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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-2 | Tianhe-2 or TH-2 (, i.e. 'Milky Way 2') is a 33.86-petaflops supercomputer located in the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou, China. It was developed by a team of 1,300 scientists and engineers.
It was the world's fastest supercomputer according to the TOP500 lists for June 2013, November 2013, June 2014, November 2014, June 2015, and November 2015. The record was surpassed in June 2016 by the Sunway TaihuLight. In 2015, plans of the Sun Yat-sen University in collaboration with Guangzhou district and city administration to double its computing capacities were stopped by a U.S. government rejection of Intel's application for an export license for the CPUs and coprocessor boards.
In response to the U.S. sanction, China introduced the Sunway TaihuLight supercomputer in 2016, which substantially outperforms the Tianhe-2 (and also affected the update of Tianhe-2 to Tianhe-2A replacing US tech), and in November 2022 ranks eighth in the TOP500 list while using completely domestic technology including the Sunway manycore microprocessor.
History
The development of Tianhe-2 was sponsored by the 863 High Technology Program, initiated by the Chinese government, the government of Guangdong province, and the government of Guangzhou city. It was built by China's National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) in collaboration with the Chinese IT firm Inspur. Inspur manufactured the printed circuit boards and helped with the installation and testing of the system software. The project was originally scheduled for completion in 2015, but was instead declared operational in June 2013. As of June 2013, the supercomputer had yet to become fully operational. It was expected to reach its full computing capabilities by the end of 2013.
In June 2013, Tianhe-2 topped the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world and was still listed as the fastest machine in the November 2015 list. The computer beat out second-place finisher Titan by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Titan, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, achieved 17.59 petaflops, while Tianhe-2 achieved 33.86 petaflops. Tianhe-2's performance returned the title of the world's fastest supercomputer to China after Tianhe-I's début in November 2010. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers said Tianhe-2's win "symbolizes China's unflinching commitment to the supercomputing arms race". In June 2013, China housed 66 of the top 500 supercomputers, second only to the United States' 252 systems. The Chinese total increased to 168 of the top 500 systems by June 2016, overtaking the United States which fell to 165 of the top 500 supercomputers.
Graph500 is an alternate list of top supercomputers based on a benchmark testing analysis of graphs. In their benchmark, the system tested at 2,061 gigaTEPS (traversed edges per second). The top system, IBM Sequoia, tested at 15,363 gigaTEPS. It also has first place in the HPCG benchmark test proposed by J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaaS | BaaS may refer to:
Banking as a service
Blockchain as a service
See also
Baas, a Dutch surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin%20Partridge | Benjamin Partridge (born 1986) is a Welsh comedy writer, performer, actor and producer. He created the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast.
Career
Partridge's professional writing career began when he was awarded the BBC Radio Comedy Writers Bursary in 2011.
Partridge has written for radio, television and live performance. He writes for the CBBC show Horrible Histories, on BBC Radio Wales he is one of the cast and a co-writer of Elis James's Pantheon of Heroes. Partridge co-writes and produced the second series of Here Be Dragons, which won Bronze at the Radio Academy Awards in 2014. He also devised the BBC Radio 4 panel show It's Your Round. Amongst his further writing credits are The Now Show, The News Quiz, Hypothetical, Small Scenes for BBC Radio 4 and Newsjack for BBC Radio 4 Extra.
In 2013, Partridge performed his one-man show, An Audience With Jeff Goldblum, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
A sitcom that Partridge co-wrote with Gareth Gwynn, Ankle Tag, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
Since July 2015, Partridge has written, presented and produced the Beef And Dairy Network Podcast, which is part of the Maximum Fun podcast network. The podcast is a comedic fictional industry podcast for the beef and dairy industries, described as "surreal bovine-themed comedy" by BBC Radio 4. Six episodes of the podcast were broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April-May 2017, with a further 4 broadcast in 2018. The podcast won the Best Comedy award at the British Podcast Awards in 2017 and 2018.
In 2021 he launched the comedy podcast Three Bean Salad with fellow comedians Mike Wozniak and Henry Paker.
Partridge lives in Wales.
References
External links
Beef and Dairy Network podcast
Ben Partridge: Machynlleth Comedy Festival - 2011 radio interview with Bethan Elfyn
British comedy writers
Welsh male comedians
1986 births
Date of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV2 | VTV2 is a Vietnamese television channel owned and operated by state-run VTV Network.
Launched on 1 January 1990, VTV2 is dedicated to the broadcast of education and cultural programs. Since 1 May 2020, the channel has broadcast for 24/7. In 1993, Vietnam Television signed an accord with Canal France Television of France Télévisions to broadcast selected programs of the latter channel. This channel has broadcasting HDTV version from 19 May 2015.
After VTV6 stopped broadcasting, VTV2 broadcast some V-League matches live. Starting from 2023 season, VTV2 will take the VTV6's role to broadcast V-league matches live (along with VTV5 and VTV Cần Thơ).
Broadcast hours
1990-1992: 14:00 to 24:00 (Monday-Friday); 08:00 to 24:00 (Saturday-Sunday)
February 1992: 12:00 to 24:00 (Monday-Friday); 08:00 to 24:00 (Saturday-Sunday)
July 1992: 11:00 to 24:00 (Monday-Friday); 06:00 to 24:00 (Saturday-Sunday)
October 1992 – 1993: 09:00 to 24:00 (Monday-Friday); 06:00 to 24:00 (Saturday-Sunday)
1993-1994: 06:00 to 12:00
1994-2005: 05:30 to 24:00
2005-2011 and 19 March 2020 – 30 April 2020: 05:00 to 24:00
1 January 2012 – 18 March 2020 and 1 May 2020 – present: 24 hours per day.
Programming on VTV2
(Notice: This channel broadcast time is UTC+07:00)
Details : List of broadcasts of Vietnam Television (VTV)
Current programming:
2022 FIFA World Cup
2022 AFF Championship
Miss Universe 2022
2023 V.League 1
Motion News 24h (Chuyển động 24h) (18:00, since 10 October 2014)
World Discovery (Khám phá thế giới)
Sports (every day):
VTV Sports News (11:15)
360 degree Sports (360 độ thể thao) (22:40)
Films (every day):
Vietnamese LAB reruns (11:45)
Foreign LAB (19:00 and 19:50)
Change Life - Thay đổi cuộc sống
Family Time (Giờ gia đình)
Discover Journey (Hành trình khám phá)
Happiness for Everyhome (Hạnh phúc đến mọi nhà)
Go! VTV (Đi VTV)
4 Season Love (Bốn mùa yêu thương)
Beauty 24/7 (Đẹp 24/7)
Healthy for Everybody (Sức khỏe cho mọi người)
Vietnam Discovery (Khám phá Việt Nam)
Transport Light (Đèn giao thông)
News For Hearing Disabilities (22:00, rerun of VTV1's 19:00 news bulletin, aimed at deaf people with sign language)
Technology Life (Nhịp sống công nghệ)
The Amazing Bus (Chuyến xe buýt kỳ thú)
Former programming:
Pokémon: XY (28 September 2015 - 9 July 2016)
Disney Club (Walt Disney cartoon block) (16 January 2016 - 13 November 2016)
Sex and the City (Chuyện ấy là chuyện nhỏ) (1 August 2016 - 7 December 2016)
Pokémon: XY: Kalos Quest (11 July 2016 - 11 May 2017)
Yo-kai Watch (Đồng hồ yêu quái) (2 April 2016 - 20 May 2017)
How I Met Your Mother (Khi bố gặp mẹ) (8 December 2016 - 26 September 2017)
See also
Vietnam Television
List of broadcasts of Vietnam Television (VTV)
Notes
References
External links
VTV Official Web
List of broadcasts of Vietnam Television (VTV)
Vietnam Television
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Documentary television channels
Educational and instructional television channels
Television networks in Vietnam
Agri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTV4 | VTV4 is a Vietnamese state-owned pay television network, serving as the international broadcaster of Vietnam Television. Launched on 7 January 1998, it offers a best-of package of programming from the three domestic channels (VTV1, VTV2 and VTV3) to the Vietnamese diaspora worldwide. From March 31, 2018, Vietnam Television stopped broadcasting foreign satellite channels on VTV4. Specifically, Vietnam Television will stop broadcasting via satellites Thaicom5 (Asia and North Africa), Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B (European region), Hispasat 30W-5 (South America region), and Galaxy 19 (regional region). North America region). After satellite coverage is discontinued, viewers who are using satellite receivers and dish antennas in the above regions will not be able to watch this channel with the old method.
Instead, overseas Vietnamese can easily watch TV via VTVGo - the official online TV viewing application of Vietnam Television Station.
In addition, TV viewers in general as well as overseas Vietnamese in particular can watch all channels from VTV1 to VTV9 online and watch missed programs on VTV News (address: https://vtv.vn) or the VTV News app easily and conveniently.
Broadcast hours
NOTES: All times are in UTC+07:00.
January 1995 – 3 February 1998: 21:45 to 22:45 (1/24h)
March 1998 – 2001: 00:00 to 04:00 (4/24h)
Before 1 November 2004: 00:00 to 08:00 (official programs); 08:00 to 24:00 (reruns) (24/24h)
1 November 2004 – present: 24 hours per day
References
List of television programs broadcast by Vietnam Television (VTV)
Vietnam Television
Television channels and stations established in 1998
Television networks in Vietnam
International broadcasters |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20network%20on%20chip | Optical network-on-chip (ONoC) is a new type of network on chip (NoC) for multiprocessor system-on-chip. While traditional NoC relies on electrical signals to transfer information, hence called electrical network-on-chip (ENoC), its performance and energy efficiency are bound by the significantly unbalanced scaling of on-chip global metal wires comparing to transistors. Optical telecommunications have been successful in many networking domains to replace electrical telecommunications. Riding on the achievements of photonic technologies, a wide range of studies have been done on ONoC.
See also
Optical interconnect
References
Network on a chip |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Married%20to%20the%20Army%3A%20Alaska | Married to the Army: Alaska is an American reality television series that follows the lives of seven military wives living in Alaska. The series premiered on Oprah Winfrey Network on Sunday November 18, 2012 at 10/9c.
Premise
OWN describes the concept behind the series: "Alaska is home to more than 10,000 active-duty soldiers, about 7,000 of whom were deployed to Afghanistan over the past two years. The war in Iraq may be over, but it continues in Afghanistan and for those families whose loved ones are still gone, life during deployment is challenging, especially in Alaska, an assignment the military considers as demanding as an overseas post. For the men and women whose spouses serve in the U.S. Army, deployment is not just an abstract word heard on the evening news.
It's real, it’s tough and it turns their world upside down. Military wives find themselves in a unique sisterhood. The tightest of bonds are formed over fears of deployment, realities of Army life and the emotional roller coaster of homecomings – all set against the backdrop of the rugged, demanding and extreme conditions of Alaska."
Cast
Yolanda Goins
Blair Flanagan
Lindsey Bergeron:
Rynn Randall
Salina Tillman
Sara Dunlap
Traci Moran
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las%20Bandidas | Las Bandidas (Bandits) is a 2013 Spanish-language telenovela that was produced by RTI Producciones and Televisa for México-based television network Canal de las Estrellas and Colombia-based television network RCN TV, and for Venezuelan TV network Televen. It is a remake of Las Amazonas, a Venezuelan telenovela produced for Venevisión. Ana Lucía Domínguez and Marco Méndez will star as the protagonists.
Plot
"Las Bandidas" tells the story of three sisters, who were raised in a different way by their father who is engaged in the business of breeding horses. The three sisters seek to build their path in their lives, in ways that are not exactly what their father envisioned for them.
Cast
Main
Ana Lucía Domínguez as Fabiola Montoya, she is the eldest daughter of Olegario Montoya, who has delegated to it the administration of the Treasury "Las Bandidas".
Marco Méndez as Alonso Cáceres, he is a veterinarian.
Daniela Bascopé as Corina Montoya, Olegario's second daughter. She is a biologist.
Marjorie Magri as Amparo Montoya, Olegario's youngest daughter.
Daniel Lugo as Olegario Montoya, he owns the Hacienda "Las Bandidas". And father of Fabiola, Corina and Amparo.
Guillermo Dávila as Rodrigo Irazábal, Olegario enemy. Owner of the "Hacienda Irazábal". Prestigious and attractive biologist.
Jean Paul Leroux as Sergio Navarro, Fabiola boyfriend and trusted man Olegario.
Claudia La Gatta as Malena Montoya, the second and current wife of Olegario.
Caridad Canelón as Zenaida Mijares "Yaya", mother of Rubén. Housekeeper Hacienda "Las Bandidas" and confident woman Olegario Montoya.
Recurring
Carlos Cruz as Matacán, trusted man Olegario and executor of his orders
Gabriel Parisi as Reynaldo Castillo, he is Amparo boyfriend Montoya.
Christian McGaffney as Rubén Mijares, Zenaida son. Pawn of Hacienda "Las Bandidas", where he lives and works.
Héctor Peña as Vicente Uribe, Corina study partner.
Sabrina Salvador as Dinorah
Gioia Arismendi as Marta Moreno
Crisbel Henriquez as Nelly
Milena Santander as Fermina
Nany Tovar as Julia
Laureano Olivares as Remigio
María Cristina Lozada as Doña Ricarda Irázabal
Guest
Roberto Messutti as Tulio Irazabal
Sandra Díaz as Betsabe
Miguel de León as Gaspar Infante
Broadcast
The series originally aired from April 3, 2013 to September 3, 2013 in Venezuela on Televen.
References
External links
RTI Producciones telenovelas
Televisa telenovelas
Spanish-language telenovelas
2013 telenovelas
RCTV telenovelas
2013 Venezuelan television series debuts
2013 Venezuelan television series endings
2013 Mexican television series debuts
2013 Mexican television series endings
2013 Colombian television series debuts
2013 Colombian television series endings
Mexican television series based on Venezuelan television series
Television shows set in Caracas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20%28computing%29 | In computing and computer science, a processor or processing unit is an electrical component (digital circuit) that performs operations on an external data source, usually memory or some other data stream. It typically takes the form of a microprocessor, which can be implemented on a single metal–oxide–semiconductor integrated circuit chip. In the past, processors were constructed using multiple individual vacuum tubes, multiple individual transistors, or multiple integrated circuits. Today, processors use built-in transistors.
The term is frequently used to refer to the central processing unit (CPU), the main processor in a system. However, it can also refer to other coprocessors, such as a graphics processing unit (GPU).
Traditional processors are typically based on silicon; however, researchers have developed experimental processors based on alternative materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, diamond, and alloys made of elements from groups three and five of the periodic table. Transistors made of a single sheet of silicon atoms one atom tall and other 2D materials have been researched for use in processors. Quantum processors have been created; they use quantum superposition to represent bits (called qubits) instead of only an on or off state.
Moore's law
Moore's law, named after Gordon Moore, is the observation and projection via historical trend that the number of transistors in integrated circuits, and therefore processors by extension, doubles every two years. The progress of processors has followed Moore's law closely.
Types
Central processing units (CPUs) are the primary processors in most computers. They are designed to handle a wide variety of general computing tasks rather than only a few domain-specific tasks. If based on the von Neumann architecture, they contain at least a control unit (CU), an arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and processor registers. In practice, CPUs in personal computers are usually also connected, through the motherboard, to a main memory bank, hard drive or other permanent storage, and peripherals, such as a keyboard and mouse.
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are present in many computers and designed to efficiently perform computer graphics operations, including linear algebra. They are highly parallel, and CPUs usually perform better on tasks requiring serial processing. Although GPUs were originally intended for use in graphics, over time their application domains have expanded, and they have become an important piece of hardware for machine learning.
There are several forms of processors specialized for machine learning. These fall under the category of AI accelerators (also known as neural processing units, or NPUs) and include vision processing units (VPUs) and Google's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU).
Sound chips and sound cards are used for generating and processing audio. Digital signal processors (DSPs) are designed for processing digital signals. Image signal processors are DSPs specializ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficus%20semicordata | Ficus semicordata, commonly known as the drooping fig, is a small to medium-sized fodder tree of genus Ficus. It bears edible fruit. The figs on the lower part of the leafless branches may develop in leaf litter and humus, and be buried in the surface of the soil, where the seeds germinate. Otherwise birds and other animals distribute the seeds.
Ficus semicordata is dioecious, with male and female flowers produced on separate individuals.
References
semicordata
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Flora of Indo-China
Dioecious plants |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EraMobile | EraMobile -Epidemic-based Reliable and Adaptive Multicast for Mobile ad hoc networks is a bio-inspired reliable multicast protocol targeting mission critical ad hoc networks. EraMobile supports group applications that require high reliability and low overhead with loose delivery time constraints. The protocol aims to deliver multicast data with maximum reliability and minimal network overhead under adverse network conditions. EraMobile adopts an epidemic-based approach, which uses gossip messages, to cope with dynamic topology changes due to the mobility of network nodes. EraMobile's epidemic mechanism does not require maintaining any tree- or mesh-like structure for multicast operation. It requires neither a global nor a partial view of the network, nor does it require information about neighboring nodes and group members. The lack of a central structure for multicast lowers the network overhead by eliminating redundant data transmissions. EraMobile contains a simple adaptivity mechanism which tunes the frequency of control packages based on the node density in the network. This adaptivity mechanism helps the delivery of data reliably in both sparse networks -in which network connectivity is prone to interruptions- and dense networks -in which congestion is likely because of shared wireless medium-.
References
Internet architecture
Wireless networking
Routing protocols
Ad hoc routing protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kornwestheim%20station | Kornwestheim station is located in the Ludwigsburg district of Kornwestheim in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Franconia Railway () and is a station on the network of the Stuttgart S-Bahn. It is near the junction of the Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim line (Schusterbahn) freight bypass. Kornwestheim passenger station was the site of a Deutsche Bahn car train loading facility until December 2007.
History
With the establishment of the Central Railway (Zentralbahn) of Württemberg from Stuttgart to Ludwigsburg Kornwestheim also received a station. On 15 October 1846, the station was opened about a kilometre away from the village it served. At first passengers used the Seegasse (roughly today's Bahnhofstraße and Güterbahnhofstraße) to reach the station.
Initially it had a one-storey station building, but another floor was added later. On the ground floor there was a waiting room and an area for providing services. Upstairs was the home of the station master, who was also in charge of the community's postal services until 1891.
In 1852, the Northern Railway between Stuttgart and Bietigheim was duplicated, as traffic in the region of the station increased towards Stuttgart. Because of the increasing freight traffic a freight shed was completed at the station in 1865.
First marshalling yard at Kornwestheim
To relieve the Stuttgart Central Station (Zentralbahnhof), the Royal Württemberg State Railways (Königlich Württembergischen Staats-Eisenbahnen) planned a freight bypass that provided a direct link between the Eastern and Northern Railways, the Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim line. Two marshalling yards were provided at each end of the line. The terrain at the Zuffenhausen end was unsuitable, but the flat ground in Kornwestheim proved to be ideal.
The first yard was 1,700 metres long and had 15 tracks. The old station building was demolished and rebuilt a few metres further east, where it still remains. At that time, it served as an office for the dispatch of freight and as accommodation for railway staff. A new brick entrance building was built on the west side for rail administration and for the handling of passengers, because most waiting rail passengers were bound for Stuttgart. Two new residential blocks were also built on the west side for rail workers. A locomotive shed and a military loading ramp for the Ludwigsburg regiments were built on the eastern track field.
The inauguration of the Untertürkheim–Kornwestheim line and the enlarged station was held on 30 September 1896. Even King William II of Württemberg attended the opening ceremony. The townscape of the community gradually changed as the influx of many railway workers and other workers increased the population.
