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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A7a%20Sua%20Hist%C3%B3ria | Faça Sua História is a TV series of Brazilian TV Globo Network, aired from April to December 2008. The series pilot was led by Stepan Nercessian, aired on December 27, 2007. Later on 6 April 2008 the series debuted with Vladimir Brichta as the protagonist Oswald.
Pilot cast
Stepan Nercessian – Oswald
Luiz Gustavo – Passenger
Paula Burlamaqui – Marlicene
Rita Guedes – Ivonete
André Gonçalves – Leleco
Ernesto Piccolo – Haroldão
Lidi Lisboa – Maria Eleuza
Luis Miranda – Maribel
Ana Paula Peter – Dorothy
Special appearances
Ney Latorraca – Father Creuze
Arlindo Cruz – himself
Series cast
Leading roles
Vladimir Brichta – Oswald
Carla Marins – Adalgisa (Gigi)
Irene Ravache – Nadir
Secondary roles
Luís Melo – Delegate Nicanor
Júlio Rocha – Jackson Maia
Gesi Amadeu – ibis
Fabio Lake – Cacilda
Diogo Kropotoff – Oswaldirzinho
Elisabeth Petrenko – Maria Eduarda
Special appearances
1° Episódio - Quem Não Tem Um Caso Prá Contar
Tony Ramos - Passageiro
Lidi Lisboa - Francineide
- Dejair
Ricardo Alegre - Turcão
Robert Pacheco - Leleco
Leonardo Arantes - Coisa Ruim
ABM de Aguiar - Assaltantes
2° Episódio - A Vingadora Capixaba
Sidney Magal - Passageiro
Giselle Itié - Maria da Glória
Mateus Solano - Cléber Augusto
Larissa Bracher - Vanessa
Jorge Lucas - Pererinha
3º Episódio - O Califa de Copacabana
Duda Ribeiro - Passageiro
Lúcio Mauro - Baby de Moraes
Maitê Proença - Bebete
Cristina Prochaska - Carmem Lúcia
Gabriela Alves - Neusa
Michelle Martins - Angélica
Quitéria Chagas - Selminha
Cláudio Caparica - Maitre do restaurante
4º Episódio - Oswaldir Superstar
Ernesto Piccolo - Passageiro
Milena Toscano - Cíntia
Danton Mello - Johnny Valenti
Flávio Baiocchi - Bruce
Jorge Lucas - Pererinha
5º Episódio - Miss Garota Suborbana
Karina Dohme - Andressa
Maurício Mattar - Passageiro
Alonso Gonçalves - Napoleão Santana
Dig Dutra - Joseane
Sabrina Rosa - Gislaine
Wagner Trindade - Adílson
Aline Fanju - Dinorá
Márcio Fonseca - Maribel
Luciano Vidigal - Meio-Quilo
Lívia Nascimento - Janaína
Arley Velloso - Inácio Benevides
Liz Moraes - Nívia
6º Episódio - A Estrela da TV
Maria Zilda Bethlem - Dora Maria
Antônio Pitanga - Passageiro
Kiko Mascarenhas - Dorgival
Pia Manfroni - Malvina
Maria Eduarda - figurinista
7° Episódio - Caramuru
Guilherme Piva - Passageiro
Bento Ribeiro - Caramuru
Ricardo Nunes - São Jorge
Nana Gouvêa - Veranista
Ricardo Pavão - Lilico
Marcello Gonçalves - Deulino
Eduardo Magalhães - Genésio
Jamil Velazquez - Juca
William Vita - homem misterioso
Hilton Castro
8° Episódio - Cabritada Mal-Sucedida
Natália do Vale - Passageira
Carlos Meceni - Seu Crécio
Marcelo Flores - Sandoval
Jonathan Azevedo - Mais-Preto
Marcello Melo - bandido de Seu Clécio
Duse Nacaratti - senhora que apresenta o novo táxi a Oswaldir
Caco Baresi - policial
Marcelo Portinari - bandido
9° Episódio - O Noivo Sumiu!
Márcia Cabrita - Passageira
Henri Castelli - Pedrão
Suzana Pires - J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queued%20Sequential%20Access%20Method | In IBM mainframe operating systems, Queued Sequential Access Method (QSAM) is an access method to read and write datasets sequentially. QSAM is available on OS/360, OS/VS2, MVS, z/OS, and related operating systems.
QSAM is used both for devices that are naturally sequential, such as punched card readers and punches and line printers, and for data on devices that could also be addressed directly, such as magnetic disks. QSAM offers device independence: to the extent possible, the same API calls are used for different devices.
QSAM is—as its name says—queued, in this specific context meaning buffered with deblocking of reads and blocking of writes. It allows programs to read and write logical records within physical blocks of data, as opposed to the less advanced basic sequential access method (BSAM) which allows programs to access physical blocks of data, but provides no support for accessing logical records within blocks.
QSAM manages truncated final blocks and truncated embedded blocks completely transparently to the user.
The QSAM application program interface can be compared with the interface offered by open, read, write and close calls (using file handles) in other operating systems such as Unix and Windows.
See also
Sequential access memory (SAM)
Basic sequential access method (BSAM)
Hierarchical sequential access method (HSAM)
Basic indexed sequential access method (BISAM)
Queued indexed sequential access method (QISAM)
Hierarchical indexed sequential access method (HISAM)
References
IBM mainframe operating systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arista%20Networks | Arista Networks (formerly Arastra) is an American computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and sells multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) for large datacenter, cloud computing, high-performance computing, and high-frequency trading environments. These products include 10/25/40/50/100 Gigabit Ethernet/200/400/800 low-latency cut-through switches, including the 7124SX, which remained the fastest switch using SFP+ optics through September 2012 with its sub-500 nanosecond (ns) latency, and the 7500 series, Arista's modular 10G/40G/100Gbit/s switch. Arista's Linux-based network operating system, Extensible Operating System (EOS), runs on all Arista products.
Corporate history
In 1982, Andy Bechtolsheim cofounded Sun Microsystems, and was its chief hardware designer. In 1995, David Cheriton cofounded Granite Systems with Bechtolsheim, a company that developed Gigabit Ethernet products, which was acquired by Cisco Systems in 1996. In 2001, Cheriton and Bechtolsheim founded another start up, Kealia, which was acquired by Sun in 2004. From 1996 to 2003, Bechtolsheim and Cheriton occupied executive positions at Cisco, leading the development of the Catalyst product line, along with Kenneth Duda who had been Granite Systems' first employee.
In 2004, the three then went on to found Arastra (later renamed Arista). Bechtolsheim and Cheriton were able to fund the company themselves. In May 2008, Jayshree Ullal left Cisco after 15 years at the firm, and was appointed CEO of Arista in October 2008.
In June 2014, Arista Networks had its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol ANET.
In December 2014, Cisco filed two lawsuits against Arista alleging intellectual property infringement., and the United States International Trade Commission issued limited exclusion and cease-and-desist orders concerning two of the features patented by Cisco and upheld an import ban on infringing products. In 2016, on appeal, the ban was reversed following product changes and two overturned Cisco patents, and Cisco's claim of damages was ruled against. In August 2018, Arista agreed to pay Cisco as part of a settlement that included a release for all claims of infringement by Cisco, dismissal of Arista's antitrust claims against Cisco, and a 5-year stand-down between the companies.
In August 2018, Arista Networks acquired Mojo Networks. In September 2018, Arista Networks acquired Metamako and integrated their low latency product line as the 7130 series. In February 2020, Arista acquired Big Switch Networks. In October 2020, Arista acquired Awake Security.
Arista's CEO, Jayshree Ullal, was named to Barron's list of World's Best CEOs in 2018 and 2019.
In August 2022, Arista Networks acquired Pluribus Networks, a unified cloud network company, for an undisclosed sum.
Products
Extensible Operating System
EOS is Arista's network operating system, and comes as one |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20Michael%20Canjar | Robert Michael "Mike" Canjar (September 9, 1953 – May 7, 2012) was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Detroit Mercy (UDM). He started there in 1995, and served as department Chairman from 1995–2002. He was promoted to Full Professor in 2001. He previously taught at several universities, including the University of Baltimore. He lived in Livonia, part of metropolitan Detroit, Michigan.
Education
Mike Canjar attended the University of Detroit (now University of Detroit Mercy) where he received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in 1973. He earned a Master of Engineering degree in 1974. He received a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 1982, specializing in Mathematical Logic.
Academia
Canjar was Professor of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Detroit Mercy, where he also served as departmental Chairman from 1995–2002. He was with UDM since 1995.
He previously taught at a number of universities, including the University of Baltimore where he'd served as Chairman of the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Statistics. He published a number of articles in mathematical journals on Mathematical Logic and Set Theory. He was also interested in Computer Science, particularly in object-oriented programming and Windows programming, developing courses in those areas.
Canjar has served as president of the Professors' Union of the University of Detroit Mercy.
Gambling theory
Using the pen name MathProf, Mike Canjar was a regular contributor to various websites dedicated to the study of casino games and advantage play, most often to Stanford Wong's Blackjack website where he won a record number 16 times the award for Post of The Month.
MathProf was considered one of the most prominent contributors to the study of casino Blackjack and the related subjects of bankroll management, risk of ruin, kurtosis and skewness, cut card effects, large deviations, and others.
Personal life
Robert Michael Canjar was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1953, the only child of his parents, Lawrence N. Canjar and Lillian Patricia "Pat" McDonald. His father was Dean of Engineering at the University of Detroit. His mother, who had received a master's degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Detroit, was a practicing clinical psychologist.
Mike Canjar and Elaine Bell, who has a master's degree in Computer Science and serves as Director of Institutional Research at the UDM, were married on August 8, 2010.
In 2011, Canjar, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, became a member of the Disciples of Christ Memorial Christian Church.
During his April 2010 annual physical exam, he was diagnosed with having inoperable prostate cancer at an already advanced stage, with distant metastasis, and began chemotherapy treatment. Mike Canjar died on May 7, 2012.
References
External links
"Why Optimal Betting is not Optimal" by R. Michael Canjar, 2nd Annual Skaff Memor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy%20Dataran | Occupy Dataran was an autonomous grassroots movement based in Kuala Lumpur, that aims to create a platform to experiment participatory democracy based on the popular assembly model. The Malaysian Insider reported that Occupy Dataran was an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street. The online news portal also reported that the Malaysian protesters were expressing solidarity with the New York protest movement as part of the 15 October 2011 global protests. However, it is widely acknowledged that the first Occupy Dataran assembly was held on 30 July 2011, seven weeks before Occupy Wall Street.
The movement says that it aims to "redefine democratic participation beyond representative democracy, and imagine a new political culture beyond race, ideology and political affiliation". Besides this, it is also for people to get together, hang out, organize activities & spend the night at Dataran Merdeka. Participants of Occupy Dataran gathered every Saturday from 8pm - 6am at Dataran Merdeka. Part of Occupy Dataran is the "KL People's Assembly" where participants gather to share ideas, address problems, explore alternatives, propose solutions and make decisions. It is also open to other activities.
Since October 2011, the movement had spread to Penang with Occupy Penang and other new occupations in Kota Bharu, Johor Bahru, Shah Alam, Petaling Jaya, Dungun and Batu Pahat.
As of June 2012, Occupy Dataran had continued to engage in organized meetings, events and actions.
Background
Occupy Dataran started on July 30, 2011, with a group of people who were inspired by the 15-M Movement and the 2011 Spanish protests. The first Occupy Dataran was planned to coincide with the EO6 overnight vigil organised by civil society groups, which was later canceled due to the release of the EO6. Nevertheless, Occupy Dataran continued.
The following Saturday, August 6, the first official KL People’s Assembly took place. The procedures and basic structures were discussed and agreed upon based on a collective agreement or consensus. Some rules include that the Assembly would be structured in a horizontal and non-hierarchical manner without a leader or governing body, a weekly rotation of assembly moderators and that each vote is equal and everyone’s voice is heard.
KL People's Assembly
According to the official Facebook page, the KL People's Assembly aims to be "an open, egalitarian and democratic platform for people to share ideas, address problems, explore alternatives, propose solutions and make decisions on any issues collectively through consensus decision-making and direct participatory democratic processes". It starts from 8pm to 11pm, every Saturday.
The Assembly is structured in a horizontal and non-hierarchical manner with no leader or governing council. All members of the Assembly have equal standing and rights. The procedures, processes and ground rules were discussed and agreed upon collectively by the Assembly during their first meeting on 6 August 2011 based on a Cons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiroda%2C%20Goa | Shiroda is a village in Ponda Taluka in South Goa District, Goa, India. The village has a population of 14,112 (Male: 6,928 Female: 7,184) based on 2001 census data.
Location
A 13-km drive from Ponda brings you into Shiroda. It is located 36 kilometres east of the state capital Panaji, via NH4A. The village is bordered by the Zuari river on side and the villages of Bethora, Panchawadi, Nirankal and Borim on the other.
Education
Shiroda houses one of the engineering colleges of Goa, Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering and Information Technology and two colleges of Alternative medicine, the Gomantak Ayurved Mahavidyalaya & Research Centre and Shri Kamaxshi Devi Homeopathic Medical College & Hospital. There are 20 govt primary schools one middle school 7 high schools and two higher secondary schools.
History and religious importance
The name "Shiroda" is derived from "Shivanath", which translates to "Drawn from god".
Shiroda is very popular for its Kamakshi Temple. People visit this temple on Amavasya or New moon day of every month. Every year on the day of Shivaratri, a grand temple festival or zatra is held which is attended by thousands of devotees from Goa as well as Karnataka and Maharashtra. Other temples include Ravalnath (which is situated in Shiroda market) Mahamaya, Madhav, Veer Bhadra, Betal, Shivnath, Narayan Dev, Kelbai Sateri, Kshetrapal, Mahamaya, Brahma Durga, Bhagwati and Mandaleshwara. The village's oldest temple is Mandaleshwar, which was built in the eight century and houses the village deity (gram devta). Near the Madhav temple lies the holy place made of stone and mud, called Vato. It now lies in ruins.
Besides, above gram devatas, there are temples of Maruti, Vithoba, Krishna, Satyanarayana, Laxminarayan, Siddhivinayak, Jalmi, Rama, and Shripad Shrivallabh.
Shiroda has a church situated in Karai, namely St. Joseph Church, which holds Goa's biggest Eucharistic cross.
Shiroda community celebrates Shigmo, Dhendlo, carnival, and Dasara which is a day later than whole Goa's Dasara festival. The Dasara starts at Betal Temple and then proceeds to Valpeshwar Temple and then to Ravalnath Temple.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census, Shiroda has a population of about 14,000, with 21% belonging to the Scheduled tribes and 2% to the Scheduled castes. About 38% of the population belongs to the working class. 88% of the population is literate.
Attractions
Shree Mandaleshwar Temple: The village's oldest temple, its zatra is held in November every year. The building was built in the 7th-8th century, and the courtyard, devoted to Shiva, displays the original dome of the temple.
Shri Kamakshi Temple: Located in Thal Wada
St Joseph's Church: Situated at Karai, it was built in 1782 and its feast is on 1 May.
Shree Rayeshwar Institute of Engineering And Information Technology.
Papal Cross: Goa's largest cross, it completed 25 years on 25 September 2016. It was built for an altar that hosted the holy mass by Pope John P |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansara%20Naga | is a series of Japan-exclusive video games. The first title was released in 1990 for the Family Computer, four years later Sansara Naga 2 was released for the Super Famicom, and finally in 2001 Sansara Naga 1x2 was released for the Game Boy Advance.
The characters were designed by Tamakichi Sakura.
Despite the game being Japanese, the title is Sanskrit, meaning "Cycle of the Serpent".
Sansara Naga
Sansara Naga () is a role-playing video game that was published by Victor Music Entertainment exclusively to Japan for the Family Computer () on March 23, 1990. A fan-translation was released on December 28, 2013, by the hacking and translation group Stardust Crusaders. Sansara Naga is set in the fantasy-filled lands of India during the Vedic age and also mixes elements of Japanese folklore such as the legend of Brāhmaṇ Umibōzu (海坊主||"sea bonze"). Many of the NPCs in game say that Cows are sacred animals and a few will mention the Tower of Ṛta Satya.
The story revolves around a Boy/Girl that steals a treasured Ostrich egg from the village of Orissa and decides to reflect upon one's actions; aspiring to become a Dragoon to restore their lost honor. The protagonist will set out on an adventure saving lives, performing good deeds, and raising a newly hatched dragon. There are bosses and many NPC street vendors will attempt to scam you with defective items or attempt to mug you. While the main protagonist does not level and their base stats are fixed at 40 STR, 40 DEF, the dragon that you raise does level. More unique game mechanics to this game include the ability to feed dead bodies to your dragon to raise its level, enchanted armors, field map events, hidden landmarks, a few side quests, and mini-games.
Sansara Naga's gameplay and gameplay mechanics are similar to those of Dragon Quest I, Pokémon and Earthbound.
The Silver Mountains are also referred to as Heaven.
Worthwhile NPC Encounters:
Al Sinha - A wise old Bhikṣu monk and legendary Dragoon. Large and small statues in the shape of a figure of him are lined up outside of the continent's borders. These tall silver statues can be seen rising out of the black chasm known as the 'Edge of the World'. His name, Al Sinha, means "Lion" in Sanskrit. You cannot progress in the storyline without speaking to Al Sinha. It is assumed that he has a few disciples.
Amrita - A lady Dragoon from Shakunta Village. Her name means "Nectar" in Sanskrit. She has a little brother and her own BGM.
Gratama Chef - Can be found at the four Gratama Huts in the world. You can order Take-Out to fight the Brahman boss and win a Beef Bowl.
Tāla - A female dancer from Ikushu Hot Springs. She also travels to Hoverpool Bar, also known as Hawapuru. Her name translates to "Rhythm" in Sanskrit.
Worthwhile Monster Encounters:
Fire Dragon - A very strong dragon located in the desert. Drops Fire Scale, which can be used to forge the powerful Fire Scale Shield and Fire Scale Armor.
Phurba - A one legged monster found in the mou |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim%20von%20zur%20Gathen | Joachim von zur Gathen (born 1950) is a German and computer scientist. His research spans several areas in mathematics and computer science, including computational complexity, cryptography, finite fields, and computer algebra.
Biography
Joachim von zur Gathen has a Diploma in Mathematik from ETH Zürich, and graduated as Dr. phil. from Universität Zürich in 1980 under the supervision of Volker Strassen. The title of his Ph.D. thesis is "Sekantenräume von Kurven". In 1981 he accepted a position in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto, eventually becoming a Full Professor. In 1994, he moved to the Department of Mathematics at Universität Paderborn. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the B-IT and the Department of Computer Science at the Universität Bonn. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Birkhäuser (now Springer) journal Computational Complexity.
A symposium at B-IT in 2010 was held in honor of his 60th birthday, and a special issue of the Journal of Symbolic Computation was published as a festschrift for the event.
Selected publications
Translated into Japanese. Chinese edition.
References
External links
Homepage at the b-it
1950 births
Living people
20th-century German mathematicians
German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
21st-century German mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TXT-TV | TXT-TV was a short-lived Canadian English language television programming block turned-specialty television channel owned by Airborne Technology Ventures that broadcast programs based on interactivity with viewers via their mobile phones.
History
Programming
The channel was based on a concept of viewer-created content. The service provided content directed to all adults aged 18 and older and provided a platform for moderated interactive conversation on various topics and interactive games. All programming focused on user contributions via their mobile phones in the form of text messages and data transmissions (used for such features as polls) and the content focus covered a wide range of topics, games, and subject matter.
Lifespan
The channel was developed by Airborne's founders, Garner Bornstein and Andy Nulman. The concept for the channel was created when Bornstein and Nulman viewed a British TV program whereby viewers voted on upcoming music videos to be played, when on a business trip in London, England.
On September 13, 2007, TXT-TV launched as a programming block on Persona Communications system in Sudbury, Ontario for 5 weeks as a test run on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights from midnight to 4:00am EST on channel 13.
After a successful run on Persona, the idea was pitched to Rogers Cable as a programming block on an existing channel, however, Rogers' executives preferred the brand be expanded into a 24 hour channel instead. The channel was subsequently launched on March 17, 2010 exclusively on Rogers Cable.
Due to the nature of the channel consisting solely of text, audio, and graphic-based content without the broadcasting of live action video, the channel was exempt from requiring a Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) issued broadcasting licence to operate. However, with greater plans to expand the channel, adding more interactive features and live video that would require a broadcasting licence, Airborne applied for and was granted approval from the CRTC in February 2011 to launch the service as a category 2 specialty service.
The broadcast licence was never implemented, however, and the channel folded in early December 2011 for unknown reasons.
Noted programs
Bid4Cash
Cutie or Beauty
Cutest Pet
My Life Sux
Sxt it Up
Back in this Day
Vocab Challenge
One Star
Match Maker
Dumped
Locker Room
Shout at the Headlines
Txtual Therapy
Confessional
Stud or Dud
References
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2011
Defunct television networks in Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20AWS-1%20devices | This is a list of devices capable of communicating on an AWS-1 network. AWS-1 (Advanced Wireless Services) is a wireless communication frequency band of the radio spectrum. It is used for transmission of voice, data, video, and messaging over a cellular network. AWS-1 is used in various countries of the Americas. It replaces the spectrum formerly allocated to Multipoint Multichannel Distribution Service (MMDS).
Compatible devices
A partial list of phones, smartphones, tablets and modems that support the AWS-1 frequency on a UMTS network:
Alcatel
OT-908S
OT-918S
OT-981A
OT-990S
OT-991
OT-995
One Touch Fierce
One Touch Scribe X
One Touch Scribe HD-LTE
Alcatel Pop Icon
Alcatel M'POP
Alcatel D3 (Wind Mobile)
Apple
iPhone 5, model A1428
iPhone 5c, models A1436 and A1532
iPhone 5s, models A1453 and A1533
iPhone 6, models A1549 and A1522
iPhone SE (1st generation), models A1662, A1723, A1724
iPad Air, model A1475
iPad mini with Retina Display, model A1490
iPhone 7 and 7 plus purchased in North America
Asus
Google Nexus 7
PadFone 2
Google Nexus 7 (2013)
Fonepad 7
ZenFone 2 (WW/TW Firmware phones from Taiwan/China do NOT work on Mobilicity)
ZenFone 3
BlackBerry
Q5 (only SQR100-1)
Q10 (only SQN100-5)
Z10 (only STL-100-3 (RFK121LW))
Z30 (only STA-100-5)
Bold 9700
Bold 9780
Bold 9790
Bold 9900
Curve 9300
Curve 9320
Curve 9360
Curve 9380
Pearl 9100
Torch 9810
Torch 9860
BlackBerry Passport
BlackBerry Classic
BlackBerry Leap
DTEK 50
Many of the above listed BlackBerry devices have multiple versions, only one of each being AWS compatible.
