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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donal%20Smith%20%28CEO%29 | Donal Smith is the co-founder of Credit Benchmark, a credit risk data and analytics provider, and co-founder of Camwell Management LLP, which invests in high-growth data, technology and information businesses. He was previously CEO of Data Explorers which was sold to Markit in 2012.
On 11 Feb 2012, Donal Smith was announced as a non-executive director of Trinity Mirror. He is also chairman of Selerity.
Before Data Explorers, Smith was CEO of Thomson Financial in Europe and Asia, Group Managing Director at the Financial Times and CEO of eCountries.
References
External links
Chief Executive at Data Explorers
profile at Bloomberg Businessweek
Non-executive Director at Trinity Mirror
Living people
Irish chief executives
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20John%20Caulfield | H. John Caulfield (March 25, 1936 – January 31, 2012) was an American physicist who specialized in holography and optical computing. He was the author of numerous refereed publications, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the SPIE. He was also awarded the SPIE Gold Medal in 2005.
Caulfield did research at Texas Instruments and later became a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Towards the end of his career he taught at Fisk University and at Alabama A&M University.
References
External links
Oral history interview transcript with H. John Caulfield on 21 January 2003, American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library & Archives
American physicists
Optical physicists
Fellows of Optica (society)
University of Alabama in Huntsville faculty
1936 births
2012 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Depth | In Depth is a program that airs monthly on C-SPAN 2 as part of their Book TV programming, and features a different writer each month. Each interview covers the breadth of that author's writing career, and incorporates viewer calls and e-mails. The show is typically broadcast Live television live the first Sunday of each month. The first program was on February 6, 2000, and was a discussion with historian John Lukacs. For the first several years of the show, episodes were not produced during the summer months. From the first episode through March 2019, the standard interview length was three hours. Beginning in April 2019, with Nomi Prins, the standard interview was reduced to two hours.
There have been a few exceptions to the practice of featuring one single author, as with the programs featuring the Strand Bookstore, Frank J. Williams Frank Williams and Edna Greene Medford's discussion of Bibliography of Abraham Lincoln (writings on Lincoln), and John K. Wilson and Jonathan Karp's discussions of the writings of Barack Obama and John McCain.
Sometimes, the profile will include taped footage of the author's own home or office, so as to give further perspective on how they approach the task of writing. On occasion (as with the programs with Shelby Foote and Harold Bloom ) entire three-hour interviews have been conducted live at the home or office of the featured author.
In 2018, the series featured 12 authors best known for their works of fiction, as opposed to their standard practice of interviewing authors best known for nonfiction works.
List of episodes
Note: The dates of original broadcast of each episode are listed below, along with the name of the featured guest. The name of the host is indicated in parentheses. Each date links to a video of the full interview.
2000
February 6 – John Lukacs (Connie Doebele)
March 5 – Richard Rhodes (Connie Doebele)
April 2 – William F. Buckley Jr. (Brian Lamb)
May 7 – Joan Didion (Connie Doebele)
September 3 – Milton Friedman (Brian Lamb)
October 1 – Gore Vidal (Susan Swain)
November 5 – Stephen Ambrose (Connie Doebele)
December 3 – Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (Brian Lamb)
2001
January 7 – Norman Podhoretz (Connie Doebele)
February 4 – Toni Morrison (Susan Swain)
March 4 – James McPherson (Connie Doebele)
April 1 – Studs Terkel (Steve Scully)
May 6 – Jacques Barzun (Connie Doebele)
September 2 – Shelby Foote (Brian Lamb)
October 7 – Richard Brookhiser (Connie Doebele)*
November 4 – David Halberstam (Susan Swain)
December 2 – David McCullough (Brian Lamb)
*Note: Richard Brookhiser's October 7 interview was cut short unexpectedly due to the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan, which started during his interview. Brookhiser later appeared on In Depth for a full three hours on April 1, 2012, thus becoming one of the only guests to make two appearances.
2002
January 6 – Cornel West (Connie Doebele)
February 3 – Tom Clancy (Steve Scully)
March 3 – Peggy Noonan (Susan Swain)
April 7 – Rober |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uptime%20Devices | Uptime Devices was an environmental monitoring company in Austin, Texas from 1997 to 2019. They produced a range of tools that are utilized in Data center infrastructure management (DCIM). As of 2010, they had sold over 40,000 units in over 24 countries.
Uptime Devices was credited with creating the first SNMP-based environmental monitoring device, Sensor Hub. The company provided products that allow communication between physical environments and networks.
In 2008, Uptime Devices introduced the Daisy Chain Sensor® technology platform. The platform allows environmental sensors to be chained together over long distances by Ethernet.
Product ranges
Uptime Devices provided monitoring solutions that detect environment, security, or power threats. Among the parameters they detected are:
Temperature
Humidity
Power
Smoke
Liquid
Motion
Gas
References
Companies based in Austin, Texas
American companies established in 1997
American companies disestablished in 2019
Environmental monitoring |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Only%20Serious%20About%20You | is a yaoi manga series by Kai Asou.
Reception
The manga received a positive review by Rebecca Silverman in Anime News Network.
References
External links
2010 manga
Houbunsha manga
Yaoi anime and manga
Digital Manga Publishing titles |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.%20Vincent%27s%20HealthCare | St. Vincent's HealthCare, based in Jacksonville, Florida is a network of three acute-care hospitals, a long-term skilled nursing facility, 30+ primary care centers, nearly a dozen medical laboratories, transportation and prescription services, and a health outreach ministry. It is part of Ascension, the largest Catholic hospital system in the United States.
History
St. Vincent's Hospital was founded in 1916 by the Daughters of Charity and named after the 17th century Parisian St. Vincent de Paul, who started the Daughters of Charity in 1633.
Foundation
The St. Vincent's HealthCare Foundation is the entity that financially supports the mission of Jacksonville's province of Daughters of Charity. The foundation and network, established in 1982, is dedicated to improving the present and future healthcare needs of the Jacksonville area, and has provided more than $1 million in support every year since its creation.
The foundation stages fund-raising events throughout the year, including the Red Rose Ball, begun in 1982 and Jacksonville's oldest charity ball. The 2008 event was attended by John Travolta and Kelly Preston, who helped collect over $1 million in donations.
John Ash was the celebrity chef at the 10th annual Delicious Destinations event in 2011. The three-day event attracts over a dozen executive chefs from notable restaurants and resorts around the country to prepare their favorite dishes for donors at the Ponte Vedra Inn and Club.
St. Vincent's HealthCare Foundation is also a charity recipient of proceeds from The Players Championship, and conducts a two-day charity golf tournament early in the week known as The Tradition.
Baptist merger
During the 1990s, for-profit health maintenance organizations such as Columbia/HCA captured a large share from non-profit hospitals. With William C. "Bill" Mason as CEO, St. Vincent's merged with rival Baptist Health in 1995 to become the dominant healthcare provider in northeast Florida and control rising costs. In 1998, John J Maher became CEO and Baptist/St. Vincents Health System had a 40% market share and had cut operating costs by $100 million in three years. However, the arrangement didn't last and a demerger occurred, with both groups going separate ways in 2000.
Facilities
St. Vincent's HealthCare includes 1,081 beds and 4,700 employees. The network's facilities and programs provide a full spectrum of care.
The original
St. Vincent's Hospital was begun in 1916 when the Daughters of Charity turned the DeSoto Sanitorium into the third hospital in Jacksonville. The institution grew from 42 beds into the St. Vincent's Medical Center Riverside, with 528 beds. As the largest facility in the group, they offer the most diverse health care services in the system.
Expansion
St. Vincent's Medical Center Southside, a 313-bed acute care hospital, was purchased by St. Vincent's HealthCare in 2008 from Mayo Clinic Florida. The present facility was opened in 1984, but St. Luke's Hospital was begun in 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickmen%20Studios | Stickmen Studios (also known as Stickmen Limited) was formed in 2006 and creates games for various computer platforms. Its sister company is CerebralFix Limited, a social media network game development studio founded in 2009. Both companies are based in Christchurch, New Zealand, and their products target the internet download market.
CerebralFix's directors are Jeremy Cadillac and Benjamin Dellaca of Christchurch. Cadillac and Dellaca are directors of Stickmen Limited. Dellaca is CEO of CerebralFix. Both businesses employ over 35 staff, up from 6 in 2008.
Government funding
Stickmen Studios first game in 2009, Dragon Master Spell Caster, got panned by gamers. However, the company did obtain $300,000 in New Zealand Government Ministry of Science and Innovation research and development funding to create an international market for their gaming technologies as well as evaluating new technologies to help autistic children.
To help autistic children the Ministry invested in a partnership between Stickmen and Crown research institute, Industrial Research Limited (IRL), to develop Wii game Kung Fu Funk, a console game released in May 2010 using motion sensing controls to encourage upper body movement. Reviews by users of the game on gaming websites were quite negative. The project demonstrated the power of incorporating movement science into interactive games, resulting in Stickmen’s 2011 launch of i-Ora Limited, a company focused on interactive media for education and rehabilitation. i-Ora is now working with IRL, the University of Auckland’s UniServices, and Korean firm Yujin Robotics Co to develop devices to educationally assist autistic children. They have also helped develop a game-based rehabilitation device for people recovering from strokes, which follows a rehabilitation format known as gaming rehabilitation.
The companies office was destroyed in the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. In 2012 William McLellan and his friend and business partner Colin Anderson were also responsible for the approval, design and construction of a Government Funded IT business hub (Referred to as the EPIC IT Hub – Enterprise Precinct and Innovation Campus) on Manchester Street in Central Christchurch. Both CerebralFix and Stickmen Studios will take up residence in this building in August 2012 along with several other earthquake affected Christchurch businesses.
CerebralFix limited
CerebralFix is a New Zealand game developer company based in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in March 2009 by Ben Dellaca and Jeremy Cadillac as spin-off from sister-company Stickmen Studios. Stickmen Studios was later absorbed by CerebralFix. In early 2016 they opened a second office in Westport, New Zealand. CerebralFix specializes in developing social, casual and mobile games for international brands such as Disney, Lionsgate, DreamWorks and BBC. The company develops games under a ‘work for hire’ model but have also ventured into developing games under its own brand using |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEEE%2011073%20Personal%20Health%20Data%20Standards | ISO/IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device (PHD) standards are a group of standards addressing the interoperability of personal health devices (PHDs) such as weighing scales, blood pressure monitors, blood glucose monitors and the like. The standards draw upon earlier IEEE11073 standards work, but differ from this earlier work due to an emphasis on devices for personal use (rather than hospital use) and a simpler communications model.
Background
Demographics changes (the rapidly aging population in many industrialised countries) and an increase in chronic diseases (such as diabetes and heart disease) has led many to ask how technology can be used to ease the burden on health care professionals and provide useful tools to the elderly and infirm – and in particular how technology can help people cope with their conditions within their own homes. This is leading to the development of "personal health devices" which allow people to monitor their own conditions within their own homes and provide the information that such devices obtain to health care
professionals and other carers.
Concern that incompatible systems will slow the roll-out of useful personal health devices has prompted moves towards ensuring interoperability. The Continua Alliance is a group of companies and bodies seeking to promote the growth of this personal health market. They are working with the IEEE Standards Association, and the IEEE-EMBS affiliated 11073 Personal Health Data Working Group is formulating standards for data formats and communications to ensure device interoperability.
In the words of IEEE 11073-20601-2008, that standard:
...addresses a need for an openly defined, independent standard for converting the information profile [of personal health devices] into an interoperable transmission format so the information can be exchanged to and from personal telehealth devices and compute engines (e.g., cell phones, personal computers, personal health appliances, and set top boxes).
Previous standards
The IEEE 11073 Personal Health Device standards family is based around a single "framework" standard:
IEEE Std 11073-20601 - Application profile - Optimized exchange protocol
IEEE Std 11073-20601a - Application profile - Optimized exchange protocol (amendment)
and a number of "device specialization" standards - the following exist at present:
IEEE Std 11073-10404 - Device specialization - Pulse Oximeter
IEEE Std 11073-10407 - Device specialization - Blood Pressure Monitor
IEEE Std 11073-10408 - Device specialization - Thermometer
IEEE Std 11073-10415 - Device specialization - Weighing Scale
IEEE Std 11073-10417 - Device specialization - Glucose Meter
IEEE Std 11073-10420 - Device specialization - Body composition analyzer
IEEE Std 11073-10421 - Device specialization - Peak flow
IEEE Std 11073-10441 - Device specialization - Cardiovascular fitness and activity monitor
IEEE Std 11073-10442 - Device specialization - Strength fitness equipment
IEEE Std 11073-10471 - |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowpal%20Wabbit | Vowpal Wabbit (VW) is an open-source fast online interactive machine learning system library and program developed originally at Yahoo! Research, and currently at Microsoft Research. It was started and is led by John Langford. Vowpal Wabbit's interactive learning support is particularly notable including Contextual Bandits, Active Learning, and forms of guided Reinforcement Learning. Vowpal Wabbit provides an efficient scalable out-of-core implementation with support for a number of machine learning reductions, importance weighting, and a selection of different loss functions and optimization algorithms.
Notable features
The VW program supports:
Multiple supervised (and semi-supervised) learning problems:
Classification (both binary and multi-class)
Regression
Active learning (partially labeled data) for both regression and classification
Multiple learning algorithms (model-types / representations)
OLS regression
Matrix factorization (sparse matrix SVD)
Single layer neural net (with user specified hidden layer node count)
Searn (Search and Learn)
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA)
Stagewise polynomial approximation
Recommend top-K out of N
One-against-all (OAA) and cost-sensitive OAA reduction for multi-class
Weighted all pairs
Contextual-bandit (with multiple exploration/exploitation strategies)
Multiple loss functions:
squared error
quantile
hinge
logistic
poisson
Multiple optimization algorithms
Stochastic gradient descent (SGD)
BFGS
Conjugate gradient
Regularization (L1 norm, L2 norm, & elastic net regularization)
Flexible input - input features may be:
Binary
Numerical
Categorical (via flexible feature-naming and the hash trick)
Can deal with missing values/sparse-features
Other features
On the fly generation of feature interactions (quadratic and cubic)
On the fly generation of N-grams with optional skips (useful for word/language data-sets)
Automatic test-set holdout and early termination on multiple passes
bootstrapping
User settable online learning progress report + auditing of the model
Hyperparameter optimization
Scalability
Vowpal wabbit has been used to learn a tera-feature (1012) data-set on 1000 nodes in one hour. Its scalability is aided by several factors:
Out-of-core online learning: no need to load all data into memory
The hashing trick: feature identities are converted to a weight index via a hash (uses 32-bit MurmurHash3)
Exploiting multi-core CPUs: parsing of input and learning are done in separate threads.
Compiled C++ code
References
External links
Vowpal Wabbit's github repository
Documentation and examples (github wiki)
Vowpal Wabbit Tutorial at NIPS 2011
Questions (and answers) tagged 'vowpalwabbit' on StackOverflow
Data mining and machine learning software
Microsoft free software
Software using the BSD license
Yahoo! software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nat%20Geo%20Wild%20original%20programming | The following is a list of television programs currently or formerly broadcast by Nat Geo Wild.
Current programming
The Incredible Dr. Pol (2011–present)
Big Cat Week (2013–present)
Dr. Oakley, Yukon Vet (2014–present)
Snake City (2014–present)
Secrets of the Zoo (2018–present)
Critter Fixers: Country Vets (2020–present)
Heartland Docs, DVM (2020–present)
Secrets of the Zoo: Tampa (2020–present)
The Wizard of Paws (2020–present)
America's Funniest Home Videos: Animal Edition (2021–present)
Cesar Millan: Better Human Better Dog (2021–present)
Farm Dreams (2022–present)
Former programming
A
The Adventures of Dr. Buckeye Bottoms (2016–17)
Africa's Blood River
Africa's Creative Killers
Africa's Deadliest
Africa's Deadliest Kingdom
Africa's Deadliest: Young Blood
Africa's Deadly Kingdom
Africa's Hidden Wonders
Africa's Hunters
Africa's Lost Eden
Africa's Super Snake
Africa's Wild Kingdom: Reborn
Africa's Wild Side
Africa's Wild Side: Dynasties
Africa's Wild West
Alaska And Beyond: Big And Small
Alaska and the Wilds Beyond
Alaska's Deadliest: Preator Prowl
Alaska's Glacier Bay
Alaska's Grizzly Gauntlet
Aloha Vet (2015)
Alpha Dogs
The Alps: Winter's Fortress
The Amazing Spider House
Amazon Underworld
Amazon's Electric Fish
Amazonia
America The Beautiful: Mighty Northwest
America The Beautiful: Wild Frontier
America The Beautiful: Wild Southwest
America the Wild (2012–16)
America's Greatest Animals
America's National Parks
America's National Parks: Bears
America's Super-snake
America's The Beautiful: Southwest
America's Wild Frontier
America's Wild Spaces
American Chimpanzee
American Tiger
Among the Great Apes with Michelle Yeoh (2009)
Anaconda: Queen of the Serpents
Anaconda: Silent Killer
Animal ER (2016–17)
Animal Fight Club (2013–18)
Animal Fugitives
Animal Intervention
Animal Storm Squad (2016)
Ark of Stone: The Voyage of Sardinia
Asia's Wild Secrets
Attack of the Big Cats
Austria's Wild Heritage: One Country Six National Parks
B
Badlands
Battle for the Pride
Battle of the Swamp Dragons
Bavaria's Alpine Kingdom
Be The Creature
The Bear Evidence
Bearhood
Behind Russia's Frozen Curtain
Big Animal Hunt with Filip Badrov
Big Blue
Big Cat Games
Big Cat Odyssey
Big Cat Odyssey: Revealed
Big Cats of The Timbavati
Biggest and Baddest with Niall McCann
Bird Nation
Birth of A Pride
Bite Me with Dr. Mike Leahy
Bite, Sting, Kill
Bizarre Dinos
Black Mamba: Kiss of Death
The Blind Monkey
Blood Rivals: Lion vs. Buffalo
Blue Collar Dogs (2011)
Bonecrusher Queens
Born In Africa
Born In Africa: Survivor School
Born In Africa: The Circle of Life
Born Wild
Borneo's Secret Kingdom
Borneo's Secret Kingdom: Weird and Wild
Boss Croc
Brutal Killers
Built for the Kill (2001–04)
C
California's Wild Coast
Call of the Baby Beluga
Cameramen Who Dare
Cannibal Sharks
Cat Attack-tics
Cat Wars: Lions vs. Cheetah
Catching Giants
Caught Barehanded
Caught in The Act |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Walt%20Disney%20Company%20Portugal | The Walt Disney Company Portugal (formerly Fox Networks Group Portugal) was created in 2003 with headquarters located in Lisbon, Portugal, and is the owner of many Portuguese versions of Disney Channels'.
