increasing the number of observations dropped in the "middle" of the ordering will increase the power of the test but reduce the degrees of freedom for the test statistic. As a result of this tradeoff it is common to see the Goldfeld–Quandt test performed by dropping the middle third of observations with smaller proportions of dropped observations as sample size increases.
Nonparametric test
The second test proposed in the paper is a nonparametric one and hence does not rely on the assumption that the errors have a normal distribution. For this test, a single regression model is fitted to the complete dataset. The squares of the residuals are listed according to the order of the pre-identified explanatory variable. The test statistic used to test for homogeneity is the number of peaks in this list: ie. the count of the number of cases in which a squared residual is larger than all previous squared residuals. Critical values for this test statistic are constructed by an argument related to permutation te |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puez-Geisler%20Nature%20Park | The Puez-Geisler Nature Park (; ) is a nature reserve in the Dolomites in South Tyrol, Italy.
References
Civic network of South Tyrol
External links
Photo 360°: Geisler position: Seceda, Geisler position: Brogles, Geisler position: Gschnagenhardt
Puez-Geisler |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlern-Rosengarten%20Nature%20Park | The Schlern-Rosengarten Nature Park (; ) is a nature reserve in South Tyrol, Italy.
References
Civic network of South Tyrol
External links
Schlern-Rosengarten |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20and%20Omega%20%28film%29 | Alpha and Omega is a 2010 American computer-animated film directed by Anthony Bell and Ben Gluck. Starring the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, Dennis Hopper, Danny Glover and Christina Ricci, the film was written by Christopher Denk and Steve Moore, based on a story by Moore and Gluck. This film sets around two young Rocky Mountain wolves named Kate and Humphrey who fall in love with each other, but are on the opposite ends of their pack. However, when Kate and Humphrey learn that they got relocated to Idaho for repopulation, they must work together to get back to Jasper National Park before a war slowly begins to emerge between both packs.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2010, and was released nationwide in 2-D and 3-D on September 17, 2010, by Lionsgate Films. The film was dedicated to the memory of Dennis Hopper, as he died from prostate cancer four months before it was released, and this was his final performance prior to his death.
Despite receiving negative reviews, the film eventually turned into a franchise of 8 direct-to-video sequels including Alpha and Omega 2: A Howl-iday Adventure, which was released on October 8, 2013. Another sequel, The Great Wolf Games, was released on March 25, 2014. The Legend of the Saw Tooth Cave was released on September 23, 2014. Family Vacation was released to DVD on August 4, 2015. Dino Digs was released on DVD and Digital HD on May 10, 2016. It was followed by The Big Fur-eeze, which was released on November 8, 2016. The final installment, Journey To Bear Kingdom was released on DVD and Digital HD on May 9, 2017.
Plot
In Alberta, Canada’s Jasper National Park, Omega wolf Humphrey and his Omega friends attempt to log board down a hill. However, the plan goes entirely wrong as they try to maneuver the log down the mountain. Meanwhile, Alpha wolf Kate practices her hunting skills on her younger Omega sister, Lilly, much to her annoyance. Humphrey and Kate join each other mid air, excited to see each other again. However, Humphrey begins to feel nauseated by their spinning, and the two fall onto the ground. As Humphrey tries to join Kate, Winston, leader of the Western pack and Kate’s father, stops Humphrey in pursuing her. He reminds Humphrey that Alphas and Omegas cannot mate according to pack law, and that Kate is going off to Alpha school until Spring. Humphrey looks on, saddened by her departure.
Spring time comes around, and both Kate and Humphrey mature. Humphrey and his friends seem to master the ways of log boarding, but their fun stops short when they crash into a rock. They then see Kate on her first ever hunt, pursuing a herd of caribou. As Kate and her team close in on the caribou, they are interrupted by a group of two enemy Eastern pack wolves, which causes a stampede. As Kate saves the two Eastern wolves from getting trampled, the Western pack wolves start a fight. Humphrey and his friends then break up the conflict. Later that nigh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity%20finance | Opportunity finance refers to socially responsible investing by an institution in an organization or group of individuals.
Usage of the term
The Opportunity Finance Network, a Philadelphia-based national umbrella group of 213 community development financial institution (CDFIs) founded in 1995, defines the term as "a category of financing that helps people and communities just outside the margins of conventional, mainstream finance join the economic mainstream—and helps the economic mainstream enter emerging opportunity markets." It is closely related to microfinance, but tends to occur on a larger scale and be more explicitly concerned with social benefit.
The concept of opportunity finance has gained increased traction in recent years, both from political movements and economic necessity. The current economic climate in the United States has raised the demand for creative financing even for established businesses, as traditional bank loans for nonprofits and small businesses became harder to come by after the market crashed in the autumn of 2008.
Although the concept of opportunity finance is applicable worldwide, the entrepreneurial connotations of the term make it most commonly applied to initiatives within the United States. The Opportunity Finance Network, itself a U.S. organization, connects the concept to individualism and "the bedrock of U.S. policy."
Opportunity finance and CDFIs
Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are nongovernmental financing entities (such as banks and loan funds) with the primary mission of community development, serving a target market, providing development services, and remaining accountable to their communities. CDFIs may be the most well-known practitioners of opportunity finance in the United States, because they comprise a group of government-accredited institutions. Some awards for opportunity finance are available to CDFIs only.
While there are numerous organizations certified as CDFIs by the CDFI Fund, it is believed that there are thousands of financial institutions serving the needs of low-income people or communities in the U.S., but either have not applied for CDFI status or have otherwise not been able to fulfill all of the requirements for formal CDFI certification. All of these organizations can be said to be engaged in opportunity finance, despite their lack of U.S. governmental recognition.
Examples of opportunity finance organizations
Europe
Actis Capital *
United States
Accion USA
Community loan funds, such as:
Chicago Community Loan Fund
Grassroots Business Fund
Worldwide
Heifer International>
See also
Socially responsible investing
Ethical banking
Microfinance
External links
Opportunity Finance Network website
CDFI Fund
Wells Fargo NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance
Financial Times Sustainable Banking Awards
"Money for SBA initiatives may loosen credit for small firms to grow," Chicago Tribune, March 23, 2009
References
Social economy
Communi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri%20Lankan%20irrigation%20network | The irrigation works in ancient Sri Lanka, the earliest dating from about 300 BCE, in the reign of King Pandukabhaya and under continuous development for the next thousand years, were some of the most complex irrigation systems of the ancient world. In addition to constructing underground canals, the Sinhalese were the first to build completely artificial reservoirs to store water. The system was extensively restored and further extended during the reign of King Parākramabāhu (1153–1186 CE).
According to Sri Lankan history, the first tank was built by King Pandukabhaya, who reigned from 437 to 367 BC. It is said that he had three tanks built, namely Abhaya wewa, Gamini wewa, and Jaya wewa, yet, presently, only one tank named Basawakkulama wewa, which is known as the Abhaya wewa in the past, can be identified. After King Pandukabhaya, King Parakramabahu I had many tanks built, with one large tank called Parakrama samudraya still providing water for agriculture. It can be said that many rulers of Sri Lanka contributed to the development and construction of tanks all over the Raja Rata (Northern part of the country).
See also
Anuradhapura Kingdom: Irrigation and water management
Ancient constructions of Sri Lanka
Henry Parker
Tank cascade system
References
External links
Sena de Silva, Reservoirs of Sri Lanka and their fisheries, FAO, 1998
FAO - Protection and revival of Ancient Irrigation Systems in Sri Lanka
Irrigation works
Agriculture in Sri Lanka
Irrigation in Sri Lanka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staging%20%28data%29 | A staging area, or landing zone, is an intermediate storage area used for data processing during the extract, transform and load (ETL) process. The data staging area sits between the data source(s) and the data target(s), which are often data warehouses, data marts, or other data repositories.
Data staging areas are often transient in nature, with their contents being erased prior to running an ETL process or immediately following successful completion of an ETL process. Such a staging area is sometimes called a transient staging area (TSA).
There are staging area architectures, however, which are designed to hold data for extended periods of time for archival or troubleshooting purposes. A persistent staging area (PSA) is a type of staging area in a data warehouse which tracks the whole change history of a source table or query.
Implementation
Staging areas can be implemented in the form of tables in relational databases, text-based flat files (or XML files) stored in file systems or proprietary formatted binary files stored in file systems. Staging area architectures range in complexity from a set of simple relational tables in a target database to self-contained database instances or file systems. Though the source systems and target systems supported by ETL processes are often relational databases, the staging areas that sit between data sources and targets need not also be relational databases.
Functions
Staging areas can be designed to provide many benefits, but the primary motivations for their use are to increase efficiency of ETL processes, ensure data integrity and support data quality operations. The functions of the staging area include the following:
Consolidation
One of the primary functions performed by a staging area is consolidation of data from multiple source systems. In performing this function the staging area acts as a large "bucket" in which data from multiple source systems can be temporarily placed for further processing. It is common to tag data in the staging area with additional metadata indicating the source of origin and timestamps indicating when the data was placed in the staging area.
Alignment
Aligning data includes standardization of reference data across multiple source systems and validation of relationships between records and data elements from different sources. Data alignment in the staging area is a function closely related to, and acting in support of, master data management capabilities.
Minimizing contention
The staging area and ETL processes it supports are often designed with a goal of minimizing contention within source systems. Copying required data from source systems to the staging area in one shot is often more efficient than retrieving individual records (or small sets of records) on a one-off basis. The former method takes advantage of technical efficiencies, such as data streaming technologies, reduced overhead through minimizing the need to break and re-establish connections to source |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201950 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1950 (see 1950 in film).
See also
1950 in the Soviet Union
References
External links
Soviet films of 1950 at the Internet Movie Database
1950
Lists of 1950 films by country or language
1950 in the Soviet Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201951 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1951 (see 1951 in film).
1951
See also
1951 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1951 at the Internet Movie Database
1951
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201952 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1952 (see 1952 in film).
1952
See also
1952 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1952 at the Internet Movie Database
1952
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201953 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1953 (see 1953 in film) follows:
See also
1953 in the Soviet Union
References
External links
Soviet films of 1953 at the Internet Movie Database
1953
Lists of 1953 films by country or language
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201954 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1954 (see also 1954 in film).
1954
See also
1954 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1954 at the Internet Movie Database
1954
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201955 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1955 (see 1955 in film).
1955
See also
1955 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1955 at the Internet Movie Database
1955
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201956 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1956 (see 1956 in film).
1956
See also
1956 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1956 at the Internet Movie Database
1956
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201957 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1957 (see 1957 in film).
1957
See also
1957 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1957 at the Internet Movie Database
1957
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201958 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1958 (see 1958 in film).
1958
See also
1958 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1958 at the Internet Movie Database
1958
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Soviet%20films%20of%201959 | A list of films produced in the Soviet Union in 1959 (see 1959 in film).
1959
See also
1959 in the Soviet Union
External links
Soviet films of 1959 at the Internet Movie Database
1959
Soviet
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20of%20Infrastructure | Minister of Infrastructure may refer to:
Minister for Infrastructure and Transport (Australia)
Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Networks (Greece)
National Infrastructure Minister of Israel
Italian Minister of Infrastructures
Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Japan
Minister of Infrastructure (Manitoba), Canada
Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation (Manitoba) (1999–2016)
Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment, Netherlands
Minister for Infrastructure (New Zealand)
Minister for Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (Northern Territory), Canada
Minister of Infrastructure (Ontario), Canada
Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure, Investment and Cities, Scotland
Minister for Infrastructure (Sweden)
Minister of Infrastructure (Ukraine) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble%20game | In mathematics and computer science, a pebble game is a type of mathematical game played by placing "pebbles" or "markers" on a directed acyclic graph according to certain rules:
A given step of the game consists of either placing a pebble on an empty vertex or removing a pebble from a previously pebbled vertex.
