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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flava%20%28radio%20station%29 | Flava (formerly Cool Blue 96.1) is a New Zealand classic hip hop and R&B music radio network. The network is owned by NZME Radio, and is operated and produced from the company's Auckland offices and studios on Graham Street. It competes directly with MediaWorks New Zealand's Auckland long-running modern urban music station Mai FM.
The Flava brand reaches an estimated 175,100 listeners every week, with 13,900 average weekly unique visitors to its website and about 228,000 likes on its Facebook page. The network claims to provide "fresh and funky beats" for "urban consumers", with a focus on the metropolitan and cosmopolitan culture of Generation Y. The target audience is educated, upwardly-mobile with strong family ties and a community orientation. It is under 35 with a female skew. The station features advertising for concerts, cars, phones and other consumer brands.
Flava broadcasts classic hip hop and R&B music. The network features music from artists like Missy Elliot, Rihanna, Vic Mensa, Kanye West, Mariah Carey, Dr. Dre, Juicy J, Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Timbaland, Ciara, Wiz Khalifa and Chris Brown. It also promotes local New Zealand artists, like Six60, Sons of Zion, Tomorrow People. A competition in 2011 invited listeners to record over tracks, for the chance to have to the track professionally recorded and played on Flava.
History
Cool Blue 96.1FM
Flava began as Cool Blue 96.1FM, broadcasting on 96.1 FM in Auckland between 2001 and 2004. Unlike other radio stations operated by The Radio Network, Cool Blue was only available in the Auckland region and was not networked to other regions.
Weeks after Cool Blue was replaced by Flava, a similar Cool Blue station resumed broadcasting online as an independent non-commercial non-profit internet-only radio station. It played jazz and blues music with some elements of R&B, rock and roll and folk music.
Flava
The existing Auckland frequency of Cool Blue became Flava in 2004. It moved to 95.8 FM in July 2010, one of dozens of frequencies to change ahead of the Ministry of Economic Development's reallocation of frequencies under new 20-year license management rights in April 2011. Flava was launched in Napier in 2004, but was replaced by Easy Mix in April 2012, and replaced again with Radio Sport when Easy Mix was closed in June 2012. The Radio Network brought the network back in March 2013, in response to what they said was strong demand from the public and advertisers.
By 2013, the station had frequencies in Northland, Auckland, Tauranga, Napier and Christchurch, and its Rotorua station was the most popular station in its market. Former content director Christian Boston says there had been requests for Flava stations from Dunedin to the Gold Coast, and the station was particularly popular with teenage listeners adopting new radio brand loyalties. He said people had offered to establish low power transmitters on their houses. The station launched in Wellington at midday on 19 July 2013, with 40 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis%20Fox | Phyllis Ann Fox (March 13, 1923 – May 23, 2017) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
Early life and education
Fox was born on March 13, 1923, and raised in Colorado. She did her undergraduate studies at Wellesley College, earning a B.A. in mathematics in 1944.
From 1944 until 1946 she worked for General Electric as an operator for their differential analyser project. She earned a second baccalaureate, a B.S. in electrical engineering, from the University of Colorado in 1948. She then moved on to graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning an M.S. in 1949 in electrical engineering, and a doctorate (Sc.D.) in mathematics in 1954 under the supervision of Chia-Chiao Lin. During this time, she also worked as an assistant on the Whirlwind project at MIT, under Jay Forrester.
Later career
From 1954 to 1958, Fox worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations on the Univac, for the Computing Center of the United States Atomic Energy Commission at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. In 1958, following her husband, she returned to Jay Forrester's system dynamics research group at MIT, where she became part of the team that wrote the DYNAMO programming language. She then became a collaborator on the first LISP interpreter, and the principal author of the first LISP manual.
In 1963, she moved from MIT to the Newark College of Engineering, where she became a full professor in 1972. During this time, she also consulted for Bell Labs, where she moved in 1973 to work on a highly portable numerics library (PORT). She retired from Bell Labs in 1984.
Personal life and death
Fox married George Sternlieb. They moved to Short Hills, New Jersey in 1949. Fox died on May 23, 2017, at the age of 94.
Recognition
Fox was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1986.
References
1923 births
2017 deaths
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Lisp (programming language) people
Programming language designers
Wellesley College alumni
University of Colorado alumni
New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty
Numerical analysts
American women computer scientists
Women mathematicians
Scientists at Bell Labs
MIT School of Engineering alumni
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
American women academics
21st-century American women
Scientists from Denver |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penn%20World%20Table | The Penn World Table (PWT) is a set of national-accounts data developed and maintained by scholars at the University of California, Davis and the Groningen Growth Development Centre of the University of Groningen to measure real GDP across countries and over time. Successive updates have added countries (currently 183), years (1950-2019), and data on capital, productivity, employment and population. The current version of the database, version 10, thus allows for comparisons of relative GDP per capita, as a measure of standard of living, the productive capacity of economies and their productivity level. Compared to other databases, such as the World Bank's World Development Indicators, the time period covered is larger and there is more data that is useful for comparing productivity across countries and over time.
A common practice for comparing GDPs across countries has been to use exchange rates. However, this assumes that this relative price – based on traded products – is representative of all relative prices in the economy, i.e. that it represents the purchasing power parity (PPP) of each currency. By contrast, PWT uses detailed prices within each country for different expenditure categories, regardless of whether the output is traded internationally (say, computers) or not (say, haircuts). These detailed prices are combined into an overall relative price level, typically referred to as the country's PPP. The detailed prices used to compute PPPs are based on data published by the World Bank as part of the International Comparison Program (ICP).
An empirical finding documented extensively by PWT is the Penn effect, the finding that real GDP is substantially understated when using exchange rates instead of PPPs in comparing GDP across countries. The most common argument to explain this finding is the Balassa-Samuelson effect, which argues that as countries grow richer, productivity increases mostly in manufacturing and other traded activities. This drives up wages and thus prices of many (non-traded) services, increasing the overall price level of the economy. The result is that poorer countries, such as China, are shown to be much richer based on PPP-converted real GDP than based on exchange-rate-converted GDP.
The database gets its name from the original developers at the University of Pennsylvania, Robert Summers, Irving Kravis and Alan Heston.
See also
List of countries by GDP (PPP) per capita, which includes information from Penn World Table.
Maddison Project, a similar project but with a focus on historical economic statistics
Notes
References
Irving B. Kravis, Alan W. Heston, and Robert Summers, 1978. "Real GDP Per Capita for More Than One Hundred Countries," Economic Journal, 88(350), p p. 215-242.
Alan Heston and Robert Summers, 1996. "International Price and Quantity Comparisons: Potentials and Pitfalls," The American Economic Review, 86(2), p p. 20-24.
Simon Johnson et al., 2009. "Is Newer Better? The Penn World Table Growt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompCert | CompCert is a formally verified optimizing compiler for a large subset of the C99 programming language (known as Clight
) which currently targets PowerPC, ARM, RISC-V, x86 and x86-64 architectures. This project, led by Xavier Leroy, started officially in 2005, funded by the French institutes ANR and INRIA. The compiler is specified, programmed and proven in Coq. It aims to be used for programming embedded systems requiring reliability. The performance of its generated code is often close to that of GCC (version 3) at optimization level -O1, and always better than that of GCC without optimizations.
Since 2015, AbsInt offers commercial licenses, provides support and maintenance, and contributes to the advancement of the tool. CompCert is released under a noncommercial license, and is therefore not free software, although some of its source files are dual-licensed with the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or later or are available under the terms of other licenses.
For the development of CompCert, the first practically useful optimizing compiler targeting multiple commercial architectures that have a complete, mechanically checked proof of its correctness, Xavier Leroy and the development team of CompCert received the 2021 ACM Software System Award.
References
External links
Formal verification of a realistic compiler
Software System Award — ACM Awards
Compilers
Formal methods
Logic in computer science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Logic%20and%20Computation | The Journal of Logic and Computation is a peer-reviewed academic journal focused on logic and computing. It was established in 1990 and is published by Oxford University Press under licence from Professor Dov Gabbay as owner of the journal.
External links
Academic journals established in 1990
Computer science journals
Logic journals
Logic in computer science
Formal methods publications
Oxford University Press academic journals
Bimonthly journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop%20Shop%20%28TV%20series%29 | Chop Shop is a Canadian docusoap television series created, directed and produced by Ziad Touma that premiered on February 4, 2009, on the Slice Network. The show follows the stylists at a rock and roll hair salon in Vancouver, British Columbia. The series was produced by Paperny Films.
Episodes
External links
Production website
Slice webpage
Chop Shop Salon webpage
2009 Canadian television series debuts
2009 Canadian television series endings
2000s Canadian reality television series
Slice (TV channel) original programming
Television series by Entertainment One |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Message%20%28Philippine%20TV%20program%29 | The Message is a religious program broadcast by Philippines-based church, Iglesia ni Cristo and aired over their secular-programming television station, INC-TV. The show uses the English language as its main language, and is produced by the INC Media US bureau. It discuss the religious teachings and beliefs of the Iglesia ni Cristo aimed towards audiences in the United States.
Philippine religious television series
1987 Philippine television series debuts
English-language television shows
ABS-CBN original programming
Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route%20server | A route server is a computer server that was originally developed by the Routing Arbiter project, with funding from the National Science Foundation. This routing process directs information among Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routers. These servers are placed at Network access points (NAPs), where centralized computers organize and match routing data. Route servers are important because they help manage BGP sessions. BGP sessions have difficulties with overhead when managing sessions where routers with single and multiple domains are connected (also known as full mesh routing connectivity). Route servers reduce overhead by referencing the IP routing table of an autonomous system where the server is located.
Further reading
External links
Internet governance
Internet Standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handover | In cellular telecommunications, handover, or handoff, is the process of transferring an ongoing call or data session from one channel connected to the core network to another channel. In satellite communications it is the process of transferring satellite control responsibility from one earth station to another without loss or interruption of service.
Terminology
American English uses the term handoff, and this is most commonly used within some American organizations such as 3GPP2 and in American originated technologies such as CDMA2000. In British English the term handover is more common, and is used within international and European organisations such as ITU-T, IETF, ETSI and 3GPP, and standardised within European originated standards such as GSM and UMTS. The term handover is more common in academic research publications and literature, while handoff is slightly more common within the IEEE and ANSI organisations.
Purpose
In telecommunications there may be different reasons why a handover might be conducted:
when the phone is moving away from the area covered by one cell and entering the area covered by another cell the call is transferred to the second cell in order to avoid call termination when the phone gets outside the range of the first cell;
when the capacity for connecting new calls of a given cell is used up and an existing or new call from a phone, which is located in an area overlapped by another cell, is transferred to that cell in order to free-up some capacity in the first cell for other users, who can only be connected to that cell;
in non-CDMA networks when the channel used by the phone becomes interfered by another phone using the same channel in a different cell, the call is transferred to a different channel in the same cell or to a different channel in another cell in order to avoid the interference;
again in non-CDMA networks when the user behaviour changes, e.g. when a fast-travelling user, connected to a large, umbrella-type of cell, stops then the call may be transferred to a smaller macro cell or even to a micro cell in order to free capacity on the umbrella cell for other fast-traveling users and to reduce the potential interference to other cells or users (this works in reverse too, when a user is detected to be moving faster than a certain threshold, the call can be transferred to a larger umbrella-type of cell in order to minimize the frequency of the handovers due to this movement);
in CDMA networks a handover (see further down) may be induced in order to reduce the interference to a smaller neighboring cell due to the "near–far" effect even when the phone still has an excellent connection to its current cell.
The most basic form of handover is when a phone call in progress is redirected from its current cell (called source) to a new cell (called target). In terrestrial networks the source and the target cells may be served from two different cell sites or from one and the same cell site (in the latter cas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology%20Center%20%28Washington%20%26%20Jefferson%20College%29 | The Technology Center is an academic building on the campus of Washington & Jefferson College housing the Information Technology Leadership program. It houses over 200 instructional computers for use by the Information Technology Leadership and related classes. A statue of a coal miner, representing the work ethic and spirit of Western Pennsylvania, sits in the green space in front of the building.
The building was known as the Vilar Technology Center, in honor of alum Alberto Vilar, who had pledged $18.1 million to construct the building. After he reneged on that pledge in 2003, the building was renamed the Technology Center and plans for it were scaled back. It is the sister building to The Burnett Center, sharing the same architect and general contractor.
Facilities
The Technology Center is a four floor Gothic granite building with of floor space, including a "Global Learning Unit," classrooms, seminar rooms, and faculty and administrative offices." The building had over 200 instructional computers for use by the Information Technology Leadership and related classes The ground floor has an "Open Lab" of 39 computers for use by the campus community.
In 2007, a statue of a coal miner sculpted by local artist Alan Cottrill was erected outside the Technology Center. It is intended to represent the work ethic and spirit of Western Pennsylvania, as well as the dream that an education can allow people a chance to escape the coal mines.
Information Technology Leadership
The building was designed for, and is primarily used by, the Information Technology Leadership program. This academic discipline studies the traditional Information Technology field as a liberal art, where the core principles and interdisciplinary connections of the field are examined. Students in this program take a standard curriculum, augmented with focused study in one of 4 possible fields: computer science, data discovery, information systems, and new media technologies.
In 2002, Pennsylvania Congressman and former student John Murtha, who was a long-time chair of the House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee, procured a $2.7 million defense appropriation for the Information Technology Leadership program to develop a remote educational program to would train members of the National Guard in technology skills, ranging from basic computer literacy to advanced applications.
Funding and name change
In 1999, the college announced that it would build a new building, to be called the Vilar Technology Center, named after billionaire alum and well-known opera philanthropist Alberto Vilar, who had pledged $15 million to the project, a pledge that would have been the largest in the college's history. His pledges for the building eventually reached $18.1 million. Amid Vilar's falling fortunes during the stock market decreases in 2001 and 2002, Vilar had reneged on a pledges to a number of organizations, including his pledge to the college. By 2003, plans for the building w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharmendra%20Modha |
Dharmendra S. Modha is an Indian American manager and lead researcher of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center. He is known for his pioneering works in Artificial Intelligence and Mind Simulation. In November 2009, Modha announced at a supercomputing conference that his team had written a program that simulated a cat brain. He is the recipient of multiple honors, including the Gordon Bell Prize, given each year to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. In November 2012, Modha announced on his blog that using 96 Blue Gene/Q racks of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Sequoia supercomputer (1,572,864 processor cores, 1.5 PB memory, 98,304 MPI processes, and 6,291,456 threads), a combined IBM and LBNL team achieved an unprecedented scale of 2.084 billion neurosynaptic cores containing 530 billion neurons and 137 trillion synapses running only 1542× slower than real time. In August 2014 a paper describing the TrueNorth Architecture, "the first-ever production-scale 'neuromorphic' computer chip designed to work more like a mammalian brain than" a processor was published in the journal Science. TrueNorth project culminated in a 64 million neuron system for running deep neural network applications.
Personal life
Modha holds a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Bombay (1990), India and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UCSD. He received his PhD at the Jacobs School of Engineering in 1995 and is now manager of Cognitive Computing at IBM's Almaden Research Center and a Master Inventor. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of AAAS, ACM, and SfN.
Achievements
Modha is manager of the Cognitive Computing group at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He chaired IBM's 2006 Almaden Institute on Cognitive Computing, co-chaired Cognitive Computing 2007 at Berkeley, CA, and was a speaker at the Decade of the Mind Symposium in May 2007. He is the Principal Investigator for DARPA SyNAPSE proposal that brought together IBM (Almaden, Watson, Zurich, India), Stanford University, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, Columbia University, and University of California at Merced to embark upon the ambitious quest of cognitive computing to engineer intelligent business machines by reverse-engineering the computational function of the brain and delivering it in a small, energy efficient chip. Over the last two decades, he has founded two start-up companies, been issued 26 U.S. patents and has authored over 40 publications in international journals and conferences.
Recognition
He performed cortical simulations at scale of cat cerebral cortex (1 billion neurons, 10 trillion synapses) only 100x slower than real-time on a 147,456 processor BlueGene/P supercomputer. This work received ACM's Gordon Bell Prize.
At IBM, he has won the Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper award, an Outstanding Innovation Award, an Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and Communicati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EE%20Limited | EE (formerly Everything Everywhere) is a British national mobile network operator and internet service provider, which is a brand within the BT Group. EE is the second-largest mobile network operator in the United Kingdom, with 21.7 million customers as of September 2022.
The company was formed as Everything Everywhere in 2010 as a joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom (now Orange S.A.). In October 2012 it was rebranded to EE concurrently while launching the UK's first 4G mobile network. It was acquired by BT in January 2016 and has been part of BT's consumer division since April 2018, operating under three brands: BT, EE, and Plusnet.
EE had its headquarters in Hatfield, England, and now its main offices are in London, as well as Bristol, Darlington, Sunderland, Greenock, Merthyr Tydfil, North Tyneside, Plymouth and Leeds. As of November 2016, EE's 5G, 4G and 2G networks' combined coverage reaches more than 99% of the UK population, with double speed 4G reaching 80%, while EE's 3G network reaches 98% of the population.
History
Origins
Deutsche Telekom and France Télécom (now Orange S.A.) announced plans to merge their respective UK ventures – T-Mobile UK and Orange UK – on 8 September 2009. T-Mobile's UK unit had its origins in Mercury Communications, formed in 1989, while Orange had launched its services in 1994.
The initial planning suggested a joint revenue of around £7.7 billion for 2008, with savings via synergies expected to total around "over £445 million annually from 2014 onwards". The two companies also announced an expected investment of "£600 to £800 million in integration costs". A press release outlined a vision for the two brands, stating that "the T-Mobile UK and Orange UK brands will be maintained separately for 18 months". The merger was cleared by the European Commission on 1 March 2010; no new company was formed, but instead T-Mobile (UK) Limited was renamed to Everything Everywhere Limited in July.
The 50:50 joint venture was announced as completed on 1 April 2010, and the name Everything Everywhere was announced on 11 May 2010. On the same day the company confirmed that "roaming across both networks [would be] due later in that year, at no additional cost to the customer" and further emphasised the separation of the brands, saying that each brand would maintain "its own shops, marketing campaigns, propositions and service centres".
2010 to 2012: Everything Everywhere
The companies' network sharing plans (allowing Orange customers to utilise T-Mobile's 2G signal and vice versa) were released to customers on 11 October 2010. The "switch-on" was rolled out utilising an opt-in page on each brand's website. However, the rollout did not initially include automatic network roaming mid-call or the two brands' 3G services.
On 18 July 2011, Tom Alexander announced unexpectedly that he would step down as CEO. Alexander had joined Orange in 2008 and had led the company since its formation on 1 July 2010. It |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Designer | Gene Designer is a computer software package for bioinformatics. It is used by molecular biologists from academia, government, and the pharmaceutical, chemical, agricultural, and biotechnology industries to design, clone, and validate genetic sequences. It is proprietary software, released as freeware needing registration.
