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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan%20Holmes | Ryan Holmes (born December 30, 1974) is a Canadian computer programmer and internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of Hootsuite, a social media management tool for businesses with more than 18 million users and Holmes' fifth startup. Holmes began developing Hootsuite in 2008 through his agency, Invoke Media. He is also the founder of League of Innovators, a charity with a goal of building entrepreneurial acumen for youth, from discovery to acceleration.
Holmes is a contributor to the LinkedIn Influencers Program, where he writes about entrepreneurship and technology. Holmes also contributes regularly to news publications including Forbes, Fast Company and Inc.com.
Early life and education
Holmes was born in Vernon, in the British Columbia Interior. Growing up, he lived on a small farm which was isolated and lacked electricity. Holmes won a district-wide programming contest in the fifth grade, and the prize was an Apple IIc which was rewired to run off of a car battery. He spent much of his spare time on the computer, both at school and at home.
In the mid 1990s, Holmes began taking business and computer science courses at Okanagan College but he eventually dropped out. In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of British Columbia for helping to shape the identity of Vancouver as a tech hub.
Career
In high school, Holmes founded a paintball field as his first business which later became an online retailer. After dropping out of university in 1997 Holmes moved back to his hometown of Vernon and started his second business, a pizza restaurant called Growlies. He sold a franchise of the business in that year.
To re-pursue his passion for computers and be a part of the emerging tech industry, Holmes sold Growlies in 1999 and moved to Vancouver. While there he taught himself internet design and development and began working at a local technology firm.
Following this he founded Invoke, a digital media agency, where Hootsuite was born in 2008. Seven of the 21 employees at Invoke were tasked to work on building out the Hootsuite tool, at the time a freemium product that would enable businesses to incorporate social media into their marketing campaigns. In 2009, Holmes raised an initial round of Series A funding of $1.9 million for Hootsuite and spun it off as an independent company.
In 2012, he then raised another round of funding for Hootsuite in the amount of $20 million from Canada-based VC Omers Ventures. In August 2013, Holmes announced Hootsuite had secured $165 million in a Series B round of funding, the largest ever for a Canadian software company, led by Insight Venture Partners with participation from Accel Partners and existing investor OMERS Ventures. Today, Hootsuite has nearly 1,000 employees, and over 16 million users around the globe and has expanded its reach into the Enterprise-level market for large-scale social media solutions.
In 2013 Holmes launched an accelerator program for y |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20violence | Digital violence can refer to:
violence in computer games
disruptive actions online, such as cyber-bullying or cyberwarfare |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcinema | The term "microcinema" can have two meanings. It can describe low-budget or amateur films shot mostly on digital video, edited on a computer, and then distributed via videotape, disc or over the Internet. Or it can describe a mode of low-budget exhibition — a small theater or screening series operated in order to show small-gauge filmmaking, artists works, shorts, and repertory programming.
Microcinema is a flexible term that can cover anything — micro movies, animated shorts, bizarrely impressionistic video manipulations, hard-hitting documentaries, and garage-born feature-length movies. A classic microcinema offering is a film that probably would not exist if new technology hadn't allowed its creators to cut costs or inspired them to try something different.
History
The term "microcinema" was first coined in 1994 by Rebecca Barten and David Sherman founders of San Francisco's Total Mobile Home microCINEMA, where all the films are "underground" because they're shown in the basement. The founders say they envisioned an alternative movement, a sort of cinematic microbrewery. And now, the word has come to describe an intimate, low-budget style of movie shot on relatively cheap formats like Hi-8 video, DV, and (less often) older do-it-yourself stock like 16mm film.
As of late, a large growing subculture of film makers has risen in the wake of technological advancements that have made low-budget film making more affordable and pleasing to the eye. One camera in particular, that has made a large impact, is the Panasonic DVX100 followed recently by the Panasonic HVX200 High Definition camcorder (many other cameras are used as well but DVX and HVX are arguably the favorites).
Many film festivals and websites have hosted films made from the microcinema subculture. The rise of YouTube and other large video hosting websites has led to a flourishing of microcinema videos. In fact, many films are now finding their way to rental store chains and independent distributor line-ups.
Characteristics
Low-budget considering your locations and intent of distribution
Tends to be shot on a video camera or 16mm camera
Small crew (under 20 but usually around 5-10 people)
Director tends to be the writer, producer, director of photography and editor
Limited equipment owned by the director/crew or rented
Initial distribution of film done by filmmaker
Films premiere at film festivals or on the internet
Actors are usually unknown in pop culture and work for free
Directors are usually unknown in pop culture
References
Film genres
Experimental film
Cinemas and movie theaters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS%20Briton%20%281869%29 | HMS Briton was a wooden screw corvette built for the Royal Navy in the late 1860s.
Notes
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
Briton at William Loney website
Briton at the Naval Database website
Ships built in Sheerness
Corvettes of the Royal Navy
1869 ships
Victorian-era corvettes of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbonilla%20gradata | Turbonilla gradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies.
Description
The shell grows to a length of 4.6 mm.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the following locations:
European waters (ERMS scope)
Mediterranean Sea: Greece, Algeria
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone
References
External links
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To World Register of Marine Species
gradata
Gastropods described in 1883 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Citation%20Index | The Indian Citation Index (ICI) is an online bibliographic database containing abstracts and citations from academic journals. Currently ICI covers more than 1100 journals from India covering scientific, technical, medical, and social sciences that includes arts and humanities. ICI covers data from 2004 onwards and provides full text of the title for Open Access journals. At present there are more than 300 OA journals. ICI provides search and analytical features. ICI was launched in India in 2009 and is funded by Diva Enterprises Pvt. Ltd.
Overview
The ICI was launched in Oct 2009 New Delhi, with 100 journals. It provides access to full text for all Open Access journals. It links to Google Scholar for additional information and provides analytical tools.
There are 50 different top level subject categories like Health Science, Mathematics, Computer Science & Technology, Economics, and Agriculture. These subject categories are further sub-divided into second and third levels.
Coverage
The database is constantly updated, nearly two/three journals are added every month, target is to add 100 journals.
Details about ICI database
1100+ Science, technical, medical, and social sciences (including arts and humanities)
300+ Open Access journals, ICI provides full text for these journals
Coverage from 2004 to present day
600+ thousand source titles (index articles)
13.3+ million references
See also
Energy Science and Technology Database
ETDEWEB
Geographic Names Information System
Global Health database
Materials Science Citation Index
List of academic journal search engines
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Online databases
Science and technology in India
Citation indices |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruek%20language | Aruek is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005). There are no longer any speakers in the one village where it was spoken and people of that village say the language is now extinct.
References
Torricelli languages
Languages of Sandaun Province
Languages of East Sepik Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eitiep%20language | Etiep is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).
References
Torricelli languages
Languages of Sandaun Province
Languages of East Sepik Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yambes%20language | Yambes is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea spoken mostly by older adults. There is little data to classify it, and it is therefore left unclassified within Torricelli by Ross (2005).
It is spoken in Yambes village () of Dreikikier Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.
References
Torricelli languages
Languages of East Sepik Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian%20Science%20Citation%20Index | Russian Science Citation Index (Russian: Российский индекс научного цитирования) is a bibliographic database of scientific publications in Russian. It holds around 13 million publications by Russian authors and information about citing publications from over 5000 Russian journals.
The Russian Science Citation Index has been developed since 2005 by the Scientific Electronic Library eLIBRARY.RU. The information-analytical system Science Index is a search engine of this database; It offers a wide range of services for authors, research institutions and scientific publishers. It is designed not only for operational search for relevant bibliographic information, but is also as a powerful tool to assess the impact and effectiveness of research organizations, scientists, and the level of scientific journals, etc.
See also
List of academic databases and search engines
Science Citation Index
Scopus
Bibliography
External links
Scientific Electronic Library
Citation indices
Science and technology in Russia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20G.%20Troitzsch | Klaus G. Troitzsch (* 28. November 1946, in Ilsede-Oberg, Lower Saxony) is a German sociologist. He became famous for introducing the method of computer-based simulation in the social sciences. He was professor and director of the Institute for IS Research at University of Koblenz-Landau (as of 01/01/2023 University of Koblenz).
Career
Klaus G. Troitzsch studied sociology and political science at the University of Hamburg and the University of Cologne. In the 1970s Troitzsch was active politician. He served for the German liberal party (FDP) in the parliament of Hamburg, from 1972 to 1974 as an assistant and later (from 1974 to 1978) as a member, and also as executive secretary. In 1979 he completed his PhD in political sciences at the University of Hamburg and returned to academia, first as a senior researcher at the University of Koblenz-Landau, and then, from 1986, as full professor. From 1987 to 1992 he served the faculty of computer science of the University of Koblenz-Landau as dean and from 1992 to 2000 as vice-dean. In 2001, he received an honorary doctorate from the Dnipropetrovsk National University (Ukraine). Troitzsch became professor emeritus in 2012.
Work
Troitzsch is a pioneer in the methodological development of computer-based simulation in the social sciences, especially the method of agent-based modeling in the social sciences. In the field of computational social sciences, Troitzsch's focus lies on the one hand on agent-based modeling and on the other hand on microsimulation. He published one of the most important textbooks in that area "Simulation for the Social Scientist", now in its second edition (together with Nigel Gilbert). Further, he was among the founders of the Research Committee on Modelling and Simulation of the German Sociological Association and the SimSoc Consortium, which publishes the Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. he was the first Treasurer of the European Social Simulation Association. He has been involved in several research projects funded by the European Union, for instance Freshwater Integrated Resources Management with Agents (FIRMA) and OCOPOMO.
Troitzsch organized also several conferences in the social sciences, for instance the third annual conference of the European Social Simulation Association, (ESSA 2005), Epistemological Perspectives on Simulation (EPOS) in 2004, the 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS) and, for twelve years, an annual summer school on social simulation (the Advanced Simulation Workshop/Zuma Workshop on Simulation for Social Scientists).
References
1946 births
German sociologists
Living people
People from Peine (district)
Members of the Hamburg Parliament
Academic staff of the University of Koblenz and Landau
University of Hamburg alumni
University of Cologne alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Mind | Deep Mind may refer to:
DeepMind, a London-based machine learning company acquired by Google in 2014
"Hatsukoi Cider / Deep Mind", the 13th single by the Japanese band Buono! |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20busiest%20London%20Underground%20stations%20%282021%29 | This is a list of busiest London Underground stations for the 2021 calendar year. The dataset records patterns of mobility during the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom, with significantly reduced levels of mobility when compared with the 2019 data. Extended periods of significantly reduced commuting and other travel caused many major central London stations to drop in the ranking during 2020 and for larger suburban stations to replace them. With pandemic restrictions eliminated during the year, this was reversed during 2021.
The London Underground is a rapid transit system in the United Kingdom that serves London and the neighbouring counties of Essex, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Its first section opened in 1863. Annualised entry/exit counts were recorded at 270 stations in 2021. In 2021, King's Cross St Pancras was the busiest station on the network, used by over 36.73 million passengers, while Kensington (Olympia) was the least used, with 34,499 passengers. Data for 2021 was published on 17 May 2022 and was revised on 8 July 2022.
This table shows the busiest stations with over 14 million entries and exits in 2021.
See also
List of busiest London Underground stations, for the 2022 data
List of busiest London Underground stations (2020)
List of busiest London Underground stations (2019)
List of London Underground stations
List of busiest railway stations in Great Britain
Notes
References
Busiest London Underground stations
Busiest London Underground stations
2021 in London |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20process%20of%20law%20in%20Brazil | Electronic process of law is a nowadays phenomenon, related to the use of computer systems in courts and other public departments in their procedural activities.
System and applications of electronic process
Information systems are not the same as applications. Both are sited inside the scope of the generic words meaning of software, Systems are related to structure and paradigm; application to a specific implementation and esthetic and functional elements. Some information systems in Brazil are the PROJUDI, the Slapsoftware, the e-CNJ, the e-STF, the PJe, the Themis, SAJ. and the Mavenflip . The applications are many and subordinated to the systems, for instance, the e-proc.
Law
In Brazil, since 2006, there is a law dealing about the electronic process, it's the Law nº 11419 of 2006, without which there would not be the possibility of the phenomenon in its strict sense, that is the substitution of paper as primary source of information. This law is also important to kill the polemic about the validity of non-traditional communications means in legal procedures enrolled by former rules.
See also
Lawsuit
Virtual world
Audiovisual
Procedural law
Judicial power
References
Bibliography
Almeida Filho, José Carlos Araújo, Processo Eletrônico e Teoria Geral do Processo Eletrônico, Forense, 2007
Clementino, Edilberto Barbosa, Processo Judicial Eletrônico em Conformidade com a Lei 11.419, de 19/12/2006, Juruá, 2006
Public administration
Legal software
Government of Brazil
Government by algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Cockshott | William Paul Cockshott (born 16 March 1952) is a Scottish academic in the fields of computer science and Marxist economics. He is a Reader at the University of Glasgow. Since 1993 he has authored multiple works in the tradition of scientific socialism, most notably Towards a New Socialism and How the World Works.
Scientific career
Cockshott earned a BA in Economics (1974) from Manchester University, an MSc (1976) in Computer Science from Heriot Watt University and a PhD in Computer Science from Edinburgh University (1982).
He has made contributions in the fields of image compression, 3D television, parallel compilers and medical imaging, but became known to a wider audience for his proposals in the multi-disciplinary area of economic computability, most notably as co-author, along the economist , of the book Towards a New Socialism, in which they strongly advocate the use of cybernetics for efficient and democratic planning of a complex socialist economy.
He proposes a moneyless socialist economy, akin to Karl Marx's description of a socialist society in Critique of the Gotha Programme, realized by today's computer technology:
Political views
In the 1970s, Cockshott was a member of the British and Irish Communist Organisation, but he and several other members became unhappy with B&ICO's position on workers' control. Cockshott and several other B&ICO members resigned and formed a new party, the Communist Organisation in the British Isles.
Cockshott advocates for a system of a moneyless economy based on a computerized planned economy and direct democracy. He has criticized the economic calculation problem on the grounds that planning can be made feasible via computerization and allocation based on labor time.
Published works
Cockshott, P. (1990). Ps-Algol Implementations: Applications in Persistent Object Oriented Programming, Ellis Horwood Ltd.
Cockshott, P. (1990). A Compiler Writer's Toolbox: Interactive Compilers for PCs With Turbo Pascal, Ellis Horwood Ltd.
Cockshott, P., Cottrell, A. (1993). Towards a New Socialism, Spokesman.
Cockshott, P., Renfrew K. (2004). SIMD Programming Manual for Linux and Windows, Springer.
Cockshott, P. (2010). Transition to 21st Century Socialism in the European Union, Lulu.
Cockshott, P. (2011). Glasgow Pascal Compiler with vector extensions, Lulu.
Cockshott, P., Zachariah, D. (2012). Arguments for Socialism, Lulu.
Cockshott, P., Cottrell, A., Michaelson, G., Wright, I., Yakovenko, V. (2012). Classical Econophysics, Routledge.
Cockshott, P., Mackenzie, L., Michaelson, G. (2015). Computation and its Limits, Oxford University Press.
Cockshott, P. (2019). How the World Works: The Story of Human Labor from Prehistory to the Modern Day, Monthly Review Press.
References
External links
Paul Cockshott's YouTube channel
Paul Cockshott's blog
"Paul Cockshott - Towards a new Socialism (1/3)". Video produced by Oliver Ressler on Paul Cockshott and his planned economy-model. Transcription of a video by |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20Blur | Motion Blur or Motion Blur Game Studio (Turkish: Motion Blur Oyun Stüdyosu) founded in 2004, Ataşehir, Istanbul based computer game developer. Kabus 22 on sale worldwide has produced the first Turkish game.
Developed games
Kabus 22 (PC, 2006)
Space Cake (Mobile, 2014)
Sources
2004 establishments in Turkey
Video game companies established in 2004
Video game companies of Turkey
Video game development companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Latin%20Pop%20Airplay%20songs%20of%202012 | The Billboard Latin Pop Airplay is a chart that ranks the best-performing Spanish-language Pop music singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
References
United States Latin Pop
2012
2012 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program%20Playhouse | Program Playhouse was an anthology television series aired on the DuMont Television Network on Wednesdays from June 22 to September 14, 1949.
Episodes
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
Partial list of episodes
The first program starred Ernest Truex as Caspar Milquetoast in "The Timid Soul". Others included
"Trouble, Inc." - Earl Hammond
"Roscoe Karns and Inky Poo" - Roscoe Karns
"The Hands of Murder"
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
Program Playhouse at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1949 American television series debuts
1949 American television series endings
1940s American television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stage%20a%20Number | Stage a Number is a TV series on the DuMont Television Network which was broadcast in the US on Wednesdays at 9pm ET from September 10, 1952, to May 20, 1953.
Bill Wendell was the host for the program, which was a live talent show for dancers, singers, acrobats and other entertainers. A panel of celebrity judges decided on two winners who were invited to appear the following week.
Production
Stage a Number was a sustaining program that originated at WABD. Roger Gerry was the producer, and Barry Shear was the director. Bill Dalzell was the writer, and Bill Wirges was the music director. It was replaced by The Strawhatters.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1952-53 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Stage a Number at IMDB
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1952 American television series debuts
1953 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost television shows
1950s American television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito%20TV | Quito TV is a television channel in Ecuador. Since the start of their transmissions, on September 1 of 2006, the channel is the major television network of Ecuador.
It broadcasts on channel 20 to Quito and channel 16 to Guayaquil. The international version of the channel is available on Ecuador TV.
History
Quito TV began broadcasting on September 1, 2006. Its headquarters are located in Quito, and the biggest self-supported antenna. Quito TV got the most powerful microwave radio relay, acquired the first mobile television unit.
Founded by Emilio Santander, the channel was under control of his family until 2007 and 2008. During the presidency of Rafael Correa, the network have the most broadcasting during the programming.
Programming
Soccer Broadcasts
Quito TV has the rights to broadcast the home games of Deportivo Quito, Espoli, Imbabura, LDU Quito and Manta during the 2011 Copa Credife.
External links
Television channels in Ecuador
Spanish-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2006
Mass media in Quito |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad%20Mureta | Chad Mureta is an app mogul, blockchain gaming investor/advisor, author, speaker, investor and serial entrepreneur. Since 2009, Mureta has led the development, marketing and monetization of more than 115 apps including the first "Emoji" iOS app that has been downloaded worldwide more than 155 million times. Chad is also the Co-Founder of Project EVO which helps entrepreneurs and professionals find their flow by uncovering who they are and what they do best.
Early life
Mureta attended Coastal Carolina University and graduated in 2003 with a B.A. in Business Management. After graduating, Mureta owned a newspaper company and worked as a real estate investor. In 2006, Mureta started his own real estate agency in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. During the height of the housing market crash, he often worked 18-hour days.
In January 2009, Mureta drove home from a basketball game when he hit a deer, which caused his car to flip four times. The accident crushed and nearly severed his left arm. He underwent two major operations and spent 18 months recovering, accruing nearly $100,000 in hospital bills. While in the hospital, a friend gave Mureta a newspaper article about app millionaires.
Career
After he was released from the hospital, Mureta borrowed $1,800 from his stepfather to start his app business. He used the money to create his first app, "Fingerprint Security-Pro," which mimics fingerprint-scanning technology. Fingerprint Security-Pro became a bestseller in the App Store, peaking at number 27 in the App Store in 2011, and netting more than $500,000 in revenue.
After "Fingerprint Security-Pro," Mureta went on to create over 50 apps that have been downloaded more than 150 million times worldwide.
In 2012 he wrote the book App Empire: Make Money, Have a Life, and Let Technology Work for You, which was released by John Wiley & Son. It chronicles Mureta's transformation from real estate agent to appreneur and provides a non-technical guide to starting a mobile app business.
