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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Computing%20Reviews | ACM Computing Reviews (CR) is a scientific journal that reviews literature in the field of computer science. It is published by the Association for Computing Machinery and the editor-in-chief is Carol Hutchins (New York University).
See also
ACM Guide to Computing Literature
ACM Computing Surveys
Algorithms
References
External links
Computing Reviews
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1985
English-language journals
Review journals
1985 establishments in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match%20Mates | Match Mates is an Australian children's television game show that was broadcast afternoon on Nine Network Australia between 1981 and 1982. It was produced by the Grundy Organisation for Nine Network's Children's Programming. Actor David Waters was the emcee.
History
The first episode of Match Mates was broadcast in July 1981. It was hosted by David Waters. Despite being well received by children in preschool, it is directed at children between the ages of 10 and 14. Alongside the Grundy Organisation, Penny Spence, who served as Nine Network's vice president of Children's Programmes, produced the show.
Object
Four children compete against each other playing a game similar to the adult game show Concentration that also had elements of Sale of the Century and the later game Hot Streak.
Game Play
Rounds One and Two
Two different children competed at a time in each round.
Toss-Up Question (Ripper Rhyme)
The children were asked a "ripper rhyme" by the emcee. A general knowledge question written in the form of a rhyming couplet that was missing the last rhyming word. The first child to buzz with the correct word won control of the puzzle.
Rebus Puzzle
Both children were shown a puzzle board of twenty numbered squares. Each square concealed a picture (either a drawing or photograph) AND part of a rebus puzzle. The emcee also gave a clue to the rebus' solution which was related to the "ripper rhyme". Starting with the child who won the "ripper rhyme", each child chose two numbers, one at a time, from the puzzle board. Each number revealed a different picture. In order to "match", the chosen pictures must be related in some way to each other. If the pictures "matched", the corresponding rebus pieces were revealed and the child was then given the opportunity to solve the puzzle. If the pictures did not "match" or if the child could not solve the puzzle, the opposing child received control of the puzzle. The first child to solve the puzzle won the round and advanced to Round Three.
Special Squares
Sound Effect
One number, represented by a drawing of an ear, contains a sound that is associated with one of the pictures on the puzzle board.
Catch-a-Clue
One number, represented by a drawing of a butterfly net, contains a verbal clue that is read by the announcer and is associated with one of the items on the puzzle board.
Round Three
The winners of both round one and round two competed against each other.
Toss-Up Question (Who/What/Where am I?)
The children were shown a succession of increasingly larger clues to the identity of a person, place, thing, etc.; given by children recorded on videotape. The first child to buzz in with the correct answer won control of the puzzle.
Super Word Puzzle
Both children were shown another puzzle board of twenty numbered squares. This time the board was split into two different sets of ten numbered squares. Numbers one through ten on top contained pictures. Numbers eleven through twenty on t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Henke | Robert B. Henke (born 1969) is a German computer music artist working in the fields of audiovisual installation, music and performance. He was born in Munich, Germany, and lives in Berlin.
Coming from an engineering background, Henke is fascinated by the beauty of technical objects. Developing his own instruments and algorithms is an integral part of his creative process. His materials are computer generated sound and images, field recordings, photography and light; transformed, re-arranged and modulated by mathematical rules, real time interaction and controlled random operations. Many of his works use multiple channels of audio or are specifically conceived for unique locations and their individual properties. For the past few years, he has been exploring the artistic usage of high power lasers in his installations and performances.
Robert Henke is also a co-creator of the music software Ableton Live, with Gerhard Behles.
Since 1995 he has produced electronic music under the name Monolake, which he founded in collaboration with Gerhard Behles.
He writes and lectures about sound and the creative use of computers at the Berlin University of the Arts, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) at Stanford University, and the Studio National des Arts Contemporains - Le Fresnoy in Lille, France.
His installations, performances and concerts have been presented at the Tate Modern London, the Centre Pompidou Paris, Le Lieu Unique Nantes, PS-1 New York, MUDAM Luxembourg, MAK Vienna, the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin.
Selected installations
Destructive Observation Field
Werk III
Fragile Territories
Works for Wave Field Synthesis
Fundamental Forces
Selected performances
Deep Web
Lumiere II
Destructive Observation Field
Monolake Live Surround
Intersection
Atlantic Waves
Selected albums
Monolake - Archaeopteryx (2020)
Monolake - VSLI (2016)
Monolake - Ghosts (2012)
Monolake - Silence (2009)
Robert Henke - Layering Buddha (2006)
Monolake - Polygon Cities (2005)
Robert Henke - Signal To Noise (2004)
Monolake - Momentum (2003)
Monolake - Cinemascope (2001)
Monolake - Gravity (2000)
Monolake - Interstate (1998)
Monolake - Hongkong (1997)
Robert Henke - Piercing Music (1994)
References
External links
Robert Henke Discography
Monolake Discography
Mark J. Butler (ed.), Electronica, Dance and Club Music, Farnham: Ashgate, 2012.
Ableton Live users
German composers
German techno musicians
Musical groups established in 1995
1969 births
Living people
Academic staff of the Berlin University of the Arts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy%20of%20the%20city%20of%20S%C3%A3o%20Paulo | São Paulo is the one of the largest cities in the world economically, and is expected to be the 6th largest in 2025. According to data of Fecomercio/SP, its gross domestic product (GDP) in 2017 was R$699.28 billion ($B today).
The biggest financial center in Brazil and one of the biggest financial centers in the world, São Paulo's economy is going through a deep transformation. Once a city with a strong industrial character, São Paulo's economy has become increasingly based on the tertiary sector, focusing on services and businesses for the country. The city is also unique among Brazilian cities for its large number of foreign corporations. Many analysts point to São Paulo as an important global city, even though this assignment can be criticized considering its serious problems of social exclusion and spatial segregation. Although being the most important financial centre of the country, São Paulo also presents a high degree of informality in its economy.
Overview
São Paulo is the business center of the Mercosur economy. Acclaimed as a city of business tourism, attracting today's biggest and most important international events, be they in the economic, cultural, scientific or sporting area. It holds more than 200 events per day, offering more than 250 thousand square meters of space in pavilions and areas for congresses and fairs. This is without taking into account the supply of spaces within hotels, which adds another 70 thousand square meters, suitable for holding events. According to the International Congress and Convention Association (ICCA) that ranks the greatest event centers in the world, São Paulo is the most important destination for international events in the Americas. São Paulo is also among Top 20 destinations for events in the world and left behind destinations like Madrid, Sydney, Athens and Vancouver. Adding space in nightclubs, cultural and business areas, clubs and other alternatives to these numbers, São Paulo boasts approximately 430,000 square meters for the holding of any type of event.
There is still the supply of approximately 30,000 apartments of various categories, a number which is to grow significantly in the next two years, predicted to reach 50,000 apartments in 2003, catering for those seeking the more luxurious options of the large chains, to simpler and more economical options. It is worth pointing out that from the tourist attractions the following stand out: gastronomy and culture. With more than 12,000 restaurants of more than 40 different world cuisines, besides the 70 museums, more than 200 cinemas, around 50 theaters, art galleries and cultural centers, São Paulo has one of the liveliest night-lives in the world.
In 2005, the city of São Paulo collected R$90 billion in taxes, and the city budget was R$15 billion; these figures show that São Paulo contributes to redistribution of wealth. The city has 1,500 bank branches. There are 70 shopping malls. Of all the international companies with business i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the American science fiction television series Fringe commenced airing on the Fox network on September 9, 2008, and concluded on May 12, 2009. It was produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and its showrunners were Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Wyman. The first season introduces a Federal Bureau of Investigation "Fringe Division" team based in Boston, Massachusetts under the supervision of Homeland Security. The team uses unorthodox "fringe" science and FBI investigative techniques to investigate a series of unexplained, often ghastly occurrences, which are related to mysteries surrounding a parallel universe. FBI agent Olivia Dunham is portrayed by actress Anna Torv, while actors Joshua Jackson and John Noble play father-son duo Peter and Walter Bishop. Other regular cast members include Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole, Blair Brown, Mark Valley, and Kirk Acevedo.
The season produced 21 episodes, although only 20 of them aired as part of the first season. The unaired episode, "Unearthed", was broadcast as part of the second season as episode 11 as a special episode.
Cast
Main cast
Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis
Blair Brown as Nina Sharp
Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth
Mark Valley as John Scott
John Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop
Recurring cast
Michael Cerveris as September/The Observer
Ari Graynor as Rachel Dunham
Lily Pilblad as Ella Blake
Chance Kelly as Mitchell Loeb
Michael Gaston as Sanford Harris
Jared Harris as David Robert Jones
Trini Alvarado as Samantha Loeb
Clark Middleton as Edward Markham
David Call as Nick Lane
Guest stars
Episodic guest stars included: Billy Burke, Derek Cecil, Jennifer Ferrin, James Frain, Jason Butler Harner, Neal Huff, Gillian Jacobs, Michael Kelly, Randall Duk Kim, Spencer List, Jefferson Mays, Susan Misner, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Keith Nobbs, Zak Orth, Peter Outerbridge, Al Sapienza, Felix Solis, Kenneth Tigar, Yul Vazquez, and Kiersten Warren. Leonard Nimoy first appears as Dr. William Bell in an uncredited, voice-only role in the season finale.
Season summary
The first season of Fringe begins with the introduction of the main characters, as Olivia is brought aboard the Fringe division following the critical injury of her partner, John Scott, in an event tied to the Fringe division. As part of her investigation, she finds she needs the knowledge and experience of Walter Bishop, currently institutionalized in a mental hospital. Olivia blackmails Walter's estranged son, Peter, to be Walter's legal guardian, allowing his release from the institution. Olivia finds that Walter's knowledge in the area of fringe science to be critical for her job, and convinces Peter to remain as Walter's guardian; Peter, initially resentful due to events in his childhood, starts to participate directly in the cases, his abilities as a jack-of-all-trades being a benefit to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fringe%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the American science fiction television series Fringe commenced airing on the Fox network on September 17, 2009, and concluded on May 20, 2010. The season was produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television, and its showrunners were Jeff Pinkner and J. H. Wyman. Actors Anna Torv, John Noble, and Joshua Jackson reprised their roles as FBI agent Olivia Dunham and father-son duo Walter and Peter Bishop, respectively. Previous series regulars Lance Reddick, Jasika Nicole, Blair Brown, and Kirk Acevedo also returned, though with Acevedo in a limited capacity.
The season followed the continuation of a war between two universes, the prime and the parallel. It was set in the former, until the last several episodes when Peter Bishop (Jackson) journeyed back to the parallel universe after being lured there by his real father, "Walternate" (Noble). While co-creator J. J. Abrams described the first season as "identifying that there is an enemy", he referred to season two as "getting to know the enemy" as it "build[s] to a very specific type of confrontation" between the two universes. The writers focused on their characters' development, in particular making them more comfortable with each other while solving cases for Fringe Division. By inventing the "mythalone" style of episode, the producers sought to create the perfect episode that mixed standalone episode qualities for casual viewers with the further development of the series' mythology for regular viewers.
In a departure from the previous season, the second season aired in a new competitive timeslot at 9:00 pm on Thursdays. It contained 22 episodes, plus an unaired episode that was produced during the first season; "Unearthed" aired as a special as episode 11 of season two, days prior to "Johari Window", the first new episode of 2010. Also part of the season was the series' only musical episode, "Brown Betty", which was produced at the request of the network. The season finale, "Over There", fully introduced the parallel universe and laid the groundwork for the third season.
Fringe ended its second season with a per episode average of 6.252 million total viewers and a 2.3 ratings share in the 18–49 demographic. The season was generally well-received by critics, though most agreed that the second half was a considerable improvement over the first. The series was chosen for a number of 2010 "best of television" lists, including The New York Times, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Entertainment Weekly. Despite its critical acclaim, Fringe failed to earn any major category nominations at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards, but did receive nominations at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards, Golden Reel Awards, and Satellite Awards; at the Saturn Awards, Torv and guest actor Leonard Nimoy won in their respective categories. The second season was released on DVD and Blu-ray in region 1 on September 14, 2010, in region 2 on September 27, and in region 4 on Novem |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Black%20Equity | The Center for Black Equity (known until 2012 as International Federation of Black Prides) is a coalition of Black gay pride organizers formed to promote a multinational network of LGBT/SGL (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender/Same Gender Loving) Prides and community-based organizations.
Founding
The Center for Black Equity (CBE) is an organization birthed from a history of pride in the LGBT community. Before its time there were celebrations of LGBT pride in DC hosted by the Club House, an LGBT club that was occupied main by the Black LGBT community. The Club House started hosting what was called "Children's Hour", a themed party celebrated on Memorial Day. The "Children's Hour" brought members of the LGBT community together in celebration and awareness for each other. The Club House hosted this event for fifteen years until 1990, when the Club House had to cease business due to financial problems and key members of the staff being affected by AIDS.
This network of encompassed Black Prides from all over the world; Albany, NY; Buffalo, NY; Rochester, NY; Boston; New York City; Newark, NJ; Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Baltimore; Washington, DC; Raleigh-Durham, NC; Charlotte; Columbia, SC; Atlanta; Jacksonville; Central Florida (Tampa); Jackson, MS; Memphis; Nashville; New Orleans; St. Louis; Indianapolis; Chicago; Detroit; Twin Cities (Minneapolis); Little Rock; Dallas; Austin; Portland; Los Angeles; San Diego; Toronto, Canada; London, UK and Johannesburg, South Africa. The following Black Prides are in the IFBP membership pipeline: Columbus, OH; Oakland, CA; Gainesville, FL; Orlando; Virginia Beach and Greensboro, NC. Also, Latino Prides in New York; Boston; Portland, OR; Chicago and Washington, DC.
The IFBP organization decided that its brand was not aligning with their mission and services that had and is still growing today. On July 28, 2012, the board of IFBP decided to change the brand from International Federation of Black Pride to Center for Black Equity (CBE).
As IFBP
The International Federation of Black Prides was organized during D.C. Black Pride of May 1999 by a coalition of Black Pride organizers representing Chicago, North Carolina, New York City, Atlanta, Detroit, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC. The coalition saw a need to organize the twenty plus Black Prides in the United States and abroad for the purpose of developing sponsorship strategies, providing technical assistance, networking, mentoring, and supporting one another. IFBP acquired its IRS 501(c)(3) non-profit status in November 2004.
Importance
The Center for Black Equity serves as a beneficial tool for Black LGBT persons who deal with the duality of being black and LGBT. CBE is the only organization in the world strictly focused on the Black LGBT experience. The disproportionate effect of HIV/AIDS on the black LGBT community compared to their white counterparts serves as a driving force within CBE. The Black LGBT community also face work discrimination, issues in ho |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thun%20Sophea | Thun Sophea (born 1979) is a retired professional kickboxer from Svay Rieng, Cambodia. He is the 2006 Cambodian Television Network Traditional Khmer Kickboxing champion. Thun Sophea trained at the Ministry of Defense Boxing Association under Chhit Sarim, who also trained Cambodian champion Eh Phouthong at the Ministry of Defense Boxing Club. Thun Sophea was once considered Cambodia's best kickboxer. He had defeated every notable Cambodian fighter including Sen Bunthen, Vorn Viva, Meas Chantha, Chey Kosal and Outh Phouthang.
In 2000, Thun Sophea defeated Nuon Sorya to win the TV3 belt. In 2002, Thun Sophea defeated Chey Kosal to win the TV5 belt. In 2006, Thun Sophea defeated Meas Chantha to win the CTN belt.
In 2007, Thun Sophea was ranked number 1 in the 65 kg weight division above Meas Chantha who was second and Pao Puot who was ranked third.
On July 2009, Thun Sophea defeated Sen Bunthen at the CTN boxing arena.
On October 2009, Thun Sophea defeated Ugandan boxer Muhammed Nsugbuga in a first round TKO by low kicks.
On January 2010, Thun Sophea defeated veteran fighter Vouey Sothun at TV5 Boxing arena by decision. Thun Sophea was victorious over Vouey Sothun in two previous matches.
On February 2010, Thun Sophea defeated English fighter Jason Woodham by low kicks in the third round.
On March 2010, Thun Sophea defeated French boxer Adil Khodja at TV3 arena.
On September 10, 2010; Sen Bunthen won by decision against Thun Sophea.
On November 2010, Thun Sophea had a rare decision loss to South African fighter Bakhulule Baai.
In 2011, Thun was the highest paid athlete (along with Chhunly Pagenburg) from Cambodia making US$30,000.
Thun Sophea is now a referee for pradal serey matches. He is also now the head coach of the Ministry of National Defense boxing team. His top students at the Ministry of National Defense boxing team include Lorn Panha, Bun Sothea, Thun Phanith and Thun Rithy.
Coaching
Thun Sophea is the current coach of the Ministry of National Defense gym. He trains 50 students every day. He has a goal to train 100 students in Khmer martial arts.
On December 2019, his student at the Ministry of National Defense, Bun Sothea, defeated strong fighter Sok Thy of Banteay Meanchey by decision. Bun Sothea was able to score two knockdowns in the fourth round. Sok Thy was a 2018 National Kun Khmer champion and a champion at Bayon and PNN stadium.
Championships and accomplishments
Pradal Serey
2000 TV3 Championship
2002 TV5 Championship
2006 CTN Championship
Kun Khmer record
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See also
Pradal Serey
Kickboxing
References
External links
Thun Sophea ready to show no sympathy...-Phnom Penh Post
Thun Sophea beats Vouey Sothun purple...-Phnom Penh Post
Cambodian male kickboxers
Living people
1982 births
People from Svay Rieng province
Pradal serey practitioner |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army%20Corrections%20Command | The United States Army Corrections Command (ACC) exercises command and control and operational oversight for policy, programming, resourcing, and support of Army Corrections System (ACS) facilities and TDA elements worldwide.
On order, ACC coordinates the execution of condemned military prisoners.
History
Prior to its establishment in 2007, prisons operated under the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine
Command, U.S. Army Forces Command, U.S. Army Europe, and U.S. Forces Korea.
On 2 October 2007, the US Army Corrections Command (ACC) was established as a Field Operating Agency (FOA) under the Operational Control of the United States Army Provost Marshal General, Department of the Army. It is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
The Army Corrections Command exercises command and control, operational oversight, and support of the ACS. ACS facilities are located at the following installations: Fort Leavenworth, Fort Lewis, Coleman Barracks USAREUR, and Camp Humphreys USFK.
The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) (ASA) (M&RA) exercises Army Secretary oversight for Army Corrections, parole and clemency functions.
ACC will standardize, eliminate command layers and streamline corrections operations across the Army.
Army Corrections Command Facilities
United States Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas
Northwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Lewis, Washington
Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility at Fort Leavenworth
United States Army Corrections Facility-Europe at Coleman Barracks, Mannheim, Germany
United States Army Corrections Facility-Korea at Camp Humphreys, South Korea
As of 2007, it managed 1,700 civilian and military personnel, 2,300 military prisoners in military and Federal Bureau of Prisons facilities or on mandatory supervised release or parole.