A vertex may be pebbled only if all its predecessors have pebbles.
The objective of the game is to successively pebble each vertex of G (in any order) while minimizing the number of pebbles that are ever on the graph simultaneously.
Running time
The trivial solution is to pebble an n-vertex graph in n steps using n pebbles. Hopcroft, Paul and Valiant showed that any vertex of an n-vertex graph can be pebbled with O(n/log n) pebbles where the constant depends on the maximum in-degree. This enabled them to prove that DTIME(f(n)) is contained in DSPACE(f(n)/log f(n)) for all time-constructible f. Lipton and Tarjan showed that any n-vertex planar acyclic directed graph with maximum in-degree k can be pebbled using O( + k log2 n) pebbles. They also proved that it is possible to obtain a substantial reduction in pebbles while preserving a polynomial bound on the number of pebbling steps with a theorem that any n-vertex planar acyclic directed graph with maximum in-degree k can be pebbled using O(n2/3 + k) pebbles in O(n5/3) time. Alon, Seymour and Thomas showed that any n-vertex acyclic directed graph with no kh-minor and with maximum in-degree k can be pebbled using O(h3/2 n1/2 + k log n) pebbles.
Variations
An extension of this game, known as "black-white pebbling", was developed by Stephen Cook and Ravi Sethi in a 1976 paper. It also adds white pebbles, which may be placed at any vertex at will, but can only be removed if all the vertex's immediate ancestor vertices are also pebbled. The goal remains to place a black pebble on the target vertex, but the pebbling of adjacent vertices may be done with pebbles of either color.
Takumi Kasai et al. developed a game in which a pebble may be moved along an edge-arrow to an unoccupied vertex only if a second pebble is located at a third, control vertex; the goal is to move a pebble to a target vertex. This variation makes the pebble game into a generalization of games such as Chinese checkers and Halma. They determined the computational complexity of the one-player and two-player versions of this game, and special cases thereof. In the two-player version, the players take turns moving pebbles. There may also be constraints on which pebbles a player can move.
Pebbling may be used to extend Ehrenfeucht–Fraïssé games.
See also
Graph pebbling: A certain number of pebbles are distributed among the vertices of an undirected graph; the goal is to move at least one to a particular target vertex. But to move one pebble to an adjacent vertex, another pebble at the same vertex must be discarded.
Chip-firing game
Planar separator theorem
References
Further reading
Nicholas Pippenger. Pebblin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis%20Shasha | Dennis Elliot Shasha is an American professor of computer science at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, a division of New York University. He is also an associate director of NYU WIRELESS. His current areas of research include work done with biologists on pattern discovery for microarrays, combinatorial design, network inference, and protein docking; work done with physicists, musicians, and professionals in finance on algorithms for time series; and work on database applications in untrusted environments. Other areas of interest include database tuning as well as tree and graph matching.
Background
After graduating from Yale in 1977, he worked for IBM designing circuits and microcode for the IBM 3090. While at IBM, he earned his M.Sc. from Syracuse University in 1980. He completed his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Harvard in 1984 (thesis advisor: Nat Goodman).
Professor Shasha is a prolific author, researcher, tango dancer, climber, and public speaker. He has written six books of puzzles, five of which center on the work of a mathematical detective by the name of Jacob Ecco, a biography about great computer scientists (coauthored by freelance journalist Cathy Lazere), and technical books relating to his various areas of research. In his non-academic writings, perhaps his greatest invention is the notion of omniheuristics, a kind of super-heuristics concerned with the ability to solve any and all manner of puzzles, conundrums, enigmas, and dilemmas. Owing their decidedly curious character, he has given particular note to puzzles that start off easy, but have apparently innocent variants that are particularly perplexing; he calls them 'upstarts'.
Professor Shasha has written monthly puzzle columns for Communications of the ACM, Scientific American, and Dr. Dobb's Journal. He lives in New York with his wife Karen.
In 2013 he became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Bibliography
Dr. Ecco mysteries
The Puzzling Adventures of Dr. Ecco - (1988, Freeman, and republished in 1998 by Dover)
Codes, Puzzles, and Conspiracy - (1992, Freeman, republished in 2004 by Dover as Dr. Ecco: Mathematical Detective)
Dr. Ecco's Cyberpuzzles - (2002, W. W. Norton)
Puzzling Adventures - (2005, W. W. Norton)
The Puzzler's Elusion - (2006, Avalon Publishing)
Puzzles for Programmers and Pros - (2007, Wrox)
Computer science
Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists - (1998, Springer)
Database Tuning: Principles, Experiments, and Troubleshooting Techniques - (2002, Morgan Kaufmann)
High Performance Discovery in Time Series: techniques and case studies - (2004, Springer Verlag)
Natural Computing: DNA, Quantum Bits, and the Future of Smart Machines - (2010, W. W. Norton)
Statistics is Easy: Case Studies on Real Scientific Datasets - (2021, Morgan Claypool)
Automated Verification of Concurrent Search Structures - (2021, Morgan Claypool)
Historical
Red Blues: Voices from the Last Wave o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20R.%20Lyu | Michael R. Lyu is the Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Shatin, Hong Kong.
Michael is well known to the software engineering community as the editor of two classic book volumes in software reliability engineering: Software Fault Tolerance and the Handbook of Software Reliability Engineering. Both books have also been translated into Chinese and published in China. He was also named in The AI 2000 Most Influential Scholars Annual List with three appearances.
References
Living people
Chinese software engineers
Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Chinese computer scientists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forever%20in%20My%20Heart | Forever in My Heart is a Philippine television drama romance series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Mark Reyes and Phil Noble, it stars Regine Velasquez, Richard Gomez, Ariel Rivera and Dawn Zulueta. It premiered on September 27, 2004, on the network's Telebabad line up. The series concluded on January 7, 2005, with a total of 75 episodes.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Regine Velasquez as Angeline Sagrado
Richard Gomez as Raphael Cruzado
Dawn Zulueta as Stella Carbonel
Ariel Rivera as Michael Bernabe
Supporting cast
Jennylyn Mercado as Joey Almasan
Mark Herras as Chris Sagrado
Freddie Webb as Alvin Sagrado
Juan Rodrigo as Roberto Bernabe
Pinky de Leon as Maita Sagrado
Pinky Marquez as Ella Bernabe
Cindy Kurleto as Elaine Guanzon
Tonton Gutierrez as Ronald Carbonel
Katrina Halili as Janelle Bernabe
Gabby Eigenmann as Abet Torallba
Janelle Jamer as Bea Atentido
Jackie Castillejo as Citas Bernabe
Jean Saburit as Glenda Cruzado
Andrew Schimmer as Paolo Mendez
Maureen Larrazabal as Vicky Abrera
Jake Cuenca as William
Carmi Martin as Laura Guanzon
Krista Ranillo as Gem
Jade Lopez as Lily
Robert Ortega as Mike
Guest cast
Railey Valeroso as young Raphael
JC de Vera as young Michael
Cris Daluz as Zoilo
Accolades
References
External links
2004 Philippine television series debuts
2005 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet%20Tracer | Packet Tracer is a cross-platform visual simulation tool designed by Cisco Systems that allows users to create network topologies and imitate modern computer networks. The software allows users to simulate the configuration of Cisco routers and switches using a simulated command line interface. Packet Tracer makes use of a drag and drop user interface, allowing users to add and remove simulated network devices as they see fit. The software is mainly focused towards Cisco Networking Academy students as an educational tool for helping them learn fundamental CCNA concepts. Previously students enrolled in a CCNA Academy program could freely download and use the tool free of charge for educational use.
Overview
Packet Tracer can be run on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and macOS. Similar Android and iOS apps are also available. Packet Tracer allows users to create simulated network topologies by dragging and dropping routers, switches and various other types of network devices. A physical connection between devices is represented by a 'cable' item. Packet Tracer supports an array of simulated Application Layer protocols, as well as basic routing with RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, to the extents required by the current CCNA curriculum. As of version 5.3, Packet Tracer also supports the Border Gateway Protocol.
In addition to simulating certain aspects of computer networks, Packet Tracer can also be used for collaboration. As of Packet Tracer 5.0, Packet Tracer supports a multi-user system that enables multiple users to connect multiple topologies together over a computer network. Packet Tracer also allows instructors to create activities that students have to complete. Packet Tracer is often used in educational settings as a learning aid. Cisco Systems claims that Packet Tracer is useful for network experimentation.
Role in Education
Packet Tracer allows students to design complex and large networks, which is often not feasible with physical hardware, due to costs. Packet Tracer is commonly used by NetAcad students, since it is available to them for free. However, due to functional limitations, it is intended by Cisco to be used only as a learning aid, not a replacement for Cisco routers and switches. The application itself only has a small number of features found within the actual hardware running a current Cisco IOS version. Thus, Packet Tracer is unsuitable for modelling production networks. It has a limited command set, meaning it is not possible to practice all of the IOS commands that might be required. Packet Tracer can be useful for understanding abstract networking concepts, such as the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol by animating these elements in a visual form. Packet Tracer is also useful in education by providing additional components, including an authoring system, network protocol simulation and improving knowledge an assessment system.
PTTP protocol and CSR compatibility
In 2019, Cisco registered a new URI scheme with the IANA call |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wrench | John William Wrench, Jr. (October 13, 1911 – February 27, 2009) was an American mathematician who worked primarily in numerical analysis. He was a pioneer in using computers for mathematical calculations, and is noted for work done with Daniel Shanks to calculate the mathematical constant pi to 100,000 decimal places.
Life and education
Wrench was born on October 13, 1911, in Westfield, New York, and grew up in Hamburg, New York. He received a BA summa cum laude in mathematics in 1933 and an MA in mathematics in 1935, both from the University at Buffalo. He received his PhD in mathematics in 1938 from Yale University.
His thesis was titled The derivation of arctangent relations.
Wrench died on February 27, 2009, of pneumonia in Frederick, Maryland.
Career
Wrench started his career teaching at George Washington University, but switched to doing research for the United States Navy during World War II. His specialty for the Navy was developing high-speed computational methods, and he was a pioneer in using computers for mathematical calculations. He worked on projects involving underwater sound waves, underwater explosions, structural design, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, and data analysis. He became deputy head of the Applied Mathematics Laboratory at the Navy's David Taylor Model Basin in 1953, and retired in 1974 as the head of the laboratory. He also had academic appointments at Yale University, Wesleyan University, University of Maryland, College Park, and American University.
Wrench had a particular interest in computing the decimal digits of π, and performed some lengthy calculations even before the availability of computers. During the period 1945–1956 Wrench and Levi B. Smith used a desk calculator to produce more and more digits of π, ending with 1160 places.
In 1961, Wrench and Daniel Shanks used an IBM 7090 computer to calculate π to 100,000 digits.
Harry Polachek had a printout of the 100,000 digits specially bound, inscribed in gold letters, and donated to the Smithsonian Institution.
