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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense%20Red%20Switch%20Network | The Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) is a dedicated telephone network which provides global secure communication services for the command and control structure of the United States Armed Forces. The network is maintained by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) and is secured for communications up to the level of Top Secret SCI.
The DRSN provides multilevel secure voice and voice-conferencing capabilities to the National Command Authority (NCA, being the President and the Secretary of Defense of the United States), the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the National Military Command Center (NMCC), Combatant Commanders and their command centers, warfighters, other DoD agencies, government departments, and NATO allies.
Department of Defense and federal government agencies can get access to the network with approval of the Joint Staff. Upon approval by the Joint Staff, DISA will work with the customer and the appropriate military department to arrange the service.
The Defense Red Switch Network consists of four major subsystems: the Switching Subsystem, the Transmission Subsystem, the Timing and Synchronization Subsystem, and the
Network Management Subsystem. The Switching Subsystem uses both RED and BLACK switches to provide an integrated RED/BLACK service. End users are provided with a single telephone instrument with which they can access both secure and nonsecure networks.
The DRSN carried around 15,000 calls per day prior to September 11, 2001. DRSN usage subsequently peaked at 45,000 calls per day and by mid-2003 was running at around 25,000 calls per day. In that period the Defense Red Switch Network was expanded to support 18 additional US Federal Homeland Defense initiatives.
Nowadays, this network is also called the Multilevel Secure Voice service. It's the core of the Global Secure Voice System (GSVS) during peacetime, crisis and time of conventional war, by hosting national-level conferencing and connectivity requirements and providing interoperability with both tactical and strategic communication networks.
See also
Defense Switched Network (DSN)
Automatic Secure Voice Communications Network (AUTOSEVOCOM)
References
External links
GlobalSecurity.org: Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN)
Military communications of the United States
Secure communication |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rivada%20Port%20Graham%20Solutions | Rivada Port Graham Solutions, also known as RPGS, is an SBA-certified small business. RPGS is a joint venture between Port Graham Development Corporation and Rivada Networks. Established in 2004, RPGS specializes in the engineering, design and implementation of communications systems for the US Department of Homeland security and other public safety agencies.
Operations
In April 2012, Rivada Port Graham Solutions was one of 30 prime contractors awarded a contract on the US Secret Service's $3 billion Tactical Communications (TACCOM) contract for the US Department of Homeland Security. Contractors received contracts in one or multiple technical categories, and each indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract has a 2-year base and three 1-year options. The TACCOM contract has the following five technical categories.
Technical Category 1: Subscriber Base - Portable/mobile radios, control/base stations, software, upgrades, etc.
Technical Category 2: Infrastructure - Repeaters, routers, comparator systems, OTAR, etc.
Technical Category 3: Infrastructure Services - Engineering, design, installation, etc.
Technical Category 4: O&M Services - Maintenance, frequency managers, spectrum managers, etc.
Technical Category 5: Test Equipment
RPGS is authorized to provide services under Technical Category 3 (Infrastructure Services) and Technical Category 4 (Operations and Maintenance Services).
In December 2012, US Customs and Border Protection awarded RPGS a task order under the TACCOM contract for the modernization of communications infrastructure and equipment across 17 US states and territories.
References
Telecommunications companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura%20B.%20Whitmore | Laura B. Whitmore (born March 11, 1965) is a music marketer, singer/songwriter, event producer, and founder of the Women's International Music Network (The WiMN). She currently lives in Onset, MA.
Early life
Laura B. Whitmore was born in Framingham, MA. She attended Hofstra University, earning a B.S. in 1986 in Music Merchandising, where she was honored by Pi Kappa Lambda. In 1999 she earned her M.B.A. in Marketing also from Hofstra where she was invited to be a member of Beta Gamma Sigma. She also completed a certificate program at Audio Recording Technology Institute (ARTI) in New York City.
Career
While in college Whitmore worked for the Nassau Symphony Orchestra, on Long Island, NY, computerizing their systems and renovating their operations. After graduating in 1986, Whitmore worked in the direct marketing department of CBS Records under the Senior VP of Direct Marketing, Neal Keating, who was credited as a marketing pioneer as he spearheaded the formation of the Columbia House record club.
After two years with CBS Records, Whitmore left to join Korg USA in Westbury, NY, in 1988 as a marketing assistant and artist relations representative. She moved on to Marketing Services Specialist and took on the responsibilities of media planning and negation, public relations, and trade show planning. After she earned her master's degree in 1999, she was named Marketing Services Manager. In addition to handling marketing, PR and artist relations for the Korg, Marshall, and VOX brands, Whitmore was appointed editor of Korg’s ProView Magazine and of the VOX Catalog, for which she won a Davey Award in 2006.
In 2008, Whitmore left Korg after 20 years of service. She then moved to Lafayette, CA and launched her own business, Mad Sun Marketing, starting off with just two clients, Korg USA and Academic Superstore. Mad Sun Marketing specializes in marketing, PR, artist relations, event production, and graphic design for music and audio companies. Past and current clients of Mad Sun include 65amps, Academic Superstore, Acoustic Amplification, Agile Partners, Colby Amplifiers, Dean Markley USA, EarthSync, Gear Collector, Jammit, Korg, KVRaudio, Muse Research, MusicFirst, NewBay Media, Notion Music, Peavey Electronics, SIR Entertainment Services, SIR Stage37, SoundTree, Sterling Audio, and the film 'Take Me To The River.'
In November 2014, Whitmore came on board as the education director for Take Me to the River, a documentary film which celebrates the intergenerational and interracial musical influence of Memphis in the face of pervasive discrimination and segregation. The film brings multiple generations of award-winning Memphis and Mississippi Delta musicians together, following them through the creative process of recording a historic new album, to re-imagine the utopia of racial, gender and generational collaboration of Memphis in its heyday. The education initiative partnered with Berklee College of Music to produce a curriculum and events based on t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unforgettable%20%28Philippine%20TV%20series%29 | Unforgettable is a 2013 Philippine television drama romantic fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Gina Alajar, it stars Kylie Padilla. It premiered on February 25, 2013 on the network's Afternoon Prime line up replacing Yesterday's Bride. The series concluded on May 31, 2013 with a total of 67 episodes. It was replaced by Mga Basang Sisiw in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Rosanna "Anna" Caruhatan
Supporting cast
Mark Herras as Eduardo "Ed" Manalastas
Benjamin Alves as Miguel de Ocampo
Pauleen Luna as Constance "Connie" de Ocampo
Phillip Salvador as Manuel de Ocampo
Polo Ravales as Arnold Regalado
Glydel Mercado as Elvira Caruhatan
Carmi Martin as Consuelo "Concha" de Ocampo
Timmy Cruz as Raymunda "Munding" Manalastas
Recurring cast
Chariz Solomon as Ruth Natividad
Roy Alvarez as Salvador "Badong" Leoncio
Kevin Santos as Randy Legaspi
Pancho Magno as Darwin Toledo
Rocco Nacino as Terrence Rosario
Bianca Umali as Julia Regalado
Lenlen Frial as Elai
Jana Trites as Isabel
Production and development
The series was created and developed by Agnes Gagelonia-Uligan. She began developing the series late 2012. The series is part of the four new shows intended for the network's afternoon line up for the first quarter of 2013, alongside Forever, Bukod Kang Pinagpala, and Kakambal ni Eliana. The series, which slated for 16-week run, is under the direction of Gina Alajar while Darling Pulido-Torres served as the executive producer.
The majority of the cast was assembled in late January 2013. Lauren Young was the original choice of the network for the character of Anna Caruhatan, but was replaced by Kylie Padilla in the final casting. Mark Herras and Pauleen Luna, were hired for the roles of Ed Manalastas and Connie de Ocampo, respectively. Benjamin Alves was chosen to portray the character of Atty. Miguel de Ocampo. Alves described his role as "a dream come true," as he wanted to be a lawyer in real life. Glydel Mercado took the parental role of Elvira Caruhatan which was previously offered to Jean Garcia.
Salvador signed on to portray the series' antagonist Atty. Manuel de Ocampo. Meanwhile, Martin took the role of Concha de Ocampo, which was initially offered to Agot Isidro.
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Unforgettable earned a 16.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 14.1% rating.
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2013 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine romance television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physically%20based%20animation | Physically based animation is an area of interest within computer graphics concerned with the simulation of physically plausible behaviors at interactive rates. Advances in physically based animation are often motivated by the need to include complex, physically inspired behaviors in video games, interactive simulations, and movies. Although off-line simulation methods exist to solve most all of the problems studied in physically-based animation, these methods are intended for applications that necessitate physical accuracy and slow, detailed computations. In contrast to methods common in offline simulation, techniques in physically based animation are concerned with physical plausibility, numerical stability, and visual appeal over physical accuracy. Physically based animation is often limited to loose approximations of physical behaviors because of the strict time constraints imposed by interactive applications. The target frame rate for interactive applications such as games and simulations is often 25-60 hertz, with only a small fraction of the time allotted to an individual frame remaining for physical simulation. Simplified models of physical behaviors are generally preferred if they are more efficient, easier to accelerate (through pre-computation, clever data structures, or SIMD/GPGPU), or satisfy desirable mathematical properties (such as unconditional stability or volume conservation when a soft body undergoes deformation). Fine details are not important when the overriding goal of a visualization is aesthetic appeal or the maintenance of player immersion since these details are often difficult for humans to notice or are otherwise impossible to distinguish at human scales.
History
Physically based animation is now common in movies and video games, and many techniques were pioneered during the development of early special effects scenes and game engines. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan famously used particle systems in the Genesis explosion scene to create the visual effect of a flaming shockwave engulfing a planet. Despite being released before physics engines were a common feature in games, System Shock incorporated rigid body physics in its engine and was widely considered innovative for this feature and the novel sense of interaction it afforded players. Valve later developed Half-Life and used rigid body physics to create environmental puzzles for the player, such as obstacles that could not be reached without stacking boxes. Half-Life 2 featured a more advanced physics engine that incorporated constrained systems such as pulleys or levers with more environmental puzzles to showcase these features. Physics engines are now much more common in games, and their frequent appearance has motivated research in physically based animation by companies such as Nvidia.
Physically based animation in games and simulations
Physically based animation is common in games and simulations where users have the expectation of interaction with the env |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20Fox | Solar Fox is an arcade game released in 1981 by Bally/Midway. It was ported to the Atari 2600 console and was also released as a Commodore-published cartridge for the Commodore 64 computer in 1983.
Gameplay
The player's task is to pilot a starship through a series of squared solar cell matrixes inside a rack. While capturing the cells the player must dodge waves of fireballs that are being thrown by Sentinels. These Sentinels move continuously along the perimeter of each cell formation. When an entire field of squares is completed (by flying through each square), the game advances to the next rack. The faster a matrix is cleared, the more points are received.
There are 26 solar cell matrix shapes. Every fifth matrix is a Challenge rack. During challenge racks there are no fireballs; the goal is to clear the entire field before the time runs out. Completing each Challenge round awards a letter, to form the mystery word Helios.
Port
The game would later be released on the Atari 2600 console and was also developed as a Commodore-published cartridge for the Commodore 64 computer in 1983.
An Atari 5200 port program written by Van Tran (of Wabbit fame) was completed but never released.
Tie-in
A comic book ad was released in 1983 to support the story of the game.
Reception
The reception of the game was probably good as there was an Atari port.
References
External links
Solar Fox at Atari Mania
Solar Fox at AtariAge
1981 video games
Action games
Arcade video games
Atari 2600 games
Commodore 64 games
Midway video games
Video games developed in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20IDL | Web IDL is an interface description language (IDL) format for describing APIs (application programming interfaces) that are intended to be implemented in web browsers. Its adoption was motivated by the desire to improve the interoperability of web programming interfaces by specifying how languages such as ECMAScript should bind these interfaces.
Description
Web IDL is an IDL variant with:
A number of features that allow one to more easily describe the behavior of common script objects in a web context.
A mapping of how interfaces described with Web IDL correspond to language constructs within an ECMAScript execution environment.
Web specifications had been specified using OMG IDL since 1998, first with the DOM Level 1 specification. However, interfaces defined using OMG IDL were not able to specify behavior for JavaScript precisely, leading to issues with interoperability. WebIDL improved on this status quo by providing data types and binding specifications that make the intended behavior in JavaScript clearer.
Status of Web IDL specifications
The first edition of the Web IDL specification became a Candidate Recommendation on 19 April 2012 and a W3C Recommendation on 15 December 2016. For many years the Editor's Draft of a potential second edition, was what most new web specifications referenced. On 5 October 2021, the Editor's Draft was moved to the WHATWG as the Web IDL Living Standard per an update to the agreement between the W3C and WHATWG.
Usage
The W3C Wiki has a list of W3C Specifications that use Web IDL, and nearly all WHATWG specifications use it.
The Chromium Project has a page about using WebIDL to specify interfaces in Blink.
Mozilla uses Web IDL in their software creation process, mapping implementations to Web IDL specs.
When WebKit is built, the IDL files are parsed, creates the code to bind interfaces to implementations.
In the ES operating system, every system API is defined in Web IDL, and can be invoked from JavaScript directly.
References
External links
List of standards that use Web IDL
Web IDL syntax checker
Specification languages
Web browsers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%20workflow%20management%20system | A bioinformatics workflow management system is a specialized form of workflow management system designed specifically to compose and execute a series of computational or data manipulation steps, or a workflow, that relate to bioinformatics.
There are currently many different workflow systems. Some have been developed more generally as scientific workflow systems for use by scientists from many different disciplines like astronomy and earth science. All such systems are based on an abstract representation of how a computation proceeds in the form of a directed graph, where each node represents a task to be executed and edges represent either data flow or execution dependencies between different tasks. Each system typically provides a visual front-end, allowing the user to build and modify complex applications with little or no programming expertise.
Examples
In alphabetical order, some examples of bioinformatics workflow management systems include:
Anduril bioinformatics and image analysis
BioBIKE: a Web-based, programmable, integrated biological knowledge base
CLC bio, a bioinformatics analysis and workflow management platform from QIAGEN Digital Insights.
Clone Manager from Sci-Ed.
Cuneiform: A functional workflow language for large-scale data analysis
Discovery Net: one of the earliest examples of a scientific workflow system, later commercialized as InforSense which was then acquired by IDBS.
Galaxy: initially targeted at genomics
GenePattern: A powerful scientific workflow system that provides access to hundreds of genomic analysis tools.
KNIME the Konstanz Information Miner
OnlineHPC Online workflow designer based on Taverna
Playbook Workflow Builder Flexible workflow builder for bioinformatics applications based on API services. Initially developed for the NIH CFDE Common Fund program
UGENE provides a workflow management system that is installed on a local computer
VisTrails
Comparisons between workflow systems
With a large number of bioinformatics workflow systems to choose from, it becomes difficult to understand and compare the features of the different workflow systems. There has been little work conducted in evaluating and comparing the systems from a bioinformatician's perspective, especially when it comes to comparing the data types they can deal with, the in-built functionalities that are provided to the user or even their performance or usability. Examples of existing comparisons include:
The paper "Scientific workflow systems-can one size fit all?", which provides a high-level framework for comparing workflow systems based on their control flow and data flow properties. The systems compared include Discovery Net, Taverna, Triana, Kepler as well as Yawl and BPEL.
The paper "Meta-workflows: pattern-based interoperability between Galaxy and Taverna" which provides a more user-oriented comparison between Taverna and Galaxy in the context of enabling interoperability between both systems.
The infrastructure paper "Del |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh%20Engineering%20Virtual%20Library | Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library (EEVL) project was started in August 1995 and the core database went live in September 1996. Its objective was to provide a free guide to specialist engineering resources to UK higher education institutions. It focused primarily on UK based resources.
It was part of the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib) which was funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
The main team was based at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh, with additional input from staff at the University of Edinburgh, Imperial College, Cambridge University, Nottingham Trent University, Sheffield University, Cranfield University and the IEE.
Resources were classified using a scheme based on Ei codes. An abstract and keywords were also provided for each item.
The main subject classifications used were:
Aerospace & Defence Engineering, Bioengineering, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Engineering General, Engineering Design, Environmental Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Related Industries, Mining, Nanotechnology, Petroleum & Offshore Engineering.
As the number of resources increased these headings were divided into subheadings as necessary.
EEVL also classified resources by type. The types used were:
Commercial, Society/Institution, Higher Education, Resource Guide/Directory, E-journal/Newsletter, Governmental, Document, Research Project/Centr, Mailing/Discussion List, Software, Database/Databank, Training Materials, Reference, Recruitment/Employment, Patents/Standards, Conference/Meeting Announcements, Frequently Asked Questions, Video, Library Catalogues
EEVL also provided additional services such as a search engine for electronic journals, EESE.
In 1999 the project expanded to become an Engineering, Mathematics and Computing (EMC) Hub as part of the Resource Discovery Network.
In 2006 it became Intute Engineering as the RDN Hubs merged to form Intute.
References
EEVL: Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/projects/eevl/
Breaks M, "EEVL (Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library)." Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences. Paper 2. https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1997/papers/2
MacLeod R "Around the Table – Engineering". March 1997, Ariadne Issue 8 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue8/around-table/
Harrison NJ, MacLeod R. "Free Full-text E-journals and EEVL's Engineering E-journal Search Engine". April 2003, Ariadne Issue 35 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue35/eevl/
Harrison NJ, "Gateway to engineering", Information Scotland, http://www.slainte.org.uk/publications/serials/infoscot/vol7%281%29/vol7%281%29article5.htm
British digital libraries
Engineering education in the United Kingdom
Jisc |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeciras%20Municipal%20Library | Algeciras Municipal Library (Spanish: biblioteca municipal de Algeciras) is a public library network in Algeciras, Spain. Its headquarters are at the Biblioteca Cristóbal Delgado (Library Christopher Delgado), located on Salvador Allende Street. There are two branches, including one in the Saladillo neighborhood, Biblioteca El Saladillo, and another in the La Granja neighborhood, Biblioteca Pérez Petinto. In addition to its book collection and reference materials, the institution offers a variety of cultural activities such as a book club. The library is run by the municipality. It was established in 1925 by the local historian Manuel Pérez-Petinto y Costa.
History
The city's first public library was established on the ground floor of City Hall at the initiative of the city historian, Manuel Pérez-Petinto and Costa, on August 12, 1925. During the 1940s, the Postal Service moved into the building, which caused the library to be moved to the county fair hall of Algeciras. In 1959, refurbishments at the fair grounds and urbanization of Avenida Francisco Franco (now Fuerzas Armadas) forced the library to relocate to the headquarters of the Society for the Promotion of Algeciras building on the same street.