Prisoner operations
Prisoner uniforms for regular post-trial male inmates include brown shirts and trousers. Male trustee prisoners in the minimum and medium custodies wear special blue shirt and trouser uniforms. Maximum custody male prisoners wear orange jumpsuits. Pre-trial male prisoners wear tan-colored shirts and trousers. Female pre-trial and post-trial prisoners wear light blue shirt and trouser uniforms. Headgear consists of orange watch caps and orange ball caps. During "cold weather" periods, prisoners wear brown coats. The USDB will determine the uniforms of death penalty prisoners. The ACC said that this is the case because of "the uniqueness of this category of prisoner."
See also
Military Justice
Uniform Code of Military Justice
United States Army
Corrections Officer
Corrections
Thomas F. Barr Award
References
Military justice |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connection%20broker | In software engineering, a connection broker is a resource manager that manages a pool of connections to connection-based resources such as databases or remote desktops, enabling rapid reuse of these connections by short-lived processes without the overhead of setting up a new connection each time.
Connection brokers are often used in systems using N-tier architectures.
A remote desktop connection broker is software that allows clients to access various types of server-hosted desktops and applications. In hosted desktop environments, the remote desktop connection broker is the “middle” component, in-between the desktops in the data center (hosted virtual machines, shared terminal server desktops, and blades) and the clients that are used to access the desktops (thin clients, soft clients, and mobile devices, among others).
Remote desktop connection brokers perform a variety of tasks, including:
Checking user credentials.
Assigning users to remote desktops.
Turning remote desktops on and off as needed.
Load balancing the servers that host the desktops.
Managing desktop images.
Redirecting multimedia processing to the client.
References
Distributed computing architecture
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Moore%20%28ice%20hockey%29 | Kenneth Strath Moore (February 17, 1910 – December 8, 1981) was a Canadian ice hockey player who competed in the 1932 Winter Olympics.
External links
Kenneth Moore's profile at databaseOlympics
Kenneth Moore's profile at Sports Reference.com
1910 births
1981 deaths
Canadian ice hockey right wingers
First Nations sportspeople
Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan
Ice hockey players at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Olympic ice hockey players for Canada
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in ice hockey
Winnipeg Hockey Club players |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netzone | Netzone, stylized as NET:Zone, is a computer game developed by Compro Games and published by GameTek in 1996 for the PC. It is a cyberpunk, puzzle, click adventure game wherein the player explores a 3D cyberspace environment created by a company named Cycorp.
Reviews
References
1996 video games
Windows games
DOS games
Cyberpunk video games
Video games developed in Israel
GameTek games
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackra1n | blackra1n is a program that jailbreaks versions 3.1, 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 of Apple's operating system for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, known as iOS.
The program uses a bug in the USB code of the firmware for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, allowing unsigned code to be executed. blackra1n uses this exploit to patch the firmware of the iPhone or iPod Touch while in DFU (Device Firmware Upgrade) mode. This mode is used when upgrading firmware through iTunes, but also can be activated by the user. The program allows users to install the Cydia, Icy (removed in blackra1n RC3), and Rock package managers. These applications allow the user to access tweaks, homebrew applications, the root directory and the file system of the iOS device. blackra1n can also perform tethered jailbreaks on the iPod Touch 3G and the iPhone 3GS, if the devices are running OS 3.1.2. When iOS 3.1.3 was released, SpiritJB was released, and provided untethered jailbreaks for both 3.1.2 and 3.1.3.
blackra1n has been superseded by Spirit by comex.
Releases
References
External links
Limera1n
See also
purplera1n (no longer supported or hosted)
Homebrew software
IOS software
IOS jailbreaks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Maryo%20Chronicles | Secret Maryo Chronicles is a free and open-source two-dimensional platform computer game that began in 2003. The game has been described by the German PCtipp as a Super Mario Bros. clone.
History
Secret Maryo Chronicles began as a SourceForge project in January 2003. It was developed and is maintained by the Secret Maryo Chronicles development team, led by Florian Richter ("FluXy"). The game is OpenGL-based and has an original soundtrack and a built-in game editor. It has been released under the GNU General Public License, Version 3. The game has been expanded up the latest release in 2009.
The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M.
After the Secret Maryo Chronicles game ceased development, there now exists a continuation called The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M. (TSC) with its latest release being 2.1.0 on May 17, 2020.
Reception
Secret Maryo Chronicles was listed as the number one open source video game by APC in January 2008. The game was named one of the most promising open source games of 2008 by El Heraldo. In 2008, Stern praised the speed of the game and its puzzle solving, and heute praised it as a well-made nonviolent game for children. Secret Maryo Chronicles was selected in March 2009 as "HotPick" by Linux Format. An in-detail review of the Free Software Magazine in 2015 called the game a "great way to procrastinate".
The game became a popular title offered by many freeware download outlets; the game was downloaded over 3.4 million times just via SourceForge.net between 2004 and May 2017.
See also
List of open-source video games
SuperTux
Mari0
References
External links
The Secret Chronicles of Dr. M., the official sequel
2003 video games
Free software that uses SDL
Freeware games
Linux games
Open-source video games
MacOS games
Mario fangames
Platformers
Video game clones
Windows games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Xplore | IEEE Xplore digital library is a research database for discovery and access to journal articles, conference proceedings, technical standards, and related materials on computer science, electrical engineering and electronics, and allied fields. It contains material published mainly by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and other partner publishers. IEEE Xplore provides web access to more than 5 million documents from publications in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics and allied fields. Its documents and other materials comprise more than 300 peer-reviewed journals, more than 1,900 global conferences, more than 11,000 technical standards, almost 5,000 ebooks, and over 500 online courses. Approximately 20,000 new documents are added each month. Anyone can search IEEE Xplore and find bibliographic records and abstracts for its contents, while access to full-text documents may require an individual or institutional subscription.
See also
ACM Digital Library
IEEE Computer Society Digital Library
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Bibliographic databases in engineering
Bibliographic databases in computer science
Full-text scholarly online databases
Academic journal online publishing platforms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOS%206 | DOS 6 or DOS-6 may refer to:
In computing:
DR DOS 6.0 by Novell
MS-DOS 6.x by Microsoft
IBM PC DOS 6.x by IBM
Novell DOS 7, which reports itself as "PC DOS 6.0"
DR-DOS 7.x, which reports itself as "PC DOS 6.0"
ROM-DOS 6.22 by Datalight
Paragon DOS Pro 2000 by PhysTechSoft
PTS-DOS 6.x by PhysTechSoft
Others:
DOS-6, Soviet space station Salyut 7
See also
DOS 5 (disambiguation)
DOS 7 (disambiguation)
DOS (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20Pioneer%20Award | The Computer Pioneer Award was established in 1981 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society to recognize and honor the vision of those people whose efforts resulted in the creation and continued vitality of the computer industry. The award is presented to outstanding individuals whose main contribution to the concepts and development of the computer field was made at least fifteen years earlier. The recognition is engraved on a silver medal specially struck for the Society.
This award has now been renamed to "Women of the ENIAC Computer Pioneer Award".
Award types
The award has two types of recipients:
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients - At the inauguration of this award, the individuals who already meet the Computer Pioneer Award criteria and also have received IEEE Computer Society awards prior to 1981.
Computer Pioneer Recipients - Awarded annually since 1981.
Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients
Howard H. Aiken - Large-Scale Automatic Computation
Samuel N. Alexander - SEAC
Gene M. Amdahl - Large-Scale Computer Architecture
John W. Backus - FORTRAN
Robert S. Barton - Language-Directed Architecture
C. Gordon Bell - Computer Design
Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. - Compatible Computer Family System/IBM 360
Wesley A. Clark - First Personal Computer
Fernando J. Corbato - Timesharing
Seymour R. Cray - Scientific Computer Systems
Edsger W. Dijkstra - Multiprogramming Control
J. Presper Eckert - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
Jay W. Forrester - First Large-Scale Coincident Current Memory
Herman H. Goldstine - Contributions to Early Computer Design
Richard W. Hamming - Error-correcting code
Jean A. Hoerni - Planar Semiconductor Manufacturing Process
Grace M. Hopper - Automatic Programming
Alston S. Householder - Numerical Methods
David A. Huffman - Sequential Circuit Design
Kenneth E. Iverson - APL
Tom Kilburn - Paging Computer Design
Donald E. Knuth - Science of Computer Algorithms
Herman Lukoff - Early Electronic Computer Circuits
John W. Mauchly - First All-Electronic Computer: ENIAC
Gordon E. Moore - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
Allen Newell - Contributions to Artificial Intelligence
Robert N. Noyce - Integrated Circuit Production Technology
Lawrence G. Roberts - Packet Switching
George R. Stibitz - First Remote Computation
Shmuel Winograd - Efficiency of Computational Algorithms
Maurice V. Wilkes - Microprogramming
Konrad Zuse - First Process Control Computer
See external list of Computer Pioneer Charter Recipients
Computer Pioneer Recipients
Source: IEEE Computer Society
Nomination process
All members of the profession are invited to nominate a colleague who they consider most eligible to be considered for this award. The nomination deadline is 15 October of each year.
Nomination process
See also
List of pioneers in computer science
List of computer science awards
List of computer-related awards
List of awards named after people
References
External links
IEEE Compute |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20free%20geology%20software | This is a list of free and open-source software for geological data handling and interpretation. The list is split into broad categories, depending on the intended use of the software and its scope of functionality.
Notice that 'free and open-source' requires that the source code is available and users are given a free software license. Simple being 'free of charge' is not sufficient—see gratis versus libre.
Well logging & Borehole visualisation
Geosciences software platforms
Geostatistics
Forward modeling
Geomodeling
Visualization, interpretation & analysis packages
Geographic information systems (GIS)
This important class of tools is already listed in the article List of GIS software.
Not true free and open-source projects
The following projects have unknown licensing, licenses or other conditions which place some restriction on use or redistribution, or which depend on non-open-source software like MATLAB or XVT (and therefore do not meet the Open Source Definition from the Open Source Initiative).
References
Free software
Geology
Free
geology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehren | Lehren Networks Private Limited is a network of media and entertainment websites about India's entertainment industry, primarily Bollywood and related extensions. The company is located in Mumbai, India, and was founded by Mritunjay Pandey. Lehren covers celebrity life, gossip, and other related events.
History
Lehren began in 1987 as a producer of film-based entertainment shows for India's then emerging television industry. This included the news magazine/television show Lehren, which aired during the 1990s, focusing on Hindi film. In addition to film-based television shows and stations, Lehren created VHS video content, and became one of the largest media producers in India. Since the 2000s, Lehren has provided video packaged film scenes, songs, interviews, and magazine content. Its videos are shown on websites including MSN. Lehren Networks Private Limited (formerly known as Lehren Entertainment) was specifically incorporated in 2009 to carry on digital media and entertainment businesses, and founded by Mritunjay Pandey. In 2014 the company formed a partnership with Rightster. Lehren TV channels are also available on mobile apps.
References
External links
Film production companies based in Mumbai
Television production companies of India
1987 establishments in Maharashtra
Indian companies established in 1987
Mass media companies established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICMG%202.5 | PICMG 2.5 is a specification by PICMG that standardizes the utilization of CompactPCI user definable pins for the computer telephony functions of standard TDM bus, telephony rear IO, 48 VDC and ringing distribution in a 6U chassis environment.
Status
Adopted : 4/3/1998
Current Revision : 1.0
References
Open standards
PICMG standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20analysis | Proximity analysis is a class of spatial analysis tools and algorithms that employ geographic distance as a central principle. Distance is fundamental to geographic inquiry and spatial analysis, due to principles such as the friction of distance, Tobler's first law of geography, and Spatial autocorrelation, which are incorporated into analytical tools. Proximity methods are thus used in a variety of applications, especially those that involve movement and interaction.
Distance measures
All proximity analysis tools are based on a measure of distance between two locations. This may seen as a simplistic geometric measurement, but the nature of geographic phenomena and geographic activity requires several candidate methods to measure and express distance and distance-related measures.
Euclidean distance, the straight-line geometric distance measured on a planar surface. In geographic information systems, this can be easily calculated from locations in a cartesian Projected coordinate system using the Pythagorean theorem. While it is the simplest method to measure distance, it rarely reflects actual geographic movement.
Manhattan distance, the distance between two locations in a cartesian (planar) coordinate system along a path that only follows the x and y axes (thus appearing similar to a path through a grid street network such as that of Manhattan).
Geodesic distance, the shortest distance between two locations that stays on the surface of the Earth, following a great circle. On a sphere, the formula uses the spherical law of cosines, but the method is significantly more difficult on an ellipsoid.
Network distance, a measurement between two locations along a route within a constrained linear space, such as a road or utility network.
Abstract distance, a measurement of distance in a space that is only indirectly related to geographic space, or only metaphorically spatial. Examples include social networks of interpersonal connections, information spaces of related concepts, and the hypertext network of the World Wide Web. Although these are not inherently geographic, projecting them into an abstract space allows geographic tools such as proximity analysis to be used to study them.
Cost distance, a measurement along a route (in any of the above spaces) in which geometric distance is replaced by some other quantity that accumulates along the route (and is thus proportional to distance), called a cost because it generally serves as an undesirable quantity to be minimized. Travel time is the most common cost measurement, but other costs include carbon emissions, fuel consumption, environmental impacts, and construction costs.
Techniques
There are a variety of tools, models, and algorithms that incorporate geographic distance, due to the variety of relevant problems and tasks.
Buffers, a tool for determining the region that is within a specified distance of a set of geographic features.
Cost distance analysis, algorithms for finding opt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%203 | Resistance 3 is a 2011 science fiction post-apocalyptic first-person shooter developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Resistance 3 is the final installment in the Resistance trilogy. Resistance 3 is the first in the series to support 3D and PlayStation Move and was the first to introduce the PSN Pass program. The game shifts away from the military aspect of Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2 and takes on a post-apocalyptic survival-horror feel.
Resistance 3 received generally positive reviews from critics, some of whom deemed it the best in the series, but the game sold poorly and was deemed a commercial failure. On April 8, 2014, the Resistance 3 online servers, along with those for Resistance: Fall of Man and Resistance 2, were shut down by Sony.
Gameplay
The game retains mostly the same gameplay mechanics as its predecessor albeit with several changes. The weapon wheel and health bar from the first Resistance game return. There are also new environmental objects such as chimeran plants which explode when shot. The game sees a mixture of new and old weapons; returning weapons include the Bullseye, Magnum, Rossmore, Auger, Marksman and Carbine. New weapons include the Mutator, which shoots biological mist that causes enemies to eventually explode causing splash damage, the Deadeye sniper rifle, and a new food-can based explosive, the shrapnel grenade, which releases a shower of nails when it explodes. Weapons are upgradeable, and become more powerful the more they are used. Humans are forced to assemble their weapons from whatever scrap they can gather. The game features PlayStation Move support and Stereoscopic 3D. Additionally, players can utilize the PlayStation Sharp Shooter peripheral attachment.
Multiplayer
Resistance 3 featured an online 16-player competitive multiplayer component. It offered five modes: Team Deathmatch, Chain Reaction, Deathmatch, Breach, and Capture the Flag. It also included a customizable progression system where players spend points earned by playing online to unlock customized loadouts that include various attributes. There was also a co-operative mode where players could team up to play through the story mode either online or split-screen. Game Informers podcast revealed that there would be no eight-player co-op as in Resistance 2. The multiplayer maps were set in locations around the world, such as the Fort Lamy prison in Chad; the Seaside of Glamorgan, Wales, UK; Alice Springs in Australia; New York City in the United States; the Trainyard in Bogota, Colombia. Some of the locations these maps took place in are not included in the story mode.
Sony turned off the servers for the Resistance trilogy on April 8, 2014.
Plot
In 1953, shortly after Lt. Nathan Hale's death, Corporal Joseph Capelli, the only remaining member of the Sentinels, is dishonorably discharged for executing the former, despite having done it due to Hale having turned into a Chimera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave%20It%20to%20Lamas | Leave It to Lamas is an American reality series broadcast on the E! cable television network that aired in 2009 starring Lorenzo Lamas and his family.
Synopsis
The show documents the lives of Lorenzo Lamas, his ex-wife Michele Smith, their two children, Shayne and AJ Lamas, and Michele's daughter with ex-husband Craig Pike, Dakota. The show portrays the family's careers, dating, and personal lives.
Cast
Lorenzo Lamas – The star of Falcon Crest and Renegade is the father of A.J. and Shayne Lamas, and ex-husband of Michele Smith. The show follows him as he starts dating, but primarily deals with his interaction with daughter Shayne.
Shayne Lamas – Shayne is a 25-year-old model and actress. She is looking to move forward in her acting and modeling career with advice from her father and her siblings on the reality show. Shayne is currently single and "looking for love."
AJ Lamas – AJ is a 27-year-old actor. AJ and Lorenzo have a poor relationship due to Lorenzo's belief that AJ and Lorenzo's fourth ex-wife, Shauna Sand, had engaged in a sexual relationship. Though AJ denies this, he and Lorenzo still engage in a public family feud.
Michele Smith – A former publicist with PMK-N.Y., is the #2 ex-wife of Lorenzo Lamas. She is the mother of AJ, and Shayne (both fathered by Lorenzo) and Dakota Pike (fathered by ex-husband Craig Pike). Michele is extremely funny, and is generally seen as a sweet empty nester.
Dakota Pike – Dakota is the 17-year-old half-sister/roommate of AJ and Shayne. She is an occasional actress and aspiring singer recording her debut album.
dogs Madison and Riley – Madison is Shayne's 2 year old Westie Bichon. Riley (aka Little Man) is Michele's 3-year-old tea cup Maltese.
Episodes
References
External links
2009 American television series debuts
2000s American reality television series
2009 American television series endings
E! original programming
English-language television shows
Television shows set in Los Angeles
Television series by Warner Horizon Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stahl%20Stenslie | Stahl Stenslie is a Norwegian born artist working with cognition and perception manipulative projects. He has produced and exhibited interactive media artworks including cyberSM (1993), sense:less (1996), Solve et Coagula(1997), The Leap, World Ripple (2008) and The Blind Theatre (2009).
Education
Oslo School of Architecture and Design (PhD), Statens Kunstakademi (Oslo, Norway), The Düsseldorf Art Academy (Düsseldorf, Germany), Academy of Media Arts Köln (Cologne, Germany)
Exhibits
2009
• Theatre of the Blind, Nationaltheateret, Oslo
• Walking the Line, performances, SKC center, Beograd, Serbia
• Serpents Tongue, performance with Kate Pendry, SKC center, Beograd, Serbia
2008
• World Ripple # 2, Touch Me Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
• Artgasm, Touch Me Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
• Artgasm, Beton Halla, Beograd, Serbia
• Chador Touch; World Ripple, Bagh-e-Tehran Park, Tehran, Iran
• Invisible Sculptures: World Ripple, The Association of Norwegian Sculptors, Oslo, Norway
• Ecstatic Bodies, Gallery 13 Kubikova, Bratislava, Slovakia (13m3.sk/)
2006
• Solve et Coagula touch suit, Spiel mit Technik, Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin
2005
• S.U.F.I. suicide fashion, Touch Me festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2004
• Post Digital Lunch, Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), V2, Rotterdam, Holland http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/actor/all.xslt/nodenr-66263
• Inter_Skin II, The Nova Gallery, Zagreb, Croatia
2003
• Erotogod 3.5 at Dutch Electronic Art Festival, V2, Rotterdam, Holland
• Erotogod, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway
2002
• Tactile technology, cyberSM, Deutsche Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
• Stunt Club, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
• Suicidal Fashion, Break 21, Dead or Alive @ Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001
• Erotogod, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
• CyberSM, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
2000
• The Leap, at The Norwegian Nationaltheater, Oslo, The Ibsen Festival 2000.