BLU
Quattro 4.5 model D440
Quattro 4.5 HD model D450
Quattro 5.7 HD model D460
Studio 5.0 LTE model Y530Q
Studio 5.0 II
Studio Mini LTE
Studio XL
Studio 6 HD
Studio 7 ll
Win JR (W410U)
Win HD (W510U)
Win HD LTE (X150Q)
Energy X 2
Dell
Venue Pro
Streak Pro model D43
Garmin
Nüvifone A50 / Garminfone
HTC
Google Nexus One
HTC 8X
HTC Desire 601
HTC 8S Wind Mobile version
HD2
HD7
G2
Amaze
HTC Flyer (3G version)
Incredible S
Maple/Snap
myTouch 4G/Panache
One (M7)
One (M8)
One (M9)
One S
Radar
Sensation (Z710E only)
Sensation XE
T-Mobile Touch Pro2
T-Mobile G1
HTC Wildfire S
HTC EVO 3D
Many of the above listed HTC phones have more than one version. The consumer must ensure that he or she purchases the correct version that supports the AWS frequency.
Huawei
E138 USB modem
E173 USB modem
E181 USB modem
E1691 USB modem
E3276 LTE USB modem
E366 21.6 Mbit/s USB modem
E372 42 Mbit/s USB modem
E573 mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot modem (7.2 Mbit/s-down/5.76 Mbit/s-up)
E583C mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot modem (7.2 Mbit/s-down/5.76 Mbit/s-up)
E586E mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot modem (21.6 Mbit/s-down/5.76 Mbit/s-up)
E587 mobile Wi-Fi HotSpot modem (43.2 Mbit/s-down/5.76 Mbit/s-up)
Ascend D1 Quad XL
Ascend G312
Ascend G615
Ascend Mate
Ascend P1
Ascend P1 LTE (only U9202L-3)
Ascend P6
Ascend P6S
Ascend P8
Ascend W1
Ascend X
U1250
U2801
U2900
U3200
U3220
U5300
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDB | WDB or wdb may refer to:
.wdb is the Microsoft Works database file extension
William Denis Browne (1888–1915), a British composer, pianist, organist and music critic of the early 20th century
Women's Development Bank, a woman's services organization in Venezuela
Wondabyne railway station railway station code, in Australia
Woodbridge (Amtrak station) railroad station code, in the United States
Woodbridge railway station railway station code, in the UK
a korean k-pop band |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickleberry | Brickleberry is an American animated sitcom created by Waco O'Guin and Roger Black for the basic cable network Comedy Central. Executive produced by O'Guin, Black, and comedian Daniel Tosh, the series follows a group of park rangers as they work through their daily lives in the fictional Brickleberry National Park.
Synopsis
The series follows a group of park rangers as they work through their daily lives in the fictional Brickleberry National Park.
Characters
Main characters
Steve Williams (voiced by David Herman) – Steve is an overconfident, bumbling park ranger who takes himself and his job way too seriously. Even though he has been "Ranger of the Month" at Brickleberry for several years, he does not appear to display good skills or even common sense. Steve's "Ranger of the Month" title means everything to him and he will do anything to keep it. Despite his extreme lack of intelligence, he knows the Brickleberry park very well because his father was also a Brickleberry ranger, so Steve was raised in the park. He dreamed of working at Brickleberry since he was a child in order to follow in his father's footsteps. He is shown to have a man crush on Viggo Mortensen.
Woodrow "Woody" Wayland Johnson (voiced by Tom Kenny) – Woody is a 55-year-old, abrasive ranger with a military background. In the "Crippleberry" episode, he mentions to Steve that he is technically a war criminal. He worked his way up to head ranger over his 30-year career at Brickleberry. He worked alongside Steve's father, but never searched for him when Jonah went missing. He rarely has the park's best interest in mind when struggling to boost the dwindling tourism numbers. In "2 Weeks Notice", he accidentally confesses to Malloy that when his mother died, his father forced him to dress up in her lingerie, implying that he may have been sexually abused by his father (However, in Season 3, Episode 4 "That Brother's my Father", it is revealed that Woody's mother, who also abused him physically, is very much alive, when she's kicked out of her nursing home and is forced to live with her son. She is briefly married to Denzel) It is also revealed in season 2 that Woody was a former porn star named Rex Erection. He makes a guest appearance along with the Brickleberry cast in Paradise PD, revealed to be an estranged cousin of series regular Chief Randall Crawford and that his obsession with Malloy stemmed from a stuff toy he owned as a child.
Ethel Anderson (voiced by Kaitlin Olson in season 1, Natasha Leggero in season 2 and 3) – Ethel is an attractive, 25-year-old female ranger. She was the top ranger at Yellowstone and was transferred to Brickleberry in an effort to get the park back on track (and because she was fired from Yellowstone for being drunk on the job). She is quite passionate for nature, though ironically not for animals themselves. She does her best to treat her co-workers kindly although often fails due to her selfishness and occasional sociopathic behavior. Steve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquelyn%20Ford%20Morie | Jacquelyn Ford Morie is an artist, scientist and educator working in the areas of immersive worlds, games and social networks. Until 2013 she was a senior research scientist at the Institute for Creative Technologies. In 2013 she started a spin-off company called All These Worlds, to take her work in virtual worlds and avatars to a broader audience.
Education
Morie was formally trained as an artist and medical illustrator but ultimately decided to pursue fine art. Her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art was awarded cum laude by Florida Atlantic University in 1981. She next received a Master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Florida in 1984, studying with noted photographer Jerry Uelsmann.
She studied computer graphics at the University of Florida, under Professor John Staudhammer and received her Masters in Computer Science from University of Florida in 1988. Morie received her PhD from SmartLab at the University of East London in 2008 in immersive environments.
Career and research
After graduation, Morie helped develop the Computer Graphic Design and Computer Animation programs at the Ringling College of Art and Design (1988–1989) .
Seeking to create new forms of artwork in the emerging field of virtual reality, Morie accepted a researcher position at the Visual System Lab (VSL) at University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL. The VSL Lab, under the direction of J. Michael Moshell, was part of the Institute for Simulation and Training. During her time here (1990–1994) she worked on virtual reality projects for the State of Florida and the United States Army Research Laboratory.
Together with fellow researcher Mike Goslin, Morie created a VR artwork entitled Virtopia. Virtopia debuted at the 1992 Florida Film Festival, making it the first VR Artwork to be premièred at such a venue. It was shown in a more mature form at the 1993 Florida Film Festival and at SIGGRAPH 1994's emerging tech venue, The Edge.
From 1994 – 1997 Morie was head of Computer technical and artistic training for Walt Disney Feature Animation (WDFA). She developed a comprehensive year-long apprenticeship for incoming computer graphic animators. She followed this with development of similar programs for the computer graphics effects industry, at VIFX, Blue Sky Studios and Rhythm and Hues Studios.
While working at WDFA, Morie was invited to take part in a 1996 National Research Council workshop entitled Modeling and Simulation: Linking Entertainment and Defense, held at the Beckman Laser Institute in Irvine, CA. This workshop was documented in a National Research Council publication of the same name.
The workshop led to the eventual formation of the Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) at the University of Southern California in 1999. In 2000, Morie joined the ICT staff as a researcher in Virtual Worlds.
Her initial work at the ICT focused on the creation of meaningful multi-sensory, virtual environments. Two basic developments in this work included the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esdat | ESdat is environmental data management, analysis and reporting software for environmental and groundwater data, developed by Earth Science Information Systems (EScIS) of Australia. Data is imported from a range of systems or sources into a central environmental database, for comparison, analysis, and reporting, where it can be filtered and viewed in formats such as tables, graphs and maps.
ESdat is used by environmental consultants, government and industry for validation, interrogation and reporting of data derived from complex environmental programs, such as contaminated and industrial sites, groundwater investigations, landfill and regulatory compliance.
It is used to manage many types of environmental data including laboratory chemistry data (analytical results, QA data, lab sample planning and electronic Chain of Custody), field chemistry data (water, gas, soil), hydrogeological data (groundwater, borehole and well construction, lithological, geotechnical and stratigraphic, LNAPL), meteorological data (rain, wind, temperature), emission data (dust, HiVol, air quality, noise), logger data, surface water flows, and flora/fauna/pest/vegetation community data.
Data can be compared against environmental standards or site-specific trigger levels to generate exceedence tables and other outputs, such as time series graphs.
References
ESdat Information
US EPA Database and Software
Managing Site Data and the Maintenance of Conceptual Models
Environmental data
Earth sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Automation%2C%20Inc.%20v.%20Advanced%20Systems%20Concepts%2C%20Inc. | Network Automation, Inc. v. Advanced Systems Concepts, Inc., 638 F.3d 1137 (9th Cir. 2011) was a court case decided on March 8, 2011, where the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the use of a competitor's trademark as an Internet search advertising keyword did not constitute trademark infringement. In the case, Network Automation advertised their own competing product in search queries that contained Advanced Systems Concepts' "ActiveBatch" trademark. In determining whether trademark infringement occurred, the court evaluated factors relevant to the likelihood of customer confusion outlined in AMF Inc. v. Sleekcraft Boats and concluded that confusion was unlikely.
Background
Google and other Internet search engines and e-commerce sites have made search engine keyword advertising ubiquitous. Network Automation ("Network") and Advanced Systems Concepts ("Systems") both sold job scheduling and management software that were advertised on search engine results. Network's product was called Automate, and Systems' product was called ActiveBatch. Network decided to buy the keyword "ActiveBatch" so that when users searched for "ActiveBatch", Network's website would be displayed as a sponsored link in separate sections from search results, including Google Search and Microsoft Bing. Systems sent a letter to Network saying Network's usage of "ActiveBatch" as a keyword was infringing Systems' trademark rights. As a result, Network filed a lawsuit seeking declaratory judgement of non-infringement. Subsequently, Systems counterclaimed, and asserted trademark infringement under the Lanham Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1114 and therefore sought a preliminary injunction against Network's usage of "ActiveBatch".
Trademark infringement background
An essential condition for trademark infringement is customer confusion. A 1979 Ninth Circuit Court case, AMF Inc. v. Sleekcraft Boats, identified eight factors in determining whether confusion between related goods was likely:
strength of the mark
proximity of the goods
similarity of the marks
evidence of actual confusion
marketing channels used
type of goods and the degree of care likely to be exercised by the purchaser
defendant's intent in selecting the mark
likelihood of expansion of the product lines
In 1999, another Ninth Circuit Court case, Brookfield Communications, Inc. v. West Coast Entertainment Corp., determined that of the eight Sleekcraft factors, three of them were the most significant for cases involving the Internet, which are known as the "Internet trinity" or "Internet troika".
the similarity of the marks
the relatedness of the goods and services offered
the simultaneous use of the Internet as a marketing channel
The Brookfield case also emphasized flexibility in applying the law to the Internet, a new, emerging technology:
Holding of the district court
The district court ordered a preliminary injunction against Network using the "ActiveBatch" mark. The district cour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokak | Kokak (International title: The Frog Princess) is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is based on a comics serial of the same title created by Ruben Marcelino and published in Darna Komiks. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Sarah Lahbati in the title role. It premiered on November 14, 2011 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Pahiram ng Isang Ina. The series concluded on March 2, 2012 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Hiram na Puso in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Sarah Lahbati as Kokak / Kara
Supporting cast
TJ Trinidad as Carlito "Carl" Asuncion
JC Tiuseco as Roco Valencia
Vaness del Moral as Elizabeth Mampusti
Gary Estrada as Renato Asuncion
Jessa Zaragoza as Angela Francisco-Asuncion
Caridad Sanchez as Roberta "Berta" Francisco
Deborah Sun as Veronica Asuncion
Frencheska Farr as Raphalyn "Rafa" Valencia
Ervic Vijandre as Borge Reyes
Recurring cast
Diva Montelaba as Cheenee Macagaling
Gian Magdangal as Norman Francisco
Rox Montealegre as Lileth Zabala
Shyr Valdez as Bing Altamirano
Guest cast
Angelika dela Cruz as Vicky Asuncion
Pen Medina as Isko Pulido
Ella Cruz as young Kara
Francis Magundayao as young Carl
Ella Guevara as young Elizabeth
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Kokak earned a 14% rating. While the final episode scored a 19.8% rating.
References
External links
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2012 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows based on comics
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20Power | Silicon Power Computer & Communications Incorporated, commonly referred to as Silicon Power and as SP, is an international brand and a Taiwan-based manufacturer of flash memory products, including flash memory cards, USB flash drives, portable hard drives, DRAM modules, card readers, solid state drives, USB adapters, and other industrial grade computer products.
Overview
Silicon Power is headquartered in the Neihu district of Taipei, Taiwan, and was founded in 2003. Silicon Power produces digital memory.
Corporate information
Silicon Power has offices in Taiwan, Japan, the Netherlands, Balkan, Russia, China, India, the United States, as well as manufacturing facilities in Taiwan and logistics facilities in Taiwan and Netherlands. In 2012, Silicon Power became a public company on the Taipei Exchange.
In a 2010 survey by the Common Wealth Magazine, Silicon Power was ranked 11th in the top 1,000 fastest growing manufacturers in Taiwan, and first in the semiconductor industry.
History
Silicon Power was founded in the Neihu district of Taipei, Taiwan, in 2003. Between 2004 and 2008, branches were opened in the Netherlands and Japan.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan
References
External links
Computer hardware companies
Companies based in Taipei
Computer companies established in 2003
Computer memory companies
Computer peripheral companies
Computer storage companies
Electronics companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
2003 establishments in Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%20v.%20Taflove | Ho v. Taflove is a Seventh Circuit case about the copyrightability of scientific data. In 2011, the Seventh Circuit affirmed a 2009 decision of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois holding that the expression of ideas can be copyrighted but not the ideas themselves (the idea-expression divide).
The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violated the copyright law of the United States by publishing equations, figures, and text from research materials that the plaintiffs had produced. They also alleged that Illinois state laws were violated by publication of the materials. The district court granted summary judgment against the plaintiffs. The appeals court confirmed the judgment, concluding that the research materials were unprotectable ideas under the merger doctrine of copyright law, and that the claims of state law violations had no merit and were superseded by the Copyright Act.
Background
Seng-Tiong Ho and Allen Taflove were professors of engineering at Northwestern University, where Yingyan Huang and Shi-Hui Chang were graduate students. The plaintiffs, Ho and Huang, alleged that in 1998 Ho formulated a "4-level, 2-electron atomic model with the Pauli exclusion principle for simulating the dynamics of active media in a photonic device." Within a year Ho had completed the mathematical derivations of his model, notes and equations of which were hand-written in about sixty-nine pages. With permission from Ho, Huang briefly mentioned some results from the research in a conference paper published in 2001, and published the results in full in her 2002 master's thesis.
The plaintiffs alleged that Ho gave another of his graduate students, Shi-Hui Chang, the task of creating a computer simulation of the model, giving him both access to Ho's handwritten texts and experience working with the model. Due to programming errors, Chang could not simulate the model. In 2002, Chang left Ho's research group and joined that of Taflove. In 2003 and 2004, Taflove and Chang submitted, and subsequently published, two articles directly related to the model. Some figures in Huang's master's thesis were included in these publications. The defendants did not attribute any published content to plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs alleged that when Ho attempted to publish a paper about the model in 2004, his submission was rejected on the basis that the work had already been published, i.e., the articles published by Taflove and Chang. In 2007, the plaintiffs received certificates of copyright for Ho's notes describing the model and Huang's master's thesis and a visual presentation of the thesis. The defendants, Taflove and Chang, denied many of these facts, and denied that Chang had copied from Ho or Huang.
The case
On July 31, 2007, Ho and Huang filed suit in the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division. They alleged copyright infringement and state law claims of false designation of origin, unfair competition, conversion, fraud and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv%20Gandhi%20National%20Cyber%20Law%20Center | Rajiv Gandhi National Cyber Law Centre, Bhopal was established in 2006 by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India,New Delhi. The institution is first to deal with new and critical issues relating to various techno-legal aspects of cyberspace through regular as well as distance learning mode. The institution is a constituent institution to The National Law Institute University, Bhopal. It offers post-graduate courses in the field of Cyber Law, viz. Post Graduate Diploma in Cyber Law and Master of Science in Cyber Law and Information Security.
Infrastructure
The institution is on the NLIU campus in the outskirt city of Bhopal.
Gyan Mandir Library
The Gyan Mandir Library was inaugurated by the Honorable Minister of HRD, Arjun Singh on September 19, 2005.
Gallery
Law schools in Madhya Pradesh
Computer law organizations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Telecommunications%20plc%20v.%20Prodigy | British Telecommunications plc v. Prodigy Communications Corp. was a patent infringement case which determined whether a patent related to communications between central computers and their clients was infringed by Internet service providers through hyperlinks. Judge Colleen McMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled that Prodigy Communications Corporation had not infringed the patent held by British Telecommunications plc through its use of hyperlinks. On summary judgment, McMahon held that there were substantial differences between British Telecommunications' patent and the method of operation of the Internet. The decision limited patent protection for Internet service providers' use of hyperlinks, protecting the providers from licensing fees related to this integral part of Internet technology.
Background
British Telecommunications plc (BT) developed technology related to computer networking. BT was granted the "Sargent Patent (U.S. Patent No. 4,873,662)" by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on October 10, 1989. The patent application had been filed 12 years prior, in July 1977, and underwent many changes during the ensuing years. The patent described a system in which multiple users, each located at a remote terminal, could access data stored at a central computer. A user at a remote terminal would be able to access information stored in a central computer via telephone network. Information would be stored and transmitted in the form of blocks, with each block divided into two parts: a first portion including information to be displayed, and a second portion, not intended for display, which contained the complete addresses of other blocks of information linked to the current display page.
In June 2000, BT sent letters to Prodigy Communications Corporation ("Prodigy") and 16 other Internet service providers (ISPs), asking them to pay licensing fee for BT's hyperlink patent; all refused. BT sued Prodigy, the oldest ISP in the U.S., for patent infringement on December 13, 2000. In suing, BT claimed that the Sargent patent covered hyperlink technology, one of the building blocks of the World Wide Web. BT argued that not only had Prodigy directly infringed the Sargent patent, but that it was also liable for inducing its users to infringe BT's patent. Prodigy submitted a motion for summary judgment of non-infringement, arguing that the technology it used to provide Internet access to its consumers was not covered by the claims of the Sargent patent.
Court analysis
To resolve this case, the US District court conducted through analysis on terms specified in claims of the Sargent patent and analyzed if the patent covered the hyperlink technology. The court decided that there were no disputed issues of material fact in this case, since the Sargent patent was by no means the same as internet and Web-based technology, and, therefore, granted Prodigy's request for summary judgemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converged%20storage | Converged storage is a storage architecture that combines storage and computing resources into a single entity. This can result in the development of platforms for server centric, storage centric or hybrid workloads where applications and data come together to improve application performance and delivery. The combination of storage and compute differs to the traditional IT model in which computation and storage take place in separate or siloed computer equipment. The traditional model requires discrete provisioning changes, such as upgrades and planned migrations, in the face of server load changes, which are increasingly dynamic with virtualization, where converged storage increases the supply of resources along with new VM demands in parallel.
Design considerations
The goal of converged storage is to bring together server and storage and/or application and data to deliver services that are better optimized for target workloads. This can mean server and storage converged within a common hardware platform. For example, a blade server enclosure, applications and storage can be brought together within a server by virtualization. Server and storage can be managed as a resource pool, for example in infrastructure- as-a-service (IaaS).
Common hardware platform
Industry standard servers, such as those using Intel processors (x86), form the basis of converged storage. As these servers follow Moore’s Law and increase power and performance they have the capabilities to run storage workloads, in addition to being compute servers. Data centers can further consolidate and minimize the use of physical space and energy by using industry-standard –based blade server for both server and storage.
Common software
In server virtualization, multiple "virtual" servers operate on a single platform using hypervisor technology. These virtual servers could be running traditional server tasks, such as applications programming. By using storage controller software, these servers could also be made into data storage systems. This latter architecture is known as virtual machine-based storage. The storage software is often called a VSA−virtual SAN appliance or virtual storage appliance. VSA products from companies such as HP, Nutanix and VMware allow users to build storage-area networks using their existing servers.
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
The goal of IaaS is to provide a pool of resources that can be quickly deployed to deliver new services. This requires a service designer to lay out the required characteristics for a new service or application and an orchestration (computing) engine to configure the underlying infrastructure to deliver the new service.
Characteristics
Scale-out architecture
Scale-out architecture is a component of converged storage. Scale-out storage is the combination of modular computers and standardized storage components to create federated storage pools. The result is an increase of computer power, bandwidth and storage capacity th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%2010 | BlackBerry 10 (BB10) is a discontinued proprietary mobile operating system for the BlackBerry line of smartphones, both developed by BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion). Released in January 2013, BlackBerry 10 is a complete rework from the company's previous BlackBerry OS software.
It is based on QNX, a Unix-like operating system that was originally developed by QNX Software Systems until the company was acquired by Research In Motion in 2010. BlackBerry 10 supports the application framework Qt (version 4.8) and in some later models features an Android runtime to run Android applications. Prior to version 10.3.1, BlackBerry 10 also supported the Adobe AIR runtime. The user interface uses a combination of gestures and touch-based interactions for navigation and control, making it possible to control a device without having to press any physical buttons, with the exception of the power button that switches the device on or off. It also supports hardware keyboards, including ones that support touch input.
