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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XIII%20Century%20%28series%29 | XIII Century is a series of real-time tactics computer video games developed by Unicorn Studio and released in 2007. The series consists of the titles XIII Century: Death or Glory, its stand-alone expansion XIII Century: Blood of Europe, and a XIII Century: Gold release, which combines the two titles. The games are similar in interface and game play to those of the Total War series but feature a more complex battle mechanism, in which results are calculated for each individual soldier in the units and the corps mechanics are more realistic. The units possess different grades of AI (called "Self Control"), which give them the capability to evaluate various battlefield situations: a low-Self Control unit demands more management by the player.
There are more than 80 factors considered in battle, including such dynamics as the terrain and the direction of attack, so victory depends more upon the correct use of units within specific environments than their relative strength.
The games' single-player campaigns are a series of thematic battles. It is also possible to play battles in "Battlefield" mode, in which victory is assigned on the basis of points, which are scored both by killing enemies and by occupying important locations. A map generator is present beginning in the 2.2.1 version, and permits the creation of random maps according to a number of selectable preferences.
References
External links
1C Publishing
2007 video games
Real-time tactics video games
Windows-only games
Windows games
Video games developed in Ukraine
Video games set in the 13th century
Video games set in the Middle Ages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TS1 | TS1 may refer to:
Taylor Swift (album), the 2006 debut album by Taylor Swift
The Sims (video game), a 2000 strategic life-simulation video game
Toy Story, a 1995 American computer-animated family film
Zenvo TS1 GT, a Danish supercar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiscale%20Electrophysiology%20Format | Multiscale Electrophysiology Format (MEF) was developed to handle the large amounts of data produced by large-scale electrophysiology in human and animal subjects. MEF can store any time series data up to 24 bits in length, and employs lossless range encoded difference compression. Subject identifying information in the file header can be encrypted using 128-bit AES encryption in order to comply with HIPAA requirements for patient privacy when transmitting data across an open network.
Compressed data is stored in independent blocks to allow direct access to the data, facilitate parallel processing and limit the effects of potential damage to files. Data fidelity is ensured by a 32-bit cyclic redundancy check in each compressed data block using the Koopman polynomial (0xEB31D82E), which has a Hamming distance of from 4 to 114 kbits.
A formal specification and source code are available online. MEF_import is an EEGLAB plugin to import MEF data into EEGLAB.
See also
Range encoding
AES encryption
CRC-32
MED Format official website
References
Sources
Martin, GNN. Range encoding: an algorithm for removing redundancy from a digitised message. Video & Data Recoding Conference, Southampton, 1979.
Koopman, P. 32-Bit Cyclic Redundancy Codes for Internet Applications. The International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (June 2002). 459.
Electrophysiology
Neurophysiology
Neurotechnology
Bioinformatics
Health standards
Computer file formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Reina%20del%20Sur%20%28TV%20series%29 | La Reina del Sur () is a Spanish-language telenovela based on a novel of the same name by Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. The first season is produced by the American television network Telemundo in conjunction with the Antena 3 network and RTI Producciones, while season 2 is co-produced by Telemundo Global Studios and Netflix. It premiered on 28 February 2011. The series depicts the rise of Teresa Mendoza (Kate del Castillo), a young woman from Mexico who becomes the most powerful drug trafficker in southern Spain.
With a $10 million budget it is the second most expensive telenovela ever produced by Telemundo, the first being El Señor de los Cielos. An English language remake, Queen of the South, premiered in June 2016 on USA Network, starring Alice Braga.
The series has been renewed for a second season that premiered on 22 April 2019. On 16 July 2020, Telemundo announced that the series was renewed for a third season. The third season premiered on 18 October 2022.
Synopsis
Season 1 (2011)
The series is the television adaptation of the literary work of the same name of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It is the chronicle of the rise to power of a Mexican woman within the world of international drug trafficking. Teresa Mendoza begins her adventure as a humble young woman in love with a pilot employed by the Mexican cartels. When they execute her boyfriend, Teresa flees, desperate to avoid the same fate. Her escape takes her to the south of Spain where she tries to start a new life. However, she is once again immersed in the world of narcotics trafficking, and for a second time, she suffers the death of a beloved man. After several blows, Teresa decides to take the reins of her destiny and becomes the head of her own organization. This is done with the help of a woman she meets in prison, who decides to share her fortune with Teresa. Through strategic alliances and a strong sense for business, Teresa "La Mexicana" begins to control an intercontinental drug distribution business. However, her great success is accompanied by a high personal price, and Teresa's happiness and heart are tested.
Season 2 (2019)
The second season of La Reina del Sur follows the life of Teresa Mendoza eight years after the events of the first-season finale. Isolating herself from the rest of the world, Teresa now lives an idyllic life in Italian Tuscany, but the kidnapping of her daughter forces her to go back to the underworld and reintroduces herself into drug trafficking. To save her daughter, Teresa needs to confront her old enemies once more and face her past that she tried to leave behind.
Episodes
Cast
Main
Introduced in season 1
Kate del Castillo as Teresa Mendoza
Humberto Zurita as Epifanio Vargas
Rafael Amaya as Raimundo Dávila Parra "El Güero"
Iván Sánchez as Santiago López Fisterra "El Gallego"
Cristina Urgel as Patricia O'Farrell
Alberto Jiménez as Oleg Yasikov
Miguel de Miguel as Teo Aljarafe
Gabriel Porras as Roberto Gato Márq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Computer%20Engineering%2C%20University%20of%20Peradeniya | Department of Computer Engineering is the youngest department of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Peradeniya established in 2001 with 20 undergraduate students. At present, there are approximately 60 students in each batch.
History
The Department of Computer Engineering was established in the Faculty of Engineering in Peradeniya in 1985. Although it is the youngest department in the Faculty, it is the oldest Computer Engineering Department to be established in the University system of the country. The main function of the department initially was to conduct programming courses to the students in all disciplines of the Faculty. Over the years the department has developed into a fully-fledged department and it now offers several courses in Computer Engineering to the students.
The demand from the students for Computer Engineering has been high and a limited number is admitted to follow it. The graduates who have specialized in Computer Engineering are highly sought after by local as well as foreign employers. In view of the good employment prospects for Computer Engineering graduates and the large demand from the students, the department has initiated a degree programme leading to the B.Sc. Eng. degree in Computer Engineering from year 2001.
ACES: Association of Computer Engineering Students
ACES is the official club representing the student body of the department. It was formed in 2001. The organization is headed by the ACES council (consisting of undergraduates as the president, secretary, and committee and a senior treasurer from the academic staff).
ACES organizes the following events annually.
ACES Coders
ACES hackathon
Spark
ESCaPE - Project Symposium
Career fair
Laboratories and resources
Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture Lab
Hardware and Computer Interfacing Lab
Computer Networking Lab
References
External links
Student Project Portfolio Site
Profiles of the Student and Academic Staff
Embedded Systems and Computer Architecture Lab
Computer Vision Research Group
Pera-Swarm Project
Computer Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappinia%20pedata | Sappinia pedata is a species of Amoebozoa. Sappinia is a free-living amoeba (a single-celled organism), found in the environment. This organism can cause granulomatous amoebic encephalitis (GAE), however, only one case of GAE due to S. pedata infection has ever been reported, and the patient survived without any long-term consequences.
References
Discosea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa%20Strausfeld | Lisa Strausfeld (born 1964 or 1965) is an American design professional and information architect.
Education
Strausfeld studied art history and computer science and earned a Bachelor of Arts at Brown University. She went on to study at Harvard University, where she earned a Master of Architecture. She later studied media arts and sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), earning a Master of Science degree.
Career
In 1996, Strausfeld and two MIT classmates launched Perspecta, a software company in San Francisco that made visual user-interfaces for large databases. It was sold to Excite@Home in 1999. After the sale of the company, Strausfeld joined Quokka Sports, staying until the company folded in the early 2000s. In 2002 Strausfeld joined design firm Pentagram (see below for details).
In 2006, while still at Pentagram, Strausfeld was hired as a Senior Scientist of the Gallup Organization, and worked there until she left to establish Major League Politics (MLP) in 2011, and subsequently left MLP a year later to head up Bloomberg's data visualization efforts. In 2015, Strausfeld returned to the Gallup Organization, serving as Acting Global Creative Director until 2017, when she took a position with The New School as a Senior Research Fellow until 2020.
While at The New School, Strausfeld worked with Glowbox, a design studio in Portland, Oregon, to develop a virtual reality prototype that displays a three-dimensional timeline of women's history, based on The New Historia, a women's history project by Gina Luria Walker in 2018.
Strausfeld also worked with architecture firms Ennead Architects and Diller Scofidio + Renfro, the arts group Creative Time, Brown University, Columbia Business School, New York’s redeveloped Moynihan Station, and the information visualizations for The New York Times during her career.
Strausfeld now serves as the Vice President of design of System, Inc. She is also the founder of Informationart, where she serves as an information architect, data visualization entrepreneur and principal.
Pentagram
In 2002, Strausfeld became a partner in the New York office of Pentagram, the distinguished international design consultancy. At Pentagram, Strausfeld and her team specialized in digital information projects, including the design of large-scale media installations, software prototypes and user interfaces, signage and websites for a broad range of civic, cultural and corporate clients. Shortly after joining, Strausfeld collaborated with partner Paula Scher on the identities and information installations for the corporate headquarters of Bloomberg and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
In 2005, Strausfeld worked with Andrew Blauvelt on the creation of a 60-foot dynamic marquee for Walker Expanded, an innovative new graphic identity that uses font creation technology to generate branding applications from business cards to environmental-scale graphics at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. The marquee was projected |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai%20Zuyev | Nikolai Zuyev may refer to:
Nikolai Zuyev (badminton) (born 1970), Russian badminton player
Nikolai Zouev (1958–2022), Russian mixed martial arts fighter active in the Fighting Network Rings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20self-booting%20IBM%20PC%20compatible%20games | Many IBM PC compatible games released between 1981 and about 1990 were self-booting and did not use MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, or compatible disk operating systems. The phrase "IBM PC compatible self-booting disk" is sometimes shortened to "PC booter". Self-booting disks were common for other computers as well.
These games were distributed on " or, later, ", floppy disks that booted directly, meaning once they were inserted in the drive and the computer was turned on, a minimal, custom operating system on the diskette took over. This was used as a form of copy protection until it became obsolete as games grew larger. Due to bit rot, original working versions of these floppy disks are rare. Some have been ported to other operating systems.
See also
Lists of video games
Index of DOS games
Booter games
Booter games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Favorite%20Gene | Your Favorite Gene is a dynamic web-based research tool provided by Sigma-Aldrich Corp and powered by Ingenuity Systems' Knowledge Base, a repository of biological and chemical networks that is the largest database of its kind. Biological pathways, metabolic pathways, and gene interaction networks are available. The tool was initially released in 2007.
The tool allows users to search for genes, protein, function, disease, species, tissue, or pathway and match them with 150,000 shRNAs, 725,000 siRNAs, 8,000 antibodies, proteins and kits, and 1,000 bioactive small molecules within the context of their research. Using a dynamic interface, the user is then able to model and evaluate experimental procedures based on previously published findings.
In 2009, Your Favorite Gene received the CIO 100 Award for Innovative Web Research Tool.
References
External links
Official Webpage
Biocompare Summary on YFG
Your Favorite Gene Review
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20Cavalier | The HTC Cavalier (HTC S630) is a smartphone model manufactured by High Tech Computer beginning in 2006.
External links
Official HTC S620 product description at HTC manufacturer website
Mobile phones introduced in 2007
Windows Mobile Standard devices
Cavalier
Mobile phones with an integrated hardware keyboard
zh:HTC Excalibur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartlib%20Circle | The Hartlib Circle was the correspondence network set up in Western and Central Europe by Samuel Hartlib, an intelligencer based in London, and his associates, in the period 1630 to 1660. Hartlib worked closely with John Dury, an itinerant figure who worked to bring Protestants together.
Workings of the Circle
Structure
J. T. Young writes:
At its nexus, it was an association of personal friends. Hartlib and Dury were the two key figures: Comenius, despite their best efforts, always remained a cause they were supporting rather than a fellow co-ordinator. Around them were Hübner, Haak, Pell, Moriaen, Rulise, Hotton and Appelius, later to be joined by Sadler, Culpeper, Worsley, Boyle and Clodius. But as soon as one looks any further than this from the centre, the lines of communication begin to branch and cross, threading their way into the entire intellectual community of Europe and America. It is a circle with a definable centre but an almost infinitely extendable periphery.
Examples given of the "periphery" are John Winthrop and Balthazar Gerbier.
Themes
Agriculture and horticulture: Ralph Austen, John Beale, Robert Child, Cheney Culpeper, Cressy Dymock, Gabriel Plattes, Adolphus Speed.
Alchemy, chemistry, mineralogy: Robert Boyle, Frederick Clod, Cheney Culpeper, John Worthington, Ezechiel Foxcroft, John French, Johann Moriaen, Gabriel Plattes.
Finance: Cheney Culpeper, William Potter
Mathematics: John Pell, Robert Wood.
Medicine: William Rand, Thomas Coxe
Pansophism: Hartlib and Dury were close allies of Comenius.
Protestantism: Sarah Hewley, John Dury, John Sadler, John Stoughton.
Settlement of Ireland: Gerard Boate and his brother Arnold Boate, William Petty, Benjamin Worsley.
Education
Educational reform was topical and central to the pansophist programme. Hartlib compiled a list of "advisers", and updated it. It included Jeremy Collier, Dury, Thomas Horne, Marchamont Nedham, John Pell, William Rand, Christian Ravius, Israel Tonge, and Moses Wall. The staff proposed for Durham College was influenced by the Circle's lobbying. John Hall was another associate who wrote on education. In the period 1648–50 many works on education appeared from Circle authors (Dury, Dymock, Hall, Cyprian Kinner, Petty, George Snell, and Worsley).
A letter from Hartlib to John Milton prompted the tract Of Education (1644), subtitled To Master Samuel Hartlib. But Milton's ideas were quite some way from those of the Comenians.
Individuals involved with the Hartlib Circle played an important role in Sweden's scientific revolution, as they travelled to consult on educational and religious reform, as well as tutored Swedish students who were sent abroad.
The problem of the "Invisible College"
Robert Boyle referred a few times in his correspondence to the 'Invisible College'. Scholarly attention has been paid to identifying this shadowy group. The social picture is not simplistic, since en masse Hartlib's contacts had fingers in every pie.
Margery Purver concl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled%20Stakes | The Khaled Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race held annually at Hollywood Park Racetrack in Inglewood, California. Sponsored by the TVG Network, the race is contested on turf over a distance of one and one-eighth miles (nine furlongs). The event is restricted to horses age four years and older who were bred in State of California.
Part of the California Gold Rush Day program at Hollywood Park Racetrack, the Khaled Stakes is run as the male counterpart to the Fran's Valentine Stakes for mares.
Distances:
miles : 1990–2002
miles 2003–present
Historical notes
In winning his second Khaled Stakes in 2002, nine-year-old Native Desert joined John Henry as the oldest horse ever to win a stakes race at Hollywood Park.
Records
Speed record: (at current distance of miles)
1:44.26 – Lava Man (2006)
Most wins:
2 – Journalism (1994, 1995)
2 – Native Desert (1998, 2002)
2 – Spinelessjellyfish (2000, 2001)
Winners since 1998
Earlier winners
1997 – Gastown
1996 – no race
1995 – Journalism
1994 – Journalism
1993 – Patriotaki
1992 – Blaze O'Brien
1991 – C Sam Maggio
1990 – River Master
Notes
References
A History of the Khalid Stakes at the CTBA
The Hollywood Park 2009 California Gold Rush Day at ESPN
Video at YouTube of the 2008 Khaled Stakes
Horse races in California
Hollywood Park Racetrack
Restricted stakes races in the United States
Flat horse races for four-year-olds
Open mile category horse races
Recurring events established in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Total%20Drama%20episodes | This article contains a list of all the episodes to the Total Drama series, a Canadian animated television show which aired on Teletoon in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States.
As of April 10, 2023, a total of 132 episodes of Total Drama have been broadcast over six seasons; the 100th episode of the series was aired on February 27, 2014.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1: Island (2007–08)
Season 2: Action (2009–10)
Season 3: World Tour (2010–11)
Season 4: Revenge of the Island (2012)
Season 5: All-Stars/Pahkitew Island (2013–14)
Season 6: Island (2023)
Spin-offs
The Ridonculous Race
Total DramaRama
Home media
Notes
References
External links
Season 1 Page Cake Entertainment
Season 2 Page Cake Entertainment
Season 3 Page Cake Entertainment
Season 4 Page Cake Entertainment
Season 5 Page Cake Entertainment
Season 6 Page Cake Entertainment
Lists of Canadian children's animated television series episodes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm%20McCullough | Malcolm McCullough (born June 1, 1957) is a professor at the University of Michigan's Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. He has lectured widely on Urban Computing and place-based Interaction Design.
Bibliography
Downtime on the Microgrid, MIT Press, 2020.
Ambient Commons, MIT Press, 2014.
Digital Ground, MIT Press, 2004.
Abstracting Craft, 1996.
Digital Design Media, 1994.
The Electronic Design Studio, 1990.
References
External links
McCullough's website at University of Michigan
University of Michigan faculty
American computer scientists
Living people
1957 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaya%20Kong%20Abutin%20ang%20Langit | (International title: Selfish Desires / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1984 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the sixteenth instalment of Sine Novela. Directed by Topel Lee, it stars Iza Calzado and Wendell Ramos. It premiered on September 28, 2009 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Ngayon at Kailanman. The series concluded on February 5, 2010 with a total of 95 episodes. It was replaced by Gumapang Ka sa Lusak in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Iza Calzado as Clarissa Rosales / Clarisse Gardamonte
Wendell Ramos as Daryl Revilla
Supporting cast
Angelika dela Cruz as Nancy Rosales
Chanda Romero as Lucia Enriquez-Recto
Bobby Andrews as Nick Arnaldo
Isabel Oli as Therese Gardamonte
Ricardo Cepeda as Ralph Gardamonte
Pinky Amador as Monina Arnaldo-Gardamonte
Lani Mercado as Naty Rosales
Ehra Madrigal as Victoria Manalo
Paolo Paraiso as James Rodriguez
Victor Aliwalas as Jerome Recto
Steven Silva as Patrick
Ryan Yllana as Oz
Peter Serrano as Maurice
Guest cast
Bianca Umali as young Nancy Rosales
Jacob Rica as young Daryl Revilla
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 7.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 20% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GrabCut | GrabCut is an image segmentation method based on graph cuts.
Starting with a user-specified bounding box around the object to be segmented, the algorithm estimates the color distribution of the target object and that of the background using a Gaussian mixture model. This is used to construct a Markov random field over the pixel labels, with an energy function that prefers connected regions having the same label, and running a graph cut based optimization to infer their values. As this estimate is likely to be more accurate than the original, taken from the bounding box, this two-step procedure is repeated until convergence.
Estimates can be further corrected by the user by pointing out misclassified regions and rerunning the optimization. The method also corrects the results to preserve edges.
There are several open source implementations available including OpenCV (as of version 2.1).
See also
Connectivity (graph theory)
Prim's algorithm
Edmonds–Karp algorithm
Graph cuts in computer vision
References
C. Rother, V. Kolmogorov, and A. Blake, GrabCut: Interactive foreground extraction using iterated graph cuts, ACM Trans. Graph., vol. 23, pp. 309–314, 2004.
