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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Icelandic%20television%20series | The following is a list of television series produced in Iceland:
External links
Icelandic TV at the Internet Movie Database
Lists of television series by country of production
Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Austrian%20television%20series | The following is a list of television series produced in Austria :
References
External links
Austrian TV at the Internet Movie Database
Austria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20O%27Dwyer | Richard O'Dwyer (born 5 May 1988) is a British entrepreneur & computer programmer who created the TVShack.net search engine while a student at Sheffield Hallam University.
In May 2011, the U.S. Justice Department sought to extradite O'Dwyer from the UK in relation to the website.
The site did not host any infringing media, but American authorities said it contained indexed links to media hosted on other sites, and defined it as a "linking" website.
The Southern District Court in New York charged O'Dwyer with conspiracy to commit copyright infringement and criminal infringement of copyright. O'Dwyer's lawyer Ben Cooper opposed extradition, stating that the site acted as a mere conduit, and should be afforded the same protection given to search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. Ben Cooper also argued that any criminal prosecution should be brought in the UK, as TVShack was not hosted on American servers.
On 13 January 2012, UK District Judge Quentin Purdy rejected those arguments and ruled that O'Dwyer could be extradited to the U.S. to face copyright infringement allegations. The extradition order was approved by then UK Home Secretary Theresa May in March, 2012, and O'Dwyer launched an appeal.
On 28 November 2012, it was announced that O'Dwyer had signed a deferred prosecution agreement to avoid extradition. He was ordered to pay a fine of £20,000 and remain in contact with a US correctional officer over the next six months. In return, the United States would drop all charges.
Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, the judge, called the outcome "very satisfactory", adding, "It would be very nice for everyone if this was resolved happily before Christmas".
O'Dwyer now works as director of a computer software business and racing driver.
TVShack
While he was a student at Sheffield Hallam University, O'Dwyer created TVShack.net in December 2007.
The website contained indexed links for movies, television, anime, music, and documentaries. The site FAQ included the disclaimer: "TV Shack is a simple resource site. All content visible on this site is located at 3rd party websites. TV Shack is not responsible for any content linked to or referred from these pages." The MPAA considered TVShack.net a linking site that provided links to other sites hosting infringed content, while O'Dwyer and his supporters argued that the site was little different from a search engine, and would be legal under the Electronic Commerce Regulations 2002.
Domain seizure
As authorized by the court warrant for the domain seizure, visitors to TVShack.net are redirected to "a banner that advises them that the domain name has been seized by Order of the Court, in connection with criminal copyright violations. "
On 30 June 2010 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials seized seven domains for "violations of Federal criminal copyright infringement laws". This action was authorized by a warrant issued by the Manhattan Federal Court following a request by the U.S. Attorney |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City%20of%20Cincinnati%20v.%20Discovery%20Network%2C%20Inc. | Cincinnati v. Discovery Network, Inc., 507 U.S. 410 (1993), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that a ban by the city of Cincinnati on the distribution of commercial material via news racks violated the First Amendment.
See also
List of United States Supreme Court cases, volume 507
Coates v. Cincinnati
References
External links
1993 in United States case law
United States Supreme Court cases
United States Supreme Court cases of the Rehnquist Court
United States Free Speech Clause case law
History of Cincinnati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20capital | Structural capital is one of the three primary components of intellectual capital, and consists of the supportive infrastructure, processes, and databases of the organisation that enable human capital to function. Structural capital is owned by an organization and remains with an organization even when people leave. It includes: capabilities, routines, methods, procedures and methodologies embedded in organisation.
Structural capital is the supportive non-physical infrastructure that enables human capital to function.
There are three subcomponents that comprise structural capital:
Organizational capital includes the organization philosophy and systems for leveraging the organization’s capability.
Process capital includes the techniques, procedures, and programs that implement and enhance the delivery of goods and services.
Innovation capital includes intellectual property and certain other intangible assets. Intellectual property includes protected commercial rights such as patents, copyrights and trademarks. Intangible assets are all of the other talents and theory by which an organization is run.
See also
Intellectual capital
Intellectual capital management
Human capital
Relational capital
Organizational capital
References
External links
National intangible capital NIC 2016 database / Findings and results for structural (process) capital 2001 - 2016
National intellectual capital NIC as economic driver 2001-2011 / Findings and results for structural (process) capital
Capital management
Intellectual capital
Management cybernetics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASU%20Campus%20Metabolism | ASU Campus Metabolism (Campus Metabolism) is a website managed by Arizona State University, demonstrating Energy monitoring and targeting through use of real-time and historic energy use data of buildings on the campus in Tempe, Arizona. The site displays data from an Energy Information System in order to support education, research, operations and outreach regarding sustainability of operations on the ASU Tempe campus. The site is part of a plan for the campus to be carbon-neutral by 2025.
History
In 2004, APS Energy Services developed an Energy Information System (EIS) to provide the energy manager and ASU personnel with tools to monitor and manage energy and building use at the Tempe campus. The EIS provided the foundation that was to become the public Campus Metabolism site and continues to aid decision-making regarding improvements and facilities management to reduce use of electricity, natural gas and chilled water.
The Campus Metabolism site was opened to the public on May 15, 2008 as a student project to measure and encourage responsible energy use by building occupants. It expanded with the help of many organizations with an interest in reducing energy use on the Arizona State University campus including the Global Institute of Sustainability, The National Center of Excellence on SMART Innovations under the direction of Dr. Jay Golden, the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, the ASU student chapter of Engineers Without Borders, and APS Energy Services.
Campus Metabolism expanded from 14 buildings in October 2008, to 20 facilities and 21 renewable generation installations in July, 2011. Data from the system has also been used to advise facility management decisions on buildings that do not have energy monitoring systems. Future plans for the site include installation of utility submetering devices in additional buildings, additional campuses, display of metered potable and recycled water use, recycled, non-recyclable waste and the ability to view energy use by floor in multi-story buildings.
The Campus Metabolism website is featured prominently on a kiosk at the entrance to Wrigley Hall of the ASU School of Sustainability at the ASU Tempe campus and is publicly available through the World Wide Web.
Technology
The Energy Information System components throughout campus are connected through a dedicated fiber-optic network, collecting data on energy consumption, temperature, pressure, hot and cold water, and renewable energy generation through rooftop photovoltaic panels and wind turbines. The data is stored in an SQL database. The system is maintained by ASU Facilities Management with support from APS Energy Services. The information is made available through a public interactive tab-based Adobe Flash interface that displays individual building data and related information.
Similar to a home energy monitor, the Campus Metabolism site records and displays energy use, but at a larger scale |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days%20of%20Our%20Lives%20%28disambiguation%29 | Days of Our Lives is a U.S daytime soap opera airing on the NBC television network.
Days of Our Lives may also refer to:
Days of Our Lives (James Otto album), 2004
Days of Our Lives (Bro'Sis album), 2003
"Days of Our Lives", a song by De La Soul from their 2004 album The Grind Date
See also
"These Are the Days of Our Lives", a 1991 song by Queen
"Days of Our Livez", a 1996 single by Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Queen: Days of Our Lives, a 2011 BBC documentary about the rock band Queen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway%20%281995%20film%29 | Runaway () is a 1995 South Korean action thriller film.
Plot
Lee Dong-ho, a computer games producer, and Choi Miran, a freelance illustrator meet by chance and spend a short but passionate night together. But just when they are about to go back to their ordinary lives, they witness a shocking murder. This is followed by mysterious happenings that destroy everything that they cherish in their lives. A police officer turns out to be a kidnapper and hired killers break into their homes. In front of their eyes, they lose their loved ones. Nobody is of much help to them. At home, in the police station, in the hospital, at work, wherever they go, criminals seem to follow them. Finally, they must face the real criminals.
Cast
Lee Byung-hun ... Lee Dong-ho
Lee Geung-young
Kim Eun-jeong ... Choi Miran
Jang Se-jin ... Wolf
Jang Dong-jik
Lee Cheol-ung
Kim Ki-hyeon
Lee Seok-jun
Kim Dong-geon
Lee Eun-Young
See also
Date Night (2008)
External links
1990s Korean-language films
1990s South Korean films
1995 action thriller films
1995 films
South Korean action thriller films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaining%20%28vector%20processing%29 | In computing, chaining is a technique used in computer architecture in which scalar and vector registers generate interim results which can be used immediately, without additional memory references which reduce computational speed.
The chaining technique was first used by Seymour Cray in the 80 MHz Cray 1 supercomputer in 1976.
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesdatenschutzgesetz | The German (BDSG) is a federal data protection act, that together with the data protection acts of the German federated states and other area-specific regulations, governs the exposure of personal data, which are manually processed or stored in IT systems.
Historical development
1960–1970
In the early 1960s, consideration for comprehensive data protection began in the United States and further developed with advancements in computer technology and its privacy risks. So a regulatory framework was needed to counteract the impairment of privacy in the processing of personal data.
1970–1990
In the year 1970, the federal state of Hesse passed the first national data protection law, which was also the first data protection law in the world. In 1971, the first draft bill was submitted for a federal data protection act. Finally, on 1 January 1978, the first federal data protection act came into force. In the following years, as the BDSG was taking shape in practice, a technical development took place in data processing as the computer became increasingly important both at work and in the private sector.
There were also significant changes in the legal field. With the (census verdict) of December 15, 1983, the Federal Constitutional Court developed the right to self-determination of information (Article 1(1) in conjunction with Article 2(1) of the German Basic Law). The verdict confirmed that personal data are constitutionally protected in Germany. This means that individuals have the power to decide when and to what extent personal information is published.
From 1990
In 1990, the legislature adopted a new data protection law based on the decision of the German Constitutional Court.
The BDSG was amended in 2009 and 2010 with three amendments: On April 1, 2010 came with the "Novelle I" a new regulation of the activities of credit bureaus and their counterparties (especially credit institutions) and scoring in force. The long and heavily debated "Novelle II" came into force on 1 September 2009. They change 18 paragraphs in the BDSG. Content includes changes to the list privilege for address trading, new regulations for market and opinion research, opt-in , coupling ban, employee data protection, order data processing, new powers for the supervisory authorities and new or greatly expanded fines, information obligations in the event of data breaches, dismissal protection for data protection officers. On June 11, 2010 changed the "Novelle III" [4] as a small sub-item within the law implementing the EU Consumer Credit Directive, the § 29 BDSG by two paragraphs.
The legal amendment
In 2009, there were three amendments to the BDSG as a result of criticism from consumer advocates and numerous privacy scandals in business. The amendments addressed the following items:
Amendments I and III
Strict earmarking in the enforcement of data protection rights (§ 6 III BDSG)
Permissibility and transparency in automated individual decisions (§ 6a BDSG)
Tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Ancona | The Ancona trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Ancona, in the Marche region, central Italy. In operation since 1949, the system presently comprises only one urban route.
Services
The route comprising the present Ancona trolleybus system is:
1/4 Piazza IV Novembre - Tavernelle
This is an amalgamation of the previous lines 1 and 4. The amalgamated line has the following itinerary: viale della Vittoria, piazza Cavour, piazza Roma, Archi, Ancona railway station, viale Giordano Bruno, piazza Ugo Bassi, via Torresi, Tavernelle (terminus).
Trolleybus fleet
Retired trolleybuses
The following now retired trolleybuses have been used in Ancona:
Fiat 668 F/110 (12 trolleybuses, Stanga bodies, nos 1-12), served from 1949-50 to 1983;
Fiat 668 F/110 (4 trolleybuses, Stanga bodies, nos 13-16), served from 1952-53 to 1983;
Fiat 2401 (5 trolleybuses, Cansa bodies, nos 17-21), served from 1956-57 to 1987.
Menarini F201/2LU (6 trolleybuses, nos 1-6), entered service 1983; rebuilt 2001 with electrical equipment by Albiero & Bocca; withdrawn 2013;
Menarini F201/2LU (3 trolleybuses, nos 7-9), entered service 1987; rebuilt 2001 with electrical equipment by Albiero & Bocca; withdrawn 2013.
Current fleet
Ancona's present trolleybus fleet is made up of only the following two types:
Solaris Trollino (3 trolleybuses), entered service 2013.
Breda F22 (6 trolleybuses), entered service 2014.
See also
List of trolleybus systems in Italy
References
Notes
Books
External links
Images of the Ancona trolleybus system, at railfaneurope.net
Images of the Ancona trolleybus system, at photorail.com
Trolleybus city: Ancona (Italy) Trolleymotion.
Ancona
Ancona
Ancona |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20populated%20places%20in%20Peru | This is a list of populated places in Peru. It was initially derived from the Geonames database of all populated places with a population of at least 1,000 in Peru.
References
Peru
Populated Places |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AL%20and%20AL | Al Holmes and Al Taylor also known as AL and AL are British filmmakers and visual artists. Known for their surrealist films, they combine live action performance with computer generated environments to create dream worlds in film. Since 2001 the duo have created an award-winning body of short films commissioned by Abandon Normal Devices, Animate, Arts Council England, British Film Institute, Channel 4 television, Cornerhouse Cinema, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology, Film London, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Southbank Centre and the World Science Festival, exhibiting internationally in galleries, site specific installations, film festivals, television and concert halls.
Al Holmes spent his early youth with his inventor and engineer grandfather in his workshop as he attempted to invent, amongst other things, a perpetual motion device. Coincidentally, Al Holmes’ grandfather had invented an automatic pie machine for Al Taylor’s grandfather, who was a prize-winning baker. After high school Al Taylor studied photography then worked in the fashion industry with photographers such as Steven Klein, David Simms, Richard Avedon and Bruce Weber. After leaving the fashion industry, he studied screen writing. Al Holmes studied theology and mysticism whilst training for the priesthood at Osterley Seminary London. Spending time in a silent monastery in Montserrat. They share the same first three names Alan James Edwards. Their collective name was born at a party at the actress Rachel Weisz’s house. Still in character from the play she had just performed, The Shape of Things, Rachel shortened their names to Al and Al. It has stuck ever since. Coincidentally, Al and Al's fathers also shared the same name, and died on the same date.
Al and Al met in a chance encounter whilst visiting Derek Jarman’s Garden in Dungeness and after studying fine art at Central Saint Martins in London, they began making films together.
2001-2009
2001: After graduating from Central Saint Martins, Al and Al were awarded the first base award from the arts organisation ACAVA.
2002: ACME awarded the duo a residency in the Sugar House Studio. Al and Al transformed the warehouse space into a blue screen special effects studio. London Artists Film and Video awarded the duo with a commission for the film Misty Machine 10. The film is an inertial journey through the world wide web. The viewer rides their search engine in a quest to find bodies stripped and ready for intimacy. In this coded space, erotic contact becomes an onanistic hallucination and the body disappears into a mental universe of mediated masks. The film was shown internationally in film festivals and as part of gallery installations.
2003: Al and Al created the re-matte series, a collection of films where special effects have been erased from key blue screen features, leaving the original performances in the blue void of the special effects studio. These included Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments and Sabu fr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrazo%20West%20Campus | Abrazo West Campus is an acute-care community hospital located in Goodyear, Arizona, United States. Abrazo West is part of the Abrazo Community Health Network chain of hospitals and is designated by the American College of Surgeons
and the state of Arizona as a Level 1 Trauma Center. The hospital receives approximately 55,000 emergency patients annually.
Services
179 total staffed beds
Orthopedics
Stroke care
Wound care
24-hour Emergency care services
Abrazo Buckeye Emergency Center
Abrazo Buckeye Emergency Center (formerly West Valley Emergency Center) is a 14-bed emergency center located in Buckeye, Arizona. The Emergency Center is operated and staffed by Abrazo West Campus. Operated by Abrazo West Campus, this comprehensive emergency facility is located in Buckeye and staffed by board-certified emergency physicians and specialty-certified nurses who provide 24-hour care. The facility offers CT scans, ultrasound and other diagnostic imaging services, and an on-site laboratory.
See also
Tenet Healthcare
References
Arizona Republic.
External links
Abrazo West Campus
Abrazo Community Health Network
Tenet Healthcare
Hospital buildings completed in 2003
Hospitals in Arizona
Trauma centers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Channel%20%28Turkish%20TV%20channel%29 | Universal Channel was a Turkish pay television network, owned by Universal Networks International, a division of NBCUniversal. The network was launched in Turkey in December 2009 on D-Smart and in February 2010 on Teledünya. From March 1, 2011, the Channel is also available in its HD version exclusively on D-Smart Platform.
Universal TV broadcasts TV series and movies produced by Universal Studios, Warner Bros. International Television, 20th Century Studios and Paramount Pictures. It has aired many series for first time on Turkish TV, such as Law & Order, Flashpoint and Trauma. Also part of the programming are non-scripted shows such as Flipping Out and Million Dollar Listing.
It aired series exclusively produced by Universal Studios for the first time in Turkey, such as Rookie Blue, Haven, Shattered, and Fairly Legal. The network also showed many Hollywood blockbusters of various genres not only from Universal Pictures but also from other major Hollywood studios such as Space Jam, Maverick, Wild Wild West and Mars Attacks!.
This channel closed in 2013.
Programmes
Final Shows
30 Rock
Against the Wall
Caprica
Eureka
Face Off
Fact Or Faked: Paranormal Files
Fairly Legal
Haven
House M.D.
Law & Order
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: UK
Mercy
Monk
Parenthood
Rocco's Dinner Party
Royal Pains
Sea Patrol
The Cape
The Fashion Show
XIII: The Conspiracy
Former Shows
100 Questions
Any Human Heart
Cold Squad
Columbo
Covert Affairs
Dance Your Ass Off
Destination Truth
Flashpoint
Flipping Out
Hair Battle Spectacular
Haunted Collector
Jersey Couture
Law & Order: Los Angeles
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Million Dollar Listing
Outlaw
Outsourced
Perfect Couples
Psych
Rookie Blue
Running Russell Simmons
Shattered
Smash
Suits
The Event
The Office
Top Design
Trauma
Up All Night
Westworld
See also
Universal Channel
References
External links
Universal Channel Turkey
Television channels and stations established in 2009
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2013
Defunct television channels in Turkey
Turkish-language television stations
NBCUniversal networks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peterborough%20Tramways | Peterborough Tramways served the city of Peterborough from 24 January 1903 until 15 November 1930.
Infrastructure
From its southmost limit, the Market Place (grid reference ), the network had three routes:
along Westgate and Lincoln Road to a terminus at the junction with Sage's Lane at grid reference (Walton)
along Westgate, Lincoln Road and Dogsthorpe Road to a terminus at the junction with St Pauls Road at grid reference (Dogsthorpe)
along Midgate, New Road and Eastfield Road to a terminus at the junction with Eye Road at grid reference (Newark)
The depot was located on the east side of Lincoln Road at grid reference . Millfield Bus Depot now occupies the site.
Tramcars
The fleet, in a livery of lake-brown and cream (later holly green and cream), consisted of:
14 Brush Electrical Machines open top double deck tramcars
Closure
The system's owners started to introduce motorbuses in 1913 to supplement the trams. Ultimately Peterborough's electric tram system was superseded by a motorbus system which was an original component of the Eastern Counties Omnibus Company.