Subsequent to the death of Juan Pérez Arriete (d. 1961), the local chronicler, the library came under the management of the city historian, Cristóbal Delgado Gómez, in 1963. He moved the library in the following year to a new building in Calle Salvador Allende. The building was remodeled and expanded through the mid-1990s, doubling the study areas, expanding the capacity by almost 10,000 volumes, and the addition of a new hall. At the initiative of then Mayor Patricio Gonzalez Gomez, the building was renamed on April 25, 1995, as the Library Christopher Delgado.
In 2010, the City Council moved forward with a project to build a new library on the grounds of the former barracks next to the Escuela de Artes y Oficios de Algeciras; its design was awarded to the municipal architect Pedro Martinez Perez-Blanco. In addition to the library, the new building will house the notary files and the municipal historical archive.
References
External links
Official website
Public libraries in Spain
Buildings and structures in Algeciras
1925 establishments in Spain
Libraries established in 1925 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9Dmir%20Vigf%C3%BAsson | Ýmir Vigfússon is an Icelandic hacker and a computer security expert. Currently, Ýmir is an assistant professor at Emory University, where he leads the Emory SysLab (System and Security Lab), and a member of ICE-TCS (Icelandic Center of Excellence in Theoretical Computer Science) and of the ALNET Group (Research Group for Algorithms and Networks).
Biography
In 2008, Ýmir interned at Yahoo! and worked on a novel approach for performing range queries in a scalable fashion on a massive distributed key-value data storage system (PNUTS).
In 2009, Ýmir earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
After defending his Ph.D., from 2009 to 2011, Ýmir worked together with Gregory Chockler and Eliezer Dekel at IBM Research in Haifa.
In 2011, Ýmir became an assistant professor at Reykjavík University, where he was the principal investigator and director of the SysLab (System and Security Lab) and the co-founder of the Center of Research in Engineering Software System (CRESS). Furthermore, he taught an elective, intensive Computer Security course in three weeks. The course is closed to only the best 20 students of Reykjavik University (according to their GPA and to an entrance test).
In 2014, Ýmir became an assistant professor at Emory University.
Ýmir gives technical and non-technical talks about computer security and computer science related topics at conferences and other universities around the world.
In 2013, Ýmir co-founded the computer security company Syndis in Reykjavík. The company performs research and development on offensive security technologies, consulting, penetration testing and security software development.
See also
Reykjavik University
Computer Security
Hacker (computer security)
References
External links
Ýmir Vigfússon personal website
Syndis: Creative in Security
Reykjavík University
Ymir Vigfusson
Computer security academics
Free software programmers
People in information technology
Ymir Vigfusson
Living people
Cornell University alumni
1984 births |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAHR | DAHR may refer to:
Discography of American Historical Recordings – database catalog of recordings made by American record companies
Democratic Alliance of Hungarians in Romania – political party in Romania |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20proxy | Flash proxy is a pluggable transport and proxy which runs in a web browser. Flash proxies are an Internet censorship circumvention tool which enables users to connect to the Tor anonymity network (amongst others) via a plethora of ephemeral browser-based proxy relays. The essential idea is that the IP addresses contingently used are changed faster than a censoring agency can detect, track, and block them. The Tor traffic is wrapped in a WebSocket format and disguised with an XOR cipher.
Implementation
A free software implementation of flash proxies is available. It uses JavaScript, WebSocket, and a Python implementation of the obfsproxy protocol, and was crafted by the Security Project in Computer Security at Stanford University. This work was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific under Contract No. N66001-11-C-4022.
See also
Crypto-anarchism
Cryptocat
CryptoParty
Freedom of information
Internet censorship
Internet privacy
Proxy server
References
External links
The primary developer gives an overview at Stanford University
Free routing software
Cryptographic software
Anonymity networks
Internet privacy
Proxy servers
Free network-related software
Free software programmed in Python |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shermaine%20Santiago | Shermaine Santiago (born February 16, 1980, in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipina actress, TV show host, and singer. She appeared in a lot of hit TV shows from GMA Network such as Best Friends, Beh Bote Nga, Te Amo, Maging Sino Ka Man, Mulawin, Impostora, MariMar, Paroa: Ang Kuwento ni Mariposa, Anna KareNina and Carmela. She was also a co-host in the longest-running late-night variety TV show in the Philippines, Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman in which she showcase her talent in singing and hosting. Along with German Moreno and John Nite, she was one of the longest-serving hosts of the show. Santiago is also currently appearing in the hit TV show, Kapag Nahati ang Puso.
Career
A graduating Broadcasting major in Centro Escolar University, Santiago started singing in hotels and doing lounge performances at the age 16. Around the same time, she appeared in various commercials and decided to try the show business. She auditioned for GMA Network and GMA Network made her sign an exclusive six-month contract. She was given guesting projects in different drama shows and a regular role on the youth-oriented variety show Best Friends. She later appeared in the comedy sitcom Beh Bote Nga.
In 2012, Santiago got her breakthrough role in the drama-fantasy TV show, Paroa: Ang Kuwento ni Mariposa, where she portrayed the villainous femme fatale butterfly Talisay. Her character was killed in a massive explosion in the sky. According to her fellow Walang Tulugan co-host, John Nite, the ratings of the show got higher when Santiago and the host of Walang Tulugan German Moreno started appearing in the show.
In 2013, for her 32nd birthday, she performed Adele's song "Someone Like You" on Walang Tulugan with the Master Showman and received a standing ovation from the audience.
Personal life
Santiago has a son, Tristan Reese M. Eugenio. Her son was baptized by Fr. Steve Tyran at the St. Benedict Church in Don Antonio Heights in Quezon City.
Reese has a channel on YouTube called Reese TV Music, where he normally posts music covers and memes on his channel. Santiago has a channel also named Menggay Channel.
Filmography
Television
Films
Theatre
References
External links
Filipino film actresses
1980 births
Living people
Actresses from Manila
Singers from Manila
Centro Escolar University alumni
21st-century Filipino singers
21st-century Filipino women singers
GMA Network personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaria%20cuspidata | Solaria cuspidata is a species of flowering plant in the amaryllis family, Amaryllidaceae. It is endemic to the Coquimbo region of Chile.
References
Allioideae
Endemic flora of Chile |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sins%20of%20the%20City | Sins of the City is an American crime drama television series that aired on USA Network from July 19 to October 17, 1998. While thirteen episodes of the series were produced, only nine episodes were aired before USA Network pulled the show.
Premise
After losing his job on the police force, Vince Karol decides to become a private detective and dig into the seedier side of Miami.
Cast
Marcus Graham as Vince Karol
José Zúñiga as Freddie Corillo
Barbara Williams as Sam Richardson
Daniel Tosh as DJ Dog Man
Episodes
References
External links
1998 American television series debuts
1998 American television series endings
1990s American crime drama television series
English-language television shows
USA Network original programming
Television shows set in Miami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20function%20virtualization | Network functions virtualization (NFV) is a network architecture concept that leverages IT virtualization technologies to virtualize entire classes of network node functions into building blocks that may connect, or chain together, to create and deliver communication services.
NFV relies upon traditional server-virtualization techniques such as those used in enterprise IT. A virtualized network function, or VNF, is implemented within one or more virtual machines or containers running different software and processes, on top of commercial off the shelf (COTS) high-volume servers, switches and storage devices, or even cloud computing infrastructure, instead of having custom hardware appliances for each network function thereby avoiding vendor lock-in.
For example, a virtual session border controller could be deployed to protect a network without the typical cost and complexity of obtaining and installing physical network protection units. Other examples of NFV include virtualized load balancers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices and WAN accelerators to name a few.
The decoupling of the network function software from the customized hardware platform realizes a flexible network architecture that enables agile network management, fast new service roll outs with significant reduction in CAPEX and OPEX.
Background
Product development within the telecommunication industry has traditionally followed rigorous standards for stability, protocol adherence and quality, reflected by the use of the term carrier grade to designate equipment demonstrating this high reliability and performance factor. While this model worked well in the past, it inevitably led to long product cycles, a slow pace of development and reliance on proprietary or specific hardware, e.g., bespoke application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). This development model resulted in significant delays when rolling out new services, posed complex interoperability challenges and significant increase in CAPEX/OPEX when scaling network systems & infrastructure and enhancing network service capabilities to meet increasing network load and performance demands. Moreover, the rise of significant competition in communication service offerings from agile organizations operating at large scale on the public Internet (such as Google Talk, Skype, Netflix) has spurred service providers to look for innovative ways to disrupt the status quo and increase revenue streams.
History
In October 2012, a group of telecom operators published a white paper at a conference in Darmstadt, Germany, on software-defined networking (SDN) and OpenFlow. The Call for Action concluding the White Paper led to the creation of the Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) Industry Specification Group (ISG) within the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The ISG was made up of representatives from the telecommunication industry from Europe and beyond. ETSI ISG NFV addresses many aspects, including funct |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowcode | Flowcode is a Microsoft Windows-based development environment commercially produced by Matrix TSL for programming embedded devices based on PIC, AVR (including Arduino), ESP32, Raspberry Pi and RP2040 and ARM technologies using graphical programming styles (such as flowcharts) and imperative programming styles (through C, State Machines and Pseudocode). It is currently in its tenth revision.
Flowcode is dedicated to simplifying complex functionality such as Bluetooth, Mobile Phones Communications, USB communications etc. by using pre-developed dedicated open source component libraries of functions. This is achieved by dragging virtual representations of hardware onto a visual panel, providing access to associated libraries. Flowcode is therefore ideal for speeding up software development times and allowing those with little programming experience to get started and help with projects. This makes it appropriate for the formal teaching of principles of programming microcontrollers.
Flowcode allows the user to develop and view their program using four different visual modes. These are the Flowchart view, the Blocks view (a graphical programming paradigm inspired by Blockly), the C code view and the Pseudocode view. There is also a fifth state machine way of entering code.
Flowcode also has a mode named App Developer which is capable of creating Windows based applications via a runtime executable. This allows the software to also create applications for testing or interacting with the embedded system.
Flowcode also has compatibility with Solidworks.
Notes
External links
Official Site
Programming languages
Embedded microprocessors
Integrated development environments |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa%20Akg%C3%BCl | Mustafa Akgül (10 May 1948 - 13 December 2017) was a Turkish computer scientist who was the key figure of the acceptance of the Internet in Turkey.
He went to the University of Waterloo, Canada and got his PhD in Combinatorics and Optimisation.
He started with the motto of "Internet is life". He had many different ways to reach people in academia, in social media, and ordinary people at the street. The main problem, initially, was to raise public awareness of the Internet in Turkey.
References
External links
Bilkent University - Mustafa Akgül Web Page
Official Web Page - Mustafa Akgül
Blog - Mustafa Akgül
Senior researcher, The Internet Policy Review, Journal on Internet Regulation - Mustafa Akgül
1948 births
2017 deaths
Turkish computer scientists
Academic staff of Bilkent University
University of Waterloo alumni
Free software programmers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured%20merge-tree | In computer science, the log-structured merge-tree (also known as LSM tree, or LSMT) is a data structure with performance characteristics that make it attractive for providing indexed access to files with high insert volume, such as transactional log data. LSM trees, like other search trees, maintain key-value pairs. LSM trees maintain data in two or more separate structures, each of which is optimized for its respective underlying storage medium; data is synchronized between the two structures efficiently, in batches.
One simple version of the LSM tree is a two-level LSM tree. As described by Patrick O'Neil, a two-level LSM tree comprises two tree-like structures, called C0 and C1. C0 is smaller and entirely resident in memory, whereas C1 is resident on disk. New records are inserted into the memory-resident C0 component. If the insertion causes the C0 component to exceed a certain size threshold, a contiguous segment of entries is removed from C0 and merged into C1 on disk. The performance characteristics of LSM trees stem from the fact that each component is tuned to the characteristics of its underlying storage medium, and that data is efficiently migrated across media in rolling batches, using an algorithm reminiscent of merge sort. Such tuning involves writing data in a sequential manner as opposed to as a series of separate random access requests. This optimization reduces seek time in hard-disk drives (HDDs) and latency in solid-state drives (SSDs).
Most LSM trees used in practice employ multiple levels. Level 0 is kept in main memory, and might be represented using a tree. The on-disk data is organized into sorted runs of data. Each run contains data sorted by the index key. A run can be represented on disk as a single file, or alternatively as a collection of files with non-overlapping key ranges. To perform a query on a particular key to get its associated value, one must search in the Level 0 tree and also each run.
The Stepped-Merge version of the LSM tree is a variant of the LSM tree that supports multiple levels with multiple tree structures at each level.
A particular key may appear in several runs, and what that means for a query depends on the application. Some applications simply want the newest key-value pair with a given key. Some applications must combine the values in some way to get the proper aggregate value to return. For example, in Apache Cassandra, each value represents a row in a database, and different versions of the row may have different sets of columns.
In order to keep down the cost of queries, the system must avoid a situation where there are too many runs.
Extensions to the 'leveled' method to incorporate B+ tree structures have been suggested, for example bLSM and Diff-Index. LSM-tree was originally designed for write-intensive workloads. As increasingly more read and write workloads co-exist under an LSM-tree storage structure, read data accesses can experience high latency and low throughput due to f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20computer-assisted%20organic%20synthesis%20software | Computer software for computer-assisted organic synthesis (CAOS) are used in organic chemistry in tandem with computational chemistry to help facilitate the tasks of designing, predicting, and producing chemical reactions. CAOS aims to identify a series of chemical reactions which, from a starting compound, can produce a desired molecule. CAOS algorithms typically use two databases: a first one of known chemical reactions and a second one of known starting materials (i.e., typically molecules available commercially). Desirable synthetic plans cost less, have high yield, and avoid using hazardous reactions and intermediates. Typically cast as a planning problem, significant progress has been made in CAOS.
Examples of CAOS applications include:
Spaya - Retrosynthesis planning tool freely accessible provided by Iktos
IBM Rxn -
AiZynthFinder - A freely accessible open source retrosynthetic planning tool developed as a collaboration between AstraZeneca and the University of Bern. AiZynthFinder predicts synthetic routes to a given target compound, and can be retrained on a users own dataset whether from public or proprietary sources.
Manifold - Compound searching and retrosynthesis planning tool freely accessible to academic users, developed by PostEra
WODCA – no trial version; proprietary software
Organic Synthesis Exploration Tool (OSET) – open-source software, abandoned
CHIRON – no trial version; proprietary software
SynGen – demo version; proprietary software; a unique program for automatic organic synthesis generation; focuses on generating the shortest, lowest cost synthetic routes for a given target organic compound, and is thus a useful tool for synthesis planning
LHASA – demo available but not linked (?); proprietary software
SYLVIA – demo version; proprietary software; rapidly evaluates the ease of synthesis of organic compounds; can prioritize thousands of structures (e.g., generated by de novo design experiments or retrieved from large virtual compound libraries) according to their synthetic complexity
ChemPlanner (formerly ARChem – Route Designer) - is an expert system to help chemists design viable synthetic routes for their target molecules; the knowledge base of reaction rules is algorithmically derived from reaction databases, and commercially available starting materials are used as termination points for the retrosynthetic search
ICSYNTH – demo available; proprietary software; A computer aided synthesis design tool that enables chemists to generate synthetic pathways for a target molecule, and a multistep interactive synthesis tree; at its core is an algorithmic chemical knowledge base of transform libraries that are automatically generated from reaction databases.
Chematica (Now known as Synthia)
ASKCOS – Open-source suite of synthesis planning and computational chemistry tools.
See also
Comparison of software for molecular mechanics modeling
Molecular design software
Molecule editor
Molecular modeling on GP |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Studio%2010 | Nick Studio 10 is a defunct programming block on Nickelodeon which debuted on February 18, 2013, and ended on June 17 of the same year, never returning from a planned hiatus after one additional 'best-of' Labor Day special on September 2, 2013. It aired weekday afternoons during the traditional school year from the network's headquarters building in Times Square in Manhattan, New York, and was presented live for viewers in the Eastern and Central time zones.
The program was hosted by four teen actors (Troy Doherty, Noah Grossman, Malika Samuel and Gabrielle Senn) who created random and surreal comedy skits and other content directed toward pre-teens and teens. The program aired from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. ET (tape delayed for the Pacific feed), and was the first live afternoon block for the network since the short-lived 2007 block ME: TV. Nick Studio 10 was an attempt to revive the network's tradition of live and hosted afternoon blocks, with previous entries including Nick in the Afternoon (1994 to 1998) and U-Pick Live (2002 to 2005).
The block started out as solely featuring multiple episodes of SpongeBob SquarePants (a series commonly marathoned by the channel), though two other series, The Fairly OddParents and Monsters vs. Aliens, were cycled into the schedule by the start of April. No new episodes of any series premiered during the block's entire run. The Nick Studio 10 continuity clips were inserted both naturally during program breaks, along with short clips taken from viral videos or other sources randomly within programming, which included non sequiturs such as "Nick Did It!" before returning to the scheduled programming in-progress. The in-show interruptions were quickly ended after a matter of weeks in response to negative viewer feedback.
Airing history
On April 1, 2013, the segments relaunched after an Easter break of a few weeks, moving back an hour from a 5 p.m. start to 4 p.m., now with an hour of The Fairly OddParents followed by SpongeBob. Some episodes of Monsters vs. Aliens also aired in the block from April 29 on. The block ended in mid-June 2013 to make way for Nickelodeon's summer programming blocks and marathons.
References
External links
Nickelodeon programming blocks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoav%20Shoham | Yoav Shoham (; born 22 January 1956) is a computer scientist and a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. His research spans artificial intelligence, logic and game theory. He has also founded and sold several AI companies.
Shoham received his B.Sc. from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. at Yale University in 1987.
Shoham is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and of the Game Theory Society (GTS). Among his awards are the 2008 ACM/SIGART Autonomous Agents Research Award, the 2012 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award, and the 2019 IJCAI Research Excellence Award.
Shoham co-teaches two popular game theory courses on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and Kevin Leyton-Brown, viewed by over half a million people.
Shoham initiated the AI Index, a project to track activity and progress in AI, which was launched publicly at the end of 2017.
A serial entrepreneur, in 1999 Shoham founded TradingDynamics which was sold to Ariba in 2000. In 2011 he co-founded Katango which was sold to Google in 2013. In 2014 he co-founded Timeful which was sold to Google in 2015. Following that acquisition, Shoham joined Google as Principal Scientist where he worked until August 2017. He later that year co-founded AI21 Labs, an AI platform company.