Channels
Current
BabyTV
Disney Channel (HD)
Disney Junior (HD)
Fox (HD)
Fox Life (HD)
Fox Crime (HD)
Fox Comedy (HD)
Fox Movies (HD)
National Geographic Channel (HD)
Nat Geo Wild (European TV channel) (HD)
24 Kitchen (HD)
Former
Fuel TV (Portugal) (HD, sold to FYC)
BemSimples (defunct)
Nat Geo Music (defunct)
Nat Geo People (defunct)
Fox News Channel (formerly distributed, owned by Fox Corporation)
Sky News (formerly distributed, owned by Sky)
Phoenix Chinese News and Entertainment Channel
Phoenix InfoNews Channel
See also
Fox Networks Group
The Walt Disney Company Italy
The Walt Disney Company France
References
External links
Official website
Fox Networks Group
Companies based in Madrid
Portugal
Television channels and stations established in 2003 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swordfish%20Translation%20Editor | Swordfish Translation Editor is a Computer-assisted translation software.
Features
It works with the XLIFF standard, after having extracted texts from a variety of file format. It stores translation memory in an internal database and can export it in the standard TMX format; import is also possible. A server, RemoteTM, can be used instead of the internal database if sharing is needed.
It supports the following localization industry standards:
Unicode
XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format)
TMX (Translation Memory eXchange)
SRX (Segmentation Rules eXchange)
PO (Portable Object)
TBX (TermBase eXchange)
Supported File Formats
OpenXLIFF Filters can generate XLIFF 1.2 and XLIFF 2.0 from these formats:
- General Documentation
- Adobe InCopy ICML
- Adobe InDesign Interchange (INX)
- Adobe InDesign IDML CS4, CS5, CS6 & CC
- HTML
- Microsoft Office (2007 and newer)
- Microsoft Visio XML Drawings (2007 and newer)
- MIF (Maker Interchange Format)
- OpenOffice / LibreOffice / StarOffice
- PHP Arrays
- Plain Text
- SDLXLIFF (Trados Studio)
- SRT Subtitles
- Trados Studio Packages (*.sdlppx)
- TXML (GlobalLink/Wordfast PRO)
- WPML XLIFF (WordPress Multilingual Plugin)
- Wordfast/GlobalLink XLIFF (*.txlf)
- XLIFF from Other Tools (.mqxliff, .txlf, .xliff, etc.)
- XML Formats
- XML (Generic)
- DITA 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3
- DocBook 3.x, 4.x and 5.x
- SVG
- Word 2003 ML
- XHTML
- Software Development
- JavaScript
- JSON
- Java Properties
- PHP Arrays
- PO (Portable Objects)
- RC (Windows C/C++ Resources)
- ResX (Windows .NET Resources)
- TS (Qt Linguist translation source)
Open API: Yes
Has a command line interface for using main features in batch mode.
Source: TAUS Tracker, http://www.taustracker.com/54/92-swordfish-translation-editor
See also
Translation memory
Computer-assisted Translation
DeepL
vidby
References
External links
Product Page
Translation software
Software-localization tools |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekend%20with%20Velez | Weekend with Velez is a Philippine television news magazine show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Jose Mari Velez, it premiered in 1986. The show concluded in 1987. It was replaced by Velez This Week in its timeslot.
References
1986 Philippine television series debuts
1987 Philippine television series endings
GMA Network original programming
GMA Integrated News and Public Affairs shows
Philippine documentary television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Time%20Is%20Now%20%28Millennium%29 | "'The Time Is Now" is the twenty-third episode of the second season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on May 15, 1998. The episode was written by Glen Morgan and James Wong, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "The Time Is Now" featured guest appearances by Kristen Cloke and Glenn Morshower.
In this episode, Millennium Group profiler Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) confronts the onset of an apocalyptic viral outbreak, dealing with the duplicity of the Group's foreknowledge of, and preparation for, such an event.
The episode's script went through several variations, taking shape after series creator Chris Carter suggested killing off the character of Catherine Black (Megan Gallagher). The episode has earned positive responses from critics, and was seen by approximately 4.8 million households during its initial broadcast.
Plot
Continuing from "The Fourth Horseman", several Millennium Group members in biohazard suits sanitize and clear out a house in El Cajon, California, where a family succumbed to the viral outbreak; outside, dozens of bird corpses litter the ground.
Group member Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) returns to the yellow house with his wife Catherine (Megan Gallagher) and daughter Jordan (Brittany Tiplady). Black realizes the family home holds painful memories and decides to move away; the mail contains a deed from his late father, who had left him a cabin in the woods. However, he has decided to remain with the Group, as despite his belief they are dangerous he feels a responsibility to utilize their resources and ability to predict future events for good; Catherine, though understanding, is upset. Later, Black meets with Richard Gilbert (Glenn Morshower), who is trying to convince Black to join his private security firm. Despite accepting his offer previously, Black now declines. Gilbert warns him their lives may be threatened by the Group's activities. After he leaves, several Group members appear, telling Black they are focused more on humanity as a collective than saving the lives of individual people. The next day, Black learns that Gilbert has died in a car accident; although he believes the vehicle was tampered with, there is no evidence.
Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn) tells Black that he broke into the Group network after being locked out. He recovered information about the Marburg Virus, which was discovered by bio-weapons scientists in the former Soviet Union and has been living dormant in bird species since the end of the Cold War; it may now be making a resurgence in the United States after a previous minor outbreak in 1986. Watts reveals that a vaccine has been developed by the Group, but only in sufficient quantities for its members; Watts and Black were unknowingly vaccinated while in quarantine after coming in contact with an infected corpse. Black asks Watts to locate Lara Means (Kristen Cloke), another Group member, as he is concerned by several rambling phone m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG%203910 | STANAG 3910 High Speed Data Transmission Under STANAG 3838 or Fibre Optic Equivalent Control is a protocol defined in a NATO Standardization Agreement for the transfer of data, principally intended for use in avionic systems. STANAG 3910 allows a 1 Mb/s STANAG 3838 / MIL-STD-1553B / MoD Def Stan 00-18 Pt 2 (3838/1553B) data bus to be augmented with a 20 Mb/s high-speed (HS) bus, which is referred to in the standard as the HS channel: the 3838/1553B bus in an implementation of STANAG 3910 is then referred to as the low-speed (LS) channel. Either or both channels may be multiply redundant, and may use either electrical or optical media. Where the channels use redundant media, these are individually referred to as buses by the standard.
History
The original STANAG 3910, i.e. the NATO standard, reached, at least, draft version 1.8, before work on it was abandoned in the early 1990s in favour of its publication through non-military standardization organizations: the foreword to Rev. 1.7 of the STANAG from March 1990 stated "The main body of this document is identical to the proposed Rev 1.7 of prEN 3910". Following this, several provisional, green-paper versions, prEN 3910 P1 & P2, were produced by working-group C2-GT9 of the Association Europeene des Constructeurs de Materiel Aerospatial (AECMA) (now ASD-STAN), before its development also ceased in 1996-7 (following the withdrawal of the French delegation, who held the chair of AECMA C2-GT9 at the time). As a result, the standard remains (as of Aug. 2013) in green paper form: the latest draft version is prEN3910-001 Issue P1, the front sheet of which states, 'This "Aerospace Series" Prestandard has been drawn up under the responsibility of AECMA (The European Association of Aerospace Industries). It is published on green paper for the needs of AECMA-Members.' However, despite this disclaimer, the document is offered for sale by ASD-STAN, currently (August 2013) at €382.64.
Utilisation
The incomplete nature of the standardization process (as of Aug. 2013) has not prevented at least two versions of STANAG 3910 being implemented: one for the Eurofighter Typhoon and one for the Dassault Rafale. The Eurofighter version, known as EFABus, is standardized by an internal Eurofighter document (SP-J-402-E-1039). The standardization documentation for the Dassault version is unknown.
The EFABus version of STANAG 3910 is known to use an electrical low speed (3838/1553B) control channel and a fibre optic HS channel. The version specified for the Dassault Rafale uses electrical media for both channels.
There are a number of manufacturers of avionic equipment that supply both flight and ground (e.g. test) equipment to this protocol standard.
Media
The (draft) standard contains annexes, known as slash-sheets, that specify a number of different media types for the high-speed and low-speed channels, implementations identifying a specific slash-sheet with the relevant specifications.
Optical
Versions of STANAG |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Information%20Age%3A%20Economy%2C%20Society%20and%20Culture | The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture is a trilogy of books by sociologist Manuel Castells: The Rise of the Network Society (1996), The Power of Identity (1997), and End of Millennium (1998). The second edition was heavily revised; volume one is 40 per cent different from the first edition.
Summary
The Information Age is an account of the role of information in contemporary society. Manuel Castells describes the shift from an industrial society to an informational society, which started in the 1970s. This Network Society is structured around networks instead of individual actors, and works through a constant flow of information through technology. Castells emphasises the interrelationship of social, economic and political features of society, and argues that the 'network' is the defining feature that marks our current epoch.
The Rise of the Network Society
In this volume Castells analyses the structural changes to the global economy that took place from the 1970s to 1990s. He describes the 'new economy', which he claims is based on 'a new mode of development, informationalism, of which networking is a critical attribute'. In this new 'Informational Economy' a firm's competitiveness is dependent on its knowledge of technology, information, and access to networks. The new economy is defined by a 'transformation of work and employment'. This concept implies that there is higher unemployment in countries where technology is scarce. The uneven development of new technology leads to 'social polarization and social exclusion'. This concept describes an increase in equality across nations due to globalization and an uneven distribution of technology, and thus networking opportunities and lower competitiveness.
This transition to an informational mode of development is enabled by the growth of information technology and changes in organizational structure based on networks. Castells examines statistical evidence of changes in work structure and labour patterns, and concludes that while the networked 'symbolic analyst' (or knowledge worker) may seek work globally, we cannot say that there is a true global labour force since the majority of workers are still geographically confined and immobile. Informationalism has not led to mass joblessness, but it has led to a structural change in the work force, that of instability: in highly developed countries, a majority of workers no longer have a traditional work pattern, but part-time and temporary employment has become the norm.
Castells then discusses new media and communication technologies based around networks, arguing that they are contributing to a fundamental change in culture. The new development is a 'culture of real virtuality', which describes a culture that is organized around electronic media. He says that 'the space of flows and timeless time are the material foundations of a new culture', that of the network society. The concept of 'timeless time' refers to the collapsing of time |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger%20Software | Ginger Software is an American and Israeli start-up specialized in Natural Language Processing and AI. The main products are tools aiming to improve written communications, develop English speaking skills and boost productivity. The company was founded in 2008 by Yael Karov and Avner Zangvil. Ginger Software uses the context of complete sentences to suggest corrections. In December 2011, Ginger Software was one of nine projects approved by the Board of Governors of the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation for a funding of $8.1 million. The company also raised $3 million from private Israeli and US investors in 2009.
In May, 2014 Intel acquired one of Ginger's business units and the rights to use the company's patented technology.
Founders
Before founding Ginger Software, Yael Karov had worked with Rosetta Genomics as its Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Research and Development from 2003 to 2006, and with ClickSoftware Technologies as a Director of Research and Development from 1990 to 1994. Karov also founded Agentics, a company specializing in free-text classification of e-commerce product information based on natural language processing, in 1996.
Avner Zangvil is the co-founder of Ginger Software. Zangvil co-founded Menta Software in 1996 with his brother Arnon Zangvil to develop a product that transforms any Windows-based application into a Web-enabled application usable from any remote computer running a Web browser. Menta was acquired by GraphOn Corporation in 2001.
Technology
Ginger Software uses patented software algorithms in the field of natural language processing. The company claims that the algorithm allows it to correct the written sentences with relatively high accuracy (eliminating up to 95 percent of writing errors), compared to standard spell checkers. Its unique algorithm allows the software to understand the context of the sentence rather than correcting based solely on a word. According to its founder, Karov, the software operates on the logic of sentence context in addition to the memory of a database of words. The company is at the heart of a growing revolution in the world of assistive technology.
Ginger claims that the benefits of the software have been leveraged by native English and non-native speakers alike, and have also found value in niche markets like dyslexia management. They further claim that ESL users derive great benefit from the use of the software, as it lets them write error-free English text. Its use also extends to native English speaking business professionals and students who use it as a 'safety net' for their email edits, as well as international students writing in English.
More recently, the company has focused on implementing its technology in mobile devices as an integral component of its mobile keyboard products.
Products
Ginger Software products include Ginger Page, a cross-platform writing enhancement app, and Ginger Keyboard which is availab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20League%20Manager | Super League Manager is a 1995 football management simulation computer game published and developed by Audiogenic for the Amiga platform. The game was noticed for avoiding the statistics heavy approach common in football management simulation games and instead focused on the human side. The game could be combined with Emlyn Hughes International Soccer or Wembley International Soccer (depending on their system) to allow the player to directly control the team for every fifth game. Amiga computing rated the game at 46% speaking positively of the game's attempt to focus on the human side of management while criticising the games interface and sound. Amiga Action gave the game a rating of 34%.
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External links
1995 video games
Association football management video games
Amiga games
Amiga-only games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mela%20%28company%29 | Mela is a global entertainment consumer service with one of the largest aggregations of premium South Asian video content. It was launched in October 2011 by Verismo Networks. Mela offers hit Bollywood and regional South Asian movies and live news and entertainment television channels. The service is distributed through a variety of streaming devices. Mela's content includes around 1,000 movies and over 70 live television channels in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Punjabi, and Gujarati. It holds the largest selection of live Telugu channels in the United States.
Mela has established partnerships for local distribution throughout the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia, and has announced plans to expand into other international markets in a phased manner.
Launches
Mela announced its launch in August 2011. The service became available to consumers in October 2011 on the Mela high definition set top box for television. The service offers archiving for up to seven days of all of its live Telugu TV channels and 24-hour archiving on some of its live Tamil TV channels.
The Mela Bollywood movies channel on the popular Roku streaming player was launched in the U.S. in December 2011, offering hit Bollywood and regional South Asian films. It expanded to the UK in February 2012. Mela launched its iPad app globally with the Bollywood movies in January 2012. In April 2012, Mela's platform expanded to include PC's.
On May 11, 2012, Mela launched MelaTV, streaming 24-hour, live television content and "MelaFlix" (select movies) for Hindi and other regional South Asian languages on Roku players, iPads, Kindle Fire, Samsung Galaxy Tablet, Samsung Smart TVs and Blu-ray players, PC, Mac OS, and other Internet-enabled devices. MelaTV allows subscribers to sign up using one login account to access the service on multiple devices. In June 2012, the Mela Movies App became available on Android gingerbread, honeycomb and ice cream sandwich tablets.
Partnerships
Mela has content partnerships with three of the biggest Bollywood studios/distributors, including Yash Raj Films, Eros Entertainment, and Shemaroo Entertainment. Mela's television partners include premium regional television networks from South Asia including Sun TV, Gemini TV, UTV, B4U and ETV.
In January 2012, Mela became the first global digital Bollywood service to release new movies in international markets simultaneous to their theatrical releases in India. Films released under this initiative include the 2012 horror film Ghost and independent film, Good Night Good Morning. The First Day First Show initiative was officially launched in March 2012 with Chaurahen." Directed by Rajshree Ojha and starring Soha Ali Khan, Zeenat Aman, Kiera Chaplin, and Victor Banerjee, the film was released by PVR Cinemas in local theaters in India, and simultaneously on the Mela service worldwide.''.
The next film in the First Day First Show series was Oscar-nominated director Ashvin Kumar's "The Forest". "St |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graver%20basis | In applied mathematics, Graver bases enable iterative solutions of linear and various nonlinear integer programming problems in polynomial time. They were introduced by Jack E. Graver. Their connection to the theory of Gröbner bases was discussed by Bernd Sturmfels. The algorithmic theory of Graver bases and its application to integer programming is described by Shmuel Onn.
Formal definition
The Graver basis of an m × n integer matrix is the finite set of minimal elements in the set
under a well partial order on defined by when and for all i. For example, the Graver basis of consists of the vectors (2,−1,0), (0,−1,2), (1,0,−1), (1,−1,1) and their negations.
Solving integer programming using Graver bases
Integer programming is the problem of optimizing a linear or nonlinear objective function over the set of integer points satisfying a system of linear inequalities. Formally, it can be written in standard form as follows:
It is one of the most fundamental discrete optimization problems and has a very broad modeling power and numerous applications in a variety of areas, but is typically very hard computationally as noted below. However, given the Graver basis of , the problem with linear and various nonlinear objective functions can be solved in polynomial time as explained next.