Wrench also calculated a number of other mathematical constants to high precision, for example the Euler–Mascheroni constant γ to 328 decimal places
and Khinchin's constant to 65 places.
He was at one time the editor of the Journal of Mathematics of Computation. Wrench was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council. He published more than 150 scientific papers.
Notes
External links
1911 births
2009 deaths
20th-century American mathematicians
Numerical analysts
United States Navy civilians
University at Buffalo alumni
Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Wesleyan University faculty
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Westfield, New York
People from Hamburg, New York
Mathematicians from New York (state) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sord%20Computer%20Corporation | Sord Computer Corporation is a Japanese electronics company, founded in 1970 by the entrepreneur Takayoshi Shiina.
From 1985 until 2018, it was a subsidiary of Toshiba and became known variously as Toshiba Personal Computer System Corporation and Toshiba Platform Solution Corporation.
In 2018, Toshiba sold off the business and its name reverted to Sord Computer Corporation. It now focuses on embedded systems among other interests.
History
Early years
SORD was founded by Takayoshi Shiina in 1970 when he was 26 years old. Initially, the company wrote software for DEC PDP minicomputers, before it branched out into hardware production. The name SORD is a contraction of SOftware/haRDware, reflecting the dual focus of the company.
Sord presented the SMP80/08 in 1973, one of the first microcomputers, using the Intel 8008 microprocessor. However, it did not have a commercial release. After the first general-purpose microprocessor, the Intel 8080, was announced in April 1974, Sord announced the SMP80/x series in May 1974.
In 1977, SORD released the M200 Smart Home Computer, one of the first home computers. It was a desktop computer that combined a Zilog Z80 CPU, keyboard, CRT display, floppy disk drive and MF-DOS operating system into an integrated unit.
This was followed by the M100 and various other versions of the M100/M200 series, plus the multi-user M223 and M243 computers.
The SORD M23 followed in 1981 and become one of the most popular SORD computers. It was one of the first to see significant use outside Japan.
In 1982, Sord released the M5, a home computer that primarily competed in the Japanese market.
The M68, a dual 8/16 bit computer using both 68000 and Z80 CPUs, was released in Japan in 1983.
The PIPS - Personal (or Pan) Information Processing System was released in 1980. This package was a combined spreadsheet and database business package. This was followed by PIPS-II in 1981, PIPS-III in 1982 and a complete rewrite (by a team led by Peter Hyde) as 4G-PIPS in 1986.
Under Toshiba ownership
Shiina was approached by a larger Japanese corporation in 1983 and advised to sell. He didn't - and in 1984, on the back of turnover of 35 billion yen and profit of 2 billion yen SORD found itself struggling with suppliers and the banks. SORD was sold to Toshiba in 1985.
Under Toshiba, SORD went on to produce additional hardware such as the M68MX (with no Z80A) and M343SX-II multi-user computer and new versions of PIPS, a series of high performance IBM compatible machines and systems based on Alpha. Latterly, SORD (known at that point as Toshiba-TOPS) changed focus to primarily dealing with embedded systems.
Sell-off and restoration of 'Sord' name
In 2018, Toshiba sold Toshiba Platform Solution Corporation to Aspirant Group. Following this, the company name was changed back to Sord Computer Corporation. The company continues the focus on embedded systems begun under Toshiba.
Selected models
Sord SMP80/08, 1972
Sord SMP80/x series, 1974
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20J.%20Varab | Jeffrey James Varab is a leading animator and visual effects artist and one of the pioneers of 3D computer animation. His work on the 1995 film Casper marked the first fully computer-rendered lead character in a feature film, beating Woody and Buzz Lightyear of the fully computer-animated Toy Story by six months.
Career
Originally hired at Disney Animation in 1977, Varab was trained on the film Pete's Dragon by one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", Eric Larson. Classmates at Disney Animation included filmmakers such as Pixar's John Lasseter, Tim Burton and Don Bluth. Since then, Varab has done work for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic, Universal Pictures and Sullivan Bluth Studios. Varab's work has appeared in such films as The Fox and the Hound, All Dogs Go To Heaven, FernGully: The Last Rainforest, We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story, Casper, Balto, Mulan, The Rugrats Movie, Titan AE, and Tugger: The Jeep 4x4 Who Wanted to Fly.
Over the past three years, Varab has been heavily involved in pioneering the use of stereoscopic rendering and autostereoscopy in animation. He is currently in pre-production on a series of feature films that will showcase this technology. He has also been involved in designing tool sets for 2d-3d stereoscopic conversion.
In August 2010, Jeff Varab was charged with 13 counts of fraud and arrested in Osceola County Florida.
References
External links
Jeffrey Varab's home page
Living people
American animators
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Life%20Information%20Network | The Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN) is an information system for marine biodiversity for Great Britain and Ireland.
MarLIN was established in 1998 by the Marine Biological Association together with the environmental protection agencies and academic institutions in Britain and Ireland.
The MarLIN data access programme has now become the DASSH Marine Data Archive Cantre. DASSH is built on the existing extensive data and dissemination skills of the Marine Life Information Network (MarLIN), the library and information services of the National Marine Biological Library (NMBL) and the MBA's historical role in marine science.
References
Biology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Information systems
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Marine biology
1998 introductions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20fastest%20computers | This is a historical list of fastest computers and includes computers and supercomputers which were considered the fastest in the world at the time they were built.
a. An asterisk (*) denotes Rmaxthe highest score measured using the LINPACK benchmarks suite.
See also
History of supercomputing
Timeline of instructions per second (IPS)
TOP500 § Systems ranked No. 1 since 1976 (FLOPS)
References
Computer Speeds From Instruction Mixes (pre-1960 to 1971)
TOP500 #1 systems since 1993 – TOP500.org
History of computing hardware
Fastest computers
Fastest computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacTutor | MacTutor may refer to:
The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a history of mathematics archive
MacTutor (magazine), a magazine on developing software for the Apple Macintosh computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Renkel | Michael Renkel is a German concert guitarist who extends his instrument via live electronics and computer.
Life and works
Michael Renkel was born in Celle / north Germany. He studied classical guitar in Hamburg. The main emphasis of his work is an interest in open methods of composition and he developed his style since the mid-eighties using preparations and advanced playing techniques.
He is engaged in aleatoric composition, variable forms and structures as well as notation. Influences include John Cage, Morton Feldman, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Violeta Dinescu, Derek Bailey, Keith Rowe and old lute music. He was the first musician to transform the concert guitar by means of computer patches and live processing.
His guitar playing straddles tradition and the development of a personal language that includes extended playing techniques, the preparation of the acoustic guitar and quasi-theatrical performance. In a logical continuation he also extends the instrument via computer technology and live electronics. The acoustic guitar is modified in a way that blurs the delineation between acoustic preparation and electronic variance. In his works the instrumental material is altered in realtime using preparations, laptops, MAX/MSP, percussion instruments, a 16 channel sampler-sequencer, synthesizers and a vibraphone. Renkel also works with field recordings and composes works that experiment with genetic processes that expand the musical parameters to include concepts such as generation, mutation, hybridization and coding („Genetic Annotation“). He also writes video animated compositions in which the performers interpret a permanently changing score in a live situation („Nomos Alto“).
His Compositions are published at Verlag Neue Musik / Berlin. He is intensively involved with jazz guitar and its implementation in his own concepts and projects. He also works as video artist and designs sound installations.
Since 2015 he has been increasingly involved with sampler and sequencer technology, synthesizers, as well as the inclusion of more rhythmic structures and "beats" in his music.
International concert activity and cooperations among others with: Phil Minton, Sven-Åke Johansson, Burkhard Beins, Axel Dörner, Ignaz Schick, Robin Hayward, Andrea Neumann, Neumann, Magda Mayas, Sabine Vogel, Tobias Vethake.
Renkel lives and works in Berlin / Neukoelln since 1996.
Discography
2010, MEK online release on homophoni
2010, Activity Center, Lohn & Brot, absinthrecords
2009, Phosphor II, potlatch, P109
2009, rebecca variation no 12, esquilo records, duo with Kai Fagaschinski
2009, in-formation neukoelln, homophoni 034, duo with cheapmachines aka Phil Julian
2008, Kalte Welle 102, Kning Disc, Duo mit Sven Åke Johansson
2007, phono_phono, absinthRecords 014, Trio mit M. Mayas, S. Vogel
2005, Ensemble Phosphor, Neue Musik in Deutschland 1950 - 2000, Deutscher Musikrat + Sony BMG
2005, Errorkoerper III, absinthRecords 009
2003, Activity C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Manageability%20Programming%20Interface | The Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI, also called Common Management Programming Interface) is an open standard that defines a programming interface between a WBEM server and WBEM providers.
Overview
The CMPI standard is defined by the CMPI Working Group of The Open Group and is implementation neutral.
The CMPI programming interface is defined for the C programming language. Its C header files are enabled for C++. In addition, there are C++ utility macros that allow accessing the interface in a way that is more typical to C++.
Each release of the cmpi specification is accompanied by a set of C-language header files that represent the implementation of the interface. Normally these files are incorporated into each of the WBEM servers that provide this interface. However, the header files are also available independently for each release.
As of CMPI 2.1, these header files are available on GitHub in the CMPI GitHub Project. Also as of CMPI 2.1 the CMIP interface documentation is also available as a GitHub website at CMPI API documentation on GitHub.
Benefits
Before the introduction of CMPI, each WBEM server implementation had its own specific programming interface for CIM providers (e.g. WMI COM API, OpenPegasus C++ API, OpenWBEM C++ API, etc.). CMPI allows CIM providers to be developed that are mostly or completely agnostic to the type of WBEM server they are being used with. Therefore, CMPI providers can be deployed across a variety of operating environments with no or minimal adaptation work. This protects the investment in these CIM providers.
Standards development
The original input to the CMPI standard was submitted by IBM to The Open Group in 2003. Along with the submission, an implementation was conducted as part of the SBLIM project.
In late 2004, CMPI V1.0 was released by The Open Group as a Technical Standard. A major update (V2.0 was released in late 2006). A backward compatible but significant extension of the specification was released in February 2016.
The current version of CMPI is V2.1 (released February 2016).
List of products or projects supporting CMPI
Note: The following list is likely incomplete. Please help to complete the list.
WBEM servers
OpenPegasus
Small Footprint CIM Broker (SFCB)
WS J WBEM Server
OpenWBEM
ESXi CIM broker
WBEM providers
SBLIM CMPI providers for Linux
XenSource CMPI providers for Xen
CMPI providers for libvirt/KVM
CIM support on IBM z/OS 1.10
CIM support on IBM AIX 6.1
Tools
Extensible CIM UML Tooling Environment (ECUTE)
CIMPLE Provider Development Environment (SimpleWBEM)
Konkret CMPI
OpenDRIM C++ Template
See also
CIM
References
External links
CMPI Working Group at TOG
Computer standards
Open Group standards
Open standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide%20Partners | Worldwide Partners, Inc. (WPI) is the world’s 10th largest advertising and marketing communications network comprising over 70 independent agencies.
Overview
The company is headquartered in Denver, Colorado, USA, and have offices in 40 countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North America.
WPI’s partner agencies manage over $5 billion in worldwide advertising expenditures. John Harris is president and CEO, based in Denver.