The yard was soon overloaded. In 1907, the state railway considered enlarging the yard, but it found that the construction of a new yard elsewhere was required. As a result, the new Kornwestheim marshalling yard was opened on 29 July 1918. In the future, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Biel/Bienne | The Biel/Bienne tramway network (; ) was part of the public transport network of the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, in the canton of Bern, Switzerland, and its environs for more than 70 years. Opened in 1877, the network operated as a horsecar tramway (Rösslitram) until 1902, when it was electrified and converted from to .
Initially, the operator was the Compagnie générale des tramways suisses (TS) of Geneva, a predecessor of today's Transports Publics Genevois (TPC). From 1901, the operator was Städtische Strassenbahn Biel / Tramway de Bienne (TrB), from which the present-day Verkehrsbetriebe Biel (VB) / Transports publics biennois (TPB) emerged. In the 1940s, the tramways were gradually replaced by the Biel/Bienne trolleybus system and motor buses, until the network's closure in 1948. But the tramways were removed in 1954 only because it got tarred. When they were found in 1953 again, many people wanted to keep them but because of the new bus system this wasn't necessary.
, there was a proposal for the reintroduction of trams to Biel/Bienne. The proposed new tramway would be named Regiotram, and would link Ipsach with Bözingen/Boujean (DE) from 2020, via the route of the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins-Bahn (DE).
History
Horsecar tramways
On 18. August 1877, the Compagnie générale des tramways suisses (TS) opened a horsecar tramway from Bözingen/Boujean to Nidau Schiffländte. Biel/Bienne thereby became a very early venue for a tramway, before other Swiss cities such as Basel, Bern und Zürich.
The passenger tramcars, including both closed and open trams, were pulled by one or two horses. For mail carriage, a single-axle trailer was available.
The year after the tramway opened, on March 23, 1878, the line was extended to Nidau Kirche. On several occasions, its operating company tried to sell the financially unsuccessful operation to the city of Biel/Bienne. However, a sale took place, without any further line extensions, only in 1901. From then onwards, the network's operator was Städtische Strassenbahn Biel / Tramway de Bienne (TrB).
Electric tramways
After the 1901 takeover of the horsecar line by the city of Biel/Bienne, work began promptly on its electrification, and conversion to metre gauge. Twelve electric motor tramcars were procured, and individual horse car trams were regauged for use as trailer cars. By 1902, electric operations had gradually been introduced.
In 1913 a second tramway was opened, to Mett/Mâche, and designated as line 3. There, it connected right from its opening day with the independent Biel–Meinisberg-Bahn (BMB). At the same time, the existing tramway, which had previously operated without line designators, received the line numbers 1 and 2.
From 1916, the Biel–Täuffelen–Ins-Bahn connected in Nidau with the tramway network.
In 1930, lines 1 and 2 were combined into a new line 1, from Nidau to Bözingen/Boujean. As a result, the old line 3 became a new line 3, and line 4 mutated into a new line 3.
In the 1 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infobip | Infobip is a Croatian IT and telecommunications company. Services include omnichannel communications, a contact center, a chatbot, customer engagement, and customer data platforms, as well as identity and security. Infobip reaches over seven billion mobile devices and 'things' in more than 190 countries connected directly to over 700 telecoms networks. Infobip serves both mobile network operators and enterprises, notably banks, social networks and corporations, as well as non-profit organizations and public institutions.
Infobip was founded in Croatia in 2006. Each year, Infobip's platform sends more than 350 billion transactions.
According to the Croatian Chamber of Economy, Infobip is one of the world's largest providers of A2P SMS services.
On September 20, 2023, Infobip was recognized as a Leader in CPaaS by Gartner.
History
Infobip is linked to an entrepreneurial incubator for start-ups, established in the Croatian town of Pula in 2006, whereas the business idea started to grow through the work of a group of friends in the nearby Vodnjan during 2002.
In 2014 and 2015, the company downsized its operations in Latin America and Asia-Pacific.
In 2020, Infobip raised $200 million from One Equity Partners. Infobip's valuation thus surpassed $1 billion, making it the first Croatian unicorn company. During the same year, Infobip acquired OpenMarket, a company headquartered in Seattle, United States.
In July 2022, Infobip finalized its acquisition of Peerless Network, a U.S.-based telecommunications provider founded in 2008. In March 2023 Peerless was issued a Cease and Desist by the United States Federal Trade Commission citing their hosting of spam and scam callers.
Acquisitions
Shift Conference, Europe-based tech conference, in April 2021
US-based Open Market (300 employees) in May 2021
Anam, SMS firewall developer (77 employees), in May 2021
Peerless Network, US-based communications provider (230 employees), in July 2022
Research & Development
The company employs over 200 developers, engineers, and programmers divided into 25 development teams in 5 R&D centers and operates on a principle of continuous deployment, processing over 400 services on 6 globally distributed data centers. The company exposes its REST API allowing developers to add telco-grade functionalities into their IT systems, mobile apps and web services.
Tech Campuses
In 2022, Infobip opened its second campus in Zagreb, called Alpha Centauri, designed by 3LHD architectural firm. The 20,000 square meter Alpha Centauri campus, which was named after the star system closest to Earth, is located near Zagreb's Sveta Klara and Remetinec neighborhoods.
In September 2017, the company opened its first high-tech campus, named Pangea, built on 17,000 square meters of land in Vodnjan, Croatia. It comprises a central building with offices and conference spaces (5,600 square meters), accommodation units for employees and partners, outdoor sports courts, parking area, and a Med |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.fm | ASKfm (Ask.fm until 14 January 2016) is a Latvian question and answer network launched in June 2010 as a competitor to Formspring. After registration, the user fills out their profile and can ask questions (anonymously or openly), reply on their profile, create photo polls. Also from 2021, app users can communicate anonymously or openly in public chats or tête-à-tête in private chats. The platform had 300 million registered users as of November 2021.
The site was founded in 2010 in Riga, Latvia. Its headquarters was moved to Dublin, Ireland following its 2014 acquisition by IAC (who also own Ask.com). In 2016, IAC sold it to Noosphere Ventures, a California-based asset management firm.
History
The site was founded in Latvia by brothers Ilja (Iļja) and Mark Terebin (Marks Terebins), Oskars Liepiņš, Valērijs Višņakovs and Klāvs Sinka, and launched on 16 June 2010, as a rival to Formspring.
By 2013, ASKfm reached 65 million registered users and continued its growth by approx. 300,000 new users per-day.
By February 2015, the number of registered users had grown to 80 million. Over 30 million questions and answers are created every day.
In 2016 IAC sold it to Noosphere, a California-based asset management firm which also owns several online gambling services, and a cybersecurity provider.
The same year, ASKfm did a major rebranding, changed the logo, and made several interface improvements. Also, now users can change the color of the interface and add a background picture.
In 2017, ASKfm reached 215 million registered users and remained the largest Q&A network in the world.
In 2017, it introduced three new features – Photo Polls, Shoutouts, and Discover. Photo polls allow voting for one of two photos in the post. A shoutout is a question asked to random ASKfm users in one location. Discover is a separate feed for the most interesting answers in the country (closed in 2021).
In 2018, ASKfm created its in-app currency – coins and a separate Versus feed for photo polls. Also in 2019, users got the opportunity to buy coins within the application.
In 2019, the team released Leaderboards, the feature showing the most active users on the platform and Tipping, that allows rewarding users' answers with coins.
In May 2019, it became known about the launch of the goods market, a store where users can purchase discounts and coupons for ASKfm coins. Also, it became known that the number of registered users on the platform reached 300 million.
In 2019, the app launched a VIP program to reward the most active users. Members of the VIP program have access to exclusive features of the app: creating secret answers, a personal progress bar that shows weekly statistics in the app. In 2021, private chats were added to these functions.
In 2020 the VIP program has already been joined by 147,500 askers from more than 50 countries. A special motivation system in the app let the VIP askers earn over 378 million coins, while the algorithms that promoted VIP-profil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalogics | Datalogics is a computer software company formed in 1967 and based in Chicago, IL. The company licenses software development kits for working with PDF and other document file types. They have previously developed their own typesetting and database publishing software. Since 1996, Datalogics has also acted as a channel for several SDKs from Adobe Systems. These include the Adobe PDF Library, Adobe Experience Reader Extensions, Adobe Content Server, Adobe InDesign Server, Adobe PDF Converter, Adobe PDF Print Engine and Adobe Reader Mobile SDK. In 2022, Datalogics launched a new business unit called pdfRest, an API toolkit for PDF processing.
History
In 1967, Datalogics was founded as a general programming consulting company, developing one of the first computerized typesetting systems, and building editing workstations and software to drive them. In the 1980s the firm participated in the ISO committee to standardize SGML, the forerunner of XML and HTML, and applied this standard in the release of DL Pager, a high-volume SGML-based batch composition system, along with WriterStation, an SGML text editor. In 1987 the firm participated in the committee to develop the SGML portion of the CALS initiative.
In 1991 DL Composer, a Formatting Output Specification Instance (FOSI)-based batch composition system was released. Shortly after, Datalogics was acquired by Frame Technology and in 1995 Frame Technology (and Datalogics) was acquired by Adobe. In 1996 Adobe Ventures invested in Datalogics, a reincorporation under its original name as a privately held, independent entity.
In 1997 FrameLink, a FrameMaker plugin which connects to a Documentum content management repository was released. Soon following in 1998 DL Formatter, a Variable data printing application was introduced. In 1999 Adobe selected Datalogics to distribute Adobe PDF Library.
In 2004, Datalogics sold DL Formatter business to Printable Technologies Inc., and in 2010, Adobe selected Datalogics to distribute Adobe Reader Mobile SDK. Since then Datalogics has been working with Adobe, acting as a key channel for several of their PDF toolkits as well as developing their own in-house command-line applications for server side software.
Products
Datalogics licenses and supports toolkits for working with PDF and other document type files. These products include the following:
The Adobe PDF Library, an API for viewing, printing and manipulating PDF files. Built with the same core technology that Adobe uses to build Acrobat, The Adobe PDF Library can merge/split PDFs, extract trapped data, bulk render, add annotations, remove watermarks, convert files into searchable data, create high-volume print jobs and more; add on module Forms Extension is available for developing and supporting static and dynamic AcroForm and XFA within PDFs
Adobe Content Server, a server product that digitally protects PDF and reflowable EPUB eBooks for mobile devices and Adobe Digital Editions software;
Adobe Rea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth%20Nyitray%20Trueblood | Kenneth Nyitray Trueblood (1920–1998) was an American chemist known for pioneering work in the use of computers to determine chemical structures. His work is recognized as significantly contributing to Nobel Prizes being awarded to his long-term collaborators Dorothy Hodgkin and Donald Cram. He published 140 research papers. His organization of a departmental X-ray crystallography lab served as a worldwide model for other chemistry departments.
Trueblood was a Guggenheim fellow for the academic year 1976–1977. He was Chair of the UCLA Department of Chemistry from 1965 to 1970 and 1990–1991. He was Dean of UCLA's College of Letters and Science from 1971 to 1974, and Chair of its Academic Senate from 1983 to 1984.
In 2018, UCLA created the Kenneth N. Trueblood Endowed Chair in Chemistry & Biochemistry and appointed Neil K. Garg as the inaugural chairholder.
References
20th-century American chemists
1920 births
1998 deaths
University of California, Los Angeles faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat%20Story%202 | Goat Story 2 (AKA - Goat story with Cheese) is a 2012 Czech 3D computer-animated comedy feature film (). Directed by Jan Tománek and produced by Art And Animation studio, it is a sequel to the 2008 film Goat Story. The film was animated by a changed team from the first film, with animators joining the project from countries including Spain, Bulgaria and India. The film was released in 2D and 3D and was rendered in in-house GPU renderer FurryBall. It also was possibly the first world feature animated movie that was rendered completely on GPU. In 2015, the producers put the movie on YouTube for free. As with the original, there are many language versions which are the original Czech, English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Turkish, Italian, Russian, and Hindi.
Plot
After the events of the first Goat Story, the Goat leaves old Prague for the fairy cheese kingdom and must save the parents of her new friends. The goat and her friends are joined by three sidekicks: Tall, Broad, and Sharp-eyed.
Cast
The film stars the voices of:
Jiří Lábus as Goat
Matěj Hádek as Jemmy
Mahulena Bočanová as Katie
Michal Dlouhý as Matěj (playing an instrument)
Miroslav Táborský as Priest Ignác
Karel Heřmánek as Devil / Leader
Dalimil Klapka as Beggar
Ota Jirák as Taverner
Martin Dejdar as Student
See also
List of animated feature films
List of computer-animated films
List of musical films by year
References
External links
Goat story 2 with Cheese on YouTube for free
Official website (in Czech)
2012 films
2012 computer-animated films
Czech sequel films
2010s teen films
2012 3D films
Animated films based on fairy tales
Czech animated comedy films
Czech animated fantasy films
Czech teen films
Films about goats |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20SIGWEB | SIGWEB is a Special Interest Group of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on hypertext, hypermedia, and the World Wide Web. SIGWEB was named SIGLINK until November 1998.
Conferences
SIGWEB sponsors several conferences relating to hypertext and the World Wide Web. ACM SIGWEB core conferences are:
The ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext)
The ACM Web Conference (WebConf)
The ACM Document Engineering Conference (DocEng)
The ACM Web Science Conference (WebSci)
The ACM International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP)
The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
The ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL)
The ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data mining (WSDM)
ACM SIGWEB Cooperating Conferences are as the following:
The ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys)
The ACM Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI)
The International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER)
The International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS)
The International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK)
The International Web for All Conference (W4A)
The International Conference on Web Studies (WS- Web Studies)
The International Conference on Webmedia (Webmedia)
The International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)
The ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX)
Awards
SIGWEB has three main awards that are given out annually: the Douglas Engelbart Best Paper Award, the Ted Nelson Newcomer Award, and the Vannevar Bush Best Paper Award.
References
External links
http://www.sigweb.org
https://www.acm.org/special-interest-groups/sigs/sigweb
Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Groups |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pid%20%28video%20game%29 | Pid is a puzzle-platform game developed by Might and Delight and published by D3 Publisher for Xbox 360 through the Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation 3 through PlayStation Network, Microsoft Windows, and OS X. On November 18, 2022, it was published by RedDeerGames for Nintendo Switch. It was announced December 7, 2011 and released worldwide October 31, 2012.
The game received average scores, with reviewers citing its presentation and soundtrack as favorable, but having problems with the game's repetitive gameplay and frustrating puzzle solutions. Pid was the recipient of the 2012 European Games Award in the Innovate Newcomer category.
Gameplay
Pid begins as a young boy named Kurt is left stranded on a remote alien planet. As he travels across the mysterious land, the boy must defeat terrifying robot enemies, as well as befriend unfamiliar allies in his quest to uncover an alien conspiracy and return home. The game takes place in a 2D side-scrolling perspective. The player must utilize a wide variety of different gameplay situations and mechanics to overcome and traverse the world's puzzle-like landscape. Kurt's primary tool is a white jewel that produces what the game calls "beams", which can be used to propel him in a manner of ways throughout the levels and solve various puzzles. The beams are used to create gravity wells, which push Kurt outward into the air, with two allowed to be active at once in the environment. However, gravity manipulation is not the only way to interact with his surroundings, as Kurt also comes across a variety of other tools which can be used at his disposal. Blue and red bombs can be detonated to either damage enemies immediately or timed for strategical placement respectively. Burst beams will allow him to reach higher areas out of reach from the normal beams' gravity wells. Smoke bombs can obscure his location from enemy spotlights and flashlights. Kurt may also make use of a vest that allows him to withstand more damage. There is also a co-operative mode where both players are dependent on each other to solve puzzles and eliminate enemies, while also competing and testing their skills against one another.
Soundtrack
The music score was composed and recorded by a small group of studio musicians called Retro Family, based in Sweden. The soundtrack has notably been a large part of the game's praises.
Reception
Pid has received mixed reviews from critics, with a Metacritic and GameRankings average score of 72/100 and 73% respectively. Criticism was directed at the game's repetitiveness and difficulty. GameSpot's Leif Johnson criticized the game's "excessively brutal difficulty, particularly in boss fights", while also enjoying the gravity puzzles and presentation, giving the game a 7/10. IGN's Colin Moriarty gave Pid a 7.8/10, or a "good" score, also praising the game's unique gameplay and setting as well its soundtrack, while also stating "occasionally wonky puzzles are bound to annoy" and puzzle solutions may be |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented%20scan | In computer science, a segmented scan is a modification of the prefix sum with an equal-sized array of flag bits to denote segment boundaries on which the scan should be performed.
Example
In the following, the '1' flag bits indicate the beginning of each segment.
Group1
1 = 1
3 = 1 + 2
6 = 1 + 2 + 3
Group2
4 = 4
9 = 4 + 5
Group3
6 = 6
An alternative method used by High Performance Fortran is to begin a new segment at every transition of flag value. An advantage of this representation is that it is useful with both prefix and suffix (backwards) scans without changing its interpretation. In HPF, Fortran logical data type is used to represent segments. So the equivalent flag array for the above example would be as follows:
References
Concurrent algorithms
Higher-order functions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20unit%20%28disambiguation%29 | A control unit (CU) is a central, sometimes distributed but clearly distinguishable, part of a mechanism that controls its operation, for example in a computer or a motor vehicle.
Control unit may refer to:
Control unit, a component of a computer's central processing unit
Control unit, a special area of a prison that is used to keep prisoners in solitary confinement (also called a "segregation unit")
Another name for a Controller
Multipoint control unit, a device commonly used to bridge videoconferencing connections
Packet control unit, performs some of the processing tasks of a base station subsystem
Premises control unit, the "brain" of a burglar alarm
Telecommunication control unit, a device attached to a computer multiplexer channel which supports multiple terminals
Camera control unit, typically part of a live television broadcast "chain"
Electronic control unit, an embedded system that controls electrical systems in a motor vehicle
Engine control unit, an electronic control unit that controls a series of actuators on an internal combustion engine
Fuel control unit, a control system for gas turbine engines
Transmission control unit, a device that controls electronic automatic transmissions, and automated clutch systems, such as servos or actuators, in a clutchless manual or semi-automatic transmission
Control car (rail), a non-powered railroad vehicle that can control the operation of a train
Actuator control unit, a control unit for actuators used in the internet of things
See also
Control (disambiguation)
Controller (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal%20Uno%20%28Ecuador%29 | Canal Uno (formerly SiTV) was an Ecuadorian television network owned by the Group Rivas operated RELAD S.A., in the city of Guayaquil and Canal Uno S.A., in the city of Quito. Since its start in broadcasting on November 6, 1992, as CRE Televisión, April 18, 1994, as SíTV and May 6, 2002, the channel has become one of the largest chains of Ecuador.
It is on Channel 12 for the provinces of Guayaquil to the coast, the mountains, East, Southern Zone and Galapagos, Esmeraldas, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, Los Rios, Manabi, Santa Elena, Guayas, El Oro, Carchi, Imbabura, Cotopaxi, Tungurahua, Chimborazo, Bolivar, Canar, Azuay, Loja, Sucumbios, Napo, Orellana, Pastaza, Morona Santiago and Zamora Chinchipe Galapagos. and Channel 12 for Quito Pichincha province. It uses the slogan "You see". Internationally signal is presented with "Canal Uno Internacional" through the website www.canal1tv.com (in May 2012, was relaunched with a new design, integrating online video and other services). In September 2012, will launch a special edition of the history of SíTV from April 18, 1994, to May 6, 2002.
Currently, a member of the Asociación de Canales de Televisión del Ecuador.
History
CRE Televisión
The channel began its operations under the name of CRE Televisión (the initials of Compañía Radiodifusora del Ecuador) through cable television companies in Guayaquil, and broadcasting on Channel 12 in the VHF band. The station was owned by CRE Radio, a radio station that had launched in 1940. In its beginnings, it aired music videos, news from the radio booth, and programs imported from neighboring Colombia.
