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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonders%20of%20Life%20%28TV%20series%29 | Wonders of Life is a 2013 television documentary series presented by physicist Brian Cox. The series was produced by the BBC and Chinese state television network CCTV-9 and aired in the United Kingdom from 27 January 2013 at 9:00 pm on BBC Two. An accompanying book with the same title was also published.
Episodes
1. "What is Life?"
Brian Cox journeys to Southeast Asia to see how life began on Earth and how the flow of energy created and supports life.
2. "Expanding Universe"
In the second episode, Brian travels to the U.S. to showcase how the laws of science allowed senses to arise.
3. "Endless Forms Most Beautiful"
Brian travels to Africa and Madagascar to analyse why Earth is a fertile place and how it allows complex life to exist.
4. "Size Matters"
The fourth episode sees Brian in Australia, looking at how the size of each plant and animal affects how long it can survive.
5. "Home"
In the final episode, Cox travels to Mexico to explain what makes Earth a home for life and ask what ingredients were required for complex life to begin.
Merchandise
The Region 2 DVD discs were released on 4 March 2013.
A book related to the series was authored by Andrew Cohen and Brian Cox. The book was published on 24 January 2013.
See also
Wonders of the Solar System
Wonders of the Universe
Human Universe
Forces of Nature (TV series)
References
External links
2013 British television series debuts
2013 British television series endings
BBC high definition shows
BBC television documentaries about science
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AcoustID | AcoustID is a webservice for the identification of music recordings based on the Chromaprint acoustic fingerprint algorithm. It can identify entire songs but not short snippets.
By 2017, the free service had 34 million "fingerprints" in-store and every day acquired between 15 and 20 thousand new entries and answered around five million search queries.
AcoustID is integrated into the audio file metadata editors Picard, Jaikoz and Puddletag, for example.
Chromaprint
In October 2009 MusicIP was acquired by AmpliFIND. Some time after the acquisition, the MusicDNS service began having intermittent problems. Since the future of the free identification service was uncertain, a replacement for it was sought. The Chromaprint acoustic fingerprinting algorithm, the basis for AcoustID identification service, was started in February 2010 by a long-time MusicBrainz contributor Lukáš Lalinský. The oldest entry in the DB is from 8 Oct 2010.
While AcoustID and Chromaprint are not officially MusicBrainz projects, they are closely tied with each other and both are open source. Chromaprint works by analyzing the first two minutes of a track, detecting the strength in each of 12 pitch classes, storing these 8 times per second. Additional post-processing is then applied to compress this fingerprint while retaining patterns. The AcoustID search server then searches from the database of fingerprints by similarity and returns the AcoustID identifier along with MusicBrainz recording identifiers if known.
Since 2013 Chromaprint is the only fingerprint supported by MusicBrainz.
Fingerprint ID
The fingerprint IDs are 8-digit and conform to /[1-9][0-9]{7}/. E.g.
https://acoustid.org/fingerprint/10374377 - one of the lowest numbers
AcoustID "track"
Groups of Chromaprints are given a UUID and can be reached via https://acoustid.org/track/<uuid>, e.g. https://acoustid.org/track/a64cc174-c77c-47ee-ac1b-78015270dfe6.
The underlying chromaprints can be reached via fingerprint IDs, e.g.
ID Length Sources
https://acoustid.org/fingerprint/11799567 3:35 255
https://acoustid.org/fingerprint/41547743 3:36 152
https://acoustid.org/fingerprint/21463426 3:38 81
The linked MusicBrainz "recordings" can contain music of different performers, e.g.
This Goodbye Is Not Forever (original radio edit) // Touché // 3:38
This Is Not Goodbye // Melissa Etheridge // 3:35 // 1
References
Further reading
External links
https://acoustid.org/
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/AcoustID
http://beets.readthedocs.io/en/v1.3.17/plugins/chroma.html
Acoustic fingerprinting
Online music and lyrics databases |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20Pilot | Pipeline Pilot is a desktop software program sold by Dassault Systèmes for processing and analyzing data. Originally used in the natural sciences, the product's basic ETL (Extract, transform, load) and analytics capabilities have broadened over time. The product is now used for data science, ETL, reporting, prediction, and analytics in a number of sectors. The main feature of the program is the ability to design data workflows using a graphical user interface. It is an example of visual and dataflow programming and has use in a variety of settings, such as cheminformatics and QSAR, Next Generation Sequencing, image analysis, and text analytics. It is not an 'object oriented' programming language .
History
Pipeline Pilot was created by SciTegic. BIOVIA subsequently acquired SciTegic and Pipeline Pilot in 2004. BIOVIA was itself purchased by Dassault Systèmes in 2014. The product expanded from an initial focus on chemistry to include general extract, transform and load (ETL) capabilities. Beyond the base product, Dassault has added analytical and data processing collections for report generation, data visualization and a number of scientific and engineering sectors. Currently, the product is used for ETL, analytics and machine learning in the chemical, energy, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, automotive and electronics manufacturing industries.
Overview
Pipeline Pilot is part of a class of software products that provide user interfaces for manipulating and analyzing data. The Vendor says that Pipeline Pilot and similar products allow users with limited or no coding abilities to transform and manipulate datasets. The dataset manipulation is usually a precursor to conducting analysis of the data. Like other graphical ETL products, it enables users to pull from different data sources, such as CSV files, text files and databases.
Components, pipelines, protocols and data records
The graphical user interface, called the Pipeline Pilot Professional Client, allows users to drag and drop discrete data processing units called "components". Components can load, filter, join or manipulate data. Components can also perform much more advanced data manipulations, such as building regression models, training neural networks or processing datasets into PDF reports.
Pipeline Pilot implements a Components paradigm. Components are represented as nodes in a workflow. In a mathematical sense, components are modeled as nodes in a directed graph: "pipes" (graph edges) connect components and move data along the from node to node where operations are performed on the data. To help in industry-specific applications, such as Next Generation Sequencing (see High-throughput sequencing (HTS) methods), BIOVIA has developed components that greatly reduce the amount of time users need to do common industry-specific tasks.
Users can choose from components that come pre-installed or create their own components in workflows called "protocols". Protocols are sets of lin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickson%20Fong | Nickson Fong (born 1969) is a Singaporean computer graphics artist and the first Singaporean to receive an Academy Award.
Early life
Sent by his father for art lessons since three, Fong studied at the Savannah College of Art and Design after getting a diploma at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts; he graduated from the college in 1994. Prior to him obtaining his master's degree in computer art at Savannah, Fong studied at Saint Andrew's Secondary School. There, he was a "school dropout who flunked his exams every year." His school's principal was quoted as telling Fong's mother:
Career
Early career in Japan
Fong's first animation job was at Future Pirates in 1993, a Japanese game developer based in Tokyo, where he worked in the computer graphics department for a year.
Early short films
Fong's early films are heavily influenced by HR Giger and Hayao Miyazaki. In early 90s Nickson directed and produced "Screamscape" a CGI animated short film in collaboration with Dr. Seah Hock Soon (Professor School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University) Special Thanks to Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 1994, Fong started working on his graduation project "Dreamaker" a CGI animated Short at Savannah College of Art and Design it was accepted at the Siggraph'96 Electronic Theater - Nickson Fong was the first student at Savannah College of Art Design to have an animated short film accepted at the Siggraph'96 Electronic Theater competing with professional in the animation industry.
Hollywood career
An animated short film by Fong caught the attention of DreamWorks Animation when it was showcased at SIGGRAPH 1996, an annual animation conference, and shortly after, he landed a job at DreamWorks. From then on, he was based in Los Angeles, California.
Now based in Taipei Republic of China, and Los Angeles. Fong is known for co-inventing and publishing, along with two others, in 2000, an animating technique known as the "Pose Space Deformation", which makes animated characters' features more lifelike. This algorithm has been used widely in films, such as Spider-Man (2002) and Avatar (2009). and many other Hollywood films. Fong was awarded with an Academy Award for Scientific and Technical Awards on February 9, at the Academy of Sci-Tech Awards presentation. Among many other films, Fong worked as Senior Technical Director for The Matrix Reloaded (2003), as well as Starship Troopers (1997), Stuart Little (1999) and Shrek (2001) returned to Singapore and founded production company Egg Story Creative Production in 2004; Fong decided to focus on content development and pre-production in 2009 and he established another production company, Egg Story Studios and Re'al Sandbox.
Fong also founded Egg Story Digital Arts Academy in July 2007; it was sold in 2010 at its peak of 250 students and rebranded to ArtFusion Media. One of Fong's ongoing projects is Kung Fu Gecko (working title). An action romantic comedy set a millennium ago in China, i |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getac%20Z710 | The Getac Z710 is a rugged tablet computer. It was introduced by Getac on September 4, 2012, when it was announced as the world's first rugged 7-inch Android tablet, and later as the world’s first rugged Android tablet to offer the option for the ATEX Zone II/22 certification for use in potentially explosive atmospheres, which is essential for many oil and gas uses as well as pharmaceutical manufacturing environments.
Features
The tablet has a 7" Gorilla Glass touchscreen, a soft plastic outer shell, 7-inch LCD screen and weighs under 2 pounds. It is fully waterproof, and can operate in subzero temperatures. It also has an optional bar-code scanner and radio-frequency identification reader. Intended for use in utility industry markets, it is designed to allow for operation with gloved hands.
The product was originally released with Android 2.3 installed and was updated to Android 4.1 on April 16, 2013.
Reviews
Inc. magazine rated the Z710 one of the four most durable tablets available, and the best tablet for extreme conditions. A report on Pocket-lint noted that the Z710 is less "silky smooth to look at" than the Nexus 7, but is likely to be more durable. Rugged PC Reviews said it "combines contemporary looks with the practicality and common sense design of a tool for the job."
References
External links
Computer-related introductions in 2012
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20U2 | Rocket U2 is a suite of database management (DBMS) and supporting software now owned by Rocket Software. It includes two MultiValue database platforms: UniData and UniVerse. Both of these products are operating environments which run on current Unix, Linux and Windows operating systems. They are both derivatives of the Pick operating system. The family also includes developer and web-enabling technologies including SB/XA (sometimes known as SB+ or SystemBuilder), U2 Web Development Environment (WebDE), UniObjects connectivity API and wIntegrate terminal emulation software.
History
UniVerse was originally developed by VMark Software and UniData was originally developed by the Unidata Corporation. Both Universe and Unidata are used for vertical application development and are embedded into the vertical software applications. In 1997, the Unidata Corporation merged with VMark Systems to form Ardent Software. In March 2000, Ardent Software was acquired by Informix. IBM subsequently acquired the database division of Informix in April 2001, making UniVerse and UniData part of IBM's DB2 product family. IBM subsequently created the Information Management group of which Data Management is one of the sub-areas under which the IBM U2 family comprised UniData and UniVerse along with the tools, SystemBuilder Extensible Architecture (SB/XA), U2 Web Development Environment (U2 Web DE) and wIntegrate.
On 1 October 2009 it was announced that Rocket Software had purchased the entire U2 portfolio from IBM. The U2 portfolio is grouped under the name RocketU2.
System structure
Accounts
Systems are made of one or more accounts. Accounts are directories stored on the host operating system that initially contain the set of files needed for the system to function properly. This includes the system's VOC (vocabulary) file that contains every command, filename, keyword, alias, script, and other pointers. Each of these classes of VOC entries can also be created by a user.
Files
Files are similar to tables in a relational database in that each file has a unique name to distinguish it from other files and zero to multiple unique records that are logically related to each other.
Files are made of two parts: a data file and a file dictionary (DICT). The data file contains records that store the actual data. The file dictionary may contain metadata to describe the contents or to output the contents of a file.
Hashed files
For hashed files, a U2 system uses a hashing algorithm to allocate the file's records into groups based on the record IDs. When searching for data in a hashed file, the system only searches the group where the record ID is stored, making the search process more efficient and quicker than searching through the whole file.
Nonhashed files
Nonhashed files are used to store data with little or no logical structure such as program source code, XML or plain text. This type of file is stored as a subdirectory within the account directory on the h |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicode | In computer architecture, millicode is a higher level of microcode used to implement part of the instruction set of a computer. The instruction set for millicode is a subset of the machine's native instruction set, omitting those instructions that are implemented using millicode, plus instructions that provide access to hardware not accessible using the native instruction set. Millicode routines are used to implement more complex instructions visible to the user of the system. Implementation of millicode requires a special processor mode called millimode that provides its own set of registers, and possibly its own special instructions invisible to the user.
IBM invented both the concept and the term millicode for the System/390 9672-G4 processor in 1997. The following are cited as advantages of millicode:
More complex instructions can easily be constructed from several millicode instructions.
Construction of a compatible line of computer models with different performance is simplified.
Millicode instructions can bypass CPU cache to improve performance.
Instructions can update multiple storage locations without concern for being interrupted.
Millicode can execute instructions at a higher privilege level without involving the operating system.
Millicode can provide a complex instruction as if it were a subroutine, making user code smaller.
The "i370" code for the "Capitol" chipset used in some ES/9370 models was similar to millicode, in that it was written as a combination of System/370 instructions and code that had access to special hardware features.
See also
PALcode
References
External links
Central processing unit
Instruction processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20I%20Had%20a%20Hammer%20%28film%29 | If I Had a Hammer is a 1999 film starring Susan Reno and Kristian Monday and written and directed by Josh Becker.
External links
If I Had a Hammer on Internet Movie Database
1999 films
American independent films
Films directed by Josh Becker
1990s English-language films
1990s American films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warframe | Warframe is a free-to-play action role-playing third-person shooter multiplayer online game developed and published by Digital Extremes. First released for Windows personal computers in March 2013, it was later ported to PlayStation 4 in November 2013, Xbox One in September 2014, Nintendo Switch in November 2018, PlayStation 5 in November 2020, and Xbox Series X/S in April 2021. Support for cross-platform play was released in 2022. Cross-save, as well as ports to mobile devices, is planned for 2023. The game is in a perpetual open beta.
In Warframe, players control members of the Tenno, a race of ancient warriors who have awoken from centuries of suspended animation far into Earth's future to find themselves at war with different factions in the Origin System. The Tenno use their powered Warframes along with a variety of weapons and abilities to complete missions. While many of the game's missions use procedurally-generated levels, it also includes large open world areas similar to other massively multiplayer online games, as well as some story-specific missions with fixed level design. The game includes elements of shooting and melee games, parkour, and role-playing to allow players to advance their Tenno with improved gear. The game includes both player versus environment and player versus player elements. It is supported by microtransactions, which lets players purchase in-game items using real money, but also offers the option to earn them at no cost through grinding.
The concept for Warframe originated in 2000, when Digital Extremes began work on a new game titled Dark Sector. At the time, the company had been successful in supporting other developers and publishers and wanted to develop its game in-house. Dark Sector suffered several delays and was eventually released in 2008, having used some of the initial framework but far different from the original plan. By 2012, in the wake of the success of free-to-play games, the developers took their earlier Dark Sector ideas and art assets and incorporated them into a new project, their self-published Warframe.
Initially, the growth of Warframe was slow, hindered by moderate critical reviews and low player counts. Since its release, the game has experienced positive growth. The game is one of Digital Extremes' most successful titles, seeing nearly 50 million registered players by 2019.
Setting
Set in the future, players control members of the Tenno, warriors who have awoken from a millennia-long cryosleep on Earth without memories of their past. In the Origin System (an in-game term for the Solar System), they find themselves at war with the Grineer, a violent war-driven matriarchal race of militarized human clones; the Corpus, a mega-corporation with advanced robotics and laser technology, centered around a religion dedicated to profit; the Infested, disfigured victims of the Technocyte virus; the Sentients, a race of self-replicating machines made by a long-dead transhuman race known as the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciDB | SciDB is a column-oriented database management system (DBMS) designed for multidimensional data management and analytics common to scientific, geospatial, financial, and industrial applications. It is developed by Paradigm4 and co-created by Michael Stonebraker.
History
Stonebraker claims that arrays are 100 times faster in SciDB than in a relational DBMS on a class of problems. It is swapping rows and columns for mathematical arrays that put fewer restrictions on the data and can work in any number of dimensions unlike the conventionally widely used relational database management system model, in which each relation supports only one dimension of records.
A 2011 conference presentation on SciDB promoted it as "not Hadoop".
Marilyn Matz became chief executive Paradigm4 in 2014.
See also
Comparison of object database management systems
Comparison of structured storage software
References
External links
SciDB website
Data management
Distributed data stores
Document-oriented databases
Distributed computing architecture
Free database management systems
Structured storage
NoSQL
Software using the GNU AGPL license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link%20layer%20security | The link layer is the lowest layer in the TCP/IP model. It is also referred to as the network interface layer and mostly equivalent to the data link layer plus physical layer in OSI. This particular layer has several unique security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by a determined adversary.
Network interface layer
The link layer is the interface between the host system and the network hardware. It defines how data packets are to be formatted for transmission and routings. Some common link-layer protocols include IEEE 802.2 and X.25. The data link layer and its associated protocols govern the physical interface between the host computer and the network hardware. The goal of this layer is to provide reliable communications between hosts connected on a network. Services provided by this layer of the network stack include:
Data Framing Breaking up the data stream into individual frames or packets.
Checksums Sending checksum data for each frame to enable the receiving node to determine whether or not the frame was received error-free.
Acknowledgment Sending either a positive (data was received) or negative (data was not received but expected) acknowledgement from receiver to sender to ensure reliable data transmission.
Flow Control Buffering data transmissions to ensure that a fast sender does not overwhelm a slower receiver.
Vulnerabilities and mitigation strategies
Wired networks
Content Address Memory (CAM) table exhaustion attack
The data link layer addresses data packets based on the destination hardware's physical Media Access Control (MAC) address. Switches within the network maintain Content Address Tables (CAMs) that maps the switch's ports to specific MAC addresses. These tables allow the switch to securely deliver the packet to its intended physical address only. Using the switch to connect only the systems that are communicating provides much greater security than a network hub, which broadcasts all traffic over all ports, allowing an eavesdropper to intercept and monitor all network traffic.
A CAM Table Exhaustion Attack basically turns a switch into a hub. The attacker floods the CAM table with new MAC-to-port mappings until the table's fixed memory allotment is full. At this point the switch no longer knows how to deliver traffic based on a MAC-to-port mapping, and defaults to broadcasting traffic over all ports. An adversary is then able to intercept and monitor all network traffic traversing the switch to include passwords, emails, instant messages, etc.
The CAM table-overflow attack can be mitigated by configuring port security on the switch. This option provides for either the specification of the MAC addresses on a particular switch port or the specification of the number of MAC addresses that can be learned by a switch port. When an invalid MAC address is detected on the port, the switch can either block the offending MAC address or shut down the port.
Address Routing Protocol (ARP) spoofing
At the data link l |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupithecia%20expallidata | Eupithecia expallidata, the bleached pug, is a moth of the family Geometridae.
It is found in North-West and Central Russia, South-East Scandinavia to the North Mediterranean and West Europe including the British Isles.
The wingspan is 20–24 mm. The forewings are broad and rounded. The ground colour is pale light brown. There are two black costal stains and a large black discal stain. A fine broken black line runs around the outer margin of the forewing. The hindwings are similar and have a small discal spot. See also Prout
The larva is matt greenish clearly and variously patterned.
The moth flies in July and August.
The larvae feed on goldenrod (Solidago virgaurea).
Similar species
Eupithecia absinthiata
References
External links
Lepiforum.de
expallidata
Moths described in 1808
Moths of Europe
Taxa named by Henry Doubleday |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20M.%20Hollerbach | John Matthew Hollerbach is a professor of computer science and research professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. He is the editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research, a Senior Editor of Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, and a Governing Board member of the electronic journal Haptics-e.
Early life and education
Hollerbach was born in Marktheidenfeld, Germany to Hungarian refugees who met and married in a displacement camp. He and his family lived in a priest's attic in Germany for five years before emigrating to Detroit as refugees.