External links
Advertising agencies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incremental%20decision%20tree | An incremental decision tree algorithm is an online machine learning algorithm that outputs a decision tree. Many decision tree methods, such as C4.5, construct a tree using a complete dataset. Incremental decision tree methods allow an existing tree to be updated using only new individual data instances, without having to re-process past instances. This may be useful in situations where the entire dataset is not available when the tree is updated (i.e. the data was not stored), the original data set is too large to process or the characteristics of the data change over time.
Applications
On-line learning
Data streams
Concept drift
Data which can be modeled well using a hierarchical model.
Systems where a user-interpretable output is desired.
Methods
Here is a short list of incremental decision tree methods, organized by their (usually non-incremental) parent algorithms.
CART family
CART (1984) is a nonincremental decision tree inducer for both classification and regression problems. developed in the mathematics and statistics communities. CART traces its roots to AID (1963)
incremental CART (1989) Crawford modified CART to incorporate data incrementally.
ID3/C4.5 family
ID3 (1986) and C4.5 (1993) were developed by Quinlan and have roots in Hunt's Concept Learning System (CLS, 1966) The ID3 family of tree inducers was developed in the engineering and computer science communities.
ID3' (1986) was suggested by Schlimmer and Fisher. It was a brute-force method to make ID3 incremental; after each new data instance is acquired, an entirely new tree is induced using ID3.
ID4 (1986) could incorporate data incrementally. However, certain concepts were unlearnable, because ID4 discards subtrees when a new test is chosen for a node.
ID5 (1988) didn't discard subtrees, but also did not guarantee that it would produce the same tree as ID3.
ID5R (1989) output the same tree as ID3 for a dataset regardless of the incremental training order. This was accomplished by recursively updating the tree's subnodes. It did not handle numeric variables, multiclass classification tasks, or missing values.
ID6MDL (2007) an extended version of the ID3 or ID5R algorithms.
ITI (1997) is an efficient method for incrementally inducing decision trees. The same tree is produced for a dataset regardless of the data's presentation order, or whether the tree is induced incrementally or non incrementally (batch mode). It can accommodate numeric variables, multiclass tasks, and missing values. Code is available on the web.
note: ID6NB (2009) is not incremental.
Other Incremental Learning Systems
There were several incremental concept learning systems that did not build decision trees, but which predated and influenced the development of the earliest incremental decision tree learners, notably ID4. Notable among these was Schlimmer and Granger's STAGGER (1986), which learned disjunctive concepts incrementally. STAGGER was developed to examine concepts that ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastro%20Networks | Blastro Networks is a web-based company headquartered in Austin, TX, that runs three genre-specific, on-demand, streaming music video websites.
Blastro, voted “Best of the Web 2007” by BusinessWeek, is an urban-centric site for Hip-Hop, R&B, Pop, Latin and Dance music enthusiasts. Roxwel is an alternative fusion of Rock, Metal and Indie entertainment, and Yallwire features Country, Bluegrass and Christian artists. They air mainstream and underground artist videos.
Founded in 1999, Blastro Networks remains independently owned and operated with major-label agreements that include Universal Music Group and Sony BMG. The company has distribution partnerships with Windows Media Guide and Verizon FiOS TV.
References
External links
Blastro Networks
Blastro
Roxwel
Yallwire
Companies based in Austin, Texas
American music websites
Video on demand services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penpen%20de%20Sarapen | Penpen de Sarapen was a former children's variety show aired on Radio Philippines Network every Saturday morning from 1987 to 2001. It was hosted by Connie Angeles together with Fred Moore delos Santos and Teena Cruz. The stage of Penpen de Sarapen was set in the atrium of Farmers Plaza in Araneta Center (now Araneta City), Cubao, Quezon City and then eventually moved to the RPN 9's local studio in Broadcast City, Quezon City. The show was basically an entertainment, game and story-telling show for children.
Host and artists
Connie Angeles
Camille Angeles
Teena Cruz
Fred Moore delos Santos
Chris Guerrero as Islaw Kalabaw
Assunta de Rossi
Alessandra de Rossi
Sunshine Dizon
Sarah Geronimo
Bea Nicolas
Joy Isabel a.k.a. 'Ate Candy - Malalasahan Mo Kaya and Balitang C, Columbia Candy Segment'
Cherie Gel Maglasang
Pao Herrera
Allan Quiocho - Kim Jeong Un
Harry William Acosta a.k.a. Harry del Castillo
Cindy Tiodianco
Caselyn Francisco
Camile Velasco
Jennylyn Mercado
Joyce Torresyap
Kaye Baron
Jaychris Osias
Arwin "Antukin" Camasuela
Erick "May Dating" Jade Azarcon
Evan Dwight Salandanan
Grechell Ann Silvestre
Aia Camille Gutierrez Razon a.k.a. Regent Girl Dancer
See also
List of programs previously broadcast by RPN 9
Philippine children's television series
1987 Philippine television series debuts
2001 Philippine television series endings
Radio Philippines Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20Lafferty | Perry Francis Lafferty (October 3, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American television producer and network television executive who produced several television programs, including the CBS programs All in the Family, M*A*S*H, Maude and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. With NBC, he produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV/AIDS.
Early years
Lafferty was born in Davenport, Iowa on October 3, 1917. He graduated from Davenport Central High School in 1935 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in 2009. He graduated from the Yale School of Music and was trained in piano.
When he was 12 years old, Lafferty began playing piano on Saturdays on radio station WKBF in rock Island, Illinois.
During World War II, Lafferty served in the U.S. Army Air Force.
Career
In the early 1940s, Lafferty began working in the radio industry in New York City as a director and producer.
He was hired by CBS in 1965 as the network's West Coast programming department, leaving in 1976. He was hired by NBC in 1979 as its senior vice president of West Coast programs and talent, and was later assigned responsibility for the network's movies and mini-series. In that role, he developed and produced the 1985 made-for-television production of An Early Frost, starring Aidan Quinn as a young man who must let his parents, played by Ben Gazzara and Gena Rowlands, know that he was dying of AIDS. The critically acclaimed film won a Peabody Award and was one of the first network dramatic features to tackle the HIV /AIDS issue.
He also worked on such television series as Star of the Family, The Danny Kaye Show, Robert Montgomery Presents, Studio One, and The Waltons.
Later years
After he retired from working in television, Lafferty became a writer of mystery novels, including Jablonski of L.A. (1999) and The Downing of Flight Six Heavy (1992).
Death
Lafferty died at age 87 on August 25, 2005 at his home in Century City, California due to prostate cancer. He was interred in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. His 1943 marriage to the former Frances Carden, who had been a radio actress, ended with her death in 1999. Lafferty was survived by a daughter, a son and two grandchildren.
References
External links
Archive of American Television interview
IMDb entry
1917 births
2005 deaths
American television producers
Deaths from cancer in California
Yale School of Music alumni
NBC executives
CBS executives
NBC West Coast Presidents
Burials at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Amber | David Amber (born April 21, 1971) is a Canadian anchor for Sportsnet as a host and reporter. He is best known for his time doing NHL On the Fly on the NHL Network and as the anchor for Gate 5 Live, Raptors Pregame, and Raptors Post Up on NBA TV Canada. He had been an anchor and reporter for ESPN and its family of networks.
Biography
Amber, who had appeared on ESPN networks since 2002, was based in Toronto, contributing to SportsCenter, Outside the Lines, Baseball Tonight and College GameDay. A reporter since 2006, Amber had provided coverage from the NBA Finals, MLB postseason and other major events, as well as serving as a sideline reporter for NCAA football and the World Baseball Classic.
Amber joined ESPN as an ESPNEWS anchor in 2002, also anchoring Outside the Lines, NHL2Night and NCAA basketball.
Prior to ESPN, Amber served as a reporter and anchor for TSN in Toronto (1997–2002). At TSN, Amber reported from two Olympic Games, and several World Series, Stanley Cup Finals, and NBA Finals. From 1999–2001 he was a courtside reporter for TSN's broadcasts of Toronto Raptors games.
Amber joined NHL Network before the 2010-11 NHL season as host of NHL Tonight. Amber also serves as co-host for the Network's coverage at the NHL's signature events and exclusive programming. He joined the Hockey Night in Canada team at the start of the 2011-12 NHL season. After Rogers Media secured a 12-year, $5.2 billion deal for the exclusive national NHL rights at the start of the 2014-15 season, Amber has joined Sportsnet to serve as a reporter for their coverage.
From 2016-2022, he became the studio host of the late game of Hockey Night in Canada, after the departure of George Stroumboulopoulos. In 2022, with Caroline Cameron covering the 2022 Winter Olympics, Amber filled-in on Scotiabank Wednesday Night Hockey.
Beginning in the 2022-23 NHL season, Amber became the lead studio host for Rogers Monday Night Hockey.
Amber received his Bachelor of Arts degree in North American Studies from McGill University in Montreal in 1993, and a Master of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism from Syracuse University in 1995.
Personal life
Amber's older sister is Jeannine Amber, an award-winning Senior Writer at Essence magazine, based in New York City. Amber's sister is also the author of the award winning book Rabbit: The Autobiography of Ms. Pat. He is married with two children.
References
External links
David Amber, Host, NHL On The Fly, retrieved 23 November 2010.
Living people
Black Canadian broadcasters
Canadian television sportscasters
Canadian expatriate journalists in the United States
Canadian television journalists
Toronto Raptors announcers
Journalists from Toronto
National Hockey League broadcasters
National Basketball Association broadcasters
College football announcers
1971 births
Black Canadian journalists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20Feniger | Susan Feniger is an American chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and radio and TV personality. She is known for starring in the cooking show Too Hot Tamales on the Food Network and opening several influential restaurants in Los Angeles. She has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award by the California Restaurant Association.
Career
Restaurants
After working together in Chicago and Paris, Feniger and her longtime collaborator, Mary Sue Milliken, settled in Los Angeles where they founded City Cafe in 1981. They eventually expanded to a larger space on La Brea Blvd. and renamed the establishment City Restaurant. In 1985, they opened the Mexican restaurant Border Grill in the original City Cafe space, before moving it to Santa Monica in 1990. The restaurant later expanded to Pasadena (closed) and the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. Broadening their culinary horizons Feniger and her partner opened the Latin flavor restaurant Ciudad (now a Border Grill) in Los Angeles in 1998. The success of the three restaurants led Feniger and Milliken to be recognized for changing Los Angeles's culinary landscape. Feniger has been influenced by the food and culture of various nations, such as India, France, and Mexico.
In April 2009, Feniger opened her first solo project: Street, a multi-ethnic eatery of "street food" in Hollywood. Sample dishes included millet puffs, paani puri, Massaman chicken curry, dumplings, Egyptian-style baked fish and peanut butter cookies for dessert. Street closed in November 2013.
In December 2013, Feniger, with Executive Chef and Partner Kajsa Alger, opened Mud Hen Tavern at the former location of Street. A neighborhood bar and restaurant, it offered seasonal, gourmet pub and comfort food in a warm and relaxed setting. The bar team in partnership with mixology consultant Tricia Carr (formerly Alley), curated a beverage program that offered a vibrant and accessible selection of international wines, local craft beers and artisanal cocktails to complement Mud Hen Tavern's cuisine. Mud Hen Tavern closed on October 11, 2016.
Publishing, television, and film
In collaboration with Milliken and others, Feniger has published five cookbooks: City Cuisine (1989), Mesa Mexicana (1994), Cantina: The Best of Casual Mexican Cooking (Casual Cuisines of the World) (1996), Cooking with Too Hot Tamales (1997) and Mexican Cooking for Dummies (1999/2002).