References
External links
Pictures of and information about Peterborough trams.
Peterborough Tramways trams and uniformed staff
Peterborough Tramways button.
See also
List of town tramway systems in the United Kingdom
Tram transport in England
Transport
Rail transport in Cambridgeshire
3 ft 6 in gauge railways in England |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ggplot2 | ggplot2 is an open-source data visualization package for the statistical programming language R. Created by Hadley Wickham in 2005, ggplot2 is an implementation of Leland Wilkinson's Grammar of Graphics—a general scheme for data visualization which breaks up graphs into semantic components such as scales and layers. ggplot2 can serve as a replacement for the base graphics in R and contains a number of defaults for web and print display of common scales. Since 2005, ggplot2 has grown in use to become one of the most popular R packages.
Updates
On 2 March 2012, ggplot2 version 0.9.0 was released with numerous changes to internal organization, scale construction and layers.
On 25 February 2014, Hadley Wickham formally announced that "ggplot2 is shifting to maintenance mode. This means that we are no longer adding new features, but we will continue to fix major bugs, and consider new features submitted as pull requests. In recognition [of] this significant milestone, the next version of ggplot2 will be 1.0.0".
On 21 December 2015, ggplot 2.0.0 was released. In the announcement, it was stated that "ggplot2 now has an official extension mechanism. This means that others can now easily create their [own] stats, geoms and positions, and provide them in other packages."
Comparison with base graphics and other packages
In contrast to base R graphics, ggplot2 allows the user to add, remove or alter components in a plot at a high level of abstraction. This abstraction comes at a cost, with ggplot2 being slower than lattice graphics.
Creating a different plot for various subsets of the data requires for loops and manual management in base R graphics, whereas ggplot2 simplifies that process with a collection of "facet" functions to choose from.
One potential limitation of base R graphics is the "pen-and-paper model" utilized to populate the plotting device. Graphical output from the interpreter is added directly to the plotting device or window rather than separately for each distinct element of a plot. In this respect it is similar to the lattice package, though Wickham argues ggplot2 inherits a more formal model of graphics from Wilkinson. As such, it allows for a high degree of modularity; the same underlying data can be transformed by many different scales or layers.
Plots may be created via the convenience function qplot() where arguments and defaults are meant to be similar to base R's plot() function. More complex plotting capacity is available via ggplot() which exposes the user to more explicit elements of the grammar.
Related projects
ggplot for Python
plotnine started as an effort to improve the scalability of ggplot for Python and is largely compatible with ggplot2 syntax.
Plotly - Interactive, online ggplot2 graphs
gramm, a plotting class for MATLAB inspired by ggplot2
gadfly, a system for plotting and visualization written in Julia, based largely on ggplot2
Chart::GGPlot - ggplot2 port in Perl
The Lets-Plot for Python library incl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nefsis | Nefsis Corporation is a communications technology company. It was an early developer of real-time communications software and the first to use cloud computing in the videoconferencing industry.
Nefsis offers multipoint video conferencing with integrated voice and live collaboration solutions for small to medium-sized business and distributed enterprise customers.
History
Nefsis was founded in 1998 by Allen Drennan as WiredRed Corporation. The company name was changed to Nefsis Corporation in 2010.
In 1998 through 2000 the company developed and sold a VPN-like, full-duplex, multipoint communications software product called e/pop that supported several applications including presence management, instant messaging, multiparty VoIP, and remote control.
In 2001 the company introduced version 3 of its e/pop software, including server-to-server pipes, providing a unique method of relaying presence status and secure instant messaging across firewalls and proxies in multi-office, distributed networks. e/pop v3.0 received Network Computing Editor’s Choice award in September, 2004, for enterprise instant messaging due in part to its secure multi-office capabilities.
The company’s real-time software technology was distributed under OEM license by Sony Online Entertainment in 2003 as the multipoint VoIP software engine in the PlanetSide multiplayer online game. Commencing 2004, NewHeights Software Corporation licensed the company’s technology to power presence, IM, and web conferencing features in several softphone products sold under the NewHeights and Mitel brands. These OEM integrations were noteworthy at the time as they added multipoint VoIP and web conferencing to these online gaming and softphone applications, respectively.
In May, 2004, the company appeared in the market research report ‘Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Conferencing,’ citing a “forward-looking hybrid of presence based IM and Web conferencing.” During the same timeframe the company added multipoint video as another feature of its on-premises, web conferencing software products.
In 2005 the company started offering its software under hosted service agreements (software-as-a-service). After several years in development, the company introduced cloud computing and parallel processing technology to its customers commencing in 2008. The new video conferencing online service was introduced under the Nefsis brand, which later became the company name.
The company was cited by European CEO Magazine and market research firm Frost & Sullivan in 2009 as the first to use cloud computing in a multipoint video conferencing online service.
Nefsis has been used for corporate video conferencing and online meetings, as a business continuity tool during inclement weather, and in specialty applications such as training, telemedicine, video arraignment, and video remote interpreting among others.
In 2011, Nefsis was acquired by Brother Industries.
References
External links
Official Website
We |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender%2C%20Institutions%20and%20Development%20Database | The OECD Gender, Institutions and Development (GID) Database, or GID-DB, contains more than 60 data indicators of gender equality. The GID-DB was introduced in 2006 by the OECD Development Centre to provide a data tool to help researchers and policy makers determine and analyze obstacles to women's social and economic development. It provides these gender-related data for up to 162 countries from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, thereby covering all regions and country-income-categories of the world.
Database composition
The GID Database is structured around key traditional measurements of gender equality, including Education (data such as literacy rates and school enrollments for each gender), Health (such as percentage of births attended by skilled personnel), Economic status and Political status (such as percentage of legislators for each gender). The GID-DB also introduced non-traditional data indicators for "social institutions" such as cultural practices and social norms which affect gender equality. These new measurements are thoroughly presented here, in the next section. By providing new indicator information on these formerly "hidden" instances of gender discrimination, the database complements other data compilations such as the UNDP's Human Development Report, the World Bank Group's GenderStats database, or the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report.
Measures of social institutions
The GID database groups its 12 social-institution indicators into 5 different categories, below. Each of these 12 indicators is a cultural and traditional practice that impacts upon gender equality. Each indicator is coded between 0 (indicating no discrimination, i.e., equality) and 1 (indicating high discrimination, or high inequality) depending on the extent of discrimination and the percentage of females that suffer from its application, for each specific social institution. As an example, consider Inheritance, the second social institution or indicator below: If 10 percent of the female population in a country report restricted access to inheritance, with daughters inheriting only half the amount granted to sons, the indicator for inheritance would be 10 percent x 0.50 = 0.05, nearly equality. Values above 0 can be too complicated to describe briefly, in which case they are omitted below.
Family Code:
Parental authority – authority is granted to father and mother equally (yes = 0).
Inheritance – inheritance practices in favour of male heirs (no = 0).
Early marriage (women) – share of girls between 15 and 19 who are or have been married.
Polygamy – acceptance or legality of polygamy (no = 0).
Civil Liberties:
Freedom of movement – freedom to move freely outside of the house (no discrimination = 0).
Dress code in public – obligation to wear a veil in public (no = 0).
Physical Integrity:
Violence against women/Legal indicator – existence of laws against 3 categories (domestic, assault or rape, and sexual harassment; averaged together), with t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20and%20Archival%20Exhibitions%20on%20the%20Web | Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web is an international database of online exhibitions which is a service of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
Overview
Two categories of online exhibitions are included in the database: exhibitions created by libraries, archives, historical societies, and other scholarly institutions; and museum exhibitions with major emphasis on library and archival materials.
Several of these online exhibitions were originally created to accompany exhibitions physically situated at their respective institutions, but a growing percentage exist solely in remotely accessible format. The database is searchable by title, subject, and sponsoring institution.
History
The website is based on an online guide to library exhibits on the web, created by Andrea Bean Hough in 1995. The guide was maintained by the University of Houston Libraries until it had grown to some 350 links in 1998–99, and staffing considerations made it necessary for the university to discontinue participation in the project. Since then, the guide has been curated by Diane Shaw, Special Collections Librarian at the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. As of 2011, it has grown to include over 6,000 links to online exhibitions.
Recognition
Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, awarded Editor's Pick to the database in August 2010, saying it was "the most comprehensive source for existing digital exhibitions." It was also listed under Best of the Web by New York Public Library and had previously been rewarded Site of the Month by LibrarySpot.
See also
Virtual Library museums pages
References
External links
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web hosted by the Smithsonian Institution
Internet properties established in 1995
Online databases
Web directories
Museum informatics
Museum events
Exhibitions
Libraries in the United States
Archives in the United States
Digital humanities
Virtual art museums and galleries
University of Houston
Smithsonian Institution |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PromoJam | PromoJam is a social media marketing technology platform for businesses to build, launch and track promotions that reach new customers on the popular social networks. PromoJam utilizes word-of-mouth marketing and peer to peer recommendations to help drive customer acquisition.
History
PromoJam is a social media marketing technology founded in June, 2009. PromoJam was developed to help brands maximize their online visibility and social media reach through social media promotions. PromoJam originated as a Twitter-only promotion builder platform, and has since expanded its service to include Facebook, MySpace and Tumblr social network integrations. In 2011, PromoJam released PromoJam-GO!, a mobile social media marketing platform that utilizes QR codes to engage offline and online consumers.
Service
There are two service levels — PromoJam Do It Yourself, which runs Twitter promotions, and PromoJam Enterprise, which runs promotions across a variety of social media networks.
To date, PromoJam has reached over 80 million social network users.
Company
PromoJam is developed and owned by parent company, CultureJam, Inc. and is based out of Venice, California. CultureJam was founded by Matt MacNaughton and Amanda MacNaughton in 2008. PromoJam received $1.2m fund in a Series A round by Golden Seeds in March 2012.
Further reading
"Twitter insists it won't abandon developers"
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Fresh Engagements
Internet properties established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithsonian%20Research%20Online | Smithsonian Research Online is a database of bibliographic citations and full texts of publications by Smithsonian Institution scholars. It is managed by the Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Access to the database is free.
The database contained some 10,000 citations as of 2011. An increasing proportion of the citations includes full texts.
Purposes of the database include facilitating discovery of Smithsonian research publications and "assisting in measuring and communicating the magnitude, value, and impact of Smithsonian research."
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External links
Smithsonian Institution
Full-text scholarly online databases
Research projects
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Scholarly search services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Voice%20%28Australian%20TV%20series%29 | The Voice is an Australian singing competition television series. It premiered on the Nine Network on 14 April 2012, before moving to the Seven Network in 2021. Based on the original The Voice of Holland, and part of The Voice franchise, its first nine seasons aired on the Nine Network, with its tenth season commencing on the Seven Network on 8 August 2021.
The show aims to find currently unsigned singing talent (solo or duets, professional and amateur) contested by aspiring singers aged 15 or older, drawn from public auditions. The winners receive a recording contract with Universal Music Australia or EMI Music Australia, as well as A$100,000 and other prizes. Winners of the twelve seasons have been: Karise Eden, Harrison Craig, Anja Nissen, Ellie Drennan, Alfie Arcuri, Judah Kelly, Sam Perry, Diana Rouvas, Chris Sebastian, Bella Taylor Smith, Lachie Gill, and Tarryn Stokes.
The series employs a panel of four coaches who critique the artists' performances and guide their teams of selected artists through the remainder of the season. They also compete to ensure that their act wins the competition, thus making them the winning coach. The original panel featured Delta Goodrem, Joel Madden, Seal and Keith Urban; the panel for the most recent twelfth season featured Guy Sebastian, Rita Ora, Jessica Mauboy and Jason Derulo. Other judges from previous seasons include Ricky Martin, Kylie Minogue, will.i.am, Benji Madden, Jessie J, Ronan Keating, Joe Jonas, Kelly Rowland, and Boy George.
Format
The show is part of the television franchise The Voice and is structured as three phases: blind auditions, battle rounds and live performance shows. In 2017, the show added another phase: the knockouts between the blind auditions and the battles. The winner receives a recording contract with Universal Music or EMI (2019) as well as A$100,000 and other prizes.
Blind auditions
Four judges/coaches, all noteworthy recording artists, choose teams of contestants through a blind audition process during the auditioner's performance. If two or more judges want the same singer (as happens frequently), the singer has the final choice of coach. Each coach must recruit a number of artists (12 in seasons 1, 4-9, 11-12; 14 in seasons 2 and 3) to their team in the blind auditions to move on to the next phase of the competition. In season 10, coaches can complete their teams without a specific number of members.
A new element was introduced in season 9: the Block. Aside from the main button, each coach has three other buttons with the names of their fellow coaches. When a coach wants to get the specific contestant but does not want another coach to do so, they may press the block button to block them from getting the contestant. The coach who wants to use the block and the coach who is being blocked have to turn before any block can be used. They have two blocks to use in the entire phase of the blind auditions and 2 coaches can be blocked in a single audition. In season 11, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroDigital%20Omega | The MicroDigital Omega was a home computer developed and sold in the early 2000s by MicroDigital. It runs the RISC OS operating system.
The Omega suffered a protracted development, announced in 2000, it was released in 2003.
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Foundation - Alpha Omega
Steffen Huber - Benchmarks - MicroDigital Omega vs. Castle IYONIX pc
RiscWorld - MicroDigital Omega Press Day
MicroDigital - The NewsDesk - Saturday 12 July 2003
The Qube RiscOS Server - Acorn and Related Systems - MicroDigital Omega
RISC OS User Group Of London - OMEGeddon!
RiscWorld - The MicroDigital Omega
Drobe - MicroDigital's Omega priorities
Drobe - MicroDigital's domain expires
Drobe - MicroDigital sought by bailiffs
Drobe - MicroDigital incommunicado
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Microcomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana%20News%20Network | Banana News Network or BNN was a Pakistani TV show that was broadcast on GEO TV on Tuesdays at 11:05pm. It originally starred Murtaza Chaudhry and his team who were formerly part of 4 Man Show on Aaj TV.
Concept
BNN puts a comical spin on the happenings in Pakistan. It is a fictitious channel in which celebrities are mocked. The show has segments such as Sports Desk, News Room and Central Studio discussion. Celebrities mocked most often include Mirza Iqbal Baig, Ansar Abbasi and politicians. The main difference between BNN and other comedy Pakistani shows is that only four cast members are employed and they dress up as different celebrities on each show.
Cast
Murtaza Chaudhry as Khalid Butt (Host)
Mustafa Chaudhry as Various celebrities' mimic
Mubeen Gabol as Matkoo and various celebrities' mimic
Mohsin Abbas Haider as Bhagat Singh
Shafaat Ali as Various celebrities' mimic
Waheed Khan as Lala and various celebrities' mimic
Asad Khalil
Yasir Ali
Parting
The show was restarted in autumn 2013 without Murtaza Chaudhry, Mustafa Chaudhry and Mohsin Abbas Haider. Haider left the show to join Mazaaq Raat on Dunya TV.
References
Geo News |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xyroptila%20irina | Xyroptila irina is a moth of the family Pterophoridae which is endemic to Madagascar.
References
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2016. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.08-Jan-2017)
External links
Moths described in 2006
Endemic fauna of Madagascar
Moths of Africa
irina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtualAcorn | VirtualAcorn is the brand name of several commercial emulators of Acorn Computers computer hardware platforms.
Development
VirtualAcorn is developed by Graeme Barnes and Aaron Timbrell. It is a commercial version of the freeware emulator Red Squirrel, developed by Barnes. In 2004, supply of the software was moved to Timbrell's company 3QD Developments.
Virtual A5000
Virtual A5000 is an emulator of Acorn Computers A5000 computer. It included a copy of RISC OS 3.11. Virtual A5000 was released at BETT 2002 and stopped shipping in 2004.
It is now commercially available again from riscos.com with the latest version dated 2014.
VirtualRPC
VirtualRPC is an emulator of Acorn Computers' Risc PC computer.
Initially VirtualRPC was only available bundled with the MicroDigital Alpha range of PC laptops, but was later made available as a standalone product for sale. In 2003, the developers reached an agreement with RISCOS Ltd to license its OS.
VirtualRPC comes in four versions, with support for emulating ARM7 or ARM7 and StrongARM each coming with either RISC OS 4.02 or RISC OS Adjust 4.39.
Hardware bundles
Initially VirtualRPC was included on the MicroDigital Alpha range of PC laptops, and it has also been shipped by Advantage Six on the A5 series and by R-Comp in their RISCube/SpaceCube/RiscBook range.
References
External links
http://www.drobe.co.uk/riscos/article.php?id=1600&nc=17
http://www.drobe.co.uk/article.php?id=799 Drobe - Virtual License
Windows emulation software
MacOS emulation software
Cross-platform software
RISC OS emulators
Proprietary software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20film | A social film is a type of interactive film that is presented through the lens of social media. A social film is distributed digitally and integrates with a social networking service, such as Facebook or Google+. It combines features of web video, social network games and social media.
Key elements
Social films are a recent phenomenon and, in turn, there are few precedents for their format. Regardless, the medium has certain identifiable elements:
Casual entertainment
Social media
User-generated content
Game mechanics
Using a combination of these factors, a social film engages viewers to interact directly with the work, be it through social media functionality like comments and ranking or adding directly to the narrative itself.
Just as with memes, social film distribution relies on the viral spread enabled by social media. This is based on the viral expansion loops model, in which a viewer benefits from sharing the application with friends, exponentially creating new viewers compelled to share the application.
History
The first social film, Him, Her and Them was produced and released by Murmur in April 2011. It was distributed exclusively through Facebook and promoted as the first “Facebook film.” The film is composed of short video clips and interactive slideshows, integrating Facebook's Social Graph API. Users participate via text-based additions to the story, which are viewable only by friends within their social network.
Other examples of social film include lonelygirl15, which used YouTube posts to create an interactive video series about a fictional character, and Ron Howard's Project Imagin8ion, where a photo contest was used as the basis for a short film.
In July 2011, Intel and Toshiba partnered together to create Hollywood's first Social Film experience, a thriller called Inside, directed by D.J. Caruso and starring Emmy Rossum. The project is broken up into several segments across multiple social media platforms including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. In this instance, the audience is challenged to help Emmy Rossum's character, Christina, safely make it out of the room she's been trapped in. This particular form of social film is a major undertaking in that it combines social media activity with A-list acting talent to create a user experience that all happens in real time.
Although not quite the same idea, Hollywood has been experimenting with the idea of interactive and crowd-sourced films. For example, Ridley Scott's Life in a Day, is a documentary style feature, which strives to be the largest crowd-sourced feature film ever created.
In August 2012, Intel and Toshiba partnered again to create The Beauty Inside, directed by Drake Doremus, starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Topher Grace. It's Hollywood's first social film that gives everyone in the audience a chance to play Alex, the lead role. The experience will be broken up into six filmed episodes interspersed with real-time interactive storytelling that all |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Cruiser | is a role-playing first-person shooter video game developed by Arsys Software and released in Japan for the PC-8801 and X1 home computers in 1988. The game was released for the PC-9801 and X68000 computers in 1989, and then ported by Masaya (NCS) to the Mega Drive in 1990.