Features
Gene Designer enables molecular biologists to manage the full gene design process in one application, using a range of design tools.
Algorithms for in silico cloning, codon optimization, back translation, and primer design
Graphic molecular View to display, annotate, and edit constructs
Customizable database to store, manage, and track genetic elements, genes, and constructs
Drag and drop interface to move sequence elements within or between constructs (patented feature)
Search feature for sequence motifs, restriction sites, and open reading frames
Codon optimize for recombinant protein production in any organism using multiple algorithms
Remove or add restriction sites or other sequence motifs
Recode open reading frames
Check translation frames and fusion junctions
Design oligonucleotides to sequence primers, includes a real time melting point calculator
Cloning tool with drag and drop ability to cut, combine, and clone insert and vector
Educator and student use
This free software has been incorporated into classroom and lab curricula for synthetic biology, systems biology, bioengineering, and bioinformatics. Students create and complete projects which manage the full gene design process in one application, using a range of design tools.
Examples of use in curricula:
Synthetic Photonics Course; Utah State University, College of Engineering
Lab Project using Gene Designer 2.0
Systems Biology Lesson Overview
Synthetic Biology Lesson Overview
Student Projects
See also
Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Gene synthesis
Vector (molecular biology), Vector DNA, Cloning vector, Expression vector
Restriction map
Molecular cloning
List of open source bioinformatics software
References
US Patent 7,805,252. Systems and methods for designing and ordering polynucleotides. Gustafsson, Govindarajan, Ness, Villalobos and Minshull.
External links
Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics software
Genetics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20outlier%20factor | In anomaly detection, the local outlier factor (LOF) is an algorithm proposed by Markus M. Breunig, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Raymond T. Ng and Jörg Sander in 2000 for finding anomalous data points by measuring the local deviation of a given data point with respect to its neighbours.
LOF shares some concepts with DBSCAN and OPTICS such as the concepts of "core distance" and "reachability distance", which are used for local density estimation.
Basic idea
The local outlier factor is based on a concept of a local density, where locality is given by k nearest neighbors, whose distance is used to estimate the density. By comparing the local density of an object to the local densities of its neighbors, one can identify regions of similar density, and points that have a substantially lower density than their neighbors. These are considered to be outliers.
The local density is estimated by the typical distance at which a point can be "reached" from its neighbors. The definition of "reachability distance" used in LOF is an additional measure to produce more stable results within clusters. The "reachability distance" used by LOF has some subtle details that are often found incorrect in secondary sources, e.g., in the textbook of Ethem Alpaydin.
Formal
Let be the distance of the object A to the k-th nearest neighbor. Note that the set of the k nearest neighbors includes all objects at this distance, which can in the case of a "tie" be more than k objects. We denote the set of k nearest neighbors as .
This distance is used to define what is called reachability distance:
In words, the reachability distance of an object A from B is the true distance of the two objects, but at least the of B. Objects that belong to the k nearest neighbors of B (the "core" of B, see DBSCAN cluster analysis) are considered to be equally distant. The reason for this is to reduce the statistical fluctuations between all points A close to B, where increasing the value for k increases the smoothing effect. Note that this is not a distance in the mathematical definition, since it is not symmetric. (While it is a common mistake to always use the , this yields a slightly different method, referred to as Simplified-LOF)
The local reachability density of an object A is defined by
which is the inverse of the average reachability distance of the object A from its neighbors. Note that it is not the average reachability of the neighbors from A (which by definition would be the ), but the distance at which A can be "reached" from its neighbors. With duplicate points, this value can become infinite.
The local reachability densities are then compared with those of the neighbors using
which is the average local reachability density of the neighbors divided by the object's own local reachability density. A value of approximately indicates that the object is comparable to its neighbors (and thus not an outlier). A value below indicates a denser region (which would be an inlier), while v |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter%20Kriegel | Hans-Peter Kriegel (1 October 1948, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and leading the Database Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. He was previously professor at the University of Würzburg and the University of Bremen after habilitation at the Technical University of Dortmund and doctorate from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Research
His most important contributions are the database index structures R*-tree, X-tree and IQ-Tree, the cluster analysis algorithms DBSCAN, OPTICS and SUBCLU and the anomaly detection method Local Outlier Factor (LOF).
His research is focused around correlation clustering, high-dimensional data indexing and analysis, spatial data mining and spatial data management as well as multimedia databases.
His research group developed a software framework titled ELKI that is designed for the parallel research of index structures, data mining algorithms and their interaction, such as optimized data mining algorithms based on database indexes.
Awards
In 2009 the Association for Computing Machinery appointed Hans-Peter Kriegel a "fellow", one of its highest honors. He has been honored in particular for his contributions to "knowledge discovery and data mining, similarity search, spatial data management, and access methods for high-dimensional data".
He received the 2013 IEEE ICDM Research Contributions Award for his research on data mining algorithms such as DBSCAN, OPTICS, Local Outlier Factor and his work on mining high-dimensional data.
He was also awarded the 2015 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award for his contributions to data mining in clustering, outlier detection and high-dimensional data analysis, in particular for density-based approaches.
DBSCAN also received the 2014 ACM SIGKDD test of time award.
, he was the most cited German researcher in databases, and data mining.
References
External links
Former Database Systems Group of Hans-Peter Kriegel
Publications in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project
Publications in the ACM Digital Library
Publications in Google Scholar
Living people
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Database researchers
German computer scientists
1948 births
Data miners
Machine learning researchers
Computer science educators
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Academic staff of the University of Würzburg
Academic staff of the University of Bremen
Technical University of Dortmund alumni
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Conn | Matt Conn (born 1987 in San Francisco, California) is the founder and former CEO of MidBoss. He is known for the creation of GaymerX, the cyberpunk story adventure game Read Only Memories, and producing the LGBTQ video game documentary Gaming In Color.
He is also a founding member at BandPage, which was acquired by YouTube in 2016 and for winning the Travel Channel television program America's Worst Driver.
On March 26, 2018, Conn stepped down from the board of GaymerX and as CEO of MidBoss after allegations of sexual misconduct, underpaying workers, and workplace harassment.
GaymerX
GaymerX (initially GaymerCon) was founded in February 2012 and launched its Kickstarter on August 1, 2012 with a goal of $25,000. It hit its goal within five days and ended up raising just over $91,000. The first convention was held on August 3 and 4, 2013 in San Francisco, California. The launch was covered by sites such as Examiner and GamePolitics.com.
Throughout the fundraising campaign, organizers added new support levels, in addition to existing support levels that included admission to the event and voice acting from Ellen McLain. At a session during the convention, McLain took part as assistant on a marriage proposal to help an attendee propose to his boyfriend by voicing a version of the song "Still Alive" with reworked lyrics.
GaymerX2 was held at the InterContinental Hotel on July 11–13, 2014 in downtown San Francisco. It featured celebrities like former WWE performer Fred Rosser (Darren Young) and sponsors like Indiecade, Ubisoft, Riot Games, and 2K Games.
GaymerX ran from 2013 until 2017 and has held events in San Francisco, San Jose, and New York City. It also inspired a spin-off event, GX Australia, in Sydney, Australia.
2064: Read Only Memories
2064: Read Only Memories is a cyberpunk adventure game for the PC, Mac, Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, Xbox One and Linux. It was successfully funded on Kickstarter for $64,378 on December 12, 2013.
America's Worst Driver
On this series, which aired in mid-2010, Conn was penalized for being the worst driver in San Francisco by having his car destroyed by construction equipment. In the finale, Conn was named the winner of the program, and had a car representing him destroyed by Robosaurus.
References
Participants in American reality television series
1987 births
Living people
Television personalities from San Francisco
LGBT people from California
American gay men
American LGBT businesspeople
Gay businessmen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTAD | WTAD (930 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a news talk format. Licensed to Quincy, Illinois, the station is owned by STARadio Corporation.
WTAD carries a variety of local programming, as well as nationally syndicated shows such as Laura Ingraham, Mark Levin, and Coast to Coast AM.
History
WTAD was first licensed on July 20, 1923, to Robert E. Compton and First Presbyterian Church in Carthage, Illinois. The call letters were randomly assigned from a sequential roster of available call letters. The station was deleted on December 18, 1923, then relicensed on July 8, 1925, to Robert E. Compton in Carthage, broadcasting at 1270 kHz, with a power of 50 watts.
In December 1926, the license was transferred to the Illinois Stock Medicine Broadcasting Corporation, and the station was moved to Quincy, Illinois, and its power increased to 500 watts. Following the establishment of the Federal Radio Commission (FRC), stations were initially issued a series of temporary authorizations starting on May 3, 1927. In addition, they were informed that if they wanted to continue operating, they needed to file a formal license application by January 15, 1928, as the first step in determining whether they met the new "public interest, convenience, or necessity" standard. On May 25, 1928, the FRC issued General Order 32, which notified 164 stations, including WTAD, that "From an examination of your application for future license it does not find that public interest, convenience, or necessity would be served by granting it." However, the station successfully convinced the commission that it should remain licensed.
On November 11, 1928, the FRC implemented a major reallocation of station transmitting frequencies, as part of a reorganization resulting from its implementation of General Order 40. WTAD's frequency was changed to 1440 kHz, sharing time on the frequency with WMBD in Peoria. In 1935, the station's frequency was changed to 900 kHz, running 500 watts during daytime hours only. In 1936, the station's power was increased to 1,000 watts. In 1941, nighttime operations were added, running 1,000 watts with a directional array, and the station's frequency was changed to 930 kHz.
By 1941, the station had become an affiliate of the CBS Radio Network. In 1944, the station was sold to Lee Broadcasting for $487,500. In 1952, the station's daytime power was increased to 5,000 watts. In the 1970s and 1980s, the station aired a MOR format. By 1986, news-talk programming was added. In December 1986, the station was sold to Eastern Broadcasting, along with 99.5 WQCY, for $1.1 million. In 1989, Eastern Broadcasting was purchased by TMZ Broadcasting (later known as Tele-Media Broadcasting). In Spring 1994, the station's format was changed from soft AC to oldies.
In the fall of 1994, the station's format changed from full service/oldies to an all-talk format. In 1997, Tele-Media was purchased by Citadel. In 1997, the station's programming began to be simulcast on 106.7 W |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Avro | Avro is a row-oriented remote procedure call and data serialization framework developed within Apache's Hadoop project. It uses JSON for defining data types and protocols, and serializes data in a compact binary format. Its primary use is in Apache Hadoop, where it can provide both a serialization format for persistent data, and a wire format for communication between Hadoop nodes, and from client programs to the Hadoop services.
Avro uses a schema to structure the data that is being encoded. It has two different types of schema languages; one for human editing (Avro IDL) and another which is more machine-readable based on JSON.
It is similar to Thrift and Protocol Buffers, but does not require running a code-generation program when a schema changes (unless desired for statically-typed languages).
Apache Spark SQL can access Avro as a data source.
Avro Object Container File
An Avro Object Container File consists of:
A file header, followed by
one or more file data blocks.
A file header consists of:
Four bytes, ASCII 'O', 'b', 'j', followed by the Avro version number which is 1 (0x01) (Binary values 0x4F 0x62 0x6A 0x01).
File metadata, including the schema definition.
The 16-byte, randomly-generated sync marker for this file.
For data blocks Avro specifies two serialization encodings: binary and JSON. Most applications will use the binary encoding, as it is smaller and faster. For debugging and web-based applications, the JSON encoding may sometimes be appropriate.
Schema definition
Avro schemas are defined using JSON. Schemas are composed of primitive types (null, boolean, int, long, float, double, bytes, and string) and complex types (record, enum, array, map, union, and fixed).
Simple schema example:
{
"namespace": "example.avro",
"type": "record",
"name": "User",
"fields": [
{"name": "name", "type": "string"},
{"name": "favorite_number", "type": ["null", "int"]},
{"name": "favorite_color", "type": ["null", "string"]}
]
}
Serializing and deserializing
Data in Avro might be stored with its corresponding schema, meaning a serialized item can be read without knowing the schema ahead of time.
Example serialization and deserialization code in Python
Serialization:
import avro.schema
from avro.datafile import DataFileReader, DataFileWriter
from avro.io import DatumReader, DatumWriter
# Need to know the schema to write. According to 1.8.2 of Apache Avro
schema = avro.schema.parse(open("user.avsc", "rb").read())
writer = DataFileWriter(open("users.avro", "wb"), DatumWriter(), schema)
writer.append({"name": "Alyssa", "favorite_number": 256})
writer.append({"name": "Ben", "favorite_number": 8, "favorite_color": "red"})
writer.close()
File "users.avro" will contain the schema in JSON and a compact binary representation of the data:
$ od -v -t x1z users.avro
0000000 4f 62 6a 01 04 14 61 76 72 6f 2e 63 6f 64 65 63 >Obj...avro.codec<
0000020 08 6e 75 6c 6c 16 61 76 72 6f 2e 73 63 68 65 6d >.nul |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joyce%20%28programming%20language%29 | Joyce is a secure programming language for concurrent computing designed by Per Brinch Hansen in the 1980s. It is based on the sequential language Pascal and the principles of communicating sequential processes (CSP). It was created to address the shortcomings of CSP to be applied as a programming language, and to provide a tool, mainly for teaching, for distributed computing system implementation.
The language is based around the concept of agents; concurrently executed processes that communicate only by the use of channels and message passing. Agents may activate subagents dynamically and recursively. The development of Joyce formed the foundation of the language SuperPascal, also developed by Hansen around 1993.
Features
Joyce is based on a small subset of Pascal, extended with features inspired from CSP for concurrency. The following sections describe some of the more novel features that were introduced.
Agents
An agent is a procedure consisting of a set of statements and possibly nested definitions of other agents. An agent may dynamically activate subagents which execute concurrently with their creator. An agent can terminate only when all of its subagents have also terminated. For example, an agent process2 activates process1:
agent process1(x, y: integer);
begin
...
end;
agent process2();
use process1;
begin
process1(9, 17);
end;
The activation of an agent creates new instances of all local variables and the value of each formal parameter is copied to a local variable. Hence, agents cannot access variables of other agents and are allowed only to communicate through the use of channels. This restriction prevents problems associated with the use of shared variables such as race conditions.
Communication
Agents communicate through entities called channels. Channels have an alphabet, defining the set of symbols which may be transmitted. Channels are created dynamically and accessed through the use of port variables. A port type is defined by a distinct set of symbols constituting its alphabet. Symbols with multiple values are defined with a specific type. For example:
stream = [int(integer), eos];
The symbol int(integer) denotes a message symbol called int of any integer value. The second typeless symbol declaration eos (end of stream) is named a signal. Once a port type has been defined, a port variable of that type can be declared:
out : stream
in : stream
And then a channel entity, internal to the agent creating it, can be activated as follows:
+out;
Symbols can then be sent and received on channels using the CSP-style input and output operators ? and ! respectively. A communication can occur only if there is a receiving agent matching the sending agent. The receiving agent must expect to receive the symbol type being sent. For example, the value 9 followed by the eos symbol is sent on port out:
out ! int(9)
out ! eos
And an integer message is received into a variable of a matching type, followed by the eos:
received : integ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArKaos | ArKaos is an application for live visual performance, conceived as a visual sampler for video loops that can be triggered from the computer, or through a hardware interface. The application is available in two versions: ArKaos VJ MIDI, conceived as a live video performance instrument, often used in conjunction with a MIDI keyboard, and ArKaos VJ DMX (a "media server software"), which can be controlled with a DMX console (DMX512 is a communication standard used for stage lighting devices).
Kling-Net
In 2011, ArKaos introduced the Kling-Net protocol, used for lighting control and Remote Device Management (RDM). It aims to provide video professionals the ability to distribute real-time video data to LED strips, LED panels and other remote devices over ethernet. Together with Art-Net, it is one of the most commonly used lighting control and Remote Device Management (RDM) protocols.
Functions and Advantages
Kling-Net automatically configures and connects display devices to a computer, media server or console. This means that “intelligence” is added to LED devices, enabling them to talk directly to the server or console, without the user's input.
The main benefit of this approach is that it eliminates the complexity of networking and control issues, thereby reducing the need for technical knowledge of the user. It also allows the creation of an heterogenic network of display devices from different manufacturers, which can all be controlled from one computer.
Autoconfiguration
The autoconfiguration capabilities of Kling-Net ensure that many different devices can be controlled by the same media server. This avoids creating and matching the profiles of media server and individual device.
Kling-Net automatically detects and configures LED devices when initiated and sends the devices' resolution and pixel formats to the media server, which reads and changes the device parameters where necessary. Once registered to the media server, the device will start to receive the real-time video data as it is mapped onto the media server screen by the user, clipping and transforming the image to the correct pixel formats and minimising the need for user input.
Furthermore, because most of the work is done by the media server, the video easily reaches 60 FPS.
Fixture Compatibility
Kling-Net was developed to function with nearly all manufacturers’ LED products, using a source code that adds an intelligence to LED devices, which allows control and integration.
See also
VJing
References
Offline Sources
Online References
Live video software
Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MochiView | MochiView (Motif and ChIP Viewer) is software that integrates a genome browser and tools for data and Sequence motif visualization and analysis. The software uses the Java language, contains a fully integrated JavaDB database, is platform-independent, and is freely available.
Description
MochiView was originally designed as a platform for rapidly browsing, visualizing, and extracting Sequence motifs from ChIP-chip and ChIP-Seq data. The software uses a generalized data format that serves other purposes as well, such as the visualization and analysis of RNA-Seq data or the import, maintenance, exploration, and analysis of Sequence motif libraries. The MochiView website contains a detailed feature list and demo videos of the software showing smooth panning/zooming, data/gene/sequence/coordinate browsers, and plot interactivity. The software was created by Oliver Homann in the laboratory of Alexander Johnson at the University of California at San Francisco.
References
External links
MochiView website
Bioinformatics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%20Table%20Family%20of%20clubs | The Round Table Family organisation is a group of social networking and charitable clubs that together form a worldwide movement of tens of thousands of people.
Round Table
Founded in 1927. Open to men aged 18-45 in Great Britain and Ireland (18-40 in most of the world). All the National Round Table Clubs across the world and are part of Round Table International.
Ladies Circle
Founded in 1932. Open to women aged 18-45. Ladies Circle is a social networking organisation for young women aged between 18 and 45, founded in 1932. It aims to promote friendship through social contact at local, national and international level and to be of service to the community. For many years Circlers were the wives or partners of members of Round Table, but in 1993 the rules were changed and Ladies' Circle is now open to any woman in the age range 18 - 45, and whilst Ladies' Circle work very closely with Round Table on many issues, both business and social, they are a totally independent organisation. All the National Ladies Circle Clubs across the world and are part of Ladies Circle International.