Selected publications
References
External links
Shoham's home page at Stanford University
Shoham's personal home page.
1956 births
Living people
Stanford University faculty
Scientists from the San Francisco Bay Area
American computer scientists
Yale University alumni
Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
Game theorists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Leyton-Brown | Kevin Leyton-Brown (born May 12, 1975) is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2003. He was the recipient of a 2014 NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship, a 2013/14 Killam Teaching Prize, and a 2013 Outstanding Young Computer Science Researcher Prize from the Canadian Association of Computer Science.
Leyton-Brown co-teaches a popular game theory course on Coursera.org, along with Matthew O. Jackson and Yoav Shoham. Leyton-Brown serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, the Artificial Intelligence journal, and ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation, and was program chair for the ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce in 2012.
Leyton-Brown and coauthors have received the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Prize and numerous medals in international SAT competitions (2003–12).
Leyton-Brown's research is at the intersection of computer science and microeconomics, addressing computational problems in economic contexts and incentive issues in multiagent systems. He also studies the application of machine learning to the automated design and analysis of algorithms for solving hard computational problems. In 2023, Leyton-Brown was named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Selected publications
References
External links
Leyton-Brown's homepage at the University of British Columbia
1975 births
Living people
Canadian computer scientists
Artificial intelligence researchers
Stanford University alumni
Academic staff of the University of British Columbia
Academic journal editors
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
McMaster University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biathlon%20at%20the%202013%20European%20Youth%20Olympic%20Winter%20Festival | Biathlon at the 2013 European Youth Winter Olympic Festival is held from 19 to 22 February 2013 at the Cheile Grădiştei Arena in Fundata, Romania.
Results
Medal table
Men's events
Ladies events
Mixed events
External links
Results
The Venue at EYOWF 2013 | Photo Gallery
THE VENUE at YouTube
EYOWF 2013 - Presentation Video at YouTube
EYOWF 2013 - Facilities Presentation at YouTube
References
2013 in biathlon
2013 European Youth Olympic Winter Festival events
2013 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem%20Ochuodho | Shem Odongo Ochuodho is a Kenyan politician. He represented Rangwe constituency in Homa-Bay County between 1997 and 2002 and later became a computer consultant. He also serves as the chair of Kenya Diaspora Association.
Professional career
He then worked for the Rwandan government in Kigali as ICT consultant for three years. He was the ICT Advisor to Rwanda’s Minister of State in charge of Energy and Communications and CEO of the Rwanda Information Technology Authority (RITA) Ochuodho was an ICT adviser to the South Sudan government based in Juba. In 2003, Ochuodho was appointed the MD of the Kenya Pipeline Company.
Political career
He was elected to parliament in 1997 on an NDP ticket beating the late Mrs Phelgona Okundi of KANU. He was the founding convener and secretary of the National Alliance(NA), which gave birth to the National Alliance for Change (NAC), that in turn gave rise to the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC). He ran for the Deputy President in the March 2013 Kenyan Presidential election on a Safina party ticket. He was the running mate to Paul Muite.
Awards
In 2007, Ochuodho was honored with the Kenya Community Abroad (KCA) Award for Excellence for his exemplary efforts in the Information, Communication and Technology industry (ICT).
Publications
He is the author of Dawn of a Rainbow, The Untold Intrigues of Kenya's First Coalition Government (2012).
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20criticality | A mixed criticality system is a system containing computer hardware and software that can execute several applications of different criticality, such as safety-critical and non-safety critical, or of different Safety Integrity Level (SIL). Different criticality applications are engineered to different levels of assurance, with high criticality applications being the most costly to design and verify. These kinds of systems are typically embedded in a machine such as an aircraft whose safety must be ensured.
Principle
Traditional safety-critical systems had to be tested and certified in their entirety to show that they were safe to use. However, many such systems are composed of a mixture of safety-critical and non-critical parts, as for example when an aircraft contains a passenger entertainment system that is isolated from the safety-critical flight systems. Some issues to address in mixed criticality systems include real-time behaviour, memory isolation, data and control coupling.
Computer scientists have developed techniques for handling systems which thus have mixed criticality, but there are many challenges remaining especially for multi-core hardware.
Priority and Criticality
Basically, most errors are currently committed when making confusion between priority attribution and criticality management. As priority defines an order between different tasks or messages to be transmitted inside a system, criticality defines classes of messages which can have different parameters depending on the current use case. For example, in case of car crash avoidance or obstacle anticipation, camera sensors can suddenly emit messages more often, and so create an overload in the system. That is when we need to make Mixed-Criticality operate : to select messages to absolutely guarantee on the system in these overload cases.
Research projects
EU funded research projects on mixed criticality include:
MultiPARTES
DREAMS
PROXIMA
CONTREX
SAFURE
CERTAINTY
VIRTICAL
T-CREST
PROARTIS
ACROSS (Artemis)
EMC2 (Artemis)
RECOMP Artemis
ARAMIS and ARAMIS II
IMPReSS
UK EPSRC funded research projects on mixed criticality include:
MCC
Several research projects have decided to present their research results at the EU-funded Mixed-Criticality Forum
Workshops and Seminars
Workshops and seminars on Mixed Criticality Systems include:
1st International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC 2013)
2nd International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC 2014)
3rd International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC 2015)
4th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC 2015)
Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms (2015)
Dagstuhl Seminar on Mixed Criticality on Multicore/Manycore Platforms (2017)
References
External links
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology: Mixed Criticality in Safety-Critical Systems
Washington University in St Louis: A Research Agenda for Mixed-Criticality Systems
Software engineer |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WFRO%20%28AM%29 | WFRO was a radio station licensed to Fremont, Ohio, United States, to operate on 900 kHz. It signed off June 23, 2004 to allow WFDF/910 to increase power. WFRO's programming was at times simulcast on WFRO-FM, which continues.
History
For much of its existence, WFRO had been a combination AM and FM station, with FM first going on the air in 1946, and AM (at 900 kHz) going on the air three years later. Both stations simulcast each other for a portion of the broadcast day, breaking away for separate programming during the midday hours, with AM concentrating more on information and talk, and FM focusing on music.
For many years, WFRO AM broadcast a full-service MOR format heavy on local news and information; WFRO-FM played beautiful music during non-simulcast dayparts. AM 900's directional signal allowed WFRO programming to be heard clearly throughout much of southeastern Michigan (including the metropolitan Detroit area) and southwestern Ontario in addition to Ohio's North Coast region. By the 1990s, WFRO and WFRO-FM were simulcasting each other for most of the broadcast day, and WFRO's music format had evolved into a more contemporary mix of AC and adult-appeal CHR hits, but the full-service emphasis remained.
The station was founded by Wolfe Broadcasting Company, which controlled the station until 2001, when both stations were sold separately to two different owners.
BAS Broadcasting purchased WFRO-FM, while Disney/ABC purchased the license to WFRO, but not to run it as a separate entity. ABC purchased the license as part of an initiative to move recently purchased AM 910 WFDF in Flint, Michigan to Farmington Hills (in the Detroit market). The move was made to allow AM 910 to broadcast at an increased daytime power of 50,000 watts, up substantially from 5,000 watts. WFRO-FM changed to the satellite adult contemporary format it currently airs, and WFRO/900, after a brief period of silence, returned to the air using ABC's "Real Country" format and then ESPN Radio while preparations for WFDF's move into the Detroit area were made. WFRO/900 was officially silenced forever in June 2004 when ABC surrendered the license to the FCC.
References
External links
Query the FCC's AM station database for WFRO
FRO
Radio stations established in 1949
Defunct radio stations in the United States
Radio stations disestablished in 2004
1949 establishments in Ohio
2004 disestablishments in Ohio
FRO
Former subsidiaries of The Walt Disney Company |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type%20family | In computer science, a type family associates data types with other data types, using a type-level function defined by an open-ended collection of valid instances of input types and the corresponding output types.
Type families are a feature of some type systems that allow partial functions between types to be defined by pattern matching. This is in contrast to data type constructors, which define injective functions from all types of a particular kind to a new set of types, and type synonyms (a.k.a. typedef), which define functions from all types of a particular kind to another existing set of types using a single case.
Type families and type classes are closely related: normal type classes define partial functions from types to a collection of named values by pattern matching on the input types, while type families define partial functions from types to types by pattern matching on the input types. In fact, in many uses of type families there is a single type class which logically contains both values and types associated with each instance. A type family declared inside a type class is called an associated type.
Programming languages with support for type families or similar features include Haskell (with a common language extension), Standard ML (through its module system), Scala (under the name "abstract types"), and C++ (through use of typedefs in templates).
Variations
The TypeFamilies extension in the Glasgow Haskell Compiler supports both type synonym families and data families. Type synonym families are the more flexible (but harder to type-check) form, permitting the types in the codomain of the type function to be any type whatsoever with the appropriate kind. Data families, on the other hand, restrict the codomain by requiring each instance to define a new type constructor for the function's result. This ensures that the function is injective, allowing clients' contexts to deconstruct the type family and obtain the original argument type.
Motivation and examples
Type families are useful in abstracting patterns where a common "organization" or "structure" of types is repeated, but with different specific types in each case. Typical use cases include describing abstract data types like generic collections, or design patterns like model–view–controller.
Self-optimizing abstract data types
One of the original motivations for the introduction of associated types was to allow abstract data types to be parameterized by their content type such that the data structure implementing the abstract type varies in a "self-optimizing" way. Normal algebraic data type parameters can only describe data structures that behave uniformly with respect to all argument types. Associated types, however, can describe a family of data structures that have a uniform interface but vary in implementation according to one or more type parameters. For example, using Haskell's associated types notation, we can declare a type class of valid array element type |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandiant | Mandiant is an American cybersecurity firm and a subsidiary of Google. It rose to prominence in February 2013 when it released a report directly implicating China in cyber espionage. In December 2013, Mandiant was acquired by FireEye for $1 billion, who eventually sold the FireEye product line, name, and its employees to Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 billion in June 2021.
In March 2022, Google announced that it would acquire the company for $5.4billion and integrate it into its Google Cloud division, with the firm becoming fully incorporated in September 2022.
Founding
Kevin Mandia, a former United States Air Force officer who serves as the company's chief executive officer, founded Mandiant as Red Cliff Consulting in 2004 before rebranding to its current name in 2006. In 2011, Mandiant received funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and One Equity Partners to expand its staff and grow its business-to-business operations, providing incident response and general security consulting along with incident management products to major global organizations, governments, and Fortune 100 companies.
History
Mandiant is the creator of OpenIOC (Open Indicators of Compromise), an extensible XML schema for the description of technical characteristics that identify threats, security hackers' methodologies, and evidence of compromise. In 2012, its revenues were over $100 million, up 76% from 2011.
In February 2013, Mandiant released a report documenting evidence of cyber attacks by the People's Liberation Army, specifically Pudong-based PLA Unit 61398, targeting at least 141 organizations in the United States and other English-speaking countries extending as far back as 2006. In the report, Mandiant referred to the espionage unit as "APT1".
In December 2013, Mandiant was acquired by FireEye for $1 billion. In October 2020, the company announced Mandiant Advantage, a subscription-based SaaS platform designed to augment and automate security response teams which combined the threat intelligence gathered by Mandiant and data from cyber incident response engagements; in December, the company investigated a major supply chain attack by SolarWinds on U.S. government infrastructure.
In May 2021, Mandiant was contracted to assist in the response to a ransomware incident impacting Colonial Pipeline, a fuel pipeline operator that supplies close to half of the gasoline, diesel, and other fuels to the East Coast of the U.S. In June, the company was spun off FireEye as part of the latter's acquisition by Symphony Technology Group. In August, the company acquired Intrigue, which specialized in surface management.
In 2022, Axios reported that Mandiant reporters identified a pro-China disinformation campaign targeting American voters ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
On May 4, 2023, Mandiant announced its integration for MISP, Splunk SIEM and SOAR.
Acquisition by Google
In March 2022, it was announced that the company would be acquired by Google for $ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britt%20Westbourne | Britt Westbourne is a fictional character from General Hospital, an American soap opera on the ABC network, portrayed by Kelly Thiebaud. She was introduced by executive producer Frank Valentini on September 19, 2012, as the manipulative love interest for Patrick Drake. In 2014, Thiebaud exited the role, citing her desire to seek work in both film and primetime television. She reprised the role on several occasions, between 2015 and 2018, for limited-run guest appearances. In March 2020, Thiebaud returned for another guest stint; by September of the same year, she returned to the role once more.
Britt is known for her "bitchy" attitude, characterized as an "evil" villainess. The term "Britch" (A combination of Britt and Bitch) has become widely popular when referring to the character, either in the show's script or on social media. The role was initially viewed as being pointless and short-term. However, Britt's unfolding storyline—which revealed her to be the daughter of super-villain parents Cesar Faison and Liesl Obrecht—has garnered Thiebaud praise for making her nastiness believable, with Daytime Confidential calling her a "natural". While enjoying the "nasty" sides of Britt, Thiebaud was pleased to portray the character's layers. Britt died in 2023.
Thiebaud's performance has been met with critical acclaim, winning the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in 2022.
Casting and creation
Actress Kelly Thiebaud first auditioned for an unspecified contract role, but the producers of General Hospital felt that she wasn't right for the part. However, they were impressed by her and decided to give her the part of a recurring character that they were in the process of writing, who they characterized as a "bitchy" doctor. Thiebaud described the casting process as a "surprise". She debuted as Dr. Britt Westbourne on September 19, 2012. Thiebaud previously had minor acting credits on the NBC soap opera Days of Our Lives and primetime series Criminal Minds. Apart from her acting work, she also modeled and appeared in four music videos for French disc jockey David Guetta.
A month into filming, Thiebaud received news that she had been placed on contract. During an interview with Star Pulse, she confessed that she was shocked, because she felt that she wasn't doing well in the role due to nerves, in addition to the fast-paced nature of the genre. In February 2013, Soap Opera Digest confirmed that the actress had been upgraded to a contract status. In early 2013, Thiebaud fractured her femur and was forced to sport crutches. Instead of resting the character, head writer Ron Carlivati wrote it into the script as Britt suffering a fall in the hospital parking lot at the possible hands of Frisco Jones (Jack Wagner), the father of Maxie Jones, whom Britt blackmailed. Thiebaud thanked Carlivati and executive producer Frank Valentini for letting her "crutch on TV". On the set of General Hospital, Thiebaud met her former real- |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeeVolution | SeeVolution is a real-time website analytic web service that shows a heatmap of a website, detailing where visitors are clicking, mouse moves and scrolls. The data is used to allow webmasters to see what areas of a website visitors are using.
History
SeeVolution was founded by Edo Cohen in 2010. The company began by offering its service for free to website owners. In 2011, the company introduced premium features but also kept their free platform.
In 2011, the company secured $530,000 in angel financing. They also passed the milestone of being installed on more than 2,500 websites. The investment brought their total funding from angel investors to $730,000. In order to keep up with the demand for the product, the company secured an additional round of angel funding in 2012.
Products and services
SeeVolution uses an X-ray tool to capture data about how users interact with different parts of a website. The data collected includes mouse clicks, data entries, and navigational information. The data is then used to create a heatmap which overlays on the webpage to show where visitors are moving their mouse, what they are clicking on, and how far they scroll on a specific page. It allows the user to see data real-time and also provides event notifications.
The product works by installing a simple JavaScript to the website that is being monitored. After logging in, a heatmap overlay will show on the site, showing both clicks and page scrolls.
See also
Web analytics
List of web analytics software
References
External links
Official Website
SeeVolution Review on Appvita
SeeVolution feature in Smashing Magazine in 2010
2010 establishments in the United States
Web analytics
Web software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Storm | Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType, the project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter. It uses custom created "spouts" and "bolts" to define information sources and manipulations to allow batch, distributed processing of streaming data. The initial release was on 17 September 2011.
A Storm application is designed as a "topology" in the shape of a directed acyclic graph (DAG) with spouts and bolts acting as the graph vertices. Edges on the graph are named streams and direct data from one node to another. Together, the topology acts as a data transformation pipeline. At a superficial level the general topology structure is similar to a MapReduce job, with the main difference being that data is processed in real time as opposed to in individual batches. Additionally, Storm topologies run indefinitely until killed, while a MapReduce job DAG must eventually end.
Storm became an Apache Top-Level Project in September 2014 and was previously in incubation since September 2013.
Development
Apache Storm is developed under the Apache License, making it available to most companies to use. Git is used for version control and Atlassian JIRA for issue tracking, under the Apache Incubator program.
Apache Storm architecture
The Apache Storm cluster comprises following critical components:
Nodes- There are two types of nodes: Master Nodes and Worker Nodes. A Master Node executes a daemon Nimbus which assigns tasks to machines and monitors their performances. On the other hand, a Worker Node runs the daemon called Supervisor which assigns the tasks to other worker nodes and operates them as per the need. As Storm cannot monitor the state and health of cluster, it deploys ZooKeeper to solve this issue which connects Nimbus with the Supervisors.
Components- Storm has three critical components: Topology, Stream, and Spout. Topology is a network made of Stream and Spout. Stream is an unbounded pipeline of tuples and Spout is the source of the data streams which converts the data into the tuple of streams and sends to the bolts to be processed.
Peer platforms
Storm is but one of dozens of stream processing engines, for a more complete list see Stream processing. Twitter announced Heron on June 2, 2015 which is API compatible with Storm. There are other comparable streaming data engines such as Spark Streaming and Flink.
See also
C++ AMP
Data parallelism
Lambda architecture
Message passing
OpenMP
OpenCL
OpenHMPP
Parallel computing
TPL
Thread (computing)
References
External links
Project Homepage
Distributed computing architecture
Parallel computing
Cloud applications
Cloud infrastructure
Storm
Software using the Apache license
Java platform
Distributed stream processing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph | Ceph or CEPH may refer to:
Science and technology
Ceph (software), a distributed data storage platform
Cephalopod, any member of the molluscan class Cephalopoda
Cephalanthera, a genus of orchids
Organizations
Council on Education for Public Health, a US agency
Fondation Jean Dausset-CEPH, a genetic research center, formerly the Centre d'Etude du Polymorphisme Humain
Cephalon (NASDAQ: CEPH), a former American biopharmaceutical company
Other uses
Ceph, the enemy alien race in the Crysis video games
See also
Cephalonia, a Greek island |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiffinCAD | TiffinCAD is an affordable lightweight Computer-aided design software that can be run on basic Atom-powered netbooks. It can produce technical drawings using the IntelliCAD engine commonly used by other CAD developers, which includes DWG file format capability, with some local additions, and is bundled with other CAD-based vertical software. It was developed by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia based Innovacia Sdn Bhd.