The game is an early example of an action role-playing game with fully 3D polygon graphics, combined with first-person shooter gameplay and space flight simulation when exploring the open-ended outer space with six degrees of freedom. All backgrounds, objects, and opponents in the game are rendered in 3D polygons, years before the technique was widely adopted. The game emphasized storytelling, with plot twists and extensive character dialogues, taking place in a futuristic science fiction setting.
Namco licensed the Mega Drive version of Star Cruiser for a North American release entitled Star Quest, which Namco planned to publish for the Sega Genesis in July 1994. The North American release of Star Quest was eventually canceled.
Plot
The game is set in the future, when 200 years have passed since Central Earth ended a war that began when humans made first contact with aliens. The balance of power, however, is being jeopardized by the militaristic nation VOID, which is attempting to deport all aliens from civilized society, and by the remains of the Earth Federation, the Federation Patrol. VOID is planning to wage war and take control of the galaxy, but a small battalion on the Ganymede satellite of Jupiter is being trained to resist VOID.
The story begins with protagonist Brian training in a simulation set up by his friend and comrade, Gibson, and instructed by his trusted droid, Freddy. After he finishes training, Brian goes to a restaurant, where he is given the news on VOID, which has a nearby base that acts as a stronghold and is sending out threatening enemies. The team cannot confront them directly because of an energy field protecting the base from ordinary weaponry. However, Brian is asked to lead a kamikaze attack, with a starship that can temporarily charge through the energy field with Shield Buster technology. Brian is tasked with crashing into the fortress and destroying it from the inside, and stealing a prototype spacecraft, the Star Cruiser, to even the odds in the war. Shortly after the briefing, their own Ganymede base is attacked by VOID. The protagonist eventually embarks on a quest involving the exploration of the galaxy.
Characters
Hunter Guild Side
Brian Wright: The main character of this game. A very well spoken man with a calm personality, the game's female lead Diana renders him to be somewhat of a cold-hearted hero. The Galactic Federal Ambassador told Brian that he had quite special qualities and talents as a Space Diplomat; if the current ambassador of the human race on the human side dies due to an unexpected accident, there is a possibility that it may be forced to take prolongation measures, possibly making Brian the leader. In Star Cruise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOBASE | BIOBASE may refer to:
BIOBASE (company), a German bioinformatics company specializing in biological databases
Elsevier BIOBASE, a biological bibliographic database published by Elsevier |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Volunteer%20Army | The Student Volunteer Army (SVA) is a New Zealand student movement born from a Facebook page started following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. The network has no military affiliation and is focused on facilitating community action through youth engagement, preparing for disasters, and service. The clubs and volunteers are supported by the Volunteer Army Foundation (VAF).
Whilst the movement grew to address community needs in the recovery period following the Christchurch earthquakes, the SVA has never been a solely disaster response focused organisation. The movement operates under an aim to make volunteering and service an intrinsic part of the student experience, and show all New Zealanders the power they have to drive the change they wish to see in their communities. It is this ethos that has allowed the movement to persist beyond the immediate earthquake response. The evidence of this ethos can be seen in the club culture of the UC Student Volunteer Army, and in initiatives such as the SVA School Kit and the Serve for New Zealand campaign.
UC Student Volunteer Army
Since its inception in response to the earthquakes, the club has maintained a strong presence at the University of Canterbury. The club is the largest student society on campus, with over 3000 members, led by an executive committee of 30 students. The club is supported primarily by The University of Canterbury and City Care. The club's efforts in the years since the earthquakes have refocused from providing disaster relief responses, to be more focused on community upkeep and engagement. However, disaster response has still been maintained in the club's skill set, with important roles being played by the SVA in response and in the aftermaths of such major events as the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake, 2017 Port Hills fires, Christchurch mosque shootings as well as various floods.
The club currently runs a range of events on a yearly schedule. Amongst these are small-scale 'platoon projects' run every weekend targeted at making small but high impact volunteering contributions to those in need, the UCan Schools programme aimed at mentoring local high school students, giving them an insight to the SVA with the hopes they will uptake the ethos and values of the SVA in their own communities. Larger events include 'Connect the Community' intended to bring a large numbers of students into a residential area for a day to work with the local community, as well as two camps taking place in communities outside of the Christchurch area intended to give a wider view of the country to its members, do beneficial work as well as a providing a social experience for volunteers.
UC Student Volunteer Army Presidents
2023 – Gareth Harcombe
2022 – Sophie Clarke
2021 – Luke Burke
2020 – Isabella Fanselow
2019 – Sati Ravichandiren
2018 – Josh Blackmore
2017 – Jared McMahon
2016 – Alex Cheesebrough
2015 – Lucy McLeod
2013–14 – Bridget Williams
2012 – Peter Jakowetz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoru%20Nakajima%20F-1%20Hero%202 | is a 1991 Japan-exclusive Family Computer Formula One video game developed by Human Entertainment and published by Varie. It is the sequel to Nakajima Satoru: F-1 Hero, and is based on the 1991 Formula One season. There are 16 rounds and only four cars to choose from.
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Formula One video games
Human Entertainment games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Racing video games
Satoru Nakajima video games
Varie games
Video game sequels
Video games developed in Japan
Video games set in 1991 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20Magazine | Movie Magazine, formerly titled as Movie Patrol, is a Philippine television showbiz-oriented talk show broadcast by GMA Network. It premiered on February 28, 1987. The show concluded on September 23, 1995. It was replaced by Channel S in its timeslot.
Hosts
Cristy Fermin (1987–94)
Nap Gutierrez (1987–93)
Lulubelle Lam (1987–93)
Jun Nardo (1993–95)
Dolly Anne Carvajal (1993–95)
Eugene Asis (1994–95)
Film reviewer
Mario Hernando
Reporters
Rey Pumaloy
Lhar Santiago
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External links
1987 Philippine television series debuts
1995 Philippine television series endings
English-language television shows
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television talk shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputing%20in%20Europe | Several centers for supercomputing exist across Europe, and distributed access to them is coordinated by European initiatives to facilitate high-performance computing. One such initiative, the HPC Europa project, fits within the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA), which was formed in 2002 as a consortium of eleven supercomputing centers from seven European countries. Operating within the CORDIS framework, HPC Europa aims to provide access to supercomputers across Europe.
Germany's JUWELS (booster module) is the fastest European supercomputer in 7th place (followed by Italian Eni company supercomputer) in November 2020, and Switzerland's Piz Daint was the fastest European supercomputer, in October 2016, ranked 3rd in the world with a peak of over 25 petaflops.
In June 2011, France's Tera 100 was certified the fastest supercomputer in Europe, and ranked 9th in the world at the time (has now dropped off the list). It was the first petascale supercomputer designed and built in Europe.
There are several efforts to coordinate European leadership in high-performance computing. The ETP4HPC Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) outlines a technology roadmap for exascale in Europe, with a key motivation being an increase in the global market share of the HPC technology developed in Europe. The Eurolab4HPC Vision provides a long-term roadmap, covering the years 2023 to 2030, with the aim of fostering academic excellence in European HPC research.
Pan-European HPC organisation
There have been several projects to organise supercomputing applications within Europe. The first was the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications (DEISA). This ran from 2002–2011. The organisation of supercomputing has been taken over by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE).
From 2018-2026 further supercomputer development is taking place under the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertakingwithin the Horizon 2020 framework. Under Horizon 2020, European HPC Centres of Excellence are being funded to promote Exascale capabilities and scale up existing parallel codes in the domains of renewable energy, materials modelling and design, molecular and atomic modeling, climate change, global system science, and bio-molecular research.
In addition to advances being shared with the HPC research community such as the “Putting the Ocean into the Center” visualization and progress on the “Digital Twin” that is already being used to run in silico clinical trials, EU countries are already beginning to directly benefit from work done by the Centres of Excellence under Horizon 2020: In summer 2021, software from a European Centre of Excellence was used to forecast ash clouds from the La Palma volcano. Additionally, EU Centres of Excellence are providing support throughout the Covid19 pandemic creating models to guide policy makers, expediting the discovery of possible treatments, and generally facilitating |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang%20International%20Standard%20Code%20for%20Information%20Interchange | Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange (WISCII) is a proprietary version of ASCII used by Wang Computer Corp on their personal computers and minicomputers in the 1980s. WISCII was used on the Wang PC (an IBM-PC compatible), as well as the Alliance APC, OIS, and VS systems. The first 126 characters were the same as ASCII (7-bit), but the remaining characters (ASCII 127-255), which consisted mostly of international letter symbols, were used only by Wang systems.
Character set
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ASCII |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODIS | ODIS, or the Offender Data Information System is a web based, computerized records management software application to improve the capture, maintenance and quality of law enforcement data that is capable of running in any combination of centralized or decentralized network environments. It is designed using Microsoft's DNA (Distributed interNetwork Architecture) programming model, constructed using three tiers: database for storage, compiled application components to handle the business logic and the presentation layer which is what the user see.
The ODIS application addresses the problem of having many applications for many tasks, by using one common interface that is accessible over a network to all departments in an agency. The core of the application includes the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) module, which is designed to replace Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) and strictly adheres to the reporting standards of the federal government and the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI). The ODIS application also allows the entry of digital images of individuals, scars, marks and tattoos. An entire history of a person's involvement with the agency - whether it be for a booking, arrest, citation, warrant, missing person, owner of a piece of stolen property, etc. - can be viewed after conducting a general search. Integration of these different program elements has made the ODIS application a powerful record-keeping and investigative tool for agencies that use it to its fullest capacity.
ODIS integrates the following:
A CAD and radio log
A jail management system
A party information database
A sexual offender database
An active and inactive arrest warrant list
Property room management system
A case management system
A citation database
A list of Oklahoma state statutes
A user-programmable list of Local city/town ordinances
References
The Oklahoma Criminal Justice Resource Center (OCJRC)
Center for Technology in Government
Offender Data Information System
Crime statistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOMS%20%E2%80%93%20Generic%20Earth%20Observation%20Metadata%20Standard | GEOMS – Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard is a metadata standard used for archiving data from groundbased networks, like the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), and for using this kind of data for the validation of NASA and ESA satellite data.
Introduction
The Generic Earth Observation Metadata Standard (GEOMS) outlines the metadata and data structure requirements developed to facilitate the use of geophysical datasets by improving their portability and accessibility, and by making their contents self-describing. This approach was originally selected to deal with atmospheric and oceanographic datasets, but has been recently expanded to support all measurements from Earth observation instruments. The definitions have been carefully chosen to allow applicability to other scientific endeavors. GEOMS metadata and data structure requirements may be applied to any project where data are to be exchanged.
Motivation
For geophysical validation, independent observations are performed by a large number of in-situ, remote sensing, and satellite instruments for comparison with satellite based geophysical data products. To enhance the usability of the diverse correlative datasets collected for the EOS-Aura validation program and the Envisat calibration and validation campaign (Cal/Val), metadata definitions, covering a broad range of instrument types and geophysical parameters, have been established. In support of these efforts, relational databases have been designed to store the metadata and to allow extensive quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) of the submitted files, while enabling easy data mining and retrieval of selected datasets. This development was initiated in 1998 through the European Commission (EC) project COSE, Compilation of Atmospheric Observations in Support of Satellite Measurements over Europe, and extended in collaboration with ESA, NASA, principal investigators (PI) of the Envisat and Aura validation campaign, and selected PIs from NDACC, for the implementation of a uniform data exchange standard.
Application
The current GEOMS guidelines describe the standard metadata definitions adopted for the correlative, experimental and model data archived for the EOS-Aura validation program, the Envisat calibration and validation efforts, data from NDACC, and the GECA project, which supports existing and future ESA calibration and validation programs.
The first application for earlier versions of GEOMS was the definition of metadata requirements for the calibration and validation activities of the Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR), the Global Ozone Monitoring by Occultation of Stars (GOMOS), the MEdium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), the Michelson Interferometer for Passive Atmospheric Sounding (MIPAS) and the SCanning Imaging Absorption SpectroMeter for Atmospheric CHartographY (SCIAMACHY) sensors flying on the European Space Agency (ESA) Envisat platform. Th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperparameter%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In machine learning, a hyperparameter is a parameter whose value is used to control the learning process. By contrast, the values of other parameters (typically node weights) are derived via training.
Hyperparameters can be classified as model hyperparameters, that cannot be inferred while fitting the machine to the training set because they refer to the model selection task, or algorithm hyperparameters, that in principle have no influence on the performance of the model but affect the speed and quality of the learning process. An example of a model hyperparameter is the topology and size of a neural network. Examples of algorithm hyperparameters are learning rate and batch size as well as mini-batch size. Batch size can refer to the full data sample where mini-batch size would be a smaller sample set.
Different model training algorithms require different hyperparameters, some simple algorithms (such as ordinary least squares regression) require none. Given these hyperparameters, the training algorithm learns the parameters from the data. For instance, LASSO is an algorithm that adds a regularization hyperparameter to ordinary least squares regression, which has to be set before estimating the parameters through the training algorithm.
Considerations
The time required to train and test a model can depend upon the choice of its hyperparameters. A hyperparameter is usually of continuous or integer type, leading to mixed-type optimization problems. The existence of some hyperparameters is conditional upon the value of others, e.g. the size of each hidden layer in a neural network can be conditional upon the number of layers.
Difficulty learnable parameters
Usually, but not always, hyperparameters cannot be learned using well known gradient based methods (such as gradient descent, LBFGS) - which are commonly employed to learn parameters. These hyperparameters are those parameters describing a model representation that cannot be learned by common optimization methods but nonetheless affect the loss function. An example would be the tolerance hyperparameter for errors in support vector machines.
Untrainable parameters
Sometimes, hyperparameters cannot be learned from the training data because they aggressively increase the capacity of a model and can push the loss function to an undesired minimum (overfitting to, and picking up noise in the data), as opposed to correctly mapping the richness of the structure in the data. For example, if we treat the degree of a polynomial equation fitting a regression model as a trainable parameter, the degree would increase until the model perfectly fit the data, yielding low training error, but poor generalization performance.
Tunability
Most performance variation can be attributed to just a few hyperparameters. The tunability of an algorithm, hyperparameter, or interacting hyperparameters is a measure of how much performance can be gained by tuning it. For an LSTM, while the learning rate followed by th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20content%20inspection | Deep content inspection (DCI) is a form of network filtering that examines an entire file or MIME object as it passes an inspection point, searching for viruses, spam, data loss, key words or other content level criteria. Deep Content Inspection is considered the evolution of Deep Packet Inspection with the ability to look at what the actual content contains instead of focusing on individual or multiple packets. Deep Content Inspection allows services to keep track of content across multiple packets so that the signatures they may be searching for can cross packet boundaries and yet they will still be found. An exhaustive form of network traffic inspection in which Internet traffic is examined across all the seven OSI ISO layers, and most importantly, the application layer.
Background
Traditional inspection technologies are unable to keep up with the recent outbreaks of widespread attacks. Unlike shallow inspection methods such as Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), where only the data part (and possibly also the header) of a packet are inspected, Deep Content Inspection (DCI)-based systems are exhaustive, such that network traffic packets are reassembled into their constituting objects, un-encoded and/or decompressed as required, and finally presented to be inspected for malware, right-of-use, compliance, and understanding of the traffic's intent. If this reconstruction and comprehension can be done in real-time, then real-time policies can be applied to traffic, preventing the propagation of malware, spam and valuable data loss. Further, with DCI, the correlation and comprehension of the digital objects transmitted in many communication sessions leads to new ways of network performance optimization and intelligence regardless of protocol or blended communication sessions.
Historically, DPI was developed to detect and prevent intrusion. It was then used to provide Quality of Service where the flow of network traffic can be prioritized such that latency-sensitive traffic types (e.g., Voice over IP) can be utilized to provide higher flow priority.
New generation of Network Content Security devices such as Unified Threat Management or Next Generation Firewalls (Garner RAS Core Research Note G00174908) use DPI to prevent attacks from a small percentage of viruses and worms; the signatures of these malware fit within the payload of a DPI's inspection scope. However, the detection and prevention of a new generation of malware such as Conficker and Stuxnet is only possible through the exhaustive analysis provided by DCI.
The evolution of DPI systems
Computer networks send information across a network from one point to another; the data (sometimes referred to as the payload) is ‘encapsulated’ within an IP packet, which looks as follows:
*The IP Header provides address information - the sender and destination addresses, while the TCP/UDP Header provided other pertinent information such as the port number, etc.
As networks evolve, inspection techniq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zden%C4%9Bk%20S%C3%BDkora | Zdeněk Sýkora (February 3, 1920 – July 12, 2011) was a Czechoslovakian modern abstract painter and sculptor, and a pioneer of using computers in art.
Early life
Sýkora was born and died in Louny, Czechoslovakia. His style and medium changed from landscape paintings in the late 1940s to geometrical abstract structures in the 50s. Influenced by cubism and surrealism in the 1960s, he became one of the first artists to use computers in creating geometric abstract paintings.
During the Soviet occupations of many countries after World War II, including Czechoslovakia, Sýkora was unable to hold many exhibitions, and some of the only pieces that can be seen from the late 1960s are government building projects.
During this period, the artist spent a great deal of time working in Prague.
Later career
Sýkora's style eventually turned to a less strict system of line paintings with lines of color moving across large canvasses in random directions.
Also in the 1960s, Sýkora was member of the art group Crossroad (Skupina Křižovatka). While in this group, he created his first structures and realizations for architecture in the Prague neighborhood of Letná on Jindřišská Street). In 1985, he began collaborating on paintings with his wife, Lenka Sýkora. Their most recent realization for architecture can be found in the building of flight operation in Jeneč near Prague. Sýkora had his second retrospective exhibition in 1995, 25 years after his first one, which had been held in Špála Gallery in 1970, and was not authorized by the occupying Russians. In 1995, it was the Prague City Gallery that held the exhibition in the Municipal Library and was a cross-section of his work. Sykora remained mostly active up until his death at age 91.
Legacy
Sýkora's paintings are owned by galleries around the globe, including the Centre Georges Pompidou and the MUMOK in Vienna.
Awards
Vladimír Boudnik Award – 2008 – Czech Republic
Ordre des Arts et des Lettres – France
Herbert-Boeckl-Preis – Austria
Exhibitions
Sýkora had hundreds of exhibitions internationally over his lifetime. A partial list is found on Prague Art & Design.
Associated Czech artists
References
Prague Art Catalogue
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20110929162910/http://www.fcca.cz/shared/events/orbisfictus/ofzdeneksykora4.html
Official site
1920 births
2011 deaths
20th-century Czech painters
Czech male painters
Modern painters
Czechoslovak artists
20th-century Czech male artists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netronome | Netronome is a privately held fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design of network flow processors used for intelligent flow processing in network and communications devices, such as switches, routers and cyber security applications.
History
Netronome was founded in 2003 by Niel Viljoen, David Wells and Johann Tönsing, who had all previously worked for Marconi. Niel Viljoen served as Chief Technology Officer at Marconi, having been General Manager at Fore Systems, acquired by Marconi for $4.6 billion in 1999. Viljoen served as the CEO and president of Netronome from 2003 until 2011. Between February 2011 and 2013, Howard Bubb stepped in as Chief Executive Officer. However, in July of that year Viljoen once again took over as CEO.