In December 1993, due to financial readjustments, businessman Rafael Guerrero Valenzuela sold the channel's shares to a group of businessmen led by Fernando Aspiazu, Isidro Romero and Galo Roggiero with the aim of entering Ecuadorian television.
SíTV
For this reason, on January 1, 1994, Sistema Integral de Televisión (SíTV) was created, created among the shareholders with the aim of seeking an alternative to commercial television in the country that was strongly dominated by the cities with the largest population. A greater investment was made and the projection of the new channel was also adjusted to the new schedule featuring Japanese anime, local productions and an updated news operation. On April 18, 1994, SíTV's broadcasts officially began, through Channel 12 VHF terrestrially from Guayaquil, from which it expanded to the national level through satellite, being one of the pioneers. In its beginnings, it had a lineup of 18 hours of local production, news services and anime series that achieved good ratings.
However, as a result of the economic crisis at the end of the 1990s and the devaluation of the official currency, the company began to fall apart due to personal and administrative disputes, therefore the channel began to completely reduce its audience. One of the biggest triggers was the arrival of businessman Marciel Rivas Sáenz, who after years a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSDB | HSDB may refer to:
Hawaii School for the Deaf and the Blind
Hazardous Substances Data Bank |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Lookout | Union Lookout is a lookout tower located within Trail of Tears State Forest in Union County, Illinois, United States. The Civilian Conservation Corps built the tower circa 1934 as part of a network of fire lookout towers in Shawnee National Forest; the fire towers were one of many CCC conservation projects in the forest, which also included planting trees, constructing bridges and trails, and preventing erosion. The tower was used through the 1960s, by which time airplanes had largely replaced towers as a means of detecting fires; it is now the only remaining lookout tower in the forest. On February 5, 2003, Union Lookout was added to the National Register of Historic Places.
See also
Hickory Ridge Fire Tower in Indiana's Hoosier National Forest
References
Government buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
Towers completed in 1934
Buildings and structures in Union County, Illinois
Fire lookout towers in Illinois
Fire lookout towers on the National Register of Historic Places
Shawnee National Forest
Civilian Conservation Corps in Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in Union County, Illinois
1934 establishments in Illinois |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northpoleradio.com | North Pole Radio is an American radio network specializing in Christmas music. The network, owned and operated by Broadcast Partners out of Seattle, Washington, operates as an Internet feed throughout the year and programs terrestrial radio stations during the Christmas and holiday season.
References
External links
North Pole Radio
American radio networks
Companies based in Seattle |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Aleven | Vincent Aleven is a professor of human-computer interaction and director of the undergraduate program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human–Computer Interaction Institute.
In 1998, he co-founded Carnegie Learning, Inc., a Pittsburgh-based company that markets Cognitive Tutor math courses that include intelligent tutoring software. Aleven is also a co-founder of Mathtutor, a free website for middle-school math intelligent tutoring systems.
At Carnegie Mellon University, Aleven's research focuses on intelligent tutoring systems and educational games. His group developed Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT) which allows to create intelligent tutoring systems without programming. Aleven's group has also been awarded several best paper awards, including a best paper award at EDM2013, a best student paper award at AIED2009, and the cognition and student learning prize at the Cognitive Science conference 2008. Aleven has mentored many prestigious postdocs and PhD students, including Amy Ogan, Ryan S. Baker, Matthew Easterday, Martina Rau, and Ido Roll.
Aleven was named a top author in Computer Education by Microsoft.
Education
Vincent Aleven attended the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) from 1980 to 1988, graduating in 1988 with a Master of Science degree in computer science. He then attended the University of Pittsburgh from 1989 to 1997, where he earned a PhD in Intelligent Systems. In 1997, he joined Carnegie Mellon University as a postdoctoral fellow. Since then, he has been conducting research, specializing in artificial intelligence, intelligent educational systems, cognitive modeling, learning and metacognitive skills, and case-based reasoning. He now serves as a professor and director of the undergraduate program at Carnegie Mellon University's Human–Computer Interaction Institute.
Research
Cognitive Tutor
Aleven, along with his colleague Kenneth Koedinger, assisted in creating Cognitive Tutor, an intelligent tutoring software that supports guided tutoring for math courses. His research investigated whether self-explanation through Cognitive Tutor could improve student performance in school more than conventional methods. Aleven and his fellow researchers found that students who explained their problems on practice problems with Cognitive Tutor regularly performed significantly better than those who did not use the software. These results highlight the benefits of self-explanation and learning software that can scale for classroom use to assist all students.
Enhancing MOOCs with ITS
Aleven, along with his colleagues Jonathan Sewall, Ryan Baker, Yuan Wang, and Octav Popescu introduced intelligent tutoring systems(ITS) into massive open online courses (MOOCs) to enhance learning-by-doing and overall student performance. The ITSs support learning-by-doing to assist students by guiding them through complex practice problems and having them explain their work. The researchers also embedded their Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools( |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of American animated television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts 2 in the AM PM and The Naïve Man from Lolliland. Following its second season's success, Regular Show was renewed for a third season on November 16, 2010, ahead of its second-season premiere. The season ran from September 19, 2011 to September 3, 2012, and was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
Regular Shows third season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Kat Morris, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Ben Adams, Andres Salaff, John Infantino, Toby Jones, Hilary Florido, Mike Roth, and Madeline Queripel.
For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor.
Development
Concept
Two 23-year-old friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
Production
Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Quintel, Sean Szeles, Kat Morris, Benton Connor, Calvin Wong, Ben Adams, Andres Salaff, John Infantino, Toby Jones, Hilary Florido, Mike Roth, and Madeline Queripel. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Roth, Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
The third season of Regular Show was produced between November 2010 and August 2011. It utilizes double entendres and mild language; Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came with this switch.
Episodes
Home media
Warner Home Video released multiple DVDs, consisting of Region 1 formats. The Best DVD in the World *At this Moment in Time, Party Pack, Fright Pack, Mordecai & Margaret Pack, Rigby Pack, and Mordecai Pack were created for Region 1 markets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20exponent%20of%20a%20word | In mathematics and computer science, the critical exponent of a finite or infinite sequence of symbols over a finite alphabet describes the largest number of times a contiguous subsequence can be repeated. For example, the critical exponent of "Mississippi" is 7/3, as it contains the string "ississi", which is of length 7 and period 3.
If w is an infinite word over the alphabet A and x is a finite word over A, then x is said to occur in w with exponent α, for positive real α, if there is a factor y of w with y = xax0 where x0 is a prefix of x, a is the integer part of α, and the length |y| = α |x|: we say that y is an α-power. The word w is α-power-free if it contains no factors which are β-powers for any β ≥ α.
The critical exponent for w is the supremum of the α for which w has α-powers, or equivalently the infimum of the α for which w is α-power-free.
Definition
If is a word (possibly infinite), then the critical exponent of is defined to be
where .
Examples
The critical exponent of the Fibonacci word is (5 + )/2 ≈ 3.618.
The critical exponent of the Thue–Morse sequence is 2. The word contains arbitrarily long squares, but in any factor xxb the letter b is not a prefix of x.
Properties
The critical exponent can take any real value greater than 1.
The critical exponent of a morphic word over a finite alphabet is either infinite or an algebraic number of degree at most the size of the alphabet.
Repetition threshold
The repetition threshold of an alphabet A of n letters is the minimum critical exponent of infinite words over A: clearly this value RT(n) depends only on n. For n=2, any binary word of length four has a factor of exponent 2, and since the critical exponent of the Thue–Morse sequence is 2, the repetition threshold for binary alphabets is RT(2) = 2. It is known that RT(3) = 7/4, RT(4) = 7/5 and that for n≥5 we have RT(n) ≥ n/(n-1). It is conjectured that the latter is the true value, and this has been established for 5 ≤ n ≤ 14 and for n ≥ 33.
See also
Critical exponent of a physical system
Notes
References
Formal languages
Combinatorics on words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code42 | Code42 is an American cybersecurity software company based in Minneapolis specializing in insider risk management. It is the maker of the cloud-native data protection product Incydr and security microlearning product Instructor. Code42’s Incydr is a SaaS data-loss protection product. Incydr is designed to help enterprise security teams detect insider risks to data that could lead to data leak and data loss and insider threat breaches, and respond to them appropriately. Code42’s Instructor is an integrated microlearning tool that allows security teams to send out security training videos to teach employees how to manage risk.
History
Code42 was founded as an IT consulting company in 2001, by Matthew Dornquast, Brian Bispala, and Mitch Coopet. The company's name honors Douglas Adams, who authored Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and had died that year. In the book, the number 42 is the "answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything".
Some of Code42's first projects included a redesign of Sun Country Airlines’ website in 2002, a project for the retailer Target Corporation, and the ticket booking engine for Midwest Airlines. Income from the IT services business was used to fund product ideas for six years.
In 2006, the company planned to create a Facebook-like desktop application, but the project became too large and impractical. Code42 focused on the online storage element of the application, creating CrashPlan in 2007.
In June 2011, Code42 acquired a Minneapolis-based mobile development company, Recursive Awesome LLC, to support its software on mobile devices.
In 2012, Code42 raised $52.5 million in funding. The funding was the first distribution from a $100 million pool established in 2011 by Accel Partners to fund Big Data companies.
In 2013, Code42 developed, released and marketed a file sharing service called SharePlan. According to the Star Tribune, it competed with DropBox, but SharePlan used a PIN to access files and track users.
In October 2014, a revision of the software added features for regulatory compliance like Sarbanes-Oxley and options for a private, public or hybrid cloud deployment. It had a single login with Crashplan using a feature called the "Code42 EDGE Platform", which was improved in December 2014 with two-factor authentication features. Shareplan was discontinued in August 2015.
In mid 2015, former Eloqua CEO Joe Payne succeeded co-founder Matthew Dornquast as CEO. The company raised an additional $85 million in funding in October 2015.
On August 22, 2017, Code42 announced they were shutting down CrashPlan for Home, effective in October 2018. They were not accepting new subscriptions but would maintain existing subscriptions until the end of their existing subscription period, at which point the backups would be purged. The Home plans had been replaced by CrashPlan for Small Business, which are business-focused, although still possible to use for private purposes. Backups to friends/famil |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree%20accumulation | In computer science, tree accumulation is the process of accumulating data placed in tree
nodes according to their tree structure. Formally, this operation is a catamorphism.
Upward accumulation refers to accumulating on each node information about all descendants. Downward accumulation refers to accumulating on each node information of every ancestor.
One application would be calculating national election results. Construct a tree with the root node as the entire nation and each level representing refined geographical areas such as states/provinces, counties/parishes, cities/townships, and polling districts as the leaves. By accumulating the vote totals from the polling districts, one can compute the vote totals for each of the larger geographic areas.
Formal analysis
Gibbons et al. formally define binary tree accumulation as iterative application of a ternary operator ; where A are descendant labels and B is a junction label.
References
Trees (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20functions%20for%20optimization | In applied mathematics, test functions, known as artificial landscapes, are useful to evaluate characteristics of optimization algorithms, such as:
Convergence rate.
Precision.
Robustness.
General performance.
Here some test functions are presented with the aim of giving an idea about the different situations that optimization algorithms have to face when coping with these kinds of problems. In the first part, some objective functions for single-objective optimization cases are presented. In the second part, test functions with their respective Pareto fronts for multi-objective optimization problems (MOP) are given.
The artificial landscapes presented herein for single-objective optimization problems are taken from Bäck, Haupt et al. and from Rody Oldenhuis software. Given the number of problems (55 in total), just a few are presented here.
The test functions used to evaluate the algorithms for MOP were taken from Deb, Binh et al. and Binh. The software developed by Deb can be downloaded, which implements the NSGA-II procedure with GAs, or the program posted on Internet, which implements the NSGA-II procedure with ES.
Just a general form of the equation, a plot of the objective function, boundaries of the object variables and the coordinates of global minima are given herein.
Test functions for single-objective optimization
Test functions for constrained optimization
Test functions for multi-objective optimization
See also
Ackley function
Himmelblau's function
Rastrigin function
Rosenbrock function
Shekel function
Binh function
References
Constraint programming
Convex optimization
Types of functions
Test items |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBJ%20model | In computer science, the Helman-Bader-JaJa model
is a concise message-passing model of parallel computing defined with the following parameters:
is number of processors.
is the problem size.
is number of machine words in a packet sent over the network.
is the latency, or time at which a processor takes to initiate a communication on a network.
is the bandwidth, or time per machine word at which a processor can inject or receive machine words from the network.
is the largest computation time expended on a processor.
is the time spent in communication on the network.
This model assumes that for any subset of processors, a block permutation among the processors takes time, where is the size of the largest block.
Analysis of common parallel algorithms
Complexities of common parallel algorithms contained in the MPI libraries:
Point to point communication:
Reduction :
Broadcast:
Parallel prefix:
All to all:
References
Parallel computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Commons%20Consortium | The Open Commons Consortium (aka OCC - formerly the Open Cloud Consortium) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit venture which provides cloud computing and data commons resources to support "scientific, environmental, medical and health care research." OCC manages and operates resources including the Open Science Data Cloud (aka OSDC), which is a multi-petabyte scientific data sharing resource. The consortium is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is managed by the 501(c)3 Center for Computational Science Research.
Partnerships and engagements
The OCC was among six partners engaged by the Global Lambda Integrated Facility to establish a testbed for a 100 Gbit/s data transmission capability.
The OCC is divided into Working Groups which include:
The Open Science Data Cloud - This is a working group that manages and operates the Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC), which is a petabyte scale science cloud for researchers to manage, analyze and share their data. Individual researchers may apply for accounts to analyze data hosted by the OSDC. Research projects with TB-scale datasets are encouraged to join the OSDC and contribute towards its infrastructure.
Project Matsu - Project Matsu is a collaboration between the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and the Open Commons Consortium to develop open source technology for cloud-based processing of satellite imagery to support the earth science research community as well as human assisted disaster relief.
The Open Cloud Testbed - This working group manages and operates the Open Cloud Testbed. The Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) is a geographically distributed cloud testbed spanning four data centers and connected with 10G and 100G network connections. The OCT is used to develop new cloud computing software and infrastructure.
The Biomedical Data Commons - The Biomedical Data Commons (BDC) is cloud-based infrastructure that provides secure, compliant cloud services for managing and analyzing genomic data, electronic medical records (EMR), medical images, and other PHI data. It provides resources to researchers so that they can more easily make discoveries from large complex controlled access datasets. The BDC provides resources to those institutions in the BDC Working Group. It is an example of what is sometimes called condominium model of sharing research infrastructure in which the research infrastructure is operated by a consortium of educational and research organizations and provides resources to the consortium.
NOAA Data Alliance Working Group - The OCC National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Data Alliance Working Group supports and manages the NOAA data commons and the surrounding community interested in the open redistribution of NOAA datasets.
In 2015, the OCC was accepted into the Matter healthcare community at Chicago's historic Merchandise Mart. Matter is a community healthcare entrepreneurs and industry leaders working together in a shared space to individually and collectively fuel the f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-bursting%20%28networking%29 | In computer networking, micro-bursting is a behavior seen on fast packet-switched networks, where rapid bursts of data packets are sent in quick succession, leading to periods of full line-rate transmission that can overflow packet buffers of the network stack, both in network endpoints and routers and switches inside the network. It can be mitigated by the network scheduler. In particular, micro-bursting is often caused by the use of TCP on such a network.
See also
Head-of-line blocking
TCP pacing
References
Computer networking
Queueing theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student%20Television%20Network | Student Television Network (STN) is a United States based association of high school and middle school broadcasting, film and media programs. They work with teachers to provide support and tools for the classroom. STN also hosts several contests for students and a convention that brings together over 3,000 students and teachers for four days of professional sessions, contests, and interaction with peers.
Student Television Network embraces the educational components of broadcast journalism, video production, filmmaking and media by networking students and teachers with professionals in the industry. Middle school and high school students are given varied opportunities for training, interaction, competition and critiques from qualified experts.
Objectives
Student Television Network's objectives are:
To help the students understand the media business better
To give them an idea on how to enter the media world
To give the students an idea of what to do between now and when they enter the media world
To give the students real world, hands on experience at the convention
To give teachers a chance to connect with other teachers and allow them to share ideas
Contests
Student Television Network hosts several contests each year for both high school and middle school students. All contests follow strict guidelines for content, copyright and ethics. Submissions are judged by professionals in the industry and comments are given to students for evaluation. STN adheres to professional guidelines for student produced work thus ensuring that students are equipped with real world knowledge during their education.
Some of the contests they host during the year are: STN Challenges, STN Broadcast Excellence Awards, STN Film Excellence Awards, STN Nationals, Craft Achievement, Student of the Year Contest, Teacher of the Year Contest, and Teacher Video Contest.
Student Television Network also hosts the STN Honor Society. STN offers scholarships to students for convention.
Conventions
The annual STN convention hosts more than 3,000 students and teachers from across the world. The goal of the convention is to network students and teachers with professionals who can share real life experience. The peer interaction is also significant as teachers interact with colleagues who share their struggles and successes and students explore their passion for production with others from diverse parts of the US and internationally.
STN has held conventions since 2010. The 2020 Convention was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. As well, the 2021 Convention was held virtually. The 2022 Convention returned to In-Person attendance.
The four-day convention included a day devoted to an 8-hour timed contests (Crazy 8s), the Opening Ceremony, two days of breakout sessions presented by professionals in the industry, training sessions, individual program contests, Broadcast Excellence and Film Excellence Awards Night, and a formal Closing Ceremony. Every year, profe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Show%20%28season%204%29 | The fourth season of American animated comedy television series Regular Show, created by J. G. Quintel, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States. Quintel created the series' pilot using characters from his comedy shorts for the canceled anthology series The Cartoonstitute. He developed Regular Show from his own experiences in college. Simultaneously, several of the show's main characters originated from his animated shorts 2 in the AM PM and The Naïve Man from Lolliland. Following its third season's success, Regular Show was renewed for a fourth season on October 26, 2011. The season ran from October 1, 2012 to August 12, 2013 and was produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
Regular Shows fourth season was storyboarded and written by Calvin Wong, Toby Jones, Andres Salaff, Madeline Queripel, Benton Connor, Hilary Florido, Sean Szeles, Kat Morris, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, James Kim, and Owen Dennis. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor.
Development
Concept
Two 23-year-old friends, a blue jay named Mordecai and a raccoon named Rigby, are employed as groundskeepers at a park and spend their days trying to slack off and entertain themselves by any means. This is much to the chagrin of their boss Benson and their coworker Skips, but the delight of Pops. Their other coworkers, Muscle Man (an overweight green man) and Hi-Five Ghost (a ghost with a hand extending from the top of his head) serve as their rivals.
Production
Many of the characters are loosely based on those developed for Quintel's student films at California Institute of the Arts: The Naive Man From Lolliland and 2 in the AM PM. Quintel pitched Regular Show for Cartoon Network's Cartoonstitute project, in which the network allowed artists to create pilots with no notes to be optioned as a show possibly. After being green-lit, Quintel recruited several indie comic book artists to compose the show's staff, as their style matched close to what he desired for the series. The season was storyboarded and written by Calvin Wong, Toby Jones, Andres Salaff, Madeline Queripel, Benton Connor, Hilary Florido, Sean Szeles, Kat Morris, Sarah Oleksyk, Hellen Jo, James Kim, and Owen Dennis. The season was the last to feature contributions from Morris, who left to work on Steven Universe. For this season, the writers were Quintel, Mike Roth, John Infantino, Michele Cavin, and Matt Price, who is also the story editor while being produced by Cartoon Network Studios.