He received his BS in chemistry in 1968 from the University of Michigan but was interested in the growing computer industry and spent an extra year taking computer science courses to receive an MS in mathematics. Following graduation, he worked at IBM as a chemist but took courses in artificial intelligence and computer science as part of an education program with Syracuse University. He then applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Patrick Winston in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on modeling solid objects and received his SM in computer vision in 1975. He continued at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science PhD program to study the acquisition of fine motor skills for use in robotics. He obtained special permission to have David Marr as his thesis advisor because Marr was a research scientist and not yet a faculty member at the time. As a result, Hollerbach was technically Marr's first student, although Shimon Ullman was the first student to graduate under him. Hollerbach received his PhD from MIT in 1978.
Career
Following his PhD, Hollerbach continued at MIT as a research scientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to work on theories of human movement and control and adapting these theories to robotics, and officially joined the faculty in 1982.
Year of the Robot
In 1981 Hollerbach co-founded the Year of the Robot program at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory funded by the System Development Corporation and the Office of Naval Research with the goal of jump-starting serious research in robotics. During the 1970s robotics research was not considered a separate respectable scientific endeavor and was heavily oriented toward industrial robotics with limited vision in potential capabilities. The program aimed to rectify this by accelerating robotics research at MIT over a five-year period by supporting writing of a sourcebook on robotic manipulation, starting an annual high-level international academic conference and research journal, outlining an educational program, and building a dexterous and controllable robotic hand. In 1982, Hollerbach co-produced a robot motion sourcebook with J. Michael Brady, Matthew T. Mason, Tomas Lozano-Perez, and Timothy Johnson. The book contained sections on dynamics, trajectory planning, compliance and force contr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspecsys | Perspecsys Inc. is a cloud computing security company Founded by Terry and Lynda Woloszyn, on July 6 2006 that provides cloud data protection software. Perspecsys has offices in the Toronto area; Tysons Corner, Virginia; San Francisco, California; London, England; Paris, France; and Berlin, Germany.
Perspecsys specializes in cloud data privacy, data residency/sovereignty, and data security software that enables compliance with industry regulations and directives, and security requirements when adopting cloud. Banking and financial services, healthcare, retail, and government entities must adhere to strict guidelines when handling sensitive personal data in cloud applications that include: PCI DSS, ITAR, FERPA, HIPAA, and HITECH.
Technology
The AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Gateway secures data in software as a service and platform as a service provider applications through the use of encryption or tokenization. Gartner refers to this type of technology as a cloud encryption gateway, and categorizes providers of this technology as cloud access security brokers. The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has granted Perspecsys U.S. Patent No. 9,021,135 for its System and Method for Tokenization of Data for Storage in a Cloud.
The main component of the cloud encryption gateway is the AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Gateway Server, which acts as an intercepting software proxy. The gateway server provides the core data privacy, residency, and security services for the gateway. AppProtex Discovery & Analyze capabilities allow visibility into information users are sharing with cloud applications.
Users may define encryption, and tokenization options at the field-level. The cloud data protection gateway allows encryption with any third-party JCA/JCE-compliant cryptographic module, including FIPS 140-2 (Federal Information Processing Standard) validated modules. Cloud data is secured, and end-users maintain full functionality, such as the ability to search, sort, and e-mail using data that has been either encrypted or tokenized.
The data that flows between the cloud application, and the end user is interpreted by the Gateway. For cloud applications that feature email, the AppProtex Communications Server can enable the secure transfer of email. Additionally, AppProtex Server facilitates the deployment of the cloud security gateway via IaaS partners such as Amazon Web Services, CSC, and Fujitsu.
Perspecsys is a Salesforce AppExchange Partner and provides tokenization or encryption of Salesforce.com, Chatter, Force.com, and Wave Analytics Cloud Data. The AppProtex Cloud Data Protection Gateway secures cloud data across cloud applications, including Oracle CRM on Demand, Oracle Fusion CRM, ServiceNow, SuccessFactors, AppExtremes, and Xactly Incent.
Standards
Perspecsys cloud encryption gateway uses either tokenization or encryption for cloud security. Its tokenization option was evaluated by Coalfire, a PCI DSS Qualified Security Ass |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20Avant | Maya Avant is a fictional character from The Bold and the Beautiful, an American soap opera on the CBS network, portrayed by Karla Mosley. Introduced as a series regular in 2013, ex-con Maya comes to town looking for her daughter who was put up for adoption by Dayzee Forrester (Kristolyn Lloyd). After the child is revealed to have died, Maya falls for fashion executive Rick Forrester (Jacob Young) when she mistakes him for a waiter. Discovering Rick's true identity scares Maya into the arms of attorney Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor). Maya quickly rises to fame in the modeling world. After a failed engagement to Carter who realizes Maya loves Rick, Maya pursues Rick putting her at odds with Rick's then wife Caroline Spencer (Linsey Godfrey). After successfully breaking up the couple, Rick and Maya settle into their cushy new life ruffling quite a few feathers along the way as Maya supports Rick's ruthless business tactics.
Characterized by some critics as a "social climber" and a "gold digger", Maya becomes a popular "love to hate" character for viewers due to her schemes and manipulations in her attempts to get what she wants. Daytime Confidential specifically referred to Maya as the black version of the iconic All My Children character, Erica Kane (Susan Lucci). In 2015, Maya was revealed to be transgender, becoming the first regular transgender character in American daytime television. The story made headlines in several mainstream media outlets including USA Today, People magazine and several LGBT publications. Maya's presence on the typically conservative soap also allowed for the introduction of her family, the Avants, to become the first and only central African American family in the show's history.
Storylines
Fresh out of prison, Maya comes to Los Angeles in early 2013 to confront Dayzee Leigh (Kristolyn Lloyd) demanding to know where her baby is. Maya is shocked to learn the child has died and Dayzee encourages Maya to leave town fearing Maya will upset her happy life with Marcus Forrester (Texas Battle) -- the adopted son of the Forrester family fashion dynasty. While volunteering at Dayzee's coffee shop in exchange for staying in the apartment upstairs, Maya falls for Rick Forrester (Jacob Young) -- believing he is a waiter. Maya notices Rick is unhappy with girlfriend Caroline Spencer (Linsey Godfrey) and tries to distract him. The two go window shopping on Rodeo Drive where they share their first kiss and when Maya is trying on gowns at the Forrester Creations boutique, she learns Rick's true identity and it scares her away. Maya finds comfort with Carter Walton (Lawrence Saint-Victor) which makes for an awkward first date at the Forrester mansion where Caroline makes sure to stake her claim on Rick. Maya turns down a second date with Carter and he assists her in getting Rick back. Rick and Maya's early romance is plagued by Caroline's interference and insults in which Caroline constantly refers to Maya by the wrong names. M |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20Mathematics%20%26%20Theoretical%20Computer%20Science | Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science. It was established in 1997 by Daniel Krob (Paris Diderot University). Since 2001, the editor-in-chief is Jens Gustedt (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in Mathematical Reviews and the Science Citation Index Expanded. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2011 impact factor of 0.465.
References
External links
Combinatorics journals
Computer science journals
Academic journals established in 1997
Open access journals
English-language journals |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/48 | 48 may refer to:
48 (number)
one of the years 48 BC, AD 48, 1948, 2048
48 (novel)
'48 (magazine)
"48", a song by Tyler, the Creator from the album Wolf
48, a phone network brand of Three Ireland
"Forty Eight", a song by Karma to Burn from the album V, 2011
See also
A48 (disambiguation) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus%20Data | Nimbus Data is an American computer data storage software and systems company.
Company
Nimbus Data develops flash memory solutions. Customers include eBay, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Digital River, Raytheon, Citrix Systems, Lockheed Martin, WWE, and DreamWorks. The company was rumored to have deals with Apple Inc. and Thomson Reuters. The privately held company is led by CEO and founder Thomas Isakovich.
Products
In April 2010, Nimbus Data announced the S-Class system, a multi-protocol all-flash array with up to 100 TB of solid state storage supporting Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand networks.
In January 2012, Nimbus Data announced the E-Class system. It offers redundant controllers and up to 500 TB of solid-state storage. Each controller supports the same interfaces: Ethernet, Fibre Channel, and InfiniBand. Nimbus Data software detects controller and path failures, providing failover as well as online software updates and online capacity expansion.
In August 2012, Nimbus Data announced the Gemini system, with an available 10-year warranty. Gemini includes dual controllers for no single point of failure and non-disruptive software updates. In a 2U form factor, the Gemini array supports 48 TB of capacity, 1 million IOps, 12 GB/s, and less than 0.1 ms latency. Certified benchmark results of over 4,032 simultaneous virtual desktop (VDI) users has been achieved on a single Gemini system.
In August 2013, Nimbus Data announced the Gemini F400 and F600 systems with increased performance of up to 2 million read IOps at less than 0.05 ms latency (4 KB block I/O rates). Nimbus Data's HALO software, embedded in its flash memory systems, handles both block storage (storage area network) and file systems (network attached storage) by supporting several protocols. Data management features include thin provisioning, automatic capacity reclamation, encryption, replication, snapshots, inline deduplication, compression, and automatic self-healing capabilities.
In August 2016, Nimbus Data unveiled a new all-flash array platform called ExaFlash.
In August 2017, Nimbus Data launched ExaDrive, a software-defined multiprocessor SSD architecture.
In March 2018, Nimbus Data launched the world's highest capacity and most energy-efficient solid state drive, the ExaDrive DC100, at 100 terabytes.
In May 2020, Nimbus Data unveiled a new solid state storage-optimized operating system called AFX. Nimbus Data AFX supports over a dozen block, file, and object storage protocols on one platform, with fine-grain QoS controls to optimize storage behavior for specific workloads. The company also announced a new all-flash storage array called ExaFlash One and a new support subscription program called Tectonic.
In August 2020, Nimbus Data launched the ExaDrive NL series SSD, the world's highest capacity QLC flash SSD (at 64 TB), as well as the world's first QLC flash SAS SSD.
References
External links
Computer storage companies
Computer storage media
Electron |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%20Sports%20News | Fox Sports News is the brand name for a number of sporting news channels, programming, and other media around the world that were either owned or partially owned by News Corporation. These include:
Fox Sports News (US), a defunct sporting newscast of Fox Sports Networks
Fox Sports News Asia, a defunct pay television network broadcasting in Asia
Fox Sports News Australia, an Australian cable and satellite Fox Sports news channel owned by Foxtel
Fox Sports
Television news |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Stocky | Tom Stocky is an American computer scientist and technology executive. He is senior vice president of lab & data platform at insitro, a drug discovery startup. He was previously vice president of Search at Facebook.
Stocky was a director of product management at Google. He was part of the founding team for Google App Engine, which laid the foundation for the Google Cloud Platform.
In 2011, Stocky joined Facebook to become VP of Search. He grew Facebook Search to more than 2 billion searches per day. He and Lars Rasmussen led the team who built Facebook Graph Search, a semantic search engine for the social network, and Stocky then led the development of keyword search over the trillions of posts on Facebook. Stocky and Rasmussen were included on Business Insider's list of The 100 Biggest Stars In Silicon Valley. Stocky also started Facebook's language technology team, which developed an AI-powered translation engine for Facebook posts that completes 4.5 billion automatic translations per day across 44 languages.
While at Facebook, Stocky was one of its first male executives to take the full four-month paternity leave they offered. He wrote a post about his experience that went viral, and Mark Zuckerberg later took a two-month paternity leave. Stocky spoke about the importance of companies providing equal parental leave to men and women, and Facebook expanded its policy to give all employees four months of leave, regardless of gender or location.
Stocky led the learning platform team at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He also served on the board of Teach For America.
In 2020, Stocky joined Denali Therapeutics as a technology fellow. In 2021, he joined insitro as vice president of product. Stocky serves on the board of directors of the Banner Alzheimer's Foundation, the scientific advisory board of Denali Therapeutics, and the scientific review board of the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation.
References
Facebook employees
Google employees
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American computer businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol%20Roth | Carol Roth (born 1973) is an American television personality, bestselling author, entrepreneur, radio host, and investor. Roth appears regularly on national cable television networks including Fox Business, CNBC, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC. She was one of the judges on Mark Burnett's America's Greatest Makers television show and was a weekly panelist on the current events and business show Bulls & Bears. She was the host of WGN Radio's The Noon Show, and author of three books, including two New York Times bestsellers. As a self-styled "recovering" Investment Banker, she has completed more than $2 billion in capital raising, mergers & acquisitions and related transactions and invests in private companies.
Early life
Roth was born in the northern suburbs of Chicago, Illinois and attended Deerfield High School. Her father Bernie was a retired union electrician (died in May 2013). Her parents divorced while she was in high school, and her mother Sheri died from leukemia in 1998, as did her step-mother from lung cancer in 2004. She attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated magna cum laude in 1995.
Career
Roth is an advocate for entrepreneurship and small business. She was named a Top 100 Small Business Influencer by Small Biz Trends in 2011 and again in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015. A number of her television segments and writings are related to small business and she was the event moderator for the New York Times Small Business Summit in 2012.
Roth also is a business advisor, investor and director. She has sat on a public company board and currently sits on the board of a private technology company.
Roth put out a legacy and wishes planning product called Future File, as a direct result of her father's death.
Investment banking
Roth joined San Francisco based investment bank Montgomery Securities in 1995 as a financial analyst and member of the consumer corporate finance team. She became an officer of the firm by age 25.
Book
Roth released her first book, The Entrepreneur Equation, in 2010. The book, which was listed on The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller lists, won an Axiom Gold Medal Business book award. Reviewers particularly focused on the book's direct tone and highlight Roth's "reality checks" for readers. Initially, there was a controversy with buyers over the book's cover, which featured a picture of her, but she insisted on keeping it.
An action figure of Roth was created as a marketing prop to coincide with the release of The Entrepreneur Equation.
Roth's second book was The War on Small Business, chronicling the government's response to COVID and the epic transfer of wealth from Main Street to Wall Street that happened as a result of government policies.
Roth's most recent book, You Will Own Nothing, again making the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly and USA Today bestseller lists, looks at the forces holding back wealth creation opport |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-probe%20model | In computer science, the cell-probe model is a model of computation similar to the random-access machine, except that all operations are free except memory access. This model is useful for proving lower bounds of algorithms for data structure problems.
Overview
The cell-probe model is a modification of the random-access machine model, in which computational cost is only assigned to accessing memory cells.
The model is intended for proving lower bounds on the complexity of data structure problems.
One type of such problems has two phases: the preprocessing phase and the query phase. The input to the first phase, the preprocessing phase, is a set of data from which to build some structure from memory cells. The input to the second phase, the query phase, is a query parameter. The query has to consult the data structure in order to compute its result; for example, a query may be asked to determine if the query parameter was included in the original input data set.
Another type of problem involves both update operations, that modify the data structure, and query operations. For example, an update may add an element to the structure, or remove one. In both cases, the cell-probe complexity of the data structure is characterized by the number of memory cells accessed during preprocessing, query and (if relevant) update.
The cell probe complexity is a lower bound on the time complexity of the corresponding operations on a random-access machine, where memory transfers are part of the operations counted in measuring time.
An example of such a problem is the dynamic partial sum problem.
History
Andrew Yao's 1981 paper "Should Tables Be Sorted?" is considered as the introduction of the cell-probe model. Yao used it to give a minimum number of memory cell "probes" or accesses necessary to determine whether a given query datum exists within a table stored in memory. In 1989, Fredman and Saks initiated the study of cell probe lower bounds for dynamic data-structure problems (i.e., involving updates and queries), and introduced the notation CPROBE(b) for the cell-probe model assuming that a memory cell (word) consists of b bits.
Notable results
Searching Tables
Yao considered a static data-structure problem where one has to build a data structure ("table") to represent a set of elements out of . The query parameter is a number and the query has to report whether is in the table. Yao showed that as long as the table size is bounded independently of and is large enough, a query must perform probes in the worst case. This shows that a sorted table together with binary search for queries is an optimal scheme.
Dynamic Partial Sums
The dynamic partial sum problem defines two operations which sets the value in an array at index to be , and which returns the sum of the values in at indices through . A naïve implementation would take time for and time for .
Instead, values can be stored as leaves in a tree whose inner nodes store the su |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SILVIA | Symbolically Isolated Linguistically Variable Intelligence Algorithms (SILVIA), is a core platform technology developed by Cognitive Code. SILVIA was developed, and designed to recognize and interpret speech, text, and interact with applications and operating systems, all while interacting with a user. The technology can be run and operate via cloud, a mobile application, a part of network, or via server.
Overview
History
Leslie Spring founded Cognitive Code in 2007 and is the inventor and architect of Cognitive Code’s SILVIA Platform. Before founding Cognitive Code, Leslie worked for companies such as Electronic Arts, Disney, and Sony heading up their software development teams responsible for building graphics systems, 3D game engines, and custom software developer tools.
Cognitive Code is privately held by a consortium group of private equity investors. Cognitive Code received venture capital funding from New York investment firm Channel Mark Ventures, which maintain majority ownership of the company.
Features and system requirements
SILVIA was developed to recognize and interpret any human interaction: through text, speech, and any other human input. The platform allows an application of it in all applicable and possible applications which then allows natural and intuitive human interaction. It has a set of graphical user interface tools which can aid in developing intelligent objects or entities and has an array of API scripts that can be embedded in any compatible applications.
The platform can be used in different computing platforms and operating systems which allows easy transfer of data. SILVIA uses a non-command-based system wherein inputs are based on normal human conversational language, not on pre-coded commands like what Google's Google Now and Apple Inc.'s Siri used.
Components
SILVIA is composed of several components:
SILVIA Core: A runtime engine which can be configurable for use in any user, server, or mobile systems. It can also be embedded.
SILVIA Server: A configurable system of SILVIA Cores for automated management.
SILVIA Voice: A modular component designed for accepting voice input and rendering voice output. It can be used within an application, web page, or as part of SILVIA server for optimization of media streaming.
SILVIA API: Programmers are allowed to create applications, and plug-in-based functionality.
SILVIA Studio: A graphical system for application-specific behavior development.
Use
SILVIA can be used in several applications, such as: being used in call centers, smart phones like the iPhone and Android devices, and voice search or other voice-related applications. SILVIA responds to its users, not in one or two words or small phrases, but in complete sentences.
SILVIA has been used by companies such as Northrop Grumman. Northrop Grumman used the technology in order to aid the company's employees to much better communicate with computers and mobile devices using natural language. The company also u |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kentucky%20Route%20Zero | Kentucky Route Zero is a point-and-click adventure interactive fiction game developed by Cardboard Computer and published by Annapurna Interactive. The game was first revealed in 2011 via the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter and is separated into five acts that were released sporadically throughout its development; the first releasing in January 2013 and the last releasing in January 2020. The game was developed for Linux, Windows, and macOS, with console ports for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One under the subtitle of "TV Edition", coinciding with the release of the final act. The game was released for Android and iOS on December 13, 2022, in partnership with Netflix. It was later also released for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on August 17, 2023.
Kentucky Route Zero follows the narrative of a truck driver named Conway and the strange people he meets as he tries to cross the mysterious Route Zero in Kentucky to make a final delivery for the antiques company for which he works. The game received acclaim for its visual art, narrative, characterization, atmosphere and themes, appearing on several best-of-the-decade lists.
Gameplay
Kentucky Route Zero is a point and click game that contains text-driven dialogue. There are no traditional puzzles or challenges, with the focus of the game being story-telling and atmosphere. The game has been described as an "interactive screenplay". The player controls Conway by clicking on the screen, either to guide him to another location, or interact with other characters and objects. The player also has the choice to choose Conway's dialogue, and occasionally the dialogue of other characters, during in-game conversations. The game is separated into various locations, between which Conway can travel using his truck. A map is shown when traveling on the road, and the player must guide the truck icon to the destination of their choosing, mostly areas where the player has been pointed or sent out to go. The player also takes control of other characters at certain times.