In November 2007, Netronome announced a technology licensing and sales and marketing agreement with Intel Corporation focused on the extension of the Intel IXP28XX product line of network processors. Under the terms of the agreement, Netronome is developing a next-generation line of IXP-compatible, high-end network processors that combine the Intel IXP28XX technology with Netronome's architecture.
In March 2010, Netronome announced it began shipping the Network Flow Processor (NFP–3240), specifically designed for tight coupling with x86 architectures.
In January 2016, Netronome announced its Agilio family of server-based networking solutions.
References
Cloud computing providers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Source%20Ecology | Open Source Ecology (OSE) is a network of farmers, engineers, architects and supporters, whose main goal is the eventual manufacturing of the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS). As described by Open Source Ecology "the GVCS is an open technological platform that allows for the easy fabrication of the 50 types of industrial machines that it takes to build a small civilization with modern comforts". Groups in Oberlin, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and California are developing blueprints, and building prototypes in order to test them on the Factor e Farm in rural Missouri. 3D-Print.com reports that OSE has been experimenting with RepRap 3-D printers, as suggested by academics for sustainable development.
History
Marcin Jakubowski founded the group in 2003. In the final year of his doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin, he felt that his work was too closed off from the world's problems, and he wanted to go a different way. After graduation, he devoted himself entirely to OSE.
OSE made it to the world stage in 2011 when Jakubowski presented his Global Village Construction Set TED Talk. Soon, the GVCS won Make magazine's Green Project Contest. The Internet blogs Gizmodo and Grist produced detailed features on OSE. Jakubowski has since become a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow (2012) and TED Senior Fellow (2012).
Open Source Ecology is also developing in Europe as OSE Germany. This is an independent effort based on OSE's principles.
In 2016, OSE and the Open Building Institute joined forces to make affordable, ecological housing widely accessible. The initiative has prototyped the Seed Eco-Home – a 1400 square foot home with the help of 50 people in a 5-day period – demonstrating that OSE's Extreme Manufacturing techniques can be apply to rapid swarm builds of large structures. Materials for the Seed Eco-Home cost around US$30,000 in 2016, though the cost went up to approximately US$50,000 in 2022 due to rising lumber prices . Further, OBI has prototyped the Aquaponic Greenhouse – which was also built in 5 days with 50 people.
Factor e Farm
The Factor e Farm is the headquarters where the machines are prototyped and tested. The farm also serves as a prototype. Using the Open Source Ecology principles, Four prototype modules have been built as a home. An added greenhouse demonstrates how a family can grow vegetables and fish. Outside, there is also a large garden including fruit trees.
Current progress
For 2020, OSE was planning its most ambitious collaborative design effort by hosting an Incentive Challenge on the HeroX platform – to produce a professional grade, open source, 3D printed cordless drill that can be manufactured in distributed locations around the world. This project is intended to provide a proof-of-concept for the efficiency of open source development applied to hardware – in addition to its proven success with software. This effort was postponed due to COVID-19, and OSE has pivoted to a product release of the Seed |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Western%20role-playing%20video%20games | Western role-playing video games are role-playing video games developed in the Western world, including The Americas and Europe. They originated on mainframe university computer systems in the 1970s, were later popularized by titles such as Ultima and Wizardry in the early- to mid-1980s, and continue to be produced for modern home computer and video game console systems. The genre's "Golden Age" occurred in the mid- to late-1980s, and its popularity suffered a downturn in the mid-1990s as developers struggled to keep up with changing fashion, hardware evolution and increasing development costs. A later series of isometric role-playing games, published by Interplay Productions and Blizzard Entertainment, was developed over a longer time period and set new standards of production quality.
Computer role-playing games (CRPGs) are once again popular. Recent titles, such as BioWare's Mass Effect series and Bethesda Softworks' The Elder Scrolls series, have been produced for console systems and have received multi-platform releases, although independently developed games are frequently created as personal computer (PC) exclusives. Developers of role-playing games have continuously experimented with various graphical perspectives and styles of play, such as real-time and turn-based time-keeping systems, axonometric and first-person graphical projections, and single-character or multi-character parties. Subgenres include action role-playing games, roguelikes and tactical role-playing games.
Early American computer RPGs (mid-1970s–mid-1980s)
Mainframe computers (mid-1970s–early 1980s)
The earliest role-playing video games were created in the mid-to-late 1970s, as offshoots of early university mainframe text-based RPGs that were played on PDP-10, PLATO and Unix-based systems. These included m199h, created in 1974, Dungeon, written in 1975 or 1976, pedit5, created in 1975, and dnd, also from 1975. These early games were inspired by pen-and-paper role-playing games, particularly Dungeons & Dragons, which was first published in 1974, and J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Some of the first graphical computer RPGs (CRPGs) after pedit5 and dnd included orthanc (1978), which was named after Saruman's tower in Lord of the Rings, avathar (1979), later renamed avatar, oubliette (1977), named after the French word for "dungeon", moria (1975), dungeons of degorath, baradur, emprise, bnd, sorcery, and dndworld. All of these were developed and became popular on the PLATO system during the late 1970s, in large part due to PLATO's speed, fast graphics, and large number of players with access to its nationwide network of terminals. PLATO was a mainframe system that supported multiple users and allowed them to play simultaneously, a feature not commonly available to owners of home personal computer systems at the time. These were followed by games on other platforms, such as Temple of Apshai, written in 1979 for the TRS-80 and followed by two add-ons; Aka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima%20Transportation | is a rail and bus transportation company headquartered in Fukushima City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
It operates the Iizaka Line rail line and an extensive bus network, which primarily serves the Nakadōri and northern section of the Hamadōri regions of Fukushima Prefecture.
Besides, this company has belonged to Michinori Holdings since 2008.
History
Founding and initial growth
Fukushima Transportation can trace its roots back to the founding of on August 1, 1907. The company opened up lines connecting Fukushima to Iizaka and Date, and in 1908 Shintatsu Tramway, along with various other regional railways, were brought together under the newly formed . Shintatsu Tramway became the Fukushima branch of the newly formed company.
Over the next nine years, routes connecting Hobara, Yanagawa, and Kakeda were completed.
In 1917 Shintatsu Tramway reformed as a new entity, and in January of the following year the new Shintatsu Tramway took control of the Fukushima branch of the Dainippon Tramway. The rail network was then further expanded to include Koori and Matsukawa.
In 1926 the company's name was changed to , and in 1927 it merged with . As a result of the merge, the tracks that led directly from Fukushima Station to Iizaka were renamed to Iizaka West Line and the track that led from Fukushima Station to Iizaka via an eastern loop of Fukushima City was renamed to Iizaka East Line.
Diversification from rail
Over the next few decades Fukushima Electric Railway added and expanded multiple bus routes throughout the area. As a result of the company's increasing foray into non-rail transportation, in 1962 the company was renamed to . In 1967 a section of the Iizaka East Line was shut down, and in 1971 the entirety of the Iizaka East Line was shut down, leaving the Iizaka West Line (now called the Iizaka Line) Fukushima Transportation's only remaining rail line in operation.
The company rapidly expanded in the 1970s, becoming one of the three pillars of the conglomerate. In addition to the other two pillars, Radio Fukushima and The Fukkushima Minpo newspaper, the group had its hands in various other ventures, such as real estate, transport, breweries, the amusement park, and a ranch.
Financial troubles and acquisition
In the 1980s the company continued to diversify, taking on large amounts of debt. Weighted down by an increase in unprofitable ventures, in 1986 the company merged with its subsidiary, thus having its former subsidiary assume the company's debt. Following the merger, was spun off, with its name being changed to soon after.
Entering the 2000s, passenger levels and profits fell due to a decreasing population and the resulting decreasing demand, in addition to the increased competition due to relaxation of regulations in the bus industry and the resulting increased competition. Furthermore, there was an unexpectedly high number of employees taking early retirement and requesting retirement payments, all of which led to Fukushima T |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEGIMA | The DEGIMA (DEstination for Gpu Intensive MAchine) is a high performance computer cluster used for hierarchical N-body simulations at the Nagasaki Advanced Computing Center, Nagasaki University.
The system consists of a 144-node cluster of PCs connected via an InfiniBand interconnect. Each node is composed of 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 920 processor, two GeForce GTX295 graphics cards, 12 GB DDR3-1333 memory and Mellanox MHES14-XTC SDR InfiniBand host adapter on MSI X58 pro-E motherboard. Each graphics card has two GT200 GPU chips. As a whole, the system has 144 CPUs and 576 GPUs. It runs astrophysical N-body simulations with over 3,000,000,000 particles using the Multiple-Walk parallel treecode. The system is noted for being highly cost and energy-efficient, having a peak performance of 111 TFLOPS with an energy efficiency of 1376 MFLOPS/watt. The overall cost of the hardware was approximately US$500,000.
The name of the system is also derived from the name of a small artificial island called "Dejima" in Nagasaki.
See also
Supercomputing in Japan
Beowulf cluster
References
X86 supercomputers
MSI supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Reset | Hard Reset is a first-person shooter for Microsoft Windows, developed by Flying Wild Hog and released in September 2011. The game features a cyberpunk plot within a dystopian world, and draws inspiration from the works of William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Philip K. Dick to create its story, setting and atmosphere. In 2012, Hard Reset received a free expansion titled Hard Reset: Exile, and was then bundled as Hard Reset: Extended Edition. In 2016, a remastered version called Hard Reset Redux was released alongside versions for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One with upgraded graphics and new weapons and enemies. Redux was made available for Amazon Luna in October 2020.
Gameplay
Hard Reset is modeled on video games such as Quake and Unreal, which results in more straightforward gameplay than most contemporary first-person shooters. The various stages have secret areas with hidden pick ups such as health and ammunition. The environments are designed similarly, as there are explosive barrels and various vending machines outfitted with electroshock anti-vandalism defenses, that can trigger splash damage by being shot at, scattered throughout the levels, which the player can use by luring enemies near them. The game lacks a multiplayer mode, which was a chief criticism.
Unlike most old-school first-person shooters, which feature a liberal variety of guns and throwable weapons that can be stored in a magic satchel-style inventory, Hard Reset features only two weapons, the CLN Modular Assault Rifle, and the EEF-21 Plasma Rifle. Both weapons have unlockable firing modes, the Modular Assault Rifle including the option to strap add-ons such as grenade and rocket launchers, and the plasma rifle allowing railguns and stasis modules.
Exile and Extended Edition
Hard Reset: Exile is a free expansion for Hard Reset. It was first released in April 2012 as a part of the boxed Hard Reset re-release called Hard Reset: Extended Edition. The expansion is available for all Steam owners of Hard Reset for free since May 2012. Hard Reset: Exile features a few new weapons, levels, enemy types, and a boss. It further continues the story of James Fletcher, as he journeys into the outer city's robot-controlled territory and tracks down the Corporation's secret weapon that is self-aware and blocks the path toward the "Resistance" bases.
Reception
Both Hard Reset and Hard Reset Redux received "mixed or average" reviews on all platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Reviewers cited the visual quality and the intensity of the gameplay as strong points, evoking comparisons to other "old-school" shooters as Serious Sam or Painkiller. Common points of contention were the game's relatively short length, limited level design, and the perceived difficulty.
References
External links
2011 video games
Cyberpunk video games
Dystopian video games
First-person shooters
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PlayStation 4 games
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vega%20Telecommunications%20Group | Vega Telecommunications Group is a Ukrainian operator of fixed telephony, broadband Internet access and data transfer. Vega is a member of the telecommunication business of Ukraine's leading financial and industrial group System Capital Management. The operational management of Vega Telecommunications Group is carried out by PJSC "Farlep-Invest".
History
Vega Telecommunications Group appeared on the Ukrainian telecommunications market on October 15, 2008 through the merging of the largest Ukrainian telecommunications groups Farlep and Optima Telecom, as well as companies Ucomline, CSS, IP Telecom, Matrix, Vilcom and others.
The story of Vega Telecommunications Group started in 1994, when its major members were established, and later included into Farlep group in Odesa and Optima-Telecom in Dnipropetrovsk. Both companies had innovative technologies for that time, such as digital telephony.
By 2005, Optima-Telecom had had over 300 000 subscribers in 13 Ukrainian cities.
In 2005, Ukraine's leading financial and industrial group System Capital Management has acquired Farlep-Invest Holding and Optima Telecom, and consolidated these assets into Farlep-Optima group. From 2005 to 2008 SCM has acquired and successfully merged a number of assets, including companies CSS, IP Telecom, Matrix, Vilcom, and over 30 others.
References
External links
VEGA homepage
SCM Holdings
Telecommunications companies of Ukraine
Companies based in Kyiv |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study%20Archive | The Study Archive file format is a data compression and archive format, based directly on the ZIP file format. Study archives are intended for the development and use of sets of interactive flashcards, which may contain not only text but also images and audio files, in various applications.
The format was created in 2011 by The Mental Faculty, made for use with its Mental Case series of flashcard applications for the Mac OS X and iOS platforms, but intended to be a cross-platform format compatible with other applications, to allow for ease of import/export and portability.
Study archives are collections of data (in CSV and/or TSV files), images, and audio files, arranged in an organized hierarchical directory structure and packaged in a compressed ZIP archive for use with flashcard applications. As ZIP archives, the file format extension is simply
The standard hierarchal structure for study archives is illustrated in the following example:
Archive
Ungrouped
Data.csv
Groups
Case Collection 1
Case 1
Data.csv
Case 2
Data.tsv
Case Collection 2
Case 3
Data.csv
Image 1.jpg
Audio 1.wav
Case 4
Data.tsv
The study archive documentation also defines a URL protocol for study archives on the Internet to be directly opened in a supporting application. The protocol simply replaces with in a standard direct link to a given study archive file. Currently the Mental Case applications support this protocol.
References
External links
The Study Archive File Format
Archive formats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Tuleta | Operation Tuleta is a British police investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service into allegations of computer hacking, related to the News International phone hacking scandal.
As of June 2011, it was reported to have six officers working for it. According to a report in the London Evening Standard, Operation Tuleta was at that time a "scoping exercise" prior to a possible full investigation.
On 29 July 2011, Channel 4 News reported a statement from the Metropolitan Police:
"Some aspects of this operation will move forward to a formal investigation. There will be a new team reporting to DAC Sue Akers". This followed a statement given to Channel 4 News by former army intelligence corporal Ian Hurst (aka Martin Ingram): "Police officers working for Operation Tuleta have informed me that they have identified information of evidential value in regard to my family's computer being illegally accessed over a sustained period of 2006. The decision by the Metropolitan Police to proceed to a full criminal investigation was conveyed to me this week by Tuleta police officers".
Arrests
On 24 November 2011, a 52-year-old man was arrested in Milton Keynes "on suspicion of Computer Misuse Act offences". He was the first person arrested under Operation Tuleta and was subsequently released on police bail.
In February 2012, during evidence to the Leveson Inquiry, Deputy Assistant Commissioner Akers mentioned the existence of Operation Kalmyk, a new investigation related to Operation Tuleta. She also said that Operation Tuleta had about 20 police officers, who were looking into 57 claims of "data intrusion" on behalf of journalists. She added that they were examining 4 terabytes of data.
On 24 February 2012, it was announced that two men were arrested for hacking. On 5 April 2012, it was revealed in the Press that one of these two men was Steve Hayes, at the time owner of London Wasps Rugby Club and Wycombe Wanderers Football Club. He was arrested on suspicion of offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 and the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000. They were taken to London police stations and later bailed to return in June and July 2012 pending further enquiries. These arrests were not directly linked to any news organisation or the activities of journalists.
On 13 July 2012, it was announced that, following the arrest of a 55-year-old man in Cardiff, the number of arrests under Operation Tuleta had risen to six.
A seventh person, believed to be a Sun journalist, was arrested in North London on 19 July. An eighth person, reported to be the Sun chief foreign correspondent Nick Parker, was arrested by appointment, and released on bail on the 30 July 2012. A ninth person, a 37-year-old Sun journalist, was arrested on 31 July.
A tenth person, a 44-year-old man, was arrested on the 23 August, 2012. An eleventh person, described by reports as the former Times journalist Patrick Foster, was arrested on 29 August.
On 7 September 2012, a 33-year-ol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APE100 | APE100 was a family of SIMD supercomputers developed by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN, "National Institute for Nuclear Physics") in Italy between 1989 and 1994. The systems were developed to study the structure of elementary particles by means of lattice gauge theories, especially quantum chromodynamics.
APE ("ah-pei"), an acronym for Array Processor Experiment, was the collective name of several generations of massively parallel supercomputers since 1984, optimized for theoretical physics simulations. The APE machines were massively parallel 3D arrays of custom computing nodes with periodic boundary conditions.
APE100 was developed at INFN in Rome and Pisa under the direction of Nicola Cabibbo. Each node was capable of 50MFLOPS so that the complete configuration with 2,048 nodes had a performance of 100 gigaflops. In 1991, it became the most powerful supercomputer in the world.
A version of APE100 has been marketed by Alcatel Alenia Space under the name of Quadrics. After 1994 the project at INFN was continued with the new names APEmille and ApeNext.
References
Massively parallel computers
SIMD computing
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter%20Afanasieff%20discography | American songwriter/producer Walter Afanasieff has been credited with composing, producing, arranging, performing on or programming one or more tracks on the following albums or singles:
See also
List of songs written by Walter Afanasieff
Afanasieff, Walter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navlab | Navlab is a series of autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicles developed by teams from The Robotics Institute at the School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University. Later models were produced under a new department created specifically for the research called "The Carnegie Mellon University Navigation Laboratory". Navlab 5 notably steered itself almost all the way from Pittsburgh to San Diego.
History
Research on computer controlled vehicles began at Carnegie Mellon in 1984 as part of the DARPA Strategic Computing Initiative and production of the first vehicle, Navlab 1, began in 1986.
Applications
The vehicles in the Navlab series have been designed for varying purposes, "... off-road scouting; automated highways; run-off-road collision prevention; and driver assistance for maneuvering in crowded city environments. Our current work involves pedestrian detection, surround sensing, and short range sensing for vehicle control."
Several types of vehicles have been developed, including "... robot cars, vans, SUVs, and buses."
Vehicles
The institute has made vehicles with the designations Navlab 1 through 10. The vehicles were mainly semi-autonomous, though some were fully autonomous and required no human input.
Navlab 1 was built in 1986 using a Chevrolet panel van. The van had 5 racks of computer hardware, including 3 Sun workstations, video hardware and GPS receiver, and a Warp supercomputer. The vehicle suffered from software limitations and was not fully functional until the late 80s, when it achieved its top speed of .
Navlab 2 was built in 1990 using a US Army HMMWV. Computer power was uprated for this new vehicle with three Sparc 10 computers, "for high level data processing", and two 68000-based computers "used for low level control". The Hummer was capable of driving both off- or on-road. When driving over rough terrain, its speed was limited with a top speed of . When Navlab 2 was driven on-road it could achieve as high as
Navlab 1 and 2 were semi-autonomous and used "... steering wheel and drive shaft encoders and an expensive inertial navigation system for position estimation."
