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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshihisa%20Okumura | Yoshihisa Okumura (; 2 July 1926 – 18 February 2023) was a Japanese engineer, known for development of cellular telephone networks.
His radio survey of signal strength as a function of distance as measured in drive tests in automobiles was critical to the system planning of mobile radio telephone systems.
Professional career
Okumura was born in Isikawa Prefecture on 2 July 1926. He studied electrical engineering at Kanazawa Technical College (金沢工業専門学校 Kanazawa kōgyō senmon gakkō, formerly the faculty of engineering of Kanazawa University) from 1944 to 1947.
Okumura began his professional career in 1950 with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT, now privatised), where he collected radio propagation data in the 150 to 1920 MHz bands. These bands were later identified as appropriate for mobile phone systems (in no small part, because of the data collected by Okumura).
Okumura's careful study in various topographical environments in metropolitan, suburban, rural and even mountainous regions at distances from 1 to 100 km was published in 1968.
His 10-year survey included varying the height of the antennas from ground level to 10 meters which helps in planning radio coverage of mobile phone cell towers.
Okumura's work was advanced in the International Radio Consultative Conference (CCIR) which recognized that this work was applicable to all countries contemplating mobile cellular phone systems. The curves he published have become known as the Okumura Model and were critical to identifying the 800 MHz band as an appropriate target for mobile phone operation.
About 1970, Okumura was promoted to the directorship of the Mobile System Research Section of the Electrical Communication Laboratory (ECL) of NTT. His staff grew to about 20 individuals, who pioneered the early high capacity cellular phone systems.
Okumura retired from the ECL in 1975 and joined Toshiba. In 1979 he became a professor in Kanazawa Institute of Technology, retiring in 2000 as professor emeritus.
Okumura died on 18 February 2023, at the age of 96.
Publications
Awards
Charles Stark Draper Prize (2013) with Joel S. Engel, Martin Cooper, Thomas Haug and Richard H. Frenkiel
1926 births
2023 deaths
People from Ishikawa Prefecture
Japanese electrical engineers
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Toshiba people
Draper Prize winners
Kanazawa University alumni
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Engineering |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Haug | Dr. Thomas Haug (born 26 April 1927 in Norway) is an electrical engineer known for developing the cellular telephone networks.
Haug received a master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Norway in Trondheim in 1951, and a degree of Licentiate from KTH—corresponding to a PhD—from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in 1973.
Professional career
Haug worked at the Ericsson group in Stockholm and with Westinghouse in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, primarily on radio projects. In 1966 Haug joined the Swedish Board of Telecommunications where, together with Östen Mäkitalo and lead the joint Nordic project for cellular communications called the Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT) system. NMT was an analog mobile phone system commercialized in 1980 in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Nordic countries through 1982, reaching 1 million subscribers in 1990. The NMT system enabled roaming among countries and lead the way to the common European System (GSM). Thomas Haug chaired from 1981 to 1992 the steering committee of experts that standardized the GSM system, first at the CEPT and from 1988 at the ETSI. Haug's personal contributions included introducing features such as SIM cards and SMS messaging. Haug remained chair of the standards work through 1992 when GSM was introduced to the market. GSM and its progeny (UMTS and LTE) is the world's leading mobile air interface with networks operating in more than 220 countries.
He, along with Philippe Dupuis received the James Clerk Maxwell Medal in 2018. Prince William presented the award to them in Edinburgh for their contributions to the first digital mobile telephone standard.
Publications
Awards
Haug received, together with Mäkitalo, the Gold Medal of IVA (the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences) in 1987. He further received the Philip Reiss Medal from the Federal German Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in 1993 and the Eduard Rhein Prize from the Eduard Rhein Foundation in 1997.
Charles Stark Draper Prize 2013 With Joel S. Engel, Martin Cooper, Yoshihisa Okumura and Richard H. Frenkiel
1927 births
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Draper Prize winners |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation%204%20system%20software | The PlayStation 4 system software is the updatable firmware and operating system of the PlayStation 4. The operating system is Orbis OS, based on FreeBSD 9.
Technology
System
The native operating system of the PlayStation 4 is Orbis OS, which is a fork of FreeBSD version 9.0 which was released on January 12, 2012.
The PlayStation 4 features two graphics APIs, a low-level API named Gnm and a high-level API named Gnmx.
Most developers start with Gnmx, which wraps around Gnm, and in turn manages the more esoteric GPU details.
This can be a familiar way to work if the developers are used to platforms like Direct3D 12.
Another key area of the game is its programmable pixel shaders. Sony's own PlayStation Shader Language (PSSL) was introduced to the PlayStation 4.
It has been suggested that the PlayStation Shader Language is very similar to the HLSL standard in DirectX 12, with just subtle differences that could be eliminated mostly through preprocessor macros.
Besides the kernel and related components, other components included and worth mentioning are Cairo, jQuery, Lua, Mono, OpenSSL, WebKit, and the Pixman rendering library.
Many of these are open-source software, although the PlayStation 4 is not an open console.
The software development kit (SDK) is based on LLVM and Clang, which Sony has chosen due to its conformant C and C++ front-ends, C++11 support, compiler optimization and diagnostics.
Graphical shell
The PlayStation 4 uses the PlayStation Dynamic Menu as its graphical shell, in contrast to the XrossMediaBar (XMB) used by the PlayStation Portable and PlayStation 3, as well as the LiveArea used by the PlayStation Vita and PlayStation TV. It is named "Dynamic Menu" because the options it offers to players are context-sensitive, changing based on what a player is actually doing with their PlayStation 4 at any given time. This makes navigation simpler than the previous iteration. This dynamic menu can alter itself so that there's as little time as possible between the users placing a game in the disc drive and the actual gameplay beginning.
The PlayStation 4's user interface attempts simplicity as a priority. The main place for entertainment options, the Content area, is prominently displayed with large square icons on a horizontal line arranged by the most recently used. Users can scroll through this gamer newsfeed in an alternating, brick-like formation reminiscent of the social media site Pinterest. Many other main objects will display additional information when having the cursor selected on them. A game may have news updates or advertisements for its downloadable content. Recently played games receive tiles along with a number of mandatory items like the Live from PlayStation and the Internet Browser applications. Content icon customization and options on how to sort them would give players a way to mold the display to better suit their needs.
Augmented Reality
The augmented reality application, the Playroom comes pre-install |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tammy%20Grimes%20Show | The Tammy Grimes Show is an American sitcom starring Broadway actress Tammy Grimes that aired during the 1966–67 season on the ABC network. The Tammy Grimes Show was one of the few prime time series of the era canceled after only four episodes.
Overview
Grimes played Tammy Ward, a spendthrift heiress under the financial thumb of her Uncle Simon (Hiram Sherman). The series also stars Dick Sargent (billed as Richard) as Tammy's uptight twin brother Terrance with whom she works at their Uncle Simon's bank. Maudie Prickett appeared as Tammy's nosy housekeeper.
Reception
Upon its September 8, 1966 premiere, the series received generally negative reviews and failed to find an audience. In an unusual move for a major television network at the time, ABC opted to cancel the series after just four episodes. The Tammy Grimes Show is one of the few prime time series of the era that was canceled after one month as major networks, at the time, generally allowed a series to run a full thirteen weeks. Starting from October 6, the show was replaced by The Dating Game.
In a 1967 interview, executive producer William Dozier called the series an "organized disaster". He added, "It was the wrong idea for the wrong person at the wrong time. Movies were not for Mary Martin; television was not for Tammy Grimes."
Production notes
The Tammy Grimes Show was created by George Axelrod and executive produced by William Dozier. The series was produced by Richard Whorf and Alex Gottlieb and filmed at 20th Century Fox Studios in Century City, Los Angeles.
The theme was written by composer John Williams (credited as "Johnny Williams"), with Lionel Newman. Williams also wrote the incidental music, except for the first episode which was scored by Warren Barker.
Cast
Tammy Grimes as Tamantha "Tammy" Ward
Hiram Sherman as Uncle Simon
Dick Sargent as Terrence Ward
Episode list
ABC aired four episodes of the series. The original pilot episode, written by Axelrod (in which Tammy posed as a "Texas millionaire" in order to apply for the bank's credit card, sparking a spending spree), was never shown; scenes from it were presented during ABC's "fall preview" presentation at their annual affiliate meeting in the summer of 1966. A fifth episode entitled "The Great Charge Account War" was scheduled to air on October 6, 1966 but ABC pulled the episode from its lineup after it canceled the series in late September 1966. Scripts for eleven additional episodes were written but were never produced.
References
External links
The Tammy Grimes Show at Television Obscurities
1966 American television series debuts
1966 American television series endings
1960s American sitcoms
American Broadcasting Company original programming
English-language television shows
Television series by 20th Century Fox Television |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupam%20Sarmah | Rupam Sarmah is a musician, filmmaker, entrepreneur, author, sound engineer, and computer scientist. Rupam is a Guinness World Records holder and had a #1 release on the Billboard World Music chart (Together in Peace, 2017). He won Gold Telly Awards (One Little Finger, 2019). As a filmmaker, Sarmah has directed documentaries, short films, and feature films. Sarmah directed the English-language feature film One Little Finger with a theme of Ability in Disability.
Work
Sarmah has worked with some of the award-winning artists and actors -- Siedah Garrett, Dan Aykroyd, Moloya Goswami, Tamela D'Amico, Abhinaya, Jaya Seal, Kushol Chakravarty, Asim Bose, Pabitra Rabha, Rituparna Sengupta, Debashree Roy, Paoli Dam, and others.
Rupam has produced, engineered, recorded songs and music with award-winning artists such as Quincy Jones, Siedah Garrett[3], Kathy Sledge, Julian Lennon, Janis Ian, Kechi Okwuchi, Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Laura Sullivan, George Kahumoku, Jr., Cindy Paulos, Wouter Kellerman, Brian Vibberts, Ricky Kej, Sumitra Guha, Kevin Mackie, Sophia Agranovich, Alan Roy Scott, Udit Narayan, Babul Supriyo, Sadhna Sargam, Kumar Sanu, Rupankar, Subhamita, Swagatalakshmi Dasgupta, Usha Uthup, Anweshaa, Iman Chakraborty, and many others.
Sarmah and Sumitra Guha have represented India for Festival of India concerts in France (2018) organized by the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, and the Embassy of India in Paris on the occasion of India’s 70th Independence. The theme of the project was A Musical Journey towards Rising India.
As a Computer Engineer, Executive, and media professional, Rupam has worked for technology startups and other companies such as Apple. Rupam is a Voting member of Grammy® as a Musician, Producer, and Engineer (P&E) since 2005.
Sarmah has been involved with AI, Autism, and Music research and started a research center (RMAN) for ongoing research.
Activism
Sarmah founded the One Little Finger Global Foundation (501c3) to support underprivileged children and persons with disabilities, media production house RJ Productions International - maZumba for collaborative content creation. He has worked on a number of projects with organizations, including UNESCO Center for Peace, PRERONA, Manovikas - Welfare and Rehabilitation Center for the Children with Special Needs, Bhupen Hazarika Foundation.
Awards
Sarmah has received a number of awards and recognitions for his music and film. One Little Finger, written and directed by Sarmah, received several awards. His research-based world music project, OMKARA - The Sound of Divine Love and Gospel with Borgeet,Talk to God, received nominations in the Hollywood Music in Media Awards 2014.
Sarmah made a Guinness World Record on 24 February 2013 for his project 'A Musical Journey for World Peace', which united more than 500 participants from across the globe playing 315 kinds of musical instruments for world peace.
Chart performance
OMKARA was listed in the top 10 Radio Airplay chart |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20programming | Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at which new customer requirements can be adopted.
Other elements of extreme programming include: programming in pairs or doing extensive code review, unit testing of all code, not programming features until they are actually needed, a flat management structure, code simplicity and clarity, expecting changes in the customer's requirements as time passes and the problem is better understood, and frequent communication with the customer and among programmers. The methodology takes its name from the idea that the beneficial elements of traditional software engineering practices are taken to "extreme" levels. As an example, code reviews are considered a beneficial practice; taken to the extreme, code can be reviewed continuously (i.e. the practice of pair programming).
History
Kent Beck developed extreme programming during his work on the Chrysler Comprehensive Compensation System (C3) payroll project. Beck became the C3 project leader in March 1996. He began to refine the development methodology used in the project and wrote a book on the methodology (Extreme Programming Explained, published in October 1999). Chrysler cancelled the C3 project in February 2000, after seven years, when Daimler-Benz acquired the company. Ward Cunningham was another major influence on XP.
Many extreme-programming practices have been around for some time; the methodology takes "best practices" to extreme levels. For example, the "practice of test-first development, planning and writing tests before each micro-increment" was used as early as NASA's Project Mercury, in the early 1960s. To shorten the total development time, some formal test documents (such as for acceptance testing) have been developed in parallel with (or shortly before) the software being ready for testing. A NASA independent test group can write the test procedures, based on formal requirements and logical limits, before programmers write the software and integrate it with the hardware. XP takes this concept to the extreme level, writing automated tests (sometimes inside software modules) which validate the operation of even small sections of software coding, rather than only testing the larger features.
Origins
Two major influences shaped software development in the 1990s:
Internally, object-oriented programming replaced procedural programming as the programming paradigm favored by some developers.
Externally, the rise of the Internet and the dot-com boom emphasized speed-to-market and company growth as competitive business factors.
Rapidly changing requirements demanded shorter product life-cycles, and often clashed with traditional methods of software development.
The Chrysler Com |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Extensible%20LAN | Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to address the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. It uses a VLAN-like encapsulation technique to encapsulate OSI layer 2 Ethernet frames within layer 4 UDP datagrams, using 4789 as the default IANA-assigned destination UDP port number. VXLAN endpoints, which terminate VXLAN tunnels and may be either virtual or physical switch ports, are known as VXLAN tunnel endpoints (VTEPs).
VXLAN is an evolution of efforts to standardize on an overlay encapsulation protocol. Compared to VLAN which provides limited number of layer-2 VLANs (typically using 12-bit VLAN ID), VXLAN increases scalability up to 16 million logical networks (with 24-bit VNID) and allows for layer-2 adjacency across IP networks. Multicast or unicast with head-end replication (HER) is used to flood Broadcast, unknown-unicast and multicast traffic.
The VXLAN specification was originally created by VMware, Arista Networks and Cisco. Other backers of the VXLAN technology include Huawei, Broadcom, Citrix, Pica8, Big Switch Networks, Cumulus Networks, Dell EMC, Ericsson, Mellanox, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Red Hat, Joyent, and Juniper Networks.
VXLAN is officially documented by the IETF in RFC 7348. VXLAN encapsulates a MAC frame in a UDP datagram for transport across an IP network, creating an overlay network or tunnel.
Open vSwitch is an example of a software-based virtual network switch that supports VXLAN overlay networks.
See also
Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
GENEVE, an industry effort to unify both VXLAN and NVGRE technologies
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
IEEE 802.1ad, an Ethernet networking standard, also known as provider bridging, Stacked VLANs, or simply QinQ.
NVGRE, a similar competing specification
Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV)
Virtual LAN (VLAN)
Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
References
External links
VXLAN Deep Dive: Part 1 and Part 2, November 2012, by Joe Onisick
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Virtualization%20using%20Generic%20Routing%20Encapsulation | Network Virtualization using Generic Routing Encapsulation (NVGRE) is a network virtualization technology that attempts to alleviate the scalability problems associated with large cloud computing deployments. It uses Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) to tunnel layer 2 packets over layer 3 networks.
Its principal backer is Microsoft.
See also
Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN), a similar competing specification
Generic Networking Virtualization Encapsulation (GENEVE), an industry effort to unify both VXLAN and NVGRE technologies
Generic Routing Encapsulation, GRE for transporting L3 packets.
References
External links
NVGRE Overview, November 19, 2012, by Joe Onisick
Tunneling protocols |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%20%28French%20magazine%29 | Tilt was a French magazine which began publication in September 1982, focused on computer and console gaming. It was the first French magazine specifically devoted to video games. The headquarters of the magazine was in Paris.
The name of the magazine was a nod to the pinball term, where excessive nudging of a pinball machine would result in a "tilt" penalty, and the loss of a turn during gameplay. The final issue of Tilt was published January 1994.
References
External links
Tiltback issues provided by abandonware-magazines.org
Archived Tilt Magazines at Internet Archive
1982 establishments in France
1994 disestablishments in France
Defunct computer magazines
Defunct magazines published in France
French-language magazines
Video game magazines published in France
Magazines established in 1982
Magazines disestablished in 1994
Magazines published in Paris
Monthly magazines published in France |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Florida%20Network%20of%20Youth%20and%20Family%20Services | The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a non-profit statewide association and contract management entity, of 31 agencies dealing with runaway, truant, ungovernable and other troubled youth and their families.
History
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services ("The Florida Network") was founded in 1976. It has a special statutory designation to provide its youth crisis centers services specifically as a "Children/Families In Need of Services" (CINS/FINS) organization.
Originally, there were seventeen Florida Network crisis shelters providing services in specialized client intake, crisis stabilization, residential and non-residential counseling, and case management.
Eventually, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services would expand to 31 crisis agencies and community-based organizations, while adding onto its plate contract monitoring (in 2001, the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice would give it exclusive contract management responsibility for CINS/FINS), data collection, quality improvement, staff training, communications and fundraising.
Moreover, it would receive recognition from the American Bar Association and the Vera Institute of Justice for its path-breaking program model, while also being profiled by The New York Times for its early efforts to help at-risk teenagers.
Today, the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a model Florida Department of Juvenile Justice service provider, carefully managing a $31 million contract, and running a full-scale membership portfolio that includes a refined quality improvement process, legislative advocacy, comprehensive best practices training in prevention, and non-profit financial management expertise, making it one of the most effective organizations for prevention advocacy within the United States.
Leadership
The Florida Network of Youth and Family Services is a membership-based association of 31 agencies, run by a 16-member citizen Board of Directors', and the President/CEO of the organization, Stacy Gromatski. Board membership is based on circuit representation, and includes three agency directors as ex-officio members of the Board of Directors.'
Board of Directors
Chairman Chris Dudley, Southern Strategy Group
Vice Chairman Sheriff Don Eslinger, Seminole County
Treasurer David Griffin, Consultant
Secretary Cynthia Hadley, Community Leader
Dominic Calabro, Immediate Past Chairman, Florida TaxWatch
Barry Cofield, NFL Player
Laurie Jackson, National Safe Place
Samuel Morley, General Counsel, Florida Press Association
Tracy Salem, Ex Officio, Orange County Government
Carl Weinrich, Ex Officio, President/CEO, Sarasota YMCA
Brian C. Johnson, Ex Officio, Community Based-Connections
Jim Pearce, Ex Officio, CDS Family & Behavioral Services
Matt Meadows, Former Legislator
Kathy Tuell, Former President/CEO of the Florida Keys Children's Shelter
Dennis Jones, Former Tallahassee Police Chief
Maggie Bowles, Community Advocate and Volunteer
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypher%20%28video%20game%29 | Cypher: Cyberpunk Text Adventure is a cyberpunk interactive fiction video game written by the Cabrera Brothers and released on August 31, 2012. It includes music, sound effects and limited graphical elements. The game was released for Microsoft Windows and OS X.
Gameplay
Gameplay consists of the player reading descriptions of their character's location and surroundings as presented in text form by the game, then inputting their desired actions into the text parser. Further atmospheric detail is provided throughout the game in the form of background music and sound effects, as well as an animated image of the player character on the righthand side of the screen. When the player collects an important object from the game environment, these too are displayed on the right hand side. These images are updated when the object changes, such as when a dirty keycard is cleaned or a device is activated.
Plot
The setting and style of the game has drawn comparisons to classic science fiction works such as Total Recall and Blade Runner. The game is set in NeoSushi City, formerly Tokyo, several years after a catastrophe saw a portion of the moon impact the earth's surface, destroying much of civilisation, including the internet. Corporations rely on individuals who are able to courier data using personal cybernetic implants, and the protagonist, Dogeron "Dog" Kenan, does this for a living. At the opening of the game a deal has gone wrong and he has become a wanted man.
Development
Cypher was the first game that Javier and Carlos Cabrera created independently, though Carlos worked previously as a concept artist on F.E.A.R., Section 8 and Aliens: Colonial Marines. They began work with a story in mind and chose interactive fiction for the genre as they felt it would be the quickest way to develop and publish a game. They trialed a number of text adventure parsers, including Inform and TADS, before settling on Unity3D.