Plot
Conway, a truck driver, works as a delivery man for an antique shop owned by a woman named Lysette. Being hired to make a delivery to 5 Dogwood Drive, Conway travels the roads around Interstate 65 in Kentucky to locate the address, accompanied by his dog, whose name is chosen by the player. After searching around, Conway elaborates that he is lost and stops off by a gas station, Equus Oils.
Act I
Conway arrives in the Equus Oils station and meets an old man named Joseph, who is the owner of the establishment. Joseph informs Conway that the only way to arrive at Dogwood Drive is by taking the mysterious Route Zero, and then tasks him to fix the circuit breaker to restore power in the station and use the computer to locate directions. Conway goes underneath the station and meets three people who are playing a strange game and ignore him completely. He is able to retrieve their lost 20-sided die but soon notices their disa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KECA-LD | KECA-LD (channel 29) is a low-power television station in Eureka, California, United States, affiliated with The CW Plus and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Arcata-licensed ABC affiliate KAEF-TV (channel 23) and low-power Univision affiliate KEUV-LD (channel 35). Sinclair also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KBVU (channel 28) under a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Cunningham Broadcasting; however, Sinclair effectively owns KBVU as the majority of Cunningham's stock is owned by the family of deceased group founder Julian Smith. The four stations share studios on Sixth Street in downtown Eureka; KECA-LD's transmitter is located along Barry Road southeast of the city.
History
The CW and MyNetworkTV first appeared in Eureka respectively on KUVU-LP (channel 9) and KEMY-LP (channel 33), both analog-only stations and the latter a semi-satellite of KRVU-LP in Redding, as part of the Eureka Broadcast Group, which owned CBS affiliate KVIQ and several other stations with affiliations to Fox, UPN, The WB and others. KUVU and KEMY were dissolved in 2014 and Bonten Media Group, who had purchased most of the Eureka Broadcast Group stations including KUVU and KEMY in 2012, launched KECA as a digital replacement for the two defunct stations in the Eureka market.
On April 21, 2017, Sinclair Broadcast Group purchased KECA as part of a four-station deal. The sale was completed September 1.
In June 2020, Sinclair upgraded the station's facilities to HD.
Subchannels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
References
External links
KECA info at KRCR-TV website
Low-power television stations in California
MyNetworkTV affiliates
ECA-LD
Sinclair Broadcast Group |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Harris%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | Lake Harris is a small alpine lake near the Harris Saddle on the Routeburn Track in the South Island of New Zealand.
Biodiversity
Lake Harris is the type locality for the data deficient moth Hydriomena iolanthe. This moth is known only from a single specimen which is now lost.
References
Lakes of Otago |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirko%20Tobias%20Sch%C3%A4fer | Mirko Tobias Schäfer is a media scholar at Utrecht University. He is an Associate Professor at the Department for Information & Computing Sciences and Science Lead of the Utrecht Data School.
Biography
Schäfer studied theater and media studies and communication science at the University of Vienna and digital culture at Utrecht University. He obtained a Ph.D. in 2008 at Utrecht University. Schäfer's research revolves around (digital) technology, and how it transform society. He publishes on digital culture, cultural theory, new media, big data, and artificial intelligence. In 2011 he was awarded a fellowship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. He has been a research fellow at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Humanities at Utrecht University and a Mercator Research Fellow at the NRW School of Governance. In 2022 he was appointed visiting professor at the University of Helsinki.
Research activity
Schäfer conducted research on hacker communities, user participation and their impact on cultural industries.
In stark contrast to the general field of new media studies his research on participatory culture provides a critical deconstruction of user participation. Coining the term of an extended culture industry he builds upon the cultural critique of the Frankfurt School, most notably Adorno and Horkheimer. Developing the concept of an extended culture industry, Schäfer could show to what extent appropriation of design by users is embedded into corporate production. Through distinguishing user participation into explicit participation and implicit participation, Schäfer delivers a terminology to separate conscious and active user engagement from user activities that are channeled by user interface design.
Schäfer's contribution to the field of participatory culture was his distinction of implicit and explicit participation. Explicit participation refers to the conscious activities of cultural production and social interaction as it has been covered by Henry Jenkins in his work on fan culture. Implicit participation refers to the subtle ways of channeling user activities through interface design. Schäfer considers strategies of implicit participation as key aspect in popular social media application He argues that media practices that had been developed in using the world wide web, now are implemented in easy to use interfaces and new business models. Schäfer's analysis of participatory culture depicts an accurate "shift within the commercial media industries to embrace certain conceptions of the fan as an idealized consumer of transmedia entertainment."
In his analysis, Schäfer focused on the role of user interface design, platform governance and methods of controlling and channeling user activities.
Since 2015 his research is situated in the field of critical data studies and revolves around investigating the impact of datafication and AI on citizenship and democracy. Schäfer is investigating how da |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console | Console may refer to:
Computing and video games
System console, a physical device to operate a computer
Virtual console, a user interface for multiple computer consoles on one device
Command-line interface, a method of interacting with a computer
Console applications are programs designed to be used via a text-only computer interface
Terminal emulator, a program that substitutes for a computer console or computer terminal
Win32 console, the terminal emulator of Microsoft Windows
Video game console, a specific device for playing video games
Home video game console, a specific home device for playing video games
Handheld game console, a specific lightweight and portable device for playing video games
Console (Mac OS X), a log viewer on OS X
Console (video game CLI), a command-line user interface element for personal computer games originating in Quake
Console Inc., an American technology startup company
Konsole, a computer terminal emulator program for the K Desktop Environment
Music
Console (musician), an electronic music project by Martin Gretschmann
Console tape recorder, also used for computer tape
Mixing console, a device for controlling and combining audio signals
Organ console, which includes the keys, stops, and foot pedals for playing music
Timpani console
Other uses
Console (architecture), a support element of a construction such as a balcony
Console (charity), an Irish suicide bereavement charity which closed due to a mismanagement controversy
Console (heraldry), a frame supporting a heraldic shield
Console, a verb describing the offering of consolation
Center console (automobile)
Console table, a table supported by corbels designed to be placed against a wall
Entertainment console, a type of home entertainment center, with various home electronics housed in a self-contained unit
Lighting control console, a device for controlling theatrical lighting
See also
Consol (disambiguation)
Consols Consolidated Stock, variety of British government financial bond
Glove compartment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FolderSize | Folder Size is a freemium disk space analyzer for Windows written by Mind Gems. The product uses a Windows Explorer-like interface that can show data as either a pie chart or bar graph. According to PCWorld.com, as at September 2, 2010, the product was a little more cumbersome than necessary but overall was considered to have an edge over Space Sniffer (a freeware alternative) because it had additional functionality and provided more information. CNET observed that the programme is basic, but noted that this is generally what is required of such programmes.
References
External links
Disk usage analysis software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak%20B.%20Phatak | Deepak B. Phatak (born 2 April 1948) is an Indian computer scientist and academic, and a recipient of the Padma Shri Award for his contribution in science and technology in 2013. He is known for his notable work for upgrading Aakash, advertised by its manufacturer as the 'world's cheapest tablet'. In 2009, he was ranked one of the 50 most powerful people in India.
Phatak completed secondary school at Dayanand Arya Vidyalaya, graduated third in his class with a degree in electrical engineering from Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS) Indore, completed his master of engineering (specialising in instrumentation, control and computers), and received his PhD in computer science from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His thesis was titled Digital Simulation and Identification of Linear Continuous Systems.
Career
Born in April 1948, Phatak obtained his bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from SGSITS Indore in 1969, and his M Tech and Ph D from IIT Bombay.
Phatak has worked at IIT Bombay since 1 December 1971. From 1991 to 1994, he was the Head of the Department of Computer Science; from 1995 to 1998, he was the Dean of Resource Development; from 1998 to 2002, he was the Head of the Kanwal Rekhi School of Information Technology; in 2004 and 2005, he was head of Shailesh J Mehta School of Management; and he is currently the Subrao Nilekani Chair Professor of the KReSIT/department of CSE.
In 1983 and 1984, he was part of a deputation to Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science in Indore to set up computer science programs. During 2003 and 2004, he was on sabbatical leave writing an e-book and touring the country visiting engineering colleges.
Research interests
His research interests include databases and information systems, software engineering, system performance evaluation, IT enabled education, and IT strategy planning. He has guided six PhD candidates, over one hundred master's level students, and several bachelor's level students.
Development projects
Aircraft maintenance training simulator
In the late 1980s, India's Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA) sponsored a program to develop a 'soft panel'-based (that is, personal computer-based) simulator to train technicians and engineers in the rigorous maintenance procedures required by complex aircraft systems such as were present in the then-new HAL Tejas. 'Hard-panel' training simulators were available only from western markets and were very costly.
The ADA chose Phatak's pilot project over two other options because it permitted greater flexibility. In 1996, work began on a 12-year project to develop a full-fledged product with Computer Vision Laboratories (now known as VISIONLABS). It is now deployed in the Indian Air Force. The ADA has showcased the simulator and it was short-listed for a national award. Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam visited the ADA lab and complimented the team for their successful efforts.
Development of sma |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Gods%20%28TV%20series%29 | American Gods is an American fantasy drama television series based on Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel of the same name and developed by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green for the premium cable network Starz. Produced by Fremantle North America and distributed by Lionsgate Television, the first season premiered on April 30, 2017. Fuller and Green served as the showrunners for the first season and were replaced by Jesse Alexander for the second season. Charles H. Eglee served as showrunner for the third season. Gaiman served as an executive producer.
Ricky Whittle plays the series' lead Shadow Moon, who meets a strange man named Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) after being released from prison and soon becomes embroiled in a large-scale conflict between the Old Gods and the New Gods, who grow stronger each day. In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 10, 2019. The following week, Starz renewed American Gods for the third season, which premiered on January 10, 2021. In March 2021, the series was canceled after three seasons.
The series, mainly the first season, received praise for its visual style and acting and received two nominations at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Main Title Design and Outstanding Special Visual Effects. It also received three nominations at the 8th Critics' Choice Television Awards, including Best Drama Series, Best Actor in a Drama Series for McShane, and Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Gillian Anderson.
Premise
Only days before his scheduled release from prison, Shadow Moon is told that his wife has been killed in a car accident, and he is released early to attend the funeral. A series of events delay his trip home, during which time he meets the mysterious Mr. Wednesday. Wednesday repeatedly offers Shadow a job, which he refuses until Wednesday reveals that the job waiting for him at home no longer exists. Shadow accepts the offer to become Wednesday's minder (driver/assistant/bodyguard).
Shadow finds himself in a hidden world where magic is real and a collection of "Old Gods" fear irrelevance in the face of the growing power of a collection of "New Gods", which include Technology and Media. In a grand plan to combat this deadly threat, Mr. Wednesday attempts to unite the Old Gods to defend their existence and rebuild the influence they have lost, leaving Shadow struggling to accept this new world and his place in it.
Cast and characters
Main
Ricky Whittle as Shadow Moon, a former convict who becomes Mr. Wednesday's bodyguard.
Emily Browning as Laura Moon, Shadow Moon's wife and a revenant.
Browning also portrays Essie MacGowan, an Irish woman whose belief in leprechauns changes the course of her life.
Crispin Glover as Mr. World, the New God of Globalization and the leader of the New Gods.
Bruce Langley as the Technical Boy/Quantum Boy, the New God of Technology.
Yetide Badaki as Bilquis, a goddess of love identified with the Queen of Sheba.
Pablo Schrei |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valdis%20Krebs | Valdis Krebs is an American-Latvian researcher, author, and consultant in the field of social and
organizational network analysis. He is the founder and chief scientist of OrgNet, LLC, and the creator of InFlow software, which in 2008 Wired Magazine called one of the most advanced tools
for analyzing and visualizing networks. Popular Science has described Krebs as a "leading expert" and a "pioneer" of network analysis, while Military.com's DefenseTech blog has called him a leading authority in the field.
Work highlights
After the September 11 attacks, Krebs used public information and newspaper clippings to produce a partial map of the organization behind the attacks.
The resulting paper, Uncloaking Terrorist Networks, has been called a classic, and "likely the most cited public analysis of the 9/11 network."
After publishing it, he was "invited to Washington to brief intelligence contractors."
Since 2004 Krebs has periodically published infographics showing the political polarization of American book-buying patterns.
He has claimed that the web leads people to narrower, more extreme viewpoints (similar to the "bubble effect"), and suggests cultivating diversity
in social networks,
a process he calls "network weaving".
Krebs has used social network maps to provide evidence of corruption,
help a non-profit group prosecute a slumlord conspiracy,
and visualize the "ecosystem" of fraud in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme scandal.
He has also consulted for corporate clients including IBM and Google.
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum%20SportsNet%20LA | Spectrum SportsNet LA and Spectrum Deportes LA (otherwise known as simply SportsNet LA and Deportes LA and originally known as Time Warner Cable SportsNet LA) is an American regional sports network jointly owned by the Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball team and Charter Communications through its acquisition of Time Warner Cable in May 2016. The channel's programming is devoted completely to the Dodgers, and includes coverage of all Dodgers games not being exclusively televised by MLB's national television partners, along with news, interview, and documentary programming focusing on the team.
The channel, which launched on February 25, 2014, was the result of a 25-year deal with Time Warner Cable reached in January 2013, valued at $8.35 billion, succeeding Prime Ticket as the regional rights holder for the team. The channel is one of three regional sports networks owned by Charter Communications serving the Los Angeles region.
Until April 2020 when AT&T, owner of DirecTV, came to terms with Charter, SportsNet LA reached less than half the Southern California market. Disputes in negotiations included the cost of the channel and the requirement that SportsNet LA be carried with other mainstream premium channels rather than in a separate sports tier or on an "a la carte" basis.
History
In late 2012, Fox Sports' exclusive period for negotiating a new broadcast deal with the Dodgers ended. Reports published at that time indicated that the team was negotiating with other potential broadcasters, such as the recently established Time Warner Cable SportsNet, and contemplating forming an in-house network with Dick Clark Productions, a television production company recently purchased by the Dodgers' new parent company, Guggenheim Partners.
On January 22, 2013, the Los Angeles Times reported that Time Warner Cable had signed a deal to partner with the Dodgers to form a new regional sports network, which would be majority-owned by the team.
On January 28, the Dodgers and Time Warner Cable signed a 25-year broadcast agreement valued at $8.35 billion, subject to the approval of Major League Baseball, which would see the establishment of a new channel known as SportsNet LA. The deal ended long-standing broadcast partnerships with Fox Sports West, which had aired Dodgers games on its Prime Ticket channel since 1997; and with KCAL-TV, an independent station which had been the Dodgers' over-the-air broadcast television outlet since 2006. TWC's winning bid exceeded Fox's bid by $2 billion and was worth $210 million for the inaugural 2014 season or $1.5 million a game. That amount exceeded the revenues from Prime Ticket and KCAL-TV by more than four times. The agreement increased the number of games aired: nearly 100 games were carried in 2014 compared with the 49 games aired by Prime Ticket in 2013.
Following the approval of the Dodgers' television deal, the team announced on January 16, 2014, that SportsNet LA would launch on February 25, the eve of |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YuMe | YuMe is a data analysis platform for television advertising, founded in 2004 by Jayant Kadambi and Ayyappan Sankaran. The company was acquired by RhythmOne plc (LSE AIM: RTHM, “Company” or “RhythmOne”), an advertising technology company, in February 2018.
History
Jayan Ramankutty had just came off of acquisition of Lara tech by Cypress Semi. And Empower tell by IP UNITY. Empower tell was voice over IP. He is now thinking of delivering video over the same. Jayan registered YuMe as LLC. He knew Ayyappan who was from his home town back in India. Eventually Ayyappan joined him. Ayyappan knew Jayant Kadambi from his previous job and he brought him in the equation. Jayan made them equal partner thinking they will bring good energy and they became co- founders. YuMe LLC got converted into YUME inc. In 2006 investors came in and Jayant and Ayyappan took over the company. 2011, YuMe acquired Appealing Media, a mobile video advertising company. In early 2013, YuMe acquired Crowd Science, an audience targeting technology company, and on August 7, 2013, the company held its initial public offering. In September 2017, YuMe Inc was acquired by San Francisco ad tech company RhythmOne LLC for $185 million. In November 2017, YuMe launched people-based marketing suite. After acquisition of RhythmOne, there has been massive layoffs across all of YuMe's branches. YuMe is also shutting down its office at Chennai by June 30, 2019. Employees have been advised to seek other jobs with a severance package.
Products
YuMe has products for both the supply side and the demand side of the digital video ecosystem. For the demand side, the Connected Audience Network offers brands a way to reach receptive audiences across video inventory running on any of the four connected screens (personal computers, smartphones, tablets, and connected TVs). On the supply side, the YuMe for Publishers suite of products offers digital media owners (publishers, app developers, and CE OEMs) an ad management platform that allows them to maximize their inventory monetization efforts across direct-sold, mediated, and YuMe-fulfilled ads.
References
External links
Mass media companies of the United States
Companies based in Redwood City, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaks%20Challenge%20Falls%20Creek | The Peaks Challenge Falls Creek (formerly 3 Peaks Challenge) is a challenging cycling event held in the Australian Alps region of Victoria in March each year.
It was launched by Bicycle Network in 2010, and aims to provide cyclists with one of the world’s toughest and most picturesque cycling challenges through Victoria’s Alpine region.
Starting and finishing at Falls Creek, the 235 km route incorporates more than 4,400 vertical metres with three major climbs – Tawonga Gap, Mount Hotham and Falls Creek. With climbs comparable to a stage in the Tour de France, riders must complete the circuit within 13 hours to receive a "Finisher’s Jersey". In 2013 a special jersey was introduced to recognise those cyclists who complete the event within 10 hours.
The cycling challenge attracts cyclists from around the world including countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
The event seeks to create the unique, "European-style" cycling experience that riders could not undertake without Bicycle Network’s support; showcasing the region and furthering Bicycle Network’s mission of “more people cycling more often”.
Event entry includes a controlled seeded wave start (descent down Falls Creek) with timed climbs, 85 km of road closures, mobile support teams – lead vehicle, SAG wagon, motorcycle marshals, mechanical support, seven rest areas with food, medical and mechanical support, post-ride food and celebration, food and clothing valet service.
The fastest time ever at Peaks Challenge Falls Creek was set by Australian cyclist Ben Dyball, with a time of 7:02:57. The Strava segment can be found here.
Course profile
The traditional route has little flat sections, with the majority of the ride either climbing or descending. The route starts at the top of Falls creek with a long descent to the valley floor of about 28 km. Immediately the first climb off Tawonga gap starts which is about 7 km long at an average gradient around 6%, rising just under 500 m from the start. Tawonga gap descends to Germantown at which point the main flat section of the route starts to Harrietville, a distance of 22 km rising no more than 200m along the length. At Harrietville the longest climb of the day starts to the top of Mount Hotham. This is a 30 km long climb broken into two 10 km steep sections averaging 6% gradient plus a flatter midsection at 2%. At the top of Mt Hotham a long descent to Omeo is started, which extends for some 50 km taking in Dinner plain along the way and a 4 km climb just before Omeo is reached. At Omeo a further 4 km climb is encountered along the road to the start of the climb to Falls Creek (known as "the back of Falls). The climb starts exactly on 200 km distance with the encounter of "WTF "corner", which is a 600 m section of road rising to 15% gradient. After this point is passed the rest of the climb for the next 9 km does not drop below 9% the whole way until Trapyard gap is reached. Here the road gets easi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comm100 | Comm100 (Comm100 Network Corporation) is a provider of customer service and communication products. All its products are available as a SaaS (Software as a Service). The company serves over 200,000 businesses.
History
The company was founded on 3 July 2009, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The first product (Comm100 Live Chat) was introduced on 5 August 2009. The company reached the 100,000 registered business users milestone in April 2011. The company's products and services were offered for free until the Christmas of 2011. In May 2013, the company joined M3AAWG as a supporter. In 2013, Comm100 was a silver winner of Best in Biz Awards International that year.