The fourth season of Regular Show was produced between September 2011 and September 2012. It utilizes double entendres and mild language; Quintel stated that, although the network wanted to step up from the more child-oriented fare, some restrictions came along with this switch.
Episodes
References
2012 American television seasons
2013 American television seasons
Regular Show seasons |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nak%20%28film%29 | Nak () is a Thai computer-animated dark fantasy horror film that was released on April 3, 2008 and aired on TV in Thai PBS Kids.
The story is based on ghosts of the folklore of Thailand, who in this movie shed their sinister reputation and are the heroes. Nak, its central character, is based on the figure of Mae Nak, a Thai female spirit that has a baby and can stretch her arms. Nak's striking fuchsia-colored hair and eyes in this movie are a departure from her alleged looks in traditional lore though. Other spirits familiar to Thai people that appear in this movie are Phi Hua Kat, Krahang, Krasue, Phi Am, Nang Tani, Nang Takian and Phi Phong.
Ghosts from other backgrounds such as Phi Yipun, the scary woman with long, stringy black hair wearing a white gown, a well-known vengeful ghost (onryō) from Japanese horror films based on the Yotsuya Kaidan story, also have a role in the Nak movie.
Plot
Led by Nak and her friends, the ghosts of Thai popular tradition fight against a powerful evil spirit that threatens mankind.
Voice cast
See also
Mae Nak Phra Khanong
Ghosts in Thai culture
Thai folklore
References
External links
NAK นาค (2008)
Nak animation
Nak trailer
2008 animated films
2008 films
2008 computer-animated films
2000s children's animated films
Cel-shaded animation
Thai horror films
Thai children's films
Thai animated films
Thai-language films
2000s ghost films
Films about witchcraft
Films based on Mae Nak Phra Khanong
Sahamongkol Film International films
Films set in Bangkok
Children's horror films
Animated horror films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trams%20in%20Winterthur | The Winterthur tramway network () was part of the public transport network of the city of Winterthur, in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland, for more than 50 years.
Opened in 1898, the network also served the neighbouring communities of Töss, Wülflingen, Oberwinterthur and Seen, all of which were incorporated into the municipality of Winterthur in 1922. After reaching its maximum extent in 1931, the network was gradually replaced from 1938 by the Winterthur trolleybus system, until the network's closure in 1951.
Throughout its existence, the network's operator was the Gesellschaft Winterthur-Töss (WT), which was renamed Städtische Strassenbahn Winterthur (StStW) in 1900 and Verkehrsbetriebe Winterthur (VW) in 1940. The company still exists today, as Stadtbus Winterthur (DE).
History
The tramway network, which opened on 13 July 1898, was the second form of public transport in Winterthur, after a horse bus service, which had run between 1895 and 1897. The network's first tramway was a long radial route from Bahnhof (Winterthur railway station) to Töss. It served as a complement to the existing Winterthur–Bülach–Koblenz railway line, which had been in service since 1876, and which already had a station at Töss.
The trams on the first tramway ran every 10 minutes, and a single ticket cost ten Rappen. The city centre terminus was initially not outside the railway station, but at the Restaurant Wartmann – that is, at the junction of the Wartstrasse and the Rudolfstrasse and thus on the western side of the station yard. The Töss terminus was located approximately at the current Töss Zentrum trolleybus stop.
Initially, the trams were stored and maintained in a wooden depot on the grounds of the Töss-based Maschinenfabrik Rieter. A long non-revenue track was constructed in Töss to link the depot with the rest of the network. Rieter was also engaged by the city as general contractor in respect of the tracks, the catenary and the first generation trams. In addition, the company was responsible for supplying electric current to the catenary until 1904, when the Winterthur municipal power station took over that task. The voltage used to power the network was 550 volts DC.
After the turn of the century, the network was extended as follows:
[1] = Simultaneously, the circa 200 m long section in the Rudolfstrasse was closed.
[2] = Simultaneously, the non-passenger carrying line in Töss was closed.
Additionally, on 31 October 1914, the StStW opened a tram deport of its own in Tösstalstrasse in the present-day Mattenbach quarter. This so-called Depot Deutweg remains in service to this day, as a bus garage.
With the last extension of the network to Oberwinterthur, the tram network reached its maximum extent of , of which was double track. Any further expansion of tram routes – for example, a proposed extension to the central cemetery in Rosenberg – remained unrealised, as a consequence of either the introduction of motor bus services in 1931, or t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20set | In computer science, more precisely in automata theory, a rational set of a monoid is an element of the minimal class of subsets of this monoid that contains all finite subsets and is closed under union, product and Kleene star. Rational sets are useful in automata theory, formal languages and algebra.
A rational set generalizes the notion of rational (regular) language (understood as defined by regular expressions) to monoids that are not necessarily free.
Definition
Let be a monoid with identity element . The set of rational subsets of is the smallest set that contains every finite set and is closed under
union: if then
product: if then
Kleene star: if then where is the singleton containing the identity element, and where .
This means that any rational subset of can be obtained by taking a finite number of finite subsets of and applying the union, product and Kleene star operations a finite number of times.
In general a rational subset of a monoid is not a submonoid.
Example
Let be an alphabet, the set of words over is a monoid. The rational subset of are precisely the regular languages. Indeed, the regular languages may be defined by a finite regular expression.
The rational subsets of are the ultimately periodic sets of integers. More generally, the rational subsets of are the semilinear sets.
Properties
McKnight's theorem states that if is finitely generated then its recognizable subset are rational sets.
This is not true in general, since the whole is always recognizable but it is not rational if is infinitely generated.
Rational sets are closed under morphism: given and two monoids and a morphism, if then .
is not closed under complement as the following example shows.
Let , the sets
and are rational but is not because its projection to the second element is not rational.
The intersection of a rational subset and of a recognizable subset is rational.
For finite groups the following result of A. Anissimov and A. W. Seifert is well known: a subgroup H of a finitely generated group G is recognizable if and only if H has finite index in G. In contrast, H is rational if and only if H is finitely generated.
Rational relations and rational functions
A binary relation between monoids M and N is a rational relation if the graph of the relation, regarded as a subset of M×N is a rational set in the product monoid. A function from M to N is a rational function if the graph of the function is a rational set.
See also
Rational series
Recognizable set
Rational monoid
References
Jean-Éric Pin, Mathematical Foundations of Automata Theory, Chapter IV: Recognisable and rational sets
Samuel Eilenberg and M. P. Schützenberger, Rational Sets in Commutative Monoids, Journal of Algebra, 1969.
Further reading
Automata (computation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20television%20series%20that%20changed%20networks | Television series whose first-run broadcasts were on multiple networks, which are listed in chronological order after each show name.
A
Aawitan Kita (RPN, GMA, ABC)
Adventures of the Gummi Bears (NBC, ABC, Syndication)
Adyenda (ZOE TV, GMA, QTV, GMA News TV)
Agila (RPN, ABS-CBN)
Airwolf (CBS, USA)
Aladdin (Disney Channel, Syndication, CBS)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (CBS, NBC)
Alisto (GMA, GMA News TV)
All Rise (CBS, OWN)
All My Children (ABC, TOLN via Hulu)
The Alvin Show (CBS, NBC as Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983), Nickelodeon as Alvin and the Chipmunks (2015))
American Bandstand (WPVI-TV, ABC, Syndication, USA)
American Dad! (FOX, TBS)
America's Most Wanted (FOX, Lifetime)
America's Next Top Model (UPN, The CW, VH1)
American Idol (FOX, ABC)
Ang Dating Daan (IBC, RPN, RJTV, PTV, SBN, UNTV)
Ang Iglesia ni Cristo (MBS, PTV, RPN, IBC, BBC, City2, ABS-CBN, Net 25, GEM TV, INC TV)
Ang Manok ni San Pedro (RPN, IBC)
Ang Tamang Daan (SBN, Net 25, INC TV)
Animaniacs (FOX, The WB, Hulu)
Anna Luna (ABS-CBN, RPN)
Archer (FX, FXX)
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (YTV, Family Channel)
Arrested Development (FOX, Netflix)
Art Is Kool (GMA, ABC)
The Arthur Murray Party (ABC, DuMont, CBS, NBC)
Asenso Pinoy (ABC, IBC, NBN, PTV, Studio 23, S+A, A2Z)
At Your Service (GMA, QTV as At Your Service-Star Power)
Ating Alamin (MBS, PTV, IBC, ABC, NBN)
B
Babylon 5 (PTEN, TNT)
Bachelor Father (CBS, NBC, ABC)
Batibot (RPN, PTV, ABS-CBN, GMA, TV5)
BattleBots (Comedy Central, ABC, Science, Discovery)
Battle of the Brains (RPN, PTV)
Baywatch (NBC, Syndication)
Beat the Clock (CBS, ABC, Syndication, PAX)
Beetlejuice (ABC, FOX)
The Berenstain Bears (CBS, PBS)
The Betty White Show (KLAC-TV, NBC)
Between Brothers (FOX, UPN)
Big Brother: After Dark (Showtime 2, TVGN/Pop, Slice)
Big Brother (Channel 4, Channel 5)
Big Hero 6: The Series (Disney XD, Disney Channel)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (CBS, FOX)
Billboard Music Awards (FOX, ABC, NBC)
The Bionic Woman (ABC, NBC)
Bitag (ABC, IBC, TV5, PTV)
Bitag Live (UNTV, AksyonTV, PTV)
Biyaheng Langit (RPN, IBC, PTV, RJTV)
Black Mirror (Channel 4, Netflix)
Blockbusters (ITV, Sky1, BBC Two, Challenge)
Bob the Builder (Nickelodeon, PBS)
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed (FOX, MyNetwork TV)
Brooklyn Nine-Nine (FOX, NBC)
Brotherly Love (NBC, The WB)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (The WB, UPN)
Business and Beyond (GMA News TV, PTV, IBC)
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (UPN, ABC)
C
Cafeteria Aroma (ABS-CBN, RPN, GMA)
Camp Candy (NBC, Syndication)
Card Sharks (NBC, CBS, Syndication, ABC)
Celebrity Big Brother (Channel 4 / E4, BBC One, Channel 5, 5Star)
Celebrity Deathmatch (MTV, MTV2)
Celebrity Family Feud (NBC, ABC)
Charles in Charge (CBS, Syndication)
The Chase (GSN, ABC)
Chicks to Chicks (IBC, ABS-CBN as Chika Chika Chicks)
Chikiting Patrol (ABS-CBN, IBC, GMA, ABC)
The Chris Gethard Show (MNN, Fusion, TruTV)
Cobra Kai (YouTube Red/YouTube Pre |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinopoisk | Kinopoisk (, a portmanteau of "cinema" and "search") is a Russian online database of information related to films, TV shows including cast, production team, biographies, plot summaries, ratings, and reviews. Since 2018 (as КиноПоиск HD) also a subscription video on demand streaming service with several thousand films, TV series, cartoons and including premieres and exclusive ones, has also been available.
In 2013, Kinopoisk was purchased by Yandex, one of Russia's largest IT companies. In 2015, KinoPoisk underwent a total redesign. However, the new design was met with strong criticism by both users and the media for its inferior functionality and slower loading time. Within four days Yandex reverted the site to its former design. After that, new design features were introduced gradually.
It is one of the most popular movie portals of the Runet. The website has 93 million visits per month. Among the sites dedicated to films, it occupies the 3rd place in the world in terms of traffic, giving way to the IMDb portal and the Chinese Douban.
By 2020s, Kinopoisk became Russia's major streaming service and started producing its own films and TV series, most notably Aeterna, The Last Minister, and Korol i Shut.
References
External links
2003 establishments in Russia
Russian film websites
Internet properties established in 2003
Video on demand services
Online film databases
Yandex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Ru%C5%BEi%C4%8Dka | Peter Ružička (9 August 1947 – 5 October 2003) was a Slovak computer scientist and mathematician who worked in the fields of distributed computing and computer networks. He was a professor at the Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics working in several research areas of theoretical computer science throughout his long career.
Biography
Ruzicka graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava in 1970. In 1982 he received his Ph.D. degree in Mathematical and Computer Science from Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Prague. He was awarded his Doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in Mathematical Informatics and Theoretical Cybernetics from Comenius University in Bratislava in 1994.
His earlier works cover topics that include formal languages, unification, graph pebbling and others. Most of his research works since the early 1990s were in the areas of Communication Networks and Distributed Computing. These works include studies of complexity issues for various problems and models of Interval Routing, and for various problems and topics in distributed computing (like oriented and unoriented networks) and in interconnection networks.
Ruzicka was a regular participant in many conferences in this area, including DISC and SIROCCO; he was on the program committees of DISC 1998 and 2000 and SIROCCO 1999. He also enthusiastically organised DISC 1999 in Bratislava – held for the first time in a former East-European country, which proved to be a great success, highly appreciated by the Steering Committee and the whole audience. He participated and was very actively involved in other conferences, including ICALP, SOFSEM and MFCS. These activities included co-chairing MFCS 1994, chairing MFCS 1997 and chairing SOFSEM 2001, and being on the program committees of MFCS 2000 and SOFSEM 1997.
In 2003, he was appointed a Professor in Informatics at the Comenius University in Bratislava.
Throughout his career, Ruzicka was a visiting professor at Northeastern University, Humboldt University of Berlin, Carleton University, University of Paderborn, RWTH Aachen University, Utrecht University, Technion University and many others.
Awards and recognition
Committee for Academic and Scientific Literature and Computer Programmes of the Slovak Literary Fund granted to Peter Ruzicka in memoriam and collective, Award of acknowledgement for Academic and Scientific Literature for 2005 in the category of Natural and Technical Sciences for the book Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks.
Personal life
Peter died of pancreatic cancer on 5 October 2003.
Publications
Peter Ruzicka has authored and co-authored numerous publications and books. One of his last projects he worked on had been an EATCS Series book on Dissemination of Information in Communication Networks
Other publications
References
External links
Eulogy for Peter Ruzicka (in Slovak) Comenius University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics
1947 births
2003 d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luch%205B | Luch 5B ( meaning ray and sometimes transliterated as Loutch-5B) is a Russian Luch relay satellite which transmits data from the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, and from other satellites in low Earth orbit. It is in geosynchronous orbit.
Luch
Luch 5B is one of three Luch relay satellites. Luch 5A was launched on 11 December 2011 and Luch 5V was launched on 28 April 2014. They are dual purpose satellites with both military and civil uses, and are similar to those in the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
Luch 5B was built by JSC Information Satellite Systems using the Ekspress-1000A bus. It has 4 S and Ku band channels with repeaters manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and other equipment manufactured by Sumitomo. The Ku band antenna operates at up to 150 Mbit/s and the S band antenna at up to 5 Mbit/s. The satellite also has a "laser-radio channel".
The satellite is designed to relay data from the ISS, satellites in low earth orbit and rocket launch vehicles.
Luch 5B is located at 16° W.
Launch
Luch 5B was launched on 2 November 2012 with satellite Yamal 300K. It was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad 81/24 by a Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M upper stage. It was launched at 21:04 UTC and after four burns of the Briz-M upper stage it was placed into geosynchronous transfer orbit at 06:33 UTC on 3 November.
The launch was delayed from 30 August 2012 due to the failure of the launch of Telkom-3 and Ekspress MD2 in August 2012.
References
Spacecraft launched by Proton rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2012
Satellites using the Ekspress bus
Communications satellites of Russia
Telecommunications in Russia
Roscosmos
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Kelch | Jim Kelch is an American sportscaster who worked for the Cincinnati Reds Radio Network from 2008 to 2017. He currently serves as the play-by-play announcer for Northern Kentucky University men's basketball and for Reds Triple-A affiliate Louisville Bats, which he also covered from 1989 to 2009.
Prior to joining the Reds broadcast team, Kelch also called games for the Peoria Chiefs, Chattanooga Lookouts, Chattanooga Mocs men's basketball, NCAA Division II men's basketball semifinal championships, Louisville Cardinals football, men's basketball, women's basketball, Bellarmine University, and called the 2009 NCAA Women's national championship game. Kelch is a graduate of Bradley University. Joining Kelch on the broadcast team for the Reds were Marty Brennaman, Thom Brennaman, Chris Welsh, George Grande, and, occasionally, Sean Casey.
His contract with the Reds was not renewed for the 2018 season.
References
External links
Jim Kelch's bio
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American radio sports announcers
Bradley University alumni
Cincinnati Reds announcers
College basketball announcers in the United States
College football announcers
Major League Baseball broadcasters
Minor League Baseball broadcasters
People from Peoria, Illinois
Women's college basketball announcers in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MINOS%2B | MINOS+ was a continuation of the MINOS experiment (Main injector neutrino oscillation search) to measure neutrino oscillation with improved electronics. It started taking data in 2013 and ran for 3 years. The experiment has ended and a 6-month dismantling project began in early October 2016.
Physics goals
Measure sin22θ and Δm2 with higher precision.
Measure sin22 and Δ2 with higher precision.
Study high energy neutrinos
Search for sterile neutrinos
Search for tau neutrinos
Non-standard interactions
Measurement of the neutrino time of flight
Search for extra dimensions
Atmospheric neutrinos
Neutrino beam
MINOS+ uses the NuMI beamline generated at Fermilab. To produce the beamline, 120 GeV proton pulses from the Main Injector hit a water-cooled graphite target. The resulting interactions of protons with the target material produce pions and kaons, which are focused by a system of magnetic horns. These then travel down a long decay tunnel, and their decay produces a neutrino beam parallel to the meson beam. Most of these are muon neutrinos, with a small electron neutrino contamination. Neutrino interactions in the near detector are used to measure the initial neutrino flux and energy spectrum. Because they are weakly interacting and therefore usually pass through matter, the vast majority of the neutrinos travel through the near detector and the 734 km of rock, then through the far detector and off into space. For the initial 3-year run the NuMI beam will be in its medium energy configuration which will deliver the majority of neutrinos with an energy between 4 GeV and 10 GeV.
Relationship with NOνA
NOνA sits 14 milliradians off the central line of the NuMI beam. At this angle, there is an enhancement of neutrinos with an energy of 2 GeV, at which the L/E (baseline divided by energy) maximizes the oscillation of muon neutrinos. This causes a problem in that the signal you are looking for is a dip in a peak. MINOS+ sits on the central line of the beam so the full beam make up is seen, thus helping control systematic errors for the NuMI beam energy.
References
External Links
MINOS+ experiment record on INSPIRE-HEP
Accelerator neutrino experiments
Fermilab
Particle experiments
Neutrino experiments
Fermilab experiments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Irwin%27s%20Wildlife%20Warriors | Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors is an Australian factual television series. It aired on Network Ten on 6 October 2012. It stars Bindi Irwin, Terri Irwin, and Robert C. Irwin. The show is a tribute to Steve Irwin.
External links
Steve Irwin's Wildlife Warriors
Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors
Network 10 original programming
Australian factual television series
2012 Australian television series debuts
2012 Australian television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20pool | Power pooling is used to balance electrical load over a larger network (electrical grid) than a single utility. It is a mechanism for interchange of power between two and more utilities which provide or generate electricity For exchange of power between two utilities there is an interchange agreement which is signed by them, but signing up an interchange agreement between each pair of utilities within a system can be a difficult task where several large utilities are interconnected. Thus, it is more advantageous to form a power pool with a single agreement that all join. That agreement provides established terms and conditions for pool members and is generally more complex than a bilateral agreement.
In one model, the power pool, formed by the utilities, has a control dispatch office from where the pool is administered. All the tasks regarding interchange of power and the settlement of disputes are assigned to the pool administrator.
The formation of power pools provide the following potential advantages:
Decrease in operating costs
Saving in reserve capacity requirements
Help from pool in unit commitment
Minimization of costs of maintenance scheduling
More reliable operation
The formation of a power pool is associated with a number of problems and constraints. These include:
Pool agreement may be very complex
Costs associated with establishing central dispatch office and the needed communication and computational facilities
The opposition of pool members to give up their rights to engage in independent transactions outside the pool.