On October 26, 2015, BlackBerry Limited announced that there were no plans to release new APIs and software development kits (SDKs) or adopt Qt version 5. Future updates, like versions 10.3.3 and 10.3.4, would focus on security and privacy enhancements only, effectively putting the operating system in maintenance mode. At the same time, the company introduced its first Android-based device, BlackBerry Priv. The BlackBerry Leap was the last smartphone released on the BB10 platform. After BlackBerry Limited ceased making smartphones in 2016, its successor BlackBerry Mobile by licensee TCL abandoned the platform and only developed devices based on Android, starting with the BlackBerry KeyOne.
On December 15, 2017, BlackBerry Limited announced that there would be at least another two years of support for BlackBerry 10 and BlackBerry OS devices; in August 2019, however, BlackBerry stated in a press release that they would continue to support "critical infrastructure" for BlackBerry 10 beyond the end of the year. BlackBerry 10 became end-of-life effective January 4, 2022.
History
The operating system was originally called BBX, but this was changed when BlackBerry was blocked from using the BBX trademark after legal action from BASIS International, who already used it for their software.
On November 12, 2012, CEO Thorsten Heins announced a 30 January 2013, launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system version 10.0 and the first smartphones running it. The operating system, as well as two devices, the Z10 (a full touchscreen device), and the Q10 (a device equipped with a physical keyboard), were announced simultaneously around the world on January 30, 2013. The company also announced that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would receive an update to BlackBerry 10 later in 2013. Subsequently, BlackBerry stated when releasing their Q1 2014 financial results that the BlackBerry PlayBook would not be receiving an update to BlackBerry 10 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataframe | Dataframe may refer to:
A tabular data structure common to many data processing libraries:
The Dataframe API in Apache Spark
Data frames in the R programming language
Frame (networking) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Daniels | Patricia D. Daniels is an American engineering educator known for her work on educational accreditation. She is a professor emerita of electrical and computer engineering at Seattle University, and an affiliate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington.
Education and career
Daniels is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science, and she also earned her PhD from UC Berkeley.
At Seattle University, she chaired the department of electrical and computer engineering, and became associate dean of science and engineering. She has also worked in industry, for The Aerospace Corporation, the Aerospace Electrical Division of the Westinghouse Electric Corporation, and Boeing, and as a program director for undergraduate education at the National Science Foundation.
She has served as chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, and chaired the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET for 2003–2004.
Recognition
Daniels won the IEEE Education Society Edwin C. Jones Meritorious Service Award in 1994, the IEEE Education Society Harriet B. Rigas Award for "significant contributions to electrical and computer engineering education" in 1997, and the ECE Division Distinguished Educator Award of the American Society for Engineering Education in 2012.
She was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1997, "for contributions to engineering education", and was named a fellow of ABET in 2006.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American electrical engineers
Engineering educators
American women engineers
University of California, Berkeley alumni
Seattle University faculty
Fellow Members of the IEEE
21st-century American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Domingue | John Domingue (born ca 1961) is a British academic, and Professor of Computer Science at the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University in Milton Keynes, and researcher in the semantic web, linked data, services, blockchain and education.
Life and work
Domingue started his academic career in the late 1980s as researcher at the Human Cognition Research Laboratory of the Open University. In 2008, he was appointed Professor at the Open University in Milton Keynes.
Domingue was the scientific director of SOA4All and has worked in dozens of other research projects. From 2018 to 2021 he served as the Theme 1 Leader (University Learners) in the 40M pound budget Institute of Coding supporting the creation of a new accreditation standard for computer science teaching in the UK underpinned by blockchain badges. He is chair of the steering committee for the European Semantic Web Conference Series. From 2015 until 2022 he served as the Director of the Knowledge Media Institute at the Open University. He is the current president of the Semantic Technology Institute International (STI2), following Dieter Fensel.
In 2018 he gave a talk at the Royal Institute on blockchains
In 2019 John Domingue gave a TEDx talk on decentralising universities and was awarded a Fellowship by the British Blockchain Association
For the OU's 50th birthday, in 2020, he contributed to a public report predicting the next 50 years of learning. In the same year John Domingue was awarded an honorary professorship by Amity University.
Bibliography
Domingue has published over 250 publications in the areas of artificial intelligence and the web. A selection:
Fensel, D., Lausen, H., Polleres, A., de Bruijn, J., Stollberg, M., Roman, D., Domingue, J., Enabling Semantic Web Services: The Web Service Modeling Ontology, Springer, 2006
Hasemer, T. and Domingue, J., Common Lisp Programming for Artificial Intelligence, Addison Wesley, 1989
Stasko, J., Domingue, J., Brown, M., and Price, B. (Eds.), Software Visualisation: Programming as a Multimedia Experience, MIT Press, 1988
References
External links
John Domingue's web page at Open University
Living people
Academics of the Open University
Year of birth uncertain
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20M.%20Levy | David Levy is an American computer scientist and professor at University of Washington Information School. He is known for his research, writing, and teaching on the prevention of information overload.
Biography
Levy attended Dartmouth College, receiving a BA in pure mathematics in 1971. He was the valedictorian of Dartmouth's Class of 1971. He later received a PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1979. He also earned a degree at Roehampton Institute, London, in calligraphy and bookbinding in 1982. He was a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for 15 years (until December, 1999). At PARC, he researched the nature of documents and the tools and practices through which they are created and used. His current research focuses on information and the quality of life. His book, Scrolling Forward: Making Sense of Documents in the Digital Age, was published by Arcade Publishing in 2001. In 2016, he released a book titled Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives, published by Yale University Press, surrounding how individuals and societies might "live healthy, reflective, and productive lives" with technology
Publications
Levy, David M. (2016). Mindful Tech: How to Bring Balance to Our Digital Lives. Yale University Press. .
Levy, David M. (2008). Information Overload. In Kenneth E. Himma and Herman T. Tavani (Ed.), The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (pp. 497–516). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons. .
Levy, David M. (2005). Robots Unlimited: Life in a Virtual Age. .
References
Further reading
Levy, David. (March 5, 2008). No Time to Think. Google Tech Talks.
Seven, Richard. (November 28, 2004). Life, Interrupted. Pacific Northwest.
Sowa, Tom. (June 25, 2007). In search of a little down time. The Spokesman-Review.
External links
Official website
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
University of Washington faculty
Stanford University alumni
Scientists at PARC (company) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better%20Futures%20Minnesota | The Network for Better Futures d/b/a Better Futures Minnesota is a non-profit social enterprise based in Minneapolis, Minnesota dedicated to reintegrating high-risk adults, primarily African-American men, into society by providing a platform to help them succeed. The agency works with men with histories of incarceration, substance abuse, chronic unemployment, and homelessness—men who have a high risk of being repeat offenders.
History
A group of health and human service agencies in the Twin Cities, MN region founded The Network for Better Futures in 2007. The NetWork was created to provide holistic support on health, behavior, housing, employment, social issues to high risk men., and it now does business as Better Futures Minnesota. In 2007 the Minnesota legislature selected the organization to administer a state demonstration pilot project.
Funding
Better Futures received a grant for $2.8 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in 2007. In February 2011, RWJF approved an additional $3.5 million grant through February 2014, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton proposed a $3 million appropriation for the organization's pilot program for FY 2012-2013, but budget cuts to the Office of Justice Programs in July 2011 limited this funding.
Model
The organization, together with its seven sponsoring groups, offers high-risk men access to five core services immediately after leaving incarceration: affordable housing, behavioral health services, primary health care, work opportunities and a community setting.
The organization works to keep its men out of prison and off of social services while having them work their way back into mainstream society. Participants must stay crime-free and promptly begin paying child support and rent, which is temporarily subsidized. To prepare them for returning to the general public, all participants in Better Futures attend community building sessions where they engage with peers and develop accountability
The goals of this model include reducing use of state-funded health care and criminal justice services, increasing public safety and reducing criminal activity, producing better physical, mental and behavioral health, achieving cost-effective results from public dollars, increasing economic activity among a population associated with using tax-payer services, helping participants contribute to the healing and rebuilding of their communities and families and integrating reform services and financing for high-risk people
Partners
In order to supply participants access to health, housing, training, and prevention resources under one program, Better Futures works with seven sponsoring organizations
Summit Academy OIC and Twin Cities RISE provide job training
Turning Point and R.S. Eden provide substance abuse treatment
Northpoint Health and Wellness Center provides health care
Family Housing Fund is the affordable housing funder and advocate
Better Futures Enterprise
Better Futures Enterprise is a busine |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenMediaVault | OpenMediaVault (OMV) is a free Linux distribution designed for network-attached storage (NAS). The project's lead developer is Volker Theile, who instituted it in 2009. OMV is based on the Debian operating system, and is licensed through the GNU General Public License v3.
Background
By the end of 2009, Volker Theile was the only active developer of FreeNAS, a NAS operating system that Olivier Cochard-Labbé started developing from m0n0wall in 2005. m0n0wall is a variation of the FreeBSD operating system, and Theile decided he wanted to rewrite FreeNAS for Linux. The project team had known for months that FreeNAS needed a major rewrite in order to support crucial features. Since Cochard-Labbé preferred to stay with a FreeBSD-based system, he and Theile agreed that Theile would develop his Linux version under a different name; that name was initially coreNAS, but within a matter of days Theile discarded it in favour of OpenMediaVault.
Meanwhile, FreeNAS still needed to be rewritten and maintained. To accomplish this, Cochard-Labbé handed development over to iXsystems, an American company that developed the TrueOS (Discontinued in 2020) operating system.
Technical design
Theile chose Debian because the large number of programs in its package management system meant that he wouldn't have to spend time repackaging software himself. OpenMediaVault makes a few changes to the Debian operating system. It provides a Web-based user interface for administration and customisation, and a plug-in API for implementing new features. One can install plug-ins through the Web interface.
Features
Multi-language, Web-based graphical user interface
Protocols: CIFS (via Samba), FTP, NFS (versions 3 and 4), SSH, rsync, iSCSI, AFP and TFTP
Software-RAID (levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, and 10, plus JBOD)
Monitoring: Syslog, Watchdog, S.M.A.R.T., SNMP (v1, 2c, and 3) (read-only)
Statistic reports via e-mail
Statistic graphs for the CPU-workload, LAN transfer rates, hard disk usage and RAM allocation
GPT/EFI partitioning >2 TByte possible
File systems: ext2, ext3, ext4, Btrfs, XFS, JFS, NTFS, FAT32
Quota
User and group management
Access controls via ACL
Link aggregation bonding, Wake-on-LAN
Plug-in system
Plug-ins
ClamAV - Antivirus software
Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP) – provides audio files in a local network (also for iTunes)
SAN and iSCSI – block based access datastores over the network
Sabnzbd, an NNTP reader designed for automated retrieval of binary files
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) – Information request and changes of a directory service
Logical Volume Manager - enables the possibility to create and administrate dynamic partitions
Netatalk – File-, time- and print-server for Apple Macintosh
Network UPS Tools, to support the use of an uninterruptible power supply
Easy changes to the routing tables
usbbackup, which allows (automatic) backups to external USB hard disks
Plex server and webclient, but only for version 4 and p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Libraries%20Automated%20Materials%20Sharing | The Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing (CLAMS) library network is a non-profit consortium of 35 member libraries and 38 locations throughout Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Since it was founded in 1991, the number of items available has grown from 568,000 in 1991 to over 1.6 million in 2022. Deliveries of materials between member libraries and other library networks in Massachusetts through an interlibrary loan program are made by the Massachusetts Library System located in Waltham
. The network uses the Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) for staff function workflows: acquisitions, cataloging, circulation, ILL, and serials and Aspen Discovery for their patron's Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC). The libraries provide access to reference databases, digital libraries, free music online, museum passes, genealogy, workshops, and other free services that vary from each location.
Digital services
Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing began a partnership with OverDrive in Spring 2008 to offer patrons 24 hours a day, 7 days a week access to a public digital library where they could check-out ebook, audiobook, digital magazines, music, and video titles through the CLAMS OverDrive website. All of the public libraries participate in the OverDrive lending program. Cape Cod Community College is the only member of the CLAMS network that does not participate. However, students from the college are encouraged to obtain a CLAMS card from the library in the town that they live in. All towns on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket have at least one library that is a member of the Cape Libraries Automated Materials Sharing network except for the town of Sandwich.
The CLAMS library network is a participant in the state's Library eBooks and Audiobooks (LEA) program; it is a lending program that allows the patrons of one network to check out ebooks and audiobooks from the collection of another network. "This service is made possible by the CLAMS member libraries and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."
Member libraries
Public
Aquinnah Public Library
Sturgis Library, Barnstable
Jonathan Bourne Public Library
Brewster Ladies' Library
Centerville Public Library
Eldredge Public Library, Chatham
Chilmark Free Public Library
Cotuit Library (Barnstable)
Jacob Sears Memorial Library, East Dennis
Dennis Memorial Library, Dennis
Dennis Public Library, Dennis Port
South Dennis Free Public Library
West Dennis Library
Eastham Public Library
Edgartown Public Library
Falmouth Public Library
East Falmouth Library
North Falmouth Library
West Falmouth Library
Brooks Free Library, Harwich
Hyannis Public Library (Barnstable)
Marstons Mills Public Library (Barnstable)
Mashpee Public Library
Nantucket Atheneum Library
Oak Bluffs Public Library
Snow Library, Orleans
Osterville Village Library (Barnstable)
Provincetown Public Library
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashawna%20Hailey | Ashawna Hailey (October 8, 1949 – October 14, 2011) was an American computer scientist and philanthropist. She was among the creators of the HSPICE program (a commercialized version of SPICE), which many electronic design companies worldwide use to simulate the electronic circuits. Her company, Meta-Software, which was behind the commercialization of SPICE, produced compound annual growth rate in excess of 25–30 percent every year for 18 years, and had eventually become part of Synopsys, which calls HSPICE "the 'gold standard' for accurate circuit simulation".
Early life and education
Hailey attended Texas Tech University along with her twin brother, Kim Hailey, starting her first company while still in college.
Career
In 1973, Hailey was part of the team who created Advanced Micro Devices' first microprocessor, the Am9080, by reverse-engineering Intel 8080, and in 1974, AMD's first nonvolatile memory, the 2702 2048-bit EPROM. Earlier, she, with others, built the launch sequencer for the Sprint Anti-Ballistic Missile System for Martin Marietta.
As a philanthropist, Hailey sought to reform government policies on recreational drugs. During her life she donated to the ACLU Foundation, Code Pink, the Drug Policy Alliance, Feeding America, Rainforest Action Network, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, the Marijuana Policy Project, Erowid, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), and served
on the board of MAPS.
Legacy
After Hailey's death she left a US$10-Million bequest shared between MAPS, the ACLU, Drug Policy Alliance, Marijuana Policy Project, and Second Harvest Food Bank. In what its board considered a fitting tribute to Hailey, the Marijuana Policy Project dedicated a million dollars of her bequest to the initiative that for the first time enabled voters to legalize marijuana for recreational use in Colorado.
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2011 deaths
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry%20J.%20Kaufman | Perry J. Kaufman is an American systematic trader, rocket scientist, index developer, and quantitative financial theorist. He is considered a leading expert in the development of fully algorithmic trading programs (mostly written in Fortran).
Career
Kaufman currently serves as the president of Kaufman Analytics, Ltd. He received a BS in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the New York Institute of Technology.
Aerospace background
Beginning as a “rocket scientist” in the aerospace industry, Kaufman worked on the navigation and control systems for the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory, the predecessor of the Hubble Space Telescope. Moreover, he was involved in the development of navigation systems for Project Gemini which were later used for Apollo missions.
Trading experience
Kaufman worked in trading, research and advisory functions at major commercial banks, securities houses, central banks, and hedge funds.
After leaving the aerospace industry, Kaufman became a partner in an Illinois-based farm management company where, as a commercial hedger, he developed expertise in trading commodity futures markets. Between 1981 and 1991, Kaufman resided in Bermuda where he worked as Head of Trading Systems for Transworld Oil, Ltd. (Bermuda). He was a principal at Man-Drapeau Research (Singapore) from 1992 to 1998 and worked in consulting functions for Cinergy and Prudential-Bache. Between 2003 and 2008, Perry J. Kaufman worked as a portfolio manager and senior quantitative analyst for Graham Capital Management, a hedge fund with a focus on managed futures trading strategies. Kaufman is currently a consultant to Mizuho Alternative Investments and serves as a board member at ARIAD Asset Management GmbH. Kaufman also advises the Aquantum Group and collaborates with the company in the design of systematic trading programs and indices.
Publications & Canon Contributions
Kaufman is the founder of the Journal of Futures Markets and creator of John Wiley & Sons's Traders Advantage series.
Kaufman has authored numerous books, the most popular of which is New Trading Systems and Methods, first published by John Wiley & Sons in 1978 and now in its fifth edition. Since the late 1970s, Kaufman has published a total of 14 books to contribute to theories in the areas of price forecasting and portfolio allocation. Some of his books were translated into Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese. His latest book, Learn to Trade, was published in 2022.
Since 1973, Kaufman has published numerous articles in, for example, the Journal of Futures Markets, Futures, Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, and Futures Industry Magazine. Samples of this work can be found below.
Kaufman has been a speaker at universities, major industry seminars, New York Stock Exchange corporate training courses, and the Dow Jones World Tours. He has made a number of radio and television appearances. Examples of his presentations can be found below.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Moscow | The Moscow tramway network, which is divided into two sub-networks, is a key element of the public transport system in Moscow, the capital city of Russia. Opened in 1872, it has been operated since 1958 until 2021 by Mosgortrans, a state-owned company.
Overview
The two sub-networks had a combined total route length of , making the whole network the fourth largest in the world, after the networks in Melbourne, St. Petersburg and Berlin.
The tram is historically the second type of urban passenger transport in Moscow, the successor of the Konka (horse-driven tram). However, the presence in Moscow by the beginning of the 20th century horse-railways hindered the development of tram lines. For the laying of tram lines, it was necessary first to free the roads from horse tracks. In 1901, the council purchased the first competition of the Belgian joint-stock company. When, in 1903, came a period of redemption horse-drawn railway the second Belgian joint stock company, the Duma is not solved, as, according to N. I. Astrov: "In Russia we have not experienced builders and engineers". In November 1905, immediately after the events of October elected a new mayor Nikolai Guchkov. Its launching coincided with the revolutionary actions of workers of Moscow in November–December 1905. As soon as the life in the town had returned to normal, Nikolai Ivanovich ordered to proceed with the laying of tram tracks. In February 1907, construction finally began on Myasnitska Street, Sretenka Street and Lubyanka Street, from the Passion of the monastery Dmitrovka and further on down, to the Sretenka and Myasnitskaya. The first electric tram routes linked the outskirts of the Garden ring with the center of Moscow, and mainly repeated the routes of the konechnye.
18 May 1910 the city council on the proposal of N. I. Guchkov made a decision about carrying out in 1912 in Moscow, the congress of tram companies.
To the 1910 years the dense network of lines was observed in the western part of the centre with the formation of arcs on the Garden and Boulevard rings. In 1918 the total length of tram lines in the city amounted to In 1926 the length of track grew to in 1918, there were 475 cars, and in 1926 – 764. Average speed of trams increased from in 1918 to in 1926.
History of the network
The apogee of Moscow's tram network was in the early 1930s, when it served both rings (the Boulevard and the Garden) and all connecting streets, were laid and on the outskirts. In 1934, when the tram was the dominant mode of transport, 2.6 million of the city's population of 4 million used the tram every day. More radical changes took place in the 1940s, when trams were replaced by trolleybuses in the western part of the Boulevard Ring and removed from the Kremlin. With the development of the metro in the 1950s some of the lines leading to the suburbs were closed, and the carriage of freight ceased.
In 1958, the tram and trolleybus administration was merged with the passenger transport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataone | Dataone may refer to:
BSNL Broadband or Dataone, an Internet access service in India since 2005
DataONE, a cyberinfrastructure project supported by the National Science Foundation under the DataNet program |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Ten%20Icons | Big Ten Icons is a television show in the Big Ten Network that showcases outstanding Big Ten athletes and coaches. Its subjects range over a wide period of time and include all sports.
The series began in the fall of 2010 and featured 20 episodes, each one featuring a different Big Ten college athlete counting down in order.
The next season, Big Ten Icons: The Coaches, began in the fall of 2011 and profiled 12 coaches, one from each school, with several from football. Some of the coaches included Nebraska's Tom Osborne, Penn State's Joe Paterno, Iowa's Dan Gable and Michigan's Bo Schembechler.
The series is narrated by college sports broadcaster Keith Jackson.
Episodes
Season 1:
Sponsors
Discover Card is the presenting sponsor of the series.
References
External links
Documentary television series about sports
2010s American documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim%20Moses | Kim Moses is a principal in Sander/Moses Productions where she has both developed and served as an executive producer on over 600 hours of prime-time television programming.
Career
Kim Moses began her career in television at Ohlmeyer Productions where she developed reality-based programs, game shows, and rock & roll and sports programs, specializing in live broadcasts. She also worked on Capitol Hill on the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science and Technology.
Her earliest television producing credits include the reality series How'd They do That! on CBS, Comic Strip Live Primetime and My World On Video, the reality special The Extreme Edge, and the sports reality series Power Boat Racing With Don Johnson. She has also served as a producer on the MTV Video Music Awards I & II, the Emmy Awards, the CBS live music special Super Bowl Saturday Night, the live music special Walt Disney's 4th of July Spectacular and the music special Disney's Christmas on Ice.
Her other television executive producer credits are Ali, An American Hero, the Emmy Award-winning Stolen Babies, Chasing the Dragon and How to Marry a Billionaire. Additional feature film script writing credits include The Surgeon and Home of Champions.She has also executive produced Profiler, for which she also co-wrote and directed episodes, as well as The Beast, New York News, Brimstone, and For the People.
Along with Ian Sander, Moses produced "Hollywood and Civil Rights: Destination Freedom," a live event for the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles.
Moses was executive producer and director of the CBS drama Ghost Whisperer, and she co-authored the show's companion book, Ghost Whisperer: Spirit Guide. She also co-created and written the award-winning Ghost Whisperer: The Other Side web series. Along with Ian Sander, she developed and executive produced the special Psychic in Suburbia for the Style Network.
Moses served as executive producer on the legal drama series Reckless'', a legal drama developed and produced by Sander/Moses Productions and premiered on June 29, 2014. The series was not renewed.