References
Citations
Bibliography
Computer-aided design software
Computer-aided design |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo%20%28software%29 | Tempo was an artificial intelligence-enhanced calendar application for iOS. Developed by Tempo AI, a spinoff of SRI International, the application was reviewed by numerous blogs and media outlets, including Wired, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, and others. Raj Singh, Thierry Donneau-Golencer and Corey Hulen are the Co-Founders of Tempo AI, Inc.
Using data (from social media, calendars, emails, contacts, location, etc.) stored on a user's iPhone or iPod touch, Tempo compiled information related to any given event and displayed it when requested, hence making the application context-aware.
Information
The application was launched on February 13, 2013, and a reservation system was implemented on February 18, 2013, in order to handle high demand of over 100,000 signups. The day the reservation system was launched, nearly 73% of the ratings Tempo received in the App Store were one-star, the lowest possible. Previously, the application had received mainly five-star ratings.
On May 29, 2015, it was announced that Tempo had been acquired by Salesforce.com. The Tempo app was shut down on June 30, 2015.
References
External links
Tempo Chat Support
Calendaring software
IOS software
Salesforce |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordella%20denudata | Mordella denudata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1906.
References
Beetles described in 1906
denudata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordella%20longecaudata | Mordella longecaudata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1891.
References
Beetles described in 1891
longecaudata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DW%20Practice | DW Practice, LLC is an Atlanta-based provider of information technology services. The company offers services related to enterprise data management, application development, product engineering, QA and testing and managed services. DW Practice has offices and "solution delivery centers" across the US and India. Data warehousing and business intelligence, application development, big data, cloud computing and mobile technologies are the key focus areas for DW Practice. The company has strategic partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, and Oracle.
Services
DW Practice's core service offerings include:
Enterprise Data Management
Enterprise Application Management
QA and Testing
Product Engineering
Managed Services
Technology solutions
Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Mobility
Microsoft Solutions
IBM Solutions
Oracle Solutions
Global locations
USA – Atlanta (GA), Glendale (CA), Princeton (NJ)
India – Hyderabad, Bangalore
References
Outsourcing companies
Companies based in Atlanta
Organizations based in Atlanta |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordella%20indata | Mordella indata is a species of beetle in the genus Mordella of the family Mordellidae, which is part of the superfamily Tenebrionoidea. It was discovered in 1952.
References
Beetles described in 1952
indata |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%BCrg%20Gutknecht | Jürg Gutknecht (born 3 January 1949 in Bülach) is a Swiss computer scientist. He developed, with Niklaus Wirth, the programming language Oberon and the corresponding operating system Oberon.
Biography
Jürg Gutknecht was full professor in the computer science department at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH Zurich) until April 2014.
From 1967 to 1970, he was a member of the real-time computing system programming group at Swissair. Then he studied mathematics at the ETH and worked in parallel at International Business Machines (IBM) as a student employee. In 1978, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in mathematics. He joined Niklaus Wirth's research team in 1981, working on the Lilith computer and Modula-2. After a sabbatical at PARC in 1984–1985, he developed, conjointly with Wirth, the Oberon operating system based on the Oberon language. With Peter Schweri, he developed the system Sakkara for the purpose of writing partiturs of typical constructive Peter-Schweri-art compositions for presentation on computer and internet. In 2013, Gutknecht released another Oberon-style programming language, named Zonnon.
Publications
External links
Gutknecht personal webpage
ETHZ Who's who
Swiss computer scientists
Academic staff of ETH Zurich
Living people
1949 births
People from Bülach |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4mmerli%20%28surname%29 | Hämmerli, also Haemmerli and Hammerli is a German surname."Haemmerle"
People
Bernhard M. Hämmerli (born 1958), Swiss computer scientist
Marco Hämmerli (born 1985), Swiss football defender
Company
Hämmerli, a Swiss manufacturer of firearms
See also
Hammerl
German-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morning%20with%20Sahir | Morning With Sahir was a morning show airing on A-Plus Entertainment and was hosted by Sahir Lodhi
References
External links
A-plus.tv
A-Plus TV original programming
Television shows set in Lahore
2012 Pakistani television series debuts
Urdu-language television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child%20care%20licensing%20in%20North%20Carolina | Child Care Licensing in North Carolina has been regulated by state statute since 1971. The current system uses a 5-star rating system that awards points based on programming quality. The more points, the higher the rating and thus, the more 'stars' issued. If someone is providing child care of more than two children who are not related to them for more than four hours per day, the provider needs to be licensed by the State.
History
While all states have some regulations for center-based care, the rules differ and may span from simple health-related standards to more comprehensive rating systems that factor in child development and early childhood education guidelines. North Carolina's early regulatory attempts for Day care licenses were confusing to parents and difficult to navigate. The state had a two-tier system that listed centers who met minimum requirements as a level "A" provider. This was confusing to parents who believed that an "A" rating was the highest category available. In 1999, the state moved to the star system citing better clarification for parents and specific standards providers could strive to obtain. The newer star ratings were also meant to help recognize providers for their level of care. One star is the lowest rating while five stars is the highest.
The system mandates both family centers (also called home child care) and child care centers located in commercial spaces. According to North Carolina statute:
Family or home child care can have a maximum of five preschool children in care and may reach the maximum of eight if three of those children are school-aged.
Child Care Centers provide for more than five preschool children and will be limited to a maximum based on total square footage of the center (indoor and outdoor) as well as sanitation, fire and possible zoning regulations that may be area-specific.
Before switching regulatory guidelines in 1999, the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (FPG/UNC)was commissioned to evaluate whether the newly adopted star system would effectively mirror child care center quality. The team collected data from over 200 randomly selected child care centers across the state (not family care centers) just months before the new rules went into effect. The data collected was based on interviews from child care center directors and direct observations of child development practices based on Environment Ratings Scales (ERS). These scales were developed in 1980 by the FPG/UNC, improved by data over the years and now are considered a national standard. These standards included daily routines and activities as well as materials used in the classroom, interactions between teachers and students and the education and wages of teachers. The group then revisited the sample centers after the new star licensing rules took effect. Of the more than 200 centers originally included in the 1999 data collection, 84 child care centers had received |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot%20Combat%20League | Robot Combat League (RCL) is a television show on the Syfy network about robot fighting competitions. On the show, teams use exosuits to control fighting robots. The series is hosted by Chris Jericho, and premiered on February 26, 2013 at 10 PM EST.
Overview
Each weekly show features tournament competitions between 8-foot, 1000-pound humanoid robots controlled by human competitors, one robo-jockey and one robo-tech per team. The series features twelve teams of individuals from diverse backgrounds. Each team is paired with a robot that they control using an exo-suit that directs its movements. Each fight goes three rounds, and the winning team advances. There are 12 total robots.
The robots range from an axe-headed laser eyed warrior to a robot made of plexiglass and a roll cage.
The robots and the suits used to control them were created by robotics expert Mark Setrakian.
Rules
: In the season one finale's championship fight there were five two-minute rounds, with the winner being the first team that won three rounds out of the five.
Competitors
Each team consists of a uniquely themed robot and two human controllers.
One human is the "Robo-Jockey," controlling the robot's arms and torso while standing via an exosuit-like harness strapped to his or her back and arms.
The other human is the "Robo-Tech," seated in a chair while using two joysticks to control the robot's feet and any other unique parts, such as the movable axe "head" on A.X.E.
Each robot is powered by hydraulic and pneumatic actuators. Each robot moves on two feet, stabilized by a bar that attaches at the back of the robot, above the legs. The robots each have six actuators at the waist, and several more in each arm. The robots are all styled and painted to be unique and distinct from each other. This unique styling is especially expressed in the different types and designs of armor that cover each robot, from sheet steel, to steel pipe roll cages, to carbon fibre, to leather. The robots' hands are also all individually styled, and can be quickly detached to facilitate repairs between rounds, or swapped out for weapon attachments.
Several cameras may be mounted on each robot by the show staff to capture show footage, but none of the camera images were used to help control of the robot.
The robots are controlled by the "Robo-Jockey" and "Robo-Tech" via direct line-of-sight, from two raised platforms at either end of the arena.
The initial team seed order was determined by a timed challenge in the first episode.
Episodes
Overview
Season 1 (2013)
Season One teams and competition results
Robots
Human competitors
Tournament results
Season One team status
Semi-finals match-ups
Championship match-up
See also
Real Steel – a science fiction sports drama film, starring Hugh Jackman, where in the year 2020 human boxers have been replaced by robot boxers
Robot Jox – a science fiction sports drama film about giant mechanical machines, that fight international battles in a d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bibel | Bibel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Leon Bibel (1913–1995), American painter and printmaker
Wolfgang Bibel (born 1938), German computer scientist and mathematician
See also |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Trains | Sydney Trains is the operator and brand name of the commuter rail network serving the city of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The network is a commuter rail system with a central underground core that covers of route length over of track, with 170 stations on eight lines.
It has metro-equivalent train frequencies of every three minutes or better in the underground core, 5–10 minutes off-peak at most inner-city and major stations and 15 minutes off-peak at most minor stations. During the weekday peak, train services are more frequent.
The network is managed by Transport for NSW and is part of its Opal ticketing system. In 2018–19, 377.1 million passenger journeys were made on the network, making it the most-used rail network in Australia.
History
In May 2012, the Minister for Transport announced a restructure of RailCorp, the organisation that owned and managed the metropolitan rail network and operated passenger services throughout New South Wales. Two new organisations were created to take over the operation of the services from 1 July 2013. Sydney Trains acquired all suburban services in the Sydney metropolitan area bounded by Berowra, Emu Plains, Macarthur and Waterfall from RailCorp's CityRail division. Intercity and Hunter Line services previously operated by CityRail were taken over by NSW Trains (branded as NSW TrainLink). RailCorp remained the owner of the network infrastructure. When first created as subsidiaries of RailCorp, Sydney Trains and NSW Trains were not controlled entities of RailCorp, but were instead controlled by Transport for NSW. In July, they ceased to be subsidiaries of RailCorp and became independent standalone agencies in July 2017.
On 21 August 2023 it was announced that the majority of NSW TrainLink's intercity operations would be transferred to Sydney Trains, including rolling stock, maintenance, operations, stations, and staff. This would also include the modifications, testing, and introduction of the New Intercity Fleet (NIF).
Network changes
The first expansion of the Sydney suburban network after the restructuring of CityRail into Sydney Trains occurred in 2015 when the South West Rail Link opened between Glenfield and Leppington.
In 2018, some sections of the network began to be transferred to the city's metro and light rail networks. The Epping to Chatswood Rail Link between Chatswood and Epping was closed for conversion in September 2018 to form part of the Sydney Metro Northwest, which opened in May 2019. The section of the Carlingford Line between Camellia and Carlingford closed in January 2020 and will form part of the Parramatta Light Rail network. The adjacent section of track between Clyde and Camellia, including Rosehill railway station, also became disused. The light rail is expected to open in May 2024. The section of the Bankstown Line between Sydenham and Bankstown will form part of Sydney Metro City & Southwest, which is due to open in 2024.
Operations
In July 2013, Howard Collins, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killzone%20Shadow%20Fall | Killzone Shadow Fall is a 2013 first-person shooter video game developed by Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. It is the sixth game of the Killzone series and the fourth game of the series for home consoles. Killzone Shadow Fall was released on 15 November 2013 as a launch title for the PlayStation 4 in North America and 29 November 2013 in Europe. Taking place 30 years after the events of Killzone 3, Shadow Fall follows a new set of characters, putting players in the role of Lucas Kellan, a "Shadow Marshal", who is investigating a rising threat in the continuing war between Vekta and the Helghast.
As the first game in the series made for Sony's next-gen console, Killzone Shadow Fall received a number of changes to the series formula. The single-player campaign is more open-ended and stealth-based than its predecessors, and the multiplayer modes feature new customization options for weapons. The game also introduced a new proprietary in-house game engine called Decima.
The game received mixed reception overall; it received praise for its visuals and multiplayer modes, while criticism was directed towards the game's single-player mode and several gameplay features, although several critics appreciated the game's attempt to change direction from its predecessors, as well as its more open-ended level design. Critics also criticized the title's lack of innovation as one of the first eighth generation games. As of January 2014, the game has sold over 2.1 million copies, making it the first PlayStation 4 game to surpass the million copy mark and one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games.
Gameplay
Like its predecessors, Shadow Fall is a first-person shooter in a science fiction setting. Staple weapons such as the M82 Assault Rifle, stA-52 Assault Rifle, and stA-18 pistol return from the earlier Killzone games, albeit in new forms and variations. New weapons include the LSR44, a recoil-free, hybrid assault/charge sniper rifle that functions much like a miniaturized rail-gun, and the OWL, an advanced hovering attack drone (used by the Shadow Marshals) that can attack/stun when it is adjacent to an adversary, as well as deploy an instant zip line, protect the player from enemy fire with an energy shield, and hack/scan terminals and enemy alarms to prevent reinforcements from arriving.
While the previous games in the Killzone series portrayed a large war-zone with numerous allies by the players side at any given time and an overall linear design, Shadow Fall opts for a more open-ended level design and allows players to utilize stealth to approach their missions in addition to engaging in direct confrontations with enemies. Levels are much more open than in previous games, allowing for multiple ways/routes to complete objectives. Also in Shadow Fall, for the first half of the campaign, the player is alone in firefights, with the OWL as the player's only "companion", which is able to lay down cover fire, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infamous%20Second%20Son | Infamous Second Son is a 2014 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. The standalone sequel to the 2011 video game Infamous 2 and the third installment in the Infamous series, it was released worldwide on March 21, 2014. The player-controlled protagonist possesses superpower abilities that players use in combat and when traveling across the city. The story follows protagonist Delsin Rowe fighting the Department of Unified Protection (D.U.P.) in a fictionalized Seattle. Over the course of the game, Delsin acquires new powers and becomes either good or evil as player choices influence his morality.
Sucker Punch began planning the game as early as 2011, when they began discussion with Sony to bring the Infamous series onto a new generation of hardware. They provided feedback to Sony on what hardware evolutions they would like to see on PlayStation 4. Sucker Punch considers Second Son a "fresh start" for the series because it features a new protagonist. Delsin's powers were designed to feel fluid and suited to the open world design.
Infamous Second Son was met with generally positive reviews; critics praised its gameplay, combat, visuals and design, while criticism was aimed at the game's morality system, which some found to be dated and binary, as well as the game's repetitive side missions. The story was met with a mixed response, with some critics finding the narrative and characters to be a step backwards from previous installments in the series, while others viewing the writing as an improvement over its predecessors. Infamous Second Son sold 1 million units within 9 days and 6 million units by June 2019, making it the fastest-selling entry within the Infamous franchise and one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 games.
Gameplay
Infamous Second Son is an action-adventure game set in an open world environment and played from a third-person perspective. Players control the main character Delsin Rowe, who can parkour-style climb vertical surfaces like high-rise buildings. Delsin is a Conduit, which allows him to use superpowers by manipulating materials such as smoke, neon, video, and concrete. These materials can be weaponized (such that Delsin can perform melee attacks or fire projectiles from his fingertips) or used to deftly navigate the game world (such as using neon to dash up buildings). Using powers depletes a meter in the head-up display (HUD), which can be replenished by drawing from power sources such as smoke from exploded vehicles. Delsin earns new powers as he progresses through the story, which sees him fight against the Department of Unified Protection (D.U.P.) during missions. Each time Delsin gains a new power set he must destroy D.U.P. Core Relays to learn the basic abilities that correspond to it. Delsin upgrades and acquires new abilities by spending Blast Shards that have been collected, they are scattered throughout Seattle. Players bec |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent%20Moscaritolo | Vincent (Vinnie) Moscaritolo is a retired American computer security expert known for his work in encryption applications for mobile devices. After decades in the computer industry, he now volunteers as a search and rescue professional. He holds NREMT, WFR, and Amateur Radio Extra Class and a General Radiotelephone Operator with Ships Radar License.
As of recent, Vinnie has been prolifically writing on Substack on topics such as automotive hacking, software-defined radio, Raspberry Pi, and Search and Rescue.
From 2012 to 2015, he was the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Silent Circle, where he designed the original messaging technologies Silent Circle uses. In 2015, he left Silent Circle to co-found 4th-A Technologies, LLC with Robbie Hanson. 4th-A Technologies develops technologies to restore to people their inalienable right to be “secure in their documents”. They designed ZeroDark.cloud a framework that simplifies the development of apps that interact with the cloud, and performs tasks such as syncing, messaging & collaboration. It uses zero-knowledge encryption, ensuring the data in the cloud cannot be compromised. They also produced the Storm4 secure cloud storage service.
Vincent has been involved in the design, invention, and production of system software and network applications for more than 30 years. In addition to producing cryptographic products, his concern about the use of encryption technology by criminal and terrorist actors has compelled him to offer assistance and training to both law enforcement and the intelligence community on cryptographic issues. He has participated at specialized venues such as with federal as well as local law enforcement agencies and the Cloud Security Alliance.
Career
Vincent Moscaritolo's experience includes roles as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Silent Circle, Principal Cryptographic Engineer for PGP Corporation, Senior Operating System engineer for Apple Computer, and Principal Software Specialist at Digital Equipment Corporation.
Vincent was one of the co founders of Silent Circle, and developer of the secure messaging technology used by Silent Circle / Blackphone. He designed the Silent Circle Instant Messaging Protocol (SCIMP) and was the inventor of Progressive Encryption used by the Silent Text app.
While at PGP, he focused on the engineering of cryptographic products on the OS X platform including the cross platform core crypto library, secure file deletion, virtual disk client, network kernel engine redirection module. He was also responsible for obtaining and maintaining NIST FIPS-140 validation for PGP cryptographic core.
At Apple, he was notable for founding the Mac-Crypto Conference, where key Mac developers, industry leaders and legends met to discuss topics ranging from Cryptosystems, Digital Cash and Security issues to feedback sessions where developers were able to directly discuss their requirements with Apple engineers. He was also involved in t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KMTV%20Asia | KMTV Asia is a South Korean television channel that launched in 2008, which broadcasts Korean music videos, music, variety, dramas and movies. It airs 24-hour programming continuously.
