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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20Dream%20Show | Chinese Dream Show () is a Chinese reality talent show that premiered on 2 April 2011 on the Zhejiang Television network. Program recording was done in Hangzhou. This show is now airing at 21:10(UTC+8) every Friday on Zhejiang Television network.
Format
Seasons 1 and 2
Seasons 1 and 2 were the same as the BBC television show Tonight's the Night. Season 1 was a segment of Zhejiang Television's previous variety show, "快乐蓝天下" (Under the Happy Blue Sky).
Season 3
Season 3 used a different format from the first two seasons.
In Season 3, there were 300 people (called "梦想观察团" in Chinese, the "Dream Mission") sitting behind Zhou Libo, who was called the "梦想大使" (the "Dream Ambassador"). After the contestant or the "Dreamer" (called "追梦人") finished his or her performance, Zhou would chat with him or her. Finally, the audience would vote for or against his or her dream. If more than two-thirds (or 200 votes) of the audience voted for the Dreamer, he or she would proceed to the next show (Episodes 10 and 11, and the end of episodes 7 to 9 this season).
In Episodes 10 and 11, the Dreamers had to perform their second show to the audience. Then the same things as the former episodes would occur. Finally, if more than 80 percent (240 votes) of the audience voted for the Dreamer's dream, the contestant would be given a chance to realize his or her dream.
During the show, if someone was phased out or the host Zhou Libo did not agree with the result, he had a chance to use the "Reversal". If the Reversal was used, the contestant's result would be automatically changed.
Season 4
Season 4 was very similar to Season 3. But if the contestant's family came to the studio with the contestant, the family would watch the contestant perform in a separate room with co-host Chen Huan. They would be shown on a large monitor in the beginning of the show, when Zhou Libo pressed the button on his left-hand side.
In Episode 10 and 11, the Dreamers must receive no less than 90 percent (270 votes) of the audience's votes to realize their dream.
Season 5 and 6
In Seasons 5 and 6, before the voting began, the "Dream Assistants" ("梦想助力团", such as celebrities, famous companies, and charity groups) took their offers to the Dreamer, and the offers would be guaranteed when 240 votes are received.
In Season 6 which is premiered on October 11, 2013, the Reversal right is divided into three persons - Zhao Zhongxiang(in Episode 4 which is aired on November 1, 2013, Niu Qun, a Chinese comedian, replaced Zhao's state), Guo Jingming and Zhou Libo, the rule is adapted from the "Steal" rules of The Voice of China.
But in later episodes of Season 6, the guests are removed. <3
Scandals & Controversies
Data Fraud
In the Episode 4 of Season 4, a contestant named Wu Xiaolei claimed that he was a forklift driver during the show. But later on Sina Weibo, which is a Chinese social networking like Twitter, a netizen said that there was a data fraud. The netizens were proven right. Wu had fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhubaneswar%20Mishra | Bhubaneswar Mishra (born 9 November 1961) is an Indian American computer scientist and professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University. He is known for his applied contributions to bioinformatics, cybersecurity, and computational finance. Mishra is listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in Computer Science.
Career
Born in Bhubaneswar, India, Mishra received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur in 1980. He then received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1982 and 1985, respectively. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was Edmund M. Clarke. He began his scientific career as an instructor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences from 1973 to 1975. He is also a visiting scholar at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, as well as a co-founder in OpGen, a computational biology company. He also maintains a position as principal investigator at the Center for Malicious Behavior and Model Checking.
Awards and honors
Mishra is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (2007), of the IEEE (2009), and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2010).
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Carnegie Mellon University alumni
Indian Institutes of Technology alumni
Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences faculty
American computer scientists
1961 births
Living people
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Scientists from Bhubaneswar
Indian emigrants to the United States
American academics of Indian descent
American people of Odia descent
20th-century Indian mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Cloud%20and%20Smarter%20Infrastructure | IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure group is an umbrella of computer system solutions from IBM that includes data storage management, enterprise asset management and IT Service Management. In April 2013, IBM renamed its former Software Group division “Tivoli Software” to “Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure”.
Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure group consists of a range of IT operations and Systems Management technology including the following IBM portfolio:
Tivoli, Maximo, Tririga, Endpoint Manager, Netcool and SmartCloud service management offerings
References
streym
Worldwide Data Protection and Recovery Software 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares
IBM's Systems and Technology Group Looks to Analytics, Cloud, and Smarter Planet Solutions for Faster Growth
Cloud, Infrastructure and Economics
Solutions for a smarter planet
SearchDataCenter.com
Service Management 360 News Flash: IBM’s Tivoli division, now IBM Cloud & Smarter Infrastructure
Bye-Bye Tivoli, Welcome Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure: A New Brand in IBM, Jeremy Geelan
SiliconANGLE: A Name Change for Tivoli Proves New Focus on Smarter Infrastructure
The Merge technology was bought by a company called DASCOM in 1999 which was in turn bought by IBM
IBM grabs Think Dynamics
List of IBM Tivoli products
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler LoadLeveler
Tivoli Endpoint Manager
IBM OMEGAMON
IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Tivoli Service Automation Manager
IBM Tivoli Management Framework
IBM Tivoli Configuration and Change Management Database
Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure
IBM acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria%20grandiflora | Fritillaria grandiflora is a species of fritillary native to Azerbaijan and Georgia. It grows in temperate mixed forests. The species is listed in the Red Data Book of Azerbaijan, having been previously listed in the Red Data Book of the Soviet Union.
References
External links
Native range map
grandiflora
Flora of Azerbaijan
Flora of Georgia (country)
Plants described in 1919 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jen%20Golbeck | Jennifer Golbeck is a computer scientist. She currently is a professor at the College of Information Studies, an affiliate professor in the Computer Science Department, and an affiliate professor in the Journalism Department, all at the University of Maryland, College Park. Golbeck was director of the University of Maryland Human–Computer Interaction Lab from 2011 to 2014.
Education
Jennifer Golbeck completed her Doctor of Philosophy in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. She also earned an SM and SB in Computer Science and an AB in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Research
Jennifer Golbeck is known for her work on computational social network analysis. She developed methods for inferring information about relationships and people in social networks. Her models for computing trust between people in social networks are among the first in the field. Social trust was for used in early research on trust-based recommender systems. She was a program co-chair of ACM RecSys 2015.
Golbeck has received attention for her work on computing personality traits and political preferences of individuals based on their social network profiles. Her presentation at TEDxMidatlantic, discussing the need for new methods of educating users about how to protect their personal data, was selected as one of TED's 2014 Year in Ideas talks. She presented at TEDxGeorgetown, about pets on the internet.
Media and publications
Golbeck has written for Slate, The Atlantic, the LA Times, Wired, and served as a guest host on the Kojo Nnamdi Show, a talk show on Washington, DC's NPR affiliate, WAMU.
Books
The Purest Bond with Stacey Colino Simon & Schuster 2023
Online Harassment (ed.) Springer (2018)
Social Media Investigation Singress (2015)
Analyzing the Social Web Morgan Kaufmann (2013)
Computing with Social Trust (ed.) Springer (2008)
Trust on the World Wide Web: A Survey Now Publishers (2008)
Art Theory for Web Design Addison-Wesley (2005)
Personal life
Golbeck splits her time between Silver Spring, Maryland and the Florida Keys.
Social media
Golbeck is also a prominent social media figure on Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. Her account, The Golden Ratio, which features images and videos of her golden retrievers, has over 152,000 followers. Golbeck's current dogs are Venkman, Guacamole, Chief Brody, and Remoulade. Other members of “the squad” who were owned by Golbeck and featured prominently on The Golden Ratio accounts who have since passed away include: Maggie, Jasmine, Riley, Queso, Swizzle, Saint Patrick, Parmesan, Voodoo, Manchego, and Hopper. Also featured on the account are dogs Golbeck fosters along with her adopted dogs. Golbeck also manages various other social media accounts, such as jen runs with dogs, which highlights her experiences as an ultramarathon runner. Podcasts produced by Golbeck include The Golden Ratio Podcast, Murders in Paradise, and Runs With Dogs.
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American women computer scient |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Find%20Me%20My%20Man | Find Me My Man is a television series airing on the Oxygen Network. The show follows match-maker Natalie Clarice as she attempts to pair up new couples and instruct them on how to develop long-term relationships.
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2010s American reality television series
Oxygen (TV channel) original programming
2013 American television series debuts
2013 American television series endings
Television series by Endemol |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garage%20Gold | Garage Gold is a television series airing on the DIY Network. The show follows Kraig Bantle and his family-owned business Garage Brothers out of Raleigh, North Carolina, which offers to clean out any garage, basement, or other space free of charge, so long as they can keep and sell any valuables they find in the process. When they're finished, they turn the garage into a usable work space for their client.
The Team
Kraig Bantle - Boss, Brains, and the owner of Garage Brothers
Mike Gleisinger - Appraiser
"Captain" Ron - Mechanic & Heavy Lifter
Tony - The Muscle (Heavy Lifter)
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External links
2013 American television series debuts
2017 American television series endings
2010s American reality television series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebel%20Eats | Rebel Eats is an American television pilot that aired on Food Network in 2013. The show was hosted and executive produced by Justin Warner.
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2013 in American television
2013 television specials
2010s American cooking television series
2010s American television specials
Food Network television specials
Television pilots not picked up as a series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy%20and%20Asthma%20Network%20Mothers%20of%20Asthmatics | The Allergy & Asthma Network ("The Network"), formerly known as Allergy & Asthma Network/ Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA), is a nonprofit organization in the United States. The Allergy & Asthma Network unites and advocates on behalf of the 60 million Americans with allergies, asthma and related conditions. The Network is tax-exempt, falling under section 501(3)(c) of the United States Internal Revenue Code.
The organization was founded in 1985, by Nancy Sander, the mother of a child with severe asthma. Since 2014, the Network has been led by Tonya Winders, MBA, who serves as its president and CEO.
The Network has four mission areas: education, outreach, advocacy and research.
Outreach initiatives include local community outreach through programs including Not One More Life Trusted Messengers, which offers free lung screenings and asthma coaching in underserved communities for people with asthma and COPD.
Education initiatives are focused on consumers and health care professionals. The resources are medically reviewed for accuracy. Educational programs include monthly webinars with national experts and digital events such as the annual USAsthma Summit. The organization also offers digital resources on the Allergy & Asthma Network website. Continuing education is also offered to healthcare professionals.
Advocacy initiatives empower stakeholders to impact public policy and get involved in advocating for asthma and allergy issues with their elected officials. Each year, the Network hosts Allergy & Asthma Day on Capitol Hill, where patients and healthcare professionals come together to visit their legislators and make their voices heard.
Research initiatives include funding studies that represent patient perspectives and needs. Other work includes qualitative market research, focus groups and engaging people with patient centered outcomes research. The Network also connects people with available clinical trials in allergy, asthma and related diseases.
Allergy & Asthma Network has been the recipient of two recent Patient Centered Outcomes Research (PCORI) engagement awards, Black People Like Me and Unidos Hablemos (Let’s Talk about…). Each of these engagement awards offered a series of six online conferences to better understand the needs of the Black and Hispanic/Latino communities regarding asthma during the COVID-19 pandemic. The conferences also were held to find out what questions Black and Hispanic/Latino patients and caregivers want answered through engaging in patient-centered outcomes research.
References
Labor Of Love
About AANMA
Take the Bite Out Insect Stings
External links
Allergy & Asthma Network (AAN)
Charities based in Virginia
Health charities in the United States
Asthma organizations
Medical and health organizations based in Virginia |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickless%20kernel | A tickless kernel is an operating system kernel in which timer interrupts do not occur at regular intervals, but are only delivered as required.
The Linux kernel on s390 from 2.6.6 and on i386 from release 2.6.21 can be configured to turn the timer tick off (tickless or dynamic tick) for idle CPUs using CONFIG_NO_HZ, and from 3.10 with CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE extended for non-idle processors with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. The XNU kernel from Mac OS X 10.4 on, and the NT kernel from Windows 8 on, are also tickless. The Solaris 8 kernel introduced the cyclic subsystem which allows arbitrary resolution timers and tickless operation. FreeBSD 9 introduced a "dynamic tick mode" (aka tickless).
As of 2020, there is a plan to add this to MINIX 3 in the medium term.
References
Operating system kernels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IntelliFlash | IntelliFlash is a brand of DataDirect Networks (DDN) based in San Jose that manufactures flash storage arrays. The company, then known as Tegile Systems, was acquired by Western Digital in 2017 and by DDN in September 2019.
History
Tegile Systems was founded in 2010 by Rohit Kshetrapal, Rajesh Nair, Justin Cheen, and Alok Agrawal. In February 2012, Tegile came out of stealth mode when it announced a product line called Zebi.
In 2013, a $32 million investment included led by Meritech Capital Partners, which included a corporate venture capital investment led by Alex Lam from SanDisk Ventures. In May 2015, a round of $70 million was announced, with additional investors Capricorn Investment Group, Cross Creek Advisors and Pine River Capital Management.
By the end of 2015, Tegile had an estimated 360 employees. In 2017 Western Digital bought Tegile Systems and then rebranded it as IntelliFlash. Western Digital sold IntelliFlash to DDN in September 2019.
Technology
Tegile developed what the company calls IntelliFlash Metadata Acceleration, which is a way to store metadata on high speed solid state disks, apart from the underlying data. Some competitors are noted as Nimble Storage and Tintri.
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External links
Official website
Computer companies established in 2010
2010 establishments in California
Computer hardware companies
Companies based in California
Computer storage companies
2017 mergers and acquisitions
2019 mergers and acquisitions |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20surveillance%20industry | The mass surveillance industry is a multibillion-dollar industry that has undergone phenomenal growth since 2001. According to data provided by The Wall Street Journal, the retail market for surveillance tools has grown from "nearly zero" in 2001 to about US$5 billion in 2011. The size of the video surveillance market rose to US$13.5 billion in 2012 and is expected to reach US$39 billion by 2020.
Current developments
Fueled by widespread fears of terrorist attacks, the future of surveillance is particularly promising in the field of video content analysis, where computers analyze live camera feeds to count the number of people, register temperature changes, and automatically identify suspicious behavior via statistical algorithms. The following terrorist attacks have led to a significant increase in street-level surveillance:
Shortly after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, police commissioner Edward F. Davis requested the installation of more cameras to boost street-level surveillance. The Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, said that the bombings are a "terrible reminder" of the importance of acquiring surveillance technology.
In the aftermath of the 2001 September 11 attacks, U.S. cities spent billions of dollars in federal counter-terrorism funding to deploy video sensors in public areas.
Private intelligence agencies
Private intelligence agencies are non-governmental corporations involved in the collection and analysis of information. Prior to the 9/11 attacks, such tasks were mostly performed by governmental agencies such as the National Security Agency (NSA) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the gathering of intelligence was rapidly outsourced by the U.S. government to private intelligence agencies, which function as independent contractors.
According to The Washington Post, about one in four U.S. intelligence workers are contractors, and over 70 percent of the budget of the United States Intelligence Community is earmarked for payment to private firms. An examination by The Post found that 1,931 private companies work on programs related to intelligence in about 10,000 locations across the United States.
The average annual cost of a contract employee is US $250,000, almost twice that of a federal employee.
Stratfor
Strategic Forecasting, Inc., more commonly known as Stratfor, is a global intelligence company founded in 1996 in Austin, Texas. It offers information to governments and private clients including Dow Chemical Company, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, and the U.S. Marine Corps.
In 2012–13, over 5 million internal e-mails from Stratfor were released by WikiLeaks.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton is a publicly traded company that is majority-owned by The Carlyle Group, a global asset management firm specializing in private equity, based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1914 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyortha%20chlamydata | Polyortha chlamydata is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Colombia.
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Moths described in 1912
Polyortha |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalomyrmex%20miri | Megalomyrmex miri is a Neotropical species of ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Known from Costa Rica. This species is known only from the type specimens and has no biological data. It is extremely similar to M. wettereri in color, size, shape, measurements, and pilosity. It differs in having a complete foraminal carina and some transverse rugosities on the anteroventral petiolar process.
References
Myrmicinae
Insects described in 1990 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20programming | Bayesian programming is a formalism and a methodology for having a technique to specify probabilistic models and solve problems when less than the necessary information is available.
Edwin T. Jaynes proposed that probability could be considered as an alternative and an extension of logic for rational reasoning with incomplete and uncertain information. In his founding book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science he developed this theory and proposed what he called “the robot,” which was not
a physical device, but an inference engine to automate probabilistic reasoning—a kind of Prolog for probability instead of logic. Bayesian programming is a formal and concrete implementation of this "robot".
Bayesian programming may also be seen as an algebraic formalism to specify graphical models such as, for instance, Bayesian networks, dynamic Bayesian networks, Kalman filters or hidden Markov models. Indeed, Bayesian Programming is more general than Bayesian networks and has a power of expression equivalent to probabilistic factor graphs.
Formalism
A Bayesian program is a means of specifying a family of probability distributions.
The constituent elements of a Bayesian program are presented below:
A program is constructed from a description and a question.
A description is constructed using some specification () as given by the programmer and an identification or learning process for the parameters not completely specified by the specification, using a data set ().
A specification is constructed from a set of pertinent variables, a decomposition and a set of forms.
Forms are either parametric forms or questions to other Bayesian programs.
A question specifies which probability distribution has to be computed.
Description
The purpose of a description is to specify an effective method of computing a joint probability distribution
on a set of variables given a set of experimental data and some
specification . This joint distribution is denoted as: .
To specify preliminary knowledge , the programmer must undertake the following:
Define the set of relevant variables on which the joint distribution is defined.
Decompose the joint distribution (break it into relevant independent or conditional probabilities).
Define the forms of each of the distributions (e.g., for each variable, one of the list of probability distributions).
Decomposition
Given a partition of containing subsets, variables are defined
, each corresponding to one of these subsets.
Each variable is obtained as the conjunction of the variables
belonging to the subset. Recursive application of Bayes' theorem leads to:
Conditional independence hypotheses then allow further simplifications. A conditional
independence hypothesis for variable is defined by choosing some variable
among the variables appearing in the conjunction , labelling as the
conjunction of these chosen variables and setting:
We then obtain:
Such a simplification of the joint distribu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Pinter | Ron Yair Pinter () is an Israeli computer scientist specializing in computational systems biology, integrated circuit layout and compiler optimization. He is professor of computer science and the Rappaport Medical School at the Technion in Haifa, Israel. He was a founding member of the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, . In the past, he has been a program manager at the IBM Haifa Research Laboratory and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and Vice President for Research and Development at Compugen. He is an author and co-author of more than 90 books and peer-reviewed articles, all of which were cited more than 2500 times. His contributions include defining (with Ido Dagan and Martin Golumbic) the notion of trapezoid graphs, and pioneering analysis of biological networks.