Navlab 5 used a 1990 Pontiac Trans Sport minivan. In July 1995, the team took it from Pittsburgh to San Diego on a proof-of-concept trip, dubbed "No Hands Across America", with the system navigating for all but 50 of the 2850 miles, averaging over 60 MPH. In 2007, Navlab 5 was added to the Class of 2008 inductees of the Robot Hall of Fame.
Navlabs 6 and 7 were both built with Pontiac Bonnevilles. Navlab 8 was built with an Oldsmobile Silhouette van. Navlabs 9 and 10 were both built out of Houston transit buses.
See also
Driverless car
References
External links
The Robotics Institute website
Navlab website
PANS paper (1995) for the Navlab 5
Experimental self-driving cars
Carnegie Mellon University
Robots of the United States
1986 robots
1990 robots
2007 robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20River%20Mutual%20Telephone | Grand River Mutual Telephone Corporation, doing business as GRM Networks, is a telephone company providing local telephone service in Iowa and Missouri, USA.
The cities served by the company in Iowa include Lamoni and Leon, and cities served in Missouri include Bethany, Conception Junction, and Mercer.
The company owns two smaller telephone companies: Lathrop Telephone Company d/b/a LTC Networks in Missouri and South Central Communications d/b/a SCC Networks in Iowa.
References
External links
Grand River Mutual Home
Communications in Missouri
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Telecommunications companies established in 1951
1951 establishments in Missouri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Central%20Communications%20%28telecommunications%29 | South Central Communications, Inc. d/b/a SCC Networks is a company owned by GRM Networks that provides local telephone service to communities in Iowa, including Murray, Lorimor, and Corydon.
The company's name refers to its location in south central Iowa.
The company was established in 1996 and was incorporated in Missouri. However, its operations are all located in Iowa.
References
Communications in Iowa
Telecommunications companies established in 1996
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution%20Analytics | Revolution Analytics (formerly REvolution Computing) is a statistical software company focused on developing open source and "open-core" versions of the free and open source software R for enterprise, academic and analytics customers. Revolution Analytics was founded in 2007 as REvolution Computing providing support and services for R in a model similar to Red Hat's approach with Linux in the 1990s as well as bolt-on additions for parallel processing. In 2009 the company received nine million in venture capital from Intel along with a private equity firm and named Norman H. Nie as their new CEO. In 2010 the company announced the name change as well as a change in focus. Their core product, Revolution R, would be offered free to academic users and their commercial software would focus on big data, large scale multiprocessor (or "high performance") computing, and multi-core functionality.
Microsoft announced on January 23, 2015, that they had reached an agreement to purchase Revolution Analytics for an as yet undisclosed amount.
Founding and venture capital
REvolution Computing was founded in New Haven, Connecticut in 2007 by Richard Schultz, Martin Schultz, Steve Weston and Kirk Mettler. At the time Martin Schultz was also the Watson Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. Adding parallel computing to R allowed the company to net large gains in speed for many common analytics operations and early clients like Pfizer took advantage of REvolution R to see large performance gains using R on computing clusters. While the improvements to core R were released under the GNU General Public License (GPL), REvolution provides support and services to customers of their commercial product and had considerable early success with life sciences and pharmaceutical companies. A year later the company opened an additional office in Seattle.
In 2009 REvolution Computing accepted nine million dollars in venture capital from Intel and North Bridge Venture Partners, a private equity firm. Intel had previously supported REvolution Computing with venture capital in 2008. A number of Intel employees also joined Revolution Analytics as employees or as advisors. Concurrently, the company changed their name to Revolution Analytics and invited Norman Nie, founder of SPSS, to serve as CEO. This change in management corresponded with a movement toward building a more complete set of software for commercial users; prior to 2009 Revolution had been focused on building parallel processing functionality into the then mostly single threaded R. David Rich replaced Norman Nie as CEO in February 2012.
High performance computing, big data and the shift to analytics
Unlike analytics products offered by SAS Institute, R does not natively handle datasets larger than main memory. In 2010 Revolution Analytics introduced ScaleR, a package for Revolution R Enterprise designed to handle big data through a high-performance disk-based data store called XDF (not related to IBM's Exte |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Lieberman | Henry Lieberman is an American computer scientist at the MIT CSAIL in the fields of programming languages, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. He received the 2018 ACM Impact Award Intelligent User Interaction for work on mining affect from text and has been applied to the problem of prevention of cyberbullying. He has been a principal research scientist at the Media Lab and Director of the Software Agents Research group.
Career
Dr. Lieberman was a research scientist from 1972-87 at the Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, working with influential computer scientists such as Seymour Papert and Carl Hewitt. His early contributions to computer science includes work on the programming language Logo, as well as the first attempt at using bitmap and color graphics in programming languages. Some of his contributions include prototype object systems, the concept of delegation, and the first real-time garbage collection algorithms in programming languages. His recent work at the MIT Media Lab has centered around the field of commonsense reasoning for user interaction as well as programming by examples. He has edited or co-edited three books, including End-User Development (Springer, 2006), Spinning the Semantic Web (MIT Press, 2004), and Your Wish is My Command: Programming by Example (Morgan Kaufmann, 2001). His book, 'Why Can't We All Just Get Along', focuses on the use of game theory to show cooperation pays off more than competition.
Education
Dr. Lieberman has a bachelor's degree from MIT in mathematics (Course 18) and a doctoral-equivalent degree (Habilitation) from the University of Paris VI and was a Visiting Professor there in 1989-90.
Selected works
Henry Lieberman and Carl E. Hewitt (1983). A Real-Time Garbage Collector Based on the Lifetimes of Objects Communications of the ACM, 26(6).
Dieter Fensel, James Hendler, Henry Lieberman, and Wolfgang Wahlster (Eds.), Spinning the Semantic Web, MIT Press, 2003, http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?sid=8A85C440-EC5D-4FFB-995E-6EB7672BFB07&ttype=2&tid=9182.
References
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Home page
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineta%20Systems | Infineta Systems was a company that made WAN optimization products for high performance, latency-sensitive network applications. The company advertised that it allowed application data rate to exceed the nominal data rate of the link. Infineta Systems ceased operations by February 2013, a liquidator was appointed, and its products will no longer be manufactured, sold or distributed.
Riverbed Technology purchased some of Infineta's assets from the liquidator.
Company
Infineta was founded in 2008 by Raj Kanaya, the CEO, and K.V.S. Ramarao, the CTO. Ramarao concluded the computational resources, especially I/O operations and CPU cycles, associated with data compression technologies would ultimately limit their scalability. He and Kanaya determined founded Infineta to develop algorithms and hardware. The company had six patents pending.
Infineta was headquartered in San Jose, California and attracted $30 million in two rounds of venture funding from Alloy Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners, and Rembrandt Venture Partners.
Products
Infineta announced its Data Mobility Switch in June 2011. The DMS was the first WAN optimization technology to work at throughput rates of 10 Gbit/s. Infineta designed the product in FPGA hardware around a multi-Gigabit switch fabric to minimize latency.
The DMS used compression similar to data deduplication.
The product was designed to addresses the long-standing issue of TCP performance on long fat networks, so even unreduced data can achieve throughputs equivalent to the WAN bandwidth. To illustrate what this means, take the example of transferring a 2.5 GBytes (20 billion bits) file from New York to Chicago (15 ms latency, 30 ms round-trip time ) over a 1 Gbit/s link. With standard TCP, which uses a 64 KB window size, the file transfer would take about 20 minutes. The theoretical maximum throughput is 1 Gbit/s, or about 20 seconds. The DMS performs the transfer in 19.5 to 21 seconds.
See also
Data migration
WAN optimization
Network latency
Network congestion
References
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2013 disestablishments in California
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Computer companies disestablished in 2013
Computer storage companies
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Defunct computer hardware companies
Defunct networking companies
WAN optimization |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackbird%20%28online%20platform%29 | Blackbird was the codename for an online content authoring platform developed by Microsoft in the mid-90s. Intended to be the online publishing tool for the first version of MSN (The Microsoft Network), "Blackbird" was born of a Microsoft acquisition of Daily Planet Software, and the tool was first conceived prior to the advent of the Internet and Web as we know it today. At the time, AOL and CompuServe were the primary online venues, and the introduction of the Web to mass consumers was about to begin, even as low-bandwidth, dialup connections dominated. "Blackbird" was based on the concept of an object-based backend file system in Microsoft Data Centers (Microsoft "Cairo"/NT), a low-bandwidth-streaming rendering client with page-based layout (similar to Aldus PageMaker but based on online streaming) and embedded interactive client-side ActiveX objects (then OLE). Fundamentally, it was based on the SGML standard (the direct ancestor of HTML) for client-side layout. It became a Microsoft-promoted alternative to HTML for a brief time, just as the commercial Internet and Web Browser were born. But with scripting capability for HTML yet to be demonstrated, it was to be a means to serve dynamic, media-rich applications and documents that contained processing logic, similar to what a user would experience in a desktop environment. Pages in a "Blackbird application" would be able to contain video, audio, graphs, and other OLE based document formats without the need of plug-ins.
The technology had already been demonstrated in Microsoft's dial-up service at the time, MSN, and plans were in progress to port it to Internet use over a dedicated protocol, but work on the platform was cancelled due to the overwhelming move to the HTML/WWW/Internet standards commercialized and consuming the computing world, for example by Netscape at the time, and the need for backend, server-side scripting technologies which were lacking. Performance problems also plagued the pre-releases under beta testing.
In 1995, Microsoft hence refocused its efforts for online development around the Web/HTML standards, including ASP and ActiveX, and the "Blackbird" designer was refashioned into Visual InterDev. As such, the technology, integrated into the first version of Visual Studio (VS 97) as its now Web-standards based core and trademarked as "Microsoft Visual Studio" is an ancestor to one of the leading Web development tools dating from the commercial birth of the Web, to today.
Prior to this, the codename was derived from a Cold War era stealth spy plane, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird.
Core technology
The centerpiece of Blackbird was OLE, the container format already in use in Windows applications to allow objects and documents to communicate with each other and share information. Blackbird documents would be stored in what was called Blackbird Data Format (BDF), a structured format based on OLE storage. An SGML-based markup language, Blackbird Markup Language (BML), was also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Broadcasting%20System | Northern Broadcasting System was started in 1975 by Conrad Burns (who later became a United States Senator from Montana) as an agricultural broadcast network called the Northern Agricultural Network. Burns created the network after seeing an opportunity to provide information to the agri-business community, Montana's top industry. The network had four stations at its inception and grew in size. In 1986, Burns sold the network to enter Montana politics.
Under the guidance of the network's new President/CEO Taylor Brown, the network grew to cover parts of eight states in the Northwestern United States and Canada.
Northern Broadcasting is a blanket organization which includes the Northern News Network, the Northern Sports Network, and the Northern Ag Network. In addition to the radio stations on the networks, thirteen television stations also air farm and ranch news across Montana, Wyoming and the western Dakotas.
Programs Produced
The network produces eight full length newscasts per day anchored by News Director Brian Bennett. In addition, the network has several complete broadcast weather forecasts in the Northern region with weather from meteorologist Ed McIntosh. The four-minute forecasts include extensive agricultural information as well as general weather news. The network entered a program to help alert Montana residents to severe weather.
The Voices Of Montana is the only live, full hour, daily statewide radio talk show in Montana. Politicians, businessmen, state organizations, and citizens are invited to appear on the program. The show is hosted by host Jon Arneson.
Awards
Northern Broadcasting has won a number of awards and been involved in philanthropic and charitable organizations in Montana. The National Association of Agricultural Educators recognized at a national level, the work done by Taylor Brown and Northern Broadcasting. Brown is a former president of the National Association of Farm Broadcasters. In 2010 Brown was named to the National Farm Broadcasters Hall Of Fame. Northern Ag's Farm Director Russell Nemetz is Chairman of the Montana Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative in 2011.
Network Coverage
Northern Broadcasting has affiliated stations carrying their programming in several Montana cities. The network is also heard in cities in neighboring states including North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming.
References
External links
NorthernBroadcasting.com
NorthernAg.net
NorthernAgClassifieds.com
Agricultural radio networks
American radio networks
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio production companies
1975 establishments in Montana |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%20West%20Telephone | Oxford West Telephone Company is a local telephone company in Maine and is owned by Maine-based Oxford Networks. The company was founded in 1994 upon Oxford's purchase of Contel of Maine's Oxford County exchanges from GTE.
The company absorbed the operations of Bryant Pond Telephone Co., which had been established in 1974, and adopted a trade name of the former company to reflect the merger.
The company provides local telephone services to cities such as Bryant Pond and Andover.
References
Communications in Maine
1994 establishments in Maine
Companies based in Oxford County, Maine
Telecommunications companies established in 1994
Telecommunications companies of the United States
American companies established in 1994 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%20Centre%20for%20Supercomputing | The Gauss Centre for Supercomputing (GCS) combines the three national supercomputing centres HLRS (High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart), JSC (Jülich Supercomputing Centre), and LRZ (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, Garching near Munich) into Germany’s Tier-0 supercomputing institution. Each GCS member centre host supercomputers well beyond the 10 Petaflops performance mark. Concertedly, the three centres provide the largest and most powerful supercomputing infrastructure in all of Europe to serve a wide range of industrial and research activities in various disciplines. They also provide top-class training and education for the national as well as the European High Performance Computing (HPC) community.
GCS is the German member of PRACE (Partnership for Advance Computing in Europe), an international non-profit association consisting of 25 member countries, whose representative organizations create a pan-European supercomputing infrastructure, providing access to computing and data management resources and services for large-scale scientific and engineering applications at the highest performance level.
GCS is jointly funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the federal states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia.
GCS has its headquarters in Berlin, Germany.
See also
TOP500
Supercomputing in Europe
eScience
References
External links
Official website
Research institutes in Berlin
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Strange%20World%20of%20Gurney%20Slade | The Strange World of Gurney Slade is a surreal six-part British television comedy series devised by Anthony Newley and made by ATV, first transmitted by the ITV network between 22 October and 26 November 1960. Newley devised the central concept of the show, whereas the series was written in its entirety by Sid Green and Dick Hills.
Plot
The series follows the character of Gurney Slade, played by Newley, through a series of mundane environments with fantastical elements. Slade is the only continuing character, and is often heard in voice-over expressing his thoughts. Though we learn much about the character's inner life, we learn very little of Gurney Slade's history or background. He appears to be a character in a typical family-oriented TV show who abruptly tires of the artificial environment he's apparently trapped in; the first episode opens with Slade breaking the fourth wall of a television sitcom and leaving the set, to the protestations of its director.
Slade spends the rest of the series simply wandering from one (generally sparse) environment to another, ruminating on life in an often free-associative way. During his wanderings, he sometimes encounters a range of odd people (and at least one talking dog), all of which may be entirely creations of his own imagination. In episode four, Slade is put on trial for being a TV character who wasn't funny in the first three episodes. Other episodes introduce other meta-fictional elements into the proceedings. The series concludes with a final episode in which Slade, in a TV studio, appears to be little more than a machine-like performer whose every move is controlled by outside forces.
Cast
Anthony Newley as Gurney Slade
Edwin Richfield as Husband
Douglas Wilmer as Prosecuting Counsel
Charles Lloyd Pack as Tinker
Una Stubbs as Girl in Park
John Bennett as Napoleon Bonaparte
Anneke Wills as Girl on Airfield
Bernie Winters as Albert
Hugh Paddick as Fairy (episode 2)
Graham Stark as Fairy (episode 6)
Production
Development
Prior success as a pop vocalist led Anthony Newley to be offered the opportunity, and a free hand, to create a six-part comedy series for ITV in collaboration with scriptwriters Dick Hills and Sid Green. Unusually for a comedy show on British television, the series was shot entirely on 35mm film; the first three episodes (bar the opening scene of the series) were shot on location, while the rest of the series was studio-bound.
Newley explained at the time: "There is no rhyme or reason for what I do, I merely take life and turn it upside down. We hope to achieve humour without setting out to be deliberately funny." The surrealism of the series was considerably ahead of its time for a 1960 television comedy. In a New Musical Express (NME) interview during 1973, David Bowie described the series as "tremendous", commenting that "there's a lot of Monty Python in there - left-handed screws and right-handed screws".
Title
The name Gurney Slade is taken from the na |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinical%20data%20management | Clinical data management (CDM) is a critical process in clinical research, which leads to generation of high-quality, reliable, and statistically sound data from clinical trials. Clinical data management ensures collection, integration and availability of data at appropriate quality and cost. It also supports the conduct, management and analysis of studies across the spectrum of clinical research as defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ultimate goal of CDM is to ensure that conclusions drawn from research are well supported by the data. Achieving this goal protects public health and increases confidence in marketed therapeutics.
Role of the clinical data manager in a clinical trial
Job profile acceptable in CDM: clinical researcher, clinical research associate, clinical research coordinator etc.
The clinical data manager plays a key role in the setup and conduct of a clinical trial. The data collected during a clinical trial form the basis of subsequent safety and efficacy analysis which in turn drive decision making on product development in the pharmaceutical industry. The clinical data manager is involved in early discussions about data collection options and then oversees development of data collection tools based on the clinical trial protocol. Once subject enrollment begins, the data manager ensures that data are collected, validated, complete, and consistent. The clinical data manager liaises with other data providers (e.g. a central laboratory processing blood samples collected) and ensures that such data are transmitted securely and are consistent with other data collected in the clinical trial. At the completion of the clinical trial, the clinical data manager ensures that all data expected to be captured have been accounted for and that all data management activities are complete. At this stage, the data are declared final (terminology varies, but common descriptions are "Database Lock", “Data Lock” and "Database Freeze"), and the clinical data manager transfers data for statistical analysis.
Pre-Requisites
Standard operating procedures
Standard operating procedures (SOPs) describe the process to be followed in conducting data management activities and support the obligation to follow applicable laws and guidelines (e.g. ICH GCP and 21CFR Part 11) in the conduct of data management activities.
Data management plan
The data management plan describes the activities to be conducted in the course of processing data. Key topics to cover include the SOPs to be followed, the clinical data management system (CDMS) to be used, description of data sources, data handling processes, data transfer formats and process, and quality control procedure
Case report form design
The case report form (CRF) is the data collection tool for the clinical trial and can be paper or electronic. Paper CRFs will be printed, often using No Carbon Required paper, and shipped to the investigative sites conducting the clinical trial for co |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damages%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of the legal drama series Damages premiered on the Audience Network, an entertainment channel owned by DirecTV, on July 13, 2011 and concluded on September 14, 2011. The season featured 10 episodes, bringing the series total to 49. The fourth season was released on DVD in region 1 on June 26, 2012.