Linear integer programming
The most studied case, treated thoroughly in, is that of linear integer programming,
It may be assumed that all variables are bounded from below and above: such bounds either appear naturally in the application at hand, or can be enforced without losing any optimal solutions. But, even with linear objective functions the problem is NP-hard and hence presumably cannot be solved in polynomial time.
However, the Graver basis of has the following property. For every feasible point x:
Either x is optimal (i.e., minimizes given the constraints);
Or there exists a vector g in , such that x+g is feasible and (i.e., x can be improved by adding to it an element of the Graver basis).
Therefore, given the Graver basis , the ILP can be solved in polynomial time using the following simple iterative algorithm. Assume first that some initial feasible point x is given. While possible, repeat the following iteration: find positive integer q and element g in such that x + qg does not violate the bounds and gives best possible improvement; update x := x + qg and proceed to the next iteration. The last point x is optimal and the number of iterations is polynomial.
To find an initial feasible point, a suitable auxiliary program can be set up and solved in a similar fashion.
Nonlinear integer programming
Turning to the case of general objective functions f, if the variables are unbounded then the problem may in fact be uncomputable: it follows from the solution of Hilbert's 10th problem (see ), that there exists no algorithm which, given an integer polynomial f of degree 8 in 58 variables, decides if the minimum value of f over all 58 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Lamb | Brian Patrick Lamb (; born October 9, 1941) is an American journalist. He is the founder, executive chairman, and the now-retired CEO of C-SPAN, an American cable network that provides coverage of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate as well as other public affairs events. In 2007, Lamb was awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush and received the National Humanities Medal the following year.
Prior to launching C-SPAN in 1979, Lamb held various communication roles including that of a telecommunications policy staffer for the White House and as the Washington bureau chief for Cablevision magazine. He also served as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy for four years. Lamb has conducted thousands of interviews, including those on C-SPAN's Booknotes and Q&A, where he was known for his unique interview style that focused on short, direct questions.
Early life and education
On October 9, 1941, Lamb was born in Lafayette, Indiana, and lived there until he was 22 years old. Growing up, he wanted to be an entertainer and spent time as a disc jockey and as a drummer in many local bands. Lamb showed an early interest in television and radio, starting his first radio job at WASK (AM)—a local station in Lafayette—at the age of 17. His job at the radio station gave him the opportunity to interview musicians including Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Nat King Cole, Count Basie, and The Kingston Trio while he was still in high school.
After graduating from Jefferson High School, Lamb attended Purdue University. There, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta and graduated in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts in speech. During his junior year at the college in 1961, he coordinated a television program titled Dance Date that was similar to Dick Clark's ABC series, American Bandstand.
Military service
Following his graduation, Lamb was accepted into the Navy's Officer Candidate School. Upon completion of his training, he served 18 months on the attack cargo ship , and then moved to the Pentagon where he served in the audio/visual office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Lamb took up this role midway through the Vietnam War and, in addition to handling queries from radio and television networks, he attended press briefings with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.
In July 1967, following riots in Detroit, Lamb was sent there tasked with providing recordings of news conferences of Governor George W. Romney of Michigan for the White House Situation Room. He also served as a White House social aide to Lyndon B. Johnson, escorting Lady Bird Johnson down the aisle at the wedding of Chuck Robb and Lynda Johnson. He later recalled, "For five years after I got out of the Navy and went back part of the time to Indiana, the only thing I was known to have ever done in my life was to escort Mrs. Johnson down the aisle." Lamb spent a total of four years in the U.S. Navy and was a junior grade Lieutenant at th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20information%20processing%20%28disambiguation%29 | Social information processing is the information processing that occurs in large-scale and typically networked groups.
Social Information Processing may also refer to:
Social information processing (theory), a theory that explains the nature of online interactions
Social information processing (cognition), how individuals, especially children, establish (or fail to establish) successful relationships with society |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20programming%20blocks | The following is a list of lists of programming blocks.
Listings by name and date
List of programming blocks by name
Listings by genre or characteristic
List of animated programming blocks
Listings by company
List of Disney TV programming blocks
Listings by television network
List of programming blocks by Cartoon Network (Philippines)
List of programming blocks by YTV
Cartoon Network (Australia and New Zealand)
List of programming blocks by Cartoon Network (UK & Ireland)
List of programming blocks by Nickelodeon
List of programming blocks by Cartoon Network (Latin America)
List of programming blocks by Cartoon Network
List of programming blocks by Teletoon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%20Computer%20Literacy%20Project%202012 | The planned BBC Computer Literacy Project 2012, inspired by the original scheme which introduced the BBC Micro in the 1980s, was being developed by BBC Learning to provide a starting place for young people and others to develop marketable skills in computing technology and program coding.
Unlike the original project, the 2012 version didn't prescribe a particular bespoke computer device like the BBC Micro. Rather, the interactive computer-based tools where intended to be used on a variety of platforms, including Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Programming languages to be covered included; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java and Node.js. along with XML, Databases, Python, Ruby, PHP and others.
Dubbed BBC Hello World, the project had four major elements:
Content - a series of TV and Radio programmes, plus supporting content to develop understanding of computer science, technology, and coding.
Coding - BBC Micro 2.0, an IDE (integrated development environment) providing "the first ‘spark’" and support to learn a range of modern computer languages, applications and skills.
Projects - designed to get young people, adults and teachers creating real products and services.
Partnerships - The BBC will work with others who share the vision to improve understanding of computer technology and coding for all.
It appears the project was leaked ahead of time as the BBC never officially announced the Project and the website was soon taken down in 2012. No further announcements (or leaks) have been made.
See also
Digital literacy
Computer literacy
European Computer Driving Licence
Notes
External links
Computer Literacy Project 2012
2012 in the United Kingdom
2012 in computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brantley%20Coile | Brantley Coile is an inventor and founder of network technology companies, he worked for John Mayes as a programmer whose companies products include PIX Firewall, the first stateful-inspection firewall and Cisco Systems' first load-balancer, LocalDirector. Coile's patents include the fundamental patents on Network Address Translation (NAT).
Coile earned a degree in computer science at the University of Georgia. In 1994, he co-founded Network Translation, where he created the PIX Firewall appliance a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing stateful packet inspection.
After leaving Cisco Systems in 2000, he founded Coraid, Inc. to design and develop network storage devices using the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE), an open and lightweight network storage protocol.
Coile founded South Suite, Inc. in 2013 and continued to develop AoE technology. In 2015 he purchased Coraid's EtherDrive intellectual property and founded The Brantley Coile Company, a subsidiary of SouthSuite.
References
American businesspeople
American computer programmers
American computer scientists
21st-century American engineers
21st-century American inventors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...Thirteen%20Years%20Later | "...Thirteen Years Later" is the fifth episode of the third season of the American crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on October 30, 1998. The episode was written by Michael R. Perry, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "...Thirteen Years Later" featured guest appearances by the members of the band Kiss, performing both as themselves and as minor characters.
In this episode, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Emma Hollis (Klea Scott) investigate a series of murders on the set of a horror film—and realize that the production is based on a case Black solved several years earlier.
"...Thirteen Years Later" proved a difficult episode to produce, with filming requiring a large number of shots to be completed and the script to be adjusted on short notice. It has evoked mixed responses from critics, although the guest appearances by the members of Kiss have been more universally criticized.
Plot
Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Emma Hollis (Klea Scott) travel to Travelers Rest, South Carolina to investigate the deaths of film director Lew Carroll (Paul Stanley) and Marta Danbury, the leading actress in his newest film. As the local sheriff guides Black and Hollis through the murder scene, Black realizes that the film is based on a real murder case he investigated thirteen years previously; he is shocked to learn that the true story is being sensationalized for the screen.
The pair interview the cast and crew as suspects, discovering that many would benefit from either of the deaths—producer Kenny Neiderman had been having an affair with Danbury; Rowdy Beeman replaced Carroll as director; Ruby Dahl and Ramona Tangent, whose roles in the film will expand without Danbury; and Mark Bianco, a method actor relishing the opportunity to meet Black, whose role he plays. Also questioned is Hugo Winston, the man whose partner was murdered in the earlier case and who is campaigning against what he sees as a disrespectful production.
The production continues, and after the filming of a pool scene the crew gather in catering; Beeman discovers a severed finger in his sandwich, recognizing from its ring that it belonged to Niederman. When the sheriff shuts down production, Black theorizes that the killer may target the crew's hotel; he and Hollis arrive to find the body of the film's publicist hanging from a rope. The next day, a film extra (Gene Simmons) confesses to the killings; Black pokes holes in his story and discovers he is not a credible perpetrator. Regardless, production is resumed—and shortly afterwards, several crew members are found with their throats cut, while Winston's body hangs nearby in an apparent murder-suicide.
Black doubts that Winston is the killer, and while Hollis stays in the hotel, he visits the production's climactic shoot, set during a performance by the band Kiss. As he looks around him, the sheriff's body is throw |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral%20Damage%20%28Millennium%29 | "Collateral Damage" is the eleventh episode of the third season of the crime-thriller television series Millennium. It premiered on the Fox network on January 22, 1999. The episode was written by Michael R. Perry, and directed by Thomas J. Wright. "Collateral Damage" featured guest appearances by O'Quinn, Jacinda Barrett, James Marsters, and radio host Art Bell as himself. Bell's radio show Coast to Coast AM was among Perry's inspirations for the script.
In this episode, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents Frank Black (Lance Henriksen) and Emma Hollis (Klea Scott) investigate the kidnapping of the daughter of Millennium Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn), which may be connected to the testing of a pathogen during the Gulf War. The episode was well-received critically, with the guest acting seen as particularly strong, and was viewed by approximately 5.6 million households during its initial broadcast.
Plot
Leaving a bowling alley, student Taylor Watts (Jacinda Barrett) is abducted by two men. As she is dragged into a car, her dropped purse shows that her father is Millennium Group member Peter Watts (Terry O'Quinn). Watts is then seen briefing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents on the kidnapping, as a witness describes one abductor, who was wearing a mask like those issued to U.S. troops in the Gulf War. FBI agent Emma Hollis (Klea Scott) remarks to the agents that Watts failed to mention of the Millennium Group or those opposed to it in his briefing, and that her partner Frank Black (Lance Henriksen), who has been investigating the Group, is absent.
On an examining table, one of the kidnappers, Eric Swan (James Marsters), strips Taylor, harshly washes her with a course brush, and photographs her. The picture is sent to Watts, who is seen looking at it while supervising the crime scene. Black is also at the scene, and experiences a vision of Operation Desert Storm. Evidence is found of military-style tyre and boot tracks; these lead the FBI to an address where they find the second kidnapper murdered—Black and Watts clash over whether the Group or Swan are responsible. Back in the examination room, Swan exposes Taylor to a substance contained in a canister.
Black tracks the history of the second kidnapper, finding that he was involved in a military medical group; Swan's name is also associated with this group. As Black is investigating, Watts approaches him, showing him a second photograph of Taylor, now looking sickly, beside the canister. Watts believes she has less than two days to live. Meanwhile, Hollis has discovered that Swan frequently called Art Bell's Coast to Coast AM radio show under a pseudonym to discuss conspiracy theories about Gulf War syndrome. Bell invites Black onto the show to speak to a listening Swan; the two realise that Black's wife was killed by a pathogen Swan was ordered to test on his troops during the Gulf War—an order which came from a group outside of the Army.
At his hideout, Swan retrieves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWebGlobe | OpenWebGlobe was a project and technology for processing and interactively visualizing vast volumes of geospatial data in a 3D virtual globe, even the forks on GitHub are rather dead .
The OpenWebGlobe virtual globe can have several data categories like image data, elevation data, points of interest, vector data, and 3D objects. Before streaming such massive and complex data over the internet, this data must be pre-processed. Such pre-processing usually comprises a transformation from a local to a global reference system, creation of pyramid layers or levels of detail (LOD), tiling of the data, and optionally compression and encryption. Recently, these algorithms were ported to high performance compute cluster using OpenMP and MPI and are also released as open-source. Because data sets are usually large, containing several terabytes, advanced out-of-core rendering mechanisms with a level of detail approach are used for visualization.
OpenWebGlobe is an open-source project. It is written in WebGL. The lead developer is the Institute of Geomatics Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland ().
Developing Globe Applications
The OpenWebGlobe SDK is also a 3D engine on top of WebGL. With the OpenWebGlobe SDK it is possible to create custom virtual globe applications. This JavaScript "Hello World" example creates a virtual globe and adds an image and elevation layer:
function main()
{
// (1) create an OpenWebGlobe context using canvas
// first parameter is canvas-id and second is "fullscreen"
var ctx = ogCreateContextFromCanvas("canvas", true);
// (2) Create a virtual globe
var globe = ogCreateGlobe(ctx);
// (3) Add an image and an elevation layer
var imgBlueMarble500 =
{
url : ["http://www.openwebglobe.org/data/img"],
layer : "World500",
service : "i3d"
};
var elvSRTM_CH =
{
url : ["http://www.openwebglobe.org/data/elv"],
layer : "SRTM",
service : "i3d"
};
ogAddImageLayer(globe, imgBlueMarble500);
ogAddElevationLayer(globe, elvSRTM_CH);
// (4) Set the background color
ogSetBackgroundColor(ctx, 0.2,0.2,0.7,1);
}
Demos
Switzerland 3D
The demo version of a potential 3D Viewer for geo.admin.ch - the geo-portal of the Swiss Confederation - was online on the OpenWebGlobe's website until July 31, 2012. The scene covered the entire Switzerland and was based on high resolution data from swisstopo (SWISSIMAGE).
Source code
References
External links
Demo: Switzerland 3D
Cross-platform free software
Geomatics engineering
JavaScript
Virtual globes
WebGL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberGladiators | CyberGladiators is a 1996 fighting game developed by K.A.A. (label of Dynamix) and published by Sierra On-Line.
The game is divided of fights between members of the Quaaflax Alliance and members of the terrorist organization Gy Djin. All characters have been transformed by a cosmic storm into CyberGladiators.
Reception
PC Zone gave the game 6.4 out of 10.
See also
Hunter Hunted, the other game by K.A.A.
References
External links
1996 video games
Fighting games
Sierra Entertainment games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses%20in%20Brisbane | The Brisbane trolleybus system was part of the public transport network in Brisbane, Australia from 1951 until 1969. The Brisbane City Council operated 36 Sunbeam trolleybuses on a 28 kilometre network.
History
The Brisbane Tramways Trust experimented with providing bus services in the 1920s but these proved impractical due to mechanical unreliability and Brisbane's poor road surface quality. The first permanent bus services were introduced in 1940 as a supplement to Brisbane's tram services.
In 1948, the Brisbane City Council municipalized 20 privately run bus operators and expanded its own fleet of buses. The first tram lines to close were the Lower Edward Street to Gardens route, and the Upper Edward Street to Gregory Terrace route in 1947, the latter due to the very steep grades on that line. The vertical curves were difficult for Brisbane's double bogie cars. Diesel-engined buses initially replaced tram services on these lines. These were however replaced by trolleybuses on 12 August 1951.
The council also intended to introduce a trolleybus service to the new University of Queensland campus at St Lucia, and purchased enough trolleybus chassis from the United Kingdom for the route. However, it was vigorously opposed by residents and the plan was abandoned. The council then found itself with surplus trolleybuses but no route on which to run them, so it decided to run the trolleybuses from Herston to Stanley Bridge, East Brisbane, commencing in 1952.
Several other trolleybus routes were subsequently established in the eastern suburbs. The first of these replaced a tram route, along Cavendish Road, in 1955. Other trolleybus routes to Seven Hills and Carina did not involve tram route closures.
The network reached its peak of 28 kilometres on 19 June 1960 when the Carina route was extended. Most of the network closed in 1968 with the last service operating on 13 March 1969.
Fleet
The fleet comprised 36 Sunbeam MF2B trolleybuses; 30 bodied locally by Charles Hope in 1951/52 and six by Athol Hedges in 1959. Two have been preserved by the Brisbane Tramway Museum.
Depot
The depot and workshops for the trolleybuses was located in Milton on Milton Road between Hale and Castlemaine Streets. The former depot was demolished to make way for a redevelopment of Lang Park.
See also
Brisbane Tramway Museum
History of Brisbane
Trams in Brisbane
Transport in Brisbane
References
External links
Brisbane Tramway Museum
Brisbane
Public transport in Brisbane
Brisbane
1951 establishments in Australia
1969 disestablishments in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TamoGraph%20Site%20Survey | TamoGraph Site Survey is an application for performing Wi-Fi site surveys and RF planning. It supports 802.11ax, 802.11ac, 802.11n, 802.11a, 802.11b, and 802.11g wireless networks. TamoGraph is developed by TamoSoft, a privately held New Zealand company founded in 1998 that specializes in network analysis software.
Functionality
TamoGraph is used for measuring and visualizing such WLAN characteristics as signal strength, signal-to-noise ratio, signal-to-interference ratio, TCP and UDP throughput rates, access point vendor, encryption type, etc. Visualizations are overlaid on floor plans or, in case of outdoor surveys, on site maps that can be imported from one of the online map services. Data is collected by a portable computer using a compatible Wi-Fi adapter.
When performing planning of Wi-Fi networks, the tool can be used for creating a virtual model of a future network, where walls and other obstructions are drawn using different material types (drywall, glass, brick, etc.). The tool will then calculate the approximate locations of where the access points should be placed. At the post-deployment stage, TamoGraph is used to validate the deployed wireless network, as well as to measure interference from both Wi-Fi and non-Wi-Fi sources with the help of Wi-Spy, a USB-based spectrum analyzer.
Features
Passive, active and simultaneous passive/active survey modes.
RF modeling.
Automatic access point location
Automatic virtual access point placement and capacity planning in predictive models.
Detailed information about access points: channel, supported rates, encryption, etc.