The channel airs an array of Korean entertainment programming, focusing on a mix of K-Pop music, variety show, idol drama and latest music videos and live performance of the hottest Korean stars and groups. The channel features dramas such as "Vampire Idol", "The Great Catsby", music series like "Show Champion", "Picnic Live", "THE SHOW All New K-POP", special reality series featuring Wonder Girls, Super Junior, Girls’ Generation, SHINee, 2PM, 2NE1, Big Bang, etc.
The channel currently airs on cable, IPTV and satellite networks in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand.
Highlight Programmes
A Pink News Season 1, 2, 3
HaHa & Friends
Hidden Singer (JTBC)
Show Champion (MBC Music)
The Beauty's Taming the Idol Stars / Raising Idols
The SHOW : All New K-POP (SBS MTV)
The Strongest Couple / The Best Couple
Vampire Idol (MBN)
In-house Programmes
Idol Battle
KMTV Collection
KMTV K-POP Style
KMTV Music Highway
KMTV Music Star News
KMTV Olleh Music Chart Top 100
Sing Along K-POP
U&Music
Weekly Ballad Chart
Weekly Dance Chart
Weekly Hip-Hop Chart
Weekly Super K-POP
References
Music television channels
Television networks in South Korea
Music organizations based in South Korea |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knack%20%28video%20game%29 | is a video game developed by Japan Studio and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 video game console. The game was released in November 2013 and in Japan in February 2014, where it was available as a bundle with the console.
The player navigates the titular character Knack through a series of levels viewed in a fixed camera, third-person-style view. Knack is a living humanoid organism that consists of Relics; a large central Relic is always surrounded by a varying number of smaller Relics. Knack utilizes jumping, dodging, punching, and using enhanced energy-based powers, in order to progress through the colourful environments, which are populated with enemies. The story follows Knack and his creator on a journey to save humankind from a species known as the Goblins. However, one of Knack's creator's former friends goes rogue, and Knack and his allies must stop the antagonist's evil plans.
Upon release, Knack was met with a mixed critical response; reviewers praised the game's original concept and ideas, but criticized the gameplay, level of difficulty, and story. A sequel, Knack II, was announced at the 2016 PlayStation Experience, and was released on September 5, 2017.
Gameplay
Knack is a platforming beat 'em up game in which players control the title character, Knack. Game director Mark Cerny describes the gameplay as "a little bit like Crash Bandicoot, and a little bit like Katamari Damacy", with "a touch of God of War in there". Players control Knack through a series of long, linear levels, journeying from start to finish, while battling enemies, such as humans, robots, and vehicles, finding secret hidden objects that give Knack upgrades, climbing, destroying objects, and completing jumping and switch-based puzzles. The perspective in which the game is played is similar to that in the God of War games. Players only control Knack and do not control the camera. The camera follows Knack in a combination of third-person and 2.5D angles.
Players guide Knack through many levels in many different locations. Each location is different and players follow the objectives played out in the story. The environments are brightly coloured, consisting of bright and vibrant greens, oranges, blues, and greys. Locations visited in the game include mineshafts, forests, factories, mansions, gardens, mountains, cities, laboratories, castles, rock formations, and caves. Gameplay is focused on brawling fighting combat and platforming.
Knack is essentially a large Relic which attracts many small Relics to itself to create a living organism. Knack varies in size; he can be the size of a human child when only a few Relics are incorporated around the big Relic, the size of a gorilla when a moderate number of Relics are incorporated, or the size of small skyscrapers when a very large number of Relics are used. Knack has different abilities for each of his states, even though the player primarily utilizes punching, jumping, and dodging abi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20dispatch | In computing, static dispatch is a form of polymorphism fully resolved during compile time. It is a form of method dispatch, which describes how a language or environment will select which implementation of a method or function to use.
Examples are templates in C++, and generic programming in Fortran and other languages, in conjunction with function overloading (including operator overloading). Code is said to be monomorphised, with specific data types deduced and traced through the call graph, in order to instantiate specific versions of generic functions, and select specific function calls based on the supplied definitions.
This contrasts with dynamic dispatch, which is based on runtime information (such as vtable pointers and other forms of run time type information).
Static dispatch is possible because there is a guarantee of there only ever being a single implementation of the method in question. Static dispatch is typically faster than dynamic dispatch which by nature has higher overhead.
Example in Rust
In Rust.
trait Speak {
fn speak(&self);
}
struct Cat;
impl Speak for Cat {
fn speak(&self) {
println!("Meow!");
}
}
fn talk<T: Speak>(pet: T) {
pet.speak();
}
fn main() {
let pet = Cat;
talk(pet);
}
Rust will monomorphize this when compiled into:
fn talk_cat(pet: Cat) {
pet.speak();
}
See also
Dynamic dispatch
References
https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=27
Polymorphism (computer science) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightmare%20on%20the%2013th%20Floor | Nightmare on the 13th Floor is a 1990 American made-for-television thriller film which was originally shown on the USA Network on Halloween 1990. It stars Michele Greene as the travel writer Elaine Kalisher, James Brolin as Dr. Alan Lanier and Louise Fletcher as Letti Gordon.
Plot
The Wessex Hotel in Los Angeles is a Victorian hotel, built in 1898 at a height of 16 floors, including a 13th floor. Early in its history, serial killer Avery Block brought his friends to the 13th floor of the Wessex where he proceeded to kill them with a fire ax hoping to achieve immortality by the taking of others' lives. Due to the murders, the 13th floor was sealed off in October 1901 and a frieze was erected around the building covering the floor. Ninety years later, Traveler's Review magazine sends Elaine Kalisher to write a travel article.
References
External links
Nightmare on the 13th Floor Online fanpage
1990 television films
1990 films
1990 thriller films
USA Network original films
Films directed by Walter Grauman
American thriller television films
1990s American films
1990s English-language films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Vangheluwe | Hans L.M. Vangheluwe is a professor and researcher in the domain of computer simulation and modelling. He is currently professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium, and at McGill University, Montreal. He was a co-founder of Modelica, a language for the acausal modelling of complex systems and computer automated multiparadigm modeling.
Career
Vangheluwe has a masters in physics from the University of Ghent (1986), followed by a masters in computer science (1988). He then worked at the University of Ghent as a research assistant under supervision of professor Ghislain Vansteenkiste, working in the area of biometrics and control engineering. He then was called up for military service, where he served as one of the two detaches in the "Beheerseenheid van het Mathematisch Model van de Noordzee en het Schelde Estuarium (BMM)" of the Belgian Navy, showing his proficiency in simulation of the physical world. He obtained a FWO grant to work in the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) in Morgantown, West Virginia in 1996. Vangheluwe was employed at the University of Ghent as a project leader between 1994 and 1999. He received his PhD in science in 2000 at the University of Ghent. Afterwards, he started working as an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. In 2005, he was named a tenured professor at McGill University. In 2009, Vangheluwe returned to Belgium to work as a full professor at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
He has contributed in topics such as the modelling of wastewater treatment, tool-building for model-driven engineering, DEVS and model transformation
References
Living people
1963 births
Belgian computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Antwerp
Ghent University alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges%20Gonthier | Georges Gonthier is a Canadian computer scientist and one of the leading practitioners in formal mathematics. He led the formalization of the four color theorem and Feit–Thompson proof of the odd-order theorem. (Both were written using the proof assistant Coq.)
See also
Flyspeck proof led by Thomas Callister Hales
References
Personal Page at Microsoft Research
Paper describing proof of the Four color theorem
phys.org news article describing Feit-Thompson proof
Press release from INRIA with links to Coq code of Feit-Thompson Proof
20th-century Canadian mathematicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashcam | A dashboard camera or simply dashcam, also known as car digital video recorder (car DVR), driving recorder, or event data recorder (EDR), is an onboard camera that continuously records the view through a vehicle's front windscreen and sometimes rear or other windows. Some dashcams include a camera to record the interior of the car in 360 degrees inside camera, usually in a ball form, and can automatically send pictures and video using 4G.
EDRs and some dashcams also record acceleration/deceleration g-force, speed, steering angle, GPS data, voltage of the power source (vehicle's electrical net), etc.
A wide-angle 130, 170° or more front camera may be attached to the interior windscreen, to the rear-view mirror (clip on), or to the top of the dashboard, by suction cup or adhesive-tape mount. A rear camera is usually mounted in the rear window or in the registration plate, with a RCA video output to the display monitor/screen.
The resolution will determine the overall quality of the video. Full HD or 1080p (1920×1080) is standard for dash HD cams. Dash cameras may have 1080p, 1296p (common for Chinese dashcams), 1440p, or higher definition for a front camera and 720p for a back camera and include f/1.8 aperture and night vision mode.
Dashcams can provide video evidence in the event of a road accident. When parked, dashcams can capture video and picture evidence if vandalism is detected by 360° parking monitor and send it to the owner usually employing 4G.
Types
By targeted field of view:
exterior view such as for recording the front view only, the back view, etc.
cabin or inside viewing mode sometimes also called a taxicam and Uber/Lyft cam.
Some cabin cams include a screen also known as a rear view mirror dash cam) that can be attached to the rear-view mirror employing usually rubble rings or straps or as a direct replacement of the rear view mirror itself. Others attach to the windshield, dash, or other suitable interior surfaces
Many dashcams include rechargeable batteries not needed when connected to car battery wire or capacitors.
Functions
To ensure that recorded video files are not tampered with once they have been recorded, videos can be timestamped in a tamper-proof manner, a procedure termed trusted timestamping.
To ensure a reliable 24/7 parking surveillance when capacity is an issue, a motion detector may be used to record only when an approaching human/vehicle is detected, in order to save power and storage media.
Advanced driver assistance system ADAS and park location save can be included.
G-sensor
Dashcams with a G-sensor ensure that recordings of a collision are not overwritten by new data usually by storing them in a separate folder and/or making them read-only. The G-sensor ensures that the dashcam makes separate recordings.
Radar detector
The integrated radar detector responds to police radars and warns the driver about approaching them, as a rule, with a sound signal.
Screen
Some dashcams include touch screens, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromebook%20Pixel | The Chromebook Pixel is a 2013 laptop at the high end of Google's Chromebook family of machines, which all come preinstalled with ChromeOS operating system. The Chromebook Pixel is part of the Google Pixel series of consumer electronics. An updated model was released in 2015. Chromebook Pixel stopped receiving software and security updates in August 2018.
History
The Chromebook Pixel was launched on February 21, 2013, with shipments starting immediately. Sundar Pichai, the senior vice president of engineering in charge of Chrome and Android at that time, said that the goal behind the high-end Pixel model was "to push the boundary and build something premium. Google engineers set out on the 'labor of love' project two years ago, asking themselves, 'What could we do if we really wanted to design the best computer possible at the best price possible?'"
The machine was assembled in China. Unlike its publicly announced partnerships utilized for the manufacturing of its Nexus phones and tablets, Google has not disclosed its manufacturing sub-contractor for the Chromebook Pixel.
In early 2015, a Google executive stated the Chromebook Pixel was "a development platform. This is really a proof of concept. We don't make very many of these — we really don't", confirming the Chromebook Pixel's slow sales, but added "we do have a new [Chromebook] Pixel coming out." The updated Chromebook Pixel was announced on March 11, 2015, and the 2013 model was discontinued immediately.
In August 2016, Google discontinued the Chromebook Pixel. On October 4, 2017, Google announced the Pixelbook laptop/tablet hybrid computer as the successor to the Chromebook Pixel.
Design
Priced at the upper-end of the laptop market for its release in the US on February 21, 2013, the machine featured a touch-screen which had the highest pixel density of any laptop, a faster CPU than its predecessors in the Intel Core i5, 32 GB of solid-state storage, an exterior design described by Wired as "an austere rectangular block of aluminum with subtly rounded edges", and a colored lightbar on the lid added purely for its cool factor. A second Pixel featuring LTE wireless communication and twice the storage capacity was shipped for arrival on April 12, 2013, and had a marginally higher price tag than the base model.
In addition to ChromeOS, the Pixel, as well as other Chromebooks, can run other operating systems including Ubuntu and Android—which in turn support more offline applications. Linux inventor Linus Torvalds replaced ChromeOS on his Chromebook Pixel with Fedora 18, employing Red Hat engineer David Miller's work. Torvalds had praised the Pixel screen but not the operating system, which he felt was better suited to slower hardware.
3:2 display
Chromebook Pixel introduced a 12.85-inch display with an aspect ratio of 3:2. The Verge praised it:
But the Pixel's 3:2 display, which is nearly as tall as it is wide, makes me wonder why no one else has thought to do this — the 12.85-inch d |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20This%20Once | Just This Once is a 1993 romance novel written in the style of Jacqueline Susann by a Macintosh IIcx computer named "Hal" in collaboration with its programmer, Scott French. French reportedly spent $40,000 and 8 years developing an artificial intelligence program to analyze Susann's works and attempt to create a novel that Susann might have written. A legal dispute between the estate of Jacqueline Susann and the publisher resulted in a settlement to split the profits, and the book was referenced in several legal journal articles about copyright laws. The book had two small print runs totaling 35,000 copies, receiving mixed reviews.
Creation
The novel's creation spanned the fields of artificial intelligence, expert systems, and natural language processing.
Scott French first scanned and analyzed portions of two books by Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls and Once Is Not Enough, to determine constituents of Susann's writing style, which French stated was the most difficult task. This analysis extracted several hundred components including frequency and type of sexual acts and sentence structure. "Once you're there, the writer's style emerges, part of her actual personality comes out, and the computer can be programmed to make a story." French also created several thousand rules to govern tone, plotting, scenes, and characters.
The text generated by Hal, the computer, was intended to mimic what Susann might have written, although the output required significant editing. French credits Hal's work with "almost 100% of the plot, 100% of the theme and style." French estimates that he wrote 10% of the prose, the computer Hal wrote about 25% of the prose, and the remaining two-thirds was more of a collaboration between the two. A typical scenario to write a scene would involve Hal asking questions that French would answer (for example, Hal might ask about the "cattiness factor" involved in a meeting between two key female characters, and French would reply with a range of 1 to 10), and the computer would then generate a few sentences to which French would make minor edits. The process would repeat for the next few sentences until the scene was written.
Legal issues
Jacqueline Susann's publisher was skeptical of the legality of Just This Once, although French doubted that an author's thought processes could be copyrighted. Susann's estate reportedly threatened to sue Scott French but the parties settled out of court; the settlement involved splitting profits between the parties but the terms of the settlement were not disclosed.
The publication of Just This Once raised questions in the legal profession concerning how copyright law applies to computer-generated works derived from an analysis of other copyrighted works, and whether the generation of such works infringes on copyright. The publications on this topic suggested that the copyright laws of the time were ill-equipped to deal with computer-generated creative works.
Reception
The book's pub |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netperf | Netperf is a software application that provides network bandwidth testing between two hosts on a network. It supports Unix domain sockets, TCP, SCTP, DLPI and UDP via BSD Sockets. Netperf provides a number of predefined tests e.g. to measure bulk (unidirectional) data transfer or request response performance.
Netperf was originally developed at Hewlett Packard.
See also
Nuttcp
Iperf
NetPIPE
bwping
Flowgrind
Measuring network throughput
Packet generation model
References
External links
Homepage of netperf
Computer network analysis
Network performance |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Hum%20Awards | The 1st Servis Hum Awards Ceremony (referred to as Hum Awards), presented by the Hum Television Network and Entertainment Channel (HTNEC) honour the best dramas of 2012 of Hum and to honour achievement in Fashion and Music. The ceremony took place on 12 March, 2013, at the Expo Center in Karachi and was televised on 28 April 2013. During the ceremony, the Hum Channel presented Awards in 24 regular categories along with in 3 honorary and in 2 special categories. The ceremony was televised in Pakistan by Hum TV.
The events were hosted by Mikaal Zulfiqar, Mahira Khan, Vasay Chaudhry. During the ceremony, additional Honorary Awards were presented by host Bushra Ansari.
Shehr-e-Zaat won three awards including Best Drama Serial for Momina Duraid, Abdullah Kadwani & Asad Qureshi. Mere Qatil Mere Dildar won two awards, including Best Supporting Actress for Shagufta Ejaz. Sanjha won two awards including Best Director for Farooq Rind. Humsafar also won two awards. Mahira Khan won the Best Actress award for her role in Shehr-e-Zaat. Noman Ejaz won Best Actor for portraying the promising character in Bari Aapa.
Winners and nominees
The nominees for public voting were announced on 20 February, 2013, and the rest of the categories were announced on 12 March 2013, through the official website of HUM TV and by Mikaal Zulfiqar Host of 1st Annual Hum Awards, and actress Mahira Khan. Seven categories were set to be open for voting by viewers.
Awards
Winners are listed first.
Television
Music
Fashion
Honorary Hum Awards
Hosted by Bushra Ansari, the honorary awards in TV and Music categories are presented to Pakistani artists.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Moin Akhtar
Hum Honorary Award in Music
Ustad Rais Khan
Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award
Razia Butt (Posthumous Award)
Momina Duraid
Haissam Hussain
Samira Fazal
Hum Honorary Award in Television
Nayyer Kamal
Zaheen Tahira
Munawer saeed
Badar Khalil
Qazi Wajid
Qavi Khan
Talat Hussain
Anwar Maqsood
Shakeel
Abid Ali
Hum Honorary Phenomenal Serial Award
Momina Duraid
Farhat Ishtiaq
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat
Mahira Khan
Fawad Khan
Atiqa Odho
Naveen Waqar
Hina Khawaja Bayat
Qaiser Naqvi
Saba Faisal
Sara Kashif
Noor Hassan Rizvi
Qurat-ul-Ain Balouch
Waqar Ali
Naseer Turabi
Shehzad Kashmiri
Tanveer
Dramas with multiple awards and nominations
The following 21 Dramas received multiple nominations:
The following four dramas received multiple awards:
Presenters and performers
The following individuals were presented awards or performed musical numbers.
Presenters
Performers
Ceremony Information
The 1st Hum Awards were presented by Servis and powered by Telenor, Talk Shawlk and Nokia Lumia. The music was composed by Waqar Ali.
In addition to hosting, the co-host Vasay Chaudry was the script writer, arranger, and writer of the ceremony. The main hosts were nominated for Best Actor in a lead role and Best Actress in a lead role.
Voting |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roambi | Roambi is a business application that changes raw business data into interactive graphics designed for mobile devices on the iOS platform such as Apple Inc.’s iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini. The applications connect to popular information systems including Excel or Salesforce.com and business intelligence systems such as Cognos and corporate databases such as Microsoft SQL. The app is currently used by over 20% of the Fortune 50 and has been downloaded more than 600,000 times.