Products and services
The company provides a suite of business communication tools, from customer service to marketing. The two most popular products are:
Comm100 Live Chat: live support software that allows users to track and chat with their website visitors in real time.
Comm100 Email Marketing: bulk email software that helps users send opt-in email newsletters to subscribers.
References
Software companies of Canada
Business software companies
Cloud applications
Customer relationship management software
Software companies established in 2009
2009 establishments in British Columbia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20hits%20of%202013%20%28Denmark%29 | Tracklisten is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles and tracks of the Denmark. Its data, published by IFPI Denmark and compiled by Nielsen Music Control, is based collectively on each single's weekly digital sales.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one albums from the 2010s (Denmark)
2013 in music
References
Number-one hits
Denmark
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Pole%20%28company%29 | South Pole is a Swiss carbon finance consultancy founded in 2006 in Zurich, Switzerland. South Pole's business covers project and technology finance, data and advisory on sustainability risks and opportunities, as well as the development of environmental commodities such as carbon and renewable energy credits. The company has 23 offices across Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, North America and South America.
Timeline
South Pole was founded in 2006 by graduates of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) including Patrick Bürgi, Thomas Camerata, Renat Heuberger, Ingo Puhl, and Christoph Sutter, and joined by Christoph Grobbel, Marco Hirsbrunner, and Christian Dannecker as equal partners. The company originally started as a spin-off from the ETH Zurich as the non-profit ‘myclimate.’
Following the success of myclimate, the founders decided to position climate change as a business opportunity, and ‘South Pole Carbon’ was born. The company rebranded to ‘South Pole Group’ in 2015, and then again to the current ‘South Pole’ in January 2018.
In 2012, South Pole acquired a major stake in Australian carbon farming project developer and offset retailer, Sydney-based Climate Friendly. In 2017, the company acquired Climate Friendly's domestic and international carbon and renewables division outright, which at that point was a majority-owned subsidiary of the South Pole. In 2019, South Pole sold its majority share in Climate Friendly back to the Australian subsidiary's management team.
In 2021, a 10% stake in the South Pole was bought by Lightrock, a leading global impact investor backed by LGT and the Princely House of Liechtenstein. The investment was reported to be in the range of “€20 million-plus.” Also in 2021, South Pole acquired Belgium-based climate consultancy CO2logic to expand its offerings in Belgium and France. This was followed in 2022 by the acquisition of Italy-based Carbonsink, with offices in Milan, Florence, and Maputo.
By 2019, South Pole claimed to have reduced or removed over 170 million tonnes of .
Projects
South Pole has developed more than 1000 projects in over 50 countries, including reforestation and forest protection, renewable energy, habitat restoration, clean cookstoves, and other project types.
Notable Clients and Partnerships
South Pole has provided services or provided offsets to major companies including Nestlé, Gucci, EY, Hilton, and ALDO Group.
Awards
South Pole is a regular winner of a number of Environmental Finance’s Annual Voluntary Carbon Market Rankings, including four awards in both 2018 and 2019, one award in 2020, and three awards in 2021, including as Best Project Developer in the new category of Blue Carbon.
Integrity questions
In 2023, the integrity of South Pole main project in Kariba, Zimbabwe appears highly questionable, as also shown from Verified Carbon Standard criticism.
References
Service companies of Switzerland
Financial services companies established in 2006
Carbon finance
B Lab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-COM | E-COM, short for Electronic Computer Originated Mail, was a hybrid mail process used from 1982 to 1985 by the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to print electronically originated mail, and deliver it in envelopes to customers within two days of transmission.
Description
The E-COM service allowed customers to transmit messages of up to two pages from their own computers, via telecommunication lines, to one or more of 25 serving post offices (SPOs) located in the following cities: Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Cincinnati, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Richmond, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. After an electronic message was received by an SPO, it was processed and sorted by ZIP Code, then printed on letter-size bond paper, folded, and sealed in an envelope printed with a blue E-COM logo. In order to be eligible for the service, customers were required to send a minimum of 200 messages per transmission.
History
USPS began looking into electronic mail in 1977. E-COM was originally proposed on September 8, 1978, and service was expected to begin by December of that year. The proposal was caught up in a two-year regulatory dispute, and a modified version of the E-COM service as recommended by the Postal Rate Commission was approved on August 15, 1980, by the Postal Service Board of Governors.
E-COM services began on January 4, 1982, and the original rates were 26 cents for the first page plus 2 cents for the second page for each transmission. In addition, there was an annual fee of $50 for the service. During its inaugural year of service, 3.2 million E-COM messages were sent, and more than 600 customers submitted applications for the service. Federal law prohibits the USPS from subsidizing a mail class by overcharging the users of other mail classes; however, E-COM was heavily subsidized from its introduction. During its first year of operation, the USPS lost $5.25 per letter. The House Government Operations Committee indicated that "The Postal Service deliberately manipulates the release of information about E-COM in order to make E-COM appear to be more successful than it really is."
On June 18-21, 1982, the US Congress’ Joint Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental policy, held a hearing on the future of mail delivery in the United States, and whether the US Postal Service should be prevented from competing with the numerous commercial electronic mail providers, then in operation.
Subsequent to this, there were difficulties in securing approval for a competitive and profitable rate for the service, and beginning in June 1984 the Postal Service started trying to sell the E-COM service to a private firm. Having not received offers that were financially attractive enough to be accepted, Postmaster General Paul Carlin notified the board of governors at the June 3, 1985, meetin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunra | Shunra Software, LLC was a privately held company that provided network virtualization solutions for software testing. On March 4, 2014, HP announced that it signed a definitive agreement to acquire the network virtualization business and technology of Shunra, which was an HP partner.
History
Founded in Israel in 1998, the company received investment from Insight Venture Partners and Carmel Ventures in 2004 and moved its headquarters to Philadelphia in 2006. In 2010, Gary Jackson was appointed the CEO. In 2013, Shunra announced an open integration platform for mobile app performance. As part of this launch, a partnership was formed with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Jamo, Capgemini, SOASTA, and Keynote DeviceAnywhere. In October 2012, the company signed a global distribution agreement with HP which placed two of Shunra's products on the HP commercial price list.
On March 4, 2014, HP announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire the network virtualization business and technology of Shunra. On April 1, 2014, HP acquired the network virtualization business and technology of Shunra.
References
Virtualization software
Emulation software
Software companies of Israel
Hewlett-Packard acquisitions
2014 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaisted | Plaisted is a surname and occasional masculine given name. People with the name Plaisted include:
Surname
David Plaisted, American professor of computer science
Frederick W. Plaisted (1865-1943), American politician and state governor
Harris M. Plaisted (1828-1898), American Congressman and state governor
Joan M. Plaisted (born 1945), American diplomat and ambassador
Ralph Plaisted (1927-2008), American explorer who reached the North pole in 1968
Trent Plaisted (born 1986), American professional basketball player
Elenore Plaisted Abbott (1875-1935), American illustrator and painter
Given name
George Plaisted Sanderson (1836-1915), American politician
Alexander Plaisted Saxton (1919-2012), American historian and novelist
Baron James Plaisted Wilde (1816-1899), British judge
Surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopostega%20brevicaudata | Pseudopostega brevicaudata is a moth of the family Opostegidae. It is found in the Himalayas.
References
Moths described in 2013
Opostegidae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-based%20encryption | Attribute-based encryption is a generalisation of public-key encryption which enables fine grained access control of encrypted data using authorisation policies. The secret key of a user and the ciphertext are dependent upon attributes (e.g. their email address, the country in which they live, or the kind of subscription they have). In such a system, the decryption of a ciphertext is possible only if the set of attributes of the user key matches the attributes of the ciphertext.
A crucial security aspect of attribute-based encryption is collusion-resistance: An adversary that holds multiple keys should only be able to access data if at least one individual key grants access.
Description
Attribute-based encryption is provably a generalisation of identity-based encryption.
History
Identity-based encryption was first proposed in 1984 by Adi Shamir, without a specific solution or proof. In 2004 Amit Sahai and Brent Waters published a solution, improved in 2006 by Vipul Goyal, Omkant Pandey, Amit Sahai and Brent Waters. Melissa Chase and other researchers have further proposed attribute-based encryption with multiple authorities who jointly generate users' private keys.
Types of attribute-based encryption schemes
There are mainly two types of attribute-based encryption schemes: Key-policy attribute-based encryption (KP-ABE) and ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption (CP-ABE).
In KP-ABE, users' secret keys are generated based on an access tree that defines the privileges scope of the concerned user, and data are encrypted over a set of attributes. However, CP-ABE uses access trees to encrypt data and users' secret keys are generated over a set of attributes.
Relationship to Role-based Encryption
The related concept of role-based encryption refers exclusively to access keys having roles that can be validated against an authoritative store of roles. In this sense, Role-based encryption can be expressed by Attribute-based encryption and within that limited context the two terms can be used interchangeably. Role-based Encryption cannot express Attribute-based encryption.
Usage
Attribute-based encryption (ABE) can be used for log encryption. Instead of encrypting each part of a log with the keys of all recipients, it is possible to encrypt the log only with attributes which match recipients' attributes. This primitive can also be used for broadcast encryption in order to decrease the number of keys used. Attribute-based encryption methods are also widely employed in vector-driven search engine interfaces.
Challenges
Although the ABE concept is very powerful and a promising mechanism, ABE systems suffer mainly from two drawbacks: inefficiency and the lack of a straightforward attribute revocation mechanism.
Other main challenges are:
Key coordination
Key escrow
Key revocation
Attribute revocation mechanism
Revocation of users in cryptosystems is a well-studied but nontrivial problem. Revocation is even more challenging in attribute-bas |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Csomak%C3%B6zy%20family | The Csomaközi family (later Csomaközy) was a Hungarian noble family from the kindred of Kaplon. The family was located in Szatmár County.
History
The first remaining data about the family is from 1325 when they received the locations of Myke, Kulchia and Elia Kulchia. The family became extinct when Zsigmond Csomaközy died in 1768.
Sources
János Karácsonyi: A magyar nemzetségek a XIV. század közepéig. Budapest: Magyar Tudományos Akadémia. 1900–1901.
Samu Borovszki: Szatmár vármegye.
Kaplon (genus)
Hungarian noble families |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staten%20Island%20Law | Staten Island Law is an American reality documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network. The series debuted on January 12, 2013, and follows the lives of two Staten Island housewives who are best friends and both work as mediators. The series was pulled off the broadcasting schedule after four episodes due to low viewership and the last two episodes aired in October 2013.
Episodes
References
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
English-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey%20C.%20Fox | Geoffrey Charles Fox (born 7 June 1944) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and computer scientist, and professor of informatics and computing, and physics at Indiana University.
Fox was educated at the Leys School and Trinity College, Cambridge. In 1964, he was the senior wrangler at Cambridge, the best performer in the mathematics tripos. In the same year, he also played in the annual chess match against Oxford University.
He was awarded a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Cambridge University in 1967 and subsequently worked at Caltech NPAC at Syracuse University from 1990 to 2000, and Florida State University before becoming a professor at Indiana University. There he was the director of the Digital Science Center and associate dean for research and graduate studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He is currently a Professor in the Biocomplexity Institute & Initiative and Computer Science Department at the University of Virginia. Over the years, Fox has supervised the Ph.D. of 75 students and written over 1200 publications in physics and computer science according, including his book Parallel Computing Works!.
Fox currently works on applications of computer science in bioinformatics, defense, earthquake and ice-sheet science, particle physics, and chemical informatics. His current research interests are Network Systems Science, High Performance Computing and Clouds, AI for Science, Deep Learning for data analytics and simulation surrogates, The Interface of Data Engineering and Data Science with Data Systems.
He was Director of FutureSystems, which was a cyberinfrastructure test to enable development of new approaches to scientific computing before it was shut down in December, 2021. He is engaged in various projects to enhance the capabilities of minority serving institutions.
In 1989, he was elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society "for contributions centered on novel uses of computers; firstly, in the phenomenological comparison of theory and experiment in particle physics, and secondly, in the design and use of parallel computers".
Notes
1944 births
Living people
People from Dunfermline
Free software programmers
Indiana University faculty
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Computer science educators
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Physical Society
Syracuse University faculty
Florida State University faculty
California Institute of Technology faculty |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Celebrity%20Apprentice%20Australia%20%28season%203%29 | The third season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia began airing on 30 April 2013 on the Nine Network. The series was announced following the conclusion of the second season in 2012. Mark Bouris returned as CEO, his boardroom advisors were again Dane Bouris and Deborah Thomas. The official cast was announced on the Celebrity Apprentice Australia Facebook page on 30 January 2013. Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice was the winner this season, beating out Olympic sprinter John Steffenson, Socialite Roxy Jacenko, and retired boxer Jeff Fenech.
Candidates
The numbers of cast member increased to 14 in 2013, two more than the previous seasons.
Weekly results
The candidate was on the losing team.
The candidate won the competition and was named the Celebrity Apprentice.
The candidate won as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate lost as project manager on his/her team.
The candidate was brought to the final boardroom.
The candidate was fired.
The candidate lost as project manager and was fired.
Tasks
Unlike last season, the show only airs one episode per week, on Tuesdays, consisting of both the task and the boardroom.
Task 1
Airdate: 30 April 2013
Supreme's Project manager: Dawn Fraser
Fabulous' Project manager: Jeff Fenech
Task: To run a fish and chip shop, including skinning and gutting their own fish, and making their own chips from scratch.
Winning team: Fabulous
Reasons for victory: The men while having horrible team communication, eventually came out on top due to having received much larger donations from their connections.
Losing team: Supreme
Reasons for loss: Despite having many more people visit their fish and chip store, the girls failed to bring in big donors and focused more on the public customers. Another problem was that Layla and Prinnie who were assigned to cooking focused solely on that and raised $165 and $2000–$3000 respectively.
Sent to Boardroom: No final boardroom
Fired: Prinnie Stevens - for focusing too much on the cooking of the food and not the bigger picture, which was focusing on getting the big donors in.
Notes:
At the very start of the task, both teams were asked to line themselves up in order of most to least famous. With Jeff and Dawn being most famous on each team, they were then made project managers.
Jeff Fenech initially won $199, 200 for his charity, but asked for $20,000 to go to Dawn Frasers charity.
Throughout the task, Prue had problems with Roxy, and in the final boardroom was targeted by the whole team, despite being very close to being fired, she was given another chance.
A representative from Woman's Day magazine and special guest and the original Celebrity Apprentice winner Julia Morris visited both shops and awarded the team with the best service with $5000, this went to the men's team.
Upon testing out the women's team, there was a hair found in Julia's chip, this was a large part of the reason why the men won the donation.
Task 2
Airdate: 7 May 2013
Supreme's Project manager: Roxy |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20Perazzoli | Lou Perazzoli is one of the initial architects for Windows NT made by Microsoft and later managed the core OS team for the first releases of Windows NT. He has a B.S in Mathematics and Computer Science (double major). He was one of the engineers which Dave Cutler took with him to Microsoft from Digital Equipment Corporation after the cancellation of the PRISM and MICA projects.
References
American computer scientists
Living people
Microsoft Windows people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Kernel programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ComputeHer | ComputeHer is a band created by Michelle Sternberger in 2005, making music using 8-bit computers and video game console sound chips. She is also a member of the chiptune band 8 Bit Weapon. ComputeHer's most notable work is her contribution to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington D.C. Her music is included in a new exhibition "The Art of Video Games" where she provides the soundtrack to a video of featured video games at the entrance of the gallery. Her Commodore 64 is also on display inside the exhibit. This exhibition is set to travel to multiple cities following its presentation in Washington D.C. in March 2012.
ComputeHer has performed at many events. She was mentioned in The Wall Street Journal for her performance at the opening of the International Video Game Hall of Fame in Ottuma, Iowa in 2010. She performed at the Sanrio 50th Anniversary I Love Nerds party. ComputeHer performed at the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the Art of Video Games exhibition opening event in March 2012.
Michelle's past projects include music projects for Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo, Foundation 9 Entertainment, Sony Creative Software and King of Kong Fistful of Quarters DVD.
Michelle's songs are featured in a video game soundtrack for DeRail Games, Panick Attack, on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Discography
BLIPTASTIC! (2016)
Software Remixes (2015)
"Strangelove" off "8-Bit Operators Tribute to Depeche Mode: Enjoy the Science", by Depeche Mode (2014)
Chiptopia: The Best of 8 Bit Weapon & ComputeHer (2013)
"That's Good" off "8-Bit Operators Crack that Chip! Devo Tribute", by Devo (2012)
Modemoiselle (2010)
"Kiss My Bits" off Sony Creative Software’s “8 Bit Weapon: A Chiptune Odyssey” Loop Library (2010)
It's a Chiptune Holiday! (2009)
"Kiss My Bits" off "8 Bit Weapon - Electric High" (Remastered) (2009)
Data Bass'' (2007)
References
External links
Official website
ComputeHer on Facebook
Chiptune musicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block%2011 | Block 11 was the name of a brick building in Auschwitz I, the Stammlager or main camp of the Auschwitz concentration camp network. This block was used for executions and torture. Between Block 10 and Block 11 stood the "Death Wall" (reconstructed after the war) where thousands of prisoners were lined up for execution by firing squad.
The block contained special torture chambers in which various punishments were applied to prisoners. Some could include being locked in a dark chamber for several days or being forced to stand in one of four standing cells called "Stehzelle" in German. Punishment in these special compartments (one square metre each, with a hole 5x5 cm for breathing), consisted of confining four prisoners, who were forced by the lack of space to remain standing all night for up to twenty nights, while still being forced to work during the day.
It was at Block 11 that the first attempts to kill people with Zyklon B were implemented in September 1941.
Interrogations
Prisoner interrogations involving extreme torture were also conducted within Block 11, often with use of the "Boger Swing" device, (Boger-Schaukel) invented by Wilhelm Boger, an SS officer who served within Auschwitz's Political Department.
See also
Auschwitz concentration camp
References
External links
Auschwitz concentration camp |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Taylor | Robert W. Taylor may refer to:
Robert William Taylor (1932–2017), computer scientist
Robert W. Taylor (myrmecologist), Australian myrmecologist |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Storm | Digital Storm is a privately owned boutique computer manufacturer in the United States that primarily specializes in high-performance gaming desktop and laptop computers. Headquartered in Gilroy, California, the company also sells upgrade components and gaming peripherals, such as headsets, gaming mice, custom keyboards and high-resolution computer monitors.
History
Digital Storm was founded in 2002. Originally an internet retailer of computer components, the company began building custom gaming PCs after repeated requests by customers for pre-assembled systems.
The first custom-built PC system the company ever marketed was the Digital Storm Twister. In 2012, the company began designing proprietary designs, starting with their Aventum and the Bolt models.
Products
Focusing heavily on the gaming market, Digital Storm’s designs for gaming desktops and laptops focus primarily on high-performance custom PC configurations, though they also produce workstation models. They specialize in customizing each machine with features such as overclocking, dual video card implementations (such as SLI), RAID arrays, liquid-cooling systems and noise-reduction modifications.
Digital Storm also sells upgrade PC components such as computer memory, video cards, CPUs, motherboards, hard drives, cooling systems and computer monitors. They also offer accessories aimed at gamers.
Notable services
Custom case designs
In 2013, they began offering a service called LaserMark, which allows custom images to be etched onto computer cases. Case mods. Aftermarket sound dampening foam can be added to case interior on customer request. Some cases are designed and manufactured in-house, exclusive to digital storm and never sold empty to the public.
Overclocking
The company offers custom overclocking of CPUs and GPUs through its “Twister Boost” technology on many of its gaming computers.
Stress-testing
Before shipping out an order, a technician for Digital Storm performs a stress testing and quality control to screen for assembly errors, faulty components and other quality issues. The PC is shipped with a certificate that all tests were passed and a display folio with other paper work, highlighting build specification.