Image segmentation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Tokyo%20Game%20Show | The history of began with its creation in 1996 and has continued through the current expo in 2017. It has been held in Chiba, Japan, annually since 1996 by Computer Entertainment Supplier's Association (CESA) and the Nikkei Business Publications.
History
1996 (August 22–24)
The first Tokyo Game Show was held on August 22 to 24, 1996. The attendance was over 109,000, and the 87 participating companies displayed a total of 365 games. Originally, the show was held twice a year, once in the spring and once in the autumn (in the Tokyo Big Sight) starting in 1997, but this format was discontinued in 2002 when the show was held only in the autumn. Since then, the show is held once a year.
1997 (April 4–6) (September 5–7)
Tokyo Game Show 1997 was held April 4 to 6 in spring and September 5 to 7 in autumn. This was the first show to function with the spring/autumn format. Attendance at the spring show was over 120,000, and over 100,000 at the autumn show. Nintendo had no presence at the show, opting to support their own Shoshinkai show instead. High-profile software unveiled included Sonic Jam, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Ghost in the Shell, Resident Evil 2, and Tobal 2. A PaRappa the Rapper stage show drew massive crowds.
1998 (March 20–22) (October 9–11)
Tokyo Game Show 1998 was held March 20 to 22 in spring and October 9 to 11 in autumn.
1999 (March 19–21) (September 17–19)
Tokyo Game Show 1999 was held March 19 to 21 in spring and September 17 to 19 in autumn. Sony showcased the PlayStation 2 and many games ahead of its release in March. Many PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games were presented, and playable demo's and booths were available for guests to play. This included many launch titles for the PlayStation 2, and projectors played movies of the games on stage such as Tekken Tag Tournament, Gran Turismo 2000, and Dark Cloud.
2000 (March 31–April 2) (September 22–24)
Tokyo Game Show 2000 was held March 31 to April 2 in spring and September 22 to 24 in autumn.
2001 (March 30–April 1) (October 12–14)
Tokyo Game Show 2001 was held March 30 to April 1 in spring and October 12 to 14 in autumn. This was the last show to function with the spring/autumn format.
2002 (September 20–22)
Tokyo Game Show 2002 was held September 20 to 22 in autumn. This was the first show to abandon the spring/autumn format and started only being held once a year within autumn.
2003 (September 26–27)
Tokyo Game Show 2003 was held September 26 to 27.
2004 (September 24–26)
Tokyo Game Show 2004 was held on September 24 to 26, 2004. It featured 117 exhibitors showing off more than 500 computer and video game-related products to the 160,000 visitors.
2005 (September 16–18)
Tokyo Game Show 2005 was held from September 16 to 18 in 2005. Microsoft held its own press event on 15 September 2005, one day before the opening of Tokyo Game Show. The show was opened with two keynote speeches on September 16. The first was given by Robert J. Bach, senior Vice President for the Home and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Personal%20Communications | Wireless Personal Communications is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Springer Science+Business Media. It covers mobile communications and computing and investigates theoretical, engineering, and experimental aspects of radio communications, voice, data, images, and multimedia. This includes propagation, system models, speech and image coding, multiple access techniques, protocols performance evaluation, radio local area networks, and networking and architectures. The editor-in-chief is Ramjee Prasad (Aalborg University).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.671.
References
External links
English-language journals
Engineering journals
Biweekly journals
Springer Science+Business Media academic journals
Academic journals established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsvi%20Misinai | Tsvi Jekhorin Misinai (; born 15 April 1946) is an Israeli researcher, writer, historian, computer scientist and entrepreneur. A pioneer of the Israeli software industry, he now spends most of his time researching and documenting the common Hebrew roots he believes shared by world Jewry and the Palestinians (including Arab citizens of Israel).
Biography
Tsvi Misinai was born in 1946 in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine to Ashkenazi Jewish parents who immigrated from Ternopil in Galicia (now Ukraine) in 1939. He graduated in Physics from the Haifa Technion in 1968. He was the first Israeli to receive the Rothschild Award for industrial development in the field of software in 1992.
Misinai is the founder of Sapiens International Corporation and served as its president until 1994. He embedded the principle of Positive Thinking in computers and invented the Rule Based Object Oriented technology for developing data processing applications, the development of which he started in the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1972.
Misinai self-identifies as a secular Jew and currently resides in Rehovot.
Misinai first heard about the "Hebrew origins of Palestinians" theory from his father, Kha'yim Avraham, who served in the Royal Artillery in the Second World War. His interest was rekindled after the 1991 Gulf War, when there was talk about a new order in the Middle East. After the failure of the Oslo Accords that led to the commencement of the Al-Aqsa Intifada in 2000, he abandoned his career as a Computer scientist and devoted his entire life to investigating the Jewish roots of Palestinians. He now spends his entire time tracking down Palestinians who acknowledge their Jewish heritage, and lobbying ministers, ambassadors, religious leaders and activists in both communities. Misinai, and his team of Arabs and Jews, have embarked on a mission of trying to bring peace to Israel through a unique and controversial project called "The Engagement".
Project on Palestinians
Hebrew origin
Background
Tsvi Misinai claims that the majority of the Palestinian people—including those with Israeli citizenship or residency, known variously as Arab citizens of Israel, Arab Israelis, Israeli Arabs, including the Bedouin Arabs of Israel—are descendants of the ancient Hebrews, as most of the world's Jewish ethnic divisions are. Furthermore, he claims that at least half of them are quietly aware of this fact.
According to Misinai, unlike the ancestors of the modern day Jews who were city dwellers to a large extent, the Hebrew ancestors of the Palestinians were rural dwellers, and were allowed to remain in the land of Israel to work the land and supply Rome with grain and olive oil.
Misinai states the topic of Hebrew origin was spoken of openly by Palestinians until relatively recent history, much like the Egyptians or Lebanese are aware of their origins in the ancient Egyptians and Phoenicians respectively, even if these ancestral origin topics arouse the passions in those |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAPO%20Codebits | SAPO Codebits, also known simply as Codebits, was a (computing) conference held in Lisbon from 2007 to 2014. It was organized by SAPO which, besides a news media brand, was also an internet-focused R&D division of Portugal Telecom at the time. Initially inspired by Yahoo! Hack Day, the event lasted for three non-stop days, with many participants choosing to eat and sleep on site. Its core was a 48-hour hackathon but it also included dozens of talks during the day, as well as several entertainment activities in the evenings. Over the years, the number of talks and entertainment activities increased steadily, making it a reference in Portuguese hacker culture and attracting an increasing number of international attendees and speakers. Codebits was free for all participants, including food and drinks, and had little commercial undertones apart from product announcements in the opening keynote. Active recruiting inside the premises was also disallowed. The number of seats was limited, so potential attendees had to apply for a ticket and undergo a screening process.
In 2015, Portugal Telecom was acquired by Altice, SAPO's mission changed, and Codebits was discontinued. In 2016, the event format was revived by another team of organizers under the name Pixels Camp.
Format
The event took place over three consecutive days (and nights), starting on a Thursday. The first morning was composed of general keynotes from the organizing company and its partners/sponsors, plus general information about the hackathon and satellite activities. The hackathon started in the afternoon, along with multiple tracks of talks in parallel, and lasted until Saturday morning, with Saturday afternoon reserved for project presentations, voting, and closing ceremony.
48-hour Hackathon
In the hackathon, teams were free to propose whatever project they wanted, software or hardware, with no themes or subject restrictions. On Saturday, teams were required to present their projects on stage. They had 90 seconds to do it and the audience voted (thumbs up/down) between each presentation. The selection of winning teams was a combination of the audience votes and the votes of a jury panel. The weighting between the audience and jury votes varied from edition to edition.
Talks
Talks were mostly self-proposed by participants, but there were also a number of talks from invited speakers. Self-proposed talks followed a public process where all proposals were visible to everyone for comments and suggestions, but the final selection was made by the organizers.
Evening Activities
Satellite activities were usually held in the evenings. These activities usually combined entertainment with some element of geek culture and were initially meant to provide some relief from the hackathon, but gained a life of their own over time. Some of the most prominent activities are:
Quiz Show
Since 2008, in the four weeks before the event, participants had to solve about one challenge per-week to qual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habr | Habr (since 2018; formerly Habrahabr) () is a Russian collaborative blog about IT, computer science and anything related to the Internet, owned by TechMedia. Habrahabr was founded in June 2006. The English section of Habr was launched in 2019.
Habrahabr is often compared to other technology sites, such as Engadget or Hacker News. The parent company of the site, Thematic Media ("Тематические Медиа") developed a group of websites ("Тостер" toster.ru, "Мегамозг" megamozg.ru, "Мозгохранилище" brainstorage.me, "Фрилансим" freelansim.ru) after they developed habrahabr.ru.
In 2007, Habrahabr received two nominations in the ROTOR contest (), which awards prizes to Russian-language web projects. Habrahabr was nominated for the Discovery of the Year () and Online Community of the Year () prizes. The website's author, Denis Kryuchkov, was nominated for the Producer of the Year prize (). In 2009, the website was again nominated for the Online Community of the Year prize.
Sections
Blogs
The blogs comprise three sections: theme-specific, personal and corporate blogs. Each team blog consists of two sections, both of which contain entries that go by the moniker "habratopiki" (in Russian, "хабратопики") in the Habr environment.
The first section, titled "zahabrennye" (in Russian, "захабренные"), broadcasts entries that have received high approval from users of the website. The second section, called "othabrennye" (in Russian, "отхабренные"), contains habratopiki that have received disapproval by users of the Habr platform.
Topic-specific blogs, which go by the name "Haby" (the plural form of the Russian adaptation of the word "hub"), include sections devoted to programming, IT security, DIY projects, self-care, popular science, open source software, vintage hardware, game development, transportation, programming language-specific threads, and others.
Habr's corporate blogs are authored by companies that include Google, Yandex, Intel, Microsoft, Samsung, and ABBYY, among others.
Questions and Answers (Q & A)
Since the autumn of 2010 has hosted a questions and answers service, similar to Google services FAQ. In this section, any user can ask questions about IT-related topics and receive answers from other members of the project.
In 2013, the Q&A section separated from the main portal Habrahbr, and can now be found under a section that is separated from the main Habr portal.
People
The "people" section provides statistics on registered users (distribution by country and region, the number of registered and active users) and includes user rating, built on the basis of their habrasily. In the present karmagraf - a graph showing the cumulative change indicators karma users.
Corporate
Rating companies, one way or another connected with the sphere of high technologies. Basis rating - the assessment by users of a particular company.
Job board
The section devoted to industry job boards. All resumes and vacancies divided by sector ("consulting, outsourcing," " |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinik%20sa%20Dibdib | (International title: Damage / ) is a Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Based on a 1985 Philippine film of the same title, the series is the seventeenth installment of Sine Novela. Directed by Gil Tejada Jr., it stars Sunshine Dizon, Nadine Samonte and Marvin Agustin. It premiered on September 28, 2009 on the network's Dramarama sa Hapon line up replacing Kung Aagawin Mo ang Lahat sa Akin. The series concluded on January 22, 2010 with a total of 85 episodes. It was replaced with Ina, Kasusuklaman Ba Kita? in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sunshine Dizon and Nadine Samonte as Lorna Yadao-Domingo / Danica
Marvin Agustin as Rolando "Lando" Domingo
Supporting cast
Sheryl Cruz as Rita Domingo
Ara Mina as Trixie Domingo
Michelle Madrigal as Moret Yadao / Corazon Domingo
Bembol Roco as Tiburcio "Tibo" Yadao
Daria Ramirez as Candida "Diday" Yadao
Andrea del Rosario as Divine
Carlo Aquino as Ruden
Jenny Miller as Nini Reyes
Tiya Pusit as Manda
Marco Alcaraz as Paolo Ramirez
Maybelyn dela Cruz as Choleng
Jen Rosendahl as Lucy
Miguel Tanfelix as Boyito Domingo
Guest cast
Anita Linda as Luisa
Rico Barrera as Victor
Deborah Sun as Emily Tupaz
Sandy Reyes as young Angelita Domingo
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of earned a 7.4% rating. While the final episode scored a 17.5% rating.
References
External links
2009 Philippine television series debuts
2010 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine television series based on films
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20transistorized%20computers | This is a list of transistorized computers, which were digital computers that used discrete transistors as their primary logic elements. Discrete transistors were a feature of logic design for computers from about 1960, when reliable transistors became economically available, until monolithic integrated circuits displaced them in the 1970s. The list is organized by operational date or delivery year to customers. Computers announced, but never completed, are not included. Some very early "transistor" computers may still have included vacuum tubes in the power supply or for auxiliary functions.
1950s
1953
University of Manchester Transistor Computer 1953 (prototype) 1955 (full scale) experimental
1954
Bell Labs TRADIC for U.S. Air Force
1955
Harwell CADET demonstrated February 1955, one-off scientific computer
1956
Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark III (Japan) experimental, began development 1954, completed 1956, Japan's first transistorized stored-program computer
MIT TX-0
Metrovick 950
1957
Burroughs SM-65 Atlas ICBM Guidance Computer MOD1, AN/GSQ-33 (no relation to Manchester ATLAS)
Ramo-Wooldridge (TRW) RW-30 airborne computer
Univac TRANSTEC, for US Navy
Univac ATHENA, US Air Force missile guidance (ground control)
IBM 608 transistor calculator (its development was preceded by the prototyping of an experimental all-transistor version of the 604 demonstrated in October 1954), announced 1955, first shipped December 1957
DRTE Computer, Canadian experimental system delivered 1957, added parallel math unit and other improvements in 1960.
1958
Electrologica X1
TX-2
UNIVAC Solid State ("mostly" solid state)
Philco Transac S-1000 scientific computer- Navy/NSA SOLO, one-off for NSA
Philco Transac S-2000 electronic data processing computer
Mailüfterl
RCA 501 intended as a commercial system but used in military applications
Siemens System 2002 – Prototype in operation since 1956, first machine was put in operation in 1958.
Autonetics Recomp II
1959
NCR 304, announced in 1957, first delivery in 1959
Olivetti Elea 9003
MOBIDIC
IBM 7090 (6/60)
IBM 1401
IBM 1620 Model I and successors IBM 1620 Model II
NEAC 2201 (NEC)
EMIDEC 1100
TRW RW-300
PDP-1
Standard Elektrik Lorenz SEL ER 56
1960s
1960
AEI 1010
Honeywell 200
Honeywell 800 first installation 1960
UNIVAC LARC
CDC 160 (7/60)
CDC 1604 (1/60)
Datasaab D2
DRTE Computer, expanded version
Elliott 803
GE 210
AN/FSQ-32 (IBM 4020)
AN/FSQ-31V
IBM 7070 (6/60)
Japan Electrotechnical Laboratory ETL Mark V (5/60)
Mitsubishi MELCOM 3409
Clary DE-60
Monroe Calculating Machine Mark XI (or "Monrobot XI")
Packard Bell Corporation PB 250 (PB250; no relation to the modern brand of personal computers) used, among others, as the controller for hybrid digital/analog system TRICE and HYCOMP 250, and as the control computer for mobile data systems
Philco TRANSAC S-2000 Model 211
RCA 301
1961
Plessey XL4
MANIAC III
CAB500
LEO III
English Electric KDP1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Channel%20%28Polish%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Channel Poland is a Polish television channel. It shows factual entertainment programming, just as its many siblings around the world.
Discovery Channel has been available in Poland at least since 1998 when the Wizja TV platform launched. The dedicated Polish schedule was launched in 2002.
The channel started using the new Discovery Channel logo on 1 July 2009.
With a share of overall viewing of 0.67 percent, Discovery Channel was the 17th most watched television channel in Poland in 2011, according to Nielsen statistics. It is by far the most popular of the dedicated documentary channels available in Poland.
On 18 April 2012 Discovery Channel Poland started broadcasting in 16:9 picture format.
The HD version of Discovery Channel Poland was launched on 17 January 2013 and replaced Discovery HD Showcase on all major TV platforms in Poland.
References
Poland
Television channels in Poland
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%3A%20The%20Rebel%20Universe | Star Trek: The Rebel Universe is an action-adventure computer game published by Firebird Software in Europe and Simon & Schuster Interactive in America. It was originally released for the Atari ST in 1987, and was followed the next year with versions for the Commodore 64 and DOS.
The game places the user in control of the bridge crew of the Enterprise while they explore an area of space attempting to understand why all previous Federation ships that entered the region have mutinied. They have five years to complete their mission, after which the entire area will be sealed off with the Enterprise trapped inside.
Each member of the bridge crew is in control of certain aspects of ship operations, allowing the player to control the mission through their stations. The user can also orbit above planets and beam down selected members in order to find devices or clues that can solve the mystery of the "Quarantine Zone".
Story
Starfleet is currently puzzled by a mysterious region of space. Virtually every Federation starship that enters it defects to the Klingon Empire. Designating this region of space the Quarantine Zone, Starfleet sees no other option but to seal it off with a "Klein Sphere," a massive force field. Before the Klein Sphere is activated, Starfleet sends in the U.S.S. Enterprise to investigate.
The Enterprise soon discovers the source of the defections. The Klingons have discovered a rare isotope of dilithium crystals called "Dilithium Delta 6," which has unusual psionic properties. The Klingons have been giving out Dilithium Delta 6 to starship captains as a peace offering. Once the Dilithium Delta 6 is installed in a starship, the crew becomes susceptible to mind control. Coupled with a network of "psi-beam emitters" to ensure the effects of the Dilithium Delta 6 remain permanent, the Federation starships are compelled to obey their new Klingon masters.
The Enterprise crew devises several plans to free their fellow Federation starships and stop the Klingons:
Free the minds of Federation starship captains with an antidote
Destroy the Klingon Dilithium Delta 6 mine on the planet Dekian II
Destroy the Klingon psi-beam emitter network
Build your own psi-beam emitter to disrupt the Klingon's network
Jam Klingon communications
Release the "peace virus," a virus that will quell all aggressive instincts in Klingons
Another method is to blackmail the Klingon admiral, but this strategy runs the risk of backfiring.
If the Enterprise can't undo the Klingon plot within five years, the Klein Sphere will become permanent and the Quarantine Zone will be isolated from the rest of the galaxy forever.
Gameplay
When the game starts the player is placed in the game's "Multivision" display that shows an oblique view of the Enterprise bridge taking up the majority of upper left portion of the screen. Running down the right side and across the bottom of this display are individual portraits of each of the bridge crew. By clicking on a pers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nameless%20One | The Nameless One may refer to:
The Nameless One, protagonist of the computer role-playing game Planescape: Torment
Nameless One (comics), several characters in comic books
The Nameless One (novel), a 2014 novel by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
"The Nameless One" (song), a 1993 single by Wendy James
The Nameless One, arch-villain of the Pellinor fantasy series by Allison Croggon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arne%20S%C3%B8lvberg | Arne Sølvberg (born 13 February 1940) is a Norwegian computer scientist, professor in computer science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway, and an expert in the field of information modelling.
Career
Sølvberg was born at Klepp in southwestern Norway. He was the eldest of five, with three brothers and a sister. He received a M.Sc. in applied physics in 1963 from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, now the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). In 1971 at NTH he received a Ph.D. in computer science with the thesis "Matematiske metoder for generering og oppfølging av kortsiktige salgsprognoser". Under the guidance of Börje Langefors (born 1915), professor of Business Information Systems at Stockholm University, he had received the first doctoral degree in computer science at Trondheim.