Biography
Pinter was born in Haifa, Israel in 1953 to parents of German Jewish descent both refugees from Nazi Germany in the 1930s. After finishing at the top of his class in the Hebrew Reali School class of 1971, he obtained a B.Sc. (Summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the Technion, in the first class (1975) which started the program at freshman year. At the Technion he met his wife, Shlomit, also a computer scientist. The two have co-authored several papers in the field during the 1990s.
He then went on to pursue graduate studies at MIT, obtaining an M.Sc. in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1982, both in EECS. His advisors were Charles Leiserson and Ron Rivest.
Before turning his focus to bioinformatics, Pinter most notably co-defined the notion of trapezoid graphs and made significant contributions to the field of Integrated Circuit design. After several years as VP for R&D at Compugen he joined the Technion in 2001 and has been a faculty member there since. During this time he has important contributions to the discrete modeling and analysis of biological networks, providing insights about their functionality in spite of the relatively simple and highly efficient computational techniques. In addition, he contributed to the discovery of Photosynthesic reactions in viruses.
References
External links
Personal home page
Page on the Technion's site
HP Labs Innovation Research Award recipient
1953 births
Hebrew Reali School alumni
Living people
Israeli bioinformaticians
Jewish scientists
Israeli Jews
Academic staff of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KXRN-LP | KXRN-LP (branded as "KX FM) is a low-power FM (LPFM) non-commercial radio station broadcasting at 104.7 MHz FM, and airing generational rock and community programming to Laguna Beach, California. The station serves a 5-square-mile area. It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, founded in 2012 by Tyler Russell. As of 2014, the station operated on an annual budget of approximately $300,000.
KXRN-LP changed its community of license from Laguna Niguel to Laguna Beach, and its frequency from 93.5 to 104.7 on February 3, 2020, so that they could increase their height and have less interference from KDEY-FM and KDAY both on 93.5 with KDEY-FM being to the North and KDAY-FM being to the Northwest. They have also started broadcasting in HD Radio. The station was licensed for its new facilities on April 3, 2020.
References
External links
https://www.kxfmradio.org/
XRN-LP
XRN-LP
Community radio stations in the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20correspondence%20analysis | In multivariate analysis, canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) is an ordination technique that determines axes from the response data as a linear combination of measured predictors. CCA is commonly used in ecology in order to extract gradients that drive the composition of ecological communities. CCA extends Correspondence Analysis (CA) with regression, in order to incorporate predictor variables.
History
CCA was developed in 1986 by Cajo ter Braak and implemented in the program CANOCO, an extension of DECORANA. To date, CCA is one of the most popular multivariate methods in ecology, despite the availability of contemporary alternatives. CCA was originally derived and implemented using an algorithm of weighted averaging, though Legendre & Legendre (1998) derived an alternative algorithm.
Assumptions
The requirements of a CCA are that the samples are random and independent. Also, the data are categorical and that the independent variables are consistent within the sample site and error-free. The original publication states the need for equal species tolerances, equal species maxima, and equispaced or uniformly distributed species optima and site scores.
See also
Canonical correlation analysis (CANCOR)
References
Dimension reduction |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across%20Language%20Server | Across Language Server is a software platform for computer-assisted translation (CAT) that includes additional features for the management of projects. The software is produced and sold by Across Systems GmbH, a company located and founded in Karlsbad in 2005 as a Corporate spin-off of Nero AG and which maintains an additional site in Glendale, California.
The functional principle is similar to the one SDL Trados, XTM and memoQ feature: Just like the server solutions of these two programs, Across Language Server also saves translation units or terminology entries (depending on the project's configuration) into a local or a central MSSQL database.
Besides the "Server", which is available in different versions, there is also a single-user version called Across Translator Edition, working with a local MS-SQL database. This single-user application is able to connect to the server, enabling to work on both local and Across-Server-based projects. Freelance translators can acquire the Basic Edition of the single-user version for free.
History
Version 5 of the MS-SQL-database-based Across Language Server was launched in 2009. Version 6 of Across Language Server was released on 2 July 2014. Version 6.3 was introduced on 26 November 2015. Version 7.0 was introduced on 13 February 2019. In this version common machine translation systems were integrated (e.g. DeepL or SYSTRAN). Version 7 also allows users to concurrently open and edit multiple tasks within a project.
Reviews
The software is mostly reviewed unfavourably, with users criticizing its design, usability and overall quality.
References
External links
Across Systems Website
Functions of Across Language Server
Computer-assisted translation
Translation software |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandata%20partita | Chandata partita is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1882. It is found in India.
References
Hadeninae
Moths of Asia
Moths described in 1882 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerCloud%20Systems | PowerCloud Systems was a cloud networking company located in Palo Alto, California. The company designed and manufactured cloud-powered Wi-Fi systems for businesses, carriers and consumers and was a corporate spin-off from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Xerox company. PowerCloud was purchased by Comcast in July 2014.
History
PowerCloud Systems was incorporated in 2009 and was spun-out as an independent firm in 2010 with investment from Walden Venture Capital and Javelin Ventures.
On September 20, 2010, at PARC's 40th anniversary celebration, PowerCloud showcased its first product, the CloudCommand online software platform for network equipment providers. This platform enabled network equipment vendors and communications service providers to introduce Wi-Fi networking products that could be managed from the cloud. The platform has subsequently evolved and PowerCloud now offers a portfolio of cloud-managed wireless access points and a Web-based management dashboard that are both white-labeled by communications service providers and are marketed directly to businesses through managed service providers that wish to manage their clients wireless networks.
On January 25, 2011, D-Link became the first major OEM vendor to launch product based on the CloudCommand platform. Zyxel announced product at Interop in May 2011 and launched on November 11, 2011.
In December 2011, PowerCloud Systems announced it had secured $6 million in Series B funding in a round that was led by Qualcomm Ventures and included participation from its existing investors – Walden Venture Capital, Javelin Venture Partners and PARC.
In April 2013, PowerCloud Systems officially entered into the consumer Wi-Fi market with the introduction of Skydog, a combination Wi-Fi router, cloud service and HTML5-based application.
In 2013, the company began shipping a commercial solution under its own brand and announced Nickelodeon Resort as a customer in September.
In December announced partnership with Common Sense Media. The company showcased the product at CES 2014 to favorable reviews.
In July 2014 PowerCloud Systems announced on the homepage of Skydog that they had been acquired, and retail sales of Skydog router had ceased. No acquirer was named in announcement.
In July 2014, Comcast confirmed to Tech Crunch that they had acquired PowerCloud Systems, as speculated. PowerCloud's technology serves as the basis for Comcast's xFi which is now available to 23.5 million homes.
Management
Jeff Abramowitz founded PowerCloud Systems and served as the company's president and CEO. Abramowitz’ is included in the Computer History Museum for his role in the formation and growth of the W-Fi industry.
Abramowitz has held executive positions in the Wi-Fi industry for more than 25 years. He was director of Wireless Product Management at 3Com where he spearheaded the company's wireless LAN efforts and its first wireless initiative, as well as serving as the company's representative on the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%2074%20Internationale | Radio 74 Internationale is a network of Christian radio stations in the United States, broadcasting Christian talk and teaching programs as well as Christian music.
History
Radio 74's origins lie in a radio station in France, established in 1982. The first American affiliate was WHHC-LP in New Castle, Indiana, which began broadcasting in 2004, with many other affiliates also signing on that year. Its flagship station is KRSF in Ridgecrest, California.
Stations
Radio 74 Internationale is heard on 56 stations, as well as five low-powered translators, along with a mix of digital audio-only subchannels (usually #.74) and SAP audio broadcasts over the television stations of 3ABN. Many of Radio 74's affiliates are owned by local Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) churches (3ABN supports the mission of the SDA).
Translators
References
External links
Radio 74 Internationale's official website
Christian radio stations in the United States
American radio networks
Seventh-day Adventist media
Independent ministries of the Seventh-day Adventist Church |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected%20Devices | Connected devices may refer to:
Smart device, an autonomous electronic device that may be connect to others in a network
Mobile device, a computing device typically small enough to be handheld
Mobile Internet device, a multimedia-capable mobile device providing wireless Internet access
Wearable computer, also known as body-borne computer or wearable, a smart device worn like clothing or jewelry |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20locations%20by%20race | The following is a list of California locations by race.
According to 2010 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, people of White ancestry were the dominant racial group in California, comprising 61.8 percent of its population of 36,969,200. The county with the highest percentage of White residents was Nevada County (93.4 percent). The ten counties with the highest proportion of White residents were all relatively small. They had an average population of 60,460, and none had a population of over 200,000. In contrast, the counties with the lowest percentage of whites were much larger, with an average population of 1,999,943. The smallest of these counties was Solano County, with a population of 411,620. All counties in California had a White majority, except Alameda County. White was the only reported racial group in 142 places, comprising one in ten of the total. The largest of these places was Forest Meadows, with a population of 1,546. Most of the ten places with the lowest reported percentage of whites were in Los Angeles County, and two of these places — Buck Meadows and Lookout — reported only racial categories other than White.
Asian was the third most commonly reported race in California, behind some other race. Asians comprised 13.1 percent (4,825,271) of California's population. San Francisco County had the highest percentage of Asians of any county in California (33.5 percent). Of the thirteen counties in which Asians comprised more than 10 percent of the population, the average had a population of 1,138,957. The ten counties with the lowest percentages of Asians were small (with an average population of 28,348) and landlocked. Of the nineteen places in California with the largest percentages of Asians, thirteen were in Los Angeles County, all but two very small places had a population of at least 7,000, and all but three had a population of at least 10,000. Buck Meadows, with a reported population of 12, was the only place in which Asian was the only reported racial group. Monterey Park, with a population of 60,251, had the highest percentage of Asians (65.4 percent) for all places with a population larger than 100. Asians are a rather concentrated racial group, with roughly one-third (490) of California's places reporting no Asians whatsoever, and only about one place in ten (183) reporting percentages of Asians greater than or equal to the state percentage.
Black or African American was the fourth most commonly reported racial group in California, comprising 6.1 percent (2,252,129) of the state's population, roughly half that of Asians. Solano County had the highest percentage of those reporting Black or African American as their race (14.6 percent), and they surpassed 10 percent in two other counties: Alameda (12.5 percent) and Sacramento (10.2 percent). Alpine County was the only county which reported exclusively racial groups other than Black or African American. Of the ten counties in California with the lowest percentage of Blacks |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zain%20Asher | Zain Ejiofor Asher (born 27 August 1983) is a British Nigerian news anchor at CNN International, based in New York City.
She currently co-anchors the network's primetime, global news show One World with Zain and Bianna airing weekdays at 12pm ET with Bianna Golodryga. Her memoir Where The Children Take Us was published by HarperCollins in April 2022.
Early life and education
Asher was born to Nigerian parents in London and grew up in West Norwood, South London. Her mother Obiajulu was a pharmacist working in Brixton, and her father Arinze was a doctor. In 1988, her father was killed in a car accident during a road trip in Nigeria when she was five years old. Her older brother, actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, was the only passenger in the car and the accident's sole survivor. She is of Igbo descent; her family are originally from Enugu state, Nigeria.
Asher attended Oxford University and graduated in 2005 with a degree in French and Spanish. The following year, she attended the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, in New York City. In 2021, she was named an honorary fellow of Keble College, Oxford University.
Early career
After graduation, Asher initially worked as a receptionist at a production company before becoming a freelance reporter at News 12 Brooklyn where she covered local news. She also worked as a reporter for Money, where she wrote personal finance articles about careers and investing before moving to CNN.
CNN
In 2012, Asher met a CNN executive who invited her to the company headquarters in New York for a screen test. She was first hired as a business correspondent before becoming an anchor at CNN International based in Atlanta.
In 2014, she reported from Abuja, Nigeria on the hundreds of Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram. She has also anchored breaking news coverage during August 2020 explosion in Beirut, the End SARS protests in Nigeria, and the deaths of Fidel Castro, Muhammad Ali and George Michael.
Since 2021, she has anchored One World with Zain Asher, airing weekdays on CNNI.
Book
Her memoir Where The Children Take Us was released by HarperCollins on 26 April 2022.
The book was inspired by her 2015 Tedx talk "Trust Your Struggle", which has been viewed 2.2 million times on YouTube as of 2022. It tells the story of how her mother, widowed and raising four children, worked to fulfill her and her husband's original dream of moving to England to ensure their children an excellent education and opportunity; the results are visible in the journalist, the actor, the medical doctor and the entrepreneur that Asher and her siblings have become.
Personal life
Asher resides in Montclair, New Jersey with her Associated Press reporter husband, Steve Peoples, and their two sons.
See also
List of Igbo people
References
1983 births
Living people
people from West Norwood
Alumni of Keble College, Oxford
Black British television personalities
British expatriates in the United States
Warner Bros. Discovery people
C |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impression%20%28software%29 | Impression is a desktop publishing application for systems. It was developed by Computer Concepts and initially made available in pre-release form during 1989, having been demonstrated in February 1989 at the Which? Computer Show and subsequently announced as being available from June 1989. The "completed" version was eventually delivered on 18th January 1990.
Originally, the application appears to have been developed for Acorn's then-current operating system, Arthur, as a ROM-based product, but due to dissatisfaction with the state of Arthur during early development of the application, it was then meant to use Computer Concepts' own operating system, Impulse, instead. (Publicity images for the software depict a different operating environment to RISC OS.)
Product range and history
Impression II and Junior
Impression II, an improved version of the product, was released in 1990 alongside Impression Junior, a cut-down version of Impression II priced at £103, compared to the £194 price of the "senior" product. Given a degree of instability in early versions of Impression, Computer Concepts had promised a free upgrade to Impression version 1.1 to existing users. Ultimately, the further development of the software led to a more significant release incorporating several enhancements, and this Impression II release was offered as a free upgrade instead. Enhancements included improved frame selection and manipulation controls, repeating frames for headers and footers, and "instant" in-place rotation of vector and bitmap graphics. Impression II was featured in the Acorn Publishing System: a bundle featuring an Archimedes 540 computer, Impression II software, SVGA-capable monitor, 120 MB hard drive, 256-greyscale flatbed scanner (Computer Concepts' ScanLight Professional), and direct-drive Canon laser printer (Computer Concepts' LaserDirect HiRes8) for a suggested retail price of £4995 plus VAT.
Impression Junior was introduced to compete with word processors on the RISC OS platform such as Pipedream and First Word Plus, both considered "fundamentally character mode programs" with some graphical support. Certain layout features were preserved from the "senior" product such as the use of frames, but "master pages" (a form of templates) and the style mechanism were omitted (or "simplified"), emphasising traditional effect-based styling of text instead. As with Impression, documents could be printed in a form accurately portraying their on-screen appearance, making use of outline fonts and the font manager, but for rapid output the draft and near-letter quality modes of printers could be used instead. One noted omission was a convenient mailmerge function, although conventional word processing features such as automatic contents and index generation were also omitted from the product. Impression Junior was the basis of the word processor component of Acorn Advance: an integrated office suite "similar in concept to Claris Works or Microsoft Works".
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radyo%20%C3%87ukurova | Radio Çukurova () is a regional radio network of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation (TRT).
Geography
The broadcast area includes the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Hatay, Osmaniye and parts of Kahramanmaraş, Kayseri, Niğde, Karaman and Konya. Since most of provinces are in Çukurova region (Cilicia of the antiquity) the network is named Çukurova. The radio studio is in Mersin and the main medium wave (MW) transmitter is in Kazanlı a suburb of Mersin. But there are also various FM transmitters frequencies of which are shown below.
History
In 1962, a low power (2 kW) radio station was established for the city Adana. The transmitter which was housed next to radio studio was a Turkish-made transmitter. But then TRT decided to increase the broadcast area and the power. Thus a 300 kW transmitter was purchased from NEC a Japan -based company and a new transmitter station was established in Kazanlı. The studio was swiftly moved to Mersin and the regional network began transmission on 3 March 1968. The broadcast continued for 40 years. But in 2009, a new transmitter was purchased from Nautel, a Canada -based company.
Studio and the production
In the early years Radyo Çukurova was a part of Radyo 1 network with some local production. Presently however, TRT Çukurova broadcasts regional programs during the morning hours up to 01 PM. It also collaborates with Radyo Türkü during the evening hours. The local production is carried in the TRT building in Mersin. TRT reporters and the service people to unattended transmitter stations also serve in the building.
Frequencies
Frequency of the Middle-wave transmitter in Kazanlı is 630 kHz. The frequencies of the FM transmitters (1-5 kW TX output) are as follows.
References
Adana
Turkish radio networks
Turkish Radio and Television Corporation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%24 | "Luca$" is the seventeenth episode of the twenty-fifth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons and the 547th episode of the series. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on April 6, 2014. It was written by Carolyn Omine and directed by Chris Clements.
In the episode, Marge thinks that Lisa is dating below her standards when she brings home a competitive eater-in-training named Lucas Bortner, so she enlists Homer to help Lisa explore other options. Meanwhile, Bart receives gifts from Snake Jailbird for helping him get out of a jam, but when a betrayal from Milhouse sends Snake back to prison, Bart hatches a plan to get him out.
Plot
After a drunken night, Homer has fallen asleep while stuck in the playground jungle gym's giant metal spiral. Marge hides Bart and Lisa in the back seat to preserve their reputations and drops them off at school, where Principal Skinner scolds Bart for his constant tardiness. Skinner decides to pursue corporal punishment, and while he is distracted with Groundskeeper Willie, Bart makes a run for it. Bart manages to escape Skinner, whose car accidentally reverses into the auto shop. Bart takes refuge in his treehouse, where he discovers that Snake Jailbird is hiding there while committing crimes to help his son Jeremy. Chief Wiggum arrives, looking for Snake, so Bart lies that Snake made it to the top of Mount Springfield. Grateful for Bart's actions, Snake secretly sends Bart stolen gifts including a PlayStadium 4, a tiger and a Knight's Armor, Sword and Shield. Milhouse becomes suspicious, and after Snake steals his myPad and gives it to Bart, Milhouse confronts Bart and demands that he tell him how he got all the free items. Bart reveals that Snake has been stealing and providing gifts for him, and Milhouse reveals Snake to the authorities, who vow to execute him in an electric chair. Bart arrives at the police station and explains Snake's story in the hope he might be pardoned. Wiggum rejects Bart's plea, but Snake escapes anyway.
Back at school, Lisa sees a boy choking on pizza. She performs the Heimlich maneuver on him, reveals his name is Lucas Bortner, and he is a competitive eater. She suddenly gets a crush on Lucas, and then thinks about turning him away from competitive eating. Lucas arrives at the Simpsons' house for dinner, and while he suggests a variety of foods to Lisa, Patty and Selma insult Lucas and compare him to Homer. Marge is surprised her daughter likes Lucas and, eavesdropping on Lucas getting brain freeze from eating ice cream at Lisa's suggestion, worries that Lisa could ruin her future by marrying Lucas.