During a BBC interview in October 2015, Mureta revisited his near death experience and his company, App Empire, which brings in $3m to $5m in revenue every year.
In February 2018, Project EVO launched an Indiegogo campaign, which reached $1 million in funds on November 18, 2018, and is still growing.
Over the years, Chad's success formula has allowed him to build up and sell 8 app companies.
Television
In July 2012, Mureta was featured on 60 Minutes. In the interview titled "The App Revolution", Mureta said, "This is just the beginning, and I think a lot of people are just getting that this is a real business. This is a real industry and really there's not a lot of barrier to entry to get into it. Anybody can. The thing is, I am just like everybody else. There's no difference. I mean yes, I've been successful, I'm not the smartest person in the world, and I've never had any tech experience."
Mureta was interviewed by Tony Robbins in a special titled, "How To Create An App E |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile%20and%20go%20system | In computer programming, a compile and go system, compile, load, and go system, assemble and go system, or load and go system
is a programming language processor in which the compilation, assembly, or link steps are not separated from program execution. The intermediate forms of the program are generally kept in primary memory, and not saved to the file system.
Examples of compile-and-go systems are WATFOR, PL/C, and Dartmouth BASIC. An example of load-and-go systems is the loader Anthony J. Barr wrote for the University Computing Corporation in 1968 that was replaced in the market by the IBM OS/360 loader in 1972. These OS/360 loaders performed many of the functions of the Linkage Editor but placed the linked program in memory rather than creating an executable on disk. Compile and go systems differ from interpreters, which either directly execute source code or execute an intermediate representation.
Analysis
Advantages of compile-and-go systems are:
The user need not be concerned with the separate steps of compilation, assembling, linking, loading, and executing.
Execution speed is generally much superior to interpreted systems.
They are simple and easier to implement.
Disadvantages of compile-and-go loaders are:
There is wastage in memory space due to the presence of the assembler or compiler.
The code must be reprocessed every time it is run.
Systems with multiple modules, possibly in different languages, cannot be handled naturally within this framework.
Compile-and-go systems were popular in academic environments, where student programs were small, compiled many times, usually executed quickly and, once debugged, seldom needed to be re-executed.
See also
Ahead-of-time compilation
References
Cross-reference
Sources used
External links
Dave Yost’s “compileAndGo” for any compiled language
Computer programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett%20Helm | Brett Helm (born May 8, 1962 in Kansas City, Missouri) is a serial entrepreneur and off-road motorcycle racer. Helm is best known for co-founding a series of networking hardware startup companies over the past two decades including IPivot, Coradiant, and DB Networks as well as for winning three SCORE International off-road motorcycle racing championships. Helm is the Chairman and CEO of DB Networks.
Career
United States Air Force
Helm entered the USAF in 1988. He attended Officer Training School at Lackland Air Force Base. He graduated from Flight Training School at Mather Air Force Base in 1989. As a B-52 aviator, he flew 26 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm and Desert Shield. Helm was awarded numerous commendations during his USAF career, including three Air Medals for combat flying.
Entrepreneur
Helm entered the business startup world as an early employee US West !NTERPRISE Networking Services. He later became an early employee of @Home Network, where he led the formation of @Work its vice president and general manager.
In 1997 Helm became a co-founder and CEO of IPivot. IPivot was an early innovator of Layer 7 load balancing and a pioneer in SSL acceleration/SSL offloading. Intel acquired IPivot in 1999 for $500 million. Intel appointed Helm to be the general manager of their newly created Network Equipment Division.
In 2000 Helm invested in Sanera Systems and assisted the company in obtaining their first two rounds of funding. Mcdata acquired Sanera Systems for $130 million in 2003.
Helm was a co-founder, investor, and Board member in Coradiant. Although Coradiant was professionally funded in 2000, Helm did not become an employee until 2005. Coradiant became the leader in End User Experience Management. BMC Software acquired Coradiant in April 2011 for $135 million. Helm is a co-founder and investor in DB CyberTech.
Investments
Helm invested in IPivot, Sanera Systems, Coradiant, DB CyberTech as well as multiple Venture Capital firms.
Off-road motorcycle racing
Helm is an off-road motorcycle racer. Helm began racing competitively in 2005. He races in a class for riders over 40 years old. He won three SCORE International off-road racing championships in 2007, 2008, and 2010. He competed in and won three prestigious Baja 1000 (Class 40) events in 2007, 2008, 2009. He raced at the famous Bonneville Salt Flats on a dirt bike exceeding 130 mph.
Off-road racing record
See also
Venture capital
Startup company
Entrepreneurship
Angel investor
References
External links
2011 Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 Face Sheet
Dust Off-Road Magazine
1962 births
American computer businesspeople
American technology chief executives
American investors
American technology company founders
Businesspeople from California
American chairpersons of corporations
Intel people
Living people
Off-road motorcycle racers
Recipients of the Air Medal
American venture capitalists
Utah State University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuo%20Matsuyama | Yasuo Matsuyama (born March 23, 1947) is a Japanese researcher in machine learning and human-aware information processing.
Matsuyama is a Professor Emeritus and an Honorary Researcher of the Research Institute of Science and Engineering of Waseda University.
Early life and education
Matsuyama received his bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from Waseda University in 1969, 1971, and 1974 respectively. The dissertation title for the Doctor of Engineering is Studies on Stochastic Modeling of Neurons. There, he contributed to the spiking neurons with stochastic pulse-frequency modulation. Advisors were Jun’ichi Takagi, Kageo, Akizuki, and Katsuhiko Shirai.
Upon the completion of the doctoral work at Waseda University, he was dispatched to the United States as a Japan-U.S. exchange fellow by the joint program of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fulbright Program, and the Institute of International Education. Through this exchange program, he completed his Ph.D. program at Stanford University in 1978. The dissertation title is Process Distortion Measures and Signal Processing. There, he contributed to the theory of probabilistic distortion measures and its applications to speech encoding with spectral clustering or vector quantization. His advisor was Robert. M. Gray.
Career
From 1977 to 1078, Matsuyama was a research assistant at the Information Systems Laboratory of Stanford University.
From 1979 to 1996, he was a faculty of Ibaraki University, Japan (the final position was a professor and chairperson of the Information and System Sciences Major).
Since 1996, he was a Professor of Waseda University, Department of Computer Science and Engineering. From 2011 to 2013, he was the director of the Media Network Center of Waseda University. At the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011, he was in charge of the safety inquiry of 65,000 students, staffs and faculties.
Since 2017, Matsuyama is a Professor Emeritus and an Honorary Researcher of the Research Institute of Science and Engineering of Waseda University. Since 2018, he serves as an acting president of the Waseda Electrical Engineering Society.
Work
Matsuyama’s works on machine learning and human-aware information processing have dual foundations. Studies on the competitive learning (vector quantization) for his Ph.D. at Stanford University brought about his succeeding works on machine learning contributions. Studies on stochastic spiking neurons for his Dr. Engineering at Waseda University set off applications of biological signals to the machine learning. Thus, his works can be grouped reflecting these dual foundations.
Statistical machine learning algorithms: The use of the alpha-logarithmic likelihood ratio in learning cycles generated the alpha-EM algorithm (alpha-Expectation maximization algorithm). Because the alpha-logarithm includes the usual logarithm, the alpha-EM algorithm contains the EM-algorithm (more precisely, the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peretz%20%28Russian%20TV%20channel%29 | Peretz (rus. Перец, pepper) was a Russian national television channel, broadcasting original entertainment programming along with popular Russian and Western series. It began broadcasting on 7 June 1999 as "Darial TV", rebranded in 2002 to "DTV-Viasat", in 2007 to "DTV" and finally took its current name in 2011. The technical penetration of the channel was 72.5% (in 2010). It broadcasts in over 400 cities in Russia.
The channel was changed to a new channel in Russia, "Che", copying "Peretz International" programs. Now, the international version "Peretz International" is on air only. The owner of "Che" is CTC Media.
History of channel
Originally, the channel was to be entirely devoted to exemplary programming, without pornography, sex or violence. Prior to the acquisition of Viasat, the channel aired virtually no new TV programs: the schedule consisted of reruns of existing shows and films from the Soviet era.
In 2001 Natalia Daryalova and her father Arkady Vainer, sold the channel to Modern Times Group. After the sale, the original name of the channel was changed to the less personal DTV. The concept of the channel was changed, including the logo and the name.
At the same time, the founder of the channel Arkady Vainer criticized the actions of the new owners "for the emergency unemployment creative units of the former Darial-TV and the creation of the moral and legal TV channel for the stallions".
In 2002 the channel had difficulty renewing its broadcast license, due to the actions of previous owners. Authorities also cited the demonstration of hidden advertising of alcoholic beverages, and absenteeism on the air. Due to violations of the conditions, the broadcasting frequency was twice put up for auction in November 2002, an action which was later declared invalid. The ether was stored for 5 years.
On 1 February 2003 the network launched the concept of "7 thematic channels in one", which has since run its course.
In 2005–2007, the channel created and showed series of documentary films named How Went Idols.
After buying the TV channel, CTC Media held a rebranding of the channel, and changed the letters «DTV» in Cyrillic. The inscription «VIASAT» has been removed.
According to the initiators of the re-branding, "the channel will be entirely domestic, and will be even closer to the Russian audience, because, according to recent studies, the audience has more and more confidence in Russian brands" At about this same time, the bulk of DTV airtime became dedicated to TV series and documentaries in Russia and abroad on criminal topics, united under the heading "The detective on the DTV Channel." In connection with this, the channel identified its initials DTV as an abbreviation for "Detective Television". The channel held a broadcasting schedule until the television season 2010–2011.
On 17 October 2011 DTV conducted a large-scale rebranding, changed the name to "Peretz" (Russian: Перец) and decided to completely change the concept of the chan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OWN%20TV | OWN TV or O.W.N. TV, or variations thereof, may refer to:
Oprah Winfrey Network (U.S. TV channel), American television channel based in Los Angeles, California
Oprah Winfrey Network (Canadian TV channel), a Canadian television station, originally Canadian Learning Television, which licenses the name and rebroadcasts content from the American OWN station |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethel%20Barrymore%20Theatre%20%28TV%20series%29 | Ethel Barrymore Theatre was a half-hour anthology television series hosted by Ethel Barrymore and the last series produced by the DuMont Television Network.
While produced by the network, the series was aired on Fridays at 8:30pm ET from September 21 to December 21, 1956 on DuMont station WABD after the network had closed. The series may have been filmed in 1953, and was known as Stage 8 in syndication.
Among the actors appearing were Arthur Kennedy, Charles Coburn, Anita Louise, Gene Lockhart, Eddie Bracken, and Akim Tamiroff.
Background
In 1952, Barrymore signed a contract with Interstate Television Corporation to work on The Ethel Barrymore Theatre as actress, advisor, and commentator. The contract included "a substantial salary plus residual rights".
The second episode produced by ITC in 1952 was Daughters of Mars, which starred Barrymore, Selena Royle, Elizabeth Risdon, and Phillip Terry. The director was Lewis Allen, and the producer was Lee Savin.
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
Alex McNeil, Total Television, Fourth edition (New York: Penguin Books, 1980)
Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network TV Shows, Third edition (New York: Ballantine Books, 1964)
External links
Ethel Barrymore Theatre at IMDB
List of episodes at CTVA
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1956 American television series debuts
1956 American television series endings
1950s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%204X%20HD | The LG Optimus 4X HD is a slate, multi-touch smartphone running the Android operating system. Designed and manufactured by LG Electronics. The Optimus 4X HD was the world's first smartphone announced with a quad-core processor along with the HTC One X and the Samsung Galaxy S3 and the fourth phone in the LG Optimus-Android series. LG first introduced the LG Optimus 4X HD at Mobile World Congress. The Optimus 4X HD was launched with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Since April 2013, some variants have had a Jellybean update available.
Hardware
The LG Optimus 4X HD is the first phone to feature Nvidia's Tegra 3 chip offering significant mobile gaming performance at release. LG Optimus 4X HD was also the first phone announced with a quad core processor. The chip has four physical cores clocked at 1.5 GHz in addition to a lower-clocked fifth core. The fifth core is clocked up to 500 MHz and runs when the handset is idle or doing only simple tasks, less-demanding tasks such as active standby and music playback.
LG Optimus 4X HD is equipped with a True HD IPS display with Ultra high resolution 313PPI, packaged in an 8.9 mm-thick, prism-edged design. The device comes in black and white The LG Optimus 4X HD also includes a 12-core graphics processing unit. There is an 8-megapixel backside-illuminated sensor camera on the rear with LED flash, HDR, continuous shot, support 1080p Full HD video recorder and 1.3MP camera on the front for video, conferencing or self-portrait. The phone also includes a Li-Ion 2150 mAh battery, stand-by up to 730 h (2G) / up to 686 h (3G), talk time up to 9 h 20 min (2G) / Up to 10 hours & 50 minutes (3G). MicroSD card slot up to 64 GB, internal memory 16 GB (12 GB user available), and 1 GB RAM. It has a highly capable face unlock feature which works with the front-facing camera.
The phone has an unlockable bootloader, which allows it to run system software provided not only by LG, but also can run ROMs like CyanogenMod.
Software
LG Optimus 4X HD comes with Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich customized with Optimus UI v3.0 and is upgradable to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean through the new LG PC suite. It includes Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP, LE and NFC capability on the handset back cover. It has built in software features such as: SNS integration, TV-out player, MP3/WAV/WMA/eAAC+ player, Organizer, Document editor, Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail, Voice memo/dial/commands and other integrated features. The browser supports HTML5 and Adobe Flash.
One key software feature is Quick Memo that lets you capture the screen and draw on it. It also included a lot of capable video features such as: Time Catch Shot, Live Zooming, FingerTip Seek, Thumbnail List Play and Video Speed Control.
Alternatively, custom after-market ROMs are available for the LG optimus 4X HD (LG P880). CyanogenMod 11, based on Google's nexus-style Android 4.4 KitKat, is already available for the phone.
Design
The LG Optimus 4X HD features a rectangular-based design w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20on%20the%20Edge%20%28Indian%20TV%20series%29 | Living On The Edge is a weekly Indian TV show about environmental issues. It was aired on the Indian national broadcast network, Doordarshan and Star TV over a period of five years, in the 90s.
Hosted by Niret Alva, it explored different aspects of human exploitation of nature and natural resources and pollution. It was launched on the day of the 1994 final Football World Cup and managed to garner a large audience, as it was slotted just before the final match began.
Popularity
At the time of airing, Living On The Edge was one of the most popular English programmes on Indian Television. However, the show was taken off air in 1996 for lack of sponsorship.
Awards
Won the Most Informative Series Category at the Onida Awards in 1995
Won a Panda award at Wildscreen in Bristol in 1996
References
Sources
External links
Living On The Edge Page on Miditech
Indian television series
English-language television shows
1994 Indian television series debuts
1996 Indian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night%20Editor%20%28TV%20series%29 | Night Editor is a 15-minute anthology television series aired on the DuMont Television Network from March 14 to September 8, 1954. Hal Burdick wrote and narrated the episodes and sometimes acted out the stories. Ward Byron was the producer, and Dick Sandwick was the director.
In December 1952, the series was syndicated by Harry Goodman Productions Incorporated, with 26 15-minute episodes available. Mickey Baron directed, and Burdick again wrote the scripts. Kaiser-Frazer sponsored the show in five markets.
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows described Night Editor as "one of many attempts by DuMont to devise low-cost TV programming" and went on to cite the use of one actor and one set. Burdick changed his voice to differentiate characters, and the stories themselves provided variety as they ranged "across many periods and subjects".
The program was initially broadcast on Sundays from 10:45 to 11 p.m. Eastern Time. In July 1954, it moved to Wednesdays from 10:30 to 10:45 p.m. Eastern Time.
Radio version
The 15-minute radio program Night Editor debuted on KPO on September 12, 1934, and continued until 1948. Sponsored by Edwards Coffee, the radio series also featured Hal Burdick as the "night editor", a character that Burdick based on R. W. Buchanan, a managing editor for whom Burdick worked. Actor Jack Moyles was also featured on the program, and Burdick's wife, Cornelia, sometimes was heard. Larry Keating was the announcer, and John Ribbs was the producer.
Burdick would receive readers’ requests for stories, in a "letter to the editor" format, which he would relate to the audience. The stories varied greatly including tales of war, adventure, crime, and an occasional ghost story.
Episode status
46 episodes of the television version of Night Editor are held at the J. Fred MacDonald collection of the Library of Congress.
Film adaptation
Columbia Pictures acquired film rights and produced Night Editor (1946), with the film's plot adapted from the "Inside Story" episode of the radio program.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
Night Editor at IMDB
Night Editor at CTVA
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1954 American television series debuts
1954 American television series endings
1950s American anthology television series
Black-and-white American television shows
Radio programs adapted into television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Nintendo%203DS%20Wi-Fi%20Connection%20games | This is a list of Nintendo Network compatible games on the Nintendo 3DS handheld game console. Whilst many titles will implement the use of Nintendo Network service, Nintendo-published titles in particular, other titles will be supported by various third-party online services. Most of these titles will have online services shut by April 2024.
Released Nintendo Network compatible 3DS games
Notes
See also
List of Nintendo 3DS games
List of Nintendo 3DS Download Software
List of DSiWare games and applications
List of Nintendo DS Wi-Fi Connection games
List of Wii Wi-Fi Connection games
3DS Wi-Fi Connection games
Video game lists by platform |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blei | Blei is a German surname meaning "lead". Notable people with the surname include:
David Blei, American computer scientist
Franz Blei (1871–1942), Austrian writer and literary critic
Norbert Blei (1935–2013), American writer
See also
Bley
Blay (surname) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News9Live | News9Live is a digital-only English news service based in Noida, India. It was launched on October 2, 2021, and is a part of the TV9 Network, which is promoted by Associated Broadcasting Company Pvt Ltd (ABCL), a joint venture of My Home Group and Megha Engineering & Infrastructure Limited (MEIL).
News9 Live is distinguished by its presentation of analysis and policy discourse in what it terms as the News, Narrative and Debate format, in which a news development is showcased in a three-tiered arrangement, with the news segment setting context, the narrative section providing interpretive perspectives and the debate subdivision illustrating the multiple opinions that arrange themselves around the story in question.
See also
TV9 Kannada
News9 Plus
References
Kannada-language television channels
24-hour television news channels in India
Television stations in Bangalore
Television channels and stations established in 2009
2009 establishments in Karnataka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construct%20%28game%20engine%29 | Construct is an HTML5-based 2D video game engine developed by Scirra Ltd. It is aimed primarily at non-programmers, allowing quick creation of games through visual programming. First released as a GPL-licensed DirectX 9 game engine for Microsoft Windows with Python programming on October 27, 2007, it later became proprietary software with Construct 2, as well as switching its API technology from DirectX to NW.js and HTML5, as well as removing Python and adding JavaScript support and its plugin SDK in 2012, and eventually switched to a subscription-based model as a web app.
Features
Event system and behaviors
The primary method of programming games and applications in Construct is through 'event sheets', which are similar to source files used in programming languages. Each event sheet has a list of events, which contain conditional statements or triggers. Once these are met, actions or functions can be carried out. Event logic such as OR and AND, as well as sub-events (representing scope) allow for sophisticated systems to be programmed without learning a comparatively more difficult programming language. Groups can be used to enable and disable multiple events at once, and to organize events.
Object instance selection
Unlike many traditional development environments, Construct eschews selecting specific instances of objects when adding events, in favor of filtering through all instances of an object type on screen. When adding events, the editor allows the user to specify conditions or checks that must be fulfilled by each object instance on the screen before the event will be added or run by it. Events can be chained together using sub-events, allowing for more complicated behaviors to be created.
JavaScript
Construct 3 supports JavaScript as an optional scripting language which was announced in May 2019, citing the need to satisfy the advanced users' needs and popularity of existing workarounds.