Between 1963 and 1974 Sølvberg worked at SINTEF Runnit building up and leading their information systems group. In 1974 he became the first professor of computer science at NTNU, in the computer science department, which was established two years earlier. and since 2002 he is also dean of NTNU’s Faculty of Information Technology, Mathematics and Electrical Engineering as well. He has been a visiting scientist with IBM Almaden Research Center, The University of Florida, The Naval Postgraduate School, The University of California, Santa Barbara and most recently with the University of California at Los Angeles. He is a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
Active in international organizations working toward cooperation in research, from 1979 to 1982 Sølvberg represented Norway at the IFIP General Assembly. From 1982 to 1988, he was chairman of IFIP WG8.1 for Information Systems Design. Until 1994 he served as a trustee in the VLDB Endowment. He cofounded the CAiSE conference series.
He is married to Ingeborg Sølvberg.
Work
Sølvberg's main research interests are in the fields of information systems design methodology, database design, information modelling, information systems engineering environments and model driven design.
Publications
Sølvberg has published numerous papers in journals, books, and archival proceedings since the 1970s. Books, a selection:
1967. Datamaskinen.
1969. Fortran.
1971. Computer-aided information systems analysis and design. The first Scandinavian workshop. With Janis Bubenko and Börje Langefors (Eds).
1990. CAiSE '90 (1990 : Stockholm, Sweden) Advanced information systems engineering : second Nordic conference, CAiSE '90, Stockholm, Sweden, May 8-10, 1990 : proceedings. With B. Steinholtz and L. Bergman (eds.)
1993. An Introduction to Information Systems Engineering. With David Kung. Springer-Verlag.
2000. Information systems engineering: state of the art and research themes. With Sjaak Brinkkemper, Janis Bubenko and Eva Lindencrona.
2001. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (20th : 2001 : Yokohama, Japan) Conceptual modeli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last%20Chance%20Surgery | Last Chance Surgery is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network that first screened in 2009. Last Chance Surgery is narrated by doctor and former Australian Medical Association president, Kerryn Phelps. The series features people whose only hope of survival is radical and dangerous surgery. The series was created by Executive Producer Danny Milosavljevic who was previously the executive producer of RPA (TV series). It is made by Southern Star Entertainment, Australia's largest independent television production company. Two of the surgeons featured on the show include prominent neurosurgeons, Prof Michael Morgan and Dr Charles Teo.
See also
List of Australian television series
References
External links
Seven Network
Australian medical television series
Australian factual television series
Seven Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2009 Australian television series endings
Television series by Endemol Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20Patrol%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | Highway Patrol is an Australian factual television series screened on the Seven Network, which premiered on 21 September 2009. Highway Patrol follows members of the Victoria Police highway patrol (formerly the Traffic Management Unit) as they intercept traffic and other criminal offenders on roads in Victoria, Australia.
Synopsis
The program follows police involved in attending major road accidents, high-speed police chases, confronting drunk drivers as well as issuing lesser penalty notices to drivers for a variety of traffic offences.
Each episode follows the progress of a select few incidents involving various officers, from the first encounter by the officers through to the officers leaving the scene, with the exception that occasionally the officers will escort a driver back to a police station for the purpose of a breath or blood sample. Fines, court convictions and demerit points issued in relation to each incident are shown in a voiced-over addendum at the end.
Highway Patrol is produced by Greenstone TV, makers of New Zealand's Motorway Patrol with the co-operation of Victoria Police, and airs in Australia on the Seven Network. Domestically, repeated episodes air on sister channels 7two and 7mate as well as syndicated on subscription television channel FOX8.
Internationally, the program is screened in New Zealand on TV2, Denmark on Canal 9, Norway on Canal 9 and the United Kingdom on ITV4 and Pick.
Production
The first season of Highway Patrol went to air in September 2009. A second season was announced by Channel Seven on 18 November 2009 which premiered 2 February 2010. A seventh season of Highway Patrol was announced on the show's official website on 13 July 2014. On 9 December 2014, Victoria Police announced on their official Facebook page that season eight had started filming and would air sometime in 2016. On 15 December 2014, series producer Mary Durham announced that season 7 would consist of 10 episodes and would air sometime in 2015.
In October 2015, Greenstone TV confirmed that season 8 was in post production. In March 2016, it was announced that season 9 had started filming to air in 2017. In July 2018, Channel 7 released their first promotion for season 10 to begin airing from Wednesday 1 August 2018.
In November 2019, Greenstone TV announced that the final two episodes of series 11 will most likely air in 2020 and filming for the 12th season will start filming mid year. On 18 November Greenstone TV also launched an official Highway Patrol Facebook.
Episodes
References
External links
Seven Network Official Site
Greenstone TV
Victoria Police
Australian factual television series
Seven Network original programming
2009 Australian television series debuts
2010s Australian television series
Documentary television series about policing
English-language television shows
Television series by Greenstone TV
Television series by Beyond Television Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicDNA%20%28database%29 | MusicDNA is a file system that consists of an ontology that describes the underlying structure of the events that make up musical history – "who did what, where, and when" together with a set of user interfaces that allow subscribers to view, add and edit entries. MusicDNA is implemented using a specially developed version of Topic Maps. MusicDNA uses "persistent subject identifiers" to refer to subjects or topics and an ontology or "conceptual reference model" to describe the relationships between those subjects.
History
MusicDNA began life as a website supporting BBC Radio's 18-hour programme, The Unfinished Symphony, and was created by Antony Pitts. This charted the history of Western music during previous millennia. The programme was broadcast from 0600 31 December 1999 to 0005 1 January 2000. The accompanying site used a novel navigational tool which presented each item in the broadcast as an element in a timeline view. In subsequent research Antony Pitts combined the horizontal time dimension with a vertical aesthetic journey, moving from inspiration to reception, to enable a multi-dimensional browsing interface.
The site was picked by the Royal Academy of Music as the starting point for its RAMline music index. Funded by HEIF3 and the Centre for Distance Education the project sought to offer a way of consolidating existing resources, making them accessible to students, staff, and the general public. In 2008 research was presented at several international conferences including Topic Maps 2008, International Association of Music Libraries Annual Conference 2008, and XML Holland 2008, and reached the attention of music journalists.
The research team – including John Drinkwater and Hannah Riddell – then moved their research to a commercial environment working with development budget provided by Brussels-based Pensive SA. This quickly resulted in musicGPS, an application for the iPhone. released 30 September 2009, which records the details of what the user listened to, including time and place, and allows navigation and filtering of the resultant timeline. All data recorded is uploadable to the musicDNA database.
Notes
External links
musicDNA
Online music and lyrics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20for%20Devices | Web Services for Devices or Web Services on Devices (WSD) is a Microsoft API to enable programming connections to web service enabled devices, such as printers, scanners and file shares. Such devices conform to the Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS). It is an extensible framework that serves as a replacement for older Windows networking functions and a common framework for allowing access to new device APIs.
Operation
The Microsoft Web Services for Devices API (WSDAPI) uses WS-Discovery for device discovery.
Devices that connect to the WSDAPI must implement the DPWS.
See also
WS-Discovery
Devices Profile for Web Services
Features new to Windows Vista
References
External links
Web Services on Devices (Windows)
Web Services for Devices (WSD)
The WSD Port Monitor
Device as a Service
Web services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XFS%20%28disambiguation%29 | XFS is a computer file system created by Silicon Graphics.
XFS may also refer to:
X Font Server, a standard mechanism for an X server to communicate with a font renderer
CEN/XFS, a client-server architecture for financial applications on the Microsoft Windows platform
Exfoliation syndrome, an eye ailment
See also
Extent File System (EFS), a file system superseded by XFS
CXFS (Clustered XFS), a shared disk file system designed by Silicon Graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20FM | Hot FM may refer to a number of radio stations:
Hot FM (Australian radio network), in Queensland and Western Australia, owned by Southern Cross Austereo and Prime Television
Hot FM network, in the United Kingdom, formerly owned by Chiltern Radio Group
Hot FM (Malaysia), in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia, owned by Media Prima
Hot 100 FM in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
One FM 91.3, previously known as HOT FM 91.3, in Singapore, owned by SPH Media Trust
WKHL (FM), known as Hot 92.1, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA, owned by Cumulus Broadcasting
KBCQ-FM, known as Hot 97, in New Mexico, USA, owned by Roswell Radio
WQHT-FM, known as Hot 97, in New York City, USA, owned by Emmis Communications
WHZT, known as The New Hot 98-1, in Greenville/Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA, owned by Cox Media Group
WIHT, known as Hot 99.5, in Washington D.C., USA, owned by iHeartMedia
KHQT, known as Hot 103, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, USA, owned by Richardson Commercial Corporation
KKLS-FM, known as Hot 104.7, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA, owned by Cumulus Media
WHQT, known as Hot 105 FM, in South Florida, USA, owned by Cox Radio
CJNW-FM, known as Hot 107, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, owned by John Charles Yerxa
WUHT known as Hot 107.7, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA, owned by UAB Blazers Radio Network
KHXT, known as Hot 107.9, in Erath, Louisiana, USA, owned by Regent Communications
WJFX, known as Hot 107.9, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA, owned by Oasis Radio Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Data%20Systems | Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was an American multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Plano, Texas, which was founded in 1962 by Ross Perot. The company was a subsidiary of General Motors from 1984 until it was spun off in 1996. EDS was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2008.
History
Electronic Data Systems (EDS) was founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot, a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and a successful IBM salesman who first-hand observed how inefficiently IBM's customers typically were using their expensive systems. Somewhat to IBM's chagrin, since the company wanted to sell as many computers as possible, Perot made a fortune changing this. An early success was in matching the unused computer time at Southwestern Life Insurance Company with the computing needs of rapidly expanding Collins Radio, both located in Dallas, Texas. Perot knew the inside details of both companies.
In its early years, EDS was a pioneer in facilities management – becoming the IT department for many companies – as well as beginning to service banks and provide early support for both Medicaid and Medicare in its home state of Texas. Leading the effort internally was Morton H. Meyerson, who joined the company in 1966 as the company's 54th employee. In 1967, he proposed the business model that eventually became known as "outsourcing" and which led to exponential growth for EDS.
In the 1970s, EDS expanded initially into more insurance services and later credit unions, and by 1975 revenue topped $100 million (~$ in ) and the company began bidding for work internationally. In 1978 EDS expanded into financial markets with the arrival of automated teller machines, electronic funds transfer and real-time point-of-sale terminals. Meyerson was named president in 1979, at which point EDS had revenue of $270 million (~$ in ), was free of debt, and had 8,000 employees.
In the 1980s, they expanded into travel services supporting payment services between travel agents and airlines represented by the Air Transport Association of America, and provided large scale contracts for the US military.
In 1984, the company was acquired by General Motors for $2.5 billion (~$ in ), with EDS becoming a wholly owned subsidiary of GM. Meyerson remained president and in 1985, the company had a presence in 21 countries with 40,000 employees. Meyerson retired in 1987. During his years of executive leadership, EDS revenue grew to $4 billion a year, and the company grew to 45,000 employees. By the end of the decade, revenue was $5 billion.
In 1996, GM spun off EDS as an independent company.
In the 1990s, in addition to its existing markets, EDS was entering the telecommunications industry and was providing IT systems in many foreign countries. They were providing information systems for global sporting events including the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In 1994, they signed what was at the time th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Firesmith | Donald G. Firesmith (born June 14, 1952) is an American software engineer, consultant, and trainer at the Software Engineering Institute.
Biography
Firesmith received his B.A. in Mathematics and German from Linfield College in 1975 and his M.A. in Mathematics from Arizona State University in 1977. He also studied one year at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
Firesmith started working in the computer business as a software developer in 1979 and has been quality engineer, configuration manager, and data manager for Computer Science Corporation in the US, Germany, and Switzerland. From 1984 to 1988 he was an OO methodologist at Magnavox Electronic Systems Corporation. And from 1988 to 1995 he was President of Advanced Software Technology Specialists, a small consulting and training company.
From 1994 to 1997 he has been an acquisition editor and editor and chief of Reference Books at SIGS Books. And further he was a Senior advisory software engineer at StorageTek, where he worked as a technical leader, requirements engineer, and software architect, Chief architect Lante Corporation, which specialized in producing eMarketplaces, and Chief architect for the North American Business Unit of Cambridge Technology Partners. From 2003 through 2020, he was a Principal Engineer at the Software Engineering Institute where he works in the Client Technical Solutions Software Solutions Division helping the United States Government acquire software-intensive systems. Since retiring in 2020, he has been a full-time novelist.
Firesmith was named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association for Computing Machinery in 2015.
Work
Method Engineering (ME) and Open Process Environment and Notation (OPEN)
Firesmith is a co-founder with Brian Henderson-Sellers and Ian Graham of the international OPEN Consortium. Firesmith was the principal developer of the OPEN Modeling Language. Firesmith is the founder of the OPEN Process Framework Repository Organization and the developer of its large repository of free, open-source, reusable method components.
The OPEN approach to software development is founded on situational method engineering (SME). This is a means by which a software development team can construct a method and process that is appropriate for their own particular situation or circumstances. Fragments of methods, conformant with an international software engineering metamodel standard such as ISO/IEC 24744 and stored in a repository, are individually selected and the method composed from these method fragments. The SME approach is based on research by many groups worldwide – results from a recent conference are published.
Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA)
Firesmith is the primary developer of the Method Framework for Engineering System Architectures (MFESA). This framework consists of the following:
Ontology defining the key concepts of system architecture engineering and their relationships
Metamodel defining the foundati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming%20language%20generations | Programming languages have been classified into several programming language generations. Historically, this classification was used to indicate increasing power of programming styles. Later writers have somewhat redefined the meanings as distinctions previously seen as important became less significant to current practice.
Generations
Second generation (2GL)
Examples: assembly languages
Second-generation programming language (2GL) is a generational way to categorize assembly languages.
Third generation (3GL)
Examples: C, C++, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, C#, BASIC, Pascal, Fortran, ALGOL, COBOL
3GLs are much more machine-independent (portable) and more programmer-friendly. This includes features like improved support for aggregate data types and expressing concepts in a way that favors the programmer, not the computer. A third-generation language improves over a second-generation language by having the computer take care of non-essential details. 3GLs are more abstract than previous generations of languages, and thus can be considered higher-level languages than their first- and second-generation counterparts. First introduced in the late 1950s, Fortran, ALGOL, and COBOL are examples of early 3GLs.
Most popular general-purpose languages today, such as C, C++, C#, Java, BASIC and Pascal, are also third-generation languages, although each of these languages can be further subdivided into other categories based on other contemporary traits. Most 3GLs support structured programming. Many support object-oriented programming. Traits like these are more often used to describe a language rather than just being a 3GL.
Fourth generation (4GL)
Examples: ABAP, Unix Shell, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Reports, R, Halide (programming_language)
Fourth-generation languages tend to be specialized toward very specific programming domains. 4GLs may include support for database management, report generation, mathematical optimization, GUI development, or web development.
Fifth generation (5GL)
Examples: Prolog, OPS5, Mercury, CVXGen
, Geometry Expert
A fifth-generation programming language (5GL) is any programming language based on problem-solving using constraints given to the program, rather than using an algorithm written by a programmer. Most constraint-based and logic programming languages and some other declarative languages are fifth-generation languages. It uses Artificial Intelligence or (AI) technology to solve problems on its own.
While fourth-generation programming languages are designed to build specific programs, fifth-generation languages are designed to make the computer solve a given problem without the programmer. This way, the user only needs to worry about what problems need to be solved and what conditions need to be met, without worrying about how to implement a routine or algorithm to solve them. Fifth-generation languages are used mainly in Artificial Intelligence or AI research. OPS5 and Mercury are examples of fifth-generation languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrintMaster | PrintMaster is a greeting card and banner creation program for Commodore 64, Amiga, Apple II and IBM PC computers. PrintMaster sold more than two million copies.
History
In 1986, the first version of PrintMaster was the target of a lawsuit by Broderbund, who alleged that PrintMaster was a direct copy of their popular The Print Shop program. The court found in favor of Broderbund, locating specific instances of copying. The program was re-worked to provide the same functionality, but through a different look and feel.
Since the early 1990s, the name has been used for a basic desktop publishing software package, under the Broderbund brand. It was unique in that it provided libraries of clip-art and templates through a simple interface to build signs, greeting cards, posters and banners with household dot-matrix printers. Over the years, it was updated to accommodate changing file formats and printer technologies, including CD and DVD labels and inserts and photobook pages. PrintMaster is available in Platinum and Gold variants.
PrintMaster 2.0 is the first consumer desktop publishing solution at retail to offer Macintosh and Windows compatibility and integrated professional printing.
In September 2010, PrintMaster 2011 was released. Versions include Platinum, Gold, and Express for digital download.
PrintMaster project types include banners, calendars, crafts, greeting cards, invitations, labels, signs, and scrapbook pages.
References
The Broderbund line of products is published by Encore, Inc.
External links
www.printmaster.com
Desktop publishing software
1985 software
ja:プリントショップ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahoe-LAFS | Tahoe-LAFS (Tahoe Least-Authority File Store) is a free and open, secure, decentralized, fault-tolerant, distributed data store and distributed file system. It can be used as an online backup system, or to serve as a file or Web host similar to Freenet, depending on the front-end used to insert and access files in the Tahoe system. Tahoe can also be used in a RAID-like fashion using multiple disks to make a single large Redundant Array of Inexpensive Nodes (RAIN) pool of reliable data storage.
The system is designed and implemented around the "principle of least authority" (POLA), described by Brian Warner (one of the project's original founders) as the idea "that any component of the system should have as little power of authority as it needs to get its job done". Strict adherence to this convention is enabled by the use of cryptographic capabilities that provide the minimum set of privileges necessary to perform a given task by asking agents. A RAIN array acts as a storage volume; these servers do not need to be trusted by confidentiality or integrity of the stored data.
History
Tahoe-LAFS was started in 2006 at online backup services company All My Data and has been actively developed since 2007. In 2008, Brian Warner and Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn published a paper on Tahoe at the 4th ACM international workshop on Storage security and survivability.
When All My Data closed in 2009, Tahoe-LAFS became a free software project under the GNU General Public License or The Transitive Grace License, which allows owners of the code twelve months to profit from their work before releasing it. In 2010, Tahoe-LAFS was mentioned as a tool against censorship by the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In 2013, it was one of the hackathon projects at the GNU 30th anniversary.
Functionality
The Tahoe-LAFS Client sends an unencrypted file via a web API to the HTTPS Server. The HTTPS Server passes the file off to the Tahoe-LAFS Storage client which encrypts the file and then uses erasure coding to store fragments of the file on multiple storage drives.
Tahoe-LAFS features "provider-independent security", in that the integrity and confidentiality of the files are guaranteed by the algorithms used on the client, independent of the storage servers, which may fail or may be operated by untrusted entities. Files are encrypted using AES, then split up using erasure coding, such that only a subset K of the original N servers storing the file chunks need to be available in order to recreate the original file. The default parameters are K=3, N=10, so each file is shared across 10 different servers, accessing it requires the correct function of any 3 of those servers.
Tahoe provides very little control over on which nodes data is stored.
Fork
A patched version of Tahoe-LAFS exists from 2011, and was made to run on anonymous networks such as I2P, with support for multiple introducers. There is also a version for Microsoft Windows. It is distributed from a site within the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector%20Gadget%3A%20Mission%201%20%E2%80%93%20Global%20Terror%21 | Inspector Gadget: Mission 1 – Global Terror! is a graphic adventure game based on the animated television series Inspector Gadget. It was published by Azeroth for MS-DOS compatible operating systems in 1992. Gadget is assigned a mission to rescue United Nations members who have been kidnapped and scattered around the world by his nemesis Dr. Claw. Players control Gadget's niece Penny and her dog Brain to assist the clueless Gadget in his mission. Despite the "Mission 1" label, this is the only game in the series.