The complexity towards dealing with regulatory authorities, if pool operates in more than one state.
The effort by each member of the pool to maximize its savings.
Power pooling is very important for extending energy control over a large area served by multiple utilities.
See also
Wheeling (electric power transmission)
Notes
Further reading
Master's Thesis
Pooling |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rulkov%20map | The Rulkov map is a two-dimensional iterated map used to model a biological neuron. It was proposed by Nikolai F. Rulkov in 2001. The use of this map to study neural networks has computational advantages because the map is easier to iterate than a continuous dynamical system. This saves memory and simplifies the computation of large neural networks.
The model
The Rulkov map, with as discrete time, can be represented by the following dynamical equations:
where represents the membrane potential of the neuron. The variable in the model is a slow variable due to a very small value of . Unlike variable , variable does not have explicit biological meaning, though some analogy to gating variables can be drawn. The parameter can be thought of as an external dc current given to the neuron and is a nonlinearity parameter of the map. Different combinations of parameters and give rise to different dynamical states of the neuron like resting, tonic spiking and chaotic bursts. The chaotic bursting is enabled above
Analysis
The dynamics of the Rulkov map can be analyzed by analyzing the dynamics of its one dimensional fast submap. Since the variable evolves very slowly, for moderate amount of time it can be treated as a parameter with constant value in the variable's evolution equation (which we now call as one dimensional fast submap because as compared to , is a fast variable). Depending on the value of , this submap can have either one or three fixed points. One of these fixed points is stable, another is unstable and third may change the stability. As increases, two of these fixed points (stable one and unstable one) merge and disappear by saddle-node bifurcation.
Coupling
Coupling of two neurons has been investigated by Irina Bashkirtseva and Alexander Pisarchik who explored transitions between stationary, periodic, quasiperiodic, and chaotic regimes. They also addresses the additional consequences of random disturbances on this system, leading to noise-induced transitions between periodic and chaotic stochastic oscillations.
Other applications
Adaptations of the Rulkov map have found applications in labor and industrial economics, particularly in the realm of corporate dynamics. The proposed framework leverages synchronization and chaos regularization to account for dynamic transitions among multiple equilibria, incorporate skewness and idiosyncratic elements, and unveil the influence of effort on corporate profitability. The results are substantiated through empirical validation with real-world data. Orlando and Bufalo introduced a deterministic model based on the Rulkov map, effectively modeling volatility fluctuations in corporate yields and spreads, even during distressed periods like COVID-19. Comparing it to the ARIMA-EGARCH model, designed for handling various volatility aspects, both models yield comparable results. Nevertheless, the deterministic nature of the Rulkov map model may provide enhanced explanatory capabilities. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP%20pacing | In the field of computer networking, TCP pacing is the denomination of a set of techniques to make the pattern of packet transmission generated by the Transmission Control Protocol less bursty. It can be conducted by the network scheduler.
Bursty traffic can lead to higher queuing delays, more packet losses and lower throughput. However it has been observed that TCP's congestion control mechanisms may lead to bursty traffic on high bandwidth and highly multiplexed networks, a proposed solution to this problem is TCP pacing. TCP pacing involves evenly spacing data transmissions across a round-trip time.
See also
Micro-bursting (networking)
References
Network performance
Transmission Control Protocol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DXAV-TV | DXAV-TV, is a commercial television station of Philippine television network GTV, owned by Citynet Network Marketing and Productions, a subsidiary of GMA Network Inc. Its transmitter facility are located at Linabo Peak, Lugdungan, Dipolog.
See also
GTV
List of GTV stations
GTV (Philippine TV network) stations
Television stations in Zamboanga del Norte
Television channels and stations established in 1995 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEEBUG | BEEBUG was a magazine published for users of the BBC Micro between 1982 and 1994. It was the first subscription magazine for computers made by Acorn Computers.
History
BBC Micro User Group
The group was formed in 1982 by Sheridan Williams and Lee Calcraft. Calcraft and Williams were contributors to Personal Computer World magazine (PCW) at the time. Calcraft was writing under pseudonyms in PCW, Acorn User and The Micro User. Williams was a founding contributor to PCW.
When Acorn announced that they had won the contract to provide the computer to support the BBC's Computer Literacy Project, BEEBUG was formed to provide a magazine and support group. It turned out that Acorn were unable to supply the BBC Micro for many months and customers who had ordered the computer were anxious to learn as much about it before its arrival.
Within 6 months membership reached 10,000 and by 1985 membership exceeded 30,000; in the final issue, the editors estimated 60,000 people had subscribed at one time or another during the magazine's lifetime. The company is still in existence and nowadays the core business involves providing computer networks in schools.
Magazine
The first issue of the Beebug Newsletter appeared in April 1982 and the last issue, volume 12 no 10, in April 1994. Newsagents sold the magazine at some point. It was the first subscription magazine for computers made by Acorn Computers.
At the start the cover was monochrome, but a colour printed cover was then introduced in March 1983 when membership was 16,000. At the beginning each issue had 28 pages, but it expanded to 50 pages by 1985 when membership exceeded 30,000. The content included hints, program listings, hardware and software reviews, brain teasers and competitions. Illustrations were rudimentary. The magazine sometimes included special members' offers for items such as operating system upgrades. Cover mounted tape cassettes containing programs, binders and an advertising supplement were also published.
It was published 10 times a year in A5 format. It was published by BEEBUG Publications Ltd, based in St Albans, UK. In 1985 membership including a postal subscription in the UK cost £11-90 a year (10 issues).
Reception
The magazine and its younger Acorn Archimedes companion RISC User were considered by Archive in 1990 as "friendly rival[s]". The magazine was remembered in 1998 as being "an essential source of information and tips for BBC Micro and Master users".
Professor Krisantha Weerasuriya of Sri Lanka's University of Colombo noted the user group and its magazine to be "very helpful" in a 1988 issue of the BMJ.
Legacy
A review from a 1984 issue of the magazine was cited in United States patent in 1993.
Some of the topics covered in the magazine listings included fractal trees, Lorenz attractors and modelling of 3D functions. Such basic principles have been included in the 2004 book Flash Math Creativity, with reference to the magazine's coverage of the topics. An enhan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amandas | The Amandas was an American reality television series on the Style Network. The series premiered on January 30, 2012. The Amandas follows home organizing expert Amanda LeBlanc, as she helps people turn cluttered spaces into usable areas.
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
2012 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean%20House%20New%20York | Clean House New York is an American reality television series on the Style Network. The series premiered on October 17, 2011 and is a spin-off of Clean House. Clean House New York follows New York designers and former HGTV Design Star competitors Nina Ferrer and Michael Moeller, along with their work crew, as they help families across the city clean up their homes.
Episodes
Season 1 (2011)
References
2010s American reality television series
2011 American television series debuts
2011 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
American television spin-offs
Reality television spin-offs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOX%20Betsey%20Johnson | XOX Betsey Johnson is an American reality television series on the Style Network and debuted on May 12, 2013. The series follows Betsey Johnson and her daughter, Lulu, as they struggle to evolve their mother-daughter relationship, move on from filing Chapter 11 bankruptcy and nurture their future careers.
Cast
Main
Betsey Johnson
Lulu Johnson
Brandon Aldridge
Recurring
Brandon Aldridge — Betsey's design director and CEO of menswear line Highland Duds
Ashley — Lulu's assistant
Angela — Lulu's best friend
Bogdan — Betsey's trainer
Janet — Betsey and LuLu's therapist
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Style Network original programming
Television series by Magical Elves |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CopperEgg | CopperEgg Corporation is a cloud computing systems management company based out of Austin, Texas. CopperEgg provides a family of Software as a Service (SaaS) based cloud monitoring services for public and private cloud environments. These services include server monitoring, website monitoring, and web application monitoring that system and application performance, and alerts on and helps troubleshoot system and application issues. CRN Magazine included the company on its list of 10 hot new cloud startups to watch in 2011. In 2013, the company was recognized with the North America Frost & Sullivan Award for New Product Innovation within Cloud Monitoring Solutions. The company has strategic partnerships with companies such as Amazon AWS, advanced technical partner; Rackspace; SolarWinds; and Blitz IO.
History
Scott Johnson and Eric Anderson co-founded CopperEgg in 2010. Johnson previously co-founded Thomas Conrad, a networking hardware company that was acquired by Compaq Computer Corp. in 1995. He went on to co-found Surgient Networks in 2000, where he was the chief technology officer. Anderson was formerly a software consultant and has held engineering roles at Austin-based Centaur Technology. He had previously worked with Johnson on a startup in Austin called StorSpeed Inc.
The CopperEgg name is a reference to the "Egg of Columbus" or Columbus Egg, which refers to a brilliant idea or discovery that seems simple or easy after the fact and pays homage to Nikola Tesla who demonstrated the principles of a rotating magnetic field and induction motor by demonstrating how to make a copper egg stand on end.
In 2013-07-09, IDERA, Inc. announced the acquisition of CopperEgg Corporation. The company stated the acquisition would combine Idera's database monitoring and CopperEgg's server and application performance management software to give its customers better visibility and control over their IT environments with SaaS-based management. As of 2016, CopperEgg Corporation's web site ceases operational, and redirected to IDERA, Inc.'s page. CopperEgg's monitoring software was renamed to 'Uptime Cloud Monitor'.
Venture capital
CopperEgg raised a total of $4.1M Series A funding and was backed by Austin-based Silverton Partners and Webb Investment Network. The company raised their initial round of $2M in funding in July 2011. They raised an additional $2.1M in May 2012 and hired a new CEO, Bob Quillin, to lead an expansion push with product build out and accelerate sales and marketing.
Technology
The company's flagship product is a server monitoring solution called RevealCloud. Originally launched in July 2011, RevealCloud provides real-time server monitoring for Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X servers. The 5 second on-screen performance updates are visible through the SaaS application. Some of the key unique features include a less than 10 second install and a Web 2.0 graphical interface. CopperEgg introduced server application process monitoring in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKXY | WKXY (92.1 FM) is a radio station airing a country music format. The station is licensed to Merigold, Mississippi. WKXY is owned by Delta Radio Network LLC. The WKXY studio is located at 3965 Highway 61 North in Cleveland, Mississippi, and the transmitter site is located on East Mound Bayou Road, near the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
History
WKXY originally went on-air in Clarksdale, Mississippi in 2003 and operated as a simulcast of WROX. The city of license was changed to Merigold, Mississippi in 2008 and the station was moved to and began serving the Cleveland, Mississippi area in October 2008.
Programming
The station features a mainstream country format, including the KIX morning show with John "Maddog" Miller.
References
External links
Country radio stations in the United States
KXY |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JTBC%20Newsroom | JTBC Newsroom is the flagship nightly newscast of South Korean television network JTBC. The newscast is aired from 19:50-20:50 KST on weekdays, 17:50-18:30 on Saturdays and 17:50-18:40 on Sundays. JTBC Newsroom replaced two of its predecessors, JTBC News 10 and JTBC News 9. It is presented by Han Min-yong and Choi Jae-won on weekdays, and Kang Ji-young on weekends.
History
Etymology
Sohn Suk-hee has clarified that the name of the program has nothing to do with the American drama The Newsroom, which he only watched for about ten minutes. He also pointed out that there are several other programs with the same name, including the ones from BBC News and CNN.
2011: JTBC News 10
It was launched on December 1, 2011, as JTBC News 10, together with the launch of the network itself. It was JTBC's first flagship newscast, which was then hosted by Jun Yong-woo and Cha Ye-rin. Unlike newscasts from the mainstream networks, JTBC News 10 is more focused on providing in-depth stories throughout the program. It was one of the pioneer programs of JTBC that time, usually having a 1% rating according to AGB Nielsen Korea.
November 2012—May 2013: JTBC News 10 becomes JTBC News 9
On November 5, 2012, major programming revamp happened within the JTBC network. This included a major shift between drama and news programs. Its drama series were moved from 20:45/23:00 to 21:45, and its main newscast, JTBC News 10, became JTBC News 9. JTBC News 10 presenters Jun Yong-woo and Cha Ye-rin were abruptly replaced by Jun Young-gi and Hwang Nam-hee weeks before the 2012 South Korean presidential elections. Although it was titled JTBC News 9, it actually started at 20:50 KST. JTBC News 9 focused on news summaries similar to the mainstream networks, with some exclusive news features. It did not become that popular with viewers, as the newscast was placed third among general cable news programs, behind Channel A's Comprehensive News (now News A) and TV Chosun's News Show Pan (now News Nine).
May 2013: Sohn Suk-hee becomes president of JTBC News, takes over News 9
On May 9, 2013, Sohn Suk-hee was named as the president of JTBC News department. He was considered the most prominent and the most influential news presenter in South Korea, having been with MBC for over three decades before leaving his post on MBC Radio. Another major revamp was made within the entire network programming, including more news and current affairs programs in the line-up, before he assumed the presenter post on 16 September. JTBC News 9 was shown at 20:55. Like its predecessor, JTBC News 10, JTBC News 9 focused more on in-depth reporting, increased live field reports and studio interviews. Its pilot episode rated 1.948%. Its ratings went up from the time that Sohn assumed the presenter post, rating between 1.5% and 2%, and it emerged as the number 1 general cable newscast. This was also the first time a song was used to end the newscast, with Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a-Changin'" as its first ending |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug%20and%20fight | Plug-and-fight is the military equivalent of plug and play as applied to commercial and personal computer systems. Plug-and-fight refers to the capability of certain large military systems such as the Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) to automatically recognize and assemble various system elements, like sensors, weapons, and control nodes, into a single integrated supersystem or system-of-systems. Plug-and-fight systems can be rapidly reconfigured without interrupting operations – adding, removing, and rearranging system elements in response to evolving threats and changing defense strategies. The architecture of such modular systems is often described as netted-distributed. Sensors, shooters, and tactical operations centers (TOC) simply act as nodes on the network, and a military commander can dynamically add or subtract these elements as the situation dictates without shutting the system down.
Plug-and-fight system elements connect to an open wired or wireless communication network through a standardized interface, and have the ability to interact with other system elements on that network to accomplish specific combat objectives. To maximize product applicability, and to ensure the general acceptance of system developers, any plug-and-fight standardized interface should be based on protocols and standards that are widely recognized, well defined, strongly controlled, and non-proprietary. Modern examples include Ethernet, IP, TCP, CORBA, and any specific message structure that can be freely disseminated and used without licensing.
MEADS was the first system to use standardized integrated Air and Missile Defense protocols. It was designed with plug-and-fight capabilities to support data exchange with external sensors and launchers through standardized open protocols for integrated air and missile defense (IAMD), so that MEADS elements can interoperate with allied forces on the move, attaching to and detaching from the battle management network as necessary. In November 2011, MEADS system elements successfully performed a simulated engagement against real-world air and representative missile threats demonstrating plug-and-fight capabilities.
The US Army Integrated Battle Command System (IBCS) is in development since 2004. It is part of the Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) program, which aims to create an integrated network of air defense sensors and missile launchers using a suite of open standardized protocols. IBCS control stations will replace engagement control stations (ECS) in Patriot missile system, along with seven other forms of ABM defense command systems. Supported sensors will include AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel and AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR, AN/MPQ-53, AN/MPQ-65/65A and GhostEye (LTAMDS) in Patriot missile system, GhostEye MR in NASAMS, MFCR and SR in MEADS, AN/TPY-2 in Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) and Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), AN/SPY-1 and AN/SPY-6 in Aegis BMD, and AN/APG-81 in Lockeed Martin F-35 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Kudlick | Michael Douglas Kudlick (December 8, 1934 – February 16, 2008) was a computer scientist and professor of computer science, most known for developing the file transfer and mail protocols for ARPANET while working for the Augmentation Research Center at SRI International, and later as a noted professor and academic administrator at the University of San Francisco.
Early life and education
Kudlick earned a bachelor of science from the University of Maryland in 1956. Kudlick then served in the United States Navy. He later earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966.
Career
After earning his Ph.D. Kudlick worked for Shell Development and later the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at SRI International. At the ARC he contributed to the development of the computer mouse. He also worked on the ARPANet File Transfer Protocol committee, which established how file transfers work on ARPANET, and its successor, the internet; the standard is RFC542, "File Transfer Protocol for the ARPA Network". Kudlick was also on the Network Mail committee which wrote RFC469.
From 1974 to 1997, Kudlick was a professor of computer science at the University of San Francisco (USF). While there, he served as chair of the computer science department, received USF's Distinguished Teaching award in 1981, and was the adviser to USF's chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. USF alum Alfred Chuang donated $2.5 million to USF in 2001 to fund the construction of a computer science classroom named for Kudlick.
References
1934 births
2008 deaths
University of Maryland, College Park alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
University of San Francisco faculty
SRI International people
People from Washington, D.C. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Albert%20Rubel | Lee Albert Rubel ( – ) was a mathematician known for his contributions to analog computing.
Career
Originally from New York, he held a Doctorate of Mathematics degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and was professor of Mathematics at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1954.
He wrote for several scientific publications like the Complex Variables and Elliptic Equations International Journal, the Constructive Approximation mathematical journal, the American Mathematical Monthly, the Journal of Differential Equations, the Journal of Approximation Theory, the Journal of Symbolic Logic, the Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society. He also collaborated to the Functional Analysis periodical, the Tohoku Mathematical, the Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, the Franklin Institute-engineering and Applied Mathematics, Combinatorica, Israel Journal of Mathematics, and Journal of Theoretical Neurobiology, among others.
He was a member of the American Mathematical Society for 43 years, which published many of his papers in the Proceedings of the AMS.
He died on March 25, 1995, in Urbana, Illinois.
Academic publications
References
20th-century American mathematicians
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni
1928 births
1995 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Mega%20Worm | Super Mega Worm is an action video game developed by computer game developer Deceased Pixel. The game was first released for Apple's iOS in August 2010.
In the game, players control the Great Death Worm, Wojira, who has been sent by Mother Nature to destroy the human race. As players advance through the game, their worm can grow and develop new powers. Deceased Pixel supported the game with free updates and a Christmas version of the game called Super Mega Worm vs Santa that was released on December 14, 2010. The game adopts a retro video game style in its sound design and graphics.
American DJ Diamond Del Rio also remixed the theme song for the game.
Gameplay
In Super Mega Worm, the player moves the worm around under the ground and makes it blast out through the surface and land on humans, animals and man made machines destroying them. To keep the worm above ground, the player can land on objects such as cars, tanks and helicopters bounce off of them up into the air. It is possible for players to bounce off many objects in a row building up combo's resulting in a higher score. For every object destroyed a multiplier is gained that will help in increasing the player's score. The worm's health decreases as the game goes on, in order to combat this the player can replenish it by eating animals that roam above ground. In order for the player to progress to the next level you have to eat a certain number of humans which increases with every level. As the player progresses through the levels, they can obtain power ups that will assist them in completing their objective, this also has the effect of enlarging the worm. The power-ups that the player gains access to consist of speed boosts, a fiery projectile that is shot from the worm's mouth and an Electromagnetic Pulse that shuts down any machines in the area around the worm.
The player can control the worm in three different ways: the first via the use of a slider, the second by tilting the iPhone, and lastly by using the D-Pad that was added in via a Patch.
The DLC that was released for the game, Mecha Worjira, allows the player to use a new playable character with a new skin and some new features, such as; no dying from hunger; infinite death beam; homing missiles; instant space jump and a special theme song. Another game was also released going by the name of Super Mega Worm Vs Santa which adds 15 levels, a boss fight with Santa, some new items, 3 new abilities and 2 new game modes.