Supported platforms
The latest version of Construct supports many platforms to export to, such as web applications and playable advertisements, to dedicated programs and mobile apps. Previous versions of Construct also supported other online platforms and storefronts, but have since been removed due to low use or service changes to the platform.
Construct Classic
Construct Classic can only export to .exe files, due to its reliance on DirectX.
Construct 2
HTML5 and storefronts
Construct 2's primary export platforms are HTML5 based. It claims support across Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 9+, Safari 6+ and Opera 15+ on desktop browsers, and support for Safari in iOS 6+, Chrome and Firefox for Android, Windows Phone 8+, BlackBerry 10+ and Tizen.
Additionally, Construct 2 can export to several online marketplaces and platforms, including Facebook, the Chrome Web Store, the Firefox Marketplace, the Amazon Appstore, Construct Arcade (their own platform to host games made in Construct) and Kongregate.
Native platforms
Construct ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam%20Joinson | Adam N. Joinson (born 1970) is a British author, academic and public speaker within the area of cyberpsychology. He is Professor of Information Systems at University of Bath, following posts at the University of West of England and the Open University. and has conducted ground breaking research into the psychology of Internet usage.
Education and career
Joinson studied for his undergraduate degree in Psychology at the University of London, Goldsmiths College in 1991. He then went to the University of Hertfordshire to obtain his PhD in Social Psychology in 1996.
He has written a number of books, journal articles and proceedings that discuss major themes of psychology such as Social Penetration Theory, Cognitive Dissonance and Expectancy violations theory. The titles of these books include "Understanding the Psychology of Internet Behaviour". He has also edited "The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology". He is a Programme Director of research on 'Understanding and Countering Online Behaviour' at the Centre for Research on Security Threats.
Areas of Research
Joinson's research interests are focused on the interactions between people and technology. In particular, the nature of communication via technology, and the ways in which system design influences communication.
Findings
In 2000, Joinson and his team of scientists carried out a groundbreaking study which looked into the psychological consequences of e-mail communication. He asked 100 pairs of students (who did not know each other) to resolve a dilemma, either face-to-face or via e-mail. When presenting the team's findings at the British Psychological Society's London conference, Joinson stated that the participants "disclosed over four times as much when they communicated over the Internet as when they talked face-to-face". The study concluded that "e-mailing strips away inhibitions because it changes the rues of normal communications". However, with the addition of web cams to the study, the number of disclosures dropped immediately. This suggested that the use of e-mail gives a sense of "distance, anonymity and privacy".
In 2007, a project led by Joinson, Privacy and Self-Disclosure Online discovered that users who had previously demonstrated a high level of caution regarding online privacy would accept losses to their privacy if they trusted the recipient of their personal information. Out of all the participants studied, 56 per cent of Internet users stated that they had concerns about privacy when they were online. Joinson concluded the project by stating "one of the most interesting aspects of our findings, is that even people who genuinely have a high level of concern regarding privacy online may act in a way that is contrary to their stated attitudes when they come across a particular set of conditions".
In an interview with Interattivo in 2008, Joinson stated the findings of a study into the social networking site of Facebook and how the general public used it. His study inclu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Colloquium%20on%20Structural%20Information%20and%20Communication%20Complexity | The International Colloquium on Structural Information and Communication Complexity (SIROCCO) is an annual academic conference with refereed presentations, in the field of Distributed Computing with a special focus on the interplay between structural knowledge and communication complexity in distributed/decentralized systems. The Colloquium was started in 1994 with the idea of promoting new and unconventional ideas in distributed computing and the one of the aims of the organizers is to provide a venue for informal discussions in a relaxed environment.
The Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing is presented annually at SIROCCO "to recognize individuals whose research contributions expanded the
collective investigative horizon" in the areas of interest to the conference.
Since 2013, SIROCCO also awards a Best Student Paper Award and/or a Best Paper Award to recognize the best publication among (student-authored or all) accepted articles each year.
History
SIROCCO was held for the first time in 1994 at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and the proceedings were published by Carleton Scientific. The next year (1995) SIROCCO was held in Greece and since then the conference has always been held in European locations except in 2014 when it was held in Japan and in 2018 when it was held in Israel. The 2018 edition of the conference celebrated the 25 year jubilee of the SIROCCO conference. The 30th edition of the conference would be held in Avila, Spain in 2023.
Since 2004, pre-conference or post-conference proceedings of SIROCCO have been published by Springer as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Reviews of the SIROCCO conference have appeared in the year-ending issues of the ACM SIGACT News Distributed Computing Column in 2001, 2005, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Locations
2022: Paderborn, Germany
2021: Wrocław, Poland(Online)
2020: Paderborn, Germany(Online)
2019: L'Aquila, Italy
2018: Ma'ale HaHamisha, Israel
2017: Porquerolles, France
2016: Helsinki, Finland
2015: Montserrat, Spain
2014: Hida Takayama, Japan
2013: Ischia, Italy
2012: Reykjavík, Iceland
2011: Gdańsk, Poland
2010: Sirince, Turkey
2009: Piran, Slovenia
2008: Villars-sur-Ollon, Switzerland
2007: Castiglioncello, Italy
2006: Chester, UK
2005: Mont Saint-Michel, France
2004: Smolenice Castle, Slovakia
2003: Umeå, Sweden
2002: Andros, Greece
2001: Vall de Núria, Spain
2000: L'Aquila, Italy
1999: Lacanau, France
1998: Amalfi, Italy
1997: Ascona, Switzerland
1996: Siena, Italy
1995: Olympia, Greece
1994: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
See also
The list of distributed computing conferences contains other academic conferences in distributed computing.
The list of computer science conferences contains other academic conferences in computer science.
References
External links
SIROCCO Website
Distributed computing conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway%20electrification%20in%20France | There are 15,687 km of electrified railways in France, making up approximately 55% of the network in use.
For historical reason there are two norms of electrification that coexist in France: 1,500 V DC and 25 kV 50 Hz AC.
The electrification of the French railway network was made in four phases.
First, at the start of the 20th century, there was a phase of testing and technological exploration. Third rails and overhead lines were on trial in some lines in France; different voltages were tried. Afterwards, in the 1920s, the main lines starting from Paris and lines in the Pyrenees were electrified with 1,500 V DC.
After World War II and with the improvements in power electronics, tests were made with 20 kV AC and subsequently with 25 kV AC in the Alps, which was considered satisfactory. Then the North and the East of France were electrified with 25 kV AC, and some lines were electrified with 1,500 V DC in the South.
From the 1970s to now, the electrification of the French network has continued mainly with 25 kV to bring electrically powered TGVs to some cities.
The use of two norms of electrification was a huge problem for the SNCF up to the 1970s, because there was not much equipment able to run under both standards. Today, all electrical equipment ordered by the SNCF can use both 25 kV AC and 1,500 V DC.
References
France
Ele |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Roth | Michael Roth may refer to:
Michael Roth (baseball) (born 1990), British-American baseball player
Michael Roth (cyberneticist) (1936–2019), German engineer
Michael Roth (handball) (born 1962), German handball player
Michael Roth (politician) (born 1970), German politician and Minister of State for Europe at the German Federal Foreign Office
Michael S. Roth (born 1957), American academic administrator
Mike Roth, A&R man who discovered and developed numerous famous Canadian bands
See also
Wolff-Michael Roth (born 1953), scientist at the University of Victoria |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%E2%80%93Ogg%E2%80%93Shafarevich%20formula | In mathematics, the Grothendieck–Ogg–Shafarevich formula describes the Euler characteristic of a complete curve with coefficients in an abelian variety or constructible sheaf, in terms of local data involving the Swan conductor. and proved the formula for abelian varieties with tame ramification over curves, and extended the formula to constructible sheaves over a curve .
Statement
Suppose that F is a constructible sheaf over a genus g smooth projective curve C, of rank n outside a finite set X of points where it has stalk 0. Then
where Sw is the Swan conductor at a point.
References
Elliptic curves
Abelian varieties |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio%202 | Rio 2 is a 2014 American animated musical comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and directed by Carlos Saldanha. It is the sequel to the 2011 computer-animated film Rio and the second installment of the Rio franchise. The title refers to the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, where the first film was set and Rio 2 begins, though most of its plot occurs in the Amazon rainforest. The film stars Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, will.i.am, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, Tracy Morgan, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Rodrigo Santoro, and Jake T. Austin reprising their roles from the first film with new members including Bruno Mars, Andy Garcia, Rita Moreno, Rachel Crow, Kristin Chenoweth, Amandla Stenberg, Pierce Gagnon, and Miguel Ferrer (in his final theatrical film before his death in 2017).
Rio 2 was released internationally on March 20, 2014, and on April 11, 2014, in American theaters by 20th Century Fox. It grossed $498 million worldwide, against a production budget of $103 million, and received mixed reviews from critics, garnering praise for the animation, voice acting and songs, but criticism for the story and writing. The film is dedicated to the memory of screenwriter Don Rhymer, who died on November 28, 2012 at the age of 51 years old. This was Blue Sky Studios' first and only follow-up film outside the Ice Age franchise. This was also the final Rio film to be produced by Blue Sky Studios before its closure on April 10, 2021. A third film is in development.
Plot
Three years after the events of the first film, Blu and Jewel are raising their three children — Carla, Bia, and Tiago — in the city but Jewel is disappointed to see her children becoming too domesticated like their father. Meanwhile, Linda and Tulio are on an expedition in the Amazon and, after a fall down a waterfall, discover a blue Spix's macaw that loses one of its feathers. When words about the encounter are broadcast through television, Jewel believes that they should go to the Amazon to help find the blue macaws. While the kids are ecstatic, Blu is uncertain, but he is pressured into going along. Rafael, Nico and Pedro also decide to come along to scout talent for Carnival. Luiz tries to follow, but is unknowingly left behind by the birds. Blu brings a fanny pack full of supplies, including a GPS, much to Jewel's chagrin.
Big Boss, the leader of a group of illegal loggers, discovers Linda and Tulio's expedition to find the macaws and orders his henchmen to hunt them down. At the same time, Nigel plots to exact revenge on Blu along with his new comrades, an anteater named Charlie and a poison dart frog named Gabi. After they arrive at the jungle, Blu, his family, and their friends initially find nothing. However, they are eventually taken to a flock of blue macaws that are hiding in an uncharted section of the Amazon. There, Jewel is reunited with her long-lost father, Eduardo, paternal aunt Mimi, and childhood friend, Roberto. Eduardo seems unimpressed with Blu, but thanks h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPL%20Small-Body%20Database | The JPL Small-Body Database (SBDB) is an astronomy database about small Solar System bodies. It is maintained by Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA and provides data for all known asteroids and several comets, including orbital parameters and diagrams, physical diagrams, close approach details, radar astrometry, discovery circumstances, alternate designations and lists of publications related to the small body. The database is updated daily when new observations are available. In April 2021 the JPL Small-Body Database started using planetary ephemeris (DE441) and small-body perturber SB441-N16. Most objects such as asteroids get a two-body solution (Sun+object) recomputed twice a year. Comets generally have their two-body orbits computed at a time near the perihelion passage (closest approach to the Sun) as to have the two-body orbit more reasonably accurate for both before and after perihelion. For most asteroids, the epoch used to define an orbit is updated twice a year. Orbital uncertainties in the JPL Small-Body Database are listed at the 1-sigma level.
On 27 September 2021 the JPL Solar System Dynamics website underwent a significant upgrade.
orbits were computed in August 2021 and in the last 12 months more than 3.3 million orbits have been computed.
Close-approach data
As of August 2013 (planetary ephemeris DE431) close-approach data is available for the major planets and the 16 most massive asteroids. Close approach data is available by adding &view=OPC to the query string at the end of the body's URL. Close approach data used to be available by adding ;cad=1 or &cad=1 to the query string. The Wayback Machine prefers the &cad=1 option. The JPL Small-Body Database close approach table lists a linearized uncertainty. The time of close approach uncertainty and min/max distance correspond to the 3-sigma level.
Orbit viewer
In the past, one could view a 3D visualization of the body's orbit using a Java applet. As of mid-2023, one could see something similar using JPL's Orbit Viewer tool, which was implemented using JavaScript, Three.js and WebGL.
The visualized orbits use unreliable 2-body methods, and hence should not be used for accurately determining the time of perihelion passage or planetary encounter circumstances. For accurate ephemerides use the JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System that handles the n-body problem using numerical integration.
See also
JPL Horizons On-Line Ephemeris System
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Development Ephemeris
NEODyS
Sentry (monitoring system)
References
External links
Small-Body Database Lookup
Small-Body Database Query
Observational astronomy
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Astronomical catalogues
JPL online services |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant%20Stakeout | Restaurant Stakeout is a scripted American reality television series on the Food Network. The series debuted on March 12, 2012, with the second season premiering on August 29, 2012. It is one of the first non-studio shows attempted on Food Network.
Plot
The series follows William Jack "Willie" Degel, the owner of New York City restaurant Uncle Jack's Steakhouse, who goes behind the scenes of various restaurants across the country at the request of their owner(s). He takes the keys and installs hidden cameras to examine their service problems.
Willie and the owner(s) observe the restaurant's operation from a control room, and Willie comments about what he sees. Once Willie has assembled a list of key issues, the owner(s) calls a staff meeting. Willie appears at the meeting and confronts the staff with his findings. After that takes place, Willie returns the next day to help correct the problems. Some time later, Willie returns (now dressed in casual clothes) to get a status report.
The show differs from other similar shows in that its primary focus is on identifying ways to provide better customer service. Unlike Kitchen Nightmares and Restaurant: Impossible, there is rarely a problem with the cuisine, restaurant cleanliness, menu, or decor. The owner's main fault is being much too easy on the staff. Mystery Diners is also scripted, but usually about determining who is actively undermining the restaurant and getting them fired (although occasionally, a few employees have been fired on this show).
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2012)
Season 2 (2012)
Season 3 (2013)
Season 4 (2013–14)
Season 5 (2014)
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2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2014 American television series endings
Food Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Banner%20Saga | The Banner Saga is a tactical role-playing video game developed by Stoic Studio and published by Versus Evil. It was released for personal computers and mobile phones in 2014, for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in 2016 and for Nintendo Switch in 2018.
Taking place in a fictional world inspired by Norse mythology, the game tells the story of the player's caravan as a whole, as they combat a warlike race named Dredge that despises humans. The game follows two playable characters whose separate stories eventually merge. The interactive story changes depending on players' decisions.
The game's developer, Stoic Studio, was founded by three former BioWare designers. It was funded via Kickstarter, a crowdfunding platform. The hand-drawn animation and art-style featured in the game was inspired by the art of Eyvind Earle, Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth. Austin Wintory composed the game's music, with Dallas Wind Symphony performing. The game's multiplayer component, The Banner Saga: Factions, was released as a free standalone game before the game's release.
The game received critical praise, notably for the art style, combat, and story. The game was followed by The Banner Saga 2 (2016) and The Banner Saga 3 (2018), which concluded the series.
Gameplay
The Banner Saga is an interactive story, meaning that several events may or may not happen depending on the player's choices. The game follows two playable characters, each having their own story that ultimately merges into one. The core of the game is a single-player campaign of turn-based combat engagements inspired by games such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Shining Force, with the player controlling and being able to build up a party of characters with complementary abilities. The game deliberately avoids certain conventions of action-oriented computer role-playing games such as the focus on a young lone hero's story, looting and buying items, or reloading a saved game state after defeat. Instead, the developers intended to tell the story of the player's caravan as a whole, and encourage players to accept and deal with the consequences of any defeats they may encounter.
The Banner Saga centers on the return of the Dredge, a warlike race that despises humans, led by Bellower, a nigh-invincible Dredge who leads them on a warpath. As a wandering army sent to fight against the Dredge and find a weakness for Bellower, the caravan make many difficult decisions that would shape the fate of both man and Varl. Meanwhile, a darkness starts to encompass the world as a giant serpent causes massive earthquakes and breaches across the lands.
Plot
The game takes place in a Viking legend-inspired world, stuck in a perpetual twilight since the sun stopped moving weeks before the events of the game, mainly populated by humans and giant-like creatures called the Varls, as the Dredge, an ancient race believed to be extinct for ages, returns to kill them all.
To the west, the Varl Vognir, together with several other companion |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortonworks | Hortonworks was a data software company based in Santa Clara, California that developed and supported open-source software (primarily around Apache Hadoop) designed to manage big data and associated processing.
Hortonworks software was used to build enterprise data services and applications such as IoT (connected cars, for example), single view of X (such as customer, risk, patient), and advanced analytics and machine learning (such as next best action and realtime cybersecurity). Hortonworks had three interoperable product lines:
Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP): based on Apache Hadoop, Apache Hive, Apache Spark
Hortonworks DataFlow (HDF): based on Apache NiFi, Apache Storm, Apache Kafka
Hortonworks DataPlane services (DPS): based on Apache Atlas and Cloudbreak and a pluggable architecture into which partners such as IBM can add their services.
In January 2019, Hortonworks completed its merger with Cloudera.
History
Hortonworks was formed in June 2011 as an independent company, funded by $23 million venture capital from Yahoo! and Benchmark Capital. Its first office was in Sunnyvale, California. The company employed contributors to the open source software project Apache Hadoop. The Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) product, first released in June 2012, included Apache Hadoop and was used for storing, processing, and analyzing large volumes of data. The platform was designed to deal with data from many sources and formats. The platform included Hadoop technology such as the Hadoop Distributed File System, MapReduce, Pig, Hive, HBase, ZooKeeper, and additional components.
Eric Baldeschweiler (from Yahoo) was initial chief executive, and Rob Bearden chief operating officer, formerly from SpringSource. Benchmark partner Peter Fenton was a board member. The company name refers to the character Horton the Elephant, since the elephant is the symbol for Hadoop.
In October 2018, Hortonworks and Cloudera announced they would be merging in an all-stock merger of equals. After the merger, the Apache products of Hortonworks became Cloudera Data Platform.
References
External links
Software companies based in the San Francisco Bay Area
Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Companies based in Santa Clara, California
Companies formerly listed on the Nasdaq
Hadoop
Apache Software Foundation
Software companies established in 2011
2011 establishments in the United States
2011 establishments in California
Big data companies
2014 initial public offerings
2019 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester%20Network%20Access%20Point | Manchester Network Access Point was a Manchester-based internet exchange point (IXP). The access point provides an exchange point for internet service providers and businesses in northern England and the Midlands and was the first Internet Exchange point in the UK outside London.
MaNAP was a membership-owned organisation, established in 1997 to enable internet companies in the North and Midlands to interconnect without the massive cost of running circuits to London and back.
History
In June 1997, Manchester Network Access Point Ltd (MaNAP) was formed as a not-for-profit regional Internet exchange. In April 2005, MaNAP was taken over by NWIX Group Ltd and the network was expanded to better serve the North West region. MaNAP remained on a not-for-profit basis.
NWIX then expanded the exchange point's peering LAN to cover facilities outside of the North West of England, including in London, the Netherlands and Germany. The name was changed to Edge-IX.
Establishing a peering LAN over such a large area increased the costs and the fragility of the service to the extent that the exchange point failed commercially. NWIX was acquired in 2012, whilst in Administration, by a group of investors who established a business selling point to point Ethernet services on the former NWIX fibre infrastructure. This group closed Edge-IX within a year of the acquisition.
The London Internet Exchange now operate a small peering LAN for the Manchester ISP community called IXManchester. As a result, the only fully independent IXP outside of London in the UK, which is not owned and controlled by the London Internet Exchange, is IX Liverpool and IXLeeds.
See also
List of Internet exchange points
References
External links
MaNAP website
Internet exchange points in the United Kingdom
Science and technology in Greater Manchester
Telecommunications in the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20%26%20Cuddly | Soft & Cuddly is a horror action-adventure game released for the ZX Spectrum home computer. It was developed by John George Jones and published by The Power House in September 1987 in the United Kingdom and in early 1988 in Spain. The player assumes the role of a man armed with a laser gun and a jet pack, whose mother, the Android Queen, has been dismembered. The player's task is to locate the scattered body parts of the Android Queen and sew her back together.