Company history
MeLLmo Inc. (makers of Roambi) was founded in 2008 by Santiago Becerra, Jaime Zuluaga, David Becerra, and Quinton Alsbury, based in San Diego, California.
The idea for the company came as Santiago Becerra, standing in line to buy his first iPhone in June 2007, realized the business potential of the mobile device. He sought to create a better display for common business data. The goal initially was to create a touch-based data visualization app exclusively for the iPhone. At the time, the iOS App Store was not available to distribute software, so the company found difficulties convincing others of their prospect.
In 2008, before Apple released their first iOS Software Development Kit that allowed people to develop native applications for the iPhone, Roambi was already developing a basic app. The company remained in stealth mode until May 2009, when it launched Roambi on the iPhone as a free app.
When the iPad was announced in January 2010, Roambi decided to develop a new version of the app for the tablet’s launch. Roambi developed the app to leverage the unique aspects of the iPad, such as the larger screen size, and included new analytic features. The app was ready the day the iPad was released in April 2010.
In June 2011, MeLLmo released Roambi Flow, an app that allows users to create and present magazine-style publications on the iPad by integrating text with charts and graphs created in Roambi Analytics.
In June 2013, MeLLmo released "Roambi Business" a secure cloud-based platform. At the same time, the company launched a North American partner program with more than 20 partners trained and certified to work with Roambi Business to sell the service and provide implementation and development services around the application. The program was designed to increase Roambi's engagement and extend its ability to reach end users. The company previously had over 100 partners outside the United States.
On February 16, 2016, SAP announced the acquisition of MeLLmo Inc.
Description
Roambi’s platform allows users to upload their data (from Excel spreadsheets, Salesforce.com, or other data) to the online Roambi Publisher. Users then select from pre-designed templates to deliver the data in different forms (pie chart, graphs etc.)
Roambi Analytics
MeLLmo's main product, Roambi Analytics, turns business data into visualizations that can be displayed on any iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini.
Roambi Flow
Roambi Flow is used to create and present magazine style publications o |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolichoctis%20rotundata | Dolichoctis rotundata is a species of beetle in the subfamily Lamiinae, that is endemic to Malaysia. The length of the species is long. It is black coloured with yellow dots on its wings. Adults are on wing from April to June.
References
Lebiinae
Beetles described in 1846
Beetles of Asia
Endemic fauna of Malaysia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosh%20%28software%29 | In computing, Mosh (mobile shell) is a tool used to connect from a client computer to a server over the Internet, to run a remote terminal. Mosh is similar to SSH, with additional features meant to improve usability for mobile users. The major features are:
Mosh maintains its session even when it "roams" (when the client endpoint changes to different IP addresses), for example by moving to a different Wi-Fi network or when changing from Wi-Fi to 3G.
Mosh maintains the terminal session (not "connection" in the TCP-sense because Mosh uses UDP) even when a user loses their Internet connection or puts their client to "sleep". In comparison, SSH can lose its connection in such cases because TCP times out.
Mosh client attempts to be responsive to keyboard events (typing, erasing characters with the key, and so on) without waiting for network lag. It uses an adaptive system that predicts whether the application running on the server will decide to echo the user's keystrokes or deletions.
The main drawbacks of mosh are additional prerequisites to the server, that it lacks some special features of SSH (such as connection forwarding) and the lack of a native Windows client. An alternative for Linux servers (that still require installation on the server) is to use GNU Screen on top of a regular SSH connection.
Design
Mosh works at a different layer from SSH. Whereas SSH transmits a stream of bytes in each direction (from server to client or client to server) using TCP, Mosh runs a terminal emulator at the server to figure out what should be on the screen. The server then transmits this screen to the client at a varying frame rate, depending on the speed of the network. This allows Mosh to save on network traffic on slow or intermittent connections.
Supported platforms
Mosh is available for most Linux distributions, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD, Android, Solaris, Cygwin, and as a Chrome App. The iOS program Termius includes an independent implementation of the Mosh protocol.
Performance
Roaming
Mosh is built on the State-Synchronization Protocol (SSP), which supports single-packet roaming. After the client has switched to a new IP address, a single packet that successfully reaches the server is enough to "roam" the connection. The client does not need to know it has roamed. (The client may be using NAT and the NAT roamed instead.)
Packet loss
In the Mosh research paper, the creators tested SSP on a link with 29% packet loss, and found that SSP reduced the average response time by a factor of 50 (from 16.8 seconds to 0.33 seconds) compared with SSH, which uses TCP. A different study, by students at Stanford University, found that SSP reduced the average response time by a factor of 30 (from 5.9 seconds to 0.19 seconds).
Local echo
According to Mosh's developers, the program was found to be able to predict and immediately display 70% of user keystrokes, reducing the median response time to a keystroke to less than 5 milliseconds (maskin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeenNick%20%28Indian%20TV%20programming%20block%29 | TeenNick India was a programming block devoted to teens, it was part of Nickelodeon India from 2012 to 2017.
History
Nickelodeon India does not air live action Nickelodeon programming on the main channel and decided to launch those shows as part of a night time programming block in 2012 on Nick Jr. India. Later, it started showing animated Nickelodeon programming like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Nick HD+ launched in 2015 also had some live action programming.
On 1 February 2017 the block was discontinued, making Nick Jr. a 24-hour channel. Nickelodeon HD+ also stopped airing live action programs from that date however they were again started from 2 August 2021.
Programming
Bella and the Bulldogs
Big Time Rush
Drake & Josh
The Haunted Hathaways
Game Shakers
Henry Danger
House of Anubis
iCarly
Marvin Marvin
Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn
The Penguins of Madagascar
Power Rangers Samurai
Sam & Cat
Shaun the Sheep
SpongeBob SquarePants
Supah Ninjas
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
The Thundermans
The Troop
True Jackson, VP
Unfabulous
Victorious
Winx Club
References
External links
Official Facebook page
Nickelodeon India
Television channels and stations established in 2012
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017
Viacom 18
Television programming blocks in Asia
Defunct television channels in India
2012 establishments in Maharashtra
2017 disestablishments in India |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick%20Jr.%20%28Indian%20TV%20channel%29 | Nick Junior is an Indian children's pay television kids channel which is devoted to toddlers. The channel is the Indian equivalent to the original American network and a part of the Nickelodeon franchise.
History
The channel was a block on Nick India before Viacom18 launched it as a separate channel in fall 2012.
Viacom18 launched TeenNick India and Nick Jr. as a single channel on 21 November 2012. At first, Nick Jr. aired in the daytime while TeenNick aired at night. However, TeenNick was discontinued on 1 February 2017, which made Nick Jr. a 24-hour channel.
References
India
Indian animation
Children's television channels in India
Television channels and stations established in 2012
English-language television stations in India
2012 establishments in India
Viacom 18 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaPad%20Yoga%2011 | The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11 is a hybrid laptop/tablet Windows RT-based computer released in late 2012. The Yoga 11 gets its name from its ability to change form factors thanks to the two-way hinge used to mount its display. It was discontinued on July 17, 2013, due to the poor sales of Windows RT devices.
Features
Design
The Yoga 11 and Yoga 13 computers get their name from their unique design that enables the devices to rotate their screen backwards to become tablet devices. According to PC Pro, "The hybrid design is immensely flexible. Prop the Yoga 11 up in 'tent mode', and the touchscreen can be angled just so. Lay the keyboard facing the desk, and the screen can be tilted back and forth while sturdy-feeling hinges keep the display from flopping backwards. Fold the screen all the way back, and hidden magnets hold it clamped shut against the underside, transforming it into a tablet." The Yoga 11 has slim chassis with a matte orange exterior finish and an all-black interior that weighs 2.79 pounds. It has a full-size QWERTY keyboard. According to TechRadar, the "large, well-cushioned keys offer a far better experience than Microsoft Surface, and there's a large trackpad as well."
Specifications
The Yoga 11 is powered by a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 that runs at a maximum clock speed of 1.3 GHz and features an integrated graphics processor. The Tegra 3 is also found in numerous Android-based tablets. 2GB of RAM comes standard. This relatively small amount of RAM is sufficient due to the reduced memory requirements of Windows RT applications. The Yoga 11 is sold with solid state drives in 32GB and 64GB capacities. The Yoga 11 runs the Windows RT operating system. Microsoft Office 2013 ships pre-installed. Like all Windows RT devices, the Yoga 11 cannot run software designed for earlier versions of Windows, only apps designed for the new Metro interface are compatible.
According to performance tests run by TechRadar using SunSpider and Peacekeeper benchmarking software, the Yoga 11 runs slightly slower than the Microsoft Surface RT, which uses the same processor. The Yoga 11 was able to run 9 hours and 32 minutes in battery tests, significantly outperforming the Microsoft Surface RT. In a test conducted by PC Pro the batteries took 11 hours and 58 minutes to run down.
The Yoga 11 has an 11.6-inch glossy screen that makes use of in-plane switching technology and runs at a resolution of 1366x768. The screen has a maximum brightness of only 344 nits, but has a measured contrast ratio of 1,146:1. There are two USB 2.0 ports, an SD card reader, a 3.5mm headphone jack, and a standard HDMI output. There is a built-in 720P webcam.
System restore
Windows RT comes with an integrated system restore utility. It is also possible to create a USB recovery drive. An external USB recovery drive is essential in case the data on your hard disk has been compromised up to the point where the system can no longer boot from the hard drive. Reportedly the key combin |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Logic | Energy Logic is a vendor-neutral approach to achieving energy efficiency in data centers. Developed and initially released in 2007, the Energy Logic efficiency model suggests ten holistic actions – encompassing IT equipment as well as traditional data center infrastructure – guided by the principles dictated by the "Cascade Effect."
Energy Logic Assumptions
The first iteration of the Energy Logic model was introduced by Emerson Network Power on November 29, 2007. Described as a “new approach to energy optimization,” the model was developed in response to industry feedback suggesting a growing emphasis on promoting efficiency initiatives, without compromising the performance and reliability of the data center.
The Energy Logic data center efficiency model was developed based on research and modeling of a 5,000 square foot data center, including average IT equipment densities, common data center and facility infrastructures (power, cooling, etc.) and their collective energy draw.
Energy draw for the 5,000 square foot data center model was based on the following assumptions:
Server refresh rate: 4 to 5 years
Data center has mix of servers ranging from new to 4-years old
No virtualization or blades
No high-density loads
Average density: 3 kW/rack (120 W/sq. ft.)
Total compute load: about 600 kW
UPS configuration: 2x750 kVA, 1+1 redundant
Hot-aisle/cold-aisle configuration
Floor-mount cooling connected to building chilled water plant
MV transformer (5 MVA) at building entrance with switchgear
The Cascade Effect
Based on the benchmarks established by the 5,000 sq. ft. model, Emerson Network Power recommended improvements to IT and data center infrastructures capable of maximizing total energy savings by leveraging the “cascade effect.”
For the purposes of the Energy Logic model, the cascade effect assumes that for every one watt of energy saved at the server component level, a data center can expect to realize up to 2.84 Watts in cumulative energy savings as the initial reduction “cascades” through the infrastructure (DC-DC, AC/DC, Power Distribution, etc.).
Energy Logic Actions
The Energy Logic model proposes ten vendor-neutral actions that are forecast to reduce cumulative energy consumption by up to 50 percent (reducing energy consumption to 585 kW from the data center's initial 1,127 kW load). The ten recommended actions prescribed in the Energy Logic model are:
Integrating IT equipment with low-power processors (yields a 10 percent savings)
Deploying high efficiency power supplies matched to power needs (yields a 12 percent savings)
Implementing a server power management system/strategy (yields an 11 percent savings)
Deploying blade servers (yields a 1 percent savings)
Implementing server virtualization throughout the IT infrastructure (yields a 14 percent savings)
Establishing an efficient power distribution architecture (yields a 3 percent savings)
Implementing data center cooling best practices (Optimizing Airflow, Us |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anastasiya%20Nychyporenko | Anastasiya Nychyporenko (born 28 January 1995) is a Ukrainian-born Moldovan biathlete.
Performances
External links
Biathlon.com.ua
IBU Datacenter
1995 births
Living people
Ukrainian female biathletes
Moldovan female biathletes
Ukrainian emigrants to Moldova
Naturalised citizens of Moldova
Sportspeople from Chernihiv Oblast |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Myhda | Anton Myhda (born 22 July 1995) is a Ukrainian biathlete.
Performances
External links
Biathlon.com.ua
IBU Datacenter
1995 births
Living people
Ukrainian male biathletes
Sportspeople from Chernihiv
21st-century Ukrainian people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4th%20Lux%20Style%20Awards | The 4th Lux Style Awards ceremony was held in Expo Center in Karachi, Pakistan. The show was hosted by Junaid Khan and Aamina Sheikh and from the members of Banana News Network. The show had the performances by Humayun Saeed, Zara Sheikh, Veena Malik, Ali Zafar, Meesha Shafi and Sadia Imam. Some of the film and music categories were removed from the award.
Films
Best Film
Salakhain
Television
Music
Special
Chairperson's Lifetime Award
Shamim Ara
References
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux
Lux
Lux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th%20Lux%20Style%20Awards | The 6th Lux Style Awards ceremony was held in Malaysia. The show was hosted by Sana Nawaz, Shoaib Mansoor and from the members of Banana News Network.
Film
Television
Music
Special
Chairperson's Lifetime Achievement Award
Naheed Akhtar
References
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux Style Awards
Lux
Lux |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana%20Suburban%20Railway | The Havana Suburban Railway () is a passenger rail network serving the city of Havana, capital of Cuba, and its suburbs. Owned by the national company Ferrocarriles de Cuba, it represents the only suburban rail system of the Caribbean island.
Overview
Outside Havana, the network serves some towns of its metropolitan area in Artemisa and Mayabeque provinces. A little part of Matanzas Province is served by the only electrified line of Cuba, the Hershey Electric Railway from Havana Casablanca station to Matanzas.
Havana subway plans
Plans for the construction of a rapid transit network in Havana was studied in 1921. Other plans for a subway, based on Russian networks, were studied in the late 1970s and 1980s, due to the relationship between Cuba and the USSR. After the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union and the consequent lack of funds of the Cuban government, the proposal for a Havana Metro was abandoned.
Routes
The network consists of 8 lines, departing from the 3 terminal stations of Havana: Central (4 lines), Tulipán (or 19 de Noviembre, 3 lines) and Casablanca (1 line).
Note: the stations marked with "Hv" are located in the city of Havana.
Services
The network has limited use as urban transport and is primarily conceived to serve the suburbs and towns surrounding the capital. The price is very cheap and is subsidized by the state. Train frequency is low and varies between 2 and 5 daily departures per route and convoys are composed of 2 or 3 cars and diesel locomotives on some routes. Several stations are linked to the MetroBus, a bus network and the principal public urban transport of Havana. , the Cuban government was making efforts to revitalize the rail network and expand the service.
See also
Havana MetroBus
References
External links
Havana
Suburban Railway
Standard gauge railways in Cuba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Garland | Harry T. Garland (born 1947) is a scientist, engineer, author, and entrepreneur who co-founded Cromemco Inc., one of the earliest and most successful microcomputer companies. He received the B.A. degree in mathematics from Kalamazoo College, and the Ph.D. degree in biophysics from Stanford University.
Dr. Garland has been recognized as one of the most important innovators in the development of personal computers in Silicon Valley.
Personal life
He is the son of Harry G. Garland, the founder of Garland Manufacturing.
Stanford University
Garland began his graduate work at Stanford University in 1968. Garland's research at Stanford focused on the function of the human brain in controlling voluntary movement. He developed techniques in electromyography for monitoring muscle activity during voluntary movement and worked to delineate the role of the brain and the role of local reflexes in the control of muscles. This led to a deeper understanding of brain function during voluntary movement, and insight into the mode of action of L-DOPA in the treatment of Parkinson's disease.
Garland received the doctoral degree from Stanford in 1972.
He was invited by John G. Linvill to join the research staff of the Stanford Electronics Laboratories where he worked on the Optacon project and developed the concept for the next generation Optacon reading aid for the blind. In 1974, he was appointed Assistant Chairman of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University; he taught graduate courses in electrical engineering and published a textbook in the new field of microprocessor system design.
Popular Electronics
While at Stanford University, Dr. Garland also worked to bring electronics technology to a wider audience. Over a period of six years, in collaboration with Stanford colleague Roger Melen, he wrote a series of articles for Popular Electronics magazine describing original designs that could be built by the electronic hobbyist. During this period, Garland and Melen also published two books: Understanding IC Operational Amplifiers and Understanding CMOS Integrated Circuits.
The MITS Altair computer, which launched the microcomputer industry, was introduced in January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics magazine. That same issue carried an article by Garland and Melen on solid-state image sensors. The following month they, together with their Stanford colleague Terry Walker, published the design of the world's first completely digital solid-state camera in Popular Electronics, and began work on developing an interface to connect the camera (which they called the “Cyclops”), to the MITS Altair computer. MITS introduced the Cyclops Camera as a peripheral for the Altair Computer in January 1976.
Their next project for Popular Electronics was to develop an interface between the Altair computer and a color television set. They called it the “Dazzler”. Garland and Melen again collaborated with Terry Walker on the hardware design and with Ed Ha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Falkner | Brian Falkner (born 20 July 1962) is a novelist who was born in Auckland, New Zealand. He has one brother and two sisters. He attended The University of Auckland and studied Computer Science. He attained a diploma of journalism from the Auckland University of Technology (then ATI) then worked for Radio New Zealand. He moved to the South Island of New Zealand where he resided until the age of 26 when he returned to Auckland. His first novel for children was published in 2003. He has received a number of prestigious awards including the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Science Fiction.
Writing career
His first published novel was a junior fiction story about rugby league called Henry and the Flea. He has also written a number of Young Adult books including The Tomorrow Code, Brain Jack, The Project and The Assault.The Tomorrow Code concerns two teens who find a way to receive coded messages from the future. According to WorldCat, the book is held in 876 libraries Brain Jack revolves around a young computer hacker who is recruited into a secret organisation that fights cyber-terrorism. The Most Boring Book in the World (originally titled The Project) is an action-mystery novel about two teenagers who find a very rare (and very boring) book. The Assault is a sci-fi thriller about an alien invasion. Falkner's books for younger readers include Henry and the Flea, The Real Thing, The Super Freak, Maddy West and the Tongue Taker, and Northwood.