41 Club
Founded in 1945. Open to current or former Round Tablers over 40. The full name is "The Association of Ex-Round Tablers’ Clubs". This club specialises in continuing the friendships made in Round Table. The philosophy of the club is very similar to that of Round Table, but it is often less ‘active’ and in many cases clubs meet less often. The Club's main purpose is to support Round Table and, if possible, participate in local community service initiatives or charity work. However the ‘continued friendship’ and ‘fellowship’ aspect is of great importance. Most clubs meet monthly, often in a public house, golf club or restaurant. Meetings are usually semi-formal with either an activity or a speaker to entertain. Lifelong friendships are often made in 41 Club. To join 41 Club it is a requirement to be a present or former member of Round Table. All the National 41 Clubs across the world and are part of 41 International
Tangent
Founded 1953. Open to women over 40, the National Association of Tangent Clubs is an organisation for women, mainly aged over 40, with a focus on making friends and enjoying a program of interesting fellowship activities and supporting local and national service projects and causes through fundraising events. All the National Tangent Clubs across the world are part of Tangent Club International.
Agora
Founded 1987. Open to women over 42 if they were not Circlers before and over 45 if they were Circlers before. All the National Agora clubs across the world are part of Agora Club International.
Related clubs
Tangle. Part of Tangent. Open to women aged 45-60.
Agora Club International
References
External links
Round Table
Round Table International
Ladies Circle - The National Association of Ladies Circles of Great Britain and Ireland
Ladies Circle International
41 Club - The Association of Ex-Round Tablers' Clubs
41 Club Internatio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Heights%2C%20Illinois | Spencer Heights is an unincorporated community in Pulaski County, Illinois, United States. Spencer Heights is north of Mounds. It has a zip code of 62964 and a population of 1,386 (2015 data).
References
Unincorporated communities in Pulaski County, Illinois
Unincorporated communities in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliographic%20record | A bibliographic record is an entry in a bibliographic index (or a library catalog) which represents and describes a specific resource. A bibliographic record contains the data elements necessary to help users identify and retrieve that resource, as well as additional supporting information, presented in a formalized bibliographic format. Additional information may support particular database functions such as search, or browse (e.g., by keywords), or may provide fuller presentation of the content item (e.g., the article's abstract).
Bibliographic records are usually retrievable from bibliographic indexes (e.g., contemporary bibliographic databases) by author, title, index term, or keyword. Bibliographic records can also be referred to as surrogate records or metadata. Bibliographic records can represent a wide variety of published contents, including traditional paper, digitized, or born-digital publications. The process of creation, exchange, and preservation of bibliographic records are parts of a larger process, called bibliographic control.
History
The earliest known bibliographic records come from the catalogues (written in cuneiform script on clay tablets) of religious texts from 2000 B.C., that were identified by what appear to be key words in Sumerian. In ancient Greece, Callimachus of Cyrene recorded bibliographic records on 120 scrolls using a system called pinakes.
Early American library catalogs in the colonial period were typically made available in book form, either manuscript or printed. In modern America, the title and author of a work were enough to distinguish it among others and order its record within a collection. However, as more and different kinds of resources arose, it became necessary to collect more information to distinguish them from one another. This conceptual framework of the bibliographic record as a collection of data elements served American librarianship well in its first one-hundred years. Challenges to the current method have arisen in the form of new and different distribution methods, especially of the digital variety, and raise questions about whether the traditional conceptual model is still relevant and applicable.
Formats
Today's bibliographic record formats originate from the times of the traditional paper-based isolated libraries, their self-contained collections and their corresponding library cataloguing systems. The modern formats, while reflecting this heritage in their structure, are machine-readable and most commonly conform to the MARC standards.
The subject bibliography databases (such as Chemical Abstracts, Medline, PsycInfo, or Web of Science) do not use the same kinds of bibliographical standards as does the library community. In this context, the Common Communication Format is the best known standard.
The Library of Congress is currently developing BIBFRAME, a new RDF schema for expressing bibliographic data.
BIBFRAME is still in draft form, but several libraries are already testing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOJO%20%28FM%29 | KOJO "Radio Maria" is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station at 91.1 MHz in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Radio Maria USA airs Catholic programming.
History
KOJO is the first FM repeater of originating station KJMJ 580 AM in Alexandria, Louisiana. KOJO first came on the air on September 17, 2000. KOJO's signal reaches into a fringe area in portions of southeastern Texas, where afterward is covered by KDEI 1250 AM in Port Arthur...as well into portions of the Lafayette area..where KNIR 1360 AM in New Iberia compensates for KOJO's fringe area there.
Father Duane Stenzel O.F.M. (1927–2011) served as national program director from its 2000 beginnings until his death.
Mary Pyper is national board president, Joshua Danis is national coordinator and Frank Hare is studio and audio production manager.
Listeners outside KOJO's signal area can also listen online (or by Alexa, iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile phone devices by means of downloading the appropriate app) from Radio Maria's website.
See also
KJMJ
KBIO
KNIR
KDEI
External links
Official Radio Maria USA site (with streaming audio)
World Family of Radio Maria
Listing of Radio Maria's stations in the U.S. broadcasting in English,Spanish and Italian
Catholic radio stations
Radio stations established in 2000
2000 establishments in Louisiana
OJO (FM)
Christian radio stations in Louisiana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Skibiski | Gregory Roman Skibiski (born 1973), is an American entrepreneur. Skibiski founded Thasos Group, an artificial intelligence based data analytics firm that uses real-time locations from mobile phones worldwide to provide information for the financial services industry. Skibiski was also the Founder and former Chairman & CEO of Sense Networks, a New York City based company focused on analyzing big data from mobile phones and carrier networks. Skibiski is named lead inventor on three patent applications for analyzing emerging sensor data streams from mobile phones, culminating in the Macrosense, Citysense CitySense, and Cabsense None products.
Citysense was named by ReadWriteWeb (in The New York Times) as "Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009". Sense Networks was called "The Next Google" on the cover of Newsweek. In a 2018 profile article on Skibiski, The Wall Street Journal stated that "Thasos is at the vanguard of companies trying to help traders get ahead of stock moves [..] using so-called alternative data".
Life and career
Originally from Northampton, Massachusetts, Skibiski attended the Williston Northampton School from 1985 through 1991. He received his bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University in 1996 and his MBA from HEC Paris in 2006. Skibiski was also one of the first employees at BackWeb Technologies, a Tel Aviv based internet infrastructure software company that had a successful NASDAQ IPO in 1999.
Several years later, Skibiski approached Alex "Sandy" Pentland (Head of Human Dynamics Research at the MIT Media Lab) with the idea that large amounts of location data being collected by mobile phones and GPS devices could be useful to economists. Technology to do that analysis did not exist at the time.
Skibiski's original theory was that analyzing large amounts of location data from mobile phones and vehicles would provide value to the financial services and retail industries, enabling "an entirely new business model for location-based services" based on monetizing macro trends in spending and sentiment. For retailers, Skibiski hoped to be able to provide information ranging from additional places their customers shop to how far people travel to get to their stores. He further envisioned Web analysis type tools, determining where customers were immediately prior to entering a business locale – essentially a real-world "referring site" concept.
It became apparent that trends in how far shoppers are willing to travel to get to a store like Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue or Nordstrom could indicate monthly trends in that store's sales. People who worked in a city's financial district would to go to work early when the market was booming, but later in the day when markets were down. Plotting San Francisco nightlife patterns on the same graph as the Dow Jones Industrial Average showed that, just before the market peak in July 2008, urban party-goers hit the town at later-than-ever times. Beginning in mid-2006 Skibiski' |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFX%20creative%20director | The VFX creative director is a position common in films, television programs, and computer games using a large amount of visual effects (VFX).
For films which are fully or partly computer generated, a VFX creative director works closely with the director. On smaller VFX-intensive productions such as music videos or some television commercials, a VFX creative director may also assume the responsibilities of the director. They are charged with making creative and aesthetic choices for visual effects. Although the role is generally more creative in nature, most VFX creative directors have a technical background and may exert a strong practical hand in production.
Responsibilities
The responsibilities of a VFX creative director are very much like those of an art director, production designer, or chief creative officer, though with a particular focus on the computer-generated imagery of their projects. They are primarily responsible for directing and supervising the creative and technical execution of visual effects sequences, from concept to completion, including:
Set extensions and matte painting
Bluescreening
Digital animation
Digital effects
Compositing
The VFX creative director may delegate responsibilities to visual effects supervisors, visual effects editors, film compositors, rotoscope artists, matte painters, and 3D animators.
VFX creative directors may therefore have input on various aspects of production, including:
Story development and storyboarding
Blocking, staging, locations
Advising the director on actor movement
Cinematography
Costume, makeup, and props, particularly when there are special effects considerations
Educational requirements
As with much of the film industry, merit is awarded on the quality of work produced and not on academic qualifications. Bachelor's or master's degrees in film and television, digital media, design, or animation may be beneficial. There are a suite of skills and conditions that predispose an individual to successful operation as a VFX creative director:
Experience from at least 5–10 years in the industry
An understanding of the production process from concept to completion
A deep familiarity with post-production pipelines, techniques, and software
A strong balance of both creative and practical / technical skills
Excellent communication and people-management skills
Ability to guide and lead a team to extract their best work according to a predefined vision
A strong grasp of all aspects of film theory
See also
Creative director
Art director
Visual effects
Visual effects supervisor
Chief creative officer
Graphics coordinator
References
Entertainment occupations
Filmmaking occupations
Mass media occupations
Visual effects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attix5%20Online%20Backup | Attix5 in computing, is an online disk-to-disk backup solution. Attix5 is one of the oldest managed online backup companies, powering SMBs and enterprises.
On September 11, 2015, Attix5 was acquired by UK based cloud data management company Redstor. Redstor has since renamed the technology Redstor Pro.
See also
List of backup software
Remote backup service
Timeline of computing
References
Online backup services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Italian%20films%20of%202010 | A list of films released in Italy in 2010 (see 2010 in film).
See also
2010 in Italian television
Notes
External links
Italian films of 2010 at the Internet Movie Database
2010
Films
Italian |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Renewable%20Energy%20Network | WREN is a major non-profit organization registered in the United Kingdom with charitable status and affiliated to UNESCO, the Deputy Director General of which is its honorary President. It has a Governing Council, an Executive Committee and a Director General. It maintains links with many United Nations, governmental and non-governmental organisations.
Established in 1992 during the second World Renewable Energy Congress in Reading, UK, WREN supports and enhances the utilisation and implementation of renewable energy sources that are both environmentally safe and economically sustainable. This is done through a worldwide network of agencies, laboratories, institutions, companies and individuals, all working together towards the international diffusion of renewable energy technologies and applications. Representing most countries in the world, it aims to promote the communication and technical education of scientists, engineers, technicians and managers in this field and to address itself to the energy needs of both developing and developed countries.
Over two billion dollars have now been allocated to projects dealing with renewable energy and the environment by the World Solar Summit and World Solar Decade along with the World Bank.
Global Activities of WREC/WREN
The global activities of the World Renewable Energy Congress / Network encompass:
Newsletter
Regional meetings
Scientific publications
Targeted books and annual magazine
Workshops on renewable energy topics
Journal publication "Renewable Energy"
Competitions and awards promoting renewable energy
International congresses (World Renewable Energy Congress, WREC)
Mission statement
With the accelerated approach of the global climate-change point-of-no-return the need to address the pivotal role of renewable energy in the formation of coping strategies, rather than prevention, is more crucial than ever. Sustainability, green buildings, and the development of the large-scale renewable energy industry must be at the top of all development, economic, financial and political agendas. The time for action has arrived. Prevention and questioning how and why we face this great challenge is a luxury we can no longer indulge. We welcome the establishment of the long overdue International Renewable Energy Agency which we hope will work side-by-side with similar intergovernmental agencies striving for the adoption of renewable energies.
Major Events
The major event organised by WREC/WREN is the biennial congress, normally held during the summer of every even year. The congresses are mostly run and organised by the WREC headquarters which are in Brighton, UK. All members of WREC/WREN are entitled to bid to host the Congress. The WREC/WREN Council meets and decides the location based on: availability of local funding and sponsorship; ease of travel to the location; extent of host government and institutional support; benefits to the local country. All local organisation and services must be provided |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu%20Mustafa%20al-Sheibani | Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani (born 1959 in al-Nasiriyah) also known as Hamid Thajil Warij al-Attabi or Hamid al-Sheibani is an Iraqi Shi'a leader who commands his own insurgent group and smuggling network known as the Sheibani Network, which became one of the Iraqi Special Groups. An arrest warrant was issued for him by the Central Criminal Court of Iraq on 12 April 2005 with a reward of $200,000 for information leading to his capture. In 2006 he was added to the Iraqi Government's 41 Most-Wanted list. He holds both Iraqi and Iranian nationality because he lived in exile in Iran during Saddam Hussein's rule later returned there to live in Tehran after 2006. In September 2010, after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formed a coalition government with Shi'a rebel leader Muqtada al-Sadr, Sheibani was allowed to return to Iraq along with Abu Deraa.
Sheibani was a former member of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq's Badr Brigades, after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq he created an arms smuggling network linked to Iran's Quds Force. The Sheibani network was used to supply Qais Khazali's Khazali Network (also known as Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq or League of the Righteous) and other Special Groups, The group is also itself responsible for numerous attacks against Coalition and Iraqi security forces, in particular British forces in Basra. The Sheibani network is alleged to be responsible for a bombing in July 2005 which killed three British soldiers as well as other attacks. After his return to Iraq in 2010, he joined forces with the Khazali network.
His younger brother Abu Yaser al-Sheibani, which was his second in command, was captured by US forces on April 20, 2007
References
Further reading
Targeting the Iranian "Secret Cells"
1959 births
Badr Brigade members
Living people
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
Iraqi Shia Muslims
Individuals related to Iran Sanctions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal%20terms%20%28computer%20science%29 | Nominal terms are a metalanguage for embedding object languages with binding constructs into. Intuitively, they may be seen as an extension of first-order terms with support for name binding. Consequently, the native notion of equality between two nominal terms is alpha-equivalence (equivalence up to a permutative renaming of bound names). Nominal terms came out of a programme of research into nominal sets, and have a concrete semantics in those sets.
Where the regular unification found in Prolog is linear in the size of terms compared, the extension to faithfully capture equivalence of nominal terms, called nominal unification in the literature, is quadratic (Calvès 2013). Based on an earlier PTIME algorithm for nominal unification, alphaProlog is a Prolog-like logic programming language with facilities for binding names in terms, which was intended to be useful for programs acting on program syntax (Cheney 2004).
Nominal term embeddings may be seen as alternatives to de Bruijn encodings and higher-order abstract syntax, where the latter uses the simply typed lambda calculus as a metalanguage.
Motivation
Many interesting calculi, logics and programming languages that are commonly seen in computer science feature name binding constructs. For instance, the universal quantifier from first-order logic, the lambda-binder from the lambda-calculus, and the pi-binder from the pi-calculus are all examples of name-binding constructs.
Computer scientists often need to manipulate abstract syntax trees. For instance, compiler writers perform many manipulations of abstract syntax trees during the various optimisation and elaboration phases of compiler execution. In particular, when working with abstract syntax trees with name binding constructs, we often want to work on alpha-equivalence classes, implement capture-avoiding substitutions, and make it easy to generate fresh names. How best to do this, in a bug free and reliable manner, motivates a large amount of research.
Prior attempts at solving this problem include 'nameless approaches' such as de Bruijn indices and levels, and higher-order approaches such as higher-order abstract syntax. Nominal terms are another, relatively new, approach that retain explicit names for bound variables like higher-order abstract syntax, whilst retaining the first-order flavour (and first-order computational properties) of de Bruijn encodings.
Syntax
Example embeddings
Unification algorithm
Relation with higher-order patterns
Higher-order unification is known to be undecidable. This motivates the search for subsets of lambda-terms that enjoy a computationally well-behaved unification procedure. Higher-order patterns, proposed by Miller, are one such set.
Higher-order patterns are lambda-terms where the arguments of a free variable are all distinct bound variables. They possess an efficiently decidable unification procedure, and as a result, have been widely implemented, notably in the logic programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chesapeake%20Beach%2C%20Northumberland%20County%2C%20Virginia | Chesapeake Beach is an unincorporated community in Northumberland County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.
References
Coordinates on Wikidata
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Northumberland County, Virginia
Virginia populated places on the Chesapeake Bay |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Trends%20in%20Functional%20Programming | The Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming (TFP) is focused on research in the field of functional programming and investigating relationships with other branches of computer science.
See also
ICFP: International Conference on Functional Programming
External links
Home page of TFP
Computer science conferences
Programming languages conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20broadband%20modem | A mobile broadband modem, also known as wireless modem or cellular modem, is a type of modem that allows a personal computer or a router to receive wireless Internet access via a mobile broadband connection instead of using telephone or cable television lines. A mobile Internet user can connect using a wireless modem to a wireless Internet Service Provider (ISP) to get Internet access.
History
1G and 2G
While some analogue mobile phones provided a standard RJ11 telephone socket into which a normal landline modem could be plugged, this only provided slow dial-up connections, usually 2.4 kilobit per second (kbit/s) or less. The next generation of phones, known as 2G (for 'second generation'), were digital, and offered faster dial-up speeds of 9.6kbit/s or 14.4kbit/s without the need for a separate modem. A further evolution called HSCSD used multiple GSM channels (two or three in each direction) to support up to 43.2kbit/s. All of these technologies still required their users to have a dial-up ISP to connect to and provide the Internet access - it was not provided by the mobile phone network itself.
The release of 2.5G phones with support for packet data changed this. The 2.5G networks break both digital voice and data into small chunks, and mix both onto the network simultaneously in a process called packet switching. This allows the phone to have a voice connection and a data connection at the same time, rather than a single channel that has to be used for one or the other. The network can link the data connection into a company network, but for most users the connection is to the Internet. This allows web browsing on the phone, but a PC can also tap into this service if it connects to the phone. The PC needs to send a special telephone number to the phone to get access to the packet data connection. From the PC's viewpoint, the connection still looks like a normal PPP dial-up link, but it is all terminating on the phone, which then handles the exchange of data with the network. Speeds on 2.5G networks are usually in the 30–50kbit/s range.
3G
3G networks have taken this approach to a higher level, using different underlying technology but the same principles. They routinely provide speeds over 300kbit/s. Due to the now increased internet speed, internet connection sharing via WLAN has become a workable reality. Devices which allow internet connection sharing or other types of routing on cellular networks are called also cellular routers.
A further evolution is the 3.5G technology HSDPA, which provides speeds of multiple Megabits per second. Several of the mobile network operators that provide 3G or faster wireless internet access offer plans and wireless modems that enable computers to connect to and access the internet. These wireless modems are typically in the form of a small USB based device or a small, portable mobile hotspot that acts as a WiFi access point (hotspot) to enable multiple devices to connect to the internet. WiMAX based |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilm%C4%81rs%20Poik%C4%81ns | Ilmārs Poikāns (born November 4, 1978) is a Latvian AI researcher at the Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Latvia. He has used the pseudonym Neo (of The Matrix), and is also known in the press as Latvia's "Robin Hood".