Gameplay
Players can switch between controlling Penny and Brain. Their first objective is to rescue Gadget from Dr. Claw's castle in Metro City, where Gadget has been captured and stripped of his gadgets. After that, players can select from a variety of different locations around the globe where Dr. Claw has hidden the UN representatives. In each location, Gadget goes off on his own to solve the case. As Penny, players can then gather clues and use items to locate the missing representative. She then gets captured, leaving it up to Brain to rescue her. Along the way, Penny finds one of Gadget's missing gadgets. Brain cannot use inventory items, but can gather items from the environment and disguise himself.
After Brain rescues Penny, she and Brain rejoin with Inspector Gadget. They must give the inspector his missing gadget, which they can then use to rescue the brainwashed representative. After all the UN ambassadors are rescued, the three can then go to New York City and foil Dr. Claw's evil plot.
Actions are controlled via a set of icons on the bottom of the screen. In addition to standard look and use commands, as Penny players can access her computer book to look up information or use one of the inspector's gadgets. She can also talk to Brain using her wristwatch communicator.
References
External links
1992 video games
Adventure games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Video games based on Inspector Gadget
North America-exclusive video games
Point-and-click adventure games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Africa
Video games set in New York City
Video games set in Hong Kong
Spy video games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelan | Excelan was a computer networking company founded in 1982 by Kanwal Rekhi, Inder Singh and Navindra Jain. Excelan was a manufacturer of smart Ethernet cards, until the company merged with, and was acquired by Novell in 1989. The company offered a line of Ethernet "front end processor" boards for Multibus, VMEbus, Q-Bus, Unibus, and IBM AT Bus systems. The cards were equipped with their own processor and memory, and ran TCP/IP protocol software that was downloaded onto the cards from the host system. Excelan offered software like LAN Workplace that integrated the cards into a variety of operating system environments, including many flavors of UNIX, RSX-11, VMS, and DOS. The hardware and software were sold under the EXOS brand. In 1987, Excelan also acquired Kinetics, a small networking company that manufactured and sold a variety of Ethernet networking products for Apple Macintosh environments, most notably an AppleTalk-to-Ethernet gateway called the FastPath.
Excelan also manufactured and sold Ethernet network analyzer products, the first being the Excelan Nutcracker, followed later by the Excelan LANalyzer.
See also
Novell LAN WorkPlace for DOS
References
Companies based in San Jose, California
Companies established in 1982
Networking companies
Networking companies of the United States
Networking hardware companies
1982 establishments in California
Defunct computer companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Rural%20Utilities%20Cooperative%20Finance%20Corporation | The National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC) is a member-owned nonprofit cooperative that provides financial products to America's rural electric cooperative network. CFC was established in 1969 to raise funds from the capital markets to supplement the loan programs for electric cooperatives offered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Rural Utilities Service (RUS), previously Rural Electrification Administration (REA).
While CFC is not a government-sponsored enterprise (GSE), it (along with its telephone affiliate, RTFC), has forged an effective public-private partnership with RUS. This partnership enables CFC's utility borrowers to access an array of financing options including those provided by the federal government.
Together, CFC and its affiliates, the National Cooperative Services Corporation (NCSC) and the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC), provide financing to 1,460 member organizations and affiliates in 49 states, the District of Columbia and two territories. Rural electric systems serve 12 percent of all consumers of electricity in the United States and its territories, account for approximately 10 percent of total sales of electricity and own about 5 percent of electric generation capacity.
At the end of FY2015 (May 31, 2015), CFC's total loans outstanding were $21.5 billion, and its owners had $4 billion invested in CFC securities. About 98 percent of CFC’s loan portfolio was with electric borrowers and 2 percent was with the telecommunications sector.
Organizational structure
Overall policy for CFC is set by a 23-member Board of Directors, representing 10 geographic districts and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), the network's national trade association, and one At-Large member who serves as the Audit Committee Financial Expert. CFC's Board is democratically elected and consists of both cooperative utility directors and managers. CFC operates from its corporate headquarters in Dulles, Virginia, with a staff of 232 employees, including regional representatives located throughout the country.
Stock Symbols
Cooperative Finance Corporation (NRUCFC) is traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s symbol is NRU.
Affiliate Organizations
CFC manages and funds the Rural Telephone Finance Cooperative (RTFC), an organization that provides financing to the rural telecommunications industry. CFC also manages and funds the National Cooperative Services Corporation (NCSC), an organization that provides electric cooperatives with specialized financing services that supplement the financial services of CFC.
References
External links
National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation (CFC)
Fiscal Year 2015 CFC Annual Report
Electric cooperatives of the United States
Organizations established in 1969 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeoTokyo%20%28video%20game%29 | NeoTokyo (stylized as NEOTOKYO°) is a multiplayer tactical first-person shooter total conversion modification of Half-Life 2 in a futuristic cyberpunk setting, created by American developer Studio Radi-8. Initially released on 3 July 2009, and later re-released for Steam on 4 July 2014, it was voted to be released through Steam Greenlight on 16 October 2012. The game presents itself in a dystopian setting, with inspiration drawn from Akira, Deus Ex and Ghost in the Shell for its art-style, music and aesthetics.
Gameplay
NeoTokyo uses a round-based structure similar to Counter-Strike, with players only respawning between rounds. Three character classes are available, differing from each other in speed, health and available weaponry. Each class has a different auxiliary vision mode (light amplification, motion detection and thermal vision) with the two lightest classes possessing thermal and optical cloaking.
The gameplay of NeoTokyo is slow-paced and balanced towards the tactical approach, with players generally being able to dispose of each other with a single burst of concentrated fire. The map design reflects this, with most maps giving numerous opportunities for ambushes and flanking.
NeoTokyo has two game-types: Team Deathmatch (TDM), and Capture The Ghost (CTG), with the majority of maps designed for the latter. Capture The Ghost is similar to one-flag CTF, with two teams competing to pick up the Ghost (a dismembered gynoid torso) and carry it to a designated 'retrieval zone' on the other side of the map. Unlike regular CTF, a team can also win the round by eliminating the other team. The Ghost is useful for this as it allows the player carrying it (and only that player) to see the position of the still remaining enemy team members, even through walls. In-game VoIP communication and a compass allows a Ghost carrier to communicate this information to their own team. While carrying the Ghost brings great benefits to a team, there are severe downsides to picking up the Ghost. With the Ghost's exact location visible to everyone at all times, a carrier's position is instantly revealed to the enemy team. Being required to drop their primary weapon before being able to pick it up and being unable to sprint are just some of the severe disadvantages of picking up the Ghost.
Plot
NeoTokyo is set in Tokyo, approximately 30 years in the future. After the failure of a proposal to alter the Japanese constitution to allow foreign deployment of Japanese soldiers, a military coup d'état is attempted by extreme Japanese nationalist factions in the Japan Self-Defense Forces. In response, the Prime Minister of Japan pools former military intelligence operatives and police officers into a sub-group of the Interior Ministry's National Security Force (NSF), called Group Six, to seek out subsequent coup plotters and uphold the law in both domestic and international soil. Immediately, rumours surface that an unknown faction in the JGSDF's special forces unit "J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opdahl | Opdahl is a Norwegian surname that derives from Old Norse Uppdalr (uppi; "up" and dale;"valley"). Notable people with the surname include:
Andreas Lothe Opdahl (born 1964), Norwegian computer scientist and professor of Information Systems Development
Iren Opdahl (born 1974), Norwegian politician
Jacob Opdahl (1894–1938), Norwegian Olympic gymnast
Nils Opdahl (1882–1951 ), Norwegian Olympic gymnast
Ørnulf Opdahl, (born 1944), Norwegian painter and educator
Einar Opdahl, resident of Entwistle, Alberta who found a diamond in the Pembina River
Johannes Opdahl, Norwegian carver who worked at the Nidaros Cathedral West Front
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral%20Quest | Ancestral Quest (AQ) is a genealogy software application for Microsoft Windows developed by Incline Software, LC. It features data entry with sourcing capabilities and scrapbook extensions; a print engine for standard or custom charts and reports; a web page creator; a collaboration engine; and an extension tool for other genealogy databases.
Ancestral Quest was the first desktop genealogy software program to be certified to access, update, and synchronize with newer versions of FamilySearch.
Languages
Developed in English, Ancestral Quest allows for translation to other languages using language modules. These user-created files allow Ancestral Quest screens and reports to be translated or customized. A user can create his or her own language module, or leverage the module of someone else. The Danish, French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish language modules are completely translated. The Chinese, Finnish, and Swedish language modules currently have all basic screens and reports translated.
Features
Creates a family tree, documenting sources and adding scrapbook items
Researches the Internet with search engine interfaces
Prints standard and custom charts, reports or books
Creates web pages
Imports and exports GEDCOM files
Extends the use of other databases, such as Personal Ancestral File or FamilySearch
Can be used on a flash drive
Collaborate with other researchers, using a single master database
Can convert Personal Ancestral File (PAF) files
History
Version history
Ancestral Quest 1.0: 1994
Ancestral Quest 1.1: 1995
Ancestral Quest 2.0: 1996
Ancestral Quest 2.1: 1997
Ancestral Quest 3.0: 1999
Ancestral Quest 10.0: 2002 - collaboration, research manager, global find/replace, PAF5.x support, fan charts, enhanced reporting
Ancestral Quest 11.0: 2003 - memorize source citations, detailed change log, print to PDF, drop line charts, online IGI lookups
Ancestral Quest 12.0: 2007 - individual summary screen, language translation, UNICODE
Ancestral Quest 12.1: 2008 - link and sync with new FamilySearch, flash drive support
Ancestral Quest 12.1: 2010 - Build 23 - Switched to FamilyTree API Version 2 for nFS, display age at marriage/death on family view, added ghost lines between children on family view, minor bug fixes
Ancestral Quest 12.1: 2010 - Build 26 - Allows use of external viewer for photos, Improved Check/Repair, Assorted Bug Fixes
Ancestral Quest 14.0: 2012 - Research Timeline, Color Coding, Tags, improvements to fan charts, FamilySearch Family Tree, LDS features
Ancestral Quest 14.0: 2015 - Mac Version available 19 August 2015
Ancestral Quest 15.0: 2016
Ancestral Quest 16.0: 2019
AQ technology in other products
In 1998, AQ was licensed for resale through Individual Software, and has been sold by them under the names of "Family Ties", "Family Trees Quick & Easy", "Heritage Family Tree Deluxe", and "Family Tree Heritage". In 1999, the AQ code was licensed to the LDS Church and became the base of the Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three%20Chords%20from%20the%20Truth | Three Chords from the Truth is a Canadian television series created by Steve Cochrane, Phyllis Ellis and Adriana Maggs that aired on the Canadian CMT network in 2009, and was also available on Movie Central. This program was CMT's first original comedy series and was nominated for two Gemini Awards.
The program starred Phyllis Ellis as Helena Delaney, a fortyish network executive for a struggling country music television station run by her former lover. The series provides a tongue-in-cheek look at the music industry, as Helena strives to improve network ratings and prove herself as the new boss. Her attempts generally result in humiliation, and witty, but subtle, remarks from the network staff. The staff is an ensemble cast of characters, including Joel Stewart, Helena's work-nemesis, comedic foil, and eventual love-interest, who is a genuine music lover, and views Helena as a sell-out; Rusty Katz (Jordan McClosky), and Calvin Bates (Paul Snepsts), the sarcastic on-air personalities. Ellis Dukes (George Komorowski) is Helena's boss and former lover who is now dating Amber (series writer Adriana Maggs), his much younger assistant. Mick McCafferty (series director Steve Cochrane) is a talent agent whose views on status and corporate-climbing mirror Helena's and lead to a mutual attraction. Mick represents Tommy Mountain, an up-and-coming Iraqi singer.
The show is a spin-off of the CMT's TV series The Wilkinsons, in which Ellis also appeared as the character of Helena. Many real life musicians made cameo appearances on the show. The satirical style of the show, and its ensemble cast has drawn online comparisons to The Office .
The show was executive produced and created by Steve Cochrane, who directed the majority of episodes and Adriana Maggs, who is credited as the writer on all ten episodes.
External links
2000s Canadian sitcoms
2009 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%E2%80%9353%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28daytime%29 | The 1952–53 daytime network television schedule for the four major English-language commercial broadcast networks in the United States covers most of the weekday daytime hours from September 1952 to August 1953.
Talk shows are highlighted in yellow, local programming is white, reruns of prime-time programming are orange, game shows are pink, soap operas are chartreuse, news programs are gold and all others are light blue. New series are highlighted in bold.
Fall 1952
Winter 1952-1953
Spring 1953
Summer 1953
By network
ABC
Not Returning From 1951-52
The Dennis James Show
The Frances Langford-Don Ameche Show
The Gayelord Hauser Show
The Paul Dixon Show
CBS
Returning Series
Action in the Afternoon
Arthur Godfrey Time
As the World Turns
The Big Payoff
The Bill Cullen Show
The Bob Crosby Show
Break the Bank
Bride and Groom
CBS News
CBS Evening News
The Edge of Night
Face the Nation
Freedom Rings
The Garry Moore Show
The Guiding Light
Homemaker's Exchange
Love of Life
Mike and Buff
Search for Tomorrow
Strike It Rich
Summer School
The U.N. in Action
Walter Cronkite with the News
New Series
Art Linkletter's House Party
The Bil Baird Show
Double or Nothing
Rod Brown of the Rocket Rangers
There's One in Every Family
Wheel of Fortune
Not Returning From 1951-52
The Al Pearce Show
Bert Parks Show
The Egg and I
The First Hundred Years
Meet Your Cover Girl
The Mel Torme Show
Morning News
The Steve Allen Show
Your Surprise Store
NBC
Returning Series
The Big Payoff
The Bill Cullen Show
Howdy Doody
The Kate Smith Hour
Meet the Press
NBC News Update
Strike It Rich (radio only)
New Series
Atom Squad
The Bennetts
Ding Dong School
Follow Your Heart
The Gabby Hayes Show
Glamour Girl
Ladies Choice
Three Steps to Heaven
The Today Show
Welcome Travelers
Not Returning From 1951-52
The Bill Goodwin Show
Breakfast Party
The Bunch
Dave & Charlie
Here's Looking at You
It's a Problem
It's In the Bag
The Johnny Dugan Show
Kovacs on the Corner
Matinee in New York
The Ralph Edwards Show
Richard Harkness News Review
Ruth Lyons|Ruth Lyons 50 Club
Vacation Wonderland
Winner Take All
DuMont
New Series
Ladie's Date
One Woman's Experience
See also
1952-53 United States network television schedule (prime-time)
Sources
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122215/http://curtalliaume.com/abc_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071015122235/http://curtalliaume.com/cbs_day.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20071012211242/http://curtalliaume.com/nbc_day.html
United States weekday network television schedules
1952 in American television
1953 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20the%20Pacific%20United | Institute of the Pacific United is a Japanese and New Zealand tertiary educational institution based in Palmerston North, New Zealand. Another network of the institute is International Pacific University, which was established in 2007 in Okayama, Japan. Students of IPU New Zealand are from 24 different countries around the world.
IPU New Zealand mainly offers tertiary education of business (including accounting, finance, marketing and management), international relations, linguistics, environmental studies and tourism.
Despite the fact that the institution had been known as International Pacific College (IPC) for 25 years, its name was officially changed to Institute of the Pacific United (IPU New Zealand) on 26 September 2015.
Partner universities
International Pacific University
Foreign Trade University
President University
Qingdao University of Science and Technology
Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service
Tajik State University of Commerce
Rangsit University
Samarkand State University
Controversies
Staff redundancies
On 24 May 2013, the Manawatu Standard broke an article detailing the difficulties the reporter had getting information from the management staff as to the organisational restructure that was taking place. Sources, including previous and current employees, had revealed to the newspaper, under the condition of anonymity, that more than 10% of the work force had been "laid off, left or were "forced out" since the start of the year." Sources also revealed the extent of the institutions use of service as opposed to permanent employment contracts, and that "Management were reluctant to be upfront about the restructure because of cultural differences and the need to "save face."
President Wayne Edwards responded to the article more than a month and half later in an interview with the reporter, stating that privacy concerns had prompted the College's extended silence on the issue.
References
External links
Institute of the Pacific United's website
International Pacific University: International Pacific College's Sister University website
Universities and colleges in New Zealand
Education in Palmerston North |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Story%20from%20Here | The Story from Here is a Canadian radio program on CBC Radio One, which presents a weekly compilation of human interest stories and interviews from the network's various local and regional programs. The program's production location and host formerly rotated every few months to one of the local stations, but as of 2014 the program is permanently produced in Vancouver and hosted by Gloria Macarenko.
References
External links
The Story from Here
CBC Radio One programs
Canadian talk radio programs
2010s Canadian radio programs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khustigiri | Khustigiri (mentioned in census data as Khushtikuri) is a village in Ilambazar community development block in Bolpur subdivision of Birbhum District in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is from Suri.
Overview
Khustigiri is famous for the Dargah Sharif which is believed to be a place of learning, getting peace of mind, and becoming free from diseases and mental distress. This sacred place was established by the great Sufi saint Syed Shah Abdullah Kermani about 500 years ago for providing service to mankind, by the order of his spiritual master, Makhdoom Shah Arzani. The serene environment draws the minds of all irrespective of race, caste, creed and religion. The Sufi saint Abdullah Kermani (in short Kermani Baba) had established khankah, Jama Masjid, madrasah, langor khana, atithi shala, nahabat khana, library, charitable dispensary etc. for the service to mankind. In addition to these, the attractions of this place are the big and beautiful tomb of Kermani with double domes, sacred Gangagore, khas mahal, tombs of 14 Kazis, Hazrat Museum, historical tamarind tree, big dias, new minar, beautiful garden and the mazars of the descendants of Kermani. Several functions and ceremonies are held throughout the year. Many centres under this dargah are being opened in various parts of West Bengal.
History
It is said that a Muslim saint Saiyad Shah Abdullah Kirmani when young left Kirman in Iran his native country and visited a Muslim saint Shah Arzani, who died at Patna during the reign of Shah Jahan in 1630 AD. Shah Arzani directed him to go to Bengal and gave him a toothpick of chambeli wood. He told him to stay at the place where the toothpick became fresh and green. He arrived in Birbum and stayed at Bargaon, where he performed several miracles (karamat) but the toothpick remained unchanged. He then moved on to Khustigiri. There one morning he found the toothpick to have become fresh and green. He planted it and it soon became a large tree. Shah Abdullah is specially renowned for his power over serpents. His dargah is in the hands of his descendants and is visited by numerous pilgrims.
Geography
Location
Khustigiri is located at .
Note: The map alongside presents some of the notable locations in the area. All places marked in the map are linked in the larger full screen map.
Fair
Medini mela is organised around the time of Muharram and Shab e Baraat near the mazar of Shah Abdullah Kermani at Khustigiri. Above all urs is observed every year from 11th Falgun to 15th Falgun (24 to 28 February) every year where millions of people attend.
Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India, Khushtikuri had a total population of 1,994 of which 1,039 (52%) were males and 955 (48%) were females. Population below 6 years was 294. The total number of literates in Khushtikuri was 1,243 (73.12% of the population over 6 years).