Books
Henry and the Flea (2003) AKA The Flea Thing
The Real Thing (2004)
Super Freak (2005) AKA The Super Freak
The Tomorrow Code (2008)
Brain Jack (2009)
The Project (2010) AKA The Most Boring Book in the World
Assault- Recon Team Angel No. 1 (2011)
Northwood (2011)
Task Force- Recon Team Angel No. 2 (2012)
Maddy West and the Tongue Taker (2012)
Ice War- Recon Team Angel No. 3 (2013)
Vengeance- Recon Team Angel No. 4 (2014)
Battlesaurus: Rampage at Waterloo (2015)
Battlesaurus: Clash of Empires (2016)
Shooting Stars (2016)
1917: Machines of War (2017)
That Stubborn Seed of Hope (Short Stories) (2017)
Cassie Clark: Outlaw (2018)
Katipo Joe: Blitzkrieg (2020)
Katipo Joe: Spycraft (2021)
Andromeda Bond in Trouble Deep (2023)
Awards
Esther Glen Award 2004 shortlist for Henry and the Flea.
Storylines Notable Books List 2004 Junior Fiction list for Henry and the Flea.
Storylines Notable Books List 2005 Junior Fiction list for The Real Thing.
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2006 Junior Fiction shortlist for Super Freak.
Storylines Notable Books List 2006 for Super Freak.
University of Iowa International Writing Programme 2008.
Esther Glen Award 2009 shortlist for The Tomorrow Code.
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2009 Young Adult Fiction shortlist for The Tomorrow Code.
Storylines Notable Books List 2009 Young Adult Fiction list for The Tomorrow Code.
Storylines Notable Books List 2010 Young Adult Fiction list for Brainjack.
New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards 2010 Young Adult Finalist for Brainjack.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20user%20interface | An intelligent user interface (Intelligent UI, IUI, or sometimes Interface Agent) is a user interface (UI) that involves some aspect of artificial intelligence (AI or computational intelligence). There are many modern examples of IUIs, the most famous (or infamous) being the Microsoft Office Assistant, whose most recognizable agentive representation was called "Clippy".
Generally, an IUI involves the computer-side having sophisticated knowledge of the domain and/or a model of the user. These allow the interface to better understand the user's needs and personalize or guide the interaction.
History
Probably the earliest examples of what could be considered true IUIs appeared in the Intelligent Computer Assisted Instruction (ICAI, aka. intelligent tutoring systems) community, which arose in the 1960s and 1970s and become popular (among academics) in the 1980s. Also, in the early 1980s, as expert systems took hold in the AI community, expert systems were applied to UIs (e.g., the aptly-named "WIZARD" system). In the 1990s the application of plan inference to interaction formed the basis for research in what then was named natural interfaces (the term has later come to evolve to mean full-body interaction). Later IUIs, such as Clippy, are more statistically-based, using machine learning methods to decide how to tune the interactive experience to the individual user. In the 2000s this strand of research often is labeled personalization, most often employing various recommender system techniques to adapt the behavior of an interface or an entire interactive system to individual user preferences.
Definitional difficulty
What constitutes "intelligent" is potentially disputable, as is what counts as an "interface". The field is in practice defined by the community of researchers and the channels they publish in.
Research
Research in intelligent user interfaces is published in general Human-Computer Interaction conferences and journals such as CHI or UIST as well as in some artificial intelligence research channels such as those hosted by the AAAI, but most importantly there are the dedicated conference series on Intelligent User Interfaces (since 1988) and Recommender Systems (since 2007), as well as the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction (since 1990).
See also
Natural language user interface
Chatterbot
Recommender system
References
Links
AAAI Conference
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
ACM Conference On Recommender Systems
Journal on User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
User interfaces |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaTab%20Lynx | The Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx is an 11.6" Atom-based Windows 8 tablet computer with keyboard dock released in late 2012.
Launch
The IdeaTab Lynx was released in the United States in December 2012. The Lynx tablet sold for $599 and its Accutype keyboard base was priced at $149.
Features
Design
The Lynx is an 11.6-inch tablet. The Lynx without the dock is 11.85 × 7.4 × 0.37 inches and weighs . The keyboard dock weighs for a total .
Specifications and performance
The Lynx runs the full-version of Windows 8 as opposed to Windows RT. The Lynx uses a 1.8 GHz dual-core Clovertrail Intel Atom Z2760 processor, 2GB of memory, and either 32GB or 64GB of eMMC flash storage. The 11.6-inch in-plane switching display has a resolution of 1,366 x 768 resolution and supports five-point capacitive multitouch. Micro-USB and micro-HDMI ports and a microSD card slot are on Lynx table. The keyboard dock has two standard USB 2.0 ports. The Lynx also has Bluetooth 4.0, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi networking, stereo speakers, dual microphones, a 2-megapixel front-facing webcam.
Reviews
In its review of the Lynx, CNET wrote: "The real question is, how will the Lynx stand out? One answer might be its weight. Despite its 11.6-inch screen, the tablet felt shockingly light when we held it at Lenovo's launch event. Although Lenovo says it's 1.44 pounds, the Lynx's tablet portion is closer in feel to a Kindle than an iPad, but with a larger display than either. The keyboard dock takes away from the Lynx's airiness, of course, although the two at least feel solidly linked when you use them together. The latch is so secure that you don't have to worry about accidentally dislodging the screen. We were also happy with the responsiveness of the Lynx's touchscreen, although we didn't get a chance to challenge it during our five minute hands-on."
In a review for Financial Express Nandagopal Rajan wrote, "The best part of the Lynx has to be the1366x768p display IPS display, which despite not being Full HD still is very clear and bright. The overall performance is good, as long as you don’t really push your luck. After all, this is powered by an Intel Atom Z2760 processor, which is just not made for heavy duty stuff. Try opening a high resolution picture and you will see what I am talking about. But then this is a great device for content consumption thanks to the screen and multimode utility."
References
Tablet computers
Personal computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor%20Quachri | Trevor Quachri (, born 1976) has been the sixth editor of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine since September 2012.
Previously, he was “a Broadway stagehand, collected data for museums, and executive produced a science fiction pilot for a basic cable channel.”
Quachri started as an editorial assistant in 1999 at Asimov's Science Fiction and Analog. Former editor of Analog, Ben Bova, was an early influence. Bova’s Orion books were some of the first science fiction that Quachri read, followed by back issues of OMNI Magazine, and then Analog.
He lives in New Jersey, with his fiancée and daughter.
Bibliography
References
External links
1976 births
Living people
Analog Science Fiction and Fact people
Asimov's Science Fiction people
Science fiction editors |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales%20of%20Tatonka | Tales of Tatonka is a French computer-animated cartoon series produced by Cyber Group Studios and broadcasters TiJi and RAI in 2010.
The series depicts the adventures of four wolf cubs and their animal friends in a North American forest which they go through adventures on the care of the bison Tatonka. At the end of each episode always has a block educational explaining about the lives of animals. The series first aired in France on TiJi, France 3 and Piwi. The series has also aired in Africa, Australia, India, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Brazil, UK, Portugal, Spain and Indonesia. The airline's brand is Air France
Characters
Kids
Wanji: A wolf cub with dark brown fur with off white back legs and caramel brown muzzle. He is the oldest of the litter and next leader of the pack. He will face off against anyone who wants to harm him and his siblings.
Cinksi: A bobcat kit who is best friends with Wanji. He is a risk taker and not afraid to speak his mind.
Yamni: A wolf cub with sandy brown fur and white muzzle, legs, and under belly. The second oldest of the litter, she help anyone or challenge anyone for her family even when she's injured.
Topa: A wolf cub with white fur and light brown mixed in. She is the youngest of the litter and most caring and is very shy and quiet and is scared of dangerous situations. She also is really afraid of Kallisca.
Nunpa: A wolf cub with a mixture of white, brown, and tan fur. He is the third oldest in the litter and can be brave and enough to face anyone, is clumsy at times″
Wahi: A young red squirrel who can be very loud and hyper. He thinks mostly about his food and argues with about anything. He is afraid of any predators and will show his cowardice which the other kids make fun of him for. But he can be considerate.
Poum: A brown bear cub with reddish patch of fur on his left eye. He also thinks about food and will beg for it. He is also prideful about being a grizzly bear, but is also sensitive.
Moose: A moose calf with premature antlers and the son of Big Moose and is a part of a herd. He is kind and brave enough to push Kallisca off a cliff to save his friends. He can sometimes rush into conclusions.
Basakai: A friend of Cinksi. She stands up to Luta and Ska and stops their nasty tricks.
Ayuhel: A young moose calf with almost adult antlers, who often seen arguing with Big Moose.
Pahin: A Young female porcupine who is scared of dangerous predators, and hyper. But can become brave and smart enough to deal with problems.
Tap-Tap: A young beaver who tries to build the best dam. But she can become bossy and a little rude when things don't go as planned, but she be friendly and childish when she is playing with her friends.
Wanbli: A young female eagle who can sometimes become forgetful and scatterbrained but she will do anything for her friends.
Luta: A wolf cub with grayish black fur with white fur on his face legs and underbelly. He is Wanji's cousin but he is jealous, mean, and rude sometimes even t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boku%20no%20Natsuyasumi%204 | is a video game developed by Millennium Kitchen and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation Portable. It is part of the popular Boku no Natsuyasumi series and was released in Japan on July 2, 2009. Like Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, it takes place in a Japanese coastal village.
Description
The main character spends his summer vacation in a coastal village in Japan. The game contains the familiar bug collecting, beetle fighting, swimming, fishing, morning exercises, and family meals from previous series entries, but also features new activities, such as playing a taiko drum, challenging other children to duels with your mechanical toys, a beetle circus, and several tabletop games. Unlike other games in the series, which take place in the year 1975, this installment takes place in the summer of 1985.
Reception
Popular Japanese review magazine Famitsu rated the game a 31 out of 40 (8/8/8/7).
References
External links
Official Website (SCE)
Official Trailers (HD)
Single-player video games
Adventure games
Japan-exclusive video games
Sony Interactive Entertainment games
2009 video games
PlayStation Portable games
PlayStation Portable-only games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games about children
Video games about insects
Video game sequels
Video games set in 1985
Video games set in Japan
Works about vacationing
Millennium Kitchen games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC | QUIC (pronounced "quick") is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol initially designed by Jim Roskind at Google, implemented, and deployed in 2012, announced publicly in 2013 as experimentation broadened, and described at an IETF meeting. QUIC is used by more than half of all connections from the Chrome web browser to Google's servers. Microsoft Edge (a derivative of the open-source Chromium browser) and Firefox support it. Safari implements the protocol, however it is not enabled by default.
Although its name was initially proposed as the acronym for "Quick UDP Internet Connections", IETF's use of the word QUIC is not an acronym; it is simply the name of the protocol. QUIC improves performance of connection-oriented web applications that are currently using TCP. It does this by establishing a number of multiplexed connections between two endpoints using User Datagram Protocol (UDP), and is designed to obsolete TCP at the transport layer for many applications, thus earning the protocol the occasional nickname "TCP/2".
QUIC works hand-in-hand with HTTP/2's multiplexed connections, allowing multiple streams of data to reach all the endpoints independently, and hence independent of packet losses involving other streams. In contrast, HTTP/2 hosted on Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) can suffer head-of-line-blocking delays of all multiplexed streams if any of the TCP packets is delayed or lost.
QUIC's secondary goals include reduced connection and transport latency, and bandwidth estimation in each direction to avoid congestion. It also moves congestion control algorithms into the user space at both endpoints, rather than the kernel space, which it is claimed will allow these algorithms to improve more rapidly. Additionally, the protocol can be extended with forward error correction (FEC) to further improve performance when errors are expected, and this is seen as the next step in the protocol's evolution. It has been designed to avoid protocol ossification so that it remains evolvable, unlike TCP, which has suffered significant ossification.
In June 2015, an Internet Draft of a specification for QUIC was submitted to the IETF for standardization. A QUIC working group was established in 2016. In October 2018, the IETF's HTTP and QUIC Working Groups jointly decided to call the HTTP mapping over QUIC "HTTP/3" in advance of making it a worldwide standard. In May 2021, the IETF standardized QUIC in , supported by , and . DNS-over-QUIC is another application.
Background
Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, aims to provide an interface for sending streams of data between two endpoints. Data is handed to the TCP system, which ensures the data makes it to the other end in exactly the same form, or the connection will indicate that an error condition exists.
To do this, TCP breaks up the data into network packets and adds small amounts of data to each packet. This additional data includes a sequence number that is used to detect packe |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20distribution%20center | A network distribution center (NDC) is a highly mechanized mail processing plant of the United States Postal Service that distributes standard mail and package services in piece and bulk form.
List of network distribution centers
The United States Postal Service currently has 22 NDCs:
For mail originating in ZIP Code Areas 006-009 and addressed to addresses in those ZIP Code Areas, the sectional center facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico serves as the NDC.
List of international service centers
The United States Postal Service also has 5 international service centers (ISC) for distributing international mail:
See also
List of United States post offices
Sectional center facility (SCF)
United States Postal Service
References
United States Postal Service |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bright.com | Bright.com was an employment website that uses a computer algorithm to match potential employee to advertised positions. Bright Media was the parent company of Bright.com and Bright Labs, a group that provided access to data and resources on the current job market. Bright Media was led by CEO Steve Goodman.
Bright was founded in February 2011. Steve Goodman has held the position of CEO since the company's inception. The site hosted 2.1 million job descriptions.
Bright.com's jobs matching business was acquired by LinkedIn in February 2014 for $120 million (~$ in ).
References
External links
Employment websites in the United States
LinkedIn
Business services companies established in 2011
2014 mergers and acquisitions
Business services companies disestablished in the 21st century |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Gurley | Ben Gurley (December 23, 1926 – November 7, 1963) was an important figure in the history of computing. At MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Gurley designed the cathode ray tube display and light pen of the TX-0, a pioneering minicomputer. In 1959 Gurley left Lincoln Labs for Digital Equipment Corporation; he was the designer of DEC's first computer, the PDP-1.
Gurley died of a gunshot fired through a window in his home while eating dinner with his family. A former co-worker from DEC was convicted of the crime. This incident inspired acquaintance and author John Updike to write his popular novel "The Music School".
References
American computer scientists
20th-century American educators
American electrical engineers
Computer hardware engineers
Digital Equipment Corporation people
1926 births
1963 deaths
MIT Lincoln Laboratory people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Saunders%20%28disambiguation%29 | Michael Saunders (born 1986) is a Canadian Major League Baseball center fielder.
Michael Saunders may also refer to:
Michael Saunders (academic) (born 1944), American numerical analyst and computer scientist
Michael Saunders (economist), Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee member
Michael Graham Saunders (1920–1975), neurophysiologist
Michael Saunders (lawyer) (1944–1996), British lawyer and public servant
Mike Saunders (musician) (born 1952), rock critic and singer
Mike Saunders (gridiron football) (born 1969), Canadian Football League running back
Mike Saunders (footballer) (born 1972), Jamaican soccer player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20The%20Following%20episodes | The Following is an American psychological thriller television series created by Kevin Williamson for the Fox network. Kevin Bacon stars as former FBI agent Ryan Hardy, who is brought out of retirement when infamous serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), whom Hardy had previously captured, escapes from custody. Hardy soon discovers that the charismatic Carroll has surrounded himself with a group of like-minded individuals whom he met while teaching and while in prison, and turned them into a cult of fanatical killers. When Carroll's son Joey (Kyle Catlett) is abducted by his father's followers, the FBI discovers that it is the first step in a wider plan for Carroll to escape custody, humiliate and eventually kill Hardy, and reunite Carroll with his ex-wife Claire (Natalie Zea).
The series' first season premiered on January 21, 2013. On March 7, 2014, Fox renewed The Following for a third season which premiered in 2015. On May 8, 2015, Fox canceled the series.
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Season 3 (2015)
Specials
References
External links
The Following
Following, The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs%20AN/FST-2%20Coordinate%20Data%20Transmitting%20Set | The Burroughs AN/FST-2 Coordinate Data Transmitting Set (CDTS) was a Cold War military computer system at SAGE radar stations for displaying aircraft tracks and converting them for digital transmission to IBM AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Centrals at air defense data centers. Developed by the Great Valley Research Laboratory of the Burroughs Corporation as part of the Electronic Systems Division's 416L network of computers, 134 CDTSs were deployed. Each was to "process the raw radar data, antenna position information, and IFF data, and send it over voice grade toll phone lines" at ~1200 baud with 1/4 mile precision. The transmissions were received as "Long Range Radar Input" at SAGE Direction Centers, which performed the aircraft control and warning operations (e.g., launch and flight control for CIM-10 Bomarc SAMs) and provided command information to Command Centers which forwarded data to the NORAD command center in Colorado (Ent AFB, 1963 Chidlaw Building, and the 1966 Cheyenne Mountain Complex). The AN/FST-2A included 2 vacuum tube computers and accepted 14 input signals (32 inputs for transistorized AN/FST-2B sets).
References
External links
Burroughs Corporation
Cold War military computer systems of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%2C%20control%2C%20and%20coordination%20system | A command, control, and coordination system (CCCS) was a Cold War computer system for United States command posts (e.g., Army Air Defense Command Posts) to use a single location to coordinate multiple units' ground-controlled interception (e.g., USAF interceptor squadrons at various locations by Semi-Automatic Ground Environment Direction Centers) and may refer to:
Backup Interceptor Control System (BUIC), a dispersed USAF CCCS of the SAGE System
Burroughs AN/GSA-51 Radar Course Directing Group (BUIC II), a replacement USAF CCCS fielded in 1966
Hughes AN/TSQ-51 Air Defense Command and Coordination System, a mobile replacement US Army CCCS for coordinating NIKE and HAWK missile sites
AN/FSQ-7 Combat Direction Central, a vacuum tube USAF CCCS fielded in 1958 for coordinating BOMARC launch sites
Martin AN/FSG-1 Antiaircraft Defense System, a vacuum tube US Army CCCS at 10 NIKE Missile Master installations
Martin AN/GSG-5 Battery Integration and Radar Display Equipment (BIRDIE), a mobile replacement US Army CCCS for NIKE & HAWK
References
Command and control
Cold War-related lists
Command and control systems of the United States military |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent%20System%20radar%20stations | The Permanent System ("P system") was a 1950s radar network ("P radar net") used for the CONUS "manual air defense system" and which had a USAF aircraft control and warning (AC&W) organization of personnel and military installations with radars to allow Air Defense Command ground-controlled interception of Cold War bombers attacking the United States.