Liquid-cooling
On most desktop models, Digital Storm offers Cryo-TEC and Sub-Zero liquid cooling systems. With tubing and fittings in a wide variety of colours, materials and finishes. Such as nickel or gold plated copper, PETG, glass or acrylic.
Custom control boards
In-house design and manufactured control boards for fan speed, temperature and RGB lighting can be optioned.
Shipping
In wood crate with expanding foam in PC case to prevent movement of internal hardware.
Accolades
Digital Storm’s systems are often reviewed by technology writers and gaming industry publications. For their more notable systems, they have received critical acclaim and awards.
In 2012, the company was recognized as a Design and Engineering Award Honoree for its Cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDRS-11 | TDRS-11, known before launch as TDRS-K, is an American communications satellite which is operated by NASA as part of the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. The eleventh Tracking and Data Relay Satellite is the first third-generation spacecraft.
TDRS-11 was constructed by Boeing, and is based on the BSS-601HP satellite bus. Fully fuelled, it has a mass of , and is expected to operate for 15 years. It carries two steerable antennas capable of providing S, Ku and Ka band communications for other spacecraft, plus an array of additional S-band transponders to allow communications at a lower data rate with greater numbers of spacecraft.
TDRS-11 was launched at 01:48 UTC on 31 January 2013, at the beginning of a 40-minute launch window. United Launch Alliance performed the launch using an Atlas V carrier rocket, tail number AV-036, flying in the 401 configuration. Liftoff occurred from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and the rocket placed its payload into a geostationary transfer orbit.
Following its arrival in geosynchronous orbit, the satellite underwent on-orbit testing. It was handed over to NASA in August 2013, receiving its operational designation TDRS-11. After its arrival on-station at 171 degrees west the satellite began its final phase of testing prior to entry into service at the end of November. As of May 2020, it was positioned at 174 degrees west.
See also
List of TDRS satellites
References
Spacecraft launched in 2013
Satellites using the BSS-601 bus
Communications satellites in geostationary orbit
TDRS satellites
Spacecraft launched by Atlas rockets |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake%20Gully%20with%20Dad%20and%20Dave | Snake Gully with Dad 'N' Dave is a Seven Network 1972 television series, comprising 13-episodes based on characters created by Steele Rudd.
It was adapted from the radio series Dad and Dave from Snake Gully rather than Rudd's original stories, and although originally titled simply as "Dad 'N' Dave, this title could not be used due to a copyright, the Snake Gully of the title referring to the fictional town in where the Rudd's resided on a farm.
The series featured an instrumental version of "The Road to Gundagai" as its theme, a vocal version of same had been the theme of the radio series before it.
The network had constructed 8 in-house sets with exterior scenes filmed in and around Riverstone and Windsor, New South Wales.
The series was created and produced by Ralph Peterson, who also wrote some of the scripts, he had worked on the sitcom My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? and cast Gordon Chater in the role of Dad Dan Rudd, with his son Dave played by Garry McDonald. The cast also included Marion Edwards as Mum Sarah Rudd, Robert McDarra as neighbour Bill Smith and his daughter Mabel played by Micelle Fawdon, the series was rounded out with supporting players John Armstrong as Uncle Clarence and Buster Fiddess as Ted Hamilton.
After the pilot, a regular series was commissioned and filmed in color but Fiddess had died, so he was replaced in the role by Noel Ferrier, Armstrong was replaced by Harry Lawrence and as Fawdon had been cast in a production of Jesus Christ Superstar, she to was replaced by actress Diane Craig, another actor to feature in the series as the Mayor was Redmond Phillips.
The series was not popular with both viewers and critics alike and was cancelled. Though the series was unsuccessful, writer Peterson did win an AWGIE award for writing of an episode.
Cast
Garry McDonald as Dave
Gordon Chater as Dan Rudd (Dad)
Marion Edward as Sarah Rudd (Mum)
Robert McDarra as Bill Smith
Michele Fawdon / Diane Craig as Mabel Smith
John Armstrong / Harry Lawrence as Uncle Clarence
Buster Fiddess / Noel Ferrier as Ted Hamilton
Maggie Kirkpatrick
References
External links
Australian television sitcoms
1972 Australian television series debuts
Seven Network original programming
Works by Ralph Peterson |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idol%20Hakkenden | is a Japan-exclusive adventure game developed by Natsume Co., Ltd. and published by Towa Chiki in 1989 for the Family Computer.
Plot
Sick and bedridden, the zaibatsu tycoon Tomiko senses that her death is near and must nominate an heir among her three granddaughters. To decide who will receive her whole fortune, she launches a challenge: whoever will give her best in the next three months will be the winner. Shizuka, the oldest granddaughter and owner of several business companies, and Reika, the second oldest and a genius scientist, are sure that it's going to be a battle between the two of them. However, Erika, the youngest, has a plan of her own: using her only talent, singing, she aims to break through as a super idol and to do so, she must first seek the help of seven other companions.
Meanwhile, a mysterious man called Dark Lord Iromono is on Erika's track, plotting to have her join his army and become an iromono talent instead.
Gameplay
Erika, an aspiring musician and pop idol, must foil a plot that could ruin her music career. As a Japanese adventure game, players must select through menus of dialogue in order to determine her future. Friends (and sometimes rivals) of Erika give her advice on what to do next. The game's storytelling is remarkable for its hectic and humorous content, which often reflects on the nature of the in-game puzzles.
There are six songs in the game; all of them belonging to the J-pop genre. Erika must master them all in order to become the greatest idol in all of Japan. Lyrics are not sung by a voice actor; they are shown on the bottom of the screen instead.
References
1989 video games
Adventure games
1980s interactive fiction
Japan-exclusive video games
Natsume (company) games
Nintendo Entertainment System games
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Towa Chiki games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games featuring female protagonists
Video games scored by Kiyohiro Sada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptile%20Database | The Reptile Database is a scientific database that collects taxonomic information on all living reptile species (i.e. no fossil species such as dinosaurs). The database focuses on species (as opposed to higher ranks such as families) and has entries for all currently recognized ~13,000 species and their subspecies, although there is usually a lag time of up to a few months before newly described species become available online. The database collects scientific and common names, synonyms, literature references, distribution information, type information, etymology, and other taxonomically relevant information.
History
The database was founded in 1995 as EMBL Reptile Database when the founder, Peter Uetz, was a graduate student at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. Thure Etzold had developed the first web interface for the EMBL DNA sequence database which was also used as interface for the Reptile Database. In 2006 the database moved to The Institute of Genomic Research (TIGR) and briefly operated as TIGR Reptile Database until TIGR was merged into the J Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) where Uetz was an associate professor until 2010. Since 2010 the database has been maintained on servers in the Czech Republic under the supervision of Peter Uetz and Jirí Hošek, a Czech programmer. The database celebrated its 25th anniversary together with AmphibiaWeb which had its 20th anniversary in 2021.
Content
As of September 2020, the Reptile Database lists about 11,300 species (including another ~2,200 subspecies) in about 1200 genera (see figure), and has more than 50,000 literature references and about 15,000 photos. The database has constantly grown since its inception with an average of 100 to 200 new species described per year over the preceding decade. Recently, the database also added a more or less complete list of primary type specimens.
Relationship to other databases
The Reptile Database has been a member of the Species 2000 project that has produced the Catalogue of Life (CoL), a meta-database of more than 150 species databases that catalog all living species on the planet. The CoL provides taxonomic information to the Encyclopedia of Life (EoL). The Reptile Database also collaborates with the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the citizen science project iNaturalist, and has links to the IUCN Redlist database. The NCBI taxonomy database links out to the Reptile Database.
See also
References
External links
The Reptile Database—Home Page
Reptile Database Search—Search page at Reptarium
Biodiversity databases
Online taxonomy databases
Herpetology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fish%20Guts%20Displacement | "The Fish Guts Displacement" is the tenth episode of the sixth season of the American comedy television series The Big Bang Theory. The episode was originally aired on the CBS television network on December 6, 2012. The story was created by Chuck Lorre, Bill Prady, and Tara Hernandez, and turned into a teleplay by Steven Molaro, Jim Reynolds, and Eric Kaplan. Mark Cendrowski directed the episode.
"The Fish Guts Displacement" received positive reviews from the critics. In the U.S, this episode was viewed by 16.94 million viewers and received a 5.2/16 percent rating among the adults between the ages of 18 and 49, ranking first in its timeslot, and it was also ranked first in the whole night.
Synopsis
Howard is forced to have his in-laws over for dinner. Bernadette volunteers him to go on a fishing trip with her macho father. Howard has no clue how to fish, so he enlists Penny to teach him. Howard, Leonard and Raj all find handling the worms and preparing dead fish to be disgusting. Howard eventually tells Bernadette's father, Mike, that he does not want to go fishing and discovers that Mike does not want to go either, admitting that his wife makes him go fishing often. They bond over being bossed around by the women in their lives and then the two of them decide to go to a casino instead and Mike offers to teach him to play craps.
Meanwhile, Sheldon is forced to take care of Amy when she gets sick, thanks to a special clause he built into their Relationship Agreement. He takes care of her the way his mother did by putting a damp cloth on her forehead, singing to her, bathing her and rubbing VapoRub on her chest, which excites Amy. He also reads to her from a science textbook as if it were a bedtime story. She loves the extra attention so much that she continues to pretend to be sick even after she has recovered.
When Sheldon finally discovers that Amy tricked him, he tells her that his father would have spanked him for the ruse she has pulled (he thinks of corporal punishment), and though he does not want to hurt her, the idea excites Amy (she thinks of erotic spanking). She plays mood music before receiving the first spank, and is excited after receiving it. Sheldon tells her she should not be enjoying her punishment; she responds that he should spank harder, which he agrees.
Broadcast and reception
Ratings
"The Fish Guts Displacement" originally aired on CBS on December 6, 2012. The episode was watched by 16.94 million viewers and received a 5.2/16 percent rating among the adults between the ages of 18 and 49. It was top in its timeslot, ahead of the Fox Network's reality television singing competition The X Factor which received a 2.5/7 percent rating and an episode of the ABC drama series Last Resort, which received a 1.2/4 percent rating. The Big Bang Theory was also the highest rated television show of the night.
Reception
Jesse Schedeen from IGN gave this episode an 8.3/10 and called this episode "a new romantic milestone for Sheldon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Gutteridge | Christopher Gutteridge is a Systems, Information and Web programmer, part of the IT Innovation team in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. He is known for being the lead developer for GNU EPrints
and for being an advocate for Open Data, Linked Data and the Open Web.
Notable achievements
Ted Nelson acknowledged Gutteridge's work, in 2001–2, creating an implementation of transquotation for Nelson's Xanadu project.
In May 2005 Gutteridge won the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group award for his work on the Open Archive Software: GNU EPrints. The UKUUG awards an annual prize to give particular recognition to the development of free and open-source software in the UK.
In March 2011 Gutteridge launched data.southampton.ac.uk, which provides open access to a number of non-confidential administrative datasets at the University of Southampton
and which won the 2012, Times Higher Education Award for Outstanding ICT Initiative of the Year.
In October 2017, Gutteridge was awarded the Jason Farradane Award for his outstanding contribution to the information profession
References
External links
University of Southampton Open Data Service
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Academics of the University of Southampton
British computer scientists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexoskin | Hexoskin is an open data smart shirt for monitoring EKG, heart rate, heart rate variability, breathing rate, breathing volume, actigraphy and other activity measurements like step counting and cadence. Hexoskin allows real-time remote health monitoring on smartphones and tablets using Bluetooth. The smart shirt was created to be used for personal self-experiments, and has also been used by health researchers to study physiology, elite and professional athletes to optimize their physical conditioning, and astronauts to train for space missions.
Hexoskin embeds physiological sensors in smart textiles materials, and is a connected object in the sense of the Internet of things concept.
See also
Clothing technology
E-textiles
Wearable technology
References
External links
Hexoskin web site
Biomedical engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20DO-IT%20Center | The DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Center is based at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1992, DO-IT’s mission is to increase the successful participation of people with disabilities in postsecondary education and careers, in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) fields and careers, and in computing fields and careers throughout the U.S. It directs the national AccessSTEM program, and co-directs the national AccessComputing Alliance focused on engaging people with disabilities in computing fields.
The Center is a unit of Accessible Technology Services of UW-IT at the University of Washington, a collaboration between the College of Engineering, the College of Education and UW-IT. Primary funding for DO-IT and its projects is provided by the National Science Foundation, the State of Washington, and the U.S. Department of Education.
It promotes accessibility and universal design in learning environments and instruction, including Web accessibility, through the online Center for Universal Design in Education (CUDE) and by creating, collecting and distributing publications, training materials, and tutorials for use by educators and faculty throughout the U.S.
The Center works with international institutions and organizations to adapt its practices and programs for international application. For example, the DO-IT Scholars Program has been replicated in Japan as DO-IT Japan, a summer program hosted by the University of Tokyo. South Korea, through the leadership of Seoul National University and Korea Nazarene University, also hosts a similar summer study program in collaboration with the DO-IT Center.
History
The DO-IT Center was founded at the University of Washington in 1992 by Dr. Sheryl Burgstahler with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since its inception, DO-IT's mission has been to increase the successful participation of people with disabilities in postsecondary education and careers at local, regional, national (within the United States) and international levels.
In 1992, with funding from NSF, DO-IT launched the first DO-IT Scholars Program. In 1999, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Postsecondary Education (OPE) funded the DO-IT Prof project, which created professional development materials and trained faculty and academic administrators in the U.S. to more fully include students with disabilities in their courses. In 2005, OPE and the NSF funded DO-IT’s AccessCollege project. AccessCollege staff worked with a team of faculty and administrators representing twenty-three two- and four-year institutions in the U.S.; the project included creation of the web-based Center for Universal Design in Education (CUDE), publication of the book Universal Design in Higher Education: From Principles to Practice, and the training manual Building Capacity for a Welcoming and Accessible Postsecondary Institution.
Programs
In 2006, with fu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction%20Data%20Company | Construction Data Company, is a publisher of business information which caters to the commercial construction industry. They are also known as CDC News and CDC Publishing, and are the third largest provider of commercial SaaS construction reports in the United States, next to Dodge Report and Reed Construction Data. They supply construction data and project information for the commercial construction industry through numerous regional reports in 30 states.
Information products are targeted to general contractors, sub-contractors, suppliers and manufacturers reps and are available in print or online. CDC is headquartered in Vero Beach, Florida and owned by an investment group, ALTA, LLC. CDC's Lead Manager software has consistently achieved the highest ratings of customer satisfaction and product innovation in the industry. They have a partnership with eTakeoff.com which allows general contractors and sub-contractors whom subscribe to the service to download blueprints (or "plans") and spec books directly to a plotter through computer-aided design. Contractors also have access to a given project's architectural reprography.
CDC operates three companies under its umbrella, each focusing on a different geographic location. BidTool.net covers the construction activity in Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Colorado, while CDC covers most of the rest of the country, with the exception of the southeastern US, which is covered by its DataFax arm.
The company, founded in the late 1970s, offers both online reports in all markets and a paper report is maintained in a few select markets, such as New England. The company generates approximately $10M in annual revenue. CDC's president is L. William Black.
Merger
In 2016 Construction Data became a part of ConstructConnect which was the result of a merger with iSqFt, BidClerk, and Construction Market Data.
References
External links
cdcnews.com
Business intelligence companies
Construction and civil engineering companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatina%20sedata | Somatina sedata is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in South Africa and on Madagascar.
References
Moths described in 1922
Scopulini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Historical%20Text%20Initiative | Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI) is a searchable online database of Japanese historical documents and English translations. It is part of the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of California at Berkeley.
History
Delmer M. Brown started the process of establishing JHTI in 1998. The development of JHTI involved negotiations with the University of Tokyo Press and the National Institute of Japanese Literature.
Select list
JHTI is an expanding online collection of historical texts. The original version of every paragraph is cross-linked with an English translation. The original words in Japanese and English translation are on the same screen. There are seven categories of writings, including
Ancient chronicles
These works were compiled by officials of the Imperial Court at the command of the emperors.
Kojiki (completed in 712 CE) with translation by Donald L. Philippi
Nihon Shoki (completed in 720) with translation by W. G. Aston
Shoku Nihongi (covering 697 to 791) with translation by J. B. Snellen
Kogo Shūi (completed in 807) with translation by Genchi Katō and Hikoshirō Hoshino
Ancient gazetteers
These records, Fudoki, were compiled by provincial officials according to imperial edicts during the first half of the 8th century.
(submitted in 733) with translation by Michiko Aoki
with translation by Michiko Aoki
with translation by Michiko Aoki
with translation by Michiko Aoki
with translation by Michiko Aoki
Ancient kami-civil code
This was a compilation of religious law and civil law.
Engishiki (927) with translation by Felicia Gressitt Bock
Medieval stories
These historical tales (monogatari) were about what was said and done by the prominent historical figures in aristocratic and military clans in feudal Japan
Okagami (covering the years 866 to 1027) with translation by Helen Craig McCullough
Yamato Monogatari (completed around 951) with translation by Mildred Tahara translation
Eiga Monogatari (covering the years 794 to 1185) with translation by William H. McCullough & Helen Craig McCullough
Taiheiki (completed around 1371) with translation by Helen Craig McCullough
Azuma Kagami (completed around 1300) with partial translation by Minoru Shinoda
Medieval and early-modern histories
These three histories were written in ways that mirror the religious and political interests of their authors.
Gukanshō (completed in 1219) with translation by Delmer M. Brown and Ichiro Ishida
Jinnō Shōtōki (completed in 1339) with translation by H. Paul Varley
Tokushi Yoron (completed in 1712) with translation by Joyce Ackroyd
State and Imperial Shinto
These works are about State Shinto and the Empire of Japan.
Kokutai no Hongi (Cardinal Principles of Nation Polity, 1937) with translation by John Owen Gauntlett
Late-Edo period and Meiji period texts
This category is for miscellaneous writings which are from Japan's pre-modern and early-modern periods.
See also
Aozora Bunko
JSTOR
References
External links
J |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knitr | knitr is an engine for dynamic report generation with R. It is a package in the programming language R that enables integration of R code into LaTeX, LyX, HTML, Markdown, AsciiDoc, and reStructuredText documents. The purpose of knitr is to allow reproducible research in R through the means of literate programming. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License.
knitr was inspired by Sweave and written with a different design for better modularization, so it is easier to maintain and extend. Sweave can be regarded as a subset of knitr in the sense that all features of Sweave are also available in knitr. Some of knitr's extensions include the R Markdown format (used in reports published on RPubs), caching, TikZ graphics and support to other languages such as Python, Perl, C++, Shell scripts and CoffeeScript, and so on.
knitr is officially supported in the RStudio IDE for R, LyX, Emacs/ESS and the Architect IDE for data science.
Workflow of knitr
Knitr consists of standard e.g. Markdown document with R-code chunks integrated in the document. The code chunks can be regarded as R-scripts that
load data,
performs data processing and
creates output data (e.g. descriptive analysis) or output graphics (e.g. boxplot diagram).
The implementation of logical conditions in R can provide text elements for the dynamic report depended on the statistical analysis. For example:
The Wilcoxon Sign test was applied as statistical comparison of the average of two dependent samples above.
In this case, the calculated P-value was 0.56 and hence greater than the significance level (0.05 by default).
This implies that "H0: there is no difference between the results in data1 and data2" cannot be rejected.
The text fragments are selected according to the script's results. In this example, if the P-value was lower than the significance level, different text fragments would be inserted in the dynamic report. In particular, the second sentence would swap "less" for "greater," and the third sentence would be replaced to reflect rejection of the null hypothesis. Using this workflow allows creating new reports simply by supplying new input data, ensuring the methodology is reproduced identically.