Release
Cypher was released in three different versions: Standard, Collector and Deluxe. The more expensive Collector and Deluxe versions included an expanded range of printable feelies, including a paper art construction set in the Deluxe version. All three versions were released with the game's soundtrack included. In response to several reports of bugs from both users and reviewers, the game has been patched several times since release. A version of Cypher which is compatible with screen readers used by the visually impaired is currently in production along with a second part in pre-production.
Reception
Cypher received a degree of media coverage prior to its release, largely focussing on the unusual choice to publish a text based game in the modern day, with PC Gamer referring to it as a "colourful, text-based throwback." Upon release, reviews were mixed, with much of the criticism directed at the text parser. Adventure Classic Gaming were positive about the game's setting and story but highly critical of the writing and the technical elemen |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa%2024 | Africa 24 is a 24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week television news network devoted to news about Africa. It broadcasts in French to France, but is also available in Sub-Saharan Africa. In January 2013, Arab Satellite Communications Organization (Arabsat) announced that it would be making Africa 24 available to satellite subscribers in the Middle East and North Africa, intending to reach an audience of immigrants to the region from Sub-Saharan Africa.
Programming
Launched in 2009, Africa 24 is comparable with the United States-based news network CNN, Britain's BBC World News, France's France 24, the pan-European Euronews, Germany's Deutsche Welle, and Arab- and English-language news broadcaster Al Jazeera. The Africa 24 network also broadcasts some news programming on its website. Some core programming broadcast by Africa24 includes Journal Télévisé (JT), the evening summary of the day's news; Talks, a politics- and economics-oriented program that includes debates on current affairs topics; Sport, covering sports news across Africa; and Magazine, a cultural affairs program.
Development
Africa 24 was founded by Constant Nemale, President of the company Afrimédia SA, based in Saint-Cloud, France. Africa 24 accounts for a large part of the Holding S.A. Afrimédia International, headquartered in Luxembourg. 20% of this company is owned by the Republic of Equatorial Guinea and, as of 2012, the Republic of Cameroon. AFRIMEDIA has offered its stock to many other African states.
Afrimedia France, editorial administrators of Africa 24, employed 94 staff in 2012. Two unions are officially present at the company.
Believe in Africa
In 2011, they launched the commercial label "Believe in Africa" with the support of their partners and multinational companies. The "Believe in Africa" label is aimed to support African businesses by boosting confidence in the quality of their workmanship. The label is based on the now internationally known Made in China label on the back of goods.
The African News Room
Every weekday evening, Africa 24 broadcasts a segment called the Africa News Room. The program starts at 17:30 GMT and ends at 18:30. The program is presented by Marie Angèle Toure and Khadija Sfar.
Africa News Room themes include economy, politics, education, health and society.
The Talk
The Talk is a segment of Africa 24 where the host Babylas Boton interviews African political, economic and social personalities. Ministers, writers, historians, economists and investors in Africa have appeared. One of the most famous people to appear on "The Talk" is the President of the National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire, Mamadou Koulibaly.
References
External links
Official Africa 24 website
24-hour television news channels
French-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20French%20films%20of%202013 | A list of films produced in France in 2013.
References
External links
2013 in France
2013 in French television
French films of 2013 at the Internet Movie Database
French films of 2013 at Cinema-francais.fr
List of 2013 box office number-one films in France
French
2012
Films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti%20Pietik%C3%A4inen%20%28academic%29 | Matti Kalevi Pietikäinen is a computer scientist. He is currently Professor (emer.) in the Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu, Finland. His research interests are in texture-based computer vision, face analysis, affective computing, biometrics, and vision-based perceptual interfaces. He was Director of the Center for Machine Vision Research, and Scientific Director of Infotech Oulu.
Biography
Pietikäinen received the Doctor of Science in Technology degree from University of Oulu, Finland, in 1982. From 1980 to 1981 and from 1984 to 1985 he was with the Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Maryland, working with a pioneer of the computer image analysis, Professor Azriel Rosenfeld. After the first visit, he established computer vision research at University of Oulu. For the 25th Anniversary book of his group in Oulu, see the list of selected publications.
He has authored over 350 refereed scientific publications, which have been frequently cited. He has made pioneering contributions to local binary patterns (LBP) methodology, texture-based image and video analysis, and facial image analysis.
He has been Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), Pattern Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Forensics and Security, Image and Vision Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior and Identity Science. He has also been Guest Editor for several special issues, including IEEE TPAMI and International Journal of Computer Vision.
In 2011, he was named an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to texture and facial image analysis for machine vision. Already in 1994, he received the IAPR Fellow nomination for contributions to machine vision and its applications in industry and service to the IAPR In 2018, he received the IAPR's King-Sun Fu Prize for fundamental contributions to texture analysis and facial image analysis. He was named a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics in 2018. Since February 2023 he will be listed by Webometrics among the Highly Cited Researchers whose h-index is at least 100.
Selected publications
References
External links
Center for Machine Vision and Signal Analysis, University of Oulu
Local Binary Pattern (LBP) methodology in Scholarpedia
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Computer vision researchers
Finnish computer scientists
Academic staff of the University of Oulu
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20Fast | Turbo Fast is an American flash-animated web television series based on the 2013 computer-animated film Turbo. Produced by DreamWorks Animation Television and animated by Titmouse, it is being exclusively released on Netflix in United States and in the 40 countries where Netflix offers its services at the time, but it became available worldwide via Netflix over time. It is the first Netflix original series for children, and the first DreamWorks Animation series produced for Netflix.
The first five episodes of the first 26-episode season were released on December 24, 2013, with subsequent batches of five to six episodes following around holidays throughout 2014. Each episode consists of two 11-minutes segments, except for few double-length episodes. Season 2 was released on Netflix on July 31, 2015. The third and final season was released on Netflix on February 5, 2016.
Set five months after the events of the film, the series follows Turbo and his crew to Starlight City, where they master new stunts and compete with villains. It is being animation directed by Mike Roush, casting and voice directed by Andrea Romano, art directed by Antonio Canobbio, produced by Ben Kalina, Shannon Barrett Prynoski and Jennifer Ray, and executive produced by Chris Prynoski and Jack Thomas. Beside Ken Jeong and Michael Patrick Bell, who reprise their roles of Kim-Ly and White Shadow from the film, the series features an all-new cast. It consists of Reid Scott as Turbo, John Eric Bentley as Whiplash, Grey DeLisle-Griffin as Burn, Phil LaMarr as Smoove Move, Amir Talai as Skidmark and Tito, and Eric Bauza as Chet and Guy Gagné.
On April 2, 2023, the series was removed from the streaming service.
Premise
Five months after the events of Turbo (2013), Tito builds a city for all the snails along with Turbo, additionally building a race track for the snails to race. Turbo continues his racing adventures with the help of his brother Chet, and his friends Whiplash, Burn, Skidmark, White Shadow, and Smoove Move. Together they decide to call themselves the Fast Action Stunt Team, or F.A.S.T.
Characters
Main
Theo/Theodore "Turbo" (voiced by Reid Scott) – The main protagonist of Turbo, a snail who has gained super speed, skills and abilities similar to a car after being swallowed by a car engine which infused his DNA with Nitrous oxide, and who has won the Indy 500 with said powers.
Whitney "Whiplash" Chubbington (voiced by John Eric Bentley) – The tough-as-nails leader of the F.A.S.T. crew, whose shell is equipped with a jet engine. Despite his gruff attitude, he has a fondness for lavender lotion.
Skip "Skidmark" Markovich (voiced by Amir Talai) – The F.A.S.T. crew's main mechanic, whose shell is equipped with a propeller. He is fond of conspiracy theories, which seems to annoy the other team members, despite most of them proving to be true. Despite his idiosyncrasies, he is a devoted team member. He is best friends with White Shadow.
Chester "Chet" (voiced by Eric Ba |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C4%83nu%C8%9B%20Marcu | Dănuţ Marcu (born 11 January 1952) is a Romanian mathematician and computer scientist, who received his Ph.D. from the University of Bucharest in 1981. He claimed to have authored more than 400 scientific papers.
Marcu was frequently accused of plagiarism.
The editors of Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai, Informatica decided to ban Marcu from their journal for this reason, as did the editors of 4OR and the editors of Geombinatorics. The editors of Geometriae Dedicata state that they suspect Marcu of plagiarism, as he submitted a manuscript which is "more-or-less word for word the same" as a paper by Bernt Lindström. Jerrold W. Grossman, Sanpei Kageyama, Martin R. Pettet, and anonymous reviewers have accused Marcu of plagiarism in MathSciNet reviews. According to the managing editors of Menemui Matematik, Marcu's paper in that journal is a well known result in graph theory, and the paper "should not have been published".
See also
List of scientific misconduct incidents
References
External links
Living people
1952 births
20th-century Romanian mathematicians
21st-century Romanian mathematicians
Scientists from Bucharest
People involved in plagiarism controversies
People involved in scientific misconduct incidents
University of Bucharest alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20APIs | Google APIs are application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services. Examples of these include Search, Gmail, Translate or Google Maps. Third-party apps can use these APIs to take advantage of or extend the functionality of the existing services.
The APIs provide functionality like analytics, machine learning as a service (the Prediction API) or access to user data (when permission to read the data is given). Another important example is an embedded Google map on a website, which can be achieved using the Static Maps API, Places API or Google Earth API.
Authentication and authorization
Usage of all of the APIs requires authentication and authorization using the Oauth 2.0 protocol. Oauth 2.0 is a simple protocol. To start, it is necessary to obtain credentials from the Developers Console. Then the client app can request an access Token from the Google Authorization Server, and uses that Token for authorization when accessing a Google API service.
Client libraries
There are client libraries in various languages which allow developers to use Google APIs from within their code, including Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET, Objective-C, PHP and Python.
The Google Loader is a JavaScript library which allows web developers to easily load other JavaScript API provided by Google and other developers of popular libraries. Google Loader provides a JavaScript method for loading a specific API (also called module), in which additional settings can be specified such as API version, language, location, selected packages, load callback (computer programming) and other parameters specific to a particular API. Dynamic loading or auto-loading is also supported to enhance the performance of the application using the loaded APIs.
Google Apps Script
Google Apps Script is a cloud-based JavaScript platform which allows developers to write scripts only owner can manipulate API services such as Calendar, Docs, Drive, Gmail, and Sheets and easily create Add-Ons for these services with chromium based applications.
Common use cases
User registration is commonly done via Google, which allows users to securely log into third-party services with their Google account through the Google Sign-in system. This is currently available from within Android (operating system) or by using JavaScript. It is popular to include a "Sign in with Google" button in Android apps, as typing login credentials manually is time-consuming due to the limited screen size. As the user is usually signed into their Google account on their mobile device, signing-in/signing-up for a new service using a Google account is usually a matter of a few button clicks.
Drive apps are various web applications which work within Google Drive using the Drive API. Users can integrate these apps into their Drive from the Chrome Web Store, allowing them to work entirely in the cloud. There are many apps available for collabo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20basis%20function%20kernel | In machine learning, the radial basis function kernel, or RBF kernel, is a popular kernel function used in various kernelized learning algorithms. In particular, it is commonly used in support vector machine classification.
The RBF kernel on two samples and x', represented as feature vectors in some input space, is defined as
may be recognized as the squared Euclidean distance between the two feature vectors. is a free parameter. An equivalent definition involves a parameter :
Since the value of the RBF kernel decreases with distance and ranges between zero (in the limit) and one (when ), it has a ready interpretation as a similarity measure.
The feature space of the kernel has an infinite number of dimensions; for , its expansion using the multinomial theorem is:
where ,
Approximations
Because support vector machines and other models employing the kernel trick do not scale well to large numbers of training samples or large numbers of features in the input space, several approximations to the RBF kernel (and similar kernels) have been introduced.
Typically, these take the form of a function z that maps a single vector to a vector of higher dimensionality, approximating the kernel:
where is the implicit mapping embedded in the RBF kernel.
Fourier random features
One way to construct such a z is to randomly sample from the Fourier transformation of the kernelwhere are independent samples from the normal distribution .
Theorem: .
Proof: It suffices to prove the case of . Use the trigonometric identity , the spherical symmetry of gaussian distribution, then evaluate the integral .
Theorem: . (Appendix A.2).
Nyström method
Another approach uses the Nyström method to approximate the eigendecomposition of the Gram matrix K, using only a random sample of the training set.
See also
Gaussian function
Kernel (statistics)
Polynomial kernel
Radial basis function
Radial basis function network
Obst Kernel network
References
Kernel methods for machine learning
Support vector machines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starz%20Inc. | Starz Inc. is an American entertainment company that owns and operates pay television channels, including the namesake Starz network, Starz Encore and MoviePlex, as well as a media distribution company. The company is headquartered at Meridian, Colorado, and uses nearby Englewood as its location in corporate filings and press releases. On December 8, 2016, it became a subsidiary of Lionsgate.
History
Early history
Encore Movie Group was founded in 1991 as a wholly owned television programming subsidiary and a joint venture of Liberty Media and Tele-Communications Inc., two companies that were controlled by John C. Malone. The premium channel Encore was launched in 1991 on cable systems operated by Tele-Communications Inc., followed by the launch of Starz in 1994, and Encore Plex (now MoviePlex) in 1997. In 1994, Encore Movie Group was renamed Encore Media Corporation.
On June 2, 1997, TCI announced it would transfer part of its ownership stake in Encore Media Corporation to sister company Liberty Media, due in part to substantial losses incurred by the Starz network. TCI retained a minority 20% ownership interest in Encore Media Corporation, renamed Encore Media Group in 1998, until Liberty Media acquired TCI's stake following its 1999 merger with AT&T Corporation and assumed full ownership of the Encore Media Group.
In 1999, Encore Media Group was renamed the Starz Encore Media Group; "Media" was dropped off in 2001, becoming Starz Encore Group. The company also launched a film and documentary production division, Starz Encore Entertainment.
As part of a corporate restructuring in 2003, Starz Encore Group eliminated 100 jobs in its nine regional offices, four of which have been closed. On March 25, 2005, Starz Encore Group was renamed Starz Entertainment Group (also known as Starz Entertainment, LLC), and on March 28, the Starz! network was renamed Starz (dropping the exclamation point) and adopted a new logo featuring a hand-drawn star and a wordmark set in Helvetica Neue Black.
Starz Media
On August 31, 2006, Liberty Media acquired the US division of IDT Entertainment for $186 million, followed by the Canadian and Australian divisions on September 29, 2006. IDT Entertainment was then merged under Starz Entertainment Group and renamed Starz Media.
On November 19, 2009, Liberty Media spun off Starz Entertainment Group into a separate tracking stock, known as Liberty Starz. On January 1, 2010, Chris Albrecht became the president and CEO of Liberty Starz, overseeing the company's entities including Starz Entertainment, Overture Films, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Film Roman.
On January 4, 2011, The Weinstein Company (TWC) acquired 25% of Starz Media, one of the operating units of Liberty Starz. The arrangement included a five-year distribution deal under which starting in April 2011, Liberty Starz's Anchor Bay Entertainment would release new TWC films on DVD and Starz Digital Media would handle online downloads and streaming.
On August 8, |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri%20Ventures | Nutri Ventures (also known as Nutri Ventures – The Quest for the 7 Kingdoms, ) is an animated television series produced by the Nutri Ventures Corporation and Dentsu Aegis Network, Entertainment One Television in United States, that is distributed through Hulu Kids.
Synopsis
Young heroes Theo, Lena, Ben, and Nina go on a mission to discover food-group kingdoms in this animated series. Traveling from kingdom to kingdom, the heroes discover the nutripowers of the lost foods that they rescue. Their goal is to bring healthy food back to their city, where supervillain Alex Grand makes sure that no food exists. With childhood obesity on the rise, "Nutri Ventures" aims to create a positive message about healthy eating for young people.
Characters
Main
Theo is the leader of the main group. He keeps the medallion with him.
Lena is the most intelligent of the group. She keeps the NutriPad with her to level nutrition on people.
Ben is fat and has a crush on Inca.
Nina is playful and cute. She is Theo's younger sister.
Alex Grand is the main antagonist of the series. The president of the Unhealthy Food Grand Corporation, he replaced all the food in the world with a food-like product called "Genex 100".
Murdock was Alex's elderly father, who had a vision of Theo saving the food.
Nose is Alex's second-in-command.
Nexus is the leader of the seven Guardians.
The Gugas are small and spherical bulldog-like creatures. The purple one usually accompanies the main four.
Guardian Purple is Theo's grandfather.
Teacher/Phyllis is Theo's teacher. She thinks of Alex Grand as a role model.
Episodes
Series overview
The Origins (2012)
Season 1: The Beginning of Nutritions (2012)
Season 2: Kingdom of Medieval (2012)
Season 3: Boosting West (2013)
Season 4: Intelligence Sea (2013)
Season 5: Apocalypse Vegetables (2014)
Broadcast
Portugal: RTP2 (September, 2012); Canal Panda (October, 2012); RTP1 (2016)
US: YouTube, Kabillion (April, 2013); Qubo (April, 2016)
South Africa: eToonz (2018)
Reception
Common Sense Media gave the series an extremely positive review, rating it at five stars and praising it for its lack of extreme violence and promotion of healthy eating like Clara in Foodland.
References
External links
2010s animated television series
Portuguese children's animated fantasy television series
Child superheroes
Television series by Entertainment One
English-language television shows
Children's education television series
Animated television series about children
Television shows set in Portugal |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barak%20%28surname%29 | Barak or Barák is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Aharon Barak (born 1936), former President of the Supreme Court of Israel
Boaz Barak (born 1974), Israeli-American computer scientist
Ehud Barak (born 1942), Israeli former Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
Josef Barák (1833–1883), Czech politician, journalist, and poet
Jindřich Barák (born 1991), Czech ice hockey player
Ronald Barak (born 1943), American Olympic gymnast
Valia Barak (born 1969), Peruvian journalist
William Barak (1824–1903), last traditional elder of the Wurundjeri-willam clan in Australia
Ze'ev Barak, a pen name of Wolf Blitzer (born 1948), a German-American writer and TV news anchor
(1974—2012), Israeli model and pornographic actor
See also
Barac (disambiguation)
Barack (disambiguation)
B-R-K
B-R-Q
Hebrew-language surnames |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20freight%20in%20Great%20Britain | The railway network in Great Britain has been used to transport goods of various types and in varying volumes since the early 19th century. Network Rail, which owns and maintains the network, aims to increase the amount of goods carried by rail. In 2015–16 Britain's railways moved 17.8 billion net tonne kilometres, a 20% fall compared to 2014–15. Coal accounted for 13.1% of goods transport in Britain, down considerably from previous years. There are no goods transported by railway in Northern Ireland.
History
Pre-19th century
Even in the 16th century, mining engineers used crude wooden rails to facilitate the movement of mine wagons steered by hand. In Nottingham, 1603, a tramway was constructed to transport coal from mines near Strelley to Wollaton. Horse-drawn lines were increasingly common by the 18th and early 19th centuries, chiefly to haul bulk materials from mines to canal wharves or areas of consumption.
19th century
The world's first steam locomotive engine was demonstrated by Richard Trevithick in 1804. Steam powered rail freight operated regularly on the Middleton Railway, near Leeds, long before any passenger services. Many of the early railways of Britain carried goods, including the Stockton and Darlington Railway and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The LMR was originally intended to carry goods between the Port of Liverpool and east Lancashire, although it subsequently developed as mixed passenger-goods railway.
The network expanded rapidly as small private firms rushed to build new lines. Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, these amalgamated or were bought by competitors until only a handful of larger companies remained (see Railway mania).
The Post Office began using letter-sorting carriages in 1838, and the railway quickly proved to be a much quicker and more efficient means of transport than the old mail coaches. It was estimated in 1832 that using the LMR to transport mail between the two cities reduced the expense to the government by two-thirds. It was also much faster to send newspapers across Great Britain.