Development
Since the game was first released on August 26, 2010 it had gone through a variety of updates to improve performance and add new features.
Release
Super Mega Worm was initially released for iOS on August 26, 2010. Over time it had been given many updates, which added features such as new control schemes. Originally the game could only be played with a slider along the bottom of the screen which either made the worm move up or down but now it could be controlled with an on screen D-pad or by tilti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm%20%28programming%20language%29 | Elm is a domain-specific programming language for declaratively creating web browser-based graphical user interfaces. Elm is purely functional, and is developed with emphasis on usability, performance, and robustness. It advertises "no runtime exceptions in practice", made possible by the Elm compiler's static type checking.
History
Elm was initially designed by Evan Czaplicki as his thesis in 2012. The first release of Elm came with many examples and an online editor that made it easy to try out in a web browser. Evan joined Prezi in 2013 to work on Elm, and in 2016 moved to NoRedInk as an Open Source Engineer, also starting the Elm Software Foundation.
The initial implementation of the Elm compiler targeted HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The set of core tools has continued to expand, now including a REPL, package manager, time-travelling debugger, and installers for macOS and Windows. Elm also has an ecosystem of community created libraries and Ellie, an advanced online editor that allows saved work and inclusion of community libraries.
Features
Elm has a small set of language constructs, including traditional if-expressions, let-expressions for local state, and case-expressions for pattern matching. As a functional language, it supports anonymous functions, functions as arguments, and functions can return functions, the latter often by partial application of curried functions. Functions are called by value. Its semantics include immutable values, stateless functions, and static typing with type inference. Elm programs render HTML through a virtual DOM, and may interoperate with other code by using "JavaScript as a service".
Immutability
All values in Elm are immutable, meaning that a value cannot be modified after it is created. Elm uses persistent data structures to implement its arrays, sets, and dictionaries in the standard library.
Static types
Elm is statically typed. Type annotations are optional (due to type inference) but strongly encouraged. Annotations exist on the line above the definition (unlike C-family languages where types and names are interspersed). Elm uses a single colon to mean "has type".
Types include primitives like integers and strings, and basic data structures such as lists, tuples, and records. Functions have types written with arrows, for example round : Float -> Int. Custom types allow the programmer to create custom types to represent data in a way that matches the problem domain.
Types can refer to other types, for example a List Int. Types are always capitalized; lowercase names are type variables. For example, a List a is a list of values of unknown type. It is the type of the empty list and of the argument to List.length, which is agnostic to the list's elements. There are a few special types that programmers create to interact with the Elm runtime. For example, Html Msg represents a (virtual) DOM tree whose event handlers all produce messages of type Msg.
Rather than allow any value to be implicitly |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leddar | LEDDAR (Light-Emitting Diode Detection And Ranging) is a proprietary technology owned by LeddarTech. It uses the time of flight of light signals and signal processing algorithms to detect, locate, and measure objects in its field of view.
Technology
The Leddar technology is like a light-based radar that sends very short light pulses of invisible light about 100,000 times per second to actively illuminate an area of interest.
The sensor captures the light backscattered from objects (either fixed or moving) over its detection area, and processes the signals to precisely map their location and other attributes.
The data is compiled thousands of times per second, providing up to a few hundred frames per second and offering accurate and reliable information even in adverse weather and lighting conditions.
The multi-channel sensor also provides lateral discrimination of detected objects and this feature, with 3D measurements, provides the basis for object tracking.
Examples of Leddar Applications
Smart Cities
Traffic light and intersection management
Vehicle traffic flow monitoring
Parking space occupancy management
Automated highway toll
Vehicle size monitoring and profiling
Speed-limit enforcement
Water-level monitoring
Smart lighting applications
Public space and building security
Smart Vehicles
Collision warning and avoidance
Obstacle detection
Assisted driving (blind spots, parking, automatic cruise control)
Unmanned vehicles, drones and UAV navigation assistance
Heavy machinery and truck safety, as well as perimeter control
Transportation vehicles’ bulk material levels (solids, liquids)
Height and distance measurements
Smart Homes and Buildings
Indoor security and surveillance (presence, movement, intrusion)
Outdoor security and surveillance (perimeter intrusion)
Occupancy sensing
Touchless and remote controls (water faucets, lighting, etc.)
Presence detection in unauthorized areas
Autonomous robotic appliance navigation and collision avoidance
Smart Industries and Agriculture
Mobile equipment and robot navigation
Vehicle collision avoidance
Machine safety (distance measurements, perimeter intrusion)
Security and surveillance (presence, movement, intrusion)
Smart level metering in tanks and reservoirs
Bulk material volume estimates
Silos, tanks, and reservoir level measurements
Touchless remote controls (water faucets, lighting, etc.)
See also
Time of flight
Rangefinder
Laser rangefinder
LIDAR
Sonar
Radar
References
External links
www.leddartech.com
www.ino.ca
Light-emitting diodes
Measuring instruments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip%20Palmer%20Green | Philip Palmer Green is a theoretical and computational biologist noted for developing important algorithms and procedures used in Gene mapping and DNA sequencing. He earned his doctorate from Berkeley in mathematics in 1976 with a dissertation on C*-algebra under the direction of Marc Rieffel, but transitioned from pure mathematics into applied work in biology and bioinformatics. Green has obtained numerous important results, including in developing Phred, a widely used DNA trace analyzer, in mapping techniques, and in genetic analysis. Green was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001 and won the Gairdner Award in 2002.
See also
Phred base calling
References
External links
Living people
21st-century American biologists
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
University of California, Berkeley alumni
American bioinformaticians
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gree%20%28social%20network%29 | GREE (derived from an abbreviation of the "Six degrees of separation" concept) is a Japanese social networking service founded by Yoshikazu Tanaka and operated by GREE, Inc.
GREE focuses primarily on mobile games and over ninety percent of its users access the site via their mobile phones. The company makes money by selling virtual goods to users such as clothes for their in-game avatars.
Social networking features of GREE include the user profile, diary, communities, photo sharing and photo emailing. It serves as a platform for promoting communication and mutual understanding among its members.
While GREE was initially available only to PC users, the service was later extended to feature phone users. GREE for feature phones includes regular social networking functions, social games, flash-based games, blogs, fortune telling, news and so forth. In 2010, GREE, Inc. started GREE for iPhone and Android to meet demand. GREE, Inc. provides a variety of social game applications for feature phones and smartphones, with enhanced communication among users. The source of earnings is mainly composed of advertisement sales and paid services sales.
Etymology
The service name GREE comes from a hypothesis, Six Degrees of Separation postulated by social psychologist Stanley Milgram in 1967. Six degrees of separation is a hypothesis that everyone is at most six steps away from any other person on Earth. If a chain of a friend of a friend statements are made, any two people in the world can be connected in six steps or fewer.
The name symbolizes GREE’s hope to create and provide any new possibilities of the Internet.
See also
Ensemble Girls!
References
External links
Official GREE website
Japanese social networking websites
Mobile social software
Internet properties established in 2004
2004 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL7%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL7 (until 2012 FR7) is a regional rail route. It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Formia–Naples railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. It is estimated that on average about 40,000 passengers travel on an FR7 train each day.
The designation FL7 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations on the FL7 route show only the designation "R" and the relevant train number.
Route
Roma Termini ↔ Minturno-Scauri
The FL7, a radial route, runs from Roma Termini, on the southern perimeter of Rome's city centre, in a south easterly direction, via the Rome–Formia–Naples railway, to Formia-Gaeta and Minturno-Scauri.
History
When the FL7 was introduced in 1994, it was divided at Campoleone into two branches. One ran to Nettuno, and the other to Formia (which was renamed Formia-Gaeta in 2012).
Since the introduction of the FL7, the Roma–Nettuno services have been reclassified as a separate line, the FL8.
Stations
The stations on the FL7 are as follows:
Roma Termini
Torricola
Pomezia-Santa Palomba
Campoleone
Cisterna di Latina
Latina
Sezze Romano
Priverno-Fossanova
Monte San Biagio
Fondi-Sperlonga
Itri
Formia-Gaeta
Minturno-Scauri
Scheduling
The FL7 route is included in the Trenitalia official timetable M85 Roma–Napoli.
, services operated at regular intervals, with extra services at rush hour. However, some services skip some stops (at Torricola, Pomezia-Santa Palomba and Itri). Many services do not terminate/originate at Formia-Gaeta but at other stations, such as Minturno-Scauri, Sessa Aurunca, or Naples.
The full trip between Roma Termini and Formia-Gaeta is long, and takes about ninety minutes.
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all routes in the Rome railway network
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scigress | Scigress, stylized SCiGRESS, is a software suite for molecular modelling, computational chemistry, drug design, and materials science, a successor to Computer Aided Chemistry (CAChe) software.
About
Scigress is a molecular modeling suite for both experimental and computational chemists and biochemists. It enables researchers to study and design wide range of molecular systems:
organic
inorganic
polymers
proteins
metals, oxides, and ceramics
Functions
Intuitive, easy to learn, property driven user interface including molecule editor and batch processing.
Theory levels: DFT, semi-empirical, molecular mechanics and dynamics.
Determination of low energy conformations and thermodynamic properties.
Calculare and 3D-visualize electronic properties: partial charges, orbitals, electron densities, and electrostatic surfaces and more.
Analysis of chemical reactions: transition states and intrinsic reaction coordinates.
Spectroscopic properties analysis: IR, UV-VIS, NMR.
Study of phase transitions, expansion, crystal defects, compressibility, tensile strength, adsorption, absorption, thermal conductivity.
Protein handling and protein-ligand docking on quantum level.
Multiple presentation-quality visualizing options and movie creation.
Ability summary
Molecular mechanics
MM2, MM3
Semi-empirical methods
DFT
Study of reactivity
Fukui function, partial charge
Protein-ligand docking, molecular dynamics
User-friendly interface
Presentation quality graphics
Quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR)
Automated model builders
Polymers (homopolymers, block polymers, dendrimers), proteins, crystals
Needleman–Wunsch alignment
See also
References
External links
Computational chemistry
Computational chemistry software
Molecular modelling software
Physics software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajya%20Sabha%20TV | Rajya Sabha TV was an Indian public cable television network channel owned and operated by Rajya Sabha that covered the proceedings of Rajya Sabha (the Upper House of the Parliament of India). It has now been replaced by Sansad TV. Apart from telecasting live coverage of Rajya Sabha proceedings, RSTV also brought detailed analyses of parliamentary affairs. While focused on current national and international affairs, it provided a platform for knowledge-based programmes for the discerning viewer. The channel offered special attention to legislative business undertaken by the Parliament.
In March 2021, this channel and Lok Sabha TV were merged to form a combined parliamentary service, Sansad TV.
Rajya Sabha TV produced the 10-part TV mini-series Samvidhaan, which was directed by the noted film director Shyam Benegal.
Rajya Sabha TV also produced a teleserial and film, Raag Desh, on the trial of Indian National Army officers during British rule. The serial was directed by Tigmanshu Dhulia.
Programmes
Rajya Sabha TV was among a few bi-lingual channels in India, telecasting in India's official languages, Hindi and English.
Rajya TV telecasted 7 news bulletins, 4 in Hindi and 3 in English. Rest of its programming consists of daily and weekly shows, and special programmes.
The following is a list of programmes that were telecast on a daily/ weekly basis on Rajya Sabha TV:
Vishesh: daily (Mon-Fri) feature programme, which analyses a topical issue in detail, in Hindi.
In-Depth: daily (Mon-Fri) feature programme, which analyses a topical issue in detail, in English.
Desh Deshantar: daily (Mon-Sat) programme, which discusses a topic of current national or international importance with experts in the field, in Hindi.
Big Picture: daily (Mon-Sat) programme, which discusses an important national or international current topic with experts in the field, in English.
Pulse: weekly audience-based programme on current issues, in English.
Sarkar: a weekly audience-based panel discussion on current social issues, in Hindi.
Ayushman Bhav: weekly programme on health matters in which audience questions are also taken, in Hindi.
Aapkka Kanoon: weekly show in which legal experts discuss common legal issues and guide viewers how to deal with them. Audience queries are also taken during the programme, in Hindi.
Laws in the Making: weekly feature show on important bills in different stages of their journey in Parliament or its committees, in English.
Virasat: biopic series on the life and work of eminent personalities in the field of art, literature, culture and film, in Hindi.
Guftagoo: weekly talk show with eminent personalities in the fields of culture and music, in Hindi.
Indian Standard Time: weekly interview-based show with visiting foreign dignitaries and intellectuals.
India's World: weekly programme covering major world events of the week, in discussion with diplomats and analysts, in English.
Policy Watch: a weekly show featuring discussion of policy m |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldGaming%20Network | WorldGaming Network (WGN), formerly Virgin Gaming, is an online video gaming platform that hosts head-to-head matches, tournaments and ladders for consoles and PC gamers. WorldGaming has had over 3 million gamers register for its platform worldwide which makes it one of the most robust and dynamic global eSports communities. There have been over 6.7 million matches played over 20,000 tournaments held on WorldGaming.com since 2010.
WorldGaming has traditionally focused on the sports games, fighting games and driving games. They had formed a partnership with EA Sports to be integrated into the game and have automatically verified results from the EA servers. These games included the FIFA, Madden and NHL franchises. A partnership was also in place with Take-Two Interactive to be featured and integrated into the NBA2K series of games.
WorldGaming has relaunched a new platform with a larger number of games, supporting a wide range of publishers. It remains focused on gaming and tournaments but also incorporates streaming, live events and being the central community for gaming enthusiasts worldwide.
On September 18, 2015, it was announced that WorldGaming had been acquired by theatre chain Cineplex Entertainment, which sold it in 2020 to an unnamed private equity firm.
References
External links
Online video game services
Canadian companies established in 2010
Esports websites
Video game websites
Cineplex Entertainment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin%20Mobile%20Chile | Virgin Mobile Chile is a mobile network operator in Chile using the Movistar mobile network.
Virgin Mobile Latin America (VMLA) launched operations in Chile in April 2012, having received regulatory approval from Chile's telecommunications regulator as well as signing an agreement with Movistar, one of the country's leading mobile network operators. VMLA announced in June of this year its plan to become Latin America's leading mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Since then, the company has made significant progress towards its goal of beginning commercial operations in many countries. Chile will be its first commercial operation in early 2012. Richard Branson commented: "We are excited to have made such good progress towards launching our first mobile business in Latin America in Chile."This is an exciting project for Virgin and we believe Virgin Mobile Chile customers will be delighted by the services we will be offering them at launch." “We are very appreciative of Subtel’s (Chile’s Subsecretaría de Telecomunicaciones) prompt approval of our application," said VMLA's chairman Phil Wallace.
See also
References
External links
Virgin Mobile Chile
Mobile phone companies of Chile
Virgin Mobile
Telecommunications companies established in 2012
Chilean companies established in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph500 | The Graph500 is a rating of supercomputer systems, focused on data-intensive loads. The project was announced on International Supercomputing Conference in June 2010. The first list was published at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference in November 2010. New versions of the list are published twice a year. The main performance metric used to rank the supercomputers is GTEPS (giga- traversed edges per second).
Richard Murphy from Sandia National Laboratories, says that "The Graph500's goal is to promote awareness of complex data problems", instead of focusing on computer benchmarks like HPL (High Performance Linpack), which TOP500 is based on.
Despite its name, there were several hundreds of systems in the rating, growing up to 174 in June 2014.
The algorithm and implementation that won the championship is published in the paper titled "Extreme scale breadth-first search on supercomputers".
There is also list Green Graph 500, which uses same performance metric, but sorts list according to performance per Watt, like Green 500 works with TOP500 (HPL).
Benchmark
The benchmark used in Graph500 stresses the communication subsystem of the system, instead of counting double precision floating-point. It is based on a breadth-first search in a large undirected graph (a model of Kronecker graph with average degree of 16). There are three computation kernels in the benchmark: the first kernel is to generate the graph and compress it into sparse structures CSR or CSC (Compressed Sparse Row/Column); the second kernel does a parallel BFS search of some random vertices (64 search iterations per run); the third kernel runs a single-source shortest paths (SSSP) computation. Six possible sizes (Scales) of graph are defined: toy (226 vertices; 17 GB of RAM), mini (229; 137 GB), small (232; 1.1 TB), medium (236; 17.6 TB), large (239; 140 TB), and huge (242; 1.1 PB of RAM).
The reference implementation of the benchmark contains several versions:
serial high-level in GNU Octave
serial low-level in C
parallel C version with usage of OpenMP
two versions for Cray-XMT
basic MPI version (with MPI-1 functions)
optimized MPI version (with MPI-2 one-sided communications)
The implementation strategy that have won the championship on the Japanese K computer is described in.
Top 10 ranking
According to June 2023 release of the list the new Wuhan supercomputer is highest ranked for the SSSP results with 19039.1 GTEPS (and Fugaku is 4th) while for the BFS results its 2nd there with a different lower measurement for GTEPS:
Japan also has a new computer ranked 8th.
2022
According to November 2022 release of the list:
2020
Arm-based Fugaku took the top spot of the list.
2016
According to June 2016 release of the list:
2014
According to June 2014 release of the list:
2013
According to June 2013 release of the list:
See also
TOP500
Green500
HPCG benchmark
References
External links
June 2014 Graph 500
Introducing the Graph 500, paper by Sandia
Supe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvaco%20Data%20Systems%20v.%20Intel%20Corp. | Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp was a trade secrets case heard before the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth District. Silvaco sued Intel for misappropriation of trade secrets because Intel used software produced by a third-party that had misappropriated Silvaco's trade secrets. The appeals court affirmed the decision of the trial court to grant summary judgment in favor of Intel, finding that merely using infringing software does not constitute a trade secret infringement in itself.
Background
Silvaco is a California-based company that produces electronic design automation (EDA) software. Silvaco makes several EDA products including SmartSpice, a tool for designing and simulating analog circuits. In December 2000, Silvaco sued Circuit Semantics, Inc. (CSI) for misappropriating Silvaco's trade secrets in the design of DynaSpice, a CSI product that competed with SmartSpice. This case went to trial, where Silvaco eventually prevailed.
Silvaco then sued several customers of CSI that had used DynaSpice, including Intel. Silvaco argued that by using DynaSpice, Intel was guilty of misappropriation of trade secrets under the California Uniform Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA). Intel demurred; that is, they argued that, even if they had used DynaSpice, their use of DynaSpice did not constitute misappropriation of trade secrets. In particular, Intel presented evidence that they only received the object code for DynaSpice, not the source code, and that because object code "does not readily yield its underlying design to human understanding", possession of object code does not imply possession of information that would be protected as a trade secret. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of Intel, stating that:
Silvaco appealed the trial court's decision.
Opinion of the court
The appeals court affirmed the decision of the trial court, granting summary judgment in favor of Intel. Agreeing with the trial court, the appeals court found that Intel never had possession of any trade secrets belonging to Silvaco, which CUTSA defines as one of the criteria for misappropriation of trade secrets. The court distinguished between the "use" of a trade secret—which would constitute an infringement—from the "use" of the software via executing its object code. The court reasoned in part by analogy:
The court also observed that accepting Silvaco's arguments would have dire policy consequences:
Impact
Several commentators observed that the court's decision in this case clarified the application of trade secret law to software. In particular, the court's decision supports the idea that although a program's object code is derived from the program's source code, an individual possessing the object code does not possess any knowledge of any trade secrets embodied in the source code.
The appeals court decision also prompted discussion because of a lengthy footnote contained in the opinion that decried the 8,000 pages of records filed with the court for this c |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis%20Teacher%20Residency | Memphis Teacher Residency (MTR) is a teacher residency located in Memphis, Tennessee, and is a member of the National Center for Teacher Residencies (NCTR) network. MTR is a faith-based, four-year teacher preparation program based on the residency model. During the residency year, residents train with a mentor, receive coaching, and take coursework through Union University, earning a Master of Urban Education degree at the end of the residency year. After the first year, residents are placed in MTR partner schools in six partner under-resourced neighborhoods for a three-year teaching commitment. During these three years, residents teach in local schools while continuing to receive coaching, training, and support through MTR.