Marge suggests to Homer that he take Lisa on a dinner date and act like a gentleman, so she will want the same from her future husband. Marge awkwardly tries to deny that having a husband like Homer would be bad for Lisa, but an angered Homer quickly realizes she is lying to him, and leaves to sleep on Ned Flanders' couch. At Moe's Tavern, Homer fi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computers%20Don%27t%20Argue | "Computers Don't Argue" is a 1965 science fiction short story by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, about the dangers of relying too strongly upon computers. It was nominated for a Nebula Award in 1966. Dickson borrows the basic premise and general structure of James Thurber's 1949 The New Yorker story "File and Forget" (which chronicles the author's losing battle seeking to return some unwanted books sent him by his publisher), but instead of humor weaves his rendering into a dark and forbiddingly cautionary tale.
Synopsis
The story is told in the form of correspondence.
Walter A. Child of Panduk, Michigan has a disagreement with his book club in Chicago, Illinois over a damaged copy of Kim by Rudyard Kipling (cost $4.98) that was sent to him. He returned it, asking for a replacement. Instead, he is sent a copy of Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. He returns it, requesting that the matter be settled. Instead, he receives a second, automated notice.
He replies saying that the book club now owes him money. He receives a third letter and his reply to it is not read. His account is then turned over to a third party collection agency, increasing the amount owing to $6.83. A second letter ups it to $7.51 and a third to $10.01. Child responds with a letter explaining the matter, but the agency does not believe him and threatens legal action.
The matter goes to small claims court in Illinois, the amount having increased to $15.66. A duplicate judgment is passed the next day in Michigan. However, the amount owing ($15.66) and the statute number (Statute 941) are transposed on the punch card.
Child sends a letter that he will visit the book club offices personally and settle the matter himself. Meanwhile the transposed amount is interpreted as Statute 1566, relating to criminal matters. Since no such statute exists, it is changed to 1567 (Kidnapping). The changed punch card is then incorrectly interpreted to relate to the kidnapping of a child named Robert Louis Stevenson by a person named A. Walter and an arrest and hold warrant is issued.
Child is arrested at the book club offices. The judge requests more information, since a trial transcript is missing from the record. He specifically requests if the victim, Robert Louis Stevenson, was harmed. The request returns that RLS is deceased, having died at age 44. The reply omits the date of death, simply replying that the victim is dead. A personal reply to the judge mentions that the victim was slain and mentions a possible gang connection.
Child's lawyer believes him, but Child is sentenced to execution, for first-degree murder in connection with the death of a kidnap victim. Since no previous trial transcripts were available, the judge was forced to rely on the computerized records.
Since all records have been computerized, appeal time has been cut to 5 days, and 10 for it to be acted upon. Instead of appealing, he appeals to the governor for a pardon. The governor is out of the country and |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20routes%20in%20Zone%204%20of%20the%20National%20Cycle%20Network | This is a list of National Cycle Routes in Zone 4 of the numbering scheme, namely: London (Greenwich) to Fishguard, in Wales, via Reading, Bath, Bristol, Newport, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Swansea and Llanelli.
Single- and double-digits
Triple-digits
References
National Cycle Network |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Zone | Norton Zone was a cloud file sharing and online backup tool service operated by Symantec that can be used to share, sync, access, store, and backup data. It also allows for file collaboration with commenting. Norton Zone is accessible through apps for Windows, Windows RT, Android, Mac, and iOS platforms. Norton Zone uses encrypted and replicated cloud storage and provides client-side encryption.
As a leading AntiVirus provider via its Norton AntiVirus software, Symantec distinguishes Norton Zone from competition by automatically scanning files for malware and viruses.
Norton Zone offered 5 GB of storage for free and larger storage allocations via subscription.
On June 3, 2014, Symantec announced that Norton Zone would be discontinued on August 6, 2014.
References
Cloud applications
Data synchronization
File hosting
File sharing services
Email attachment replacements
Online backup services
Cross-platform software
Cloud storage
File hosting for macOS
File hosting for Windows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish%20Learning%20Network | The Jewish Learning Network or JNET is an adult education program run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. It is a division of the Chabad movement's educational arm, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch.
Founding
"JNet" is a non-profit organization acting under Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, the central educational organization of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. JNet was founded in November, 2005 as an adult education resource. The program matches registrants with volunteers based on the registrant's study request. Registrants often have little Jewish education, while volunteers are often Chabad-raised and schooled.
Director
The organization's director was Rabbi Yehuda Dukes. Dukes died on January 22, 2021, from complications due to COVID-19.
References
External links
Jnet website
Chabad organizations
Jewish organizations established in 2005
Jewish education in North America
Adult education organizations
Chabad-Lubavitch (Hasidic dynasty) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jnet | Jnet or JNET may refer to:
Japanese Network of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting in the United Kingdom
Jewish Learning Network, an adult education program run by the Chabad-Lubavitch movement
JNET Radio Network, An Australian Radio Network
Jackpot Enterprises, which later changed its name to J Net Enterprises during the dot-com bubble in the 2000s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicarious%20%28company%29 | Vicarious was an artificial intelligence company based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. They use the theorized computational principles of the brain to attempt to build software that can think and learn like a human. Vicarious describes its technology as "a turnkey robotics solution integrator using artificial intelligence to automate tasks too complex and versatile for traditional automations". Alphabet Inc acquired the company in 2022 for an undisclosed amount.
Founders
The company was founded in 2010 by D. Scott Phoenix and Dileep George. Before co-founding Vicarious, Phoenix was Entrepreneur in Residence at Founders Fund and CEO of Frogmetrics, a touchscreen analytics company he co-founded through the Y Combinator incubator program. Previously, George was Chief Technology Officer at Numenta, a company he co-founded with Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky while completing his PhD at Stanford University.
Funding
The company launched in February 2011 with funding from Founders Fund, Dustin Moskovitz, Adam D’Angelo (former Facebook CTO and co-founder of Quora), Felicis Ventures, and Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale. In August 2012, in its Series A round of funding, it raised an additional $15 million. The round was led by Good Ventures; Founders Fund, Open Field Capital and Zarco Investment Group also participated.
The company received $40 million in its Series B round of funding. The round was led by individuals including Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and others. An additional undisclosed amount was later contributed by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang, Skype co-founder Janus Friis and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.
Recursive Cortical Network
Vicarious is developing machine learning software based on the computational principles of the human brain. One such software is a vision system known as the Recursive Cortical Network (RCN), it is a generative graphical visual perception system that interprets the contents of photographs and videos in a manner similar to humans. The system is powered by a balanced approach that takes sensory data, mathematics, and biological plausibility into consideration.
On October 22, 2013, beating CAPTCHA, Vicarious announced its model was reliably able to solve modern CAPTCHAs, with character recognition rates of 90% or better when trained on one style. However, Luis von Ahn, a pioneer of early CAPTCHA and founder of reCAPTCHA, expressed skepticism, stating: "It's hard for me to be impressed since I see these every few months." He pointed out that 50 similar claims to that of Vicarious had been made since 2003. Vicarious later published their findings in peer-reviewed journal Science.
Vicarious has indicated that its AI was not specifically designed to complete CAPTCHAs and its success at the task is a product of its advanced vision system. Because Vicarious's algorithms are based on insights from the human brain, it is also able to recognize photographs, videos, and other visu |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20language | A software language is an artificial language used in the development of software systems. The term is more general than programming language and also includes modelling languages, query languages, transformation languages, software interfaces, database schemata, domain-specific languages, markup languages, etc.
Further reading
Anneke Kleppe, Software Language Engineering: Creating Domain-Specific Languages using Metamodels, Addison-Wesley, 2008, .
Ralf Lämmel, Software Languages: Syntax, Semantics, and Metaprogramming, Springer .
External links
Software Language Engineering Conference Series (yearly since 2008)
Software Language Engineering course at Koblenz University, Germany.
Software Language Engineering course at University of Bergen, Norway.
Software Language (Engineering) Body of Knowledge
Notation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIS%20Transactions%20on%20Human-Computer%20Interaction | AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on human–computer interactions. It was established by Ping Zhang and Dennis Galletta in 2009 and is published by the Association for Information Systems.
Editors-in-chief
The following persons have been editors-in-chief of the journal:
Ping Zhang, Syracuse University (2008-2013)
Dennis Galletta, University of Pittsburgh (2008–2018)
Joe Valacich, University of Arizona (2013–2015)
Paul Benjamin Lowry, Virginia Tech (2016–2018)
Fiona Nah, Missouri University of Science and Technology (2019–present)
External links
Information systems journals
Human–computer interaction journals
Association for Information Systems academic journals
Quarterly journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 2009 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Agricultural%20Information%20Network | The United States Agricultural Information Network (USAIN) provides a forum for issues in agricultural information, guides U.S. national information policy for agriculture, and advises the National Agricultural Library.
History
The original network was based on a recommendation from the 1982 Interagency Panel of the National Agricultural Library (NAL). It was officially launched in 1988. It consisted of a network of public and private agricultural libraries and information centers coordinated by the NAL. Originally, the Executive Council was composed of representatives from land grant and other institutions, and the director of NAL, in an ex-officio capacity. By 1995, the Executive Committee moved from an organization-based network to an individual-based organization, transferring the responsibility for the operations to individuals. At the 1995 USAIN Conference held in Lexington, Kentucky, a slate of grassroots-working agricultural information professionals emerged as the new Executive Council.
Activities
Conferences
USAIN holds biennial conferences on current themes in agricultural information. This includes collection management and preservation, data management and scholarly communication, curriculum and instruction, outreach and marketing, and national information policy.
1990 – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Inaugural meeting
1991 – University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Electronic Information in the Agricultural Sciences
1993 – Auburn University, Auburn Alabama; Rural Information at the Crossroads: Issues and Opportunities
1995 – University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; Cultivating New Ground in Electronic Information: Use of the Information Highway to Support Agriculture.
1997 – University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, joint conference with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists(IAALD); The Information Frontier: Linking People and Resources in a Changing World
1999 – Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, From Production to Consumption: Agricultural Information for All
2001 – North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina; Extending Our Reach: Redefining and Promoting Agricultural Information Through Partnerships
2003 – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; Agricultural Information for the New Millennium: New Crops, Biotechnology, and Saving the Past
2005 – University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, joint conference with the International Association of Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD) World Congress; The Globalization of Information: Agriculture at the Crossroads
2006 – Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; Delivering Information for the New Sciences
2008 – Ohio State University, Wooster, Ohio; Tradition in Transition: Information Fueling the Future of Agbiosciences
2010 – Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; Agriculture Without Borders: Creating Knowledge and Partnerships Across Disciplines and Acr |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Pop%20New%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Pop New Artist of the Year is an honor presented annually by American television network Univision. It was first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to French group Gipsy Kings. Kaoma won the following year, aided by their hit song "Lambada" which sold five-million units worldwide. American performer Christina Aguilera won both the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 2000 and the Lo Nuestro for Pop New Artist the following year. Spanish singer David Bisbal, winner in 2004, is the only performer also being awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist; while 2008 nominee Alexander Acha also earned New Artist accolade at the 10th Latin Grammy Awards. Singer-songwriters Lena Burke, Alexandre Pires and Álex Ubago were nominated for New Artist of the Year as a solo performers and as the group Alex, Jorge y Lena and Só Pra Contrariar, respectively, losing on both instances. Enrique Iglesias, Jon Secada and Shakira won for Best New Artist at the Lo Nuestro Awards and also earned the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album.
American singer Jennifer Lopez and Canadian performer Nelly Furtado were previously nominees for a Lo Nuestro Award before being awarded. Lopez was up for Pop Female Artist of the Year in 2000, while Furtado was a nominee for Pop Group or Duo of the Year along Colombian singer-songwriter Juanes at the 2004 ceremony. Mexican actress Eiza González won in 2009 for her singing role in the TV series Lola...Érase una vez. Spanish singer Natalia Jimenez was previously awarded the Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Album of the Year as a part of the duo La 5ª Estación and in 2012 won for Best New Artist. In 2013 the Pop, Regional Mexican and Tropical Salsa New Artist of the Year categories were merged on a Lo Nuestro Award for Best New Artist category in the General Field. For the Lo Nuestro Awards of 2014, the Pop New Artist of the Year award was reinstated and merged again the following year.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist
References
Pop music awards
Music awards for breakthrough artist
Pop New Artist of the Year
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2014 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Network%20of%20the%20Institute%20of%20Translation%20%26%20Interpreting | The Japanese Network of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting (J-Net) is a professional network of translators and interpreters, a division of the Institute of Translation & Interpreting (ITI) in the United Kingdom.
Activities
J-Net was established in 1986, the same year as the ITI. J-Net acts as a reference point for translators and interpreters working to and from Japanese to exchange ideas, offer work and get help with language-related problems. In the early years the main means of communication was the network Bulletin, printed and distributed to all members and some overseas 'sister organization' subscribers such as the Japan Association of Translators and the Japan Language Division of the American Translators Association. Over the years this forum has largely been supplanted by an active online mailing list (up to 400+ messages a month), which also maintains archives going back to 1999. The Bulletin is still produced approximately twice a year, primarily as an online publication, and there are also regular CPD and social events such as Shinnenkai, often combined with the annual general meeting. J-Net has also hosted the International Japanese-English Translation conference on three occasions: IJET-8 (Sheffield, 1997), IJET-18 (Bath, 2007) and IJET-26 (York, 2015).
Membership
J-Net's membership includes some 80 ITI-affiliated professional translators and interpreters, working primarily between the English and Japanese languages, although some also offer combinations such as English/German or French/Japanese. A comprehensive printed directory of members used to be sent regularly to potential work providers both in the UK and overseas.
In June 1994, a new category of 'Friend' was introduced to formalize those who had previously been known as 'subscriber' members. The AGM decided that "Friends of the Network will be entitled to receive the Bulletin and Directory and attend meetings. They will not be included in the Directory and will not be entitled to vote.". Gradually this category expanded to include those who had not yet qualified for ITI membership but wanted to gain experience from their Senpai while preparing to take the ITI entrance exam. The number of 'Friends' has now grown to approximately the same level as that of full J-Net Members.
Most members are based in the UK, but some are located overseas, in over 12 countries (including Japan). Full J-Net membership is open to any ITI member (in whatever category) with an interest translation and/or interpreting to and/or from Japanese, while 'Friend' membership is open to other linguists with similar interests, as well as students aiming to achieve professional status.
Organization
While J-Net is a subsidiary organization of the ITI and hence governed by ITI's constitution and bylaws, as well as ITI's internal rules on Networks and Regional Groups, it has its own constitution. The network is led by a Coordinator, who must be ITI-affiliated and whose primary task is to "oversee |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PernixData | PernixData was a software company based in San Jose, California. PernixData was founded in 2012, and acquired in 2016. Its main product is PernixData FVP, which is software for virtualizing server-side flash memory and random-access memory (RAM).
History
PernixData was co-founded in February 2012 by Poojan Kumar, CEO, and Satyam Vaghani, CTO. Initial capital investment came from Lightspeed Venture Partners with individual investments from Mark Leslie, founding Chairman and CEO of Veritas; John Thomson, CEO of Virtual Instruments and Microsoft Board Member; and Lane Bess, chief operating officer at Zscaler and former CEO of Palo Alto Networks. A second round of funding in May 2013 came from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the original investors. In August 2014, PernixData raised Series C financing, led by Menlo Ventures with contributions from previous investors. Investments in that round were also made by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of Salesforce; Jim Davidson, of Silver Lake Partners and Steve Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate Technology.
In August 2013, PernixData announced its FVP software product. In July, 2016, there were reports of potential sale of the company.
PernixData was acquired by Nutanix in August, 2016.
Products and competition
PernixData FVP virtualizes server-side flash memory and random-access memory (RAM), software intended to scale storage performance independent of capacity. In 2013, PernixData FVP was only available for VMware's cloud computing platform vSphere 5, but Kumar indicated plans to ready FVP for various hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V.
Version 2.0 of FVP was announced in August 2014, alongside various new editions of the product (Enterprise, Standard, VDI and Essentials Plus).
Competing VMware-focused flash virtualization technologies include Virtunet Systems' VirtuCache, SanDisk’s FlashSoft, Proximal Data's Autocache, and VMware's own vSphere Flash Read Cache (vFRC).
PernixData's FVP and Virtunet Systems' VirtuCache distinguish themselves from VMware's own vFRC by adding write caching and clustering.
See also
Hybrid array
References
Computer storage companies
Companies based in San Jose, California
Technology companies established in 2012
2016 mergers and acquisitions
Defunct software companies of the United States |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20M.%20Siebel%20Center%20for%20Computer%20Science | The Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science is a $50 million, integrated research and educational facility designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson located on the Urbana campus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Siebel Center houses the Department of Computer Science of the Grainger College of Engineering . The center has over 225,000 square feet (21,000 m²) of research, office, and laboratory space. The Siebel Center claims to be the first "Computing Habitat", featuring a fully interactive environment and intelligent building system. The facility is equipped with computer-controlled locks, proximity and location sensors, cameras to track room activity, and other sensory and control features.
The building is dedicated to Thomas Siebel in recognition of his donation to the University that funded a portion of the construction.
The building received the Award for Outstanding Engineering Achievement from the Illinois Engineering Council in 2004, and the Honor Award from the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Institute of Architects in 2008.
References
External links
Floor plans provided by the university
Siebel Center for Computer Science |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumbertown | Cucumbertown was a food blogging platform. Based out of Palo Alto, California, it was founded by Cherian Thomas, Chris Luscher, Arun Prabhakar and Dan Hauk. It was acquired by Japanese recipe network Cookpad in June 2015.
The platform shut down in 2016.
Product
Cucumbertown formerly allowed users to post and browse recipes in its web based platform. It claimed to have made it easy to write recipes in a more structured way, a style opposed to the normal way to publishing recipes through blogging platforms like WordPress or tumblr in blob formats. It also allowed users to write a variation on an existing recipe's page. The website was for some time a library of recipes written by food enthusiasts from different parts of the world, but no data is hosted at the site today.
Analytics Dashboard: Through the dashboard, people were able to see their traffic report, blog ranking vis-a-vis other food blogs in the world and a breakdown of individual post performance.
Recipe Writer: A food blogging specific editor with inbuilt SEO parameters.
Customised Recipe Search: A recipe search feature within the platform that has filters for cooking time, cuisine, ease etc.
Background and history
Cucumbertown was co-founded by Ex-Zynga employee Cherian Thomas, Chris Luscher, a partner at Web development firm Information Architects, Arun Prabhakar, a software engineer, and Dan Hauk, Tumblr theme designer. Cherian Thomas, an engineer based in Bangalore was passionate about food and he kept recording his thoughts on cooking and publishing systematically. Thomas, once, e-mailed Chris Luscher, partner of Information Architects, one of the leading design firms in the world, based in Zurich. Chris Luscher shared his passion in cooking and agreed to partner with him. Thomas then brought on board Arun Prabhakar, his junior at Model Engineering College, and Dan Hauk, a leading American designer. Cucumbertown is named after a mythical town, Vellarikka Pattanam (വെള്ളരിക്കാപ്പട്ടണം) in the Malayalam language. The most of the founders, a team of 4 people across 3 continents, never met face to face until the launch of the company. Dan Hauk left Cucumbertown in August 2013.