Early 20th century
The First World War was dubbed the "Railway War" at the time. Indeed, thousands of tonnes of munitions and supplies were distributed from all over Great Britain to ports in the South East of England for shipping to France and the Front Line. Due to pre-war inefficiencies in the rail goods transport, a number of economisation programmes were needed to allow the railways to meet with the huge demand that was being put on their services. The Common User Agreement for wagon usage and regulation of coal services through the Coal Transport Act of 1917 are examples of such programmes, which enabled better utilisation of railway assets across the industry. The success of such schemes was entirely down to the collaboration of more than 100 railway companies, who abandoned the fierce competition of the pre-war years to work together in the national interest. In no sector was thi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light%20rail%20in%20Canberra | The Canberra light rail network, also known as Canberra Metro, is a light rail system serving the city of Canberra, Australia. The initial line links the northern town centre of Gungahlin to the city centre (Civic) and has 14 stops. Services commenced on 20 April 2019. The 14th stop at Sandford Street in Mitchell commenced operation in September 2021.
An extension of the line south to the Woden Town Centre is currently being planned. Early works on the southern extension (Stage 2A to Commonwealth Park) are set to commence in 2021 with plans due for submission around October. Planning of the remainder of the extension (Stage 2B to Woden) will continue while construction of Stage 2A is underway.
History
Background
Walter Burley Griffin's master plan for Canberra proposed the construction of a tram network. The proposal did not eventuate and the city was exclusively served by buses from 1926, when the Canberra City Omnibus Service was introduced, until 2019.
While railways across Canberra, including one to Belconnen, were seriously considered until the mid-1960s, little discussion of a metropolitan tramway occurred until the 1990s. Before 1989, the ACT had been directly administered by the Federal Government thus any large public infrastructure expenditure in Canberra was subject to national scrutiny.
In the early 1990s, Canberra Land proposed an line from Canberra Racecourse via Northbourne Avenue to Civic with Melbourne tram B2089 displayed in February 1992.
A light rail connection for Gungahlin was proposed as far back as 1992. An eight-year-old Canberran proposed the idea of a tram line to the newly announced, but undeveloped town centre of Gungahlin in April 1992. In October 1992 a syndicate of private land developers MBA Land and Consolidated Builders (together known as Canberra Land) incorporated rail into an urban village plan. The Gungahlin proposal followed a 1991 Murdoch University report, Towards a More Sustainable Canberra, which suggested the city was too car-oriented and should implement a light rail system along the Y-Plan. In 1993 a report by Maunsell-Denis Johnston and Associates found that a dedicated inter-town busway was a more viable transport option for Canberra than light rail.
In 1994, the ACT Government commissioned a study into light rail, based on the findings of an independent report that light rail would be viable in Canberra by 1998. In its detailed report consultants Booz Allen Hamilton recommended a route from Belconnen to Barton via the City and Kings Avenue Bridge be operating by 1998; Woden to Barton by 2000; Tuggeranong to Woden by 2002 and Gungahlin to City by 2004. Routes to Canberra Airport and Queanbeyan received a lower priority. By January 1995 the then ACT Liberal Opposition Leader, Kate Carnell, announced her party's opposition to the light rail proposal citing "suspect" patronage figures and questioned the report's projected population for Canberra-Queanbeyan of 474,000 by 2016. Projections in |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20African%20Hypnosis%20Network | The South African Hypnosis Network [SAHN] was founded on April 20, 2012. SAHN is a modern non-profit, non-affiliated, independent and democratic organisation established as a professional resource for all Hypnosis Professionals (Hypnotists and Hypnotherapists) in South Africa. SAHN was founded by Leo Gopal, a South African Hypnosis Trainer and Practitioner.
In 2012, SAHN created the first Hypnosis Census for South African Hypnosis Professionals in order to get a clear understanding of the current state of the hypnosis profession in South Africa. SAHN has also created legal resources which are freely available for Hypnotherapists regarding the legalities of Hypnosis Practice in South Africa, this and many other such resources are available in the SAHN Hypnosis Toolbox.
SAHN works closely with other organisation with similar aims, such as, The Hypnosis Guild of Southern Africa which is also a non-profit and non-aligned organisation that hosts regular premiere hypnosis events across the three major cities of South Africa.
SAHN has also created a free directory of hypnotherapists based in South Africa that is a resource for the South African public to better find a Hypnosis Professional near them.
References
External links
Official Website
New World Hypnosis & Tarot Reading
Hypnosis organizations
Medical and health organisations based in South Africa |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodoxa%20horridata | Hypodoxa horridata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found in Australia, including New South Wales.
References
Moths described in 1863
Pseudoterpnini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indicator%20of%20compromise | Indicator of compromise (IoC) in computer forensics is an artifact observed on a network or in an operating system that, with high confidence, indicates a computer intrusion.
Types of indication
Typical IoCs are virus signatures and IP addresses, MD5 hashes of malware files, or URLs or domain names of botnet command and control servers. After IoCs have been identified via a process of incident response and computer forensics, they can be used for early detection of future attack attempts using intrusion detection systems and antivirus software.
Automation
There are initiatives to standardize the format of IoC descriptors for more efficient automated processing. Known indicators are usually exchanged within the industry, where the Traffic Light Protocol is being used.
See also
AlienVault
Mandiant
Malware
Malware Information Sharing Platform
References
Indicators |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Pixel | Google Pixel is a brand of portable consumer electronic devices developed by Google that run either ChromeOS or the Android operating system. The main line of Pixel products consist of Android-powered smartphones, which have been produced since October 2016 as the replacement of the older Nexus, and of which the Pixel 8 and 8 Pro are the current models. The Pixel brand also includes laptop and tablet computers, as well as several accessories, and was originally introduced in February 2013 with the Chromebook Pixel.
Phones
Pixel and Pixel XL
Google announced the first generation Pixel smartphones, the Pixel and the Pixel XL, on October 4, 2016 during the #MadeByGoogle event. Google emphasized the camera on the two phones, which ranked as the best smartphone camera on DxOMarkMobile with 90 points until HTC released the U11, which also scored 90 points. This is largely due to software optimizations such as HDR+. The Pixel phones also include unlimited cloud storage for pictures on Google Photos and, for devices purchased directly from Google, an unlockable bootloader. In 2019, a class action lawsuit over faulty microphones in some devices enabled Pixel owners to claim up to $500 in compensation.
Display: 5.0" 60 Hz AMOLED display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution (Pixel); 5.5" AMOLED 60 Hz display with 1440×2560 pixel resolution (Pixel XL)
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 821
Storage: UFS 2.0 with 32 GB or 128 GB
RAM: 4 GB LPDDR4
Cameras: 12.3 MP rear camera Sony Exmore IMX378 sensor with f/2.0 lens and IR laser-assisted autofocus; 1.55 μm pixel size. 8 MP front camera with f/2.4 lens
Battery: 2,770 mAh (Pixel); 3,450 mAh (Pixel XL); both are non-removable and have fast charging
Materials: Aluminum unibody design with hybrid coating; IP53 water and dust resistance
Colors: Very Silver , Quite Black or Really Blue (Limited Edition)
Operating system: Android 7.1 Nougat; upgradable to Android 10
Pixel 2 and 2 XL
Google announced the Pixel 2 series, consisting of the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, on October 4, 2017.
Display: 5.0" AMOLED 60 Hz display with 1080×1920 pixel resolution (Pixel 2); 6" P-OLED 60 Hz display with 1440×2880 pixel resolution (Pixel 2 XL); Both displays have Corning Gorilla Glass 5
Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 835
Storage: UFS 2.1 with 64 GB or 128 GB
RAM: 4 GB LPDDR4X
Cameras: 12.2 MP rear camera Sony Exmor IMX362 with f/1.8 lens, IR laser-assisted autofocus, optical and electronic image stabilization; 8 MP front camera with f/2.4 lens
Battery: 2,700 mAh (Pixel 2); 3,520 mAh (Pixel 2 XL); both are non-removable and have fast charging
Materials: Aluminum unibody design with hybrid coating; IP67 water and dust resistance
Colors: Just Black , Clearly White or Kinda Blue (Pixel 2); Just Black or Black and White (Pixel 2 XL)
Operating system: Android 8.0 Oreo; upgradable to Android 11
Pixel 3 and 3 XL
Google announced the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL at an event on October 9, 2018, alongside several other product |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20Development%20Option | Edge Development Option (EDO) comprises a set of C++ computer libraries produced by Boeing that allows to quickly build 2D and 3D visualization software similar to Google Earth, in order to display satellite imagery and create virtual scenarios for displaying sensor, 3D models, 4D (time-dependent) tracks and for line-of-sight and smart volume analysis. EDO is a toolkit based on EDGE Whole Earth, a software program developed by a company named Autometric, now part of Boeing. While EDGE was initially mainly developed for SGI machines, EDO is mainly Windows-based. EDO retained much of EDGE's functionality but allowed greater flexibility for developers, i.e. the ability to integrate EDO functionality into their own application leveraging on EDO's libraries. Google Earth is the more famous heir to the 3D applications EDGE and EDO.
However, unlike Google Earth, EDO and EDGE were not just 3D or 2D visualisation applications, but they allowed for analysis, e.g. line of sight analysis, and therefore were also used for military applications. EDO provides a continuous display of surveillance and reconnaissance sensors’ positions and fields-of-view, including terrain constraints. The open interface can also deliver real-time data surveillance and reconnaissance feeds using data displayed in a 3-D visualization environment. With precision sensor analysis, satellites and air and ground-based platforms, essential intelligence can be collected in real time. For these reasons, a licensed copy of EDO was also installed in the White House. In addition, outside the United States, the Australian Defence Force uses a licensed copy of this software (FORCE LEVEL EW IN THE AUSTRALIAN DEFENCE FORCE by Anthony Finn, Greg Chalmers, and Adrian Pincombe).
In 2005, EDO was renamed BDO (BattleScape Developer option), and a full-fledged application, named BattleScape, was released together with the toolkit. Mark Turner was the first lead engineer for BDO, followed by Brian Griglak and since 2010 by Valentino Zocca.
References
External links
Official and related sites
Boeing Media Advertising - Boeing Media Advertising
Remote Sensing Document referencing EDO and EDGE - Remote Sensing Document referencing EDO and EDGE
Boeing News - Boeing Press Release
Boeing News - Boeing Press Release
Application of Network Centric Warfare Concepts to a Land-Air System – an experimentation approach - Research paper citing EDO use
MacOS programming tools
Programming tools for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%20of%20Scientology%20International | The Church of Scientology International (CSI) is a California 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Within the worldwide network of Scientology corporations and entities, CSI is officially referred to as the "mother church" of the Church of Scientology.
The Church of Scientology International coordinates church growth, and attempts to preserve the uniformity of the teachings of Scientology's founder, L. Ron Hubbard. Golden Era Productions, a division of CSI, prints Scientology material, such as books, audio recordings of Hubbard's lectures, training films, and similar. Golden Era Productions also oversees the manufacture of E-meters.
In a 1993 memorandum by CSI, the following information was provided to the Internal Revenue Service with regards to CSI's role and functions, its personnel and its income:
[...] CSI [...] is the Mother Church of the Scientology religion, with ecclesiastical authority over the ministry of religious services to parishioners by all subordinate churches within the ecclesiastical hierarchy. This church has a staff of approximately 990 individuals and an annual budget of approximately $ 46.8 million, based on its annual disbursements for the most recent year for which financial statements are available. [...]"
Corporate information
Basic information
The Church of Scientology International (CSI) was incorporated on November 18, 1981, in Los Angeles, California by Richard Murray.
The official address of CSI is 6331 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles 90028, in the Hollywood Guarantee Building. CSI also has offices at the Scientology complex in Gilman Hot Springs. Here the official address is 19625 Highway 79, Gilman Hot Springs 92383.
On September 21, 1993, the following individuals held corporate positions at CSI: The board of trustees was composed of Mark Rathbun, Ray Mithoff, Mark Ingber, Marc Yager and John Eastment. Jens Uhrskov, Michael Rinder and Guillaume Lesèvre formed the board of directors. At that time, the president of CSI was Heber Jentzsch, CSI's vice-president was Brian Anderson, its secretary Lynn Farny, its assistant secretary Leslie Browning and its treasurer Jonathan Epstein.
As of September 12, 1999 CSI's corporate officers were Heber Jentzsch as chief executive officer (president), Lynn Farny as secretary and Sarah Blythe as chief financial officer (treasurer).
As of March 24, 2008, CSI's official agent has been Jeanne M. Gavigan, 3055 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900, Los Angeles 90010.
On August 18, 1993, CSI filed an application for tax exemption under section 501(c)3) of the Internal Revenue Code and on September 3, 1993, a request for "group exemption" for the affiliated "Scientology churches"/"Class V organizations". In the same year, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) eventually granted CSI's request for exemption.
The granting of tax exemption to CSI and other Scientology corporations was preceded by years of continuous litigation between the IRS and the various entities of Scientology. Accord |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiwavelength%20Atlas%20of%20Galaxies | The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies is a textbook and atlas of 35 well studied galaxies (including our Galaxy) authored by Glen Mackie of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology. It was originally published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.
Atlas scope
The purpose of the atlas is to display and describe some of the best multiwavelength images of galaxies. The images originate from a variety of telescopes, instruments and detectors, and therefore possess wide ranges of signal-to-noise, angular resolution, sampling or pixel sizes and fields of view. The atlas is a compendium of galaxy images spanning the Gamma ray, X-ray, Ultraviolet, Optical, Infrared, Submillimeter and Radio regions of the electromagnetic spectrum.
The atlas has been favourably reviewed in the Royal Astronomical Society journal, Astronomy & Geophysics. Creating the atlas was a long term project ten years in the making. Background on the genesis of the atlas can be found in an interview with the author in the Swinburne University of Technology Venture magazine. It is recommended for graduate students and above.
Explanatory text describes how different radiation is produced, which objects (i.e. cold, warm or hot gas, dust, stars, particles, atoms and molecules) it originates from, and what types of telescopes are used to detect it. The galaxies are divided into categories of Normal (N), Interacting (I), Merging (M), Starburst (S) and Active (A), though many have been classified across one or more categories. The reasons for inclusion of a galaxy into a specific category is explained in the individual galaxy summaries in the Atlas.
Galaxy types
Normal galaxies include galaxies that appear morphologically normal, do not possess unusual star formation rates, and have continuum spectra with a thermal (stellar) form characterized by one or more temperatures. Twelve N classified galaxies are in the Atlas.
Interacting galaxies display morphological signatures of a gravitational interaction with another nearby galaxy or are influenced by the passage through a dense medium that can 'strip out' constituent gas. Four I classified galaxies are in the Atlas.
Merging galaxies are the later evolutionary stages of two or more Interacting galaxies that have orbits and dynamics conducive to a final merger. Five M classified galaxies are in the Atlas.
Starburst galaxies undergo intense star formation that is well in excess of normal rates. Large numbers of young stars (O and B spectral type) exist and the dust content can be extremely high. Three S classified galaxies are in the Atlas.
Active galaxies have Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and include LINER, Seyfert, Radio Galaxy, Quasar and Blazar types. 'Activity' refers to non-stellar processes occurring or originating in a galaxy nucleus. An active nucleus has a spectrum with a continuum that cannot be explained by radiation from one or more stellar (or blackbody) objects. Eleven A classified g |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboy | Roboy is an advanced humanoid robot that was developed at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the University of Zurich, and was publicly presented on March 8, 2013. Originally designed to emulate humans with the future possibility of helping out in daily environments, Roboy is a project that has involved both engineers and scientists. Initiated in 2012 by Pascal Kaufmann, Roboy is the work of engineers who designed him according to design principles developed by Prof. Dr. Rolf Pfeifer, the AI lab director, in conjunction with the assistance of other development partners. Both the team members and the partners of the Roboy project share a commitment toward continued research in the area of soft robotics. Later Roboy was moved to Munich, Germany, where Rafael Hostettler conducts research on it at the Technical University. Since July 2020, Roboy is located back in Zurich, Switzerland in the offices of the Mindfire Foundation.
History
ECCE Robot
In general, standard humanoid robots mimic the human form, but the mechanisms used in them are very different from those that are in humans. The characteristics of these robots consequently reflect this difference. This places severe limitations on the kinds of interactions standard robots can engage in, the knowledge they can acquire of their environment, and thus on the nature of their cognitive engagement with the environment. Therefore, in 2011, a robotic project was launched in the European Union and it resulted in the development of the ECCE robot. Led by Professor Owen Holland of the University of Sussex, the ECCE project developed a new kind of robot that was modeled after the human anatomy. ECCE stands for Embodied Cognition in a Compliantly Engineered Robot, and the goal of the project was to develop an anthropomimetic robot whose body moves and interacts with the physical world in the same way flesh human bodies do. As athropomimetic, the robot copies not only the outward shape or form of a human body, but also copies the inner structures and mechanisms, such as bones, joints, muscles, and tendons. With these humanlike mechanisms the robot has the potential for human-like action and interaction in the world.
Project objectives:
To design and build an anthropomimetic robot torso mounted on a powered mobile platform
To develop methods of characterising such robots in terms of the information flows emerging from their human-like intrinsic dynamics and sensory-motor coupling
To investigate ways of controlling the robot during movement, interaction, and mobile manipulation, and to combine the successful control strategies in a single architecture deploying them appropriately according to circumstances and tasks
To exploit the anthropomimetic nature of the robot in order to achieve some human-like cognitive characteristics through sensory-motor control
To evaluate the functional and cognitive abilities of the robot, both absolutely, and in comparison with a state of the art conventional |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmoglipa%20aurocaudata | Ophthalmoglipa aurocaudata is a species of beetle in the genus Ophthalmoglipa of the family Mordellidae. It was described in 1897.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Block%20%28season%206%29 | The sixth season of Australian reality television series The Block, titled The Block: All Stars, aired on the Nine Network. Both Scott Cam returned as host and Shelley Craft as "Challenge Master". Neale Whitaker & Shaynna Blaze returned as judges, Darren Palmer returned as a full-time judge replacing John McGrath who returned as a guest judge. The season premiered on Monday, 4 February 2013 at 7:00 pm.
Production for the series relocated from Melbourne—which had hosted the prior two seasons—to its original location of Bondi in Sydney to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the show's first season.
Contestants
This season saw the return of four former teams from past seasons of The Block retroactively named The "All-stars".
This block was located at 2, 4, 6. and 8 Tasman Street in Bondi NSW.
Score History
Results
Room Reveals
Judges' Scores
Auction
Ratings
Ratings data is from OzTAM and represents the live and same day average viewership from the 5 largest Australian metropolitan centres (Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide).
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2013 Australian television seasons
6 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojiva | Mojiva was a mobile advertising network for smartphones and tablet devices. The company was known for introducing an ad network tailored specifically for tablets, known as Mojiva Tab.
It rebranded to "mOcean Mobile" before being acquired by Pubmatic. Mojiva raised a total of $42.3 million in venture funding before being bought.
Company history
Mojiva launched in May 2008. The company was founded by Krish Arvapally, Dan Goikhman, and Miles Spencer. Dave Gwozdz, also a founding member of the ad network DoubleClick, was Mojiva's CEO from Aug 2008 - Dec 2013.
In 2011, Mojiva created the “Mobile Creative Alliance”, a loose partnership of media companies that held nationwide presentations to spread the word about mobile advertising.
Mojiva's company headquarters are in New York City. Branch offices are located in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, Chicago and London. The company claims to represent 8,000 digital publishers and app developers. Mojiva Tab was anticipated to reach 40 million tablet devices.
As of late 2012, Mojiva had raised a total of $42.3 million in funding from a variety of sources. A funding round in July 2011 raised $25 million, while another round in late 2012 raised an additional $7 million.
Mojiva's ad network served both banner advertisements and interstitial (full screen). Analysts expect healthy growth of the mobile ad marketplace, with rich media mobile advertising to rise by 365% between 2012 and 2016.
Mojiva was renamed Mocean Mobile in January 2014. Mocean Mobile was acquired by Pubmatic in May 2014.
Awards and recognition
Prior to the 2012 US presidential election, Mojiva conducted an informal study of smartphone users' political orientations. The results of the study were made public on Mashable as an infographic. In another study published on Mashable, Mojiva learned the smartphone users were more likely to text than phone family and friends on New Year's Eve.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lophophelma%20rubroviridata | Lophophelma rubroviridata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by William Warren in 1898. It is found on Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo. The habitat consists of lower and upper montane forests.
Adults have pale ochreous-brown wings, traversed by strongly defined, zigzag black fasciae with a distinctive bluish tinge. The underside is pale yellowish buff with submarginal bands that are relatively even in width and run well clear of the margin.