Jones had previously developed a game called Go to Hell. In an interview he stated that he developed the game for his own amusement; he enjoyed the reactions people gave to the game. The original, pre-release, version of the game featured more grisly images. Reviewers praised the game's graphics but had mixed feeling about the scenes actually depicted by the graphics. Some reviewers criticized the game's gameplay as repetitive but praised as being fun and akin to a horror film by others.
Gameplay
Soft & Cuddly is an action-adventure game set in a world of 256 rooms. The player controls the son of the Android Queen. The Queen has imprisoned her husband, the player character's father, in a refrigerator. The Queen has been dismembered in an accident, leaving her husband in danger of being attacked by evil spirits.
The object of the game is to collect the eight pieces of the Android Queen's body then stitch her back together again. The player must first find and approach the refrigerator in order to be told where the first body part can be found. Once this has been returned to the player's trapped father, the next body part location will be revealed. Once all eight body parts have been collected and returned to the refrigerator, the player must find a needle and thread in order to restore the Android Queen. The location of the refrigerator is randomized at the beginning of each new game.
The game world consists of a number of rooms and passages with background scenery including a machine which stretches four conjoined babies and men being torn apart on racks. The game's rooms are filled with enemies and traps such as spiked ceilings, falling anvils and airborne spinning blades. The player character is armed with a laser gun and a jet pack which is used to fly around the game world. The laser can overheat and become inoperable for a time if not used sparingly. Scenery and surfaces can be degraded then destroyed by repeated laser fire, allowing access to adjacent rooms which would otherwise be unreachable or require a detour. The player starts each game with three lives; the game's display features a heart strength indicator which is reduced each time the player is injured. If the player loses all their heart strength, their heart stops, resulting in a lost life. Players can render themselves invisible and invincible for a limited period three times on a single life. When the player character is invisible, he can fire the laser in order to determine his current location.
Development and re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreatic%20Cancer%20Action%20Network | The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (PanCAN) is a United States-based 501(c)(3) charity that funds research, provides patient/caregiver support, conducts community outreach and advocates for increased federal research funding for those affected by pancreatic cancer.
Since the disease is projected to become the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the U.S. around 2020, the organization established a goal, called the "Vision of Progress", to double pancreatic cancer survival by 2020. The nonprofit seeks to fulfill the goal by spreading greater awareness and increasing funds for research to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of pancreatic cancer.
One way PanCAN raises awareness and funds is through the 5K walk/run event, PurpleStride. The events include more than 80,000 participants in nearly 60 communities in the United States, which are organized by local volunteer affiliates.
History
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network was founded in February 1999 by a group of survivors and caregivers including Pamela Acosta Marquardt, Paula Kim and Terry Lierman. Their first advocacy event, called "Inaugural One Voice Against Cancer", took place in Washington, D.C., in 2000. By 2002, the organization had created 40 volunteer affiliates across the U.S. In 2006, the first international affiliate started in Japan, and the Government Affairs & Advocacy office opened in Washington, D.C.
The Patient Central call center had helped 25,000 patients and caregivers by 2007. They formed the Deadliest Cancers Coalition in 2008 involving other professional organizations. In 2013, their PurpleStride 5K walk/run event raised over $10.5 million with almost 82,000 participants.
The organization initiated Know Your Tumor in 2014, a precision medicine service that uses molecular profiling to give doctors and their patients details about the biology of their tumor to help with treatment choices. In 2015, they launched the Clinical Trial Finder online resource with a directory of U.S. pancreatic cancer clinical trials. Precision Promise was announced in 2016 as the first precision medicine clinical trial to get new therapies to pancreatic cancer patients faster.
From 2008–2016, PanCAN's community events generated more than $87 million for the pancreatic cancer cause. The total research investment of the organization since 2003 is approximately $104 million to date.
PanCAN is headquartered in Manhattan Beach, California, and also staffs a Washington, D.C., and New York City office.
Research
The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network funds grants for biomedical research in order to better understand the causes of pancreatic cancer and to advance its prevention, detection, treatment and cure. The organization offers grants for basic, translational and clinical research in pancreatic cancer to scientists and clinicians at various career levels.
PanCAN has awarded 174 grants to 170 scientists at 64 institutions with a cumulative projected research investment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20F.%20Churchill | Elizabeth Frances Churchill is a British American psychologist specializing in human-computer interaction (HCI) and social computing. She is a Director of User Experience at Google. She has held a number of positions in the ACM including Secretary Treasurer from 2016 to 2018, and Executive Vice President from 2018 to 2020.
Education and early life
Churchill was born in Calcutta, India and moved to Newcastle upon Tyne in her early childhood. She gained a Bachelor of Science degree in Experimental Psychology and a Master of Science in Knowledge Based Systems from Sussex University in the United Kingdom where she worked on Soar simulations. She completed her PhD in 1993 at the University of Cambridge.
Career and research
After her PhD she joined University of Nottingham as a postdoctoral researcher. In 1997, she moved to California, United States to join FXPAL where she formed and led their Social Computing Group. In 2004, Churchill joined Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). She joined Yahoo! in 2006 as a principal research scientist, where she formed and led the Internet Experiences Group in the Microeconomics and Social Systems division of Yahoo! Labs. Her group and research was multidisciplinary, addressing the intersection of computer science, cognitive and social psychology, design science, neuroscience, analytics, and anthropology. She was previously Director of Human Computer Interaction for eBay Research Labs in San Jose, CA. Currently, she is a Director of User Experience at Google in Mountain View, CA. In 2009, she was elected as the Executive Vice President of ACM SIGCHI on a joint ballot with Gerrit van der Veer, SIGCHI's president.
Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents and co-edited a book of the same name, an area of HCI which uses computer generated embodied agents together with a model of gesture and facial expression to enable face-to-face speech communication with people. She is also known for her work on collaborative virtual environments, and on public displays and installations. In 2011, she co-edited a special journal issue on Feminism and HCI with Shaowen Bardzell at Indiana University Bloomington. Her most recent work focuses on design systems and on designer and developer tooling.
Churchill has chaired and run the technical program in several top conferences and publishes regularly in top-tier academic journals and conferences in computer science, human-computer interaction, sociology, and related fields. Her work has appeared in various newspapers and magazines around the world including Scientific American and SFGate.
Awards and honours
In 2016, Churchill was awarded the Athena Award for Executive Leadership Award from the University of California's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and the Banatao Institute. Churchill was elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in 2019 for "contributions to human-computer intera |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20Way | Katharine "Kay" Way (February 20, 1902 – December 9, 1995) was an American physicist best known for her work on the Nuclear Data Project. During World War II, she worked for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago. She became an adjunct professor at Duke University in 1968.
Education and early life
Katharine Way was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, the second child of William Addisson Way, a lawyer, and his wife Louise Jones. She had an older brother and a younger sister. Originally named Catherine, she later changed the spelling to Katharine. Friends and colleagues generally knew her as Kay. Her mother died when she was twelve years old, and her father married an ear and throat specialist, who provided Kay with a role model of a career woman.
Way was educated at Miss Hartridge's boarding school in Plainfield, New Jersey, and Rosemary Hall in Greenwich, Connecticut. In 1920 she entered Vassar College, but was forced to drop out after two years after becoming ill with suspected tuberculosis. After convalescing in Saranac Lake, New York, she attended Barnard College for two semesters in 1924 and 1925.
From 1929 to 1934 she studied at Columbia University, where Edward Kasner stoked an interest in mathematics, and co-authored Way's first published academic paper. She graduated with her BS in 1932. She next went to the University of North Carolina, where John Wheeler stimulated an interest in nuclear physics, and she became his first PhD student. Because jobs were hard to come by during the Great Depression, she stayed on as a graduate student after completing the requirements of her PhD.
In 1938, she became a Huff Research Fellow at Bryn Mawr College, which allowed her to receive her PhD for her thesis on nuclear physics, "Photoelectric Cross Section of the Deuteron". She subsequently took up a teaching position at the University of Tennessee in 1939, becoming an assistant professor in 1941.
At a conference in New York in 1938, Way presented a paper, "Nuclear Quadrupole and Magnetic Moments", in which she examined deformation of a spinning atomic nucleus under three models, including Niels Bohr's liquid drop model. She followed this up with a closer examination of the liquid drop model in a paper entitled "The Liquid-Drop Model and Nuclear Moments", in which she showed that the resulting cigar-shaped nucleus could be unstable. Wheeler later recalled that:
Manhattan Project
In 1942, Wheeler recruited Way to work on the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago. Working with physicist Alvin Weinberg, Way analyzed neutron flux data from Enrico Fermi's early nuclear reactor designs to see whether it would be possible to create a self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction. These calculations were put to use in the construction of Chicago Pile-1. Afterwards, she examined the problem of nuclear poisoning of reactors by certain fission products. With physicist Eugene Wigner she developed the Way-Wigner approx |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIDM | OpenIDM is an identity management system written in the Java programming language. The old OpenIDM source code is available under the Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). OpenIDM is designed with flexibility in mind, leverages JavaScript as default scripting language to define business rules during provisioning. All capabilities of OpenIDM expose RESTful interfaces. As an integration layer, OpenIDM leverages the Identity Connectors (adopted by ForgeRock as OpenICF) and has a set of default connectors.
As of July 6, 2018 the open source versions are not available for download on the openIDM website. A 2016 copy of source code is available at https://github.com/OpenRock/OpenIDM/releases.
History
ForgeRock launched the OpenIDM project on October 27, 2010 at GOSCON in Portland following a 6-month internal development process.
ForgeRock felt there was no strong open source identity provisioning project, and launched OpenIDM under CDDL licensing for compatibility with OpenAM and OpenDJ. However, just giving access to an old, flattened X.0.0 source tree which usually still contains many bugs, can hardly be described as what is usually understood as Open Source. So since it prevents the community from taking part on developing within the latest version aka trunk, doesn't give any insights, what actually got fixed/features got merged, it should be considered closed source, now (end 2016).
Full leveraging the Open Source project Identity Connector Framework from Sun Microsystems as integration layer to resources, ForgeRock announced to adopt the project and forming a community around the framework, all under the new name OpenICF.
Gartner identifies ForgeRock OpenIDM as an interesting option to many organizations seeking alternatives to large IAM vendors in their Magic Quadrant for User Administration/Provisioning, published December 22, 2011.
January 17, 2012 ForgeRock announces OpenIDM 2.0 of OpenIDM.
February 20, 2013 ForgeRock announced OpenIDM 2.1, part of the Open Identity Stack which is the latest stable release of OpenIDM.
August 11, 2014 ForgeRock announced OpenIDM 3.0.
Roadmap
ForgeRock posted an OpenIDM roadmap stretching from release date to end of 2012 also outlining the project principles.
OpenIDM 1.0, launched October 27, 2010.
OpenIDM 2.0, released January 17, 2012 — provided the initial architecture, Basic CRUD capabilities all exposed via REST and password synchronization capabilities.
OpenIDM 2.1, is to focus on workflow and business process engine integration.
OpenIDM 2.2, is expected to introduce role based provisioning.
References
External links
OpenIDM project page
OpenIDM project wiki
OpenIDM Source Code Browser
Identity management systems
2010 software
Free software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20essay%20scoring | Automated essay scoring (AES) is the use of specialized computer programs to assign grades to essays written in an educational setting. It is a form of educational assessment and an application of natural language processing. Its objective is to classify a large set of textual entities into a small number of discrete categories, corresponding to the possible grades, for example, the numbers 1 to 6. Therefore, it can be considered a problem of statistical classification.
Several factors have contributed to a growing interest in AES. Among them are cost, accountability, standards, and technology. Rising education costs have led to pressure to hold the educational system accountable for results by imposing standards. The advance of information technology promises to measure educational achievement at reduced cost.
The use of AES for high-stakes testing in education has generated significant backlash, with opponents pointing to research that computers cannot yet grade writing accurately and arguing that their use for such purposes promotes teaching writing in reductive ways (i.e. teaching to the test).
History
Most historical summaries of AES trace the origins of the field to the work of Ellis Batten Page. In 1966, he argued for the possibility of scoring essays by computer, and in 1968 he published his successful work with a program called Project Essay Grade (PEG). Using the technology of that time, computerized essay scoring would not have been cost-effective, so Page abated his efforts for about two decades. Eventually, Page sold PEG to Measurement Incorporated
By 1990, desktop computers had become so powerful and so widespread that AES was a practical possibility. As early as 1982, a UNIX program called Writer's Workbench was able to offer punctuation, spelling and grammar advice. In collaboration with several companies (notably Educational Testing Service), Page updated PEG and ran some successful trials in the early 1990s.
Peter Foltz and Thomas Landauer developed a system using a scoring engine called the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA). IEA was first used to score essays in 1997 for their undergraduate courses. It is now a product from Pearson Educational Technologies and used for scoring within a number of commercial products and state and national exams.
IntelliMetric is Vantage Learning's AES engine. Its development began in 1996. It was first used commercially to score essays in 1998.
Educational Testing Service offers "e-rater", an automated essay scoring program. It was first used commercially in February 1999. Jill Burstein was the team leader in its development. ETS's Criterion Online Writing Evaluation Service uses the e-rater engine to provide both scores and targeted feedback.
Lawrence Rudner has done some work with Bayesian scoring, and developed a system called BETSY (Bayesian Essay Test Scoring sYstem). Some of his results have been published in print or online, but no commercial system incorporates BETSY as yet.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlit%20Time | Starlit Time is a variety series that was broadcast on the DuMont Television Network. The series aired from April 9 to November 19, 1950. It was also known as The S. S. Holiday.
This show aired Sundays at 7 pm ET and replaced Front Row Center.
Format and personnel
Initially Starlit Time consisted of two distinct hours of programming with Minnie Jo Curtis linking the two segments in the role of a switchboard opertor. Bill Williams was the master of ceremonies for the first hour, titled "Welcome Mat", which included Gordon Dilworth and the Sylvia Meredith puppets, dancers Sandra Lee and Sam Steen, and comedienne Bibi Osterwald, with Reggie Beane providing music. The second hour, "Phil Hanna Sings", starred Hanna. Other performers in that segment were singer Holly Harris, the dance team Roberto and Alicia, and comedienne Elaine Stritch. The Cy Coleman trio provided music.
By the end of April 1950, the program had been cut to one hour, broadcast from 7 to 8 p.m. Eastern Time with Williams and Hanna as co-hosts.
Bela Lugosi made a rare TV guest appearance on May 21. Other guest stars who appeared on the program included Mildred Bailey.
Bob Loewi was the producer, and Pat Fay was the director. Fred Scott was the announcer.
Critical response
A review of the April 9, 1950, episode in the trade publication Billboard said of the two-segment episode, "their coupling remains somewhat of a mystery." The second hour received more praise than the first, and the review complimented camera work and production.
Another review (of the August 13, 1950, episode) in Billboard said that the program "has some excellent, even if not socko, moments of entertainment." The review commended the music of Beane's trio but said that the comedy "was decidedly negative, however, and could be dispensed with."
Episode status
As with most DuMont series, no episodes are known to exist.
See also
List of programs broadcast by the DuMont Television Network
List of surviving DuMont Television Network broadcasts
1950–51 United States network television schedule
References
Bibliography
David Weinstein, The Forgotten Network: DuMont and the Birth of American Television (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2004)
External links
DuMont historical website
DuMont Television Network original programming
1950 American television series debuts
1950 American television series endings
Black-and-white American television shows
Lost American television shows
Bela Lugosi
1950s American music television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20J.%20Harrison | Robert J. Harrison (born June 19, 1960) is a distinguished expert in high-performance computing. He is a professor in the Applied Mathematics and Statistics department and founding Director of the Institute for Advanced Computational Science at Stony Brook University with a $20M endowment. Through a joint appointment with Brookhaven National Laboratory, Professor Harrison has also been named Director of the Computational Science Center and New York Center for Computational Sciences at Brookhaven. Dr. Harrison comes to Stony Brook from the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was Director of the Joint Institute of Computational Science, Professor of Chemistry and Corporate Fellow. He has a prolific career in high-performance computing with over one hundred publications on the subject, as well as extensive service on national advisory committees.
He has many publications in peer-reviewed journals in the areas of theoretical and computational chemistry, and high-performance computing. His undergraduate (1981) and post-graduate (1984) degrees were obtained at Cambridge University, England. Subsequently, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Quantum Theory Project, University of Florida, and the Daresbury Laboratory, England, before joining the staff of the theoretical chemistry group at Argonne National Laboratory in 1988. In 1992, he moved to the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, conducting research in theoretical chemistry and leading the development of NWChem, a computational chemistry code for massively parallel computers. In August 2002, he started the joint faculty appointment with UT/ORNL, and became director of JICS in 2011.
In addition to his DOE Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing (SciDAC) research into efficient and accurate calculations on large systems, he has been pursuing applications in molecular electronics and chemistry at the nanoscale. In 1999, the NWChem team received an R&D Magazine R&D100 award, in 2002, he received the IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, and in 2011 another R&D Magazine R&D100 award for the development of MADNESS. In 2015-2016, Dr. Harrison co-chaired with Bill Gropp the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committee on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science in 2017-2020.
His interests and expertise are in theoretical and computational chemistry, high-performance computing, electron correlation, electron transport, relativistic quantum chemistry, and response theory.
Bibliography
References
External links
Microsoft Research Paper Search
1960 births
Living people
University of Tennessee faculty
21st-century American chemists
Alumni of the University of Cambridge
People from Birmingham, West Midlands
American computer scientists
Computational chemists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlanetPhysics | PlanetPhysics was a virtual community with several Internet sites supported by a non-profit organization registered in the USA in an open science, open data, peer-to-peer review mode that aimed to help make physics, and related mathematics, knowledge much more accessible, as well as to further develop physical, logical, computational and mathematical physics concepts.
PlanetPhysics was also a free, collaborative, online physics, mathematical physics, computational physics and physical mathematics project, including original articles, lectures, books and encyclopedia entries. The emphasis was on openness, pedagogy, real-time content, rigour, interlinked content, and also based on a virtual community, or virtual group, of about 600 people with various physics, mathematical physics, physical mathematics, logic (such as quantum logic, relational logic and many-valued logics), axiomatics and mathematics interests.
Content
The main PlanetPhysics.org focus was on both original research and encyclopedic entries; with over 3,400 physics and mathematics concepts edited in LaTeX and rendered in HTML, the PlanetPhysics Encyclopedia is at present the largest Physics encyclopedia written in LaTeX, containing both introductory as well as advanced level presentations. Moreover, its sections on papers and expositions, are second only to CERN and arXiv physics preprint archives.
In addition, the PlanetPhysics.org new websites also included extensive graphics illustrations of physics experiments, and also forum discussions. The emphasis was on modern physics contents, including advanced physics and mathematical physics concepts as well.
The project hosted data containing physics, applied physics, engineering and mathematics books, lectures, preprints and research-level papers. A system for both private and semi-private messaging among users was also in place.
, the Physics and Mathematical Physics projects hosted over 2,000 entries, containing more than 30,000 concepts in books, lectures, expositions, encyclopedia entries, and papers. Several Wikipedia entries also incorporate text from PlanetPhysics articles, and vice versa, several PlanetPhysics articles contain links or refer to Wikipedia entries.
Content development models
PlanetPhysics implemented several specific content creation systems based on the Noosphere versions 1.0/1.5, Planetary (powered by Drupal), and MediaWiki currently being updated to allow peer-to-peer review, as well as preprints and encyclopedic contributions. This was significantly different from the so-called authority model previously adopted by PlanetMath. Only registered users could create and edit their own entries, or contribute jointly, by agreement, to various topical entries. The MediaWiki version 1.17 approach was mostly utilized at PlanetPhysics for creating books, uploading PDF files of open access articles, and also for graphics-intensive physics animations and graphical applications to physical problems.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Cangialosi | Steven Donato Cangialosi (born October 28, 1963) is a television play-by-play announcer for MLS on Apple TV. He was the New York Red Bulls announcer on the MSG Network, and also worked on MLS, Serie A, La Liga, DFB Pokal, Bundesliga and international soccer matches for ESPN.