See also
The R Programming wikibook
Reproducible research
References
External links
Repository on GitHub
Example code on GitHub
knitr package on CRAN
Free R (programming language) software
Free statistical software
Free TeX software
Literate programming
R (programming language) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movies%21 | Movies! (also known as simply M!) is an American free-to-air television network, owned by Popcorn Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between Weigel Broadcasting and the Fox Television Stations subsidiary of Fox Corporation. The network's programming emphasizes feature films but also Modern E/I programming on Sunday mornings produced/distributed by Storrs Media/Telco Productions. The network's programming and advertising operations are based in Weigel Broadcasting's headquarters on North Halsted Street in Chicago, Illinois.
It is available in several markets through digital subchannel affiliations with free-to-air television stations, as well as through carriage on pay television providers through a local affiliate of the network. Movies! provides programming 24 hours a day and broadcasts in the 16:9 widescreen picture format, available in either standard definition or high definition depending on the station's preference.
Though the network does air commercials, it otherwise carries film edits without profanity and content that does not meet FCC guidelines, and refuses broadcast syndication cuts of films, with no time slot constraints. A notation in the Movies! title card stating no film alterations is aired at the beginning of every film broadcast. Short films are aired to line up films to the top of the hour when needed, and to fill out time for a film that runs short.
Background
On January 28, 2013, Fox Television Stations and Weigel Broadcasting announced the formation of Movies!, with plans to launch the network on Memorial Day of that year. Movies! officially launched on May 27, 2013, at 8:10 a.m. Eastern Time, initially debuting on the subchannels of both of the network's co-parents: five Fox and 11 MyNetworkTV owned-and-operated stations owned by Fox Television Stations, and two stations owned by Weigel. Its programming was inaugurated by a ten-minute clip introducing the network, followed by the first film to be telecast on Movies!, the 1975 film Western Take a Hard Ride.
Programming
Films
Described as presenting "a variety of theatrical motion pictures in a new, viewer and advertiser friendly format, not seen on broadcast television to date", films featured on Movies! as of February 2022 primarily consist of releases from The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros., Sony Pictures Entertainment and Shout! Factory, but the network also shows content from Paramount Pictures, Universal Pictures, ReTV, and Peter Rodgers Organization. The network's film roster concentrates mainly on classic films from the 1920s to the 1980s, though in recent years, films from the 1990s and select films from the 2000s and 2010s are also played. As of August 2019, Movies! broadcasts featured movie presentations such as Noir to Die For all day every Thursday, Saturday Morning Movies! consisting of films from the Hopalong Cassidy, Laurel and Hardy and Blondie franchises, Popcorn Movies! every Saturday afternoon, Definitive Movies! every Saturday night and Sunday |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Tostado | Kevin Tostado is an American documentary filmmaker. He founded the independent film company Tostie Productions in 2004. Born in San Diego, CA, Tostado received a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Olin College in 2006. In addition to his work producing films, Tostado has written articles for New Jersey Lifestyle Magazine and has been interviewed by NPR's "More Than a Game", The Independent, and several other television and radio stations regarding his film career and projects.
Films
Yellow Lights (2007)
His debut film, Yellow Lights, won awards for Best Feature and Best Cinematography at the Indie Fest USA film festival in Anaheim, California. Tostado co-directed, co-produced, and co-wrote Yellow Lights with fellow Olin College alumnus, Tom Kochem, while the two of them were in their senior year of college. The film stars actors Bennett Chabot, Aja Munsell, Andrew Tsang, and Amanda Hurley. The 88-minute film was shot for $500. As a companion to the film, the soundtrack for Yellow Lights features an original score for the film by Brian Shih and Sean McBride, as well as tracks from New England indie music groups The Whatnot, Lansdowne, and the Jon Frederik Band.
Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (2011)
Tostado followed up with Under the Boardwalk: The Monopoly Story (stylized as Under the Boardwalk: The MONOPOLY Story) in 2011 a documentary that examines how the game of Monopoly became the world's most popular proprietary board over its 75-year history, as well as following the players that are competing in the United States and World Monopoly Championships that are held every 4–6 years. This film won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the Anaheim International Film Festival in 2010 where it premiered, and also played at the Austin Film Festival (2010) and River Run Film Festival (2011). The film launched theatrically in March 2011 in San Diego, California, and was well received in the local press. Rotten Tomatoes reports the film as 85% fresh by 13 critic reviews.
On April 29, 2014, the 51" version of the film received five Regional Emmy nominations from the Pacific Southwest Chapter of NATAS. The film went on to win Emmy awards in four of the five categories for which it was nominated, including Outstanding Achievement in Documentary, Directing (Post-Production), Editor (No Time Limit, Program), and Musical Arrangement/Composition.
Suds County, USA (2012)
Tostado was an associate producer on Suds County, USA, a documentary about the rise of microbreweries in San Diego County, California. The film is narrated by Kevin Murphy.
Eternity: The Movie (2014)
Tostado was a producer on Eternity: The Movie, which was shot in San Diego in Summer 2012. The film stars Barrett Crake, Myko Olivier, Nikki Leonti, Eric Roberts, Martin Kove, and Jon Gries. The film is a parody of the 1980s told through the eyes of a fictional R&B duo as we follow their rise and fall. The film held its World Premiere at the Cinequest Film Festi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk%20Trails | Norfolk County Council manages and promotes a number of long-distance footpaths in the county under the Norfolk Trails brand. The Norfolk Trails network brings together over 1,200 miles of walks, cycle and bridle routes throughout the county of Norfolk. They aim to help people discover the diverse landscape of unique market towns, rich wildlife and cultural heritage which Norfolk is so well known for.
It was initially considered a controversial decision within the walking community, as it involved a focusing of the council's resources for Public Rights of Way on these key routes. However, the trails are expanding to encompass a series of popular circular walks and it is the council's aim is to maintain and promote the Norfolk Trail routes to the same standard as the National Trails.
The Trails
Angles Way
Boudicca Way
Marriott's Way
Nar Valley Way
Norfolk Coast Path
Paston Way
Peddars Way
Weavers' Way
Wensum Way
Wherryman's Way
See also
Official Norfolk Trails website
Recreational walks in Norfolk
References
Footpaths in Norfolk |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Kitchen%20Rules%20%28series%204%29 | The fourth series of the Australian competitive cooking game show My Kitchen Rules commenced on 28 January 2013 and concluded on 28 April 2013 on Seven Network.
Format Changes
Gatecrasher Round: Three additional "gatecrasher" teams entered the show after the instant restaurant round of Group 2. They competed against the bottom three teams from the remaining 10, in a third round of instant restaurants .
Comeback Kitchen: A number of teams were eliminated on more than one occasion. After their initial elimination, they were brought back through a "Comeback Kitchen" which saw teams compete for one remaining spot in the finals. Losing teams were "re-eliminated" from the competition. This challenge saw eliminated teams cooking meals to order for judge, Colin Fassnidge's restaurant 4Fourteen. Patrons paid for what they thought the meals were worth and the winning or losing teams advanced or were re-eliminated.
Blind Tastings: For all Sudden Death Cook-Offs guest judges no longer knew who cooked which dish.
Teams
For this series, Queensland, South Australia, and Tasmania each commenced with two teams, while New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia each had three teams (two original teams and one "gatecrasher" team) A team's Group 1, 2 or gatecrasher status was only of significance in the Instant restaurant rounds.
Elimination History
Notes
— After Lisa & Candice were eliminated, the total tally of the instant restaurant scores were shown and the three lowest scorers out of the remaining ten teams were Ali & Samuel, Lisa & Stefano and Dan & Steph. They competed in another instant restaurant round with the three gatecrasher teams. These gatecrasher teams were introduced after the last instant restaurant of the second group (Jenna & Joanna).
— The winners of the People's Choice were given the pleasure of choosing one other team to be safe with them, through to the next round.
— Finishing first on the instant restaurant leaderboards, these three teams were exempt from this challenge and safe from elimination.
— The 'Comeback Kitchen' rounds were separate challenges from the main competition and occurred alongside the main stream. Only eliminated teams between the Top 12 and Top 6 (except Josh and Andi due to personal reasons) participated in the Comeback Kitchen.
Competition Details
Instant Restaurant Round
Round 1
Episodes 1 to 6
Airdate — 28 January to 6 February
Description — The first of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 1. The lowest scoring team at the end of this round is eliminated.
Round 2
Episodes 7 to 12
Airdate — 7 February to 18 February
Description — The second of the two instant restaurant groups are introduced into the competition in Round 2. The same rules from the previous round apply and the lowest scoring team is eliminated.
Round 3 (Gatecrasher Round)
Episodes 13 to 18
Airdate — 19 February to 27 February
Description — In the third round of instant restaurants, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea%20Party%20Community | The Tea Party Community was a social networking and political networking website intended as an alternative to Facebook for use by American conservatives, founded by Ken Crow, Tim Selaty, Sr. and Tim Selaty, Jr. in November 2012 and launching on February 2, 2013.
History
In January 2013, Crow accused Facebook of intentionally targeting conservative members for censorship and described the new site as "a new home for conservatives and the Tea Party movement in America", which could help to facilitate "the organizational process" of the movement. The Tea Party Community is aesthetically similar to Facebook, which Crow described as intentional. As of February 1, 2013, it had drawn over 50,000 members. The site is now defunct.
References
Tea Party movement
American political websites
Defunct social networking services
American social networking websites
Internet properties established in 2012
2012 establishments in the United States
Social networks for social change |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl%20River%20Delta%20Metropolitan%20Region%20intercity%20railway | The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region Intercity Railway System (, abbreviated as PRDIR) is a regional higher-speed rail and suburban rail network being gradually constructed in the Pearl River Delta (Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area), People's Republic of China. The project's goal is to have every major urban center in the Greater Bay Area to be within one-hour travel by rail to Guangzhou. On March 16, 2005, the State Council approved plans for a regional high-speed commuter rail network for the Jingjinji, Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. According to the plan, by 2020, the network will have a total route mileage of about . In September 2009, the plan was expanded to of routes split up into 23 lines. In the long term vision network length will reach by 2030. By then the network will provide basic coverage to the Pearl River Delta region. The Suishen ICR, Guanhui ICR and Guangfozhao ICR accept Alipay, avoiding the need to purchase tickets in advance.
Operational lines
The system currently has seven lines.
Guangzhu ICR
The Guangzhou–Zhuhai Intercity Railway or Guangzhu Intercity Railway is a 116 km dedicated, grade-separated passenger railway linking New Guangzhou Station in Panyu, Guangzhou, and Zhuhai Airport in Zhuhai, via Shunde, Zhongshan and Jiangmen. Operation began in 2011.
Guanhui ICR
The Guanhui Intercity Railway or Guanhui Urban Railway is a 14 station, 100 km long, regional rapid railway line that connects Dongguan to Huizhou. The line was originally planned to use subway type cars with Siemens technology. However it was plans changed partway through construction to use 8 car CRH6 EMUs capable of running up to . The line started construction in 2009 and was expected to open in late 2013. Construction was completed in June 2013 and test runs began in 2014, but the first segment of the line, from Xiaojinkou-Changping East did not open until 30 March 2016.
Guangfozhao ICR
The Guangfozhao Intercity Railway or Fozhao Urban Railway is an 11 station long regional rapid railway line. It connects Guangzhou to Zhaoqing, via Foshan. Operation began on 30 March 2016.
Suishen ICR
The Guangzhou–Shenzhen Intercity Railway, also known as the Suishen Intercity Railway () is a regional rapid railway line that runs roughly along the east bank of the Pearl River connecting the major cities of Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Shenzhen. It will use CRH6 EMUs with a top speed of . Operation began on 15 December 2019.
Zhuji ICR
The Zhuji Intercity Railway is a high-speed railway connecting Gongbei Subdistrict in Zhuhai with Zhuhai Jinwan Airport via Hengqin. Phase 1 started operation on 18 August 2020. Phase 2 from to Zhuhai Airport will open in 2023.
Guangqing ICR
Guangzhou East Ring intercity railway
Lines under construction
Foguan ICR
Foshan–Dongguan Intercity Railway, also called the Foguan Intercity Railway, is a planned high-speed railway within Guangdong province, China between the cities of Foshan, via Gu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth%20Crisp | Ruth Crisp (1918–2007) (born Margery Ruth Edwards, who compiled under the names "Crispa" and "Vixen") was one of The Guardians most noted crossword compilers – producing puzzles for them from 1954 to 2004. She also produced crosswords for The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Independent, the Financial Times, The Sunday Times, and other publications. Crisp's favourite clue of her own creation was: Men's my one failing, (mother of nine) (9). The solution is Mnemosyne.
References
Crossword creators
1918 births
2007 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversion%20%282012%20film%29 | Reversion is a computer-animated short film directed by Giancarlo Ng and produced by The Magic Movie Machine, a self-described collaborative animation team.
The 11-minute short film was created using Blender.
Reversion was awarded Best Design at the 2012 Suzanne Awards and Best in Technical Quality at Animahenasyon 2012. The short film was also named as a Division II winner at Asiagraph 2013 held in Tokyo, Japan.
Plot
The short film opens with an unidentified soldier infiltrating the facilities of a company known as 'Ethercorp'. Though the lobby is badly damaged, a still-functional computer display reveals the facility to be a medical research centre, located in the Congo. The soldier's helmet also bears Ethercorp's logo. As the soldier downloads tracking software from the computer, a reptilian creature lurks in the shadows above. Just before the creature strikes, the tracking software warns the soldier of its presence, and the creature flees under gunfire. The soldier chases the creature though several offices and medical labs, before losing it in a dark corridor.
The soldier emerges from a duct in the floor of another corridor, and enters a security room containing a holographic projector. The soldier removes her helmet, revealing herself to be a young woman. By viewing the holographic records, she discovers footage of a human test subject being administered an injection, which triggers a metamorphosis into the creature she had been pursuing. In shock, the soldier leaves her helmet in the security room to record the footage, and enters an elevator.
The female soldier emerges from the elevator into an indoor garden, and encounters the reptilian creature. She hesitates to shoot it, but is forced to fire when it charges. The creature retreats, then leaps at the soldier from a high ledge. The soldier's pistol runs out of ammunition, and she pulls out a knife as the creature falls down on her.
A series of clips during the credits reveal that the creature has been killed by a knife wound to the neck. A holographic message on her wrist prompts the soldier to confirm extraction, but she instead switches the hologram off.
Awards and nominations
See also
Blender
References
External links
REVERSION Official Blog
2012 films
2010s science fiction adventure films
2010s thriller films
Philippine science fiction action films
Biopunk films
2010s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20McCarthy%20%28producer%29 | Daniel McCarthy (c. 1926 – January 10, 2013) was a Canadian radio and television producer and the former head of children's programming at CBC Television (CBC). He worked at the CBC for thirty-three years, including a twelve-year tenure as the head of the CBC's children's programming department. McCarthy created, developed and produced such well known Canadian children's television shows as The Friendly Giant, Mr. Dressup, and Sesame Park.
McCarthy grew up in Toronto, Ontario. He graduated from the St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto after studying drama, music, and theology. In 1954, he married Mary Sue McGee, with whom he had seven children.
McCarthy worked as a radio and television producer at the CBC for thirty-three years. He began his career as a radio producer. He created the half-hour-long children's radio show, The Rod and Charles Show, starring Rod Coneybeare and Charles Winter. McCarthy also produced How Do You Say Hello?, a show which asked children about their lives' he visited thirteen nations throughout Southeast Asia to interview overseas children for the show.
He transitioned from radio to television during the 1950s. McCarthy produced the children's puppet show, The Friendly Giant, which aired on CBC Television from 1958 until 1985. The show starred Bob Homme as a giant named Friendly, who tells stories to two puppet friends, Rusty and Jerome. McCarthy also created and developed Mr. Dressup, starring Ernie Coombs and Judith Lawrence. Mr. Dressup debuted on the CBC in 1967 and aired until 1996.
McCarthy also partnered with the Children's Television Workshop (now called Sesame Workshop) to produce a Canadian version of Sesame Street. McCarthy, the Director of the CBC Sesame Street Project, oversaw the creation of Sesame Street Canada, which debuted on the CBC in 1972, combining American and Canadian produced segments. He developed new segments specifically for Sesame Street Canada, which were produced by the CBC with distinctly Canadian themes and set designs. McCarthy also introduced basic French language lessons to the show. He brought in Canadian entertainers and personalities for the show. Sesame Street Canada, which changed its name to Sesame Park in 1996, aired until 2002.
McCarthy died on January 10, 2013, at the Grove Nursing Home in Arnprior, Ontario, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife, Mary Sue, their seven children, and six grandchildren.
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2013 deaths
CBC Television people
Canadian television producers
Canadian radio producers
University of Toronto alumni
Mass media people from Toronto
Year of birth uncertain
Place of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Computer%20Conference | The Joint Computer Conferences were a series of computer conferences in the United States held under various names between 1951 and 1987. The conferences were the venue for presentations and papers representing "cumulative work in the [computer] field."
Originally a semi-annual pair, the Western Joint Computer Conference (WJCC) was held annually in the western United States, and a counterpart, the Eastern Joint Computer Conference (EJCC), was held annually in the eastern US. Both conferences were sponsored by an organization known as the National Joint Computer Committee (NJCC), composed of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Institute of Electrical Engineers (AIEE) Committee on Computing Devices, and the Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE) Professional Group on Electronic Computers.
In 1962 the American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) took over sponsorship and renamed them Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC) and Spring Joint Computer Conference (SJCC).
In 1973 AFIPS merged the two conferences into a single annual National Computer Conference (NCC) which ran until discontinued in 1987.
The 1967 FJCC in Anaheim, California attracted 15,000 attendees. In 1968 in San Francisco, California Douglas Engelbart presented "The Mother of All Demos" presenting such then-new technologies as the computer mouse, video conferencing, teleconferencing, and hypertext.
Conference dates
Eastern Joint Computer Conference
Western Joint Computer Conference
Spring Joint Computer Conference
Fall Joint Computer Conference
National Computer Conference
See also
American Federation of Information Processing Societies
COMDEX
Notes
References
External links
AFIPS conference bibliography, 1951-1987
Computer conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ledding%20Library | The Ledding Library of Milwaukie is a city-operated public library, a member of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County system, in Milwaukie, Oregon, United States. The branch offers the public with over three million books, periodicals and other materials.
Details
The current building is a one-story, 18,000 square-foot building opened in January 2020, replacing a building which was constructed in 1964. During construction, the library operated out a temporary location set up in a TriMet park-and-ride.
The previous building had 2 levels: the main floor, and the basement, also called Rowe Children's Library. Dedicated on Dec. 16, 1964, the library had 11,800 square feet of floor space total. As of 2013, the library was the third busiest in the county with 1.4 million annual transactions.
See also
List of libraries in Oregon
Vietnam War Memorial (Milwaukie, Oregon)
References
1964 establishments in Oregon
Libraries established in 1964
Libraries in Oregon
Milwaukie, Oregon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaine%20%28surname%29 | Blaine is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Barbara Blaine (1956-2017), founder and president of Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), a U.S. advocacy group for survivors
Dan Blaine (1891–1958), American football player and National Football League team owner
David Blaine (born 1973), American illusionist and stunt performer
Ed Blaine (born 1940), American National Football League player and pharmaceutical researcher
Ephraim Blaine (1741–1804), early Pennsylvania settler and commissary-general in the Continental Army
Greg Blaine (born 1961), American politician, farmer, and businessman
Hal Blaine (1929-2019), pop music drummer
James G. Blaine (1830–1893), American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
Jason Blaine (born 1980), Canadian country music singer and songwriter
Jerry Blaine (1910-1973), American bandleader, label owner, record distributor and singer
John J. Blaine (1875–1934), United States Senator and Governor of Wisconsin
Marcie Blaine (born 1944), American singer
Nell Blaine (1922-1996), American landscape painter and watercolorist
Robert Stickney Blaine (1816-1897), English politician
Suessa Baldridge Blaine (1860-1932), American writer of temperance pageants
Vivian Blaine (1921–1995), American actress and singer
Fictional characters include:
Richard "Rick" Blaine, protagonist of the 1942 film Casablanca, played by Humphrey Bogart
See also
Blaine (given name)
Blain (surname)
Blane, surname |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackville%20Memorial%20Hospital | Sackville Memorial Hospital is a Canadian hospital located in the town of Sackville, New Brunswick.