In 2012, Cucumbertown was angel funded to the extent of $300,000 by investors such as Naval Ravikant of AngelList, Paul Singh of 500 Startups, Farmville co-creator Sizhao Zao Yang, founder of MightyText Maneesh Arora, early Google product guy Richard Chen and Sonique Player co-creator Tabreez Varjee. This was followed by an undisclosed 2nd round of investment by Ludlow Ventures in 2014.
Cucumbertown is a US incorporated company with an Indian subsidiary and with two offices, one in Palo Alto, California, and another Bangalore, India. Cucumbertown has reportedly users from 60 countries, the largest audience, after the US, is from Australia and the UAE.
The Economic Times showcased Cucumbertown as "one of the 14 startups to look forward to in 2014".
In October 2014, Cucumbertown released RecipeWriter |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Registry%20of%20Evidence-Based%20Programs%20and%20Practices | The National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP) was a searchable online database of interventions designed to promote mental health or to prevent or treat substance abuse and mental disorders. The registry was funded and administered by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The goal of the Registry was to encourage wider adoption of evidence-based interventions and to help those interested in implementing an evidence-based intervention to select one that best meets their needs.
The NREPP website was phased out in 2018. See the section below about the phase out for more information.
Overview
In the behavioral health field, there is an ongoing need for researchers, developers, evaluators, and practitioners to share information about what works to improve outcomes among individuals coping with, or at risk for, mental disorders and substance abuse. Discussing how this need led to the development of NREPP, Brounstein, Gardner, and Backer (2006) write:
The focus of NREPP is on delivering an array of standardized, comparable information on interventions that are evidence based, as opposed to identifying programs that are "effective" or ranking them in effectiveness. Its peer reviewers use specific criteria to rate the quality of an intervention's evidence base as well as the intervention's suitability for broad adoption. In addition, NREPP provides contextual information about the intervention, such as the population served, implementation history, and cost data to encourage a realistic and holistic approach to selecting prevention interventions.
As of 2010, the interventions reviewed by NREPP have been implemented successfully in more than 229,000 sites, in all 50 States and more than 70 countries, and with more than 107 million clients. Versions of ura review process and rating criteria have been adopted by the National Cancer Institute and the Administration on Aging.
The information NREPP provides is subject to certain limitations. It is not an exhaustive repository of all tested mental health interventions; submission is a voluntary process, and limited resources may preclude the review of some interventions even though they meet minimum requirements for acceptance. The NREPP home page prominently states that "inclusion in the registry does not constitute an endorsement."
Submission process
NREPP holds an open submission period that runs November 1 through February 1. For an intervention to be eligible for a review, it must meet four minimum criteria:
The intervention has produced one or more positive behavioral outcomes (p ≤ .05) in mental health, mental disorders, substance abuse, or substance use disorders use among individuals, communities, or populations.
Evidence of these outcomes has been demonstrated in at least one study using an experimental or quasi-experimental design.
The results of these studies have been publ |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Cannon | Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army.
Career
On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803.
Under a Horse Guards order, dated 1 January 1836, signifying the royal commands that an historic account of the services of every regiment in the British Army should be published under the superintendence of the Adjutant-General, the work of compilation was entrusted to Cannon, at that time principal clerk in the Adjutant-General's office. During the ensuing seventeen years historical records of all then existing regiments of cavalry, and of forty-two regiments of infantry of the line, were thus issued "by authority", all of which were prepared under Cannon's direction, except the history of the Royal Horse Guards (issued as part of the series in 1847), which was written by Captain Edmund Packe, of that regiment.
After nearly 52 years of service, Cannon retired in January 1854, on his full salary of £800 a year. The work of compilation was then discontinued, some regimental histories which had been announced as in preparation at various times having, apparently, not been proceeded with.
References
External links
Google Books: Historical Records of the British Army, by Richard Cannon
Attribution
British military historians
1779 births
1865 deaths |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Futures | The Community Futures Network of Canada is an extensive network of 269 community futures development corporations. The national Community Futures Program is administered by four regional development agencies, the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA), Canadian Economic Development for Québec Regions (CED-Q), Western Economic Diversification Canada (WD), and the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario (FedNor) under Industry Canada (IC). In Western Canada the Community Futures Program is delivered through a network of 90 non-profit organizations that are supported by four associations and one Pan-West Community Futures Network.
Community Futures in British Columbia
The Community Futures Development Association of B.C. dba Community Futures British Columbia, is the provincial association for the 34 Community Futures offices located in British Columbia. The 34 Community Futures Development Corporations provide rural communities with a variety of services including business development expertise and loans, technical support, training and information. In addition to the business development component, Community Futures involve themselves in a wide array of community initiatives, including strategic planning processes, research and feasibility studies, and the implementation of a diverse range of community economic development projects.
Community Futures in Alberta
The Community Futures Network of Alberta is the provincial association providing servant leadership to the 27 Community Futures offices located in rural Alberta.
Each Alberta Community Futures is run by professional staff and operates on a non-profit basis, governed by a volunteer Board of Directors who are members of their local community. Services offered by Community Futures to their rural Alberta clients include:
Free business tools and advice
Business coaching and training
Business loans and financing options
Community Economic Development
Programs for Entrepreneurs with Disabilities
In 2020 and 2021 during the COVID-19 Global Pandemic, Community Futures offices in Alberta issued several million dollars worth of relief loans to impacted businesses.
Community Futures in Manitoba
The Community Futures Association of Manitoba, is the provincial association for the 16 Community Futures offices located within the province. It is located in Winnipeg on Lombard Avenue. The Community Futures Development Corporations provide rural communities with a variety of services including business development expertise and loans, technical support, training and information. In addition to the business development component, Community Futures involve themselves in a wide array of community initiatives, including strategic planning processes, research and feasibility studies, and the implementation of a diverse range of community economic development projects.
Community Futures in Ontario
The Ontario Association of Community Futures Development Corporations |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infoblox | Infoblox, is a privately held IT automation and security company based in California's Silicon Valley. The company focuses on managing and identifying devices connected to networks—specifically for the Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP address management (collectively, "DDI"). According to Gartner, Infoblox held a 49.9% market share of the $533 million enterprise DDI market in 2015. In June 2016, market research company IDC reported that Infoblox held a sizeable market share in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management.
History
Infoblox was founded in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois, by Stuart Bailey who was at the University of Illinois. The company moved to Santa Clara, California, in 2003.
In 2007, Infoblox acquired French startup lpanto, which led to the development of IPAM Win Connect appliances. In 2010, Infoblox acquired Net Cordia which provided technologies for network task automation. Later in the same year, the company integrated Infoblox IP address management technology with Net Cordia's network configuration and change management technologies.
As virtualization and cloud computing became increasingly prevalent in data centers, automation was marketed using the term distributed virtual infrastructure. The company added DNS security products, and it also supplied hardware appliances to host its software.
Infoblox joined commercial and government groups, and independent research, and made Tapestry, its open-source software
Network management became increasingly crucial, after a sharp rise in computer crime, especially attacks that exploit DNS servers, such as DNS spoofing and distributed denial-of-service attacks. In 2012, 7.8 million new malware threats emerged. Mobile threats grew by 1,000 percent, and 865 successful breaches compromised 174 million records. DNS servers in particular are vulnerable to hacking, and often used in destructive attacks such as the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) attack that hit The New York Times and Twitter in 2013.
In December 2013, it estimated 6,000 customers, which included government organizations as well as businesses.
In February 2016, the company acquired IID, a cyberthreat intelligence company. On September 19, 2016, Vista Equity Partners announced intent to purchase Infoblox for approximately $1.6 billion. The acquisition closed in November. In June 2017, Infoblox announced an expansion to its Tacoma, Washington, office, which focuses on cybersecurity research, threat intelligence and engineering. In 2019, Infoblox introduced new updates to its Network Identity Operating System (NIOS) platform, including support for Google Cloud Platform and the option for single sign-on. In December 2019, Infoblox was included in the list for the Top 25 Cybersecurity Companies of 2019 by The Software Report.
On September 8, 2020, Infoblox announced a significant investment from Warburg Pincus. after necessary approvals, the investment closed on December 1, 2020, with Vista Eq |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plotly | Plotly is a technical computing company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, that develops online data analytics and visualization tools. Plotly provides online graphing, analytics, and statistics tools for individuals and collaboration, as well as scientific graphing libraries for Python, R, MATLAB, Perl, Julia, Arduino, JavaScript and REST.
History
Plotly was founded by Alex Johnson, Jack Parmer, Chris Parmer, and Matthew Sundquist.
The founders' backgrounds are in science, energy, and data analysis and visualization. Early employees include Christophe Viau, a Canadian software engineer and Ben Postlethwaite, a Canadian geophysicist. Plotly was named one of the Top 20 Hottest Innovative Companies in Canada by the Canadian Innovation Exchange. Plotly was featured in "startup row" at PyCon 2013, and sponsored the SciPy 2018 conference.
Plotly raised $5.5 million during its Series A funding, led by MHS Capital, Siemens Venture Capital, Rho Ventures, Real Ventures, and Silicon Valley Bank.
The Boston Globe and Washington Post newsrooms have produced data journalism using Plotly. In 2020, Plotly was named a Best Place to Work by the Canadian SME National Business Awards, and nominated as Business of the Year.
Products
Plotly offers open-source and enterprise products.
Dash is an open-source Python, R, and Julia framework for building web-based analytic applications. Many specialized open-source Dash libraries exist that are tailored for building domain-specific Dash components and applications. Some examples are Dash DAQ, for building data acquisition GUIs to use with scientific instruments, and Dash Bio, which enables users to build custom chart types, sequence analysis tools, and 3D rendering tools for bioinformatics applications.
Dash Enterprise is Plotly’s paid product for building, testing, deploying, managing and scaling Dash applications organization-wide.
Chart Studio Cloud is a free, online tool for creating interactive graphs. It has a point-and-click graphical user interface for importing and analyzing data into a grid and using stats tools. Graphs can be embedded or downloaded.
Chart Studio Enterprise is a paid product that allows teams to create, style, and share interactive graphs on a single platform. It offers expanded authentication and file export options, and does not limit sharing and viewing.
Data visualization libraries Plotly.js is an open-source JavaScript library for creating graphs and powers Plotly.py for Python, as well as Plotly.R for R, MATLAB, Node.js, Julia, and Arduino and a REST API. Plotly can also be used to style interactive graphs with Jupyter notebook.
Figure Converters which convert matplotlib, ggplot2, and IGOR Pro graphs into interactive, online graphs.
Data visualization libraries
Plotly provides a collection of supported chart types across several programming languages:
Dash
Dash is a Python framework built on top of React, a JavaScript library. But Dash also works for R, and most recently supports |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo%20Nuestro%20Award%20for%20Regional%20Mexican%20New%20Artist%20of%20the%20Year | The Lo Nuestro Award for Regional Mexican New Artist of the Year was an honor presented annually by American network Univision. It was first awarded in 1989 and has been given annually since to recognize the most talented performers of Latin music. The nominees and winners were originally selected by a voting poll conducted among program directors of Spanish-language radio stations in the United States and also based on chart performance on Billboard Latin music charts, with the results being tabulated and certified by the accounting firm Deloitte. At the present time, the winners are selected by the audience through an online survey. The trophy awarded is shaped in the form of a treble clef.
The award was first presented to Mexican singer José Javier Solís. Mexican singer Pablo Montero and group Los Temerarios, winners in 1990 and 1999, respectively, were also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Mexican/Mexican-American Album; while 2009 nominees Los Pikadientes de Caborca were also shortlisted for a Grammy Award for Best Regional Mexican Album. Mexican performer Ezequiel Peña was nominated as part of the group Banda Vallarta Show in 1993 and won as a solo performer two years later. Mexican singer and actress Mariana Seoane, winner in 2005, received a Latin Grammy Award nomination for Best Grupero Album. Mexican singer Gerardo Ortíz won the award in 2011, only a few weeks after he had survived an ambush attempt during which his cousin and business manager had been killed. In 2013, the Pop, Regional Mexican and Tropical Salsa New Artist of the Year categories were merged on a Lo Nuestro Award for New Artist of the Year category in the General Field.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees for the majority of the years awarded.
See also
Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist
References
Regional Mexican New Artist of the Year
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Music awards for breakthrough artist
Awards established in 1989
Awards disestablished in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Fraser%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mike Fraser FRSA (born 1975) is a British computer scientist. He is Head of Computer Science at the University of Bristol.
Life and career
Fraser was a student at University of Nottingham from 1993 until 1996 where he acquired his bachelor's degree in Computer Science. He also attained a PhD in Computer Science from the same institution during 1997 and 2000.
After graduating, he worked as a lecturer at the University of Nottingham from 2001 to 2004, before he moved to Bristol and became a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol from 2004.
In 2012, Fraser became a Professor of Human-computer interaction.
In 2019, he was made Head of Computer Science at the University of Bath
, before returning to the University of Bristol in 2022.
Fraser's research is often based around his specialisation in Human-computer interaction.
His first PC was an Amstrad CPC 464.
Awards and recognition
Fraser sits on the steering committee of the TEI conference series, was awarded a ‘best paper’ award at ACM CHI 2005, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
References
1975 births
Living people
British computer scientists
Academics of the University of Bristol
Alumni of the University of Nottingham
Academics of the University of Nottingham |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmidecode | dmidecode is a free userspace command-line utility for Linux that can parse the SMBIOS data. The name dmidecode is derived from Desktop Management Interface, a related standard with which dmidecode originally interfaced. SMBIOS was originally named DMIBIOS. The Linux kernel and other modern operating systems such as the BSD family contain an SMBIOS decoder, allowing systems administrators to inspect system hardware configuration and to enable or disable certain workarounds for problems with specific systems, based on the provided SMBIOS information. Information provided by this utility typically includes the system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version and asset tag, as well other details of varying level of interest and reliability, depending on the system manufacturer. The information often includes usage status for the CPU sockets, expansion slots (including AGP, PCI and ISA) and memory module slots, and the list of I/O ports (including serial, parallel and USB). Decoded DMI tables for various computer models are collected in a public GitHub repository.
For Dell systems there is a libsmbios utility.
References
External links
Free software programmed in C
BIOS |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping%20Zhang%20%28information%20scientist%29 | Ping Zhang is an American scholar in information systems and human–computer interaction.
She is notable for her work on establishing the human–computer interaction community inside the information systems field, bridging various camps of human–computer interaction research and exploring intellectual characteristics of the information field.
She co-authored with Dov Te’eni and Jane Carey the first HCI textbook for non-computer science students.
Zhang is the co-founding EIC of AIS Transactions on Human–Computer Interaction. She was a senior editor of Journal of the Association for Information Systems, where she is also the author of the inaugural article.
During 2013–2015, Zhang was the first historian for the Association for Information Systems.
In 2015, Ping Zhang was named as a fellow of the American Council on Education (ACE) for the 2015–2016 academic year.
Ping Zhang received her PhD in information systems from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and M.Sc. and B.Sc. in computer science from Peking University, Beijing, China.
Selected works
Zhang, Ping (2013), The Affective Response Model: A Theoretical Framework of Affective Concepts and Their Relationships in the ICT Context, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ), Vol. 37, Issue 1, 247–274.
Wang Chingning & Ping Zhang (2012), The Evolution of Social Commerce: An Examination from the People, Business, Technology, and Information Perspective, Communications of the AIS (CAIS). Vol. 31, Article 5, 105–127.
Zhang, Ping & Heshan Sun (2009), The complexity of different types of attitude in initial and continued ICT use, Journal of American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).
Zhang, Ping (2008), Motivational affordances: Fundamental reasons for ICT design and use, Communications of the ACM, 51(11).
Zhang, Ping and Na Li (2005), The Importance of Affective Quality, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, No. 9, September, pp. 105–108.
Zhang, Ping & Dennis Galletta (eds.), Human–Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems – Foundations, Series of Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
Galletta, Dennis and Ping Zhang (eds.), Human–Computer Interaction and Management Information Systems – Applications, Series of Advances in Management Information Systems (AMIS), Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006.
References
External links
Ping Zhang early website at Syracuse University
Ping Zhang current website at Syracuse University
AIS Transactions on Human–Computer Interaction journal website
JAIS journal website
Chinese emigrants to the United States
Information systems researchers
Human–computer interaction researchers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women computer scientists
American computer scientists
Peking University alumni
University of Texas at Austin alumni
Syracuse University faculty
Scientists from Inner Mongolia
People from Hohhot
American women |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20Final%20Invention | Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American author James Barrat. The book discusses the potential benefits and possible risks of human-level or super-human artificial intelligence. Those supposed risks include extermination of the human race.
Summary
James Barrat weaves together explanations of AI concepts, AI history, and interviews with prominent AI researchers including Eliezer Yudkowsky and Ray Kurzweil. The book starts with an account of how an artificial general intelligence could become an artificial super-intelligence through recursive self-improvement. In subsequent chapters, the book covers the history of AI, including an account of the work done by I. J. Good, up to the work and ideas of researchers in the field today.
Throughout the book, Barrat takes a cautionary tone, focusing on the threats artificial super-intelligence poses to human existence. Barrat emphasizes how difficult it would be to control or even to predict the actions of something that may become orders of magnitude more intelligent than the most intelligent humans.
Reception
On 13 December 2013, journalist Matt Miller interviewed Barrat for his podcast, "This... is interesting". The interview and related matters to Barrat's book, Our Final Invention, were then captured in Miller's weekly opinion piece for The Washington Post.
Seth Baum, executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute and one of the people cited by Barrat in his book, reviewed the book favorably on Scientific American's "invited guest" blog, calling it a welcome counterpoint to the vision articulated by Ray Kurzweil in his book The Singularity is Near.
Gary Marcus questions Barrat's argument "that tendencies toward self-preservation and resource acquisition are inherent in any sufficiently complex, goal-driven system", noting that present-day AI does not have such drives, but Marcus concedes "that the goals of machines could change as they get smarter", and he feels that "Barrat is right to ask" about these important issues.
Our Final Invention was a Huffington Post Definitive Tech Book of 2013.
See also
Artificial intelligence
Ethics of artificial intelligence
Technological singularity
AI box
Friendly artificial intelligence
References
External links
Kirkus Review
Scientific American Review
2013 non-fiction books
Futurology books
Existential risk from artificial general intelligence
Thomas Dunne Books books
Non-fiction books about Artificial intelligence |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003%E2%80%9304%20Philippine%20Basketball%20League%20season | The 2003–04 season of the Philippine Basketball League (PBL).
New theme
The Philippine Basketball League (PBL), in partnership with the giant network ABS-CBN through Studio 23 and ABS-CBN Sports presentation of the league, adopted a new slogan "Ito ang tunay na ligang bayan".
2003-04 Platinum Cup
Finals
Fash (formerly Hapee) leaned on a couple of three-pointers by Larry Fonacier in the last quarter of the deciding fifth game to down Welcoat Paints and clinch the championship. Fash coach Junel Baculi now match former Stag coach Alfrancis Chua as the winningest mentor in the PBL with seven titles.