• "Wie man sieht", Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
• "Stoneproof", Økomuseum Boarderland, Halden, Norway
1999
• The Leap, The Artists House, Oslo Norway
1997
• Solve et Coagula, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
• 5th International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
• e~on, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1992 -96
• DEAF, Dutch Electronic Art Festival, Rotterdam, Holland
• Electra, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Norway
• Du + You, Gallerie Schipper - Krome, Cologne, Germany
References
External links
Homepage:
Medienkunstnetz
Some Quotes
Stahl at Kontejner 2008
V2 archives
In Roy Ascott's Engineering nature
1965 births
Living people
Norwegian artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlowJo | FlowJo is a software package for analyzing flow cytometry data. Files produced by modern flow cytometers are written in the Flow Cytometry Standard format with an .fcs file extension. FlowJo will import and analyze cytometry data regardless of which flow cytometer is used to collect the data.
Operation
In FlowJo, samples are organized in a "Workspace" window, which presents a hierarchical view of all the samples and their analyses (gates and statistics). Viewing an entire experiment in a Workspace permits organizing and managing complex cytometry experiments and produces detailed graphical reports. FlowJo's ability to automate repetitive operations facilitates the production of statistics tables and graphical reports when the experiment involves many samples, parameters and/or operations.
Within a workspace, samples can be grouped or sorted by various attributes such as the panel of antibodies with which they are stained, tissue type, or patient from whom they came. When an operation on a group is initiated, FlowJo can perform the same operation on every sample belonging to that group. Thus, you can apply a gate to a sample, copy it to the group, and that gate will be automatically placed on all samples in the group.
FlowJo provides tools for the creation of histogram and other plot overlays, cell cycle analysis. calcium flux analysis, proliferation analysis, quantification, cluster identification and backgating display
Development
FlowJo became a commercial product in 1996. In 2002, Tree Star released a Windows version. FlowJo is currently developed by the Ashland, Oregon-based FlowJo LLC, a subsidiary of Becton Dickinson.
References
External links
Bioinformatics software
Cell biology
Flow cytometry
Mathematical and theoretical biology
Science software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICMG%202.14 | PICMG 2.14 is a specification by PICMG (PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group) that defines a packet-based communications between heterogeneous PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) agents (multi-computing) within the CompactPCI (3U or 6U Eurocard-based industrial computer) system architecture.
Status
Adopted: 9/5/2001
Current Revision: 1.0
References
Open standards
PICMG standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiseltonia | Thiseltonia is a genus of Australian plants in the daisy family Asteraceae. It is placed in the pussy's-toes tribe Gnaphalieae. , the Global Compositae Database and Florabase accepted only one species, Thiseltonia gracillima, native to Western Australia, and regarded Thiseltonia dyeri as a synonym, while Plants of the World Online accepted Thiseltonia dyeri as a separate species.
References
Monotypic Asteraceae genera
Gnaphalieae
Flora of Western Australia
Taxa named by William Hemsley (botanist) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Tseng | Greg Yuchang Tseng (born November 14, 1979) is an American Internet entrepreneur who was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and raised in Washington, Virginia. He is co-founder and current CEO of social networking website Tagged and was CEO of JumpStart Technologies, LLC.
Early and personal life
Tseng attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology and won numerous awards in mathematics and science. He placed 9th in the 1993 national MathCounts competition, tied for 1st place (with a perfect score) in the 1994 American High School Mathematics Exam, and qualified for the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad every year from 1994 to 1997. He was a Finalist in the 1997 Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a project titled "Development of a Fiber Optic Evanescent Wave Ion Sensor With Interchangeable Probes Adaptable for Field Application" and received official commendation from the Fairfax County School Board. For this project, Tseng was also featured in The American Physical Society's A Century of Physics Timeline and inducted into The National Gallery for America's Young Inventors which produced a comic strip biography of him.
Tseng is an avid runner and has completed several road marathons and trail ultramarathons.
Scientist
From 1997 to 2004, Tseng was an active researcher in nanotechnology at The MITRE Corporation, Harvard University, and Stanford University. At MITRE, he co-authored a Science journal article entitled "Toward Nanocomputers". At Harvard, he earned an A.B. in Chemistry & Physics & Mathematics in 2001 and co-authored a Science perspective entitled "Carbon Nanotube-Based Nonvolatile Random Access Memory for Molecular Computing" which is the technology behind the company Nantero. At Stanford, he conducted research in the Goldhaber-Gordon group. He was pursuing a Ph.D. in Physics under a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship.
Entrepreneur
At Harvard, Tseng was director of the Harvard Entrepreneurs Club (HEC) from 1998 to 2000, and co-wrote The Harvard Entrepreneurs Club Guide to Starting Your Own Business (Wiley, 1999). In the fall semester of 1999, Tseng and two classmates launched flyingchickens.com, a price comparison shopping engine for Harvard textbooks. In the spring semester of 2000, flyingchickens.com was merged with Limespot.com and the textbook shopping service was revamped and expanded to over 80 college campuses. In late 2000, Tseng and three other college entrepreneurs were interviewed and featured in The New York Times and Fast Company. While at Harvard, Tseng also co-founded Jumpstart Technologies with longtime friend and business partner Johann Schleier-Smith. Jumpstart was an incubator of Internet businesses including online matchmaker CrushLink and social networking site hi5. In October 2004, Tseng and Johann Schleier-Smith co-founded Tagged, and were both named by BusinessWeek as one of Tech's Best Young Entrepreneurs. They jointly received a U.S. patent for their in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duhaldea | Duhaldea is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the daisy family.
Species
Duhaldea cappa
Duhaldea cuspidata
Duhaldea eupatorioides
Duhaldea forrestii
Duhaldea griffithii
Duhaldea latifolia
Duhaldea nervosa
Duhaldea pterocaula
Duhaldea revoluta
Duhaldea rubricaulis
Duhaldea simonsii
Duhaldea wissmanniana
References
Asteraceae genera
Inuleae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Clive%20Simpson | Andrew Clive Simpson is a British Computer Scientist. He is Director of Studies, Software Engineering Programme at University of Oxford. He is Governing Body Fellow of Kellogg College.
Biography
He obtained first class BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from University of Wales, Swansea (1989–1992); followed by MSc in Computation (1992–1993) and DPhil in Computation (1993–1996) from University of Oxford.
Career
Before his current post he was research officer in Oxford University Computing Laboratory (now the Oxford University Department of Computer Science)(1996–1999) and Principal Lecturer in Computing at Oxford Brookes University (1999–2001).
Publications
Andrew Simpson's publications covers a wide range of topics covering Software Engineering, Computational Biology, Security, and Formal Methods.
References
Members of the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford
Fellows of Kellogg College, Oxford
British computer scientists
Living people
Academics of Oxford Brookes University
Alumni of Swansea University
Alumni of the University of Oxford
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Other%20Canon%20Foundation | The Other Canon Foundation is a center and network for research of heterodox economics founded by Erik Reinert. The name refers to the founders' message of there being another economic canon, alternative to the ruling neoclassical economics. Their suggestions, they claim, are valid for and can be applicated in the first, second and third world.
History
The Other Canon was founded in 2000 by Erik Reinert and 10 co-founders with different backgrounds in economics and social sciences. The founders also have distinct backgrounds coming from North America, Latin America, Asia, Eastern and Western Europe. Notable names among them are Wolfgang Drechsler, Carlota Perez and Geoffrey Hodgson. In addition to the executive chairman Erik Reinert and the earlier mentioned Drechsler, the current executive board also employs Rainer Kattel.
Theories and influences
The ideological foundation of The Other Canon is not defined in a left-right perspective, claiming both sides have fallen into the same traps failing to explain and develop valid theories for today's economics. Central to the group is the Theory of Uneven Development, which aims to explain how and why the international economic landscape (of rich and poor nations) is as it is today. History of Economic Policy is used as an important tool in this process.
The Other Canon is highly eclectic and gathers ideas from many authors of various epochs. Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Gunnar Myrdal, Gustav von Schmoller, Werner Sombart, Nicholas Kaldor, Max Weber and Adam Smith (for considerations of the primary sector) are among the theorists to have influenced The Other Canon.
In accordance with Schumpeter, The Other Canon emphasizes the role of "man the producer" over "man the consumer" and intends to seek the reasons for growth and innovation rather than seeing it as something innate to capital and a simple result of adding it to human labour. They argue that the state is needed to stimulate entrepreneurship to maximise growth.
The importance of role of the state is also underlined in development economics. In his book How Rich Countries Got Rich ... and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor (2007), Reinert criticises liberal economists for ignoring empirical evidence when they promote free-trade as the solution to third world countries. He claims poor countries should, and should be allowed to, use protectionism to build up their own industries until they can compete internationally and that the state should be involved in this process.
Differences to and criticism of the mainstream economics
Much of The Others Canon's criticism of the mainstream economics regards the focus on equilibrium and the static, as well as what the neoclassical models takes as given (perfect information, perfect foresight, constant returns to scale and no diversity/likeness of economic activity). Conforming with Schumpeterian theory The Other Canon emphasises the constant change in the economy and that entrepreneurs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProQuest%20Dissertations%20and%20Theses | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT) is an online database that indexes, abstracts, and provides full-text access to dissertations and theses. The database includes over 2.4 million records and covers 1637 to the present. It is produced by ProQuest and was formerly known as ProQuest Digital Dissertations. The bibliographic database (without full-text dissertations) is known as Dissertation Abstracts or Dissertation Abstracts International.
PQDT annually publishes more than 90% of all dissertations submitted from accredited institutions of higher learning in North America as well as from colleges and universities in Europe and Asia. Over the past 60 years, PQDT has amassed more than 1.4 million titles beginning with the first U.S. dissertation accepted by a university (Yale) in 1861. ProQuest began digitizing dissertations in 1997 from a microform archive.
In October 2015, ProQuest added the ability for authors to include an ORCID identifier when submitting a thesis.
Abstracts
Dissertation Abstracts, Dissertation Abstracts International (DAI) is a bibliographic database of American dissertations published since 1938, initially by University Microfilms International (UMI) now by ProQuest, Ann Arbor.
DAI covers doctoral dissertations accepted at accredited American institutions since 1861. Selected master's theses have been included since 1962; since 1988, the database includes citations for dissertations from 50 British universities that are available at The British Document Supply Centre. Additionally, it covers a limited number of dissertations from the rest of the world.
The print version is published monthly and cumulated annually and it is available both in softcover and on microfiche. It is divided in three sections:
Section A, Humanities and Social Sciences ()
Section B, Sciences and Engineering ()
Section C (formerly European Dissertations) () covers non-North American materials, most of them unavailable for purchase from ProQuest. As of 2008, ProQuest no longer offers Section C as a separate product.
The usability of dissertation abstracts depends largely on their content. Many journals within the medical community have settled on a seven sentence structure, which is also gaining acceptance in the social sciences, education and business. In it, the purpose of the study and methodological choices are outlined succinctly, allowing the reader or researcher to quickly scan and evaluate a number of studies to easily choose ones that meet their particular demands. The structure contains variations on the following seven sentence stems: "The purpose of this study is...." "The scope of this study...." "The methodology...." "The Findings..." "Conclusions reached are ..." "Limitations of this study include...." "This study contributes...." Abstracts of dissertation proposals contain the same seven concepts, substituting data collection and analysis in place of findings and conclusions. Abstracts are limited in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Nickelodeon%20%28Canada%29 | This is a list of programs currently and formerly broadcast by Nickelodeon, a Canadian version of the United States cable channel of the same name.
Current programming
As of August 2023:
Programming from Nickelodeon (U.S.)
Live-action series
Animated series ("Nicktoons")
Preschool series
Programming from Paramount+ (U.S.)
Animated series
Programming from YTV
Live-action series
Animated series
Programming from Treehouse TV
Animated series
Acquired programming
Live-action series
Animated series
Preschool series
Former programming
Programming from Nickelodeon (U.S.)
Live-action series
Animated series ("Nicktoons")
Preschool series
Programming from YTV
Live-action series
Animated series
Programming from Treehouse TV
Live-action series
Animated series
Acquired programming
Live-action series
Animated series
Preschool series
See also
List of programs broadcast by YTV
List of programs broadcast by Treehouse TV
Notes
References
External links
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABN%20Andhra%20Jyothi | ABN Andhra Jyothy is an Indian Telugu-language 24-hour news channel launched on 15 October 2009. Aamoda Broadcasting Network is the holding company of the channel and is promoted by Vemuri Radhakrishna. The media house also owns the Telugu daily newspaper Andhra Jyothy.
History
ABN Andhra Jyothy was launched as a Telugu-language news channel in October 2009. Aamoda Broadcasting Network which owns the Telugu daily newspaper Andhra Jyothi is the holding company of the channel. The channel has the tagline 'We Report, You Decide'.
Ownership
As of April 2017, Aamoda Broadcasting Private Limited, the holding company of ABN Andhra Jyothy, held 87.39% of the shares and the promoter Vemuri Radhakrishna, a professional journalist, owned 9.19% of the shares.
Notable work
The channel came to limelight by exposing the then Andhra Pradesh Governor N. D. Tiwari's sex scandal, leading to his resignation.
Controversies
S. Janardhan, an advocate from Hyderabad, filed a petition in Ranga Reddy court seeking action against the misuse of funds by V. Radha Krishna, which were collected for the maintenance of Warangal-based conjoined twins Veena and Vani. By June 2015, nearly Rs 25 lakh had been collected for the twins. The court directed the Saroornagar police to register a case under Section 406, 420, 403 and 120(b) and submit a detailed report on the incident by 16 November.
See also
Andhra Jyothi
List of Telugu-language television channels
References
External links
ABN Andhra Jyothi official website
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Hyderabad
Telugu-language television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Andhra Pradesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Warlock%20of%20Firetop%20Mountain%20%28video%20game%29 | The Warlock of Firetop Mountain is an action game published by Crystal Computing in 1984 for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It is loosely based on the adventure gamebook of the same name (the first in the Fighting Fantasy series) written by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone, and published by Puffin Books in 1982.
The game was sold both as a regular cassette-only release, and (at a higher price) as a "software pack" edition that included a copy of the original Fighting Fantasy title.
Gameplay
As a third-person arcade adventure game, the player takes the role of an adventurer on a quest to find the treasure of a powerful warlock, hidden deep within Firetop Mountain. The treasure is stored in a chest with fifteen locks, with the keys guarded by various monsters (e.g. orcs, slime moulds and spiders) in the dungeons of Firetop Mountain. The adventurer (equipped with a bow and a sword) must attempt to retrieve the keys, with an added feature (over the game's predecessor, Halls of the Things) being the ability to open and close doors to block the path of pursuing monsters. Gameplay varies with each new game as the maze is randomly generated.
Development
The Warlock of Firetop Mountain was announced in issue two of Micro Adventurer magazine, which published a feature on the expansion of Penguin Books children's imprint Puffin into the science fiction software market with the video game The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, hoping to emulate the success of the book title. The game was announced as the first in the "Puffin Personal Computer Collection" line together with three other unrelated titles (based on science fiction titles by author Peter K. McBride).
Puffin contracted Crystal Computing, who had developed the fantasy game Halls of the Things, to create the game. Game designer simon Brattel stated "We ended up doing it quite by accident — we simply bumped into Steve Jackson, one of the authors of the book, in Currys one day — we got talking, he came back and looked at Halls and liked it."
According to hidden text within the game's code the developers only had three weeks to complete the project. The Peter Andrew Jones artwork for the original title was used for the video game cover.
Puffin Books briefly continued the trend of adapting the Fighting Fantasy titles into video games, with early titles The Citadel of Chaos and The Forest of Doom being released for the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 respectively.
Reception
ZX Computing described the game as simply a "variation" of Halls of the Things, but praised the inclusion of the book as it encouraged children to read. Micro Adventurer also commented on the similarities, stating that "it is so similar that it would be pointless buying both games".
CRASH magazine criticized the control scheme (the number of control keys and the developer's decision to use the horizontally adjacent N and M keys to move the player's character up and down) but also claimed the game less difficult and confusing, and w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITAC%20S-810 | The HITAC S-810 is a family of vector supercomputers developed, manufactured and marketed by Hitachi. The S-810, first announced in August 1982, was the second Japanese supercomputer, following the Fujitsu VP-200 (July 1982) but predating the NEC SX-2 (April 1983). The S-810 was Hitachi's first supercomputer, although the company had previously built a vector processor, the IAP.
The first system shipped was a top-end S-810/20 model, which was delivered to the University of Tokyo's Large Computer Center in October 1983. The S-810 was succeeded as Hitachi's top-end supercomputer by the HITAC S-820 announced in July 1987.
Architecture
The S-810 implements a Hitachi-designed extension of the IBM System/370 instruction set architecture with 83 vector instructions (80 in the S-810/5 and S-810/10). The vector instructions are register-to-register, meaning that they do not directly reference memory. The scalar processor is a Hitachi HITAC M-280H mainframe with a 28 nanosecond (ns) cycle time (clock rate of approximately 35.71 MHz). In the S-810/20, there are 32 scalar registers, whereas the other models have 16. In all models, the scalar processor has a large 256 kilobyte cache.
The vector processor has a 14 ns cycle time (clock rate of approximately 71.43 MHz). The vector registers are 256 elements wide, and each element is 64 bits wide. The S-810/20 has 32 of these registers, whereas the other models have 16. These registers are implemented with 1 kilobit (Kbit) bipolar RAM integrated circuits (ICs) with a 4.5 ns access time. All models have eight 256-bit vector mask registers and 48 vector address registers. All models have three load pipelines and one load/store pipeline for accessing the main memory. The S-810/20 has two lanes, each with two add, one multiply followed by add, and one multiply or divide followed by add floating point pipelines, for a total of twelve. The S-810/10 has one lane with the same configuration as the S-810/20 and therefore a total of six pipelines. CPU logic is implemented with two emitter-coupled logic gate array IC types, a 550-gate part with a 250 picosecond (ps) gate delay and a 1,500-gate part with a 450 ps gate delay.
The main memory is implemented with 16 Kbit complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor static random access memory ICs with an access time of 40 ns. The S-810/20 supports 64 to 256 megabyte (MB) of main memory, whereas the other models support 32 to 128 MB.
Models
There were three models, the low-end S-810/5, the mid-range S-810/10, and the top-end S-810/20. They differ in the number of vector pipelines installed, the number of scalar registers, the number vector registers, and the amount of memory supported. Hitachi claimed that the S-810/5's peak performance was 160 MFLOPS, the S-810/10's was 315 MFLOPS, and the S-810/20's was 630 MFLOPS.
See also
HITAC S-820
HITAC S-3000
Supercomputing in Japan
References
http://museum.ipsj.or.jp/en/computer/super/0007.html
R.W. Hockney; C.R. Jesshope (1988 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITAC%20S-820 | The HITAC S-820 is a family of vector supercomputers developed, manufactured and marketed by Hitachi. Announced in July 1987, it was Hitachi's second supercomputer, succeeding the HITAC S-810. The S-820 is categorized as a second generation Japanese supercomputer.