The fourth season takes place three years after the Tobin case. Ellen has moved on with her life. Now an attorney working for another NYC firm, she's content with her cases and colleagues. Deep down, however, she wants a bigger challenge. When she discovers an old high-school boyfriend has been through a traumatic experience while working for High Star, a private security firm hired by the U.S. government to carry out special missions in Afghanistan, she suspects foul play and asks Patty for help. Patty knows that trying a case against High Star can make Ellen's career. Or ruin it. The plot was inspired by recent events and controversies surrounding Blackwater Security Consulting.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Glenn Close as Patty Hewes (10 episodes)
Rose Byrne as Ellen Parsons (10 episodes)
Dylan Baker as Jerry Boorman (10 episodes)
John Goodman as Howard T. Erickson (10 episodes)
Recurring cast
Episodes
Production
For its first three seasons, Damages aired on the FX Network, but the series' ratings continued to decline, with the third season finale, "The Next One's Gonna Go In Your Throat", managing to gain only a 0.2/0 ratings share amongst adults 18-49 and fewer than a million viewers. FX announced on April 4, 2010 that they would not be renewing Damages for a fourth season, though by that time rumors of the series being picked up by DirecTV had already begun to circulate. These rumors continued making the rounds until July 19, 2010 when DirecTV announced that it had officially picked up the series for a fourth and fifth season, each consisting of ten episodes. "We didn't say, 'Let's go rescue shows. We said, 'Let's go find quality programming that's going to resonate with our audience,'" said Derek Chang, an executive Vice President at DirecTV. "FX was very proud to have developed one of the best scripted series on television, but, in order to have a future, the show needed DirecTV and we are thrilled they stepped in," said John Landgraf, President and General Manager at FX.
As with previous seasons, season four is executive produced by creators Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler and Daniel Zelman. Mark A. Baker serves as a co-executive producer, Lori Jo Nemhouser as producer and Mark Fish is a co-producer. Production began in New York City in January 2011.
Reception
Awards and nominations
The season earned a Critics' Choice Television Award nomination for Dylan Baker as Best Guest Performer in a Drama Series, and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Glenn Close for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series.
Critical reviews
The fourth season of Damages was met with mostly high praise, and it earne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20decision-making%20software | Collaborative decision-making (CDM) software is a software application or module that helps to coordinate and disseminate data and reach consensus among work groups.
CDM software coordinates the functions and features required to arrive at timely collective decisions, enabling all relevant stakeholders to participate in the process.
The selection of communication tools is very important for high end collaborative efforts. Online collaboration tools are very different from one another, some use older forms of Internet-based Managing and working in virtual teams is not any task but it is being done for decades now. The most important factor for any virtual team is decision making. All the virtual teams have to discuss, analyze and find solutions to problems through continuous brain storming session collectively. An emerging enhancement in the integration of social networking and business intelligence (BI), has drastically improvised the decision making by directly linking the information on BI systems with collectively gathered inputs from social software.
Nowadays all the organizations are dependent on business intelligence (BI) tools so that their employers can make better decisions based on the processed information in tools. The application of social software in business intelligence (BI) to the decision-making process provides a significant opportunity to tie information directly to the decisions made throughout the company.
History
Technology scientists and researchers have worked and explored automated decision Support Systems (DSS) for around 40 years. The research initiated with building model-driven DSS in the late 1960s. Advanced with usage of financial related planning systems, spreadsheet-based decision Support Systems and group decision support systems (GDSS) started in the early and mid-1980s. Data warehouses, managerial Information Systems, online analytical processing (OLAP) and business Intelligence emerged in late 1980s and mid-1990s and around same time the knowledge driven DSS and the usage of web-based DSS were evolving significantly. The field of automated decision support is emerging to utilize new advancements and create new applications.
In the 1960s, scientists deliberately started examining the utilization of automated quantitative models to help with basic decision making and planning. Automated decision support systems have become more of real time scenarios with the advancement of minicomputers, timeshare working frameworks and distributed computing. The historical backdrop of the execution of such frameworks starts in the mid-1960s. In a technology field as assorted as DSS, chronicling history is neither slick nor direct. Diverse individuals see the field of decision Support Systems from different vantage focuses and report distinctive records of what happened and what was important. As technology emerged new automated decision support applications were created and worked upon. Scientists utilized multiple fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20System%20of%20Cooperative%20Research%20Networks%20in%20Agriculture | The European System of Cooperative Research Networks in Agriculture (ESCORENA) is a web-based networking and knowledge sharing platform for people around the world. ESCORENA Network is a European initiative which asserts the use of information and communication technology to further the goals of agriculture and food security as well as safety. ESCORENA acts as a neutral platform where members from various parts of the world can participate.
ESCORENA was established in 1974 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and European research institutions.
ESCORENA consists of nineteen (19) thematic Networks namely Apricot Network, Buffalo Network, CENTAUR Biomedical Technology, Epidemiology and Food Safety Network, Cotton Network, Farm Animal Welfare (FAW) Network, Flax and other Bast Plants Network, Museum Network, Network of Aquaculture Centres in Central and Eastern Europe (NACEE), Network on Capacity Development in Nutrition (NCDN), Network on Nuts, Olives Network, Organic Edunet, Pastures Network, Rice Network, Sheep & Goats Network, Sunflower Network, Agromarketing Network, Rye Network, in addition to the inter-disciplinary networks namely Sustainable Rural Energy Network (SREN) and Recycling of Agricultural, Municipal and Industrial Residues in Agriculture Network (RAMIRAN). ESCORENA Networks conduct regular technical meetings, workshops and trainings for its members and participants. ESCORENA regularly publishes research results, proceedings and special studies in scientific journals and bulletins. The most recent Scientific Bulletin of ESCORENA has been published by Aurel Vlaicu, University of Arad, Romania.
References
External links
ESCORENA official site
Agriculture in Europe
Food and Agriculture Organization
Organic farming organizations
Agricultural organizations based in Europe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20Clear%20Video | Intel Clear Video is a semiconductor intellectual property core which implements some steps of some video decompression algorithms. The scope is to calculate these on the SIP core rather than on the CPU. Intel Clear Video is paired with integrated graphics processors branded as Intel GMA.
Intel Clear Video HD is a set of post-processing features added to Intel Clear Video.
See also
Intel Quick Sync Video – the successor of semiconductor intellectual property core to Intel Clear Video found on newer CPUs
Nvidia PureVideo
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Coding Engine (VCE)
References
External links
Intel Clear Video Technology archived on Wayback Machine
Intel Clear Video HD Technology archived on Wayback Machine
Clear Video
Video acceleration |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High%20Performance%20Computing%20Center%2C%20Stuttgart | The High Performance Computing Center (HLRS) in Stuttgart, Germany, is a research institute and a supercomputer center. HLRS has currently a flagship installation of a HPE Apollo 9000 system called Hawk 26 PFLOPS peak performance replacing the Cray XC40 system called Hazel Hen, providing ~7,4 PFLOPS peak performance. Additional systems include NEC clusters (NEC SX-ACE systems for testing, NEC Vulcan + Vulcan2 for non-critical computing) and Cray CS-Storm cluster.
Known historical configurations:
1996 - Cray T3E / 512 + NEC SX-4
2000 - Hitachi SR-8000 + NEC SX-5 / 32M2
2003 - ? (Opteron/Xeon cluster) + NEC SX-6
2005 - NEC SX-8
2008 - IBM BW-Grid + NEC SX-9
2009 - Cray XT5M
2010 - Cray XE6 "Hermit"
2014 - Cray XC40 "Hornet"
2019 - Cray CS-Storm
2020 - HPE Apollo 9000 "Hawk" + NEC (Vulcan + Vulcan2 + NEC SX-ACE).
See also
TOP500
Supercomputing in Europe
References
External links
Official website
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Chieti | The Chieti trolleybus system () forms part of the public transport network of the city and comune of Chieti, in the region of Abruzzo, central Italy. In operation since 2009, the system comprises one urban route.
From 1950 to 1992, Chieti was served by an earlier manifestation of the same trolleybus route. Currently, 17 Italian cities or metropolitan areas have trolleybus systems, counting four where the system is a new one under construction, and of all of these, Chieti is the smallest in population. By the early 1980s, it was already the smallest Italian city to retain trolleybus service (with Carrara second).
History
The original Chieti trolleybus system was inaugurated on 16 July 1950, in place of an obsolete tramway that had been in operation since 1905. The system's single line connected Chieti railway station (stazione FS), located in the valley of the Pescara River (in the large suburb of Chieti Scalo), with the city centre, situated on a hill.
The line's route was Madonna delle Piane - stazione FS - centro città - Sant'Anna, with an especially steep and very tortuous path between the station and the city centre.
The original line offered an excellent service for decades. However, the necessary funds to update its technology were lacking (except for the renewal of the trolleybus fleet in the mid-1980s). Thus, in 1992, due to the poor condition of the overhead wires, it was deemed necessary to suspend the service until such time as a thorough repair or complete reconstruction could be undertaken. The reconstruction work, originally expected to take place within just a few years, was delayed by lack of funding and did not finally begin until 2002, then dragged on for several more years, with many breaks. The service was finally reactivated on 26 September 2009. New substations installed as part of the reconstruction work increased the overhead line voltage from 600 V to 750 V.
Current services
Line 1 is currently operated as the route Colle dell'Ara (Hospital & University campus) - Piazzale dei Martiri Pennesi (Madonna delle Piane) - railway station (in Chieti Scalo) - city centre - Sant'Anna, with a limited number of trolleybuses, operating on their own only in the morning; in the afternoons and during holidays, the trolleybuses are supplemented with diesel powered buses.
Trolleybus fleet
Retired trolleybuses
The following trolleybuses were used on Chieti's first trolleybus system:
Fiat 668F: Chieti's original fleet of these trolleybuses was supplemented in the 1960s by the acquisition of four more from the Genoa trolleybus system.
Menarini 201 FLU (nos. 212–221): replaced the Fiat 668Fs in late 1985 or early 1986.
Current fleet
Chieti's present trolleybus fleet is made up of only the following:
Menarini 201 FLU (nos. 212–221): seven of the ten trolleybuses acquired in 1985 have been completely refurbished and given a two-tone yellow-green livery: Nos. 212, 213, 215, 217, 219, 220 and 221. The remaining 3 were scrapped a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivers%20of%20Tasmania | This page discusses the rivers and hydrography of the state of Tasmania, Australia.
In the geography of Tasmania, the state is covered with a network of rivers and lake systems. As an island, all rivers eventually empty into the waters that surround Tasmania. There are four main river systems:
In the south, the Derwent flows from the Central Highlands past Hobart, to the sea at Storm Bay;
In the west, the Gordon River takes the waters of Lake Gordon and Lake Pedder and is joined by the Franklin River before flowing into Macquarie Harbour;
Flowing eastwards and to the south, the Huon River has its headwaters at Scotts Peak Dam on Lake Pedder, and reaches the sea in D'Entrecasteaux Channel; and
Flowing from the north-east, the South Esk, the state's longest river, joins the North Esk at Launceston to create the Tamar.
Compared to the rest of Australia, Tasmania has a very high proportion of wild or undisturbed rivers.
Catchment areas
Major catchments of Tasmania are linked to the major rivers, the most notable being the Derwent. Catchments by region are:
South west region
Gordon River
West coast region
Arthur River
Pieman River
Major rivers
The following rivers are the longest river systems, by length.
River topography
Rivers that flow towards the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean
D'Entrecasteaux (Derwent) sub-catchment
Tasman Sea
D'Entrecasteaux Channel
North West Bay
Browns
Derwent
Hobart
Jordan
Lachlan
Plenty
Puzzle
Back
Styx
Styx (South)
Tyenna
Humboldt
Clyde
Jones
Ouse
Shannon
James
Dee
Broad
Davis
Repluse
Florentine
Florentine (Little)
Nive
Clarence
Pine
Pine (Little)
Little
Counsel
Navarre
Navarre (Little)
Travellers Rest
Narcissus
Cuvier
D'Entrecasteaux (Huon) sub-catchment
Tasman Sea
D'Entrecasteaux Channel
Carlton
Huon
Crookes Rivulet
Kermandie
Mountain
Little Denison
Russell
Arve
Weld
Snake
Picton
Roberts
Cracroft
Cracroft (South)
Anne
Ringarooma
Wyniford
Weld
Frome
Cascade
Dorset
New
Maurice
Maurice (South)
Rivers with no defined sub-catchment
Tasman Sea
Ansons
Last
Apsley
Buxton
Catamaran
Coal
D'Entrecasteaux
Douglas
Esperance
George
Groom
Ransom
George (North)
George (South)
Lune
Meredith
North West Bay
Prosser
Sand
Back
Bluff
Scamander
Avenue
Snug
Stony
Swan
Wye
Cygnet
Brushy
Swan (West)
Swanport (Little)
Welcome
Harcus
Rivers that flow towards the Southern Ocean
GordonFranklin sub-catchment
Southern Ocean
Gordon
Spence
Franklin
Jane
Acheron
Andrew
Wright
Looker
Loddon
Adelaide
Loddon (South)
Lucan
Collingwood
Patons
Balaclava
Inkerman
Alma
Surprise
Sprent
Percy
Olga
Denison
Maxwell
Firths
Smith
Orange
Albert
Serpentine
Adams
Holley
Pokana
Wedge
Boyd
Boyes
Gell
Pieman River sub-catchment
Southern Ocean
Pieman
Donaldson
Toner
Donaldson (Little)
Whyte
Heazlewood
Rocky
Castray
Savage
Savage (Little)
Owen Meredith
Paradise
Heemskirk
Stanley
Huskisson
Ramsay
Que
Bulgobac
Coldstream
Hatfield
Stitt
Wilson
Alfred
Harman
Wilson (Little)
Ring
Marionoak
Murchison
Anthony
Bluff
Achilles
Wallace
Mackintosh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too%20Something | Too Something (also known as New York Daze) is an American sitcom that aired Sunday at 8:30 on the Fox network in October 1995 and again from May 26 to June 30, 1996.
Premise
The show centered on Eric McDougal, a would-be author, and Donny Reeves, a photographer, who were roommates in Manhattan.
Contest to rename series
The producers ran a contest to rename the series, but it went on hiatus before the show could be renamed. When the series returned in May 1996 its new title was New York Daze and it was introduced by Jeri Dobson of Greensboro, North Carolina who had won the contest, including a trip to Hollywood.
Cast
Eric Schaeffer as Eric McDougal
Donal Lardner Ward as Donny Reeves
Portia de Rossi as Maria Hunter
Lisa Gerstein as Evelyn
Larry Poindexter as Henry
Mindy Seeger as Daisy
Episodes
References
External links
1995 American television series debuts
1996 American television series endings
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Television shows set in New York City
1990s American sitcoms |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierluigi%20Crescenzi | Pierluigi Crescenzi (a.k.a. Pilu Crescenzi) is a full professor of computer science at the Gran Sasso Science Institute. His research areas include theoretical computer science and computer science education. He has been teaching at Sapienza University of Rome, University of Florence and Université Paris Diderot.
Crescenzi has completed his PhD in Computer Science under the supervision of Daniel Pierre Bovet. He is the co-author of several textbooks in various areas of computer science, including computational complexity, approximation algorithms, and programming. Among his notable students, there is Luca Trevisan.
References
External links
Crescenzi's home page
Italian computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20and%20Technology%20Computing%20Center%20%28France%29 | The Research and Technology Computing Center (Centre de calcul recherche et technologie, CCRT) is a supercomputing center in Île-de-France.
The center started operation in 2003 and is part of the CEA scientific computing complex in Bruyères-le-Châtel. It operates the Tera 100 machine, as of July 2011 the fastest supercomputer in Europe with a peak of 1.25 petaFLOPs.
See also
TOP500
National Computer Center for Higher Education (France)
Supercomputing in Europe
References
External links
Official website
Supercomputer sites
Supercomputers
Science and technology in France
2003 establishments in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinner%20Party%20Wars | Dinner Party Wars is a series that airs on Food Network Canada that is produced by Cineflix. Dinner Party Wars is a three-night, high-stakes dining challenge that dares couples to be the best by any means possible. From setting the menu and the table, to the cooking, conversation, and all the kitchen crises, hidden cameras capture every detail for viewers. The show is narrated by Garnet Williams, while two expert judges, Chef Corbin Tomaszeski and Anthea Turner, watch every move from a distance and determine the winner from the comfort of their curbside studio.
Host Information
Corbin Tomaszeski
Top Canadian chef Corbin has served as the executive chef at Holts Cafe in Toronto. Now, he is the executive chef at Toronto, Ontario's unique and chic restaurant c5, and also manages the fashion retailers’ catering and food hall business at their flagship store in Toronto. Chef Corbin made his TV debut in Crash My Kitchen (Food Network) and is a regular on Restaurant Makeover (HGTV/Food Network).
Anthea Turner
Anthea Turner is a TV presenter from Britain.
Episodic Information
Season 1
Episode 1: The Bold & Brash
Episode 2: Duck, Duck, Swan
Episode 3: Whine and Cheese
Episode 4: Cats & Hammered
Episode 5:Smoking Guinea Pig
Episode 6: It’s ALIVE
Episode 7: Opa!
Episode 8: The Kids’ Table
Episode 9: Belly Flop
Episode 10: Undress for Dinner
Episode 11: If You Can’t Take the Heat...
Episode 12: Big City Battle
Episode 13: The Last Night
Season 2
Episode 14: Chicken Bingo
Episode 15: Truth or Dairy
Episode 16: Hungary for Love
Episode 17: Fast Cars, Raw Flesh
Episode 18: Gnocchi Knockdown
Episode 19: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?
Episode 20: Jamaica Me Hungry
Episode 21: Photo Finish
Episode 22: It’s A Family Affair
Episode 23: High on the Hog
Episode 24: A Bird in the Hand
Episode 25: A Pizza the Action
Episode 26: Indecent Proposal
References
External links
Cineflix.com
Dinner Party Wars on FoodNetwork.ca
2010s Canadian reality television series
Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming
2010 Canadian television series debuts
2013 Canadian television series endings
Cooking competitions in Canada
My Kitchen Rules
Non-Australian television series based on Australian television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20OS | An Internet operating system, or Internet OS, is any type of operating system designed to run all of its applications and services through an Internet client, generally a web browser. The advantages of such an OS would be that it would run on a thin client, allowing cheaper, more easily manageable computer systems; it would require all applications to be designed on cross-platform, open standards; and would not tie a user's applications, documents, and preferences to a single computer, but rather place them in the Internet cloud. The Internet OS has also been promoted as the perfect type of platform for software as a service.
History
Talk of an Internet OS began to surface in 1995 as the browser war started heating up between Microsoft and Netscape.
In response to the limited capabilities of HTML at the time, Microsoft began developing an online content authoring platform that would be based on distributed OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) which it codenamed Blackbird. Using OLE, applications put on the web would contain their own processing logic, so would act similar to applications in a typical desktop environment. Immediately, there were concerns that this would tie the web to proprietary Microsoft technology that wouldn't be guaranteed to run across different systems.
As a challenge, Marc Andreessen of Netscape announced a set of new products that would help transform their browser into what he called an "Internet OS" that would provide the tools and programming interfaces for a new generation of Internet-based applications. The so-called "Internet OS" would still run on top of a regular OS – being based around Netscape Navigator – but he dismissed desktop operating systems like Windows as simply "bag[s] of drivers", reiterating that the goal would be to "turn Windows into a mundane collection of not entirely debugged device drivers".