Total Engagement Experience
Moses pioneered the Total Engagement Experience (TEE), which is a business and creative model for television that uses each show as a component of a broader multi-platform entertainment experience that includes the internet, publishing, music, mobile, DVDs, video games and more, establishing an infinity loop driving ratings and increasing revenue streams.
Personal life
Moses is the widow of Ian Sander, and they have two children, Aaron and Declan.
References
External links
Sander Moses: Who We Are at SanderMoses.com
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American television directors
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Living people
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Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ESPN | ESPN is an American-based global cable and satellite television channel that focuses on sports-related programming including live and pre-taped event telecasts, sports highlight and talk shows, and other original programming. This article details the development of ESPN from its founding in 1978, and its history since the channel's launch on September 7, 1979.
Origins
ESPN was founded by Bill Rasmussen, his son Scott Rasmussen, then 43 year old eye doctor and Aetna insurance agent Ed Eagan. Bill, who had an affinity with sports for much of his life, was fired from his position as the communications manager for the New England Whalers in 1978. During his tenure with the hockey team, Rasmussen had met Eagan, who displayed an interest in building a career in television. Eagan approached Bill with the idea of creating a monthly cable television program covering Connecticut sports and was curious to see if the Whalers would be interested in being the main feature on the show.
Though discouraged by his firing, Rasmussen and Eagan began to discuss a new course; Bill Rasmussen's original idea was to create a cable television network that focused on covering all sporting events in the state of Connecticut (for example, the Whalers, the Bristol Red Sox and the Connecticut Huskies), rather than just focusing on one team as Eagan had proposed. Rasmussen knew little about cable television at the time and with under 20% of homes receiving cable, the task to create such a network was tedious.
In the summer of 1978, the Rasmussens, with Eagan and his associate Bob Beyus – who owned a video production company – began to seek out support from cable operators and potential investors for the sports channel which they had come to name the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESP). They began to pitch their idea on June 26 of that year, inviting twelve representatives from local cable operators – only five of whom had accepted the offer. The representatives that were present were skeptical of the concept and stated that it would be impractical and too costly to take a risk on something that would seemingly falter. Despite the setback, the team held a press conference to help spread the word. 35 reporters were invited, however only four appeared and were less than enthusiastic about the prospects of the company. Beyus felt the future of ESP was in doubt and departed following the conference.
In spite of these initial difficulties, ESP was incorporated on July 13, 1978, for a fee of $91. The trio still had to find a way to broadcast their new sports channel and began their research at United Cable, where they were told about a new means of television distribution, satellite communication. They were then directed to RCA, which had experience in satellite communication, having launched Satcom into orbit and frequently using the technology in Europe; the concept was still new in the United States (satellite delivery was first used for full-time television broa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabulation%20hashing | In computer science, tabulation hashing is a method for constructing universal families of hash functions by combining table lookup with exclusive or operations. It was first studied in the form of Zobrist hashing for computer games; later work by Carter and Wegman extended this method to arbitrary fixed-length keys. Generalizations of tabulation hashing have also been developed that can handle variable-length keys such as text strings.
Despite its simplicity, tabulation hashing has strong theoretical properties that distinguish it from some other hash functions. In particular, it is 3-independent: every 3-tuple of keys is equally likely to be mapped to any 3-tuple of hash values. However, it is not 4-independent. More sophisticated but slower variants of tabulation hashing extend the method to higher degrees of independence.
Because of its high degree of independence, tabulation hashing is usable with hashing methods that require a high-quality hash function, including hopscotch hashing, cuckoo hashing, and the MinHash technique for estimating the size of set intersections.
Method
The basic idea is as follows:
First, divide the key to be hashed into smaller "blocks" of a chosen length. Then, create a set of lookup tables, one for each block, and fill them with random values. Finally, use the tables to compute a hash value for each block, and combine all of these hashes into a final hash value using the bitwise exclusive or operation.
More formally:
Let p be the number of bits in a key to be hashed, and q be the number of bits desired in an output hash function. Choose a block size r ≤ p; the choice of block size controls the tradeoff between time and memory usage, so it should be made so that the tables are not too large, e.g., so that the tables fit into the computer's cache memory. Smaller blocks use less memory but slow down the hash function. Compute t = ceil(p/r), the number of r-bit blocks needed to represent a key.
Create a two-dimensional 2r × t array, T, and fill it with random q-bit numbers. Now T can be used to compute the hash value h(x) of any given key x. To do so, partition x into r-bit values, where x0 consists of the lowest r bits of x, x1 consists of the next r bits, etc. For example, if r = 8, then xi is just the ith byte of x. Then, use these r-bit and position values as indices into T, and combine the results using the exclusive or operation:
h(x) = T[0][x0] ⊕ T[1][x1] ⊕ T[2][x2] ⊕ ... ⊕ T[t-1][xt-1].
Note that it is not valid to use the same table (e.g. T[0]) for each xi, since then the hash function would not be able to distinguish between strings with the same xis, but permuted differently.
Code for a typical example with r = t = 8 and q = p = 64 is given below.
// Secret table of random numbers
uint64_t T[8][256];
for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++)
for (int j = 0; j < 256; j++)
T[i][j] = getRandomUInt64();
// Simple Tabulation Hash function
uint64_t hash(uint64_t x) {
uint64_t res = 0;
for (int i = 0; i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shonal%20Rawat | Shonal Rawat is an Indian former model and Television anchor. She won Femina Miss India, 2003 and was subsequently sent to Miss Asia Pacific, 2003. She anchors Zoom Network talk shows and is a VJ. She is best known for the music video, Bindiya Chamkegi remixed by Bally Sagoo.
Personal life
Her father is an Indian Police Service officer and her mother has her own kindergarten in Kolkata. Since her father was posted in West Bengal she had attended schooling in different parts of the states she done her matriculate from Loreto House, and other from Ashok Hall. She married her boyfriend, Karan Vats in 2013.
Career
Modelling
She won Femina Miss India in 2003 and represented India at Miss Asia Pacific in that year and finished second at the 43rd Pageant in Tokyo, Japan. In 2004, she appeared in the mega hit video Bindiya Chamkegi with Upen Patel. Subsequently she has been an active model, appearing in shows for Satya Paul.
Television
Shonal Rawat has acted in Hindi comedy serial Aaj Ke Shriman Shrimati as a film actress Aishwarya Sen.
She is all set to host Sony TV's comedy-based reality show Champion Chaalbaaz No.1. As the channel heads took a combined decision of not overexposing Mona Singh to the reality show scenario, keeping in mind the to-be-launched reality show, The Extreme Makeover, Shonal Rawat now takes over the anchoring responsibilities of Champion Chaalbaaz No. 1.
Filmography
References
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Femina Miss India winners
Living people
University of Calcutta alumni
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Tasioulas | John Tasioulas (born 18 December 1964) is a Greek-Australian moral and legal philosopher. He is the inaugural Director of the Institute for Ethics in AI (artificial intelligence), and Professor of Ethics and Legal Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford. He holds dual Australian and British citizenship.
Biography
John Tasioulas was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, in 1964. His parents, Konstantinos and Elpiniki Tasioulas, migrated to Australia from Dasyllio in the Grevena region of Greece. He was a student at Northcote High School and Melbourne High School. He completed undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Law at the University of Melbourne and was the 1989 Rhodes Scholar for Victoria. Studying at Balliol College, he received a doctorate (D.Phil in Philosophy) from Oxford University for a thesis on moral relativism which was supervised by Joseph Raz.
Tasioulas was a lecturer in jurisprudence at the University of Glasgow (1992–1998), Reader in Moral and Legal Philosophy at the University of Oxford where he was a Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy at Corpus Christi College (1998–2010), Quain Professor of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Laws, University College London (2011–2014), and the inaugural Yeoh Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London and Director of the Yeoh Tiong Lay Centre for Politics, Philosophy, and Law (2014-2020). He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow at Melbourne Law School, an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, a Distinguished Research Fellow of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, and a member of the Academia Europaea. He has been a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School. He delivered the 'Or 'Emet Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School (2011), the Natural Law Lecture at Notre Dame Law School (2012), and the Van Hasselt Lecture at Delft University of Technology (2016).
Academic expertise
Tasioulas works in moral, legal and political philosophy. He has advanced a version of the communicative theory of punishment, according to which the overarching point of punishment is the communication of censure to wrong-doers. His version of the theory is distinctive in making room for the value of mercy alongside that of retributive justice.
In the philosophy of human rights, Tasioulas has argued for an orthodox understanding of such rights, according to which they are moral rights possessed by all human beings simply in virtue of their humanity. This contrasts with a more recent view that characterizes human rights in terms of some political role(s), such as being triggers for international intervention or benchmarks of internal legitimacy. According to Tasioulas, human rights have a foundation both in a plurality of human interests and in equal human dignity. Among other writings in this area, Tasioulas is the author of two reports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHPM-LD | WHPM-LD (channel 23) is a low-power television station in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States, affiliated with the Fox network and owned by Waypoint Media. The station's studios are located on Mayfair Road in Hattiesburg, and its transmitter is located on Old Highway 11/Norton Road in unincorporated Lamar County south of US 98.
History
The station signed on June 15, 2005, as WHPM-LP carrying religious programming on analog UHF channel 30. It shut-down that signal and switched to digital channel 23 in 2009. However, the station would not switch its call sign to reflect the change until October 7, 2011, when it adopted WHPM-LD. It became the market's first locally based Fox affiliate on October 13, 2011. Until this point, the network was available off-air and on cable through WXXV-TV in Gulfport. That outlet strategically located its broadcast tower and designed a directional antenna pattern to enable the station to cover the Gulf Coast and Pine Belt regions of the state.
On September 10, 2012, WHPM took over promotional and advertising responsibilities of the area's cable-only CW affiliate "WBH". As a result, the service was added to a new second digital subchannel of WHPM in order to offer over-the-air viewers access to The CW. Except for local commercials, all programming is provided through the national CW Plus service. Initially, the station (now using the WHPM-LD2 call sign) remained on Comcast channel 59. Eventually, it began airing in 720p high definition over-the-air and on Comcast digital channel 438. It is no longer offered on the system's basic tier. As part of a long-term affiliation renewal with Media General, The CW moved to WHLT's digital subchannel on December 23, 2014. As of July 2015, MeTV and MyNetworkTV were added to a third subchannel. This TV was added to the second subchannel in September, returning the network to the market after WDAM-DT2 switched to ABC three years prior. WHPM-LD2 later switched to Antenna TV as of 2021.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
Programming
Syndicated programming featured on the station includes Family Guy, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men among others.
In addition to Fox programming, WHPM-LD operates the Hattiesburg–Laurel market's MyNetworkTV/MeTV affiliate on its LD3 subchannel, filling in programming for all time slots outside of the MyNetworkTV programming schedule with the MeTV schedule.
Newscasts
On September 25, 2015, Waypoint Media announced that it would launch a half-hour prime time newscast at 9:00 p.m. for WHPM-LD – the first such program in the Meridian market – on October 5. Although WHPM's operations are largely based out of the studios of sister stations WMDN and WGBC in Meridian (the latter of which will debut a prime time newscast on that same date), it is not clear if the program will be produced out of Hattiesburg or through WGBC/WMDN's Meridian facilities.
In October 2016, WHPM announced on their Facebook |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20programs%20broadcast%20by%20Qubo | This is a list of programs formerly broadcast by the now-defunct children's television channel Qubo in the United States, a children's network which existed from January 8, 2007 until February 28, 2021.
Also detailed are Qubo-branded children's programming blocks which were carried by Ion Television and its subnetwork Ion Life/Ion Plus, NBC, and Telemundo. The Qubo blocks ended on the Ion networks on February 26, 2021, and on NBC and Telemundo on July 1, 2012.
Qubo Channel
Former programming
Original programming
Acquired programming
Programming originally produced for and aired on PBS Kids
Interstitial programming
Blocks
Qubo-branded blocks
NBC
Original programming
Acquired programming
Short-form programming
Telemundo
Original programming
All programming utilized the Spanish-language dub.
Acquired programming
Short-form programming
Ion Television
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Short-form programming
Ion Life/Plus
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Short-form programming
References
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Mycroft | Alan Mycroft is a professor at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, where he is also director of studies for computer science.
Education
Mycroft read mathematics at Cambridge then moved to Edinburgh where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy degree with a thesis on Abstract interpretation and optimising transformations for applicative programs supervised by Rod Burstall and Robin Milner.
Research
Mycroft's research interests are in programming languages, software engineering and algorithms.
With Arthur Norman, he co-created the Norcroft C compiler. He is also a named trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, a charitable organisation whose single-board computer is intended to stimulate the teaching of basic computer science in schools.
Personal life
Mycroft has four children.
References
Living people
British computer scientists
Fellows of Robinson College, Cambridge
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20traffic%20light | Smart traffic lights or Intelligent traffic lights are a vehicle traffic control system that combines traditional traffic lights with an array of sensors and artificial intelligence to intelligently route vehicle and pedestrian traffic. They can form part of a bigger intelligent transport system.
Research
A technology for smart traffic signals has been developed at Carnegie Mellon University and is being used in a pilot project in Pittsburgh in an effort to reduce vehicle emissions in the city. Unlike other dynamic control signals that adjust the timing and phasing of lights according to limits that are set in controller programming, this system combines existing technology with artificial intelligence.
The signals communicate with each other and adapt to changing traffic conditions to reduce the amount of time that cars spend idling. Using fiber optic video receivers similar to those already employed in dynamic control systems, the new technology monitors vehicle numbers and makes changes in real time to avoid congestion wherever possible. Initial results from the pilot study are encouraging: the amount of time that motorists spent idling at lights was reduced by 40% and travel times across the city were reduced by 25%.
Possible benefits
Companies involved in developing smart traffic management systems include BMW and Siemens, who unveiled their system of networked lights in 2010. This system works with the anti-idling technology that many cars are equipped with, to warn them of impending light changes. This should help cars that feature anti-idling systems to use them more intelligently, and the information that networks receive from the cars should help them to adjust light cycling times to make them more efficient.
A new patent appearing March 1, 2016 by John F. Hart Jr. is for a "Smart" traffic control system that "sees" traffic approaching the intersections and reacts according to what is needed to keep the flow of vehicles at the most efficient rate. By anticipating the needs of the approaching vehicles, as opposed to reacting to them after they arrive and stop, this system has the potential to save motorist time while cutting down harmful emissions.
Romanian and US research teams believe that the time spent by motorists waiting for lights to change could be reduced by over 28% with the introduction of smart traffic lights, and that CO2 emissions could be cut by as much as 6.5%.
A major use of Smart traffic lights could be as part of public transport systems. The signals can be set up to sense the approach of buses or trams and change the signals in their favour, thus improving the speed and efficiency of sustainable transport modes.
Obstacles to widespread introduction
The main stumbling block to the widespread introduction of such systems is the fact that most vehicles on the road are unable to communicate with the computer systems that town and city authorities use to control traffic lights. However, the trial in Harris County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakra%20%28operating%20system%29 | Chakra (officially Chakra GNU/Linux) was a Linux distribution originally based on Arch Linux and focused on KDE software, intending to provide a KDE/Qt minimizing use of other widget toolkits where possible. It was well received by critics during its existence.
History
In June 2006 a group of Arch Linux users initiated the KDEmod packaging project to improve and simplify a standard KDE installation with Arch Linux. In December 2008 the group released their first custom made ISO with a preconfigured Arch + KDEmod + Tribe. After several releases lead developer Jan Mette suggested to split from Arch to allow for a much closer integration with KDE software.
On August 30, 2010, the first independent version, called Chakra 0.2, was released. This ended the development on KDEmod and the project was renamed to "The Chakra Project".
On December 27, 2021, the lead developer of Chakra announced the discontinuation of the project including accounts and services, citing a lack of project activity since November 2019.
On 11 April 2022, the board of Software in the Public Interest, Inc. (SPI), who owned the trademark of Chakra, voted unanimously on the removal of Chakra as an associated project of the SPI, based on the request from Chakra.
Features
Chakra included both free and proprietary software, though the latter had the ability to be disabled during installation. It was only available for the x86_64 architecture, with support for i686 having been dropped in August 2012. It is based on KDE Software Compilation.
Chakra did not schedule releases for specific dates but used a "Half-Rolling release" system. This meant that the core packages of Chakra (graphics, audio, etc.) were frozen and only updated to fix security vulnerabilities. The aforementioned packages were updated after the latest versions were thoroughly tested before being moved to the stable repositories (about every six months). This allowed Chakra to ensure stability for the rest of the software included. Other applications such as web browsers, office suites, etc. were updated following the rolling release model and were generally available immediately after their release.
Installation
The Chakra website supplied ISO images that could be run from CD, DVD or USB. Two ISO image versions were provided; a full edition providing more applications, and a minimal edition providing less applications. The graphical Chakra installation program was called "Calamares".
Package management
Repositories
The following repositories were known to exist during Chakra's existence:
core, which contains all the packages needed to set up a base system.
desktop, which contains KDE Software Compilation packages and Chakra tools.
gtk, which contains various well-known GTK applications.
lib32, a centralized repository for x86_64 users to more readily support 32-bit applications in a 64-bit environment.
A testing repository also existed that contained versions of packages that were deemed not stable, bu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.lux | f.lux (pronounced "flux") is a cross-platform computer program that adjusts a display's color temperature according to location and time of day, offering functional respite for the eyes. The program is designed to reduce eye strain during night-time use, helping to reduce disruption of sleep patterns.
Functionality
On installation, the user can choose a location based on geographic coordinates, a ZIP code, or the name of a location. The program then automatically calibrates the device display's color temperature to account for time of day, based on sunrise and sunset at the chosen location. At sunset, it will gradually change the color temperature to a warmer color and restore the original color at sunrise.
f.lux offers a variety of color profiles and pre-defined temperature values, modifying program behaviour for specific programs or activities; including a mode for film watching, decreasing red tinge (for 2.5 hours), and a darkroom mode that does not affect night-adapted vision. Times can be inverted on f.lux for PC to provide warm lighting during the daytime (for people who work at night). The program can control Philips Hue LED lighting, so that the color temperature of house lights follows f.lux's settings.
Platforms
The program is available for Microsoft Windows, macOS and Linux (except for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS). It is also available for Apple iOS devices, although it requires the device to be jailbroken. Apple has not allowed the application in its App Store due to its use of restricted developer tools. The developer briefly hosted an Xcode project on GitHub, allowing iOS 9 users to sideload the application onto their devices, but retracted it at the request of Apple. Following Apple's announcement of a similar function, called Night Shift, in iOS 9.3, the developer called upon Apple to provide developer tools and to allow their application into the App Store. A preview version for Google's Android system is available.
Efficacy
Reducing exposure to bright (1000 lux) blue lights at night time was linked to increased melatonin secretion in a 1996 study but a 2018 study showed that changing the spectral composition of self-luminous displays without changing their brightness settings may be insufficient for preventing impacts on melatonin suppression.
f.lux proponents hypothesize that altering the color temperature of a display to reduce the prominence of white–blue light at night will improve the effectiveness of sleep. Although the developer provides a list of relevant research on their website, the program itself has not been scientifically tested to determine its efficacy, and the equivalent Apple program, Night Shift, was shown to have no effect on sleep outcomes (sleep latency, duration, efficiency and wake after sleep onset) in a 2021 study on 167 college undergraduates. f.lux has been widely and positively reviewed by technology journalists, bloggers, and users.
See also
Electronic media and sleep
Red Moon (software)
Redshif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android%20Beam | Android Beam is a discontinued feature of the Android mobile operating system that allowed data to be transferred via near field communication (NFC). It allowed the rapid short-range exchange of web bookmarks, contact info, directions, YouTube videos, and other data. Android Beam was introduced in 2011 with Android Ice Cream Sandwich. This was improved after Google acquired Bump.
By 2017, ComputerWorld included Android Beam in a list of "once-trumpeted features that quietly faded away", observing that "despite the admirable marketing effort, Beam never quite worked particularly well, and numerous other systems for sharing stuff proved to be simpler and more reliable."
Android Beam was deprecated starting with Android 10 in January 2019. Google replaced Android Beam with the introduction of Nearby Share, which is an AirDrop competitor by Google.
Description
Usage
Android Beam is activated by placing devices back to back with the content to be shared displayed on the screen. If the content is able to be sent, the screen will shrink down and display "Tap to Beam" at the top. Tapping the screen sends the content from the one device to the other. A sound will play when devices are near and able to beam. When the data has been sent, a confirmation tone will play or a negative tone will play if failed and the content will shrink off the screen indicating beaming is complete. Sharing is one direction and the device sending content will not get content from the receiving device.
Requirements
To activate Android Beam, both devices must support NFC (Near field communication) and have it enabled in addition to passing the lock-screen or logging in.
4.1 Jelly Bean update
As of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, devices can use Android Beam to send photos and videos over Bluetooth. Android Beam uses NFC to enable Bluetooth on both devices, instantly pair them, and disable Bluetooth once complete automatically on both devices. This only works between Android devices version 4.1 and above.
Application support
For beaming of specific content, an app is allowed to control the content being sent when adding Android Beam support. If the app does not specify data, beaming the app will open it on the receiving device. If the receiving device does not have the app, it will open the application page in the Play Store.
S Beam
S Beam refers to an extension of Android Beam by Samsung, first used on their Galaxy S III phones. It uses the near-field communication to establish a Wi-Fi Direct connection between two devices for the data transfer, instead of a Bluetooth connection. This results in faster transfer speeds between devices which feature S Beam. S Beam is limited to devices with S Beam support, Wi-Fi Direct, and NFC such as HTC One and Samsung Galaxy S III.
See also
Nearby Share
Bump (application)
AirDrop
References
Android (operating system) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abua%20language | Abua (Abuan) is a Central Delta language of Nigeria.
Writing System
References
External links
Listen to a sample of Abua from Global Recordings Network
Indigenous languages of Rivers State
Central Delta languages |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetroMates | MetroMates was an Indian social networking service that allowed train commuters to interact with fellow commuters. Launched in New Delhi on Valentine's Day in 2011 for Delhi Metro commuters, MetroMates became available for the Bangalore Metro and Kolkata Metro. MetroMates allowed commuters to share their travel schedule online with others and thus find a mate or travel partner to commute with every day. MetroMates was founded by Sameer Suri after he was inspired by watching the movie The Social Network, featuring real-life story behind formation of Facebook.