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Moths described in 1898
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20ID | Bell Identification B.V., or Bell ID, was a Dutch software company that developed smart token management software, including key management, smart card management, EMV data preparation, and host card emulation-based mobile payments software. Bell ID was acquired by Rambus in 2016 and in 2019, Visa Inc. acquired Bell ID from Rambus.
History
Bell ID was formerly known as AND Identification B.V., and changed its name in 2000. The company was founded in 1993 to provide ID solutions for governments and enterprises in the Benelux region. In 2004, Bell ID became a privately held company, and established itself in the EMV smart card and mobile payments market. In 2012 Bell ID acquired Ecebs.
Awards
In April 2014, Bell ID was awarded by Mondato with the European MFS Innovation of the Year Award and by Contactless Intelligence with a Contactless & Mobile Award in the ecosystem category for Secure Element in the Cloud. In June 2014, the same product received the NFCP award for the next big thing in proximity.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports%20Radio%20Detroit | Sports Radio Detroit (SRD) was a Detroit-based internet sports broadcasting and news network covering Detroit's professional sports teams Detroit Lions, Detroit Tigers, Detroit Pistons and Detroit Red Wings as well as college and high school sports across the region from 2011-2021.
History
Early history
SportsRadioDetroit originally began as an independent, experimental podcast series entitled, The Red Line in collaboration with the unofficial Detroit Red Wings site, founded by Mike Morland. The show debuted on the independent website, LetsGoWingsMedia.com on October 31, 2011. The podcast shifted to a permanent home at LetsGoWingsRadio.com in September 2012. It was here that the site continued to flourish during the summer of 2012 and into the NHL lockout in the fall of 2012.
SportsRadioDetroit.com
With the potential of a long-term NHL lockout looming for the 2012-2013 season, production of The Red Line podcast series and Letsgowingsradio.com were also anticipating a decrease in content production. As a result of a strong Detroit sports market and few sports radio options, both LetsGoWingsRadio.com and The Red Line were dissolved in favor of a new venture, sportsradiodetroit.com, founded by "The Red Line" and letsgowingsradio.com host and creator, Mike Morland.
The new website, which official launched in the Fall of 2012, featured four independent online sports talk shows featuring the Detroit Lions, Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings. In addition to covering the four major professional sports teams in Detroit, Sports Radio Detroit (SRD) added coverage for soccer in the summer of 2013. With the expanded coverage, additional media personalities and NHL lockout of 2012, SportsRadioDetroit.com was born.
SportsRadioDetroit.com aired its first original broadcast on January 18, 2013 with the first episode of Red Wings SRD. The first live show on occurred on April 25, 2013.
On November 17, 2013, Sports Radio Detroit launched an updated website and introduced its new logo and brand, "SRD" - an update from the previous "Sports Radio Detroit" logo.
In an effort to better connect Detroit sports fans with their favorite athletes and columnists, SRD launched with a variety of interviews, including then Detroit City FC star and former MLS player, Knox Cameron, NFL Linebacker Chris Wilson, Detroit Lions Ndamukong Suh, Windsor Star sports columnist Bob Duff, Hockey Hall of Famer Larry Murphy, Detroit Red Wings center Riley Sheahan and Red Wings prospect Anthony Mantha.
Induction to Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association
Sports Radio Detroit became a member of Detroit Sports Media (formerly the Detroit Sports Broadcasters Association) in 2017. On December 7, 2019, Roger Castillo of SRD was announced as a board member of the organization.
Website ceases operation and current use of SRD branding
On December 26, 2021, after nearly a decade of operation, it was announced on Twitter that the Sports Radio Detroit website would cease operation and that some of the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autopsy%20%28software%29 | Autopsy is computer software that makes it simpler to deploy many of the open source programs and plugins used in The Sleuth Kit. The graphical user interface displays the results from the forensic search of the underlying volume, making it easier for investigators to flag pertinent sections of data. The tool is largely maintained by Basis Technology Corp. with the assistance of programmers from the community. The company sells support services and training for using the product.
The tool is designed with these principles in mind:
Extensible — the user should be able to add new functionality by creating plugins that can analyze all or part of the underlying data source.
Centralized — the tool must offer a standard and consistent mechanism for accessing all features and modules.
Ease of Use — the Autopsy Browser must offer the wizards and historical tools to make it easier for users to repeat their steps without excessive reconfiguration.
Multiple Users — the tool should be usable by one investigator or coordinate the work of a team.
The core browser can be extended by adding modules that help scan the files (called "ingesting"), browse the results (called "viewing"), or summarize results (called "reporting"). A collection of open-source modules allows customization.
Autopsy tool can be used to recover WannaCry-infected data as well.
Process
Autopsy analyzes major file systems (NTFS, FAT, ExFAT, HFS+, Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, YAFFS2) by hashing all files, unpacking standard archives (ZIP, JAR etc.), extracting any EXIF values and putting keywords in an index. Some file types like standard email formats or contact files are also parsed and cataloged.
Users can search these indexed files for recent activity or create a report in HTML or PDF summarizing important recent activity. If time is short, users may activate triage features that use rules to analyze the most important files first. Autopsy can save a partial image of these files in the VHD format.
Correlation
Investigators working with multiple machines or file systems can build a central repository of data allowing them to flag phone numbers, email addresses, files, or other pertinent data that might be found in multiple places. The SQL Lite or PostgreSQL database stores the information so investigators can find all occurrences of names, domains, phone numbers, or USB registry entries.
Language
Version 2 of Autopsy is written in Perl and it runs on all major platforms including Linux, Unix, macOS, and Windows. It relies upon The Sleuth Kit to analyze the disk. Version 2 is released under the GNU GPL 2.0.
Autopsy 3.0 is written in Java using the NetBeans platform. It was released under the Apache license 2.0.
Autopsy 4.0 runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Autopsy depends on a number of libraries with various licenses. It works with SQLite and PostgreSQL databases to store information. The indices for searching keywords are built with Lucene / SOLR.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly%20network | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, a Kelly network is a general multiclass queueing network. In the network each node is quasireversible and the network has a product-form stationary distribution, much like the single-class Jackson network.
The model is named after Frank Kelly who first introduced the model in 1975 in his paper Networks of Queues with Customers of Different Types.
References
Queueing theory |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driveclub | Driveclub is a racing video game developed by Evolution Studios and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation 4. It was announced during the PlayStation 4 press conference on 20 February 2013, and, after several delays, was released worldwide in October 2014.
Driveclub is a racing game in which players compete in racing events around the world in a variety of different fashions. Players can compete in clubs with other players, earning a reputation as one of the best clubs, and levelling up to unlock better items. Another game mode is tour, essentially a campaign mode. Players can compete in standard races, as well as time trials, by drifting events, and championship tournaments, with a variety of routes located in places around the world. Players may customize their car, their club, or their driver, and may complete optional challenges during events. A weather system and day-night cycle is also included as downloadable content.
Driveclub was released to a fairly mixed critical reception. Critics praised the photorealistic visuals, sound design, and the controls, but criticized the online playability, the inconsistent AI and a lack of gameplay variety. As of July 2015, the game has reached 2 million copies sold, becoming one of the best-selling PlayStation 4 video games.
The online servers for Driveclub were shut down on 31 March 2020.
Gameplay
Driveclub is a racing game in which players compete in races around the world in several different game modes. A major focus of the game is the club aspect. Players may join a club or create their own and will compete against other clubs to ultimately see whose club is the best. Clubs consist of up to six players. Players complete challenges together representing their club and earn fame and XP. The player earns fame by driving well and completing challenges. Fame determines the player's level as well as the club level. As the player levels up, they automatically unlock items, such as new vehicles, accolades, or colour schemes. Every team member's action contributes to the club's overall success.
The game's tracks and environments are inspired by actual places in diverse regions throughout the globe, such as Norway and India. Driveclub features dynamic weather system such as rain and snowfall and a day-night cycle. Each rain drop has realistic behaviour.
There are three main game modes in Driveclub; tour, single event and multiplayer. Tour is a campaign mode where single-player events set in various locations can be played using the allocated cars. A set of objectives are present and can be tackled during the events. In the single event game mode, players choose what event they would like to play (drift, sprint, race or time trial) and have the freedom to select the location, weather and other options. The multiplayer game mode revolves around competition and co-operation with real life players. Players can complete challenges with social leaderboards, play with clubs, and play online |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioBIKE | BioBike(nee. BioLingua ) is a cloud-based, through-the-web programmable (Paas) symbolic biocomputing and bioinformatics platform that aims to make computational biology, and especially intelligent biocomputing (that is, the application of Artificial Intelligence to computational biology) accessible to research scientists who are not expert programmers.
Unique capabilities
BioBIKE is an integrated symbolic biocomputing and bioinformatics platform, built from the start as an entirely (what is now called) cloud-based architecture where all computing is done in remote servers, and all user access is accomplished through web browsers.
BioBIKE has a built-in frame system in which all objects, data, and knowledge are represented. This enables code written either in the native Lisp, in the visual programming language, or systems of rules expressed in the SNARK theorem prover to access the whole of biological knowledge in an integrated manner.
For its time (released in 2002) it was unique in permitting users to create fully functional biocomputing programs that run on the back-end servers entirely through the web browser UI. (In modern terms it was one of the first PaaS (Platform as a Service) systems, predating even Salesforce in this capability.) Initially this programming was carried out in raw Lisp, but Jeff Elhai's team at VCU, with NSF funding, created an entirely graphical programming environment on top of BioBIKE based upon the Boxer-style programming environments.
Being a multi-headed, multi-threaded, multi-user, multi-tenancy cloud-based system, BioBIKE users were able to directly work together through their web browsers, remotely sharing the same listener and memory space. This permitted a unique sort of collaboration, discussed in Shrager (2007).
A specialized offshoot of BioBIKE called "BioDeducta" includes SRI's SNARK theorem prover, offering unique "deductive biocomputing" capabilities.
Implementation
BioBIKE is open-source software implemented using the Lisp programming language. Continuing development takes place by the BioBIKE team centered at Virginia Commonwealth University .
History
BioBIKE was originally called "BioLingua", and was developed by Jeff Shrager at The Carnegie Inst. of Washington Dept. of Plant Biology, and JP Massar with funding from NASA's Astrobiology Division. Shrager and Massar wanted to create a web-based, multi-user Lisp Machine, specialized for bioinformatics. Other early contributors to the project included Mike Travers, and Jeff Elhai of VCU. Elhai obtained continuing funding from the National Science Foundation for the project, which was renamed BioBIKE. Elhai and colleagues added BioBIKE's unique visual programming language. Shrager, meanwhile, collaborated with Richard Waldinger at SRI to build SRI's (SNARK) theorem prover into BioBIKE, creating a deductive biocomputing system, called BioDeducta.
Instances
There used to be a number of BioBIKE verticals in different biological domains, includ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emik%20Avakian | Emik Avakian (; August 15, 1923 – July 11, 2013) was an Armenian American inventor and owner of numerous patents including breath-operated computer, a mechanism that facilitates putting wheelchairs on automobiles, and a self operating robotic wheel that converts manual wheel chairs into automatic. Many of his inventions were geared towards the improvement of disabled people's lives, and he won many awards recognizing these efforts.
Life
Of Armenian descent, Emik Avakian was born in Tabriz, Persia in 1924. Avakian was born with a severe case of cerebral palsy, but this did not affect his cognitive abilities. In order to seek medical assistance for Emik, the Avakian family traveled from Persia, to Russia, to Germany, and finally settling in New York City. By the age of thirteen, Emik was already fixing many electrical engineering problems around the household. Although he suffered considerably, Avakian graduated magna cum laude from Eureka College with a degree in physics and mathematics. He later earned his master's degree at Columbia University. Throughout his years as a student, Avakian had trouble communicating with typists who would write down notes for him.
He resided in Massachusetts with his wife Anne until his death.
Inventions
In order to overcome many of the difficulties he experienced in life, Avakian created a series of inventions. One of his more notable inventions was a typewriter that would produce letters from breath rather than typing. The typewriter would operate according to breath measurement and sound that would be blown into four microphones. Although the mechanism was slow, it was still more cost effective to use the device than to hire an assisting type writer.
Another significant invention was the "information retrieval and storage apparatus," which was a machine that could display library and archive information more quickly than other methods.
Awards
In 1961, President of the United States John F. Kennedy honored Avakian for his outstanding contributions to handicap employment.
Eminent Engineer Award (1979)
Armenian Bicentennial Committee's "Excellence in the Field of Science Award" (1976)
Shah of Iran Crown Medal (1963)
Honorary Doctorate Award of Eureka College (1996)
In addition to his awards, Avakian was featured in renowned and local publications, including Life magazine and Mechanix Illustrated in 1952, 1953, and 1962.
Notable patents
Information Storage, retrieval, and Handling Apparatus United States Patent no. 3,191,006 filed date: Apr. 3, 1962, issue date: Jun. 22, 1965.
Energy Projecting and Scanning Apparatus United States Patent no. 3,283,147, filed date: May 9, 1962, issued date: Nov. 1, 1966.
Apparatus and System for Interconnecting Circuits and Electronic Components United States Patent no. 3,880,486 filed date: Mar. 5, 1973 issued date: Apr. 2, 1975.
Data Entry Devices United States Patent no. 4,077,036, filed Aug 30, 1976, issued Feb 28, 1978.
Method of and Apparatus for Motorizing Manually Power |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/ARC-210 | The ARC-210 is a family of radios for military aircraft that provides two-way, multi-mode voice and data communications over a 30 to 512+ MHz frequency range. It covers both Ultra High Frequency (UHF) and Very High Frequency (VHF) bands with AM, FM and SATCOM capabilities. The ARC-210 radio also includes embedded anti-jam waveforms, including Havequick and SINCGARS, and other data link and secure communications features, providing total battlefield interoperability and high-performance capabilities in the transfer of data, voice and imagery. It features a separate guard receiver for monitoring 121.5 and 243 MHz while simultaneously monitoring the active channel selected. Transmitter power ranges from 5 to 23 watts, depending on frequency and mode. The radios communicates with other avionics over a MIL-STD-1553 data bus.
The ARC-210s are manufactured by Rockwell Collins and are installed in a wide range of aircraft, helicopters and ships across all five U.S. military services. The ARC-210 program began in 1990 as an improved version of the AN/ARC-182, adding jam-reisistant SINCGARS capability to communicate with Army radios for close air support. The Arc-210 is installed on more than 180 platforms and is operating in more than 40 countries. As of 2010, 30,000 have been produced and by October 2016, 40,000 delivered. The radios have generated over $2 billion in sales for the company.
There are six generations of the radios. Models include the
RT-1556, RT-1794, RT-1824, RT-1851, RT-1851A, and RT-1939, RT-1939A, RT-1990, RT-1990A and the RT-2036. The earliest model covered 30-400 MHz. The fifth generation RT-1939 is one of the first military radios to have software-programmable encryption under the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Cryptographic Modernization Initiative.
Its frequency range is extended and includes the following bands:
VHF 30-88 MHz close air support
VHF 108-118 MHz navigation
VHF 118-137 MHz air traffic control
VHF 137-156 MHz land mobile
VHF 156-174 MHz maritime
UHF 225-512 MHz military/homeland defense
UHF 806-824, 851-869, 869-902, 935-941 MHz public safety bands
Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System (CTCSS), used by many public safety agencies, is available above 400 MHz and below 88 MHz.
The transceiver weighs about 12.2 lb (5.53 kg). Available accessories include remote controls, transmit power amplifiers, receive low-noise amplifiers, and ground support equipment.
See also
AN/ARC-231, similar radio produced by Raytheon
List of military electronics of the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Rights%20and%20Democracy%20Network | The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) is an informal grouping of 43 NGOs operating at the EU-level in the broader areas of human rights, democracy and peacebuilding.The Human Rights and Democracy Network (HRDN) is an informal grouping of 43 NGOs operating at the EU-level in the broader areas of human rights, democracy and peacebuilding. It was created in 2004 and mainly operates in Brussels.
Purpose
HRDN aims at influencing the EU and its Member States’s policies and funding instruments to promote democracy, human rights and peace:
‘HRDN’s vision is that human rights and democracy are placed at the heart of the EU's internal and external policy agenda. This vision should manifest itself in an EU which effectively protects human rights at home and is a force for positive change in the world.’
Activities
HRDN members gather once every six weeks in Brussels to exchange information and discuss potential joint advocacy activities, for instance the preparation and publication of common positions and recommendations. Activities are coordinated by a troika, whose representatives are elected among the member organisations during the annual meetings of the network.
To draft common positions or organise joint events, informal working groups are temporarily established. All member organisations of the network can join these working groups. Current policy working groups are focused on the following issues:
the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR)
the European Parliament
Member Organisations
Agir ensemble pour les droits de l'homme
Amnesty International
Association for the Prevention of Torture
Christian Blind Mission
Coalition for the International Criminal Court
Conference of European Churches
Christian Solidarity Worldwide
CIDSE
Club of Madrid
DEMAS
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network
European Association for the Defense of Human Rights (AEDH)
European Partnership for Democracy
European Peacebuilding Liaison Office
Front Line Defenders
Harm Reduction International
Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Without Frontiers
ILGA-Europe
International Centre for Transitional Justice
International Dalit Solidarity Network
FIACAT: International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
International Federation of Human Rights (FIDH)
International Partnership for Human Rights
International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims
International Rescue Committee
Justitia et Pax
La Strada International Association
Light for the World
Minority Rights Group International
Open Society Foundations
Partners for Democratic Change International
Peace Brigades International
Penal Reform International
Plan EU Office
Protection International
Quaker Council for European Affairs
Reporters Without Borders
Save the Children
Search for Common Ground
Terre des Hommes International Foundation
World Coalition Against the Death Penalty
World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT)
World V |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederation%20Club | The Confederation Club is a local service club whose stated mission is a networking organization whose purpose is to promote awareness and inform members on matters of economic, social or national interest with a conservative focus. While maintaining a partisan bias, it is a secular organization open to all persons regardless of race, colour, creed, religion, gender, or political preference. Currently there is only one club in located in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada. Members and guests usually meet on the third Thursday of every month for lunch at the Kitchener Crowne Plaza Hotel while listening to a guest speaker.
The primary motto of the Confederation Club is to be a "Speakers forum for a Canadian viewpoint" as luncheon guest speakers present on distinctly Canadian topics.
History
For several years before its creation, executive members in the Waterloo Region of Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario Associations had talked about some kind of joint project to network and discuss political and economic issues.
In late 1975, Wayne Wettlaufer, newly arrived from the Honourable Walter Baker's riding in Ottawa, suggested the idea of a Confederation Club that was a lunch time project of several Ottawa Riding Associations.
Wayne Wettlaufer became the founding President and first Honorary Life Member. The first executive would include Monty Monteith, Christina Weylie, Jeanne Foster and Brock Foster.
Other members of the first executive that were actively involved included representatives of the riding associations from Waterloo Region and Wellington County: Carl Sulliman who was President of the Waterloo Federal Progressive Conservative Riding; Rich Hobson who wrote the Constitution; Barb Hull and Rod Nelson who were the early secretaries; and Dave Zimmer, Bill Barlow, John Cosman, Dorothy Beke, Jack Wallace and Marjorie Kunza.
At the founding meeting, a relatively young unknown, Joe Clark was the honoured guest speaker. Within a month after his appearance at the Confederation Club he had become Party Leader, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and the Honorary President of Confederation Club..
Student History Awards
The idea of presenting Confederation Club Student History Awards was put forward in 1980 by John Boulden, a history teacher at then Kitchener Collegiate Institute. John was a Director of the Confederation Club for a number of the Club's early years and advocated for the idea that students should learn about and participate in the democracy in which we live while taking an active role in civic life.
The Confederation Club endorsed this idea and in May 1980 the Confederation Club Student History Awards were commenced to encourage this learning and participation. Each year students in the graduating classes in high schools of the Waterloo Region are chosen by their teachers for their high standings in their history studies.
Notable Speakers
Notable past political speakers:
The Right Honourable Joe Clark - 16th Pri |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganymede%20%28software%29 | Ganymede is an open source network directory management framework, designed to allow administrator teams to collaboratively manage subsets of an organization's directory services, such as NIS, DNS, Active Directory / LDAP, DHCP, and RADIUS, among others. First announced and released at the 1998 USENIX LISA conference, Ganymede has been under public development and use since then.