Cangialosi replaced Mike "Doc" Emrick as the television voice of the New Jersey Devils when Emrick stepped down after 21 seasons in 2011. He served with color analyst and former NHL defenseman Ken Daneyko after working for three seasons with former NHL goaltender Chico Resch. Prior to this, Cangialosi served as the backup play-by-play announcer to Emrick and the primary studio host for pre/post and intermission studio shows. He has also had other various jobs in television and radio including a three-year run as a sports talk-show host on ESPN radio in New York City. Steve Cangialosi worked on his first Olympic Games at the London 2012 event, broadcasting several soccer matches.
Cangialosi worked on Red Bulls games with color analyst and former New York Cosmos goalkeeper Shep Messing and also occasionally worked on international soccer matches for BeIn Sport, Fox Sports and NBC Sports, where he has broadcast several Olympic, Gold Cup, and Europa League soccer matches. In addition to soccer matches, Cangialosi was also the former play-by-play announcer for the New Jersey Devils hockey team where he did calls for the team from 2011 to 2022.
Broadcasting career
Cangialosi began his broadcasting career at Sports Phone, a dial-in sports score service, while he was still attending college in 1984. After he spent a year as the sports editor at WNEW-FM, he worked in a similar capacity from 1987 to 1992 at WINS, where he was the station's youngest on-air reporter. He joined NY1 in August 1992 as one of the channel's original on-air personalities. He was the host of New York Sports on 1 during his eight years at NY1 until 2000. He concurrently was a talk-show host and sportscaster at ESPN Radio from 1997 to 2000. He also called soccer matches for Bein Sport. Cangialosi broadcasts hockey and soccer for ONE World Sports. Since 2016, he sporadically worked for ESPN on MLS and Serie A matches.
On May 17, 2022, Cangialosi announced that he would step down as the play-by-play announcer of the New Jersey Devils on the MSG Network. He continued doing play-by-play for the New York Red Bulls though the 2022 season. He was later succeeded by Bill Spaulding where he will do play-by-play commentary starting in the 2022-23 season.
Personal
A Queens native, Cangialosi was raised in South Ozone Park. He is the second of Victor and Rose Cangialosi's three sons. His father was a photographic technician at Authentic Color in New York City. After graduating from John Adams High School, Cangialosi earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from New York University in 1985. He was married to Mallory Prestlien and the son-in-law of Robert Ivers.
References
National Hockey League broadcasters
New Jersey De |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Practitioner%20Data%20Bank | The National Practitioner Data Bank ("the NPDB") is a database operated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that contains medical malpractice payment and adverse action reports on health care professionals. Hospitals and state licensing boards submit information on physicians and other health care practitioners, including clinical privileges restrictions, actions against physicians' licenses, and medical malpractice payments that is kept in the NPDB database. Only authorized users (e.g. hospitals and state licensing boards considering a physician's application for hospital privileges or a state medical license) are permitted by statute to "query" this information in the NPDB.
The NPDB was created by Congress with the primary goals of improving health care quality, protecting the public and reducing health care fraud and abuse. The NPDB is managed by the Bureau of Health Workforce of the Health Resources and Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Before May 6, 2013, the Data Bank comprised the National Practitioner Data Bank and the Healthcare Integrity and Protection Data Bank. The two were consolidated by Section 6403 of the Affordable Care Act of 2010, Public Law 111–148.
In enacting, the National Practitioner Data Bank-enabling legislation, the Health Care Quality Improvement Act of 1986, Congress intended for physicians to receive "full due process rights with notice and representation". (Statement of HCQIA lead sponsor Ron Wyden)
Information Collected
Medical malpractice payments,
Any adverse licensure actions or loss of license
Adverse clinical privileging actions, or Adverse professional society membership actions
Any negative action or finding by a State licensing or certification authority
Private accreditation organization negative actions or findings against a health care practitioner or entity
Any negative action or finding by a Federal or State licensing and certification agency that is publicly available information
Civil judgments or criminal convictions that are health care-related
Exclusions from Federal or State health care programs
Other adjudicated actions or decisions (formal or official actions, involving a due process mechanism and based on acts or omissions that affect or could affect the payment, provision, or delivery of a health care item or service)
Access
Access to the information is limited, and is not available to the general public. It is provided to hospitals, other health care entities, professional societies, state and federal licensing and certification authorities (including Medical and Dental Boards), and agencies or contractors administering Federal or State health care programs.
In addition, individual healthcare providers can obtain access to their own records; this information is also in some cases available to those who may be suing them. Researchers may also obtain statistical data, but not data on individuals.
Anonymi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KNPN-LD | KNPN-LD (channel 26) is a low-power television station in St. Joseph, Missouri, United States, affiliated with the Fox network. It is the flagship television property of the locally based News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG), and is co-owned with NBC/CW+/Telemundo affiliate KNPG-LD (channel 21), CBS affiliate KCJO-LD (channel 30) and local news and weather channel News-Press NOW; this arrangement also places the four outlets under the same ownership as the St. Joseph News-Press newspaper.
All five media properties are based out of NPG's corporate offices on Edmond Street in downtown St. Joseph; KNPN-LD's transmitter is located on South 16th Street (adjacent to US 36) just southeast of downtown. There is no separate website for the three stations, instead they are integrated with that of the co-owned St. Joseph News-Press.
History
On March 14, 2012, News-Press & Gazette acquired two low-power digital television licenses in Saint Joseph, K16KF-D and K26LV-D from Sunrise, Florida-based DTV America 1, LLC for $72,000; two weeks earlier on February 29, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the company's construction permit application to relocate the two stations' transmitter facilities from a tower near Mound City to the St. Joseph transmitter and upgrade the effective radiated power for both stations (the channel 16 license would not be activated until March 7, 2013 when it signed on as CW affiliate KBJO-LD). K26LV-D was assigned the call letters KNPN-LD on April 5, 2012, before reverting to the original K26LV-D callsign on May 8, 2012; the callsign reversion was deleted from FCC authorization records two weeks later on May 23, 2012, reverting to the KNPN-LD callsign.
The station officially signed on the air at 6:00 a.m. on June 2, 2012, becoming the first broadcast television station to have been built and signed on by News-Press & Gazette Company and the third station in St. Joseph, after ABC affiliate KQTV (channel 2) – which signed on in September 1953 as primary CBS affiliate KFEQ-TV, and TBN owned-and-operated station KTAJ-TV (channel 16) – which launched in October 1986 and also serves the adjacent Kansas City market. KNPN-LD displaced Kansas City's WDAF-TV (channel 4) – which is among the seven full-power Kansas City stations that provide city-grade signal coverage in St. Joseph proper – as the area's default Fox station on Suddenlink Communications, DirecTV and Dish Network; however some providers continued to supply CW programming through out-of-market stations (Kansas City affiliate KCWE on some rural cable systems and Omaha affiliate KXVO – which provides rimshot signal coverage in the far northwestern tip of Missouri – on DirecTV; and WPIX/New York City, KTLA/Los Angeles and KWGN-TV/Denver on Dish Network through its superstation package) instead of KNPN's CW-affiliated third digital subchannel (News-Press & Gazette assumed promotional and advertising control of cable-only CW Plus station "WBJO" from Suddenlink with the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Toy%20That%20Grew%20Up | The Toy That Grew Up is an American television series produced by WTTW, the Chicago affiliate of the National Educational Television (NET) network that showed complete and uninterrupted silent films. It was an introduction to silent films for many Americans. It lasted from 1962 to 1972.
The theme music used for the program is The Curse of an Aching Heart.
History
Beginning in August 1960 a keen cinephile named Robert C. Seipp (1930-2008) acquired the rights to show over a hundred mostly American made silent films; 90% came from private collections.
Seipp researched each film he presented with a pipe organ score provided by former cinema organist Hal Pearl (1908-2000); the on screen host of the show was Don Ferris. As opposed to the usual American television of the timeshowing silent films that provided narration over clips from various films such as The Funny Manns or Hollywood and the Stars, or series that ridiculed the films through comedy dubbing such as Fractured Flickers, The Toy That Grew Up showed complete original silent films with the original intertitle cards.
The series premiered in August 1962 and was eventually syndicated and shown on over 30 NET and later, Public Broadcasting Service television stations.
References
1962 American television series debuts
1972 American television series endings
American motion picture television series
PBS original programming
Television series by WTTW |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%E2%80%93store%20architecture | In computer engineering, a load–store architecture (or a register–register architecture) is an instruction set architecture that divides instructions into two categories: memory access (load and store between memory and registers) and ALU operations (which only occur between registers).
Some RISC architectures such as PowerPC, SPARC, RISC-V, ARM, and MIPS are load–store architectures.
For instance, in a load–store approach both operands and destination for an ADD operation must be in registers. This differs from a register–memory architecture (for example, a CISC instruction set architecture such as x86) in which one of the operands for the ADD operation may be in memory, while the other is in a register.
The earliest example of a load–store architecture was the CDC 6600. Almost all vector processors (including many GPUs) use the load–store approach.
See also
Load–store unit
Register–memory architecture
References
Computer architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Register%E2%80%93memory%20architecture | In computer engineering, a register–memory architecture is an instruction set architecture that allows operations to be performed on (or from) memory, as well as registers. If the architecture allows all operands to be in memory or in registers, or in combinations, it is called a "register plus memory" architecture.
In a register–memory approach one of the operands for operations such as the ADD operation may be in memory, while the other is in a register. This differs from a load–store architecture (used by RISC designs such as MIPS) in which both operands for an ADD operation must be in registers before the ADD.
An example of register-memory architecture is Intel x86. Examples of register plus memory architecture are:
IBM System/360 and its successors, which support memory-to-memory fixed-point decimal arithmetic operations, but not binary integer or floating-point arithmetic operations;
VAX, which supports memory or register source and destination operands for binary integer and floating-point arithmetic;
the Motorola 68000 series, which supports integer arithmetic with a memory source or destination, but not with a memory source and destination.
See also
Load–store architecture
Addressing mode
References
Computer architecture |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Computer%20Science%20and%20Control | The Institute for Computer Science and Control (in short SZTAKI, ) is a Hungarian research institute in Budapest, founded in 1964.
Scope
Its primary tasks include basic and application-oriented research in an interdisciplinary setting in the fields of engineering, computer science, information technology, intelligent systems as well as process control, multimedia and wide area networking. Further tasks of SZTAKI include training, contract-based target research, development and expert support for domestic and foreign industrial, governmental and other partners. The institute also operates a public advice service on knowledge-transfer of up-to-date research results and state-of-the-art technology to university students. SZTAKI has wide external relationships and different groups within the institute work on projects for well-known international and Hungarian companies and the number of European Union projects is also impressing. Its staff has more than 300 full-time employees.
International scientific relations
SZTAKI is a member of the Khronos Group, World Wide Web Consortium, ERCIM, and has a joint venture - Epic InnoLabs - with Fraunhofer Society
Research activity
Basic research - Main domains
Computer science
Systems- and control theory
Engineering and business intelligence
Machine perception and human-computer interaction
R&D activities
Vehicles and transportation systems
Production informatics and logistics
Energy and sustainable development
Security and surveillance
Networks, networking systems and services, distributed computing
Departments
3D Internet-based Control and Communications Laboratory
Computational Optical Sensing and Processing Laboratory
eLearning Department
Distributed Events Analysis Research Laboratory
Department of Distributed Systems
Geometric Modelling and Computer Vision Laboratory
Network Security Department
Informatics Laboratory
Research Laboratory on Engineering & Management Intelligence
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems
Systems and Control Lab
Public services
W3C Hungarian Office
SZTAKI Dictionary
SZTAKI Web Search
KOPI Plagiarism Detection System
SZTAKI Desktop GRID
SZTAKI WS-PGRADE Portal
NDA@SZTAKI
EMIS MIRROR
Sztakipédia Wiki editor
Guide@hand audio tourist guide application
References
Fordítást is figyel a SZTAKI plágiumkeresője (in Hungarian)
Demokratizálja a Desktop Grid-et a SZTAKI (in Hungarian)
Sztakipédia: itt a tudásmegosztás hatékonyabb módja (in Hungarian)
A SZTAKI szorgalmazza a honlapok akadálymentességét (in Hungarian)
A jogsértő fordítást is leleplezi a KOPI program (in Hungarian)
Virtuális séta Ottlikkal (in Hungarian)
Valós idejű 3D-technológia a SZTAKI-ban (in Hungarian)
Különleges algafajok élnek a téli Balatonban (in Hungarian)
Az MTA SZTAKI egyedülálló módszerével vizsgálják a Balaton vízminőségét (in Hungarian)
Itt a zsebben megbúvó tökéletes útitárs (in Hungarian)
Miből lesz a robot MÁV-pénztáros? (in Hungarian)
Bosc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Caligiuri | Alan Caligiuri (born 19 September 1981) is a radio host and writer for Italian television, radio show co-host of the Lo Zoo di 105 broadcast by Radio 105 Network.
Career
Alan Caligiuri was born in Giussano and grew up in Seregno, by parents from Calabria.
His career in show business started at the satellite channel TV MODA of the singer Jo Squillo while the eponymous program on Rete 4.
He collaborated in the organization of the program Le Iene on Italia 1 and for the Festival di Sanremo in 2000 and 2001. In 2006, lead on Match Music the program Hot, airing Monday through Friday in the company of Karim De Martino and Isa B.
Among his experiences: a promo appearance in Tema for La7, "Vivere" and "Emporio per vivere" always as appearance; dubbing Sting for TV MODA on Rete 4; parts in the "Armadillo magazine" broadcast on Odeon TV; he also co-presented "Il programma del Capitano" (The Captain's program) with Francesco Facchinetti on RTL 102.5 TV; he posted for three services (created and played by him) in Le Iene on Italia 1 and Veejay on Match Music.
In 2009, he exposed the case of "rigged votes" at the Festival di Sanremo and he realize two services for Striscia la notizia on Canale 5.
From 2010 to 2016 he was part of the radio program Lo Zoo di 105, where he helped with skits and making prank phone calls.
Filmography
Mario (2013)
On Air: Storia di un successo (2016)
References
Italian radio presenters
1981 births
Living people
People from Brianza
People of Calabrian descent |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Dance%20Praise%20songs | This is a list of all 351 songs from the Dance Praise series, including songs from the iOS and two computer video games as well as the free add-on and all expansion packs. Note that the iOS version of Dance Praise cannot be expanded beyond the 15 songs included with the game. Another 51 songs are exclusive to VeggieTales Dance Dance Dance; officially, they cannot be added to Dance Praise-branded games, and songs from such games cannot be added to VeggieTales.
Dance Praise
Officially, 351 songs have been released for Original Dance Praise, Dance Praise Party and Dance Praise 2: The ReMix. Of these, 15 songs were included in the iOS version of Dance Praise.
VeggieTales Dance Dance Dance
VeggieTales Dance Dance Dance is a spin-off of the original Dance Praise video game, created by Digital Praise in partnership with Big Idea Entertainment. The game includes 51 different songs from VeggieTales, with no official method of adding new songs:
Bellybutton
Big Things Too
Billy Joe McGuffrey (Theatrical Version)
B-O-N-G-O
Boids
The Bunny Song
The Dance Of The Cucumber
Do The Moo Shoo
Driving Medley
Endangered Love
Erie Canal
Ezekiel Saw The Wheel
Gated Community
Get On Board
Good Shepherd (Psalm 23)
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Do Your Ears Hang Low?)
The Hairbrush Song
His Cheeseburger
I Can Be Your Friend
I Love My Duck
I'm So Blue
John Jimmy Jingleheimer Schmidt
Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho
Joy to the World
King Jesus Is All
Larry's High Silk Hat
Love My Lips
Modern Major General
Polly Wolly Doodle
Promised Land
The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
Rocka My Soul
Salesmunz Rap
Schoolhouse Polka
Silly Song Remix Medley
Sports Utility Vehicle
The Song Of The Cebu
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (Backyard)
The Thankfulness Song
The Green Grass Grew All Around
There's A Hole In The Bottom Of The Sea
This Is My Commandment
This Little Light of Mine
VeggieTales Theme Song
What Do You Do (With A Tired Veggie?)
The Water Buffalo Song
When the Saints Go Marching In
While By My Sheep
Who Did (Swallow Jonah)
The Yodeling Veterinarian Of The Alps
Zacchaeus
See also
Dance Praise series
Dance Praise video game
Dance Praise 2: The ReMix
Notes
This song is also available in Dance Praise for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
This song is also available in competitor Konami's Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 4 video game.
References
Dance Praise |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%27s%20algorithm%20%28Go%29 | In the game Go, Benson's algorithm (named after David B. Benson) can be used to determine the stones which are safe from capture no matter how many turns in a row the opposing player gets, i.e. unconditionally alive.
Algorithm
Without loss of generality, we describe Benson's algorithm for the Black player.
Let X be the set of all Black chains and R be the set of all Black-enclosed regions of X. Then Benson's algorithm requires iteratively applying the following two steps until neither is able to remove any more chains or regions:
Remove from X all Black chains with less than two vital Black-enclosed regions in R, where a Black-enclosed region is vital to a Black chain in X if all its empty intersections are also liberties of the chain.
Remove from R all Black-enclosed regions with a surrounding stone in a chain not in X.
The final set X is the set of all unconditionally alive Black chains.
Applicability
Most strong Computer Go programs since 2008 do not actually use Benson's algorithm. "Knowledge-based" approaches to Go that attempt to simulate human strategy proved to not be very effective, and later approaches generally used tools such as Monte Carlo random playouts to "score" positions. Go positions frequently require scoring stones and territory in a more probabilistic, gradual manner where stones might be probably dead unless the opponent allows the player to make uncontested plays to save the stones, contested, alive as long as the opponent is not allowed one uncontested play, alive as long as the opponent is not allowed repeated uncontested play in the area, and so on. A system that only perceives unconditionally alive will not be very strong, as high-level play routinely involves leaving groups not entirely "finished" after their state becomes safe if protected by further plays (e.g. they will only be captured if the player lets them be captured, in which case they are presumably trading them for an even higher value objective). A system that can handle more complicated gradients of possibility will already understand unconditionally alive stones "for free" as part of whatever system is used to score and understand positions.
See also
Go and mathematics
Computer Go
Go strategy and tactics
God's algorithm
References
Computer Go |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson%27s%20algorithm | Benson's algorithm, named after Harold Benson, is a method for solving multi-objective linear programming problems and vector linear programs. This works by finding the "efficient extreme points in the outcome set". The primary concept in Benson's algorithm is to evaluate the upper image of the vector optimization problem by cutting planes.
Idea of algorithm
Consider a vector linear program
for , , and a polyhedral convex ordering cone having nonempty interior and containing no lines. The feasible set is . In particular, Benson's algorithm finds the extreme points of the set , which is called upper image.
In case of , one obtains the special case of a multi-objective linear program (multiobjective optimization).
Dual algorithm
There is a dual variant of Benson's algorithm, which is based on geometric duality for multi-objective linear programs.
Implementations
Bensolve - a free VLP solver
www.bensolve.org
Inner
Link to github
References
Linear programming
Optimization algorithms and methods |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg%20Government | Bloomberg Government is a division of Bloomberg Industry Group that provides data-driven decision tools, news, and analytics in a digital workspace for professionals who influence government action.
History
Bloomberg Government launched in 2011 as a comprehensive solution to eliminate multiple government information resources. According to The New York Times, the service was developed to provide news and information about politics, along with the less "glamorous" aspects of government reporting, including legislative and regulatory coverage.