It is operated by Horizon Health Network.
It is an acute care community hospital and provides services to the following area of Westmorland County:
Sackville Parish (Sackville and surrounding areas)
Dorchester Parish (Dorchester and surrounding areas)
Botsford Parish (Strait Shores and surrounding areas)
The first baby officially born at the Sackville Hospital when it opened in 1988 was Jessica Laurie Hutchinson, born April 13, 1988.
References
External links
Sackville Memorial Hospital
Hospitals in New Brunswick
Buildings and structures in Westmorland County, New Brunswick
Sackville, New Brunswick |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20World%20of%20Gumball%20%28season%201%29 | The first season of the British-American animated comedy children's television series The Amazing World of Gumball originally aired from May 3, 2011, to March 13, 2012, on Cartoon Network, and was produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. Consisting of 36 episodes, the season premiered with the episode "The DVD" and concluded with the episode "The Fight". The season premiere was watched by 2.120 million viewers in the United States.
Development
Plot
The season focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a 10-year-old goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school. In a behind-the-scenes video documenting the production of the second season, creator Ben Bocquelet expanded on the development of some of the characters, and how they are based on interactions from his childhood.
Production
The first season began filming on November 2, 2010, and ended filming on September 13, 2011. The first season premiered in the US on May 3, 2011, with the episode "The DVD" and ended March 12, 2012, with the episode "The Fight" almost a year later. The world premiere of the show was on May 11, 2011, on Cartoon Network UK with the episode "The Mystery".
Episodes for this season were written by Bocquelet, Jon Foster, James Lamont, Andrew Brenner, Mic Graves, Sam Ward, David Cadji-Newby, and Tommy Panays, and storyboarded by Ben Marsaud, Celine Gobinet, George Gendi, Dave Smith, Philip Warner, Chuck Klein, Chris Garbutt, Aurelie Charbonnier, Amandine Pécharman, Rob Latimer, Kent Osborne, Darren Vandenburg, Jacques Gauthier, Dave Needham, Tom Parkison, and Michael Gendi. Two episodes, entitled "The Mom" and "The Pizza", were written for this season, but never produced. However, the concept of the former was reused in the show's third season's episode "The Mothers"; and the concept of the latter was reused in the show's second season's episode "The Job" but then, it became an episode of the show's third season with the same name "The Pizza" and the second was later produced (but with some changes) in the show's third season. Two episodes more never produced like the aforementioned, but their plots and titles are still unknown.
Reception
Ratings
The season premiere "The DVD" was watched by 2.120 million viewers in the United States, and received a 0.4 rating in the 18–49 demographic Nielsen household rating. Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States, which means that the episode was seen by 0.8 percent of all 18- to 49-year-olds at the time of the broadcast. This season had an average of 2.00 million viewers per episode in the United States. "The DVD", the first episode of the season, was broadcast on a Tuesday night at 8:30 pm. All episodes of the season from "The Respon |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20World%20of%20Gumball%20%28season%202%29 | The second season of the British-American animated television series The Amazing World of Gumball, created by Ben Bocquelet, originally aired on Cartoon Network in the United States, and was produced by Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe. The season debuted on August 7, 2012 and ended on December 3, 2013. This season consists of 40 episodes. The season focuses on the adventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High.
Development
Plot
The season focuses on the misadventures of Gumball Watterson, a blue 12-year-old cat, along with his adopted brother, Darwin, a goldfish. Together, they cause mischief among their family, as well as with the wide array of students at Elmore Junior High, where they attend middle school. In a behind-the-scenes video documenting the production of this season, creator Ben Bocquelet expanded on the development of some of the characters, and how they are based on interactions from his childhood.
Production
The second season began filming on February 7, 2012 and ended filming on June 4, 2013. Before the series premiered on Cartoon Network, a second season was announced in March 2011, consisting of 40 11-minute episodes.<ref name="Grice 2011">{{cite news | url=http://www.worldscreen.com/articles/display/29030 | title=Turner Greenlights Gumball'''s Second Season | work=World Screen | date=March 17, 2011 | access-date=November 16, 2013 | author=Grice, Morgan | location=London}} </ref> Production for the season started in June of the same year. Executive producer and vice president of Cartoon Network Development Studio Europe, Daniel Lennard stated his enthusiasm in the series as "one of the most exciting animation shows to launch in recent years. Commissioning a second series before the first show has aired shows our absolute commitment and belief in the series and we're hoping audiences the world over will embrace this show as much as we have."
Episodes for the season were written by Bocquelet, Jon Foster, James Lamont, Mic Graves, Chris Garbutt, Jon Brittain, Tom Crowley, Tobi Wilson, Yang Benedi, Guillaume Cassuto, and Antoine Perez, and were storyboarded by Aurelie Charbonnier, Chuck Klein, Sebastian Hary, William Laborie, Adrian Maganza, Ben Marsaud, Akis Dimitrakopoulos, Jean Texier, and Charles Schneck. An episode entitled "The Rex", that was going to reveal Mr. Rex's (Tina Rex's father) full appearance, was written for this season but never produced for fiscal reasons. The episode's script was later (apparently) rewritten for the show's fourth season's episode "The Routine", although some fans recommended Bocquelet make the episode as part of the next season.
The season marks a visual change from the prior season; Bocquelet states that he and his production staff had to adapt the art style from the first season in order for more complex |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20Reference%20Code | The Memory Reference Code (or MRC) is a fundamental component in the design of some computers, and is "one of the most important aspects of the BIOS" for an Intel-based motherboard. It is the part of an Intel motherboard's firmware that determines how the computer's memory (RAM) will be initialized, and adjusts memory timing algorithms correctly for the effects of any modifications set by the user or computer hardware.
Overview
Intel has defined the Memory Reference Code (MRC) as follows:
The MRC is responsible for initializing the memory as part of the POST process at power-on. Intel provides support in the MRC for all fully validated memory configurations. For non-validated configurations, a system designer should work with their BIOS vendor to produce a working MRC solution ... The MRC in the system BIOS needs to know the specification of the attached system memory. Most of this info should be contained in the onboard SPD. With this in mind care needs to be taken when programming the appropriate values into the SPD [the part of a memory module that contains its operating requirements and specification]. A system designer should work with their memory and BIOS vendors to implement a suitable SPD programming.
As such, the MRC is a part of the BIOS (or firmware) of an Intel motherboard. George Chen, a research and development (R&D) director at ASUS, described it in 2007 as follows:
The MRC is part of reference BIOS code, which relates to memory initialization in the BIOS. It includes information about memory settings, frequency, timing, driving and detailed operations of the memory controller. The MRC is written in a C-language code, which can be edited and compiled by board makers. It provides a space to develop advanced features, and the ability to tune memory. We try to look into [Intel's] Memory Reference Code to try to understand its behaviour ... Sometimes, there are some remarks inside the source code, while on other occasions, we just try to change the arguments to see what effect it has. If we take the time to understand the MRC then we can get more out of it. If we put in more effort than our competitors, we can find more information.
The MRC usually only provides support for industry-standard memory configurations. For instance, under a 1,066MHz FSB, the only choices regarding memory speed in the MRC are DDR2-667 and DDR2-800. We have to provide additional choices. For people who want higher memory frequency, we used the setting of 800MHz FSB:DDR2-800 in MRC, but overclocked it to work with a 1,066MHz FSB, so we could implement support for DDR2-1066.
The article author describes the MRC as "One of the most important aspects of the BIOS for an Intel board" and the reason why "one [board might be] a brilliant overclocker and another [is] as stable as a plate of jelly on a bouncy castle"; adding that "When you're overclocking, you're literally running clocks faster than normal. Working out the effect of this on the various dif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Saunders%20%28academic%29 | Michael Alan Saunders is an American numerical analyst and computer scientist. He is a research professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Saunders is known for his contributions to numerical linear algebra and numerical optimization and has developed many widely used software packages, such as MINOS, NPSOL, and SNOPT.
Saunders developed the MINRES method for the iterative solution of symmetric linear equation systems in 1975 together with Christopher Conway Paige.
Education and career
Saunders was born on in Christchurch, New Zealand. He received his B.Sc. in mathematics from University of Canterbury in 1965 and worked for two years as a scientific officer at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in New Zealand. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1972, under the supervision of Gene Golub.
Saunders spent another two years at his old position with DSIR before joining the Systems Optimization Laboratory (SOL) in the Operations Research department at Stanford University. He was promoted to his current position in 1987 and made a faculty member in the Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics (SCCM). He has authored over 100 scientific papers on a variety of topics, including many with his colleagues Philip Gill, Walter Murray, and Margaret Wright.
Honors and awards
Saunders is a highly cited researcher in both computer science and mathematics on the ISI Web of Knowledge, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand, and a Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) fellow. He has won the Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) Beale-Orchard Hays Prize, and is a cowinner of the SIAM Linear Algebra Prize with Sou-Cheng Choi and Christopher Paige.
References
External links
American computer scientists
1944 births
Living people
University of Canterbury alumni
Stanford University alumni
Stanford University faculty
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
New Zealand emigrants to the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene%20M.%20Luks | Eugene Michael Luks (born circa 1940) is an American mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer and information science at the University of Oregon. He is known for his research on the graph isomorphism problem and on algorithms for computational group theory.
Professional career
Luks did his undergraduate studies at the City College of New York, earning a bachelor's degree in 1960, and went on to graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, earning a doctorate in mathematics in 1966 under the supervision of Kenkichi Iwasawa. He taught at Tufts University from 1966 to 1968, and at Bucknell University from then until 1983, when he joined the University of Oregon faculty as chair of the computer and information science department. He retired in 2006, but was recalled in 2012–2013 to serve as interim chair.
Awards and honors
In 1985, Luks won the Fulkerson Prize for his work showing that graph isomorphism could be tested in polynomial time for graphs with bounded maximum degree. In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Selected publications
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References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
Theoretical computer scientists
Graph theorists
Group theorists
City College of New York alumni
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science alumni
Tufts University faculty
Bucknell University faculty
University of Oregon faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Place of birth missing (living people)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Argentine%20provinces%20by%20population | The following table is a list of the 23 provinces and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires of Argentina, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the 2022, 2010 and 2001 censuses from the National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina.
References
Provinces of Argentina |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20constraint%20satisfaction%20problem | In artificial intelligence and operations research, a Weighted Constraint Satisfaction Problem (WCSP) is a generalization of a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) where some of the constraints can be violated (according to a violation degree) and in which preferences among solutions can be expressed. This generalization makes it possible to represent more real-world problems, in particular those that are over-constrained (no solution can be found without violating at least one constraint), or those where we want to find a minimal-cost solution (according to a cost function) among multiple possible solutions.
Formal definition
A Weighted Constraint Network (WCN), aka Cost Function Network (CFN), is a triplet where is a finite set of discrete variables, is a finite set of soft constraints and is either a natural integer or .
Each soft constraint involves an ordered set of variables, called its scope, and is defined as a cost function from to where is the set of possible instantiations of . When an instantiation is given the cost , i.e., , it is said forbidden. Otherwise it is permitted with the corresponding cost (0 being completely satisfactory).
In WCSP, specific subclass of Valued CSP (VCSP), costs are combined with the specific operator defined as: . The partial inverse of is defined by: if , and if , .
Without any loss of generality, the existence of a nullary constraint (a cost) as well as the presence of a unary constraint for every variable is assumed.
The total cost of a complete instantiation is the bounded sum of the cost of on for all soft constraint , including the nullary cost and the unary costs for of the variables in .
Considering a WCN/CFN, the usual (NP-hard) task of WCSP is to find a complete instantiation with a minimal cost.
Other tasks in the related field of graphical model can be defined.
Resolution of binary/ternary WCSPs
Approach with cost transfer operations
Node consistency (NC) and Arc consistency (AC), introduced for the Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), have been studied later in the context of WCSP.
Furthermore, several consistencies about the best form of arc consistency have been proposed: Full Directional Arc consistency (FDAC), Existential Directional Arc consistency (EDAC), Virtual Arc consistency (VAC) and Optimal Soft Arc consistency (OSAC).
Algorithms enforcing such properties are based on Equivalence Preserving Transformations (EPTs) that allow safe moves of costs among constraints. Three basic costs transfer operations are:
Project : cost transfer from constraints to unary constraints
ProjectUnary : cost transfer from unary constraint to nullary constraint
Extend : cost transfer from unary constraint to constraint
The goal of Equivalence Preserving Transformations is to concentrate costs on the nullary constraint and remove efficiently instantiations and values with a cost, added to , that is greater than or equal to the forbidden cost or the cost of the best solu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirikou%20and%20the%20Men%20and%20Women | Kirikou and the Men and Women () is a 2012 computer-animated children's film written and directed by Michel Ocelot. The second sequel to Ocelot's 1998 film Kirikou and the Sorceress, following Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005), the film is an anthology, telling five tales woven together by a loose framing device.
The film was originally released on 3 October 2012. While successful at the box office, it received mixed reviews from critics.
Synopsis
The third film by celebrated French animator Michel Ocelot about the exploits of the irrepressible young Kirikou, a feisty infant with a big heart, follows his adventures as he uses his wits to save his fellow villagers from a host of problems—including the threats of an evil sorceress. Told through the eyes of Kirikou’s grandfather, the Wise Man who lives in the Forbidden Mountain, the stories mix mythology, fable, and humor to teach important lessons about courage, self-belief, and tolerance.
Cast
Romann Berrux: Kirikou
Awa Sene Sarr: Karaba
Sabine Pakora: Strong / Neutral Woman
Accolades
Notes
External links
Official website of Michel Ocelot
BBCi review
The Guardian review
2010s children's fantasy films
2010s French animated films
2012 animated films
2012 films
French fantasy adventure films
Films directed by Michel Ocelot
Animated films set in Africa
French animated fantasy films
French anthology films
Luxembourgian animated fantasy films
Animated films based on folklore |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pekoteko | La Plena Pekoteko is a three-volume terminology collection extending to 1,816 pages. The word Pekoteko is an abbreviated version of Per-komputora termino-kolekto ("Computerized terminology collection").
History
Rüdiger Eichholz, from 1976 a member of the Akademio de Esperanto, at that time headed the Academy's technical/specialized dictionaries section. Collaborating with other Esperantists from 1968 to 1981, he maintained the Slipara Vortaro, an indexed collection of word-definition slips. Later, during the personal computer era, he started working on the Pekoteko database project.
Other major contributors to this project were Bernhard Eichkorn, Bernhard Pabst and Edward Spitaels. Terminology proposals were collected between 1985 and 1990. In the foreword to the Pekoteko, Eichholz wrote: "We did not lose time in vain efforts to standardize the terms to be used for Esperanto. We simply offer them, and recommend to all readers who may require some [translated] terms, to consult our records, to read the arguments presented and to select those terms that, after reading the arguments, they judge most on-point."
In the Pekoteko the editors made a few suggestions; especially remarkable was the now-dead proposal to add the non-canonical suffix -apo for computer-related terms, such as the neologisms *desegn/apo, intended to mean "computer program for drawing" or *financ/ap/aro to mean "financial software suite"; neither term was actually adopted by the Esperanto community.
Printing and distribution
The Pekoteko was printed in 1992 by the Canadian publishing house Esperanto Press after receiving financial support from the FAME Foundation established by Franz Alois Meiners. The project promoter distributed 150 copies as gifts to all members of the Academy of Esperanto, to the editorial staff of important Esperanto magazines and to a few libraries and museums. The remaining 150 units were sold.
Little is currently still heard about the Pekoteko. Nowadays the terminological work is accomplished quite differently, and the Pekoteko files are no longer directly usable. Some Esperantists, however, thought it was a great pity that the information contained therein was no longer readily available. It is possible that someone might now discuss correct terminology without knowing that the same discussion had already taken place 20 years earlier. In 2006, therefore, Bernhard Pabst converted the former WordPerfect files in his possession to a plain-text format, which he and André Weber then supplemented with additional entries. Pabst then converted the text file to PDF and made it available for download "to quickly and easily provide the public with information, not to recreate a perfect Pekoteko but only to provide basic control of the content."
The work of Pekoteko'''s creators inspired people such as Yves Nevelsteen, author of Vikipedio – praktika manlibro ("Wikipedia – a practical handbook") to create Komputeko a printed and on-line multilingual collection o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20Detective | True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. The series, broadcast by the premium cable network HBO in the United States, premiered on January 12, 2014. Each season of the series is structured as a self-contained narrative, employing new cast ensembles, and following various sets of characters and settings.
The first season, starring Matthew McConaughey, Woody Harrelson, Michelle Monaghan, Michael Potts, and Tory Kittles, takes place in Louisiana and follows a pair of Louisiana State Police detectives, and their pursuit of a serial killer with occult links over a 17-year period. The second season aired in 2015, starring Colin Farrell, Rachel McAdams, Taylor Kitsch, Kelly Reilly, and Vince Vaughn, is set in California, and focuses on three detectives from three cooperating police jurisdictions and a criminal-turned-businessman as they investigate a series of crimes they believe are linked to the murder of a corrupt politician. The third season aired in 2019, starring Mahershala Ali, Carmen Ejogo, Stephen Dorff, Scoot McNairy, and Ray Fisher, and takes place in the Ozarks over three time periods as a pair of Arkansas State Police detectives investigate a macabre crime involving two missing children.
The first season received widespread acclaim from critics and earned high ratings for HBO. It was nominated for and won numerous awards and other accolades, chiefly for its acting, cinematography, writing, and direction. Reception to the second season was more divided, although the show maintained high viewership for HBO. The third season received positive reviews, but saw a drop in viewership.
A fourth season, set in Alaska and titled True Detective: Night Country, is scheduled to premiere on January 14, 2024. It stars Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, with Issa López as writer and director.
Production
Development
Before developing True Detective, Nic Pizzolatto worked as a literature professor for the University of Chicago, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and DePauw University. He also delved into fiction writing, having developed a fascination for it as a graduate student at the University of Arkansas. His first published work was the short story collection Between Here and the Yellow Sea, released in 2006. The author published his debut novel, Galveston, four years later and around the same time began preparing to branch out into the television industry (earlier attempts were never realized due to lack of capital).
Intended to be Galveston follow-up, Pizzolatto felt True Detective was more suited to film. Pizzolatto shopped the novel to two TV executives, and, once he secured a deal in May 2010, drafted six screenplays, including the pilot episode ("The Long Bright Dark") script, which ran 90 pages. He devoted another script for the series shortly after his departure from The Killings writing staff in 2011, thanks to the support of Anonymous Content. The final copy, am |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affectiva | Affectiva was a software company that built artificial intelligence, acquired by SmartEye in 2021. The company claimed its AI understood human emotions, cognitive states, activities and the objects people use, by analyzing facial and vocal expressions. An offshoot of MIT Media Lab, Affectiva created a new technological category of Artificial Emotional Intelligence, namely, Emotion AI.
History
Affectiva was co-founded by Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., who became chief executive officer as of May 25, 2016, and Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D., who worked as chairman and Chief Scientist until 2013. Both of Affectiva's early products grew out of collaborative research at the MIT's Media Lab to help people on the autism spectrum.
Affectiva co-founder and CEO, Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D. has been recognized on Inc.’s Female Founders 100 List 2020, BBC 100 Women 2019, Fortune's Most Powerful Women Trailblazers 2019, Forbes: America's Top 50 Women in Tech, Fortune's 40 under 40 list, and others.
Affectiva has been recognized on Forbes’ AI 50: America's Most Promising Artificial Intelligence Companies, CB Insights’ AI 100, Forbes’ Top 10 Hot AI Technologies.
Affectiva has been covered in Gartner's, Competitive Landscape: Emotion AI Technologies, Worldwide, and in IDC Innovators: Affective Computing report.
On April 21, 2020, Affectiva co-founder and CEO, Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., released a book about her personal journey and the story of Affectiva, called Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology. The book was published by Penguin Random House and reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and Science Magazine.