Planning
As with the World War II CONUS radar network of "Army Radar Stations", Aircraft Warning Corps information centers, Ground Observer Corps filter centers, and Fighter Control Centers ("inactivated...in April 1944"), a post-war system was planned to assess bomber attacks and for dispatching interceptors. The Distant Early Warning Line was "first conceived—and rejected—in 1946", General Stratemeyer forwarded an air defense plan to General Spaatz in November 1946, and in the spring and summer of 1947, 3 Air Defense Command (ADC) Aircraft Control and Warning (AC&W) plans had gone unfunded: e.g., the April 8, 1947, "air defense plan (long term)".
With only 5 "Air Warning Station" radars operating in 1948, the "Radar Fence Plan (code named Project SUPREMACY)" was planned for completion by 1953 with 411 radar stations and 18 control centers. The Radar Fence was rejected by ADC since "no provision was made in it for the Alaska to Greenland net with flanks guarded by aircraft and radar picket ships [required] for 3 to 6 hours of warning time" (the Alaska to Greenland net was eventually built as the Distant Early Warning Line).
ADC's Interim Program and its First Augmentation were planned "until the Supremacy plan network could be approved and constructed", and an $85,500,000 March 1949 Congressional bill funded both the Interim Program "for 61 basic radars and 10 control centers to be deployed in 26 months, with an additional ten radars and one control station for Alaska" and the augmentation's additional 15 radars ("essentially Phase II of Supremacy"). The resulting Lashup Radar Network was completed in April 1950 and was operational in June 1950.
On February 13, 1950, HQ USAF had "advanced the completion date from July 1, 1951, to December 31, 1950, for the most essential radar stations. The USAF reallocated $50 million for the "permanent Modified Plan" (modified from Supremacy) to "start construction on the high Priority Permanent System of radars in February 1950 with the first 24 radar sites to be constructed by the end of 1950". Early June 1950 exercises "in the 58th Air Division [tbd Lashup sites] indicated insufficient low-altitude coverage," and the Secretary of the Air Force requested a 2nd stage of 28 stations on July 11, 1950 (Secretary of Defense approval was on July 21.)
By November 1950, Ground Observation Corps filter centers (7 in the west, 19 in the east) were being installed. By November 10 a separate Air Defense Command headquarters was approved, the Federal Civil Defense Administration was created in December 1950, and command centers communicated radar track informati |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren%20Etzioni | Oren Etzioni (born 1964) is an American entrepreneur, Professor Emeritus of computer science, and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). On June 15, 2022, he announced that he will step down as CEO of AI2 effective September 30, 2022. After that time, he will continue as a board member and advisor. Etzioni will also take the position of Technical Director of the AI2 Incubator.
Early life and education
Etzioni is the son of Israeli-American intellectual Amitai Etzioni. He was the first student to major in computer science at Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1986. He earned a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University in January, 1991, supervised by Tom M. Mitchell.
University of Washington career
Etzioni joined the University of Washington faculty in 1991, immediately after receiving his PhD.
He rose through the ranks to become the Washington Research Foundation Entrepreneurship Professor in Computer Science & Engineering.
Etzioni's research has been focused on basic problems in the study of intelligence, machine reading, machine learning and web search. Past projects include Internet Softbots—the study of intelligent agents in the context of real-world software testbeds. In 2003, he started the KnowItAll project for acquiring massive amounts of information from the web. In 2005, he founded and became the director of the university's Turing Center. The center investigated problems in data mining, natural language processing, the Semantic Web and other web search topics. Etzioni coined the term machine reading and helped to create the first commercial comparison shopping agent. He has published over 200 technical papers
Entrepreneurship
As a faculty member Etzioni was also an active entrepreneur, founding multiple companies and pioneering multiple technologies including MetaCrawler (bought by Infospace), Netbot (bought by Excite in 1997 for $35 million), and ClearForest (bought by Reuters). He founded Farecast, a travel metasearch and price prediction site, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for $115 million. He also co-founded Decide.com, a website to help consumers make buying decisions using previous price history and recommendations from other users. Decide.com was bought by eBay in September, 2013. Etzioni is also a venture partner at the Madrona Venture Group.
AI2's Founding CEO
In September 2013 Etzioni was selected as the Founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence,
and in January 2014 he took a leave of absence from the University of Washington to serve
in that role.
From inception, Etzioni partnered with late philanthropist Paul G. Allen to create one of the most highly respected AI research institutes in the world. Building on years of research, education, and startup experience, Etzioni developed an organizational culture that brought dedicated researchers from around the world together to conquer grand AI challenges followed by sharing products and resour |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim%20C.%20Ralph | Tim C. Ralph is an Australian physicist who specializes in the application of quantum optics to quantum information science and quantum computing. He is Professor in Physics at the University of Queensland, and Program Manager in the ARC Centre for Quantum Computer and Communication Technology. Ralph is known for developing continuous variable quantum cryptography and co-founder of measurement based computation with continuous variable optics. In 2012, Ralph was one of the scientists responsible for establishing quantum discord as a computational resource.
As of 2012, Tim has 200 publications and over 4500 citations. He has co-authored "A guide to experiments in quantum optics". His publications include 23 in Physical Review Letters, 6 in the Nature suite of journals, as well as articles in Science and Reviews of Modern Physics.
Honours and awards
2006 ARC Professorial Fellowship
2000 ARC QEII Fellowship
Books
A guide to experiments in quantum optics. Vol. 1. Weinheim: wiley-vch, 2004.
External links
Tim C. Ralph: Biography. Center for quantum computation and communication technology.
References
Living people
Australian physicists
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Boyd | Chris or Christopher Boyd may refer to:
Chris Boyd (rugby union) (born 1958), New Zealand rugby coach
Christopher Boyd (IT security), computer security expert
Christopher Boyd (politician) (1916–2004), British politician
See also
Kris Boyd (born 1983), Scottish footballer
Kris Boyd (American football) (born 1996), American football player |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assaf%20Naor | Assaf Naor (born May 7, 1975) is an Israeli American and Czech mathematician, computer scientist, and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University.
Academic career
Naor earned a baccalaureate from Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1996 and a doctorate from the same university in 2002, under the supervision of Joram Lindenstrauss. He worked at Microsoft Research from 2002 until 2007, with an affiliated faculty position at the University of Washington, and joined the NYU faculty in 2006.
Research
Naor's research concerns metric spaces, their properties, and related algorithms, including improved upper bounds on the Grothendieck inequality, applications of this inequality, and research on metrical task systems.
Awards and honors
Naor won the Bergmann award of the United States – Israel Binational Science Foundation in 2007, and the Pazy award of the BSF in 2011. In 2012 he was one of four faculty winners of the Leonard Blavatnik Award of the New York Academy of Sciences, given to young scientists and engineers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
He won the Salem Prize in 2008 for "contributions to the structural theory of metric spaces and its applications to computer science", and in the same year was given a European Mathematical Society Prize (one of ten awarded to outstanding younger mathematicians). He won the Bôcher Memorial Prize in 2011 "for introducing new invariants of metric spaces and for applying his new understanding of the distortion between various metric structures to theoretical computer science". In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
He received the Nemmers Prize in Mathematics in 2018 and in 2019 the Ostrowski Prize.
He gave an invited talk at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2010, on the topic of "Functional Analysis and Applications".
References
1975 births
Living people
20th-century American mathematicians
Czech mathematicians
Israeli mathematicians
Czech computer scientists
Israeli computer scientists
American computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Einstein Institute of Mathematics alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Functional analysts
Princeton University faculty
New York University faculty
21st-century American mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20computing%202010%E2%80%932019 |
2010
April 6
Apple releases the original iPad.
June 24
Apple releases the iPhone 4.
2011
May 4
Intel announces the commercialisation of 3D transistors, a variant of the FinFET.
May 17
Lenovo releases the first ThinkPad X1.
June 15
The first Chromebooks, by Acer and Samsung, go on sale.
September 7
The first 4 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.
2012
February 29
Raspberry Pi, a bare-bones, low-cost credit-card sized computer created by volunteers mostly drawn from academia and the UK tech industry, is released to help teach children to code.
September 11
Intel demonstrates its Next Unit of Computing, a motherboard measuring only .
October 4
TDK demonstrates a 2 terabyte hard drive on a single 3.5-inch platter.
October 26
Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 8.
November 18
Nintendo releases the Wii U in North America.
2013
June 11
Apple releases the first Retina Display MacBook Pro.
September 20
Apple releases the iPhone 5S, powered by the Apple A7 SoC which the company proclaimed to be the first 64 bit processor to be used on a smartphone.
November 15
Sony releases the PlayStation 4 in the United States.
November 22
Microsoft releases Xbox One.
November 29
Sony releases the PlayStation 4 in Europe.
2014
August 26
The first 8 terabyte hard drive is released by Seagate.
Google releases the 64-bit version of Chrome for Windows.
August 29
Intel unveiled its first eight-core desktop processor, the Intel Core i7-5960X.
2015
July 29
Microsoft releases the operating system Windows 10.
October 15
AlphaGo was the first Go AI computer program developed by Google to defeat a professional human opponent on a full-sized board without handicap.
2016
January 12
The High Bandwidth Memory 2 standard is released by JEDEC.
January 13
Fixstars Solutions releases the world's first 13 TB SSD.
March 4
Scientists at MIT created the first five-atom quantum computer with the potential to crack the security of traditional encryption schemes.
2017
March 2
AMD launches the Ryzen CPU architecture.
March 3
Nintendo releases the hybrid gaming console Nintendo Switch.
2018
2019
January 9
Lexar announces the first SD card which can store 1 terabyte.
September 20
Google claims to have achieved quantum supremacy.
References
2010
2010s in technology
Computing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing%C3%B6l%20University | Bingöl University () is a university located in Bingöl, Turkey. It was established in 2007. The University is led by Prof. Dr. İbrahim Çapak. Bingol University, Web of Science database, according to 2019 data, 108 state universities in terms of number of publications per faculty member in Turkey has a performance ranking #6 ranking.
History
Bingol University was founded as an institution which contributes to the higher education in the Turkish Republic. Initially the university consisted of 3 faculties, 2 institutes, and 2 vocational schools. Later on, the university expanded its activities to 10 faculties, 6 vocational schools, and 5 institutes. At the university, over 15'000 alumni attend classes at the undergraduate, bachelor and graduate level.
In 2011 the whole Bingöl University campus was redesigned by Günay Erdem, landscape architect Serpil Öztekin Erdem and landscape architect Sunay Erdem and took its current state.
Faculties
Faculty of Sciences and Letters
Faculty of Economics and administrative Sciences
Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
Faculty of Sports Science
Institutes
Institute of Sciences
Institute of Health Sciences
Institute of Social Sciences
Institute of Living Languages Sciences
Institute of Recitat
Vocational schools
Food, Agriculture and Livestock School
Genç Vocational School
Health Services Vocational School
Solhan Health Services Vocational School
Technical Science Vocational School
Social Sciences Vocational School
Affiliations
The university is a member of the Caucasus University Association.
References
Universities and colleges in Turkey
Educational institutions established in 2007
State universities and colleges in Turkey
2007 establishments in Turkey
Bingöl Province |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread%20control%20block | Thread Control Block (TCB) is a data structure in the operating system kernel which contains thread-specific information needed to manage it. The TCB is "the manifestation of a thread in an operating system."
An example of information contained within a TCB is:
Thread Identifier: Unique id (tid) is assigned to every new thread
Stack pointer: Points to thread's stack in the process
Program counter: Points to the current program instruction of the thread
State of the thread (running, ready, waiting, start, done)
Thread's register values
Pointer to the Process control block (PCB) of the process that the thread lives on
The Thread Control Block acts as a library of information about the threads in a system. Specific information is stored in the thread control block highlighting important information about each process.
See also
Parallel Thread Execution
Process control block (PCB)
References
Operating system kernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down%20and%20Out%20in%20Beverly%20Hills%20%28TV%20series%29 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills is an American sitcom based on the 1986 movie of the same name. It aired from April 26 to September 12, 1987 on the fledgling Fox network. It has the distinction of being the first ever show to be cancelled by Fox; 5 of the 13 produced episodes did not air.
The cast included Hector Elizondo as Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss' character in the movie), Anita Morris as Barbara Whiteman (Bette Midler's character in the movie), Eileen Seeley as Jenny Whiteman (Tracy Nelson's character in the movie), April Ortiz as Carmen the Maid (Elizabeth Peña's character from the movie), and Tim Thomerson as Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte's character in the movie). Evan Richards (Max Whiteman) was the only cast member of the film to reprise his role for TV.
Cast
Hector Elizondo as Dave Whiteman
Anita Morris as Barbara Whiteman
Evan Richards as Max Whiteman
Eileen Seeley as Jenny Whiteman
Tim Thomerson as Jerry Baskin
April Ortiz as Carmen
Episodes
References
External links
1987 American television series debuts
1987 American television series endings
1980s American sitcoms
Fox Broadcasting Company original programming
Live action television shows based on films
Television series based on adaptations
Television series by ABC Studios
Television shows set in Beverly Hills, California |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20Birds | Free Birds is a 2013 American computer-animated science fiction comedy buddy film directed by Jimmy Hayward who co-wrote the screenplay with the film's producer Scott Mosier. The film stars the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, and Amy Poehler, with supporting roles by George Takei, Colm Meaney, Keith David, and Dan Fogler. It follows Reggie and Jake, two turkeys who go back in time to the first Thanksgiving in 1621 to get turkeys off the menu.
Free Birds was produced by Reel FX Creative Studios as its first theatrical fully animated feature film, and Relativity Media (the company's fourth animated film after Monster House (2006), The Tale of Despereaux (2008), and 9 (2009). Originally titled Turkeys, and scheduled for 2014, the film was released on November 1, 2013.
Free Birds received negative reviews from critics and grossed $110.4 million worldwide against a $55 million budget. The film was nominated for the Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production, though it lost to Frozen.
Plot
In the present day, Reggie is a turkey who has always feared Thanksgiving because turkeys are always on the menu, but his attempts to warn his flock have made him an outcast. When the other turkeys finally realize what is happening, they throw Reggie outside in an attempt to save themselves. To his surprise, he is named the "pardoned turkey" by the President of the United States and is taken to Camp David. Reggie soon eases into a routine of doing nothing but enjoying pizza from the "Pizza Dude" and watching Mexican telenovelas.
One night, Reggie is kidnapped by Jake, a member of the Turkey Freedom Front, who says he has been instructed by "The Great Turkey" to take Reggie and "go back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu." They steal a time machine controlled by an A.I. named S.T.E.V.E. (Space Time Exploration Vehicle Envoy) from a government facility, and time-travel back to three days before the first Thanksgiving in the year of 1621. Once there, they are ambushed by colonial hunters led by Myles Standish, and are rescued by native turkeys led by Chief Broadbeak and his two children, Ranger and Jenny.
Broadbeak explains that turkeys have been forced underground since the settlers came, and orders Jake and Ranger to spy on the settlers while Reggie and Jenny spring the humans' hunting traps. Ranger and Jake discover that the settlers have already begun preparations for Thanksgiving, and where they keep their weapons.
Jenny is unconvinced Reggie is from the future, but is impressed with his accidental unorthodox way of springing traps. They are intercepted by Standish, and Reggie sends Jenny into orbit aboard the time machine, validating his story. Reggie asks Jenny to go back to the future with him once everything blows over, but she refuses to leave the flock no matter how much she likes him.
Jake tells Reggie he has a plan to attack the settlers, and that this trip was more about him making |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amphibians%20of%20Metropolitan%20France | Amphibians of Metropolitan France include:
Frogs and toads (Anura)
Ranidae
Rana arvalis, moor frog
Bufonidae
Bufo bufo, common toad
Salamanders (Caudata)
Salamandridae
Lissotriton vulgaris, common newt
Salamandra salamandra, fire salamander
See also
Fauna of Metropolitan France
List of amphibians and reptiles of Guadeloupe
List of amphibians and reptiles of Martinique
France
Amphibians
France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Travelling%20College | The Travelling College ('Y Coleg Ar Y Cledrau') was a specially converted train operated on the British Rail network. The train was designed by Barrie Masterton, with the twelve dedicated coaches being converted at the Cardiff Cathays works. The Travelling College was the only train of its kind in the World, with provision for up to 160 students.
The train was finished in cream with chocolate brown and red bands, along with white roofs. It was operated under a contract with the InterCity Charter section and based at Old Oak Common TMD. The entire train was withdrawn and purchased by the Bluebell Railway in 1993.
Concept
With the launch of the GCSE examinations requiring a considerable amount of learning to take place outside of the classroom it was hoped that the Travelling College would provide means for the classroom and associated accommodation to be taken to suitable locations, essentially creating a mobile field study centre. The service was launched by the Princess of Wales on 2 May 1989, with a brass plaque being unveiled in saloon TCL991868. In the event, however, government legislation on course organisation and funding of external activities meant that the college was not available for the majority of state schools.
Rolling stock
Twelve British Railways Mark1 coaches were converted for use on the train. Six were converted to serve as dormitory coaches, two staff coaches, three classrooms and one meeting coach. An additional standard restaurant car was provided. The dedicated vehicles were stripped internally, fitted with improved fireproofing and Commonwealth bogies, raising their weight from 34 tonnes to 42 tonnes. The meeting coach was fitted with an onboard banking facility by Midland Bank.
Dormitory coaches
TCL99160 (18856) – preserved at The Transport Museum, Wythall, but now scrapped
TCL99161 (18871) – now converted as shop, Bluebell Railway,
TCL99162 (18795) – preserved at The Transport Museum, Wythall, but now scrapped
TCL99163 (19994) – now staff dormitory, using TCL bunks, Mid-Norfolk Railway.
TCL99164 (25853) – now converted as visitor information centre at West Grinstead station site
TCL99165 (5034) – now converted to Wheelchair accessible saloon on Bluebell Railway,
TCL99166 (25776) – used as volunteer dormitory at Bluebell Railway.
TCL99167 (21238) – used as volunteer dormitory at Kent and East Sussex Railway.
Classroom coaches
TCL99169 (4941) – running at Bluebell Railway, converted as Wheelchair accessible saloon.
TCL99170 (4957) – running at Bluebell Railway as passenger carriage,
TCL99171 (4921) – now at North Yorkshire Moors Railway as passenger carriage,
Meeting coach
TCL99168 (18778) – now in use as bed & breakfast accommodation at Coalport railway station
Restaurant coach
1815 – painted in TCL livery, but withdrawn in 1990. Now static use at Bere Ferrers railway station
References
"Through the College Window", Chris Leigh, Motive Power Monthly, May 1990, pages 16 to 18
British Rail |
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