The S-820 system has both a scalar and vector processor, similar to the architecture of the S-810. The scalar processor is based on the Hitachi M-series mainframe processor, so is compatible with its operating system. The S-820 was reported to have a theoretical peak performance of 2 GFLOPS, and a theoretical maximum computational performance of 3 GFLOPS.
Initially the S-820 was available in two variations: the S-820 model 80 and the S-820 model 60 (hereafter S-820/80 and S-820/60). The S-820/80 had double the vector computational capability, as well as more storage capability, compared to the S-820/60. The peak performance of the S-820/80 was 3 GFLOPS, and that of the S-820/60 as 1.5 GFLOPS.
There were five models. The first two, the mid-range S-820/60 with a peak performance of 1.5 GFLOPS and the top-end S-820/80 with a peak performance of 3.0 GFLOPS, were announced in July 1987. These two models differ in the number of vector pipelines installed. In May 1988, the S-820/20 and S-820/40 were announced, followed by the S-820/15 in November 1989.
A team from the Institute for Supercomputing Research (Tokyo) and the Los Alamos National Laboratory benchmarked the S-820/80 against the similar generation NEC SX-2 and Cray X-MP/416, as well as the S-810, during early 1988. They concluded that the S-820 was "a great deal faster in vector mode than any other supercomputer we have measured".
See also
HITAC S-810
HITAC S-3000
Supercomputing in Japan
References
Hitachi supercomputers
Vector supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HITAC%20S-3000 | The HITAC S-3000 is a former family of vector supercomputers, which was developed, manufactured and marketed by Hitachi. Announced in April 1992, the family succeeded the HITAC S-820. The S-3000 family comprised the low-end and mid-range S-3600 models and the high-end S-3800 models. Unlike Hitachi's previous generations of supercomputers, the S-3000 family was marketed outside Japan.
The S-3600 was an improved version of the S-820 implemented in more modern semiconductor technology. The S-3800 was a new design, differing significantly from the previous generations. It was a parallel vector processor and supported one to four vector processors.
In 1994, the S-3000 family was complemented by an MPP machine that used superscalar microprocessors, the SR2001. Hitachi eventually discontinued development of vector supercomputers in favor of this approach. The S-3000 family was replaced in 2000 by the SR8000, making it the last vector supercomputer from Hitachi.
The CPU architecture of HITACHI S-3800 Series was based on IBM System/370, and compatible with Hitachi's mainframe systems. It supported two operating systems: OSF/1 Unix and Hitachi's own VOS3 (a fork of IBM MVS).
See also
HITAC S-810
HITAC S-820
Hitachi SR2201
Hitachi SR8000
Supercomputing in Japan
References
Hitachi supercomputers
Vector supercomputers
Mainframe computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome%20Burg | Jerome (Jerry) Stuart Burg (August 2, 1935 – May 13, 2004) was a financial advisor and radio personality in the Arizona area, but was nationally known, appearing on network news programs such as 60 Minutes and being quoted in national publications, including USA Today and The Wall Street Journal.
Burg attended the New York Military Academy and Temple University, after which he worked in the insurance industry, residing in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. During that time he became the President of the Jersey Devils of the Eastern Hockey League. He moved to Scottsdale, Arizona in 1979, pursuing a financial planning practice. While working for the Acacia Group, he was a radio talk show host for more than ten years with shows on KFYI and KFNN, most notably KFNN's drive-time program, Money Talks.
Burg had a rare condition known as multiple system atrophy for seven years before his death.
References
External links
The Eastern Hockey League
1935 births
2004 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcim | Sorcim Corporation was an early start-up company in Silicon Valley, founded in June 1980 by Richard Frank, Paul McQuesten, Martin Herbach, Anil Lakhwara, and Steve Jasik - all former Control Data Corporation employees working in the Language Group in Sunnyvale, CA. Jasik left company early on, to develop the MacNosy product for the Macintosh.
Sorcim was best known for SuperCalc, a spreadsheet the company developed for the Osborne Computer Corporation portable computer. The company made many other products, including SuperWriter and SuperProject before its acquisition by Computer Associates in 1985. Although the company continued as a largely autonomous division of CA, it never again achieved prominence after the acquisition.
The company was named "Sorcim" after Richard Frank saw a reflection of the word “micros” in an airplane window.
Early history
The company was founded to expand the microcomputer products from Digicom, a company formed by Richard in 1978. Paul joined in 1979. The Digicom software programs ran on the CP/M operating system using the Intel 8080, 8085 and later the 8086, Zilog Z80 and the Z8000. The company's early products included Pascal/M, and ACT - a set of cross assemblers including one for the Atari (8080) and the Commodore PET (6502).
In these early days of the company, and before the introduction of the IBM PC and MS-DOS, Sorcim used Godbout S100 bus CP/M machines for development; these machines were fast and the people at Godbout were competent hardware developers. Bill Godbout was one of the first commercial accounts for Sorcim, supporting the company's cross assemblers and Pascal/M. In fact at one time Godbout helped relieve a short-term cash flow problem by doing a one-time buy of development tool products. "Bill was one of those people who always provided you an honest opinion (sometimes to the dismay of Sorcim managers) and great Friday lunch meetings."
The birth of SuperCalc
In 1980 at one of the local monthly computer industry poker parties, Bill Godbout introduced Richard Frank to Adam Osborne. Lee Felsenstein was developing the industry's first portable computer for Adam's new company, and he needed a CP/M BIOS. This computer was released as the Osborne 1.
In late Fall of 1980, Adam was looking for a spreadsheet for the Osborne 1. His efforts to acquire rights to VisiCalc were disappointing, so he asked Sorcim if they would be interested in developing a spreadsheet that would be competitive with VisiCalc, and develop it in time to showcase it at the West Coast Computer Faire in April 1981. The company accepted the challenge, working days on contract programming (a CHILL compiler for Siemens) and nights on the Osborne BIOS and SuperCalc. With Martin Herbach as the lead architect, the company hired Gary Balleisen, as the lead developer, to implement a demo version of the application. Someone selected the name SuperCalc.
The product was introduced in April 1981 at the West Coast Computer Faire in the Osborne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20People%27s%20Television%20Network%20stations%20and%20channels | These are the channels of the People's Television Network in the Philippines.
PTV stations nationwide
Analog
Digital
PTV's upcoming expansion of its digital terrestrial television will be announced soon as possible in other key cities nationwide.
Digital affiliate stations
References
See also
People's Television Network
People's Television Network
Philippine television-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20in%20One | All in One or All-in-One may refer to:
Computing
All-in-one PC, a desktop computer with the monitor and computer in the same case
All-in-one printer or multifunction printer
ALL-IN-1, an office automation software package from Digital Equipment Corporation
MySAP All-in-One, business software from SAP
Power Macintosh G3 All-in-One
Other uses
All in One (film), a 1938 short film
All in One (Bebel Gilberto album)
All in One (Karen Clark Sheard album)
All in One (Whigfield album)
"All in One (5 Mics)", a song by Reks from Grey Hairs
"All in One", a 2021 song by Mirror
Laid-Back Camp: All-in-One!!, a 2023 Japanese mobile game developed by Enish for the anime series Laid-Back Camp
See also
AIO (disambiguation)
One-piece (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.9972 | G.9972 (also known as G.cx) is a Recommendation developed by ITU-T that specifies a coexistence mechanism for networking transceivers capable of operating over electrical power line wiring. It allows G.hn devices to coexist with other devices implementing G.9972 and operating on the same power line wiring.
G.9972 received consent during the meeting of ITU-T Study Group 15, on October 9, 2009, and final approval on June 11, 2010.
G.9972 specifies two mechanisms for coexistence between G.hn home networks and broadband over power lines (BPL) Internet access networks:
Frequency-division multiplexing (FDM), in which the available spectrum is divided into two parts: frequencies below 10 or 14 MHz (specific value can be selected by the access network) are reserved for the access network, while frequencies above them are reserved for the in-home network.
Time-division multiplexing (TDM), in which the available channel time is split equally between both networks. 50% of time slots are allocated for the access network, and 50% are allocated to the in-home network.
References
Networking standards
Network protocols
Open standards
International standards
Computer networks
ITU-T recommendations
ITU-T G Series Recommendations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Old%20Vicarage%2C%20Wakefield | The Old Vicarage in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England is a building dating from .
Located on Zetland Street, the building and surrounding car park are linked to a network of tunnels, believed to be used by non-conformists after the Act of Uniformity was passed in 1662.
The Old Vicarage is owned by the Wakefield County Conservative Association and is currently occupied by independent shops.
References
Buildings and structures in Wakefield
Clergy houses in England
Buildings and structures completed in 1349
Houses in West Yorkshire |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Carter%20%28comics%29 | Lee Carter is a British fantasy artist whose work has appeared in 2000 AD.
Work
Carter's "day job" is as a concept artist for computer games company Bizarre Creations.
His published comics work includes the Dead Eyes and Necrophim series for 2000 AD. He has also worked freelance for various fantasy gaming and roleplay publishers, such as Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, Fantasy Flight Games and Green Ronin.
Bibliography
Comics work includes:
"Necromachia" (with writer Liam Sharp, Event Horizon #1 and 2, Mam Tor Publishing, May, November 2005)
Fear the Dead: A Zombie Survivor's Journal (with writer Michael Alan Nelson, hardcover one-shot, Boom! Studios, April 2006)
"Witch Hunter" (with Andrew Cosby, in Cthulhu Tales #1, Boom! Studios, May 2006)
"Namesake" (with John Rogers, in Pirate Tales #1, Boom! Studios, October 2006)
Tharg's Terror Tales: "Bad Blood" (with Arthur Wyatt, in 2000 AD #1539, May 2007)
Dead Eyes: (with writers John Smith, in 2000 AD #1577-1588, March–May 2008)
The Darkness #75 (with Phil Hester, Top Cow, February 2009)
Necrophim (with Tony Lee):
"Prologue" (in 2000 AD #1628-1623, March–April 2009)
"Hell's Prodigal" (in 2000 AD #1655-1665, September–December 2009)
Mr Stuffins #1 (with writers Andrew Cosby/Johanna Stokes, Boom! Studios, April 2009)
"Militär and Klaus" (with Andi Ewington and 44 other artists, in Forty-Five, anthology graphic novel, Com.x, February 2010, )
Indigo Prime: "Perfect Day" (in 2000 AD #1880-1887, May 2014)
Durham Red: "Born Bad" (episodes 5–8, in 2000 AD #2086–2089, 2018)
Notes
References
Lee Carter at 2000 AD online
Lee Carter at Barney
Lee Carter at the Pen & Paper RPG DB
External links
Lee Carter's blog
Interviews
Artists from Liverpool
Games Workshop artists
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossgate%20AG | Crossgate AG was a multinational company which had developed a network approach to B2B transactions allowing for data to be transferred regardless of EDI system or EDI map. Crossgate's network approach attracted a partnership and investment from SAP SE.
On September 20, 2011 SAP acquired Crossgate.
The company was headquartered in Munich, Germany with field offices in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Waldbronn, Cologne, and Walldorf. As well as the four sites in Germany, Crossgate is represented with subsidiary branches in Atlanta (Crossgate, Inc.), London (Crossgate UK Ltd), Milan (Crossgate Italia S.p.A.) and Paris (Crossgate s.a.r.l.). Crossgate AG operated as a subsidiary of Otto Wolff von Amerongen Group.
History
Crossgate AG was founded as Indatex SCI GmbH in 2001 by Stefan Tittel. In 2006 Indatex SCI GmbH changed its name to Crossgate AG. That same year, Dietmar Hopp's son, founder and major shareholder of SAP SE became financially involved and Crossgate's operations were expanded.
On 14 October 2008, SAP SE announced at SAP TechED 2008 Berlin. that it has made a strategic investment by taking a minority stake in Crossgate, a business-to-business (B2B) integration service provider. This follows several deployments of Crossgate's B2B 360° Services, which utilizes SAP to enable mulltienterprise B2B integration (which SAP calls "business network transformation"), one of the fundamental points of SAP's future strategy. Financial details have not been disclosed but a SAP Executive Board Member has joined the Crossgate Supervisory Board.
On September 20, 2011 SAP acquired Crossgate for a three-digit million amount.
Shareholders
The main shareholders of Crossgate AG were the SAP founder's family Dietmar Hopp's son, Otto Wolff von Amerongen and the Al-Jomaih Investment Group.
Acquisitions
March 2, 2010 SAP Finally Makes a Decisive Move in the B2B Market
On 7 November 2006, Crossgate announced that it has acquired a majority interest in B&N Software, a developer of software components to support multienterprise process integration including M@gic EDDY.
References
External links
English Website
Software companies of Germany
Companies established in 2001
Companies based in Munich |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex%20Systems | Plex Systems, Inc. is a software company based in Troy, Michigan. The company develops and markets the Plex Manufacturing Cloud, a software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing ERP for manufacturing.
Overview
Plex Systems began as an internal IT project at an automotive parts manufacturer, MSP Industries Corporation, in 1989. The company was formed as Plexus Systems LLC in 1995 by Robert Beatty, providing client/server manufacturing software. The company began offering its software via the software as a service (SaaS) or cloud computing model when Plexus Online was launched in 2001.
In 2006 Apax Partners acquired a majority interest in the company. In 2009, the company changed its name to Plex Systems and renamed its flagship product Plex Online. On June, 2012, the company announced the acquisition from a group of share holders, including Apax Partners by Francisco Partners. In June 2012, Accel Partners invested $30 million in Plex: In June 2014, Plex secured $50 million in additional funding led by T. Rowe Price, which joined existing investors Francisco Partners and Accel Partners. The investment will be used to support expanded product development, as well as investments in marketing and sales. In June 2021, Plex was acquired by Rockwell Automation $2.22 billion in cash.
Aberdeen Group suggested in its "Aberdeen AXIS: ERP in Manufacturing 2009” report that Plex Systems was among the top four performing ERP vendors. Plex was the only ERP software solution provider placed entirely within the “Champion” performance category, just ahead of SAP AG. (There is evidence of Plex acting as a sponsor for Aberdeen Group so this report from Aberdeen may be biased) However, other vendors evaluated in the same report are also sponsors of Aberdeen Group.
Historically, the company has not released detailed financial information, citing its status as a privately held corporation. However, in May 2012, the company reported a revenue increase of 30.6% in the first quarter ending March 31, compared to a year earlier. Recurring revenue increased by 30.5 percent, representing the 19th consecutive quarter of growth."
Plex is known as the first provider of a complete SaaS ERP solution for manufacturing companies. Several IT software bloggers have written about Plex’s ability to provide a wide scope of critical features for manufacturers in a SaaS model, where larger ERP vendors had not succeeded at the time.
The Plex Manufacturing Cloud
The Plex Manufacturing Cloud is a software as a service (SaaS) or cloud application ERP that manages the manufacturing process and supports the functions of production, inventory, shipping, supply-chain management, quality, accounting, sales, and human resource departments, in addition to the traditional ERP roles of finance/accounting, procurement, human capital management, etc. Plex is targeted towards manufacturing industries with rigorous traceability, quality and food safety requirements, including automotive, aerospace, f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on Cocaine in free base form. More commonly available "powder cocaine" is a hydrochloride salt whose properties will differ.
Material Safety Data Sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommend that you seek the Material Safety Datasheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directions.
Structure and properties
Thermodynamic properties
Spectral data
External links
Nuclear magnetic resonance and molecular orbital study of some cocaine analogues, includes superposition and overlay of cocaine, cocaine derivatives, and their minimum energy values.
Conformational changes in dopamine transporter intracellular regions upon cocaine binding and dopamine translocation, thorough-going elucidation of exact mechanism and mode of action specific to cocaine at the dopamine transporter.
Genome Wide Analysis of Chromatin Regulation by Cocaine Reveals a Novel Role for Sirtuins
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPGA-LD | WPGA-LD (channel 50) is a low-power television station in Macon, Georgia, United States, affiliated with the news-formatted digital multicast network Scripps News. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Perry-licensed MeTV affiliate WPGA-TV (channel 58). Both stations share studios on Forsyth Street in downtown Macon, while WPGA-LD's transmitter is located on GA 87/US 23/US 129 ALT (Golden Isles Highway), along the Twiggs–Bibb county line.
History
The station first signed on the air on April 13, 1998, as W52CL on channel 52; it originally operated as an owned-and-operated translator station of the Trinity Broadcasting Network. On July 14, 2004, the station changed its callsign to W50DA and moved to channel 50. In 2009, Register Communications (owner of then-ABC affiliate WPGA-TV) purchased the station from TBN for $6,000. In early September 2009, W50DA dropped TBN programming and announced that it would change its network affiliation to the Retro Television Network on October 12. The day after the switch, the station's callsign was changed to WPGA-LP.
WPGA-LP had a construction permit that was first issued to the station by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2006 to flash-cut its digital signal into operation, which would significantly increase its signal coverage; this permit expired in March 2009. In mid-August 2011, WPGA-LP changed its primary affiliation to This TV, which was previously carried on the second digital subchannel of WPGA-TV (which is now affiliated with MeTV).
In addition to This TV programming, WPGA-LP for a time once used to simulcast the WPGA-FM radio program Mix in the Morning, which also aired on WPGA-TV, sister radio station WPGA (980 AM) and WNEX (1400 AM), each weekday from 6:00 to 9:00 a.m.
On July 2, 2015, This TV moved back to WPGA-TV on DT3; subsequently, WPGA-LP went dark for an undetermined amount of time.
On July 14, 2021, WPGA-LP was licensed to begin digital operation, changing its call sign to WPGA-LD.
On October 26, 2021, after six years of silence, WPGA-LD returned to the air affiliating with the Atlanta-based 24 hour news network Newsy (now Scripps News).
Subchannels
References
External links
Scripps News affiliates
Story Television affiliates
PGA-LD
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Gray Television
1998 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
PGA-LD |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20robotics | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to robotics:
Robotics is a branch of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and computer science that deals with the design, construction, operation, and application of robots, as well as computer systems for their control, sensory feedback, and information processing. These technologies deal with automated machines that can take the place of humans in dangerous environments or manufacturing processes, or resemble humans in appearance, behaviour, and or cognition. Many of today's robots are inspired by nature contributing to the field of bio-inspired robotics.
The word "robot" was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), published in 1920. The term "robotics" was coined by Isaac Asimov in his 1941 science fiction short-story "Liar!"
Nature of robotics
Robotics can be described as:
An applied science – scientific knowledge transferred into a physical environment.
A branch of computer science –
A branch of electrical engineering –
A branch of mechanical engineering –
Research and development –
A branch of technology –
Branches of robotics
Adaptive control – control method used by a controller which must adapt to a controlled system with parameters which vary, or are initially uncertain. For example, as an aircraft flies, its mass will slowly decrease as a result of fuel consumption; a control law is needed that adapts itself to such changing conditions.
Aerial robotics – development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, aircraft without a human pilot aboard. Their flight is controlled either autonomously by onboard computers or by the remote control of a pilot on the ground or in another vehicle.
Android science – interdisciplinary framework for studying human interaction and cognition based on the premise that a very humanlike robot (that is, an android) can elicit human-directed social responses in human beings.
Anthrobotics – science of developing and studying robots that are either entirely or in some way human-like.
Artificial intelligence – the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it.
Artificial neural networks – a mathematical model inspired by biological neural networks.