Poikans alleged that both Valdis Dombrovskis, who is a European Commission Vice President responsible for the integrity of the euro, and the Bank of Latvia Governor Ilmars Rimsevics, who is a member of the council of European Central Bank, supported the fraud conducted at Parex Bank and that Rimsevics received a very large sum for his efforts.
Allegations of illegal access to tax records
Ilmārs Poikāns was arrested and later released; prosecutors released a statement saying "Taking into consideration his attitude, his confession of the crime, and his cooperation in the investigation, we did not seek his pre-trial detention." Some allege that the arrest came as a result of a search of TV journalist Ilze Nagla's house on Tuesday May 11, 2010.
After his arrest there were reports of a flash mob outside the government's cabinet office.
Ilmārs is alleged to have illegally accessed 7.5 million tax records and divulged pay rises for some high-ranking public sector employees, while rank-and-file employees were forced to take pay cuts as high as 30%.
Poikāns was granted a presidential pardon on December 18, 2017.
Notes
Living people
Latvian computer scientists
1978 births
Hackers
Hacking in the 2000s
University of Latvia alumni
Academic staff of the University of Latvia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger%20%28security%20software%29 | Tiger is a security software for Unix-like computer operating systems. It can be used both as a security audit tool and a host-based intrusion detection system and supports multiple UNIX platforms. Tiger is free under the GPL license and unlike other tools, it needs only of POSIX tools, and is written entirely in shell language.
Tiger is based on a set of modular scripts that can be run either together or independently to check different aspects of a UNIX system including the review of:
available patches not installed
filesystem permissions
dormant users
specific configuration of system files
History
Tiger was originally developed by Douglas Lee Schales, Dave K. Hess, Khalid Warraich, and Dave R. Safford in 1992 at Texas A&M University.
The tool was originally developed to provide a check of UNIX systems on the A&M campus that had to be accessed from off campus and, consequently, required clearance through the network security measures set in place. It was developed after a coordinated attack in August 1992 to computers in the campus. The campus system administrators needed something that any user could use to test the system's security and run if they could figure out how to get it down to their machines. The tool was presented in the Fourth USENIX Security Symposium. It was written at the same time that other auditing tools such as COPS, SATAN and Internet Security Scanner were written. Eventually, after the 2.2.4 version, which was released in 1994, development of Tiger stalled.
Three different forks evolved after Tiger: TARA (developed by Advanced Research Computing Tiger Analytical Research Assistant), one internally developed by the HP corporation by Bryan Gartner and the last one developed for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution by Javier Fernández-Sanguino (current upstream maintainer). All the forks aimed at making Tiger work in newer versions of different UNIX operating systems.
These forks were merged in May 2002 and in June 2002 the new source code, now labeled as the 3.0 release, was published in the download section of the newly created Savannah site. Following this merge, the following releases were published:
The 3.1 release was published in October 2002, it was considered an unstable release and included some new checks, a new autoconf script for automatic configuration, but mostly included fixes for bugs found after testing Tiger in Debian GNU/Linux and in other operating systems. Over 2,200 lines of code and documentation were included in this release.
The 3.2 release was published in May 2003. It improved the stability of the tool and fixed some security problems including a buffer overflow in realpath.
The 3.2.1 release 7 was published in October 2003. It introduced new checks including: check_ndd (for HPUX and SunOS systems), check_passwspec (for Linux and HPUX) check_trusted (for HPUX), check_rootkit (which can interact with the chkrootkit tool), check_xinetd, and, finally, aide_run and integrit_run (integri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20%28Indian%20magazine%29 | Open is an Indian English-language weekly magazine. It was launched on 2 April 2009 by the Open Media Network, the media venture of RP-Sanjiv Goenka Group. The current managing editor is P. R. Ramesh and the editor-in-chief is S. Prasannarajan. Previous editors were Sandipan Deb and Manu Joseph.
History
The Open Magazine was conceptualised by Sandipan Deb, who joined Open Media Network after having worked for several years at Outlook and Financial Express. He left in August 2010, reportedly to pursue personal interests.
After Deb left, Manu Joseph took over as the Managing Editor. Hartosh Singh Bal was appointed as the political editor and Rahul Pandita was an associate editor.
In November 2013, Hartosh Singh Bal was sacked. According Manu Joseph, the magazine's proprietor, Sanjiv Goenka, felt that Bal's writings and appearances on television were resulting in him "making a lot of ... political enemies." Joseph himself resigned soon afterwads, and P. R. Ramesh became managing editor.
Citing several instances of "press censorship", including the controversial firing of Hartosh Singh Bal, a July 2014 editorial in the New York Times commented that:
, the editor-in-chief is S. Prasannarajan. Rajmohan Radhakrishnan was its publisher until 2014 and was succeeded by Mohit Hira. After his exit in 2016, Manas Mohan was appointed in his place but left after nine months and was replaced by Ashok Bindra in 2017.
Neeraja Chawla joined as the CEO of Open Media Network in 2018.
Controversies
A report in The Indian Express in April 2012 concerning government apprehension about army movements was criticised in OPEN by the then editorial chairman of Outlook, Vinod Mehta, in an interview with Hartosh Singh Bal. Mehta called the story a mistake and a "plant". In May 2012, the Express sent a legal notice to Open asking for an apology, for the contentious story to be removed from the online edition, for OPEN to pay 500 crores to the Express, and for the journalists who wrote the contentious Express story.
In 2014, after Bal, Joseph, and Rahul Pandita had left, the magazine issued a clarification and expressed regret for the Mehta column. Mehta, Bal and Joseph then complained that the new editorial team of OPEN had violated journalistic norms because they had not been contacted before the issue of the clarification and that there was no way for OPEN to make the claims it was making in its clarification.
References
External links
2009 establishments in Delhi
English-language magazines published in India
Magazines established in 2009
Magazines published in Delhi
News magazines published in India
Political magazines published in India
RPG Group
Weekly magazines published in India
RPSG Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeuroML | NeuroML is an XML (Extensible Markup Language) based model description language that aims to provide a common data format for defining and exchanging models in computational neuroscience. The focus of NeuroML is on models which are based on the biophysical and anatomical properties of real neurons.
History
The idea of creating NeuroML as a language for describing neuroscience models was first introduced by Goddard et al. (2001)
following meetings in Edinburgh where initial templates for the language structures were discussed. This initial proposal was based on general purpose structures proposed by Gardner et al. (2001).
At that time, the concept of NeuroML was closely linked with the idea of developing a software architecture in which a base application loads a range of plug-in components to handle different aspects of a simulation problem. Neosim (2003) was developed based on this goal, and early NeuroML development was closely aligned to this approach. Along with creating Neosim, Howell and Cannon developed a software library, the NeuroML Development Kit (NDK), to simplify the process of serializing models in XML. The NeuroML Development Kit implemented a particular dialect of XML, including the "listOfXXX" structure, which also found its way into SBML(Systems Biology Markup Language), but did not define any particular structures at the model description level. Instead, developers of plug-ins for Neosim were free to invent their own structures and serialize them via the NDK, in the hope that some consensus would emerge around the most useful ones. In practice, few developers beyond the Edinburgh group developed or used such structures and the resulting XML was too application specific to gain wider adoption. The Neosim project ended in 2005.
Based on the ideas in Goddard et al. (2001) and discussions with the Edinburgh group, Sharon Crook began a collaborative effort to develop a language for describing neuronal morphologies in XML called MorphML.
From the beginning, the idea behind MorphML was to develop a format for describing morphological structures that would include all of the necessary components to serve as a common data format with the added advantages of XML. At the same time, Padraig Gleeson and Angus Silver were developing neuroConstruct
for generating neuronal simulations for the NEURON and GENESIS simulators. At that time, neuroConstruct utilized an internal simulator-independent representation for morphologies, channel and networks. It was agreed that these efforts should be merged under the banner of NeuroML, and the current structure of NeuroML was created.
The schema was divided into levels (e.g. MorphML, ChannelML, and NetworkML) to allow different applications to support different part of the language.
Since 2006 the XML Schema files for this version of the standard have been available from the NeuroML development site.
The language
Aims
The main aims of the NeuroML initiative are to:
To create specifications for |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20for%20Monte%20Carlo%20molecular%20modeling | This is a list of computer programs that use Monte Carlo methods for molecular modeling.
Abalone classical Hybrid MC
BOSS classical
CASINO quantum
Cassandra classical
CP2K
FEASST classical
GOMC classical
MacroModel classical
Materials Studio classical
ms2classical
RASPA classical
QMCPACK quantum
Spartan classical
Tinker classical
TransRot classical
Towhee classical
See also
List of quantum chemistry and solid state physics software
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Comparison of nucleic acid simulation software
Molecular design software
Molecule editor
References
Molecular modelling software
Monte Carlo molecular modelling software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Balkans | Global Balkans is an organizing network for activists working and researching in "solidarity" with Balkan social movements. Their aim is to "investigate, publicize and impact political, social and economic struggles" in the Balkan region. Its membership includes individuals of the various Balkan diasporas and those who sympathize or empathize with their cause. The network was founded by, amongst others, Andrej Grubačić.
References
Diaspora organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Network%20Registrar | Cisco Prime Network Registrar (CNR) is a Cisco software product that includes components for Domain Name System (DNS) services, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol services, Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) services, and Simple Network Management Protocol functions. CNR provides a regional and local management structure and is supported on server hardware and software based on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. This product is now called Cisco Prime Network Registrar.
DHCP server
CNR is a DHCP/DHCPv6 server used by cable-based and similar network service providers because of its support for fail-over between redundant servers, Dynamic DNS updates so that DHCP leases are reflected in DNS data, integration with directory services using LDAP Version 3, and ability to handle high request rates. It is also extensible.
DNS server
The DNS Server in CNR 7.1 provides both authoritative and recursive service, supports incremental zone transfer, notify, and dynamic update, and can service IPv6 requests but does not originate IPv6 requests. It supports TSIG authentication of zone transfers and update but does not support the data origination authentication features of DNSSEC.
Regional and local management
CNR provides for a "regional" cluster of servers and, optionally, up to 100 local clusters of servers. Overall service can be centrally controlled and managed but, in case of communications failure between the regional and local clusters, local clusters can still provide service to clients and can be locally managed. Fine grained administrative roles and privileges can be configured at both the regional level and at local clusters. The management and configuration of CNR are provided by both a command line and web interface. There are also facilities for pushing data (DNS zones, etc.) and configuration from the regional cluster to the local clusters and pulling data and configuration from local clusters to the regional cluster.
History
CNR was originally the Network Registrar product of Corporation. American Internet was based in the United States with about 50 employees. It was acquired by Cisco Systems in early 1999 under a definitive agreement signed August 21, 1998.
See also
Comparison of DNS server software
Cisco Prime
References
External links
ISPadmin DHCP services
Cisco Network Registrar
Cisco Prime Network Registrar
DNS software
DNS server software for Linux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webb%20Mountain%20Discovery%20Zone | The Webb Mountain Discovery Zone is a 170 acre park and outdoor learning center in Monroe, Connecticut, United States. The adjacent 135 acre Webb Mountain Park connects up to a 13.5 mile trail network.
The park covers and has 3 loop trails, each with marked interpretive signs. There is also an outdoor classroom for schools and groups, and a scavenger hunt scorecard. There are no other visitor facilities. The park provides additional educational resources for teachers, as well as programs for school groups, daycare centers, and scouts. The park is owned by the Town of Monroe and administered by the Friends of Webb Mountain. The park is currently under the direction of Tom Ellbogen.
History
In 2004, the Town of Monroe, with help from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), purchased of open space between Webb Mountain Park to the north and Aquarion Water Company property to the south. A comprehensive review of the property identified significant opportunities to leverage the land’s unique biodiversity including vernal pools, wildlife habitats, varietal forestation for educational purposes at several grade levels.
Under the guidance of Hank Gruner, Vice President of Programs at the new Connecticut Science Center in Hartford and Project Coordinator of the Connecticut Amphibian Monitoring Project, a second study that examined the wetland resources on the property to determine the extent and quality of the 11 active vernal pools.
With this information, the Monroe Conservation Commission, led by Tom Ellbogen, worked closely with Mr. Gruner, Diane Joy, Assistant Director of Parks, Connecticut DEP, and Monroe Schools Science Coordinator Bonnie Maur, to pilot an outdoor education program that utilizes the natural resources found on the site and conforming to the State of Connecticut’s science curriculum standards. A successful field test of two fourth grade classes was conducted in May 2007 by Mr. Gruner and his staff.
The Webb Mountain Discovery Zone was officially opened to the public in October, 2007. Private funding was used to develop a comprehensive interpretive trail system with interpretive signs and a self-directed scavenger hunt, created by Mr. Gruner, centered on the theme of “How People and Animals Have Used the Land - Past and Present,” using the highest quality signage and eco-friendly materials. Twenty-eight learning stations covering subjects such as rocks and minerals, plants and wildlife, ecology, biology, and Native American and Colonial history were identified and developed by Mr. Gruner and Nick Bellantoni, Connecticut State Archeologist. The construct of the park, including installing all signs and benches and creating a comprehensive trail system spanning over , was completed almost exclusively by volunteers.
Trails
Webb Mountain Discovery Zone has 3 marked trail loops.
Loop #1 is long, with highlights including a 19th-century quarry and a 19th-century kiln.
Loop #2 is long, and goes past |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20Multi-Tree%20with%20Shuffle%20Exchange | For parallel computing, the interconnection network is the heart of a parallel processing system, and many systems have failed to meet their design goals for the design of their essential components. The bandwidth limitation of the electronic interconnects prompted the need for exploring alternatives that overcome this limitation. Optics is considered as an alternative that is capable of providing inherentcommunication, parallelism, high connectivity and large bandwidth. When the communication distances exceed a few millimeters, optical interconnects provide advantage over the electronic interconnects in term of power, speed and crosstalk property. Therefore, in the construction of very powerful and large multiprocessor systems, it is advantageous to interconnect close processors physically using electronic links and far processors (kept in other package) using optical links. Thus we use optical network like OMTSE, OTIS, and OMULT etc. The OMTSE network consists of two different systems called as optical and electrical. In this network there are using two layer of TSE network with a complete binary trees of height one and the roots of these binary trees are connected with Shuffle-Exchange fashion.
An optoelectronic system is basically a hybrid system that exploits both the advantages of electronic and optical communication. Various models of optoelectronic parallel computers have been proposed in recent years. OMTSE (Optical Multi-Trees with Shuffle Exchange) using both electronic and optical links among processors. The processors are organized in the form of an n × n array of certain groups each containing 3n/2 nodes. It can be noted that the entire network topology is almost regular with an O(log n) diameter.
Topology of OMTSE
The network consists of a total of processors are built around factor networks called TSE networks. Each factor network consists of n leaf nodes. The diameter and bisection width of the OMTSE network is shown to be 6 log n − 1 and .
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberiu%20Popoviciu%20High%20School%20of%20Computer%20Science | Tiberiu Popoviciu High School of Computer Science () is located at 140–142 Calea Turzii in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
The high school was founded in 1971, together with three other similar high schools in Bucharest, Iași, and Timișoara. Since 1993 it holds the name of mathematician Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975), known for establishing the academic field of computer science in Romania.
References
External links
Official site
Educational institutions established in 1971
Schools in Cluj-Napoca
High schools in Romania
1971 establishments in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheibani%20Network | The Sheibani Network is an Iraqi smuggling network and Shi'a Insurgent group led by Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani, an ex-commander of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq's Badr Brigades. The group is said to be used by Iran's Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force to supply Iraqi Special Groups. The group is alleged to be responsible for numerous attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces. The network is said to consist of 280 members, divided in 17 units. US commanders have estimates that weapons smuggled and used by the group have been responsible for the death of 170 and injury of 600 American soldiers by February 2007. Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani himself is said to have fled to Tehran, Iran to evade capture, where he currently resides.
History
After the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, ex-Badr commander Abu Mustafa al-Sheibani set up his own logistics, arms, and financing network using his connections with the Badr Organisation, which he also supplied. In January 2005 he was recruited by the Quds Force to supply the Muqtada al-Sadr's Jaish al-Mahdi (JAM) as well as a splinter group led by Qais al-Khazali: the Khazali Network, which would later become Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq (AAH). The Sheibani Network, via old Badr smuggling routes trafficked Explosively formed penetrators (EFPs), Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 107mm rockets, 122mm rockets, Katyusha rockets, and a variety of mortars into Iraq. They also make bombs themselves. Next to weapons the group also smuggles money, designated for special groups, from Iran to Iraq and transports militiamen from other groups from Iraq to Iran and Lebanon to receive training.
The group itself also took part in insurgent activities, the group is alleged to be involved in the killing of six British Royal Military Policemen in June 2003 by a mob in Majar al-Kabir, Maysan Governorate. They are also said to be responsible for a roadside bombing which killed 3 British soldiers in July 2005 in al-Amarah and an attack in August 2005 against an embassy convoy in Basra which killed 3 British bodyguards. By September 2005 the group was alleged to be responsible for the death of at least 11 British soldiers. The groups fighters are said to have received training from the Quds Force and Lebanese Shi'a militia Hezbollah. They have also been alleged to be responsible for the assassinations of local police chiefs hostile to Shi'a militia and politicians who are against Iranian influence, such as the Police Chief of Najaf, the Deputy-Governor of Najaf Governorate and Muhammad al-Friji, an Iraqi Colonel.
The group's activities were said to be increasing in mid-2010 and were said to be closely cooperating with Asa'ib Ahl al-Haq.
References
External links
Arab militant groups
Factions in the Iraq War
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
Islam in Iraq
Paramilitary organizations based in Iraq
Shia Islamist groups
Terrorism in Iraq
Axis of Resistance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERIKA%20Enterprise | ERIKA Enterprise is a real-time operating system (RTOS) kernel for embedded systems, which is OSEK/VDX certified. It is free and open source software released under a GNU General Public License (GPL). The RTOS also includes RT-Druid, an integrated development environment (IDE) based on Eclipse.
ERIKA Enterprise implements various conformance classes, including the standard OSEK/VDX conformance classes BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, CCCA, and CCCB. Also, ERIKA provides other custom conformance classes named FP (fixed priority), EDF (earliest deadline first scheduling), and FRSH (an implementation of resource reservation protocols).
Due to the collaboration with the Tool & Methodologies team of Magneti Marelli Powertrain & Electronics, the automotive kernel (BCC1, BCC2, ECC1, ECC2, multicore, memory protection, and kernel fixed priority with Diab 5.5.1 compiler) is MISRA C 2004 compliant using FlexeLint 9.00h under the configuration suggested by Magneti Marelli.
In August 2012 ERIKA Enterprise officially received the OSEK/VDX certification; see below.
History
ERIKA Enterprise began in the year 2000 with the aim to support multicore devices for the automotive markets.