References
External links
Indian social networking websites
Defunct social networking services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reporter%20TV | Reporter TV is an Indian Malayalam-language free-to-air news channel currently operated by Reporter News Network owned by Reporter Broadcasting Company, based at Kochi. The channel was launched on 13 May 2011 with M. V. Nikesh Kumar, a popular media person in Kerala, as the CEO of Reporter TV.
Anil Ayroor joined the Reporter Broadcasting Company as president in 2023. It is the flagship channel of Reporter Broadcasting Company. The channel underwent a brand revamp on 1 July 2023.
Channels
According to the president of Reporter TV, Anil Ayroor, they are planning to expand Reporter Broadcasting Company to 9 regional languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Bengali, Assamese etc. with a budget of Crore for the expansion.
External links
Official website
Youtube
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
Malayalam-language television channels
Television stations in Kochi
Television channels and stations established in 2011
2011 establishments in Kerala |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KeepRecipes | KeepRecipes is a social networking website and mobile application that specializes in social cataloging. Members organize and share favorite recipes from any website. The full service has been called "like Instapaper for food" and a "recipe manager for food lovers".
KeepRecipes was started by the team from KartMe. They began by launching charity cookbooks with Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto, Top Chef All Star Anita Lo, Best Selling Author Mark Bittman, and Model Lauren Bush Lauren. The cookbooks raised funds for the American Red Cross's efforts in Japan.
KeepRecipes is backed by DreamIt Ventures.
References
External links
KeepRecipes Recipe Organizer
KeepRecipes Blog
Social cataloging applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nir%20Friedman | Nir Friedman (born 1967) is an Israeli Professor of Computer Science and Biology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His research combines Machine Learning and Statistical Learning with Systems Biology, specifically in the fields of Gene Regulation, Transcription and Chromatin.
Education and research
Friedman earned his B.Sc degree from Tel Aviv University (1987) and his M.Sc from the Weizmann Institute of Science (1992). In 1997, he completed his Ph.D. at Stanford under the supervision of Joseph Halpern, in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
After some postdoctoral work at the University of California, Berkeley, he accepted a faculty position at the School of Computer Science, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
His highly cited research includes work on Bayesian network classifiers (with Danny Geiger and Moises Goldszmidt), Bayesian Structural EM, and the use of Bayesian methods to analyzing gene expression data (with Aviv Regev, Dana Pe'er, Eran Segal, Daphne Koller and David Botstein). More recent works focus on Probabilistic Graphical Models, reconstructing Regulatory Networks, Genetic Interactions, and the role of Chromatin in Transcriptional Regulation (with Oliver Rando)
In 2009, Friedman and Koller published a textbook on Probabilistic Graphical Models. Later that year, he joined the Institute of Life Sciences, and opened an experimental lab where he uses advanced robotic tools to study transcriptional regulation in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
References
Living people
Israeli bioinformaticians
Systems biologists
1967 births
Fellows of the International Society for Computational Biology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scikit-learn | scikit-learn (formerly scikits.learn and also known as sklearn) is a free software machine learning library for the Python programming language.
It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support-vector machines, random forests, gradient boosting, k-means and DBSCAN, and is designed to interoperate with the Python numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and SciPy. Scikit-learn is a NumFOCUS fiscally sponsored project.
Overview
The scikit-learn project started as scikits.learn, a Google Summer of Code project by French data scientist David Cournapeau. The name of the project stems from the notion that it is a "SciKit" (SciPy Toolkit), a separately developed and distributed third-party extension to SciPy.
The original codebase was later rewritten by other developers. In 2010, contributors Fabian Pedregosa, Gaël Varoquaux, Alexandre Gramfort and Vincent Michel, from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation in Saclay, France, took leadership of the project and released the first public version of the library on February 1, 2010. In November 2012, scikit-learn as well as scikit-image, were described as two of the "well-maintained and popular" . In 2019, it was noted that scikit-learn is one of the most popular machine learning libraries on GitHub.
Implementation
scikit-learn is largely written in Python, and uses NumPy extensively for high-performance linear algebra and array operations. Furthermore, some core algorithms are written in Cython to improve performance. Support vector machines are implemented by a Cython wrapper around LIBSVM; logistic regression and linear support vector machines by a similar wrapper around LIBLINEAR. In such cases, extending these methods with Python may not be possible.
scikit-learn integrates well with many other Python libraries, such as Matplotlib and plotly for plotting, NumPy for array vectorization, Pandas dataframes, SciPy, and many more.
Version history
scikit-learn was initially developed by David Cournapeau as a Google Summer of Code project in 2007. Later that year, Matthieu Brucher joined the project and started to use it as a part of his thesis work. In 2010, INRIA, the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, got involved and the first public release (v0.1 beta) was published in late January 2010.
August 2013. scikit-learn 0.14
July 2014. scikit-learn 0.15.0
March 2015. scikit-learn 0.16.0
November 2015. scikit-learn 0.17.0
September 2016. scikit-learn 0.18.0
July 2017. scikit-learn 0.19.0
September 2018. scikit-learn 0.20.0
May 2019. scikit-learn 0.21.0
December 2019. scikit-learn 0.22
May 2020. scikit-learn 0.23.0
Jan 2021. scikit-learn 0.24
September 2021. scikit-learn 1.0.0
September 2021. scikit-learn 1.0.0
October 2021. scikit-learn 1.0.1
December 2021. scikit-learn 1.0.2
May 2022. scikit-learn 1.1.0
May 2022. scikit-learn 1.1.1
August 2022. scikit-learn 1.1.2
October 2022. scikit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toonami%20%28Australian%20TV%20programming%20block%29 | Toonami (a portmanteau of the words cartoon and tsunami) was a former programming block on Cartoon Network that ran from 7 July 2001 until 4 August 2006.
History
Toonami was launched on Cartoon Network Australia on 7 July 2001 as an outlet for action animation. Most of its lineup consisted of anime, including already popular shows such as Dragon Ball Z, as well as the Australian premiere of Cardcaptors and exclusives such as Mobile Suit Gundam Wing and YuYu Hakusho. Occasionally it also broadcast action cartoons from the United States such as Batman Beyond.
On its launch, Toonami broadcast on Saturday evenings from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm and on Sunday afternoons from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm. Each day's programming was repeated in the Toonami "Late Run" from 11:00 pm to 1:00 am. Toonami soon expanded to weekdays, and for a number of years could be seen seven days a week. Although time-slots varied, the main Toonami block remained on weekday afternoons; in 2005 it was airing weeknights from 6.00 pm, with mini-marathons playing on Saturday and Sunday mornings.
In August 2006, Toonami was dropped from the Cartoon Network schedule. Former Toonami programming, and new programming that would have previously gone to Toonami is now spread out across the network's other time-slots.
References
External links
Television programming blocks in Australia
Toonami
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2006
2001 establishments in Australia
2006 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship%20Troopers%3A%20Invasion | is a 2012 Japanese-American adult computer-animated military science fiction horror film directed by Shinji Aramaki. It is the fourth installment of the Starship Troopers film series. The film was released in Japan on July 21, 2012, and in North America on August 28, 2012, as a direct-to-video title.
The film was followed by Starship Troopers: Traitor of Mars (2017).
Plot
On an asteroid, the Terran Federation's Fort Casey is crawling with bugs. The starship Alesia begins to deploy its Mobile Infantry troopers, by dropship, to seize and control the hangar and rescue any survivors. Lt. Daugherty's Alpha Team lands and immediately engages bugs, fighting through to rendezvous with the surviving Fort Casey troopers. After setting explosives charges, the troopers head to the starship John A. Warden for evacuation, only to see it leave dock without them—Minister Carl Jenkins has commandeered the Warden from Captain Carmen Ibanez, sending her to Alesia. Before leaving, Jenkins orders that Major Henry "Hero" Varro, the commander of Fort Casey's K-12 troopers, be escorted to Alesia as a prisoner. Alesia docks with Fort Casey for emergency evacuation of the surviving troopers, and the Fort Casey asteroid is successfully destroyed.
While en route to Earth, Alesia is contacted by General Johnny Rico from High Command at L-6 Base. When he orders Alesia to search for the Warden, which has broken all contact, the Fort Casey troopers agree to do so on condition that Varro lead them during the mission. When they find the Warden, Daugherty's team escorts Ibanez to the bridge while Varro's team secures the engine room, both teams finding nothing but dead crewmen and a few dead bugs. Varro finds a deranged Jenkins who warns him—too late—not to power up the Warden because "she" has hacked all the systems. As engines recharge the Warden, an Arachnid Queen inside takes control of all systems and opens bulkhead doors to release her bugs. As Ibanez and the troopers attempt to return to Alesia, the Queen uses Wardens main weapons to destroy the other ship, then flies Warden into a wormhole whose outlet is in near-Earth space. The troopers return to the bridge, where Varro reveals he was arrested when Jenkins had ordered his unit to capture the Queen alive on Fort Casey, but Varro had refused to sacrifice his squad.
General Rico deploys three starships from L-6 Base in Earth orbit, but the Queen hijacks the Warden's weaponry and destroys them. The Queen sets the bug-infested Warden on a trajectory to crash land in Paris, but Alpha Team sniper Trig manages to shoot out the wires linking the Queen to the ship, allowing Ibanez to re-direct the Warden to crash land in the Alps. Meanwhile, General Rico leads a squad of troopers in Marauder suits to stop the bugs from escaping the crash site, while high command gives him thirty minutes before dropping nukes from the L-6 Station to sanitize the site.
Back on the Warden, the five surviving troopers make their way toward the Qu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20Radio%20South%20West | Greatest Hits Radio South West is a regional radio station serving the South West of England, as part of Bauer’s Greatest Hits Radio network.
Coverage
The ten local stations broadcast to the areas of Bath, Bristol, Cornwall, Devon, Gloucestershire, Plymouth, Somerset, Swindon and West Wiltshire across the South West of England.
Stations
On 1 September 2020 nine local radio stations in the South West of England merged:
The Breeze (Bath)
The Breeze (Bridgwater & West Somerset)
The Breeze (Bristol)
The Breeze (Cheltenham & North Gloucestershire)
The Breeze (Frome & West Wiltshire)
The Breeze (South Devon)
The Breeze (North Somerset)
The Breeze (Yeovil & South Somerset)
Sam FM (Swindon)
On 2 November 2020 a tenth local radio station joined the portfolio:
Radio Plymouth
Also joining the GHR network in the South West:
Cornwall (DAB only)
History
In the Bristol area, originally launched on 26 November 1999 as 107.3 The Eagle and was owned by UKRD. The slogans used were "Bristol's Newest Radio Station" or "Bristol's Fastest Growing Radio Station". Its sister station at the time was also called The Eagle, which is based in Guildford, Surrey and also owned by UKRD.
In 2000, the station name had changed, and was called Star 107.3. The station played
a different variety style of adult contemporary music after they changed the format and renewed their licence. In 2004 Star's frequency allocation changed to 107.2 with increased transmitter power for better coverage. UKRD sold the Bristol licence to new owners Tomahawk Radio and shared new premises with another radio station, Bristol's Original 106.5.
From 7 September 2010 Celador became the new licence holders and rebranded Star 107.2 as The Breeze 107.2 on 14 February 2011.
In West Somerset, originally first launched as Quay West and was launched in August 1998. It was later relaunched as Total Star Somerset under the ownership of One Gold Radio and breached Ofcom regulations after transmitting new transmitter power at North Hill at 30,000 watts vertically without permission on the 102.4 frequency. OFCOM said they would then terminate and re-advertise their licence by 1 December 2011. The station has since changed their ownership to Celador, and from midday on 7 August 2011 they joined The Breeze Network.
In Bridgewater, a new radio station went on air on 4 July 2001 as BCR FM under the owners of Choice Media and later was sold to Laser Broadcasting in July 2006.
The station was relaunched as 107.4 Quay West to bring it in line with the other Quay West stations in West Somerset. In August 2010 the two Quay West stations merged as one station called Total Star Somerset and was taken over by One Gold Radio Ltd until 2011.
In Bath and North East Somerset, the original station launched as 107.9 Bath FM from its Bathampton Down transmitter in November 1999 and was a rival station to GWR FM Bath (now Heart). It had several ownerships such as The Local Radio Group in February 2006, Laser Broadc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega%20TV%20%28American%20TV%20network%29 | Mega TV is an American free-to-air television network based in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that was owned by Spanish Broadcasting System (SBS). It was launched in 2006. The network's flagship is WSBS-TV, a television station licensed to Key West, Florida, with studios also in Miami.
In 2023, SBS said it would sell Mega TV to Voz Media, a conservative Spanish-language news media firm based in Texas, pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission.
History
Mega TV was launched on March 1, 2006. Its original slate of programming includes productions aimed to young Hispanic viewers. Mega TV seems to be following the same pattern traced by larger rivals such as the Hispanic Telemundo, Univision and Azteca nearly 25 years ago — creating its own television personalities.
In early 2007, the station cut 55 employees to save production costs. A vast majority of locally produced programs such as Desvelados, Xpediente, El Noticero, El Vacilon, Entre Fichas, and Mega Especiales, Puerta Astral ("Star Port") and Agenda del Inmigrante were supposedly placed on hiatus. The channel is scheduled for a summer run with changes in hosts and renamed Codigo Astral ("Star Code").
SBS has entered into agreements with other television stations to air Mega TV programming, including: WBWP-LD in West Palm Beach, Florida; WHDO-CD in Orlando, Florida; WFHD-LD in Tampa, Florida (future; currently, it is TBN repeater W36CO); WHDC-LD in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; KODF-LD in Dallas, Texas; WOCK-CD in Chicago, Illinois; KLPS-LP in Palm Springs, California; KMCC in Laughlin, Nevada; WMEI in Arecibo, Puerto Rico; and KSDI-LD in Fresno, California. WHDO, WFHD, WHDC, KLPS, and KSDI show (or plan to show) Mega TV on digital subchannels. As of May 27, 2013, WOCK-CD in Chicago no longer carries Mega TV.
In February 2023, SBS said it would sell Mega TV to Voz Media, a conservative Spanish-language news media firm based in the Dallas area, pending approval by the Federal Communications Commission.
Programming
, Mega TV's original programming included:
Bayly
Antena Live
Agenda del Inmigrante
Dante Night Show
En Corte con Ricardo Corona
Ahora con Oscar Haza
El Arañazo
MegaNoticiero
La Corte del Pueblo
Cuéntame (2020) con Johnny Lozada y Ambar
Mega Cine Cubano
A Tacón Quita'o
Vamonos de Viaje
Cayo Hueso al Dia
Mega Kids (E/I programming)
TV Martí
22 Minutos
Conectao's por la Cocina
Ceriani
Lo Mejor de La Radio en Mega TV
Puerta Astral/Código Astral
On The Street with Dariel Fernández
Latin Angels
Handyman
Xpediente
Show Business Extra
ESPN Deportes en Mega TV
El Circo de PR
El Vacilón de NY
Mundo Loco
Testigo Directo
Te Para Tres
Codigo Secreto
Esta es tu Casa con Natalia Cruz
Mega News
Corazones Guerreros con Natalia Denegri
Current affiliates
WSBS-TV Channel 22 Key West, Florida (Mega TV O&O/flagship station)
WTCV Channel 18.1 San Juan, Puerto Rico (Mega TV O&O)
WVEO Channel 18.1 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico
WVOZ-TV Channel 18.1 Ponce, Puerto Rico
WORA-TV Channel 18.1 Maya |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyles | Eyles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Derek Charles Eyles (1902–1974), British illustrator
Don Eyles (1944), retired computer engineer, worked on the computer systems in the Apollo 11 Lunar Landing
Francis Eyles (disambiguation), multiple people
Frederick Eyles (1864–1937), English-born Rhodesian botanist, politician and journalist
John Eyles (disambiguation), multiple people
Leonora Eyles (1889–1960), novelist, memoirist and feminist
Nick Eyles, University of Toronto professor
Thomas Eyles (c. 1769–1835), Royal Navy officer
See also
Eyles-Stiles Baronets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20app | A mobile application or app is a computer program or software application designed to run on a mobile device such as a phone, tablet, or watch. Mobile applications often stand in contrast to desktop applications which are designed to run on desktop computers, and web applications which run in mobile web browsers rather than directly on the mobile device.
Apps were originally intended for productivity assistance such as email, calendar, and contact databases, but the public demand for apps caused rapid expansion into other areas such as mobile games, factory automation, GPS and location-based services, order-tracking, and ticket purchases, so that there are now millions of apps available. Many apps require Internet access. Apps are generally downloaded from app stores, which are a type of digital distribution platforms.
The term "app", short for "application", has since become very popular; in 2010, it was listed as "Word of the Year" by the American Dialect Society.
Apps are broadly classified into three types: native apps, hybrid and web apps. Native applications are designed specifically for a mobile operating system, typically iOS or Android. Web apps are written in HTML5 or CSS and typically run through a browser. Hybrid apps are built using web technologies such as JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 and function like web apps disguised in a native container.
Overview
Most mobile devices are sold with several apps bundled as pre-installed software, such as a web browser, email client, calendar, mapping program, and an app for buying music, other media, or more apps. Some pre-installed apps can be removed by an ordinary uninstall process, thus leaving more storage space for desired ones. Where the software does not allow this, some devices can be rooted to eliminate the undesired apps.
Apps that are not preinstalled are usually available through distribution platforms called app stores. These may operated by the owner of the device's mobile operating system, such as the App Store or Google Play Store; by the device manufacturers, such as the Galaxy Store and Huawei AppGallery; or by third parties, such as the Amazon Appstore and F-Droid.
Usually, they are downloaded from the platform to a target device, but sometimes they can be downloaded to laptops or desktop computers. Apps can also be installed manually, for example by running an Android application package on Android devices.
Some apps are freeware, while others have a price, which can be upfront or a subscription. Some apps also include microtransactions and/or advertising. In any case, the revenue is usually split between the application's creator and the app store. The same app can, therefore, cost a different price depending on the mobile platform.
Mobile apps were originally offered for general productivity and information retrieval, including email, calendar, contacts, the stock market and weather information. However, public demand and the availability of developer tools drove ra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20calculus | In mathematical logic, category theory, and
computer science, kappa calculus is a
formal system for defining first-order
functions.
Unlike lambda calculus, kappa calculus has no
higher-order functions; its functions are
not first class objects. Kappa-calculus can be
regarded as "a reformulation of the first-order fragment of typed
lambda calculus".
Because its functions are not first-class objects, evaluation of kappa
calculus expressions does not require
closures.
Definition
The definition below has been adapted from the diagrams on pages 205 and 207 of Hasegawa.
Grammar
Kappa calculus consists of types and expressions, given by the
grammar below:
In other words,
1 is a type
If and are types then is a type.
Every variable is an expression
If is a type then is an expression
If is a type then is an expression
If is a type and e is an expression then is an expression
If and are expressions then is an expression
If x is a variable, is a type, and e is an expression, then is an expression
The and the subscripts of , , and are
sometimes omitted when they can be unambiguously determined from the
context.
Juxtaposition is often used as an abbreviation for a combination of
and composition:
Typing rules
The presentation here uses sequents () rather than hypothetical judgments in order to ease comparison with the simply typed lambda calculus. This requires the additional Var rule, which does not appear in Hasegawa
In kappa calculus an expression has two types: the type of its source and the type of its target. The notation is used to indicate that expression e has source type and target type .
Expressions in kappa calculus are assigned types according to the following rules:
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In other words,
Var: assuming lets you conclude that
Id: for any type ,
Bang: for any type ,
Comp: if the target type of matches the source type of they may be composed to form an expression with the source type of and target type of
Lift: if , then
Kappa: if we can conclude that under the assumption that , then we may conclude without that assumption that
Equalities
Kappa calculus obeys the following equalities:
Neutrality: If then and
Associativity: If , , and , then .
Terminality: If and then
Lift-Reduction:
Kappa-Reduction: if x is not free in h
The last two equalities are reduction rules for the calculus,
rewriting from left to right.
Properties
The type can be regarded as the unit type. Because of this, any two functions whose argument type is the same and whose result type is should be equal – since there is only a single value of type both functions must return that value for every argument (Terminality).
Expressions with type can be regarded as "constants" or values of "ground type"; this is because is the unit type, and so a function from this type is ne |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grzegorz%20Michalski | Grzegorz Marek Michalski is an economist, researcher at the School of Management, Computer Science and Finance at Wrocław University of Economics. His main area of research are Business Finance and Financial Liquidity Management. Grzegorz Marek Michalski is a professor of finance. Much of his research is aimed at understanding the determinants and dynamics of financial corporate liquidity. In his research, he has examined the firm value and cost of capital results of corporate liquidity management policies and results of demand for liquidity by firms. He has also investigated the effects of corporate liquidity on portfolio choice and corporate current assets decisions. Currently, Grzegorz Marek Michalski is studying the liquidity decisions made by nonprofit organizations. Grzegorz Marek Michalski also studies current business investment in accounts payable, inventories and operating cash. Recent grants and projects examine the effect of liquidity constraints on nonprofit organizations and for-profit small enterprises decisions to level of current assets investments, and on whether or not to use such information on cost of capital level and results on business valuation results. In ongoing work, he studies the unique risk characteristics of business organization capital, and documents the high expected returns which enterprises heavily invested in organization capital earn. Grzegorz Marek Michalski work has been published in ISI academic journals such as the Romanian Journal of Economic Forecasting, the Journal of Economic Computation and Economic Cybernetics Studies and Research, and the Agricultural Economics - Zemědělská ekonomika.
Grzegorz M. Michalski is an author and coauthor of over 80 papers and 10 books. He is part of Editorial Boards in many international journals:
Australasian Accounting Business & Finance Journal (AABFJ)
Works
Grzegorz M. Michalski writes in three areas:
Value-based working capital management
Financial liquidity management
Business finance
Financial analysis
,
References
External links
Microsoft Research Profile
Thomson Reuters Web of Knowledge listed publications
Google Scholar listed publications
1972 births
Living people
People from Brzeg
Corporate finance theorists
Polish economists
Wrocław University of Economics alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20vs.%20Chess | Battle vs. Chess is a computer simulation game of chess developed by Targem Games and Zuxxez Entertainment and published by TopWare Interactive. Intending to target all major seventh-generation platforms as well as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, the console and computer versions were released in Europe on May 17, 2011, while the handheld versions were cancelled.