Transport
Khustigiri is on the Panrui-Kurmitha Road.
References
https://web.archive.org/web/20120323123527/http://www.khustigiridar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperance%20Branch%20Railway | The Esperance Branch Railway is a railway from Kalgoorlie to the port of Esperance in Western Australia.
It was lobbied for by Esperance residents to be linked into the WAGR railway network to provide land transport to their region.
In the strictest terms it was an extension of the Eastern Goldfields Railway.
, but following the Standard Gauge project in the 1960s it ran from Kalgoorlie to Esperance, as Coolgardie was no longer connected by rail.
Sub-divisions/Sections
Coolgardie – Widgiemooltha – , completed in 1908.
Widgiemooltha – Norseman – , completed in 1909
Norseman – Salmon Gums – , completed in 1927
Salmon Gums – Esperance – , completed in 1925.
Steam era water supplies
During the time the narrow gauge railway was in operation, due to the distances through dry country, dams and tanks were of importance to supply the steam engines in operation. Between Coolgardie and Esperance, water supply sources were from Water Supply Department (Coolgardie), Mines Department Dam (Widgiemooltha),and WAGR dams – WAGR annual reports took into consideration: Catchment area, Capacity, Pumped or gravitation collection of water, estimated loss by evaporation and absorption, and total amount of water stored.
Esperance Flyer
This passenger train started in 1932. It was 5 hours faster than the mixed goods train, though averaging only about . Trains were sped up by a further 1½ hours when diesels took over in 1954. By 1967 a bus had replaced the train.
Gauge and route
It was originally built as narrow gauge, but with gauge standardisation of the main interstate railway in the late 1960s, it was converted to standard gauge to, so as not to become a gauge orphan. The route was also changed somewhat with standardisation, with a junction at Kalgoorlie replacing the junction at Coolgardie.
Selected stopping locations
Grass Patch
Scaddan
Gibson – 1800m crossing loop built 2009.
Esperance
Notes
Further reading
Quinlan, Howard & Newland, John R. (2000) Australian Railway Routes 1854-2000
External links
Old photos – Esperance station, Esperance Flyer
Railway lines in Western Australia
Goldfields-Esperance
Standard gauge railways in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20script | Live script may refer to:
Live Script, a scripting capability of MATLAB
LiveScript, a programming language that transpiles to JavaScript
LiveScript, the beta name of JavaScript (only for a few months in 1995) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20morphology | Synthetic morphology is a sub-discipline of the broader field of synthetic biology.
In standard synthetic biology, artificial gene networks are introduced into cells, inputs (e.g. chemicals, light) are applied to those networks, and the networks perform logical operations on them and output the result of the operation as the activity of an enzyme or as the amount of green fluorescent protein. Using this approach, synthetic biologists have demonstrated the ability of their gene networks to perform Boolean computation, to hold a memory, and to generate pulses and oscillation.
Synthetic morphology extends this idea by adding output modules that alter the shape or social behaviour of cells in response to the state of the artificial gene network. For example, instead of just making a fluorescent protein, a gene network may switch on an adhesion molecule so that cells stick to each other, or activate a motility system so that cells move. It has been argued that the formation of properly-shaped tissues by mammalian cells involves mainly a set of about ten basic cellular events (cell proliferation, cell death, cell adhesion, differential adhesion, cell de-adhesion, cell fusion, cell locomotion, chemotaxis, haptotaxis, cell wedging). Broadly similar lists exist for tissues of plants, fungi etc. In principle, therefore, a fairly small set of output modules might allow biotechnologists to 'program' cells to produce artificially-designed arrangements, shapes and eventually 'tissues'.
The term synthetic morphology was introduced to the peer reviewed scientific literature in 2008 and is now becoming more widely used both in peer-reviewed literature and texts.
References
Morphology (biology)
Synthetic biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%20Development%20Indicators | The World Bank Africa Development Indicators is a compilation of data, assembled by the World Bank, representing over 1,400 indicators of development in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Methodology and scope
The information is updated annually from a variety of sources with datasets being available from 1960 onwards. Topics covered by the data include national accounts, balance of payments, trade, demography, health, education, transport, energy and the environment and the Millennium Development Goals. The World Bank aims at giving a broad picture of development across Africa, including 53 countries in five different country-groups.
While most of the data is provided by the World Bank, a lot of it comes from different sources which is then put together under the World Bank Africa Development Indicators. With the contribution of organisation such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, the International Road Federation and the International Telecommunication Union, the World Resources Institute, the International Labour Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, etc. it is possible to provide information on this extremely high level of detail which is one of the key features of the data.
Accessing the data
The Economic and Social Data Service International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered which can be done here. Alternatively, the data is available to download on the World Bank Africa Development Indicators website, which requires a subscription.
See also
ESDS International
References
External links
World Bank, The Little Data Book on Africa, retrieved September 15, 2009
World Bank, ADI 2008/2009 “Youth and Employment in Africa – The Potential, the Problem, the Promise", retrieved September 15, 2009
World Bank
Economic indicators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20Education%20Research%20Data%20Collection | The Higher Education Research Data Collection (HERDC) is the annual collection of research income data from Australian universities. It is currently collected by the Department of Education, Skills and Employment. HERDC data is used in the calculation of research block grants.
It was originally called the Higher Education Financial and Research Publications Data Collection.
Higher Education Funding Act 1988 section 18 outlined the data that must be reported by institutions.
Purpose
HERDC data is used to allocate funding under the following programs:
Research Support Program (RTP)
Research Training Program (RTP)
The HERDC Specifications control the collection of higher education research data and are designed to ensure the Australian Government's research block grants are allocated in a fair and transparent way and to support the policy intent of the funding. The HERDC Specifications are updated annually in consultation with universities and other relevant stakeholders.
Categories
HERDC data is collected where it fits within the definitions provided for four categories:
Australian Competitive Grants
Other Public Sector Research Income
Industry and Other Research Income
Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) Research Income
See also
Excellence in Research for Australia
References
External links
2004 collection specifications
Herdc The Metadata Issues, Metadata Advisory Committee for Australian Repositories
Recommendations On Herdc, Metadata Advisory Committee for Australian Repositories
Universities in Australia
Research in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan%20Azlan%20Shah%20Bridge | The Sultan Azlan Shah Bridge or Jambatan Sultan Azlan Shah is the longest river-crossing bridge in the North–South Expressway network. The bridge crosses Perak River in Perak, Malaysia, spanning 360 metres. It was officially opened on 17 September 1987 by the late Almarhum Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak in conjunction with the opening of the Ipoh North–Changkat Jering sections of the North–South Expressway Northern Route. Near the bridges is the Sungai Perak rest and service area.
Bridges completed in 1987
Bridges in Perak |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OARnet | The Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) is a state-funded IT organization that provides member organizations with intrastate networking, virtualization and cloud computing solutions, advanced videoconferencing, connections to regional and international research networks and the commodity Internet, colocation services and emergency web-hosting.
The OARnet network (known for a time as Third Frontier Network and later, OSCnet) is a dedicated, statewide, high-speed fiber-optic network that serves Ohio K-12 schools, college and university campuses, academic medical centers, public broadcasting stations and state and local/state government. OARnet is considered one of the most advanced statewide telecommunications networks dedicated to research, education and economic competitiveness in the nation.
OARnet is connected in Cleveland and Cincinnati to Internet2, the United States' most advanced nationwide research and education network. OARnet also maintains direct connections to Michigan's Merit network and OmniPoP in Chicago.
OARnet offices are located on the West Campus of Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, United States.
OARnet additionally serves as the delegated registrar for many third-level domains (both generic and locality-based) under .oh.us and some under .in.us and .ky.us.
History
A member-organization of the Ohio Technology Consortium, the technology and information division of the Ohio Board of Regents (now the Ohio Department of Higher Education), OARnet was created by the Ohio General Assembly in 1987 to provide Ohio researchers with network connectivity to the resources of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). It was recognized at the time that the network would serve a much broader audience, so when a network name was selected in early 1988, OARnet was chosen to emphasize the many uses of the network.
The initial plan (1987) was to make use of a number of existing Bitnet and CCnet (regional DECnet network) connections to get started. Three network (compatible) protocols were used, NJE, DECnet, and TCP/IP. The first OARnet-funded line was installed between Case Western Reserve University and John Carroll University in June 1987. Many subsequent lines at 9.6 kbit/s, 56 kbit/s, and T1 (1.544 Mbit/s) were installed with the aid of an Ohio Department of Administrative Services contract with Litel Corp. Internet (then NSFNET) connections were obtained in the spring of 1988. The non-TCP/IP protocols were soon phased out, and a process of upgrading connections took place regularly.
In 1991, it was decided that OARnet would accept commercial business, at appropriate rates, for Internet connection services. Thus OARnet became one of the first Internet service providers (ISPs) in Ohio. After commercial ISPs entered the business extensively, OARnet stopped seeking new commercial accounts.
A very large increase in backbone capacity occurred (planning 2000-02, installation 2003-04) when it became possible to lease optical fiber li |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20in%20Tirunelveli | Tirunelveli City being the district headquarters of Tirunelveli District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu has a very extensive transport network. Tirunelveli district is a vital tourist destination with lot of religious places, monuments and hill stations. Tirunelveli is also a major junction for transportation around Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Kanyakumari Districts.
Road
Tirunelveli city is well-connected by roads. It is located on NH 44, south of Madurai and north of Kanyakumari. NH 138, an extension of NH 44, connects Tirunelveli with Thoothukudi. The road infrastructure is being expanded with an extensive 4 carriageway expansion and the NH 138 stretch is almost in its final stage. Tirunelveli is accessible by road from Madurai (3 hours) and Nagercoil (1.5 hours).
Tirunelveli is also connected by major highways to Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Tiruchendur, Rajapalayam, Srivilliputtur, Sankarankovil, Ambasamudram, Kanyakumari, Thoothukudi, Madurai, Nazareth, Tenkasi, Sengottai, Virudhunagar, Kovilpatti, Aruppukottai, Nagercoil, Marthandam, etc. A 2-tier overbridge at Tirunelveli Junction known as Thiruvalluvar bridge is the first of its kind in India. This bridge was constructed to avoid the railway line crossing and was opened for traffic in 1972. This bridge consists of 25 spans of which 13 are of bow string arch, each with a width of and 12 are single tier R.C.C girder each having a width of . Autorickshaws and call taxis are also important means of transport.
Bus Stations
There are 4 bus stands in Tirunelveli city, the Bharat Ratna Dr. MGR Bus Stand, the Junction Bus Stand, the Palayamkottai Bus Stand, and the Omni Bus Stand. The Main bus station was relocated from Tirunelveli Junction to Veinthankulam near Perumalpuram in 2003. The main bus stand has been developed under the Smart City Projects at a total cost of Rs. 50.72 crores (500.72 million). Renamed as the Bharat Ratna Dr. MGR Bus Stand, it was inaugurated by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on 8th December 2021 through video conferencing. It is the 3rd largest bus terminal in Tamil Nadu after Koyambedu in Chennai and Madurai Mattuthavani. The Junction Periyar Old Bus Stand serves as the main Intra-city Bus Terminal. Some Omni buses due to traffic in and around the bus stand, operate on the North and South Bypass roads. Palayankottai Bus Stand is also an important Intra-city bus terminal.
A large network of interstate and intrastate buses ply to various destinations. There is a good co-existence of both private and public transport networks in the city round the clock. The Tirunelveli Division of the TNSTC (Tamil Nadu State Transport Corporation) serves the district's road transport needs with a string of local and Mofussil services. Tamil Nadu's State Express Bus Corporation (SETC) operates express services to Chennai, Bengaluru, Salem, Coimbatore, Tirupur, Nagapattinam, Velankanni, Erode, Kumbakonam, Mayiladuthurai, Chidambaram, Cuddalore, Puducherry, Viluppuram, Tir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SocioBranding | SocioBranding is an approach to brand management that integrates traditional advertising creative strategy and tactics with social networking websites, with the aim of being able to target potential customers more accurately.
References
Further reading
Li, Charlene, Bernoff, Josh (2008). Groundswell, Winning in a world transformed by social technologies. Boston: Harvard Business
Scoble, Robert, Israel, Shel (2006). Naked Conversations: How Blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers. New York: Wiley & Sons
"Marketers go 2-way with social networking". Chicago Tribune. February 3, 2009.
Brogan, Chris, Smith, Julian (2009). Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust. New York: Wiley & Sons
Winberg, Tamar, (2009). The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web. Sebastopol, Ca. O’Reilly
Qualman, Erik, (2009). Socialnomics. New York, Wiley & Sons.
Using Social Media as a Business Process”, Jim Stiles
HOW TO: Manage Social Media Goals and Expectations, Ben Parr
Advertising
Brand management |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Policy%20Research%20Networks | Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN) was a non-profit, non-partisan socio-economic think tank based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, with a focus on citizen engagement and policy research and analysis.
History
Founded in 1994, CPRN produced several hundred research documents on a wide variety of public policy issues, including citizenship; diversity and Canadian values; productivity and skills; health and an aging population; and the environment. CPRN also hosted the site JobQuality.ca which provided resources on the quality of jobs in Canada. CPRN produced more than 700 publications which touched on almost all the major socio-economic challenges facing Canada.
According to a federal government external evaluation from 2005, CPRN was "somewhat unique among [Canadian] think tanks" having developed expertise in health, work and social policy "with a special niche in the area of systematic public engagement". In Think Tanks Across Nations, the authors flag CPRN as having had an important interdisciplinary approach to policy research and state that this is "something which...few think tanks ever accomplish." Research from the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Regina states that CPRN had "a major influence on Canadian social policy decision-makers" and was "responsive to the needs of decision-makers in producing policies capable of implementation within short time frames." They further note that CPRN was once Canada's most influential social policy think tank based on website visibility and influence.
In 2003, CPRN won Carleton University's Kroeger College Award in Public Discourse, in recognition of "excellence in contributing to the quality of public debate in Canada." Dr. Sharon Manson Singer was the most recent President of Canadian Policy Research Networks. The Founder and Past-President of CPRN was Judith Maxwell, who was formerly the Chair of the Economic Council of Canada.
On October 27, 2009 it was announced that CPRN would close its doors on December 23, 2009 after 15 years of public service, due to lack of government, private and other public funding resources.
On December 23, 2009, CPRN announced that Carleton University will now house the complete body of CPRN reports and publications in hard copy and all archival materials. The documents will be available for use to the general public, free of charge, at the university library. Carleton University also agreed to host and maintain the CPRN website for seven years after the closure date (to 2017) which will permit electronic access to 15-years of CPRN downloadable reports, free of charge. According to Roseann O'Reilly Runte, President of Carleton University,"Carleton has a long tradition as a leader in groundbreaking public policy research. Serving as the repository of the CPRN archive will guarantee that our students, researchers and the public continue to have access to the significant body of work undertaken by CPRN over the past 15 years."
Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenPipeline | openPipeline is an open-source plug-in for Autodesk Maya that is designed to assist in a Production Pipeline structure and Computer animation.
Development
Created in Maya Embedded Language, openPipeline was initiated at Eyebeam Atelier and further developed at Pratt Institute in the Digital Arts Lab. The initial release date was December 28, 2006.
Contributors
Rob O'Neill (Creator)
Paris Mavroidis
Meng-Han Ho
References
Computer Graphics World (2009) "Building the Perfect Production Pipeline"
ACM Siggraph Educator's Program (2007) "openPipeline: teaching and implementing animation production pipelines in an academic setting"
External links
openPipeline page at CreativeCrash.com
openPipeline project page on SourceForge.Net
openPipeline at KickstandLabs.com
Graphics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Wolff%20%28announcer%29 | Bill Wolff (June 2, 1927 – February 27, 2014) was a staff announcer for WNBC and the NBC network who worked for over six decades as a radio and television announcer. He is best known for announcing the soap opera Another World from 1964 until 1987.
Early career
Wolff began his career in American broadcasting at the age of 15 for WKRC in Cincinnati, a CBS affiliate, in 1942.
Wolff began his television broadcasting career at the age of 26, by this time he was already a seasoned announcer. Following his Navy service in World War Two, Wolff began free lance television work with WLW-T in Cincinnati, WLW-D in Dayton and WLW-C in Columbus. At WLW-T he worked on a television show called "Live It Again", which he deemed his most difficult announcing assignment, as it involved his "memorizing over 15 minutes of Dates, Names and Places" for each half-hour show. Also featured on the show were the McGuire Sisters on the Arthur Godfrey Programs.
Wolff's deep, authoritative voice made him a natural as a newscaster with Paramount-Movietone News on WCPO-TV Cincinnati. In 1950, Wolff was offered a position at WHFC station in Chicago, where he handled a variety of announcing and broadcasting assignments. Wolff was added to the WBBM staff in April 1953 as a summer relief, but proved to be too good to lose and quickly became a full-time staff announcer.
At WBBM, Wolff hosted the Saturday afternoon show Music, Inc. and became known for his engaging on-the-air personality and choices in poplar music. This made his radio show an unusually smooth and sophisticated music program. Wolff also had a WBBM newscast every Sunday night and a Saturday evening sports review show. He also hosted the WBBM "Music for You", the CBS Network "Chicagoans" and the musical broadcasts from Melody Mill, Argon and Truanon, renowned ballroom venues in Chicago.
In 1960, Bill Wolff moved to New York City and began his career with National Broadcasting Company (NBC).
References
External links
Video of Bill Wolff as the announcer for the Peter Lemongello Love '76 television advertising campaign TV blitz in the New York market starting January 1, 1976
Video clip from June 23, 1986, of pre-sign-off WNBC-TV news update anchored by Wolff
NBC network announcers
Radio and television announcers
1927 births
2014 deaths
People from Cincinnati
United States Navy personnel of World War II
Another World (TV series) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous%20perturbation%20stochastic%20approximation | Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) is an algorithmic method for optimizing systems with multiple unknown parameters. It is a type of stochastic approximation algorithm. As an optimization method, it is appropriately suited to large-scale population models, adaptive modeling, simulation optimization, and atmospheric modeling. Many examples are presented at the SPSA website http://www.jhuapl.edu/SPSA. A comprehensive book on the subject is Bhatnagar et al. (2013). An early paper on the subject is Spall (1987) and the foundational paper providing the key theory and justification is Spall (1992).
SPSA is a descent method capable of finding global minima, sharing this property with other methods as simulated annealing. Its main feature is the gradient approximation that requires only two measurements of the objective function, regardless of the dimension of the optimization problem. Recall that we want to find the optimal control with loss
function :
Both Finite Differences Stochastic Approximation (FDSA)
and SPSA use the same iterative process:
where
represents the iterate, is the estimate of the gradient of the objective function evaluated at , and is a positive number sequence converging to 0. If is a p-dimensional vector, the component of the symmetric finite difference gradient estimator is:
FD:
1 ≤i ≤p, where is the unit vector with a 1 in the
place, and is a small positive number that decreases with n. With this method, 2p evaluations of J for each are needed. When p is large, this estimator loses efficiency.
Let now be a random perturbation vector. The component of the stochastic perturbation gradient estimator is:
SP:
Remark that FD perturbs only one direction at a time, while the SP estimator disturbs all directions at the same time (the numerator is identical in all p components). The number of loss function measurements needed in the SPSA method for each is always 2, independent of the dimension p. Thus, SPSA uses p times fewer function evaluations than FDSA, which makes it a lot more efficient.