Support for outdoor surveys using GPS
Spectrum analysis
Customizable reporting in PDF, Microsoft Word, and HTML formats
References
External links
Official website
Site survey |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxmikant%20Kale | Laxmikant (Sanjay) V. Kale is the director of the Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) and a professor of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He also holds department affiliations with the Beckman Institute and the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at Illinois.
Charm++
Professor Kale is perhaps best known for Charm++, a parallel object-oriented programming language based on C++. Under his leadership and direction, members of PPL developed (and continue to evolve) Charm++ and its predecessor, Chare Kernel, along with Adaptive MPI (AMPI). On top of this programming system, many parallel applications and libraries have been developed, such as NAMD, OpenAtom, Charisma, et al.
Professor Kale and his research group frequently collaborate with scientists in other disciplines to come up with novel ways of using high performance computing for scientific research and discovery. His research is guided by the principles of improving computer performance and human productivity in parallel programming.
Research group
The Parallel Programming Laboratory (PPL) is Professor Kale's research group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The group is composed of research scientists and graduate and undergraduate research assistants in collaboration with domain scientists throughout the world. The group's current collaborations include NCSA's Blue Waters project and Virginia Tech's Contagion project, among others.
Awards
Professor Kale was elevated to an ACM Fellow in December 2017 for his contributions to parallel programming and high performance computing. He was named the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor of Computer Science in November 2016. He was awarded the IEEE Sidney Fernbach award in 2012 and was recognized as an IEEE Fellow in November 2011 for "development of parallel programming techniques and awarded a Gordon Bell special prize in 2002 for NAMD: Biomolecular Simulation on Thousands of Processors, where "researchers achieved unprecedented scaling of the code that renders an atom-by-atom blueprint of large biomolecules and biomolecular systems." Other awards include the C. W. Gear Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990 and ONR Young Investigator (1990–93).
Education
Professor Kale earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in computer science from the State University of New York (SUNY), Stony Brook with David Scott Warren as his advisor. He earned a M.E. in computer science from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, in 1979 and his undergraduate work was completed in 1977 at the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, where he earned a B. Tech in Electrical Engineering.
References
External links
PPL homepage
Professor Kale's page
Professor Kale's listing in the Mathematics Genealogy Project
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birt |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Earle | Roy Earle is a former compiler of Crosaire, a cryptic crossword published daily in The Irish Times.
Roy Earle's sole predecessor was John Derek Crozier, under whose stewardship the crossword became enormously popular, inspiring a daily leaderboard, dedicated blogs and a book. Earle used the pseudonym Mac An Iarla, which is the Gaelicised form of his surname. His first crossword appeared on Monday 24 October 2011. Earle was selected to take over after Crozier's 68-year run due to his stewardship of a blog, written under the pen name William Ernest Butler, dedicated to Crosaire solutions. He published the rationale behind each clue to the Crosaire Blog, which has been integrated into the larger Irish Times website and is continued by his successor, "Crossheir." His final Crosaire was published on 9 June 2012 after just over seven months on the job. Earle cited a change in personal circumstances as the reason for his retirement. He was educated at Sandymount High School, University College Dublin and Sheffield University. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Paula and his two sons, David and Brian.
See also
Cryptic crossword
References
Crossword creators
Living people
The Irish Times people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of University College Dublin
Alumni of the University of Sheffield |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel%20Hell | Hotel Hell is an American reality television series created, hosted and narrated by Gordon Ramsay, which ran on the Fox network for three seasons from 2012 to 2016. It aired on Monday nights at 8 pm ET/PT. It was Ramsay's fourth series for the Fox network.
The series features Ramsay visiting various struggling lodging establishments throughout the United States in an attempt to reverse their misfortunes, following a similar concept established in Ramsay's other programs, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares and its American counterpart, Kitchen Nightmares.
Broadcast
Originally scheduled to premiere on Fox on April 6, 2012, the series was first rescheduled to June 4, 2012 in order to accommodate the move of The Finder, then rescheduled to August 13, due to Ramsay's other two series, Hell's Kitchen and MasterChef, being scheduled for Monday nights during the summer.
The series' first season, which consisted of six episodes, ended on September 3, 2012. On August 31, 2012, Fox renewed Hotel Hell for a second season, which premiered on July 21, 2014.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2016)
See also
Hotel Impossible
The Hotel Inspector
References
General references
External links
2012 American television series debuts
2016 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series
English-language television shows
Television series by All3Media
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Hotels in the United States
Television shows featuring audio description
2010s American workplace television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-strait%20language%20database | A Cross-strait language database is an online Chinese word database launched by the General Association of Chinese Culture (GACC) in 2012 to store information about different Chinese characters and words usage exchanges. Cross-strait refers to across the Taiwan Strait, relating to the politically separate entities of Republic of China ("Taiwan") and People's Republic of China ("China").
2008-2009
In 2008 Taiwan president Ma Ying-jeou initially planned to deliver a cross-strait cultural exchange dictionary (中華大辭典) that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Taiwan and China can use. Further discussions were held in July 2009 at Changsha on the collaboration of the project and reduce the differences between the different sets of characters. For example, the Chinese word for software is known as "ruanti" (軟體) in Taiwan, but "ruanjian" (軟件) in mainland China. The database could help point out differences in the divergence of words caused by over 60 years of separation between the two regions.
2012
On February 8, 2012, a press conference was held to open up the database. While Ma had said there are no political intentions, he did defend the use of traditional Chinese characters. He said Simplified Chinese characters are too streamlined, and there is no logic, so they require pure memorization. For example, the characters for Han (漢), the surname Deng (鄧) and the word for theatre (戲) have no relation to each other, however the simplified forms (汉, 邓, 戏) make it appear as if they are related. There were also questions from educational panels that this project may violate the "language neutrality act" (語言平等法) since Taiwan has many languages including aboriginal languages.
Taiwan released a version at chinese-linguipedia.org, and mainland China released their own version at zhonghuayuwen.org.
2013-2014
GACC worked with the MoeDict (Taiwan's online Ministry of Education dictionary) project to publish the Taiwan version of CSLD into web, mobile and offline apps.
See also
Cross-Strait Unification
Debate on traditional and simplified Chinese characters
Taiwan independence
References
2012 in China
2012 in Taiwan
Chinese character lists
Cross-Strait relations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lloyd%20Miller | John Lloyd Miller is an American filmmaker who has directed, produced and/or written music videos, short films, features, documentaries, commercials and television programming.
Career
Miller has worked in virtually every aspect of the film and television business as a director, writer and producer. He began his career while attending the graduate film production program at the University of Southern California. Miller attended USC Film School with such notables as Jay Roach, Greg Beeman and Ken Kwapis. Miller won a Golden Reel award along with Jacqueline Woolf for their work on "The Big Garage" directed by Greg Beeman Miller began working with early music video director Jack Cole as a writer and eventually as a co-director for such artists as, Bon Jovi, Steve Perry, Amy Grant, Sawyer Brown and Dionne Warwick.
Miller has directed over 250 music videos, including Garth Brooks', "The Dance", The Smithereens, "A Girl Like You", Eazy-E and N.W.A, "Easier Said than Dunn", Reba McEntire, "What If", Dolly Parton, "Just When I Needed You Most", The Goo Goo Dolls, "There You Are", The Fat Boys and Chubby Checker, "The Twist", Billy Ray Cyrus, "I Give My Heart to You" and Joe Cocker, "You Are So Beautiful".
Miller grew up in Westfield, New Jersey and upon graduation from Westfield High School, he enlisted in the United States Navy. Miller served aboard the as a decorated member of X Division.
After the Navy Miller attended Northeastern University in Boston where Miller got his first taste of production by working as an editor and director for the school's television station. Miller graduated with honors and left for California to attend the MFA program at the University of Southern California.
Miller's work in music video has won countless awards, including video of the year awards for Billboard Magazine, MusicRow, ACM Awards, CMA Awards, Cine Golden Eagle and CCMA. Several of John Lloyd Miller's videos appear in CMT's Greatest Videos of All Time, including Vince Gill, "One More Last Chance", Vince Gill, "Go Rest High on That Mountain", KT Oslin, "'80s Ladies", George Strait, "Check Yes or No", Travis Tritt, "More Than You'll Ever Know", and Garth Brooks', "The Dance", which is listed as in the top five all time. A six time CMA Award nominee, John Lloyd Miller is one of the top ten country music video directors of all time.
In 1999 Miller collaborated with country music star Mark Collie to create what eventually became the critically acclaimed, award-winning film, "I Still Miss Someone." It was the first film portrayal of Johnny Cash. The film won awards around the world and was the only short film selected to be shown in the "30 Greatest Films of the Last 30 Years," alongside such films as "Blue Velvet", "Easy Rider", "Pulp Fiction" at the Woodstock Festival.
Miller's has directed TV shows for HBO, VH1 and many more. As a screenwriter, Miller was contracted to write a series of three feature scripts for Dove Canyon Films. They include |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%203%29 | The third series of My Kitchen Rules was an Australian reality television cooking programme which aired on the Seven Network.
Following the ratings success of the second series, the Seven Network announced the show was renewed for a third season. The third season of My Kitchen Rules started on 30 January 2012. For the first time, a team from New Zealand took part in the show.
Game variations
This season, there would be twelve teams, two teams from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. Only one team from Tasmania (last season had two), and one from New Zealand (show's first).
Instant Restaurant Elimination Round - the three lowest scoring teams from each group would take part in this round and the lowest scoring team would be eliminated (similar to the first season).
The prize money for this season and all future seasons increased to AU$250,000.
Teams
Elimination history
Note:
– In Round 3 after winning the peoples choice, David & Scott won immunity for the rest of the week and a holiday in Far North Queensland, Pete & Manu stated that they could pick one team to join them on the holiday, also granting that team immunity, they chose Nic & Rocco.
Competition details
Instant Restaurants
During the Instant Restaurant rounds, each team hosts a three-course dinner for judges and fellow teams in their allocated group. They are scored and ranked among their group. After all six teams from the first group had been assessed, it was revealed that the three teams who scored the lowest in each group would be facing elimination. After all six teams from the second group had been assessed, it was revealed that the teams who were facing elimination had to do another round of instant restaurant. After all six teams involved had been assessed, the team who scored the lowest would be eliminated from the competition.
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 30 January to 7 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The three lowest scoring teams at the end of this round go into the elimination round.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate — 8 to 16 February
Description — The second group now start their Instant Restaurant round. The same rules from the previous round apply and the three lowest scoring teams go into the elimination round.
Round 3
Episodes 13 to 18
Airdate — 20 February to 28 February
Description — The bottom three teams from each instant restaurant group compete against each other in Round 3. The lowest scoring team at the end of this round is eliminated.
Top 11
People's Choice Challenge: Bed & Breakfast
Episode 19
Airdate – 29 February 2012
Description – For the First People's Choice Challenge, the teams took over Bed and Breakfast and are headed to the Blue Mountains. Each team cooked in different Bed and Breakfast kitchens. For this first round Meg and Simon were immune from elimination due to coming first in the thir |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS%20X%20Mountain%20Lion | OS X Mountain Lion (version 10.8) is the ninth major release of macOS, Apple Inc.'s desktop and server operating system for Macintosh computers. OS X Mountain Lion was released on July 25, 2012, for purchase and download through the Mac App Store, as part of a switch to releasing OS X versions online and every year, rather than every two years. Named to signify its status as a refinement of the previous OS X version, Lion, Apple's stated aims in developing Mountain Lion were to allow users to more easily manage and synchronise content between multiple Apple devices and to make the operating system more familiar.
The operating system gained the new malware-blocking system Gatekeeper and integration with Apple's online Game Center and iCloud services, while the Safari web browser was updated to version 6. As on iOS, Notes and Reminders became full applications, separate from Mail and Calendar, while the iChat application was replaced with a version of iOS's Messages. Mountain Lion also added a version of iOS's Notification Center, which groups updates from different applications in one place. Integrated links allowing the user to rapidly transfer content to Twitter were present in the operating system from launch. Facebook integration was also planned but unfinished at launch date. It was released as a downloadable update later.
OS X Mountain Lion received positive reviews, with critics praising Notification Center, Messages, and speed improvements over OS X Lion, while criticizing iCloud for unreliability and Game Center for lack of games. Mountain Lion sold three million units in the first four days, and has sold 28 million units as of June 10, 2013, making it Apple's most popular OS X release. Mountain Lion was the last paid upgrade for an OS X major release, with OS X Mavericks and later being free. Apple later allowed free downloads of the OS, especially for customers of older and no longer officially supported Macintosh computers, starting on June 30, 2021. The same practice was also applied to its predecessor, OS X Lion.
History
OS X Mountain Lion was officially announced by Apple on their website on February 16, 2012, as a successor to Mac OS X Lion. It achieved golden master status on July 9, 2012.
During the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 11, 2012, Apple announced a "near final" release version of Mountain Lion for developers, with the public version arriving in July 2012 at a price tag of US$19.99 (€15.99 in Europe, £13.99 in the UK, $20.99 in Australia and ¥128 in Mainland China). The third generation MacBook Pro, revised MacBook Air, iPad Smart Case, and third-generation AirPort Express were announced at the keynote as well.
The specific release date of July 25 was not confirmed until the day before, July 24, by Apple CEO, Tim Cook, as part of Apple's 2012 third-quarter earnings announcement. It was released to the Mac App Store on July 25, 2012, where it sold 3 million units in the first four days of relea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitech | The Paris Graduate School of Digital Innovation (, or EPITECH), formerly European Institute of Information Technology, is a private institution of higher education in computer science that was founded in 1999.
Headquartered in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, south of Paris, the school has campuses in Bordeaux, Rennes, Marseille, Lille, Lyon, Montpellier, Nancy, Nantes, Nice, Strasbourg, Toulouse and Saint-André, Réunion. The school also has locations in Barcelona (Spain), Tirana (Albania), Berlin (Germany), and Brussels (Belgium).
The school has the particularity to teach with practical cases instead of theoretical. Epitech has also an Executive MBA in IT and entrepreneurship course targeting executive managers in computer science.
The institution is part of IONIS Education Group.
History
Epitech was created in 1999, taking advantage of the keen interest of the École Pour l'Informatique et les Techniques Avancées EPITA to train students with a specific interest for computer sciences related matter only.
In 2007, Epitech opened new campuses in Casablanca, Dalian, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Nantes, Strasbourg and Toulouse.
Since January 2008, the degree delivered has been recognized by the Commission nationale de la certification professionnelle, as level 1.
In 2008, the campuses of Nice, Montpellier, Nancy, Marseille and Rennes were opened.
New campuses abroad
In early 2013, Epitech announced it would open a campus in Beijing, China in September 2013 and further international branches in California, United Kingdom and Spain by September 2014.
Partnership
EPITECH has partnered with the Zup de Co association to create the Web@cademie, a 2-year training completely free for students without the French Baccalaureate and with a strong motivation in computer science. This course has the goal to attain a job of software developer for young people who have stopped their regular studies. They are trained by EPITECH teachers at Le Kremlin-Bicêtre and in Lyon.
Notable alumni
Solomon Hykes (2006), CEO of Docker, Inc.;
References
External links
1999 establishments in France
Computer science education
Education in Bordeaux
Education in Île-de-France
Education in Lille
Education in Lyon
Education in Montpellier
Education in Nancy, France
Education in Nantes
Education in Nice
Education in Rennes
Education in Strasbourg
Education in Toulouse
Education in Réunion
Education in Barcelona
Educational institutions established in 1999
Technical universities and colleges in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrison%20FM | Garrison FM was a network of radio stations in the United Kingdom serving British Army bases around the country between 2001 and 2013. The stations broadcast a mixture of music, news, and chat, their emphasis being to bring news of military-related issues to soldiers and their families, as well as the wider public in general. The stations' licences were taken over by the British Forces Broadcasting Service in 2013.
History
The network was founded in 2001 by former BBC Radio 1 disc jockey Mark Page, and came into being after an Army Communications initiative to establish a radio service for its troops in the UK. With a remit to provide news and entertainment to soldiers and their families, the station also enabled those posted on active service to stay in contact with their families.
Garrison FM expanded to serve several military bases, including Catterick, Aldershot, Edinburgh and Colchester. On 26 January 2012, Garrison FM switched on two more transmitters in Inverness, making the city the second in Scotland to receive the service after Edinburgh.
In 2012, the Ministry of Defence requested tenders for a ten-year contract to provide forces' broadcasting both at home and overseas. The contract was awarded to BFBS, the overseas incumbent, which from March 2013 took over all six Garrison stations, adding them to the four it already ran in Northern Ireland. BFBS continues to operate the six stations as part of their UK Bases network.
References
External links
Official website, archived in March 2013
British Army
Radio stations established in 2001
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9%20IDE | Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go.
It is written almost entirely in JavaScript, and uses Node.js on the back-end. The editor component uses Ace.
Cloud9 was acquired by Amazon in July 2016 and became a part of Amazon Web Services (AWS). New users may only use the Cloud9 service through an AWS account.
From March 2018, existing accounts on Cloud9's original website could be used, but new accounts could not be created. On April 2, 2019, Cloud9 announced that users would not be able to create new and use old workspaces on c9.io (aka original version, not Amazon Cloud9) after June 30, 2019.
Features
Some of the features of an older version included automatic code completion for snippets and identifiers, parenthesis and bracket matching, a debugger, and a gutter where line numbers and errors or warnings would be displayed.
Cloud9 IDE also offered syntax highlighting for various languages, such as C#, C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Python, and Ruby.
Particularly for JavaScript, it offered real-time language analysis, code reformatting, and refactoring facilities.
It was also extensible and customizable, allowing users to change themes, plugins, and key-bindings to make their preferred setup.