The main milestones are:
2000: support for STMicroelectronics ST10
2001: support for ARM7
2002: support for Janus, a prototype dual ARM7 system for the automotive market
2004: support for Hitachi H8
2005: support for Altera Nios II, with support for partitioning on multicore designs; availability of the RT-Druid code generator
2006: support for Microchip dsPIC
2007: support for Atmel AVR Micaz
2009: announced ERIKA website on TuxFamily
2010: support for TriCore, Freescale S12XS, Freescale PowerPC 5000 PPC MPC5674F Mamba, Microchip PIC24, Microchip PIC32, Lattice MICO32, eSi-RISC
2011: support for Texas Instruments MSP430, Renesas R2xx, Freescale S12G, Freescale PowerPC 5000 PPC MPC5668G Fado
2012: support for ARM Cortex-M, Atmel AVR (Arduino), TI Stellaris Cortex M4, Freescale PowerPC 5000 PPC MPC5643L Leopard, NXP LPCXpresso. ERIKA Enterprise received OSEK/VDX certification.
2013: ERIKA Enterprise is supported by E4Coder automatic code generation tool.
2014: OSEK/VDX certification for Tricore AURIX
2017: RTOS was rewritten from scratch; new version (3) has proper support for multicore platforms (i.e., one binary for multiple cores), better support for memory protection, and an easier build system. The source code is now maintained on a GitHub repository.
2018: Multicore and AUTOSAR Scalability Class 1 added to ERIKA3. Graphical editor now available for the OIL file.
Licensing
Version 2 of the RTOS was released under GPL linking exception. Version 3 of the RTOS (also called ERIKA3) is released under plain GNU General Public License (GPL), with the linking exception sold on request.
Industrial usage
In 2010, Cobra Automotive Technology announced support for ERIKA Enterprise
In 2010, EnSilica and Pebble Bay consultancy ported ERIKA Enterprise to a family of configurabl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeciras%20Heliport | The Algeciras Heliport () is a public heliport in Algeciras (Cádiz, Spain). It was inaugurated on July 1, 2010, by the Minister of Development, José Blanco. It was the second helipad of the network AENA after Ceuta Heliport. Construction had started in February 2009. It provides transport to Ceuta and other areas in the Campo de Gibraltar. The only airport existing in the area is the one in the neighbouring British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar.
It was expected to begin operation in July 2010. The heliport is located on the current parking building of the Port of Algeciras. The set up of the heliport has involved the extension of an existing building and the ground keeping an area of 32 x 24 meters to take off the vehicle and a safe area of 8 x 5 meters. It is supplemented by the service units for rescue and firefighting and various units of maintenance. The helicopter used in the city will be a model Bell 412 EP that will allow communication with the city of Ceuta in just 10 minutes.
The heliport platform is 2,400 m2 and a height of 30 meters above sea level. The passenger terminal is located in the Passenger Terminal Building.
Facilities
The heliport is divided into two parts: the passenger terminal and the launch pad for landing. The passenger terminal is part of the port of Algeciras, which has adapted an area to meet the needs of the heliport. This platform has 2,400 m 2 and is located 30 m. The terminal and platform are connected by covered outdoor walkways. The cost was more than 7 million euros.
It is located 500 meters from the station and bus station in Algeciras.
Services
The heliport uses the services and parking of the Port of Algeciras. It does not have deposits of fuel for helicopters due to lack of space, so refueling cannot be done here.
Airlines and destinations
See also
Málaga Airport
Gibraltar Airport
Jerez Airport
References
External links
Gibraltar set to lose its air supremacy - Panorama
Algeciras 'ghost' airport
Helicomplet developments
Official website
AENA explanatory video
Airports in Andalusia
Heliports in Spain
Airports established in 2010 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informatica | Informatica is an American software development company founded in 1993. It is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Its core products include enterprise cloud data management and data integration. It was co-founded by Gaurav Dhillon and Diaz Nesamoney. Amit Walia is the company's CEO.
History
On 29 April 1999, its Initial public offering on the Nasdaq stock exchange listed its shares under the stock symbol INFA.
On 7 April 2015, Permira and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board announced that a company controlled by the Permira funds and CPPIB would acquire Informatica for approximately US$5.3 billion.
On 6 August 2015, the acquisition was completed and Microsoft and Salesforce Ventures invested in the company as part of the deal. The company's stock ceased trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol INFA effective on the same date.
On 27 October 2021, Informatica again became publicly traded with the INFA stock symbol, this time listed on the NYSE, opening at $27.55 per share.
Products
Informatica's product portfolio is focused on data integration: extract, transform, load, information lifecycle management, business-to-business data exchange, cloud computing integration, complex event processing, data masking, data quality, data replication, data virtualization, master data management, ultra messaging, and data governance. These components form a toolset for establishing and maintaining data warehouses. It has over 9,500 customers.
In 2006, Informatica announced a "cloud business".
Financial results
Informatica has grown through a combination of sales growth and through company acquisitions.
References
External links
American companies established in 1993
Software companies established in 1993
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Enterprise application integration
Extract, transform, load tools
Development software companies
Data warehousing products
Data companies
Data quality companies
Software companies of the United States
Cloud computing providers
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Redwood City, California
1993 establishments in California
2015 mergers and acquisitions
Permira companies
CPP Investment Board companies
2021 initial public offerings
Salesforce
1999 initial public offerings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Schools%2C%20Inc. | King Schools, Inc. is an American computer software company headquartered in San Diego, California. The company focuses on the creation of Computer Based Training (CBT) or E-learning to assist individuals in obtaining all levels of Pilot certification in the United States. Over the years, the company has expanded its training courses to cover the various pilot certificates, ratings and educational requirements, along with many aeronautical elective studies. More recently, it has begun offering all of its courses in Web-based training (WBT) and mobile device formats.
King Schools was founded in 1974 by John and Martha King, husband and wife. As Certificated Flight Instructors, the Kings first began as a traveling ground school, offering two-day courses in various cities. A little more than a decade later, they began producing training videos that other flight instructors could incorporate into their own curriculum. Eventually, demand for their videos by individuals learning to fly led to the development of courses that could be used for self-paced study.
As of May 2010, King Schools has over 70 employees and operates exclusively from an facility near Montgomery Field. Course development, production, customer service and shipping all occur at this location. Course videos are filmed either in the in-house digital studio or at nearby Montgomery Field.
John and Martha King are two of the most recognized experts in flight instruction, and King Schools is best known for its effective use of a folksy, humor-rich approach in their training videos. The company claims that more than half of all pilots in the United States have studied using one of their courses. Of the courses they offer, the Private Pilot Knowledge Test Course is likely the most used, supporting FAA Part 61 ground schools. Among the approximately 90 other courses offered, topics covered include Private Pilot, Instrument Pilot, Commercial Pilot, International Operations and risk management. King Schools also produces the Cessna-branded courses used by Cessna Pilot Centers, which are Part 141 ground schools.
History
In 1975, King Schools, Inc. was started by John and Martha King as a touring 2-day ground school.
In 1989, King Schools moves to its current facility in San Diego, California, near Montgomery Field
In 1999, King Schools produces the flight training videos for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000, featuring John and Martha King providing personal instruction for virtual pilots. They also did the same for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002, in 2001.
In 2008, John and Martha King were inducted into the International Air & Space Hall of Fame at the San Diego Air & Space Museum, and in 2019, they were inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame at the National Museum of the United States Air Force.
Flying Risk Awareness Advocacy
In March 2001, Flying Magazine published an interview with John King titled "John King's Crusade to Change Aviation's Culture." In the art |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Sandewall | Erik Sandewall is a Swedish Professor in the Chair of Computer Science at Linköping University since 1975. He is known for his pioneering research in artificial intelligence.
Education
Erik Sandewall received the B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Uppsala University in 1964 and 1969 respectively.
Notable Honors and Awards
AAAI Fellow
ECCAI Fellow
Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (1981)
Member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences (1992)
Doctor honoris causa Paul Sabatier University, France
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, France
Fellow of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Associate Member of the Hassan II Academy of Science and Technology, Morocco
Immortalized as statue outside of the Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University
See also
Frame problem
Yale shooting problem
Funarg problem
References
External links
Erik Sandewall's personal web page
Swedish computer scientists
Academic staff of Linköping University
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences
Members of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
1945 births
Living people
Knights of the Legion of Honour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell%27s%20Kitchen%20%28American%20season%207%29 | Season 7 of the American competitive reality television series Hell's Kitchen aired on the Fox Network at 08:00pm (ET/PT) from June 1, 2010, to August 10, 2010. Gordon Ramsay returned as host, as well as Maître d' Jean-Philippe Susilovic and Blue Team Sous chef Scott Leibfried. Andi Van Willigan, a chef from Santa Monica, California became the sous chef for the Red Team.
Banquet chef Holli Ugalde won the season, she was promised to be the head chef position at Ramsay's newly renovated restaurant at the Savoy Hotel in London. Filming had concluded in February 2009, 16 months prior to seventh season premiere, when the hotel reopened in 2010; however, Ugalde was not given the job. Ramsay stated that the American Ugalde could not work in London due to visa problems, but Ugalde called that explanation an excuse, saying, "I don't know if they even applied for my visa." Ugalde was later awarded an undisclosed amount of money in compensation and retained her title as the winner of season 7.
Autumn Lewis broke the record for most nominations in a season of Hell's Kitchen. The record was previously held by Virginia Dalbeck, who was nominated six times before finishing as the runner-up in Season 2. Lewis had been nominated a total of seven times throughout the season (one of which was voided by Chef Ramsay) before her elimination after the penultimate service.
Contestants
16 chefs competed in season 7.
Notes
Contestant progress
Episodes
Notes
References
Hell's Kitchen (American TV series)
2010 American television seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Journal%20of%20Cancer | The Indian Journal of Cancer is a peer-reviewed open-access medical journal published by Medknow Publications on behalf of the Indian Cancer Society, Indian Cooperative Oncology Network and Indian Society of Oncology. The journal is the oldest oncology journal from India and covers all aspects of oncology, including medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, oncopathology, preventive oncology, public health. The journal is abstracted and indexed in PubMed and the Science Citation Index Expanded. It is brought out quarterly.
External links
Open access journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Oncology journals
Medknow Publications academic journals
Academic journals established in 1964
Cancer in India
Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamba%27s%20Playtime | Yamba's Playtime is an Australian children's preschool television program, produced and broadcast by Imparja Television from 1995 and since 2010 has also been broadcast by Nine Network Australia. Each 30 minute episode of Yamba's Playtime follows the life of Yamba the Yerrampe (or honey ant) and is the first indigenous themed preschool program to have received a "P" Classification.
Yamba the Honeyant is from Central Australia, and has a best friend named Jacinta.
Yamba is very curious and loves to learn, is active and energetic, friendly and outgoing. Other characters on the show include Grandpa and Grandma Honeyant, Cecilina the Ballerina (Yamba's big sister) and Miss Honeypot (Cecilina's ballet teacher).
Every episode of Yamba's Playtime is educational yet entertaining and reflects distinctive qualities that can only be found in the red centre of Australia. It appeals to an indigenous and non-indigenous preschool audience as proven by the high rating of viewers who tuned into Series 1 in January 2012.
"What I love about Yamba’s Playtime, is that while it is primarily aimed at a young indigenous audience, with its energy, music, and sense of story fun it actually appeals to a much broader demographic. It’s enlightening on so many levels," said Cameron Clarke, former screenwriter of Hi 5.
Because of the massively popular preschool program, it was decided to use Yamba as a vehicle to present healthy messages to remote towns and communities. Yamba's Roadshow was created and in 2011 the Yamba Roadshow crew began travelling throughout the Northern Territory and continued into Queensland performing stage shows all about healthy living.
During the roadshows, Yamba is waved at in the streets, mobbed by fans, and treated like a celebrity. Before the performances, Yamba's name is always chanted over and over, in anticipation of the Honeyant Rockstar coming onto the stage.
Characters
Yamba the Yerrampe
Yamba is a honey ant from Central Australia, and is played by a person in a honey ant suit. According to the Imparja website, Yamba is energetic, friendly, and loves to learn.
Jacinta
Jacinta is Yamba's best friend. She is human, and is played by Jacinta Price.
Chabba and Flopp
Chabba and Flopp are two imaginary socks created by Robbie.
Cecilina the Ballerina
Cecilina the Ballerina is Yamba's big sister. She loves ballet, fruit salad and visiting Yamba and Jacinta
Grandma & Grandpa Honeyant
Grandpa Honeyant is Yamba and Cecilina's grandfather. In Series 1 & 2 he has a segment called 'Grandpa Honeyant's Storytime'. Grandma Honeyant is Yamba and Cecilina's grandmother; she is a wise woman and loves her grandchildren.
Miss Honeypot
Miss Honeypot is Cecilina's Ballet Teacher.
Episodes
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Series 1
Series 1 was first aired in January 2012 on the Nine Network and Imparja Television. It will be aired again late 2012 on both networks.
PGM1 3 Wishes
Yamba the Honeyant finds a magic lamp and makes three ANTastic wishes.
PGM2 The Holiday
Yamba takes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20computer%20hardware%20terms | This glossary of computer hardware terms is a list of definitions of terms and concepts related to computer hardware, i.e. the physical and structural components of computers, architectural issues, and peripheral devices.
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See also
List of computer term etymologies
Glossary of backup terms
Glossary of computer graphics
Glossary of computer science
Glossary of computer software terms
Glossary of energy efficient hardware/software
Glossary of Internet-related terms
Glossary of reconfigurable computing
References
External links
Dictionary: JESD88 JEDEC
Computer hardware terms
Wikipedia glossaries using description lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSGi%20Specification%20Implementations | The OSGi framework is a standardized module system and service platform for the Java programming language. The OSGi standards are defined in the OSGi Specification Project at Eclipse and published in OSGi specification documents such as the Core and Compendium specifications. These specifications contain chapters each of which describe a specific OSGi standard. This article contains a list of available implementations of OSGi standards, both commercial and open source implementations are included.
Feel free to add mentions to additional implementations.
Implementations realize specification chapter(s) from the OSGi specification documents.
Core Specification
Latest Specification Release: R8
Specification chapters: 2-10, 50-60, 101, 701
Specifications implemented by OSGi core frameworks. A compliant OSGi Framework must at least implement chapters 3-10 and 53-58.
Compendium Specification
Latest Specification Release: R8
Specification chapters: 100-117, 119-123, 125-128, 130, 132-138, 140, 147, 148, 150-155, 157-159, 702, 705-707
Enterprise Specification
Latest Specification Release: R7
Specification chapters: 100-102, 104-105, 107, 110, 112-113, 122-130, 132-135, 137, 138, 140, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 702, 705, 706, 707.
The Enterprise Specification contains an enterprise-focused subset of the OSGi specifications. Certain Specification chapters are not yet in the Compendium Specification document because it was released before the Enterprise Specification.
Residential Specification
Latest Specification Release: R6
Specification chapters: Res2, Res3, 101-105, 107, 110-113, 117, 131, 135, 139, 141-146, 702, 705
The first release of the OSGi Residential Specification resolved the requirements of inter-operation with existing management systems and protocols, the need to remotely manage user applications life cycle as well as the need for large-scale deployments and adequate security. With this second release of the OSGi Residential Specification we introduce new specifications for abstracting devices, sensors, actuators, etc. from their corresponding communication protocols and facilitate the development of new innovative application and services. This release also contains specifications that address device connectivity via the EnOcean wireless protocol, USB and serial port. With the Resource Monitoring Specification, resources consumed by bundles can be monitored in order to fairly share resources and preserve the overall quality of service. The Network Interface Information Service Specification enables dynamic discovery of changes in the network interface.
Mobile Specification
Latest Specification Release: 4.0.1
Specification chapters: 101, 104-105, 109, 112-120, 701-702
Implementations
The following sections list implementations of OSGi specifications organized by chapter. The Version column indicates the OSGi specification version supported, not the project version. The Certification column indicates whether an impleme |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora%20%28software%29 | Isadora is a proprietary graphic programming environment for Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows, with emphasis on real-time manipulation of digital video. It was first released in 2000. It has support for Open Sound Control and MIDI. Isadora was designed by Mark Coniglio.
References
External links
Isadora homepage
Isadora review on Octapod
Isadora review on VJCentral
Video editing software
Stagecraft software
Sound production
Sound production technology
Digital art
Interactive media
Interactive art
Companies based in Berlin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projecto%20Moda | Projecto Moda ("Project Fashion") is a Portuguese reality competition TV show that ran for one season, from 25 July to 26 September 2010, on public network RTP1. It is the Portuguese installment of the Project Runway franchise.
The host of the show was Nayma Mingas, a former model.
Paulo Gomes was the mentor. Manuel Alves, a fashion designer, and Fátima Cotta, the director of Elle Magazine Portugal, were the judges for the season. The other permanent judge was Cristina Pinho, a spokesperson from Modalfa, a Portuguese fashion store.
The show had 10 contestants, and only two finalists. The show had 10 episodes that aired weekly.
Contestants
Designers
The 10 designers in season 1 are:
Models
The 10 models in season 1 are:
Challenges
: Although this was not a team challenge, the judges considered that both designers had outfits, that were good enough to be considered winners.
: Although this was a team challenge the designers were evaluated individually. In this episode there was not a bottom two.
: The judges did not split the group into "high" or "low" scorers. Hence, there was no winner; designers either advanced to finale or were eliminated.
Results
Green background and WINNER means the designer won Projecto Moda.
Blue background and WIN means the designer won that challenge.
Light blue background and HIGH means the designer had one of the highest scores for that challenge, but did not win.
Pink background and LOW means the designer had one of the lowest scores for that challenge, but was not eliminated.
Orange background and LOW means the designer was in the bottom two, but was not eliminated;
Red background and OUT means the designer lost and was out of the competition.
Episode Summary
Episode 1: Preto no Branco
Original Airdate: July 25, 2010
The designers were asked to create a dress for Vicky Fernandes, who was considered many times one of the most beautiful women in Portugal. However, there was a twist. The designers couldn't select the fabric of their dresses, Instead they took two samples of fabric out of a bag without looking at it. They were preassigned models for their challenge, given 30 minutes to sketch their design, and three days to complete the outfit. The winner has immunity for the next challenge and cannot be eliminated.
Judges: Nayma Mingas; Manuel Alves; Fátima Cotta; Cristina Pinho and Vicky Fernandes.
WINNER: Pedro
OUT: Vanda
Episode 2: Supermercado
Original Airdate: August 1, 2010
The designers were asked to create an outfit made only from materials bought at a supermarket. They had a budget of €60, 1 hour to make their purchases and one day to complete the outfit. The winner has immunity for the next challenge and cannot be eliminated.
Judges: Nayma Mingas; Manuel Alves; Fátima Cotta; Cristina Pinho and Ricardo Araújo Pereira.
WINNER: Carina
OUT: Joana
Episode 3: Saída de Praia
Original Airdate: August 8, 2010
The designers had to create an outfit with a beach theme. They are given two minutes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20railway%20stations%20in%20Kent | This is a list of railway stations in Kent, a county in the South East of England. It includes all railway stations that are part of the National Rail network, and which are currently open and have timetabled train services. Southeastern provides most of these services, with Southern and Thameslink providing the remainder.