Simple experiments with p=2 showed that SPSA converges in the same number of iterations as FDSA. The latter follows approximately the steepest descent direction, behaving like the gradient method. On the other hand, SPSA, with the random search direction, does not follow exactly the gradient path. In average though, it tracks it nearly because the gradient approximation is an almost unbiased
estimator of the gradient, as shown in the following lemma.
Convergence lemma
Denote by
the bias in the estimator . Assume that are all mutually independent with zero-mean, bounded second
moments, and uniformly bounded. Then →0 w.p. 1.
Sketch of the proof
The main idea is to use conditioning on to express and then to use a second order Taylor expansion of and . After algebraic manipulations using the zero mean and the independence of , we get
The result follows from the hypothesis that →0.
Next we |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20call%20duration | The average call duration (ACD) is a measurement in telecommunications that reflects an average length of telephone calls transmitted on telecommunication networks.
The measurement is typically based on the reporting by telecommunication equipment via call detail records. Samples are collected to determine traffic demand and forecast call volumes, serving also as a tool for infrastructure monitoring of switches and cables. Depending on the type of call being made, ACD can be used as a proxy measure of call quality.
See also
Answer-Seizure Ratio (ASR)
Erlang (unit)
Mean opinion score (MOS)
Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ)
Telecommunications economics
Telephony |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilup%20Gabadamudalige | Kala Suri Diliup Gabadamudalige is a Sri Lankan pianist, keyboardist, composer, lyricist and producer. He is the pioneer in Computer/MIDI Music in Sri Lanka.
Educated at Royal College, Colombo, where he was a pioneer member of the Royal College Band. A prize winner in Piano from the Trinity College of Music, he was the leader of the Junior Symphony Orchestra of Sri Lanka. However in 1979 he joined Air Lanka as an aircraft technician and underwent training at the Air Force Academy, China Bay, Trincomalee and went on to work as an Aircraft Technician at the Colombo Airport in Katunayake until he left the field in 1985 to take up full-time music.
He was the Music Director of Young Asia Television (YA TV) from its inception till December 2003 and pioneered the Institute of Computer Music Technology in 2002. For his contribution in the field of music, he was awarded the title Kala Suri by the government of Sri Lanka. Diliup was also awarded the first Lylie Godrich Memorial Award for Contributions to the Western Music Industry of Sri Lanka by the Govt. in 2011.
External links
Diliup's Homepage
Untold story of Ravana
Crusader for original compositions
Diliup's Software
Spreading the word of the Buddha
Living people
Sinhalese musicians
Sri Lankan singer-songwriters
Sri Lankan male singer-songwriters
Alumni of Royal College, Colombo
Sri Lankan composers
Kala Suri
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiZmom | KiZmom was a children's and family network in South Korea owned by SBS Medianet, a division of SBS Media Holdings.
From 2003 until 2022, the network space was the home to the domestic version of the American channel Nickelodeon before it was transferred to CJ ENM following the deal with Paramount Networks EMEAA.
History
Background of Nickelodeon
Programming on domestic broadcast networks
In South Korea, some of original series from Nickelodeon, like Rugrats, Rocket Power, The Wild Thornberrys, SpongeBob SquarePants and Dora the Explorer, were shown on what is now EBS1 (operated by public-service broadcaster EBS). Jimmy Neutron was broadcast on MBC. A localisation of the Nick Jr. Channel's Blue's Clues was shown on KBS2 (of public-sector broadcaster KBS). The Korean version of those series were produced by (or for) the broadcasters themselves, though not specifically branded as block programming under the Nickelodeon name.
Nickelodeon block on JEI TV
JEI TV (a specialty TV channel owned by JEI Corporation), after making a deal with Viacom, ran a Nickelodeon programming block for years. It started with TV programmes that were not shown on the generalist terrestrial channels. But later, they aired their own Korean dub of what were shown on EBS. Those alternative dubs were produced by Arirang TV Media (a subsidiary of Arirang TV).
SkyLife carries Nickelodeon Southeast Asia
DTH satellite television provider SkyLife carried the Southeast Asian version of Nickelodeon from 2003 to 2006. A negotiation between SkyLife and On-Media to extend carriage deal was failed, so SkyLife choose Nickelodeon Southeast Asia to replace Tooniverse (then owned by On-Media) on the platform. Test transmission began in January that year, before the formal launch in March. In 2005, as SkyLife and Sony Pictures Television International reached a deal to launch a South Korean version of Animax, it was announced that Nickelodeon Southeast Asia would be removed from the platform in 2006. SkyLife did not carry the new South Korean version of Nickelodeon until 2014.
Launch and afterwards
Test broadcasts of a dedicated South Korean version of Nickelodeon began on August 1, 2005, before the formal launch in late 2005. This was a result of a deal between On-Media (then owned by Orion Group) and MTV Networks Asia. The channel was initially branded as Nick, and was exclusively available on cable TV providers. A Nickelodeon-branded programming block was also launched on On-Media's Tooniverse around that time.
In November 2008, the channel became a subsidiary of C&M Communication, along with MTV, when On-Media sold a percentage of its shares in On Music Network (which later became MTV Networks Korea). But a Nickelodeon block on Tooniverse continued to go. The channel was officially renamed Nickelodeon in 2010, using the new logo that unveiled months ago in the USA.
In September 2011, SBS, a commercial broadcaster, became the official South Korean partner of Viacom (now re-merged w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumitomo%20Precision%20Products | Sumitomo Precision Products Co., Ltd. is an integrated manufacturer of aerospace equipment, heat exchangers, hydraulic controls, wireless sensor networks, sensors, micro-electronics technology, and environmental systems. The aerospace division supplies its products to aerospace industries worldwide, including Boeing, Airbus, Bombardier, and Embraer.
History
Formerly a division of Sumitomo Metal Industries, the aerospace business was spun off as Sumitomo Precision Products in 1961.
Products & Services
Landing gear
Aircraft propellers
Jet-engine coolers
Heat exchangers (for LNG, etc.)
Hydraulic actuators
Microelectromechanical systems and semiconductor production equipment
Wireless Sensor Networks
Foundry
MEMS sensors
Ozonizers
External links
Official Site
Silicon Sensing Systems
SPP Technologies Co., Ltd.
SPP Canada Aircraft, Inc.(SPPCA)
Sumitomo Precision USA, Inc
Companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the Osaka Exchange
Manufacturing companies of Japan
Aircraft component manufacturers
Technology companies established in 1961
Sumitomo Group
Companies based in Osaka Prefecture
Japanese companies established in 1961
Aerospace companies of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20Channel%20%28Flemish%20TV%20channel%29 | Discovery Channel (often referred to as simply Discovery) is a television channel which broadcasts to the Flemish market.
The channel launched on the analogue network of the major Flemish cable company Telenet on October 1, 2009. Prior to that the Dutch version of Discovery had been available digitally in the area. The launch increased Discovery's reach in the Flemish region to 2.4 million households.
The launch of Discovery Channel on Telenet coincided with a major shift in the Telenet analogue offer, which also saw the launch of EXQI Plus and vtmKzoom.
Advertising sales for the channel was initially handled by the established Belgian channel Vitaya. At launch, hope was expressed that the channel would eventually carry original Flemish content. In 2010, Vitaya was bought by Vlaamse Media Maatschappij, owners of the leading TV channel in Flanders. As a result, Discovery Channel Vlaanderen would handle its own ad sale from January 2011. The ad sales were later taken over by SBS Sales Belgium.
Before the launch of Discovery Channel Vlaanderen, Discovery Channel Nederland was available for digital subscribers. A Flemish version of TLC, TLC Vlaanderen, was launched in 2015.
References
Television channels in Flanders
Television channels in Belgium
Flanders
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buses%20in%20Lyon | The Lyon surface bus network is operated by Keolis Lyon on behalf of SYTRAL for TCL. It includes over 140 lines of buses and trolleybuses spread out through Lyon and the greater Grand Lyon area. Four nocturnal lines (Pleine Lune) operate from 1:00 am to 4:00 am from Thursday to Saturday during university periods.
Only urban and departmental lines owned by TCL are listed here.
Most vehicles belong to Irisbus brand (e.g. Renault Véhicules Industriels).
Since January 2007, all lines of the surface network (except C1, C2 and C3 lines) have been used by "MPA" (Montée Porte Avant). The return to this mode of operation took place gradually in the second half of 2006.
On 1 January 2007, the former network Gibus of Givors was integrated into the TCL network as Line 80, 81, 82 and R3.
External links
Official site of TCL
Lyon en Lignes
Tecelyon – the buses of Lyon
Transport in Lyon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%20Europe | Hughes Europe is an operating and sales organisation for Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES) with its facilities in Germany, Great Britain and Italy.
These facilities are mainly used to provide Internet access to organisations and other institutions via satellites and traditional terrestrial connections.
Hughes Europe develops, installs, manages and maintains company communications networks. It provides fast broadband internet access and Managed Network Solutions for companies of all sizes across a broad range of industries, including the automobile, retail, energy (oil and gas), financial services, industrial, information technology, telecommunications and lottery sectors.
Broadband services and solutions
Under the HughesNet name brand, Hughes Europe offers Managed Network Services and Managed Digital Media Solutions. These include:
Terrestrial and satellite-based broadband networks
Hybrid broadband networks
Backup solutions
Broadband internet access
Digital signage
Business IPTV (company communications and interactive employee training)
IP Multicast services for data transmission via satellite
Hughes Europe broadband satellite products are based on global standards approved by the TIA, ETSI and ITU standards organisations, including IPoS/DVB-2, RSM-A and GMR-1
History
Hughes Europe is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS) .
The firm begun as a 50/50 joint venture between Hughes and Olivetti in 1996 and was referred to as Hughes-Olivetti Telecom. In 1998, Hughes purchased all of Olivetti’s shares and renamed it HOT Telecommunications, which was subsequently rolled into Hughes Europe as a single operating entity in 2003 .
HughesNet Broadband Solutions and Services
HughesNet products and services are sold throughout Europe both directly and via a network of value added resellers.
Management
Christopher Britton – Managing Director, Hughes Europe
See also
Hughes Network Systems
HughesNet
SPACEWAY
Notes
External links/References
Comsys VSAT report, 10th edition 2007
http://www.hugheseurope.com (Hughes Europe)
Howard Hughes
Telecommunications companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armando%20Stettner | Armando P. Stettner is a computer engineer and architect who is most widely known for Unix development and for spearheading the native VAX version of UNIX, Ultrix, during his tenure at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
Biography
Stettner started working with UNIX while at Bell Labs Murray Hill and later moved to DEC where he worked for Bill Munson and with Fred Canter and Jerry Brenner to start DEC's UNIX Engineering Group. While his focus was kernel development, he also designed and produced the original UNIX "Live Free or Die" license plate and the original Ultrix poster based on Phil Foglio's UNIX T-shirt as designed by Mike O'Brien. Originally a marketing promotion, Stettner obtained the actual vanity plate from the state of New Hampshire in 1982 after Bill Shannon left to join Sun Microsystems.
With Bill Shannon, Stettner was responsible for establishing near-realtime UUCP-based connections between University of California, Berkeley and Duke University through their system known as decvax. Stettner later established near-realtime netnews and email feeds news feeds to Europe, Japan and Australia. At a conference, he relayed the conversation during a budget review with financial department staff of the nearly $250,000 in phone bills attributed to his department's timesharing computer (known as decvax) explaining that these were computers talking. That seemed to satisfy the finance people.
Stettner ported UNIX to DEC's symmetric multiprocessing VAX-11/782 hardware system, though based upon Purdue University's asymmetric kernel. The kernel supported symmetric multiprocessing while not being fully multithreaded and based upon pre-Ultrix work by Stettner and earlier work by George H. Goble at Purdue University. There was liberal use of locking and some tasks could only be done by a particular CPUs (e.g. the processing of interrupts). This was not uncommon in other SMP implementations of that time (e.g. SunOS).
Stettner proposed and led DEC's VAX UNIX development resulting in Ultrix-32 and was its architect and engineering manager, overseeing the project through its beta trials.
Stettner then went to Palo Alto to start DEC's Palo Alto, CA-based workstation engineering group under Steve Bourne. There, he suggested the creation of an early collaborative organization for developing open Unix standards as a response to collaboration between AT&T and Sun Microsystems. That organization became the Open Software Foundation (OSF).
Shortly thereafter, to more effectively compete with Sun Microsystems, Stettner was part of a team of five DEC employees (with James Billmaier, Joe DiNucci, Mario Paglario, and Skip Garvin) who proposed a UNIX-only workstation product line based upon the MIPS architecture. He was one of the original members of the product design team for the MIPS R2000-based RISC-based DECstation 3100 core design team. Armando later designed a real-time Shuttle tracking system using down-linked telemetry for Kennedy Space Center a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investigation%20Discovery%20%28European%20TV%20channel%29 | Investigation Discovery (abbreviated as ID) is a pay television channel available in several European nations. It competes in the same genre as Crime & Investigation Network which is also available in several European nations. The ID channel features crime programming, including "missing persons and murder inquiries, cold cases and historical crime," as well as documentaries on forensic investigations. One such program is Deadly Women, an investigative series in which former FBI agent and profiler Candice DeLong looks at female killers throughout history.
Its programming is mainly in English and locally subtitled or dubbed. In some countries, the advertisement and the announcements between programs are localized.
History
Investigation Discovery became available on cable television in the United States in January 2008. In Europe, the channel was first made available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
Central and Eastern Europe
The channel launched in Poland, Romania, Hungary and Greece in April 2009, followed by Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Montenegro in May 2009. On 28 June 2009 the channel replaced nTalk on the Polish platform N. On 15 July it replaced TVN Lingua on Cyfra+. In September 2009, it was announced that the channel would be added to RCS/RDS's offerings. The Baltic states followed in August 2009, when it launched on the Latvian Lattelecom platform.
Africa
Since 2011, Investigation Discovery Africa launched on DStv channel 171, in October 2014, it was announced that Investigation Discovery will broadcast in HD.
In 2014, Investigation Discovery launched on Azam TV, StarTimes, Kwese TV and GOtv (since 2019).
France
Since 15 December 2015, the channel is available exclusively to SFR TV subscribers, as a part of a deal between SFR and Discovery.
Netherlands and Flanders
Investigation Discovery replaced Discovery Travel & Living in the Netherlands and Flanders on 4 July 2011. An HD-simulcast started through Ziggo in the Netherlands on 8 February 2017.
Portugal
Investigation Discovery launched in Portugal on 2 October 2018 exclusively on NOS. The Portuguese feed has only local subtitles.
Sweden
Investigation Discovery had been broadcasting to Sweden since 2010, but was initially not widely available through major distributors. On 1 October 2014, it was added to the leading cable network Com Hem. It was added by satellite operator Canal Digital on 15 December. In January 2015, Discovery bought the terrestrial broadcasting license held by multicultural channel Kanal Global. That channel stopped broadcasting on 15 February 2015 and Investigation Discovery took over the license after that. The transaction was accepted by the Swedish Broadcasting Authority and the license is valid until 2020.
On 1 June 2015 a localized version launched in Sweden with content adapted for the Swedish market. The first original Swedish programme to air on the channel was Brottscentralen, a live crime show produced by Aftonbladet. Brottscentralen p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denominator%20data | In epidemiology, data or facts about a population is called denominator data. Denominator data are independent of any specific disease or condition. This name is given because in mathematical models of disease, disease-specific data such as the incidence of disease in a population, the susceptibility of the population to a specific condition, the disease resistance, etc. disease-specific variables are expressed as their proportion of some attribute of the general population, and hence appear as the numerator of the fraction or percentage being calculated, general data about the population typically appearing in the denominator; hence the term "denominator data."
In an epidemiological compartment model, for example, variables are often scaled to total population. The susceptible fraction of a population is obtained by taking the ratio of the number of people susceptible to the total population. Susceptibility to a disease may depend on other factors such as age or sex. Data about a population including age distribution, male/female ratios, and other demographic factors may be relevant as denominator data. Denominator data is not only limited to data describing human populations but also includes information about wild and domestic animal populations.
See also
Incidence
Cumulative incidence
Prevalence
Attributable risk
References
Epidemiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruhiko%20Shono | is a Japanese computer graphics artist for films as well as a video game director. He has served as director for numerous computer games and has provided CG work for motion pictures with , where he serves as corporate representative. He is best known to Western audiences for his steampunk-inspired visual novel, Gadget, and for his work on the 2004 film, Casshern.
Shono's creative career began in 1985 with the formation of Radical TV. Shono was hired as a member of the visual performance unit, and here he gained an interest in the visual aspects of the film industry. With evidence of visual artistry talent already apparent, Shono was entrusted with the responsibility to act as lead visual display artist in Radical TV'''s audio-visual display showcase at Expo '85 entitled TV War. The display would be recognized as one of the most significant affirmations of the Japanese IDM subculture.
Shono's first solo-work came in the form of Alice (1991), a highly stylistic visual novel based on the Alice in Wonderland stories. This game won Shono the Multimedia Grand Prix MITI Minister's Prize. In 1992 Shono would again win the MITI Prize for his game L-Zone, which would remain on Japan's list of best-selling CD-ROMs for several years. In 1993, Shono was again awarded the MITI Prize as well as the Multimedia Association Chairman's Prize for his game, Gadget.
For his striking visual style and his mastery of lavish computer graphics at the dawn of the point-and-click adventure game genre, Newsweek named him one of the "most influential people to watch in Cyberspace," and coined the term "cybergames" to describe his highly-realistic visual games whose visual style have been compared to those of Cyan's 1993 best-seller, Myst.
Film
1992 - Virtual Drug Trance (director)
1992 - Virtual Drug Zone (director)
1995 - Gadget Trips/Mindscapes - A kaleidoscopic 79-minute retelling of the 1993 Gadget story intended to explain the development of the Sensorama weapon and the war that serves as backdrop to the game. (director)
1998 - Gadget Trips/Mindscapes - A remake of the earlier Mindscapes employing enhanced graphics. (director)
2001 - Virtual Drug VRD 2001 (voice actor)
2002 - Tokyo Noise (interview)
2004 - Casshern (Conceptual design / CG Supervisor)
2006 - (Mechanical designer)
2011 - Eiga Kaibutsukun (CG Modeling director)
2016 - (CG director)
2016 - Kōkaku Kidōtai - Shin Gekijōban: Virtual Reality Diver (Digital art)
Television
1985 - Radical TV (Video performance unit)
1989 - (Opening CGI)
Games
1991 - Alice (PC) (director)
1992 - L-Zone (PC) (director)
1993 - Gadget (PC) (director)
1997 - GADGET Past as Future (director) - An enhanced remake of the 1993 Gadget (PC) (director)
1997 - Preview & Reprise Haruhiko Shono (PC) - Including preview version of the unreleased Underworld 2002 - (PS2, PSP) (CG Supervisor) - Sequel to Chunsoft's 1994 Kamaitachi no Yoru 2007 - Imabikisō (PS3, Wii) (art director, CG work)
Books
1994 - - A detailed look |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterDigital | InterDigital is a technology research and development company that provides wireless and video technologies for mobile devices, networks, and services worldwide. Founded in 1972, InterDigital is listed on NASDAQ and is included in the S&P SmallCap 600.
InterDigital had 2020 revenue of $359 million and a portfolio of about 32,000 U.S. and foreign issued patents and patent applications.
Corporate history
Key Dates:
1972: Company is incorporated as International Mobile Machines Corporation.
1981: Company goes public.
1992: Name is changed to InterDigital Communications Corp.