The first stages of what is now Bloomberg Government began in 2009, when a team led by Chris Walters and Don Baptiste spent most of the year researching to find a solution to match market needs, and after two years of market sizing, the product was launched. Bloomberg Government is now used by Congressional offices, trade associations, federal contractors, lobbyists, and corporate government-affairs professionals.
On April 6, 2017, Bloomberg L.P. announced that Bloomberg Government will become part of Bloomberg BNA.
Staff
Bloomberg implemented an aggressive recruiting strategy to staff Bloomberg Government in Washington, DC, which included hiring industry analysts, political staff, product developers, and a business development team. The business is currently organized in two primary segments focused on serving government-affairs professionals and federal contractors, respectively.
Arielle Elliott serves as the head of Bloomberg Government.
Product
Bloomberg Government is a digital tool focused on three types of users: government-affairs professionals, congressional staff, and federal contractors.
Government affairs and Congressional staff
Bloomberg Government provides clients in Congress, corporate government affairs, trade associations, and lobbying detailed analytics that enhance decision-making. The company’s government-affairs service includes lobbying performance analytics, access to more than 35,000 aggregated news sources, in-depth legislative tracking, regulation monitoring, directories of federal agencies, professionals and congressional staff, tools to track federal spending, and access to exclusive events.
Federal Contractors
Bloomberg Government’s federal procurement service is designed for contracting professionals focused on strategy and competitive intelligence, as well as business development and sales executives. The company’s service allows teams to hone business strategy, build pipelines, perform strategic research, size markets, and identify partners throughout the industry.
Mobile App
In 2015, Bloomberg Government released an application for iPhone users featuring the product's news alerts, calendars, and congressional directories for government affairs professionals. The app is free to use for Bloomberg Government subscribers.
Awards
In its inaugural year, Bloomberg Government received a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism for combining interactive data, analy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prana%20Studios | Prana Studios, Inc. was an American computer animation and visual effects company, founded in 2005 in Los Angeles, United States, with a wholly owned subsidiary in Mumbai, India.
Prana Studios' investors include Reliance Industries and Mahindra Group.
History
Prana Studios was founded in April 2005 by Arish Fyzee, Kristin Dornig and Pankaj Gunsagar. In 2005, Prana opened its Mumbai office.
In 2008, The Weinstein Company launched a series of direct-to-video CGI feature-length films called Unstable Fables - they were produced amongst others, by The Jim Henson Company and Prana Studios. The first released was 3 Pigs and a Baby, the second released was Tortoise vs. Hare and third and final released was The Goldilocks and the 3 Bears Show.
Prana produced stories and CGI imagery for US domestic, international and Indian domestic Bollywood markets, including Kuch Kuch Hota Hai for Dharma Productions, as well as the French animated film Why I Did (Not) Eat My Father.
On March 29, 2013, Prana Studios affiliate 34x118 Holdings, LLC won the bidding of Rhythm and Hues Studios in a bankruptcy auction against other visual effects/CGI animation studios, Prime Focus and Brave Vision. Another contender, Psyop, was eliminated early in the process. The sale was "valued at about $30 million."
Post 2013, Rhythm&Hues and their VFX Supervisors were multiple Emmy and Visual Effects Society Award nominees and winners for their work on Game of Thrones. Prana Studios, Inc. is the recipient of multiple Themed Entertainment nominations and Awards, including for the attraction "5D Castle Theatre" at the prestigious Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in Zuhai, China.
Filmography
Feature films
Short films
Television
References
External links
Indian animation studios
American animation studios
Visual effects companies
Indian companies established in 2005
Mass media companies established in 2005
Mass media companies disestablished in 2019
Indian companies disestablished in 2019
Film production companies based in Mumbai
2005 establishments in California
2019 disestablishments in California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ting%20Inc. | Ting Inc. is an American internet service provider founded by Tucows in 2012. It originally consisted of Ting Mobile, a mobile virtual network operator, and Ting Internet, an internet service provider that offered gigabit fiber Internet. In August 2020, Ting Mobile was sold to Dish Wireless. Today, Tucows continues to provide the enablement software for Ting Mobile (via Wavelo) and continues to operate Ting Internet independently.
Ting Internet
Ting Internet is an American internet service provider. On December 15, 2014, Ting announced it was buying Blue Ridge Internetworks of Charlottesville, Virginia, which was already building fiber Internet. They began offering symmetrical gigabit fiber internet without bandwidth caps. Since expanding the existing fiber network in Charlottesville, Ting has also launched a similar service in 13 other markets. As of April 2022, they service the following areas:
Alexandria, Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Fullerton, California
Solana Beach, California
Centennial, Colorado
Greater Sandpoint, Idaho
Westminster, Maryland
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina
Holly Springs, North Carolina
Rolesville, North Carolina
Wake Forest, North Carolina
Encinitas, California
Culver City, California
Ting's future expansion plans include Roaring Fork, Colorado.
In May 2016, Ting Internet launched the Bring Your Own Router option, allowing customers to use Ting's optical network terminal at no additional cost, while pairing it with their own third party router.
In October 2021 Ting Internet announced Mural, a collection of local news about the arts and small businesses in their Ting Towns.
See also
Ting Mobile
References
External links
Telecommunications companies established in 2012
Mobile phone companies of the United States
Dish Network
Tucows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight%20computer | A flight computer is a form of circular slide rule used in aviation and one of a very few analog computers in widespread use in the 21st century. Sometimes it is called by the make or model name like E6B, CR, CRP-5 or in German, as the Dreieckrechner.
They are mostly used in flight training, but many professional pilots still carry and use flight computers. They are used during flight planning (on the ground before takeoff) to aid in calculating fuel burn, wind correction, time en route, and other items. In the air, the flight computer can be used to calculate ground speed, estimated fuel burn and updated estimated time of arrival. The back is designed for wind correction calculations, i.e., determining how much the wind is affecting one's speed and course.
(Electronic option is available and can be used on FAA exams but pilots are still expected to know how to use the analog version.)
One of the most useful parts of the E6B, is the technique of finding distance over time. Take the number 60 on the inner circle which usually has an arrow, and sometimes says rate on it. 60 is used in reference to the number of minutes in an hour, by placing the 60 on the airspeed in knots, on the outer ring the pilot can find how far the aircraft will travel in any given number of minutes. Looking at the inner ring for minutes traveled and the distance traveled will be above it on the outer ring. This can also be done backwards to find the amount of time the aircraft will take to travel a given number of nautical miles. On the main body of the flight computer it will find the wind component grid, which it will use to find how much crosswind the aircraft will actually has to correct for.
The crosswind component is the amount of crosswind in knots that is being applied to the airframe and can be less than the actual speed of the wind because of the angle. Below that the pilot will find a grid called crosswind correction, this grid shows the difference the pilot needs to correct for because of wind. On either side of the front it will have rulers, one for statute miles and one for nautical miles on their sectional map.
Another very useful part is the conversion scale on the front outer circle, which helps convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius. The back of the E6B is used to find ground speed and determine how much wind correction it needs.
Gallery
See also
Wind triangle
Dead reckoning
Flight Management Computer
References
Analog computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20Computer%20Applications | Scientific Computer Applications Inc. (SCAI) is a privately held, American company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. SCAI develops and markets scientific software focused on the Oil exploration and production segment of the petroleum industry.
Scientific Computer Applications, Inc. (SCAI) was established in 1969 as an Oil & Gas Consulting firm by Professional engineering Petroleum Consultant Richard Banks, a graduate of the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Texas.
SCAI markets contour map software that generates single surface, multiple surfaces, contour mapping, and Reservoir Integration applications for the Personal computer.
History
Dick Banks, a Colorado School of Mines graduate, and Joe Sukkar, Ph.D, began a partnership in 1969 with the development of a contour mapping software package based on Triangulation (topology). Triangulation is more rigorous than gridded contour map software because the original data points are always honored, and not estimated as in Grid map software.
See also
Fred Meissner
Geographic information system
List of geographic information systems software
Comparison of geographic information systems software
Scientific software
List of information graphics software
Oil reserves
Reservoir engineering
Extraction of petroleum
References
Software companies based in Oklahoma
Companies based in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Software companies established in 1969
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1969
1969 establishments in Oklahoma
Privately held companies based in Oklahoma
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA-Modern | CA-Modern is an American magazine devoted to mid-century modern architecture and design in California.
About
CA-Modern is published by the Eichler Network, a company based in San Francisco that also operates a website and sends weekly e-mail news features to subscribers. It also publishes a service directory of firms that specialize in repair and improvement of mid-century modern homes, including those built from the 1950s to 1970s by Bay Area developer Joe Eichler of Eichler Homes, Inc.
Founded in 1993 by publisher Marty Arbunich, first as a four-page letter-size, black-and-white mailer and then as a 16-page tabloid newsletter also called Eichler Network, it became a 36-page oversized color magazine in January 2006. Over the years it expanded its coverage, from its early focus exclusively on Eichler homes, with an emphasis on preservation and home improvement and maintenance, to historical articles on mid-century architecture and design, light features, nostalgia, music, etc.
The magazine is mailed free to the property addresses of Eichler homes In Northern California, as well as to other mid-century modern homes, such as select homes built by the Streng Brothers in the Sacramento and Davis areas in the Sacramento Valley.
The magazine is available by subscription (with back issues from 2006 to the present) and is not sold on newsstands. Its hundreds of articles also appear on the website of the Eichler Network.
Eichler Network the newsletter, originally sent only to Eichler homeowners, started a Sacramento Valley edition in 2003, directed to owners of Streng homes.
The switch in format and name from Eichler Network to CA-Modern included an increased geographic scope, adding Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Long Beach-Orange, and Palm Springs editions, and coincided with a broadening of the subject matter. The magazine profiled several Southern California architects, including William Krisel, Don Wexler, and Ray Kappe; ran a news briefs column; reviewed books and other media; invited contemporary architects to devise a '21st Century Eichler,' and has readers compete in a best kitchen remodel contest. In recent years the magazine's distribution returned to a Northern California focus.
Its staff writers include Dave Weinstein, author of several books on California architecture and history; Adriene Biondo, Southern California Eichler owner and preservationist; and Dan Smith, a seasoned Bay Area-based feature writer. CA-Modern also featured a "Dear Cherry" advice column by Cherry Capri from 2006 through 2020.
The magazine features extensive color photography and mid-century type design. The designer is Doreen Jorgensen.
In January 2012, the magazine entered the national conversation about Apple innovator Steve Jobs, who had reportedly drawn design inspiration from his childhood Eichler home. The Eichler Network's investigation showed that Jobs' home was designed by Anshen and Allen, architects who worked for Eichler, but was built by Macka |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby%20Eigenmann | Gabriel John Celebre Eigenmann (; born March 2, 1978) is a Filipino actor, singer, host and model. He is currently working as an exclusive talent of GMA Network.
Background
He was born on March 2, 1978, in Makati, Philippines. Gabby hails from the Eigenmann family of famous actors. He is the son of actor Mark Gil to the '80s commercial model/actress Irene Celebre. He is also the nephew of Cherie Gil and Michael de Mesa, the grandson of veteran actors Rosemarie Gil and Eddie Mesa, the cousin of AJ Eigenmann, Ryan Eigenmann and Geoff Eigenmann, he is the older brother of Katherine "Ira" Eigenmann, and the half brother of Sid Lucero (Tim Eigenmann), Maxine and Andrea "Andi" Eigenmann. He has also a younger half-sibling trans woman social media influencer, makeup artist and model Kylie Celebre from his mother's side.
Career
Acting career
Though he grew up in a prominent family of actors, he once regretted growing up without the whole family which barely happens. At first, entering showbusiness was out of his mind and rather be a pilot or a businessman, a cook or own a restaurant. He even took up two-year Hotel and Restaurant Management at OB Montessori in which he never saw its end. But acting has found a good place in his blood and this is how he entered show business. He started his career at the age of 16. He was once a Regal Films’ teen star along with the Gwapings and other rosters of teen actors of the said film outfit. He considered Richard Gomez and Regine Velasquez as his role models.
In 1997 when he became one of the hosts of GMA Network's Sunday noontime musical-variety show SOP (Sobrang Okay Pare!) along with Janno Gibbs, Ogie Alcasid and Vina Morales.
After playing teeny-bop and goody-good roles in several TV series, Gabby later discover his knack for villainy and eventually appeared on a range of primetime offerings. His first anti-hero role in on Angelika dela Cruz-Sunshine Dizon starrer Umulan Man o Umaraw in 2000 as he played the role of Nick, the submissive and scheming suitor of Rebecca (Sunshine Dizon). But his notable roles as a villain are in the top-rating Philippine adaptation of MariMar where he played the role of Nicandro Mejia and Munting Heredera where he played the role of Desmond Montreal. In 2010, he played the role and antagonist for Marian Rivera (Jenny) as the good-for-nothing brother Jojo in the Philippine adaptation of Endless Love (based on Autumn in My Heart). His portrayal for latter role gives him a Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series award via ENPRESS Golden Screen Awards 2011.
After doing mostly anti-hero roles in, GMA Network entrusts him with the lead role in the GMA Afternoon Prime series Broken Vow opposite Bianca King whom he is working for the first time. And later in 2014, Gabby starred in his main role of Dading, together with Glaiza de Castro, Benjamin Alves and Chynna Ortaleza.
Singing career
After few years doing acting, Gabby ventured into a new field of interest which is singing. While |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco%20Mazzoli | Marco Donatello Mazzoli (Milan, Italy, 20 October 1972) is an Italian radio host. He is known for conducting the radio program Lo Zoo di 105 on Radio 105 Network.
Marco has always said to be inspired by the style of Howard Stern. Like Howard, Marco has had several fines from Agcom (the Italian Federal Communications Commission) due to dirty talk and many lawsuits from sponsors and some celebrities.
Career
Early career
Raised in Los Angeles, where his father Claudio worked as art director for the Walt Disney Company, Marco Mazzoli began his career in local radio starting in Lombardy, as Rovaradio Alta Brianza, Como Radio City, Radio Sei Milano, Radio Kelly Milano, Radio Play Rta, Radio Delta International and Radio Lombardia.
From 1993 to 1995 he worked for RTL 102.5, Radio Capital (1995–1996) in tandem with DJ Angelo, then StationOne (1996–1998) with Dj Monta Mix and Mago Wender. In this radio experience Marco Mazzoli began to give rise to situations such as Bastard Inside Line, whose unique style is the main source of success of programs that currently leads.
Radio 105 Network
In 1998 he began a collaboration with Radio 105 Network, where he led a program broadcast on weekends; past the New York office, opened in early 1999, has conducted for 6 months 105 New York, with Camila Raznovich.
Returning from the United States, he has designed and conducted Lo Zoo di 105.
At the end of 2005 the program has become the most listened in Italy in its time slot, surpassing the program of Radio Deejay, Deejay Time led by Albertino and currently it's the program with the largest number of listeners in fifteen minutes.
Other projects
In 2008 he won first prize at the Montecarlo Film Festival (Angel Award) with his first screenplay entitled "The Theory". His first film is about a theory about human existence on earth.
On 26 August 2010 in Miami he married his wife Stefania, and on 21 September 2011 his autobiography was released, entitled Radiografia di un DJ che non piace (X-ray of a DJ who is not liked), published by Rizzoli. In November 2012 his second book "Non Mollare Mai" ("Never Give Up") (Mondadori) was released. This is the chronicle of Mazzoli's radio program "Lo Zoo di 105", which is the most popular radio program in Italy (over 1.1 million listeners every 15 minutes as of November 2012). The emphasis of the book is on the DJ's success despite the cut-throat competition and the hurdles imposed by strict censuring agencies.
As from 23 December 2013 he hosts a show called "The Italian Brunch" on REvolution 93.5, a Miami-based radio station that plays only dance music.
Television experiences
Among the many co-conduction and conduction on the small screen, Mazzoli has achieved the zero episode of "The Zoo on TV", never aired, conducted together with Fabio Alisei and Paolo Noise trade winds, with brief appearances by Leone di Lernia and Elisabetta Canalis. Short clips of the episode zero can be seen in the DVD attached to one of the five numbers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20neural%20network | A probabilistic neural network (PNN) is a feedforward neural network, which is widely used in classification and pattern recognition problems. In the PNN algorithm, the parent probability distribution function (PDF) of each class is approximated by a Parzen window and a non-parametric function. Then, using PDF of each class, the class probability of a new input data is estimated and Bayes’ rule is then employed to allocate the class with highest posterior probability to new input data. By this method, the probability of mis-classification is minimized. This type of artificial neural network (ANN) was derived from the Bayesian network and a statistical algorithm called Kernel Fisher discriminant analysis. It was introduced by D.F. Specht in 1966. In a PNN, the operations are organized into a multilayered feedforward network with four layers:
Input layer
Pattern layer
Summation layer
Output layer
Layers
PNN is often used in classification problems. When an input is present, the first layer computes the distance from the input vector to the training input vectors. This produces a vector where its elements indicate how close the input is to the training input. The second layer sums the contribution for each class of inputs and produces its net output as a vector of probabilities. Finally, a compete transfer function on the output of the second layer picks the maximum of these probabilities, and produces a 1 (positive identification) for that class and a 0 (negative identification) for non-targeted classes.
Input layer
Each neuron in the input layer represents a predictor variable. In categorical variables, N-1 neurons are used when there are N number of categories. It standardizes the range of the values by subtracting the median and dividing by the interquartile range. Then the input neurons feed the values to each of the neurons in the hidden layer.
Pattern layer
This layer contains one neuron for each case in the training data set. It stores the values of the predictor variables for the case along with the target value. A hidden neuron computes the Euclidean distance of the test case from the neuron's center point and then applies the radial basis function kernel using the sigma values.
Summation layer
For PNN there is one pattern neuron for each category of the target variable. The actual target category of each training case is stored with each hidden neuron; the weighted value coming out of a hidden neuron is fed only to the pattern neuron that corresponds to the hidden neuron’s category. The pattern neurons add the values for the class they represent.
Output layer
The output layer compares the weighted votes for each target category accumulated in the pattern layer and uses the largest vote to predict the target category.
Advantages
There are several advantages and disadvantages using PNN instead of multilayer perceptron.
PNNs are much faster than multilayer perceptron networks.
PNNs can be more accurate than multilayer percep |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderlink | ThunderLink is a legacy expansion adapter for the Thunderbolt computer bus interface, which added support for SAS, SATA, fibre optic and Ethernet interfaces.
The adapter could support throughput speeds of up to 10Gb/s.
ATTO Technology ThunderLink devices were a purpose-built Thunderbolt product designed to connect virtualized Mac hardware to 16Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel storage solutions within VMware VSphere environments.
This provided a solution for Apple technologies application development and testing environments, virtual desktop infrastructure and cloud hosting or shared private cloud.
References
Computer buses
Networking hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabio%20Alisei | Fabio Alisei (born Fabio Borghini in Genoa, Italy, 4 June 1975) is an Italian radio host. He is known for having conduct the radio programs Lo Zoo di 105 on Radio 105 Network and Asganaway on Radio Deejay.
Career
Early career
He graduated at a grammar school. He has also supported some examinations in the Faculty of Letters in Genoa. Since 1995, he has been playing the piano and in 2002 he attended a music school equated with the Conservatorio Paganini in Genoa. After secondary school, he became a musician and composer. He has worked with the theater Campopisano in Genoa.
From 1994 to 1999, he worked as an animator and head of animation in resorts in Italy and abroad, where he met the radio host Max Laudadio with whom he began a collaboration.
In 1999 he started working for television, the satellite channel Match Music, based in Verona. For nearly a year he worked as an author of the "Bar Show", hosted by Max Laudadio. Then, for three years, he wrote and performed with Paolo Noise the program Neuromachine, which had a format of prank phone calls on air. It met with little success.