Ganymede uses a central server which supports clients connecting via Java RMI. The Ganymede server maintains a transactional object graph database of network information such as user objects, group objects, system objects, network objects, etc. Users and administrators run Ganymede clients (GUI or XML based) to create, modify, or delete objects in the database. Whenever a user commits a transaction, the Ganymede server schedules a number of background threads to write out updated network source files and run whatever system scripts are required to propagate the new data into the managed network directory services. If multiple users are working concurrently, the scheduler makes sure that the entire network environment is updated with transactionally consistent directory images as builds finish and new ones are issued.
The Ganymede server is meant to be programmed by the adopter, who can define arbitrary object data types along with custom logic to interact with the user through the GUI and to maintain consistency within and between objects. Adopters can also create custom tasks which can be executed at specified times by the internal Ganymede scheduler. Such custom tasks can make changes in the server's object database and/or can run external scripts to update external services.
Ganymede has an elaborate XML data format which can be used to import and export the server's object database schema and object data. Importing XML will typically result in the creation, modification, or deletion of database objects, and will trigger one or more network directory service rebuilds just as using the GUI client would do.
Above all, Ganymede is designed around administration teams. Administrators are members of 'Owner Groups', which own objects. Any object that is changed by a user or an automated task can result in change report email being sent to administrators in the appropriate Owner Group, making it possible for admins to keep up to date with changes that others in their groups are making. Owner Groups can be granted authority over arbitrary subsets of the object database, making it easy to slice up the network directory space in any fashion that may be desired.
As a programmable framework, Ganymede must be programmed for a specific set of directory management tasks. Fundamental Generic Networking in Germany has used it as the basis of their Doctor DNS project, which is being used to manage DNS for the Kaiserslautern University of Technology.
References
External links
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Cross-platform free software
DNS software
Identity management
Identity manage |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Registry | The Environmental Registry ("the Registry") is an online database where Ontario government ministries publish notices of environmentally significant proposals or decisions, and invite the public to submit their comments. The ministries are obliged under the Environmental Bill of Rights to consider these comments when making their final decisions, and every year the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario reports on how well the various ministries used the Registry, including how well they considered the comments they received.
It is operated by the Ministry of the Environment, and is found at www.ebr.gov.on.ca.
External links
The Environmental Registry
About the Environmental Registry (Environmental Commissioner of Ontario)
Ontario law
Environment of Ontario
Canadian environmental websites
Environmental law in Canada
Canada |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTC%20Punjabi%20Film%20Awards | PTC Punjabi Film Awards are Indian film awards presented annually by the PTC Punjabi television network to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professional filmmakers and actors with achievements in the field of Punjabi cinema in India.
History
The PTC Punjabi Film awards were first introduced in 2011. In 2020, Digital Film Awards were introduced. In the same year, due to coronavirus pandemic network announced the award show will be held online.
PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2019
In 2019 the awards were anchored by Sonu Sood, Divya Dutta, Manish Paul, Gavy Chahal and Gurnam Bhullar.They took place at JLPL Ground, Mohali on 16 March. Sajjan Singh Rangroot, Carry On Jatta 2 and Qismat were the top winners winning 4 awards each, followed by Laung Laachi with 3 awards.
PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2020
The World's first online awards show this year: PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2020. 2020 has not been a great year for the entertainment industry. COVID-19 forced lockdown across the globe and most events have been postponed indefinitely, if not cancelled. PTC Punjabi Film Awards 2020 therefore will go online. PTC Network is using technology to its best to make sure this event does not lack the glitz and glamour that it promises.
Awards
As of 2014, there are 26 awards. There was a separate category of film-critics awards, decided by noted film critics rather than popular votes. This dual format has also generated some controversy amongst viewers and recipients. Awards were given in the following categories.
Merit Awards
Best Movie
Best Director
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Performance in a Negative Role
Best Performance in a Comic Role
Best Debut Director (Introduced in 2013)
Best Male Debut
Best Female Debut
Best Music Director
Best Lyricist
Best Male Playback Singer
Best Female Playback Singer
Critics Awards
Critics Award For Best Movie
Critics Award For Best Performance (Actor)
Critics Award For Best Performance (Actress)
Critics Award For Best Director
Technical Awards
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Story
Best Screenplay & Dialogue
Best Sound Recording
Best Background Music
Special Awards
Lifetime Achievement
Icon of Punjab (2012)
See also
Cinema of India
References
External links
PTC Punjabi Film Awards Archives of photos of PTC Film awards since the beginning.
Indian film awards
Punjabi-language films
2011 establishments in Punjab, India
Awards established in 2011 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20L.%20Krum | Charles L. Krum was a key figure in the development of the teleprinter, a machine which played a key role in the history of telegraphy and computing.
In 1902, electrical engineer Mr. Frank Pearne approached Mr. Joy Morton, head of Morton Salt, seeking a sponsor for Pearne's research into the practicalities of developing a printing telegraph system. Joy Morton needed to determine whether this was worthwhile and so consulted renowned mechanical engineer Charles Krum, who was vice president of the Western Cold Storage Company (which was run by Morton’s brother Mark Morton).
Krum gave Joy Morton a positive response to the idea of helping Pearne, so space to set up a laboratory in the attic of Western Cold Storage was provided to Pearne. Pearne, after about a year of unsuccessful experiments, lost interest and left to get involved in teaching.
Krum was prepared to continue Pearne’s work, and in August, 1903 a patent was filed for a ‘typebar page printer’ ( issued in May, 1908).
In the following year, 1904 Krum filed a patent for a ‘type wheel printing telegraph machine’ which was issued in August, 1907.
In 1906 Charles Krum's son, Howard Krum, graduated in electrical engineering and joined his father in this work. It was Howard who developed the start-stop synchronizing method for code telegraph systems, which made possible the practical teleprinter. This was recognized in filed in May, 1910, and issued in December, 1918.
American inventors
American engineers
Year of death missing
Year of birth missing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zopfli | Zopfli is a data compression library that performs Deflate, gzip and zlib data encoding. It achieves higher compression ratios than mainstream Deflate and zlib implementations at the cost of being slower. Google first released Zopfli in February 2013 under the terms of Apache License 2.0.
The name Zöpfli is the Swiss German diminutive of “Zopf”, an unsweetened type of Hefezopf.
Operation
Zopfli can either generate a raw Deflate data stream or encapsulate it into gzip or zlib formats. Zopfli achieves higher data density through more exhaustive compression techniques. The method is based on iterating entropy modeling and a shortest path search algorithm to find a low bit cost path through the graph of all possible Deflate representations of the uncompressed data. By default, Zopfli performs 15 iterations but could be configured to performed more or fewer. Under default settings, the output of Zopfli is typically 3–8% smaller than zlib's maximum compression, but takes around 80 times longer.
Because of its significantly slower compression speed, Zopfli is not suited for on-the-fly compression. It is typically used for one-time compression of static content. This is typically true for web content that is served with Deflate-based HTTP compression or web content in a Deflate-based file format such as PNG or WOFF font files. Another use case is software updates or downloads with software package files that have a zip-based format such as Android application packages (APK) or Java Archives (JAR), especially over mobile connections.
History
Zopfli is based on an algorithm from Jyrki Alakuijala. The first reference implementation of Zopfli, by Jyrki Alakuijala and Lode Vandevenne, appeared in February 2013. Version 1.0.0 was released on April 25, 2013. The reference implementation is a software library under the terms of Apache License 2.0, written in C.
Since then, the open-source community made attempts to modify Zopfli for optimizing Portable Network Graphics (PNG) files because PNG uses a Deflate compression layer. The fruit of these modifications was ZopfliPNG, which was admitted into Google's Zopfli repository in May 2013. The Zopfli algorithm has also been integrated into other PNG compression optimization tools like advpng (from the AdvanceCOMP utility suite) and OxiPNG.
See also
Brotli
Guetzli
Oxipng
References
External links
Project page on GitHub, online implementation
Google's Zopfli Compression Algorithm: Extract higher performance from your compressed files – TechRepublic.com
Lossless compression algorithms
Free computer libraries
Portable Network Graphics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dlib | Dlib is a general purpose cross-platform software library written in the programming language C++. Its design is heavily influenced by ideas from design by contract and component-based software engineering. Thus it is, first and foremost, a set of independent software components. It is open-source software released under a Boost Software License.
Since development began in 2002, Dlib has grown to include a wide variety of tools. As of 2016, it contains software components for dealing with networking, threads, graphical user interfaces, data structures, linear algebra, machine learning, image processing, data mining, XML and text parsing, numerical optimization, Bayesian networks, and many other tasks. In recent years, much of the development has been focused on creating a broad set of statistical machine learning tools and in 2009 Dlib was published in the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Since then it has been used in a wide range of domains.
See also
Comparison of deep learning software
References
External links
DLib: Library for Machine Learning
C++ libraries
C++ numerical libraries
Computer vision software
Data mining and machine learning software
Free software programmed in C++
Free statistical software
Software using the Boost license |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire%20ang%20Daddy%20Ko | Vampire ang Daddy Ko () is a Philippine television situational comedy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series was written and directed by Bibeth Orteza. It stars Vic Sotto and Oyo Boy Sotto. It premiered on March 9, 2013, and it concluded on June 12, 2016 with a total of 169 episodes. It was replaced by Hay, Bahay! in its timeslot.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Vic Sotto as Victor Ventura
Oyo Boy Sotto as Vladimir Ventura
Supporting cast
Glaiza de Castro as Vavavoom
Pilita Corrales as Sonya Ventura
Jackie Lou Blanco as younger Sonya Ventura
Jinky Oda as Omma Chamba
Ryzza Mae Dizon as Maria "Big" Saturay
Jimmy Santos as Small Saturay
Allan K. as Diva
Bea Binene as Bebe Chubibo
Anjo Yllana as Bibo Chubibo
Derrick Monasterio as Derry Tiwarik
Sef Cadayona as Stefano Bulaga / Stefani Ventura
Jinri Park as Jin
Sam Pinto as Maria Chamba
Jaclyn Jose as Elvyra
Barbie Forteza as Girlie
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Vampire ang Daddy Ko earned a 23.7% rating. While the final episode scored an 18.5% rating.
Accolades
References
External links
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2016 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network original programming
Philippine television sitcoms
Television shows set in the Philippines
Vampires in television
Television series by M-Zet Productions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Op%C3%B3n%20language | Opón (Opone) was an unusually divergent Cariban language of Colombia.
Phonology
Marshall Durbin and Haydée Seijas derive the following phonology based on 1958 data from Giraldo and Fornaguera.
* [ʔ] may not be phonemic, it appears only at morpheme boundaries.
While common in other Cariban languages, nasal vowels are not recorded in Opón.
References
Indigenous languages of the South American Northwest
Cariban languages
Languages of Colombia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arena%20Sport | Arena Sport is a regional pay television sports network. It consists of ten television channels and is coverage area includes Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia.
Localised feeds
Serbia
Arena Sport Serbia carries several sports events. Most of them are centred towards football, mainly matches from English Premier League, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue 1, as well as international competitions such as the UEFA Champions League, Europa League, UEFA Nations League and the UEFA Conference League. Arena Sport Serbia has the broadcasting rights of the Serbian SuperLiga.
In addition to football, the Arena Sports transfers and other sporting events such as NBA, VTB United League, ABA League, handball EHF Champions League, France LNH Division 1, volleyball CEV Champions League, NFL, NHL and the MLB.
Croatia
Arenasport has additionally acquired broadcasting rights for La Liga for a period of five years between June 2021 and 2026. In addition, reports and other football leagues as well as in Serbia.
Arena Sport attained the rights to broadcast the NBA in September 2019, and additionally broadcast the ABA League and the domestic HT Premijer liga.
In terms of handball, Arenasport holds the broadcasting rights to the EHF Champions League, Handball-Bundesliga, SEHA League and the LNH Division 1.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Arena Sport Bosnia and Herzegovina airs Bosnian Premier League, First League of FBiH, and Bosnian Cup matches.
Sport events
Football
Europe
International competitions
UEFA Champions League (except Slovenia)
UEFA Europa League (2021–)
UEFA Europa Conference League (2021–)
UEFA Super Cup (except Slovenia, 2021–)
UEFA Youth League (except Slovenia)
UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying (except Croatia and Slovenia)
UEFA Euro 2028 qualifying (except Croatia and Slovenia)
FIFA World Cup 2026 qualification (UEFA) (except Croatia and Slovenia)
UEFA Nations League (except Croatia and Slovenia)
League
Copa
League Cup
Copa del Rey
Coppa Italia (2021–)
German Cup
Belgian Cup
Swiss Cup
Serbian Cup
Bosnian Cup (only in BiH)
Montenegrin Cup (only final)
Greek Cup
Macedonian Cup (only final)
Italian Super Cup (2021–)
French Super Cup (2021–)
Russian Super Cup (2022–)
Belgian Super Cup
Croatian Super Cup (2022–)
America
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Copa América
Campeonato Brasileiro Série A
Primera División
Copa de la Superliga
Asia & Oceania
A-League
Chinese Super League
Indian Super League (2022–)
K League
Basketball
Handball
Volleyball
American football
Baseball
Ice hockey
Rugby
Motorsports
References
External links
Television channels and stations established in 2010
Television channels and stations established in 2020
Television networks in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Television channels in North Macedonia
Television networks in Croatia
Sports television networks
Sports television in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sports television in Cr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase2%20International | Phase2 International , Phase 2, was a privately owned, US-based cloud computing provider headquartered in Honolulu, HI. The company offered hosted business software and cloud servers, including information technology knowledge, security, compliance, and an integrated suite of software applications on a customizable monthly subscription basis. Phase 2 served the Federal, SMB, and enterprise markets, providing access to IBM, Microsoft and other business software.
Background
Phase 2 International's stated mission is to participate in the ongoing business-software environment's transformation from purchased to cloud software models. In April 2008, the company introduced a reseller program to supplement its application offerings. Phase2's CEO is Kevin Doherty.
Products
Hosted IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Connections, IBM Lotus Sametime, IBM WebSphere Portal. Hosted Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Team Foundation Server, and Microsoft Project Server. Other products offered are Cloud Servers (Windows, Linux, Domino), and Security Hardened Cloud Servers with FISMA, HIPAA, GLBA compliance.
References
External links
http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20081025005451/http%3A//www.phase2.com/
Software companies based in Hawaii
Companies based in Honolulu
Software companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in Hawaii
Defunct software companies of the United States
Privately held companies based in Hawaii
Companies established in 2002
Cloud computing providers
Business software companies |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toplofikatsiya%20Sofia | "District Heating Sofia" is the district heating company in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is the oldest and largest district heating network in Bulgaria (and, according to the company's website, on the Balkan Peninsula), brought into use in 1949 with the opening of the first combined heat and power plant – TEC Sofia.
Toplofikatsiya Sofia is a single-member JSC and holds a monopoly on heat distribution in the city. As of 2012, the company has a hot water and steam distribution network of over 950 km throughout the city (slide 3) and has over 430 000 clients.(p. 15)
The company has four power stations – two cogeneration plants, and two heat-only boiler stations –
The company also has several temporary boiler stations throughout the city, which are usually only used during the winter months.
As of February 2013, part of the 2013 Bulgarian protests are aimed at the business model employed by Toplofikatsiya Sofia, with protesters complaining about high bills and lack of transparency in the company's practices.
See also
Energy in Bulgaria
References
External links
toplo.bg – official website
Coal-fired power stations in Bulgaria
Economy of Sofia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jidong%20Cement | Tangshan Jidong Cement Co., Ltd. is a Chinese cement manufacturing company, ranked the 6th largest manufacturer of cement in the world by Global Cement Magazine based on 2011 data. The cement maker is part of the Jidong Development Group, a holding company with interests in machinery, real estate, and production of other construction materials.
Jidong expanded outside of China for the first time in 2010 when it entered into a deal to build a new cement plant in Limpopo, South Africa. The US$221 million investment was funded by a consortium that included the China Africa Development Fund, Chinese commercial banks, and Nedbank, along with equity stakes by Continental Cement and Women Investment Portfolio Holdings. In an interview with The Financial Times, Chen Ying, an executive of Jidong Development Group, explained that the investment was driven by his belief that Africa would progress and grow as fast as China. Before the investment, in 2007 Jidong and Women Investment Portfolio Holdings, a black women empowerment themed fund, had already partnered up to deliver Dunshi branded cement in South Africa. The new plant was enthusiastically welcomed by South African publication Moneyweb which predicted the new facility would "shake [the] industry to its foundations" because it would shatter the "old cement cartel".
References
Cement companies of China
Companies based in Hebei
Chinese companies established in 1994
Chinese brands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20track%20vehicle%20system | An electric track vehicle system (ETV) is a conveyor system for light goods transport. The system uses independently driven vehicles traveling on a monorail track network, consisting of straight track elements, bends, curves and transfer-units for changing of travel direction. Vehicles in an ETV system transport payloads up to 50 kg both vertical and horizontal in buildings and manufacturing plants. ETV systems were primarily put on the market in the sixties by German company Telelift. Later additional companies like Siemens or Thyssen engaged in this business.
Initially, electric track vehicle systems were designed for documents transport and mail distribution in office buildings and headquarters. Later, further applications were designed for hospitals, libraries, printing plants, retail stores and material handling in manufacturing plants.
Mainly transported goods are:
Hospital: blood plasma, lab samples, pharmaceuticals, sterile utilities, patient records, x-rays and hospital consumables
Library: books, newspapers, journals, media
Headquarters, ministries, office buildings: documents, mail, parcels
Printing plants: printing plates
Retail stores: garment, shoes, jewelry, luxury goods
Manufacturing plants: component parts, assemblies, tools
Electric track vehicle systems operate horizontal and vertical in one and the same vehicle per transport job. Conveying without transfer allows gentle transport of sensitive goods. Vehicle destination is usually typed into a touchscreen terminal at the station. The vehicles operate with a speed up to 1 m/s.
The modular design of Electric Track Vehicle systems allows wide spreading track networks. E.g., the ETV system in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris consists of 6.6 km tracks, 151 stations and 300 vehicles.
References
External links
ETV system at National Library of New Zealand
Material-handling equipment |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape%20Escape%20%28Japanese%20TV%20series%29 | Ape Escape, known in Japan as , is a series of computer-generated anime shorts produced by Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment for TV Tokyo in 2002. It is based on the Ape Escape video game series, with the characters and designs based on Ape Escape 2 in particular. The series consists of 76 45-second shorts that aired as part of the Oha Suta variety program in Japan. In 2004, three of these shorts were dubbed into English and aired in the inaugural Nicktoons Film Festival. One of the festival's founders, Frederator Studios, would later produce their own series of Ape Escape shorts in 2009.
A 22-minute movie based on the series, entitled , was released on August 17, 2002, in Japan. The film was attached to Beyblade: Fierce Battle and produced with assistance by Polygon Pictures.
Sony Computer Entertainment released a DVD featuring the entire series of shorts, as well as the movie on December 19, 2002, in Japan. The DVD came with a "Yappari Saru Get Chu" dance instruction video, and an exclusive Afrosaru trading card.
References
External links
Shogakukan Production Page (Japanese)
Movie Trailer (Youtube)
2002 anime television series debuts
Ape Escape
Japanese children's animated action television series
Japanese children's animated adventure television series
Japanese children's animated comedy television series
Anime television series based on video games
Japanese animated films
Works based on Sony Interactive Entertainment video games
2002 films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20former%20NBC%20television%20affiliates | The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American broadcast television network that originated as a radio network in November 1926, and expanded into television in April 1939. Throughout its history, the network has had many owned-and-operated and affiliated stations.
This article is a table listing of former NBC stations, arranged alphabetically by state, and based on the station's city of license as well as its Designated Market Area; it is also accompanied by footnotes regarding the present network affiliation of the former NBC-affiliated station (if the station remains operational) and the current NBC affiliates in each of the listed markets, as well as any other notes including the reasons behind each station's disaffiliation from the network. There are links to and articles on each of the stations, describing their histories, local programming, and technical information, such as broadcast frequencies.
The station's advertised channel number follows the call letters. In most cases, this is their virtual channel (PSIP) number, which may match the channel allocation that the station originally broadcast on during its prior affiliation with the network.
Former affiliate stations
Stations are listed in alphabetical order by city of license.