As an online IDE, it allowed simultaneous editing from multiple users by offering multiple cursors, and could support the creation of private and public projects. Users were also able to drag-and-drop files into projects and use tabs to manage multiple files. Projects could also be integration with Mercurial and Git repositories, as well as collaboration platforms like GitHub and Bitbucket.
Other features:
Built-in terminal, with npm and basic Unix commands
Built in Image Editor
Support for the following code repositories:
FTP servers
Support for deployment to:
Heroku
Joyent
Microsoft Azure
Google App Engine
SFTP/FTP
About
Founded in 2010, and based in San Francisco and Amsterdam, Cloud9 IDE was a privately held company. Cloud9 IDE raised $5.5 million in Series A funding from Accel Partners and product development software company Atlassian Software.
On July 14, 2016, Cloud9 announced that it had been acquired by Amazon.com.
Usage
Cloud9 is the native IDE for the BeagleBone Black single-board computer, which is primarily programmed in an extension of node.js called Bonescript.
See also
Online integrated development environment
References
Amazon (company) acquisitions
Free integrated development environments
Open-source hosted development tools
Software companies established in 2010
Online integrated development environments
2015 mergers and acquisitions
2010 establishments in California
Formerly free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamptons%20%28estate%20agent%29 | Hamptons is an estate agent (real estate broker) that has a UK network of more than 93 branches and an international affiliate partner network of over 7,000 offices. Hamptons' parent company, Countrywide, was acquired by The Connells Group in April 2021.
History
The business was established in 1830 by William Hampton who started his career with a furniture shop on Cranbourn Street, London. Hampton was later joined by his sons George and William Powell, with his grandsons Harold, Fred and Clarence also later joining the firm.
In 1869 the firm created new premises at 8 Pall Mall East and 1–3 Dorset Place (now Whitcomb Street). In 1890, the firm's records were almost totally destroyed in a fire which broke out in their offices. As a result, a new estate office was provided and staff moved to offices at 1 Cockspur Street. A limited company was created with George Hampton as chairman and managing director. In 1900, a satellite office was opened on Wimbledon Common. As the firm continued to expand, it took over control of a number of other firms, beginning with James Coulson and Co of Lisburn, Northern Ireland in 1898, and in the early 1950s Goodall, Lamb and Highway of King Street, Manchester and Robson and Sons Ltd of Newcastle upon Tyne.
In 1920, Hampton & Sons', Estate Agents & Auctioneers, moved to 20 St James's Square, London W.1. During the 1920s, the successful auction house arm was involved in the sale of, amongst other things, the Michelham Collection in 1926 (when the record auction price of 74,000 guineas was achieved for the painting 'Pinkie' by Sir Thomas Lawrence) and the Cameroon Islands. In 1926 the firm opened a factory at Ingate Place, Battersea close to the firm's existing depository. Amongst the firm's notable contracts were the liners , , Theatre Royal Drury Lane, Duke of York's Theatre, The Dorchester and The May Fair Hotels and the palaces of two Indian princes, that of the Nizam of Hyderabad and of the Maharajah of Kashmir.
Having sold their St James's Square premises to The Distillers Company, in 1936 the Estate Office moved to the former French embassy building on Arlington Street, and by 1953 boasted further offices in Kensington, Wimbledon, Bournemouth and Bishops Stortford. During at least the 1940s, the parent company was listed on the Stock Market.
On the night of 16 November 1940 an incendiary bomb hit the Pall Mall premises and the greater part of the building was destroyed. Temporary one-storeyed buildings were erected on the site but these were eventually demolished in 1957 following the sale of the site to the Canadian Government. In October 1940 the firm had acquired a controlling interest in the firm of Storey & Co Ltd of Kensington High Street and it was there that the firm established its new headquarters.
Between February 13 and February 22, 1950, Hampton and Sons auctioned off the fittings of the luxury liner in Shed 108 at Southampton. In 1952, the furniture side of the firm was involved, at a cost of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Agenda%20with%20Tom%20Bradby | The Agenda was a political discussion programme on British television network ITV, broadcast on Monday evenings from 10.45pm. The programme was presented by ITV News anchor Tom Bradby and was first broadcast on 27 February 2012 and it ran for nine series until the show's cancellation on 28 November 2016.
In each episode, Bradby was joined by four guests to discuss the biggest news stories of the previous week and then talk about the week ahead. Guests have included David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Boris Johnson. The programme did not return after 9 series, running until 2016.
Episode Guide
Series 1
Series 2
Series 3
Series 4
Series 5
Series 6
Series 7
The series began on 2 April 2015. Two episodes aired each week in the run up to the 2015 General Election.
Series 8
Series 9
Note: Episodes 4–5 were 60 minutes in length and aired on Tuesdays at 8pm. These two episodes were recorded at The London Studios. Episode 7 was hosted by Robert Peston.
References
External links
2010s British political television series
2012 British television series debuts
2016 British television series endings
British television news shows
Current affairs shows
English-language television shows
ITV news shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS%20channels | The UMTS channels are communication channels used by third generation (3G) wireless Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) networks.
UMTS channels can be divided into three levels:
Physical
Transport
Logical
List
See also
UMTS
High Speed Packet Access
3GPP Long Term Evolution (aka 4G/LTE)
References
Sources
3GPP specification series 25—Radio aspects of 3G, including UMTS
TS 25.101 User Equipment (UE) radio transmission and reception (FDD)
TS 25.201 Description—Describes basic differences between FDD and TDD.
TS 25.211_PHYSICAL channels and mapping of transport channels onto physical channels (FDD)
TS 25.212 Multiplexing and channel coding (FDD)
TS 25.213 Spreading and modulation (FDD)
TS 25.214 Physical layer procedures (FDD)
TS 25.215 Physical layer - Measurements (FDD)
TS 25.301 Radio interface protocol architecture
UMTS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Web%20Analytics | Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open-source web analytics software created by Peter Adams.
OWA is written in PHP and uses a MySQL database, which makes it compatible for running with an AMP solution stack on various web servers.
Information
OWA is comparable to Google Analytics, though OWA is server software anyone can install and run on their own host, while Google Analytics is a software service offered by Google.
OWA supports tracking with WordPress and MediaWiki, two popular website frameworks. This application helps webmasters keep track of and observe the influx of views on their websites.
The program also tracks the websites of competitors and their company's growth compared to the site in question.
References
External links
WordPress Event Calendar Plugin
WordPress
Web software
Web analytics
Free web analytics software
Free software programmed in PHP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindset%20%28disambiguation%29 | A mindset is a set of assumptions, methods or notions held by one or more people.
Mindset may also refer to:
Mindset (book), 2006, Carol Dweck, cognitive science
Mindset (computer), a 1980s personal computer
Mindset (Transformers), a fictional character
Mindset (vehicle), a plug-in hybrid
Mindset (album), a 2011 album by The Necks
Mind-set, a 2022 film |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20College%20%26%20University%20Presidents%27%20Climate%20Commitment | Started in 2006, the American College & University Presidents' Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) was a “high-visibility effort” to address global warming (global climate disruption) by creating a network of colleges and universities that had committed to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions and accelerate the research and educational efforts of higher education to equip society to re-stabilize the earth's climate. This work reflects global sustainable development efforts.
In October 2006, planning sessions were held at Arizona State University with the twelve founding signatory Presidents, Second Nature, ecoAmerica, and AASHE. ACUPCC was launched in December 2006, when the founding Presidents sent a letter to nearly 400 of their peers to invite them to join in the initiate. In June 2007, with a signatory group of 284, the ACUPCC was launched to the public at the first Climate Leadership Summit. Part of ACUPCC's goals were to encourage higher education institutions to give their students tools to think with a sustainable perspective for the future.
Today, Second Nature is the primary organization responsible for managing what is now known as the "Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments". Second Nature is a nonprofit organization that "has worked with over 4,000 faculty and administrators at hundreds of colleges and universities to help make the principles of sustainability fundamental to every aspect of higher education.". This work continues under Second Nature's Climate Leadership Network.
Mission
The ACUPCC sought (and the Presidents' Climate Leadership Commitments continue to seek)sought to create connections with higher educational institutions in order to carry out two goals:
Have colleges and universities sign an agreement committing to eliminate their net greenhouse gas emissions from specified campus operations.
Focus on education and the higher education institutions’ ability to promote research from sustainability programs and empower the higher education sector to educate students, create solutions, and provide leadership-by-example for the rest of society.
The Climate Commitments provide a framework and support for America's colleges and universities pursuing carbon neutrality and resilience. The program and collaboration relies on institutions of higher education to be role models for their communities as well as students, and to educate people who will contribute to fighting to reverse global warming and create a sustainable society.
ACUPCC Agreement
ACUPCC institutions agreed to:
Complete a greenhouse gas emissions inventory.
Set a target date and interim milestones for becoming climate neutral (within two years of commitment).
Take immediate steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by choosing from a list of short-term actions.
Integrate sustainability into the curriculum and make it part of the educational experience.
Make the action plan, inventory, and progress reports publicly available.
Second Nature's Presiden |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue%20Dina%20Foxx%21 | Rescue Dina Foxx! (orig. German title: Wer rettet Dina Foxx?), is atransmedia event by the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF). Development was helmed by director and co-writer Max Zeitler in cooperation with ZDF, and UFA-lab. The event took place in Germany in April/May 2011 and lasted for six weeks combining TV and internet to highlight the dangers of digital identity theft. Rescue Dina Foxx! was marketed as an "interactive crime story" and turned into Germany's largest alternate reality game to date.
A TV-crime thriller introduced the story of Dina Foxx who is arrested for murder but claims her world has been manipulated by a digital doppelganger. The film abruptly ended and invited the audience to "Rescue Dina Foxx" by starting a public investigation on the internet and in reality.
Awards and nominations
Awards
Banff Television Festival 2012: Interactive: Best Cross-Platform Projekt: Fiction Programs
Banff Television Festival 2012: Best Interactive Television Programs
New York Festivals 2012: Gold Medal, Television - Online: Online Entertainment Program
Verdi TV-Award 2012: Best TV-Script (Boris Dennulat, Max Zeitler)
Nominations
Rescue Dina Foxx! was nominated for Prix Europa 2011 Online Awards
ZDF's commissioning editors of Rescue Dina Foxx!, Burkhard Althoff and Milena Bonse, were nominated for Grimme Awards 2011 in the category "Special Achievement in TV Fiction"
The title sequence of the TV film Rescue Dina Foxx! was a finalist at the SXSW Film Design Awards "Excellence in Title Design". The title sequence was produced by weareflink GmbH.
References
External links
Rescue Dina Foxx! YouTube - Project Trailer
Rescue Dina Foxx! - Official summary page on ZDF including a 7-minute trailer
The TV film - Information about the TV film
freidaten.org - The privacy NGO in the center of the cross-media event
Avadata - The privacy company where Dina works
Privacy Room - Dinas apartment turned into a point&click adventure about privacy issues (German title: Datenschutzraum)
Qoppamax - The company providing digital security services
IMDb - Rescue Dina Foxx! on the IMDb
German television specials
2011 in German television
German-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boss%20Is%20Coming%20to%20Dinner | The Boss Is Coming to Dinner is an Australian programme, based on the UK version. The series is by Shine Australia for the Nine Network.
The show see three nervous applicants will host a dinner party in their own home to impress their potential employer. After an evening at their homes, the candidates all take part in an employment challenge, where the boss reduces the field from three to two. The top two are then invited to the boss's home for dinner and the final judgement.
On 1 October 2010, Channel Nine dropped the whole series following low ratings, leaving behind some of the remaining unaired episodes.
Episode Guide
Ratings
Series 1
References
Nine Network original programming
2010s Australian reality television series
2010 Australian television series debuts
2010 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy%20data | In Informatics, dummy data is benign information that does not contain any useful data, but serves to reserve space where real data is nominally present. Dummy data can be used as a placeholder for both testing and operational purposes. For testing, dummy data can also be used as stubs or pad to avoid software testing issues by ensuring that all variables and data fields are occupied. In operational use, dummy data may be transmitted for OPSEC purposes. Dummy data must be rigorously evaluated and documented to ensure that it does not cause unintended effects.
See also
Sentinel value
Data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Game | The Celebrity Game is an Australian game show that aired in two different formats. The original series, based on an American game show of the same name, was hosted by Bert Newton on the Nine Network in 1969 as Australia's Celebrity Game. The later series, based on the game of charades, involving two teams of celebrities, was hosted by Mike Preston on Network Ten ran from 1976 to 1977.
Gameplay
In the original 1969 version, similar to the 1964 American version, a panel of nine celebrities were asked a question on a popular topic, and three contestants were then asked to choose a celebrity and to tell how that contestant voted. After every three turns, if all three contestants correctly guessed the celebrity's answers, they each won $10; if two contestants were successful, they received $20; if one contestant was successful, that contestant received $30.
In the 1976–77 version, two teams of two celebrities and a contestant competed in the game of charades, where each player acted out words or phrases for two minutes, often by pantomiming similar-sounding words, while one player guessed the words or phrases. The celebrity regulars included Joy Chambers, Joe Martin, Johnny Pace, Harriet, Stuart Wagstaff and Barry Creyton.
See also
List of Australian game shows
Pyramid, Australian game show
Give Us a Clue
People Will Talk
References
External links
1960s Australian game shows
1970s Australian game shows
Network 10 original programming
Nine Network original programming
1969 Australian television series debuts
1969 Australian television series endings
1976 Australian television series debuts
1977 Australian television series endings
Black-and-white Australian television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declan%20Kennedy | Declan Kennedy (born 24 July 1934, in Dublin) is an Irish architect. He was a leader of the Global Ecovillage Network Europe (1995–99), Director of the Permaculture Institute for Europe (1984–89), and Vice President of the Berlin Institute of Technology (1975–78). He has been Professor of Architecture at the TU Berlin since 1972.
He and his wife, German architect Margrit Kennedy, have one daughter, Antja Kennedy. They live in the ecovillage of Lebensgarten in Steyerberg, Lower Saxony, Germany.
References
Architects from County Dublin
Living people
1934 births
Permaculturalists
Academic staff of the Technical University of Berlin
20th-century Irish architects
Irish emigrants to Germany |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unimodal%20thresholding | Unimodal thresholding is an algorithm for automatic image threshold selection in image processing. Most threshold selection algorithms assume that the intensity histogram is multi-modal; typically bimodal. However, some types of images are essentially unimodal since a much larger proportion of just one class of pixels (e.g. the background) is present in the image, and dominates the histogram. In such circumstances many of the standard threshold selection algorithms will fail. However, a few algorithms have been designed to specifically cope with such images.
Methods
Some examples of unimodal image threshold selection algorithms are
"T-point algorithm: the tail of the histogram is fitted by two line segments, and the threshold is selected at their intersection
maximum deviation algorithm: a straight line is drawn from the histogram peak to the end of the tail, and the threshold is selected at the point of the histogram furthest from the straight line
Rayleigh distribution model algorithm: the mode (peak) is assumed to correspond to noise. The user specifies an allowable proportion of noise from which the threshold is determined using the model
Citations
Image processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Home%20and%20Away%20characters%20%281990%29 | Home and Away is an Australian soap opera first broadcast on the Seven Network on 17 January 1988. The 3rd season of Home and Away began airing from 8 January 1990. The following is a list of characters that first appeared in 1990, by order of first appearance. They were all introduced by the show's executive producer Des Monaghan. In January, Rebekah Elmaloglou began appearing as Sophie Simpson. The following month Craig McLachlan and Julian McMahon took on the respective roles of school teacher Grant Mitchell and soldier Ben Lucini. March saw the introduction of Jaiman Paget Bayly as recurring character Murray "Mullet" Jensen. Beach House landlord Ernie Jacobs (David Weatherley) made his debut in April, while Craig Black began his second role in the serial as student Paul Jensen in May. Josephine Mitchell joined the cast as policewoman Jane Holland. Les Hill and Belinda Jarrett joined the show in July as the Dean siblings, Blake and Karen. Kate Raison arrived in September playing the role of Jennifer Atkinson, a love interest for Steven Matheson (Adam Willits). October saw the arrival of divorcé Michael Ross, played by Dennis Coard, later to become Debra Lawrance's real-life husband. The following week, he was joined by his teenage son Haydn, played by Andrew Hill. In November, Rachael Beck joined the cast as guest character Kim, the sister of established character, Grant.
Sophie Simpson
Sophie Simpson, played by Rebekah Elmaloglou, debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 23 January 1990 and appeared until 1993. Elmaloglou once took a break from filming due to exhaustion, and quit the serial to pursue other projects as her work load took a negative impact on her health. Elmaloglou made subsequent guest appearances as Sophie in 2002, 2003 and 2005.
Grant Mitchell
Grant Mitchell, played by Craig McLachlan, debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 9 February 1990. McLachlan departed the series that year, though filmed additional appearances which were not aired until the following year. Grant last appeared on 20 September 1991. McLachlan described Grant as being "pretty trendy for a teacher". Grant is "loved" by students because he chooses to rebel against the establishment. However, Grant loves teaching and his pupils. For his portrayal of Grant, MacLachan won the "Most Popular Actor" award at the 1991 Logie Awards.
Ben Lucini
Benito "Ben" Lucini, played by Julian McMahon, debuted on-screen during the episode broadcast on 27 February 1990 and remained until 1 May 1991. McMahon had to audition four times, before the producers agreed that he was right for the role of Ben. Ben was described as being "relaxed" and "easy-going" for a twenty-one-year-old male. Ben is an Italian character and comes from a large family. Ben used to have a liking for partying and booze, but as he grew older he matured and changed his outlook in life. Ben is a soldier, he soon falls in love with the town and established character Carly Morris (Shar |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20Fredrikson | Christian Fredrikson (born 1964 in Finland) is the President and CEO at F-Secure Corporation, an anti-virus and computer security and computer software company based in Helsinki, Finland.