Feniger is also a TV personality, starring with Milliken in 396 episodes of the popular Too Hot Tamales and Tamales World Tour on the Food Network in the 1990s. Prior to the shows on the Food Network, in 1993 Feniger and Milliken appeared with Julia Child in her PBS series Cooking with Master Chefs. Feniger has also appeared on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and prepared with Milliken the food that was served in the 2001 movie, Tortilla Soup.
Most recently, Feniger appeared on the second season of Top Chef Masters that aired in 2010. She was the last female chef in the competition, elimina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena%20Optical%20Multiservice%20Edge%206500 | The 6500 Packet-Optical Platform (formerly called the Optical Multiservice Edge 6500 or OME 6500 during the product's time at Nortel) in telecommunication, computer networking and optical communications is a Multi-port multi-protocol system designed by Ciena that supports TDM/WDM/GigE/10G/40G and 100G ports.
The system supports high bandwidth demands from applications like IPTV, Internet Video, HD programming, and mobile video by increasing the speeds over existing fiber. Typically, increasing the speeds from 10G to 40G to 100G entails trade-offs such as shortening the distance of each network segment or increasing optical dispersion because of the weakening of optical signals as they travel. Prevention of this signal loss would normally require amplifiers or repeaters, or in some cases, installing new and finer-quality fiber. Nortel overcomes this signal loss by using a signal modulation technology called dual-polarization quadrature phase shift keying (DPQPSK).
Modules
100 Gigabit Module
1 port 100 Gigabit/s Module
The 100G Gigabit Module effectively uses two wavelengths
40 Gigabit Module
1 port 40 Gigabit/s Module
10 Gigabit Module
4 port 10 Gigabit/s Module
See also
100 Gigabit Ethernet
Phase-shift keying
References
External links
Ciena 6500 Packet-Optical Platform
Ciena
OME
Ethernet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deltar | The Deltar (Delta Getij Analogon Rekenmachine, Dutch for Delta Tide Analog Calculator) was an analog computer, used for the design and implementation of the Delta Works from 1960 until 1984. The computer was based on ideas of Johan van Veen; he also constructed the first prototypes used from 1944-1946. After his death in 1959 this work was continued by J.C. Schönfeld and C.M. Verhagen.
The computer was designed and built in order to make the complicated calculations required to predict the effects of dams, dikes, and storm surge barriers on the tides in the estuaries of the rivers Rhine, Meuse and Scheldt.
The design of the Deltar was based on the hydraulic analogy of the properties and behaviour of water and electricity. Working with analogs of quantities such as the water level, rate of flow and water storage, the design for the calculator basically used the electrical quantities charge, potential, inductance and capacitance.
References
Van Veen "Analogy between Tides and A.C. Electricity", The Engineer, dec 1947 (pp 498, 520. 544)
Development of the tidal analogue technique in Holland", Dr. ir. J.C. Schönfeld en Ir. C.M. Verhagen, Second International Analogue Computation Meeting, Straatsburg, 1957
Analog computers
Delta Works |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartGeometry%20Group | SmartGeometry (SG) is a non-profit organization focusing on the use of the computer as an intelligent design aid in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). It encourages collaboration between practicing AEC professionals, academics and students using computational and parametric software tools.
Group information and activities
The group is led by Lars Hesselgren of KPF, Hugh Whitehead of Foster + Partners and J. Parrish of Arup Sport.
SG hosts annual workshops and conferences on the use of advanced modeling tools and new design methodologies in architecture. Participants come from architectural and engineering practices.
GenerativeComponents is a commercial software product by Bentley Systems, brought to the market after a testing cycle by a user community with SG members in its core.
See also
Architecture
Architectural engineering
Design computing
Comparison of CAD Software
GenerativeComponents
References
External links
SmartGeometry Official Website
SmartGeometry Conferences Website
GenerativeComponents Website
Design Architecture Services
Building engineering organizations
Computer-aided design software
Data modeling
Architecture organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roper%20Center%20for%20Public%20Opinion%20Research |
The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University is the world's oldest archive of social science data and the largest specializing in data from public opinion surveys. Its collection includes over 27,000 datasets and more than 855,000 questions with responses in Roper iPoll, adding hundreds more each year. The archive contains responses from millions of individuals on a vast range of topics. The current executive director of the center is Jonathon P. Schuldt, Associate Professor of Communication at Cornell University, with a governing board of directors chaired by Robert Y. Shapiro of Columbia University.
The Roper Center focuses on surveys conducted by the news media and commercial polling firms; however, it also holds many academic surveys, including historical collections from Gallup, Pew Research Center, the National Opinion Research Center and Princeton University's Office of Public Opinion Research.
The Roper Center maintains cooperative relationships with other archives around the world. Its board of directors includes representatives from academic and commercial public opinion research. The Roper Center moved from the University of Connecticut to Cornell University in 2015.
Warren J. Mitofsky Award
The Warren J. Mitofsky Award for Excellence in Public Opinion Research is named in honor of Warren Mitofsky. Previous winners:
2007: John Mueller
2008: Robert Blendon
2009: Robert Wuthnow
2010: James A. Davis
2011: Kathleen Frankovic
2012: Norman Bradburn
2013: Eric Schickler and Adam Berinsky
2014: Andrew Kohut
2015: Daniel Yankelovich
2016: James Stimson
2017: Howard Schuman, Emeritus Professor at the University of Michigan, where he began his teaching career in 1964, and Emeritus research scientist at the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research’s Survey Research Center
2018: Mollyann Brodie, Senior Vice President for Executive Operations and Executive Director, Public Opinion and Survey Research, at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF)
2019: Patricia Moy, Christy Cressey Professor of Communication and Associate Vice Provost for Academic and Student Affairs at the University of Washington
2020: Karlyn Bowman, Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
2021: Lawrence D. Bobo, Dean of Social Science and the W. E. B. Du Bois Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University
2022: Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Elizabeth Ware Packard Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania and director of the university’s Annenberg Public Policy Center, where she co-founded FactCheck.org
2023: Diane Colasanto, former Gallup chief methodologist and senior vice president and 1996-1997 AAPOR president
See also
Public opinion
Opinion poll
American Association for Public Opinion Research
National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program
Data curation
Digital preservation
References
External links
Roper Center for Public Opinion Rese |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC418 | Socket PAC418 is a 418 pin microprocessor socket designed to interface an Intel Itanium processor to the rest of the computer (usually via the motherboard). It provides both an electrical interface as well as physical support. This socket is designed to support a microprocessor module.
Technical specifications
Socket PAC418 was introduced with Intel's first generation Itanium in 2001. It supported bus speeds up to 133 MHz double-pumped.
Socket PAC418 processors reach speeds of 800 MHz.
See also
List of Intel microprocessors
References
Socket 604 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9Go%21 | 9Go! is an Australian free-to-air digital television multichannel, which was launched by the Nine Network on 9 August 2009, replacing Nine Guide. It is a youthful channel that offers a mix of comedy, reality, general entertainment, movies, animation and drama aimed at people between the ages of 2 and 18.
History
2009: Origins and launch
The general concept for GO! was revealed on 23 March 2009, with the Nine Network announcing their intention to start a standard-definition variety-based multichannel, launched midway through 2009. The channel's name and branding was first revealed as GO!99 on 14 April 2009 by TV Tonight, a blog dedicated to Australian television.
The channel's final name was confirmed by the Nine Network via A Current Affair as GO! on 15 July 2009, as well as multi-coloured logo variations.
The channel went to air at on 5 August 2009, broadcasting a promo loop. GO! officially began broadcasting scheduled programming from 9 August 2009 at with a 1-minute promo featuring the song "Go!" by Sydney based sound house group Noise International featuring vocals by Sharon Muscat. It was then followed by an episode of Wipeout, the first programme to air on the new channel.
Darwin received the channel in October 2010 (over a year after other capital cities started transmitting the multi channel). From December 2010, Nine Network affiliate Imparja Television commenced transmission of the GO! channel to viewers in remote areas of Central, Northern and Eastern Australia,
before expanding to Eastern South Australia on 11 November 2011.
There have been reports that GO!'s technical launch had caused a significant number of digital TV receivers to no longer pick up Nine's digital channels. In response, Nine established a helpline for viewers experiencing problems or requiring assistance to tune in to the new channel.
On 24 November 2009, the channel launched via Foxtel Cable on channel 129.
After major demands for the channel's theme song (which was written specifically for the channel, going as far as remixes of the 1-minute cut being played in clubs), it was released independently by Noise International on 4 December 2009, having promised a month earlier. A music video was also produced (notable for the usage of neon dancers), which was regularly shown as a filler on the channel.
2010–2014
GO! celebrated its first birthday in 2010 by playing movies every night at 10pm during the month of August 2010. GO! also played a mini clip during the commercial breaks thanking everyone for watching GO!.
In September 2010, GO! aired a promo promoting new shows using the song All Eyes on Me by Sammy Small, licensed from Extreme Music.
GO! introduced Newsbursts, a news-break filler program in 2010. Presented by Sophie Walsh, these would usually feature a few breaking news stories and the weather. These were later dropped in 2011, replaced by repeats of Nine Newsbreak.
GO! received a new on-air presentation for 2011. GO! also played a mini clip aft |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%20Ng | Yi-Ren Ng (born September 21, 1979) is a Malaysian American scientist who is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was the founder, executive chairman and CEO of Lytro, a Mountain View, California-based startup company. Lytro was developing consumer light-field cameras based on Ng's graduate research at Stanford University. Lytro ceased operations in late March 2018.
Biography
Ng was born in Malaysia, and immigrated to Australia at the age of 9. He earned a B.S. degree in mathematical and computational science in 2001, an M.S. in computer science in 2002, and a Ph.D. in computer science in 2006, all from Stanford University. His doctoral dissertation, titled Digital Light Field Photography, received the 2006 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award.
Business career
Ng interned at Microsoft from June 2000 to September 2000 and June 2003 to September 2003 while studying at Stanford. After graduation in 2006, Ng founded Lytro and was CEO for more than six years. On June 29, 2012, Ng announced that he would step aside as CEO in order to spend more time on the vision for the company and less on its day-to-day operations. Ng also would become executive chairman and remain at Lytro full-time. Charles Chi, then executive chairman, served as interim CEO until Ng chose former Ning chief Jason Rosenthal as Lytro's new CEO in March 2013 after a lengthy external search.
Academic
In 2013 Ng was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Selwyn Award given to those under the age of 35 years who have conducted successful science-based research connected with imaging.
In July 2015, Ng became an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences at College of Engineering of University of California, Berkeley.
References
External links
Lytro - Home
Ren Ng EECS Profile at UC Berkeley
Malaysian emigrants to Australia
Australian emigrants to the United States
American chairpersons of corporations
Living people
Australian chief executives
Stanford University School of Engineering alumni
UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty
1979 births
American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talkin%27%20%27Bout%20Your%20Generation | Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation is an Australian game show produced by Granada Productions which premiered on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. The show is hosted by Shaun Micallef.
History
Original run
The first series ran on Network Ten for 18 episodes, with the original production order extended due to the success of the show.
A second series of 26 episodes began airing from 7 February 2010. Series 2 had a planned hiatus after episode 10 on 18 April 2010 and returned to finish its run on 1 August 2010.