Platinum Cup awards
Most Valuable Player: Peter June Simon (Fash)
Newcomer Award: Jemal Vizcarra (Sunkist-UST)
Most Improved Award: Niño Gelig (Fash)
Sudden Impact: Dondon Villamin (Sunkist-UST)
Mythical Five
Peter June Simon (Fash)
Rich Alvarez (Fash)
James Yap (Welcoat)
Jercules Tangkay (Welcoat)
Ervin Sotto (Welcoat)
Mythical Second Team
Alex Compton (Sunkist-UST)
Allan Salangsang (Fash)
Marc Pingris (Welcoat)
Paul Artadi (Welcoat)
Willy Wilson (Welcoat)
2004 Unity Cup
Finals
Viva Mineral Water-FEU wins their first championship since joining the league in this same conference last year, where they lost to Hapee after taking a 2-1 series lead in the finals. Welcoat threatened to extend the series by taking an eight-point lead, 43-35, midway in the third quarter, but the Water Force ended their scoring drought with eight unanswered points for a 43-all deadlock entering the final period.
Unity Cup Awards
Most Valuable Player: Arwind Santos (Viva-FEU)
Top Newcomer: Boyet Bautista (Toyota-Otis)
Sudden Impact Award: Aaron Aban (Toyota-Otis)
Sportsmanship Award: Chester Tolomia (Welcoat)
Consistency Award: Eric Dela Cuesta (Blu Star)
Most Improved Award: Ronjay Enrile (Toyota-Otis)
Mythical First Team
Jercules Tangkay (Welcoat)
Chester Tolomia (Welcoat)
Arwind Santos (Viva-FEU)
Dennis Miranda (Viva-FEU)
Mark Isip (Viva-FEU)
Mythical Second Team
Ronjay Enrile (Toyota-Otis)
Warren Ybañez (Viva-FEU)
Marvin Ortiguerra (Viva-FEU)
Jason Misolas (Nenaco)
Mark Macapagal (Hapee)
Occurrences
PBL Commissioner Chino Trinidad resign unexpectedly at halftime of Game three of Fash-Welcoat finals series, Trinidad admitted his frustration and displeasure on a display of defiance by Welcoat players following the choice of Fash' Peter June Simon as MVP over Welcoat' Jercules Tangkay. Deputy commissioner Tommy Ong was named interim chief of the league.
References
External links
www.philippinebasketball.ph
Philippine Basketball League seasons
2003 in Philippine basketball
PBL |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intention%20mining | In data mining, intention mining or intent mining is the problem of determining a user's intention from logs of his/her behavior in interaction with a computer system, such as in search engines, where there has been research on user intent or query intent prediction since 2002 (see Section 7.2.3 in ); and commercial intents expressed in social media posts.
The notion of intention mining has been introduced in the Ph.D. thesis of Dr. Ghazaleh Khodabandelou in 2014.
This thesis presents a novel approach of process mining, called Map Miner Method (MMM). This method is designed to automate the construction of intentional process models from traces. MMM uses Hidden Markov Models to model the relationship between users' activities and the strategies (i.e., the different ways to fulfill the intentions). The method also includes some specific algorithms developed to infer users' intentions and construct intentional process model (Map), respectively. MMM models the intentions as an oriented graph (with different levels of granularity) in order to have a better understanding of the human way of thinking.
Application
Intention Mining has already been used in several domains:
Web search : (Hashemi et al., 2008), (Zheng et al., 2002), (Strohmaier & Kröll, 2012), (Kröll & Strohmaier, 2012), (Park et al., 2010), (Jethava et al., 2011), (González-Caro & Baeza-Yates, 2011), (Baeza-Yates et al., 2006)
Commercial Intents : Expressed in social media (Chen et al., 2013)
Software Engineering (Ghazaleh Khodabandelou et al., 2013),(Ghazaleh Khodabandelou et al., 2014), (Ghazaleh Khodabandelou et al., 2014),
Business : Workarounds, (Epure, 2013), (Epure et al., 2014)
Engineering : Entity Relationship modelling, Method Engineering, (Laflaquière et al., 2006), (Clauzel et al., 2009), Development traces
Home video : (Mei et al., 2005)
See also
Business Process Discovery
Business Process Management
Process modeling
Process mining
Sequence mining
Hidden Markov model
References
Process mining |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monika%20Henzinger | Monika Henzinger (born as Monika Rauch, 17 April 1966 in Weiden in der Oberpfalz) is a German computer scientist, and is a former director of research at Google. She is currently a professor at the University of Vienna. Her expertise is mainly on algorithms with a focus on data structures, algorithmic game theory, information retrieval, search algorithms and Web data mining. She is married to Thomas Henzinger and has three children.
Career
She completed her PhD in 1993 from Princeton University under the supervision of Robert Tarjan. She then became an assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, a research staff at Digital Equipment Corporation, an associate professor at the Saarland University, a director of research at Google, a full professor of computer science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and a full professor of computer science at the University of Vienna, Austria. Since 2023 she is a professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).
Awards
1995: NSF Career Award
1997: Best Paper, ACM SOSP Conference
2001: Top 25 Women on the Web Award
2004: European Young Investigator award
2009: Olga Taussky Pauli Fellowship
2010: Member of the "Junge Kurie" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
2013: Honorary Doctorate of the Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
2013: ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council
2013: Elected to Academia Europaea
2014: One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
2014: Elected to German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
2017: Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
2021: Wittgenstein Award
Selected publications
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References
External links
Home page
1966 births
Living people
German women computer scientists
German computer scientists
Theoretical computer scientists
Google people
Princeton University alumni
Cornell University faculty
Academic staff of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Academic staff of the University of Vienna
Members of Academia Europaea
Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Game theorists
European Research Council grantees
People from Weiden in der Oberpfalz |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Henzinger | Thomas Henzinger (born 1962) is an Austrian computer scientist, researcher, and former president of the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
Early life and education
Henzinger was born in Austria. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Johannes Kepler University Linz, and his PhD from Stanford University in 1991, advised by Zohar Manna. He is married to Monika Henzinger and has three children.
Career
Henzinger was successively Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University (1992–95) and Assistant Professor (1996–97), Associate Professor (1997–98), Professor (1998–2004) and Adjunct Professor (till 2011) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also director of the Max Planck Institute of Computer Science in Saarbrücken, Germany in 1999 and Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), Switzerland from 2004 to 2009. Until 2022, he was president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA).
His research is concerned with modern systems theory, particularly on the models, algorithms, and tools for the design and verification of reliable software, hardware, and embedded systems. His HyTech tool was the first model checker for mixed discrete-continuous systems.
He is a member of Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Academia Europaea, and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Other activities
European Research Council (ERC), Member of the Scientific Council (since 2023)
Recognition
Henzinger was awarded the 2015 Milner Award by the Royal Society. He received a Doctor honoris causa from the Masaryk University as well as the Wittgenstein Prize of the Austrian Science Fund. He is an ACM Fellow and an ISI Highly Cited Researcher in 2001. He is ranked as the number one cited researcher in Austria according to h-index data.
References
External links
Archive of the page at EPFL
Home Page at the Berkeley EECS Department
Page at ISTA
Page at the Austrian Academy of Sciences
1962 births
Living people
Stanford University alumni
Austrian computer scientists
Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-counter%20data | Over-the-counter data (OTCD) is a design approach used in data systems, particularly educational technology data systems, in order to increase the accuracy of users' data analyses by better reporting data. The approach involves adhering to standards that are organized by five components: Label, Supplemental Documentation, Help System, Package/Display, and Content.
OTCD was inspired by the varied ways over-the-counter medication supports those using its contents. Just as it would be negligent for over-the-counter medication to contain no labeling, documentation, or other supports helping people to use its contents safely, it is deemed negligent for data systems to display data for educators without providing them with the necessary supports to best ensure it is used correctly when educators use the data to treat students’ needs.
Background
Inspired by the varied ways over-the-counter medication supports those using its contents, OTCD was created in 2010 and applied to the improvement of education data systems. Consider the way in which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires over-the-counter medication to be accompanied by textual guidance proven to improve its use, deeming it negligent to do otherwise. With such guidance, patients may take over-the-counter medication with the goal of improving wellbeing while a doctor is not present to explain how to use the medication. No or poor medication labels have resulted in many errors and tragedy, as people are left with no way to know how to use the contents wisely.
Labeling conventions can translate to improved understanding on non-medication products, as well. Thus, in the way over-the-counter medicine’s proper use is communicated with a thorough label and added documentation, a data system used to analyze student performance can include components to help users better comprehend the data it contains. Using an OTCD approach (i.e., following OTCD Standards) when communicating data involves following research-based recommendations likely to improve educators’ understanding, analysis, and use of the data being displayed.
Nonetheless, labeling and tools within data systems to assist analyses are uncommon, even though most educators analyze data alone. Essentially, data systems and reports do not commonly present data in an “over-the-counter” format for educators, whose primary option for using data to treat students is thus compared to ingesting medicine from an unmarked or marginally marked container.
Just as it would be negligent for over-the-counter medicine to contain no labeling, documentation, or other supports helping people to use its contents safely, it is negligent for data systems and reports to display data for educators without providing necessary supports to best ensure the data is used appropriately and thus has a desirable impact on students.
The recommendations summarized by OTCD Standards (below) are based on research in education and edtech, as well as research in a variet |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailando%20por%20un%20Sue%C3%B1o | Bailando por un Sueño is a franchised TV series in various Latin American countries. Meaning "Dancing for a dream", it is a reality series that commenced on the Mexican television network Canal de las Estrellas, in which celebrities are partnered with common, everyday people with dreams they want to fulfil, who each week compete against each other in a competition to impress a panel of judges. In each show, the two couples who receive the lowest score go head to head against each other to survive potential elimination. Through a telephone poll, viewers vote who should stay and who should go, the results of the poll being combined with the ranking of the panel of judges. The process continues until there are only two couples standing. Rather than the promise of a large cash prize, the winner gets a previously stated wish granted. The show is also broadcast in the United States on Univision. This Includes a lot of famous actors and actresses from Latin America.
Many Latin American countries developed their own versions on a similar format after success of the launch. Countries broadcasting similar format shows include Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Honduras, Panama, Paraguay, Peru (as El Gran Show), and on the European continent, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Slovakia (as Tanečný pre Dream) and Romania (as Dansez pentru tine).
Legal controversy
In September 2011, Italy's Canale 5 owned by Mediaset launched a series, hosted by Barbara d'Urso, called Baila, based on Bailando por un Sueño. The owners of Dancing With The Stars, BBC Worldwide, and local RAI presenter Milly Carlucci took Mediaset to court, arguing that Baila infringed on the rights of Dancing With The Stars. The court agreed, finding that the addition of 'dreamers' was not a sufficient difference in the format, and a later court upheld that judgement in November 2011. Baila was quickly taken off air.
Bailando por un Sueño worldwide
International events
Bailando por un Sueño: Campeonato Internacional de Baile (Meaning Dancing for a Dream: International Dance Championship) was a pan-national competition between winners from various countries.
There were two such contests one in 2007 and another on 2010.
References
Las Estrellas original programming
Dance competition television shows |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan%20B.%20Davidson | Susan B. Davidson CorrFRSE is an American computer scientist known for work in databases and bioinformatics. She is Weiss Professor of Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania. Her dissertation work on distributed databases included results on statistical and mathematical techniques for data resolution as well as mechanisms to avoid database conflicts.
Davidson has also done research in bioinformatics, where her work (with collaborators) on data integration was commercialized by GeneticXChange. She also serves on the board of the Computing Research Association.
Biography
In 1978 Davidson graduated with a B.A. in mathematics from Cornell University. She received M.S.E. and Master of Arts degrees in computer science from Princeton University in 1980 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton University in 1982.
Davidson joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania as visiting assistant professor (1982), then took up the role of assistant professor (1983–1989), associate professor (1989–1998), and professor (1998–present) in the university's Department of Computer and Information Science. From 2008 to 2013, she was chair of the department. From 2000 to 2003, she also held a secondary appointment in the university's Genetics Department.
Awards
In 2001 Davidson became a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). She was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2015. She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
References
External links
Davidson's webpage at University of Pennsylvania
Living people
American computer scientists
Cornell University alumni
Princeton University alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejoice%20Broadcast%20Network | Rejoice Radio is a network of Christian radio stations airing a format of Christian talk and teaching and Christian music. The network is owned by Pensacola Christian College.
History
Since 1971, Rejoice Radio has broadcast Christian music and programs to encourage listeners and witness in the community. In the early 1970s, Dr. Arlin Horton was inspired to start a Christian radio station for listeners along the upper Gulf Coast. On June 21, 1971, WPCS began operation. In December 1996, WPCS expanded its outreach by broadcasting the Rejoice Broadcasting Network on its first translator station in Eugene, Oregon.
Now through the financial support of its listeners, Rejoice Radio is broadcast on over 40 stations and the Internet, reaching listeners across America and around the world. Rejoice Radio continues the vision of broadcasting Christian music and programming to encourage believers and provide a gospel witness in the community.
Timeline
1971
On June 21, WPCS signed on the air as an educational, noncommercial, nonprofit, Christian radio ministry for the northwest Florida area. From its frequency 89.3 FM, WPCS broadcast Christian programming 17 hours a day.
1985
WPCS began broadcasting 24 hours a day.
1987
WPCS moved to a new tower, and the frequency changed to 89.5 FM.
1988
WPCS moved to its current location in the Visual and Performing Arts building of Pensacola Christian College.
1996
In December, the Rejoice Broadcast Network began with its first station in Eugene, Oregon.
1997
RBN became available on the Internet, extending its ministry to listeners around the globe.
In March, the translator of Toledo, Oregon 88.7 FM began broadcasting.
In June, the translator of Vero Beach, Florida 88.5 FM began broadcasting.
In October, the translator of Klamath Falls, Oregon 89.9 FM began broadcasting.
In December, the translator of Kalamazoo, Michigan 91.7 FM began broadcasting and Muskegon, Michigan 90.7 FM began broadcasting.
1998
In January, the translator of Rockford, Illinois 91.9 FM began broadcasting, Las Cruces, New Mexico 91.9 FM began broadcasting, and Talent, Oregon 89.7 FM began broadcasting.
In April, the translator of Grand Junction, Colorado 91.7 FM began broadcasting and Hattiesburg, Mississippi 91.1 FM began broadcasting.
In May, the translator of Kankakee, Illinois 89.3 FM began broadcasting.
In July, the translator of Terre Haute, Indiana 91.3 FM began broadcasting.
In August, the translator of Salisbury, Maryland 89.9 FM began broadcasting.
In September, the translator of Manhattan, Kansas 90.7 FM began broadcasting.
In October, the translator of Fort Wayne, Indiana 89.7 FM began broadcasting, Wabash, Indiana 88.5 FM began broadcasting, Benton Harbor, Michigan 90.3 FM began broadcasting, and Wausau, Wisconsin 90.3 FM began broadcasting.
In November, the translator of Warsaw, Indiana 91.3 FM began broadcasting, Mansfield, Pennsylvania 89.1 FM began broadcasting, and Casper, Wyoming 89.7 FN began broadcasting.
In December, the transl |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Bryant%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Greg Bryant is a computer scientist and community organizer, best known as the founder of Workspot in downtown Palo Alto during the dotcom boom, and editor of RAIN Magazine since 1989. He also acted as a liaison between the computer industry and Christopher Alexander on many projects.
Career
In computing, he was an early promoter of virtual machines, which led to work promoting UNIX and software tools at Intel headquarters during the 80386 project, and the creation of several production domain-specific languages. He built languages and authoring tools for the first consumer in-car navigation systems, and the first mobile traffic app, and built the first fullscreen mobile apps for Google, and for eBay
. He introduced the idea of 'unfolding programming sequences', and the category of 'operational grammars' with the programming language 'grogix'. He writes about foundation problems in computing philosophy, and presents on the application of software to urban issues.
His community organizing closely follows his research and writing for RAIN Magazine. He co-founded two special-purpose community centers, which were also local business incubators: the Center for Appropriate Transport and the Tango Center in Eugene, Oregon. Defending the Tango Center led to a ballot measure that temporarily defunded Urban Renewal in downtown Eugene, Measure 20–134 in November 2007, which may be the central factor in its rejuvenation.
References
External links
Greg Bryant Compendium
American computer scientists
Urban theorists
American software engineers
American community activists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Killing%20Field | The Killing Field is an Australian mystery-drama-thriller television film on the Seven Network. It was created by Sarah Smith and Michaeley O'Brien and directed by Samantha Lang, from a screenplay by Sarah Smith and Michaeley O'Brien. It was produced by Bill Hughes and Sarah Smith with Rebecca Gibney co-producing and Julie McGauran executive producing. A spin-off series Winter screened from February 2015.
Plot
When a young girl goes missing in the small country town of Mingara, a large scale operation is started by the police and residents of the town. However, when the search proves too big for the local authorities after five dead bodies are found, buried in a field in shallow graves, a specialised team of homicide detectives are flown in from the city.
Cast
Rebecca Gibney as Detective Sergeant Eve Winter
Chloe Boreham as Constable Bridget Anderson
Liam McIntyre as Detective Dan Wild
Peter O'Brien as Inspector Lachlan McKenzie
Production
The concept was created by Sarah Smith of Cornerstone Pictures and Michaeley O'Brien and the screenplay was written by Sarah Smith and Michaeley O'Brien. It will be directed by Samantha Lang. Bill Hughes is producing for Seven and Sarah Smith is producing for Cornerstone Pictures, with Rebecca Gibney as co-producer. Julie McGauran is executive producer. The movie was shot in November 2013 in New South Wales small town Gulgong and the office setting was shot in Sydney. The casting director Greg Apps cast Rebecca Gibney, Peter O'Brien, Chloe Boreham and Liam McIntyre, for the leading roles of the Task force.
Release
The film debuted on the Seven Network on 4 May 2014. The film was watched by 1.166 million overnight viewers and 1.405 consolidated viewers.
References
2014 television films
2014 films
Seven Network original programming
Australian drama television films
Australian thriller films
2010s mystery films
2014 thriller films
Australian crime films |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20I%20Believe%20%28TV%20program%29 | This I Believe is an early Australian television program. Broadcast 5 nights a week on Sydney station ATN-7, it debuted 3 December 1956 (on ATN's second day of programming). It was a 15-minute program in which Eric Baume would provide a commentary on current world events. At the end of each TV program he would say "This I believe". The program ended around July 1958. According to television listings in the Sydney Morning Herald, the last few episodes of the program aired in an 11-minute time-slot.
This I Believe was also a radio program with Baume, which debuted before the television series.
An episode of this program is held by the National Film and Sound Archive and has been digitised.
See also
State Your Case – weekly (on Sundays) television program with Eric Baume from 1957
Eric Baume's Viewpoint – 1959–1961 television program with Baume
References
External links
1956 Australian television series debuts
1958 Australian television series endings
Australian television news shows
Black-and-white Australian television shows
English-language television shows
Seven Network original programming
Television series based on radio series |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EzTaxon%20Database | In bioinformatics, the EzTaxon database is a web-based tool for the identification of prokaryotes based on 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequences. EzTaxon is an open access database that is produced and maintained by ChunLab, Inc.