The majority of services run into one of the London terminals of Blackfriars, Cannon Street, Charing Cross, London Bridge and Victoria.
Stations
See also
List of railway stations in Dover
List of railway stations in Essex
References
Kent
Railway stations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Data%20Inquiry%20for%20Oil%20Spills | The Automated Data Inquiry for Oil Spills (ADIOS2) software is an oil weathering model provided by NOAA that incorporates a database containing more than a thousand crude oils and refined products, and provides quick estimates of the expected characteristics and behavior of oil spilled into the marine environment. The predictions it makes, presented as both graphics and text, are designed to help answer questions that typically arise during spill response and cleanup.
Predictive information for oil spill response
One user describes the program as follows: "You just key in all the details of the parameters of the spill, from the type of oil to wave conditions, winds, sea temperatures, what have you, and the software tells you the fate of the oil over an extended period."
By predicting change in an oil's viscosity (resistance to flow) over time, ADIOS2 offers an answer to the question: Can the oil still be dispersed with chemical dispersants?
By predicting the rate of increase in an oil's water content over time, ADIOS2 offers an answer to questions like: If of crude oil has spilled, will more than of oil-and-water mixture need to be cleaned up and disposed of? How much more?
Use cases
On May 14, 2010, the AP reported that this tool is being used to help assess where all the oil is going from the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.
References
External links
ADIOS2 page at NOAA. Includes download instructions, FAQ, and more.
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Oil spill remediation technologies
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Science software
Emergency management software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luckan | Luckan (Swedish for "ticket window" or "box office") is a network of Finland-Swedish cultural centres in Finland. Currently, there are located in 11 cities and towns in Finland: Helsinki, Kirkkonummi, Kokkola, Kristinestad, Närpes, Porvoo, Karis in Raseborg, Tampere, Turku and Oulu.
Luckan offers its visitors the cultural events, theme days and press conferences, free usage of Internet, information on the Finland-Swedish society. Luckan also offers to read the Swedish-language newspapers and over sixty branch magazines. The center also upholds a website featuring information about the Finland-Swedish society, in English, called Svenskfinland.fi.
Luckan gives information on various events, education, Finland-Swedish organisations and societies, social welfare and integration in Finnish society aimed at immigrants.
Luckan was founded in 1992 in Helsinki by Nylands svenska landskapsförbund and Mellannylandsprojektet. The name Luckan refers to the organization's first location in Helsinki, a window near the ticket windows of the Swedish Theatre.
In November 1998 Luckan moved into Lasipalatsi/Glaspalatset. By March 2004 Luckan obtained new premises in the building of Forum shopping centre. In early 2019, Luckan moved within the Forum block to the building previously used by the Amos Anderson Art Museum. Both organizations have financial and other ties to Konstsamfundet, a wealthy patron of culture and the arts in Finland.
References
External links
Luckan
Svenskfinland.fi
Swedish-speaking population of Finland
Culture of Finland
Culture in Helsinki
Culture in Turku |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exercise%20prescription%20software | Exercise prescription software is a branch of computer software designed to aid in the construction of exercise programmes or regimes for patients who require some kind of ongoing rehabilitation.
Exercise prescription is common in physiotherapy practices where traditionally patients would be given a printed handout with diagrams and instructions describing any rehabilitation exercises. As high speed internet becomes prevalent in the home, and paperless offices are more desirable, prescribed exercises may be e-mailed to patients. diagrams may be replaced by instructional videos, and new technologies (apps for mobile devices, wearable devices, and online support forums) have expanded the ways in which exercise may be prescribed and monitored.
See also
Exercise is Medicine
Exercise prescription
List of exercise prescription software
References
Physical exercise
Medical software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotting%20room | A plotting room was the co-ordination centre of a fire control system for guns used against enemy ships or aircraft, whether naval guns or coastal artillery. The plotting room received data on ship or aircraft position and motion from fire control instruments or their operators and determined and transmitted the range and bearing (a.k.a. azimuth or deflection) the guns would fire on. Plotting rooms came into use in the early 1900s for coastal artillery and during World War I for warships as gun ranges increased, and were in general use through the 1970s on World War II-era ships (and into the 1990s on the US Navy's s). Warships had plotting rooms for naval fire control for guns from 5-inch to 18-inch calibre, including anti-aircraft use for the smaller guns. On armoured ships such as battleships and cruisers, plotting rooms were located in the armoured citadel, protected by both deck and belt armour. With a few exceptions (mostly in Scandinavia), coastal defence gun installations were inactivated shortly after World War II (US) through the middle 1950s (UK). Equipment in plotting rooms included specialised plotting boards and other analogue devices; by World War II these were supplemented or replaced by electro-mechanical gun data computers. Data could be received and transmitted by telephone, or directly via dedicated electrical systems. Locations of plotting rooms in coastal defence installations varied greatly; they could be in low-rise structures such as base end stations (usually colocated with observation equipment in a two-story structure), taller fire control towers, in gun battery structures, or in bunkers separate from gun batteries.
The British Watkin position finder system for coastal artillery, which entered service in the 1890s, did not require a plotting room due to mounting a depression position finder (DPF) on a "range dial", similar to a plotting board. An electrical system moved bearing and range dials near the guns as the DPF was manipulated by an operator.
See also
Coast Artillery fire control system
Seacoast defense in the United States
References
External links
Coast Defense Study Group website
Coastal artillery
Artillery operation
Naval artillery
Naval anti-aircraft guns |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SURES | SURES (Red de Comercio Justo del Sur, South of Chile Fair Trade Network) is a Chilean association created in 2006 during the first Fair Trade Meetings, organized by the Chol-Chol Foundation and the AVINA Foundation. It is a network of small scale producers cooperatives of the Bio-Bio Region and the Araucanía Region, in the south of Chile.
Its mission to enlighten south of Chile’s artisans and use fair trade as a tool to overpass poverty, so that they could live dignified of their work.
Priorities
Producers associated to this network are mostly Mapuche women living within a poor family in the countryside. Selling their products bring them the main income of their home, which is a regular - and at least - minimum wage. SURES also work with urban artisans, the majority of them coming from Concepción.
For all members of SURES, Fair Trade ensures a direct relationship with marginalized producers, which is based on justice and dignity, and non-profit organizations play the part of “matchmaker” between these producers and responsible consumers.
Key principles
Defend and promote fair trade in the south of Chile
Encourage democratic producers’ association
Give value to the Person as much as to the product, thanks to a transparent marketing.
Members
6 associations are part of SURES Network:
Relmu Witral Native Association, made up of 120 Lavkenche women from Tirua, all traditional textile weavers.
Ngen Cooperative, formed of 130 Mapuche women from Curarrehue who created 9 different workshops.
The Chol-Chol Foundation supports almost 200 Mapuche craftswomen and craftsmen from the Araucanía Region.
The Work for a Brother Foundation (TPH) enables artisans from Concepción to promote and sell their products.
Hands of Bío Bío applies itself to creating a place dedicated to craftsmen who are excluded from the main distribution networks.
Ñimi Kafé Pu Domo Native Association regroups 150 women weavers from 6 communities of the Araucanía Region.
See also
Fair Trade
World Fair Trade Organization
Mapuche
External links
Comercio Justo Del Sur
Chol Chol
Relmu Witral
Fair trade organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20S.M.A.R.T.%20tools | This is an incomplete list of software that reads S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) data from hard drives.
Notes
References
S.M.A.R.T. Tools
Computer storage technologies
Hard disk software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Infrastructure%20Assurance%20and%20Security | The Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security (CIAS) was established at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) in 2001 as part of UTSA's creation of a cyber security program. The CIAS conducts activities in two major areas: Infrastructure Assurance Programs and Training and also Cyber Security Defense Competitions.
The Community Cyber Security Maturity Model (CCSMM), developed by the CIAS, serves as the roadmap for many of its activities.
CIAS efforts have been conducted through grants from the U.S. Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and through private partnerships. Largely as a result of early CIAS activities, UTSA was the first university in Texas to receive designation as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education by the National Security Agency. Texas currently has the most universities of any state in the country with these designations. The Center created and currently directs the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition and is a Founding Partner of the CyberPatriot National High School Cyber Defense Competition. President Obama's May 2009 Cyberspace Policy Review specifically mentions the CIAS's National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (NCCDC) as an example of key education programs that can ensure the Nation's continued ability to compete in the information age economy.
References
External links
cias.utsa.edu
ciastraining.com
nationalccdc.org
uscyberpatriot.org
Organizations based in San Antonio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEVEN%20Networks | SEVEN Networks, Inc. is a privately funded American corporation founded in 2000. It had about 265 employees in 2010. As of 2017, the company has research and development centers in Texas and Finland.
SEVEN mobile messaging products are turnkey multi-device, multi-service computer software for operators and device manufacturers. The company claims its products have a desktop-like experience for core messaging applications like email, instant messaging and social networking.
History
The company was formerly known as Leap Corporation and changed its name to SEVEN Networks, Inc. in December 2000.
In 2004, the company was selected for FierceWireless' list of 15 promising and innovative wireless startups of the year.
By 2005, CEO Bill Nguyen had left to start another company.
In 2006, the company announced Sprint as a customer.
Since then, the company expanded its products to support email services, added mobile instant messaging applications, analytics and social networking.
In 2010, the company announced it was selected by Samsung Electronics to provide push technology for Samsung Social Hub, a social networking and integrated messaging service available on several of the company’s handsets. In January 2010, the company claimed in a press release to have over eight million accounts actively synchronized on mobile devices using its software. In early 2011, the company announced Verizon Wireless as a customer and also announced Open Channel.
In 2012, the company announced a combined email, instant messaging and social media product, Ping.
Open Channel
The Open Channel software product line focuses on mobile traffic management and optimization. There are Open Channel products for wireless signaling optimization, carrier network policy enforcement, and mobile data offloading.
Open Channel was launched in February 2011 to help carriers manage the impact of push technology for message notifications on their networks. It works by monitoring all requests for data from smartphone applications, such as Facebook, email, Twitter, which make up two hundreds of requests per hour, with only a small fraction of them actually returning data.
The platform acts as a buffer in the network, determining when content for a particular app is available and then allowing the phone to get that content. Early tests estimated mobile devices might reduce their time on a network by up to 40 percent and mobile traffic by up to 70 percent while boosting battery life by up to 25 percent.
Open Channel is transparent to connected applications and requires no changes or special integration by mobile developers. It does not require changes to the network and can work with new standards for fast network dormancy, smart signaling and other network optimizations. In February 2011, Open Channel received the GSMA Global Mobile Award for Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough in 2011.
In February 2013, Open Channel added offerings for policy enforcement and offloading. Also in earl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaled%20el%20Masri | Jaled el Masri is a citizen of Syria who was subjected to the American program of extraordinary rendition and held in extrajudicial detention in the CIA's network of black sites.
Jaled el Masri is reported to have been apprehended by a clandestine CIA team in January 2004, in Skopje, Macedonia.
Jaled el Masri is reported to have been tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan.
The Boeing 737 airliner that transported Jaled el Masri and the CIA team landed in La Palma, Majorca, a Spanish Island in the Mediterranean.
In May 2010 Spanish authorities issued an arrest warrant for the CIA officials who landed in Spanish territory while accompanying Jaled el Masri.
The arrest warrants triggered concern in the United Kingdom because the CIA officials were reported to have used UK passports.
Mistaken Identity
Another man named Jaled el Masri was arrested in Skopje around the same time, on December 31, 2003.
He was a German citizen of Lebanese origins on vacation in the country, when was mistaken for a terrorist by Macedonian authorities. After being tortured, he was handed over to the CIA and spent six months being interrogated in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan. He was returned to Germany on May 28, 2004.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Spencer | Mark Spencer may refer to:
Mark Spencer (botanist), British forensic botanist
Mark Spencer (computer engineer) (born 1977), American computer engineer
Mark Spencer (guitarist) (born 1957), American guitarist
Mark Spencer (British politician) (born 1970), British Member of Parliament for Sherwood
Mark Spencer (New York politician) (1787–1859), New York politician
Mark G. Spencer (born 1967), Canadian historian
See also
Marks & Spencer, a major British retailer
Spencer (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRMW | WRMW "Radio Maria" (for: Radio Maria-Wisconsin) is a non-commercial FM broadcasting station at 91.3 MHz licensed to Peshtigo, Wisconsin serving the Sturgeon Bay area with Catholic programming. WRMW's signal and tower height also has the potential to reach into portions of the southern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and the western coast of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan.
WRMW began as a construction permit licensed in May 2007 to its founder "Friends of Radio Maria" (which also airs Italian language Catholic programming on the FM subcarrier of New York station WKTU and on the internet.) WRMW is now owned and operated (and licensed to) Radio Maria Inc.
Upon its initial sign-on which took place on May 26, 2010 just days before the construction permit expiration date, WRMW initially aired separate pre-recorded programming from the network archives while it was awaiting the installation of its satellite receiver and dish antenna from originating station KJMJ 580 kHz in Alexandria, Louisiana. Sample archived programming of Radio Maria USA's repeater network geared to the local Catholic community aired from May 26–30 to fulfill the FCC deadline. After a brief period of being off the air, the satellite feed became available on the evening of June 18, 2010, thus allowing WRMW to return to the air to join the KJMJ-originated repeater network and the Radio Maria family on a live full-time basis. This took place the following day on Saturday June 19, 2010.
Audiostreaming from its website is also available for listeners outside its immediate signal area in addition to iPhone, BlackBerry and Android mobile phone devices by means of downloading the appropriate app from the same website.
Another repeater which also took to the air within the same timeframe is WOLM 88.1 mHz in D'Iberville, Mississippi serving the Biloxi area which made its on-air debut on May 27, 2010.
Peshtigo (WRMW's city of license) is a reference to the Peshtigo fire and Marian visionary Adele Brice who in 1859 was visited by the Blessed Virgin Mary on several occasions prior to the killer firestorm of October 8, 1871 in which countless refugees fled to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help located near the community of Champion just northeast of Green Bay. The fire miraculously missed the Shrine, saving the uncounted lives of the people and livestock. It was the first Marian apparition that was approved by the Catholic Church which took place in the United States.
See also
Radio Maria
KJMJ(originating U.S. station)
Peshtigo fire
External links
Internet radio
Podcasts
Listing of Radio Maria stations in the U.S. broadcasting in English,Spanish and Italian
World Family of Radio Maria
Catholic radio stations
Marinette County, Wisconsin
Door County, Wisconsin
Radio stations established in 1999
1999 establishments in Wisconsin
RMW |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20Networks | Sense Networks is a New York City based company with a focus on applications that analyze big data from mobile phones, carrier networks, and taxicabs, particularly by using machine learning technology to make sense of large amounts of location (latitude/longitude) data.
In 2009, Sense was named one of "The 25 Most Intriguing Startups in the World" by Bloomberg Businessweek and was called "The Next Google" on the cover of Newsweek.
In 2014, Sense Networks was acquired by YP, "the local search and advertising company owned by Cerberus Capital Management and AT&T." It was subsequently sold off to Verve in 2017
History
Sense Networks was founded by Greg Skibiski in February 2006 (2003?) near his home in Northampton, Massachusetts. After establishing an office in NoHo, New York City near Silicon Alley, Skibiski recruited Alex Pentland, Director of Human Dynamics Research and former Academic Head of the MIT Media Lab, Tony Jebara, Associate Professor and Head of the Machine Learning Laboratory at Columbia University, and Christine Lemke, who would later become co-founders.
Sense Networks investors include Intel Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, and Kenan Altunis.
Founder Greg Skibiski was pushed out by lead investor Intel Capital in November 2009 following the company's B round of financing. During the same week, the company won the Emerging Communications Conference "Company to Watch" Award.
The company has three published patent applications for analyzing sensor data streams: System and Method of Performing Location Analytics (US 20090307263), Comparing Spatial-Temporal Trails in Location Analytics (US 20100079336), and Anomaly Detection in Sensor Analytics (US 20100082301).
The company was acquired by the Yellow Pages in 2014. This is a marketing conglomerate under AT&T and Cerberus Capital Management.
Products and services
The Citysense consumer application that shows hotspots of human activity in real-time from mobile phone location and taxicab GPS data was named by ReadWriteWeb (in The New York Times) as "Top 10 Internet of Things Products of 2009".
The Cabsense consumer application that shows the best place to catch a New York City taxicab based on GPS data from the vehicle was launched in March 2010.
The Macrosense platform is for mobile application providers and mobile phone carriers to analyze billions of customer location data points for predictive analytics in advertising and churn management applications.
Privacy and data ownership
The company allows users to opt-out of their service through their website, and users may monitor their profile through their application. The company does not collect identifiable data (such as phone numbers or names); it collects data received from cellphone to construct anonymous profiles of consumers. This anonymous data/profiles may then be sold to third parties.
The company's privacy and data ownership policies are based on The New Deal on Data, as advocated by Alex "Sandy" Pentland, head of t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Council%20of%20Science%20Museums | National Council of Science Museums (NCSM) is an autonomous scientific organization functioning under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India for science communication through its network of science museums or science centres spread across India. It is the largest chain of science centers/museums under a single administrative umbrella in the world. There are 24 own science centers or museums and one R & D laboratory and training centre. The NCSM has been built to co-ordinate all informal science communication activities in the museum space in the country.
History
The first science museum, Birla Industrial and Technological Museum (BITM), Kolkata under CSIR43, was opened on 2 May 1959. In July 1965, the second science museum of the country, the Visvesvaraya Industrial & Technological Museum (VITM) was opened in Bangalore. After Kolkata and Bangalore, the work for the third centre in Mumbai was taken up in 1974. As the popularisation of science and technology through the science museums grew in scope and size, the Union Planning Commission constituted a task force in the early 1970s to assess the activities of the science museums. The task force recommended to set up science museums in different parts of the country at national, state and district levels and also recommended formation of a central coordinating agency. In 1978, it was decided by the Government of India to delink from CSIR the two science museums already operating at Kolkata and Bangalore and also the one being set up at Mumbai and put them under a newly formed society registered on 4 April 1978, as National Council of Science Museums (NCSM).