Christian Fredrikson started on his position on January 16, 2012. Previously, Fredrikson worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, where he was responsible for global sales of the Network Systems business unit. He has also been Head of the Asia Pacific Region and Head of OBS Business Unit (Operation and Business Software) at Nokia Siemens Networks.
Education
Fredikson holds a master's degree in engineering from Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland.
References
1964 births
Living people
Finnish businesspeople
Åbo Akademi University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%20Sigma | Mu Sigma is an American data analytics firm providing big data services, decision sciences and helping enterprises in data-driven decision making. The company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois partners with over 140 Fortune 500 companies to enhance their analytical and decision-making capabilities. The firm's name is derived from the statistical terms "Mu (μ)" and "Sigma (σ)" which symbolize the mean and the standard deviation, respectively, of a probability distribution.
History
Mu Sigma was founded by Dhiraj Rajaram, a former strategy consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton and PricewaterhouseCoopers, in 2004.
In 2008, Mu Sigma raised its first institutional investment round of $30 million from FTVentures (now FTV Capital). In April 2011, the company raised an additional $25 million from Sequoia Capital. In December 2011, the company announced a $108 million round of financing from Sequoia and growth equity investor General Atlantic. In February 2013, Mu Sigma received an investment of $45 million from MasterCard, which placed the company over the $1 billion (Rs. 5,400 crore) milestone.
In early 2016, the company was sued by Aon Corp founder Pat Ryan, who discussed that Mu Sigma lowballed its own growth prospects in order to buy back Ryan's stake in the company.
In October 2016, after the divorce of Ambiga Subramanian, who was serving as CEO at the time, Dhiraj Rajaram assumed the role of CEO.
Locations
Mu Sigma is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and has a global delivery centre in Bangalore. It also has an office in Austin, Texas.
Recognition
Mu Sigma was ranked #907 on the 2012 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. In 2011 the company ranked #386, and in 2010, it ranked #204.
References
Notes
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Analytics companies
Technology companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages%20%28Apple%29 | Messages is an instant messaging software application developed by Apple Inc. for its macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS operating systems.
The mobile version of Messages on iOS used on iPhone and iPad also supports SMS and MMS due to replacing the older text messaging Text app since iPhone OS 3. Users can tell the difference between a message sent via SMS and one sent over iMessage as the bubbles will appear either green (SMS) or blue (iMessage).
The desktop Messages application replaced iChat as the native OS X instant messaging client with the release of OS X Mountain Lion in July 2012. While it inherits the majority of iChat's features, Messages also brings support for iMessage, Apple's messaging service for iOS, as well as FaceTime integration.
iOS and iPadOS versions
Apple released Messages for the iPhone as a built-in application with iPhone OS 3.0 on June 17, 2009. It replaced the Text application which had been the native messaging application since the iPhone's inception. The change in name was due to the iPhone gaining native support for the MMS protocol, in addition to the previously available SMS protocol. The original iPhone did not receive support for MMS, citing hardware challenges. Messages also gained support for sharing contacts using the vCard standard. Other changes included support for copy and paste, and the ability to forward or delete multiple messages at a time.
Messages received minor upgrades with iOS 4. Among the new features was the ability to search within text messages, much like the search feature in Mail. It also added support for displaying a character count to notify when one had gone over the standard SMS character limit. iOS 4.0 also included support for a red exclamation mark to appear on the app's icon to warn failure to send a message. Developers were provided with a new API that allowed them to add embedded messaging functionality to their apps.
iMessage support was added with iOS 5 on October 12, 2011. The iPhone supported SMS, MMS and iMessage, while the iPad and iPod touch only supported iMessage. With iMessage, users could send text, picture messages and contacts over WiFi or 3G to other iOS 5 devices without using their carrier quota. In addition, a user could start their conversation on one device and continue on another. Messages also introduced typing indication, delivery and read receipts. With the introduction of Notification Center, new SMS, MMS or iMessages could be seen on the lock screen or by pulling down the Notification Center.
iOS 6 helped improve syncing between multiple devices. iPod touch and iPad users could now use their iPhone phone numbers to send or receive iMessages. Earlier, iPhone users could not receive iMessages sent to their phone number on iPad or iPod touch. Users could now add additional emails to receive and send messages on any device. iOS 6 also added a Share button on apps like Safari and Photos, which enabled users to share links and photos using SMS/MMS or iMes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Stone | Sean Christopher Stone (born December 29, 1984) is an American actor, filmmaker, and television host. Stone hosted a show on the Russian state-funded network RT America until the network was shut down in 2022 after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
In his last episode on RT America, Stone criticized celebrities for speaking out against Russia's invasion, and claimed that Oprah Winfrey had banned Tolstoy's War and Peace from her book club, and said it was wrong to characterize Russian leader Vladimir Putin as "some kind of dictator".
Biography
Stone was born in New York City. He is the son of Elizabeth Burkit Cox and film director Oliver Stone and has appeared in several of his father's films. His paternal grandmother was French.
A convert to Shia Islam in 2012, in an interview with CNN, Stone said that he accepted Muhammad as the seal of the prophets. Speaking to Bill O'Reilly, he claimed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's statements about Israel had been misunderstood.
Stone is a member of the Board of Advisors for the company MindShare Ventures Group based in New York City.
Filmography
Actor
Salvador (1986) as Boyle's Baby
Wall Street (1987) as Rudy Gekko
Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as Young Jimmy Kovic
JFK (1991) as Jasper Garrison
The Doors (1991) as Young Jim Morrison
Heaven & Earth (1993)Natural Born Killers (1994) as Kevin Nixon (1995) as Donald NixonU Turn (1997)Any Given Sunday (1999)Fighting Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander (2005) himself as narratorResurrecting Alexander (2005) himself as narratorPerfect Is the Enemy of Good (2005) as narratorW. (2008)Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)Nevo (2011) as Stephan Greystone Park (2011) as Sean American Road (2011) as Jack Kerouac Don't Pass Me By (2012) as Josh MalekNight Walk (2019) as Frank
Director, producer, cinematographer, or screenwriterFighting Against Time: Oliver Stone's Alexander (2005) (as writer, producer, director, cinematographer)The Death of Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)Resurrecting Alexander (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)Perfect Is the Enemy of Good (2005) (as producer, director, cinematographer)Nuremberg: A Vision Restored (2007) (as producer, director, cinematographer)Singularity (2008) (as writer, producer, director)Greystone Park (2011) (as writer, director)A Child's Night Dream (upcoming) (as writer, producer, director)A Thousand Pieces'' (2020) (as narrator), Documentary about CIA and FBI corruption.
Greystone Park
References
External links
1984 births
20th-century American male actors
American cinematographers
American film directors
Film producers from New York (state)
American male child actors
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
American people of French descent
American people of Jewish descent
American Shia Muslims
Converts to Shia Islam
Living people
Male actors from New York City
Screenwriters from New York (state)
Converts to Islam
American conspiracy theorists
Amer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stencyl | Stencyl is a video game development tool that allows users to create 2D video games for computers, mobile devices, and the web. The software is available for free, with select publishing options available for purchase. The software was originally called "StencylWorks" while in development and for the initial release but was later shortened to just "Stencyl".
Features
Games created in Stencyl can be exported to the web via Adobe Flash Player or HTML5, and to personal computers as executable games, as well as onto various mobile devices as iOS and Android applications. Physics and collisions are managed by Box2D, which can be selectively or completely disabled to decrease any potential performance impact for games that don't require full physics simulation. Starting in version 3.0, projects in Stencyl use the Haxe programming language and OpenFL game framework to allow a flexible, write once, run anywhere style of game creation.
IDE
Stencyl is an authoring tool and an IDE. The application includes several modules used to accomplish the necessary tasks to create games with the software.
The Behavior Editor is used to create and edit code and game logic in modular pieces known as behaviors and events.
The Tileset Editor is used to import and edit tilesets, including their collision shapes, appearance, and animations.
The Actor Editor is used to create and edit game entities (Actors) and their settings, including behaviors, physics, and animations.
The Scene Designer is used to create and edit levels and game states (Scenes) by using actors, tilesets, and behaviors.
Additional tools permit the user to import images for use as foregrounds and backgrounds in scenes, import and edit fonts, import sounds and music files (MP3 and OGG are supported, depending on the export target), and alter game settings such as player controls and game resolution. A library of common behaviors is included with Stencyl to reduce the need to recreate common game behaviors, and several game "kits" provide functional starting points for common 2D game genres.
VPL
When creating a new behavior, the option is presented to create it either in Code Mode or Design Mode. Using Code Mode for a behavior permits the user to program logic in traditional textual form and optionally open the code in an external editor. Alternatively, Design Mode is a GUI that allows users to create modular game logic for actors and scenes using a visual programming language. The concept of Design Mode as a form of end-user development originated with MIT's Scratch computer language learning environment and was used with permission for Stencyl.
As it is a visual programming language, Design Mode users are not required to learn or type out a particular programming language, nor must they concern themselves with syntax. Rather, available actions are dragged and dropped from a palette of "code blocks". These blocks will snap in place together and nest within each other, permitting the creation of ad |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20CoSSMos | The RNA Characterization of Secondary Structure Motifs database (RNA CoSSMos) is a repository of three-dimensional nucleic acid PDB structures containing secondary structure motifs ( loops, hairpin loops ...).
See also
Nucleic acid secondary structure
References
External links
https://www.rnacossmos.com/
Biological databases
RNA
Biophysics
Molecular geometry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Ideas%20Network | The European Ideas Network is an open centre-right think tank sponsored by the EPP Group and based in the European Parliament in Brussels. The EIN works as a pan-European policy framework designed to promote new thinking on the key challenges facing the countries of the European Union. With an active membership of around 3,000 policy-makers and opinion-shapers across the European Union, the EIN brings together foremost MEPs - as these represent the views of the European population, and then politicians, who coming from EU member states are confirmed to be democratically elected, hereafter businessman, academics, policy advisers, think-tankers, journalists and representatives of civil society who share a common outlook Europe-wide, as well as non-party experts and commentators interested in public issues being addressed.
The network offers a unique forum in which to develop innovative ideas about the policy challenges facing Europe in the years ahead and to formulate practical solutions to help address them.
History
The European Ideas Network was launched in the summer of 2002 with the active support of the European People's Party Group and under the chairmanship of James Elles. It is prominent in centre-right European politics. The current and third chairman of the EIN is Paulo Rangel, who succeeded Jaime Mayor Oreja. Its director is Guillermo Martínez Casañ.
The network has been steadily expanding its area of activity since 2002, mostly notably through its annual Summer University. It initially had eight working groups in 2002 covering: the implications of globalisation and demographic change; the promotion of democracy and accountability in the EU; how to create jobs in Europe; the role of the private sector in providing public services; the crises in farming and food safety; the sustainability of EMU; and defence and security in the post-11 September world. The amount of working groups were increased to ten between 2003 and 2005, and to twelve between 2006 and 2013.
The European Ideas Network has been featured in "Global Go Think Tanks Index Report" under "Best Party Affiliated Think Tanks" for 4 consecutive years. Its name was first mentioned in the Index in 2010, as it ranked 20th amongst its peers. It consecutively ranked 16th in 2011, 13th in 2012, and lastly 9th in 2013.
Today, the think-tanks and foundations work together in joint task forces and working groups on areas of common interest. Recent task-force and working group titles have included: The Ways out of the crisis; Financial Regulation and Financial Market Stability; Social Market Economy; Energy and Environment; Research and Innovation; European Demographic Challenge – Immigration and family policies; Values and Personal Attitudes; European Governance – Facing ongoing political and social challenges in the EU member states; Making Europe A Safer Place; Neighborhood Policies – Eastern Partnership and Enlargement; Transatlantic Relations; Globalization and International Tr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-in-the-loop | User-in-the-Loop (UIL) refers to the notion that a technology (e.g., network) can improve a performance objective by engaging its human users (Layer 8). The idea can be applied in various technological fields. UIL assumes that human users of a network are among the smartest but also most unpredictable units of that network. Furthermore, human users often have a certain set of (input) values that they sense (more or less observe, but also acoustic or haptic feedback is imaginable: imagine a gas pedal in a car giving some resistance, like for a speedomat). Both elements of smart decision-making and observed values can help towards improving the bigger objective.
The input values are meant to encourage/discourage human users to behave in certain ways that improve the overall performance of the system. One example of a historic implementation related to UIL has appeared in electric power networks where a price chart is introduced to users of electrical power. This price chart differentiates the values of electricity based on off-peak, mid-peak and on-peak periods, for instance. Faced with a non-homogenous pattern of pricing, human users respond by changing their power consumption accordingly that eventually leads to the overall improvement of access to electrical power (reduce peak hour consumption). Recently, UIL has been also introduced for wireless telecommunications (cellular networks).
Wireless resources including the bandwidth (frequency) are an increasingly scarce resource and the while current demand on wireless network is below the supply in most of the times (potentials capacity of the wireless links based on technology limitations), the rapid and exponential increase in demand will render wireless access an increasingly expensive resource in a matter of few years. While usual technological responses to this perspective such as innovative new generations of cellular systems, more efficient resource allocations, cognitive radio and machine learning are certainly necessary, it seems that they ignore a major resource in the system, namely the users. Wireless users can be encouraged to change their "wireless behavior" by introducing incentives, e.g., differentiated pricing. In addition, the increasing concern for the environment and the considerable yet invisible environmental effects of wireless use can be tapped into in order to convince "greener" user to change their wireless behavior in order to reduce their carbon footprint.
UIL used in wireless communications is referred to as the Smart Grid of Communications. It aims for avoiding a location of bad link adaptation or excess use during the busy hour.
Overview
Independent of the various ways of giving incentives and penalties
the outcome of the user block is either
a spatial, temporal or no reaction at all.
Spatial UIL means the user changes location to a better one
(like the common practice in WiFi networks).
Temporal UIL means the demand is avoided at the current time
(to be contin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindspark%20Interactive%20Network | Mindspark Interactive Network, Inc. was an operating business unit of IAC known for the development and marketing of entertainment and personal computing software, as well as mobile application development. Mindspark's mobile division acquired iOS application developer Apalon in 2014, which was known for popular entertainment applications such as Weather Live, Emoji Keypad, and Calculator Pro.
Mindspark's home office was based in Yonkers, New York, with other offices located in Los Angeles, California; Oakland, California; New York, New York; and Bellevue, Washington, among others. Tim Allen and Eric Esterlis served as the co-presidents of Mindspark. Former Mindspark CEO Joey Levin now serves as CEO of IAC.
Although later versions of the tool bars offered are less intrusive, many, if not all, of Mindspark's programs and toolbars were commonly classified as potentially unwanted programs, which may be installed without the user's explicit knowledge or consent. Many of them exhibited malicious behaviors and could be considered malware, as they are difficult to remove.
History
Mindspark Interactive Network was incorporated in 1999 under the name CTC Bulldog, Inc. On January 20, 1999, the idea for its first product, iWon.com, was conceived by its co-founders Bill Daugherty and Jonas Steinman, and led to a subsequent office opening in Irvington, NY. On October 5, 1999, iWon.com was launched and the company name was changed from CTC Bulldog, Inc. to iWon.com, Inc.
On October 1, 2000, iWon.com, Inc. launched the sales team, and offices were opened in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago. On November 18, 2001, the company purchased Excite assets out of bankruptcy. The company then changed its name to The Excite Network.
On October 1, 2002, The Excite Network launched an online portal called MyWay.com, which replicated many of Yahoo's popular features without advertisements, fees, and intrusive privacy policies. In the same year, the company launched several entertainment products, such as, SmileyCentral and PopularScreensavers, and changed its name to Focus Interactive. In November 2015, the MyWay site posted, "After many years, we have decided to shut down the MyWay website. The site will be available until the end of December 5, 2015."
In 2003, Focus Interactive changed its name again to Interactive Search Holdings. The company's properties now consisted of iWon.com, Excite.com, My Way, My WebSearch, and online advertising sales firm MaxOnline. In December 2003, properties of Interactive Search Holdings reached 17% of US Internet users. In 2004, Ask Jeeves purchased Interactive Search Holdings for $501 million.
According to a press release issued by Ask Jeeves, Interactive Search Holdings was the 9th most visited property in December 2003, with destinations such as My Way, My Web Search, and iWon.
On July 20, 2005, Ask Jeeves was purchased by IAC, and Interactive Search Holdings, Inc. was renamed to IAC Consumer Applications & Por |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scenechronize | Scenechronize (stylized as scenechronize) is a computer software platform, developed by Clever Machine Inc., for television and movie production companies. Its purpose is to reduce the need for paper materials used during the production process, in order to reduce waste.
Origins
Clever Machine was founded in December 2003 and incorporated in California. The founders, Hunter Hancock, chief executive officer, and Darren Ehlers, chief operations officer, and five engineers had originally provided customized solutions to financial services companies, assisting in marketing and engineering positions with multiple enterprise software companies. The company's first project was to provide an outsourced information technology team to a financial services company. From there, the company was able to begin its own software company, Scenechronize, after purchasing a business plan from Rhys Ryan, who also joined the company.
Using a Web-based user interface, Scenechronize organizes different production aspects — the script, locations, casting, breakdown elements, and schedule. Tools have been specifically created for assistant directors, line producers, above-the-line and below-the-line crews. Each team member has access to his or her own department, while the unit production manager or line producer maintains an overall view, with the option to share that information with other crew members on an as-needed basis.
In 2008, a preview release of Scenechronize was demonstrated to art directors and unit production managers. The beta release of Scenechronize was announced at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009, with the initial public release announced a year later, also at Sundance.
Today
The company's engineering offices are in San Francisco, while the sales and support offices were in Burbank, California.