The EzTaxon database contains sequences of type strains of prokaryotic species with validly published names. Although EzTaxon is mainly used for the routine identification of prokaryotic isolates, sequences from uncultured taxa were not included. Thus in 2012, EzTaxon was extended to include uncultured prokaryotes and the name of the database was changed to EzTaxon-e.
Naming convention
Taxa names included in EzTaxon-e represent groups of uncultured sequences found in public domain databases. The names included in EzTaxon-e have no standing in formal nomenclature but they were created to help in the comparison of microbial communities and diversity in nature.
New names found in EzTaxon-e are formed by adding special suffixes to Genbank sequence accession numbers of sequences (e.g. AB177171_s -> species of which the sequence entry AB177171 serves type; AB177171_g -> genus; AB177171_f -> family; AB177171_o -> order; AB177171_c -> class; AB177171_p -> phylum).
Well-known names have been preserved for historical reasons. SAR11, the famous marine inhabitant, is labeled as SAR11(order), and further divided into 4 families (SAR11-1_f to SAR11-4_f).
Based on 16S rRNA sequence phylogeny, some obviously misclassified species have been renamed using special suffixes. For example, Bacteroides pectinophilus is not an authentic member of the genus Bacteroides. However, it may represent a novel genus in the family Lachnospiraceae. Therefore, in the EzTaxon-e database, Bacteroides pectinophilus is placed under a tentatively named new genus Bacteroides_g1.
Sequences and tentative taxa that start with "4P" are products of the Roche 454 GS FLX Titanium system.
References
Biological databases
Microbiology
Prokaryotes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SORCER | The service-oriented computing environment (SORCER) is a distributed computing platform implemented in Java. It allows writing network-programs (called "exertions") that operate on wrapped applications (services) to spread across the network. SORCER is often utilized in scenarios similar to those where grids are used (grid computing) in order to run parallel tasks.
SORCER's predecessor was the federated intelligent product environment (FIPER), which was software for a GE aircraft-engine-design project funded from 1999 to 2003 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program. The project followed the principal investigator, and thus SORCER Labs was founded in November 2002 at Texas Tech University (TTU); SORCER core's source code was made public in 2013 under the open source Apache license. SORCER (and FIPER) were developed at GE from 1994 to 2002, at TTU through 2009, and since then at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). Other groups which have made use of SORCER include Beijing Jiaotong University in China, Cranfield University in the United Kingdom, and Ulyanovsk State University in Russia.
Overview
SORCER is a computing platform that allows the end user to program dynamic front-end compound services, called exertions, bound at runtime by the SORCER OS (SOS) to federations of service providers as new back-end dynamic services. The SOS utilizes the service object-orient architecture (SOOA) and a federated method invocation. The front-end services created by the end users are service collaborations of users' applications, tools, and utilities with their data and corresponding control strategies. The end users in understandable domain specific languages (DSL) define only their service-oriented process expressions and the SOS makes that process expressions actualized by the corresponding dynamic service federations in the network.
SORCER is a federated service-oriented platform with a front-end federated service-oriented programming environment, a matching operating system, and a federated virtual processor. The architecture of SORCER is based on the concept: Everything Anywhere Anytime As a Service (EaaaS). Therefore, the end user service requests (front-end expression) as well service providers (back-end federations) are treated as services. SORCER is the first platform that created front-end service-oriented mogramming (programming or modeling or both) as the key element of its federated service orientation. SORCER mograms are called exertions. The exertion-oriented programming has its roots in the FIPER project. An exertion as the front-end service composition defined by the user is bound by the SORCER OS (SOS) to service providers (local and/or remote) to form a matching collaborative service federation at runtime - a virtual service processor of the SORCER platform.
SORCER Operating System
The SORCER Operating System (SOS) manages execution of front-end service-oriented mograms a |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Web%20Apps | Azure Web Apps was the name for a cloud computing based platform for hosting websites, created and operated by Microsoft. It is a platform as a service (PaaS) which allows publishing Web apps running on multiple frameworks and written in different programming languages (.NET, node.js, PHP, Python and Java), including Microsoft proprietary ones and 3rd party ones. Microsoft Azure Web Sites became available in its first preview version in June 2012, and an official version ("General Availability") was announced in June 2013. Microsoft Azure Web Sites was originally named Windows Azure Web Sites, but was renamed as part of a re-branding move across Azure in March 2014. It was subsequently renamed "App Service" in March 2015.
History
Microsoft initially offered a basic web hosting service as part of Office Live Small Business, which was launched in late 2007. Office Live Small Business offered customers free and commercial web hosting with a built-in system for creating websites based on built-in templates and a site creation wizard.
When Microsoft started allocating resources into developing its numerous cloud solutions, a group was formed in Microsoft Azure to develop Microsoft Azure Web Sites. Microsoft Azure Web Sites was announced in June 2012 as a preview release.
In parallel, Microsoft developed Microsoft Azure Pack, which offers the same technology that can be installed as a private-cloud on sets of servers at a customer's site and under direct customer control.
In mid-2013, both Microsoft Azure Web Sites and Microsoft Azure Pack were officially released to the public.
Features
Microsoft Azure Web Sites is a web-hosting platform that supports multiple technologies, and programming languages (.NET, node.js, PHP, Python). Users with Microsoft Azure subscriptions can create Websites, and deploy content and code into the Web sites. Microsoft Azure Web Sites supports a website creation wizard which allows the user to create a blank site, or create a site based on one of several available pre-configured images from the website gallery.
As part of creating the website, the site's URL is assigned a subdomain of azurewebsites.net. In various for-pay tiers, a website can be assigned one or more custom domains. This is implemented by setting a CNAME record on the DNS server that hosts the user's domain's zone to point at the user's web site hosted in Azure. On some for-pay tiers, the user has the added option of uploading an SSL certificate and configuring the site to be bound to HTTPS.
Once a site has been created, the user can add or modify its content using multiple deployment methods, including Web Deploy (MSDeploy), TFS (via Visual Studio), FTP, FTPS, WebMatrix, CodePlex, GitHub, Dropbox, Bitbucket, Mercurial and local Git.
Other features of Azure Web Sites are:
User-selected placement in one or multiple data centers across the globe.
Uptime SLA of 99.95% for Standard tier customers.
Continuous monitoring of site metrics such as CPU ti |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CiNii | CiNii () is a bibliographic database service for material in Japanese academic libraries, especially focusing on Japanese works and English works published in Japan. An early trial version of the database was a component of its predecessor called GeNii, available online at least since June 2002.
A complete version of CiNii has been available since April 2005. The service searches from within the databases maintained by the NII itself (Citation Database for Japanese Publications, CJP), as well as the databases provided by the Japan Science and Technology Agency (J-STAGE), the National Diet Library of Japan, institutional repositories, and other organizations.
As of March 2020, the database contains more than 22 million articles from more than 3,600 publications. A typical month (in 2012) saw more than 30 million accesses from 2.2 million unique visitors, and is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind in Japan. Although the database is multidisciplinary, the largest portion of the queries it receives is in the humanities and social sciences field, perhaps because CiNii is the only database that covers Japanese scholarly works in this field (as opposed to the natural, formal, and medical sciences which benefit from other databases).
Database identifiers
The database assigns a unique identifier, NII Article ID (NAID), to each of its journal article entries. A different identifier, NII Citation ID (NCID or 書誌ID) aka NACSIS-CAT Record ID, is used for books.
NCID examples
for the 1951 Little, Brown edition and of The Catcher in the Rye
for the 2010 Penguin edition of The Catcher in the Rye
for a 1952 edition of Kiken na nenrei (), for a 1964 edition of Rai-mugi batake de tsukamaete (), and for a 2003 edition of Kyatchā in za rai (), all three being Japanese translations of The Catcher in the Rye
for a 1997 edition of Mai tian li de shou wang zhe (麦田里的守望者), a Chinese translation of The Catcher in the Rye.
Identifiers are also assigned to authors of books, and of journal articles, in two separate series (so an author may have a different identifier value in each). For example, Shinsaku Kimoto is DA00432173 for books and 9000002393144 for journal articles.
See also
J-STAGE
List of academic databases and search engines
References
External links
CiNii
CiNii in English
Bibliographic databases and indexes
Databases in Japan
Japanese studies
2005 establishments in Japan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20A.%20Doole%20Jr. | George Arntzen Doole Jr. (August 12, 1909, Quincy, Illinois – March 8, 1985, Washington, D.C.) was a former U.S. Army Air Corps officer and Pan-Am pilot who ran the CIA's proprietary airline network from 1953 to 1971.
Education
Doole graduated from the University of Illinois in 1931 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Career
Doole joined the U.S. Army in 1931, where he trained as a pilot in its US Army Air Corps. He became a pilot for Pan-Am in 1934, which included experience flying in Central America between Guatemala and Panama. He served again in the US Army Air Corps during World War II, returning to Pan-Am afterwards. In the late 1940s he left Pan-Am. As a colonel in the Air Force Reserve, Doole was called up for the Korean War in 1951, serving in the Middle East as chief of estimates for Air Force intelligence, serving under Charles P. Cabell, who Doole had known in the Air Corps in the 1930s.
In mid-1953 Doole transferred to the CIA, recruited by Cabell to oversee Civil Air Transport. Although never officially employed by the CIA, Doole was "a legend" in the CIA for his role in creating and managing the agency's proprietary airline network, organized under the Pacific Corporation from 1959. At its mid-1960s peak this included dozens of airlines, including Civil Air Transport and Southern Air Transport, and employed nearly 20,000 people - as many as the CIA itself, and operated around 200 aircraft. Doole so successfully obfuscated the ownership and control of companies and aircraft that even the CIA was unsure precisely how many were involved.
Doole formally retired in 1971, after newspaper investigations and Congressional hearings exposed the network, forcing the CIA to sell it off. Doole remained a director of Evergreen International Aviation, which acquired one of Doole's CIA companies, Intermountain Aviation, in 1975. Doole arranged the 1980 charter flight, on an Evergreen aircraft, which took the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, to Egypt.
References
1909 births
1985 deaths
People of the Central Intelligence Agency
Harvard Business School alumni
United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II
University of Illinois alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20follow-up | In statistics, median follow-up is the median time between a specified event and the time when data on outcomes are gathered. The concept is used in cancer survival analyses.
Many cancer studies aim to assess the time between two events of interest, such as from treatment to remission, treatment to relapse, or diagnosis to death. This duration is generically called survival time, even if the end point is not death.
Time-to-event studies must have sufficiently long follow-up durations to capture enough events to reveal meaningful patterns in the data. A short follow-up duration is appropriate for studying very severe cancers with poor prognoses, whereas a long follow-up duration is better suited to studying less-severe disease, or participants with good prognoses.
Median follow-up time is included in about half the survival analyses published in cancer journals, but of those, only 31% specify the method used to compute it.
References
Biostatistics |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013%20Singapore%20cyberattacks | The 2013 Singapore cyberattacks were a series of cyberattacks initiated by the hacktivist organisation Anonymous, conducted partly in response to web censorship regulations in Singapore. A member of Anonymous, known by the online handle "The Messiah", claimed responsibility for spearheading the attacks. On 12 November 2013, James Raj was charged in a Singapore court as the alleged "Messiah".
Background
On 1 June 2013, a set of web censorship regulations drafted by the Media Development Authority became effective in Singapore. Under the new rules, websites with at least 50,000 unique visitors from Singapore every month that publish at least one local news article per week over a period of two months ... will have to remove 'prohibited content' such as articles that undermine 'racial or religious harmony' within 24 hours of being notified by Singapore's media regulator. In response to concerns regarding the new rules, government officials responded that they "do not impinge on internet freedom".
Incidents
On 17 October 2013, the attacks began with the People's Action Party's Community Foundation's webpage being hacked, followed by the official website of the Ang Mo Kio Town Council on 28 October 2013. Site administrators locked the site thereafter and a police report was made.
Two days later, a purported member of Anonymous uploaded a four-minute-long video on YouTube, in which he, wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, threatened to "bring down key infrastructure in Singapore". He also urged Singaporeans to don red and black on 5 November as well as black out their Facebook profile pictures. In the video, he made reference to The Messiah, who he called "one of [Anonymous'] comrades".
The Straits Times news reporter Irene Tham posted a critique of the video on her newspaper blog. In retaliation, the Messiah defaced the blog, its title being changed to "Dear ST [Straits Times]: You just got hacked for misleading the people!". The Messiah edited the article to state that Tham had misconstrued his speech, "conveniently modifying the sentence 'war against the Singapore government' into 'war against Singapore'." He also urged Tham to either apologise within two days or resign from her job as a result of her "blasphemous lies".
Later on, in an email to Yahoo Singapore, The Messiah said we reached out to our comrades from other fractions [sic] who together with us performed DNS poisoning on the .gov.sg sites, taking them down for a period of time. But there must have also been some patching that was done as some of our favourite point of entries into their networks seemed to be fixed.
On 3 November, the website of the Seletar Airport was hacked. Its webpage replaced with a black and green background with an image in the middle resembling a skull wearing a hood. The site resumed normal operations 30 minutes after the hack was first noticed.
On 5 November, the Twitter and YouTube accounts of Singaporean entertainer Ridhwan Azman were hacked. According to posts f |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern%20language%20%28formal%20languages%29 | In theoretical computer science, a pattern language is a formal language that can be defined as the set of all particular instances of a string of constants and variables. Pattern Languages were introduced by Dana Angluin in the context of machine learning.
Definition
Given a finite set Σ of constant symbols and a countable set X of variable symbols disjoint from Σ, a pattern is a finite non-empty string of symbols from Σ∪X.
The length of a pattern p, denoted by |p|, is just the number of its symbols.
The set of all patterns containing exactly n distinct variables (each of which may occur several times) is denoted by Pn, the set of all patterns at all by P*.
A substitution is a mapping f: P* → P* such that
f is a homomorphism with respect to string concatenation (⋅), formally: ∀p,q∈P*. f(p⋅q) = f(p)⋅f(q);
f is non-erasing, formally: ∀p∈P*. f(p) ≠ ε, where ε denotes the empty string; and
f respects constants, formally: ∀s∈Σ. f(s) = s.
If p = f(q) for some patterns p, q ∈ P* and some substitution f, then p is said to be less general than q, written p≤q;
in that case, necessarily |p| ≥ |q| holds.
For a pattern p, its language is defined as the set of all less general patterns that are built from constants only, formally: L(p) = { s ∈ Σ+ : s ≤ p }, where Σ+ denotes the set of all finite non-empty strings of symbols from Σ.
For example, using the constants Σ = { 0, 1 } and the variables X = { x, y, z, ... }, the pattern 0x10xx1 ∈P1 and xxy ∈P2 has length 7 and 3, respectively.
An instance of the former pattern is 00z100z0z1 and 01z101z1z1, it is obtained by the substitution that maps x to 0z and to 1z, respectively, and each other symbol to itself. Both 00z100z0z1 and 01z101z1z1 are also instances of xxy. In fact, L(0x10xx1) is a subset of L(xxy). The language of the pattern x0 and x1 is the set of all bit strings which denote an even and odd binary number, respectively. The language of xx is the set of all strings obtainable by concatenating a bit string with itself, e.g. 00, 11, 0101, 1010, 11101110 ∈ L(xx).
Properties
The problem of deciding whether s ∈ L(p) for an arbitrary string s ∈ Σ+ and pattern p is NP-complete (see picture),
and so is hence the problem of deciding p ≤ q for arbitrary patterns p, q.
The class of pattern languages is not closed under ...
union: e.g. for Σ = {0,1} as above, L(01)∪L(10) is not a pattern language;
complement: Σ+ \ L(0) is not a pattern language;
intersection: L(x0y)∩L(x1y) is not a pattern language;
Kleene plus: L(0)+ is not a pattern language;
homomorphism: f(L(x)) = L(0)+ is not a pattern language, assuming f(0) = 0 = f(1);
inverse homomorphism: f−1(111) = { 01, 10, 000 } is not a pattern language, assuming f(0) = 1 and f(1) = 11.
The class of pattern languages is closed under ...
concatenation: L(p)⋅L(q) = L(p⋅q);
reversal: L(p)rev = L(prev).
If p, q ∈ P1 are patterns containing exactly one variable, then p ≤ q if and only if L(p) ⊆ L(q);
the same equivalence holds for patterns of equal leng |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%27s%20model | Price's model (named after the physicist Derek J. de Solla Price) is a mathematical model for the growth of citation networks. It was the first model which generalized the Simon model to be used for networks, especially for growing networks. Price's model belongs to the broader class of network growing models (together with the Barabási–Albert model) whose primary target is to explain the origination of networks with strongly skewed degree distributions. The model picked up the ideas of the Simon model reflecting the concept of rich get richer, also known as the Matthew effect. Price took the example of a network of citations between scientific papers and expressed its properties. His idea was that the way an old vertex (existing paper) gets new edges (new citations) should be proportional to the number of existing edges (existing citations) the vertex already has. This was referred to as cumulative advantage, now also known as preferential attachment. Price's work is also significant in providing the first known example of a scale-free network (although this term was introduced later). His ideas were used to describe many real-world networks such as the Web.
The model
Basics
Considering a directed graph with n nodes. Let denote the fraction of nodes with degree k so that . Each new node has a given out-degree (namely those papers it cites) and it is fixed in the long run. This does not mean that the out-degrees can not vary across nodes, simply we assume that the mean out-degree m is fixed over time. It is clear, that , consequently m is not restricted to integers. The most trivial form of preferential attachment means that a new node connects to an existing node proportionally to its in-degrees. In other words, a new paper cites an existing paper in proportional to its in-degrees. The caveat of such idea is that no new paper is cited when it is joined to the network so it is going to have zero probability of being cited in the future (which necessarily is not how it happens). To overcome this, Price proposed that an attachment should be proportional to some with constant. In general can be arbitrary, yet Price proposes a , in that way an initial citation is associated with the paper itself (so the proportionality factor is now k + 1 instead of k). The probability of a new edge connecting to any node with a degree k is
Evolution of the network
The next question is the net change in the number of nodes with degree k when we add new nodes to the network. Naturally, this number is decreasing, as some k-degree nodes have new edges, hence becoming (k + 1)-degree nodes; but on the other hand this number is also increasing, as some (k − 1)-degree nodes might get new edges, becoming k degree nodes. To express this net change formally, let us denote the fraction of k-degree nodes at a network of n vertices with :
and
To obtain a stationary solution for , first let us express using the well-known master equation method, as
After some |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist%20Unity%20Network | The Socialist Unity Network was a small network of the far-left in the United Kingdom which was not affiliated with any single political party. It grew out of the Socialist Alliance (SA) in England, and was initiated by several non-aligned members of the SA executive in March 2004.