List of centres
National Level Centres
Science City, Kolkata, fully operational since 1 July 1997
Birla Industrial & Technological Museum, Kolkata, inaugurated on 2 May 1959
Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai, inaugurated on 11 November 1985
Visvesvaraya Industrial and Technological Museum, Bangalore, operational since 1965
National Science Centre, Delhi, inaugurated on 9 January 1992
Central Research and Training Laboratory, Kolkata, R & D laboratory and training centre of NCSM. Operational since 1 January 1988 and dedicated to the nation on 13 March 1993
Satellite Units
Bardhaman Science Centre, Babur Bagh, inaugurated on 9 January 1994
Digha Science Centre & National Science Camp, New Digha, inaugurated on 31 August 1997
Dhenkanal Science Centre, Orissa, inaugurated on 5 June 1995
District Science Centre, Purulia, inaugurated on 15 December 1982
Kapilas Science Park, Dhenkanal, inaugurated on 5 June 1995
North Bengal Science Centre, Matigara, inaugurated on 17 August 1997
Regional Science Centre, Bhubaneswar, inaugurated on 18 September 1989
Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna, inaugurated on 14 April 1978
North Bengal Science Centre, Siliguri, inaugurated on 17 August 1997
Regional Science Centre, Guwahati, inaugurated on 15 March 1994
Regional Science City, Lucknow, operational since 1989
Kurukshetra Panorama & Science Cen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocsearch | The TOC search (Terrorist and Organized Criminal Search) is a dynamic database which offers comprehensive information on global terrorist networks and helps researchers, analysts, students and others to prevent terrorism. It is the result of a common project realized by the Faculty of Security Studies and Faculty of Mathematics, University of Belgrade, which had started the program in December 2007. The scope of TOCSearch is to provide in-depth research and analysis on terrorist incidents, terrorist groups, organizations, their members, leaders and also links and relations between the individuals and groups. The purpose of the database is to integrate data from a variety of sources, including foreign and domestic news, professional security journals, reports and databases, and academic works.
History
The starting point in the TOCSearch project was the data presented on the map Al-Qaeda Network: Principals, Supporters, Selected Cells and Significant Activities (1992–2004). The map was prepared by J. L. Boesen, Raytheon Genesis Facility Institute Reston (2004), using data derived from open sources. The data presented in the map were classified and stored in order to create backbone of the database.
Classification
The data in the database are classified in seven entities: individuals, groups, organizations, supporters, actions, links and GMC reports. The database contains simple and advanced search features.
The simple search enables the researcher to explore the chosen entity by given keyword or part of an entity name. The advanced search feature is implemented for individuals, groups, organizations, supporters and actions. It is performed by using different properties: alias, belongs to organization, belongs to group, leader, religion, in relation with, type or actors of the attack, etc. All search results are presented together with the basic information on the found subjects, enabling in-depth search to be performed as well.
An important feature of TOCSearch is the fact that links between the mentioned terrorist-related categories are stored and classified in the database. The results of both simple and advanced searches provide information whether there is a link (active or inactive) from a particular item. The in-depth search feature gives more information on the found link. This is a unique feature of TOCSearch which no other terrorist database has had up to the point of its creation.
Incoming reports are sorted and stored by date in GMC section of the TOC search database. The George Marshall Center provided TOCSearch with their GMC reports archive and they send daily PTSS and other GMC reports. In this way, a constant refreshment of the base with up-to-date information has been provided. The TOCSearch simple search feature through GMC reports is implemented, which enables the exploration of GMC section by using keywords.
At each moment of using TOCSearch, one can immediately start a new search or switch to advanced search tool. While e |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico%20%28disambiguation%29 | In silico is an expression meaning "performed on computer or via computer simulation".
In silico may also refer to:
In Silico (Deepsky album), 2002
In Silico (Pendulum album), 2008
See also
Insilico Medicine, a biotechnology company
In silico medicine
In silico clinical trials
In silico PCR
Insilicos, a software company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification | Unification or unification theory may refer to:
Computer science
Unification (computer science), the act of identifying two terms with a suitable substitution
Unification (graph theory), the computation of the most general graph that subsumes one or more argument graphs (if such a graph exists)
Han unification, an orthographic issue dealt with by Unicode
Physics
Unification (physics) of the observable fundamental phenomena of nature is one of the primary goals of physics
Grand Unified Theory, a model in particle physics
Unified field theory, a type of field theory
Popular culture
Unification (album), a 1998 album by the band Iron Savior
"Unification" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), a two-part episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Sport
The act of producing an undisputed championship in boxing
The act of producing an undisputed championship in professional wrestling
Other uses
Semantic unification, in philosophy, linguistics, and computer science
Unification Church or Movement, a spiritual movement founded in Korea
Unification or re-unification of sovereign states, see political union
See also
Unification Church
Unionism (disambiguation)
Unified (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Web%20and%20Internet%20Economics | Conference on Web and Internet Economics (WINE) (prior to 2013, The Workshop on Internet & Network Economics) is an interdisciplinary workshop devoted to the analysis of algorithmic and economic problems arising in the Internet and the World Wide Web. The submissions are peer reviewed and the proceedings of the conference is published by Springer-Verlag. The conference has been held every year since 2005. Previous sessions include:
WINE 2005: Hong Kong, China : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3828 Springer 2005,
WINE 2006: Patras, Greece : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4286 Springer 2006,
WINE 2007: San Diego, CA, USA : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4858 Springer 2007,
WINE 2008: Shanghai, China : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5385 Springer 2008,
WINE 2009: Rome, Italy : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5929 Springer 2009,
WINE 2010: Stanford, CA, USA : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 6484 Springer 2010,
WINE 2011: Singapore : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7090 Springer 2011,
WINE 2012: Liverpool, UK : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7695 Springer 2012,
WINE 2013: Cambridge, MA, USA : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8289 Springer 2013,
WINE 2014: Beijing, China : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8877 Springer 2014,
WINE 2015: Amsterdam, the Netherlands : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 9470 Springer 2015,
WINE 2016: Montreal, Canada : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10123 Springer 2016,
WINE 2017: Bangalore, India : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 10660 Springer 2017,
WINE 2018: Oxford, UK : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11316 Springer 2018,
WINE 2019: New York, NY, USA : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 11920 Springer 2019,
WINE 2020: Beijing, China : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 12495 Springer 2020,
WINE 2021: Potsdam, Germany : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13112 Springer 2022,
WINE 2022: Troy, NY, USA : Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 13778 Springer 2022,
Sources
WINE at DBLP
https://cs.mcgill.ca/~wine2016/history.html
http://lcm.csa.iisc.ernet.in/wine2017/papers.html
Computer networking conferences
Recurring events established in 2005 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plentzia%20%28Bilbao%20metro%29 | Plentzia is the northern terminus of line 1 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in the municipality of Plentzia. The station opened as part of the metro network on 11 November 1995, although it had already been serving as a railway station since the 19th century.
History
The railway station of Plentzia, originally named Plencia, was first opened on 15 September 1893 by the Las Arenas-Plencia Railway Company. In Getxo, the line connected with the existing Bilbao-Las Arenas railway. Direct services between Bilbao and Plentzia started in 1901.
Starting in 1947, the narrow-gauge railway companies that operated within the Bilbao metropolitan area were merged to become Ferrocarriles y Transportes Suburbanos, shortened FTS and the first precedent of today's Bilbao metro. In 1977, the FTS network was transferred to the public company FEVE and in 1982 to the recently created Basque Railways. In the 1980s it was decided the station, just like most of the former railway line, would be integrated into line 1 of the metro, with the new station opening now as part of the metro network on 11 November 1995.
The station was out of service from 2015 to 2017 due to the rebuilding of Urduliz station. During that time, Plentzia station was renovated as well with a new main entrance added. The station was reopened on 10 April 2017.
Station layout
It is an at-grade station with three tracks and a main hall located to one side. The station maintains the original station building.
Access
2 Geltoki St.
Services
The station is served by line 1 to Etxebarri. The station is also served by regional Bizkaibus bus services.
References
External links
Line 1 (Bilbao metro) stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1893
Railway stations in Spain opened in 1995
1995 establishments in the Basque Country (autonomous community) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhaetian%20Railway%20Be%204/4 | The Rhaetian Railway Be 4/4 is a class of 11 kV 16.7 Hz AC metre gauge railcars operating under the traffic numbers 511–516 on the so-called core network of the Rhaetian Railway (RhB), which is the main railway network in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.
The class is named under the Swiss locomotive and railcar classification system. According to that system, Be 4/4 denotes an electric railcar with second class compartments, and a total of four axles, all of which are drive axles.
The Be 4/4 vehicles normally operate as part of a three or four car train, in combination with one or two intermediate cars (B) and a driving car (ABt).
History
In the 1960s, the Rhaetian Railway was exposed to steadily rising passenger numbers and therefore increasing demands on its rolling stock. In particular, passenger expectations of rolling stock had altered.
These changes led the Rhaetian Railway to carry out detailed studies as to what new rolling stock should be acquired. The studies revealed, amongst other things, that there was a need for a contemporary vehicle concept to serve commuter traffic around Chur. The Rhaetian Railway therefore decided, at the end of October 1968, to order four modern three car commuter trains. These could be used not only for Chur's commuter traffic, but also for special sports trains.
In 1971, the three manufacturers of the power cars, FFA (railcar bodies), SIG (bogies), and SAAS (electrical equipment), delivered the first four power cars (numbers 511–514) to the Rhaetian Railway. These vehicles were Switzerland's first series production units with continuous electronic power control (phase control thyristors). Simultaneously, the Rhaetian Railway placed the matching intermediate cars (B 2411–2414) and driving cars (ABDt 1711–1714) into service, so that four three car commuter trains could be formed.
In contrast with the rest of the Rhaetian Railway's rolling stock, the Be 4/4 commuter trains are fitted with automatic couplings and air brakes; mixed use of the vehicles with other rolling stock is therefore not possible. In 1979, the Rhaetian Railway acquired two practically identical three car trains with traffic numbers ending in 15 and 16. After four additional intermediate cars (B 2417–2420) joined the fleet in 1988, four car trains could also be operated.
From 1994, the vehicles went through an extensive refit program, during which the electrical equipment was completely renewed, apart from the traction motors.
Technical details
The Be 4/4 vehicles were designed to be of welded steel construction. This had to be regarded as a new construction, which is why car body loading tests were carried out with appropriate measurements. The matching unpowered cars, by contrast, have fully welded lightweight car bodies.
The entire train composition from was designed the beginning to be operated by one man. Therefore, all doors are equipped with a pneumatic door locking feature that can be operated from the cab (si |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20%28TV%20channel%29 | Li (Life Inspired) was a 24-hour Asian lifestyle high-definition television network in Malaysia and Singapore was officially launched on 18 August 2009, Li airs lifestyle-related programmes such as food, home, wellness, travel and style.
The channel is owned by Li TV International Limited and operated by Li TV Asia Sdn Bhd, with its operating headquarters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and regional operating offices in Singapore and Hong Kong.
The channel is not available in the Philippines and Vietnam.
Star Publications Sdn Bhd acts as the airtime sales agent for the channel. Hence, the channel's schedule appears on The Star's TV guide.
On 12 July 2017, Li TV officially announced that its last or final television broadcast would be in October the same year, and the television channel ceased telecast transmission with a closing ceremony at midnight on 7 October 2017 at 00:00 MST/SST. The closure was due to losses incurred and headwinds in the media industry - it had reported losses of US$1.62 million (RM6.96 million) for the financial year ending on the last day of 2017.
Programming
The channels airs international content (programmes from Australia, Europe and the United States), as well as Asia content.
Li will feature six content belts:
Li Ultimate – prime time programmes
Li Body – wellness programmes
Li Savour – food programmes
Li East – Asian programmes
Li Chic – style programmes
Li Space – home programmes
References
External links
Official website
Program Guide
Television in Malaysia
Television stations in Indonesia
Television stations in Singapore
Defunct television channels
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Mass media in Kuala Lumpur |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMBIOS | SIMBIOS or Simbios may refer to:
Simbios (Physics-based Simulation of Biological Structures), a center for the National Institute of Health, one of the National Centers for Biomedical Computing in the United States
SIMBIOS (Scottish Informatics, Mathematics, Biology and Statistics), a Specialist Centre at the University of Abertay Dundee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stub%20file | A stub file is a computer file that appears to the user to be on disk and immediately available for use, but is actually held either in part or entirely on a different storage medium. When a stub file is accessed, device driver software intercepts the access, retrieves the data from its actual location and writes it to the file, then allows the user's access to proceed. Typically, users are unaware that the file's data is stored on a different medium, though they may experience a slight delay when accessing such a file.
File stubbing, the act of creating stub files, is a Hierarchical storage management (HSM) concept.
Purpose
The usual purpose of stubbing files is to move data from an expensive high-speed storage device such as a computer's hard drive to lower cost storage such as a magnetic tape, or an electro-optical disk, while not requiring users to know how to use specialised storage software to retrieve the data. It also allows a system manager to enforce the use of low cost storage when users would prefer to store their files on the highest availability, and highest cost, media supplied.
Availability
Stubbing is a feature of many commercial file backup and archiving packages and is available for Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare, Linux and other operating systems.
See also
BridgeHead Software
Moonwalk (software)
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
OpenStore for File Servers
Reparse point
References
External links
Computer data storage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golm | Golm could refer to:
Golm (Potsdam)
Golm, Austria
Golm (Groß Miltzow)
Golm (Zichow)
Alt Golm
Neu Golm
Golm (Usedom)
Golm Metabolome Database |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoreExpress | CoreExpress modules are complete computer-on-module (COM) highly integrated, compact computers that can be used in an embedded computer board design, much like an integrated circuit component. COMs integrate CPU, memory, graphics, and BIOS, and common I/O interfaces. The interfaces are modern, using only digital buses such as PCI Express, Serial ATA, Ethernet, USB, and HD audio (Intel High Definition Audio). All signals are accessible on a high-density, high-speed, 220-pin connector. Although most implementations use Intel processors, the specification is open for different CPU modules.
CoreExpress modules are mounted on a custom carrier board, containing the peripherals required for the specific application. In this way, small but highly specialized computer systems can be built.
The CoreExpress form factor was originally developed by LiPPERT Embedded Computers and standardized by the Small Form Factor Special Interest Group in March 2010.
Size and mechanics
The specification defines a board size of 58 mm × 65 mm, slightly smaller than a credit card and small enough to allow a carrier board in standard PC/104-Plus format.
The module can be embedded into a heat spreader, which distributes the component-generated heat onto a larger surface area. In low power applications, this distribution may be enough for complete thermal dissipation.
In higher power applications, the heat spreader presents a thermal interface for mating to additional heat dissipating components such as finned heat sinks. Heat spreaders are simpler and more rugged to connect to than the heat generating components underneath. This simplifies mechanical design for the system builder, but can be less efficient than a complete purpose-built thermal solution.
In a complete system, heat spreaders can be part of the electromagnetic Interference containment design.
Specification
The specification is hosted by the Small Form Factors Special Interest Group and is available on their website.
Revision 2.1 was released on February 23, 2010.
See also
Embedded System Module
Computer-on-module
Computer form factor
Embedded system
References
External links
CoreExpress website
LiPPERT Embedded Computers' CoreExpress-ECO module
Motherboard form factors
Computer hardware standards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi9%20Global%20Sourcing | Levi9 IT Services is a European provider of nearshore software engineering services with development and delivery centers across Serbia, Ukraine and Romania and headquarters in Amsterdam.
Technology Focus
Levi 9 IT Services runs .NET development centers in Serbia and Ukraine and maintains core development, data management and business intelligence Microsoft competences.
Java - the company is a partner of SUN Advantage Program and works in spheres of Enterprise Java and J2EE software development.
Board and Management Team
The company was founded in 2001 by Menno de Jong and Bernhard van Oranje, who along with Board of Advisers: Adrie Reinders, Willem Vermeend and Roel Pieper helped company to progress.
Paul Schuyt has joined Levi9 IT Services management team in 2009. Prior to Levi9 assignment, Paul was in charge of Logica CMG as a Chief Executive.
The Nearshore Delivery Model
Levi9 IT Services is one of the early adopters of Nearshore delivery model. The main idea of the concept is to reduce the complexity and risks associated with remoteness between customer and provider in offshore arrangements and to leverage geographical and cultural proximity of nearshore destinations.
Initiatives and Publicity
Levi9 IT Services in conjunction with Ricoh, Research-In-Motion, Metri Measurement Consulting and CIO Magazine hosts one of the popular high-profile Networking IT events in the Netherlands - The Double Dutch event.
Levi9 IT Services CEO, Bernhard van Oranje is an acclaimed author and public speaker on Information Technology and Outsourcing subjects. Being a chairman of the CIO of the Year Award Event he brings his personal experience and knowledge into recognizing the best IT minds. In association with the CIO platform Nederland and CIO Magazine the award rates Top 100 organizations and elect best 10 CIO's of the year in the Netherlands.
1 April 2010 Paul Schuyt, Menno de Jong, and Bernhard van Oranje have officially opened a regular session of NYSE Euronext with bell ceremony.
References
External links
Software companies of the Netherlands
Outsourcing companies
Companies based in Amsterdam |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalanche%20%28phishing%20group%29 | Avalanche was a criminal syndicate involved in phishing attacks, online bank fraud, and ransomware. The name also refers to the network of owned, rented, and compromised systems used to carry out that activity. Avalanche only infected computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
In November 2016, the Avalanche botnet was destroyed after a four-year project by an international consortium of law enforcement, commercial, academic, and private organizations.
History
Avalanche was discovered in December 2008, and may have been a replacement for a phishing group known as Rock Phish which stopped operating in 2008. It was run from Eastern Europe and was given its name by security researchers because of the high volume of its attacks. Avalanche launched 24% of phishing attacks in the first half of 2009; in the second half of 2009, the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) recorded 84,250 attacks by Avalanche, constituting 66% of all phishing attacks. The number of total phishing attacks more than doubled, an increase which the APWG directly attributes to Avalanche.
Avalanche used spam email purporting to come from trusted organisations such as financial institutions or employment websites. Victims were deceived into entering personal information on websites made to appear as though they belong to these organisations. They were sometimes tricked into installing software attached to the emails or at a website. The malware logged keystrokes, stole passwords and credit card information, and allowed unauthorised remote access to the infected computer.
Internet Identity's Phishing Trends report for the second quarter of 2009 said that Avalanche "have detailed knowledge of commercial banking platforms, particularly treasury management systems and the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system. They are also performing successful real-time man-in-the-middle attacks that defeat two-factor security tokens."
Avalanche had many similarities to the previous group Rock Phish - the first phishing group which used automated techniques - but with greater in scale and volume. Avalanche hosted its domains on compromised computers (a botnet). There was no single hosting provider, making difficult to take down the domain and requiring the involvement of the responsible domain registrar.
In addition, Avalanche used fast-flux DNS, causing the compromised machines to change constantly. Avalanche attacks also spread the Zeus Trojan horse enabling further criminal activity. The majority of domains which Avalanche used belonged to national domain name registrars in Europe and Asia. This differs from other phishing attacks, where the majority of domains use U.S. registrars. It appears that Avalanche chose registrars based on their security procedures, returning repeatedly to registrars which do not detect domains being used for fraud, or which were slow to suspend abusive domains.
Avalanche frequently registered domains with multiple registrars, while testing others |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20Traumatic%20Stress%20Studies | The International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies is a professional network established on March 2, 1985, in Washington, D.C. It is Seeks disseminate the state of the science as it pertains to the effects of trauma.