Memphis Teacher Residency believes that Educational Inequality is "one of the Greatest Social Justice and Civil Rights Issues in America Today". Working with a Christian worldview of why equal educational opportunity is important, MTR's mission in is:"As a response to the gospel mandate to love our neighbors as ourselves, MTR will partner to provide students in Memphis neighborhoods with the same, or better, quality of education as is available to any student in Memphis by recruiting, training and supporting effective teachers within a Christian context.."Since 2012, Memphis Teacher Residency has been highly rated in the Tennessee Teacher Preparation Report Card. MTR also operates MTR Camp, an academic enrichment camp with the goal of reducing the achievement gaps among disadvantaged students that often widen during summer months. MTR Camp also employs college interns interested in teaching after graduation in an effort to expose them to the educational inequality in Memphis and to the residency opportunity after college.
References
Teacher training programs
Education in Memphis, Tennessee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luch%205A | Luch 5A ( meaning ray and sometimes transliterated as Loutch-5A) is a Russian Luch relay satellite which transmits data from the Russian Orbital Segment of the International Space Station, and from other satellites in low Earth orbit. It is in geosynchronous orbit.
Luch
Luch 5A is one of three Luch relay satellites. Luch 5B was launched on 2 November 2012 and Luch 5V was launched on 28 April 2014. They are dual purpose satellites with both military and civil uses, and are similar to those in the US Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System.
Luch 5A was built by JSC Information Satellite Systems using the Ekspress-1000A bus. It has 6 S and Ku band channels with repeaters manufactured by Thales Alenia Space and other equipment manufactured by Sumitomo. The Ku band antenna operates at up to 150 Mbit/s and the S band antenna at up to 5 Mbit/s. The satellite also relays COSPAS/SARSAT signals and Planet-S System data.
The satellite is designed to relay data from the ISS, satellites in low earth orbit and rocket launch vehicles.
Luch 5A is located at 167° E.
Launch
Luch 5A was launched on 11 December 2011 with satellite Amos-5. The Proton-M rocket with a Briz-M upper stage launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome launchpad 81/24 at 11:17 UTC. After four burns of the Briz-M upper stage it was placed into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
References
Spacecraft launched by Proton rockets
Spacecraft launched in 2011
Satellites using the Ekspress bus
Communications satellites of Russia
Telecommunications in Russia
2011 in Russia
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20Table%20%28software%29 | Light Table is an integrated development environment for software engineering developed by Chris Granger and Robert Attorri. It features real-time feedback allowing instant execution, debugging and access to documentation. The instant feedback provides an execution environment intended to help developing abstractions.
The development team attempted to create a program which shows the programmer what the effects of their additions are in real-time, rather than requiring them to work out the effects as they write the code. Though the program began by supporting only Clojure, it has since aimed to support Python and JavaScript. The developers claim that the software can reduce programming time by up to 20%.
It was financed by a Kickstarter fundraising campaign and subsequently backed by Y Combinator. The Kickstarter campaign aimed to raise $200,000 USD and finished with $316,720 USD.
See also
Interactive programming
Literate programming
Notes
References
Formerly proprietary software
Free integrated development environments
Free integrated development environments for Python
Free text editors
HTML editors
Linux text editors
MacOS text editors
Software using the MIT license
Unix text editors
Windows text editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Theory%20of%20Everything%20%282006%20film%29 | The Theory of Everything is a 2006 television drama film directed by David de Vos. It was first broadcast on the Trinity Broadcast Network on November 1, 2006.
Plot
Doug (David de Vos) is a flight instructor and owner of a pilot school. He, his wife Abby and their two daughters, Lindsay (Janna Savatchee) and Amanda (Amanda de Vos) face serious financial problems, as they are near financial ruin, and need $300,000 to expand the pilot school.
Doug has to work hard and has hardly any time for his family, even arriving at home late on Christmas Eve. During the meal Doug receives a phone call from a lawyer who informs him that his parents are not his biological parents, but that he was adopted by an open adoption by them. The lawyer asks him to come to a meeting, where problems concerning his biological father are to be discussed.
The lawyer introduces him to his half sister, Delilah (Mary Jo DuPrey), who was disowned from their father. Her only interest is to have her father judged unfit in order to sell his property. The lawyer asks whether they want to look after the property and their father. If they would, they would also take responsibility of him. Doug decides to do so without asking Abby.
Doug goes to see his biological father, Dr. Gene Holland, who initially shoots at him with a gun when Doug arrives, only to subsequently recognize Doug as his son. The house is in chaos, but Gene seems not to be aware of it. His only interest seems to be to find the solution for the Theory of everything an equation long regarded as the Holy Grail of physics, which Gene thinks may prove the existence of God.
Doug tells him about his financial problems, and Gene wants to help him. They create a financial plan and find investors that give Doug the necessary capital. While celebrating, Gene falls to ground and is taken to the hospital. There, Doug is informed by a doctor who knows Gene very well that Gene suffers from prion disease. Doug relates this to Abby, and they decide to move in with Gene, as Doug knows that his father will die within six months to a year. Gene befriends Doug's family, and tells them about Doug's biological mother, Lory, whom Gene loved very much, and died of cancer. Gene reveals that the reason he gave Doug up for adoption was that his wife decided to give birth to Doug and "go to Jesus" instead of undergoing radiation therapy.
The illness halts Gene's studies, and his daughter, Delilah, manages to get a verdict that incapacitates Gene. The house is destroyed immediately after the police take him out of the house and put him in a hospital. Doug salvages Gene's work and brings it to the hospital, as Gene sees Doug as his last hope to help him to finish his work. Doug assists Gene in his work until Gene again loses his consciousness.
Some time later, Doug sees Gene in the garden of the hospital. Gene can barely remember Doug. He knows that he was searching for something, but has forgotten what it was. Doug and Abby decide to abduct G |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Soboroff | Jacob Hirsch Soboroff (born March 27, 1983) is an American journalist. He is known as a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Prior to his debut on the network in September 2015, he was the host of YouTube Nation and a co-host of TakePart Live on Pivot TV. He was also a founding host and producer of HuffPost Live, the live streaming network of HuffPost.
Early life
Born in Los Angeles, California, Soboroff is the eldest child of Patti (née Schertzer) and Steve Soboroff, a member of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. He is of Jewish descent. Soboroff attended Harvard-Westlake School, and later received a Bachelor of Arts in politics in 2005 and a Master of Arts in political theory and philosophy in 2006, both from New York University.
Career
In college, Soboroff was an aide to New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.
Soboroff was a contributor to MTV's 2012 presidential election coverage, for which he discussed America's young voters with presidential candidate Mitt Romney. As the founding correspondent for AMC News, Soboroff interviewed actors and filmmakers. Soboroff co-hosted NBC's proactive school makeover show School Pride. He has contributed reporting to CNN, NPR's Weekend Edition, and the PBS series Wired Science. Between January and December 2014, Soboroff hosted YouTube Nation, a pop-culture oriented news show on YouTube.
As a correspondent for MSNBC, Soboroff specializes in border issues, making him one of the first reporters to call public attention to the Trump administration family separation policy, whereby children were separated from parents who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without proper documentation. He was one of ten journalists invited by authorities to tour Casa Padre, a facility in Texas housing 1500 boys ages 10 to 17. He described it as "shocking... an old Walmart which has essentially been turned into a child prison." His book on the subject, titled Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, was published on July 7, 2020.
Personal life
Soboroff resides in Los Angeles. He married fashion executive Nicole Cari in 2012. He has two children. Soboroff is an executive director of the nonpartisan organization Why Tuesday? It seeks to make "America's democracy stronger through increased voter participation".
References
External links
American television journalists
MSNBC people
NBC News people
HuffPost writers and columnists
Jewish American journalists
Journalists from Los Angeles
New York University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL8%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL8 (until 2012 FR8) is a regional rail route. It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Formia–Naples and Albano–Nettuno railways. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway, but this section of the route has only two stations, Roma Termini and Torricola. It is estimated that on average about 40,000 passengers travel on an FL8 train each day.
The designation FL8 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations on the FL8 route show only the designation "R" and the relevant train number.
Route
Roma Termini ↔ Nettuno
The FL8, a radial route, runs from Roma Termini, on the southern perimeter of Rome's city centre, in a south easterly direction, via the Rome–Formia–Naples railway, to Campoleone, and then south west, via the Albano–Nettuno railway, to Nettuno.
On the main line between Roma Termini and Campoleone, the route is double track, and on the branch line between Campoleone and Nettuno, the route is single track.
History
When the Lazio regional railways network was introduced in 1994, the route of the present day FL8 was part of the FL7, which was divided at Campoleone into two branches. One FL7 branch ran to Nettuno, and the other to Formia (renamed Formia-Gaeta in 2012).
Since the introduction of the FL7, the Roma–Nettuno services have been reclassified as FL8 services.
Stations
The stations on the FL8 are as follows:
Roma Termini
Torricola
Pomezia-Santa Palomba
Campoleone
Aprilia
Campo di Carne
Padiglione
Lido di Lavinio
Villa Claudia
Marechiaro
Anzio Colonia
Anzio
Nettuno
Rolling stock
Double-decker trains are used on the FL8, including the Vivalto, which replaced the TAF in early 2006.
Scheduling
The FL8 route is included in the Trenitalia official timetable M75 Roma–Campoleone–Nettuno.
, trains leave hourly, except in rush hour, when there is at least one extra departure.
Journey times to the capital from Nettuno vary depending on the time of day: on average, the journey takes 70 minutes.
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all routes in the Rome railway network
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelization%20contract | The parallelization contract or PACT programming model is a generalization of the MapReduce programming model and uses second order functions to perform concurrent computations on large (Petabytes) data sets in parallel.
Overview
Similar to MapReduce, arbitrary user code is handed and executed by PACTs. However, PACT generalizes a couple of MapReduce's concepts:
Second-order Functions: PACT provides more second-order functions. Currently, five second-order functions called Input Contracts are supported. This set might be extended in the future.
Program structure: PACT allows the composition of arbitrary acyclic data flow graphs. In contract, MapReduce programs have a static structure (Map -> Reduce).
Data Model: PACT's data model are records of arbitrary many fields of arbitrary types. MapReduce's KeyValue-Pairs can be considered as records with two fields.
Apache Flink, an open-source parallel data processing platform has implemented PACTs. Flink allows users to specify user functions with annotations.
Logical view
Parallelization Contracts (PACTs) are data processing operators in a data flow. Therefore, a PACT has one or more data inputs and one or more outputs. A PACT consists of two components:
Input Contract
User function
User code annotations
The figure below shows how those components work together. Input Contracts split the input data into independently processable subset. The user code is called for each of these independent subsets. All calls can be executed in parallel, because the subsets are independent.
Optionally, the user code can be annotated with additional information. These annotations disclose some information on the behavior of the black-box user function. The PACT Compiler can utilize the information to obtain more efficient execution plans. However, while a missing annotation will not change the result of the execution, an incorrect Output Contract produces wrong results.
The currently supported Input Contracts and annotation are presented and discussed in the following.
Input Contracts
Input Contracts split the input data of a PACT into independently processable subsets that are handed to the user function of the PACT.
Input Contracts vary in the number of data inputs and the way how independent subsets are generated.
More formally, Input Contracts are second-order functions with a first-order function (the user code), one or more input sets, and none or more key fields per input as parameters. The first-order function is called (one or) multiple times with subsets of the input set(s). Since the first-order functions have no side effects, each call is independent from each other and all calls can be done in parallel.
The second-order functions map() and reduce() of the MapReduce programming model are Input Contracts in the context of the PACT programming model.
MAP
The Map Input Contract works in the same way as in MapReduce. It has a single input and assigns each input record to its own subset. H |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export%20Promotion%20Bureau%20%28Bangladesh%29 | Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) is a Bangladesh government agency located within the Ministry of Commerce. It is responsible for developing the nation's export industry. It does not include import data
Establishment
It traces its origin to the Export Promotion organization formed when Bangladesh was still East Pakistan in 1962. Initial proclamations were made on August 20 and November 8, 1975. The Export Promotion Bureau Ordinance was enacted in 1977 and consequently EPB was established.
Structure
EPB headquarter is in Dhaka, with regional offices in Chittagong, Khulna and Rajshahi.
In addition, there are branch offices in Sylhet, Comilla and Narayangonj.
The EPB consists of multiple divisions:
Policy and Planning Division
Commodities Development Division
Information Division
Fairs and Display Division
Administration and Finance Division
Textile Division
Statistics and Research Division
Information and Communications Technology Division
References
External links
Export promotion agencies
Foreign trade of Bangladesh
1975 establishments in Bangladesh |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing%20rule | In mathematics and computer science, a splicing rule is a transformation on formal languages which formalises the action of gene splicing in molecular biology. A splicing language is a language generated by iterated application of a splicing rule: the splicing languages form a proper subset of the regular languages.
Definition
Let A be an alphabet and L a language, that is, a subset of the free monoid A∗. A splicing rule is a quadruple r = (a,b,c,d) of elements of A∗, and the action of the rule r on L is to produce the language
If R is a set of rules then R(L) is the union of the languages produced by the rules of R. We say that R respects L if R(L) is a subset of L. The R-closure of L is the union of L and all iterates of R on L: clearly it is respected by R. A splicing language is the R-closure of a finite language.
A rule set R is reflexive if (a,b,c,d) in R implies that (a,b,a,b) and (c,d,c,d) are in R. A splicing language is reflexive if it is defined by a reflexive rule set.
Examples
Let A = {a,b,c}. The rule (caba,a,cab,a) applied to the finite set {cabb,cabab,cabaab} generates the regular language caba∗b.
Properties
All splicing languages are regular.
Not all regular languages are splicing. An example is (aa)∗ over {a,b}.
If L is a regular language on the alphabet A, and z is a letter not in A, then the language { zw : w in L } is a splicing language.
There is an algorithm to determine whether a given regular language is a reflexive splicing language.
The set of splicing rules that respect a regular language can be determined from the syntactic monoid of the language.
References
Semigroup theory
Formal languages
Combinatorics on words |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20W.%20Shields | Michael ("Mike") William Shields, - was a British computer scientist.
Overview
Mike Shields had been an academic in the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey in Guildford, southern England. His research contributions were in theoretical computer science, especially concerning concurrency. In particular, he had written books on automata theory and the semantics of parallel computing.
A meeting was held in 2006 at the British Computer Society's offices in London to celebrate Shields' contribution to computer science (his "innovative and elegant foundational work on models of concurrency") on his retirement. He subsequently moved to Malta.
F. X. Reid
F. X. Reid (aka FXR) was a pen name that Shields sometimes used in his more humorous writings and even within his serious work.
Reid was a long-time contributor to the British Computer Society's FACS Specialist Group FACS FACTS newsletter in the past. For example, he was an enthusiast for the COMEFROM statement and an expert on its semantics. Apparently reports of FXR's death in 2006 were untrue, and his musings continued after this time in the newsletter.
F. X. Reid's most widely known work is "The Song of Hakawatha," a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha containing references to hacking, Unix and compilers. F. X. Reid has also been mentioned in computer science books.
Reid has been quoted as saying In program proving, only the presence of bugs in one's proof is ascertainable, not their absence, similar to but not the same as a well-known quotation by E. W. Dijkstra about software testing.
Books
Michael W. Shields published a number of books including:
References
External links
Living people
Academics of the University of Surrey
English computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Formal methods people
1950 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Delisle | Jeffrey Paul Delisle (born March 30, 1971) is a former Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy who passed sensitive information from the top-secret STONEGHOST intelligence sharing network to the Russian spy agency GRU. Delisle's actions have been described as "exceptionally grave" by Canada's Department of National Defence (DND) and "severe and irreparable" by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
At court in October 2012, Delisle pleaded guilty to breach of trust and two counts of passing secret information to a foreign entity, contrary to the Security of Information Act. He was sentenced to 20 years in penitentiary, minus time served, by the Chief Judge of the Provincial Court of Nova Scotia on February 8, 2013. On February 13, 2013, the Department of National Defence announced that Delisle had been stripped of his commission and service decorations and been released under Item 1(a), the notation "Dismissed with Disgrace for Misconduct" or "Dismissed for Misconduct".
Biography
Early and personal life
Delisle graduated from Sackville High School in 1990.
On May 3, 1997, Delisle married Jennifer Lee Janes in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. On February 17, 1998, he filed for bankruptcy and declared liabilities of $18,587 and assets of $1,000. In June 2008, Delisle and his wife separated. On May 3, 2010, Delisle and his wife filed for divorce, due to his wife's affair.
Military career
Delisle served as a naval threat assessment analyst for the Royal Canadian Navy. He initially joined as a reservist in January 1996, enrolling as a regular member in March 2001. In October 2001, Delisle completed a leadership course and became a Corporal. In November 2006, Delisle was promoted to Sergeant. In 2008, he enrolled in the faculty of arts at Royal Military College. He received his commission as a Sub-Lieutenant in July 2008. In September 2010, Delisle graduated from Royal Military College with a Bachelor of Arts. He was posted to the multinational naval intelligence and communications centre in Halifax in August 2011.
Espionage
In July 2007, Delisle walked into the Embassy of Russia in Ottawa and offered to sell secret information to the Russian military intelligence service (known as the GRU).
Delisle's activities were particularly damaging due to his access to the Stone Ghost database of intelligence shared between Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Referring to the information he passed on, he said: "It was never really Canadian stuff. ... There was American stuff, there was some British stuff, Australian stuff – it was everybody’s stuff."
Delisle has blamed his espionage activities on his marital problems, rather than financial need. He entered the Russian embassy the day he discovered his wife was having an affair.
Investigation and conviction
The investigation into Delisle was triggered by a tip from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation on December 2, 2011. His home was searched that mon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian%20Computer%20Society | The Syrian Computer Society is an organization in Syria. It was founded by Bassel al-Assad in 1989, and was subsequently headed by his brother Bashar al-Assad, who would later become the President of Syria. It acts as Syria's domain name registration authority and has been reported to be closely associated with the Syrian state.
In May 2013, 700 domains registered by Syrians, mostly hosted at servers with IP addresses assigned to the Syrian Computer Society, were reported to have been seized by the U.S. DNS infrastructure operator Network Solutions. The domain names became registered to "OFAC Holding", believed to be a reference to the U.S. federal government's Office of Foreign Assets Control.
Some members of the Syrian Computer Society belonged to the first group of supporters of the Syrian Electronic Army.
References
External links
Organizations based in Syria
Organizations established in 1989
Domain name registries
Domain name seizures by United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army%20CHESS | Army CHESS (Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions) is the main provider of commercial enterprise information technology (IT) solutions, computer software, and hardware for the United States Army. CHESS allows authorized U.S. Army and other Federal Agency commissioners to easily procure a wide array of IT hardware and services through various contracting vessels.
CHESS allows users to acquire an array of IT solutions through specific contract vehicles, this allows for a consolidated purchase of IT products for the U.S. Army.
In 2005, CHESS introduced the Consolidated Buy (CB) program, intended to allow the Army to offer IT solutions at a lower cost, through a large quantity purchasing strategy that allows end users to purchase CHESS-approved hardware and services at the same rate. In 2010, CHESS is reported to have helped the Army generate a cost avoidance of $724 million.
See also
Marine Corps Common Hardware Suite
References
United States Army organization
United States defense procurement |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20MorphOS%20bundled%20applications | This is a sub-article to MorphOS.
A number of bundled applications are delivered with the operating system.