Lawsuit with Interplay
The game was not initially released in the United States due to a lawsuit by Interplay Entertainment for trademark infringement due to its similarity to their title Battle Chess. The case went to trial by jury in the summer of 2012. In 2012, the United States District Court for the Central District of California granted a default judgment in Interplay's favor after TopWare fired its attorney and was unable to locate new counsel. On November 15, 2012, the parties settled with TopWare agreeing to pay Interplay approximately $200,000, plus interest. After the lawsuit, the game was released in North America as Check vs. Mate to avoid the Interplay trademark on planned remake of Battle Chess, through digital distribution networks including Steam.
Gameplay
Player move with the animated fantasy figurines in one of the six available environments. The white pieces are from heaven and the black pieces are from hell. The game has tutorial, multiplayer (on one device, over LAN or Internet), two campaign modes with 30 missions, the Battleground mode and various mini-games. Battle vs. Chess uses chess engine Fritz 10 to make its moves. The disadvantage is, that it has no setting of time limit, so at higher level than 6, the computer thinking tends to be long, at level 7 it can take about 15 minutes to think, at level 9 (ELO 3750) it can take few hours.
Reception
GamingBoulevard.com rated the game 80%, Eurogamer.de 90%, Gameover.gr 90%, and on Metacritic.com it has rating 69%.
References
External links
Official website
2011 video games
Cancelled Nintendo DS games
Cancelled PlayStation Portable games
Chess software
Games for Windows
Linux games
MacOS games
Multiplayer online games
PlayStation 3 games
SouthPeak Games
Video games developed in Germany
Video games developed in Russia
Wii games
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
TopWare Interactive games
Targem Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibliographic%20Index | Bibliographic Index was a metabibliography and bibliographic database published by the H. W. Wilson Company. It contained in-depth indexing of more than 530,000 bibliographies published in English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian, Slavic, and Romance languages, including over 185,000 full-text bibliographies.
In 2004, Bibliographic Index became Bibliographic Index Plus. After EBSCO acquired the H. W. Wilson Company in 2011, the database was discontinued.
References
Publications established in 1937
Publications disestablished in 2011
Bibliographic databases and indexes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20machine%20escape | In computer security, virtual machine escape is the process of a program breaking out of the virtual machine on which it is running and interacting with the host operating system. A virtual machine is a "completely isolated guest operating system installation within a normal host operating system". In 2008, a vulnerability () in VMware discovered by Core Security Technologies made VM escape possible on VMware Workstation 6.0.2 and 5.5.4. A fully working exploit labeled Cloudburst was developed by Immunity Inc. for Immunity CANVAS (commercial penetration testing tool). Cloudburst was presented in Black Hat USA 2009.
Previous known vulnerabilities
Xen pygrub: Command injection in grub.conf file.
Directory traversal vulnerability in shared folders feature for VMware
Directory traversal vulnerability in shared folders feature for VMware
Xen Para Virtualized Frame Buffer backend buffer overflow.
Cloudburst: VM display function in VMware
QEMU-KVM: PIIX4 emulation does not check if a device is hotpluggable before unplugging
The x86-64 kernel system-call functionality in Xen 4.1.2 and earlier
Oracle VirtualBox 3D acceleration multiple memory corruption
VENOM: buffer-overflow in QEMU's virtual floppy disk controller
QEMU-KVM: Heap overflow in pcnet_receive function.
Xen Hypervisor: Uncontrolled creation of large page mappings by PV guests
Xen Hypervisor: The PV pagetable code has fast-paths for making updates to pre-existing pagetable entries, to skip expensive re-validation in safe cases (e.g. clearing only Access/Dirty bits). The bits considered safe were too broad, and not actually safe.
Xen Hypervisor: Disallow L3 recursive pagetable for 32-bit PV guests
CVE-2017-5715, 2017-5753, 2017-5754: The Spectre and Meltdown hardware vulnerabilities, a cache side-channel attack on CPU level (Rogue Data Cache Load (RDCL)), allow a rogue process to read all memory of a computer, even outside the memory assigned to a virtual machine
Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Hyper-V Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion: SVGA driver contains buffer overflow that may allow guests to execute code on hosts
VMware Workstation, Fusion: Heap buffer-overflow vulnerability in VMNAT device that may allow a guest to execute code on the host
VMware Workstation, Horizon View : Multiple out-of-bounds read issues via Cortado ThinPrint may allow a guest to execute code or perform a Denial of Service on the Windows OS
Oracle VirtualBox: shared memory interface by the VGA allows read and writes on the host OS
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion: Uninitialized stack memory usage in the vmxnet3 virtual network adapter.
: "Microarchitectural Data Sampling" (MDS) attacks: Similar to above Spectre and Meltdown attacks, this cache side-channel attack on CPU level allows to read data across VMs and even data of the host system. Sub types: Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling (MSBDS), Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampli |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-1%20Fighting%20Network%20Romania%202007 | K-1 Fighting Network Romania 2007 was a kickboxing event held by the K-1 organization in association with the Local Kombat promotion on Friday, May 4, 2007 at the Sala Polivalentă in Bucharest, Romania.
Background
An eight-man elimination tournament was held to determine a heavyweight winner to advance to K-1 World GP 2007 in Amsterdam. This event also featured two prestige fights.
Results
Heavyweight tournament
See also
List of K-1 events
List of K-1 champions
List of male kickboxers
References
External links
K-1 Official site
K-1 events
2007 in kickboxing
Kickboxing in Romania
Sport in Bucharest |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Riddle | Michael Riddle may refer to:
Mike Riddle (born 1986), skier
Michael Riddle (programmer), inventor of the Interact computer software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20testing | Real-time testing is the process of testing real-time computer systems.
Software testing is performed to detect and help correct bugs (errors) in computer software. Testing involves ensuring not only that the software is error-free but that it provides the required functionality to the user. Static and conventional methods of testing can detect bugs, but such techniques may not ensure correct results in real time software systems.
Real-time software systems have strict timing constraints and have a deterministic behavior. These systems have to schedule their tasks such that the timing constraints imposed on them are met.
Conventional static way of analysis is not adequate to deal with such timing constraints, hence additional real-time testing is important.
Strategy
Test case design for real time testing can be proposed in four steps
Task testing
In the very first step, each task is tested individually with conventional static testing. This testing is performed only to discover the errors in logic or syntax of the program. Order of the events doesn't matter as task testing doesn't deal with timing constraints and time properties of events.
Behavioral testing
Using the system models designed with the help of automated testing tools, it is possible to simulate behavior of real time system and impact of concurrent external events on its behavior.
Intertask testing
Once the testing with the individual task is done, then task is supposed to be error free in coding and behavioral area. Time-related constraints are tested with intertask testing. To reveal the errors in communication, asynchronous tasks are tested with variable data rates and different payloads.
System testing
In this testing, software and hardware are integrated and full range of system tests are conducted to discover errors, if any, during software and hardware interfacing.
Tools for real time testing
As testing of real time systems is becoming more important, there are some tools designed for such testing.
MSC
Message Sequence Charts is an internationally accepted standard for capturing requirements. MSC provides a graphical 2-D language often required for collecting requirements through some interaction scenarios.
SDL
Specification and Description Language is a standard used for design and analysis. SDL supports the specification of complex software systems and has been extensively applied across a broad array of domains from telecommunications, automation, through to general software development
TTCN
Testing and Test Control Notation is the only internationally standard testing language. TTCN3 provides a broader applicability, as compared to earlier versions of TTCN, which were primarily focused on OSI protocols only.
These three standards together are used for testing of real time applications. It is necessary that requirements be satisfied with these models and test cases generated must capture the functional and real time information needed to test systems. Al |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meka%20Robotics | Meka Robotics was a San Francisco–based company that made robotic systems.
History
Founded in 2006 by Aaron Edsinger and Jeff Weber, it was originally a spin-off of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory before the founders relocated to San Francisco.
In 2007, the company provided a forearm and hand for MIT Media Lab's new robot, Nexi.
In 2008, the company teamed with the Socially Intelligent Machines Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop Simon, an upper torso humanoid platform for human robot interaction.
In 2012, the company teamed with the Human Centered Robotics Group at the University of Texas at Austin to develop HUME, a "bipedal robot for human-centered hyper-agility."
In 2012, the company entered into a joint venture with Willow Garage and SRI International to found Redwood Robotics, a company specializing in robotic arms.
On December 5, 2013, Google X acquired Meka Robotics.
Products
M1 Mobile Manipulator
S2 Humanoid Head
See also
Domo (robot)
References
External links
Defunct robotics companies of the United States
Companies based in San Francisco
Technology companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
2006 establishments in California
Google acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboSquid | TurboSquid is an American animation studio and digital media company that sells stock 3D models used in 3D graphics to a variety of industries, including computer games, architecture, and interactive training. The company, headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana in the United States, is most known for brokering the sale of 3D models in return for a percentage of the sales. As of 2019, TurboSquid has over 800,000 3D models in its library. Turbosquid also has over 130,000 other products available, such as texture maps.
History
TurboSquid was founded by Matt Wisdom and Andy Wisdom, who were partners in Chimera Digital Imaging, a company that produced 3D animation for television commercials from 1994 to 2000. During that time the pair began researching ways to sell or license unused 3D models. They officially began software development of a marketplace in 1999 under the brand iPublish.
At the same time Digimation, a New Orleans company founded by David Avgikos, was working on a similar project called 3dBay. In April 2000, the two groups officially merged to form TurboSquid. Backed by angel funding, the company announced the new marketplace at the SIGGRAPH conference in August 2000. Autodesk subsequently distributed 3ds max 4 with a TurboSquid add-on, and TurboSquid received its first venture investment in April 2001.
Disagreement over many aspects of the company led to the departure of Tom Avgikos, and initial CEO David Avgikos, and a complete separation from Digimation in 2002. Andy Wisdom served as the CEO for the next several years.
In 2005, Matt Wisdom and Andy Wisdom initiated and were instrumental in drafting and passing the Louisiana Digital Media Act (Louisiana Senate Bill 341), which seeks to stimulate growth in the technology sector by providing tax credits to digital media companies. Also in 2005, levee failures in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina caused catastrophic flooding and prompted the evacuation of nearly 500,000 city residents, including all of TurboSquid's New Orleans staff. Because the company's business is run on servers outside New Orleans, and employees were able to continue work over the Internet, the site's business was able to maintain record growth through the whole period of displacement. Rather than relocate, the company decided to return to New Orleans, which it did in November 2005.
In 2006, Matt Wisdom became the company CEO. Andy Wisdom moved on to Chairman of TurboSquid's board and began working in the finance industry.
In August 2009, TurboSquid implemented the SquidGuild, a loyalty program that pays higher royalties to artists who post their 3D models exclusively at TurboSquid. In 2011, the registered membership has crossed the 2.3 million mark, and the number of contributing artists has passed 20,000. In that same year, Autodesk bought marketplace software from Turbosquid for $26M.
In 2021, TurboSquid was acquired by Shutterstock for $75M.
Company name
Regarding the company's name, Matt Wisdom sa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Gribskov | Michael Gribskov is a professor of Biological Sciences and Computer Science at Purdue University.
In 1979, Gribskov graduated from Oregon State University, with a Bachelor in Science Honors degree in Biochemistry and Biophysics. Later in 1985, he finished his PhD degree in Molecular Biology from University of Wisconsin–Madison.
He has served as president of the International Society for Computational Biology, and his faculty page states that he is the chair of the Protein Information Resource Scientific Oversight and Advisory Board, and on the editorial boards of the journals Bioinformatics, Journal of Computational Biology and Chemistry, and Journal of Molecular Microbiology & Biotechnology.
Profile analysis
Gribskov, along with David Eisenberg and Andrew McLachlan, introduced the profile analysis method in 1987; this is a method for detecting distantly related proteins by sequence comparison. A profile is a position specific scoring matrix, and it is created from a group of sequences previously aligned (probe). The similarity of any other sequence (target) (one or more than one) to the probe can be tested by comparing the target to the file using dynamic programming. This algorithm consists of two steps. The first step is the generation of the profile using software PROFWARE, which makes use of an existing alignment (probe) based on sequence similarity or the corresponding 3D structure to generate a profile. The second step is the comparison of the profile with a database of sequences or a single sequence. In this step, based on the profile generated, the target sequence or group of sequences could be aligned using PROFINAL, dynamic programming is used in the alignment.
References
Living people
Purdue University faculty
Oregon State University alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20Millionaires%20Club | Secret Millionaires Club is an American educational animated series that aired on The Hub / Hub Network from October 23, 2011 to January 11, 2017 (Qubo telecast only). The series features famed investor Warren Buffett as a secret mentor to a group of teens who learn practical life lessons during fun-filled adventures in business.
Plot
The series follows adventures in business with Radley, Elena, Jones, Lisa, their robot Starty, and Warren Buffett as their wise mentor. Every episode focuses on different business situations that kids might encounter in their own lives like having to raise money for something they want, or helping a local merchant understand why their business isn't working. The teens are smart and enterprising, and come to realize that the best investment they can make is an investment in themselves.
Characters
Warren Buffett (voiced by himself, Guy Pinkham and Kevin Brief; varies in different episodes) is a millionaire who serves as the wise mentor of Elena, Jones, Radley, and Lisa.
Elena Ramirez (voiced by Julie Maddalena) is an eternal optimist with an upbeat personality who takes a positive approach to life. In her brown eyes, the world is neither black nor white but awash in many shades. Her thinking is smart and concise. She is the swing vote between Jones and Radley when neither can see the others' point of view. If Elena were a stockbroker, she'd be both a bull and a bear depending on market conditions.
David Allan Jones (voiced by Steve Staley) is funny, loud, the daredevil of the group, and a sports fanatic. In fact, his clothing attire usually has one piece of sporting equipment attached to one of his hands. He's a risk-taker and his impulsiveness often gets him into trouble. If the world is a chess game, Jones is off playing checkers. He rarely looks before he leaps nor does he usually think ahead to examine the consequences of his actions. His friends have to do that for him.
Radley Hemming (voiced by Ogie Banks) is all intellectual, a "techie" supreme, the kid who would shower with his computer if he could. Conservative in nature, he balances his emotions with a practical and well thought out approach to life. He never makes a move without first examining every possible result. His slow and methodical deliberations drives Jones to distraction. In the world of investing, they make a winning pair, Elena has a small crush on him in some episodes.
Starty (voiced by Chris Jai Alex) is Radley's robot.
D.E.B. (voiced by Debbie Bosanek) is an application that is on Radley's tablet computer. Radley would often consult D.E.B. about any word definitions.
Hou "Lisa" Lihua (voiced by Stephanie Sheh) is a Beijing student who never leaves without her French purse. Lisa would do nearly almost anything to join the United Nations.
Jay-Z, Nick Cannon, Shaquille O'Neal and Bill Gates as themselves
Episodes
References
External links
Secret Millionaires Club at Internet Movie Database
2010s American animated television serie |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lock%20%27n%20Load%20Publishing | Lock 'n Load Publishing is a developer and publisher of board and computer games, specifically strategy games and wargames. They are based out of Colorado. From a small three-game beginning, Lock 'n Load Publishing has grown to a game company offering over fifty products including the Nations at War, World at War, Lock 'n Load, Corps Command, Tank on Tank series, Command Ops 2, and a company magazine, Line of Fire. In addition to historical, conflict-centered games, Lock 'n Load Publishing has also branched out into science fiction and horror, with All Things Zombie, Space Infantry, and Nuklear Winter '68.
Company history
In 2003, Shrapnel Games published the first Lock 'n Load Tactical board game. Titled Forgotten Heroes, the game became an instant hit, selling out within the first year of publication. The next Lock 'n Load Tactical game quickly followed the module with the ANZAC Attack expansion, which also rapidly sold out.
Following the release of the original games, the next title, Band of Heroes, was published through Matrix Games. The game subsequently won the historical game of the year at the 2005 Origins Awards. In 2006, game designer Mark Walker founded Lock 'n Load Publishing.
In July 2014, entered a new stage with David Heath becoming LnLP's new principal owner and business manager. David Heath was the previous CEO/founder of Matrix Games, The Wargamer, and The Gamer's Network before leaving those companies and becoming the CEO of Lock 'n Load Publishing.
David expanded the design and development team, expanding the game titles and broadening its product lines. The new product lines included writing a series of paperback stories, accompanied by audiobooks editions. Other products and activities included a new sci-fi roleplayer game series, streamlining their popular game series and releasing Starter Kits allowing players to try their game series quickly and cheaply. Lock 'n Load Publishing games are even more accessible, being available for free on virtual gaming platforms such as Vassal and Tabletop simulators and, with the release of the game's Companion books, allowing players to play virtually without needing to own the tabletop board game.
In April 2020, Lock 'n Load Publishing had released, via Steam, its digital computer game line. These include the Tank On Tank, Nations At War, and Lock 'n Load Tactical series games for Windows, Mac, and iPad platforms. The World At War 85 Digital series is currently in development. The computer game, Victory and Glory: The American Civil War, similar to the 2016 predecessor, Victory & Glory: Napoleon (Also with a board game adaptation in 2017), was released for Windows PC in 2020.
Awards
Lock 'n Load Publishing games have garnered awards from The International Gamers, Origins 2005 Historical Game of the Year, The Wargamer, Games Magazine, and a few of Charles S. Roberts' Awards, including best of the year award for Heroes of the Gap. Additionally, Mark Walker's novel World at War |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banshee%20%28TV%20series%29 | Banshee is an American action television series created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler originally aired on the Cinemax network from January 11, 2013, to May 20, 2016, over four seasons, comprising a total of 38 episodes.
Set in the small town of Banshee in Pennsylvania Amish country, the series' main character is an enigmatic ex-con (Antony Starr) who assumes the identity of Lucas Hood, the town's murdered sheriff, to hide from powerful crime lord Rabbit (Ben Cross). Imposing his own brand of justice, Hood attempts to reconcile with his former lover, Rabbit's daughter Anastasia (Ivana Miličević), who has herself adopted an assumed identity, married, and raised a family during Hood's incarceration. Hood struggles to maintain his new identity while still embracing crime alongside his partners Job (Hoon Lee) and Sugar (Frankie Faison) and coming into conflict with local kingpin Kai Proctor (Ulrich Thomsen).
The series was developed as part of Cinemax's drive to develop original content. A 10-episode second season debuted in January 2014. Banshee was renewed for a third season that same month, which debuted in January 2015. In February 2015, the series was renewed for an eight-episode fourth and final season. The final episode aired on May 20, 2016.
Premise
A man is released from prison after serving 15 years for stealing $15 million in diamonds on behalf of his employer, a Ukrainian mob boss named Rabbit. He and his former lover and accomplice, Rabbit's daughter Anastasia (Ana), had already decided to keep the loot for themselves. Anastasia got away with the diamonds and Rabbit is after the man, thinking he will lead him to his daughter and the diamonds. The man flees to the small fictional Pennsylvanian town of Banshee, where Ana has been living under the alias of Carrie Hopewell, mother of two and wife of the DA. Lucas Hood, the new sheriff, stops at a bar on his way into town and is immediately killed when he intervenes in a dispute between local criminals and the bar owner. The man takes Hood's identity and has to impersonate the sheriff and deal with ex-Amish crime lord Kai Proctor, sort things out with "Carrie", and get his share of the diamonds while evading Rabbit.
Season 1 focuses on Hood's attempts to restore his relationship with Carrie under the looming threat of Rabbit finding them. Hood completely disregards the law while clashing with Proctor and pursuing his often criminal activities, alienating his own deputies. Rabbit eventually tracks him down and Hood surrenders to spare Carrie. Carrie leads some criminal accomplices and the deputies in a raid to free Hood and shoots Rabbit.
Season 2 deals with tribal chief Alex Longshadow's attempt to build a casino on the reservation, which places Sheriff Hood in the middle of a violent struggle between Longshadow and Proctor. Carrie must face up to her past when she is imprisoned for her part in the raid against her father. With Carrie trying to fix her marriage, Hood enters int |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboid%20%28computer%20vision%29 | In computer vision, the term cuboid is used to describe a small spatiotemporal volume extracted for purposes of behavior recognition. The cuboid is regarded as a basic geometric primitive type and is used to depict three-dimensional objects within a three dimensional representation of a flat, two dimensional image.
Production
Cuboids can be produced from both two-dimensional and three-dimensional images.
One method used to produce cuboids utilizes scene understanding (SUN) primitive databases, which are collections of pictures that already contain cuboids. By sorting through SUN primitive databases with machine learning tools, computers observe the conditions in which cuboids are produced in images from SUN primitive databases and can learn to produce cuboids from other images.
RGB-D images, which are RGB images that also record the depth of each pixel, are occasionally used to produce cuboids because computers no longer need to determine the depth of an object, as they typically do because depth is already recorded.
Cuboid production is sensitive to changes in color and illumination, blockage, and background clutter. This means that it is difficult for computers to produce cuboids of objects that are multicolored, irregularly illuminated, or partially covered, or if there are many objects in the background. This is partially due to the fact that algorithms for producing cuboids are still relatively simple.
Usage
Cuboids are created for point cloud-based three-dimensional maps and can be utilized in various situations such as augmented reality, the automated control of cars, drones, and robots, and object detection.
Cuboids allow for software to identify a scene through geometric descriptions in an “object-agnostic” fashion.
Interest points, locations within images that are identified by a computer as essential to identifying the image, created from two-dimensional images can be used with cuboids for image matching, identifying a room or scene, and instance recognition. Interest points created from three dimensional images can be used with cuboids to recognize activities. This is possible because interest points aid software to focus on only the most important aspects of the images.
RGB-D images and SLAM systems are used together in RGB-D SLAM systems, which are employed by Computer-aided design systems to generate point cloud-based three-dimensional maps.
Most industrial multi-axis machining tools use computer-aided manufacturing and subsequently work in cuboid work spaces.