Andreessen explained that the newest versions of Navigator were not just web browsers, but suites of Internet applications, including programs for mail, FTP, news, and more, and would come with viewers for a variety of document types, like Adobe Acrobat, Apple QuickTime, and Sun Java applets, which would give it programming interfaces and publishing tools for developers. Netscape also would continue to sell its server software, and Java applets would run cross-platform on both its clients and its servers, and as a scripting language in the form of JavaScript. They would also provide facilities for backend transaction processing, elaborating the client/server model with navigating clients and application servers and database servers. He pointed out – because of the broad capabilities that all of this gave their browser – the only difference technically between Netscape Navigator and a traditional operating system is that Navigator didn't include device drivers.
Technical problems with Blackbird, the growth of the web, and what they saw as competitive statements from Netscape, soon led Microsoft to rethink |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tm3 | tm3 was a German free-to-air television network. On 1 September 2001, it was rebranded as 9Live, which eventually closed down on 9 August 2011. TM3 was revived on 13 January 2019 replacing Family TV. On 31 March, Genius Family replaced Tm3.
TM3 launched as an original network on 25 August 1995 as a channel with programming focusing on women, fashion shows, & daily lifestyle. It had its headquarters in Munich.
Program
In October 1999, a request for the following thematic channels to the Bayerische Landeszentrale für neue Medien (Bavarian State Office for New Media) was approved:
tm3 - Life & living: Dream Garden
tm3 - Life & Living: Nice Ambient
tm3 - Life & Living: Enjoy Healthy
tm3 - Life & Living: Type Specific Style
tm3 - Sport
tm3 - Cinema fun
tm3 - The Before and After Show (with Gundis Zámbó)
tm3 – Lanotte; which was continued in 9Live
In the same year, the former "Women’s Channel" purchased the broadcasting rights for the UEFA Champions League, for DM 850 million, for four years, and broadcast live for one season before it was sold to RTL and Premiere in 2000.
Early 2001 was the start of tm3 travel show, urlaubsreif, which was renamed that same year to sonnenklar. Through the concept of this show, the channel sonnenklar.TV was founded in 2003. It was also broadcast on 9Live.
Restructuring
News Corporation took over the station between 1999 and 2000, and transformed it into the "Champions League Station". The interest diminished in 2001, and the station was taken over by H.O.T Networks GmbH and ProSiebenSat.1 Media.
As of April 23, 2001 tm3 launched, under the slogan "as real as life", an interactive live entertainment (13 hours a day), which paved the way for the developing 9Live station.
Audience share
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Television channels and stations disestablished in 2001
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spare%20Change%20Payments | Spare Change Payments was an online payments company specifically designed for conducting micro-payments inside games and applications on Facebook and other social networking sites. It is now owned by Visa, Inc.
The company was the first to offer a micro-payment solution for social networking application developers shortly after Facebook opened its Facebook Platform. It operated a virtual goods monetization platform that allowed users to deposit funds into a central Spare Change account that they could then spend across multiple games and applications on the social network, and was a precursor to Facebook Credits.
The company pioneered and evangelized the move for app developers away from advertising based monetization models toward micro-payment models and the sale of virtual goods. In March 2009, Spare Change was reported to be processing $30M of payments across 700 applications on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo and to have over 1M wallet accounts.
Company history
Spare Change Payments was founded in 2007 by Mark Rose, Simon Ru and Lex Bayer, with offices in Cupertino, California. In April 2009, the company was acquired by PlaySpan, which was subsequently acquired for $190M by Visa Inc, in February 2011. The staff and technology at Spare Change and PlaySpan was ultimately used to build out Visa Checkout. Visa designed Visa Checkout to be quick and tailor for mobile shopping experience. Like an online wallet, it only requires a username and password to check out once the user is registered. In September 2017, the technology patent "Method and system for authenticating online transactions" originally filed by the Spare Change founders was granted by US Patent Office.
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Financial services companies established in 2007
Online payments
Electronic funds transfer
Virtual economy
American companies established in 2007
Technology companies established in 2007
2009 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPC%20Europa | The HPC-Europa programmes are European Union (EU) funded research initiatives in the field of high-performance computing (HPC). The programmes concentrate on the development of a European Research Area, and in particular, improving the ability of European researchers to access the European supercomputing infrastructure provided by the programmes' partners. The programme is currently in its third iteration, known as "HPC-Europa3" or "HPCE3", and fully titled the "Transnational Access Programme for a Pan-European Network of HPC Research Infrastructures and Laboratories for scientific computing".
History
HPC-Europa1
The original HPC-Europa programme (HPC-Europa1), operated between 1 January 2004 and 31 December 2007 under the EU's sixth Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development, (FP6). The programme had the goals of improving trans-national access to high-performance computing infrastructure for European researchers by the funding of visitations, creating new methods for accessing the resources of grid computing systems, and devising new methods of measuring the performance of research programmes being undertaken on supercomputers.
The HPC-Europa1 programme had a budget of 14.2 million euros, of which approximately 13 million euros came from the EU budget. An initial tranche of funding of 1.6 million euros (of which 1.5 million was from the EU budget) was provided between 1 January 2008 and 31 December 2008.
HPC-Europa2
The second HPC-Europa programme (HPC-Europa2) operated between 1 January 2009 to 31 December 2012, under the seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Continuing on its goal of improving access to pan-European supercomputing infrastracutre, the programme also had the goals of developing programming models for HPC on Massively Parallel Architectures, to aid visiting researchers with the development and parallelization of their applications, and the development of data-grid tools for Scientific Data Services.
For the first time in the HPC-Europa programme "virtual visits" were offered as part of HPC-Europa2, in which researchers were able to remotely access the HPC facilities from their institutes. However, the final report on the programme reports low up take on this offer, speculating that this was not what researchers wanted from the HPC-Europa programme.
The budget for HPC-Europa2 was 13 million euros, of which 9.5 million euros came from the EU budget.
Current programme: HPC-Europa3
The current HPC-Europa programme, HPC-Europa3, is fully funded under the EU's eighth Framework Programme, better known as Horizon 2020, with a budget of 9.2 million euros.
Furthering its original goal of funding visitations of researchers to the 8 supercomputing facilities of the programme partners, HPC-Europa3 identified the Baltic and the Western Balkans as two regions to aid in improving the access of their researchers to European supercomputing infrastructure. The programme has also extended its aims to encouraging small and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%27s%20magnetic%20field | Mercury's magnetic field is approximately a magnetic dipole (meaning the field has only two magnetic poles) apparently global, on planet Mercury. Data from Mariner 10 led to its discovery in 1974; the spacecraft measured the field's strength as 1.1% that of Earth's magnetic field. The origin of the magnetic field can be explained by dynamo theory. The magnetic field is strong enough near the bow shock to slow the solar wind, which induces a magnetosphere.
Strength
The magnetic field is about 1.1% as strong as Earth's. At the Hermean equator, the relative strength of the magnetic field is around 300 nT, which is weaker than that of Jupiter's moon Ganymede. Mercury's magnetic field is weaker than Earth's because its core had cooled and solidified more quickly than Earth's. Although Mercury's magnetic field is much weaker than Earth's magnetic field, it is still strong enough to deflect the solar wind, inducing a magnetosphere. Because Mercury's magnetic field is weak while the interplanetary magnetic field it interacts with in its orbit is relatively strong, the solar wind dynamic pressure at Mercury's orbit is also three times larger than at Earth.
Whether the magnetic field changed to any significant degree between the Mariner 10 mission and the MESSENGER mission remains an open question. A 1988 J.E.P. Connerney and N.F. Ness review of the Mariner magnetic data noted eight different papers in which were offered no less than fifteen different mathematical models of the magnetic field derived from spherical harmonic analysis of the two close Mariner 10 flybys, with reported centered magnetic dipole moments ranging from 136 to 350 nT-RM3 (RM is a Mercury radius of 2436 km). In addition they pointed out that "estimates of the dipole obtained from bow shock and/or magnetopause positions (only) range from approximately 200 nT-RM3 (Russell 1977) to approximately 400 nT-RM3 (Slavin and Holzer 1979b)." They concluded that "the lack of agreement among models is due to fundamental limitations imposed by the spatial distribution of available observations." Anderson et al. 2011, using high-quality MESSENGER data from many orbits around Mercury – as opposed to just a few high-speed flybys – found that the dipole moment is 195 ± 10 nT-RM3.
Discovery
Before 1974, it was thought that Mercury could not generate a magnetic field because of its relatively small diameter and lack of an atmosphere. However, when Mariner 10 made a fly-by of Mercury (somewhere around April 1974), it detected a magnetic field that was about 1/100th the total magnitude of Earth's magnetic field. But these passes provided weak constraints on the magnitude of the intrinsic magnetic field, its orientation and its harmonic structure, in part because the coverage of the planetary field was poor and because of the lack of concurrent observations of the solar wind number density and velocity. Since the discovery, Mercury's magnetic field has received a great deal of attention, primarily |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShoppyBag | ShoppyBag was an Internet phishing scam that harvested personal information such as e-mail addresses.
The scam was presented as a social network dedicated to shopping. People who created a ShoppyBag user account were deceived into giving the service permission to access their Gmail contacts list. The members of that contact list then received e-mails from ShoppyBag which stated that the person who owns the contact list "tagged you with a photo". To view the alleged photograph, the recipients had to click on a hyperlink that led them to a web page on which they were required to create a user account of their own. If they did so, they gave the operators of the scam access to their own Gmail contacts list, and the scam was repeated with these persons.
As of September 2011, the "shoppybag.com" website read that "ShoppyBag ceased all operations on July 31st, 2011."
References
Email spammers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20cuspidata | C. cuspidata may refer to:
Castanopsis cuspidata , a tree species native to southern Japan and southern Korea
Cyathea cuspidata, a tree fern species native to Central and South America
See also
Cuspidata (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20cuspidata | T. cuspidata may refer to:
Taxus cuspidata, the Japanese yew or spreading yew, a tree species native to Japan, Korea, northeast China and the extreme southeast of Russia
Trypeta cuspidata, a fruit fly species
See also
Cuspidata (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC%20Artists%27%20Books%20Cooperative | ABC Artists’ Books Cooperative is an international network created by and for artists who make print-on-demand books. Founded in 2009 by German artist Joachim Schmid, the cooperative participates in book fairs and exhibitions predominantly in Europe and North America, and has been at the heart of a number of shows heralding a new age of photography and of artists' self-publishing projects.
ABC has gathered attention for its embracing of print-on-demand technology, an approach that runs counter to traditional offset printing and book publishing models in which artists can incur prohibitive costs.
Current members
Claudia de la Torre
Arnaud Desjardin
Oliver Griffin
George Grace Gibson
Mishka Henner
Jonathan Lewis
John Maclean
MacDonaldStrand
Micheál O'Connell / Mocksim
Monika Orpik
Louis Porter
Jonathan Schmidt-Ott
David Schulz
Travis Shaffer
Wil Van Iersel
Duncan Wooldridge
Rahel Zoller
Hermann Zschiegner
Past members include: Harvey Benge, Erik Benjamins, Julie Cook, Joshua Deaner, Deanna Dikeman, Eric Doeringer, Fred Free, Kate Glicksberg, Burkhard von Harder, Dawn Kim, Tanja Lazetic, EJ Major, Michael Maranda, Lydia Moyer, Heidi Neilson, Robert Pufleb, Joachim Schmid, Andreas Schmidt, Victor Sira, Paul Soulellis, Katya Stuke & Oliver Sieber, Andrea Stultiens, Elisabeth Tonnard, Corinne Vionnet, Mariken Wessels, Bruno Zhu
Exhibitions
The multi-volume, collaborative project ABCEUM was included in the 2014 Brighton Photo Biennial (October–November) at Circus Street Market, Brighton. ABC was one of five photography collectives represented.
ABCED, a collaborative work by ABC in honor of Ed Ruscha's 75th birthday, was included in the exhibition Ed Ruscha, Books & Co. at Gagosian Gallery, New York (March–April 2013).
In 2011, a number of artists from the cooperative participated in the From Here On exhibition, curated by ABC founder Joachim Schmid, Martin Parr, Erik Kessels, Joan Fontcuberta and Clément Chéroux at Rencontres d'Arles. Print-on-demand books by ABC members Mishka Henner, Hermann Zschiegner, Andreas Schmidt and Micheál O'Connell/Mocksim (who was not an ABC member at that time) were included. Books by Fred Free, Katja Stuke, Lydia Moyer, Jonathan Lewis, and Travis Shaffer were also on display in the Atelier de mécanique exhibition space.
The cooperative was included in a self-titled exhibition at Printed Matter in New York in June 2011. Over 80 titles were on view by ABC members Andrea Stultiens, Schmidt, Böhm/Kobayashi, Burkhard von Harder, David Schulz, Deanna Dikeman, EJ Major, Elisabeth Tonnard, Erik Benjamins, Fred Free, Harvey Benge, Hermann Zschiegner, Jean Keller, Joachim Schmid, Jochen Friedrich, Jonathan Lewis, Joshua Deaner, Julie Cook, Kate Glicksberg, Lydia Moyer, Mariken Wessels, Michael Maranda, Mishka Henner, Robert Pufleb, T. R. Ericsson, Travis Shaffer, Victor Sira, and Wil van Iersel.
Gallery
References
External links
ABC Artists' Books Cooperative
Artist cooperatives
Cooperatives in Germ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qoscos%20Grid | The QosCosGrid is a quasi-opportunistic supercomputing system using grid computing.
QosCosGrid acts as middleware resource management facilities which provide end-users with supercomputer-like performance by connecting many computing clusters together. By using QosCosGrid large-scale computing models in existing programming languages such as Fortran or C can be distributed among multiple computing resources.
See also
BOINC
References
External links
CORDIS
Supercomputing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGMUT | The BGMUT (Blood Group antigen gene MUTation) Database documents allelic variations in the genes encoding for human blood group systems. It was set up in 1999 through an initiative of the Human Genome Variation Society (HGVS). Since 2006, it has been a part of the dbRBC (database Red Blood Cells) resource of NCBI at the NIH. In addition to being a repository of the genetic variations of the blood group antigen-encoding genes, the database also provides information on the blood group systems, the genes that encode them, the serological phenotypes associated with the alleles of the genes, etc. Information on genetic variations in some non-human orthologous genes is also provided.
References
External links
Biological databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah%20Allen%20%28software%20developer%29 | Sarah Allen (born Sarah Lindsley) is an American software developer and entrepreneur. Allen attended Brown University in Rhode Island, where she majored in computer science and visual arts. Early in her career, she led the development of Adobe Shockwave Multiuser Server, Flash Media Server, and Flash video, and co-founded the company that created Adobe After Effects.
In 2013, Allen was selected for the Presidential Innovation Fellows program working with the Smithsonian Institution.
Companies
In 2010, Allen co-founded and serves as the chief technology officer of mobile startup Mightyverse. In parallel she is the founder of San Francisco-based Ruby on Rails consultancy Blazing Cloud, a product-centric mobile application consulting firm. In 2010, she co-authored the book Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development.
Representation of women
In the Silicon Valley community, Allen contributes her time to improving the representation of women in technology as the president of RailsBridge, which aims to "bridge the gap from aspiring developer to contributing open source community member through mentoring, teaching and writing".
Recognition
In 1998, Allen was named one of the Top 25 Women of the Web by San Francisco Women on the Web. Allen was honored on Ada Lovelace Day by the Bay Area Girl Geek Dinners in 2010 and participated in the mobile-themed Google Tech Talk at the company's headquarters in Mountain View. In 2013, Allen was chosen as a Presidential Innovation Fellow and worked for six months with the Smithsonian Institution.
Publications
"The Future of the Web is not the Past of Windows" W3C Position Paper: Workshop on Web Applications and Compound Documents. June 2004.
"Pro Smartphone Cross-Platform Development iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Android Development and Distribution" Sept 2010, Apress.
References
American women computer scientists
Brown University School of Engineering alumni
American software engineers
American computer scientists
21st-century American businesswomen
21st-century American businesspeople
21st-century American scientists
21st-century American women scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-opportunistic%20supercomputing | Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing is a computational paradigm for supercomputing on a large number of geographically disperse computers. Quasi-opportunistic supercomputing aims to provide a higher quality of service than opportunistic resource sharing.
The quasi-opportunistic approach coordinates computers which are often under different ownerships to achieve reliable and fault-tolerant high performance with more control than opportunistic computer grids in which computational resources are used whenever they may become available.
While the "opportunistic match-making" approach to task scheduling on computer grids is simpler in that it merely matches tasks to whatever resources may be available at a given time, demanding supercomputer applications such as weather simulations or computational fluid dynamics have remained out of reach, partly due to the barriers in reliable sub-assignment of a large number of tasks as well as the reliable availability of resources at a given time.
The quasi-opportunistic approach enables the execution of demanding applications within computer grids by establishing grid-wise resource allocation agreements; and fault tolerant message passing to abstractly shield against the failures of the underlying resources, thus maintaining some opportunism, while allowing a higher level of control.
Opportunistic supercomputing on grids
The general principle of grid computing is to use distributed computing resources from diverse administrative domains to solve a single task, by using resources as they become available. Traditionally, most grid systems have approached the task scheduling challenge by using an "opportunistic match-making" approach in which tasks are matched to whatever resources may be available at a given time.
BOINC, developed at the University of California, Berkeley is an example of a volunteer-based, opportunistic grid computing system. The applications based on the BOINC grid have reached multi-petaflop levels by using close to half a million computers connected on the internet, whenever volunteer resources become available. Another system, Folding@home, which is not based on BOINC, computes protein folding, has reached 8.8 petaflops by using clients that include GPU and PlayStation 3 systems. However, these results are not applicable to the TOP500 ratings because they do not run the general purpose Linpack benchmark.
A key strategy for grid computing is the use of middleware that partitions pieces of a program among the different computers on the network. Although general grid computing has had success in parallel task execution, demanding supercomputer applications such as weather simulations or computational fluid dynamics have remained out of reach, partly due to the barriers in reliable sub-assignment of a large number of tasks as well as the reliable availability of resources at a given time.
The opportunistic Internet PrimeNet Server supports GIMPS, one of the earliest grid computing projects |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer%20Iconia%20Tab%20A500 | The Acer Iconia A500 is a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Acer Inc. The A500 launched with the Android Honeycomb operating system which is now upgradable to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 (since April 2012). The tablet is also sold in almost identical form as the Packard Bell Liberty Tab G100.
Hardware
This tablet has a 5 MP and a 2 MP front camera for video calling. It is powered by 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 250 processor and 1024 MB DDR2 RAM. The A500 is sold with 64GB flash in certain countries although both 16GB and 32GB models are available.