The third series of the show began on 8 February 2011.
On 27 October 2011, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation was renewed for a fourth series. On 22 January 2012, it was announced that the show would begin airing Series 4 on 1 February 2012 in an 8 pm timeslot.
Revival
In September 2017, it was announced that the show would be revived on the Nine Network for 8 episodes with Micallef returning as host. In October 2017, the series was officially confirmed for revival set to air in 2018, as well as the announcement of the series captains. Generation X was led by Robyn Butler, Generation Y was led by Andy Lee and Generation Z was led by Laurence Boxhall. It has a new set and it also changed its graphics including new logo and as well as fonts, sets and theme song and primary colours. The primary colours are red (Generation X), yellow (Generation Y) and blue (Generation Z). The show was once again filmed at Docklands Studios in Melbourne. It is recorded in front of a live audience of 500 people.
In October 2018, the series was renewed for a sixth season at Nine's upfronts with Micallef returning as host and Lee, Butler & Boxhall returning as series captains. The series premiered on 1 May 2019.
After the series
Nine has not renewed Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation and is yet to announce any Hamish & Andy project, as Andy Lee has joined the team in Seven Network's The Front Bar from 2020.
Format
Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation (also known as TAYG) is an hour-long quiz show testing the popular culture knowledge of teams from three different cultural generations. The first run generation team captains are Amanda Keller (Baby Boomers), Charlie Pickering (Generation X) and Josh Thomas (Generation Y). The second run generation team captains are Robyn Butler (Generation X), Andy Lee (Generation Y) and Laurence Boxhall (Generation Z). Each team captain is joined by a different guest each episode who is part of their respective generations. However, on occasion there have been guests not actually part of the generation they represent on the show. (For example, Ian Smith and George Negus have featured as Baby Boomers but are actually members of the Silent Generation.) For the original run, the guests up to 30 are placed in the Generation Y team, guests aged 30–45 in the Generation X team and guests aged 45 and over in the Baby Boomer team. During the second run, guests up to 25 are placed in the Generation Z team, guests aged 25–40 in the Generation Y team and guests ag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R6000 | The R6000 is a microprocessor chip set developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implemented the MIPS II instruction set architecture (ISA). The chip set consisted of the R6000 microprocessor, R6010 floating-point unit and R6020 system bus controller. The R6000 was the first implementation of the MIPS II ISA.
The R6000 was implemented with emitter-coupled logic (ECL). In the mid- to late 1980s, the trend was to implement high-end microprocessors with high-speed logic such as ECL. As MIPS was a fabless company, the R6000 chip set was fabricated by Bipolar Integrated Technology (BIT) who had acted as a foundry for MIPS since November 1989. However, manufacturing issues that had caused "sporadic deliveries" of the R6000 to MIPS Computer Systems resulted in contractual restrictions being imposed on BIT, preventing the company from supplying other potential customers. Such issues, which had persisted for over a year, were reportedly resolved in 1991, enabling BIT to seek other customers for the product and, as part of its separate licensing agreement with MIPS, to be able to manufacture and sell customised versions of the chip.
The R6000 had few users. Control Data Systems (CDS) used an 80 MHz version in their high-end 4680-300 Series InforServer server. MIPS used the R6000 in their RC6260 and RC6280 servers. One review of the RC6280 published in early 1991 described the product as "the single fastest system we have tested for CPU and FPU performance", enabling a "premium price" to be charged, with such pricing starting from $150,000 for the base configuration. However, delivery times for certain models were estimated at "several months" due to supply uncertainties with the processor.
References
"MIPS Chip Set Implements Full ECL CPU". (December 1989). Microprocessor Report. pp. 1, 14–19.
Horowitz, M. et al. (1990). "A 3.5ns, 1 Watt, ECL register file". ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 68–59, 267.
Roberts, D.; Layman, T.; Taylor, G. (1990). "An ECL RISC microprocessor designed for two level cache". Compcon Spring '90 Digest of Technical Papers, pp. 228–231.
Thorson, M. (January 1990). "ECL Bus Controller Hits 266 Mbytes/s". Microprocessor Report. pp. 12–13.
MIPS implementations
MIPS microprocessors
32-bit microprocessors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R2000%20microprocessor | The R2000 is a 32-bit microprocessor chip set developed by MIPS Computer Systems that implemented the MIPS I instruction set architecture (ISA). Introduced in January 1986, it was the first commercial implementation of the MIPS architecture and the first commercial RISC processor available to all companies. The R2000 competed with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX minicomputers and with Motorola 68000 and Intel Corporation 80386 microprocessors. R2000 users included Ardent Computer, DEC, Silicon Graphics, Northern Telecom and MIPS's own Unix workstations.
The chip set consisted of the R2000 microprocessor, R2010 floating-point accelerator, and four R2020 write buffer chips. The core R2000 chip executed all non-floating-point instructions with a simple short pipeline. This chip also controlled the external code and data caches, made of fast standard SRAM chips organized with direct indexing and one-cycle read latency. The R2000 chip contained a small translation lookaside buffer for mapping virtual memory addresses. The R2010 chip held the floating point registers, floating point data paths, and their longer simple pipeline. Writes to main memory DRAM took tens of cycles to fully complete. But the R2020 chips queued and completed up to 4 pending writes to main memory, allowing the R2000 core to proceed without stalling itself. In the absence of cache misses, this chip set sustained an instruction completion rate of one instruction per ALU cycle. This was much faster than non-RISC microprocessors of that time which needed several cycles per instruction. 1986 also saw similar technology in Sun's first SPARC microprocessor and Hewlett Packard's first PA-RISC microprocessor.
Overall speed was limited by the cache size and cache cycle time. The R2000 chip set and SRAM was initially sold only as a complete circuit board to ensure good cache bus timings. In 1987 system builders began using the chip set in arbitrary new board designs.
The R2000 was available in 8.3, 12.5 and 15 MHz grades. The die contained 110,000 transistors and measured 80 mm2 in a 2.0 μm double-metal CMOS process. MIPS was a fabless semiconductor company, that is, they did not have the capability to fabricate integrated circuits. The chip set was initially fabricated for MIPS by Sierra Semiconductor and Toshiba. In December 1987, MIPS licensed Integrated Device Technology, LSI Logic, and Performance Semiconductor to also fabricate and market the R2000. Sierra and Toshiba continued to serve as foundries.
LSI fabricated the chip set in its 2.0 μm double-metal CMOS process and marketed it as the LR2000. Performance Semiconductor fabricated the chip set in its PACE-I 0.8 μm double-metal CMOS process and marketed it as the PR2000.
In 1988, an improved version was introduced, the R2000A. It was composed of the R2000A and R2010A ICs. It operated at 12.5 and 16.67 MHz. It has been used extensively in embedded applications such as printer controllers.
In 1988, the R2000 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darna%20%282009%20TV%20series%29 | Darna is a Philippine television drama action fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based from Mars Ravelo's fictional Philippine superheroine of the same title. Directed by Dominic Zapata and Don Michael Perez, it stars Marian Rivera in the title role. It premiered on August 10, 2009 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Zorro. The series concluded on February 19, 2010 with a total of 140 episodes. It was replaced by Panday Kids in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Marian Rivera as Narda / Darna / Evil Darna / Ex-O / Phoenix
Supporting cast
Mark Anthony Fernandez as Eduardo / Black Rider
Dennis Trillo as Pancho
Iwa Moto as Valentina
Nadine Samonte as Roma / Babaeng Impakta
Ehra Madrigal as Armida / Babaeng Lawin
Francine Prieto as Lucifera / Babaeng Tuod
Maggie Wilson as Octavia Moran / Lutgarda Morales / Babaeng Linta
Rochelle Pangilinan as Deborah Santos
Jackie Rice as Helena / Helga
Roxanne Barcelo as Aleli
Buboy Villar as Carding "Ding" Santos
Rufa Mae Quinto as Francesca
Raymart Santiago as Crisanto
Alfred Vargas as Gabriel
Krista Kleiner as Liberty
Polo Ravales as Shiro
Guest cast
Akihiro Sato as Vladimir
Maureen Larrazabal as Dina Arcilla
Katrina Halili as Serpina / Valentina
Paolo Contis as Kobra
Regine Velasquez as Elektra
Angel Aquino as the original Darna
Caridad Sanchez as Loleng
Celia Rodriguez as Perfecta
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Jerry
John Feir as Tomas
Eddie Garcia as Padre Mateo
Ricky Davao as Dr. Morgan
Gabby Eigenmann as Apollo
Bearwin Meily as Watson
Renz Valerio as young Eduardo
Jestoni Alarcon as Simon
Rita Avila as Alicia
Angeli Nicole Sanoy as young Narda
John Apacible as Nestor
Janice de Belen as Aling Consuelo
Sweet Ramos as young Valentina
Allan "Mura" Padua as Impy
Sabrina Man as young Serpina
Hayden Kho as Danny
Ella Guevara as Narda II
Reception
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Darna earned a 44.1% rating. While the final episode scored a 32.9% rating.
Critical response
Darna opened with positive reviews, writer Nestor Torre of Philippine Daily Inquirer said the pilot episode is "loud and livid". Torre continues to mention "...two performances stand out because they’re 'different'. The first is Janice de Belen’s portrayal of Consuelo, the mother of Valentina. De Belen’s characterization is outstanding, because it’s deeply felt, while not being over-the-top..." and "the other interesting performance thus far is turned in by Iwa Moto as Valentina. With some help from creative scripting, her character is more tragic and conflicted than past versions of the story had it".
Jun Lana's script was also praised by Torre for creating "Valentina's terrible secret initially pains her rather than turns her into a vengeful monster, and the ostracism she suffers adds enormously to her loneliness and grief, which are alleviated only by her only friend, Narda. Of course, the ir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniper%20J%20series | Juniper J series is a line of enterprise routers designed and manufactured by Juniper Networks. They are modular routers for enterprises running desktops, servers, VoIP, CRM / ERP / SCM applications. The J Series routers are typically deployed at remote offices or branch locations. These Services routers include the J2320 and J2350 for smaller offices, the J4350 for medium-size branches, and the J6350 for large branches or regional offices.
Platform development history
Juniper began working on J series in the middle of the telecom downturn (2002), while looking for ways to extend its product portfolio. The main idea behind the new product line was to create the cost-optimized routing system that could utilize increasingly powerful general-purpose CPUs and operate under fully-fledged, multi-threaded OS. This was a major departure from "traditional" branch router design, which dictated the use of low-end RISC CPUs working under simplified operating system with marginal multitasking and memory protection capabilities. The first iteration of J-series design was based on high-end Intel CPUs and featured Intel IXP-based interface cards running over PCI bus. Later models added PCI Express connectivity as well as specialized Cavium security processors. From the software perspective, the J series runs JUNOS with a real-time extensions for the forwarding plane function. This unique architecture allows J-series routers to avoid the "resource starvation" problem commonly seen on legacy software forwarding platforms.
Models and platforms
The J series of routers includes the models such as J2320, J2350, J4350 and J6350. The initial models were J2300, J4300 and J6300 routers.
J2320
The J2320 routers are entry level service routers which gives up to 600 Mbit/s throughput performance, has four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports. It has three PIM slots for additional LAN/WAN connectivity, Avaya VoIP Gateway, and WAN acceleration. They are used for one or two broadband, T1, or E1 interfaces with integrated services.