Autonomous car – an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the human transportation capabilities of a traditional car
Autonomous research robotics –
Bayesian network –
BEAM robotics – a style of robotics that primarily uses simple analogue circuits instead of a microprocessor in order to produce an unusually simple design (in comparison to traditional mobile robots) that trades flexibility for robustness and efficiency in performing the task for which it was designed.
Behavior-based robotics – the branch of robotics that incorporates modular or behavior based AI (BBAI).
Bio-inspired robotics – making robots that are inspired by biological s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thud%20Ridge%3A%20American%20Aces%20In%20%27Nam | Thud Ridge: American Aces in 'Nam is a computer game published by Three-Sixty Pacific in 1988 for the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS.
Plot
Thud Ridge is a combat flight simulator that allows the player to pilot a Republic F-105 Thunderchief—a "Thud"—during the Vietnam War. The player must contend with enemy MiGs, SAMs, flak, and a MiG ace known as the Grey Ghost. Thud Ridge presents 10 missions, with the degree of simulation difficulty decided by selecting either Lieutenant, Captain, or Colonel level. The player earns the Bronze Star by completing Missions 1 through 3, the Silver Star and a promotion to Colonel upon completion of Missions 4 through 6, and membership in the Wild Weasel Thud Drivers if the player accomplishes all ten missions.
Gameplay
This game has few commands to learn in order to operate the aircraft. There is no digitized sound, just tinny beeps that indicate actions such as weapons firing. The player handles control of the aircraft by joystick, keyboard, or keypad. The player uses the joystick or keypad to direct the jet’s flight; the keyboard allows the player to input other control commands. The game possesses four basic screens, each offering different aspects of the jet's flight. One screen allows the player to view the aircraft functions screen. The main display presents a real-time view of the player's Thud and the geography of the area over which the plane is flying, as well as weapons and firing information. The plane has an automatic weapons cursor, the shape of which determines the weapon in use. The Engine Function Panel can appear below the real-time graphics display, and presents factors such as the engine and nozzle temperatures and fuel levels on gauges. Other data includes the plane's throttle, an afterburner indicator, the elapsed time of the mission, a radar-lock warning, and a graphic display of the Thud and the weapons remaining aboard. Also available is a screen that shows where SAM installations are located and a map screen.
Reception
The game was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #151 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 3 out of 5 stars. A 1992 Computer Gaming World survey of wargames with modern settings gave the game two stars out of five.
Reviews
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt) - Nov, 1989
Computer Gaming World - Jun, 1991
See also
Thud Ridge
References
External links
Thud Ridge at MobyGames
Thud Ridge at GameFAQs
Thud Ridge at GameSpot
Review in Info
1988 video games
DOS games
Commodore 64 games
Flight simulation video games
Three-Sixty Pacific games
Video games developed in the United States
Video games set in Vietnam
Vietnam War video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KazRENA | Kazakhstan Research & Education Networking Association (KazRENA) is a nonprofit organization established in August 2001 with the goal of resolving the digital divide problem in the Republic of Kazakhstan by developing a unified infrastructure of the research and educational computer network.
KazRENA is a participant of the NATO Virtual Silk Highway Project along with representatives of Central Asian and Caucasus states.
KazRENA provides Universities, Colleges, Scientific and Research Centers, Libraries, Museums, and NGOs of Kazakhstan with high-speed Internet access.
References
Education in Kazakhstan
Internet in Kazakhstan
National research and education networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIL-STD-1397 | MIL-STD-1397 standard was issued by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to define "the requirements for the physical, functional and electrical characteristics of a standard I/O data interface for digital data." The MIL-STD-1397 classification types A, B and D apply specifically to the Naval Tactical Data System (NTDS).
Overview
Types
MIL-STD-1397 defines several 'Types' (A to K)
Type A (NTDS Slow)- Parallel data transfer of up to 41667 words per second on one cable.
Type B (NTDS Fast) - Parallel data transfer of up to 250000 words per second on one cable.
Type C (ANEW) - Parallel data transfer of up to 250000 words per second on one cable.
Type D (NTDS Serial) - Asynchronous serial data transfer using 10 Mbit/s data rate.
Type E (NATO Serial) - Asynchronous serial data transfer at 10Mbit/s, with 300000 words/sec in burst mode, or 175000 words/sec in single transfer mode. Type E is derived from STANAG 4153. Type E uses Bi-Phase Modulation [Manchester II phase encoding]. The impedance is 50 ohms + 5 ohms, a 50 ohm Triaxial cable is defined [center conductor is the signal, the other two are shields]. MIL-C-17/134 cable is used for lengths up to 120 meters, MIL-C-17/135 is used for cable lengths up to 300 meters. The connectors are defined by MIL-C-49142 /01 and /02.
Type F - MIL-STD-1553 aircraft Manchester Byphase multiplex serial bus, 1 Mbit/s data rate.
Type G (RS-449 compatible with RS-232) - uses EIA449 / EIA232 implementation.
Type H (High Speed) - Parallel data transfer of up to 500,000 words per second on one cable.
Type I - Not specified.
Type J - Optical version
Type K (SCSI) - Based on SCSI-2.
Mechanical
Type D uses BNC coaxial connectors.
Type E uses TNC triaxial connectors.
Electrical Signalling
Type A - Binary voltage levels of 0 VDC (logic 1) and -15 VDC (logic 0)
Type B - Binary voltage levels of 0 VDC (logic 1) and -3 VDC (logic 0)
Type C - Binary voltage levels of 0 VDC (logic 1) and +3.5 VDC (logic 0)
Type D - Bipolar +/- 3.25 VDC nominal
Type E - Bipolar +/- 600mv
Type F -
Type G -
Type H -
Type I - Not specified.
Type J -
References
Military Standard, Input/Output Interfaces, Standard Digital Data, Navy Systems (MIL-STD-1397B), 3 March 1989
External links
MIL-STD-1397 and NTDS (Retrieved 14 October 2009)
Military of the United States standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen | ssh-keygen is a standard component of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol suite found on Unix, Unix-like and Microsoft Windows computer systems used to establish secure shell sessions between remote computers over insecure networks, through the use of various cryptographic techniques. The ssh-keygen utility is used to generate, manage, and convert authentication keys.
Overview
ssh-keygen is able to generate a key using one of three different digital signature algorithms. With the help of the ssh-keygen tool, a user can create passphrase keys for any of these key types. To provide for unattended operation, the passphrase can be left empty, albeit at increased risk. These keys differ from keys used by the related tool GNU Privacy Guard.
OpenSSH-based client and server programs have been included in Windows 10 since version 1803. The SSH client and key agent are enabled and available by default and the SSH server is an optional Feature-on-Demand.
Key formats supported
Originally, with SSH protocol version 1 (now deprecated) only the RSA algorithm was supported. As of 2016, RSA is still considered strong, but the recommended key length has increased over time.
The SSH protocol version 2 additionally introduced support for the DSA algorithm. DSA is now considered weak and was disabled in OpenSSH 7.0.
Subsequently, OpenSSH added support for a third digital signature algorithm, ECDSA (this key format no longer uses the previous PEM file format for private keys, nor does it depend upon the OpenSSL library to provide the cryptographic implementation).
A fourth format is supported using ed25519, originally developed by independent cryptography researcher Daniel J. Bernstein.
Command syntax
The syntax of the ssh-keygen command is as follows:
ssh-keygen [options]
Some important options of the ssh-keygen command are as follows:
Files used by the ssh-keygen utility
The ssh-keygen utility uses various files for storing public and private keys. The files used by ssh-keygen utility are as follows:
$HOME/.ssh/identity: The $HOME/.ssh/identity file contains the RSA private key when using the SSH protocol version 1.
$HOME/.ssh/identity.pub: The $HOME/.ssh/identity.pub file contains the RSA public key for authentication when you are using the SSH protocol version 1. A user should copy its contents in the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote system where a user wants to log in using RSA authentication.
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa: The $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa file contains the protocol version 2 DSA authentication identity of the user.
$HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub: The $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.pub file contains the DSA public key for authentication when you are using the SSH protocol version 2. A user should copy its contents in the $HOME/.ssh/authorized_keys file of the remote system where a user wants to log in using DSA authentication.
$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa: The $HOME/.ssh/id_rsa file contains the protocol version 2 RSA authentication identity of the user. This file should not be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viva%20%28British%20and%20Irish%20TV%20channel%29 | Viva (stylised as VIVA) was a British free-to-air music television channel owned by Viacom International Media Networks Europe. The channel launched on 26 October 2009, replacing TMF, and ceased broadcasting on 31 January 2018.
History
The channel was officially launched on 26 October 2009 by Alexandra Burke, with an exclusive live performance of her single "Bad Boys". The first music video to be shown on Viva was Alphabeat's "The Spell" in The Official UK Chart Show Top 20 hosted by Sarah-Jane Crawford. It originally broadcast for 24 hours a day until Noggin was removed from the schedule and its hours were reduced to 6:00am – 9:00am. It was further reduced to 3:00am – 9:00am on 1 August 2011.
On 19 September 2011 the channel started broadcasting in the 16:9 picture format but the DOG was still set to the 4:3 picture format and appeared stretched; this was later fixed so it appears within the 4:3 safe zone. As with other Viacom channels, most 4:3 content has been stretched to 14:9.
Viva dropped its free-to-view encryption on satellite on 19 March 2013, before launching on the free-to-air platform, Freesat, on 2 April 2013.
On 8 October 2014, following the Viacom takeover of UK broadcaster Channel 5, it was announced that Viva would be removed from Freeview with all of its entertainment content moving to 5*. Its EPG slot was taken over by 5USA (which had moved from Freeview channel 31 for the launch of Spike) on 15 April 2015, with Viva moving to Freeview channel 74 and its broadcast hours changed to 9:00 to 11:00. The channel still broadcasts full-time on all other platforms.
As of 31 July 2015, Viva moved to Freeview channel 58, and was only available to viewers who had devices which are compatible with Freeview HD, Freeview Play, YouView or EE TV in certain areas of the UK. It broadcast from 9:00 until 11:00. It moved once again on Freeview on 2 October 2015 from Channel 58 to 57. Following the establishment of a stream sharing capacity with 5USA +1, Viva extended to broadcast between 5:00am and 6:00pm on digital terrestrial television.
Closure
Viva ceased broadcasting on all platforms at 6:00am on 31 January 2018, with the final music video shown was Spice Girls' "Viva Forever". A day before, it was removed from Freesat, and the network's website was redirected to the MTV charts webpage. From 1 February, DTT's channel 57 began carrying a part-time placeholder broadcast of 5Spike +1. The 5am-6pm hours previously used by Viva were now used to extend 5USA +1 into daytime. Throughout February 2018, the temporary Valentine's Day-focused MTV Love network replaced it on Sky and Virgin Media, before being replaced by now defunct channel MTV OMG from 1 March 2018.
Former programming
As well as music videos, Viva previously showed programmes from other Viacom channels including MTV, Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and Channel 5.
Catfish: The TV Show (2013–15)
Pretty Little Liars (2010–13)
Brooke Knows Best
Celebrity Deathmatch
The City (2009–12)
Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20Computing%20Project%20for%20NMR | The Collaborative Computing Project for NMR (CCPN) is a project that aims to bring together computational aspects of the scientific community involved in NMR spectroscopy, especially those who work in the field of protein NMR. The general aims are to link new and existing NMR software via a common data standard and provide a forum within the community for the discussion of NMR software and the scientific methods it supports. CCPN was initially started in 1999 in the United Kingdom but collaborates with NMR and software development groups worldwide.
The Collaborative Project for the NMR Community
The Collaborative Computing project for NMR spectroscopy was set up in with three main aims; to create a common standard for representing NMR spectroscopy related data, to create a suite of new open-source NMR software packages and to arrange meetings for the NMR community, including conferences, workshops and courses in order to discuss and spread best-practice within the NMR community, for both computational and non-computational aspects. Primary financial support for CCPN comes from the BBSRC; the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. CCPN is part of an array of collaborative computing projects (CCP) and follows in a similar vein to the successful and well-established CCP4 project for X-ray crystallography. CCPN is also supported by European Union grants, most recently as part of the Extend-NMR project; which links together several software producing groups from across Europe.
CCPN is governed by an executive committee which draws its members from academics throughout the UK NMR community. This committee is chosen at the CCPN Assembly Meeting where all UK based NMR groups may participate and vote. The day-to-day work of CCPN, including the organisation of meetings and software development, is handled by an informal working group, coordinated by Ernest Laue at the University of Cambridge, which comprises the core group of staff and developers, as well as a growing number of collaborators throughout the world who contribute to coordinated NMR software development.
NMR Data Standards
The many different software packages available to the NMR spectroscopy community have traditionally employed a number of different data formats and standards to represent computational information. The inception of CCPN was partly to look at this situation and to develop a more unified approach. It was deemed that multiple, informally connected data standards not only made it more difficult for a user to move from one program to the next, but also adversely affected data fidelity, harvesting and database deposition. To this end CCPN has developed a common data standard for NMR, referred to as the CCPN data model, as well as software routines and libraries that allow access, manipulation and storage of the data. The CCPN system works alongside the Bio Mag Res Bank which continues to handle archiving NMR database depositions; the CCPN standard is for a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20termination%201 | Network Termination 1 (NT1) or Network Termination type 1 refers to equipment in an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) that physically and electrically terminates the network at the customer's premises. The NT1 network termination provides signal conversion and timing functions which correspond to layer 1 of the OSI model. In a Basic Rate Interface, the NT1 connects to line termination (LT) equipment in the provider's telephone exchange via the local loop two wire U interface and to customer equipment via the four wire S interface or T interface. The S and T interfaces are electrically equivalent, and the customer equipment port of a NT1 is often labelled as S/T interface. There are many types of NT1 available.
In the United States, the NT1 is considered customer-premises equipment (CPE) and is as such generally provided by the customer or integrated into the customer's equipment. In this case, the U interface is the termination point of the ISDN network. In Europe, the NT1 is generally provided by the provider, and the S/T is the termination point of the ISDN network.
References
Integrated Services Digital Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERIPAX | ERIPAX (ERICSSON Packet Switching Exchange) was a suite of packet switched network products and services that was introduced in 1983 by Ericcson. It worked primarily over the X.25 standard, but X.28 and X.75 protocols were also used. It also supported TCP/IP and SNA network sessions, and eventually also worked over Frame Relay. The concentrators were Ericsson, but IBM equipment was frequently part of an ERIPAX solution.
References
Network protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Campbell-Kelly | Martin Campbell-Kelly FCBS FLSW is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick who has specialised in the history of computing.
Campbell-Kelly has served on the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing journal. He is a committee member of the Computer Conservation Society, a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, and is a Gresham College lecturer.
In 2011, Campbell-Kelly was elected a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.
Education
Campell-Kelly was educated at Sunderland Polytechnic where he was awarded a PhD in 1980 on the Foundations of computer programming in Britain 1945–1955.
Research
Campbell-Kelly has authored, edited numerous books and journal articles on the history of computing.
References
External links
Martin Campbell-Kelly on ResearchGate
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Sunderland
English computer scientists
21st-century English historians
Historians of science
Historians of technology
Computer science writers
Academics of the University of Warwick
Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20correspondence%20analysis | In statistics, multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) is a data analysis technique for nominal categorical data, used to detect and represent underlying structures in a data set. It does this by representing data as points in a low-dimensional Euclidean space. The procedure thus appears to be the counterpart of principal component analysis for categorical data. MCA can be viewed as an extension of simple correspondence analysis (CA) in that it is applicable to a large set of categorical variables.
As an extension of correspondence analysis
MCA is performed by applying the CA algorithm to either an indicator matrix (also called complete disjunctive table – CDT) or a Burt table formed from these variables. An indicator matrix is an individuals × variables matrix, where the rows represent individuals and the columns are dummy variables representing categories of the variables. Analyzing the indicator matrix allows the direct representation of individuals as points in geometric space. The Burt table is the symmetric matrix of all two-way cross-tabulations between the categorical variables, and has an analogy to the covariance matrix of continuous variables. Analyzing the Burt table is a more natural generalization of simple correspondence analysis, and individuals or the means of groups of individuals can be added as supplementary points to the graphical display.
In the indicator matrix approach, associations between variables are uncovered by calculating the chi-square distance between different categories of the variables and between the individuals (or respondents). These associations are then represented graphically as "maps", which eases the interpretation of the structures in the data. Oppositions between rows and columns are then maximized, in order to uncover the underlying dimensions best able to describe the central oppositions in the data. As in factor analysis or principal component analysis, the first axis is the most important dimension, the second axis the second most important, and so on, in terms of the amount of variance accounted for. The number of axes to be retained for analysis is determined by calculating modified eigenvalues.
Details
Since MCA is adapted to make statistical conclusion out of categorical variables (such as multiple choices questions), the first thing one needs to do is to transform quantitative data (such as age, size, weight, day time, etc) into categories (using for instance statistical quantiles).
When the dataset is completely represented as categorical variables, one is able to build the corresponding so called completely disjunctive table. We denote this table . If persons answered a survey with multiple choices questions with 4 answers each, will have rows and columns.
More theoretically, assume is the completely disjunctive table of observations of categorical variables. Assume also that the -th variable have different levels (categories) and set . The table is then a matrix with all coe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20First | Network First is a wide-ranging documentary strand broadcast on ITV in the U.K. from January 1994 to December 1997, and was a part replacement for First Tuesday.
Unlike other documentary series on ITV such as World in Action, Network First, was not centred on current affairs or politics, but broadcast a range of one-off programmes covering various subjects such as biography, history, and science. Programmes were usually transmitted in the 22:40 slot after News at Ten, each usually running for an hour. The strand was not "owned" by any one ITV franchise, and individual programmes were contributed by the various ITV companies.
As a strand, Network First never became a household "name" - unlike the likes of World in Action or This Week - possibly because of its diverse subject matter. The series appears to have been dropped quietly by ITV in the lead up to the high-profile axing of both World in Action on 7 December 1998 and News at Ten on 5 March 1999.
External links
Network First at the British Film Institute.
1990s British documentary television series
1994 British television series debuts
1997 British television series endings
ITV documentaries
Carlton Television
English-language television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
Television shows produced by Central Independent Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ORCATS | ORCATS (Operational Research Computerised Allocation of Tickets to Services) is a large centralised legacy computer system used on passenger railways in Great Britain. It is used for real time reservation and revenue sharing on interavailable tickets between train operating companies (TOCs). The system is used to divide ticket revenue when a ticket or journey involves trains operated by multiple TOCs. The system was owned by British Rail, and is now managed by the Rail Delivery Group.
History
Before nationalisation, a similar function was carried out by the Railway Clearing House.
References
Centralized computing
Information technology organisations based in the United Kingdom
Legacy systems
Passenger rail transport in the United Kingdom
Public transport information systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linker | Linker or linkers may refer to:
Computing
Linker (computing), a computer program that takes one or more object files generated by a compiler or generated by an assembler and links them with libraries, generating an executable program or shared library
GNU linker, the classic GNU Project's implementation of the Unix linker command ld
Dynamic linker, the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries for an executable program at run time
People
Amy Linker (born 1966), American actress
Zita Linker (1917–2009), Israeli politician
Eduard Linkers (1912–2004), an Austrian actor
Biology
Linker DNA, the part of a genomic DNA strand that connects two nucleosomes
Polylinker or multiple cloning site, a short segment of DNA with many restriction sites
Signal transducing adaptor protein, proteins that provide mechanisms by which receptors can amplify and regulate downstream effector proteins
Linker of activated T cells, a protein in the biochemical signaling path transferring signals from T cell antigen receptors
B-cell linker, a human gene that encodes a linker protein related to B cells
Linker peptide, a flexible part of a peptide between relatively rigid structural domains.