References
Computer vision |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Akers | Michael D. Akers (born September 5, 1970 in Ephrata, Pennsylvania) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. In 2000, he founded "United Gay Network" (UGN) with his longtime partner, Sandon Berg. Most of his films are LGBT-related.
Career
Michael D. Akers studied at Indiana University of Pennsylvania before moving to Los Angeles to begin a career in the entertainment industry as production assistant and assistant director to work on the cable movie Jurassic Women (1996). For three years, he worked with Turner Feature Animation on Cats Don't Dance helping to research and develop animated features. Then he moved to Grand Productions, and later produced at least two episodes of the Lifetime series Intimate Portraits. These included the "Intimate Portraits" of Heather Locklear and Jane Seymour. He became executive assistant to Martin Short on The Martin Short Show and a story and research assistant to Ryan Seacrest's NBC's Saturday Night at the Movies and Anne Robinson's The Weakest Link.
Establishing United Gay Network, he moved to independent film making. In March 2002, Michael D. Akers directing his short B&W w/Splash of Clown in partnership with Sandon Berg. His debut long feature film Gone But Not Forgotten, a script he had begun writing back in 1995 while working for another film production company, premiered at the 9th Annual Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It was followed by Matrimonium, an improv film about a reality show trying to marry two men for ratings. Phoenix is a symbolic and lyrical film examining why relationships end the way that they do. It focuses on a young man who goes to Phoenix, Arizona to surprise his lover, only to discover his lover's secret other life. Morgan is about a paraplegic man putting his life back together after a bicycle racing accident leaves his paralyzed.
In Gone, But Not Forgotten he was credited as Michael D. Akers. But in all later movies, he used Michael Akers (dropping the middle "D").
United Gay Network
United Gay Network is a production house founded by Michael D. Akers and Sandon Berg. Akers has released his films through the company.
In forming United Gay Network ten years ago, Michael Akers and Sandon Berg aspired not only to promote the genre of "gay films" but also tried to bring gay cinema closer to mainstream cinema. As Berg stated in a radio interview, he and Akers were striving to create stories that would crossover to a broader audience.
Nowhere is this more apparent than in their latest production Morgan. Berg said: "I think Morgan is a very universal story. I don't think it is gay-specific at all." Morgan is the story of a gay and paralyzed young athlete that defies stereotypes and pushes through boundaries. The lead character, a young athlete, named Morgan Oliver, is first seen wallowing in a state of depression, drowning his sorrows in beer as he watches bicycle racing (the sport that at once defined his sense of purpose and drove hi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20performance | Digital Performance refers to the use of computers as an interface between a creator, consumer of images, and sounds in a wide range of artistic applications. It is performance that incorporates and integrates computer technologies and techniques. Performers can incorporate multimedia into any type of production whether it is live on a theatre stage, or in the street. Anything as small as video recordings or a visual image classifies the production as multimedia. When the key role in a performance is the technologies, it is considered a digital performance. This can be as simple as making projections on a screen for a live audience or as complex as planning and putting on a show online.
Introduction
The integration of technology can increase the effects, spectacles and impact of performances and visual arts. Incorporating multimedia in productions surprises the audience and keeps them engaged. The larger social impact after the performance includes interpretations from diverse groups of people.
The Digital Performance Archive stores a physical and catalogued archives from the 20th century. Its research project involved the increase and creative use of computer technology, techniques within live theatre and dance productions and cyberspace interactive dramas and webcasts. Looking at a broad range of diverse productions would have enhanced their research project as they saw how each type of performance was affected and even how new types of performance came about due to the involvement of computer technologies and techniques and all other multimedia sources. In the 20th century, emerging forms of drama and genres of performance reflected the active and escalating role of computer technology in society, with businesses and education treating computers as essential. As our society became more reliant on computers in everyday life, artists began relying on computer technology to play a significant role in film as well as live theatre.
CD-ROMs, video games and installations raised the level of interactive potential of computers. Their accessibility and sophistication added those very aspects to performances that used advanced technology.
From the first digital performance to present day, artists have followed each other's works and explored trends. Technology has its own trends and upgrades, which appeal to artists in the field. Online environments are a strong base for theoretical trends as the frameworks are similar and sometimes the same.
The largest platform for theatre in the world is the World Wide Web. The Internet is seen as a satisfying place for relaxation and offers everyone who uses the Internet their ‘fifteen megabytes of fame.' Every single person who uses online networking sites, blogs, chat rooms, MOOs and IRC is creating their own performance with the use of e-friendships. Therefore it is not just the artists who deliberately devise theatrical events via the use of computer techniques and technologies. However, the focus of this |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart%20Harris%20%28author%29 | Stuart H. Harris is an English author of books and articles about the internet, and internet consultant, now living in California, United States. He is a computer professional, an expert on IRC and has written a book on the subject, IRC Survival Guide: Talk to the World with Internet Relay Chat, published in 1995 by Addison-Wesley. He is also a performer with three years experience as a semi-professional actor on the festival circuit, two years as a professional in London and in provincial repertory theatre, and further experience as a director in television. The aforementioned extensive cross-disciplinary experience motivated Harris to explore the potential of creating a Shakespeare performance online; namely, a contemporary production of Shakespeare's Hamlet known as Hamnet.
Internet relay chat
Harris has written several works on the use of IRC (internet relay chat) and other internet mediums. His best-known book is IRC Survival Guide: Talk to the World with Internet Relay Chat. In 1995 when the book was published, IRC was the latest in a fast-growing line of communication technologies. The downside of IRC was the complicated language required to create commands (actions). However, Harris' book was written with the intention of using five simple commands to make the most of an otherwise complicated client, for those who have no background in computer or internet programming.
The Hamnet Players
The Hamnet Players introduced Harris' idea of Internet-based theatre on 12 December 1993 in their performance of the 80-line script adaption, "Hamnet"; on 6 February 1994, featuring the Royal Shakespeare Company's Ian Taylor as the principal character. A follow-up performance entitled "PCbeth: an IBM clone of Macbeth" was created, with a world premier on the date of stimulus playwright Shakespeare's 430th birthday, 23 April 1994. PCbeth consisted of a 160-line pastiche, which instigated theuse in virtual performances of images via JPEG files offered to participants with the capability to receive and exhibit them. The production was restaged on 10 July 1994, accommodating VIP guest stars and several audio effects.
Following this, the company adapted American playwright Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire into the IRC-revised version An IRC Channel Named Desire. The production was staged twice: on 30 October 1994, and on 12 February 1995.
Use of the name The Hamnet Players suggests Stuart Harris' intention was to create a virtual repertory theatre company, which would become steadily more established over the course of time, and several productions. However, although Harris found it beneficial to cast several regular virtual actors, who formed the foundations of the players, and supported its intentions, the collaboration better resembled an ever-expanding and interchanging assemblage of enthusiasts than one perpetually definite troupe. As such, The Hamlet Players generally experience frequent cast turnovers.
Founded in 1993, the online |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duqu | Duqu is a collection of computer malware discovered on 1 September 2011, thought by Kaspersky Labs to be related to the Stuxnet worm and to have been created by Unit 8200. Duqu has exploited Microsoft Windows's zero-day vulnerability. The Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (CrySyS Lab) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary discovered the threat, analysed the malware, and wrote a 60-page report naming the threat Duqu. Duqu got its name from the prefix "~DQ" it gives to the names of files it creates.
Nomenclature
The term Duqu is used in a variety of ways:
Duqu malware is a variety of software components that together provide services to the attackers. Currently this includes information stealing capabilities and in the background, kernel drivers and injection tools. Part of this malware is written in unknown high-level programming language, dubbed "Duqu framework". It is not C++, Python, Ada, Lua and many other checked languages. However, it is suggested that Duqu may have been written in C with a custom object oriented framework and compiled in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.
Duqu flaw is the flaw in Microsoft Windows that is used in malicious files to execute malware components of Duqu. Currently one flaw is known, a TrueType-font related problem in .
Operation Duqu is the process of only using Duqu for unknown goals. The operation might be related to Operation Stuxnet.
Relationship to Stuxnet
Symantec, based on the CrySyS team managed by Dr Thibault Gainche report, continued the analysis of the threat, which it called "nearly identical to Stuxnet, but with a completely different purpose", and published a detailed technical paper on it with a cut-down version of the original lab report as an appendix. Symantec believes that Duqu was created by the same authors as Stuxnet, or that the authors had access to the source code of Stuxnet. The worm, like Stuxnet, has a valid, but abused digital signature, and collects information to prepare for future attacks. Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer for F-Secure, said that Duqu's kernel driver, , was so similar to Stuxnet's that F-Secure's back-end system thought it was Stuxnet. Hyppönen further said that the key used to make Duqu's own digital signature (only observed in one case) was stolen from C-Media, located in Taipei, Taiwan. The certificates were due to expire on 2 August 2012 but were revoked on 14 October 2011 according to Symantec.
Another source, Dell SecureWorks, reports that Duqu may not be related to Stuxnet. However, there is considerable and growing evidence that Duqu is closely related to Stuxnet.
Experts compared the similarities and found three points of interest:
The installer exploits zero-day Windows kernel vulnerabilities.
Components are signed with stolen digital keys.
Duqu and Stuxnet are both highly targeted and related to the nuclear program of Iran.
Microsoft Word zero-day exploit
Like Stuxnet, Duqu attacks Microsoft Window |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanib%20Puwersa | Sanib Puwersa () is a 2011 Philippine television documentary and public service show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Mel Tiangco and Arnold Clavio, it premiered on October 23, 2011 replacing Kuwentong Dabarkads. The show concluded on November 13, 2011. It was replaced by Oras Na in its timeslot.
Premise
The show features actual footages of rescue operations of emergency response teams, on-site accidents, and numerous other life-threatening situations. Tiangco visits the victims/casualties and provides assistance to help them recover from their nightmarish experiences. While Clavio goes on location to investigate and to seek solutions for the featured problems.
Episodes
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila People/Individual television ratings, the pilot episode of Sanib Puwersa earned an 8.7% rating.
References
2011 Philippine television series debuts
2011 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism%20in%20the%20Basque%20Autonomous%20Community | Tourism in the Basque Autonomous Community has increased considerably in recent years, and is a popular destination for tourists from Spain and France. According to data from the Eustat the number of tourists entering the region in the year 2009 was 1,991,790, with the final result still pending. 71% of the yearly visitors come from the rest of Spain; the greatest number from Madrid Autonomous Community (14.2%), and Catalonia (11.1%). International visitors make up the remaining 29% - the largest percent come from France (7.2%). 62% of the people who come to the Basque Autonomous Community visit one of the three capitals, 27% visit inland and 11% visit the coast. The average stay of the visitors is 2 days.
272 establishments possess the Q award, a certificate denoting quality in the Spanish tourism sector. In the Basque Autonomous Community 140 tourist establishments, including hotels, apartments and tourist offices, among others, have the Accessibility Seal from a program which advises tourist establishments how to improve their ability to serve customers with physical and intellectual difficulties and visual and hearing impairment.
Tourist resources
Cuisine and wine
The Basque Country's cuisine is one of its best-known strengths, in fact the city of Donostia-San Sebastián has the second largest concentration of Michelin stars per square metre in the world. Wines from La Rioja Alavesa are produced within the control framework of the Qualified Denomination of Origin of Rioja. Other wine-growing denominations of origin are Chacoli, (from Biscay, Álava and Getaria), and Alvarinho, a semi-sparkling white wine.
The Pintxos (tapas) are also served in some bars, also called cooking in miniature, giving rise in places to a Basque Nouvelle Cuisine.
Bilbao
Bilbao is the region's most cosmopolitan and densely populated city which, since the nineties, has greatly altered its character and appearance, including some avant-garde architecture. Titanium protects the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, designed by Frank Gehry, and the entrances to the metro, covered by glass, were designed by Norman Foster. Other new urban developments are the Towers designed by the Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, and the Bilbao Airport by Santiago Calatrava. Another of the city's attractions is the neoclassical Arriaga Theatre.
Old Town, or Siete Calles/Zazpikale ("Seven Streets"), starts by the Arriaga Theatre. Old Town contains Plaza Nueva (New Square), Santiago Cathedral and, at one end, the Ribera Market. Very close by is the Gran Vía, Bilbao's main shopping street. In recent years Bilbao has recovered both banks of the ria for leisure activities. Loading docks have been replaced by avenues with works of architecture such as the Calatrava walkway. Among its notable events are Aste Nagusia, celebrated every year in mid-August, and the Santo Tomás Fair.
Donostia-San Sebastián
Donostia-San Sebastian is the capital of Gipuzkoa, located between Mounts Urgull and Igeldo, S |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miva%20%28company%29 | Miva, Inc. is a privately owned ecommerce shopping cart software and hosting company with headquarters in San Diego, California and a data center in Tampa, Florida. Miva Merchant's ecommerce software runs on its proprietary scripting language, MIVA Script.
History
Miva Merchant began in 1996 as the HTMLScript Corporation. In 1997, the company released its first catalogue-based ecommerce product, KoolKat. Shortly after KoolKat's release, the name of the company was changed to Miva, Inc, and KoolKat was renamed Miva Merchant. Since that time, there have been several updates to Miva Merchant's core software, leading up to the most recent version, Miva Merchant 9. Just prior to the release of MM9, the company name returned to Miva, Inc.
In 2003 the company was purchased by FindWhat.com which changed its name to Miva, Inc in 2005.
Present day
In 2007, the company underwent significant management changes, and was acquired by a group of investors and original Miva, Inc employees. The company name was changed to Miva Merchant, Inc. at that time in order to differentiate itself from the original Miva, Inc.
In 2008, Miva Merchant released Miva Merchant 5.5, a core software update that added improved features and functionality.
In 2009, Miva Merchant became a certified provider with Chase Paymentech Orbital Gateway, which allows merchants to accept real-time credit card transactions and multiple payment types via Chase with their Miva Merchant-powered storefront.
In 2011, Miva Merchant released an add-on mobile framework, and a streaming update for current customers (PR8), both of which were mentioned by Miva Merchant President and COO Rick Wilson in a July 19 interview with Practical Ecommerce.
In January 2012, Miva Merchant was named one of the top ten e-commerce technology companies by BuiltWith Technology Usage Statistics.
Over the years, Miva Merchant has formed a number of strategic partnerships with businesses specializing in email marketing, product reviews, and related ecommerce applications.
Each March, Miva Merchant hosts a conference in San Diego, California, for developers, store owners, and other Miva Merchant community members.
In September 2014, Miva Merchant changed its company name back to Miva.
Awards and recognitions
Miva ranked 15 out of the Union Tribunes Top 40 Workplaces in San Diego.
See also
Comparison of shopping cart software
MIVA Script
References
External links
The Official Guide to Miva Merchant 9 EBOOK
Miva Merchant 5.5: The Official Guide
1996 establishments in California
1996 establishments in the United States
Companies established in 1996
Software companies based in California
Software companies established in 1996
Software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Hotel%20Inspector%20episodes | The Hotel Inspector is an observational documentary television series which is broadcast on the British terrestrial television station, Channel 5, and by other networks around the world. Since 2008, each episode sees celebrated hotelier and businesswoman Alex Polizzi visit a struggling British hotel and try to turn its fortunes by giving advice and suggestions to the owner. Between 2005 and 2008, Ruth Watson was featured in this role.
Series overview
Series 1 (2005)
Series 1 premiered on 29 September 2005 on Channel 5.
Series 2 (2006)
Series 2 premiered on 6 July 2006 at 9 pm on Channel 5.
Series 3 (2007)
Series 3 premiered on 6 September 2007 at 9 pm on Channel 5, with new spin-off series, The Hotel Inspector: Unseen following on Five Life at 10 pm.
The Hotel Inspector: Revisited (2008)
This mini-series premiered on 21 May 2008 at 9 pm on Channel 5. The series consisted entirely of revisits to hotels featured in the previous three series.
Series 4 (2008)
Series 4 premiered on 10 July 2008 at 9 pm on Five, with the spin-off series, The Hotel Inspector Unseen following on Fiver at 10 pm. Series 4 saw Alex Polizzi replace Ruth Watson as The Hotel Inspector.
Series 5 (2009)
Series 5 premiered on 6 July 2009 at 9 pm on Five, starring Alex Polizzi as The Hotel Inspector. The inspection of Hotel du Repos in Switzerland in the final episode was the first international inspection and campaign carried out by the programme.
Series 6 (2010)
This series began on 22 July 2010 at 9 pm on Five. Alex Polizzi returned as the show's host.
Series 7 (2011)
Series 7 started on 18 April 2011 on Channel 5. This was believed to be Polizzi's final series, according to a tweet she made on her official Twitter page, thus putting the future of the show in jeopardy. However, it was revealed in September 2011, that The Hotel Inspector would return on 3 October 2011.
The same graphics had been used as in previous series but a reworked new theme tune was adopted. This was the first time in the show history that the theme tune was altered. The show also had a competition advertised during the show breaks. Prizes included trips to the Maldives, a Holiday in a castle in Ireland & a luxury break in Mauritius.
In the table below the viewing figures have been supplied via BARB.
Series 8 (2011)
Series 8 started on 3 October 2011 on Channel 5. Alex Polizzi returned with the new series. The same graphics and theme tune adopted for series 7 remained for this series. The viewer competition remained with holidays for spa breaks in the New Forest being just one of the competition prizes.
The opening episode opened with just over 1 million viewers, lower than the opening episode of the previous series.
In the table below the viewing figures have been supplied via BARB.
Series 9 (2012)
A ninth series, with Alex Polizzi returning, was ordered and comprised ten episodes including two revisits which aired from 5 July 2012 at 9pm.
The Hotel Inspector Returns (2013)
A series consis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20networking | Software-defined networking (SDN) technology is an approach to network management that enables dynamic, programmatically efficient network configuration to improve network performance and monitoring, in a manner more akin to cloud computing than to traditional network management. SDN is meant to address the static architecture of traditional networks and may be employed to centralize network intelligence in one network component by disassociating the forwarding process of network packets (data plane) from the routing process (control plane). The control plane consists of one or more controllers, which are considered the brains of the SDN network, where the whole intelligence is incorporated. However, centralization has certain drawbacks related to security, scalability and elasticity.
SDN was commonly associated with the OpenFlow protocol (for remote communication with network plane elements to determine the path of network packets across network switches) since OpenFlow's emergence in 2011. However, since 2012, proprietary systems have also used the term. These include Cisco Systems' Open Network Environment and Nicira's network virtualization platform.
SD-WAN applies similar technology to a wide area network (WAN).
History
The history of SDN principles can be traced back to the separation of the control and data plane first used in public switched telephone networks. This provided a manner of simplifying provisioning and management years before the architecture was used in data networks.
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) began considering various ways to decouple the control and forwarding functions in a proposed interface standard published in 2004 named Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES). The ForCES Working Group also proposed a companion SoftRouter architecture. Additional early standards from the IETF that pursued separating control from data include the Linux Netlink as an IP services protocol and a path computation element (PCE)-based architecture.
These early attempts failed to gain traction. One reason is that many in the Internet community viewed separating control from data to be risky, especially given the potential for failure in the control plane. Another reason is that vendors were concerned that creating standard application programming interfaces (APIs) between the control and data planes would result in increased competition.
The use of open-source software in split control/data plane architectures traces its roots to the Ethane project at Stanford's computer-science department. Ethane's simple switch design led to the creation of OpenFlow, and an API for OpenFlow was first created in 2008. In that same year, NOX, an operating system for networks, was created.
Several patent applications were filed by independent researchers in 2007 describing practical applications for SDN, operating system for networks, network infrastructure compute units as a multi-core CPU and a method for virtual-network s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20Internetworking%20Center | Space Internetworking Center (SPICE) () in Xanthi, Greece, was founded in September 2010, having acquired funding from FP-7 Research Potential programme (FP7-REGPOT-2010-1, Grant Agreement No 264226). The center currently is directed by Prof. Vassilis Tsaoussidis and employs 27 staff members. It is hosted by the Democritus University of Thrace. The center has built an alliance with major institutions such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, NASA, Aalto University, the European Space Agency, and the University of Cambridge.
Among the areas of interest of the organisation are space internetworking, delay-tolerant networking, energy-efficient communications, the integration of things onto the new Internet, and the routing, transporting and application of network protocols.
Research agenda
The main research goals of SPICE are:
The design of space protocols that can dynamically adapt to topology changes and communications anomalies, achieving high-rate of data transmission, even in deep-space missions.
The interoperability between different communication protocols, e.g. protocols used by ESA and NASA.
The dynamic and optimized dissemination of space data to interested institutes and organizations.
The utilization of space communications for terrestrial applications, e.g. emergency situations.
The unification of space and terrestrial internetworking communications.
The deployment of delay tolerant networking for the benefit of terrestrial applications. Examples are energy-saving architectures, social networking, etc.
External links
SPICE Home Page
SPICE at European Commission - CORDIS
SPICE at BioInfoBank Library
SPICE at National Documentation Centre of Greece (in Greek)
SPICE at Democritus University of Thrace (in Greek)
SPICE UPDATE newsletter at NASA's DTN News Publications
Research institutes in Greece
Xanthi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theano%20%28software%29 | Theano is a Python library and optimizing compiler for manipulating and evaluating mathematical expressions, especially matrix-valued ones.
In Theano, computations are expressed using a NumPy-esque syntax and compiled to run efficiently on either CPU or GPU architectures.
History
Theano is an open source project primarily developed by the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) at the Université de Montréal.
The name of the software references the ancient philosopher Theano, long associated with the development of the golden mean.
On 28 September 2017, Pascal Lamblin posted a message from Yoshua Bengio, Head of MILA: major development would cease after the 1.0 release due to competing offerings by strong industrial players. Theano 1.0.0 was then released on 15 November 2017.
On 17 May 2018, Chris Fonnesbeck wrote on behalf of the PyMC development team that the PyMC developers will officially assume control of Theano maintenance once they step down. On 29 January 2021, they started using the name Aesara for their fork of Theano.
On 29 Nov 2022, the PyMC development team that the PyMC developers will fork the Aesara project under the name PyTensor.