J2350
The J2350 router which has four built-in Gigabit Ethernet ports, gives up to 700 Mbit/s performance. It gives five PIM slots. They are usually used for multiple broadband, T1, or E1 interfaces with multiple integrated services.
J4350
The J4350 enterprise router gives up to 1 Gbit/s in performance. They are usually used for DS3, E3, and Metro Ethernet interfaces with integrated services. It has six PIM slots. Two of these slots are enhanced-performance slots that provide additional performance to multiple Gigabit Ethernet configurations.
J6350
The J6350 gives up to 2 Gbit/s in performance. It has six PIM slots for additional LAN/WAN connectivity, Avaya VoIP Gateway, and WAN acceleration. These routers have optional redundant power supplies for high system availability.
Features
The J-series routers run on Juniper's network operating system, JUNOS. These routers have 4 on-board GigE ports and expandable WAN and LAN interfaces via pluggable |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway%20Television | Gateway Television (GTV) is a Pan-African, American-owned subscription TV network based in London. The British-based company Gateway Television is owned by the American company, The Blackstone Group.
GTV held the rights to 80% of league matches for the Premier League.
They also held the rights for the CECAFA Cup.
In January 2009, GTV announced it had gone into liquidation blaming the current financial and global crisis.
References
Television broadcasting companies of the United Kingdom
Mass media companies based in London
Defunct television channels in the United Kingdom
Sports television networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20Halted | Hacker Halted is a global series of Computer and Information Security conferences presented by EC-Council. The objective of the Hacker Halted conferences is to raise international awareness towards increased education and ethics in IT Security. The event is currently in its 14th year. Also present at Hacker Halted is EC-Council's H@cker Halted | Academy, trainings and workshops led by EC-Council instructors and trainers.
Past Conferences
Hacker Halted india
Hacker Halted Malaysia was held in 2004, 2007, and in 2018 in New Delhi
Hacker Halted Egypt 2010
Hacker | Halted conference was held in Egypt on 13 and 14 December 2018
Hacker Halted india
Hacker Halted Dubai was held in 2005 and in 2006 in Dubai, United A
Hacker Halted Singapore
Hacker Halted Singapore was held in 2005 in Singapore.
Hacker Halted Mexico
Hacker Halted Mexico was held in 2005 in Mexico.
Hacker Halted Japan
Hacker Halted Japan was held November 11, 2008 in Tokyo, Japan.
Hacker Halted USA
Hacker Halted USA was held in 2008 in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina
Hacker Halted USA was held in 20–24 September 2009 in Miami, Florida, at the Hilton Head hotel, and will include events to include a "Capture the Flag" event.
Hacker Halted USA was held in 2010 in Miami.
Hacker Halted USA was held in Miami on 25 and 27 October 2011. The theme for 2011 was "Stop the Data Leaks. Secure the Code".
Hacker Halted USA was held in Miami on 29–31 October 2012.
Hacker Halted USA was held in Atlanta in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019.
Hacker Halted was held on-line in 2021, 2022.
Upcoming Conferences
Hacker Halted USA 2019 returns to Atlanta, GA
Conference Tracks
Some of the talks will include tracks to include:
Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
Incident Response & Computer Forensics
Threats & Counter Measures
Governance, Policies & Standards
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Mobile Security
Virtualization Security
Secure Programming
Malware and Botnets
Social Engineering
Physical Security
H@cker Halted Academy
Hacker Halted USA 2009 was the launch of the Hacker Halted Academy. The Hacker Halted Academy is a series of classes presented by EC-Council partners. Many of the classes include EC-Council training and certification, including the Certified Ethical Hacker and Licensed Penetration Tester, as well as vendor specific certification, including, Certified Information Systems Security Professional(CISSP) and NSA NSA Information Security Assessment Methodology(IAM)/Information security Evaluation Methodology(IEM) training.
See also
EC-Council
Hacker conference
References
External links
Hacker Halted Website
Hacker Halted Academy
Hacker Halted Egypt Website
Computer security conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omid | Omid (, meaning "Hope") was Iran's first domestically made satellite. Omid was a data-processing satellite for research and telecommunications; Iran's state television reported that it was successfully launched on 2 February 2009. After being launched by an Iranian-made carrier rocket, Safir 1, the satellite was placed into a low Earth orbit. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supervised the launch, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution; NASA verified the launch's success the following day. Its Satellite Catalog Number or USSPACECOM object number is 33506.
Ahmadinejad said the satellite was launched to spread "monotheism, peace and justice" in the world. The Tehran Times reported that "Iran has said it wants to put its own satellites into orbit to monitor natural disasters in the earthquake-prone nation and improve its telecommunications." Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that Iran launched the satellite to "meet the needs of the country" and that it was "purely for peaceful purposes". Since there was very little encryption on the satellite, data could be collected and read by citizens.
Omid had the shape of a cube with mass of . Sources in the Iranian Space Agency say the satellite's sole payload was a store and forward telecommunication capability.
The launch of Omid makes Iran the ninth country to develop an indigenous satellite launch capability.
Specifications
Store and Forward Telecommunication Satellite
Dimensions: 40 cm × 40 cm × 40 cm
Weight: 27 kg
Thermal Control: Passive
Frequency Band: UHF
Nodal Period: 90.7 minutes
Inclination: 55.71°
Apogee: 381.2 km
Perigee: 245.5 km
Previous Iranian satellites
Omid was the second Iranian satellite to be placed into orbit. A previous Iranian satellite, Sina-1, was built and launched for Iran by Russia in 2005.
Test launch
Speaking at the opening of a new space centre on 4 February 2008, President Ahmadinejad announced that Omid would be launched in "the near future". On 17 August 2008, Iranian officials reported that they performed a test of the satellite carrier; they broadcast footage of the Safir rocket launch in darkness.
According to an American official, "The vehicle failed shortly after liftoff and in no way reached its intended position."
Orbit
The satellite was launched southeast over the Indian Ocean to avoid overflying neighboring countries and was placed into an orbit with an inclination of 55.5 degrees,
with a perigee of 246 km, an apogee of 377 km, and a period of 90.76 minutes.
End of mission
Omid was reported to have completed its mission without any problems. It completed more than 700 orbits over seven weeks. According to U.S. Strategic Command, the Omid satellite re-entered Earth's atmosphere on 25 April 2009, during an 8-hour window centered on 0342 UT. The most likely re-entry location was over the south Atlantic Ocean, east of Buenos Aires, Argentina. No sightings were reported. The rocket body from the launch, which had al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Spivey | Mike Spivey may refer to:
Michael Spivey (born 1960), British computer scientist
Mike Spivey (law school administration), American administrator
Mike Spivey (American football) (born 1954), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20user%20interface | In computing, a natural user interface (NUI) or natural interface is a user interface that is effectively invisible, and remains invisible as the user continuously learns increasingly complex interactions. The word "natural" is used because most computer interfaces use artificial control devices whose operation has to be learned. Examples include voice assistants, such as Alexa and Siri, touch and multitouch interactions on today's mobile phones and tablets, but also touch interfaces invisibly integrated into the textiles furnitures.
An NUI relies on a user being able to quickly transition from novice to expert. While the interface requires learning, that learning is eased through design which gives the user the feeling that they are instantly and continuously successful. Thus, "natural" refers to a goal in the user experience – that the interaction comes naturally, while interacting with the technology, rather than that the interface itself is natural. This is contrasted with the idea of an intuitive interface, referring to one that can be used without previous learning.
Several design strategies have been proposed which have met this goal to varying degrees of success. One strategy is the use of a "reality user interface" ("RUI"), also known as "reality-based interfaces" (RBI) methods. One example of an RUI strategy is to use a wearable computer to render real-world objects "clickable", i.e. so that the wearer can click on any everyday object so as to make it function as a hyperlink, thus merging cyberspace and the real world. Because the term "natural" is evocative of the "natural world", RBI are often confused for NUI, when in fact they are merely one means of achieving it.
One example of a strategy for designing a NUI not based in RBI is the strict limiting of functionality and customization, so that users have very little to learn in the operation of a device. Provided that the default capabilities match the user's goals, the interface is effortless to use. This is an overarching design strategy in Apple's iOS. Because this design is coincident with a direct-touch display, non-designers commonly misattribute the effortlessness of interacting with the device to that multi-touch display, and not to the design of the software where it actually resides.
History
In the 1990s, Steve Mann developed a number of user-interface strategies using natural interaction with the real world as an alternative to a command-line interface (CLI) or graphical user interface (GUI). Mann referred to this work as "natural user interfaces", "Direct User Interfaces", and "metaphor-free computing". Mann's EyeTap technology typically embodies an example of a natural user interface. Mann's use of the word "Natural" refers to both action that comes naturally to human users, as well as the use of nature itself, i.e. physics (Natural Philosophy), and the natural environment. A good example of an NUI in both these senses is the hydraulophone, especially when it is used |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quidgest | Quidgest is a software engineering company headquartered in Lisbon, Munich, Maputo and Dili. It was founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1988.
References
Software companies of Portugal
Companies established in 1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20instruction%20set%20architectures | An instruction set architecture (ISA) is an abstract model of a computer, also referred to as computer architecture. A realization of an ISA is called an implementation. An ISA permits multiple implementations that may vary in performance, physical size, and monetary cost (among other things); because the ISA serves as the interface between software and hardware. Software that has been written for an ISA can run on different implementations of the same ISA. This has enabled binary compatibility between different generations of computers to be easily achieved, and the development of computer families. Both of these developments have helped to lower the cost of computers and to increase their applicability. For these reasons, the ISA is one of the most important abstractions in computing today.
An ISA defines everything a machine language programmer needs to know in order to program a computer. What an ISA defines differs between ISAs; in general, ISAs define the supported data types, what state there is (such as the main memory and registers) and their semantics (such as the memory consistency and addressing modes), the instruction set (the set of machine instructions that comprises a computer's machine language), and the input/output model.
Base
In the early decades of computing, there were computers that used binary, decimal and even ternary. Contemporary computers are almost exclusively binary.
Bits
Computer architectures are often described as n-bit architectures. In the 20th century, n is often 8, 16, or 32, and in the 21st century, n is often 16, 32 or 64, but other sizes have been used (including 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 36, 39, 48, 60, 128). This is actually a simplification as computer architecture often has a few more or less "natural" data sizes in the instruction set, but the hardware implementation of these may be very different. Many instruction set architectures have instructions that, on some implementations of that instruction set architecture, operate on half and/or twice the size of the processor's major internal datapaths. Examples of this are the Z80, MC68000, and the IBM System/360. On these types of implementations, a twice as wide operation typically also takes around twice as many clock cycles (which is not the case on high performance implementations). On the 68000, for instance, this means 8 instead of 4 clock ticks, and this particular chip may be described as a 32-bit architecture with a 16-bit implementation. The IBM System/360 instruction set architecture is 32-bit, but several models of the System/360 series, such as the IBM System/360 Model 30, have smaller internal data paths, while others, such as the 360/195, have larger internal data paths. The external databus width is not used to determine the width of the architecture; the NS32008, NS32016 and NS32032 were basically the same 32-bit chip with different external data buses; the NS32764 had a 64-bit bus, and used 32-bit register. Early 32-bit microprocessors of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20F.%20Thompson | Joe F. Thompson is an American aerospace engineer. Thompson is the William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at the Mississippi State University and Director, DoD Programming Environment & Training Center. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics, especially in the area of grid generation. He, with Z. U. A. Warsi and C. Wayne Mastin, wrote the classic book on grid generation titled Numerical Grid Generation: Foundations and Applications.