MorphOS bundled applications
References
MorphOS bundled applications |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20Local%20Optimization%20Program | Protein Local Optimization Program (PLOP) is computer software, a molecular dynamics simulation package written in the programming language Fortran. It was developed originally by Matthew P. Jacobson and Richard A. Friesner of the Friesner lab at Columbia University, and then moved to the Jacobson lab at University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and Schrödinger, LLC.
See also
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
References
External links
wiki
Computational chemistry
Fortran software
Molecular dynamics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appan%20Samachar | Appan Samachar (Hindi: अप्पन समाचार) is an all women village news network. It is fortnightly rural news channel run by a group of women, most of them marginalised Dalit, Other Backward Classes, Mushahar (rat eating community) & muslim communities in Muzzafarpur district of Bihar.
It was launched in 6 December 2007 at Muzaffarpur. It broadcasts to about a hundred villages in Paroo, Sahebganj, Saraiya, Marwan, Kanti, and Mushahari.
It was founded by Santosh Sarang. Mr. Sarang is also chairperson of trust named “Mission Eye International Services.” The key people consisting Appan Samachar Team are Rinku Kumari, Amritanj Indiwar, Siddhant Sarang, Rajesh Kumar, Pinki and Khushboo.
The team of the news channel have no formal training so they are learning it on the job. Time to time a trust “Mission Eye International Services” are conducting village media workshops to strengthen their skills. Appan Samachar focus on various social ills like farmers problems, environmental issues, social evils, women empowerment, child marriage, gender discrimination, female foeticide, etc. Young girls employed as a journalist in this channel generally rides bicycle to gather the news and interviews.
The screening of news bulletin is free to air. Villagers watch there news on projectors or a portable tv sets in community. Their viewers are both urban and rural. The bulletin also screened in district headquarters. News capsule are produced in Hindi and local dialect of Bhojpuri and Bajjika.
A report on Self Help Group running at chandkewari village highlighted corruption in Rural bank. After this report manager promised to distribute KCC loans without bribe. For its innovative efforts in October 2008 Appan Samachar received prestigious “Citizen Journalists Award” from CNN-IBN.
See also
Television in India
References
External links
Newspapers published in Muzaffarpur
Women's organisations based in India
2007 establishments in Bihar
Newspapers established in 2007 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%206 | The Nexus 6 (codenamed Shamu) is a phablet co-developed by Google and Motorola Mobility that runs the Android operating system. The successor to the Nexus 5, it is the sixth smartphone in the Google Nexus series, a family of Android consumer devices marketed by Google and built by an original equipment manufacturer partner. Nexus 6 and the HTC Nexus 9 served as the launch devices for Android 5.0 "Lollipop".
The Nexus 6's design and hardware is very similar to that of the second-generation Moto X, which was released around the same time, with the Nexus 6 being enlarged with higher specifications.
Release
The Nexus 6 was unveiled on October 15, 2014, with pre-order availability since October 29, 2014, and a delivery date in early November. Off-contract pricing in the United States was US$649 for the 32 GB model and US$699 for the 64 GB model. The Nexus 6 was available through Google Play Store, Motorola Mobility, Best Buy, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint, U.S. Cellular, and Verizon Wireless in the United States.
In November 2014, availability was announced for 12 other countries, including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The AT&T version is SIM-locked, with tethering disabled until a fee is paid to enable it, and comes with custom ringtones.
On January 26, 2015, Motorola (now a subsidiary of Chinese firm Lenovo) announced that a similar device would be released in China, named Moto X Pro; it excludes Google services and applications, but still runs a similarly stock version of Android.
On April 22, 2015, it was announced that the Nexus 6 would be the only phone then supported by Google's new Project Fi venture.
Following the September 2015 release of the Nexus 6's successor, the Nexus 6P, Google stopped selling the Nexus 6 on the Play Store in December 2015. Google has a stated policy of at least two years of software updates and three years (or 18 months after the last sale date on the Play Store, whichever is longer) of security updates. The Nexus 6 had guaranteed software updates through October 2016 and security patches through October 2017; however, Google announced that the Nexus 6 would receive the Android 7.1 update. This update was initially expected in December 2016, but it was delayed until January 5, 2017 due to a "last minute bug". In January 2017, Google announced that the Nexus 6, along with the Nexus 9 tablet, would not receive the 7.1.2 Nougat update, making 7.1.1 the last major software update from Google themselves; however, the phone was to continue to receive monthly security patches while retaining the last major Android version received until October 2017.
Specifications
Hardware
The Nexus 6 is powered by a 2.7 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 805 processor with 3 GB of RAM, and either 32 or 64 GB of internal storage. It features a 3220 mAh battery with quick charging technology that promises to deliver six hours of operation after 15 minutes o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FL6%20%28Lazio%20regional%20railways%29 | The FL6 (until 2012 FR6) is a regional rail route. It forms part of the network of the Lazio regional railways (), which is operated by Trenitalia, and converges on the city of Rome, Italy.
The route operates over the infrastructure of the Rome–Cassino–Naples railway. Within the territory of the comune of Rome, it plays the role of a commuter railway. It is estimated that on average about 50,000 passengers travel on an FL6 train each day.
The designation FL6 appears only in publicity material (e.g. public transport maps), in the official timetables, and on signs at some stations. The electronic destination boards at stations on the FL6 route show only the designation "R" and the relevant train number.
Route
Roma Termini ↔ Cassino
The FL6, a radial route, runs from Roma Termini, on the southern perimeter of Rome's city centre, in a south easterly direction, via the Rome–Cassino–Naples railway, to Cassino.
Stations
The stations on the FL6 are as follows:
Roma Termini
Capannelle
Ciampino
Tor Vergata
Colle Mattia
Colonna Galleria
Zagarolo
Labico
Valmontone
Colleferro-Segni-Paliano
Anagni-Fiuggi
Sgurgola
Morolo
Ferentino-Supino
Frosinone
Ceccano
Castro-Pofi-Vallecorsa
Ceprano-Falvaterra
Isoletta-San Giovanni Incarico
Roccasecca
Piedimonte-Villa Santa Lucia-Aquino
Cassino
Scheduling
The FL6 route is included in the Trenitalia official timetable M80 Roma–Cassino–Caserta–Napoli.
, FL6 services operated between Roma Termini and Cassino on a clock-face schedule once every hour in each direction. The full trip between these two stations is long, and takes about two hours.
See also
History of rail transport in Italy
List of railway stations in Lazio
Rail transport in Italy
Transport in Rome
References
External links
ATAC – official site
ATAC map – schematic depicting all routes in the Rome railway network
Ferrovie regionali del Lazio |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20Knight%2C%20Inc. | Black Knight, Inc. is an American corporation that provides integrated technology, services, data and analytics to the mortgage lending, servicing and real estate industries, as well as the capital and secondary markets. Black Knight is also known for its monthly benchmark data reports: Mortgage Monitor, a month-end analysis of mortgage performance statistics derived from Black Knight's loan-level database representing the majority of the national mortgage market; and Originations Market Monitor, the industry's earliest and most comprehensive view of single-family residential mortgage originations based on daily rate lock data from Black Knight's Optimal Blue PPE. In 2023, Intercontinental Exchange acquired the company for $11.7billion.
Operations
Black Knight provides integrated technology, data and analytics solutions that help the real estate and housing finance industries serve clients, mitigate risk and operate more efficiently.
The company's product offerings serve four primary market segments:
Real estate
Mortgage origination
Mortgage servicing
Capital and secondary markets
Corporate evolution
1962 – Black Knight's earliest predecessor company, Computing and Statistical Services, (CSS) is founded in Jacksonville, Fla.
1969 – CSS incorporates under its new name: Computer Power Inc. (CPI).
1992 – ALLTEL Corporation purchases CPI, which becomes a part of ALLTEL Information Services. ALLTEL Information Services' financial services division provides technology applications for mortgage, banking and other financial services.
2003 – Fidelity National Financial (FNF) purchases ALLTEL Information Services, renames it Fidelity Information Systems (FIS), and relocates FNF's headquarters from Santa Barbara, Calif., to Jacksonville, Fla.
2006 – FNF spins off FIS into a separate company.
2008 – FIS spins off mortgage processing and services into Lender Processing Services, Inc. (LPS).
2008 – LPS acquires McDash Analytics, one of the largest loan-level mortgage performance databases, which becomes the basis for a new Applied Analytics division.
2014 – LPS is re-acquired by FNF and renamed Black Knight Financial Services.
2015 – Black Knight Financial Services begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol "BKFS."
2016 – Black Knight acquires eLynx and Motivity Solutions, creating the foundation for Black Knight's Origination Technologies division.
2017 – FNF liquidates its majority holding in Black Knight Financial Services, resulting in a new public company, Black Knight, Inc.
2018 – Black Knight acquires artificial intelligence, and machine learning (AI/ML) start-up HeavyWater and Ernst Publishing Co., a provider of mortgage fees and closing cost data for the real estate and home finance industries.
2019 – Black Knight acquires Compass Analytics, provider of lender pricing solutions and secondary market analytics.
2020 – Black Knight acquires Collateral Analytics, provider of real estate analytics tools and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack/reduce | hack/reduce is a 501(c)(3) non-profit created to cultivate a community of big data experts in the Boston area. It is located in the historic Kendall Boiler and Tank Company building in Kendall Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
It was founded by serial entrepreneurs Christopher P. Lynch and Frederic Lalonde in May 2012. At its founding, hack/reduce raised more than $500,000 from local venture capital firms and Samuel Madden. It has partnerships with MIT, CSAIL, Bentley University. and Harvard. Sponsors include Microsoft, IBM, GoGrid, Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, Dell, Atlas Venture, Bessemer Venture Partners, Hopper, Bright Spark Ventures, Google, and others.
In June 2012, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick announced the Massachusetts Big Data Initiative which comprised corporate, academic, and government programs as well as a $50,000 grant and the state's support for hack/reduce.
References
Charities based in Massachusetts
Big data companies
Organizations established in 2012
2012 establishments in Massachusetts
Economy of Boston
Organizations based in Cambridge, Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberRebate | Cyberrebate.com, Inc. was an online retailer founded in May 1998 that went bankrupt in May 2001, after the collapse of the dot-com bubble.
The company sold items at grossly inflated prices, as much as 10 times the list price, but promised customers a 100% rebate.
The company relied on the assumption that 50% of its customers would neglect to apply for their rebate.
History
Joel Granik, Joseph Lichter and Athan Vadiakas started the website on May 16, 1998. By November 2000, the company claimed to have rebated $39 million to its customers.
In January 2001, it was the third–ranked online retailer in the United States and had 7.7 million web users per month.
The company filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code on 16 May 2001, citing $83.3 million in liabilities and $24.5 million in assets. Approximately $80 million was due directly to customers in unpaid rebates. At the time of the bankruptcy filing, there were 9 customers that were due pending rebates of $79,000-$100,000 each.
In April 2005, some creditors were awarded $0.08802 per dollar of allowed claims. A second, final disbursement was made to creditors in August 2006 for $0.0006276 per dollar of allowed claims, or roughly $1 for every $1,600 claimed.
References
American companies established in 1998
Retail companies established in 1998
Internet properties established in 1998
Retail companies disestablished in 2007
Defunct online companies of the United States
Defunct websites
Online retailers of the United States
Dot-com bubble |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Pav%C3%B3n | Juan Pavón (born 19 November 1962) is a Spanish computer scientist, full professor of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). He is a pioneer researcher in the field of Software Agents, co-creator of the FIPA MESSAGE and INGENIAS methodologies, and founder and director of the research group GRASIA: GRoup of Agent-based, Social and Interdisciplinary Applications at UCM. He is known for his work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, specifically in agent-oriented software engineering. He has been often cited by mainstream media, as a reference in Artificial Intelligence.
Biography
Education
Pavón belongs to the first Spanish generation to get official studies in Computer Science, during the 1980s. He studied Computer Science at the Technical University of Madrid, graduating in 1985. In 1988, he obtained his PhD in this area with the thesis: "Synthesis of communication protocols from service specifications". While doing this thesis, he worked as assistant professor at the same university. After his PhD, he joined Alcatel-Lucent R&D team, where he worked for 10 years. At the end of 1997 he got an Associate Professor position at UCM, and in 2006, he achieved the Habilitation à diriger des recherches qualification in Computer Science at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) with the thesis "INGENIAS : Développement Dirigé par Modèles des Systèmes Multi-Agents" (in French).
Career
He joined the Alcatel R&D department as a systems engineer. There, he worked on the development of software component-based architectures for distributed systems, and its applications for multimedia services over broadband networks and new generation mobile phones. During the 10 years he worked for the company, he spent periods in Alcatel centers outside Spain, such as France (Lannion and Vélizy) and Belgium (Namur and Antwerp). In this period, he worked several years in the labs of Bellcore in Red Bank, New Jersey (USA), working in the TINA-C Core Team, and helping to produce architectural models for telecommunication services. As a result, he published several popular works.
He then returned to the academic world, as an Associate Professor at the Computer Science School of the Complutense University of Madrid (1997). By then, he researched Multi-Agent Systems within the Eurescom project P815 "Communications Management Process Integration Using Software Agents" (1999) working with Telefónica R+D. His work in several projects combines software engineering practices and MAS. In the Eurescom P907 "Methodology for Engineering Systems of Software Agents", he co-created the MESSAGE methodology, currently part of the main FIPA software agent methodologies.
In 2000 he established the research group GRASIA for the research in Software Agents and Artificial Intelligence in the Complutense University of Madrid. He also held several management positions in the university, serving as Vice Dean for four years (1998–2002). Nowadays, he is full professor at the Universi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahdatabad%2C%20Bushehr | Vahdatabad (, also Romanized as Vaḥdatābād) is a village in Abkosh Rural District, Bord Khun District, Deyr County, Bushehr Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 369, in 71 families.
References
Populated places in Deyr County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyamory%3A%20Married%20%26%20Dating | Polyamory: Married & Dating is an American reality television series on the American pay television network Showtime.
The series follows polyamorous families as they navigate the challenges presented by polyamory. Polyamory Season 1 debuted on July 12, 2012, Season 2 premiered on August 15, 2013.
Cast
Kamala Devi McClure (season 1—2)
Jennifer Gold (season 1—2)
Tahl Gruer (season 1—2)
Michael McClure (season 1—2)
Megan (season 2)
Vanessa Carlisle (season 1)
Anthony Cristofani (season 1)
Lindsey Kate Cristofani (season 1)
Lindsey and Anthony are legally married to each other and are both in a relationship with Vanessa. These three are a primary relationship and refer to themselves as "the Triad". Kamala and Michael are legally married to each other, as are Jen and Tahl. The four of them refer to themselves as "the Pod".
Season 2 premiered on August 15. The pod of Kamala, Michael, Jen and Tahl is back with another new family.
Episodes
Season 1
Season 2
Critical response
In 2012, Gawker called Polyamory: Married & Dating the best reality show on television, "It works not just as the freak show that we've come to expect from reality TV, but also on a political level."
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2012 American television series debuts
American LGBT-related reality television series
Polyamorous culture
Showtime (TV network) original programming
Television shows set in California
2010s LGBT-related reality television series
American dating and relationship reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPSS%20%28disambiguation%29 | GPSS is the General Purpose Simulation System, a programming language.
GPSS may also refer to:
Exolum Pipeline System, formerly the Government Pipelines and Storage System, UK pipeline system
Guam Public School System, school district
GPS Software, GPS navigation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shailesh%20Datar | Shailesh Datar (Shailesh Dattar) is an Indian film, television and stage actor, who started in Marathi theatre and television. He is best known for playing role of sage Narada in the mythological TV series Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev (2012). Prior to it he gained popularity while playing the role of Moropant Tambe, the father of Rani Lakshmibai in TV series, Jhansi Ki Rani (2009 -2011) and in Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo as the female lead's father, the shows rerun is telecasted on Dangal Tv(2010-2012). He has acted in TV series include, Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka (2008-2009), Aan, Main Teri Parchhain Hoon, Banoo Main Teri Dulhan (2006-2009), and Char Divas Sasuche (2005) on ETV Marathi.
He is also known for his role as Ravsaheb, in Marathi play Barrister, written by Jaywant Dalvi and directed by Vikram Gokhale. He also did role of Amatya Ugrasen in Colors TV serial Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat.
Filmography
Ladhaai (1999)
Bhulwa (2007) as Police Inspector Shivraj Patil
Television
Char Divas Sasuche, ETV Marathi
Asambhav (2007-2008) as Balkrishna Shastri, Zee Marathi
Main Teri Parchhain Hoon (2008-2009) as Ravikant, Imagine TV
Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (2008-2009) as Pradhanji
Baba Aiso Varr Dhoondo (2010-2012) as Rupesh Chauhan, Imagine TV
Jhansi Ki Rani (2009 -2011) as Moropant Tambe (father of Rani Lakshmibai), Zee TV
Unch Majha Zoka (2012), Zee Marathi
Devon Ke Dev...Mahadev / Siya Ke Ram (2011–2014) / 2016 as sage Narada, Life OK/Star Plus
Asava Sundar Swapnancha Bangla (2013–2015) as Girish Mohite-Patil, ETV Marathi
Bandhan Saat Janamon Ka as Trilok Agarwal
Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat (2015) as Amatya Ugrasen
Bharat Ka Veer Putra – Maharana Pratap (2015) as Tulsidas
Kahani Hamari... Dil Dosti Deewanepan Ki as Mr.Vadhera
Brahmarakshas as Nalin Shrivastav (Rishabh's foster father)
Radha Prem Rangi Rangali as Madavrao Nimbalkar (Radha's father)
Chandrakanta (Life OK) as Pandit Jagannath (2017)
Shakti - Astitva Ke Ehsaas Ki (2018) as Doctor who treats Soumya and Harman after they lose their memory
Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin as Ninad Chavan: Virat's father (2020–present)
Tuzech Mi Geet Gaat Aahe as Vikram Rajadhyakash (2022–present)
References
External links
Marathi-language singers
Living people
Indian male television actors
Marathi actors
Indian male stage actors
Male actors in Marathi theatre
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sync%20box | A sync box, also known as a phase adjuster in England, is a device designed to sync a film camera's shutter with TV or computer screens, otherwise thick, black roll bars appear on the video screen within the film image.
Process
A lot of problems when filming TV and computer screens are based on the different frame rates involved. The standard for film projection is 24 fps. In countries like the United States that use the NTSC system for television broadcast, the frame rate is 30 fps (actually 29.97). When the camera's shutter is not in sync with the NTSC monitor, thick, dark horizontal bands or bars will appear and drift across the screen. These are called "roll bars". A sync box with phase control is used to eliminate the roll bars.
Shooting at 24 fps with a 144° camera shutter will reduce the size of the roll bars to very thin lines. At this shutter angle, using a sync box with the camera can stop the thin roll bars from moving. Phase control allows the camera operator to place the thin roll bars at any point in the frame. The choice of placement generally comes down to two options: Having two lines, one at the top third and one at the bottom third of the display, or only one line right across the center.
Solutions without sync boxes
In certain cases, filmmakers found ways of filming television screens without the use of sync boxes. Documented examples include:
Mark Irwin, director of photography on Videodrome (1983), did not have access to a sync box during that film for shooting many scenes involving TV screens. He used a camera with a fixed shutter speed to reduce roll bars to very thin lines in that film, thus making them imperceptible.
One of the technical innovations introduced in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was the use of 24-frame video playback though specially designed TV sets and videotape players. This allows for the filming of video screens without black bars or flickering, thus negating the need for a sync box. The system was designed by Hal Landaker at The Burbank Studios.
References
Annotations
Footnotes
Bibliography
External links
Filming Computer Monitors on the Cinematography Mailing List
Filmmaking
Cinematography
Television technology |
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