Other uses
Inflation-indexed bond or linker, bonds for which the principal is indexed to inflation
See also
Link (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%20and%20Load | Lock and Load or Lock 'N Load may refer to:
Games
Lock 'n Load (tabletop game)
Lock & Load: Character Primer for Iron Kingdoms
Lock 'n Load Publishing, of board and computer games
Music
Lock 'n Load (album), a comedy album by Denis Leary
Lock 'n' Load (duo), a Dutch music duo who had a number one UK Independent Single in 2000
T·O·S (Terminate on Sight) or Lock and Load, an album by G-Unit
Lock & Load, an album by Leslie Fish
"Lock and Load", a song by Bob Seger from It's a Mystery
"Lock and Load", a song by Lil Wayne from Tha Carter II
"Lock and Load", a song by The Mess Hall from Feeling Sideways
"Lock and Load", a song by Snapper from A.D.M.
"Lock & Load", a song by Bone Crusher from AttenCHUN!
"Lock-n-Load", a song by Layzie Bone from Thug by Nature
"Lock and Load" a song on the Devil May Cry Original Soundtrack
Television
Lock 'N Load (TV series), about gun enthusiasts
Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey, about weapon history
"Lock & Load", a 2006 episode of The Colbert Report
"Lock and Load, Babe", an episode of Vanishing Son |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Segel | David Alexander Segel (born April 10, 1964) is an American businessman, investor and philanthropist. Segel is a founding partner at Mako Global, Mpower Pictures and Structured Data Intelligence, creator of the Video Genome Project.
Early life and education
Segel grew up in Connecticut, Chicago and New York, graduating from Yale University in 1986 with a B.A. in Physics and Philosophy.
In 1992, Segel moved to London, England, where he lived for 16 years before returning to the US in 2008.
Career
Segel began his career in New York as an options market maker and open outcry trader.
Segel has traded as a member of the Coffee Sugar Cocoa Exchange, the Pacific Stock Exchange, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, and the Eurex Exchange.
In 1999 Segel founded a London-based derivatives trading firm Mako Global, a leader in market making of pricing and risk in stocks, bonds, commodities and financial exchange derivatives across major markets.
Segel began investing in media interests in 2007, founding Mpower Pictures with Steve McEveety, John Shepherd and Todd Matthew Burns.
Segel has served as Producer and Executive Producer on several motion pictures. Segel's most recent credits include acting as Executive Producer for Man Down (film) and The Dropbox Film (2015), as well as, Executive Producer of The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008) which won several awards including the Los Angeles Film Festival "Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature" and producer of the film Snowmen (2011).
Segel co-founded Structured Data Intelligence with Xavier Kochhar and created The Video Genome Project which “...discovers, ingests, refines and understands the component data and metadata elements of film, television, and online video records." In 2016 The Video Genome Project was acquired by Hulu.
In 2014 Segel launched Telescope Mag a digital-only magazine and website, nominated by the International Digital Magazine Awards for "Specialty Magazine of the Year".
Philanthropy
Segel founded The Promise Fund, managed through National Christian Foundation, to promote positive social values.
Segel is an advisory board member for Yale Divinity School, a Patron of We See Hope, a board member of Alpha International and board member of the Eastern Congo Initiative, an American nonprofit founded by Ben Affleck and Whitney Williams in 2010 as "the first U.S. based advocacy and grant-making initiative wholly focused on working with and for the people of eastern Congo”.
Personal life
Segel is an avid sailor and leads a racing campaign in the Nautor Swan class of sailing yachts out of Southampton, England.
A licensed pilot, Segel operates an ex-RAF Short Tucano as well as an off-field Carbon Cub SS.
Along with adventurer Alan Chambers (explorer) MBE and team, Segel trekked on skis 100 miles across the polar ice cap to reach the geographic North Pole. In 2010, he completed an expedition through the Northwest Passage, navig |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwdown%20%28Glee%29 | "Throwdown" is the seventh episode of the American television series Glee. The episode premiered on the Fox network on October 14, 2009. It was directed by series creator Ryan Murphy and written by Brad Falchuk. The episode includes a clash between glee club director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison) and cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) when she is named co-director of the glee club. As Sue tries to divide the club by turning the students against Will, his wife Terri (Jessalyn Gilsig) blackmails her OB/GYN into colluding with her over her fake pregnancy.
The episode features covers of five songs. Studio recordings of four of the songs performed were released as singles, available for digital download, and were also included on the album Glee: The Music, Volume 1. "Throwdown" was watched by 7.65 million US viewers and received mixed reviews from critics. The pregnancy storyline was criticized by both Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly and Shawna Malcom of the Los Angeles Times. Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal was unimpressed by Quinn's solo performance of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On", though the group performance of "Keep Holding On" was generally better received by reviewers. Lynch as Sue in particular was widely praised, with Flandez and Zap2it's Liz Pardue both writing that Lynch gave an Emmy-worthy performance.
Plot
When cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester (Jane Lynch) is named co-director of the McKinley High glee club, she divides the group in two, hoping to turn the students against director Will Schuester (Matthew Morrison). Sue takes the minority students—Santana (Naya Rivera), Artie (Kevin McHale), Kurt (Chris Colfer), Tina (Jenna Ushkowitz), Mike (Harry Shum, Jr.), Mercedes (Amber Riley) and Matt (Dijon Talton)—for her group but only calls one of them by their normal name: Santana, “Wheels”, “Gay Kid”, “Asian/Other Asian (Tina is Asian #1, Mike is Asian #2), “Aretha”, and “Shaft.” leaving Will with only Finn (Cory Monteith), Rachel (Lea Michele), Quinn (Dianna Agron), Puck (Mark Salling) and Brittany (Heather Morris) in his group. Sue names her part of the club "Sue's Kids" and manipulates them, saying Will is discriminating against the students by making them sing backup. Sue also steals the piano, and the band, and tells Will that she wants to take over McKinley because she has hatred of people with curly hair. Will retaliates by failing all of Sue's cheerleaders in Spanish, which only exacerbates their hostilities.
Quinn and Finn go together for her ultrasound appointment, and they learn that she is expecting a girl. Finn, trying to be supportive, suggests they name the baby Drizzle, but Quinn is adamant she is having it adopted and is annoyed at his lack of understanding. Will, tired of his wife Terri's (Jessalyn Gilsig) refusal to let him participate in the pregnancy, sets up an appointment with Terri's OB/GYN so he can see their own baby on the ultrasound. With the help of her sister Kendra (Jenn |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20the%20Black%20Hole%20%28video%20game%29 | Beyond the Black Hole is a computer game developed by The Software Toolworks and published in 1989 for the Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and MS-DOS, as well as for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1990 under the name Orb-3D.
Plot
The player is a scientific officer sent to investigate some strange phenomena. Using cartography orbs, the player must examine a variety of objects in space. Two rebound fields are located on the left and right side of the screen make certain the cartography orb is reflected back into the middle of the screen when it reaches the outermost edges of the current screen. The orbs require fuel as the player dives from the peak of orbit into the objects center-screen. The player garners points by striking an object with the orb. Pirates can steal fuel, and the player must maneuver the orb through the fueling pods to reach the service center itself.
Gameplay
Beyond the Black Hole is stereoscopic 3-D arcade game which comes with 3-D glasses. The player commands the "craft" through space using the keyboard, a joystick, or a mouse. The game is playable without the glasses, as the game uses motion, not color, to generate the 3-D effect.
Reception
Beyond the Black Hole was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #152 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. The reviewers gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. Compute! was less positive, stating that the game "is heavy on packaging and special effects and light on gameplay". The magazine hoped that "a more substantial game" would use the "impressive 3-D effect".
References
External links
Beyond the Black Hole at MobyGames
Beyond the Black Hole at GameSpot
Beyond the Black Hole at GameFAQs
1989 video games
Commodore 64 games
DOS games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
The Software Toolworks games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20verification%20language | A hardware verification language, or HVL, is a programming language used to verify the designs of electronic circuits written in a hardware description language. HVLs typically include features of a high-level programming language like C++ or Java as well as features for easy bit-level manipulation similar to those found in HDLs. Many HVLs will provide constrained random stimulus generation, and functional coverage constructs to assist with complex hardware verification.
SystemVerilog, OpenVera, e, and SystemC are the most commonly used HVLs. SystemVerilog attempts to combine HDL and HVL constructs into a single standard.
See also
OpenVera
e
SystemC
SystemVerilog
Property Specification Language
Python with cocotb
Scala with ChiselTest
References |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircom%20International | AIRCOM International is a telecom network management consultancy firm focusing on end-to-end network planning, sharing, outsourcing, and OSS optimization for IP and cellular networks. The company was founded in May 1995 and is headquartered in Leatherhead near London, with offices in 17 countries.
A privately held company, AIRCOM works with many wireless carriers to upgrade and optimize networks as they migrate from 2G to 3G to 4G to 5G. On 3 December 2013 TEOCO, a telecom software firm based out of Fairfax, Virginia, acquired Aircom International for an undisclosed amount.
Sources
Alcatel, Ericsson seen as Verizon upgrade vendors
Skinning the Cat of Mobile Data QoS
The Power of Going Green
Will networks get choked?
References
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-go | Q-go was a privately owned international company that specializes in semantic search SaaS, based on Natural Language Processing technology. The technology provides relevant answers to users in response to queries on a company's internet website or corporate intranet, formulated in natural sentences or keyword input alike. It integrates automatic statistical reporting of user query behavior for businesses that want to monitor what kinds of questions their customers are asking. This is in order to adjust content to provide the appropriate information for customers and to reduce the load on traditional customer service ports of call, such as call centers and answers by email. RightNow Technologies acquired Q-go for $34 million on January 18, 2011. Rightnow was subsequently acquired by Oracle Corporation.
Brief history
Q-go was founded in 1999. Its head office was based in Amsterdam, with further offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Bonn, Zurich, and New York City. It also had partnership presence in other countries.
Scope
The company's intuitive website search and question answering management system is currently available in a variety of languages, including English, Dutch, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan. Q-go has been implemented and deployed in a range of industries, including banking, insurance, pension, telecommunications and logistics, as well as several government agencies.
References
External links
Company Website
Search engine software
Internet search engines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20B.%20Pakman | David Pakman (born January 29, 1969, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is managing director at CoinFund, a blockchain-focused investment firm founded in 2015 with the goal of shaping the global transition to digital assets and decentralized finance. He focuses on early stage venture investments in all sectors of crypto. Previously, he was a Partner in Venrock's New York City office focused on early stage venture investing in consumer and enterprise internet companies. His investments include Dstillery, Smartling, Simbe Robotics, Dapper Labs/Flow/CryptoKitties, Rarible and Running Tide Technologies. He led the Series A and B rounds and sat on the board of Dollar Shave Club which was acquired by Unilever for $1 billion. He was a board member at Crunchyroll (acquired by The Chernin Group) and led Venrock's investment in Klout (acquired by Lithium Technologies).
Education and personal life
David Pakman is a graduate of and a former member of the Board of Overseers at University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science with a BSE (1991) degree in Computer Science Engineering and is an avid musician and songwriter.
In 2020 he was the drummer for When In Rome II on the first half of the SiriusXM Totally 80s Live Tour with The Motels and Bow Wow Wow and has played more dates with the band in 2021.
At Penn, Pakman's senior design project advisor was David J. Farber. He was the co-founder of Penn Engineering's Dining Philosophers, the computer science club that, at the time, was Penn's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery or the ACM.
Career
In 1991, Pakman joined Apple Inc.'s System Software Product Marketing group and later co-created Apple's Music Group. There he co-founded the Macintosh New York Music Festival and co-produced the then-largest industry webcast to-date, the 1997 GRAMMY Awards.
In 2003, Pakman joined Dimensional Associates, a private equity firm focused on acquiring distressed digital media companies. The firm bought eMusic from Vivendi Universal and Pakman became the COO. In 2005, Pakman became the CEO and grew eMusic to become, at that time, the world's leading digital retailer of independent music, second only to iTunes in number of downloads sold. In the three years that Pakman ran it, he grew the business by more than 850%, from $7M in revenues to more than $68M. Pakman transformed the business from an obscure also-ran with 50,000 subscribers to the second largest digital music retailer in the world, with more than 400,000 subscribers and more than 12% market share (according to the NPD Group).
Prior to joining eMusic, Pakman was co-founder and president of business development and public policy at Myplay, Inc., the company he co-founded in 1999 in Redwood City, California with Doug Camplejohn that introduced the "digital music locker" and pioneered the locker category. In 2001, Myplay was sold to Bertelsmann's ecommerce Group where Pakman bec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Air%20Travel%20Plan | Universal Air Travel Plan, Inc. (UATP) is a network that is dedicated to payments for travel related expenses such as carrier or hotel costs. It was established in 1936 as Air Travel Card.
Locations
Headquarters: Washington, D.C.
Regional offices: Los Angeles, New Delhi, Miami, São Paulo, Geneva, Beijing, Singapore, Tokyo
Products
Products offered:
UATP Corporate Card
Travel Protection Plans
UATP Settlement Services
UATP University
ATCAN
ATCAN-ICH
External links
Payment systems
Traveling business organizations
1936 introductions
Credit card issuer associations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble%20Complete | Scrabble Complete is a computer adaptation of the popular board game Scrabble by American studio Infogrames Interactive, Inc. Initially released in September 2002 for Microsoft Windows, the game has received generally favorable reviews.
Gameplay
The gameplay of Scrabble Complete is nearly identical to that of the board game. Like other computer adaptations of popular board games, Scrabble Complete has additional features which allow the game to be customized; Players have the ability to tilt the board in different directions to change the viewpoint of the game board. At the game menu, players can change the background, the board color and the music. The game offers support for the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and a hint system for novice Scrabble players.
In addition to the main stand-alone mode, Scrabble Complete offers network play. There are also several educational word games, such as word riddles and anagram search, included with Scrabble Complete. Some copies of the game also include the 1997 Boggle computer game as a bonus.
Reception
Reception to Scrabble Complete was generally favorable, with a 75.67% rating awarded by Gamerankings. GameSpot gave the game a score of 7.2, stating, "Scrabble Complete is basically just Scrabble, which, if you're a fan of the challenging board game it's based on, is a good thing."
References
2002 video games
Scrabble software
Video games developed in the United States
Windows games
Windows-only games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Infogrames games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanade%E2%80%93Lucas%E2%80%93Tomasi%20feature%20tracker | In computer vision, the Kanade–Lucas–Tomasi (KLT) feature tracker is an approach to feature extraction. It is proposed mainly for the purpose of dealing with the problem that traditional image registration techniques are generally costly. KLT makes use of spatial intensity information to direct the search for the position that yields the best match. It is faster than traditional techniques for examining far fewer potential matches between the images.
The registration problem
The traditional image registration problem can be characterized as follows: Given two functions and , representing pixel values at each location in two images, respectively, where is a vector. We wish to find the disparity vector that minimizes some measure of the difference between and , for in some region of interest .
Some measures of the difference between and :
L1 norm:
L2 norm:
Negative of normalized correlation:
Basic description of the registration algorithm
The KLT feature tracker is based on two papers:
In the first paper, Lucas and Kanade developed the idea of a local search using gradients weighted by an approximation to the second derivative of the image.
One-dimensional case
If is the displacement between two images and then the approximation is made that
so that
This approximation to the gradient of the image is only accurate if the displacement of the local area between the two images to be registered is not too large. The approximation to depends on . For combining the various estimates of at various values of , it is natural to average them:
The average can be further improved by weighting the contribution of each term to it, which is inversely proportional to an estimate of , where
For the purpose of facilitating the expression, a weighting function is defined:
The average with weighting is thereby:
Upon obtaining the estimate can be moved by the estimate of . The procedure is applied repeatedly, yielding a type of Newton–Raphson iteration. The sequence of estimates will ideally converge to the best . The iteration can be expressed by
An alternative derivation
The derivation above cannot be generalized well to two dimensions for the 2-D linear approximation occurs differently. This can be corrected by applying the linear approximation in the form:
to find the which minimizes the L2 norm measure of the difference (or error) between the curves, where the error can be expressed as:
To minimize the error with respect to , partially differentiate and set it to zero:
This is basically the same as the 1-D case, except for the fact that the weighting function And the iteration form with weighting can be expressed as:
Performance
To evaluate the performance of the algorithm, we are naturally curious about under what conditions and how fast the sequence of 's converges to the real .
Consider the case:
Both versions of the registration algorithm will converge to the correct for , i.e. for initial misregistrations as large |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20Scheme%20programming%20language | The history of the programming language Scheme begins with the development of earlier members of the Lisp family of languages during the second half of the twentieth century. During the design and development period of Scheme, language designers Guy L. Steele and Gerald Jay Sussman released an influential series of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) AI Memos known as the Lambda Papers (1975–1980). This resulted in the growth of popularity in the language and the era of standardization from 1990 onward. Much of the history of Scheme has been documented by the developers themselves.
Prehistory
The development of Scheme was heavily influenced by two predecessors that were quite different from one another: Lisp provided its general semantics and syntax, and ALGOL provided its lexical scope and block structure. Scheme is a dialect of Lisp but Lisp has evolved; the Lisp dialects from which Scheme evolved—although they were in the mainstream at the time—are quite different from any modern Lisp.
Lisp
Lisp was invented by John McCarthy in 1958 while he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). McCarthy published its design in a paper in Communications of the ACM in 1960, entitled "Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine, Part I" (Part II was never published). He showed that with a few simple operators and a notation for functions, one can build a Turing-complete language for algorithms.
The use of s-expressions which characterize the syntax of Lisp was initially intended to be an interim measure pending the development of a language employing what McCarthy called "m-expressions". As an example, the m-expression car[cons[A,B]] is equivalent to the s-expression . S-expressions proved popular, however, and the many attempts to implement m-expressions failed to catch on.
The first implementation of Lisp was on an IBM 704 by Steve Russell, who read McCarthy's paper and coded the eval function he described in machine code. The familiar (but puzzling to newcomers) names CAR and CDR used in Lisp to describe the head element of a list and its tail, evolved from two IBM 704 assembly language commands: Contents of Address Register and Contents of Decrement Register, each of which returned the contents of a 15-bit register corresponding to segments of a 36-bit IBM 704 instruction word.
The first complete Lisp compiler, written in Lisp, was implemented in 1962 by Tim Hart and Mike Levin at MIT. This compiler introduced the Lisp model of incremental compilation, in which compiled and interpreted functions can intermix freely.
The two variants of Lisp most significant in the development of Scheme were both developed at MIT: LISP 1.5 developed by McCarthy and others, and Maclisp – developed for MIT's Project MAC, a direct descendant of LISP 1.5. which ran on the PDP-10 and Multics systems.
Since its inception, Lisp was closely connected with the artificial intelligence (AI) research community, especi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketch%20recognition | Sketch recognition is the automated recognition of hand-drawn diagrams by a computer. Research in sketch recognition lies at the crossroads of artificial intelligence and human–computer interaction. Recognition algorithms usually are gesture-based, appearance-based, geometry-based, or a combination thereof.