Members of the network were supporters of Respect – The Unity Coalition and other left electoral initiatives including the Green Party. The main aspect of the network was its now defunct website, which had regularly updated articles from a wide range of socialist perspectives on issues including the possibilities of creating socialist unity.
History
The network was formed in March 2004 by several non-aligned members of the Socialist Alliance in England, and grew to include left-wing activists from a range of political parties and campaigning organisations, and those with no party affiliation. It was centrally involved in the debates around the winding down of the Socialist Alliance and the formation of Respect. It produced its own leaflets on occasions and in the 2005 General Election some members of the network stood as "Socialist Unity" candidates, providing a banner under which independent socialists could choose to stand, as part of the Socialist Green Unity Coalition, a coalition with the Socialist Party.
Socialist Unity candidates stood again in the 2006 council elections, gaining over 5% of the vote in Swindon, and over 10% in Hackney. The network also produced a 2005 election guide with Red Pepper magazine.
Leading members included Jim Jepps (later a Green Party activist), Declan O'Neill, Andy Newman (later a Labour Party member), Matthew Caygill, John Nicholson, Martin Wicks (of Swindon Trades Council), Pete Green, Nick Bird, Salman Shaheen (journalist, and co-editor of Third Estate blog), Reuben Rosenberg (journalist, and co-editor of Third Estate blog) and Tawfiq Chahboune.
Core beliefs
The "who we are" section on the socialist unity network webpage stated:
The Socialist Unity Network originated in the Socialist Alliance. It is not a political group conceived to add to the competition between the many socialist organisations which already exist. It is a network of activists which campaigns for the widest practical collaboration of left groups and movements resisting the attacks of the Blair government.
In England the left has failed to make the break with the sectarian legacy that has dogged the "far left" for so long. Such divisions undermine our ability to build a fightback against the Blair government.
The Socialist Unity Network therefore believes that, in the interests of building resistance and striving to create the conditions in which a socialist alternative to New Labour can emerge, it is necessary to strive to develop collaborative methods of working as widely as possible. This is similar to the process that led to the formation of the SSP in Scotland, which was the result of a number of years of common work and discussion which enabled p |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rackmount%20KVM | A KVM is a computer input/output device offering the combination of a keyboard, video monitor and mouse (pointing device). They are typically constructed to fit into a 19-inch rack although there are manufacturers who offer a KVM that can be mounted to a flat surface such as a control console.
Etymology
KVMs did not exist until the advent of the LCD computer monitor. Prior to the introduction of the KVM, there existed rack-mounted CRT monitors and separate rack-mounted keyboards and mice. With the introduction of the LCD computer monitor, it became possible to combine the display with the keyboard and pointing device into a 1U, 2U or 3U rackmount form factor to create the KVM.
Ibus, a now defunct computer company, secured patent US5388032, filed May 4, 1993, showing a KVM with a "discriminator" to connect to multiple computers. The "discriminator" is now known as a KVM switch.
Designs
There are two basic designs for KVMs: clamshell and lay-flat.
A Clamshell design hinges the display at the rear so that it folds forward over the keyboard for storage. The advantage to this design is shorter installed depth. The disadvantage is the 1U thickness of the assembly limits the available height for the keyboard and track-ball (if installed). Some KVMs have been designed to fit into 2U to allow a larger track-ball and full-travel keyboard to be installed.
A Lay-flat design hinges the display at the front edge of the display so that the display folds back. The advantage to this design is the full 1U height can be used for keyboard and track-ball height. The disadvantage is a much greater installed depth.
A design variation provides for a slim profile keyboard mounted in independent slides under the display and the display is hinged and mounted at the front of the unit. This allows the display to be deployed with the keyboard stowed so it does not protrude into aisle space. The display, when tilted upright, may only protrude an inch or so, effectively flush with the front of the rack. The keyboard can then be pulled out, used, and pushed back into the rack. These units still fit within 1U with a short installed depth. The disadvantage in this design is typically a laptop style keyboard will be used with limited keystroke.
Signals
Input signals can be anything supported by the installed LCD controller and includes, but is not limited to, VGA, DVI-D, DVI-I, HDMI, Display Port, Video (Composite, HD-SDI) and so forth.
The form factor will also support non-traditional video and keyboard/mouse signals such as KVM over IP, depending on the installed control circuitry.
Output from the keyboard and pointing device can be either PS/2 or USB, or both, or can be routed through KVM over IP or similar technology.
LCD size limitation
Due to width limitations of a 19-inch rack (approximately 17.75" between the inside rails), the largest LCD to be incorporated into a KVM was 20.1" with a 3:4 aspect ratio. A wide-format 16:9 or 16:10 20.1" display is too |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo%20Petta | Paolo Petta is an Italian computer and cognitive scientist who is the head of the Intelligent Software Agents and New Media Research Group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. His main research areas include cognitive modelling of emotions, human aspects in interactions with artificial systems and coordination of situated cognitive systems.
Biography
Paolo Petta earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science (specialisation: Artificial Intelligence) from the Vienna University of Technology (Technische Universität Wien) in 1994. Since 1996, he is the head of the Intelligent Agents and New Media group at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) in Vienna, Austria. Since 1989 he has been teaching at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Technology, and the Medical University of Vienna on selected topics of Artificial Intelligence, Agent-based Technologies and Cognitive Science.
Publications
1997. Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors, Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
2003. Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, Cambridge: MIT Press.
2008. Intelligent Information Agents: The AgentLink Perspective, Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
2011. Emotion-Oriented Systems: The Humaine Handbook, Springer, Heidelberg/Dordrecht/London/New York, 2011.
References
Italian cognitive scientists
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Italian computer scientists
TU Wien alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt%20Adaptive%20Concentration%20Test | The Frankfurt Adaptive Concentration Test (FACT-2) is a computer-based testing method for determining the individual concentration capacity by means of discrimination tasks. The proband has to discriminate continually between geometric target and nontarget items as accurately and quickly as possible. Both, target items as well as non-target items require a specific reaction button. Thus a directed attention is required for all items.
The first edition of the test was introduced in 1997 by Moosbrugger and Heyden, the second edition 2005 by Moosbrugger and Goldhammer, each at Goethe University Frankfurt.
Discrimination items
There are four types of items, the so-called "Frankfurt Discrimination Items": Circle or square, each with two or three points in the middle. Each type is composed of two items that differ in the arrangement of dots.
The items "circle with 3 points" and "square with 2 points" are defined as targets, the items "circle with 2 points" and "square with 3 points" are defined as non-targets. Thus, there are thus two stimulus dimensions, namely, the geometric shape and the number of points . The third dimension, the arrangement of points, is irrelevant to the discrimination task.
Target items require to press the key "1" and non-target items require the key "0".
Test versions
There are three versions of the test:
FACT-I: only one item is displayed on the screen, immediate discrimination, adaptability of the rate (high stress)
FACT-S : simultaneously 10 items in a row, discrimination from left to right one by one, adaptability of the rate (average stress)
FACT-SR: simultaneously 10 items in a row, discrimination from left to right one by one, no adaptivity of the rate, response times for the discrimination are measured (low stress)
The adaptivity of the rate means that the duration, how long the screen content with one or more items are displayed, is varied by an algorithm until it matches the individual capacity of the test subject. The rate is the higher, the better the power of concentration.
Test duration
For each test version different durations can be selected:
Adaptive duration: the test ends as soon as the measurement reaches an accuracy criterion (at least 2 minutes at most 6 minutes)
Fixed duration: 6 minutes (standard test time), 12, 18, 24 or 30 minutes can be selected
Evaluation
The test examines the extent to which the subject is able to focus its attention over a long period of time to certain stimuli or activities. These are continuous selection, coordination and control of action patterns using voluntary effort.
The FACT-2 covers the following aspects:
Power of concentration (work rate)
Accuracy of concentration (relative correctness)
Homogeneity of concentration (uniformity of work rate)
The results are calculated for the adaptive test time and for any 6-minute section. Standard values are available for the interpretation.
References
Helfried Moosbrugger & Frank Goldhammer: FACT-2. Fra |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellerstein | Hellerstein is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Alvin Hellerstein (born 1933), American judge
Joseph M. Hellerstein (born 1968), American computer scientist
Judith K. Hellerstein, American economist
Kathryn Hellerstein (born 1952), American academic
Lynn Hellerstein, American optometrist, speaker, and author |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied%20Artificial%20Intelligence | Applied Artificial Intelligence is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering applications of artificial intelligence in management, industry, engineering, administration, and education, as well as evaluations of existing AI systems and tools and their economic, social, and cultural impact.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
External links
Computer science journals
Artificial intelligence publications
Taylor & Francis academic journals
English-language journals
Academic journals established in 1987 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston%20Beauty | Houston Beauty is an American reality television series that airs on the Oprah Winfrey Network and premiered on November 2, 2013. It chronicles the lives of Glenda "Ms. J" Jemison, the owner and director of Franklin Beauty School, and also encompasses some of the hardships the students face outside of the classroom plus the drama that occurs between them. Franklin Beauty School is the oldest continuously operated licensed beauty school in Texas.
Cast
Glenda "Ms. J" Jemison
Ms. Eley
Ms. Burns
Mia Ryan
Neil Cain
Queensley Felix
Corey Ford
Grace
Jessica
Blair
Shamika
Mia C
Episodes
References
External links
2010s American reality television series
2013 American television series debuts
English-language television shows
Oprah Winfrey Network original programming
2013 American television series endings |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq%20Sun | The Iraq Sun is an online newspaper servicing in Iraq. Its September 2002 origins preceded the 2003 invasion.
The online publication is part of a network of news sites operating around the globe.
The online site's slogan is “the voice of the Iraqi Nation.” The main topic is Iraq, with a particular focus on events in Baghdad and other major cities, as well as international news and coverage of other topics including Muslim news.
Iraq Sun is administered by global media group Midwest Radio Network, which is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with offices in the United Arab Emirates. The group's digital platform is described as a network of eNewspapers - modeled on newspaper-type names and layout. Domain names were registered in 2002 with sites being rolled out from 2003. The network has approximately 135 sites.
The publication provides RSS feeds, daily email bulletins and facilitates news release publishing.
The Iraq Sun online newspaper is unrelated to a Dearborn Heights, Michigan conventional newspaper which began publishing in 2005 by Iraq Media Inc. to serve Iraqi and Arab people living in Detroit, Southfield, Michigan, Oak Park, Michigan, Sterling Heights, Michigan, Farmington, Michigan, Dearborn, Michigan, Dearborn Heights, Michigan, Westland, Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Inkster, Michigan, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and San Diego, California. Now defunct, the former newspaper was a 24-page bi-weekly free newspaper, supported solely by advertising. It printed 15,000 to 20,000 copies each issue and was edited by Emad Al-kasid.
References
External links
2002 establishments in Australia
Newspapers established in 2002
Asian news websites
Arab mass media
English-language newspapers published in Asia
Electronic publishing |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterix%20and%20the%20Magic%20Carpet%20%28video%20game%29 | Asterix and the Magic Carpet is a computer game for the Amstrad CPC, Thomson TO8, Commodore 64, Amiga, and Atari ST home computers and for PCs running MS-DOS. The game is based on the eponymous volume 28 of the popular French Asterix comic books and was released in 1987.
Gameplay
Asterix and the Magic Carpet starts as a graphical adventure game where the player chooses a character on the screen with a cursor and selects what he should say, which then influences how the rest of the game plays out. Occasionally, there a Pac-Man-like mini arcade games where Asterix has to defeat legionnaires, wild boars, or other enemies in a maze with the help of Obelix who oscillates back and forth in a fixed section of the maze. The general approach is to catch an enemy's attention, then run away and hide behind Obelix, who will hopefully defeat the enemy.
External links
Hardcore Gaming 101: Astérix video games—Astérix chez Rahàzade
1987 video games
Amstrad CPC games
Amiga games
Atari ST games
Commodore 64 games
Coktel Vision games
DOS games
Video games based on Arabian mythology
Video games based on Asterix
Video games developed in France
Single-player video games |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarify%20Op3nvoice | Clarify (Formerly known as Op3nvoice) is a conversation intelligence platform that synthesizes all 3 forms of dialogue (audio, written and video) so that this data can be used to improve compliance, productivity, and intelligence applications.
Clarify enables customers to monitor audio, video and text conversations across channels including fixed lines, mobile and Skype and search to locate conversation data quickly.
The Clarify platform offers APIs that make voice and video data searchable by translating its audio to text. The software is targeted at developers and businesses wishing to turn any unstructured audio data (recordings of meetings, for instance, or audio books, phone calls, conferences, interviews, and so on) into data their business can analyse and act upon.
API
Clarify.io API, SDKs and plugins enable anyone to extract data from video and voice recordings. The API was released in October 2014 and is in use by disruptors, innovators and some of the world's largest institutions.
History
Paul Murphy, Clarify CEO and founder said the idea came out of another business that he founded in 2011, called CallTrunk. That was a phone call recording platform for consumers. While users liked the service they complained they couldn’t find their call recordings — so the idea for building an audio search was born. (See ARGO Search)
Reach
Rather than build products and apps itself Clarify integrates its software into existing platforms, and can already be seen in action on educational video platforms like Mobento.
Mobento was the first platform that made Clarify realize it could utilize its ARGOsearch technology on video as well as pure audio files.
References
External links
OP3Nvoice Official Website
ARGOsearch Official Website
Telephony
Software companies of the United Kingdom |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%20Pad%20LTE | The LG Optimus Pad LTE is a tablet computer developed by LG Electronics as a direct successor to the original LG Optimus Pad released in South Korea in January 2012. The LG Optimus Pad LTE was planned to be released worldwide but was cancelled due to its lackluster sales in its domestic market and mixed-to-negative reception towards the device leaving LG to withdraw in the tablet making for a brief period in the world market before the release of its successor the LG G Pad 8.3.
Features
The LG Optimus Pad LTE has a 2MP front-facing camera and a 8MP rear-facing camera. Like its predecessor, it features an 8.9-inch touchscreen that includes Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 and is powered by a 6800 mAh Li-Ion which runs on a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm dual-core chipset and Android 3.2 Honeycomb with Optimus UI . And may upgradable to Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean with CyanogenMod and Optimus UI
See also
LG Optimus Pad The predecessor to the LG Optimus Pad LTE
LG G Pad 8.3 The successor to the LG Optimus Pad LTE
References
Optimus Pad LTE
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Tablet computers introduced in 2012 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg%20Bryant | Greg or Gregory Bryant may refer to:
Greg Bryant (computer scientist), American computer scientist
Greg Bryant (astronomer), namesake of 9984 Gregbryant
Greg Bryant (American football), see 2012 USA Today All-USA high school football team
Gregory R. Bryant (born 1950), United States Navy admiral |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.%20S.%20Manisundaram | P. S. Manisundaram (December 9, 1927 – October 26, 2013) was an Indian educationist and pioneer of computer science education.
Early life and education
He was born in Mandalay, Myanmar (Burma). He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai (Madras), Tamil Nadu, India. He did a master's degree in civil engineering at Nova Scotia University, Canada, in 1958.
Career
After completing master's degree studies in civil engineering at Nova Scotia University, Canada, in 1958, he returned to Tamil Nadu and started his career as a lecturer at Alagappa Chettiar College of Engineering and Technology, Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu. He was the first principal of the Regional Engineering College (currently the National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli), Tamil Nadu. He became the first vice chancellor of the Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, when the university was created in 1982. Manisundaram was associated with many universities and educational institutions in India and around the world. He was conferred Doctor of Engineering (Honoris Causa) by Dalhousie University (Formerly Technical University of Nova Scotia), Halifax, Canada in 1984. He died in Chennai, India, on October 26, 2013.
References
1927 births
2013 deaths
Indian expatriates in Myanmar
Indian educators
Academic staff of National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
Loyola College, Chennai alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOKP | AOKP, short for Android Open Kang Project, is an open-source replacement distribution for smartphones and tablet computers based on the Android mobile operating system. The name is a play on the word kang (slang for stolen code) and AOSP (Android Open Source Project). The name was a joke, but it stuck. It was started as free and open-source software by Roman Birg based on the official releases of Android Open Source Project by Google, with added original and third-party code, features, and control.
Although only a portion of the total AOKP users elect to report their use of the firmware, as of September 2013, it is used by more than 3.5 million devices around the world.
Features
AOKP allows users to change many aspects of the OS including its appearance and its functions. It allows customizations normally not permitted by the factory firmware.
LED control: The color and pulsing of the notification LED can be custom set for various applications.
Navigation ring: Actions can be assigned to the navigation ring, to allow for quicker access applications.
Ribbon: Allows users to use swipe gestures anywhere and enables a system-wide custom application shortcuts and actions.
Vibration patterns: Users can build custom vibration patterns to be assigned to notifications from certain applications or calls from certain people.
Native theme support: Themes, downloaded from the Google Play Store or from other sources, can be applied to give a modified appearance to the device interface. AOKP now features Substratum support.
Customization of the hardware and software buttons, including track skip/flashlight while the screen is off, PIE control and the ROM's unique Fling navigation system
UI control, including colour strokes and background blue
Status bar customization, such as battery icon stylization and network activity
Power menu customization
Notification and quick settings configurations, such as how many toggles are displayed on the quick settings header at a time
Release versions
AOKP builds/releases are provided on a milestone and nightly schedule:
Milestones: Most stable builds which are usually released once a month. However, milestone builds have not been released for several years and the AOKP team appears to just release nightlies as of Nougat builds.
Nightlies: Automatic builds every 3 days with the latest code committed but may contain bugs
To be notified of new releases, users can get the AOKPush application that uses the Google Cloud Messaging (GCM) service provided by Google to immediately receive push notifications when a build is complete and ready to download. With AOKPush, users also get the available test builds and random messages from the developer team. GCM is integrated into the Android framework so the application does not wake up the device periodically to fetch data nor use extra battery. There are also devices that would rely on AOKP to get latest android update.
Firmware history and development
Not long after the |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergeable%20heap | In computer science, a mergeable heap (also called a meldable heap) is an abstract data type, which is a heap supporting a merge operation.
Definition
A mergeable heap supports the usual heap operations:
Make-Heap(), create an empty heap.
Insert(H,x), insert an element x into the heap H.
Min(H), return the minimum element, or Nil if no such element exists.
Extract-Min(H), extract and return the minimum element, or Nil if no such element exists.
And one more that distinguishes it:
Merge(H1,H2), combine the elements of H1 and H2 into a single heap.
Trivial implementation
It is straightforward to implement a mergeable heap given a simple heap:
Merge(H1,H2):
x ← Extract-Min(H2)
while x ≠ Nil
Insert(H1, x)
x ← Extract-Min(H2)
This can however be wasteful as each Extract-Min(H) and Insert(H,x) typically have to maintain the heap property.
More efficient implementations
Examples of mergeable heap data structures include:
Binomial heap
Fibonacci heap
Leftist tree
Pairing heap
Skew heap
A more complete list with performance comparisons can be found at .
In most mergeable heap structures, merging is the fundamental operation on which others are based. Insertion is implemented by merging a new single-element heap with the existing heap. Deletion is implemented by merging the children of the deleted node.