Education and career
A native of Grenada, Thompson received his Bachelor's degree in Physics in 1961 and his Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering in 1963 from Mississippi State University. He received his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1971.
Honors and awards
During his career Thompson has received many prizes and awards, including
ASEE Southeastern Research Unit Award for Research, 1975
Outstanding faculty Award, College of Engineering, Mississippi State University, 1998
HEADWAE Award from Mississippi Legislature, 1989
Commanders Award for Public Service, Department of the Army, 1992
AIAA Aerodynamics Award, 1992
Faculty Achievement Award for Service, Mississippi State University, 1996
Thompson is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics since 2004. He is also a member of SIAM, the IEEE Computer Society, and the Mississippi Academy of Sciences.
Books
Thompson has authored and edited several books on grid generation:
Thompson, J. F. (Ed.), Numerical Grid Generation, North-Holland, 1982.
Thompson, J. F., Warsi, Z. U. A., Mastin, C. W., Numerical Grid Generation: Foundations and Applications, North-Holland, 1985.
Sengupta, S., Hauser, J., Eisenman, P. R. Thompson, J. F., (Eds.), Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics '88, Pineridge Press, 1988.
Thompson, J. F., Soni, B. K., Weatherhill, N. (Eds.) Handbook for Grid Generation, CRC Press, 1999.
References
Mississippi State University alumni
Georgia Tech alumni
Computational fluid dynamicists
American aerospace engineers
Mississippi State University faculty
Fellows of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Grenada, Mississippi
Engineers from Mississippi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20environment | A synthetic environment is a computer simulation that represents activities at a high level of realism, from simulation of theaters of war to factories and manufacturing processes. These environments may be created within a single computer or a vast distributed network connected by local and wide area networks and augmented by super-realistic special effects and accurate behavioral models. SE allows visualization of and immersion into the environment being simulated.
A synthetic environment can be divided into the following:
Synthetic natural environment – Representation of climate, weather, terrain, oceans, space, etc.
Synthetic human-made environment – Representation of human-made structures like buildings, bridges, and roads
Synthetic psychological environment – Representation of psychological influences on individuals and/or groups based on demography and other cultural factors.
See also
Modeling and simulation
Glossary of military modeling and simulation
References
Further reading
Braudaway, Wesley Ph.D., "Chapter 3 Synthetic Natural Environments Representation", University of Central Florida, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20S | The Zero S is an electric motorcycle made by Zero Motorcycles.
On 23 April 2009 the company announced it would establish a distribution network in the Canadian market while getting regulatory approval for selling the motorcycle in Canada. It expects to start selling in Canada by early July 2009.
The 2009 Zero S had a claimed expected range of on a full charge, and an advertised top speed of , Zero claims the motor is rated at . The battery can be recharged using standard 120V or 240V plugs.
Zero made minor changes and small battery improvements to the 2014 Zero S, and added ABS brakes to the 2015 model, and further battery improvements in 2016.
References
External links
Zero S specifications
2009 Zero S Test Ride: Electric Street Bike Hits 60 MPH and 60 Miles Per Charge
Zero Motorcycles Becomes First American Motorcycle Company to Bring High Performance Electric Street Motorcycle to Market
Neal Saiki of Zero Motorcycles describes Zero X and Zero S design at Google
2013 Zero S Motorcycle Review
S
Motorcycles introduced in 2009
Electric motorcycles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical%20algorithmics | In computer science, empirical algorithmics (or experimental algorithmics) is the practice of using empirical methods to study the behavior of algorithms. The practice combines algorithm development and experimentation: algorithms are not just designed, but also implemented and tested in a variety of situations. In this process, an initial design of an algorithm is analyzed so that the algorithm may be developed in a stepwise manner.
Overview
Methods from empirical algorithmics complement theoretical methods for the analysis of algorithms. Through the principled application of empirical methods, particularly from statistics, it is often possible to obtain insights into the behavior of algorithms such as high-performance heuristic algorithms for hard combinatorial problems that are (currently) inaccessible to theoretical analysis. Empirical methods can also be used to achieve substantial improvements in algorithmic efficiency.
American computer scientist Catherine McGeoch identifies two main branches of empirical algorithmics: the first (known as empirical analysis) deals with the analysis and characterization of the behavior of algorithms, and the second (known as algorithm design or algorithm engineering) is focused on empirical methods for improving the performance of algorithms. The former often relies on techniques and tools from statistics, while the latter is based on approaches from statistics, machine learning and optimization. Dynamic analysis tools, typically performance profilers, are commonly used when applying empirical methods for the selection and refinement of algorithms of various types for use in various contexts.
Research in empirical algorithmics is published in several journals, including the ACM Journal on Experimental Algorithmics (JEA) and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR). Besides Catherine McGeoch, well-known researchers in empirical algorithmics include Bernard Moret, Giuseppe F. Italiano, Holger H. Hoos, David S. Johnson, and Roberto Battiti.
Performance profiling in the design of complex algorithms
In the absence of empirical algorithmics, analyzing the complexity of an algorithm can involve various theoretical methods applicable to various situations in which the algorithm may be used. Memory and cache considerations are often significant factors to be considered in the theoretical choice of a complex algorithm, or the approach to its optimization, for a given purpose. Performance profiling is a dynamic program analysis technique typically used for finding and analyzing bottlenecks in an entire application's code or for analyzing an entire application to identify poorly performing code. A profiler can reveal the code most relevant to an application's performance issues.
A profiler may help to determine when to choose one algorithm over another in a particular situation. When an individual algorithm is profiled, as with complexity analysis, memory and cache considerations are often more si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holger%20H.%20Hoos | Holger H. Hoos is a German-Canadian computer scientist and a Alexander von Humboldt-professor of artificial intelligence at RWTH Aachen University. He also holds a part-time appointment as a professor of machine learning at Leiden University, and he is an adjunct professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of British Columbia, where he held a full-time professorial appointment from 2000 until 2016. His research interests are focused on artificial intelligence, at the intersection of machine learning, automated reasoning and optimization, with applications in empirical algorithmics, bioinformatics and operations research.
In particular, he works on automated algorithm design and on stochastic local search algorithms. Since 2015, he is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and since 2020 a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) as well as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
He wrote the book Stochastic Local Search: Foundations and Applications (with Thomas Stützle), and his research is published widely in internationally leading journals and conference proceedings.
He also works in computer music, where he created the SALIERI music programming language and computer music system (with Thomas Helbich, Jürgen Kilian and Kai Renz) as well as GUIDO music notation (with Keith Hamel).
Hoos studied computer science at Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt and received his doctorate there in 1998.
References
External links
Holger H. Hoos homepage
Holger H. Hoos's research group at the Leiden University
Holger H. Hoos homepage at UBC
Year of birth missing (living people)
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Canadian computer scientists
German computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Canadian people of German descent
Living people
Academic staff of Technische Universität Darmstadt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%2C%20and%20Empirical%20%26%20Theoretical%20Algorithmics%20Lab | The Bioinformatics, and Empirical and Theoretical Algorithmics Laboratory (BETA Lab or short β) is a research laboratory within the UBC Department of Computer Science. Founded in 2000 by Anne Condon, Will Evans, Holger H. Hoos, David G. Kirkpatrick and Nick Pippenger, the BETA Lab is the focus of research in bioinformatics, empirical algorithmics and theoretical computer science at the department.
The BETA Lab is home to faculty members, graduate students and summer interns. Since the inception of the BETA Lab, its members have solved problems in computer science and bioinformatics, including Boolean satisfiability (SAT), time-tabling, winner determination in combinatorial auctions, protein structure prediction in lattice models, as well as prediction and design of RNA secondary structures.
Within the UBC Department of Computer Science, the BETA Lab maintains close ties with the Laboratory for Computational Intelligence and Robotics (LCI) and other research groups.
External links
BETA Lab
University of British Columbia
Laboratories in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spark%20New%20Zealand%20Mobile | The XT Mobile Network is a UMTS and LTE mobile network run by Spark New Zealand (formerly Telecom New Zealand). The network was initially built nationwide on WCDMA/UMTS 850 MHz, with 2100 MHz infill in major urban areas. The UMTS network is HSPA+ enabled, with a maximum downlink transmission rate of 21.1 Mbit/s and an uplink rate of 5.2 Mbit/s attainable for capable hardware. HSPA+ has a theoretical maximum of 56 Mbit/s download speed and 22 Mbit/s upload speed. Then under Spark 4G LTE is being built out. The network is not 2G capable, Telecom never operated a public GSM network.
After lengthy internal and corporate trials, the XT Network was launched to the public on 29 May 2009, at 7:30 am. The network was the successor to Telecom NZ's CDMA mobile network. With the shutdown of CDMA in 2012, XT is currently the company's sole mobile network.
The name "XT Mobile Network" does not get used by Spark anymore, it has been called: "XT Mobile Network", then "The Smartphone Network" under Telecom, and now "Spark Mobile" under Spark.
New features
With the launch of the XT network, a number of new services were available to subscribers, including Prepaid roaming, video calls, Mobile TV, and high-speed internet access.
Launch
On 27 April 2009, Telecom announced that the new XT Mobile network would launch on 13 May 2009 at 6:30pm.
However, a Vodafone New Zealand and Telecom dispute about network interference pushed the date to 29 May.
In May 2009, Vodafone sued Telecom, accusing it of interfering with their network, using the same frequency bands as their existing 3G network. However, Telecom had said it is working with Vodafone to resolve the issues and was surprised by that company's decision to pursue legal action. A decision was made between the two companies to increase the filtering of the network, with neither company stating who was footing the bill.
Network outages
On Monday, 14 December 2009 at approximately 4:30 am, the Telecom XT Mobile Network went down for the majority of people who live south of Taupō for eight hours (although there were claims of issues slightly before this time). Telecom said a technical fault, affecting a Christchurch-based technology component that was installed to fix a prior fault, had caused the loss of mobile service, including voice, SMS, and mobile broadband
At approximately 7:00 am on the morning of the network outage, Telecom published a statement via Twitter acknowledging the issues. The network was fully restored by approximately 5:00 pm the same day. The older CDMA network was not affected during the outage of the XT network.
On Wednesday, 27 January 2010 around mid-morning, the Telecom XT Mobile Network once again suffered a major outage, affecting approximately 100,000 customers south of Taupō. The outage was believed to be caused by similar circumstances as the late-2009 event. This was fixed for many users within around 7 hours; however, many areas including Queenstown, Timaru, Dunedin and Inver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN-T | WIN-T may refer to:
WANE-TV, a television station
Warfighter Information Network-Tactical, A U.S. Army communications network
See also
WINT (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC611 | Socket PAC611 is a 611 pin microprocessor socket designed to interface an Intel Itanium 2 processor to the rest of the computer (usually via the motherboard). It provides both an electrical interface as well as physical support. This socket is designed to support a microprocessor module.
Technical specifications
Socket PAC611 was introduced with Intel's second generation Itanium in 2002. It supported bus speeds up to 200 MHz double-pumped.
Socket PAC611 processors reach speeds up to 1.66 GHz.
See also
List of Intel microprocessors
References
Socket 604 |
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