See also
List of NBC television affiliates (table)
List of NBC television affiliates (by U.S. state)
References
NBC former |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenddo | Lenddo (subsequently LenddoEFL) was a Singapore-based software-as-a-service company which used non-traditional data comprising social media and smartphone records in order to ascertain customers' financial stability. Its vision was “to improve financial inclusion for at least a billion people" in developing countries around the world. In October 2013, Lenddo had over 350,000 members globally. In October 2017, Lenddo merged with company Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL), and was subsequently named, LenddoEFL
History
Founded in 2011 by co-founders Jeffrey Stewart and Richard Eldridge, Lenddo initially operated an online lending operation in three countries: the Philippines (since 2011), Colombia (since 2012) and Mexico(since 2013). The company started when Stewart and Eldridge were running technology companies in the Philippines and several other emerging markets. "Their skilled young staff often asked for loans...With repayment rates in microfinance as high as 98 percent in multiple regions, the opportunity seemed obvious." By January 2011 the company was launched, and by March they had issued their first loan.
Lenddo closed a Series A round of funding in venture capital in May 2012 from investors including Accel Partners, Blumberg Capital, Inovia Capital and Omidyar Network. In 2013, Lenddo received an additional $6 million funding from investors including Kickstart Ventures, Golden Gate Ventures and the co-founder of Skype, Toivo Annus, to fund its planned expansion across Southeast Asia.
In January 2015, Lenddo announced expanding its credit scoring and identity verification solutions to third parties globally. By October 2015, the company raised capital in series B1 and by January 2016, confirmed its international exposure by opening offices in India. At the peak of its global operations, the company had an extended presence across Latin America, South Asia and South East Asia and had onboarded more than 200,000 applicants every month
In October 2017, Lenddo merged with Boston headquartered startup Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) with the merged entity being known as LenddoEFL. Lenddo CEO Richard Eldridge continued on as the CEO of the company.
A year following the merger, in April 2019, a new CEO was appointed, Paolo Montessori with founder Richard Eldridge stepping down to a non-executive role. This new regime led to scandal for LenddoEFL as a news article published in TechinAsia in June 2020 hinted at culture clashes with former EFL employees, organizational structure and funding issues and the connection of Nordaq company to Paul L Devine, formerly the CEO of NordAq Energy Inc (NordAq). Paul L Devine had, just two years prior been embroiled in court litigation with NordAq over allegations of fraud. The charges were subsequently dismissed with prejudice in early 2019. The news article cited Paul L Devine as being actively involved in the internal operations of LenddoEFL as CFO, leading employees to not receive compensation for sever |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennepin%20History%20Museum | Hennepin History Museum is a museum dedicated to the history, people, and communities of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. The museum provides in-house exhibits, history-themed programming, and social events throughout the year.
Location
The museum is located in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis in the historic Christian Mansion, a historic home built in 1919. Today, it is included in the Washburn-Fair Oaks Mansion District of Minneapolis, and is located on the east side of Washburn-Fair Oaks Park. The house was designed by Hennepin County architects Hewitt and Brown.
Exhibits
The museum showcases a mixture of rotating exhibits relating to the history of Hennepin County. Exhibits are usually up for three or more months.
Community
The museum is home to a wide variety of events, including monthly "Fireside Chats" on various historical topics, as well as social events and author talks.
The museum has also worked to spotlight various communities in Hennepin County. In 2003, the museum partnered with the Walker Art Museum and 30 East African students from local high schools to use letters and photographs to create an exhibit about East African communities in Minneapolis. The museum's cultural outreach continued in 2009, when University of Minnesota interior design students exhibited designs for culturally sensitive homes for Somali and Mexican immigrants.
Library
The museum's library is open to the community and highlights the museum's archival collections. The library has reference materials such as city directories, photos of houses and buildings, maps, atlases, genealogical resources, city history files, business histories, and many other reference materials. A professional archivist is on site during library open hours to assist researchers.
Funding
About 40% of the museum's annual budget is funded by Hennepin County. The remaining 60% is funded by individual donors.
Magazine
Three times a year, the museum publishes Hennepin History Magazine. Redesigned in 2017, the magazine features topics of interest from all over Hennepin County. Digital reproductions of Hennepin History, the official publication of the Hennepin History Museum, are available online thanks to the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections. Earlier issues included articles such as "The Birth of Target", which explores the history of the Target Corporation, placing it in a historical context with the Dayton family and their department store Daytons. Such examinations of local companies are common in the magazine; the Winter 2012 issue explored Northwest Airlines in the 1930s.
See also
Arts in Minneapolis, Minnesota
List of museums in Minnesota
References
External links
Hennepin History Museum
Hennepin History Museum at the Minnesota Digital Library
1957 establishments in Minnesota
Arts organizations based in Minneapolis
Culture of Minneapolis
History museums in Minnesota
Museums in Minneapolis |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dtella | Dtella is a free and open-source, peer-to-peer file sharing client that connects to a distributed, decentralized DC++ Direct Connect network. Dtella allows the creation of a file-sharing intra-net with decentralized communication between clients. This lets clients on the same network share files without an internet connection, avoiding internet bandwidth limitations.
Dtella is pronounced "dee-tell-uh" and the name originates from the rough contraction of "DC++ GNUtella"—a P2P system that shares a similar network structure to Dtella (though Dtella does not derive from it)
History
Dtella originated at Purdue from a need to share files on a network without being limited by Purdue's bandwidth limit (for residents of its residence halls) and to avoid anti-piracy take-down notices. Dtella started as a client for DCGate, which used a DC network linked via IRC directory nodes. DCGate originally provided Purdue with IRC-based network transfers at about 1MB/sec.
Dtella grew into a decentralized system offering several improvements over the now deprecated DCGate project. While DCGate featured main IRC directory nodes, Dtella is decentralized, making it harder to shut down. DCgate translated between DC and IRC protocols, while Dtella forms a P2P mesh network allowing it to not rely on IRC or any other central node. This additionally made it more adaptable to other universities and faster to spread, as it needed no central node set up and maintained. Bandwidth caps for large networked entities such as university residence halls are common practice, attributing to Dtella's spread and growth across multiple universities. Currently, many forks of Dtella exist, some are listed below.
Forks
Notable Forks
Dtella@Purdue
Dtella@Purdue
The original Dtella hub. Active from 2004 to May 13, 2023.
One of the most active Dtella communities
Dtella@Berkeley
Dtella@Berkeley
Moved to UC Berkeley in Fall 2010
No longer a Dtella Community
Dtella@Home
Dtella@Home
For Home and off-campus use.
Other known Forks
Dtella@MS
Files@USYD
Dtella@CMU
Dtella@McGill
Dtella@Cambridge
Dtella@IH
Dtella@PKDC
Dtella@UMD
References
External links
Dtella@UCB Site
Dtella@Home
Dtella Ready for review
File sharing software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimitris%20Fotakis | Dimitris Fotakis () is associate professor of Theoretical Computer Science at the National Technical University of Athens. He is a prominent researcher in the field of algorithmic game theory.
Born and raised in Patras, he received a Computer Engineering Diploma (1994) and a PhD in Computer Science (1999) from the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras, Greece. From September 2001 until September 2003, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Algorithms and Complexity Group, Saarbrücken, Germany. Since February 2009, he has been a faculty member with the Division of Computer Science, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece.
References
Scientists from Patras
Greek computer scientists
Living people
University of Patras alumni
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Anku | William Oscar "Willie" Anku (25 July 1949 – 1 February 2010) was a Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer. His work combined Western set theory with computer programming and experience in working with performers of various West African musical traditions to create a comprehensive theory of African rhythm. He was "unique among Africa-based music theorists in attracting the attention of the US-based Society for Music Theory," being invited to give plenary lectures and receiving tributes from prominent US-based theorists.
Music theory
Anku rejected the relevance of simple concepts of polymeter in understanding West African music.
He is noted for attempting to create a more natural, but non-indigenous system of music notation to the study of African music. Anku's circular notation shows the various "combinatoric aspects of [a] pattern relative to different metrical positions, based on how the rhythmic pattern is aligned with [a] regulative metric pattern."
Bode Omojola lists Anku among five contemporary scholars most influencing ideas of African Rhythm. His work was cited as influential on Godfried Toussaint's general geometric theory of musical timelines.
Agawu described his approach to West-African music theory as "structural set analysis," the title of two of his short books. He defended the analytical approach to African music in a 2007 interview on Ghanaian MetroTV.
In addition to its impact on understanding African music, Anku's theories have been cited in the study of György Ligeti.
Life and education
Willie Anku came from Gbadzeme in the Avatime Traditional Area of the Volta Region of Ghana.
He received his Master of Music Education from the University of Montana, Missoula in 1976; MA and PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1986 and 1988 respectively. He was head of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, Legon until just prior to his death.
Professor Anku was involved in a motor accident on 20 January 2010 and died 2 weeks later at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital. He is survived by his wife, Madam Eva Ebeli, and three children.
References
1949 births
2010 deaths
Ghanaian musicians
Music educators
Music theorists
Road incident deaths in Ghana
University of Montana alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENDF | ENDF may refer to:
Ethiopian National Defense Force
Evaluated Nuclear Data File
Escuela Nacional de Danza Folklórica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars%20on%20Sunday%20%28TV%20series%29 | Stars on Sunday was a religious request programme produced by Yorkshire Television (YTV) and broadcast on the ITV network between 1969 and 1979. It aired on Sunday early evenings during what was known colloquially as "The God Slot", the time in television schedules set aside for religious broadcasting.
Origin
Yorkshire Television executive and producer Jess Yates developed Stars on Sunday as a replacement for outgoing show, Choirs on Sunday. The new format was a religious variety show with sets of a house and grounds created in the YTV studios in Leeds. One backdrop was the towering west front of the house; other scenes took place in the grounds, a waterfall and lake, the rose garden, the hall of dreams, a ruined abbey and a paddock. The most substantial set was the Lady Chapel constructed around genuine stained glass windows recovered from St John's Church, Bury, during demolition. Originally the windows had been exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London. When hosting the show Yates would be seated at an organ in front of the window. He gained the nickname "The Bishop" for his solemn delivery style.
Viewers wrote in to request hymns or Bible readings and these were performed by a series of guest celebrities.
Success and popularity
A key element to the early success of the programme was Yates's ability to persuade UK and international celebrities to appear in the religious show for a small fraction of their normal fee. They were paid the minimum Equity fee of £49.
The programme was reported to have increased its viewing figures from 600,000 to around seven million at the peak of its success, although other reports cite regular audiences of more than 15 million.
Yates's contract with YTV was terminated in 1974 when it was revealed that he had been having an affair with young actress Anita Kay. He was separated from his wife at the time. The programme continued for another five years.
While a "significant" proportion of the inserts recorded for the programme survive, only a handful of complete editions are known to still exist.
Guests
Guest hosts and contributors included:
Moira Anderson
Archbishop of Canterbury
Archbishop of York
Janet Baker
Shirley Bassey
Peter Sellers
The Beverley Sisters
Raymond Burr
Patricia Cahill
Violet Carson
Bing Crosby
Ken Dodd
Doncaster Wheatsheaf Girls Choir
Gracie Fields
Maggie Fitzgibbon
John Gielgud
Gerald Harper
Anita Harris
Edward Heath
Howard Keel
Princess Grace of Monaco
Eartha Kitt
Christopher Lee
James Mason
Raymond Massey
Johnny Mathis
Keith Michell
Matt Monro
Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Anna Neagle
Roy Orbison
Gene Pitney
Cliff Richard
Ralph Richardson
Diana Rigg
Harry Secombe
Sandie Shaw
Bill Simpson
Dorothy Squires
Kiri Te Kanawa
Lovelace Watkins
Norman Wisdom
References
External links
1969 British television series debuts
1979 British television series endings
1960s British television series
1970s British television series
British r |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Interstate%20Highways%20in%20Oklahoma | Interstate Highways in Oklahoma form a network of freeways that cross the state. Several of them incorporated existing or already-planned turnpikes and continue to be maintained by the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority.
References
External links
OKHighways by Eric Stuve
Interstate |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronitt%20Rubinfeld | Ronitt Rubinfeld (born 1964) is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and at the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.
Education
Rubinfeld was born in 1964 in Ohio and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. As a child, she attended Huron High School (class of 1981) and went on to graduate from the University of Michigan with a BSE in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1985). Following that, she received her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (1990), under the supervision of Manuel Blum. In the years 1990–1992 she did a post-doctorate at Princeton University in New Jersey and then at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Career
In 1992, Rubinfeld joined the faculty of computer science at Cornell University in New York as an associate professor and in 1998 was appointed associate professor. In 2004, she joined as a full professor in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. In 2008, she received an appointment as a full professor at Tel Aviv University .
Rubinfeld's research interests include randomized and sublinear time algorithms. In particular, her work focuses on what can be understood about data by looking at only a very small portion of it. She was a co-author of over 120 academic articles, which were cited in thousands of different articles. One of her main results, and in the field of model property testing in general, is a method for testing the linearity of a function, which she developed in her work with Manuel Blum and Michael Luby in 1993. The method allows, by sampling a small number of values of a given function, to determine with high probability whether the function is close to a linear function or not.
Rubinfeld also held positions in several research laboratories at various companies in the industry. In 1998, she served as a visiting researcher at the IBM Almaden research laboratories in San Jose (California). Between 1999 and 2003 she served as a senior researcher at the NEC laboratories in Princeton and in 2004 she served as a researcher at the Radcliffe Institute for Science Research.
Personal life
She is married to Prof. Ran Canty, a computer scientist at Tel Aviv University. They have two daughters
Awards and honors
She gave an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 2006.
She became a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 2014 for contributions to delegated computation, sublinear time algorithms and property testing.
She was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022.
References
External links
Rubinfeld's MIT page
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American computer scientists
MIT School of Engineering faculty
Living people
Theoretical computer scientists
University of Calif |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuen%20Mun%20South%20extension | The Tuen Mun South extension is a proposed extension of the MTR rapid transit network in Hong Kong. It extends the existing train service of Tuen Ma line to the tentatively named A16 station in Tuen Mun Area 16 and ultimately a new western terminus, Tuen Mun South (), near Tuen Mun Ferry Pier. The extension will extend southwards from the current western terminus, Tuen Mun station. The journey time from Tuen Mun South to Tuen Mun is estimated to be approximately 5 minutes. The track is planned to run on a viaduct.
History
The Tuen Mun South extension was one of the railway expansion projects recommended by the Railway Development Strategy 2014 (RDS-2014), published by the Hong Kong government's Transport and Housing Bureau in September 2014. The stated rationale for the project was to improve rail access to the area south of Tuen Mun town centre, serving the sizeable population living near Tuen Mun Ferry Pier. The RDS-2014 envisaged that the scheme, comprising an elevated one-stop extension of the West Rail to southern Tuen Mun, would be implemented between 2019 and 2022, and would cost an estimated HK$5.5 billion in 2013 prices.
In February 2016, the Hong Kong government invited the MTR Corporation to submit a proposal for the project.
In May 2020, the government invited the MTR to proceed with detailed planning and design. In addition to the new "Tuen Mun South" terminus outlined in RDS-2014, the government announced plans to build an intermediate station in Tuen Mun Area 16, currently home to (namesake of the nearby Light Rail station), tentatively called "A16 station". At that time, approximately 60,000 people lived within a 500-metre catchment of Tuen Mun South station, while about 49,000 residents lived within the same distance of A16 station. As the area around A16 station includes a lot of vacant land, the new station is intended to encourage housing development there. The existing Tuen Mun Swimming Pool and other community facilities currently occupying Tuen Mun Area 16 will need to be demolished and reprovisioned elsewhere. The government expects that construction may commence in 2023.
References
Regional rail in Hong Kong
Tuen Mun
Proposed railway stations in Hong Kong
MTR stations in the New Territories |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20on%20Social%20Inclusion%2C%20Participative%20Democracy%20and%20Human%20Rights | The UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights is one of the four Committees of the United Cities and Local Governments. As an autonomous network in the framework of UCLG, its stated goal is to bring together local authorities from across the world to exchange points of view and local initiatives on social inclusion, participatory democracy and human rights. Inheritor of the forums of local authorities (FAL) held in parallel to the first editions of the World Social Forum, the Committee has become a relevant stakeholder in global advocacy for human rights in the city and the Right to the City Throughout its history, the Committee been characterized by facilitating meetings and networking between progressive local authorities, with a special emphasis in the Latin American and European region. Headquartered in Barcelona, the Committee is composed by more than 100 local governments and various partner organizations (among which, the Global Platform for the Right to the City).
History
The origins of the Committee lie in the first Local Authorities Forum for Social Inclusion and Participatory Democracy (FAL), a forum for reflection and political discussion made up by progressive local authorities from all over the world, an event which has been held at the same time as the World Social Forum since 2001. In 2005, a year after the creation of the new international organisation of local governments - United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) - the towns of the FAL decided to establish a more institutionalised working structure within a new organisation. This led to the creation of the Committee on Social Inclusion and Participatory Democracy (CSIPD).
Since its beginnings, the CSIPD has been present at the various FAL events (Caracas, 2005 ; Nairobi, 2007 and Belém do Pará, 2009; Dakar, 2011) and has maintained an ongoing dialogue with international social movements and civil society in the international social forums held in those cities. It has thus become the communication channel between the political debates held in these events and UCLG, and has undertaken its own political initiatives based mainly on two areas: social inclusion and participatory democracy. A third area, human rights, was added to the Committee's work soon afterwards, and was extensively developed with the production of two documents, the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City (formally adopted by the Florence UCLG World Council in 2011) and the European Charter for the Safeguarding of Human Rights in the City (Saint-Denis, 2000). As a result, five years after it was established, the Committee on Social Inclusion and Participative Democracy has renamed itself as follows: Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights.
Organisation
The Committee consists of:
local governments (individual cities or associations of local governments);
local government networks;
partners (universities and civil society orga |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scramble%20Spirits | is a vertically scrolling shooter game released for the arcades by Sega in 1988. It was ported to the Master System the same year, then to other home consoles and computers in 1990.
Gameplay
The player starts out with a propelled plane that can fire air-to-air twin machine guns and air-to-ground rockets. These weapons are used for destroying waves of enemy planes and ground and sea units. The main plane is destroyed by one hit. If a certain enemy is destroyed the player can collect a comrade fighter to fight alongside the main plane. Up to two comrade fighters can be collected. The comrade fighters can be assigned to fight in the air to fire bullets or they can be assigned to fight at low altitude to fire air-to-ground rockets. The comrade fighters can also be launched to do a kamikaze attack explosion against the enemy. After kamikaze attacks, the comrade fighters are retrievable, but they are lost if they are shot or crash into an enemy. In some areas of certain stages, the player will fly at a lower altitude armed with only twin machine guns and shooting down parked planes and turrets and can take a limited amount of damage from multiple shots and crashes. At the end of each stage, the player must destroy a boss vehicle to proceed.
Plot
At the beginning of 21st century, the world was ravaged by a global nuclear war. Miraculously, humanity survived the devastation and partially rebuilt civilization. The world order had been restructured as a unitary system; a central supreme government with smaller rebuilt regions of continents as its states. Then one day, an urgent news reached the headquarter of the central supreme government that its smaller states came under fierce assaults and were occupied by mysterious enemy militaries. The Group One, an elite air force squad under the central supreme government's command, dispatches two of their ace pilots to destroy the mysterious enemy.
Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Scramble Spirits on their November 15, 1988 issue as being the second most-successful table arcade unit of the month.
Notes
References
External links
1988 video games
Amiga games
Arcade video games
Atari ST games
Amstrad CPC games
Commodore 64 games
MSX games
Master System games
ZX Spectrum games
Vertically scrolling shooters
Video games scored by Yasuhiro Kawakami |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maliit | Maliit is an input method framework for computers with particular focus on implementing virtual keyboards. Designed mostly for touchscreen devices, Maliit allows the inputting of text without the presence of a physical keyboard. More advanced features such as word correction and prediction are also available.
Originating as part of MeeGo, Maliit is free software licensed under LGPL. Maliit ships as a standard component of LG webOS, Plasma Mobile, SailfishOS, LuneOS, and Ubuntu Touch.
History
Maliit was originally developed as part of MeeGo by Nokia who eventually shipped it as part of MeeGo Handset “Day 1” software platform.