Affective was acquired for a mostly-stock deal of $73.5m by Swedish SmartEye, a former competitor.
Technology
The company has expanded its Emotion AI technology to detect more than facial expressions, reactions and emotions. Affectiva's software detects complex and nuanced emotions, cognitive states, such as drowsiness and distraction, certain activities and the objects people use. It does that by analyzing the human face, vocal intonations and body posture.
Affectiva's AI is built with deep learning, computer vision, speech analytics and large amounts of data that has been collected in real-world scenarios. The AI uses an optical sensor like a webcam or smartphone camera to identify a human face in real-time. Then, computer vision algorithms identify key features on the face, which are analyzed by deep learning algorithms to classify facial expressions. These facial expressions are then mapped back to emotions. One journal paper found the results are comparable to results using facial Electromyography. Affectiva also uses computer vision to detect objects like a cellphone and car seat, as well as body key points, which track body joints to determine movement and location. The company's speech technology works by analyzing audio segments for their acoustic-prosodic features, such as, for example, ch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeinrichsWeikamp | HeinrichsWeikamp, based in Germany, is a company that produces sports precision instruments for scuba diving including personal dive computers and oxygen partial pressure monitors for diving rebreathers.
Their products: OSTC, OSTC Mk.2, OSTC 2N, OSTC3, OSTC4 and Frog are supported by Subsurface, free software for logging dives authored by Linus Torvalds.
References
External links
HeinrichsWeikamp — Official site
Diving equipment manufacturers
Manufacturing companies of Germany
Companies based in Baden-Württemberg
Freiburg im Breisgau |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datomic | Datomic is a distributed database and implementation of Datalog. It has ACID transactions, joins, and a logical query language, Datalog. A distinguishing feature of Datomic is that time is a basic feature of data entities.
Architecture
It has been designed for first-class use with JVM languages such as Java and Clojure.
In its reference architecture, Datomic uses peers and transactors which run on the JVM.
References
2012 software
NoSQL
Logic programming languages
Proprietary cross-platform software
Proprietary database management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immediately%20invoked%20function%20expression | An immediately invoked function expression (or IIFE, pronounced "iffy", IPA /ˈɪf.i/) is a programming language idiom which produces a lexical scope using function scoping. It was popular in JavaScript as a method to support modular programming before the introduction of more standardized solutions such as CommonJS and ES modules.
Immediately invoked function expressions can be used to avoid variable hoisting from within blocks, protect against polluting the global environment and simultaneously allow public access to methods while retaining privacy for variables defined within the function.
Usage
Immediately invoked function expressions may be written in a number of different ways. A common convention is to enclose the function expressionand optionally its invocation operatorwith the grouping operator, in parentheses, to tell the parser explicitly to expect an expression. Otherwise, in most situations, when the parser encounters the function keyword, it treats it as a function declaration (statement), and not as a function expression.
(function () { /* ... */ })();
(function () { /* ... */ }());
(() => { /* ... */ })(); // With ES6 arrow functions (though parentheses only allowed on outside)
There are other ways to enforce a function expression:
!function () { /* ... */ }();
~function () { /* ... */ }();
-function () { /* ... */ }();
+function () { /* ... */ }();
void function () { /* ... */ }();
delete function () { /* ... */ }();
typeof function () { /* ... */ }();
await function () { /* ... */ }();
In contexts where an expression is expected, wrapping in parentheses is not necessary:
let f = function () { /* ... */ }();
true && function () { /* ... */ }();
0, function () { /* ... */ }();
Passing variables into the scope is done as follows:
(function(a, b) { /* ... */ })("hello", "world");
An initial parenthesis is one case where the automatic semicolon insertion (ASI) in JavaScript can cause problems; the expression is instead interpreted as a call to the last term on the preceding line. In some styles that omit optional semicolons, the semicolon is placed in front of the parenthesis, and is known as a defensive semicolon. For example:
a = b + c
;(function () {
// code
})();
...to avoid being parsed as c().
Examples
The key to understanding design patterns such as IIFE is to realize that prior to ES6, JavaScript only featured function scope (thus lacking block scope), passing values by reference inside closures. This is no longer the case, as the ES6 version of JavaScript implements block scoping using the new let and const keywords.
Evaluation context
A lack of block scope means that variables defined inside (for example) a for loop will have their definition "hoisted" to the top of the enclosing function. Evaluating a function that depends on variables modified by the outer function (including by iteration) can be difficult. We can see this without a loop if we update a value between defining and invoking the function.
let v, get |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tkrzw | Tkrzw is a library of routines for managing key-value databases. Tokyo Cabinet was sponsored by the Japanese social networking site Mixi, and was a multithreaded embedded database manager and was announced by its authors as "a modern implementation of DBM". Kyoto Cabinet is the designated successor of Tokyo Cabinet, while Tkrzw is a recommended successor of Kyoto Cabinet.
Tokyo Cabinet features on-disk B+ trees and hash tables for key-value storage, with "some" support for transactions.
See also
Berkeley DB
LevelDB
References
External links
Kyoto Cabinet official website
Kyoto Cabinet (Website Carnegie Mellon Database Group)
Tokyo Cabinet official website
Tokyo Cabinet (Website Carnegie Mellon Database Group)
C++ libraries
Free software programmed in C++
Database engines
Embedded databases
Key-value databases
Ordered Key-Value Store |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertel | Vertel is an Australian telecommunications carrier that focuses on designing, building, and operating wireless networks for Corporations, Government, and Service Providers. The company offers fixed wireless services, known as Etherwave CE VPN, which utilize a combination of microwave solutions and fiber optics to establish private and scalable networks connecting multiple points.
Vertel is a member of the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) and was the first independent wireless carrier in the world to gain MEF certification for its Layer 2 Ethernet Service.
Vertel History
The company was formed in 1973 when an Australian entrepreneur started a business called Communication Site Rentals. As the name suggested, this business initially provided high communication sites for government departments and large organisations who wanted to deploy two way radio (at the time a relatively new technology).
At this point in time Telecom Australia (now Telstra) was still a part of the Postmaster General's Department and would be for several more years.
Vertel provided its first fully managed two way radio network some 24 years before the deregulation of the Australian telecommunications market (and 8 years before the first mobile phone call was placed in the country)
MEF Awards
In 2012 Vertel was awarded Best Carrier Ethernet Service in the APAC region
References
Wireless Internet service providers
Telecommunications companies of Australia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens%20Nordvig | Jens Nordvig (born April 19, 1974 in Aarhus, Denmark as Jens Jakob Nordvig-Rasmussen) is a Danish-born economist specializing in foreign exchange markets, macroeconomic policy, and data science. He is the founder of Exante Data and co-founder of MarketReader.
Contributions to the Euro break-up debate
In 2011-2012, Nordvig published a series of papers on quantifying the cost of Euro break-up in his role at Nomura Securities, and as submission to the Wolfson Economics Prize. The submission, "Rethinking the European monetary union," co-authored with Nick Firoozye, won a GBP10K finalists prize along with five other contestants. The specific contribution of Nordvig’s work was to decompose the international investment of Eurozone member countries based on the jurisdiction of the underlying assets and liabilities. In particular, would liabilities be subject to local or international law? This previously underestimated parameter turned out to be crucial in estimating balance sheet effected associated with departure from the Euro (and subsequent devaluation), and hence the overall cost of exit from the common currency.
Nordvig’s work on the Euro-crisis was published by McGraw-Hill in book form in 2013: The Fall of the Euro: Reinventing the Eurozone and the Future of Global Investing. In Italy, the framework has also been adopted in the policy debate, for example by Alberto Bagnai and by local financial institutions in their analysis of the effects of Italexit. Regarding Italexit a remarkable contribution arrived from Antonio Guglielmi and Marcello Minenna. The analysis presented in The Fall of the Euro has been cited across policy circles; prominently so in France. It was used particularly in the run-up to the controversial 2017 presidential election, in which Le Pen was a serious contender. His 2012 study with Firoozye on the European Monetary Union is also a central part of the debate in Italy on a possible exit of the Euro.
COVID-19 analysis
In early 2020, Jens Nordvig and Exante Data switched focus towards COVID-19 analysis, anticipating that it would drive the global economy. Their real-time data on people movement has been used by Imperial College London in their analysis of the effects of social distancing in China on the containment of COVID-19.
WIRED magazine discussed Nordvig’s work on tracking COVID-19 using alternative data sources. The main innovation has been to use alternative data sources to measure social distancing in real-time, and thereby allow more precise epidemiological modeling. Those data source include data on traffic congestion in more than 400 global cities as well as detailed data on people movement in densely populated areas.
Exante Data published this data as open source, available for free via twitter, as a public service.
Hidden debt in emerging markets
Nordvig's research into the dimensions and consequences of "dark" emerging market debt has been critically acclaimed and opened important room for debate in response |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Cheswick | William R. "Bill" Cheswick (also known as "Ches") is a computer security and networking researcher.
Education
Cheswick graduated from Lawrenceville School in 1970 and received a B.S. in Fundamental Science in 1975 from Lehigh University. While at Lehigh, working with Doug Price and Steve Lidie, Cheswick co-authored the Senator line-oriented text editor.
Career
Cheswick's early career included contracting in Bethlehem, PA between 1975 and 1977. He was a Programmer for American Newspaper Publishers Association / Research Institute in Easton, PA between 1976 and 1977 and a Systems Programmer for Computer Sciences Corporation in Warminster, PA between 1977 and 1978. Following this, Cheswick joined Systems and Computer Technology Corporation where he served as a Systems Programmer and Consultant between 1978 and 1987. Much of Cheswick's early career was related to his expertise with Control Data Corporation (CDC) mainframes, their operating systems such as SCOPE and NOS, and the related COMPASS assembly language. Cheswick initially worked with CDC systems as a student at Lehigh University.
Cheswick joined Bell Labs in 1987. Shortly thereafter, he and Steven M. Bellovin created one of the world's first network firewalls. The resulting research and papers lead to their publication of the seminal book Firewalls and Internet Security, one of the first to describe the architecture of a firewall in detail. Cheswick and Bellovin also created one of the world's first honeypots in the course of detecting and trapping an attempted intruder into their network.
In 1998, Cheswick, still at Bell Labs (by then controlled by Lucent) started the Internet Mapping Project, assisted by Hal Burch. The research allowed large scale mapping of the internet for the first time, using tracerouting techniques to learn the connectivity graph of global networks. The work ultimately led to the founding in 2000 of a spinoff company, Lumeta, where Cheswick was a co-founder and held the title of Chief Scientist.
He joined AT&T Shannon Lab in 2007, where he remained until 2012.
Hobbies, interests, and personal projects
Cheswick currently lives in New Jersey with his wife. He has two children. His home is a farmhouse in Flemington, New Jersey, which is an electronic smart house, equipped with a voice synthesizer that reports relevant information, from mailbox status to evening stock news. Cheswick has developed a few interactive exhibits for science museums, including the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey. Cheswick also enjoys model rocketry, and lock picking (both electronic and physical). He is interested in developing better passwords as discussed in his article "Rethinking Passwords" (Communications of the ACM 56.2 (2013)). Cheswick has also been seeking permission from filmmakers to publish his visualizations of their movies.
References
External links
William R. Cheswick's home page
Biography
Home page for "Firewalls and Internet Security"
Computer security spec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copulabyssia%20gradata | Copulabyssia gradata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pseudococculinidae, the false limpets.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand.
References
Marshall B.A. (1986 ["1985"]) Recent and Tertiary Cocculinidae and Pseudococculinidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from New Zealand and New South Wales. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 12: 505-546
External links
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To World Register of Marine Species
Pseudococculinidae
Gastropods described in 1986 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komputeko | Komputeko is an online project of the non-profit youth organization E@I (“Education@Internet”) with the goal of bringing together parallel computer terminology from various dictionaries in order to facilitate access to and comparison between different translations and thus promote exact use of language and counteract the (often sloppy) usage of linguistic borrowings from American English. Komputeko is short for the Esperanto noun phrase "Prikomputila terminokolekto", meaning "collection of computer terms". The dictionary is written in five languages (Esperanto, English, Dutch, German and French), and there are plans to expand it into other languages. A preliminary version with a few other languages already exists.
Development of Komputeko
The Esperanto dictionaries and word lists on which Komputeko is based are the Komputada Leksikono ("Computing Lexicon") by Sergio Pokrovskij (Сергей Покровский), the crowd-sourced Reta Vortaro ("Internet Dictionary", ReVo, the Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto ("Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto", PIV), the Internet mini-dictionary of the Flandra Esperanto-Ligo, the Techniczny Słownik Polsko Esperancki ("Polish-Esperanto Technical Dictionary") by Jerzy Wałaszek, the three-volume Pekoteko collection of terminology, Bill Walker's Komputilo Vortolisto and a Dutch-Esperanto dictionary. It also takes into account the terminology used in articles from the Esperanto Wikipedia.
The promoter of the project, Yves Nevelsteen, among other things, joined the Esperanto translation team for the open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org, the social networking site Ipernity and the content management system Drupal in order to make these teams' work product more widely available through Komputeko.
Usage of Komputeko
Among scholars who have acknowledged the utility of the Komputeko project are John C. Wells, who authored both the Teach Yourself Books' Concise Esperanto and English Dictionary (1969) and the concise yet comprehensive English-Esperanto-English Dictionary (Mondial, 2010), and Paul Peeraerts, who translated the interface of Ipernity and Facebook into Esperanto and who has served as editorial secretary of the Esperanto-language monthly Monato. Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.
Book versions of Komputeko
2008: Yves Nevelsteen, Komputeko (1st edition). Published by Espero, Partizánske, Slovakia. 92 pages.
This version benefited from the linguistic advice of Cindy McKee and Bertilo Wennergren, while Mauro La Torre (1946–2010), Paul Peeraerts and Lode Van de Velde served as proofreaders.
2012: Yves Nevelsteen, Komputeko (2nd edition). Published by Espero, Partizá |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias%20Jarke | Matthias Jarke (born 1952 in Hamburg) is a German computer scientist.
Life and work
After double master's degrees in computer science and business administration at the University of Hamburg, Germany, he received his doctorate in operations research there in 1980. In 1981 he joined the Stern School of Management at New York University as an Assistant Professor, where he received an early promotion to Associate Professor in 1983, and early tenure in 1985. In 1986 he returned to Germany as a full professor of dialog-oriented systems at the University of Passau, from where he moved to RWTH Aachen University as Professor of Information Systems in 1991. From 1992-2000, he served as chairman of Aachen's Computer Science department.
Since January 2000, he additionally became executive director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT in Sankt Augustin near Bonn, Germany. In 2010, he was also appointed Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group, and member of the Fraunhofer Presidential Board. With a budget of over €220 mio. and over 3.300 employees, Fraunhofer ICT Group is one of the largest applied research organizations in information and communication technology in Europe.
Since 2002, Jarke has been founding director of the B-IT foundation which fosters the internationalization of German CS education through its Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology (B-IT). In 2008, its international master programs in media informatics, life science informatics, and autonomous systems were augmented by a dedicated B-IT Research School of doctoral training, co-funded by the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In his research Jarke, investigates metadata management and data quality, requirements engineering, and information systems engineering with a focus on mobile and cooperative systems. He served as a member of the coordination team of the "RWTH-2020 Future Initiative" at RWTH Aachen University, an excellence program of the German federal government, and as deputy coordinator of the DFG-funded Excellence Cluster on Ultra High-speed Mobile Information and Communication UMIC.
Jarke has authored or edited over twenty books and more than 300 refereed publications, was chief editor of the Elsevier journal "Information Systems for ten years, and program chair of almost all leading international conferences in the database and information systems field. He is a fellow of the German Informatics society GI and was in 2012 elected to the acatech German National Academy of Engineering and Sciences. From 2000-2003 he served as treasurer of GI and was then elected as GI president for two consecutive terms 2004-2007. In this time, he also served as scientific coordinator of the "Year of Computer Science 2006" in which the German federal government chose computer science for the first and so far only topic of its annual Science Years.
References
ACM TMIS Editorial Board member
http://www.umic.rwth-aachen.de/mainmenu/or |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona%20Diamondbacks%20Radio%20Networks | The Arizona Diamondbacks Radio Networks are 2 radio networks, of 24 total stations with 2 F.M. translators, carrying games of the Arizona Diamondbacks. There is an English-language network consisting of 20 stations and a Spanish-language network of five stations, including four in Mexico. The English-language network originates at KTAR/620 and KMVP-FM/98.7 in Phoenix, Arizona, while the Spanish-language network originates at KHOV-FM/105.1 serving Phoenix. The main play-by-play announcer on the English-language network is Greg Schulte. The color analyst is former major-leaguer Tom Candiotti. The games' pre- & post-game host is Jeff Munn who also fills in on play-by-play. On the Spanish-language network, the play-by-play announcer is Oscar Soria and the color analyst is Miguel Quintana. Arturo Ochoa is the fill-in Spanish play-by-play announcer, and the fill-in color analyst is Richard Saenz.
Station list
Flagships
United States
Arizona
New Mexico
Mexico
All four Mexican affiliates are in the state of Sonora and owned by Grupo Larsa Comunicaciones.
Unsure status
Former flagships
Former affiliates
Notes:
Spanish-language stations are listed in italics.
Translators are listed smaller than full-power stations.
References
External links
Radio Networks affiliates' page on the Diamondbacks' site
Announcers' biographies on the Diamondbacks' page
Arizona Diamondbacks
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%20Nationals%20Radio%20Network | The Washington Nationals radio network is a United States radio network airing Washington Nationals baseball games in the mid-Atlantic region of the United States. The Washington Nationals Radio Network consists of 18 full-powered stations (15 AM, 3 FM) supplemented by 8 analog AM-to-FM translators and 3 digital HD subchannels. The flagship is WJFK-FM/106.7.
The Nationals' broadcast team consists of play-by-play announcer Charlie Slowes and color announcer Dave Jageler. Additionally, Byron Kerr hosts "Nats Insider", and Phil Wood hosts "Nats Talk Live".
Network stations
Delaware (1 station + 1 translator)
Milford (Dover market): WNCL/930
Milford: W271CX/102.1
Maryland (3 stations + 2 HD subchannels + 2 translators)
Bethesda (Washington, D.C. market): WIAD-HD3/94.7-3 (relay of WJFK-FM)
Cumberland: WCMD/1230
Cumberland: W271AT/102.1
Frederick: WWFD/820
Frederick: W232DG/94.3
Frederick: WTLP-HD2/103.9-2 (relay of WFED)
Thurmont: WTHU/1450
North Carolina (3 stations + 1 translator)
Manteo (Outer Banks market): WOBX-FM/98.1
New Bern: WWNB/1490
New Bern: W280ED/103.9
Winterville (Greenville market): WECU/1570
Virginia (8 stations + 1 HD subchannel + 3 translators)
Charlottesville: WCHV/1260
Charlottesville: WCHV-FM/107.5
Front Royal: WFTR/1450
Harrisonburg: WKCY/1300
Harrisonburg: W300CN/107.9
Lynchburg: WBRG/1050
Lynchburg: W286CX/105.1
Manassas (Washington, D.C. market): WJFK-FM/106.7 (flagship)
Richmond: WRVA/1140 (except weekday afternoon games and games that conflict with NASCAR races)
Richmond: WTVR-FM-HD2/98.1-2
Richmond: W241AP/96.1
Waynesboro: WKCI/970
Washington, D.C. (1 station + 1 HD subchannel)
WFED/1500 -- no longer an affiliate beginning with 2021 season
WTOP-FM-HD2/103.5-2
West Virginia (1 station + 1 translator)
Martinsburg: WRNR/740
Martinsburg: W293AM/106.5
References
External links
2016 affiliates page on the Washington Nationals site
See also
List of XM Satellite Radio channels
List of Sirius Satellite Radio stations
List of Washington Nationals broadcasters
Washington Nationals
Major League Baseball on the radio
Sports radio networks in the United States |
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