See also
Gesture recognition
Handwriting recognition
Human–computer interaction
Multi-touch gestures
Pen computing
Sketch-based modeling
Tablet computer
References
External links
Notes on the History of Pen-based Computing (Youtube)
Annotated Bibliography in Tablets, Gesture and Handwriting Recognition, and Pen Computing
Human–computer interaction
History of human–computer interaction
Applications of computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DYBB-TV | DYBB-TV, channel 2, is a commercial television station owned by GMA Network Inc. in Kalibo, Aklan. Its transmitter are located at Barangay Bulwang, Numancia, Aklan.
GMA TV-2 Kalibo programs
One Western Visayas (Monday to Friday) - GMA Iloilo flagship newscast
GMA Regional TV Early Edition
See also
DYRU
DYXX-TV
List of GMA Network stations
GMA Network stations
Television stations in Aklan
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Kalibo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine%20Sailing | Jasmine Sailing is an author, events organizer, performer, music journalist, and editor-publisher of the magazine CyberPsychos AOD. She also organized the Death Equinox conventions in Denver, Colorado, where she resides. She debuted the CPAOD Books book line in 1995.
In the 1990s she performed in multiple music bands (as a synthesist and sometimes vocalist), including Futura Ultima Erotica, Goon Patrol, Ludicrous, and YHVH.
She was raised in the mountains of Colorado.
Sailing has been a guest at Readercon and World Horror Convention.
After running Death Equinox 2001 and publishing various books and another Cyber-Psychos AOD, Sailing put her regular projects on hiatus. She had serious health problems from untreated Graves' disease and Multiple sclerosis. She then recuperated while working on more simple projects. One of them was a Pair Go tournament called Te wo Tsunaide. It was the first Pair Go tournament in the United States outside of the US Go Congress, and during the first year she had support and guidance from Korean professional player and Go book author Janice Kim.
Publication history
The publications in which Sailing's works have appeared include:
The Mammoth Book of Historical Erotica
What the Fuck: the Avant-Porn Anthology
Morbid Curiosity
Q Zine – Puck
Mind Rot
Collective Cauldron
Bare Bone
Bloodsongs
Rebel Yell
References
External links
Jasmine Sailing's Ode to God
CPAOD Home Page
Bio
American erotica writers
American book editors
American magazine editors
Women magazine editors
Living people
Writers from Denver
1971 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob%20Rodgers | Bob Rodgers is a former sportscaster and producer who worked for the New England Sports Network from 1987 to 2004.
Rodgers joined NESN in 1987 as an associate producer. He became an on-camera personality in June 1993; co-hosting SportsDesk with Dawn Mitchell. In 1996 he became the host of the Boston Red Sox pre- and postgame shows. In addition to hosting, Rodgers served as a play-by-play announcer for NESN's coverage of the Pawtucket Red Sox and was the network's play-by-play announcer for the final six weeks of the 2000 Boston Red Sox season.
Rodgers won the station's first EMMY award for the groundbreaking morning show, Sportsdesk. He went on to win 5 more EMMY awards including the 2000 award for Outstanding Play by Play (Pedro Martinez fires a 1-hitter at Tampa Bay) and in 2002 (Derek Lowe's no-hitter).
Rodgers was fired by NESN in March 2004 after he left spring training without permission to coach the Whitman-Hanson Regional High School boys' basketball team in the state tournament.
Although Rodgers continues his broadcasting work on a freelance basis, he has worked full-time in education since September 2004 serving as a high school English and communications teacher. In June 2011 he took over as the athletic director at Whitman-Hanson Regional High School in a suburb of Boston. He is the winningest boys basketball coach in the history of the school with more than 400 wins since he took the reins in 2000. Under his direction the Panthers have won 9 league titles, 3 sectional championships and a state title in 2020. The team also earned the states number one ranking and amassed a school record 35 game winning streak spanning two seasons including an undefeated campaign during the covid year of 2021. Rodgers was named the Four Deep Sports Talk boys' basketball coach of the year for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons, an award given to the top high school coach in Southeastern Massachusetts. Rodgers has also coached basketball at Holbrook, Norwell and Silver Lake.
In addition to coaching basketball, Rodgers also coached high school baseball for many years becoming the youngest division 1 head coach in the state of Massachusetts in 1989 when he was hired to coach Silver Lake. He remained at Silver Lake until 2001. He did not coach baseball again until taking over at Hingham High School in 2009. In his three years at Hingham the Harbormen won 2 league titles. He also finished the 2012 baseball season at Whitman Hanson when a coach resigned during the season.
References
American television reporters and correspondents
Boston sportscasters
Television anchors from Boston
Boston Red Sox announcers
Living people
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXKY | WXKY (96.3 FM) is a radio station licensed to Stanford, Kentucky, which serves as an affiliate of the national K-LOVE Contemporary Christian radio network owned by the Educational Media Foundation. The station's transmitter is located in the far northeast corner of Casey County, west of Stanford and near Hustonville on Sand Knob Road.
Prior to being leased out, and later sold, to EMF, WXKY was a Stanford-based country music station as WRSL-FM, an adjunct to WRSL (1520 AM).
History
WRSL-FM
When WRSL-FM began operating on May 26, 1967, it was the first FM radio station in service between Lexington and Somerset. The establishment of the FM outlet allowed WRSL, a daytime-only radio station, to begin covering high school sporting events that took place after sunset. The launch of WRSL-FM, which began at 95.9 MHz, saw the formation of a simulcast with the AM station, with both stations broadcasting a country format; WRSL-FM would be one of the longest-running FM country outlets in central Kentucky. The station broadcast from WRSL's existing studios on US 27 north of town, with the FM transmitter being placed on the AM tower.
WRSL-FM signed on amidst a multi-year shift in ownership of the Lincoln-Garrard Broadcasting Company, which owned the AM and FM outlets. In 1965, before the company had applied for an FM station, W. G. Morgan, on whose own farmland the station facilities sat, sold his share to Calvin C. Smith; Smith became the full owner in 1969 by buying out Lanier Burchette.
The Gaskin family ran WRSL-AM-FM from 1976 to 1982, when health reasons forced Jim Gaskin to relinquish operations; owner Cal Smith then split the two stations' programming and operated WRSL-AM-FM until his death at the age of 55 from pancreatic cancer in 1987. His wife, Ruth, ran the station until she retired in 1994 and sold it to their son, John Smith.
Smith's time owning WRSL-FM was one of major change for the station. On June 30, 1995, WRSL-FM moved from 95.9 to 96.3 MHz, increased its power to 25,000 watts from 3,000, and activated its new transmitter on Sand Knob Road. The upgrade substantially increased its coverage area in central Kentucky, though no format changes were planned. The Sand Knob Road transmitter site was vandalized that December by two teenagers who stole equipment that formed WRSL-FM's studio-transmitter link.
WXKY
WRSL-FM became WXKY-FM, branded as "Kentucky's Maximum Country", on July 23, 2001, in a bid to play up its regional broadcast area. However, the station would not remain country for long. In January 2002, after being initially approached the year before, owner John Smith opted to lease the station to the Educational Media Foundation, which resulted in the Air 1 network being heard in central Kentucky for the first time; Smith noted that he thought his father, Cal, would have appreciated EMF's ministry, and that he hoped the change would further reinforce perceptions of WXKY-FM as a regional, not a Stanford, station. WXKY was sold in 2 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay%20network | A relay network is a broad class of network topology commonly used in wireless networks, where the source and destination are interconnected by means of some nodes. In such a network the source and destination cannot communicate to each other directly because the distance between the source and destination is greater than the transmission range of both of them, hence the need for intermediate node(s) to relay.
A relay network is a type of network used to send information between two devices, for e.g. server and computer, that are too far away to send the information to each other directly. Thus the network must send or "relay" the information to different devices, referred to as nodes, that pass on the information to its destination. A well-known example of a relay network is the Internet. A user can view a web page from a server halfway around the world by sending and receiving the information through a series of connected nodes.
In many ways, a relay network resembles a chain of people standing together. One person has a note he needs to pass to the girl at the end of the line. He is the sender, she is the recipient, and the people in between them are the messengers, or the nodes. He passes the message to the first node, or person, who passes it to the second and so on until it reaches the girl and she reads it.
The people might stand in a circle, however, instead of a line. Each person is close enough to reach the person on either side of him and across from him. Together the people represent a network and several messages can now pass around or through the network in different directions at once, as opposed to the straight line that could only run messages in a specific direction. This concept, the way a network is laid out and how it shares data, is known as network topology. Relay networks can use many different topologies, from a line to a ring to a tree shape, to pass along information in the fastest and most efficient way possible.
Often the relay network is complex and branches off in multiple directions to connect many servers and computers. Where two lines from two different computers or servers meet forms the nodes of the relay network. Two computer lines might run into the same router, for example, making this the node.
Wireless networks also take advantage of the relay network system. A laptop, for example, might connect to a wireless network which sends and receives information through another network and another until it reaches its destination. Even though not all parts of the network have physical wires, they still connect to other devices that function as the nodes.
This type of network holds several advantages. Information can travel long distances, even if the sender and receiver are far apart. It also speeds up data transmission by choosing the best path to travel between nodes to the receiver's computer. If one node is too busy, the information is simply routed to a different one. Without relay networks, sending an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gather/scatter%20%28vector%20addressing%29 | Gather/scatter is a type of memory addressing that at once collects (gathers) from, or stores (scatters) data to, multiple, arbitrary indices. Examples of its use include sparse linear algebra operations, sorting algorithms, fast Fourier transforms, and some computational graph theory problems. It is the vector equivalent of register indirect addressing, with gather involving indexed reads, and scatter, indexed writes. Vector processors (and some SIMD units in CPUs) have hardware support for gather and scatter operations, as do many input/output systems, allowing large data sets to be transferred to main memory more rapidly.
The concept is somewhat similar to vectored I/O, which is sometimes also referred to as scatter-gather I/O. This system differs in that it is used to map multiple sources of data from contiguous structures into a single stream for reading or writing. A common example is writing out a series of strings, which in most programming languages would be stored in separate memory locations.
Definitions
Gather
A sparsely populated vector holding non-empty elements can be represented by two densely populated vectors of length ; containing the non-empty elements of , and giving the index in where 's element is located. The gather of into , denoted , assigns with having already been calculated. Assuming no pointer aliasing between x[], y[],idx[], a C implementation is
for (i = 0; i < N; ++i)
x[i] = y[idx[i]];
Scatter
The sparse scatter, denoted is the reverse operation. It copies the values of into the corresponding locations in the sparsely populated vector , i.e. .
for (i = 0; i < N; ++i)
y[idx[i]] = x[i];
Support
Scatter/gather units were also a part of most vector computers, notably the Cray-1. In this case, the purpose was to efficiently store values in the limited resource of the vector registers. For instance, the Cray-1 had eight 64-word vector registers, so data that contained values that had no effect on the outcome, like zeros in an addition, were using up valuable space that would be better used. By gathering non-zero values into the registers, and scattering the results back out, the registers could be used much more efficiently, leading to higher performance. Such machines generally implemented two access models, scatter/gather and "stride", the latter designed to quickly load contiguous data. This basic layout was widely copied in later supercomputer designs, especially on the variety of models from Japan.
As microprocessor design improved during the 1990s, commodity CPUs began to add vector processing units. At first these tended to be simple, sometimes overlaying the CPU's general purpose registers, but over time these evolved into increasingly powerful systems that met and then surpassed the units in high-end supercomputers. By this time, scatter/gather instructions had been added to many of these designs.
x86-64 CPUs which support the AVX2 instruction set can gather 32-bit and 64-bit element |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Huh | Ben Huh is a South Korean-American internet entrepreneur and the former CEO of The Cheezburger Network, which at its peak in 2010 received 375 million views a month across its 50 sites.
Early life
Huh was born in Seoul, South Korea and grew up in Rancho Cordova, California, attending Cordova High School there. In 1999, Huh graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism, although English was not his first language. With regards to this, he said "I got a degree in a language I didn't speak because I felt something in the power of media that attracted me."
The Web's influence on journalism was growing, and Huh decided to go into a career in the Internet. He founded a web analytics company, which folded after 18 months. After that, he worked at three companies in six years.
In 2007, Huh started a blog for fun with his wife about living with a dog in Seattle. Later that year, there was a series of pet food recalls, and the company responsible took down their company website. Huh went through the company's cached files and found a PDF that outlined the company's customers, revenues, and facility locations. He posted this to his blog, and the post got linked around the internet. One of the links was from a site called I Can Has Cheezburger and Huh struck up a friendship with the two owners.
The Cheezburger Network
In September 2007, Huh connected with a group of angel investors to buy I Can Has Cheezburger. At the time, the site was getting viewed 500,000 times daily, which Huh notes was "fantastic for a cat picture site that nobody understood." He likes to joke that his investor pitch was "I would like to start a media company by buying a cat picture website. Can you give me $2.25 million?" Huh states that "we felt like that there was a pretty good possibility that we were buying into a cultural phenomenon, a shift in the way people perceived entertainment."
Currently, Huh runs Cheezburger, which received 375 million page views a month in 2011 across its 50 sites, including I Can Has Cheezburger, FAIL Blog, The Daily What, Know Your Meme, and Memebase. The content is user-generated, with users allowed to upload images and add text captions throughout its network of sites. The best are culled by Cheezburger employees and users and posted to the front pages daily. Although Huh does not reveal financial specifics, Wired speculated that the network makes $4 million in yearly revenue, which comes mainly from display ads, books, and merchandise. The Cheezburger Network has raised $30 million in venture funding in January 2011, currently employs 75 people, and has been profitable since its first quarter. They've released five books, two of which are New York Times bestsellers.
In 2012, Huh announced he was taking on a new project called Circa that wants to "reimagine the way you consume news." In April 2012, Circa raised $750K in Series A funding, before being shut down in 2015 and subsequently reopened under different ownership.
In |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevens%20v%20Kabushiki%20Kaisha%20Sony%20Computer%20Entertainment | Stevens v Kabushiki Kaisha Sony Computer Entertainment, was a decision of the High Court of Australia concerning the "anti-circumvention" provisions of the Copyright Act 1968. The appellant, Stevens, had sold and installed modchips that circumvented the Sony PlayStation's copy protection mechanism. Sony argued that Stevens had knowingly sold or distributed a "circumvention device" which was capable of circumventing a "technological protection measure", contrary to s 116A of the Copyright Act.
At first instance, the Federal Court (Sackville J) held that the relevant copy protection feature was not a "technological protection measure" and refused Sony's application for relief under s 116A. Sony successfully appealed the primary judge's decision in the Full Court of the Federal Court. The High Court then reversed the Full Court's decision, endorsing Sackville J's construction of the term "technological protection measure".
Background
The Applicant (Collectively described as "Sony") manufacture and distribute the Sony PlayStation computer game console and computer games on CD-ROMs for use with the Sony PlayStation console. Sony owns copyright of the computer programs embodied in the CD-ROMs of the games (as literary works under Part III of the Copyright Act 1968) and in the cinematograph films (as subject-matter other than works in Part IV of the Copyright Act 1968). In the manufacturing process, Sony embedded access control technology in the form of RAC's into all Sony's games. This worked in the way that once a Sony PlayStation game was inserted into a Sony PlayStation console, the console would only play Sony games with the corresponding regional code. If the ROM chip in the game console did not read a RAC or the RAC did not correspond with the console, then it would not play the disk.
This worked to block out illegally copied games, as when a game was conventionally copied to another CD ('burnt') it would not copy the RAC. However, the RAC also blocked legally copied disks and games legally purchased from different regional codes.
As a result of this, a market evolved for modifications ('mod chips'), which could override the RAC scan process in the game console, so that 'burnt' games could be used. Mr Stevens sold and installed 'mod chips' for use in PlayStation consoles, which overrode Sony's access control technology. Stevens carried out this activity in Sydney. In addition to this, Stevens, on two occasions sold unauthorised copies of Sony PlayStation games.
Federal Court and Appeals
In 2001, Sony commenced action in the Federal Court of Australia against Stevens, alleging inter alia that he breached s 116A of the Copyright Act 1968. The allegation was that the unlawful sale of devices (the 'mod chips') circumvented Technological Protection Measures (TPMs). Sony alleged that Steven's 'mod chips' circumvented a measure that protected the applicants' copyright in literary works (computer programs) and cinematograph films. Whether the 'mo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-oriented%20computing | Resource Oriented Computing (ROC) is a simple abstract computing model used for describing, designing, and implementing software and software systems. The fundamental idea behind ROC is derived from the World Wide Web, Unix, and other sources as well as original research conducted at HP Laboratories.
Fundamental concepts
Resource-oriented computing describes an abstract computing model. The fundamental idea is that sets of information known as resources are treated as abstracts; that is, a resource is a Platonic concept of the information that is the subject of a computation process.
Resources are identified by logical addresses (typically a URI) and processing is defined using compositions and sequences of resource requests.
At the physical level, a ROC system processes resource-representations, executes transformations and, in so doing, computes new resources. In this respect ROC is no different from any other computational model - computation is performed to collate and reveal new information.
The fundamental principles of ROC include:
Resource A resource is an abstract set of information.
Identity Each resource may be identified by one or more logical identifiers.
Resolution A logical identifier may be resolved within an information-context to obtain a physical resource-representation.
Computation Computation is the reification of a resource to a physical resource-representation.
Immutability Resource representations are immutable.
Transreption Transreption (short for transrepresentation) is the isomorphic lossless transformation of one physical resource-representation to another.
See also
NetKernel
Microservices
References
Software architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FunTech%20%28computer%20school%29 | FunTech is a British company founded in 1996 which offers extracurricular computer tuition for children aged 5 to 18 years old based in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
Courses generally consist of weekly classes of 6 to 10 students as well as online homework, however one-on-one tuition and holiday courses are also available. Subjects range from the basics of computer use and touch typing, through to GCSE, A-Level and Computer Programming. Classes are normally carried out at the company's Maidenhead centre, although courses have been hosted at other schools.
FunTech has been featured on both the BBC as part of the Tomorrow's World Technology Family series and Channel 4 as part of a report on the British Government's decision to provide broadband access for every child
Every summer since 2013, FunTech hosts summer camp offerings to children in many English cities including Maidenhead, Oxford and Richmond. Courses include Touch Typing, several Minecraft courses, Python and Java programming and 3D game design. The preliminary summer session concluded successfully with well over 250 students attending over 6 weeks.
Since the beginning of the Covid lock-down, they have been offering a range of virtual courses, in which students are able to learn the necessary skills of computing and further their knowledge in coding and designing which many parents and students have highly reviewed.
Notes
External links
FunTech website
FunTech FAQs
Companies based in Maidenhead
Education companies established in 1996 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAAI%20Conference%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) is one of the leading international academic conference in artificial intelligence held annually. Along with ICML, NeurIPS and ICLR, it is one of the primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research. It is supported by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Precise dates vary from year to year, but paper submissions are generally due at the end of August to beginning of September, and the conference is generally held during the following February. The first AAAI was held in 1980 at Stanford University, Stanford California.
During AAAI-20 conference, AI pioneers and 2018 Turing Award winners Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio among eight other researchers were honored as the AAAI 2020 Fellows.
Along with other conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, AAAI uses artificial intelligence algorithm to assign papers to reviewers.