In November 2012, Ease Entertainment, a payroll and production accounting/financial tracking software firm, acquired the assets of Scenechronize. All existing employees of Scenechronize were retained with operations in their Burbank offices being relocated to Ease's headquarters in Beverly Hills.
In August 2015, Entertainment Partners (EP), a payroll and production accounting/financial tracking software firm, acquired the assets of Ease Entertainment including Scenechronize. All existing employees of Scenechronize were retained with operations in the Beverly Hills office relocated to EP's offices in Burbank, California.
In April 2019, Entertainment Partners was acquired by private equity firm Texas Pacific Group (TPG).
Companies and productions
Network television
ABC – No Ordinary Family • FlashForward • Ugly Betty • American Crime
AMC – The Walking Dead • Rubicon
CBS – 90210
HBO
DreamWorks Television
Showtime – United States of Tara • Dexter
Sony Pictures Television – Breaking Bad
Valhalla
Warner Bros. Television
Movie productions
Bad Robot Productions
Columbia Pictures – Premium Rush
Lakeshore Entertainment
Montecito Picture Company
Playtone Pro |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railfuture | Railfuture (formerly the Railway Development Society) is a UK advocacy group which promotes better rail services for passengers and freight across a bigger rail network. The group's national policies are determined by its national board of directors (one-third elected by the membership every year, for a three-year term) and its national AGM. The group's campaigns are pursued nationally by three policy groups (Passenger, Infrastructure & Networks, Freight) and locally through regional branches (12 in England, plus one each in Wales and Scotland). Its honorary president is Christian Wolmar, a transport writer and broadcaster. Its vice-presidents include former rail industry leaders Adrian Shooter CBE, Ian Brown CBE, Chris Green, and Stewart Palmer, and leading commentators such as Roger Ford of Modern Railways, fellow columnist Alan Williams, and Paul Abell, a former editor of Today's Railways UK.
Railfuture's opinions and campaigns receive coverage in the UK press, including national, regional, and rail publications. It has been mentioned in both houses of Parliament, and transport unions and international press also cite its reports and follow its actions. It claims to have 20,000 affiliated and individual members.
History
The Railway Development Society (RDS) was preceded by the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines (UK) [SRUBLUK] founded in 1951 and which became the simpler-sounding Railway Invigoration Society (RIS). The RIS and the Railway Development Association (RDA, founded 1951) merged in 1978 to become the RDS. A founding member of the RDA was poet and rail enthusiast Sir John Betjeman.
One of the society's main campaign points was the retention of railway lines threatened with closure, and now the reopening of closed lines and stations. Campaigns with successful outcomes include the saving of the Settle–Carlisle line in the 1980s, improvements to the Oxford–Bicester line, and the reopening of the Borders Railway.
Additionally, Railfuture publishes proposals for entirely new rail schemes. One such is Thameslink 2, an additional north-south route cross-London route, connecting the Brighton Main Line to routes north of London, via East Croydon, Lewisham, Canary Wharf, and Stratford.
Structure
The group has an elected national Board of Directors, and twelve English regional branches, plus Railfuture Scotland and Railfuture Wales.
Initiatives
The organisation has campaigned a reworking of concessionary fares on the British railway network by the introduction of a uniform "National Railcard" scheme to replace the railcards including the 16–25 Railcard, Network Railcard and Senior Railcard. Such a card was envisaged to take a similar form to existing BahnCard products offered by Deutsche Bahn in Germany. In April 2003, a study undertaken jointly by Railfuture and the Rail Passengers Council (later "Passenger Focus") stated that three million rail travellers might buy such a railcard if it were priced at £20.00 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202004%20and%202005 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2004
QandA
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Prince%20Edward%20Island | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed four population centres in the province of Prince Edward Island.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Prince Edward Island from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
Retired population centres
The former population centre of Cornwall was absorbed into the population centre of Charlottetown for the 2021 census.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Newfoundland%20and%20Labrador | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 27 population centres in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. This includes the new population centres of Sheshatshiu and Stephenville Crossing.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Newfoundland and Labrador from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
Retired population centres
The former population centres of Humber Arm South, Fortune and Upper Island Cove were retired for the 2021 census.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20British%20Columbia | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2. All areas outside population centres are classified as rural areas.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 108 population centres in the province of British Columbia.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in British Columbia from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Manitoba | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 54 population centres in the province of Manitoba.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Manitoba from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20New%20Brunswick | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 31 population centres in the province of New Brunswick.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in New Brunswick from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Nova%20Scotia | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 37 population centres in the province of Nova Scotia.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Nova Scotia from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres
Nova Scotia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Ontario | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a type of census unit which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2. Note that the population of a "population centre" is not the same thing as the population of a municipality; the population centre can include areas outside the municipal boundaries which are directly contiguous with the municipality's urban area, and can exclude areas inside the municipal boundaries which are less densely urbanized.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 300 population centres in the province of Ontario.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Ontario from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
List of census agglomerations in Ontario
List of census subdivisions in Ontario
List of cities in Ontario
List of communities in Ontario
List of municipalities in Ontario
List of towns in Ontario
List of township municipalities in Ontario
List of villages in Ontario
References
Population centre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20Saskatchewan | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed 63 population centres in the province of Saskatchewan.
List
The below table is a list of those population centres in Saskatchewan from the 2021 Census of Population as designated, named, and delineated by Statistics Canada.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
References
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20population%20centres%20in%20the%20Canadian%20territories | A population centre, in Canadian census data, is a populated place, or a cluster of interrelated populated places, which meets the demographic characteristics of an urban area, having a population of at least 1,000 people and a population density of no fewer than 400 persons per square km2.
The term was first introduced in the Canada 2011 Census; prior to that, Statistics Canada used the term urban area.
Northwest Territories
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed four population centres in the Northwest Territories.
Nunavut
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed six population centres in Nunavut. The former population centre of Kugluktuk was retired.
Yukon
In the 2021 Census of Population, Statistics Canada listed two population centres in Yukon.
See also
List of the largest population centres in Canada
List of municipalities in Yukon
List of municipalities in the Northwest Territories
List of municipalities in Nunavut
References
Population centres
Population centres
Population centres |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Scott%20%28computer%20architect%29 | Steve Scott is a computer architect who currently serves as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft. Scott was previously a Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Cray Inc., Principal Engineer at Google and the chief technology officer for Nvidia's Tesla business unit. Scott was employed by Cray Research, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., and Cray, Inc. from 1992 to 2011 (with a brief hiatus in 2005).
He holds 42 patents. In 2005 Scott received both the ACM Maurice Wilkes Award and the IEEE Seymour Cray Computer Engineering Award.
Scott is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he received a B.S. in electrical and computing engineering, an M.S. in computer science, and a Ph.D. in computer architecture. He resides in Seattle, Washington.
Notes
Living people
American electrical engineers
Computer designers
Cray employees
Businesspeople from Seattle
American chief technology officers
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Engineering alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202006 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2006
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202007 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2007
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202008 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2008
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202009 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2009
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202010 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2010
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202011 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2011
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20C-SPAN%20Q%26A%20interviews%20first%20aired%20in%202012 | Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work."
References
External links
2012
QandA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202012 | The 54th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 15 April 2012 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network. Public voting for the "Most Popular" categories were conducted through an online survey from 5 December 2011 to 19 February 2012. Nominations were announced on 18 March 2012. The red carpet coverage which preceded the ceremony was hosted by Jules Lund, Sonia Kruger, Livinia Nixon and Shane Crawford. Musical performers at the event included One Direction, Flo Rida, Tony Bennett, Seal and Delta Goodrem.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Performers
Flo Rida
One Direction
Tony Bennett
Seal
Delta Goodrem
Presenters
Shaun Micallef
Adam Hills
Julia Morris
Hamish Blake
Andy Lee
Dave Hughes
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Mick Molloy who spoke of the passing of Bill Hunter. Bernard Fanning's "Watch Over Me" was played during the tribute. The following deceased were honoured:
Sean Flannery, journalist
Howard Rubic ACS, cinematographer
Killer Karl Kox, WCW wrestler
Martin Kosinar, actor
Michele Fawdon, actress
Diane Cilento, actress
David Ngoombujarra, actor
Ian Carroll, executive producer
Carl Bleazby, actor
John Bean, cameraman
Gary Ticehurst, helicopter pilot
Paul Lockyer, journalist
Andy Whitfield, actor
Harold Hopkins, actor
Jay Dee Springbett, music executive, presenter
Sheila Sibley, writer
David Fordham, sports commentator
Brian Williams, producer, director
Jon Blake, actor
Godfrey Philipp, creator Magic Circle Club
Trish Ricketts, publicist
Rex Mossop, sports broadcaster
Zoran Janjic, animator
Bill Newman, entertainer
Wayne Fosternelli, floor manager
Bernie Keenan, news chief of staff
Lloyd Cunningham, actor
Sarah Watt, writer, director
Bob Davis, football commentator
Cliff Neville, producer
Robin Oliver, television critic
Denise Morgan, writer
Vince Lovegrove, musician, producer
Googie Withers AO CBE, actress
Reg Whiteman, original Fat Cat
Peter Hepworth, writer
Tikki Taylor, entertainer
Keith Smith, children's TV producer, presenter
Kristian Anderson, editor
Ian Turpie, entertainer
During the tribute, an image of David Gulpilil was shown in place of David Ngoombujarra. Nine and TV Week later apologised for the error.
References
External links
2012
2012 television awards
2012 in Australian television
2012 awards in Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20Meteorological%20Data%20Acquisition%20System | AMeDAS (Automated Meteorological Data Acquisition System), commonly known in Japanese as "アメダス" (amedasu), is a high-resolution surface observation network developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) used for gathering regional weather data and verifying forecast performance. The system began operating on 1 November 1974, and currently comprises 1,300 stations throughout Japan (of which over 1,100 are unstaffed), with an average separation of .
Observations at staffed stations cover weather, wind direction and speed, types and amounts of precipitation, types and base heights of clouds, visibility, air temperature, humidity, sunshine duration, and atmospheric pressure. All of these (except weather, visibility and cloud-related meteorological elements) are observed automatically.
At unstaffed stations, observations are performed every 10 minutes. About 700 of the unstaffed stations observe precipitation, air temperature, wind direction and speed, and sunshine duration, while the other stations observe only precipitation.
For about 280 stations (staffed or unstaffed) located in areas of heavy snowfall, snow depth is also observed.
All the observational data is transmitted to the AMeDAS Center at JMA Headquarters in Tokyo on a real time basis via dedicated telephone lines. The data is then delivered to the whole country after a quality check.
As well as weather conditions, AMeDAS is also used in the observation of natural disasters. Temporary observation points are set up in areas where there are signs of volcanic eruptions or earthquakes.
See also
Mesonet
External links
Japan Meteorological Agency observations descriptions
1974 establishments in Japan
1974 in computing
Japanese inventions
Geography of Japan
Japan Meteorological Agency
Meteorological data and networks
Meteorological instrumentation and equipment
Science and technology in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writers%20Forum | Writers Forum is a small publisher, workshop and writers' network established by Bob Cobbing. The roots of Writers Forum were in the 1954 arts organisation Group H, and the And magazine that Cobbing edited. The writers' branch of Group H was called Writers Forum. In 1963 a press with the publishing imprint "Writers Forum" was begun and administered by Cobbing, John Rowan and Jeff Nuttall. Between 1963 and 2002 Writers' Forum published more than one thousand pamphlets and books including works by John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, Brion Gysin, and P. J. O'Rourke, as well as a wide range of British Poetry Revival modernist poets, such as Eric Mottram, Bill Griffiths, Geraldine Monk, Maggie O'Sullivan, Paula Claire and Sean Bonney. While publishing was integral to the Cobbing-led workshop, it also provided an opportunity for poets to read their works in a supportive and non-critical environment.
After Cobbing's death Writers Forum was directed by Lawrence Upton and Adrian Clarke until July 2010, when Clarke resigned. Since early July 2010, Writers Forum has been directed by Lawrence Upton (until his death in 2020) with assistance from others. Tina Bass was appointed Assistant Director in December 2010. Writers Forum continues to hold workshops and to publish. The magazine And ceased in 2010; but Pocket Litter was started in 2011.
A break-off "Writers Forum (second series)" workshop was founded in 2010, which, though having similarities in stated aims, is not supported by Writers Forum. The Forum's last publication before the split was SJ Fowler's Poggel Intricate. Organisations with similar names in Chile and Australia are recognised.
References
Further reading
David Miller and Richard Price, British Poetry Magazines 1914-2000: A History and Bibliography of "Little Magazines" (British Library UK & Oak Knoll Press USA, 2006)
External links
Writers' Forum website
Small press publishing companies
British Poetry Revival |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch%20Awerbuch | Baruch Awerbuch (born 1958) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University. He is known for his research on distributed computing.
Academic biography
Awerbuch was educated at the Technion in Haifa, Israel, earning a bachelor's degree in 1978, a master's degree in 1982, and a Ph.D. in 1984 under the supervision of Shimon Even. He worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral researcher, faculty member in applied mathematics, and research associate in computer science from 1984 until 1994, when he joined the Johns Hopkins faculty.
Awerbuch's former doctoral students include UCSD professor George Varghese.
Research contributions
Awerbuch has published many highly cited research papers on topics including
Cryptographic primitives for verifiable secret sharing and fault tolerant broadcasting
Synchronization of asynchronous distributed systems
Network routing methods that are both fault-tolerant and have a highly competitive throughput
Awards and honors
Awerbuch and David Peleg were the 2008 winners of the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on sparse partitions.
References
External links
Home page at Johns Hopkins
1958 births
Living people
American computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
Israeli emigrants to the United States
Dijkstra Prize laureates |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDISC | MDISC can refer to
M-DISC, an optical media technology
McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Company (MDISC), former owner of the Tymnet network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20L.%20Bodlaender | Hans Leo Bodlaender (born April 21, 1960) is a Dutch computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Utrecht University. Bodlaender is known for his work on graph algorithms and parameterized complexity and in particular for algorithms relating to tree decomposition of graphs.
Life and work
Born in Bennekom, Bodlaender was educated at Utrecht University, earning a doctorate in 1986 under the supervision of Jan van Leeuwen with the thesis Distributed Computing – Structure and Complexity.
After postdoctoral research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1987, he returned to Utrecht as a faculty member. In 1987 he was appointed Assistant Professor and in 2003 Associate Professor. In 2014 he became full professor of algorithms and complexity at Utrecht, and at the same time added a part-time professorship in network algorithms at Eindhoven University of Technology.
Bodlaender has written extensively about chess variants and founded the website The Chess Variant Pages in 1995.
Recognition
In 2014 he was awarded the Nerode Prize for an outstanding paper in the area of multivariate algorithmics, for his work with Rod Downey, Michael Fellows, and Danny Hermelin on kernelization.
A festschrift, Treewidth, Kernels, and Algorithms: Essays Dedicated to Hans L. Bodlaender on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, was published in 2020.
Selected publications
References
External links
Hans L. Bodlaender at Utrecht University
1960 births
Living people
Dutch computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Utrecht University alumni
Academic staff of Utrecht University
Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology
People from Ede, Netherlands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications%20billing | Telecommunications billing is the group of processes of communications service providers that are responsible to collect consumption data, calculate charging and billing information, produce bills to customers, process their payments and manage debt collection.
A telecommunications billing system is an enterprise application software designed to support the telecommunications billing processes.
Telecommunications billing is a significant component of any commercial communications service provider regardless specialization: telephone, mobile wireless communication, VoIP companies, mobile virtual network operators, internet service providers, transit traffic companies, cable television and satellite TV companies could not operate without billing, because it creates an economic value of their business.
Telecommunications billing functions
Billing functions can be grouped to three areas: operations, information management, financial management. In the broad sense, when billing and revenue management (BRM) is considered as a single process bundle, as special functional areas could be picked out revenue assurance, profitability management, fraud management.
Operations
Operations area includes functions of capturing usage records (depending on the industry it can be call detail records, charging data records, network traffic measurement data, in some cases usage data could be prepared by telecommunications mediation system), rating consumption (determining factors, significant for further calculation, for example, calculating total time of calls for each tariff zones, count of short messages, traffic summary in gigabytes), applying prices, tariffs, discounts, taxes and compiling charges for each customer account, rendering bills, managing bill delivery, applying adjustments, maintaining of customer account.
Operations area functions implementation can vary significantly depending on communications type and payment model. In particular, for prepaid customers billing should be realized continuously (in near real-time computing standards, also noted as hot billing), and when a lower threshold amount at the account is reached, systems could automatically limit a service. In postpaid service model there are no vital requirements to decrease a balance of a customer account in real time, in this case charging scheduled to be rarely, usually, once per month.
Information management
Information management area unites functions that responsible to support customer information, product and service data, pricing models, including their possible combinations, as well as billing configuration data, such as billing cycles schedules, event triggers, bill delivery channels, audit settings, data archiving parameters. Customer information often integrated with customer relationship management system; collaboration with customer can be a function of information management area of billing system or can be completely allocated in CRM.
Financial management
Financia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema%20migration | In software engineering, a schema migration (also database migration, database change management) refers to the management of version-controlled, incremental and reversible changes to relational database schemas. A schema migration is performed on a database whenever it is necessary to update or revert that database's schema to some newer or older version.
Migrations are performed programmatically by using a schema migration tool. When invoked with a specified desired schema version, the tool automates the successive application or reversal of an appropriate sequence of schema changes until it is brought to the desired state.
Most schema migration tools aim to minimize the impact of schema changes on any existing data in the database. Despite this, preservation of data in general is not guaranteed because schema changes such as the deletion of a database column can destroy data (i.e. all values stored under that column for all rows in that table are deleted). Instead, the tools help to preserve the meaning of the data or to reorganize existing data to meet new requirements. Since meaning of the data often cannot be encoded, the configuration of the tools usually needs manual intervention.