In the early 2010s, Maliit was deployed as a standard component of Nokia N9, KDE Plasma Active, OLPC devices, and Ubuntu Touch phones.
After the MeeGo project ended, Maliit was transferred into an independent project by free software consulting firm Openismus. The first formally independent release was 0.80.0 on .
Maliit 0.99, released on , switched from Qt 4 to Qt 5.
In May 2016, a KDE developer announced that instead of Maliit, QtVirtualKeyboard had been integrated into KDE Plasma 5.7. In September 2020, Maliit was made the default keyboard in Plasma Mobile.
On Maliit 2.0 has been released.
Features
Among Maliit's features are a plugin-based architecture, word correction and prediction, multitouch, and context sensitive layouts.
When running on Linux kernel, handling of the input hardware relies on evdev. Maliit supports X11 as well as Wayland.
See also
List of input methods for UNIX platforms
External links
References
Input methods
Nokia services
Mobile Linux
Free mobile software
Free software programmed in C++ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priv%C3%A9%20Jets | Privé Jets is a private company that brokers air transportation and luxury private charters. The company has over 7,000 aircraft in its network and access to 50,000 airports worldwide. The company is headquartered in Hallandale, Florida. In 2012, Privé Jets was named to the Inc. 5000. As of 2017, the company had made the list for six consecutive years. It had $28.5 million in annual revenues in 2005, according to Inc.
Background
Privé Jets has access to over 7,000 aircraft and 50,000 airports worldwide. In 2010, it launched the Jet Setter Program to provide charter services. Privé Jets partnered with the Forest Travel Agency. In 2011, Privé Jets was selected as the official charter for the Bancolombia Exhibition Match and transported Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic to Colombia for the event. Privé Jets is a member of Virtuoso. In 2018, it launched Custom Jet Cards, a new type of jet card product that provides users fixed rates and guaranteed availability based on their specific flying needs.
Recognition
In 2011, Privé Jets ranked #547 on the Inc. 5000 list of America's Fastest-Growing Companies. It also was ranked #12 on the Inc. Logistics and Transportation list. In 2012, Prive Jets ranked #665 on the Inc. 5000 list. In 2012, Privé Jets was nominated for World Travel Award's North American Leading Private Jet Charter. In January 2019, Prive Jets was named North America's Leading Private Jet Charter by the World Travel Awards for the fourth time and second consecutive year.
External links
Privé Jets official website
References
Transport companies established in 2004 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logie%20Awards%20of%202013 | The 55th Annual TV Week Logie Awards was held on Sunday 7 April 2013 at the Crown Palladium in Melbourne, and broadcast on the Nine Network and simulcast of Today Network's radio stations. Public voting for the "Most Popular" categories were conducted through an online survey from late November 2012 to 10 February 2013. Nominations were announced on 11 March 2013. Network Ten's Offspring received the most nominations with eight. Hamish and Andy's Euro Gap Year, Hamish and Andy's Caravan of Courage: Australia Vs New Zealand, Home and Away, Howzat! Kerry Packer's War, and Puberty Blues each received five nominations. Television presenter Brian Henderson was inducted into the Logies Hall of Fame.
Winners and nominees
In the tables below, winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
Gold Logie
Acting/Presenting
Most Popular Programs
Most Outstanding Programs
Presenters
Hamish Blake
Andy Lee
Adam Hills
Dave Hughes
Julia Morris
Shane Bourne
Lisa Wilkinson
Rebecca Gibney
Eddie Perfect
Scott Cam
Kat Stewart
Shane Jacobson
Sonia Kruger
Jennifer Byrne
Mandy McElhinney
Jenny Brockie
Bert Newton
Molly Meldrum
Olly Murs
Chris Brown
Hugh Sheridan
Jennifer Hawkins
Richard Wilkins
Carrie Bickmore
David Campbell
Craig Reucassel
Julian Morrow
Darren McMullen
Mike Munro
Michelle Bridges
Karl Stefanovic
Performers
Bruno Mars – "Locked Out of Heaven"
Michael Bublé – "It's a Beautiful Day"
Birdy – "Skinny Love"
Olly Murs – "Army of Two"
Most nominations
By network
Nine Network – 37
ABC – 32
Network Ten – 28
Seven Network – 17
Foxtel – 8
SBS – 5
Source:
By program
Offspring (Network Ten) – 8
Hamish and Andy's Euro Gap Year (Nine Network) / Hamish and Andy's Caravan of Courage: Australia Vs New Zealand (Nine Network) / Home and Away (Seven Network) / Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (Nine Network) / Puberty Blues (Network Ten) – 5
House Husbands (Nine Network) / Mabo (ABC1) / Redfern Now (ABC1) / Underbelly: Badness (Nine Network) – 4
Four Corners (ABC1) / Packed to the Rafters (Seven Network) / The Project (Network Ten) / Underground: The Julian Assange Story (Network Ten) / The Voice (Nine Network) – 3
Source:
Most awards
By network
Nine Network – 8
ABC – 7
Network Ten – 4
Seven Network – 3
SBS / Foxtel – 1
Source:
By program
Howzat! Kerry Packer's War (Nine Network) / Offspring (Network Ten) / Redfern Now (ABC1) / The Voice (Nine Network) – 2
Source:
In Memoriam
The In Memoriam segment was introduced by Peter Overton who spoke of the passing of Peter Harvey. The Melbourne Gospel Choir performed Foo Fighters "Times Like These". The following deceased were honoured:
Suzie Howie, publicist
Brian Wright, executive
Jonathan Hardy, actor
Binny Lum, host
Max Stuart, executive
Alan Bateman, writer, producer
Bille Brown AM, actor
Craig Watkins, cameraman
Jon Finlayson, actor
Peter Skelton, cameraman
Tony Charlton AM, broadcaster
Len Mauger, executive
Leverne McDonnell, actress
Bryce Courtenay AM, author, producer, screenwriter
Digby Wo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundo%20Mo%27y%20Akin | (International title: Deception / ) is a 2013 Philippine television drama series broadcast by GMA Network. Directed by Andoy Ranay, it stars Sunshine Dizon, Angelika Dela Cruz, Alden Richards and Louise delos Reyes. It premiered on March 18, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up, replacing Pahiram ng Sandali. The series concluded on September 6, 2013 with a total of 122 episodes. It was replaced by Akin Pa Rin ang Bukas in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Best friends Rodora and Perlita have suffered from ridicule for their physical looks. After being not seeing each other, the paths of Perlita and Rodora, now Giselle with a changed face, cross in Giselle's husband's mansion. They both get pregnant at the same time. When Giselle gives birth to an ugly baby, she switched her baby to Perlita's baby in secret.
Cast and characters
Main cast
Sunshine Dizon as Perlita Mendoza-Smith
Angelika Dela Cruz as Giselle Atienza-Carbonel / Rodora Santos
Jolina Magdangal as Zenaida "Aida" Carbonel
Gabby Eigenmann as Ziggy Carbonel
Lauren Young as Darlene Atienza Carbonel / Darlene Mendoza Smith
Jaclyn Jose as Charito Carbonel
Alden Richards as Jerome Alvarez
Louise delos Reyes as Marilyn Mendoza / Marilyn Atienza Carbonel
Recurring cast
Kier Legaspi as Romeo "Romy" Alvarez
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Josie
Sef Cadayona as Nonoy Pambide
Rita De Guzman as Alison Alcantara
Marc Acueza as Harry Renacia
Jojit Lorenzo as Andy Santos
Fabio Ide as George Smith
Development
The series was conceptualized by RJ Nuevas for GMA Entertainment TV and intended for an early 2013 premiere. Nuevas began developing the series mid-2012 under the title Ang Mundo Ko'y Ikaw (lit. You Are My World) and later changed to Mundo Mo'y Akin (lit. Your World is Mine). The project was put on the fast track since the network's supposed line up of primetime series were cancelled/shelved. Denoy Navarro-Punio assigned as head writer while Michele Borja served as the executive producer for the entire run of the show. The network assigned Andoy Ranay to direct the show. Ranay described the series as an "over the top drama and flavored more of a Mexican telenovela."
Production
The principal photography began on February 28, 2013. Majority of the scenes were shot in Hacienda Isabella in Indang, Cavite. Other locations include Tagaytay and Midas Hotel and Casino in Roxas Boulevard, Metro Manila.
Originally slated to air for sixteen weeks, the series was given three weeks extension because of its consistent high ratings and positive feedback.
Casting
The show features eight regular casts: Sunshine Dizon was chosen to play the protagonist, Perlita Mendoza. This series also served as Dizon's comeback project after her four-year hiatus from showbusiness. Dizon described the project as "A very good one that is hard to refuse. The story itself convinced me to accept the job. When they laid down the storyline, I was really moved." Mundo Mo'y Akin is one of th |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turma%20do%20Chico%20Bento%20%28video%20game%29 | Turma do Chico Bento is a farming simulation social network game developed by Insolita Studios in 2012, based on Brazilian Chuck Billy 'n' Folks popular comics characters.
Based in popular farming simulation games like FarmVille, Turma do Chico Bento's first mission is to create a personalized character, who moves to the Zucchini's Village, where players can interact with characters from Chuck Billy 'n' Folks series.
References
External links
Official site
2012 video games
Browser-based multiplayer online games
Browser games
Facebook games
Farming video games
Social casual games
Video games developed in Brazil
Monica and Friends
Level Up! Games games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Theory%20and%20Applications%20of%20Models%20of%20Computation | The International Conference on Theory and Applications of Models of Computation (TAMC) is an academic conference in the field of theoretical computer science. TAMC has been organized annually since 2004. Previous editors of the TAMC conference proceedings include Manindra Agrawal and Petr Kolman. The conference proceedings are published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer.
References
External links
Theory and Applications of Models of Computation at DBLP
Web page of TAMC 2015 in Singapore
Web page of TAMC 2014 in Chennai
Web page of TAMC 2013 in Hong Kong
Web page of TAMC 2012 in Beijing
TAMC 2011 in Tokyo at DBLP
Web page of TAMC 2010 in Prague
TAMC 2009 in Changsha at DBLP
TAMC 2008 in Xi'an at DBLP
TAMC 2007 in Shanghai at DBLP
TAMC 2006 in Beijing at DBLP
Theoretical computer science conferences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasanabad-e%20Yek | Hasanabad-e Yek () may refer to:
Hasanabad-e Yek, Anbarabad
Hasanabad-e Yek, Sirjan
Hasanabad-e Yek, Saadatabad, Sirjan County |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACM%20Symposium%20on%20User%20Interface%20Software%20and%20Technology | The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is an annual conference for technical innovations in human–computer interfaces. UIST is sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and ACM SIGGRAPH. By impact factor, it is one of impactful conferences in the field of human–computer interaction. Scott Hudson is the current chair of the UIST community, which organizes the UIST conference.
Overview
UIST is a highly selective conference, with an acceptance rate of 20.3% over the last five years.
History
Through 2013, UIST was well known for its intimate single-track format. UIST 2014 introduced a new dual-track format.
Past Conferences
Past and future UIST conferences include:
References
Computer science conferences
Association for Computing Machinery conferences
Human–computer interaction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20with%20La%20Toya | Life with La Toya is an American reality documentary television series on the Oprah Winfrey Network that debuted April 13, 2013 at 10:30/9:30c. It was announced on June 10, 2013, that the Oprah Winfrey Network ordered a twelve-episode second season.
Premise
Life with La Toya opens a view into the daily life of La Toya Jackson. The series chronicles Jackson as she settles into her newest home, expands her business portfolio and dives back into the dating scene in order to create her own family. It also features La Toya telling the stories of her past such as her ex-husband and the death of her brother. Contrary to reports, Michael Jackson's children only appear in one episode and are not featured within the series.
Episodes
Series overview
Season 1 (2013)
Season 2 (2014)
Specials
Broadcast
In Australia, the program is available for streaming through PLUS7, the official streaming application of Seven Network.
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir%20%28software%29 | Mir is a computer display server and, recently, a Wayland compositor for the Linux operating system that is under development by Canonical Ltd. It was planned to replace the currently used X Window System for Ubuntu; however, the plan changed and Mutter was adopted as part of GNOME Shell.
Mir was announced by Canonical on 4 March 2013 as part of the development of Unity 8, intended as the next generation for the Unity user interface. Four years later Unity 8 was dropped although Mir's development continued for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.
Software architecture
Mir is built on EGL and uses some of the infrastructure originally developed for Wayland such as Mesa's EGL implementation and Jolla's libhybris. The compatibility layer for X, XMir, is based on XWayland.
Other parts of the infrastructure used by Mir originate from Android. These parts include Google's Protocol Buffers, and previously included Android's input stack, which has since been replaced by Wayland's libinput, prior to the end of 2015. An implementation detail in memory management shared with Android is the use of server-allocated buffers which Canonical employee Christopher Halse Rogers claims to be a requirement for "the ARM world and Android graphics stack".
According to Ryan Paul of Ars Technica,
it has basic Wayland support.
Adoption
, the only announced desktop environment with native support for Mir was Canonical's Unity 8. No other Linux distribution announced plans to adopt Mir as default display server.
On 23 July 2013, Compiz developer Sam Spilsbury had announced a proof-of-concept port of XBMC to Mir, based on the previous proof-of-concept port of XBMC to Wayland. On the same day Canonical developer Oliver Ries had confirmed that "this is the first native Mir client out in the wild".
Among Ubuntu derivatives using a non-Unity environment, Xubuntu developers had announced in early August 2013 that they would evaluate running Xfce via XMir, but three weeks later decided to refrain from adopting it.
Ubuntu
In June 2013, Canonical's publicly announced milestones for Mir development were to ship Unity 7 with XMir by default and a pure X11 fallback mode with Ubuntu 13.10, remove the X11 fallback with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Unity 8 running natively on Mir by Ubuntu 14.10. Later, on , Canonical announced a postponement of their Mir plans for desktop use and not use XMir as default in Ubuntu 13.10. Ubuntu Touch, however is targeted to ship with Mir and a smartphone version of Unity 8.
In May 2016, during his traditional video interview with the community held during the Ubuntu Online Summit, Mark Shuttleworth confirmed that "You will be able to get 16.10 with Unity 8, just like you can get 16.04 with MATE, or KDE, or GNOME. It'll be there, it'll be an option, and the team that's working on that is committed to making that a first-class option."
On 5 April 2017, Canonical announced that with the release of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, the Unity 8 interface would be ab |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry%20French%20%28chef%29 | Terry French is an American chef, winner of Season 2 of the Food Network's Extreme Chef, and founder of the charity Chefs for Life.
Early life and education
French was born in Evansville, Indiana. He attended Castle High School, and grew up foraging, hunting, fishing, and cooking with his family.
Prior to attending culinary school, he served in the U.S. Navy, completing two world tours. French spent nine years as a tournament fisherman, nine years as first mate on a sport-fishing boat, and is a United States Coast Guard licensed captain.
French received his culinary degree from Scottsdale Culinary Institute in Scottsdale, Arizona, after which he did several apprenticeships in European, Continental, and Asian cuisine.
Career
French has served as corporate chef and executive chef at several restaurants, including Emma's Rotisserie in Somers Point and Rebel Catering in Egg Harbor, both in New Jersey.
In 2012, he was invited to participate in the Food Network's Extreme Chef program, which takes competitors out of the kitchen and into some of the most extreme locations in the world. French was named champion of Extreme Chef.
French is also the founder and managing director of Chefs for Life, a charity organization that works to feed the hungry around the world, educate them about cooking and healthy eating, promote the appreciation of food and nature, and provide resources to combat hunger. He also works to support the charity Share Our Strength, which runs the campaign No Kid Hungry in the United States.
In 2015, French hosted Chef's Plate, a traveling culinary competition in St. Louis, Missouri. Also in 2015, he was a featured chef at the World Food Championships.
In 2015, 2016, and 2017, French was invited as one of the nation's top celebrity chefs to share his culinary know-how on the World Culinary Showcase stage.
References
External links
Food Network Extreme chef Terry French in DC for Metro Cooking DC
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn%20S.%20McKinley | Kathryn S. McKinley is an American computer scientist noted for her research on compilers, runtime systems, and computer architecture. She is also known for her leadership in broadening participation in computing. McKinley was co-chair of CRA-W from 2011 to 2014.
Biography
McKinley received a B.A. in computer science and engineering from Rice University in 1985. She went on to earn an M.S. in computer science from Rice University in 1990 and then a Ph.D in computer science from Rice University in 1992.
She joined the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst as an assistant professor in 1993. While there she was promoted to associate professor in 1999. In 2001, she moved to the University of Texas at Austin as an associate professor. In 2005, she was promoted to professor and in 2010 to endowed professor in computer science. In 2011 she moved to Microsoft Research as a Principal Researcher. She is currently a Principal Research Scientist at Google.
McKinley is married to Scotty Strahan; they have three boys: Cooper, Dylan, and Wyatt Strahan.
Career
She and her colleagues introduced the first general purpose model and optimization framework based on dependences and cache line reuse for improving the cache locality of dense matrix algorithms using loop permutation, loop reversal, fusion, and distribution. McKinley and her advisor, Ken Kennedy showed how to use this model to introduce parallelism with locality and eliminate false sharing. This work was selected in 2014 for the ICS 25th Anniversary Volume.
McKinley, her PhD student Emery D. Berger, and colleagues introduced the Hoard C/C++ Memory Allocator, which is widely used by applications and in Apple's OS X. Hoard limits contention caused when multiple threads allocate or free memory at the same time, and avoids false sharing due to memory allocation. At the same time, Hoard enforces provable bounds on the total amount of fragmentation.
McKinley was a leader of the DaCapo research group, which spanned nine institutions and was funded by an NSF ITR (2000-2006). This project produced a number of innovative virtual machine technologies, open source tools, open source benchmarks, and new methodologies for evaluating managed runtimes. The benchmarking and methodologies efforts were led by Stephen M. Blackburn. The DaCapo Java benchmark suite and evaluation methodologies are widely used in academia and industry to evaluate Java analysis, optimization, and testing technologies. Blackburn, Cheng, and McKinley were the first to perform an apples-to-apples comparison of garbage collection algorithms that showed free-list allocators give up substantial amounts of locality even though they require less memory compared to copying algorithms, which allocate contemporaneous objects contiguously. This work won the SIGMETRICS 2014 Test of Time of Award.
Based on this insight, Blackburn and McKinley designed a new class of garbage collectors, they named mark-region. The |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranded%20%28TV%20series%29 | Stranded is a 2013 American paranormal investigation reality television series that premiered on the Syfy network February 27, 2013 and is hosted by Josh Gates of Destination Truth. The show is produced by executive producers Brad Kuhlman, Casey Brumels and Josh Gates for Ping Pong Productions, and Jason Blum of Blumhouse Productions, the latter best known for the Paranormal Activity film franchise. The show has been compared to MTV's paranormal competition show Fear.
Format
The show was created by Josh Gates as both a paranormal and psychological experiment. Each episode features a three-person team made up of paranormal enthusiasts and skeptics from various walks of life who spend several days alone together at some of the most allegedly haunted locations in North America. The teams create their own video footage with hand-held night-vision cameras, along with dozens of fixed cameras, that document their reactions to the ever increasing anxiety, paranoia and desolation of being trapped inside a terrifying place. The show concludes with a review of the footage and personal interviews of each member's experience.
Opening Introduction:
Message (before each episode):
Reception
Mark Perigard of the Boston Herald gave an overall negative review stating, 'Stranded' shows that boredom, isolation and the power of suggestion—along with some careful goosing by off-screen production assistants, no doubt—can produce, ultimately, a horribly predictable show."
TV by the Numbers announced the show with a more positive review stating, "Over the course of the confinement, the subjects contend with increasingly pervasive feelings of fear and desolation, resulting in an experiment that represents a unique combination of psychology and the paranormal."
Episodes
References
External links
at SyFy.com
Stranded IMDb entry
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
English-language television shows
Paranormal reality television series
Syfy original programming |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingasa%20pallidata | Pingasa pallidata is a moth of the family Geometridae first described by Joseph de Joannis in 1913. It is found in Eritrea.
References
Moths described in 1913
Pseudoterpnini |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook%20Islands%20Biodiversity | The Cook Islands Biodiversity website is a database with a collection of information on the plants and animals, native and non-native, found in the Cook Islands.