Radio 105 Network
In 2002 he wrote and starred in gags and services for Rai 2, in an afternoon format titled "My Compilation - Revolution". During this period he met Marco Mazzoli, his companion for adventure on radio since 2003 with Lo Zoo di 105.
Radio Deejay
In January 2011, with Paolo Noise and Mago Wender, leaves Radio 105 Network to go to Radio Deejay, where from 25 January lead transmission Trun Trin Tran on DeeJay TV.
He's co-host of the programs: 50 Songs and Asganaway with Albertino, Noise and Wender and Sabato Sega with Wender.
He worked for Radio Deejay until February 2015.
Return to Radio 105 Network
In 2015 he returned to co-host the famous radio program Lo Zoo di 105.
Other Projects
In June 2008 he published his first book titled Tutto a posto e niente in ordine.
Filmography
Movies
On Air: Storia di un successo (2016)
TV Series
Via Massena, (2011-2012)
References
Italian radio presenters
Mass media people from Genoa
Living people
1975 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20Team%20Volunteers%20Network | The Home Team Volunteer Network (HTVN) is a volunteer organisation in Singapore.
It was launched by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Teo Chee Hean, at the Home Team Convention on 15 July 2011. The Network is an entity that promotes the implementation of volunteer management best practices for the benefit of Home Team volunteers and is also the key channel through which the Ministry of Home Affairs engages its volunteers. The HTVN comes under the ambit of the Ministry of Home Affairs and does not raise funds from the public for whatever purposes.
The Steering Committee
The Steering Committee of the HTVN is an advisory body on Home Team volunteer matters.
The Steering Committee is appointed by the Minister for Home Affairs for a 2-year term or as otherwise specified, and comprises both Home Team key appointment holders as well as existing Home Team volunteers.
Home Team Volunteer Schemes
Home Team Volunteers broadly refer to people who volunteer in a volunteer scheme within the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Home Team Volunteers are classified by the Ministry under two broad categories. They either serve as members of its Boards, Councils and Committees, known also as the Home Team Connection, or as volunteers within one of its departments. The departments that currently have volunteers are the Singapore Police Force, the Singapore Civil Defence Force, the Singapore Prison Service and the Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises, otherwise known as SCORE. Strictly speaking however, it is worth noting that SCORE is not a department but a Statutory Board under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
See also
Volunteer Special Constabulary
Civil Defence Auxiliary Unit
Yellow Ribbon Project
References
External links
Ministry of Home Affairs
Home Team News
Organisations of the Singapore Government |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20American%20Bible%20Challenge | The American Bible Challenge is an American biblical-themed television game show created by Game Show Network. The series is hosted by comedian Jeff Foxworthy, with gospel musician Kirk Franklin joining Foxworthy as co-host and announcer in the second season. The series debuted on August 23, 2012.
Each season of the series is played as a nine-episode tournament with six episodes of opening rounds, two semi-finals, and a final. Each opening round starts with three teams of three contestants answering questions about the Bible. The teams then nominate their strongest contestants to answer questions by themselves without any assistance from their teammates. After this part of the round, the third-placed team is eliminated and the two highest-scoring teams compete in a final round with the scores being reset to zero. The remaining teams answer as many questions correctly as possible within one minute, and the highest-scoring team from this round wins a $20,000 prize which is given to the team's nominated charity. The winning team then advances to a semi-final game against two other winning teams, the winning team from this game advances to a final game where the grand prize is raised to $100,000. Thus, the team that wins the season-long tournament earns a total of $140,000 for their charity.
The show became the highest-rated original program in the history of the Game Show Network. In 2014, The American Bible Challenge received two nominations at the 41st Daytime Emmy Awards: one for the series as Outstanding Game Show and the other for Foxworthy as Outstanding Game Show Host, they lost to Jeopardy! and Steve Harvey (host of Family Feud) respectively.
Gameplay
Main game
To begin the game, a category is revealed and the three teams of three contestants are asked multiple-choice questions under that category, with each question having four possible answers. The contestant who "buzzes in" (sounds the buzzer indicating he or she is ready to answer) with the correct answer earns the respective team 10 points, an incorrect answer loses 10 points and opens up the question to the other teams. Contestants must wait until after the host reads the entire question (including the choices) to buzz in.
Each team then participates in a physical stunt that involves teams using common household items to answer questions about biblical figures. For example, in the game Stick a Fork In It, the teams must answer the question by using a spoon to catapult a fork into one of several glasses labeled with different possible answers. Where teams compete individually, each team is given 60 seconds, occasional games where teams compete at the same time are either untimed (with the first team to complete the game winning) or played in 90 seconds. In all cases, the team that wins the stunt receives 20 points, in case of a tie, each of the teams involved in the tie receives the points. The next round, titled Kirk's Righteous Remix, features Grammy Award–winner Kirk Franklin an |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied%20language%20processing | Embodied cognition occurs when an organism's sensorimotor capacities (ability of the body to respond to its senses with movement), body and environment play an important role in thinking. The way in which a person's body and their surroundings interacts also allows for specific brain functions to develop and in the future to be able to act. This means that not only does the mind influence the body's movements, but the body also influences the abilities of the mind, also termed the bi-directional hypothesis.
There are three generalizations that are assumed to be true relating to embodied cognition. A person's motor system (that controls movement of the body) is activated when (1) they observe manipulable objects, (2) process action verbs, and (3) observe another individual's movements.
Embodied semantics is one of two theories concerning the location and processing of sensory motors inputs within the human brain. The theory of embodied semantics involves the existence of specialized hubs where the meaning of a word is tied with the sensory motor processing unit associated with the word meaning. For example, the concept of kicking would be represented in the sensory motor areas that control kicking actions. As a result, the theory assumes that individuals must possess a body to understand English.
Neural circuitry
The overlap between various semantic categories with sensory motor areas suggests that a common mechanism is used by neurons to process action, perception, and semantics. The correlation principle states that neurons that fire together, wire together. Also, neurons out of sync, delink. When an individual pronounces a word, the activation pattern for articulatory motor systems of the speaker leads to activation of auditory and somatosensory systems due to self-perceived sounds and movements.
If a word meaning is grounded in the visual shapes of the objects, the word form circuit is active together with neural activity in the ventral-temporal visual stream related to processing of visual object information. Correlation learning links the word and object circuits, resulting in an embodied object-semantic relationship. To study the embodiment effect on semantic (meaning) processing of common adjectives and abstract nouns, people who were contrasted by their endurance, tempo, plasticity, emotionality, sex or age were tested using Semantic Projective Method. In these studies, males with stronger motor-physical endurance estimated abstractions describing people-, work/reality- and time-related concepts in more positive terms than males with weaker endurance. Females with stronger social or physical endurance estimated social attractors in more positive terms than weaker females. Both male and female temperament groups with higher sociability showed a universal positive bias in their estimations of social concepts, in comparison to participants with lower sociability.
Semantic hubs
A semantic hub represents a focal point in the brain |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneAPI%20%28GSM%20telecom%29 | OneAPI is a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) supported by the GSM Association that exposes over the Internet.
OneAPI, as defined by the telecom industry—led by GSMA and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)—is a set of standardized and lightweight Web-friendly application programming interfaces (API) for communications service providers (CSPs) to use to expose their networks.
Building on OneAPI version 2.0 specifications, the current OneAPI specifications are at version 3 beta (published from February to April 2012).
Any mobile operator or service provider is able to implement and use OneAPI. OneAPI is intended to complement and not replace it, by providing access to network capabilities and information, regardless of operator.
It supersedes Parlay X APIs
OneAPI differs from Parlay X in that the network capabilities are exposed in a RESTful fashion, with JSON responses, to facilitate mash-ups with Web APIs. Also the number of functions has been reduced to keep things simple.
Vodafone has sponsored and led the GSMA OneAPI project since its inception in 2008.
OneAPI v1.0
Payments - the ability to charge the user's bill (or pre-pay credits) for downloads and in-app micropayments. The API allows a direct charge, pending user authorization, or the ability to first reserve funds and then charge later (for example, when you are satisfied that they have received the item paid for). You may check the receipt of a particular transaction, and refund a user fully or partially for a previous transaction.
Location - locate one or more users to the requested accuracy. The operator will aim to respond as close to the requested accuracy as possible.
Messaging - the ability to send a SMS/MMS to a user, or a batch of users; and also the ability to have users send SMS or MMS to your Web application.
OneAPI v2.0
Data Connection Profile - lookup the network, bearer and roaming status of a particular terminal
Device Capability Profile - determine the make/model of device and a link to its UA Prof (or similar) description
Call control - set up and manage calls between two or more parties, including a Web IVR application and a user
User authorisation is handled via an OAuth flow. This makes OneAPI compatible with many Web services (Facebook, Twitter, Google) that support OAuth, and it ensures that users are in consent that their private info can be shared with web applications.
References
External links
gsma.com Richer Safer Simpler Apps
Application programming interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20by%20Night%20%28TV%20series%29 | Fly by Night is a Canadian adventure series that aired for one season in 1991 as part of CBS' Crimetime After Primetime programming block in the United States. Co-produced by France, Canada and the U.S., the show stars David James Elliott as Mack Sheppard and François Guétary as Jean-Philippe Pasteur, both pilots for a small-time airline, "Slick Air", owned by Sally "Slick" Monroe (Shannon Tweed).
Cast
Shannon Tweed as Sally "Slick" Monroe
David James Elliott as Mack Sheppard
François Guétary as Jean-Phillipe Pasteur
Episodes
References
External links
1991 Canadian television series debuts
1991 Canadian television series endings
Aviation television series
1990s Canadian drama television series
CBS original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gon%3A%20Baku%20Baku%20Baku%20Baku%20Adventure | is a Japan-exclusive action-adventure video game based on the popular Gon.
Notes
External links
Gon Manga/TV Show Inspires 3DS Action Game at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
2012 video games
Action games
Bandai Namco games
Gon (manga)
Inti Creates games
Japan-exclusive video games
Nintendo 3DS games
Nintendo 3DS-only games
Single-player video games
Video games about dinosaurs
Video games based on anime and manga
Video games developed in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature%20data%20logger | A temperature data logger, also called temperature monitor, is a portable measurement instrument that is capable of autonomously recording temperature over a defined period of time. The digital data can be retrieved, viewed and evaluated after it has been recorded. A data logger is commonly used to monitor shipments in a cold chain and to gather temperature data from diverse field conditions.
Construction
A variety of constructions are available. Most have an internal thermistor or thermocouple or can be connected to external sources. Sampling and measurement are periodically taken and digitally stored. Some have a built in display of data or out-of-tolerance warnings. Data retrieval can be by cable, RFID, wireless systems, etc. They generally are small, battery powered, portable, and equipped with a microprocessor, internal memory for data storage, and sensors. Some data loggers interface with personal computers or smart phones for set-up, control, and analysis.
Some include other sensors such as relative humidity, wind, light, etc. Others may record input from GPS devices.
Depending on the use, governing quality management systems sometimes require calibration to national standards and compliance with formal verification and validation protocols
Choices of temperature data loggers can be based on many factors, such as:
Cost
Reusability
Battery life
Ease of use; set-up, readability, download data, analysis, etc.
Temperature range
Number of measurements stored
Accuracy and precision - degree of agreement of recorded temperature with actual
Resolution
Response time – the time required to measure 63.2% of the total difference between its initial and final temperature when subjected to a step function change in temperature; other points such as 90% are also used.
shock and vibration resistance
Water resistance – humidity, condensation, etc.
Size, weight, mounting
Certifications, calibrations, etc.
Software
Data export
Data integration with other systems
Uses
Environmental monitoring
Autonomous data loggers can be taken to diverse locations that cannot easily support fixed temperature monitoring equipment. These might include: mountains, deserts, jungles, mines, ice flows, caves, etc. Portable data loggers are also used in industry and laboratory situations where stand-alone recording is desired.
Monitor shipments
Temperature sensitive products such as foods, pharmaceuticals, and some chemicals are often monitored during shipment and logistics operations. Exposure to temperatures outside of an acceptable range, for a critical time period, can degrade the product or shorten shelf life. Regulations and contracts make temperature monitoring mandatory for some products.
Battery-powered, formerly mechanical, the data logger is today an electronic device that can be programmed to record individual values over periods of a few hours to several months. Most are used to monitor temperature conditions, and some versions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldad%20Matityahu | Eldad Matityahu (born 1962) is the founder and chairman of the board of Net Optics, a privately held California-based provider of network visibility solutions that allow companies to protect against hacking, intrusion, confidentiality breach and other malicious attacks. Net Optics specializes in designing visibility into networks to address challenges related to virtualization, compliance and security.
Early life and business ventures
Born and raised in Israel, Matityahu moved to the United States with his parents as a teenager in 1976. He attended high school in Palo Alto, California, and earned a business degree from San Jose State University. His parents ran a restaurant that was only open for breakfast and lunch. While in business school, Eldad ran a barbecue business at their restaurant during dinner hours. He went on to open two frozen yogurt stores called "IT'S A RIOT! YOGURRT" based on a business plan he wrote for school. He sold the yogurt business three years later, switching gears to work in networking technology at a fiber optics company. He was involved in marketing and leadership development for AMP (now a division of Tyco International).
Net Optics
Matityahu founded Net Optics in 1996, investing the proceeds from a frozen yogurt business. Net Optics took shape in a spare room in Matityahu's apartment, bootstrapped without venture capital funding. Under his leadership, Net Optics has been profitable for every quarter since its inception. In 2011, the company was recognized by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as one of Silicon Valley's fastest growing companies, and by Red Herring in its North America and Global Top 100 lists. Its customers include 85% of the Fortune 100 companies. The company delivers solutions for real-time IT visibility, monitoring and control.
Matityahu oversees the launch of six to eight new products each year, guiding the vision and direction of the company with a ‚"Customer First!" philosophy. In 2012, Matityahu led the company's global expansion with the acquisition of Australia's TripleLayer Networks and nMetric without venture capital funding.
Automobile enthusiast
Matityahu has been an automobile enthusiast ever since he watched his brother build a go-cart while they were growing up in Israel. As an avid collector, he incorporates his passion into the corporate culture. The company's fleet of branded Mini Coopers serve as an employee perk. His interest in customizing and driving cars has been compared to his unorthodox approach to business, and Matityahu credits the hobby with stimulating his creative thinking.
In 2011, Net Optics sponsored the Mille Miglia North America Tribute and the 25th annual Santa Barbara Concours d'Elegance, and Matityahu competed in the 1,000 mile race in a 1954 Corvette.
Investment and philanthropy
Matityahu supports young startup companies, including a $75,000 investment in a teenage entrepreneur's business plan. His family has donated to the Oshman Family |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot%20%28Suits%29 | "Pilot" is the pilot episode of the American legal comedy-drama Suits, which premiered on USA Network in the United States on June 23, 2011. The episode was written by series creator Aaron Korsh and was directed by Kevin Bray. The series revolves around two lawyers who, between the two of them, have only one law degree.
Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) is promoted to senior partner of the Pearson Hardman law firm. To his annoyance, company policy requires he hire a Harvard Law School graduate as his associate attorney. Meanwhile, college dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) delivers a suitcase of marijuana for a friend, only to find that the drop is a sting operation. While escaping the police, he mistakenly sits for an interview with Harvey and impresses the attorney with his eidetic memory, encyclopedic knowledge of law, and drive to become a good lawyer. Despite Mike's lack of a law degree, Harvey hires him. On Mike's first day, Harvey must personally handle a pro bono case to keep his promotion. Instead, he has Mike take care of the suit, in which a woman claims her boss sexually harassed her.
The series was originally written as a spec script for a half-hour drama set on Wall Street. Korsh later decided to change the premise because, unlike working on Wall Street, working as a lawyer requires several qualifications. The episode was watched by an estimated 4.64 million viewers and saw a double-digit growth over the January premiere of the network's other legal drama Fairly Legal. However, critical reception was mixed. Some reviewers described the premise as absurd and preposterous and criticized the characters, most notably Harvey. Conversely, others lauded the characters' interactions and the snappy dialogue and praised the series' attempt to make the typical USA formula more grounded and edgy.
Plot
At the Pearson Hardman law firm in Manhattan, Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) convinces his client Gerald (John Bedford Lloyd) to sign a deal by lying and telling Gerald that Pearson Hardman has already been paid. Meanwhile, Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) is nearly caught taking the LSAT for someone else. Shortly after, his marijuana-dealing friend Trevor (Tom Lipinski) offers him a job: Trevor cannot meet a client and needs someone to deliver some drugs. Mike refuses the job.
In the morning, managing partner Jessica Pearson (Gina Torres) promotes Harvey to senior partner. To his annoyance, company policy requires he hire a Harvard Law School graduate as his associate attorney. His interviews are already set for tomorrow. Mike learns that he cannot afford to keep his grandmother (Rebecca Schull) in a private nursing home. To make the money, he agrees to make the drop for Trevor tomorrow. As Trevor leaves his drug supplier, he overhears that the drop might be a sting operation. The suppliers find Trevor eavesdropping and force him to stay overnight so that he can't warn Mike of the possible set up.
The next day, Harvey finds that n |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptilo%20Networks | Aptilo Networks is a company headquartered in Stockholm Sweden, which produces and markets software to manage mobile data and Wi-Fi services for 3G, LTE, WiMAX, Wi-Fi and fixed broadband networks, including for mobile data offloading using Wi-Fi. Aptilo's service management platform controls billing, user services and access within the network. The company offers service management and policy control for both telephony network operators and Internet service providers.
In addition to its headquarters, Aptilo has regional offices in Kuala Lumpur, Dallas Texas and Dubai.
Products and services
Aptilo Networks is a supplier of telecommunication software for telecommunication operators including Wi-Fi and WiMAX service providers. The company's product range includes policy control, Radius servers, AAA servers, Hotspot (Wi-Fi), PCRF servers and Wi-Fi access equipment including software for Wi-Fi calling in Evolved Packet Core networks.
Recent awards
Aptilo Networks has received the following awards:
Fierce Innovation Awards 2015 Winner – Traffic Offload Category
Light Reading – Company of the Year (Private) 2014, Leading Lights Award
History
In September 2001, Aptilo Networks was founded by members of the former management group for Axis Communications' Mobile Internet division and took over the Mobile Access Server product and its development. In October 2001, Aptilo Networks secured its first large Wi-Fi deployment at Copenhagen Airport. Aptilo has grown rapidly and currently has systems deployed in more than 70 countries by companies such as Hutchison 3G, TeliaSonera, Batelco, Telekom Malaysia and Telenor.
Acquisitions
In January 2011, Aptilo acquired Service Factory, a division of Birdstep Technology.
References
Software companies of Sweden
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Companies based in Stockholm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Legendre%20method | In numerical analysis and scientific computing, the Gauss–Legendre methods are a family of numerical methods for ordinary differential equations. Gauss–Legendre methods are implicit Runge–Kutta methods. More specifically, they are collocation methods based on the points of Gauss–Legendre quadrature. The Gauss–Legendre method based on s points has order 2s.
All Gauss–Legendre methods are A-stable.
The Gauss–Legendre method of order two is the implicit midpoint rule. Its Butcher tableau is:
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The Gauss–Legendre method of order four has Butcher tableau:
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The Gauss–Legendre method of order six has Butcher tableau:
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The computational cost of higher-order Gauss–Legendre methods is usually excessive, and thus, they are rarely used.
Intuition
Gauss-Legendre Runge-Kutta (GLRK) methods solve an ordinary differential equation with . The distinguishing feature of GLRK is the estimation of with Gaussian quadrature.
where are the sampled velocities, are the quadrature weights, are the abscissas, and are the roots of the Legendre polynomial of degree . A further approximation is needed, as is still impossible to evaluate. To maintain truncation error of order , we only need to order . The Runge-Kutta implicit definition is invoked to accomplish this. This is an implicit constraint that must be solved by a root finding algorithm like Newton's method. The values of the Runge-Kutta parameters can be determined from a Taylor series expansion in .