Risks and benefits
Schema migration allows for fixing mistakes and adapting the data as requirements change. They are an essential part of software evolution, especially in agile environments (see below).
Applying a schema migration to a production database is always a risk. Development and test databases tend to be smaller and cleaner. The data in them is better understood or, if everything else fails, the amount of data is small enough for a human to process. Production databases are usually huge, old and full of surprises. The surprises can come from many sources:
Corrupt data that was written by old versions of the software and not cleaned properly
Implied dependencies in the data which no one knows about anymore
People directly changing the database without using the designated tools
Bugs in the schema migration tools
Mistakes in assumptions how data should be migrated
For these reasons, the migration process needs a high level of discipline, thorough testing and a sound backup strategy.
Schema migrations may take a long time to complete and for systems that operate 24/7 it is important to be able to do database migrations without downtime. Usually it is done with the help of feature flags and continuous delivery.
Schema migration in agile software development
When developing software applications backed by a database, developers typically develop the application source code in tandem with an evolving database schema. The code typically has rigid expectations of what columns, tables and constraints are present in the database schema whenever it needs to interact with one, so only the version of database schema against which the code was developed is considered fully compatible with that version of source code.
In software testing, while deve |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek%20Corneil | Derek Gordon Corneil is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Toronto, and an expert in graph algorithms and graph theory.
Life
When he was leaving high school, Corneil was told by his English teacher that doing a degree in mathematics and physics was a bad idea, and that the best he could hope for was to go to a technical college. His interest in computer science began when, as an undergraduate student at Queens College, he heard that a computer was purchased by the London Life insurance company in London, Ontario, where his father worked. As a freshman, he took a summer job operating the UNIVAC Mark II at the company. One of his main responsibilities was to operate a printer. An opportunity for a programming job with the company sponsoring his college scholarship appeared soon after. It was a chance that Corneil jumped at after being denied a similar position at London Life. There was an initial mix-up at his job as his overseer thought that he knew how to program the UNIVAC Mark II, and so he would easily transition to doing the same for the company's newly acquired IBM 1401 machine. However, Corneil did not have the assumed programming background. Thus, in the two-week window that Corneil had been given to learn how to grasp programming the IBM 1401, he learned how to write code from scratch by relying heavily on the instruction manual. This experience pushed him further on his way as did a number of projects he worked on in that position later on.
Corneil went on to earn a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics from Queen's University in 1964. Initially he had planned to do his graduate studies before becoming a high school teacher, but his acceptance into the brand new graduate program in computer science at the University of Toronto changed that. At the University of Toronto, Corneil earned a master's degree and then in 1968 a doctorate in computer science under the supervision of Calvin Gotlieb. (His post-doctoral supervisor was Jaap Seidel.) It was during this time that Corneil became interested in graph theory. He and Gotlieb eventually became good friends. After postdoctoral studies at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Corneil returned to Toronto as a faculty member in 1970. Before his retirement in 2010, Corneil held many positions at the University of Toronto, including Department Chair of the Computer Science department (July 1985 to June 1990), Director of Research Initiatives of the Faculty of Arts and Science (July 1991 to March 1998), and Acting Vice President of Research and International Relations (September to December 1993). During his time as a professor, he was also a visiting professor at universities such as the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, the Université de Grenoble and the Université de Montpellier.
Work
Corneil did his research in algorithmic graph theory and graph theory in general. He has overseen 49 t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danny%20Dolev | Daniel (Danny) Dolev is an Israeli computer scientist known for his research in cryptography and distributed computing. He holds the Berthold Badler Chair in Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is a member of the scientific council of the European Research Council.
Biography
Dolev did his undergraduate studies at the Hebrew University, earning a bachelor's degree in 1971. He then moved to the Weizmann Institute of Science, earning a master's degree in 1973 and a doctorate in 1979 under the supervision of Eli Shamir. After postdoctoral research at Stanford University and IBM Research, he joined the Hebrew University faculty in 1982. He took a second position at the IBM Almaden Research Center from 1987 to 1993, but retained his appointment at the Hebrew University. From 1998 to 2002, he was chair of the Institute of Computer Science and then Director of the School of Engineering and Computer Science at the Hebrew University. In 2011, he became the first Israeli on the Scientific Council of the European Research Council.
Research
Dolev has published many highly cited papers, including works on public-key cryptography, non-malleable cryptography, consensus in asynchronous distributed systems, atomic broadcasting, high availability and high-availability clusters, and Byzantine fault tolerance.
Dolev–Yao model was co-developed by Danny Dolev and Andrew Yao.
Awards and honors
Dolev was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2007 for his "contributions to fault-tolerant distributed computing". In 2011, Dolev and his co-authors Hagit Attiya and Amotz Bar-Noy were honored with the Edsger W. Dijkstra Prize in Distributed Computing for their work on implementing shared memory using message passing.
References
Further reading
.
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Public-key cryptographers
Theoretical computer scientists
Researchers in distributed computing
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Dijkstra Prize laureates
Weizmann Institute of Science alumni
Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Shapiro%20%28television%20reporter%29 | Adam Shapiro is a financial news Anchor at Yahoo Finance. Prior to that, he was an anchor and investigative journalist at FOX Business Network (FBN). He joined FBN in September 2007 as a Washington DC based reporter and has reported extensively on the US Government, Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and White House.
In 1998, Shapiro was hired as a news anchor at WEWS-TV (ABC) in Cleveland. While there, he also anchored Emmy Award-winning morning show Good Morning Cleveland. While there, he received a 2003 regional Emmy Award for Best Anchor and a 2002 Associated Press Award for Best Reporter.
Shapiro left Cleveland in June 2006 to work for New York's WNBC-TV. As a general assignment reporter for the local morning show Today in New York, he covered all aspects of New York City. He also occasionally anchored the early evening and nightly newscasts. In September 2018, it was announced that Shapiro would be going to work for Yahoo Finance as an anchor. Shapiro Works now in Buffalo New York as an assistant news director for WGRZ-TV channel 2.
References
External links
Fox Business Channel (official)
Adam Shapiro on Twitter (@ajshaps)
Living people
Syracuse University alumni
American television reporters and correspondents
Mass media people from Miami
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charice%3A%20One%20for%20the%20Heart | Charice: One for the Heart is a 2012 Valentine's Day TV Special produced by GMA Network, which aired on February 12, 2012. The show earned a considerable 35.4 percent household audience share in Mega Manila based on the more trusted TV ratings service provider, Nielsen TV Audience Measurement.
Main singer
Charice Pempengco
Guest singers
Jay R
Mark Bautista
Setlist
Rocketeer
Crazy In Love
Telephone
Heartbreak Survivor
I Love You / Price Tag
Ikaw Lamang (Jay R solo)
No One Else Comes Close
Just The Way You Are
Pyramid
Minsan Lang Kita Iibigin
Sometimes When We Touch / Endless Love (featuring Mark Bautista)
This I Promise You (Mark Bautista solo)
Faithfully
Dance With My Father
Lighthouse
Teach Me How To Dougie (band introduction)
Before It Explodes
Louder
See also
List of programs broadcast by GMA Network
References
External links
Official Website of GMA Network
Official Website of GMA Pinoy TV
GMA Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM%20Jacquard%20Systems | AM Jacquard Systems, originally Jacquard Systems, was an American manufacturer and vendor of small office computer systems in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The systems were sold with Type-Rite, a word processing system and Data-Rite, a data management system. They also offered specialist software, Tomcat to legal firms.
The original J100 Videocomputer, a "shared logic" system was joined by the single user J500 Videocomputer.
Jacquard was acquired by AM International, inventors of the addressograph, where it was seen to complement their range of phototypesetters. Jacquard then also became the sales and marketing arm for the parent company's Amtext system.
The corporate headquarters were at 3340 Ocean Park Boulevard, Santa Monica, California.
Subsidiaries
Addressograph-Farrington, based in Randolph, Massachusetts
References
Defunct computer companies of the United States
1970s establishments in California
1980s disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod%20Downey | Rodney Graham Downey (born 20 September 1957) is a New Zealand and Australian mathematician and computer scientist, an emeritus professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He is known for his work in mathematical logic and computational complexity theory, and in particular for founding the field of parameterised complexity together with Michael Fellows.
Biography
Downey earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Queensland in 1978, and then went on to graduate school at Monash University, earning a doctorate in 1982 under the supervision of John Crossley. After holding teaching and visiting positions at the Chisholm Institute of Technology, Western Illinois University, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he came to New Zealand in 1986 as a lecturer at Victoria University. He was promoted to reader in 1991, was given a personal chair at Victoria in 1995, and retired in 2021.
Downey was president of the New Zealand Mathematical Society from 2001 to 2003.
Publications
Downey is the co-author of five books:
Parameterized Complexity (with Michael Fellows, Springer, 1999)
Algorithmic Randomness and Complexity (with D. Hirschfeldt, Springer, 2010)
Fundamentals of Parameterized Complexity (with Michael Fellows, Springer, 2013)
Minimal Weak Truth Table Degrees and Computably Enumerable Turing Degrees (with Keng Meng Ng and David Reed Solomon, Memoirs American Mathematical Society, Vol. 2184, 2020)
A Hierarchy of Turing Degrees (with Noam Greenberg, Annals of Mathematics Studies No. 206, Princeton University Press, 2020)
He is also the author or co-author of over 200 research papers, including a highly cited sequence of four papers with Michael Fellows and Karl Abrahamson setting the foundation for the study of parameterised complexity.
Awards and honours
In 1990, Downey won the Hamilton Research Award from the Royal Society of New Zealand. In 1992, Downey won the Research Award of the New Zealand Mathematical Society "for penetrating and prolific investigations that have made him a leading expert in many aspects of recursion theory, effective algebra and complexity".
In 1994, he won the New Zealand Association of Scientists Research Award, and became a fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 1996. In 2006, he became the first New Zealand-based mathematician to give an Invited Lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians.
He has also given invited lectures at the International Congress of Logic, Methodology and
Philosophy of Science and the ACM Conference on Computational Complexity. He was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2007 "for contributions to computability and complexity theory", becoming the second ACM Fellow in New Zealand, and in the same year was elected as a fellow of the New Zealand Mathematical Society. Also in 2007 he was awarded a James Cook Research Fellowship for research on the nature of computation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Dneprov%20%28writer%29 | Anatoly Dneprov (also spelled Anatoly Dnieprov, , pseudonym; real name Anatoliy Petrovych Mitskevitch, ) was a Soviet physicist, cyberneticist and writer of Ukrainian ancestry. His science fiction stories were published in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe and the United States from 1958 to 1970. He is known best for his stories Crabs on the Island, The Maxwell Equations and The Purple Mummy.
Career
Anatoly Dneprov was a physicist who worked at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union.
Significance
The Progress Publishers, Moscow wrote of him:
Algis Budrys compared his short story The Purple Mummy to that of Eando Binder. Although Dneprov is not well-known in countries outside the iron curtain, his predictions about artificial intelligence and self-replicating machines are uncanny.
The Game
Dneprov's short story The Game (1961) presents a scenario, the Portuguese stadium, anticipating the later China brain and Chinese room thought experiments. It concerns a stadium of people who act as switches and memory cells implementing a program to translate a sentence of Portuguese, a language that none of them knows. The plot of the story goes as follows: all 1400 delegates of the Soviet Congress of Young Mathematicians willingly agree to take part in a "purely mathematical game" proposed by Professor Zarubin. The game requires the execution of a certain set of rules given to the participants, who communicate with each other using sentences composed only of the words "zero" and "one". After several hours of playing the game, the participants have no idea of what is going on as they get progressively tired. One girl becomes too dizzy and leaves the game just before it ends. On the next day, Professor Zarubin reveals to everyone's excitement that the participants were simulating an existing 1961 Soviet computing machine named "Ural" that translated a sentence written in Portuguese "Os maiores resultados são produzidos por – pequenos mas contínuos esforços," a language that nobody from the participants understood, into the sentence in Russian "The greatest goals are achieved through minor but continuous ekkedt", a language that everyone from the participants understood. It becomes clear that the last word, which should have been "efforts", is mistranslated due to the dizzy girl leaving the simulation.
The philosophical argument developed by Dneprov is presented in the form of Socratic dialogue. Consequently, the main conclusion from the Portuguese stadium is contained in the final words of the main character Professor Zarubin: "I think our game gave us the right answer to the question 'Can machines think?' We have proven that even the most perfect simulation of machine thinking is not the thinking process itself."
The general structure of the proof constructed by Dneprov is the same as the one employed in the Chinese room argument:
People are used to simulate the working of a computer m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos%20Fiat | Amos Fiat (born December 1, 1956) is an Israeli computer scientist, a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University. He is known for his work in cryptography, online algorithms, and algorithmic game theory.
Biography
Fiat earned his Ph.D. in 1987 from the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Adi Shamir. After postdoctoral studies with Richard Karp and Manuel Blum at the University of California, Berkeley, he returned to Israel, taking a faculty position at Tel Aviv University.
Research
Many of Fiat's most highly cited publications concern cryptography, including his work with Adi Shamir on digital signatures (leading to the Fiat–Shamir heuristic for turning interactive identification protocols into signature schemes) and his work with David Chaum and Moni Naor on electronic money, used as the basis for the ecash system. With Shamir and Uriel Feige in 1988, Fiat invented the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme, a method for using public-key cryptography to provide challenge–response authentication.
In 1994, he was one of the first, with Moni Naor, to formally study the problem of practical broadcast encryption. Along with Benny Chor, Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, he made a contribution to the development of Traitor tracing, a copyright infringement detection system which works by tracing the source of leaked files rather than by direct copy protection.
With Gerhard Woeginger, Fiat organized a series of Dagstuhl workshops on competitive analysis of online algorithms, and together with Woeginger he edited the book Online Algorithms: The State of the Art (Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1442, Springer-Verlag, 1998). His research papers include methods for applying competitive analysis to paging, call control, data management, and the assignment of files to servers in distributed file systems.
Fiat's interest in game theory stretches back to his thesis research, which included analysis of the children's game Battleship. He has taken inspiration from the game Tetris in developing new job shop scheduling algorithms, as well as applying competitive analysis to the design of game-theoretic auctions.
Bibliography
Amos Fiat and Moni Naor, Rigorous Time/Space Tradeoffs for Inverting Functions, SIAM J. Computing 29(3), 1999, pp. 790–803.
Benny Chor, Amos Fiat, Moni Naor and Benny Pinkas, Tracing Traitors, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 46(3), pp. 893–910, 2000.
David Chaum, Amos Fiat and Moni Naor, Untraceable Electronic Cash, 1990.
Amos Fiat and Moni Naor, Broadcast Encryption, 1994.
Amos Fiat and Moni Naor, Implicit O(1) Probe Search, SIAM J. Computing 22: 1–10 (1993).
Honours and awards
2016 (with Moni Naor) Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award of the Association for Computing Machinery
EATCS Award (2023)
References
1956 births
Living people
Israeli computer scientists
Israeli cryptographers
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
Theoretical computer scientists
Public-key cryptographers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5th%20Missouri%20Infantry%20Regiment%20%28Union%2C%203%20months%29 | The 5th Missouri Infantry Regiment evolved from a network of several unofficial pro-Unionist militia groups formed semi-secretly in St. Louis in the early months of 1861 by Congressman Francis Preston Blair, Jr. and other Unionist activists. The Fifth Missouri was largely composed of ethnic Germans, who were generally opposed to slavery and strongly supportive of the Unionist cause. Although initially without any official standing, beginning on April 22, 1861, the militia regiments Blair helped organize were sworn into Federal service at the St. Louis Arsenal by Captain John Schofield acting on the authority of President Lincoln.
Upon entry into Federal service the members of the Fifth Missouri elected C. E. Solomon colonel of the regiment.
Military service
After the breakdown of negotiations between Missouri Governor Claiborne Fox Jackson and General Nathaniel Lyon on June 12, 1861, the Third Missouri was part of a complex movement against the Missouri State Guard. One force, under Brigadier General Lyon moved up the Missouri River by steamer, to capture the State capital at Jefferson City. A second brigade, composed of the 3rd and 5th Missouri and two batteries of artillery moved into southwest Missouri under the overall command of Colonel Sigel, to cut off any Missouri State Guard troops which might move south before Lyon's advance.
Colonel Sigel took his force to Rolla, thence to Springfield, Missouri, arriving on June 25. They marched to Neosho (June 26–30) and were forced to retreat to Mt. Vernon in the face of a large force of State Guardsmen.
On July 5, Sigel's force of 1,100 met 4,000 State Guardsmen (and 2,000 unarmed Guard recruits) at the Battle of Carthage. Confronted with the large force of Guardsmen Sigel retreated in good order into Carthage and successfully disengaged and retreated back to Sarcoxie that night.
The Fifth Missouri joined with General Lyon's force at Springfield, and participated in the August 10 Battle of Wilson's Creek. The Fifth was again part of a brigade (with the Third Missouri) under Colonel Sigel. Sigel's 2nd Brigade initially had significant success, attacking Confederate cavalry on the southeast corner of the southern camps (at the Sharp Farm). After driving off these southern troops, Sigel halted his brigade across the Wire Road, above Skeeg's Branch (Creek). However, Sigel positioned his artillery badly (behind the military crest of the ridge) and cautioned his men against accidentally firing on Federal troops he expected to be advancing south down the Wire Road (the 1st Iowa Infantry was uniformed in grey). At this point, Confederate Brigadier Ben McCulloch lead an attack south down the Wire Road, with the respected Third Louisiana Infantry in the fore. Skirmishers, officers, and Sigel himself mistook the Louisiana troops for the Iowa infantry allowing them to advance to point blank range before they delivering a devastating volley into the confused Federal troops. Sigel shouted "they make a mist |
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