See also
Addressable heap
References
Heaps (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressable%20heap | In computer science, an addressable heap is an abstract data type. Specifically, it is a mergeable heap supporting access to the elements of the heap via handles (also called references). It allows the key of the element referenced by a particular handle to be removed or decreased.
Definition
An addressable heap supports the following operations:
Make-Heap(), creating an empty heap.
Insert(H,x), inserting an element x into the heap H, and returning a handle to it.
Min(H), returning a handle to the minimum element, or Nil if no such element exists.
Extract-Min(H), extracting and returning a handle to the minimum element, or Nil if no such element exists.
Remove(h), removing the element referenced by h (from its respective heap).
Decrease-Key(h,k), decreasing the key of the element referenced by h to k; illegal if k is larger than the key referenced by h.
Merge(H1,H2), combining the elements of H1 and H2.
Examples
Examples of addressable heaps include:
Fibonacci heaps
Binomial heaps
A more complete list with performance comparisons can be found here.
References
Heaps (data structures) |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koichi%20Sasada | Koichi Sasada is a Japanese computer scientist and a Ruby core committer. Formerly a member of Matz's team at Heroku, he will continue development on the Ruby interpreter. He was also an assistant professor at the University of Tokyo from 2008 to 2012. He was responsible for the development of YARV.
References
Japanese computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic staff of the University of Tokyo |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20C.%20Dittman | Kevin C. Dittman (born ca. 1960) is an American computer scientist, IT consultant and Professor of Information Technology at the Purdue University, especially known for his textbook Systems analysis and design methods written with Lonnie D. Bentley and Jeffrey L. Whitten, which is in its 7th edition.
Dittman received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue University in 1981 and his MA in Management Information Systems from the Florida Institute of Technology. He started his career in industry as programmer and analyst at an engineering company in 1981. From 1982 to 1985 he was systems analyst at a machine industry company. In 1985 he started at Lockheed Martin, where from 1985 to 1995 he was systems engineer, and from 1995 to 2011 consultant in the fields of Information Technology, Systems Engineering, Quality management, Process Management, and Project Management. In 1995 Dittman was appointed Professor of Information Technology at the Purdue University.
Selected publications
Books, a selection:
Bentley, Lonnie D., Kevin C. Dittman, and Jeffrey L. Whitten. Systems analysis and design methods. (1986, 1997, 2004).
Whitten, Jeffery L., Lonnie D. Bentley, and Kevin C. Dittman. Fundamentals of systems analysis and design methods. (2004).
Brewer, Jeffrey L., and Kevin C. Dittman. Methods of IT project management. Purdue University Press, 2013.
References
External links
Kevin C. Dittman at Purdue University Press
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American computer scientists
Information systems researchers
Systems engineers
Purdue University alumni
Purdue University faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Florida Institute of Technology alumni |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adarna%20%28TV%20series%29 | Adarna is a Philippine television drama fantasy series broadcast by GMA Network. The series is loosely based on the Philippine epic Ibong Adarna. Directed by Ricky Davao, it stars Kylie Padilla in the title role. It premiered on November 18, 2013 on the network's Telebabad line up replacing Kahit Nasaan Ka Man. The series concluded on March 7, 2014 with a total of 80 episodes. It was replaced by Kambal Sirena in its timeslot.
The series is streaming online on YouTube.
Premise
Ada is prophesied to be the most powerful healer in Pugad Sanghaya. As she discovers the path towards fulfilling her fate, she meets three men - Migo, Bok and Falco.
Cast and characters
Lead cast
Kylie Padilla as Ada / Angel
Supporting cast
Geoff Eigenmann as Migo "Miggy" Salva
Benjamin Alves as Bok / Agalon
Mikael Daez as Falco
Jean Garcia as Larka / Lupe
Michelle Madrigal as Garuda
Ryza Cenon as Mikay
Chynna Ortaleza as Janelle
Saab Magalona as Robin Abrientos
Maureen Larrazabal as Jinky
Jestoni Alarcon as Simon
Dante Rivero as Uwakro
Guest cast
Neil Ryan Sese as Kestrel
Anica Tindoy as young Ada
Josh Clement Eugenio as young Miggy
Frances Makil-Ignacio as Teray
Kris Bernal as Berbola
Solenn Heussaff as Daiana
Katrina Halili as Theresa
Isay Alvarez as Annaliza Salva
Arkin Magalona as Mikel
Patricia Ysmael as Wendy
Marc Acueza as Leon
Mike "Pekto" Nacua as Hugho
Timmy Cruz as Calisay
Dianne Hernandez as Maya
Carme Sanchez as Ima Pepita
Angie Ferro as Uraculo
JC Tiuseco as Heron
Daniella Amable as Migo's niece
Miko Zarasadias as Migo's nephew
Buboy Villar as Jerry
RJ Padilla as Rocco
Roldan Aquino as Gregorio Abrientos
Diva Montelaba as Raya
Ratings
According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Mega Manila household television ratings, the pilot episode of Adarna earned an 18.5% rating. While the final episode scored a 20.8% rating.
References
External links
Ibong Adarna
2013 Philippine television series debuts
2014 Philippine television series endings
Filipino-language television shows
GMA Network drama series
Philippine fantasy television series
Television shows set in the Philippines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verdigris%20Technologies | Verdigris Technologies (Verdigris) is an artificial intelligence technology start-up founded in 2011 by Mark Chung, Thomas Chung and Jonathan Chu. The company is headquartered in the NASA Ames Research Center located in Silicon Valley in California.
Verdigris is an AI-powered, IIoT cleantech platform for energy management in commercial and industrial smart buildings. Verdigris' technology uses proprietary hardware, AI, and software to measure building operations and enable energy savings. In 2017, Fast Company named Verdigris one of the world's 10 Most Innovative Companies in Energy.
Based on the concepts of Nonintrusive load monitoring, the Verdigris energy platform monitors every electrical device in a building by monitoring the electrical feeds coming off of the building's circuit panel. Verdigris provides data, actionable insights, and automation to help commercial facilities managers increase the energy efficiency of their buildings. Areas that Verdigris works to impact include: reducing power usage during peak hours; identifying motor problems that could be using excess energy; and detecting equipment faults before they occur.
Verdigris' customers include hotels, corporate offices, agriculture and food producers, and manufacturers. Early customers included the City of San Jose, Autodesk, and Netflix. Verdigris has over 500 systems deployed in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. Notable current customers include Jabil Circuit, Vention Medical, The W Hotel San Francisco (Starwood Hotels), The Orchard Hotel in San Francisco, and The Marriott Marquis in Washington, DC.
Verdigris has raised about $15 million in venture funding. Verdigris raised $6.7 million in an October 2016 venture capital round that was led by contract manufacturer Jabil and Verizon Ventures.
Product Versions
The most recent (5th generation) version of the Verdigris energy platform, Einstein, was formally launched on August 30, 2016, with a live demo at the Jabil Blue Sky Center in San Jose, California. According to Engineering.com, “Verdigris claims that Einstein differs from their previous hardware because it is more straightforward to install, and it has an integrated cellular radio. Previous equipment from the company required an attachment to an external data connectivity system.”
Services
“We provide analytics and workflow automation to 24/7 facilities teams to improve operational efficiency, reduce equipment downtime, and save on energy, delivered as a SaaS,” said co-founder Thomas Chung to TechCrunch in March 2016.
Verdigris smart sensors clamp onto electrical circuits to track a building's energy consumption and send the data securely over Wi-Fi or Verizon 4G/LTE to the cloud. Its sensors take hundreds of millions more data points than utility smart meters—every hour. This enables Verdigris AI technology and algorithms to “learn” a building's equipment over time.
Verdigris claims its sensors take hundreds of millions more data |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinic | Dinic may refer to:
Dinić, a surname
Dinič, a surname
DiNic, a surname
Dinic's algorithm |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dishfire | Dishfire (stylised DISHFIRE) is a covert global surveillance collection system and database run by the United States of America's National Security Agency (NSA) and the United Kingdom's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) that collects hundreds of millions of text messages on a daily basis from around the world. A related analytic tool is known as Prefer.
Details
The database is operated by the following agencies:
United States of America – National Security Agency (NSA)
United Kingdom – Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)
The existence of the database was revealed in 2014 based on documents disclosed by whistleblower Edward Snowden. According to Snowden's documents, Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has been given full access to the Dishfire database, which the agency uses to obtain personal information of Britons by exploiting a legal loophole.
Scope of surveillance
Each day, Dishfire collects the following amounts of data:
Geolocation data of more than 76,000 text messages and other travel information
Over 110,000 names, gathered from electronic business cards
Over 800,000 financial transactions that are either gathered from text-to-text payments or from linking credit cards to phone users
Details of 1.6 million border crossings based on the interception of network roaming alerts
Over 5 million missed call alerts
About 200 million text messages from around the world
The press highlighted some quotes from the internal presentations highlighting the intent of this operation: one leaked GCHQ document said that DISHFIRE “collects pretty much everything it can, so you can see SMS from a selector which is not targeted.” The bulk collection was therefore suggested in this document as “particularly useful for the development of new targets, since it is possible to examine the content of messages sent months or even years before the target was known to be of interest.” (emphasis in original)
In response, a spokeswoman of the NSA describes the database as follows: "Dishfire is a system that processes and stores lawfully collected SMS data. Because some SMS data of US persons may at times be incidentally collected in NSA’s lawful foreign intelligence mission, privacy protections for US persons exist across the entire process concerning the use, handling, retention and dissemination of SMS data in Dishfire."
Data processing
Dishfire is typically exploited with an analytical tool known as the Prefer program (stylised PREFER), which processes SMS messages to extract information including contacts from missed call alerts, location from roaming and travel alerts, financial information from bank alerts and payments, and names from electronic business cards.
Reactions
A Vodafone representative declared in the breaking news story on Channel 4 that “It’s the first we’ve heard about it and naturally we’re shocked and surprised.” He went on to say that Dishfire was probably circumventing UK law. Accor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astropy | Astropy is a collection of software packages written in the Python programming language and designed for use in astronomy. The software is a single, free, core package for astronomical utilities due to the increasingly widespread usage of Python by astronomers, and to foster interoperability between various extant Python astronomy packages. Astropy is included in several large Python distributions; it is part of package managers for Linux and macOS, the Anaconda Python Distribution, Enthought Canopy and Ureka.
Development
Around the turn of the millennium the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) started development of Python-based utilities to extend or substitute existing astronomical data analysis tools on a modern, object-oriented platform. Among the first projects were a replacement of the command language for the Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) with a Python frontend,
and the PyFITS interface to the Flexible Image Transport System.
Since the existing Numeric module for handling vectors and arrays in Python turned out to be inadequate for large astronomical datasets, a new library better tuned for large array sizes was subsequently developed at STScI. Both libraries were merged into a new array package by Travis Oliphant in 2005–2006, creating NumPy, now the de facto standard for numerical data handling in Python. In the following years the existing software packages maintained by STScI as part of their stsci_python suite were ported to NumPy as well. This, together with the more extensive SciPy computing environment, provided a platform to develop customized scripts and applications for a variety of astronomical tasks.
By 2011, the use of Python in astronomy had reached significant levels. At the 2012 Astronomy meeting, 42% of attendees preferred Python according to an informal survey. Many astronomy-related Python packages have been developed over the years, albeit without cooperation or coordination, which led to duplication and difficult interoperability between packages. There was also no easy way to install all the required packages needed in an astronomer’s toolkit. A number of smaller packages are sometimes no longer maintained or unavailable. The Astropy project started in 2011, motivated by these difficulties, and a desire to unite developers in astronomy to coordinate the development of a unified set of Python modules for astronomers, and reduce the confusion of available packages.
The Space Telescope Science Institute, operators of the Hubble Space Telescope, are merging the work on Astropy into stsci_python releases. PyFITS and PyWCS will be maintained solely within Astropy, with separate releases of these packages stopping, after the next release. PyFITS has been included as part of the Astropy project, and as a result, the next release of STScI_Python will depend on Astropy for the PyFITS library instead of using this standalone release.
Use
The National Virtual Observatory Python integration includes s |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20number-one%20Billboard%20Tropical%20Songs%20of%202013 | The Billboard Tropical Airplay chart ranks the best-performing tropical songs of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems based collectively on each single's weekly airplay.
Chart history
See also
List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Songs of 2013
References
United States Tropical Songs
2013
2013 in Latin music |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbeam%20%28software%29 | Lightbeam (called Collusion in its experimental version) was an add-on for Firefox that displays third party tracking cookies placed on the user's computer while visiting various websites. It displays a graph of the interactions and connections of sites visited and the tracking sites to which they provide information.
Functionality
Once installed and enabled, Lightbeam records all tracking cookies saved on the user's computer through the Firefox browser by the various sites that the user visits. It differentiates between "behavioural" tracking cookies (those which record specific actions on a site) and other tracking cookies. At any time during a browsing session the user can open a separate tab, using the "Show Lightbeam" option of Tools, to display a graph of sites visited and cookies placed. This will show when a given cookie is used by multiple sites, thus enabling those sites to track the user from site to site. Lightbeam will also allow the user to see which advertisers or other third parties are connected to which cookies, and thus can develop information about the user's browsing from site to site.
Mozilla emphasizes that it displays its data in real time.
According to Mozilla, all data collected by Lightbeam is stored locally, and is not shared with anyone, unless the user intentionally exports the data and shares it manually. Future versions may include provisions to reject or delete tracking cookies as well as monitoring them.
TED presentation
Gary Kovacs, CEO of Mozilla, presented Collusion in a TED talk (Technology, Entertainment, Design) in early 2012.
"Collusion will allow us to pull back the curtain and provide users with more information about the growing role of third parties, how data drives most Web experiences, and ultimately how little control we have over that experience and our loss of data." Kovacs wrote in a Mozilla blog post about the TED talk.
Reactions
Writing for ExtremeTech, Sebastian Anthony found the tracking connections revealed by Collusion to be "quite astonishing". He went on to say that: "Now, you can either use Collusion to shock and appall yourself, or you can use it to show friends and family just how rampant behavioral tracking is. Once your mother sees that no less than five companies track her behavior when she visits MSNBC.com, and six when she visits FoxNews.com, she might be a little more cautious."
"Ms Smith" finds the results of Collusion to be "jaw dropping".
Stephen C. Webster, writing for The Raw Story wrote of the information provided by Collusion: "While it doesn’t sound all that creepy, just wait until you see your own graph. A brief test-run by Raw Story revealed that after clicking a number of popular websites — like Comedy Central, Netflix, Hulu, the Conan O’Brien show, Amazon, The New York Times and others — more than three dozen organizations were tracking our movements across multiple websites."
History and plans
Collusion was originally developed by Atul Varma, a Mozilla engi |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20TO8 | The Thomson TO8 is a home computer introduced by French company Thomson SA in 1986, with a cost of 2,990 FF. It replaces its predecessor, the Thomson TO7/70, while remaining essentially compatible.
The new features of the TO8, like larger memory (256KB) and better graphics modes (powered by the Thomson EF9369 graphics chip), are shared with the other third generation Thomson computers ( MO6 and TO9+).
The TO8 has a tape drive and Microsoft BASIC 1.0 (in standard and 512 KB versions) on its internal ROM, and there is an optional external floppy drive. Graphics were provided by the Thomson EF9369 chip, allowing the display of 16 colors from a palette of 4096.
More than 120 games exist for the system.
An improved version, the Thomson TO8D, includes a built-in 3.5" floppy drive.
Bibliography
References
External links
Thomson TO8/O8D at Old-Computers.com
Émulation du Thomson TO8 sous MESS, site of Antoine Miné
6809-based home computers
Thomson computers |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grouper%20social%20club | Grouper was an online, invite-only social club that uses data gathered from Facebook profiles to organize group outings (called Groupers). Matches for the outings were gathered and analyzed first by a computer and then by a human to ensure strong matches. The excursions were planned in venues throughout 25 cities for six people. Groupers consisted of two groups of three friends and can consist of three males and three females, six males, six females, or any other possible combination.
Michael Waxman founded the New York-based startup in 2011. The company was run by a staff of 25 people. Time Inc. listed Grouper in its 10 NYC startups to watch for 2013. Three years later, in October 2016, the company shut down.
How it works
Grouper was an invite-only service that matched two individuals according to data found – with the permission of the user – on the user's Facebook profile, including age, career, education, etc. The company determined a match between two individuals using both algorithms and its member experience team. A time was then set for the "Grouper". The two parties were asked to each bring two friends. No names, photos, or information were disclosed before the actual meet. Upon arrival at the determined location, the group received a complimentary first round of drinks, including tax and tip, at a reserved table (the cost was included in Grouper's service fee).
The company offered arrangements for both opposite- and same-sex Groupers.
Communication with users
Grouper featured real-time customer relationship management (CRM). The service also granted users direct contact with the director of membership experience, who engaged users with personalized reminder texts and bits of advice for success on Groupers.
The member experience team communicated with users throughout the Grouper. Users received a customized message from the member experience team on the morning after their grouper inquiring as to the how the night out went. This feedback was analyzed and stored for future matching.
Active cities and expansion
For more than a year after its initial launch, Grouper was only available in New York City. By June 2012, the service had grown to San Francisco and Washington D.C.
By September 2012, Grouper had expanded its services to 10 additional cities, Atlanta, Austin, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Miami, Philadelphia, and Dallas. That December the service became available to users in Toronto.
By 2013, the company reported its services were officially available in 25 cities in the US and Toronto, including new additions Nashville, Denver, London, and others.
Technological developments
In April 2013, the meet-up service released its Grouper iPhone app. The company has reported that the app, which features push notifications and alerts, allowed users to set up a Grouper in as little as an hour, avoiding the long questionnaires other services require their users to fill out.
Partnerships and acquisitions
Y Comb |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samjiyon%20tablet%20computer | The Samjiyon tablet computer () is a North Korean Android tablet computer developed by the Multimedia Technology Research Institute of the Korea Computer Center. It is the first North Korean tablet able to receive television broadcasts.
It is named after the Samjiyon lake.
Samjiyon includes a browser with a support for the North Korean Kwangmyong intranet. However, there is no Wi-Fi support.
The computers are assumed to have been built in China, and the software has been localised for North Korea.
Applications
Some apps reported to be available include:
e-book library (also includes those on Juche study)
Calculator (수산기, 數算機)
Games
Abstract strategy games like Chosun Jang-Gi (조선장기, 朝鮮將棋): Korean janggi (a form of chess)
Rubber Slingshot shooting (; a North Korean game similar to the game Angry Birds)
Fishing Joy
Tank Recon 3D
Air Control
Racing Moto
Basketball shooting ()
Fishing Joy ()
Marbles game
Word processor, spreadsheet editor, and slideshow apps
Dictionary
Language support
It supports Korean, German, Russian, English, French and Japanese inputs.
See also
Ullim
Arirang (smartphone)
Notel
Internet in North Korea
Telecommunications in North Korea
References
Tablet computers
Economy of North Korea
Information technology in North Korea
Android (operating system) devices |
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