Practical example
The Gauss-Legendre methods are implicit, so in general they cannot be applied exactly. Instead one makes an educated guess of , and then uses Newton's method to converge arbitrarily close to the true solution. Below is a Matlab function which implements the Gauss-Legendre method of order four.
% starting point
x = [ 10.5440; 4.1124; 35.8233];
dt = 0.01;
N = 10000;
x_series = [x];
for i = 1:N
x = gauss_step(x, @lorenz_dynamics, dt, 1e-7, 1, 100);
x_series = [x_series x];
end
plot3( x_series(1,:), x_series(2,:), x_series(3,:) );
set(gca,'xtick',[],'ytick',[],'ztick',[]);
title('Lor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%27s%20137th%20House%20of%20Representatives%20district | District 137 of the Texas House of Representatives, is located in southwestern Houston, Texas. The district has been represented by Gene Wu since 2013.
Per 2020 census data, the 137th district is one of the most diverse State House Districts in the legislature.
List of representatives
References
137
Harris County, Texas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra%20%28Australian%20TV%20channel%29 | Extra is an Australian free-to-air television channel launched on 26 March 2012. It broadcasts mainly infomercials, religion, community, educational, multi-cultural programming as well as stories taken from Nine Network programs including A Current Affair, Getaway, Today and Today Extra.
History
On the Nine Network, the Extra brand was first used in Brisbane on a television news program, that was axed on 18 June 2009.
Extra launched on 26 March 2012 on channel 94 in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Darwin and Northern NSW & Gold Coast on channel 84.
Extra replaced WIN Corporation's datacast channel Gold, in both Adelaide and Perth, after both were purchased by Nine Entertainment in 2013. Nine Adelaide launched Extra on 1 July 2013 while Nine Perth launched Extra on 30 September 2013, both along with the timeshift service Extra 2.
On 26 November 2015, Nine's new lifestyle channel 9Life launched in metropolitan areas on channel 94. As a result, Extra, which was on channel 94 at the time, was moved to channel 95, replacing its timeshift service Extra 2. However, Extra remained in broadcast on regional Nine affiliate NBN on channels 84 in place of 9Life.
On 19 January 2016, Extra replaced WIN's five-hour timeshift of their datacasting channel Gold titled Gold 2 on channel 82. When WIN and NBN launched 9Life in March 2016, their channel listings were reshuffled to mirror Nine's metropolitan listings which put Extra on channel 85 in both listings.
Extra ceased broadcasting on 24 September 2018 with the channel space to be occupied by Your Money, a joint venture business channel between Nine and Australian News Channel. Promotional trailers for Your Money were shown during the period until 6:00 am Eastern on 1 October 2018, when the new channel came on air. After Your Money was closed down on 17 May 2019, its DTT channel space was taken by an HD version of 9Gem.
The channel was re-launched 1 October 2020 on digital channel 97 (87 in Northern NSW) after 2 years off the air.
Availability
Extra is available in standard definition in metropolitan areas through Nine Network owned-and-operated stations: TCN Sydney, GTV Melbourne, QTQ Brisbane, NWS Adelaide and STW Perth as well as NBN Northern New South Wales.
Extra 2
On 28 March 2013, Extra 2 was launched on channel 95 and channel 85 in NBN areas as a five-hour timeshift of Extra. As a result, the quality of sister channel 9Gem was cut.
In Adelaide, Extra 2 became available on 1 July 2013, the day Nine took over control of Nine Adelaide (NWS), from the WIN Corporation, along with the main shopping channel, Extra.
In Perth, Extra 2 launched, replacing then Nine Perth owner's WIN Corporation's Gold 2, on 30 September 2013, the day Nine took control of the Perth station, along with the main shopping channel, Extra.
Extra 2 was closed in metropolitan areas on 26 November 2015 when it was replaced by Extra, which had been moved from channel 94 due to the launch of 9Life. However, Extra and Extra 2 both re |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20image%20computing | Medical image computing (MIC) is an interdisciplinary field at the intersection of computer science, information engineering, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics and medicine. This field develops computational and mathematical methods for solving problems pertaining to medical images and their use for biomedical research and clinical care.
The main goal of MIC is to extract clinically relevant information or knowledge from medical images. While closely related to the field of medical imaging, MIC focuses on the computational analysis of the images, not their acquisition. The methods can be grouped into several broad categories: image segmentation, image registration, image-based physiological modeling, and others.
Data forms
Medical image computing typically operates on uniformly sampled data with regular x-y-z spatial spacing (images in 2D and volumes in 3D, generically referred to as images). At each sample point, data is commonly represented in integral form such as signed and unsigned short (16-bit), although forms from unsigned char (8-bit) to 32-bit float are not uncommon. The particular meaning of the data at the sample point depends on modality: for example a CT acquisition collects radiodensity values, while an MRI acquisition may collect T1 or T2-weighted images. Longitudinal, time-varying acquisitions may or may not acquire images with regular time steps. Fan-like images due to modalities such as curved-array ultrasound are also common and require different representational and algorithmic techniques to process. Other data forms include sheared images due to gantry tilt during acquisition; and unstructured meshes, such as hexahedral and tetrahedral forms, which are used in advanced biomechanical analysis (e.g., tissue deformation, vascular transport, bone implants).
Segmentation
Segmentation is the process of partitioning an image into different meaningful segments. In medical imaging, these segments often correspond to different tissue classes, organs, pathologies, or other biologically relevant structures. Medical image segmentation is made difficult by low contrast, noise, and other imaging ambiguities. Although there are many computer vision techniques for image segmentation, some have been adapted specifically for medical image computing. Below is a sampling of techniques within this field; the implementation relies on the expertise that clinicians can provide.
Atlas-Based Segmentation: For many applications, a clinical expert can manually label several images; segmenting unseen images is a matter of extrapolating from these manually labeled training images. Methods of this style are typically referred to as atlas-based segmentation methods. Parametric atlas methods typically combine these training images into a single atlas image, while nonparametric atlas methods typically use all of the training images separately. Atlas-based methods usually require the use of image registration in order to align the atlas imag |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense%20amplifier | In modern computer memory, a sense amplifier is one of the elements which make up the circuitry on a semiconductor memory chip (integrated circuit); the term itself dates back to the era of magnetic core memory. A sense amplifier is part of the read circuitry that is used when data is read from the memory; its role is to sense the low power signals from a bitline that represents a data bit (1 or 0) stored in a memory cell, and amplify the small voltage swing to recognizable logic levels so the data can be interpreted properly by logic outside the memory.
Modern sense-amplifier circuits consist of two to six (usually four) transistors, while early sense amplifiers for core memory sometimes contained as many as 13 transistors. There is one sense amplifier for each column of memory cells, so there are usually hundreds or thousands of identical sense amplifiers on a modern memory chip. As such, sense amplifiers are one of the few remaining analog circuits in a computer's memory subsystem.
Basic structure
Sense amplifier is required during the data read and refresh operation from the memory concerned.
Memory chip operation
The data in a semiconductor memory chip is stored in tiny circuits called memory cells. Sense Amplifiers are primarily applied in Volatile memory cells. The memory cells are either SRAM or DRAM cells which are laid out in rows and columns on the chip. Each line is attached to each cell in the row. The lines which run along the rows are called wordlines which are activated by putting a voltage on it. The lines which run along the columns are called bit-line and two such complementary bitlines are attached to a sense amplifier at the edge of the array. Number of sense amplifiers are of that of the "bitline' on the chip. Each cell lies at the intersection of a particular wordline and bitline, which can be used to "address" it. The data in the cells is read or written by the same bit-lines which run along the top of the rows and columns.
SRAM operation
To read a bit from a particular memory cell, the wordline along the cell's row is turned on, activating all the cells in the row. The stored value (Logic 0 or 1) from the cell then comes to the Bit-lines associated with it. The sense amplifier at the end of the two complementary bit-lines amplify the small voltages to a normal logic level. The bit from the desired cell is then latched from the cell's sense amplifier into a buffer, and put on the output bus.
DRAM operation
The sense amplifier operation in DRAM is quite similar to the SRAM, but it performs an additional function. The data in DRAM chips is stored as electric charge in tiny capacitors in the memory cells. The read operation depletes the charge in a cell, destroying the data, so after the data is read out the sense amplifier must immediately write it back in the cell by applying a voltage to it, recharging the capacitor. This is called memory refresh.
Design objectives
As part of their designs, sense amplifiers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andres%20and%20Marzo%27s%20delta | In statistics, Andrés and Marzo's Delta is a measure of an agreement between two observers used in classifying data. It was created by Andres & Marzo in 2004.
Rationale for use
The most commonly used measure of agreement between observers is Cohen's kappa. The value of kappa is not always easy to interpret and it may perform poorly if the values are asymmetrically distributed. It also requires that the data be independent. The delta statistic may be of use when faced with the potential difficulties.
Mathematical formulation
Delta was created with the model of a set of students (C) having to choose correct responses (R) from a set of n questions each with K alternative answers. Then
where the sum is taken over all the answers ( xij ) and xii are the values along the main diagonal of the C x R matrix of answers.
This formula was extended to more complex cases and estimates of the variance of delta were made by Andres and Marzo.
Uses
It has been used in a variety of applications including ecological mapping and alien species identification.
References
Categorical variable interactions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20Bolo | The Musée Bolo or Swiss Museum of Computer Science, Digital Culture and Video Games is a private museum dedicated to the digital revolution. Its exhibition space is located on the site of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland. Its main storage area is located near Lausanne Train Station.
Collections
Within the museum is a collection of old computers dating from the 1960s to the 1990s in danger of disappearance. This is named Bolo's Computer Museum (BCM), and opened in June 2002. Besides old computers, this collection includes other items associated with old computers, such as peripheral devices, hardware documentation and related books and magazines. Among them is the Contraves Cora anti-aircraft fire control computer.
On 10 November 2011, BMC opened its permanent exhibit, titled "Programmed disappearance", which includes the rarest objects of its collection. Its theme is the various ways in which computers, through trends such as miniaturisation or cloud computing, tend to blend into the background of everyday life and become both pervasive and invisible.
In 2017, Logitech put a number of rare or iconic items on display
See also
Lausanne campus
References
External links
Official website
Bolo Museum
Grappe de PC Linux pour le Calcul à Haute Performance
Computer museums
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Museums in Lausanne
Science museums in Switzerland |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Hollis | Martin Hollis may refer to:
Martin Hollis (video game designer) (born 1971), British computer and video game designer, founder and CEO of Zoonami
Martin Hollis (philosopher) (1938–1998), English rationalist philosopher |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVE%20Brasil%20%28Brazilian%20network%29 | TV Educativa do Rio de Janeiro (also called as TVE Brasil or TVE RJ) was a major Brazilian public TV network based in Rio de Janeiro, now defunct. It was founded in November 5, 1975 and ended on December 2, 2007, being replaced by TV Brasil, the Brazilian federal government channel.
TVE Brazil coordinated with TV Cultura and other regional public stations a nationwide public television network. For many years, TVE Brazil was fairly well watched amongst Brazilians, with some 16 million viewers reported. Until the beginning of the 1990, TVE Brazil was under the supervision of the Brazilian Ministry of Education. Until 2007, each medium was administered alone, there was no central body and every public station operated separately.
Without a well-defined communication policy, successive changes in the presidency and total lack of fiscal responsibility by the directors, the Roquette Pinto Foundation went into bankruptcy with debts over R$ 34 million (equivalent to US$ 6 million in 2021 amounts). The federal government radically changed the way they operated in 1998 and founded ACERP (Roquette Pinto Educational Communication Association), as a non-profit organization, taking its staff, assets and concessions. In 2007, it was replaced by the Brazil Communication Company (EBC), which was linked to the Ministry of Social Communication of the Brazilian Government and ceased operations. The channel was replaced by TV Brasil.
Former programming
Arte com Sérgio Britto
Atitude.com
Atitude no Telhado
Acervo MPB
Caderno 2
Código de Barras
Comentário Geral
Curta Brasil
Cadernos de Cinema
Espaço Público
Esportvisão
A Grande Música
Jornal Visual
Notícias do Rio
Edição Nacional (com a Rede Manchete)
Observatório da Imprensa
Plugado
Programa Especial
Recorte Cultural
Revista do Cinema Brasileiro
Sem Censura
Stadium
Tribunal do Povo
100% Brasil
Um Menino muito Maluquinho
Clifford the Big Red Dog
Jay Jay the Jet Plane
References
Television networks in Brazil
1975 establishments in Brazil
Defunct television networks
Educational and instructional television channels
Television channels and stations established in 1975
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2007
Mass media in Rio de Janeiro (city)
2007 disestablishments in Brazil
Empresa Brasil de Comunicação |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eze%20Castle%20Integration | ECI is a provider of managed services, cyber security and business transformation for mid-market financial services organizations across the globe. The firm was founded when Eze () Castle Consulting split into two independent entities. It employs 900 plus people, with offices in Singapore, Europe, Hong Kong, India, the Philippines, and nine US locations.
History
Sean McLaughlin and John Cahaly founded Eze Castle Consulting in 1995. McLaughlin previously worked at several investment firms. The company was named after Èze, a village in the French Riviera. Eze Castle Consulting began supporting early stage funds in the Boston area, then opened up new offices in New York City, San Francisco and Greenwich, Connecticut in the late-1990s.
As of 2017, Eze Castle had a major office in an 18,000 square foot space at 529 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, where they had been located since 2005.
In 2000, Eze Castle Consulting was split into two independent companies, Eze Castle Software and Eze Castle Integration; Eze Castle Integration became a systems integration company focused on the financial services sector. During the economic downturn in 2000, the firm downsized and reduced many expenditures while continuing to generate a profit. By 2004 the company had grown to a 120-person staff. Throughout the late 2000s, the company introduced Eze Vault, Eze Disaster Recovery, ECI Link and Eze Managed Suites. They also introduced Eze Cloud and started selling Tradar's Insight product in a hosted cloud model. Today a growing percentage of the firm's revenue comes from cloud-based products.
In the first eight months of 2008 the average hedge fund declined five percent and 170 hedge funds closed their doors due to ongoing financial volatility. Although 95 percent of the firm's clients were hedge funds, it experienced a revenue increase of 26 percent and obtained sixty new clients during the time period.
At the time, the company supported 450 US-based hedge funds, including 81 firms with over $1 billion in management. It opened new offices in Chicago in 2008, and London in 2007. In 2010 and 2011 new offices were opened in Singapore and Hong Kong. In 2010 an affiliate company, Ledgex Systems LLC, was created to develop and support software for fund of hedge funds to automate and manage investment portfolios.
In 2018, the company received a significant investment from private equity firm H.I.G. Capital. At the time, Eze Castle had roughly 650 customers across the United States, United Kingdom and Asia.
In 2020, Eze Castle Integration acquired Alphaserve Technologies, a provider of infrastructure technology and digital IT services, bringing the company's client base to 800. In November 2020 the company acquired digital transformation firm NorthOut, Inc. The acquisition accelerates Eze Castle Integration's digital transformation offering for the financial and professional services industries. The acquisitions bring the company's client base to over 800 clients globally.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural%20parliament | Rural parliaments are forums for discussion and debate, often established to give voice to rural populations of the country, to influence policy and practice and to develop networks between those in rural areas. They have been established in Estonia, Swedish-speaking Finland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Slovakia, Sweden, and Scotland and will soon be established in Romania.
List of rural parliaments
Landsbygdsriksdag (Eng: Swedish Rural Parliament; literally Countryside Parliament)), organised by Hela Sverige ska leva (HSSL; Eng: Swedish Village Action Movement; literally: All Sweden Shall Live), Sweden, established 1989
Landsbygdsriksdag, Finland, established 1990
Maapäev (Eng: Rural Parliament of Estonian Villages), established 1996, organised by Kodukant( literally, Home Area), Estonia, established 1997
Vidék Parlementje (Eng: Hungarian Rural Parliament), Hungary, established 1998
Vidiecky Parlament (VIPA), Slovakia, established 2000 informally, 2001 formal NGO
PlattelandsParlement, the Netherlands, established 2005
Slovenski podeželski parliament, Slovenia, established 2011
Parlamentul Rural din România (Eng: Romanian Rural Parliament ), established 2014 informally
Scotland
In March 2012 Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead announced that the Scottish Government was moving ahead with its plans for a Scottish rural parliament, as outlined in Programme for Scotland 2011–2012.
The inaugural Scottish Rural Parliament was held from 6–8 November 2014, in Oban, Argyll & Bute.
An independent organization, Scottish Rural Action, was formed to take forward the proposals. Directors include the chair, John Hutchison of Community Land Scotland, who is a Community Advocate based in the West Highlands. He also chairs the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust and is former Chairman of the John Muir Trust.
The themes or topics for the Rural Parliament will be decided by people who live and work in rural Scotland using a survey.
References
Further reading
‘Rural Parliaments: emerging participative democracy’, 2011, PREPARE network
External links
Official website of the Swedish Rural Parliament
Official website of the Swedish Village Action Movement
Official website of the PlattelandsParlement
Official website of the Vidiecky parlament
Official website of Slovenski podeželski parlament
Official website of the Scottish Rural Parliament
Rural community development
Rural culture
Politics of the European Union |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20cloud | A community cloud in computing is a collaborative effort in which infrastructure is shared between several organizations from a specific community with common concerns (security, compliance, jurisdiction, etc.), whether managed internally or by a third party and hosted internally or externally. This is controlled and used by a group of organizations that have shared interests. The costs are spread over fewer users than a public cloud (but more than a private cloud), so only some of the cost savings potential of cloud computing are realized.
The community cloud is provisioned for use by a group of consumers from different organizations who share the same concerns (e.g., application, security, policy, and efficiency demands).
References
See also
FedRAMP
Cloud computing
Cloud |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312%20United%20States%20network%20television%20schedule%20%28late%20night%29 | These are the late night schedules for the four United States broadcast networks that offer programming during this time period, from September 2011 to August 2012. All times are Eastern or Pacific. Affiliates will fill non-network schedule with local, syndicated, or paid programming. Affiliates also have the option to preempt or delay network programming at their discretion.
Legend
Schedule
Monday-Friday
Saturday
By network
ABC
Returning series
ABC World News Now
America This Morning
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Nightline
CBS
Returning series
CBS Morning News
Late Show with David Letterman
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Up to the Minute
FOX
Returning series:
Encore Programming
New series
Q'Viva! The Chosen
NBC
Returning series
Early Today
Last Call with Carson Daly
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
Saturday Night Live
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
New series
Mad Money
Today With Kathie Lee and Hoda
Not returning from 2010-11:
Poker After Dark
United States late night network television schedules
2011 in American television
2012 in American television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fandom%20Con | FANdom Con was an annual three-day multigenre convention held during November at the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Programming
The convention typically offered card game tournaments, concerts, cosplay contest, masquerade ball, panels, rave, vendors, videogame tournaments, and workshops. FANdom Con during the 2015 convention held a blood drive.
History
FANdom Con was organized due to the lack of an anime convention in the Pensacola, Florida area. University of West Florida students decided to form a student organization, named Con-Quest, whose primary purpose would be to organize the convention. FANdom Con would be multigenre and cover anime, science fiction, and video games. It was estimated that 200-300 people would attend, but the convention instead attracted 752. The first event had a budget of $300 and UWF students entered for free.
FANdom Con moved to the Emerald Coast Convention Center in Fort Walton Beach, Florida starting in 2014 due to growth. Due to low attendance and a website credit card issue, the convention ended 2016 $15,000 below its budget. Due to several issues, the convention suspended operations in 2017.
Event history
References
Defunct multigenre conventions
Recurring events established in 2010
Recurring events disestablished in 2017
2010 establishments in Florida
Annual events in Florida
Conventions in Florida
Festivals in Florida
Tourist attractions in Okaloosa County, Florida
2017 disestablishments in Florida |
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