1998: Alliance with Nokia is established.
2003: Patent infringement suit is settled with Ericsson.
2012: Moved corporate headquarters from King of Prussia, Pennsylvania to Wilmington, Delaware.
2014: Samsung and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.
2016: InterDigital signs license agreements with Apple and Huawei.
2016: InterDigital acquires sensor processing technology pioneer Hillcrest Labs.
2017: LG and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.
2018: InterDigital acquires patent licensing business of Technicolor.
2019: Technicolor announces it has received a binding offer for its Research & Innovation Activity from InterDigital.
2021: Xiaomi and InterDigital sign a patent license agreement.
Research areas
The company is primarily focused on advanced wireless (5G), video, and Internet of Things (IoT) research:
Xhaul: InterDigital is part of a consortium of companies and academics working together to develop an adaptive, sharable, cost-efficient solution integrating the fronthaul and backhaul segments of the future 5G transport network.
Horizon 2020 POINT: POINT (iP Over IcN– the betTer IP) aims to develop technology, innovations and business value chains for commercially viable IP-over-ICN deployment. The POINT project consists of nine partners (both academic and industrial) from five EU countries.
RIFE: Project RIFE uses advanced networking technology to address the challenge of providing affordable internet access by increasing the efficiency of the underlying transport networks and the involved architectures and protocols. The project consortium includes 7 partners that include Martel Consulting, Aalto University, University of Cambridge, Thales, Avanti, guifi.net and InterDigital Europe.
5G Socioeconomic Study: InterDigital along with Tech4i2, Trinity College Dublin and Real Wireless has been commissioned to develop a socio-economic data study launched by the European Commission.
oneM2M: In 2015, InterDigital Labs participated in joint testing to verify multi-vendor interoperability of the oneM2M standard with other participants that include Cisco, HERIT, Huawei, KETI, Ricoh and Qualcomm.
FLAME: Flame is a 5G testbed for urban scale trials of open media Internet services in European cities, including Bristol, UK and Barcelona, Spain. The FLAME project is led by a consortium of twelve partners including University of Southampton, InterDigita |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan%20%28disambiguation%29 | Vulkan is a cross-platform 3D graphics and computing API.
Vulkan may also refer to:
Military and shipbuilding
Bremer Vulkan, a former shipbuilding company on the river Weser, Bremen-Vegesack, Germany
P-1000 Vulkan, an anti-ship missile
R-25 Vulkan, a Yugoslav surface-to-air missile project
SMS Vulcano, 1843 Austro-Hungarian Navy paddle steamer renamed Vulkan
SMS Vulkan, a German U-boat salvage tug
Vulkan-Hercules, a variant of the Russian Energia launch vehicle
Vulkan files, 2021 leak of emails, and other documents, implicating the Russian company NTC Vulkan in acts of cybercrime
Other uses
Vulkán, the Hungarian name for the city of Vulcan, Hunedoara, Romania
FK Vulkan, a Macedonian football club
See also
Vulcan (disambiguation)
Volcan (disambiguation)
Volcano, a rupture on the crust of a planetary-mass object |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tide-predicting%20machine | A tide-predicting machine was a special-purpose mechanical analog computer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea tides and the irregular variations in their heights – which change in mixtures of rhythms, that never (in the aggregate) repeat themselves exactly. Its purpose was to shorten the laborious and error-prone computations of tide-prediction. Such machines usually provided predictions valid from hour to hour and day to day for a year or more ahead.
The first tide-predicting machine, designed and built in 1872–73, and followed by two larger machines on similar principles in 1876 and 1879, was conceived by Sir William Thomson. Thomson had introduced the method of harmonic analysis of tidal patterns in the 1860s and the first machine was designed by Thomson with the collaboration of Edward Roberts (assistant at the UK HM Nautical Almanac Office), and of Alexander Légé, who constructed it.
In the US, another tide-predicting machine on a different pattern was designed by William Ferrel and built in 1881–2. Developments and improvements continued in the UK, US and Germany through the first half of the 20th century. The machines became widely used for constructing official tidal predictions for general marine navigation. They came to be regarded as of military strategic importance during World War I, and again during the Second World War, when the US No.2 Tide Predicting Machine, described below, was classified, along with the data that it produced, and used to predict tides for the D-Day Normandy landings and all the island landings in the Pacific war. Military interest in such machines continued even for some time afterwards. They were made obsolete by digital electronic computers that can be programmed to carry out similar computations, but the tide-predicting machines continued in use until the 1960s and 1970s.
Several examples of tide-predicting machines remain on display as museum-pieces, occasionally put into operation for demonstration purposes, monuments to the mathematical and mechanical ingenuity of their creators.
Background
Modern scientific study of tides dates back to Isaac Newton's Principia of 1687, in which he applied the theory of gravitation to make a first approximation of the effects of the Moon and Sun on the Earth's tidal waters. The approximation developed by Newton and his successors of the next 90 years is known as the 'equilibrium theory' of tides.Parker (2011), pp. 35-36.
Beginning in 1776, Pierre-Simon Laplace made a fundamental advance on the equilibrium approximation, with the first description of oceanic tidal waters' dynamic responses to the tide-generating forces due to the Moon and Sun.
Laplace's improvements in theory were substantial, but they still left prediction in an approximate state. This position changed in the 1860s when the local circumstances of tidal phenomena were more fully brought into account by William Thomson's applicatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antwerp%20tramway%20network | The Antwerp tramway network () is a network of tramways forming part of the public transport system in Antwerp, a city in the Flemish Region of Belgium. The network is operated by the Flemish region's transportation company De Lijn. As of April 2017, it featured fourteen lines, eight of which pass partially underground (known as Antwerp Pre-metro).
General description
The Antwerp tram system features segments with different characteristics, from following along with street traffic to tunnels, which do not differ much from subway rail setup — track gauge and a 600 volts catenary power feed.
The tram network is connected to the Flemish Tram and Bus Museum and heritage rides are regularly organised over the network with historical vehicles.
Horse trams, and Omnibus
Horse-drawn trams were the predecessor of nowadays electric trams. The first mention for the existence of the «American Tram» (fr. Tramway Américain) as the horse tram was referred to, was in correspondence addressed to the citywide proprietors Ed. Paujaurd’hui and A. Edvard on 27 June 1865. However, just six years later (14 March 1871) the city council allowed for the construction of tram lines. The first horse tram line opened in Antwerp on 25 May 1873. It linked the church in Berchem (now a district of Antwerp) with the Meir, an avenue in the city center.
Nine years later, already 9 lines of horse-drawn trams existed in Antwerp. There was also one omnibus route. The public transport of Antwerp was exploited by nine different companies. One of them operated an omnibus, the other eight various horse tram routes.
Electrification
The work permit for electrifying the tram system was granted to CGTA on 12 March 1902, following the application made on 22 November 1901. Along with electrification plans were made to rebuild lines from to .
The works started on the omnibus route Draakplaats — Grote Markt (now - route № 11). In fact this was the first real tram line on this route, since omnibuses are road transport, rather than rail transport. Therefore, there was no infrastructure before electrifying this line.
On 6 May 1902, following the former omnibus route, tracks were laid from Draakplaats to Nieuwstraat. After that the tracks started to be installed along with the electrification of the horse-drawn line on the boulevard ring (Leien). For a time, out of service omnibusses temporarily replaced horse-drawn cars. On 9 July 1902 horse drawn cars started to move on a former omnibus route segment from Nieuwstraat to Grote Markt.
The first gantry for an electric tram line was installed on 10 June 1902 on the Kunstlei boulevard (now Frankrijklei), between the crossing of De Keyserlei and the Gemeenteplaats (now Franklin Rooseveltplaats). On 13 August 1902 the catenary was connected to the temporary electric power substation, which was erected in a tram depot on Boudewijnstraat. Then the electric tram tests started. The normal operation of an electric tram started on 2 September 1902. Fir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alita%20Fahey | Alita Fahey is an Australian former TV actress and reporter who appeared on Simon Townsend's Wonder World (Network 10), The Ossie Ostrich Video Show (Nine network) and the children's show Antenna (ABC). She also had roles on The Restless Years and Sons and Daughters and The Boy in the Bush (ABC). Fahey appeared in many Australian films and commercials, has sung professionally for many years both in Australia and overseas, and is an accomplished singer/songwriter. Alita and her Husband Stephen Leigh (deceased) formed a production company called Leigh-Fahey Enterprises which specialised in children's musical entertainment and Theatre-in-Education shows for schools. She is an avid songwriter, director and musician. Her re-release of her single of the classic ballad Banks of the Ohio has been played on radio stations around the country.
Awards
Fahey has won eight Canberra Country Songwriting Awards some with her co-writers teen country trio 'Brothers3', and Colin MacKenzie.
Tamworth Songwriters Awards
The Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) is an annual songwriting contest for original country songs, awarded in January at the Tamworth Country Music Festival. They commenced in 1986. Alita Fahey has won two awards.
(wins only)
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| "Tony's Farm" by Alita Fahey and Brothers 3
| Comedy/Novelty Song of the Year
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| 2013
| "I Should've Listened" by Alita Fahey
| Comedy/Novelty Song of the Year
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| 2014
| "Huntsman in the Harmonica" by Alita Fahey and Makirum
| Comedy/Novelty Song of the Year
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References
Australian television actresses
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Australian women singers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OBDuino | OBDuino is an open source trip computer design based on the Arduino platform. An OBDuino may be assembled and customised by an electronics hobbyist; it displays information such as instantaneous fuel economy (e.g. miles per gallon, L/100 km or kilometres per litre), engine tuning parameters etc. on an LCD.
OBDuino utilises the On-Board Diagnostics interface found in most modern cars.
Features
Most OBD-II PIDs or derived values may be displayed. Common values include
Fuel: cost, used or remaining, wasted while idling, consumption, measured in mpg or l/100 km
Engine: load, RPM
Temperatures: coolant, air intake
Vehicle speed
Tank distance
Remaining distance that can be travelled on the current tank of fuel
Throttle position
Battery voltage
CAN status, for CAN protocol only, display TX and RX error
Displays instantaneous values, average, maximum and minimum values calculated per trip, per outing, or per tank of fuel
Menu system for configuring parameters
Relatively cheap compared to commercial alternatives
Customisable and extendable
OBDuino does not display or reset engine fault codes (which are available over the OBD interface).
Design
The key components of the design are:
A microcontroller. One of the various AVR-based Arduino kits is typically used for this, although one of several Atmel AVR microcontrollers may be used directly in a custom OBDuino circuit.
An interface to the car's management system, using the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) connector found in most modern cars. This requires a cable and a circuit. There are several variations of this circuit depending on the particular OBD protocol implemented:
ISO 9141/ISO 9141-2/ISO 14230, using Freescale MCZ33290EF
CAN, using MCP2515 and MCP2551
Generic (SAE J1850 PWM & VPW/ISO 9141/ISO 9141-2/ISO 14230/CAN protocols), using an ELM327 from ELM Electronics. Although this gives a more versatile trip computer compatible with most modern vehicles, the ELM327 chip adds significant cost to the circuit and requires a significant supporting circuit for different protocols. It removes the complexity of interpreting the various OBD protocols.
STN1110 which is software compatible with the ELM327. Unfortunately, this IC is not pin-compatible with the ELM327, therefore the circuit would require some changes.
An LCD and three input buttons. A typical LCD is 2 rows x 16 characters or 4x20 character, based on the HD44780, with a circuit based on the mpguino circuit.
Microcontroller code. This is a C++ program based on the Arduino framework, called a Sketch in Arduino terminology. This is loaded on the microcontroller over a USB or serial interface using the free Arduino integrated development environment.
Many Arduino-based projects have either custom printed circuit boards available which include the AVR microcontroller (removing the need for an Arduino board), or extension boards that contain the extra circuit and that plug directly into the standard Arduino circuit board. No such PCB |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20and%20Computation | Information and Computation is a closed-access computer science journal published by Elsevier (formerly Academic Press). The journal was founded in 1957 under its former name Information and Control and given its current title in 1987. , the current editor-in-chief is David Peleg. The journal publishes 12 issues a year.
History
Information and Computation was founded as Information and Control in 1957 at the initiative of Leon Brillouin and under the editorship of Leon Brillouin, Colin Cherry and Peter Elias. Murray Eden joined as editor in 1962 and became sole editor-in-chief in 1967. He was succeeded by Albert R. Meyer in 1981, under whose editorship the journal was rebranded Information and Computation in 1987 in response to the shifted focus of the journal towards theory of computation and away from control theory. In 2020, Albert Mayer was succeeded by David Peleg as editor-in-chief of the journal.
Indexing
All articles from the Information and Computation journal can be viewed on indexing services like Scopus and Science Citation Index. They are also reviewed cover-to-cover by the AMS Mathematical Reviews and zbMATH and included in the computer science database DBLP. According to the Journal Citation Reports, Information and Computation has a 2021 impact factor of 1.24.
Landmark publications
On certain formal properties of grammars
Description: This article introduced what is now known as the Chomsky hierarchy, a containment hierarchy of classes of formal grammars that generate formal languages.
A formal theory of inductive inference
Description: This was the beginning of algorithmic information theory and Kolmogorov complexity. Note that though Kolmogorov complexity is named after Andrey Kolmogorov, he said that the seeds of that idea are due to Ray Solomonoff. Andrey Kolmogorov contributed a lot to this area but in later articles.
Fuzzy sets
Description: The seminal paper published in 1965 provides details on the mathematics of fuzzy set theory. , it is the most cited paper published in the journal.
On the translation of languages from left to right
Description: LR parser, which does bottom up parsing for deterministic context-free languages. Later derived parsers, such as the LALR parser, have been and continue to be standard practice, such as in Yacc and descendants.
Language identification in the limit
Description: This paper created algorithmic learning theory. , it is the second most cited paper published in the journal.
A Calculus of Mobile Processes, I
Description: This paper first introduced the π-calculus. , it is the third most cited paper published in the journal and the most cited paper published since the journal assumed its current name.
References
External links
Computer science journals
Elsevier academic journals
Academic journals established in 1957 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland%20C | Borland C may refer to:
Borland C++, a C++ compiler which followed and replaced Borland C
Borland C, a 1990s C computer programming language compiler from Borland
See also
Turbo C, the predecessor of Borland C proper |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MazaCAM | MazaCAM is a CNC programming system for the Mazak CNC (Numerical control) machine-tools (see Yamazaki Mazak Corporation), sold and supported by SolutionWare Corporation.
MazaCAM differs from most other CNC programming systems in that it can generate CNC programs in both Mazatrol and G-code .
Mazatrol Editor—Create new Mazatrol programs and modify existing ones, on your computer.
Convert between controls—Translate Mazatrol programs from one generation to another
Mazak Communications—Send, receive, and translate between different Mazak I/O formats
CAD/CAM for Mazatrol and G-code—draw using CAD method, or import CAD files such as DXF, IGES, etc., and output to Mazatrol programs or G-code.
References
Other Sources of Notability
M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Bot | Web Bot is an internet bot computer program whose developers claim is able to predict future events by tracking keywords entered on the internet. It was developed in 1997, originally to predict stock market trends. The creator of the Web Bot Project, Clif High, along with his associate George Ure, keep the technology and algorithms largely secret and sell the predictions via the website.
Methodology
Internet bots monitor news articles, blogs, forums, and other forms of Internet chatter. Words in the lexicon are assigned numeric values for emotional quantifiers such as duration, impact, immediacy, intensity, and others. The lexicon is dynamic, and changes according to shifts in emotional tension, and how humans communicate those changes using the Internet. As of 2008, there were about 300,000 keywords in the lexicon, along with emotional context, which are fed into a computer-generated modelspace.
The operators of Web Bot interpret the bot's results and make a report called the "ALTA report" available on their website to paying subscribers. ALTA stands for "asymmetric language trend analysis". Many believe the predictions are pseudoscientific and too vague to be meaningful. Despite this, the creators have made many claims after the fact that their reports have predicted important events.
Predictions
Claimed hits
Northeast Blackout of 2003
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake
Hurricane Katrina and its devastation
Misses
The Web Bot gained most of its notoriety for contributing to the 2012 phenomenon by predicting a cataclysm that would devastate the planet on 21 December 2012, possibly a reversing of Earth's magnetic poles or a small series of nuclear attacks leading up to a major attack during the year. The prediction did not call for a complete end of the world.
Web Bot predicted that a massive earthquake would occur in December 2008 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and the Pacific Northwest, but no such event happened.
A prediction that the US dollar would completely collapse in 2011, and that Israel would bomb Iran, with the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama being thrown into major chaos.
Reception
The History Channel has discussed Web Bot in its special "Doomsday 2012: The End of Days" on season 3 of Decoding The Past and on other shows that feature predictions about the end of the world, such as the Nostradamus Effect. A The Globe and Mail journalist noted that
Tom Chivers in the Daily Telegraph notes three criticisms of the project:
See also
Global Consciousness Project
Google Flu Trends
Google Trends
Predictive analytics
References
1997 software
Prediction
Pseudoscience
Web crawlers
2012 phenomenon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics%20Network | The Economics Network is one of the subject networks originally established by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). On its founding it was known as the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) for Economics later becoming independent of the HEA.
It has as its aims the improvement of learning and teaching in economics in the UK's higher education. It lists its strategic aims as:
Identifying, developing and disseminating evidence-informed approaches.
Brokering and encouraging the sharing and implementation of effective practice and innovation.
Supporting individual staff, departments and institutions in initiating and responding to change.
Informing, influencing and interpreting policy.
Celebrating and raising the status of teaching.
Operate a dynamic, highly participatory working environment that supports effective management, delivery and monitoring.
Notable activities
In March 2015 the Economics Network (supported by the Royal Economic Society) held a notable conference on "Revisiting the State of Economics Education" as a follow-up to the conference at the Bank of England in 2012 on economics teaching and the financial the crisis.
Publications
International Review of Economics Education
External links
The Economics Network
References
Economics education
Education in the United Kingdom
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom
Organisations based in Bristol
University of Bristol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Davies%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Jim Davies is Professor of Software Engineering and current Director of the Software Engineering Programme at the University of Oxford, England.
Biography
Jim Davies studied mathematics at New College, Oxford, joining the Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science) in 1986 for a Masters' and Doctorate. After working as a researcher and lecturer in computer science, at Oxford, Reading, and Royal Holloway, University of London, he became a lecturer in software engineering at Oxford in 1995. He has led the Software Engineering Programme since 2000, and was made Professor of Software Engineering in 2006.
Davies is an expert in formal methods, including Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and the Z notation.
Books
Jim Davies, Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP. Cambridge University Press, 1993. .
Jim Woodcock and Jim Davies, Using Z: Specification, Refinement, and Proof. Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science, 1996. .
Jim Davies, Bill Roscoe, and Jim Woodcock, Millennial Perspectives in Computer Science: Proceedings of the 1999 Oxford-Microsoft Symposium in Honour of Sir Tony Hoare. Palgrave Macmillan, Cornerstones of Computing, 2000. .
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of New College, Oxford
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
Academics of the University of Reading
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
English computer scientists
Formal methods people
Computer science writers
British textbook writers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Black%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Susan Elizabeth Black (born 1962) is a British computer scientist, academic and social entrepreneur. She is known for saving Bletchley Park, (World War II codebreaking) with her Saving Bletchley Park campaign. Since 2018, she has been Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University. She was previously based at the University of Westminster and University College London.