History
The organization was originally named the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies when it was established at a meeting organized by Charles Figley and held in Washington, D.C. in March 1985. A foundational objective of the society was to publish a journal featuring scholarly work on traumatic stress. This was achieved in July 1986 with the creation of the Journal of Traumatic Stress, whose first issue was published in January 1988. The Society’s first annual meeting was held in Atlanta, GA in September 1985. In April 1990, the society’s name was changed to the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies to reflect its growing non-U.S. membership.
The first edition of its newsletter, Stresspoints, which was published in 1986, started with an editorial commenting upon the diversity of opinion expressed in the press about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, expressing hope that "very soon we can create a national media registry. This would include those most of us would agree are qualified to comment on the psychosocial consequences of traumatic events . . . We hope that by providing the media with a list of qualified experts, the level of public information about human response to catastrophes will be increased substantially.
Awards
Each year, the society recognizes the achievements of its members and others dedicated to the field of traumatic stress studies, including students and professionals in research, clinical/patient care settings, media and advocacy. These awards celebrate the efforts of those who work to advance the understanding of trauma and its effects, and honor winners every year at the annual meeting:
Lifetime Achievement Award, given to an individual who has made great lifetime contributions to the field of traumatic stress
Chaim and Bela Danieli Young Professional Award, recognizes excellence in the traumatic stress field by an individual who has completed his or her training within the last five years
Robert S. Laufer, PhD, Memorial Award for Outstanding Scientific Achievement, given to an individual or group who has made an outstanding contribution to research in the field of traumatic stress.
Sarah Haley Memorial Award for Clinical Excellence, given to a clinician or group of clinicians in direct service to traumatized individuals.
Public Advocacy Award, given for outstanding and fundamental contributions to advancing social understanding of trauma.
Frank Ochberg Award for Media and Trauma Study,recognizes outstanding contributions by clinicians, researchers, graduate students and scholars working at the intersection of trauma with media and/or journalism.
Frank W. Putnam Trauma Research Scholars, presented to Student Members who submit proposals judged to have the greatest potential to con |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Champions | Sports Champions is a 2010 sports video game developed by San Diego Studio and Zindagi Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 3, which utilizes PlayStation Move. It was officially unveiled at the 2010 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The game is a collection of modern and medieval sports games published by Sony Computer Entertainment and was jointly developed by San Diego Studio and Zindagi Games as a launch game for the PlayStation Move which would be bundled with the controller in several regions.
Gameplay
The game involves the player taking part in six unique sports games. However unlike Wii Sports, a similar collection of sports games for the Wii, the game consists of a series of modern as well as medieval sports. The game deviates from the norm by including uncommon sports such as Disc Golf and Bocce.
Unlike Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort and Kinect Sports, players can't make their own avatar. Players can choose to participate as one of ten athletes in the various events. The game features three gameplay modes, Free Play, Challenge Mode and Champion Cup mode. In Free Play mode, players can play practice matches with their choice of gameplay options. Challenge mode allows players to compete in a series of events to increase their high scores. In Champion Cup mode, players compete against ten other athletes in an Olympic-like event to become the ultimate champion. Players can also take part in the various modes along with up to three other friends in the game's multiplayer mode.
Sports
Table tennis
In Table Tennis, players use a Move controller accurately as a paddle which allows players to volley very precisely, perform heavy spins, lobs and slams. The PlayStation Eye also monitors the player's body location to see how the player is positioned to adjust their character's orientation as well as position from the table. The precision of the Move also allows players to serve slices and spins accurately.
Beach Volleyball
With this sport, the player has no direct control over where the on screen character starts the match or stands. Instead of focusing on the placement of the character, the player is meant to concentrate on bumping, setting and spiking the ball. All of these three motions are not complicated, but the key to playing this game is timing. A coloured circle appears around the ball when it is coming to the player, and the size and colour of it lets the player know when it is best to make a motion and deliver a strike. This game is playable with both one or two Move controllers. It has Tatupu's beach volleyball medal gold, silver and bronze.
Gladiator Duel
This sport allows players to use one or two Move controllers. When using two controllers, one controls a weapon such as a giant Mallet, or various swords like a short sword, or a katana and the other controls a Buckler which resembles a shield that becomes smaller when the opponent hits it. When using one controller the T button is used to |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema%20Varieties | Cinema Varieties is a television program on the DuMont Television Network which was shown on Sunday nights at 8:30pm ET from September 1949 to November 1949. Clips from old movies were shown on this 30-minute program.
Episode status
No episodes of this series are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1949-50 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Cinema Varieties at IMDB
DuMont Television Network Historical Website: Appendix One: Programs (A-L)
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20FX100 | The Dell FX100 is the company's first thin client, advertised as a "zero client". It works in conjunction with VMware View 4.0, and uses the PC-over-IP network communication protocol with a server.
The product was announced in March 2010, and is sold through the "large enterprise" business unit.
See also
Desktop virtualization
Sun Ray
References
FX100
Thin clients |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daizy | Daizy is an artificial intelligence firm that conducts long term research in the field of generative AI for investment transparency.
History
Daizy was founded as Vesti.AI by Jonty Hurwitz in 2018. The company focuses on conversational AI and continues research in the field of generative AI with portfolio, crypto and etf analytics capabilities.
In 2020, Daizy was joined by its current CEO, Deborah Yang.
Yang and Hurwitz gathered their team of experts in the fields of risk analysis, sustainability, and artificial intelligence. The company’s AI research aims to release capabilities on an ongoing basis that help investors and financial advisors with actionable intelligence in fields such as sustainability (ESG) and risk.
Awards
Winner of the Best AI-Enabled Sustainable Investment Platform 2021.
Nominated for the Benzinga Global Fintech Awards [in the Best Financial Literacy Tool category].
References
Companies established in 2018 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropological%20Survey%20of%20India | Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI) is the apex Indian government organisation involved in anthropological studies and field data research for human and cultural aspects, working primarily in the fields of physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, while maintaining a strong focus on indigenous populations. It also attempts to document the cultures of other communities and religious groups.
History
Anthropological Research in India was founded 1945 in Varanasi and shifted to the Indian Museum at Calcutta in 1948.
In 1916, the Zoological and Anthropological sections of the Museum together became a new entity the Zoological Survey of India. Later, in 1945, the Anthropology section formed into an independent body, the Anthropological Survey of India (AnSI), with Biraja Sankar Guha as the initial director and Verrier Elwin, deputy director.
Operating under the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, it is headquartered in Kolkata and has regional centres in Port Blair (Andaman and Nicobar) (Andaman & Nicobar Islands Regional Centre), Shillong (North-East Regional Centre), Dehra Dun (North-West Regional Centre), Udaipur (Western Regional Centre), Nagpur (with Central Library of AnSI) (Central Regional Centre), and Mysore (Southern Regional Centre) (established in 1960), along with some small regional sub-stations.
References
Further reading
External links
1945 establishments in India
Research institutes in Kolkata
Anthropology
Anthropological Survey of India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.J.%20Han%20Vinck | Adrianus Johannes "Han" Vinck (born 15 May 1949, in Breda) is a Dutch computer scientist. He serves as senior professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, since September 2014. He is a member of the digital signal processing group at the electrical engineering Department. His interest is in Information and Communication theory, Coding and Network aspects in digital communications. He is the author of the textbook Coding Concepts and Reed-Solomon Codes.
Early life
He earned a PhD at Eindhoven University, the Netherlands (Syndrome Decoding of Convolutional Codes, supervisor: J.P.M. Schalkwijk).
Academic positions
Visiting scientist at the German Aerospace Center in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany (1986)
Full professor in Digital Communications at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany (Institute for Experimental Mathematics) (1990-2014)
Director of the Post-Graduate School on Networking, "CINEMA" (1997-1999)
Chairman of the Benelux Information and Communication Society (WIC) (1998-2001)
Chairman for the communication division of the Institute for Critical Infrastructures, CRIS (2000-2004)
Adjunct professor at the Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2003)
Visiting professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2010-2012)
Consultant professor at the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China (2011)
Director of the Institute for Experimental Mathematics in Essen
Adjunct professor at the National Cheng Kung University Tainan, Taiwan (2014 -2015)
Honorary professor at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2014 -2015)
President of the Leibniz foundation. This foundation supports research and education in the field of Information theory, Neurosciences and Biology. (2014-)
Professional activities
In 1990 Vinck organized the IEEE Information Theory workshop in Veldhoven, the Netherlands.
He served on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Information Theory Society from 1997-2006.
Vinck is the founding Chairman (1995-1998) of the IEEE German Information theory chapter.
In 1997 Vinck acted as Co-chairman for the 1997 IEEE Information Theory symposium in Ulm, Germany.
In 2003 Vinck was elected president of the IEEE Information theory Society.
2008, Vinck was a distinguished lecturer for the IEEE Communication Society.
Founded conferences
Japan-Benelux workshops on Information theory (now Asia-Europe workshop on "Concepts in Information Theory") (1990)
International Winterschool on Coding, Cryptography and Information theory in Europe (Essen, 1991 and 1993).
IEEE conferences on Power Line Communications and its Applications, ISPLC. (1997)
Recognition
IEEE *ISPLC2006 Achievement award in Orlando (FL, USA) for his contributions to Power Line Communications and for facilitating the transition of ISPLC to a fully financially and technically sponsored IEEE Communications Society conference. (2006)
IEEE fellow for his "Contributions to Coding Techniques" (2006)
SA-IEE annual |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambium%20Learning%20Group | Cambium Learning Group is an American technology company which creates computer software and hardware products serving students ranging from pre-kindergarten to adult. As of December 2018, it is owned by Veritas Capital, a New York-based private equity firm.
The company's business units are named Learning A-Z, Lexia Learning, Voyager Sopris, ExploreLearning, Cambium Assessment, Kurzweil Education, and VKidz:
Cambium acquired Voyager Sopris Learning (formerly Voyager Learning Company) in December 2009. Cambium Assessment (formerly AIR Assessment) was acquired in January 2020. Kurzweil Education (formerly Kurzweil Educational Systems) was bought in April 2005. VKidz was acquired in December 2018.
In September 2020, in an all-cash deal, Cambium bought Rosetta Stone with an equity valuation of approximately $792 million. The acquisition would broaden Cambium's immersive learning services for students, administrators and individuals.
References
External links
Educational publishing companies of the United States
Software companies based in Texas
Assistive technology
Companies based in Dallas
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
2018 mergers and acquisitions
Private equity portfolio companies
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse%20voxel%20octree | A sparse voxel octree (SVO) is a 3D computer graphics rendering technique using a raycasting or sometimes a ray tracing approach into an octree data representation.
The technique generally relies on generating and processing the hull of points (sparse voxels) which are visible, or may be visible, given the resolution and size of the screen. There are two main advantages to the technique. The first is that only pixels that will be displayed are computed, with the screen resolution limiting the level of detail required; this limits computational cost during rendering. The second is that interior voxels (those fully enclosed by other voxels) need not be included in the 3D data set; this limits the amount of 3D voxel data (and thus storage space) required for realistic, high-resolution digital models and/or environments.
The basic advantage of octrees is that, as a hierarchical data structure, they need not be explored to their full depth. This means that a system can extract a small subset of voxels as they are needed. In addition, octrees permit smoothing of the underlying data, to help with antialiasing.
It is, however, a generally less well developed technique than standard polygon-based rasterisation schemes.
References
3D computer graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimi%20Gurbst | Mimi Gurbst served as the head of news coverage and vice president of the network for ABC News. In 2010, she resigned from ABC after almost 30 years of employment to become a high school guidance counselor.
About
Gurbst joined ABC news in the early 1980s where she served as head of news coverage for more than two decades. In 2008, ABC promoted Gurbst to the post of Senior Producer for Diane Sawyer and World News with Charles Gibson, with responsibility for futures, features, and domestic news stories.
She left the network in 2010 to enroll in the Harvard School of Education, in the master's degree program for "Risk and Prevention," with the hopes of turning her counseling skills into a new career as a high school guidance counselor. Gurbst graduated from the Harvard in 2011 and served as a Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2012.
Controversy
In May 2010 Gurbst became the focus of an online controversy. After ABC News announced that Gurbst was leaving the network to attend Harvard University's Graduate School for Education and pursue a career as a guidance counselor, Felix Gillette of the New York Observer wrote an article which Vanity Fair later called "somewhat fluffy."
A large number people spoke out about Gurbst's behavior and its impact on ABC News, claiming that Gurbst had been responsible for creating a toxic work culture at ABC News.
Some identified themselves by name, but many posted anonymously.
Defense letter
In May 2010, Jessica Stedman Guff wrote a letter to the editor of The New York Observer in defense of Gurbst, speaking out against the negative commentary
References
ABC News personalities
Living people
Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20routing | IP routing is the application of routing methodologies to IP networks. This involves not only protocols and technologies but includes the policies of the worldwide organization and configuration of Internet infrastructure. In each IP network node, IP routing involves the determination of a suitable path for a network packet from a source to its destination in an IP network. The process uses static configuration rules or dynamically obtained from routing protocols to select specific packet forwarding methods to direct traffic to the next available intermediate network node one hop closer to the desired final destination, a total path potentially spanning multiple computer networks.
Networks are separated from each other by specialized hosts, called gateways or routers with specialized software support optimized for routing. IP forwarding algorithms in most routing software determine a route through a shortest path algorithm. In routers, packets arriving at an interface are examined for source and destination addressing and queued to the appropriate outgoing interface according to their destination address and a set of rules and performance metrics. Rules are encoded in a routing table that contains entries for all interfaces and their connected networks. If no rule satisfies the requirements for a network packet, it is forwarded to a default route. Routing tables are maintained either manually by a network administrator, or updated dynamically by a routing protocol.
A routing protocol specifies how routers communicate and share information about the topology of the network, and the capabilities of each routing node. Different protocols are often used for different topologies or different application areas. For example, the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol is generally used within an enterprise and the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is used on a global scale. BGP is the de facto standard for worldwide Internet routing.
Protocol classification
Routing protocols may be broadly distinguished by their realm of operation in terms of network scope. Interior gateway protocols are used for routing within autonomous systems, while exterior gateway protocols route traffic between them. The former group is exemplified by the Routing Information Protocol (RIP) and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), while the Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) and the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) are examples of the exterior type. BGP is the dominant route distribution protocol used on the Internet.
Routing algorithm
The IP forwarding algorithm is a specific implementation of routing for IP networks. In order to achieve a successful transfer of data, the algorithm uses a routing table to select a next-hop router as the next destination for a datagram. The IP address of the selected router is known as the next-hop address.
The IP forwarding algorithm states:
Given a destination IP address, , and network prefix, :
if ( matches a directly connected network address )
|
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Joan%20Edwards%20Show | The Joan Edwards Show was an American television variety show broadcast on the now-defunct DuMont Television Network.
Broadcast History
The 15-minute show was hosted by Joan Edwards (1919-1981), premiered July 4, 1950, and ended October 24, 1950.The Joan Edwards Show aired Tuesdays and Thursdays at 7:45PM ET, alternating with The Hazel Scott Show which premiered on July 3, 1950 and was in the same time slot on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. (Beginning on October 2, 1950, The Susan Raye Show was a replacement for The Hazel Scott Show after Scott was accused of being a Communist in the newsletter Red Channels.)
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950-51 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
English-language television shows
Lost television shows
1950s American music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTRC-FM | WTRC-FM (95.3 MHz; "News Talk 95.3 MNC") is a commercial radio station, licensed to Niles, Michigan and featuring a news/talk format. The station's owner is Federated Media. Its programming and on-air presentation are closely patterned after Federated's news/talk station in Fort Wayne, WOWO. The station broadcasts syndicated programming, including Dan Bongino, Brian Kilmeade, and Sean Hannity. WTRC-FM is a Fox News Radio affiliate.
WTRC-FM is licensed by the FCC to broadcast in the HD Radio digital hybrid format.
History
The station first began broadcasting as WNIL-FM. Before adopting the current format, it had a classic rock format as WAOR. (Following the change in formats the WAOR call letters, along with the classic rock format, moved to 95.7 FM (now WRDI).)
After changing its call letters to WTRC-FM, the station switched to a news/talk format that was simulcast over WTRC (1340 AM) in Elkhart, Indiana. On May 5, 2014, WTRC and WTRC-FM began broadcasting separate morning shows, although the two stations continued to jointly broadcast most other programming. On February 21, 2017, WTRC changed its format to adult standards, ending its WTRC-FM simulcasts. In April 2023, WTRC dropped a soft oldies format for a news/talk format again partially simulcast with WTRC-FM; the two stations share local drive time programming but have largely separate syndicated programming.
References
External links
TRC
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1968
1968 establishments in Michigan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%20Floyd | Sally Jean Floyd (May 20, 1950 – August 25, 2019) was an American computer scientist known for her work on computer networking. Formerly associated with the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, she retired in 2009 and died in August 2019. She is best known for her work on Internet congestion control, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.
Biography
Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, Floyd received a BA in Sociology from the University of California - Berkeley in 1971. She received an MS in Computer Science in 1987 and a PhD in 1989, both from UC - Berkeley. Her PhD was completed under the supervision of Richard M. Karp.
Floyd is best known in the field of congestion control as the inventor of Random Early Detection ("RED") active queue management scheme, thus founding the field of Active Queue Management (AQM) with Van Jacobson. Almost all Internet routers use RED or something developed from it to manage network congestion. Floyd devised the now-common method of adding delay jitter to message timers to avoid synchronization.
Floyd, with Vern Paxson, in 1997 identified the lack of knowledge of network topology as the major obstacle in understanding how the Internet works. This paper, "Why We Don't Know How to Simulate the Internet", was re-published as "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet" in 2001 and won the IEEE Communications Society's William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award.
Floyd is also a co-author on the standard for TCP Selective acknowledgement (SACK), Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN), the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) and TCP Friendly Rate Control (TFRC).
She received the IEEE Internet Award in 2005 and the ACM SIGCOMM Award in 2007 for her contributions to congestion control. She has been involved in the Internet Architecture Board, and was in 2007 one of the top-ten most cited researchers in computer science.
Awards
2007 - SIGCOMM Award from the ACM Special Interest Group on Data Communications. Recognized as most prestigious award to a scientist in computer networking.
IEEE Communications Society's William R. Bennett Prize Paper Award for "Difficulties in Simulating the Internet", by Floyd and Vern Paxson
Personal life and death
Floyd's father Edwin was a mathematician at the University of Virginia. Floyd was married to Carole Leita.
Floyd died at the age of 69 on August 25, 2019, in Berkeley, California, from gallbladder cancer that had metastasized.
Selected notable papers
S. Floyd and V. Jacobson, "Random Early Detection Gateways for Congestion Avoidance", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1993)
S. Floyd and K. Fall, "Promoting the Use of End-to-End Congestion Control in the Internet", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1993)
V. Paxson and S. Floyd, "Wide Area Traffic: The Failure of Poisson Modeling", IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (1995)
M. Mathis, J. Mahdavi and S Floyd, A Romanow, "TCP Selective Acknowledgement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritella%20chordata | Turritella chordata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turritellidae.
Description
Distribution
References
Turritellidae
Gastropods described in 1908 |
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