Locations
AAAI-2023 Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., United States
AAAI-2022 Virtual Conference
AAAI-2021 Virtual Conference
AAAI-2020 Hilton New York Midtown, New York, New York, United States
AAAI-2019 Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
AAAI-2018 Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
AAAI-2017 San Francisco, California, United States
AAAI-2016 Phoenix, Arizona, United States
AAAI-2015 Austin, Texas, United States
AAAI-2014 Québec Convention Center, Québec City, Québec, Canada
AAAI-2013 Bellevue, Washington, United States
AAAI-2012 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
AAAI-2011 San Francisco, California, United States
AAAI-2010 Westin Peachtree Plaza, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
AAAI-2008 Chicago, Illinois, United States
AAAI-2007 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
AAAI-2006 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
AAAI-2005 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
AAAI-2004 San Jose, California, United States
AAAI-2002 Shaw conference center in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
AAAI-2000 Austin, Texas, United States
AAAI-1999 Orlando, Florida, United States
AAAI-1998 Madison, Wisconsin, United States
AAAI-1997 Providence, Rhode Island, United States
AAAI-1996 Portland, Oregon, United States
AAAI-1994 Seattle, Washington, United States
AAAI-1993 Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., United States
AAAI-1992 San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, United States
AAAI-1991 Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, California, United States
AAAI-1990 Boston, Massachusetts, United States
AAAI-1988 Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
AAAI-1987 Seattle, Washington, United States
AAAI-1986 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
AAAI-1984 University of Texas, Austin, Texas, United States
AAAI-1983 Washington, D.C., United States
AAAI-1982 Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
AAAI-1980 Stanford, California, United States
See also
ICML |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AGRICOLA | AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is an online database created and maintained by the United States National Agricultural Library of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The database serves as the catalog and index for the collections of the United States National Agricultural Library. It also provides public access to information on agriculture and allied fields.
Scope
AGRICOLA indexes a wide variety of publications covering agriculture and its allied fields, including, "animal and veterinary sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and education, food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences." Materials are indexed using terms from the National Agricultural Library Glossary and Thesaurus.
PubAg
A related database, PubAg, was released in 2015 and is focused on the full-text publications from USDA scientists, as well as some of the journal literature. PubAg was designed for a broad range of users, including farmers, scientists, scholars, students, and the general public.
The distinctions between AGRICOLA and PubAg include:
"AGRICOLA serves as the public catalog of the National Agricultural Library. It contains records for all of the holdings of the library. It also contains citations to articles, much like PubAg. AGRICOLA also contains citations to many items that, while valuable and relevant to the agricultural sciences, are not peer-reviewed journal articles. Also, AGRICOLA has a different interface. So, while there is some overlap between the two resources, they are different in significant ways. There are no plans to eliminate AGRICOLA."
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Lists of academic journals
List of open-access journals
List of scientific journals
Google Scholar
References
External links
Official AGRICOLA website
Official PubAg website
Agricultural databases
United States National Agricultural Library
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Databases in the United States
Public domain databases
United States Department of Agriculture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%208%20Fire%20Control%20Computer | The Mark 8 Fire Control Computer was developed by Bell Laboratories during World War II. It was initially requested by the USN Bureau of Ordnance as an alternative to the Ford Instruments Mark I Fire Control Computer, in case supplies of the Mk I were interrupted or were unable to be manufactured in the required numbers. The Mk 8 computer used all electric methods of computation, in contrast to the Mk 1, which performed most computations via mechanical devices. The Mk 8 was found to be more accurate than the Mk 1 and substantially faster in reaching a fire control solution, but by the time it was developed and tested in 1944, supplies of the Mk 1 were found to be sufficient in quantity. The USN extensively tested the Mk 8 and may have incorporated some of its technology into the post war Ford Instruments Mk1A computer. The Mk 8 technology was similar to that used in the M9 gun data computer used by the US Army for coast defence fire control and in the SCR-584 radar system computer.
Notes
References
Anti-aircraft artillery
Military computers
Artillery operation
Fire-control computers of World War II |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PearC | PearC is the name given to the line of personal computers produced by German manufacturer HyperMegaNet UG, that sells PCs with Mac OS X, similar to Psystar. HyperMegaNet UG claims it is acting within the law because Apple's EULA – that forbids installation of Mac OS X on non-Apple branded computers – only applies if it can be seen before purchase, according to German law.
The PearC line of personal computers consists of six models: PearC Starter, PearC Advanced, PearC Professional and PearC Expert, PearC Supreme, and PearC Business. All models are built using off-the-shelf components from Intel, Gigabyte Technology, Corsair, Nvidia, Western Digital and Lian-Li. Every computer ships with a USB drive of Mac OS X Mountain Lion to allow re-installation of the operating system. The company also offers dual-boot computers that run Windows 7 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
PearCs ship with a completely unmodified copy of Mac OS X. Instead they use the freely available Chameleon bootloader and a number of kernel extensions installed on the EFI System partition to allow them to boot Mac OS X Mountain Lion. If an Apple software update is likely to cause problems, the company advises its customers and releases a freely available patch in the form of a package installer.
All PearC personal computers come with a two-year warranty.
The company sells from websites in Spain: https://web.archive.org/web/20100402070452/http://www.pearc.es/
and Germany http://www.pearc.de/
All current products capable of running Mac OS X use Intel's 'Ivy Bridge' generation of processors.
References
External links
German company PearC begins selling line of Mac clones - Arstechnica
The War Between Apple and the Mac Clone Makers - Softpedia
Clones take a bite of Apple - Financial Times
Macintosh clones
Computer hardware companies of Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotRuby | HotRuby is a JavaScript and ActionScript implementation of the Ruby programming language. HotRuby runs Ruby source code on a web browser and Flash.
References
External links
Project site at Google Code
http://www.rubyinside.com/hotruby-a-javascript-flash-virtual-machine-that-runs-ruby-821.html
http://ejohn.org/blog/ruby-vm-in-javascript/
https://web.archive.org/web/20091005062559/http://www.ntecs.de/blog/articles/2008/03/26/rubyjs-vs-hotruby/
Ruby (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20East%20Arcade%20Classics | Data East Arcade Classics is a compilation of video games created by Japanese video game company Data East. The collection disc is developed by American studio G1M2 and published and released by Majesco Entertainment for the Wii on February 19, 2010.
Games
Data East Arcade Classics consists of the arcade versions of the following 15 arcade games:
On top of this, the game features many unlockable bonus content items.
Reception
The game received "mixed" reviews according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.
References
External links
2010 video games
Data East video games
Majesco Entertainment games
North America-exclusive video games
Wii-only games
Wii games
Video game compilations
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopallasia | Neopallasia is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the chamomile tribe within the daisy family. Molecular data indicate that Neopallasia is closely related to Seriphidium and could be easily included with that genus.
Species
The only accepted species is Neopallasia pectinata. Neopallasia pectinata is an erect herb, 12–40 cm tall with pinnately divided sessile oblong-elliptic leaves. This plant of deserts grows in gravelly river valleys and wastelands at 1300–3400 m elevation. This variable species is known from northern and western China (provinces of Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Qinghai, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Tibet) as well as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Russia (Altay and Chita).
References
Monotypic Asteraceae genera
Flora of Asia
Anthemideae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericome | Pericome is a small genus of flowering plants in the daisy family. There are two species. Pericome caudata is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, where it is relatively common. The second species, Pericome macrocephala, is known only from Durango in Mexico at its type locality.
These are branching perennial herbs or small shrubs often exceeding one meter tall. They bear clusters of flower heads with golden disc florets.
References
External links
Jepson Manual Treatment
Flora of North America: Pericome
Asteraceae genera
Perityleae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattle%20GUI | Rattle GUI is a free and open source software (GNU GPL v2) package providing a graphical user interface (GUI) for data mining using the R statistical programming language. Rattle is used in a variety of situations. Currently there are 15 different government departments in Australia, in addition to various other organisations around the world, which use Rattle in their data mining activities and as a statistical package.
Rattle provides considerable data mining functionality by exposing the power of the R Statistical Software through a graphical user interface. Rattle is also used as a teaching facility to learn the R software Language. There is a Log Code tab, which replicates the R code for any activity undertaken in the GUI, which can be copied and pasted. Rattle can be used for statistical analysis, or model generation. Rattle allows for the dataset to be partitioned into training, validation and testing. The dataset can be viewed and edited. There is also an option for scoring an external data file.
Features
File Inputs = CSV, TXT, Excel, ARFF, ODBC, R Dataset, RData File, Library Packages Datasets, Corpus, and Scripts.
Statistics = Min, Max, Quartiles, Mean, St Dev, Missing, Medium, Sum, Variance, Skewness, Kurtosis, chi square.
Statistical tests = Correlation, Wilcoxon-Smirnov, Wilcoxon Rank Sum, T-Test, F-Test, and Wilcoxon Signed Rank.
Clustering = KMeans, Clara, Hierarchical, and BiCluster.
Modeling = Decision Trees, Random Forests, ADA Boost, Support Vector Machine, Logistic Regression, and Neural Net.
Evaluation = Confusion Matrix, Risk Charts, Cost Curve, Hand, Lift, ROC, Precision, Sensitivity.
Charts = Box Plot, Histogram, Correlations, Dendrograms, Cumulative, Principal Components, Benford, Bar Plot, Dot Plot, and Mosaic.
Transformations = Rescale (Recenter, Scale 0-1, Median/MAD, Natural Log, and Matrix) - Impute ( Zero/Missing, Mean, Median, Mode & Constant), Recode (Binning, Kmeans, Equal Widths, Indicator, Join Categories) - Cleanup (Delete Ignored, Delete Selected, Delete Missing, Delete Obs with Missing)
Rattle also uses two external graphical investigation / plotting tools. Latticist and GGobi are independent applications which provide highly dynamic and interactive graphic data visualisation for exploratory
data analysis.
Packages
The capabilities of R are extended through user-submitted packages, which allow specialized statistical techniques, graphical devices, as well as import/export capabilities to many external data formats. Rattle uses these packages - RGtk2, pmml, colorspace, ada, amap, arules, biclust, cba, descr, doBy, e1071, ellipse, fEcofin, fBasics, foreign, fpc, gdata, gtools, gplots, gWidgetsRGtk2, Hmisc, kernlab, latticist, Matrix, mice, network, nnet, odfWeave, party, playwith, psych, randomForest, reshape, RGtk2Extras, ROCR, RODBC, rpart, RSvgDevice, survival, timeDate, graph, RBGL, bitops,
See also
R interfaces
References
Graham J Williams (2011). Data Mining with Rattle and R: The Art of Excava |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20International%20Computing%20Centre | The United Nations International Computing Centre (UNICC) was established in 1971 by a Memorandum of Agreement among the United Nations (UN), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Health Organization (WHO), pursuant to resolution 2741 (XXV) of the United Nations General Assembly. It was created as an inter-organization facility to provide electronic data processing services for themselves and other Users.
UNICC has 50 years of experience providing Information and Communications Technology (ICT) services to United Nations programmes, funds and entities. Its mission is to provide ICT services to the United Nations family, maximise the sharing of infrastructure, systems and skills and generate economies of scale to benefit its over 80 Clients and Partner Organizations, including United Nations and related not-for-profit entities.
UNICC now has over 800 staff with UNICC Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland and offices in New York City - U.S., Brindisi and Rome - Italy, Valencia, Spain and Hanoi, Vietnam.
UNICC Mission
UNICC is the core shared service provider for the United Nations system, providing agile, cost-effective, and UN-audit compliant high value digital business solutions. UNICC is looking for competent, experienced and highly motivated individuals, with a desire to work as International Civil Servants, and who are prepared to evolve in a challenging and rewarding environment.
UNICC offices
Geneva, Switzerland
Valencia - Spain
Rome, Italy
Brindisi, Italy
New York City, U.S.
UNICC services
Client Services
UNICC offers Client Services in the areas of consulting (strategic advisory services and subject matter expertise).
UNICC Consulting
IT Advisory Firms
Learning
Digital Business Communications
Project Management
Application Development
Monitoring
Robotic Process Automation
Electronic Signature services
Secure AUTHN services
Software Services and Cloud
UNICC offers its Clients hosting and delivery of software applications.
Amazon Web Services Management
Microsoft 365 Management
Microsoft Azure Management
Cloud Web Hosting
Microsoft Dynamics 365
ServiceNow Support
Information Security
UNICC's information security services cover cyber security oversight and governance as well as a whole spectrum of operational components.
Governance and CISO Support
Threat Intelligence Network
Security Operations Centre
Security Information and Event Management
Phishing and Vulnerability Management
Penetration testing
Incident Response and Forensics
Information Security Awareness
Infrastructure and Network Support
PKI Digital Identity
Platform Services
UNICC offers computing platforms that allow administrators and developers to create, run and customise their application suites, including software-as-a-service components.
Enterprise Resource Planning
Enterprise Web Applications, Hosting and Traffic Analysis
Enterprise SharePoint
Business Intelligence Platform Support
Analytics and Data M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doron%20Swade | Doron Swade MBE, born 1944, is a museum curator and author, specialising in the history of computing. He is especially known for his work on the computer pioneer Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine.
Swade was originally from South Africa. He has studied electronics engineering, history, machine intelligence, philosophy of science and physics at a number of universities including the University of Cape Town, University of Cambridge, and University College London (UCL). He holds a BSc in physics and electronics engineering, an MSc in control engineering, and a PhD in the history of computing from UCL.
He has been a curator at the Science Museum in London, England, and the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, California, United States. At the Science Museum, he curated the computing and electronics collections and rose to be Assistant Director and Head of Collections. His major project at the museum was to organise the construction of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, in collaboration with Dr Allan Bromley who studied Babbage's original drawings at the Science Museum.
In 1989, Swade was a co-founder of the Computer Conservation Society, a specialist group of the British Computer Society (BCS), with regular meetings at the Science Museum. He is a Fellow of the BCS and a Chartered Engineer.
Swade is a visiting professor in the history of computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK. He is also an honorary research fellow in computer science at Royal Holloway, University of London.
He appeared in the In Our Time program on Ada Lovelace, a collaborator with Charles Babbage, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
Swade was awarded an MBE for services to the history of computing in the UK New Year Honours 2009 list.
Since 2010, Swade has been involved with the Plan 28 project to understand whether Babbage's Analytical Engine was a feasible computer based on Babbage's work, and to build a simulation.
Bibliography
Swade has written the following books:
The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age, 1991. BBC Books, 1993. With Jon Palfreman. .
Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines, Science Museum, London, 1998. .
The Cogwheel Brain, Abacus, 2001. .
The Difference Engine: Charles Babbage and the Quest to Build the First Computer, Penguin Putnam, 2001. . Penguin Books, 2002. .
The History of Computing: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2022. .
References
External links
Charles Babbage Expert Doron Swade on Simplicity, YouTube
Authors@Google: Doron Swade, YouTube
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
University of Cape Town alumni
Alumni of University College London
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Academics of the University of Portsmouth
Academics of Royal Holloway, University of London
People associated with the Science Museum, London
British curators
American curators
Historians of science
Historians of technology
20th-century South African historians
Fellows of the British Computer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catatia | Catatia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Asteraceae.
Species
Both known species are endemic to Madagascar.
Catatia attenuata Humbert
Catatia cordata Humbert
References
Gnaphalieae
Asteraceae genera
Endemic flora of Madagascar
Taxa named by Jean-Henri Humbert |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian%20Distance%20Learning%20Network | Armenian Distance Learning Network (ADLN) is the first Armenian e-learning project. The project was launched in early 2002 and was restructured and updated in January, 2006. ADLN courses are business based and target Armenian speaking users of the Internet. The project was designed as a contribution to the development of Armenian beginner entrepreneurs who wish to be involved in the growth of e-business in Armenia as well as the country’s general e-growth. The web-page language is Armenian; the system is based on a course management system - Moodle.
History
The e-project ADLN was the first step to develop an e-learning community in Armenia and form a positive attitude towards the phenomenon. First e-course implemented by ADLN was entitled “Electronic Commerce”. The course materials were based on the first e-commerce book in Armenian Language “E-commerce” (2004) written by Albert Poghosyan. Fifty participants from all over Armenia were involved in the course, which offered also after course consultation opportunities if the participants express a desire to develop their own e-projects. After the graduation, the participants received a certificate together with the upper mentioned book. The second e-course that attracted more than 150 participants was entitled “Electronic Marketing” (2006). ADLN had 60 graduates that completed the whole learning and assessment process. The third e-course entitled “PR in the new era of communication” is in the process of development. All courses are conducted only in Armenian, thus the course development and adaptation process is considered to be of high importance.
The system is connected to the Armenian Electronic Payment System - EDram, as well as international on-line & credit card payment systems thus the users are able to register both – on-line and off-line.
System tools of the ADLN system are:
Learning Content
Learner Content
Administrative Content
Assessment
Forum
Chat
Library
E-course additional resources
Calendar – individual scheduling
On-line support
Feedback
External links
ADLN web site
Education in Armenia
Internet in Armenia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Droid | The Motorola Droid (GSM/UMTS version: Motorola Milestone) is an Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphone designed by Motorola, which runs Google's Android operating system. The Droid had been publicized under the codenames Sholes and Tao and the model number A855. In Latin America and Europe, the model number is A853 (Milestone), and in Mexico, the model number is A854 (Motoroi). Due to the ambiguity with newer phones with similar names, it is also commonly known as the DROID 1. The brand name Droid is a trademark of Lucasfilm licensed to Verizon Wireless.
Features of the phone include Wi-Fi networking, a 5-megapixel low light capable digital camera, a standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, interchangeable battery, 3.7-inch 854×480 touchscreen display. It also includes microSDHC support with bundled 16 GB card, free turn-by-turn navigation from Google Maps, sliding QWERTY keyboard, and Texas Instruments OMAP 3430 processor. The Motorola Droid runs Android version 2.2. The phone does not, however, run the re-branded Motoblur interface for Android, instead providing the Google Experience skin and application stack.
With a major marketing push by Motorola and Verizon during and after its November 2009 release, the Droid became popular and had strong sales in the United States. It is credited for having popularized Android in the mass market.
The Droid has a hearing aid compatibility (HAC) rating of M3/T3. The phone was the first to ship with free Google Maps Navigation (beta) installed.
Launch
United States
Verizon explicitly promoted the Droid as an Apple iPhone alternative. Launched on October 17, 2009, TV spots and an associated website made "entertainingly combative" claims listing features then lacking on the iPhone, e.g. "iDon't multitask" and "'iDon't have a real keyboard", only mentioning the name of the Droid in the final frame, reading "Droid Does". At the official launch event on October 28, 2009, Verizon's Chief Marketing Officer John Stratton described the campaign as a spoof of Apple's iPhone ads, intended to "wake up the market."
The marketing for the American launch included "Droid Does Times Square." This was a program (billed as an "interactive experience") in which Verizon connected the Nasdaq and Reuters electronic billboards in Times Square to its systems such that people were able to control the electronic displays by using voice commands (illustrating the voice search function that is a primary Android feature). Control of the billboards was available in Times Square or via the "Droid Does" website.
The November 6, 2009, release date of the Droid came just under a month after Verizon and Google announced that they had entered into an agreement to jointly develop wireless devices based on the Android mobile platform. Verizon said at the time that it planned to have two Android-based handsets on the market by year-end with more to come in 2010. The other handset is the HTC Droid Eris, a modification to the HTC Hero, seen in s |
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