Early life and education
Sue Black was born in 1962 in Fareham, Hampshire. She left school and home at 16, the earliest legal age. She married at 20 and soon had three children.
After her husband forced Black and her children out, she sought safety at a local women's refuge. She began a maths access course at night school that led to enrolling in undergraduate degree. Black graduated with a bachelor's degree in computing from London South Bank University in 1993, and obtained her PhD in software engineering in 2001 for research on the ripple effect supervised by Robin Whitty
Career and research
Black was previously Head of the Department of Information and Software Systems at the University of Westminster, and senior research associate at University College London (UCL). Since 2018, she has been Professor of Computer Science and Technology Evangelist at Durham University, and an honorary professor at UCL.
She was the founding chair of the British Computer Society (BCS) Specialist Group BCSWomen, serving from 2001 until 2008. She is an advocate of women in computing.
Campaigns
Black ran a successful campaign over several years to secure funding for the restoration of Bletchley Park, the UK World War II centre for decrypting enemy messages. In 2003 she started raising awareness of the site by creating a blog, after visiting the site and noting the appalling condition of the buildings, seeing the Bombe machine being rebuilt, and hearing that over 10,000 people had worked there during the war. The photograph of one of the huts with a blue tarpaulin protecting the deteriorating structure helped galvanise interest and activism among concerned computer scientists. The initial outreach was followed up with an active Twitter presence that attracted even more followers and interested parties. Bletchley Park staff also engaged with other Web 2.0 (i.e. user-generated) technologies such as Facebook and Twitter.
At the end of 2015, Black published a book about the process, Saving Bletchley Park, initially funded via Unbound, that became the fastest crowdfunded book of all time.
everywoman says Black "embodies the traits of a modern leader", particularly in regard to social media use. The BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones spotted early on that Black was making sophisticated use of Twitter (and other platforms) in her campaigning.
Black set up Techmums, reaching out to mothers who wanted to understand what their children were up to online. Techmums offers free training in digital security, social media, the programming language Python, and so on |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Black | Sue Black may refer to:
Sue Black, Baroness Black of Strome (born 1961), Scottish forensic anthropologist
Sue Black (computer scientist) (born 1962), English computer scientist
See also
Susan Black (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt%20%28interface%29 | Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer. It has been developed by Intel, in collaboration with Apple. It was initially marketed under the name Light Peak, and first sold as part of an end-user product on 24 February 2011.
Thunderbolt combines PCI Express (PCIe) and DisplayPort (DP) into two serial signals, and additionally provides DC power, all in one cable. Up to six peripherals may be supported by one connector through various topologies. Thunderbolt 1 and 2 use the same connector as Mini DisplayPort (MDP), whereas Thunderbolt 3, 4, and 5 use the same USB-C connector as USB does.
Description
Thunderbolt controllers multiplex one or more individual data lanes from connected PCIe and DisplayPort devices for transmission via two duplex Thunderbolt lanes, then de-multiplex them for use by PCIe and DisplayPort devices on the other end. A single Thunderbolt port supports up to six Thunderbolt devices via hubs or daisy chains; as many of these as the host has DP sources may be Thunderbolt monitors.
A single Mini DisplayPort monitor or other device of any kind may be connected directly or at the very end of the chain. Thunderbolt is interoperable with DP-1.1a compatible devices. When connected to a DP-compatible device, the Thunderbolt port can provide a native DisplayPort signal with four lanes of output data at no more than 5.4 Gbit/s per Thunderbolt lane. When connected to a Thunderbolt device, the per-lane data rate becomes 10 Gbit/s and the four Thunderbolt lanes are configured as two duplex lanes, each 10 Gbit/s comprising one lane of input and one lane of output.
Thunderbolt can be implemented on PCIe graphics cards, which have access to DisplayPort data and PCIe connectivity, or on the motherboard of new computers with onboard video, such as the MacBook Air.
The interface was originally intended to run exclusively on an optical physical layer using components and flexible optical fiber cabling developed by Intel partners and at Intel's Silicon Photonics lab. It was initially marketed under the name Light Peak, and after 2011 as Silicon Photonics Link. However, it was discovered that conventional copper wiring could furnish the desired 10 Gbit/s per channel at lower cost.
This copper-based version of the Light Peak concept was co-developed by Apple and Intel. Apple registered Thunderbolt as a trademark, but later transferred the mark to Intel, which held overriding intellectual-property rights. Thunderbolt was commercially introduced on Apple's 2011 MacBook Pro, using the same Apple-developed connector as Mini DisplayPort. Certain MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models downgrade Thunderbolt 4 protocol to Thunderbolt 3 due to Intel patents and the need for Intel VT-d DMA.
Sumitomo Electric Industries started selling up to optical Thunderbolt cables in Japan in January 2013, and Corning, Inc., began selling up to optical cables in the US in late September 2013.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival%20Resource%20Key | An Archival Resource Key (ARK) is a multi-purpose URL suited to being a persistent identifier for information objects of any type. It is widely used by libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, and government agencies to provide reliable references to scholarly, scientific, and cultural objects. In 2019 it was registered as a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI).
The ARK and its inflections ('?' and '??') provide access to three facets of a provider's ability to provide persistence.
Implicit in the design of the ARK scheme is that persistence is purely a matter of service and not a property of a naming syntax. Moreover, that a "persistent identifier" cannot be born persistent, but an identifier from any scheme may only be proved persistent over time. The inflections provide information with which to judge an identifier's likelihood of persistence.
History
Throughout the 1990s, the Internet Engineering Task Force and other organizations developed standards for persistent identifiers for web resources, including URN, PURL, Handle, and DOI. In each of these standards, indirect identifiers would resolve to URLs, which themselves changed over time. Many believed that such systems would contribute to the persistence of web resources over time.
In 2001, John Kunze of the University of California and R. P. Channing Rodgers of the United States National Library of Medicine released the first draft of “The ARK Persistent Identifier Scheme,” designed in response to the needs of their two organizations, as an IETF working document. In explaining their motivations for creating a new system, Kunze later wrote that “each system had specific problems.” In contrast to the decentralized structure of the web, with many independent publishers, Handle and DOI were related centralized systems which charged for inclusion; they were “antithetical,” according to Kunze, “to an implicit principle that Internet standards must not endorse control by any one entity, over access to the networked resources of another entity.” URNs were free, but lacked a resolver discovery services, and, wrote Kunze, “it seemed to me that the IETF community lost interest in creating a whole new Internet indirection infrastructure that would add little to existing web and DNS mechanisms, especially in light of the small part that indirection plays in keeping links from breaking.”
In contrast to these other systems, the ARK scheme proposed that “persistence is purely a matter of service,… neither inherent in an object nor conferred on it by a particular naming syntax.” The most an identifier could do to solve the problem of persistence, then, was to indicate an organization’s commitment. Accordingly, in the ARK standard, identifiers would refer not only to a web resource, but also to “a promise of stewardship” and metadata about the resource. If a web server was queried with an ARK, it should return the resource itself or some surrogate for it, such as “a table of contents |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Corp.%20v.%20Harmony%20Computers%20%26%20Electronics%2C%20Inc. | Microsoft Corp. v. Harmony Comps. & Elecs., Inc., 846 F. Supp. 208 (E.D.N.Y. 1994), was an Eastern New York District Court decision regarding copyright infringement and breach of license agreement. Microsoft Corp. (referred to as "Microsoft" below) filed the lawsuit against Harmony Comps. & Elecs., Inc. (referred to as "Harmony" below) and its president, Stanley Furst (together referred to as the "defendants" below), seeking declaratory and injunctive relief and treble damages. The defendants did not contest the plaintiff's claim that Harmony sold Microsoft's products without any licenses or authorization, or that they sold Microsoft's products stand-alone, which violated Microsoft's license agreement. Instead, the defendants argued that their action was protected by the first-sale doctrine 17 U.S.C §109(a) (1977). After reviewing the facts, the court found that the defendants' action constituted copyright infringement, and that the first-sale doctrine did not apply since the defendants failed to prove that the Microsoft products they sold were lawfully acquired. The court also ruled that the defendants breached Microsoft's software license agreement by selling the products stand-alone.
Background
The defendants sold Microsoft's copyrighted products, including Microsoft MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows software programs, without license or authorization. Furthermore, they sold such products either stand-alone or loaded on computer hard disks. They continued their activity despite of Microsoft's notification letters of illegality on April 19, June 16, July 14, and September 14, 1993. According to Robert Wanezek, Program Manager of Microsoft's Replication Group, and Lee Gates, Microsoft's Software Design Test Engineer, twenty-one pieces of counterfeit products were found on defendants' premises. Microsoft hired private investigators, who were then able to purchase various Microsoft products from the defendants. Other customers who bought Microsoft's products from the defendants called Microsoft's Piracy Hotline to question the legitimacy of Harmony's sales.
The defendants denied that any of their products sold were counterfeit. They argued that even if any of the Microsoft products were counterfeit, they purchased them in the good faith that such products were genuine. Furthermore, they argued that their selling of Microsoft products was protected by the first-sale doctrine and thus the copyright infringement claim did not hold.
Holding
Without an evidentiary hearing, the court ruled that the copyright infringement was likely to hold in this case based on the facts that the defendants were never licensees of Microsoft's and therefore were unauthorized to distribute any of Microsoft's products. The court found it unnecessary to verify the genuineness of the Microsoft products sold by Harmony. Furthermore, the court cited ISC-Bunker Ramo Corp. v. Altech, Inc., 765 F. Supp. 1310, 1331 (N.D.Ill. 1990) ("there is no such thing as a bona fide purchase for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Lawrie | Michael Lawrie (born 17 April 1968) is a British computer security and social networking expert known for many things ranging from running MUDs to accidentally being the world's first Cybersquatter. He lives in Cambridge, England where he created (and runs) the Cambridge Freecycle group, one of the largest in Europe.
Early involvement in MUDS
While at the University of Leeds, he took over management of MUD1 at Essex University in 1987. MUD1 was the first online role playing world, played by text through X.25/PSS and later Telnet.
After its shutdown he carried on running MIST, another early virtual world, until he closed that down in 1991. Famous then simply as Lorry, he wrote the seminal guide for MUD management "Confessions of an Arch-Wizard". Years later he wrote a few updates to this explaining how it all worked in practice.
In 1988 he took over the AberMUD project for a year, running a standard distribution of the game at Southampton University, Leeds University and the IBM PC Users Group. He also managed a VAX based mud at St David's University College, Lampeter. Lawrie was the first person to send out the AberMUD source code to Vijay Subramaniam thus starting the proliferation of MUDs throughout the world.
IRC
Lawrie has been involved in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) since it first left Finland and had his first IRC Operator on Vijay Subramaniam's IRC Server in 1989. Since then he has been heavily involved in IRC both in the UK and worldwide and was central in creating Ircnet when the European servers split away from EFnet.
Public access systems
Michael Lawrie is an ardent supporter of free, public-access systems and servers and is deeply rooted in the history of such services and in the development and opening up of the internet in the UK. He was one of the management team of Edinburgh University's Tardis Project in 1987 and later managed HICOM, a joint project between the British Computer Society, the British Psychological Society, Digital Equipment Corporation and British Telecom into HCI and CSCW. HICOM's VMS system was open to anybody who wanted an account and as well as being famous for being the only machine that the hacker Kevin Mitnick ever had a legitimate account on. It was also the first public access Internet Service Provider in the UK.
Career
In his non-online life Michael Lawrie started off as systems and security manager and computer misuse expert and is now a Commercial Security Consultant and threat assessment specialist. He has worked for a number of large companies and headed up the Commercial Security team at British Telecom.
Online he was the head of the Trust and Safety division at OkCupid
Historical preservation
He is the owner of a huge collection of historical computers, calculators, peripherals, electronic games, and more than a tonne of technical documentation. It contains more than 200 microcomputers dating from 1968 onwards and a number of larger machines, including significant VAXes and old PDPs. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeping%20Computer | Bleeping Computer is a website covering technology news and offering free computer help via its forums that was created by Lawrence Abrams in 2004. It publishes news focusing heavily on cybersecurity, but also covers other topics including computer software, computer hardware, operating system and general technology.
In 2018, Bleeping Computer was added as an associate partner to the Europol NoMoreRansom project for the ransomware information and decryption tools provided by the site.
History
BleepingComputer was founded in 2004 after Abrams could not find existing technical support sites that could offer easy-to-understand instructions for his friends and family.
The domain name bleepingcomputer.com originates from the sounds made by a broken computer and because a user might want to curse at a computer when it does not work properly.
Since the CryptoLocker ransomware attack in September 2013, and a subsequent DDoS of the site due to its reporting on the new malware, Bleeping Computer has been reporting on new ransomware families as they are released.
Content
The articles published at Bleeping Computer are categorized as news articles, tutorials and virus removal guides. Its content includes searchable databases for looking up Windows start-up programs and uninstall entries, as well as a free Internet forum to receive computer help.
The site covers news released by researchers and companies, but also performs in-house investigative reporting and analysis of ransomware and malware.
Free decryptors to unlock files encrypted by various ransomware families have been released through the forums or the site's news section by third-party researchers.
Government agencies have included Bleeping Computer cybersecurity articles and analysis in numerous advisories.
Bleeping Computer's reporting has been cited by major media that cover technology and IT security news.
The site offers a malware removal training program through its forums that teaches volunteers how to remove Windows infections using various tools, including Combofix, HijackThis, DDS, OTL, GMER, Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Rkill, developed by Abrams.
In October 2020, there were over 840,000 registered members on the site.
Legal issues
In early February 2016, Enigma Software, the developers of the anti-malware suite SpyHunter, filed a lawsuit against Bleeping Computer in response to a negative review of SpyHunter, alleging a campaign to damage the reputation of their company and product. Bleeping Computer requested financial aid from its readers to help pay legal fees arising from the lawsuit. At the beginning of August 2016, Bleeping Computer filed its own lawsuit against Enigma Software for an alleged long-running smear campaign against Bleeping Computer. The lawsuit against BleepingComputer ended in settlement, with BleepingComputer removing Quietman7's posts on Enigma Software's product.
See also
Technology journalism
References
External links
Computing websites
Int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%20of%20the%20Arbat%20%28TV%20series%29 | Children of the Arbat () is a 16-part television series based on the Children of the Arbat trilogy by Anatoly Rybakov. It aired on the Channel One network in Russia in 2004.
The series closely follows the plot of Rybakov's trilogy. Set in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, it tells the story of Sasha Pankratov (Yevgeny Tsyganov), a student and loyal Komsomol member from the Arbat neighborhood of Moscow who is unfairly exiled to Siberia. As his family and friends, including his love interest Varya Ivanova (Chulpan Khamatova), grapple with Sasha's sudden detention and departure, the series shows the growing fear and paranoia that gripped Moscow in the years before the murder of Sergey Kirov and the start of Stalin's Great Purge.
References
External links
Дети Арбата at RusKino.ru
Russian television films
Channel One Russia original programming
2004 Russian television series debuts
2004 Russian television series endings
2000s Russian television series
Russian drama television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacollybia | Megacollybia is a genus of fungus in the family Marasmiaceae. Previously thought to be monotypic, the genus was split into several species on the basis of genetic data in 2007 . The type species, M. platyphylla, is restricted in distribution to Europe, Scandinavia, and western and central Russia. M. rimosa was described as new to science from Brazil in 2013.
See also
List of Marasmiaceae genera
References
Marasmiaceae
Agaricales genera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartig%20net | Hartig net is a network of inward-growing hyphae, that extends into the root, penetrating between the epidermis and cortex of ectomycorrhizal plants. This network is a site of nutrient exchange between the fungus and the host plant. The Hartig net is one of the three components required for ectomycorrhizal roots to form as part of ectomycorrhizal symbiosis with the host tree or plant.
The Hartig net is named after Theodor Hartig, a 19th-century German forest biologist and botanist. He reported research in 1842 on the anatomy of the interface between ectomycorrhizal fungi and tree roots.
The Hartig net supplies chemical elements required for plant growth, such as potassium, and provides compounds, such as phosphate and nitrate, used in combination with the ectomycorrhizal symbiosis for farmable crops, as well as certain kinds of lichens. Part of its role in mutualistic interactions is based on the chemicals it provides, as well as it being essential for bi-directional nutritional uptake, which has shown to help defend the fungi from heavy metal damage, amongst other benefits.
See also
Mycorrhiza
References
Plant roots
Soil biology
Symbiosis
Fungal morphology and anatomy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Ardizzone | Simon Nicholas Knight Ardizzone is an editor and filmmaker. He produced and co-directed the documentary Hacking Democracy with Russell Michaels (2006) and co-directed Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (2020) with Russell Michaels and Sarah Teale. He was an editor on the TV documentaries: God Is Green (2007); Britain's Greatest Monarch (2005); and What Made Mozart Tic (2004).
Ardizzone studied at Durham University. He later graduated from the National Film and Television School in 1995.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American documentary film directors
American documentary film producers
Alumni of University College, Durham
Alumni of the National Film and Television School |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Jacks%20Superstar%20Challenge | Brian Jacks Superstar Challenge is a 1985 sports simulation game released for various home computers by Martech, licensed by British sportsman, Brian Jacks. It was released for systems including the Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and Acorn Electron.
Critical response
Electron User praised its "superb graphics" and the variety found in the different games.
References
1985 video games
Amstrad CPC games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games
Martech games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banco%20Santander%20Chile | Banco Santander-Chile is the largest bank in Chile by loans and deposits. The bank has 504 branches network. It is a subsidiary of the Santander Group. Its main competitors are Banco de Chile, Itaú Corpbanca and BCI.
It provides commercial and retail banking services to its customers, including Chilean peso and foreign currency denominated loans to finance commercial transactions, trade, foreign currency forward contracts and credit lines, and retail banking services, including mortgage financing. In addition to its traditional banking operations, the bank offers financial services, including financial leasing, financial advisory services, mutual fund management, securities brokerage, insurance brokerage and investment management.
Its clients are divided into three segments: retail, middle-market, and global banking and markets.
References
Companies listed on the Santiago Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Banks of Chile
Banks established in 1978
Chilean companies established in 1978
Companies based in Santiago
Banco Santander |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam%20Bumper | Macadam Bumper (also released as Pinball Wizard) is a video pinball simulation construction set developed by ERE Informatique in France. It was first released for 8-bit computers in 1985, the Atari ST in 1986 and MS-DOS in 1987. The Atari ST and MS-DOS versions were released in the US as Pinball Wizard in 1988 by Accolade.
Gameplay
The game includes full-featured graphics, sound and lights, and tilt capability. The game features four simulations with varying obstacles. On the Atari ST, the flipper and back-board controls are manipulated by the mouse, but moving the mouse too much will activate the tilt sensors. Players can customize the game by changing parameters such as point scores, table slope, bumper elasticity, and the number of game balls. With the parts menu, a player can assemble a pinball machine, and can paint or decorate it with the game's paint menu.
Reception
In 1988, Dragon gave the game 4½ out of 5 stars.
Reviews
Tilt - Jul, 1985
Sinclair User - Nov, 1985
Computer Gamer - Aug, 1986
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Feb, 1990
Zzap! - Dec, 1990
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Oct, 1987
Jeux & Stratégie #33
Jeux & Stratégie HS #3
See also
Pinball Construction Set
References
External links
Macadam Bumper at MobyGames
Macadam Bumper at Centre for Computing History
Review in Antic
1985 video games
Accolade (company) games
Amstrad CPC games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
MSX games
Oric games
Personal Software Services games
Pinball video games
Video games developed in France
ZX Spectrum games |
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