The A500 was one of the first Android tablets to feature a full size USB port directly in the tablet, opposed to the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer that provides only one with the accessory keyboard dock. Since the latest version of Android Honeycomb (3.2) The device supports a much larger variety of USB devices including NTFS and linux partitions. Previously, the number of compatible devices was very limited, with only USB mice, keyboard and FAT32 formatted drives (NTFS and other file-systems were available through apps that depend upon rooting) being able to be used with the tablet.
Software
The tablet was offered with Android 3.0 upon release. Android 3.1 and 3.2 was made available later through over the air updates and Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update has since been made available (April 2012).
Root was possible using an app developed by sc2k and published at xda-developers. up to Android version 3.1 after which the vulnerability used was patched up by Acer, although by downgrading to one of these susceptible version of Android one can install ClockworkMod Recovery before installing a pre-rooted version of 3.2.1 or indeed Ice Cream Sandwich.
Some leaks of Android 4.0.3 from Acer were published on xda-developers over a series of months leading up to its April 2012 release.
As of now, there are a few ROMs that are built based on the leaks and many of them were updated numerous times to be based on the newer releases as they came through from Acer. Many of these, such as the popular 'Flexreaper' ROM are now based on actual OTA releases.
In April 2012 Acer released Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 which in some regions is identical to the 1.031.00 leak from March
This ICS Release is susceptible to Rooting solutions that date back to the original leaks – all of which utilise the 'mempodroid' exploit by saurik. Although the previous 'itsmagic' trick, also by sc2k, no longer works with the updated bootloader, one can utilise the device's APX Mode to install modified images, provided one is able to obtain their unique UID from the device and hence calculate their Secure Boot Key. As the installation of a patched bootloader permits the loading of any unsigned image, one can root the tablet using a combination of a patched bootloader and ClockworkMod Recovery, thus removing the necessity for a userland exploit.
Developers on the TegraOwners forum have produced community maintained and developed buil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krollitz%2C%20West%20Virginia | Krollitz is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Krollitz is west of Iaeger.
The town is on the Norfolk Southern Railway (former Norfolk and Western) network and the Tug Fork river.
References
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Unincorporated communities in West Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Siena | James Siena (born October 28, 1957) is an American contemporary artist. His art is typically created through a series of self-imposed constraints also sometimes referred to as visual algorithms —rules Siena decides on before sitting down to work. In most of his work he establishes a basic unit and action and repeats it indefinitely. While originally recognized for his paintings using enamel paints on aluminum plates, Siena has also become known for his drawings, prints, typed works on paper using vintage typewriters, and sculpture. Sculptures have ranged from made with his own hands using common materials such as: toothpicks, bamboo skewers bound with string, and grape vines to his larger sculptures that have been realized in bronze and wood in partnership with the Walla Walla Foundry. He is based in New York City.
Early life and education
James Siena was born in Oceanside, California in 1957 but lived and grew up in Washington D.C. until the age of 12, when his family moved to California in 1969. He moved to New York in 1975 to attend Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) in 1979 from Cornell University.
Asked to name the teacher who most influenced him, Siena quickly cites Mary Croston, an after-school art instructor who taught him as a teenager. Croston treated her young students as “real” artists, says Siena, introducing them to such tools as charcoal and graphite and coaching them in figure drawing. “She just taught the basics; that was very influential,” he says of those classes in the “art hut” behind Croston's house in Stanford, California. Siena also remembers being “very moved” by the late Peter Kahn, who taught the history of techniques at Cornell. According to Siena, “He was a marvelous Renaissance man” who taught his students such skills as determining whether paper is archival quality and making ink out of toast crumbs and saliva.
When Siena opted to move to New York rather than attend graduate school after finishing his B.F.A. degree at Cornell University, he found plenty of mentors in the local art community. He was impressed by the “very independent, visionary spirit” of Alan Saret, who took him to the scrap yard and taught him about working with metal. Chuck Close helped him understand “very obvious stuff” like how to approach a relationship with a gallery (Close likened it to a “conversation”) and how to maximize earnings from day jobs to spend more time painting. Before being able to become an artist full-time Siena supported himself as a frame maker.
Prior to becoming an established and recognized visual artist, James Siena was known for his performance art, which included singing and rapping with his now ex-wife Iris Rose and Chazz Dean. Most notably he appeared on Cinemax's TV series Dangerous Film Club during the 1987 season of the show.
Early career
Siena started making abstract paintings with an aesthetic that sought inspiration from Artificial Intelligence (AI) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Cheetany | Ray Cheetany (born December 22, 1977 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a former American football Punter/Kicker and an Internet entrepreneur. He is best known for creating the sports social networking site called RawTeams.com in 2010.
Following being named 2nd Team All State Kicker at Linn-Mar High School in Marion, Iowa. Cheetany took his talents to Junior College sports powerhouse Iowa Central Community College in Fort Dodge, Iowa. The same Junior College that produced Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) Stars Jon Jones and Cain Velasquez. Cheetany became a 1st Team All American NJCAA kicker at Iowa Central Community College, Cheetany moved on to the UNLV Rebels where he played for NFL and NCAA Hall of Fame Coach John Robinson (American football coach). After red-shirting during the 1998 season, Cheetany assumed the punting and kickoff duties for the Rebels and became UNLV’s Special Teams Player of the Year in both 1999 and 2000. The attitude has made the 5-11, 180 pound punter/kicker a personal favorite of John Robinson. "Ray is a great competition-guy. He is a natural athlete. If his heart was in a tailback or quarterback, he'd be a Heisman (Trophy) candidate, "John Robinson told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. He was tabbed one of the nation's top 10 special teams players by Sports Illustrated as a junior. Cheetany was named 1st Team All-American Punter by Street & Smith's Magazine and Playboy Magazine. He was also recognized as the highest graded player at his position by National Football Scouting Inc. The UNLV Rebels finished 8-5 with a win over the Arkansas Razorbacks in the Las Vegas Bowl. After his senior year Cheetany signed a contract with the Tennessee Titans. Cheetany was part of the 2011 Iowa Central Community College Athletic Hall Of Fame.
References
Wallington, Mark "ray cheetany starts new-website rawteamscom", Rebel Nation, February 5, 2010
Leach, Robin "Strip Scribbles", Las Vegas Weekly, June 23, 2011
Guiremand, Steve "Rebels’ Cheetany signs contract with Titans" Las Vegas Sun, May 11, 2001
Marc Malkin and Brett Malec "Audrina Patridge Spotted with Ex at Las Vegas Nightclub " July 8, 2010
1977 births
American football punters
21st-century American businesspeople
Businesspeople in information technology
Living people
People from Marion, Iowa
Linn-Mar High School alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifeboat%20Associates | Lifeboat Associates was a New York City company that was one of the largest microcomputer software distributors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lifeboat acted as an independent software broker marketing software to major hardware vendors such as Xerox, HP and Altos. As such Lifeboat Associates was instrumental in the founding of Autodesk and also financed the creation of PC Magazine.
Overview
Lifeboat was founded in 1976 or 1977 by Larry Alkoff and Tony Gold. By mid-1981 the company had same-name affiliates in England, Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan and Oakland, California. PC Magazine in 1982 wrote that Lifeboat "has published and marketed more CP/M application programs on more 8-bit machines than anyone in the world", and in 1983 InfoWorld said that Lifeboat was the largest publisher of microcomputer software in the world.
Lifeboat Associates successfully combined many roles, including publisher and distributor, and actively solicited authors for software products that met its standards.
The company distributed T/Maker (written by Peter Roizen), one of the first spreadsheet programs designed for the personal computer user, which went a step beyond the similar VisiCalc program by offering text-processing capability, and The Boss Financial Accounting System (written by John Burns), a $2495 package for CP/M users. It was one of the first accounting programs for micro-computers. In addition Lifeboat Associates started collecting and distributing user-written "free" software, initially for the CP/M operating system. One of the first was XMODEM, which allowed reliable communication via modem and phone line.
In June 1986, Voyager Software Corp acquired Lifeboat Associates. Later in 1986, Programmer's Paradise was started by Voyager Software as a catalog marketer of technical software. In 1988, Voyager acquired Corsoft Inc., a corporate reseller founded in 1983, and combined it with the operations of the Programmer's Paradise catalog and Lifeboat Associates, both of which marketed technical software for microcomputers. In May 1995, Voyager Software Corp. changed its name to "Programmers Paradise, Inc." and consolidated its U.S. catalog and software publishing operations in a new subsidiary, Programmers Paradise Catalogs, Inc. and its wholesale distribution operations in a new subsidiary, Lifeboat Distribution, Inc. In July 1995, Programmer's Paradise completed an initial public offering of its common stock. Programmer's Paradise, Inc. changed its name to Wayside Technology Group, Inc. in August 2006.
Products
T/Maker (Table Maker) – one of the first spreadsheet programs designed for the personal computer user
The Boss – Financial Accounting System
Software Bus-80, also known as SB-80 – a version of CP/M-80 for 8080/Z80 8-bit computers
Software Bus-86, also known as SB-86 – a version of MS-DOS for x86 16-bit computers
See also
Software Bus
References
External links
Defunct software companies of the United States
Compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albons | Albons is a municipality in Catalonia, Spain.
References
External links
Government data pages
Municipalities in Baix Empordà
Populated places in Baix Empordà |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine%20Fowler | Blaine Fowler is a college football and men's college basketball sports analyst in the Mountain West Conference for NBC Sports Network basketball broadcasts. He also provides analysis for the Independent BYU Cougars football team and men's basketball West Coast Conference games for BYUtv Sports. He also does analyses on the BYUtv magazine program True Blue. He currently works alongside Dave McCann on BYUtv Sports. Until the network ceased in 2012, he worked alongside Ari Wolfe for football broadcasts on Mtn.
Fowler was born in Provo, Utah to Kirk and Barbara Fowler, who relocated to Elmira, New York where Blaine attended Elmira Free Academy. He became a multi-sport athlete participating in football, basketball, and track. In high school Fowler won multiple awards in the state of New York. He lettered all four years as a football player, three years in basketball, twice in track, was placed on the all-area and all-league teams in football for three years, was placed on the all-state team twice, and was once made the Upstate New York player of the Year. Elmira Free Academy won the state championship three of the four years Fowler played for them.
After high school Fowler returned to his birth town as a quarterback at Brigham Young University, where he would play from 1981-85. In 1984 Fowler helped lead the Cougars to a national championship. Robbie Bosco was knocked out of the game during the first quarter of the Holiday Bowl against Michigan, and Fowler was sent in to play until Bosco returned during the fourth quarter.
After graduating, Fowler went on to play in the CFL. Fowler left the CFL and return to Utah where he began calling college football for KSL-TV. Since then Fowler has gone on to call over 500 broadcasts as an analyst or sideline reporter for KSL, Video West Sports, the Blue and White Network (w/ Craig Bolerjack (1995-96), Randy Rosenbloom (1997), & McCann (1998)), SportsWest Productions (alongside McCann and Tom Kirkland), The Mtn., Versus, and BYUtv.
References
External links
BYUtv Sports
BYUtv
The Mtn.
KSL-TV, 102.7 FM, and 1160 AM
Brigham Young University staff
Sportspeople from Provo, Utah
BYU Cougars football players
BYU Cougars men's basketball announcers
BYU Cougars football announcers
College football announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned%20Mines%20Information%20System | The Abandoned Mines Information System (AMIS) is a database created by the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines of Ontario, Canada. It includes over 5,600 abandoned and inactive mines throughout Ontario, as well as associated hazards. Basic information about every known abandoned and inactive mine in Ontario is in the database, including name, location and period when it was in operation.
References
Mines in Ontario
Names of places in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIP%20%28software%29 | SIP is an open source software tool used to connect computer programs or libraries written in C or C++ with the scripting language Python. It is an alternative to SWIG.
SIP was originally developed in 1998 for PyQt — the Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit — but is suitable for generating bindings for any C or C++ library.
Concept
SIP takes a set of specification () files describing the API and generates the required C++ code. This is then compiled to produce the Python extension modules. A .sip file is essentially the class header file with some things removed (because SIP does not include a full C++ parser) and some things added (because C++ does not always provide enough information about how the API works).
Notable applications that use SIP
PyQt, a python port of the application framework and widget toolkit Qt
QGIS, a free and open-source cross-platform desktop geographic information system (GIS)
QtiPlot, a computer program to analyze and visualize scientific data
calibre (software), a free and open-source cross-platform e-book manager
Veusz, a free and open-source cross-platform program to visualize scientific data
References
Programming tools
Free computer programming tools
Scripting languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search%20Technologies | Search Technologies was a privately held IT services company whose main business involved search engines, big data, consulting and implementation services. The company specialized in a range of search engines including Microsoft SharePoint, the Google Search Appliance, Elasticsearch, Amazon Cloudsearch, Cloudera, and Apache Solr. Search Technologies provided services including experts-for-hire to managed services. The company was headquartered in Washington DC's Dulles Technology Corridor and had offices in Costa Rica, California, Kentucky, the UK, Germany and the Czech Republic.
In August 2017, Search Technologies was acquired by Accenture.
History
Search Technologies was founded in 2005 by three former executives of search engine software companies, Kamran Khan (CEO), John Steinhauer (VP technology) and Dennis Tran (VP Sales), all of whom remain employees of the company.
In 2008, Search Technologies recruited Paul Nelson, a pioneer in the search engine industry since 1989 and the original author of RetrievalWare. Paul Nelson is currently Chief Architect at Search Technologies, and a minority shareholder in the company.
In August 2017, Search Technologies was acquired by Accenture for an undisclosed amount.
In February 2021, Accenture completed the integration of Search Technologies into Accenture Applied Intelligence. The original Search Technologies website (www.searchtechnologies.com) was shut down and redirected to page on Accenture.com. Some of the founding executives of Search Technologies have since started a new company.
Growth
Prior to acquisition, Search Technologies served various markets including media & entertainment, publishers, government, and consumer products & services. Their customers include Booz Allen Hamilton, Library of Congress, Lenovo, U.S. Government Printing Office, and Unilever.
In December 2009, Search Technologies acquired InfoSolutions Inc., a Cincinnati-based company also focused on search engines.
In January 2015, Search Technologies acquired a Prague-based provider of enterprise search.
In August 2017, Accenture acquired Search Technologies for an undisclosed amount.
Awards
Search Technologies has been a Microsoft GOLD certified partner since 2008, with specific competencies in Search and Digital Marketing. The company is also a certified Google Enterprise Partner, a worldwide implementation partner of Elastic, and Cloudera, and has been listed in KMWorld's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" since 2007. More recently, Search Technologies was honored as one of Virginia's Fastest Fifty companies, based on growth over the last three years.
In 2011 Search Technologies was named to the Washington Business Journal's "List of Top 20 Small Technology Companies"
Search Technologies was named Google Enterprise North American Innovation Partner of the Year in February 2013.
References
Software companies based in Virginia
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20tomography | Geometric tomography is a mathematical field that focuses on problems of reconstructing homogeneous (often convex) objects from tomographic data (this might be X-rays, projections, sections, brightness functions, or covariograms). More precisely, according to R.J. Gardner (who introduced the term), "Geometric tomography deals with the retrieval of information about a geometric object from data concerning its projections (shadows) on planes or cross-sections by planes."
Theory
A key theorem in this area states that any convex body in can be determined by parallel, coplanar
X-rays in a set of four directions whose slopes have a transcendental cross ratio.
Examples
Radon transform
Funk transform (a.k.a. spherical Radon transform)
See also
Tomography
Tomographic reconstruction
Discrete tomography
Generalized conic
References
External links
Website summarizing geometric tomography – Describes its history, theory, relation to computerized and discrete tomography, and includes interactive demonstrations of reconstruction algorithms.
Geometric tomography applet I
Geometric tomography applet II
Tomography
Projective geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan%20Riskin | Dan Riskin is an American entrepreneur and surgeon. As an expert in healthcare artificial intelligence, Riskin has promoted healthcare quality improvement and helped shape policy in the US and globally. Riskin's companies, featured in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, have influenced the care of millions of patients. He continues to practice, teach, and perform research as Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Informatics Research at Stanford University.
Early life and education
Riskin was born on October 15, 1971, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. He began writing software at age 5, selling software at age 12, and winning regional awards in software programming during grammar school. As a teenager, Riskin studied at Brentwood High School, where he received the Bausch and Lomb Outstanding Scientist Award. He began college at age 16 as a Regent’s Scholar at University of California. He received a medical degree from Boston University and completed surgery residency at University of California, Los Angeles and a critical care and acute care surgery fellowship at Stanford University. He earned a MBA with focus in bioinformatics and bioengineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon completion of his training in 2008, Riskin was promoted to Consulting Assistant Professor of Surgery at Stanford University.
Business
While a student at MIT and Stanford in 2005, Riskin designed a painless wound closure device for which he later was issued US patents and FDA approval. Riskin cofounded Wadsworth Medical Technologies, which commercialized the product under the Dermaloc brand. The company was acquired by DQ Holdings and the product was rebranded DermaClip for sales in the US and China. The product has been used successfully on hundreds of thousands of patients.
In 2011, Riskin founded and became CEO of Health Fidelity, a company which implements artificial intelligence to measure clinical quality and risk for value-based healthcare. As CEO, Riskin secured relationships with Harvard, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He grew the company through three financing rounds and transitioned company leadership on a $29 million round. Health Fidelity was acquired by Edifecs in 2021 in a transaction valued in excess of $150 million.
In 2015, Riskin founded and became CEO of Verantos, a company which applies artificial intelligence to newly available health data to generate high-validity real-world evidence. High-validity real-world evidence uses clinical experience across millions of patients to offer insight into what treatments will work best for whom. Riskin was funded to pursue high-validity real-world evidence by the National Institutes of Health starting in 2015, the National Science Foundation in 2018, and the Food and Drug Administration in 2020. Verantos names multiple top 10 life sciences firms as customers. The company was recognized as Bioinformatics Compa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral%20statistics | Moral statistics most narrowly refers to numerical data generally considered to be indicative of social pathology in groups of people. Examples include statistics on crimes (against persons and property), illiteracy, suicide, illegitimacy, abortion, divorce, prostitution, and the economic situation sometimes called pauperism in the 19th century.
The gathering of anything that might be called social statistics is often dated from John Graunt’s (1662)
analysis of the London Bills of Mortality, which tabulated birth and death data collected by London parishes. The beginnings of the systematic collection of population statistics (now called demography) occurred in the mid-18th century, often attributed to Johann Peter Süssmilch in 1741. Data on moral variables began to be collected and disseminated by various state agencies (most notably in France and Britain) in the early 19th century, and were widely used in debates about social reform.
The first major work on this topic was the Essay on moral statistics of France by
André-Michel Guerry in 1833. In this book, Guerry presented thematic maps of the departments of France, shaded according to illiteracy, crimes against persons and against property, illegitimacy, donations to the poor and so forth, and used these to ask questions about how such moral variables were related.
In Britain this theme was taken up beginning in 1847 by Joseph Fletcher who published several articles on the topic Moral and educational statistics of England and Wales.
References
Further reading
Friendly M. (2007) "A.-M. Guerry's Moral Statistics of France: Challenges for Multivariable Spatial Analysis", Statistical Science, 22 (3), 368–399. Project Euclid
Social statistics |
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