Sample code
The following code is the original Theano's example. It defines a computational graph with 2 scalars and of type double and an operation between them (addition) and then creates a Python function f that does the actual computation.
import theano
from theano import tensor
# Declare two symbolic floating-point scalars
a = tensor.dscalar()
b = tensor.dscalar()
# Create a simple expression
c = a + b
# Convert the expression into a callable object that takes (a, b)
# values as input and computes a value for c
f = theano.function([a, b], c)
# Bind 1.5 to 'a', 2.5 to 'b', and evaluate 'c'
assert 4.0 == f(1.5, 2.5)
See also
Comparison of deep learning software
Differentiable programming
References
External links
(GitHub)
Theano at Deep Learning, Université de Montréal
Array programming languages
Deep learning software
Free science software
Numerical programming languages
Python (programming language) scientific libraries
Software using the BSD license
Articles with example Python (programming language) code
2007 software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Billboard%20Hot%20100%20number-one%20singles%20of%20the%202010s | The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, airplay, and, since 2012, streaming. Streaming became the dominant metric of the Hot 100 beginning in 2015, propelled by technology changes.
A new chart is compiled and officially released to the public every Tuesday in Billboard magazine and on its website. Each chart is dated with the "week-ending" date of the Saturday four days later. (Before 2018, the gap between the chart date and the date of its release was one week longer, and prior to the July 25, 2015 issue, the chart was released every Thursday.)
Number-one singles
Key
– Number-one single of the year
Notes
For the first five weeks that "Perfect" by Ed Sheeran was at number one, the duet version between Sheeran and Beyoncé was the song's billing on the Hot 100.
For the first week that "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X was at number one, the solo version was the song's billing on the Hot 100. The remix with Billy Ray Cyrus hit number one the following week.
Across four separate holiday season runs (2019–2022), "All I Want for Christmas Is You" has accumulated 12 total weeks at number one. It is also the first song in the history of the Hot 100 to reach number one in at least three separate chart runs.
Statistics
Artists by total number-one singles
The following artists achieved three or more number-one singles during the 2010s. A number of artists had number-one singles on their own as well as part of a collaboration.
Artists by total cumulative weeks at number-one
The following artists were featured at the top of the Hot 100 for the highest cumulative number of weeks during the 2010s. Some totals include in part or in whole weeks spent at number one as part of a collaboration.
Songs by total number of weeks at number one
The following songs were featured at the top of the Hot 100 for the highest number of weeks during the 2010s.
See also
List of Billboard number-one singles
2010s in music
List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2010s
List of Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles of the 2020s
References
2010s
United States Hot 100 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin%203D | Pumpkin 3D is an animation studio based in France that specializes in Computer animation. Past work has included animation for the anime television series Oban Star-Racers and animated feature films, including Azur et Asmar and Persepolis.
References
Information technology companies of France
French animation studios |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trenchard%20More | Trenchard More (1930 – 2019) was a mathematician and computer scientist who worked at IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and Cambridge Scientific Center after teaching at MIT and Yale.
He was also a full professor for two years at the Technical University of Denmark.
He participated in the 1956 Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence. At the 50th year meeting of the Dartmouth Conference with Marvin Minsky, Ray Solomonoff, Geoffrey Hinton and Simon Osindero he presented The Future of Network Models and also gave a lecture entitled Routes to the Summit.
More designed a theory for nested rectangular arrays that provided a formal structure used in the development of APL2 and the Nested Interactive Array Language.
See also
AI@50
Automaton
References
External links
SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL Universität Trier dblp publications
Applications of artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe%20Card%20Bus | The Europe Card Bus (ECB or ECB-bus) is a computer bus developed in 1977 by the company Kontron, mainly for the 8-bit Zilog Z80, Intel 8080 and Intel 8085 microprocessor families.
Physical format
Mechanically, the ECB is usually implemented as a backplane circuit board installed in a 19-inch rack chassis.
ECB cards have 3U Eurocard format (100 mm × 160 mm).
Connector
Use two or three-row versions of DIN 41612 connectors, 0.1" pitch. Original Kontron ECB, supported 64 pins, using "a" and "c" rows, ”b” row tied to "C' row.
ECB boards are NOT compatible with STEbus or VMEbus P2 connector (while STEbus does not use the “b” column; VME does define specific signals on the ‘b’ row).
Pinout
Active low signals indicated by asterisk.
GND: Ground reference voltage
+5 V: Powers most logic.
+12 V; −12 V: +15 V; −15 V Legacy power inputs, primarily useful for RS232 buffer power or ADU. The +12 V used for programming voltage generators. Both can be used in analogue circuitry, but note that these are primarily power rails for digital circuitry, so decoupling or local regulation is recommended for analogue circuitry.
+5 V Bat: Standby voltage. Optional.
This line is reserved for carrying a battery backup voltage to boards that supply or consume it. NiCad batteries are common source. The ECBbus spec is not rigid about where this should be sourced from. In practice, this means that most boards requiring backup power tend to play safe and have a battery on board, often with a link to allow it to supply or accept power from +5 V Bat. You can end up with more batteries in your system than you need, so care must be taken that no more than one battery is driving the +5 V Bat line.
D0...7: Data bus.
This is only 8 bits wide, but most I/O or memory-mapped peripherals are byte-oriented.
A0...19: Address bus.
This allows up to 1 MByte of memory to be addressed. Current technology is such that processor requiring large amounts of memory has this on the processor board, so this is not a great limitation. I/O space is limited to 4K, to simplify I/O address decoding to a practical level. A 74LS688 can decode A11...4 to locate I/O slave boards at 16-byte boundaries.
BUSRQ/ and BUSAK/: Bus Requests and Bus Acknowledge. Optional, used by multi-master systems.
The number of Attention Requests reflects that the ECB-bus aims to be simple.
Single-master systems are the norm, but these signals allow systems to have secondary bus masters if needed.
HALT/: CPU Stopped.
BAI 1; BAO 1: Bus Priority In; Bus Priority Out.
IEI; IEO: Interrupt Enable In; Interrupt Enable Out.
IORQ/: In / Out Request
MREQ/: Memory Request
PHI; nPHI: System Clock; nx Clock.
RESET/: System Reset.
Technical notes
Signal inputs must be Schmitt trigger.
Signal outputs must have a fan-out of 20
Backplane can have up to ?? sockets
Active bus-termination recommended
Notable uses
The DIN 41612 connector has different pin assignments assigned by various manufacturers, such as Kontro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glam%20Fairy | Glam Fairy is an American reality television series on the Style Network that premiered on October 23, 2011. A spinoff to Jerseylicious, the series follows Alexa Prisco as she uses her New Jersey style to provide women with makeovers.
Cast
Alexa Prisco: "The Glam Fairy"
Jon Kuuiiitlu: "The Right-Hand Fairy"
Briella Calafiore: "The Dramalicious Fairy"
Sharie Manon: "The Sexy, Confident Fairy"
Alexa aka A2: "The Glam Fairy in Training"
Glamo: "The Resident Stylist"
Jessica Romano: "The Ditzy Fairy"
Danny Ziegler: Alexa's fiancé
Victoria Doroshenko
Episodes
Season 1 (2011-2012)
Season 2 (2012)
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
American television spin-offs
Style Network original programming
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud-computing%20comparison | The following is a comparison of cloud-computing software and providers.
IaaS (Infrastructure as a service)
Providers
General
SaaS (Software as a Service)
General
Supported hosts
Supported guests
PaaS (Platform as a service)
Providers
Providers on IaaS
PaaS providers which can run on IaaS providers ("itself" means the provider is both PaaS and IaaS):
References
Cloud computing
Cloud platforms
Computing comparisons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collection%20Tree%20Protocol | The Collection Tree Protocol (CTP) is a routing protocol for wireless sensor networks. It is used for transferring data from one or more sensors to one or more root nodes.
Algorithm
The number of expected transmissions needed to send data between two nodes, ETX, is used as the routing metric. This assumes packets are retransmitted at the link layer. Routes with a lower metric are preferred. In a route that includes multiple hops, the metric is the sum of the ETX of the individual hops.
Each node that wishes to collect data advertises itself as a tree root. Each node sends its data to the tree root to which it is nearest, that is, the tree root from which it is separated by the smallest ETX. A tree root always has an ETX of zero.
Each node only keeps the smallest ETX (to the nearest tree root). The collection of ETX values is known as a gradient, and messages are only sent down the gradient from nodes with higher ETX to nodes with smaller ETX. This kind of forwarding is common to many algorithms and protocols in wireless sensor networks.
Rapidly changing link qualities, for example in sensor networks with moving nodes, cause routing information to become outdated which can lead to routing loops. CTP attempts to address these issues through datapath validation and adaptive beaconing.
Datapath validation
Each packet contains the ETX from the sender to the root. If a node receives a packet with ETX lower than its own this indicates an inconsistency in the tree. This triggers the transmission of a beacon frame. The goal is to have the sender of the packet receive the beacon frame and adjust its ETX accordingly.
Adaptive beaconing
The interval with which nodes broadcast beacons presents a tradeoff. If beacons were sent more frequently the routing information would be up to date more often and the network would respond to changes in topology faster. However, sending beacons more frequently leaves less bandwidth for application level data and uses more energy. To get around this CTP uses adaptive beaconing. It sends beacons faster when it detects problems. If it doesn't detect problems it exponentially decreases the beacon sending rate.
References
Routing protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentarians%20for%20Nuclear%20Non-Proliferation%20and%20Disarmament | Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (PNND) is a global network of over 700 parliamentarians from more than 75 countries working to prevent nuclear proliferation. Membership is open to current members of legislatures and parliaments at state, federal, national and regional levels. In October 2011, David Coltart was elected co-president of PNND at the , Switzerland.
The 2014 PNND Assembly was held in Washington, DC with the theme " Climbing the Mountain" IN JORDAN
Number of current members: 14
Number of alumni (former) members: 1
Location of PNND Assemblies
2012 - Astana, Kazakhstan
2014 - Washington, DC
See also
Anti-nuclear movement
Anti-nuclear organizations
Alyn Ware
References
Anti–nuclear weapons movement
Nuclear weapons policy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev%20%28band%29 | Kiev is an American indie rock band from Orange, California. It consists of members Andrew Stavas (keys, saxophone), Brandon Corn (drums, percussion), Derek Poulsen (bass, computers), and Robert Brinkerhoff (guitar, vocals). They self-released their first EP titled Ain't No Scary Folks In On Around Here in 2010, which Los Angeles radio station KROQ characterized as "like having your ear work on a good puzzle". Their first single "Crooked Strings" received airplay on KROQ's Locals Only show.
The band's second EP was released in 2011, titled Be Gone Dull Cage & Others. They were named "Best Indie Band" at the 2011 Orange County Music Awards. Los Angeles blog Buzzbands.LA described their sound as "trippy and cerebral at the same time, occupying that sometimes-exhilarating, sometimes-discomfiting space between left and right brain".
Kiev's first full-length album, Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth, was released on October 22, 2013 by Suspended Sunrise Recordings. In November 2014, the band's single "Be Gone Dull Cage" was featured on The Walking Dead episode "Slabtown".
Live performances
On May 24, 2011, at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, Kiev debuted a live stereoscopic 3-D set with visuals projected and choreographed to their music. The live 3-D show was performed for the second time on September 22, 2011 at Avalon Hollywood as part of the 2011 Los Angeles 3-D Film and Music Festival. The band was awarded the festivals "3DFF Pioneer Award" for their performance that night.
Discography
Albums
Falling Bough Wisdom Teeth (2013)
EPs
Ain't No Scary Folks In On Around Here (2010)
Be Gone Dull Cage & Others (2011)
Singles
"Be Gone Dull Cage (Walker Version)" (2014)
"Willing Eyes" (2019)
References
External links
Alternative rock groups from California
Musical groups from Orange County, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micott%20%26%20Basara | Micott & Basara was a Japanese film production and film distributor company.
Movies
Appleseed (2004)
Appleseed: Ex Machina (2007)
Appleseed XIII (2011)
Bankruptcy
On April 21, 2011, Teikoku Databank reported that Micott & Basara filed for voluntary bankruptcy at the Tokyo District Court after incurring 1.938 billion yen of debt at the end of March.
References
Appleseed (media franchise)
Film production companies of Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nymgo | Nymgo (pronounced \ˈnim-ˌgo\) is a software application that makes calls from computers to landlines and mobile phones over the Internet through Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Nymgo is a subsidiary of UK-based Splendor Telecom. It launched in December 2008 as a SIP-enabled international voice termination provider from fixed devices.
History
In October 2010, Intel Capital announced that Nymgo would be one of the three companies receiving a Series A investment round from its $50 million start-up fund. Nymgo received a total of $5 million in this funding round.
In 2011, Nymgo received a joint investment from Intel Capital and The Abraaj Group for an undisclosed sum. Nymgo has since revamped its networking infrastructure to improve its core voice-only calling business model and has begun the process of rebranding its client apps and website user experience all the while preparing to roll out native smartphone applications for the iPhone and Android OS in early 2012.
Rates
In 2011, Nymgo slashed rates in half to countries with teams participating in the 2010 World Cup.
Customer service
When a customer encounters poor audio quality, Nymgo will test the line and refund the first two minutes of the call if the test reveals a network error.
Nymgo users periodically complain of dealing with unnecessary obstacles in buying credit (verification procedures, red tape) in certain countries.
References
VoIP software
VoIP services
Telecommunications companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materials%20Testing%20Reactor | The Materials Testing Reactor (MTR) was an early nuclear reactor specifically designed to facilitate the conception and design of future reactors. It produced much of the foundational irradiation data that underlies the nuclear power industry. It operated in Idaho at the National Reactor Testing Station from 1952 to 1970.
Design and administrative history
The design evolution for MTR began in 1944 at Clinton Laboratories (now Oak Ridge National Laboratory), originally for the production of fission products. The concept evolved from a 50-kW homogeneous reactor to a heavy-water-cooled and moderated core, and then again at the suggestion of Eugene Wigner to a 30 MW light-water-cooled and moderated core.
A full-scale mock-up of the reactor at Oak Ridge was built to verify the design, but the Atomic Energy Commission announced on December 27, 1947, that all reactor development would be centralized at the Argonne National Laboratory (ANL). A directive was issued to ANL to proceed with the MTR project in November 1948. Concerns were raised by the AEC Safeguard Committee regarding potential large fission product release due to the reactor's high power with respect to a proposed site at ANL, and so the reactor site was moved to the new Reactor Testing Station near Arco, Idaho.
The Blaw-Knox Company was selected as the architect-engineer in July 1949 to complete the engineering design. Fluor was engaged in February 1950 as the construction contractor. Ground was broken for the MTR in May 1950, and construction was completed in February 1952. The first experimental tests were inserted in the reactor on August 2, 1952.
The reactor
The reactor had a highly enriched uranium core made of metallic plate-type uranium-aluminum fuel clad in aluminum. Eighteen plates of fuel were constructed into fuel assemblies. The core ran with between 21 and 23 assemblies. The reactor was cooled and moderated with water pumped through the fuel elements.
The core was surrounded by a beryllium neutron reflector held in an aluminum tank. Outside the tank was a space filled with graphite balls, and then block graphite. The graphite served to thermalize and reflect neutrons back into the core and to contain thermalized neutrons in a zone large enough to allow the placement of numerous experimental facilities. A thermal shield made of steel surrounded the graphite, and a 9-foot thick concrete biological shield surrounded that.
The graphite was cooled with forced air flow. This air became activated by the neutrons and included about 1500 Ci of Argon-41 per day, which was exhausted through the 250-ft stack located downwind of the reactor.
The reactor, the control room, the experimental facilities, and a fuel management canal were enclosed in a reactor building
The neutron flux was about 2e14 thermal (in the reflector) and 1e14 fast (E > 1 MeV).
About 25% of the uranium in each assembly was consumed before needing removal. Assemblies were cut in the reactor canal using an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%20Asha%20303 | The Nokia Asha 303 is a QWERTY messenger phone powered by Nokia's Series 40 operating system. It was announced at Nokia World 2011 in London along with three others Asha phones - the Nokia Asha 200, 201 and 300. The 303 is considered to be the flagship of the Asha family. Its main features are the QWERTY keyboard and capacitive touchscreen, the pentaband 3G radio, SIP VoIP over 3G and Wi-Fi and the ability to play Angry Birds which were all never seen before on a Series 40 phone. Nokia Asha 303 is available in a number of languages depending on which territory it is marketed for. Models sold in South Asia support at least eight languages: English, Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.
History and availability
The Nokia Asha 303 was announced at Nokia World 2011 in London. It will be available shortly in China, Eurasia, Europe, India, Latin America, Middle East and Southeast Asian markets. The phone will be sold at a price of €115 subject to taxes and subsidies.
Hardware
Processors
The Nokia Asha 303 is powered by the same 1 GHz ARM11 processor found in Symbian Belle phones such as the Nokia 500, 600 and 700 but lack the dedicated Broadcom GPU which is not supported by the Nokia Series 40 operating system. The system also has 128 MB of low power single channel RAM (Mobile DDR).
Screen and input
The Nokia Asha 303 has a 2.6-inch (66 mm) transmissive LCD capacitive touchscreen (1 point) with a resolution of 320 × 240 pixel (QVGA, 154 ppi). In contrast with the Nokia C3-00, the screen of the Asha 303 is taller than wider (portrait). According to Nokia it is capable of displaying up to 262 thousands colors. The device also has a backlit 4-row keyboard with regional variant available (QWERTY, AZERTY, etc. ...).
The back camera has an extended depth of field feature (no mechanical zoom), no flash and has a 4× digital zoom for both video and camera. The sensor size of the back camera is 3.2-megapixel (2048 x 1536 px), has a f/2.8 aperture and a 50 cm to infinity focus range. It is capable of video recording at up to 640 x 480 px at 15 fps with mono sound.
Buttons
On the front of the device, above the 4-row keyboard, there the answer/call key, the messaging key which brings up an onscreen menu (instant messaging and e-mail), the music key which also brings up an onscreen menu (last song/rewind, play/pause, next song/fast forward) and the end call/close application key. On the right side of the device there are the volume rocker and the lock/unlock button. A long press on the space bar brings up the wireless network menu.
Audio and output
The Nokia Asha 303 has one microphone and a loudspeaker, which is situated on the back of the device below the anodized aluminum battery cover. On the top, there is a 3.5 mm AV connector which simultaneously provides stereo audio output and microphone input. Between the 3.5 mm AV connector and the 2 mm charging connector, there is a High-Speed USB 2.0 USB Micro AB connector provided f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital%20UK | Capital UK is a radio station broadcasting through the digital platform across the United Kingdom and is owned by Global and operates from the Capital radio network.
Capital UK is available nationally on digital radio, and instead of having local programming, news and adverts like the local Capital stations, it broadcasts the local London shows nationally, and the rest of the time the networked shows, with station-specific national adverts. It also occasionally broadcasts links exclusive to that station which are not broadcast on Capital London. On the networked and London shows. But normally it shares links with Capital London.
In January 2011, as part of a brand relaunch, Galaxy stations across the UK were combined with Capital London and the stations of the Hit Music network to form the new multi-station Capital network. Galaxy Digital was replaced by Capital in most areas, except where Capital already broadcast alongside Galaxy (in London on DAB and nationally on digital TV platforms).
On Digital TV platforms it is available on:
Freesat 719
Freeview 724
Sky 0109
TalkTalk 610
Virgin Media 958
References
External links
Capital - How to Listen - TV
Capital
Radio stations in London
Contemporary hit radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%20Gelernter | Herbert Leo Gelernter (December 17, 1929 – May 28, 2015) was a professor in the Computer Science Department of Stony Brook University.
Short biography
Having taken his B.S. in 1951 from Brooklyn College, Gelernter received his Ph.D. at the University of Rochester in 1957.
Gelernter's extended visit to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in 1960/61, while he was developing a prototype of his 'vidicon' (a system which dispensed with film, and used a television-camera tube to record a spark-chamber event and store it as digitized data on magnetic tape) stimulated the development of a data-handling system for spark chambers in early 1961.
During his time at IBM, he wrote some of the first artificial intelligence software—his "geometry theorem machine" was the first advanced AI program, and the third AI program ever. It is a logical AI system that can prove theorems in planar geometry about parallel lines, congruence, and equality and inequality of segments and angles. Like Logic Theorist, it uses heuristics.
He implemented, with Nathaniel Rochester, a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN. The work for this was done with Carl Gerberich at IBM, to this end producing the Fortran list processing language (FLPL).
His most ambitious project during his tenure at Stony Brook University was the SYNCHEM expert problem-solving system for the discovery of potential routes to the total synthesis of organic molecules through a self-guided intelligent search and application of its large knowledge base of graph transforms, rules and sophisticated heuristics representing generalized organic reactions organized around recognized functional groups.
In 1952, Gelernter married Ruth, a daughter of rabbi Theodore Norton Lewis. His sons are the geneticist and Yale professor Joel Gelernter and the computer scientist and social commentator David Gelernter, also a Yale professor. His daughter Judith is a research scientist in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Gelernter died on May 28, 2015.
See also
List of Jewish American computer scientists
History of artificial intelligence
Timeline of artificial intelligence
References
American computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
2015 deaths
Stony Brook University faculty
People associated with CERN
1929 births
Jewish American scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20AOP | Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) presents the principle of the separation of concerns, allowing less interdependence, and more transparency. Thereby, an aspect is a module that encapsulates a crosscutting concern, and it is composed of pointcuts and advice bodies. The interception of an aspect is performed in a join point (a point in the execution flow), and defined inside a pointcut (a set of join points). Whenever the application execution reaches one pointcut, an advice (namely a callback) associated with it is executed. However, this implementation does not take into account separation of concerns in distributed settings.
In contrast, distributed AOP is a paradigm that allows distributed interception. It defines many new concepts like remote pointcuts, which are similar to traditional remote method calls, since execution is performed on a remote host. Thus, distributed AOP establishes a context where aspects can be deployed in a set of hosts. In this sense, the remote pointcut abstraction is considered the starting point for distributed AOP. After that, some works
have extended this idea in some way, but all of them share the concept of remote pointcut.
A distributed aspect is defined as a crosscutting software module that may operate in multiple remote hosts to intercept and alter the whole behaviour of a distributed application. This distributed entity is able to modify or adapt the distributed system by applying additional functionalities (remote advice) at various hooks located in different hosts (join points) and triggered via distributed connections (remote pointcuts).
References
Aspect-oriented programming |
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