The collection of data and the development of the database on MS Access took more than a dozen years. The Bishop Museum (Honolulu), with support from PBIN, facilitated the programming of the database for the web and hosts the website. It was launched on 8 March 2003, reprogrammed and radically redesigned on 1 May 2005, and further developed 1 October 2005. In 2011 the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust enlisted expert computer specialists to redesign its extensive online biodiversity database.
This was an allocation over and above the Trust's basic budget, as outlined in its 2008–09 annual report, which was tabled in parliament by Prime Minister Henry Puna (also minister of National Environment Services).
The multimedia database is designed to integrate scientific and traditional information on all the plants and animals of the Cook Islands – native and non-native; terrestrial, marine, and freshwater. The database can use a range of criteria to display subsets of species for special interest groups. A species can be searched in Latin, English, or Cook Islands Māori.
The Cook Islands Natural Heritage Trust has a permanent research staff of one: Gerald McCormack. Gerald McCormack has worked for the Cook Islands Government since 1980. In 1990 he became the director and researcher for the Cook Islands Natural Heritage Project – a Trust since 1999. He is the lead developer of the Biodiversity Database, which is based on information from local and overseas experts, fieldwork and library research.
The website and its database are available on CD from the Natural Heritage Trust. A new CD is produced each year about mid-year.
See also
:Category:Flora of the Cook Islands
:Category:Fauna of the Cook Islands
References
External links
Cook Islands Biodiversity Website
Biodiversity databases
Environmental organisations based in the Cook Islands |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20Doria | Dexter Doria is a Filipino veteran actress. She has appeared in more than 175 films and several television programs from ABS-CBN and GMA Network.
Career
In 1977, she appeared in such movies as Elektrika Kasi, Eh!, Tisoy, Babae!, Iligpit Si Pretty Boy, and Burlesk Queen, starring Vilma Santos and Rosemarie Gil, among others.
She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in 1978 FAMAS Award for the movie Inay. She also received nominations for Best Supporting Actress Gawad Urian Awards in Moral (1982) and Mga Munting Tinig (2002).
And finally won a FAMAS Best Supporting Actress for Memories of Forgetting.
In 2022, she was a regular cast member of GMA Network hit drama series Abot-Kamay na Pangarap, she played the role of Susanna "Susan" Burgos, a former cruel yet loving, kind-hearted, fierce, and supportive stepmother to Lyneth which is played by Carmina Villarroel and the step-grandmother to Analyn, which is played by Jillian Ward.
Filmography
Film
Television series
Television anthologies
References
External links
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century Filipino actresses
Filipino film actresses
Filipino television actresses
GMA Network personalities
ABS-CBN personalities |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT%20Boats%3A%20Knights%20of%20the%20Sea | PT Boats Knights of the Sea is a PC computer game by Akella. It is a simulation in which the player operates a PT Boat during World War II. In this game, the player can choose to control a ship, a group of ships, or to control specific crew members separately.
References
External links
2009 video games
Naval video games
Ship simulation games
World War II video games
Windows games
Windows-only games
Video games developed in Russia
Akella games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flakey%20the%20robot | Flakey the robot was a research robot created at SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center and was the successor to Shakey the robot.
Software
Most of Flakey's routines were written in Lisp, with some lower-level code written in C. The code maintains a "Local Perceptual Space" that is updated by the sensors and acted on by planning algorithms.
Hardware
It was about 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, and included 12 sonar sensors, optical wheel encoders, a video camera, and a depth-finding laser.
Research results
Flakey was used to demonstrate fuzzy logic and goal-oriented behavior - it would take what it knew and work towards one of several goals. At the first AAAI robotics competition in July 1992, Flakey took second place and the University of Michigan's CARMEL took first, above Georgia Tech's "Buzz" and IBM's "TJ2".
References
SRI International
Historical robots
Rolling robots
Robots of the United States
1985 robots |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEO%20%28disambiguation%29 | A CEO, or chief executive officer, is the highest-ranking corporate officer in an organisation.
CEO may also refer to:
Acronyms and codes
CEO (Data General), or Comprehensive Electronic Office, a 1981 suite of office automation software
Center for Equal Opportunity, an American conservative think tank
Chief Electoral Officer (disambiguation), an electoral oversighter
Chief experimental officer, head of an experimental organization
Civil enforcement officer, a person who enforces, parking, traffic, and other laws
Civilian enforcement officer, an official of Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunals Service in the UK
Community Effort Orlando, an annual fighting game event
Corporate Europe Observatory, a non-profit research and campaign group
Waco Kungo Airport, Angola (IATA code)
Arts and entertainment
Ceo (musician), the solo project of Eric Berglund
"CEO", a 2021 song by Netta Barzilai
"CEO", a 2021 song by Snoop Dogg from From tha Streets 2 tha Suites
The CEO, a 2016 Nigerian film
See also
Ceos, Latin name for the Greek island of Kea in the Cyclades archipelago
Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, of the United States Department of Justice Criminal Division |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating%20finite-state%20machine | In computer science, a communicating finite-state machine is a finite state machine labeled with "receive" and "send" operations over some alphabet of channels. They were introduced by Brand and Zafiropulo, and can be used as a model of concurrent processes like Petri nets. Communicating finite state machines are used frequently for modeling a communication protocol since they make it possible to detect major protocol design errors, including boundedness, deadlocks, and unspecified receptions.
The advantage of communicating finite state machines is that they make it possible to decide many properties in communication protocols, beyond the level of just detecting such properties. This advantage rules out the need for human assistance or restriction in generality.
Communicating finite state machines can be more powerful than finite state machines in situations where the propagation delay is not negligible (so that several messages can be in transit at one time) and in situations where it is natural to describe the protocol parties and the communication medium as separate entities.
Communicating Hierarchical State Machine
Hierarchical state machines are finite state machines whose states themselves can be other machines. Since a communicating finite state machine is characterized by concurrency, the most notable trait in a communicating hierarchical state machine is the coexistence of hierarchy and concurrency. This has been considered highly suitable as it signifies stronger interaction inside the machine.
However, it was proved that the coexistence of hierarchy and concurrency intrinsically costs language inclusion, language equivalence, and all of universality.
Definition
Protocol
For an arbitrary positive integer , a protocol with process(es) is a quadruple with:
, a sequence of disjoint finite sets. Each set is used to represent a process, and each element of represents a possible state of the -th process.
(with ), a sequence representing the initial state of each process.
, a finite sequence of disjoint finite sets such that each set represents the possible messages which may be sent from process to process . If , then is empty.
is a sequence of transition functions. Each function modelizes the transition which can be taken by emitting or receiving any message. With respect to process , the symbol is used to note a message that can be received and a message that can be sent.
Global state
A global state is a pair where
is an ordered collection of states such that each represents a state of the -th process.
is an matrix such that each is a subsequence of .
The initial global state is a pair where
is defined to be an matrix such that for all , equals the empty word, .
Step
There are two kinds of steps, steps in which message are received and steps in which messages are sent.
A step in which the process receive a message
previously sent by the -th process is a pair of the form
when , with . Simila |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20in%20ancient%20Rome | Food in ancient Rome reflects both the variety of food-stuffs available through the expanded trade networks of the Roman Empire and the traditions of conviviality from ancient Rome's earliest times, inherited in part from the Greeks and Etruscans. In contrast to the Greek symposium, which was primarily a drinking party, the equivalent social institution of the Roman convivium (dinner party) was focused on food. Banqueting played a major role in Rome's communal religion. Maintaining the food supply to the city of Rome had become a major political issue in the late Republic, and continued to be one of the main ways the emperor expressed his relationship to the Roman people and established his role as a benefactor. Roman food vendors and farmers' markets sold meats, fish, cheeses, produce, olive oil and spices; and pubs, bars, inns and food stalls sold prepared food.
Bread was an important part of the Roman diet, with more well-to-do people eating wheat bread and poorer people eating that made from barley. Fresh produce such as vegetables and legumes were important to Romans, as farming was a valued activity. A variety of olives and nuts were eaten. While there were prominent Romans who discouraged meat eating, a variety of meat products were prepared, including blood puddings, sausages, cured ham and bacon. The milk of goats or sheep was thought superior to that of cows; milk was used to make many types of cheese, as this was a way of storing and trading milk products. While olive oil was fundamental to Roman cooking, butter was viewed as an undesirable Gallic foodstuff. Sweet foods such as pastries typically used honey and wine-must syrup as a sweetener. A variety of dried fruits (figs, dates and plums) and fresh berries were also eaten.
Salt, which in its pure form was an expensive commodity in Rome, was the fundamental seasoning and the most common salty condiment was a fermented fish sauce known as garum. Locally available seasonings included garden herbs, cumin, coriander, and juniper berries. Imported spices included pepper, saffron, cinnamon, and fennel. While wine was an important beverage, Romans looked down on drinking to excess and drank their wine mixed with water; drinking wine "straight" was viewed as a barbarian custom.
Food
The main Roman ingredients in dishes were wheat, wine, meat and fish, bread, and sauces and spices. The richer Romans had luxurious lives, and sometimes hosted banquets or feasts.
Grains and legumes
Most people would have consumed at least 70 percent of their daily calories in the form of cereals and legumes. Grains included several varieties of wheat—emmer, rivet wheat, einkorn, spelt, and common wheat (Triticum aestivum)—as well as the less desirable barley, millet, and oats.
Legumes included the lentil, chickpea, bitter vetch, broad bean, garden pea, and grass pea; Pliny names varieties such as the Venus pea, and poets praise Egyptian lentils imported from Pelusium. Legumes were planted in rotation w |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plexon | Plexon (from "plexus," a term describing a network of nerve cells) is an American company that "invents, develops, and manufactures hardware and software that acquires, amplifies, records, and analyzes signals from individual brain cells." It is based in Dallas, Texas and is very close to the campus of Southern Methodist University with a satellite office in Brussels, Belgium. It primarily services academic researchers doing work in neuroscience and electrophysiology. Plexon equipment has been used in "areas of study including autism, prosthetic limb control for paralysis patients, and the effects of drugs on brain processing and memory." In addition, it also develops equipment and software for behavioral video tracking.
History
Harvey Wiggins of Dallas, Texas founded Spectrum Scientific in 1983. In the early days of Spectrum Scientific, design and manufacturing was conducted solely by Wiggins with backing and most funding being provided by Don Woodward at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and the National Institutes of Health. In 1988, the original Multichannel Data Acquisition system (abbreviated as MAP or "Harvey box") was developed and uses hardware filtering of data signals. The replacement for the MAP, the Omniplex system, was released in 2009 and replaces the hardware filtering components with filtering in software. Due to many contributions like these, Plexon and Harvey Wiggins have become iconic in the neuroscience community. Dr. Regina Carelli, a professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina, describes Harvey as "wonderful--A scientist much more than a salesman."
Spectrum Scientific became known as Plexon in 1996. Plexon celebrated its 30th anniversary in February 2013.
Since 2001, Plexon has been repeatedly recognized by the technology business community in Dallas, Texas for rapid growth.
Educational training
Plexon sponsors an annual educational training workshop in Dallas.
References
Medical technology companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Public%20Eye%20%28magazine%29 | The Public Eye Magazine is published by Political Research Associates in Somerville, Massachusetts. The magazine was founded in 1977 by the Public Eye Network. It currently contains investigative articles about "movements, institutions, and ideologies that undermine human rights." Its primary focus is on right-wing groups in the United States.
Editors
The original editors of the Public Eye Magazine were Harvey Kahn and Mark Ryter. The magazine was a publication of The Repression Information Project, a non-profit research center focusing on repression in the US, staffed by Russ Bellant, Susan Gluss, Eda Gordon, Harvey Kahn, and Mark Ryter.
References
Further reading
Nicholson, Judith. “The Public Eye.” Afterimage, Vol. 22, February 1995, p. 23.
External links
Official webpage
The Public Eye archive
Alternative press
News magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1977
Magazines published in Massachusetts |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20IdeaPad%20Yoga%2011S | The Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S is a compact ultralight hybrid notebook/tablet computer released in late 2012. Like the Yoga 13 and the Yoga 11 the Yoga 11S gets its name from its ability to take on various form factors due to its screen being mounted on a special two-way hinge. The Yoga 11S runs the full version of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system.
Launch
The Yoga 11s started shipping in the United States in June 2013.
Features
Design
Like other models in the IdeaPad Yoga line, the Yoga 11S has a convertible form factor. Its screen can flip into a range of positions that allow it to serve as a regular laptop and tablet device as well as being able to function in "tent mode" and "stand mode." Like the Yoga 11, the 11S is available in silver and clementine orange.
Specifications
The Yoga 11S can be configured with processors as powerful as Intel's "Ivy Bridge" Core i7 processor, will support up to a 256GB solid-state drive, and can hold as much as 8GB of RAM. The Yoga 11S has an 11.6" display. Displays will be available with options for resolutions of 1366 by 768 pixels and 1600 by 900 pixels. The 11S runs the full version of Microsoft Windows 8.
Reviews
CNET writes, "The 11-inch Yoga -- Lenovo's clever laptop/tablet hybrid -- had a great physical design, but ran the lame Windows RT operating system. The 13-inch Yoga ran full Windows 8, but was a bit too large for tablet duties. The upcoming Yoga 11S may be the "just right" marriage of the two: the smaller and lighter 11-inch chassis, but running full Windows 8 -- while still keeping the unique folding design."
Writing for Slash Gear, Eric Abents states, "In fact, at first glance, the only noticeable difference between the Yoga 13 and the Yoga 11S is size. The 11S is quite a bit smaller than the Yoga 13, but both are running Windows 8 (remember that – this isn’t Windows RT you’ll be dealing with. The fact that the Yoga series is running Windows 8 is definitely appreciated, and I’m sure it might just end up convincing a few people who are on the fence. One thing I want to point out is that I think the Yoga 11S might make a better tablet. That isn’t to say that the Yoga 13 didn’t make a good tablet (it did), it was just a little on the large side as far as slates go. The Yoga 11S fits very well in your hand, so I wouldn’t be surprised to see many people opting for tablet mode over the other configurations."
References
External links
The official website exists only in specific countries such as:
With specs:
Without specs:
Yoga 11S
2-in-1 PCs |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commotion%20Wireless | Commotion Wireless is an open-source wireless mesh network for electronic communication. The project was developed by the Open Technology Institute, and development included a $2 million grant from the United States Department of State in 2011 for use as a mobile ad hoc network (MANET), concomitant with the Arab Spring. It was preliminarily deployed in Detroit in late 2012, and launched generally in March 2013. The project has been called an "Internet in a Suitcase".
Commotion 1.0, the first non-beta release, was launched on December 30, 2013.
Commotion relies on several open source projects: OLSR, OpenWrt, OpenBTS, and Serval project.
Supported hardware
Ubiquiti:
PicoStation M2, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
Bullet M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
NanoStation M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
Rocket M2/M5, Release 1 & 1.1, DR2
UniFi AP, Release 1 & 1.1
UniFi Outdoor, Release 1 & 1.1
TP-Link:
TL-WDR3600, Release 1.1
TL-WDR4300, Release 1.1
Mikrotik:
RB411AH, Release 1.1
See also
List of router and firewall distributions
References
External links
Mesh networking |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Lui%20%28professor%29 | Simon Lui () is a computer music researcher. Lui is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Singapore University of Technology and Design. Simon was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012-2013, and a Marie Curie Fellow in 2011.
Lui is one of the earliest iPhone and iPad app developers worldwide, especially well known for mobile game development. He is one of the pioneers in developing iPhone app Hong Kong, and a well-reputed gadget specialist. Lui has published seven apps since 2008, including several best-selling apps in Southern Asia, as well as Canada's iPhone/iPad app store; his story was reported by CNN International. Lui is currently focusing on mobile app research and education.
Lui is also a violinist, erhuist, guitarist, beatboxer, and music arranger. He was the concert master of the Hong Kong Youth Strings and Hong Kong Stage Ensemble. Lui is the founder of Girl's and Boys A'Cappella - the champion of the 2005 Hong Kong ICMA Singing Contest (group). Lui has been involved in hundreds of pop music concert, classical performance, game music production and CD recordings. Simon is a member of the Composers and Authors Society of Hong Kong (CASH).
References
External links
Dr. Simon Lui's Home page
1981 births
Living people
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty
Alumni of the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Alumni of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo%20Erazer | The Lenovo Erazer is a line of desktop computers designed for gaming and other high-performance computing tasks.
Launch
The Erazer X700 was announced by Lenovo at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It launched in May 2013 with a starting price in the United States of $1,499.
Models
Erazer X700
Design
The Erazer X700 has a highly stylized case that TechRadar said is "like the sort of extraterrestrial hardware that comes from folks like Alienware." TechRadar added, "On the outside, the Erazer X700 looks an unused design from Prometheus. It's all blue lights, bubbled black plastic and geometric lines. With a power button labeled Engine Start in blue LED, it's your call whether the X700 is more racecar than spacecraft. Either way it's a tad gaudy, but no sci-fi nightmare. There are some functional touches amongst the glowing glamor."
Specifications and performance
The Erazer X700 is powered by Intel's i7 processor. The X700 can be configured with either dual GeForce GTX660 video cards or a single AMD Radeon HD 8950 video card. Up to 16GB of DDR3 SDRAM is supported. Users can choose standard configurations with 2TB or 1TB hard drives with bays sufficient for an additional 4TBs of hard drive capacity.
The X700 has what Lenovo calls "OneKey" overclocking ability that can be activated with a single case-mounted button. This functionality is supported by the Erazer X700's internal liquid cooling system. The X700 has USB ports and headphone jacks like other PCs, but also has connections for six displays.
Erazer X310 and X315
Erazer X510
Reviews
In its review of the x700 TechRadar said, "Our playtime with the Erazer X700 was limited, but we got the chance to put boots and tank treads on the ground with some Battlefield 3. The game's tense tank showdowns were big and bombastic as ever, and rig maintained the intense frame rate needed to control an F/a 18 jet on a strafing run." TechRadar also stated, "We're intrigued to see Lenovo enter the gaming space with a dedicated rig. Competition from a reputable manufacturer never hurts the consumer. With the launch of one system, this isn't exactly Dell's acquisition of Alienware, but it's an exciting start."
In a review for Techspot Rick Burgess wrote, "Despite its faults, the Erazer’s sharp-looking custom case, liquid cooling, X79-based motherboard, dual-graphics option, removable storage trays and overclocking all manage to plant one foot firmly in gamer country. The X700 can comfortably handle modern titles at 1920x1080 and high/ultra settings and most features enabled... as long as you don’t mind turning off MSAA. The possibility of adding a second GTX 660 GPU for SLI gaming also helps future proofing the X700."
In a review for PC Magazine Brian Westover wrote, "The Lenovo Erazer X700 is a fairly good entry-level gaming desktop in its own right, but unlike competing systems, it also boasts liquid cooling, simple overclocking, and plenty of opportunities to dip a toe into t |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/960th%20Cyberspace%20Operations%20Group | The 960th Cyberspace Operations Group, at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, is a United States Air Force group managing four squadrons relating to computer network operations. The group was established 1 March 2013 as a reserve unit of the United States Air Force. On 1 March 2014, the 426th Network Warfare Squadron was again reactivated under the 960th Group. as its oldest part.
The group is responsible for operating and maintaining the Air Force's global enterprise network. The 960th is the largest group compared to related reserve Wings. The group is composed of four network squadrons and multiple combat squadrons located around the nation.
Mission
The 960th Group provides command and control of the network security boundaries of all Air Force installations. Technicians from the group are moving base-by-base and rolling all AF network core services (email, web access, etc.) into a single Air Force Network (AFNet). The AFNet is managed by two Network Operations Squadrons and their associated AFR components.
Assigned Units
42nd Cyberspace Operations Squadron, (Scott Air Force Base, Illinois) associated with the 835th Cyberspace Operations Squadron
426th Network Warfare Squadron, (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas) associated with the 33rd Network Warfare Squadron
50th Network Warfare Squadron, (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas)
52nd Network Warfare Squadron, (Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska)
689th Network Operations Squadron, (Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama) associated with the 26th Network Operations Squadron
854th Combat Operations Squadron, (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas) associated with the 616th Operations Center
960th Operations Support Flight (Lackland Air Force Base, Texas)
Assignments
Tenth Air Force, 1 Mar 2013 – present
See also
List of cyber warfare forces
References
Notes
External links
Groups of the United States Air Force
Military units and formations of the United States Air Force Reserves |
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